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Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸
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🚨 IMMEDIATE ACTION 🚨

A Dept of Interior proposed rule change will allow the agency to arbitrarily dismiss FOIA requests for “vagueness” & limit processing of requests - creating a logjam.

Comments due by 11:59ET TONIGHT (Tues). Go now! Tell them NO! regulations.gov/document?D=DOI…
Start here for info about this rule change, from @IndivisibleVent - a group that is always flagging underhanded and under reported moves from this admin. Sample comments toward the bottom and lots of background:
indivisibleventura.org/2019/01/29/tue…
Of course this anti-transparency rule was proposed by the administration and went up for comment on December 28th - in the midst of the holidays and when the nation was consumed by the shutdown.

Sneaky. Don’t let them get away with it.
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Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸
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Read this piece and RT if you would participate in an #EconomicWalkout - a cessation of all non-essential spending - from February 1st-3rd, in solidarity with impacted government workers & contractors, if Trump & McConnell fail to end the #shutdown.
demwritepress.com/2019/01/21/its…
“An economic walkout would be a more just solution than a general strike, because the effort would occur on a sliding-scale, with the greatest sacrifices being made by more affluent Americans.”
“Those who are barely scraping by economically would not be expected to make major sacrifices, because they are already at the point of “essentials only” spending.”
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Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸
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After two long years with Trump/McConnell in office, I’ve decided something:

In 2020, I’ll be supporting the Democratic Party.

Who’s with me?
Those who follow me closely know this was not a difficult decision. 😉
Thanks for all the comments, everyone. I think my original post was a bit too tongue-in-cheek. 😉 But it’s great how nice everyone is, welcoming me to the Democratic Party. 😂 Of course I’ve proudly voted D my whole life and will continue to.
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Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸
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A landlord, in his letter to renters:

“Until the govt opens again, you are responsible for ALL of your rental amount.”

The tenants, many elderly & disabled, will be evicted on the 20th if they can’t pay up. Their federal housing support had vanished.
huffingtonpost.com/entry/shutdown…
To be clear, I am not blaming the landlord. He has to pay his mortgage too. There are two people at fault here: Donald Trump, and Mitch McConnell.
If you have received similar letters or if you are a landlord losing sleep about the possibility you’ll have to send one yourself, shoot me a DM.
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Emma Best (U//FOUO) 🏳️‍🌈
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CIA just published its 2018 #FOIA stats, they closed out the year with 2009 backlogged requests.

Their numbers from last year show that, at any given time, I make up about 10% of their backlog.
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You can also follow along here: muckrock.com/foi/list/?page…
Nice redundancy, Past Emma.
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