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Susanita
Official Congressional Directory | United States. Congress, W. H. Michael
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There‘s a little bit to unpack from last night‘s town hall with my congresswoman. As a first-term representative from a blue state and district, she acknowledged that she has limited tools at her disposal at the moment, but she‘s definitely using them.

She mentioned the importance of phone calls no matter what color your district is, and that including a personal story provides more impact. So let‘s keep it up! #longtimefed #psrw

Librarybelle My rep refuses to have a town hall meeting. The phones also go unanswered to his office, so it‘s so sad. I‘m glad there are reps out there willing to stand up and hear the voices of all of their constituents. 4mo
Nebklvr @Librarybelle Of my reps, only one has someone to answer phones consistently and one sends replies to reiterate the party line. However, I use 5 calls and try to call multiple times a week. If they are going to make me miserable then i will return the favor. (edited) 4mo
Susanita @Librarybelle @Nebklvr Another feature of 5Calls is that you can keep tagging your rep as unavailable so it contributes to their aggregate stats. As well as being a pest. 😎 4mo
Librarybelle Good to know! 4mo
AlaMich What a bunch of cowards they all are!! 4mo
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Susanita
Library of Congress | Washington, DC (Library)
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I realized late last night that I hadn‘t made a post for #psrw and #longtimefed but I was tired and needed to go to bed. Today I‘ll post twice! As I wait for the start of a town hall with my congresswoman at the library, I‘m absorbing the news that Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, has been fired. Not a surprise I guess, but nonetheless I‘m done with the National Book Festival for the foreseeable future. I‘ll BBL with another post.

TheBookHippie Such sadness. I feel just awful for her. 4mo
Librarybelle I was so numb when I read the news. Such a travesty. 4mo
charl08 😱 4mo
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Chrissyreadit I suspect there will not be a national book festival this year tbh. 4mo
Chrissyreadit When can we take our country back… 4mo
ncsufoxes My mom & I were going to plan on going this year since I now that live close to DC. I suspect that there won‘t be one since these bottom feeders don‘t like books. If there happens to be one I‘d support if the resistance was in charge of it not them peddling Vance & Hegseth‘s books. These people are 🤬 4mo
kspenmoll 😱 so sad. @Chrissyreadit That is the question… 4mo
Susanita @ncsufoxes @Chrissyreadit I have wondered about that too, but for what it‘s worth I‘m already getting emails about it since it‘s the 25th anniversary. No authors announced yet, and some may now decline to participate (a la Kennedy Center). 4mo
StaceGhost @Chrissyreadit this is completely surreal it was such a beautiful event last year 4mo
Chrissyreadit @Susanita or it will be a republicans/right wing fest of major propaganda proportions 4mo
Chrissyreadit @StaceGhost @Susanita @kspenmoll @TheBookHippie @ncsufoxes @Librarybelle @charl08 We need an ALTLibrary (like the altnationalparks) And to have the National Book Fest focus on banned books and authors- !!!! 4mo
Susanita @Chrissyreadit I like the idea of Alt LOC. Alt NPS, Alt Dept of Education, and Rights and Reason (FKA Alt Smithsonian) have good info too. 4mo
Chrissyreadit Ah!!! i did not know they all had alt sites! hoping on IG - any substacks? although sometimes i‘m overwhelmed like the roof is caving and foundation crumbling simultaneously 4mo
Chrissyreadit @Susanita @ncsufoxes @Bookwormjillk maybe we should consider a bookstore crawl meet up? 2 then lunch then 2 more? I had fun going to a couple different ones with @wanderinglynn (edited) 4mo
ncsufoxes @Chrissyreadit I‘d be up for a meet up/bool store crawl. I‘m in Frederick, MD & don‘t mind driving towards DC or where there are more bookstores. 4mo
Susanita @ncsufoxes @Chrissyreadit I would be up for that! Frederick is in the middle between us and has the Curious Iguana. 4mo
Susanita @Chrissyreadit I don‘t know about instagram but some are on Facebook and Bluesky. Maybe Substack too… 4mo
TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit YES!!!! ALT everything!!! Ughhhhh 4mo
Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie come spend a weekend here for a book crawl! I will make my daughter give up her room for you! 4mo
TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit if my next testing is a -okay I‘m cleared for travel by car & train! 4mo
Susanita @TheBookHippie I hope you can come! 4mo
ncsufoxes @Chrissyreadit @Susanita I‘d be up for meeting anywhere: MD, VA, DC. Doesn‘t have to be Frederick. I love The Curious Iguana but it‘s the only bookstore here besides B&N 4mo
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Susanita
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I worry about this too. When we finally get this 💩show behind us, there will be a lot of work to do. Who would want to work for such a capricious employer?
#longtimefed #psrw

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lawmakers-fear-doge-cuts-will-drive-aw...

AmyG Trump just wants loyalists in everything. He doesn‘t care if they are qualified or not. 4mo
Susanita @amyg At least he‘s drained the swamp 🙄 4mo
Bookwormjillk I agree. Who would ever consider that a viable career path now? 4mo
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ncsufoxes I keep saying all these people don‘t want the federal government but once all of their services are gone or harder to get they‘re going to realize how important government is. Also people don‘t realize how much the government does for them till it‘s not there. And/or their state taxes get more expensive (FDA, EPA). It is sad too to know how much expertise is being lost. 4mo
ncsufoxes My son is a junior in college & he was really interested in studying invasive species in grad school. He said he‘s not going to go that direction because the main place to get jobs in that area is the USDA & right now he feels the government won‘t be a reliable place to get a job in the future. 4mo
marleed As a retired federal employee (army) I feel so defensive of today‘s civil servants. I saw a statistic somewhere of who‘s lost federal jobs and a large percent are women or people of color. I don‘t think Doge cares who is hired next so long as they are MAGA. So much for the HATCh Act. 4mo
Susanita @ncsufoxes I feel so bad for young people right now, such as your son and my niece, who are looking for jobs and the rug has been pulled out from under them. And you‘re right, I think a lot of people don‘t really understand the interplay of state and federal functions and especially budgets. 4mo
Susanita @marleed Yeah, the Hatch Act is one more restraint he‘s just obliterating this time around. 🤬 4mo
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Even if we could set aside the rampant disinformation influencing the current regime‘s justification for ripping the guts out of federal government agencies (which is a very big “if” to take into account), it just doesn‘t make sense to do it the way they‘re doing it. As we‘ve already seen, they fired people they really shouldn‘t have fired.

True budgetary and policy analysis takes weeks if not months to accomplish properly. #longtimefed #psrw

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