thisfinecrew | Check In 5 September (Reply)

I hope everyone is keeping safe in the face of various extreme weather events and the resurgence in Covid cases. If you know of any efforts to provide assistance to people who have been affected by the storms, flooding and ongoing wildfires, please drop a line in comments or feel free to make a post.

Alongside the human-created "natural" disasters, another big news story in the last month has been the new anti-abortion law in Texas (and the Supreme Court's refusal to intervene). The two posts in the comm since the last check in relate to that:

Submitting Junk data to the 'abortion reporting' form — I understand the website/form has now been kicked off its hosting for violating Terms of Service relating to collecting personal data, but it may pop up elsewhere and there are some good ideas in comments for how to respond to similar forms in future.
A good Tweet — Suggestions for where to donate in response to the Texas law.

Don't be shy of making your own posts about any issues and actions you think the comm should know about, or dropping some information into a comment to our sticky post if you'd like the mods to do it. And you can always use our tags to check for any ongoing actions or resources relevant to the issues you care about.

Meanwhile, use our poll (behind the cut) to tell us what you've been doing in the last few weeks and tell us in comments what you plan to do next.

Poll #26095 Check In

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

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called my one senator
0 (0.0%)

called my other senator
0 (0.0%)

called my representative
0 (0.0%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

called my state reps
1 (14.3%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
3 (42.9%)

attended a town hall
0 (0.0%)