1) Yesterday was crammed full of hearings. CALL your senators today and prioritize the top candidates you find most objectionable. My suggestions are as follows. I've settled on these three because in my opinion, these are the nominees I think we have the most likelihood of blocking.
Tom Price as HHS Secretary, about whom you can read more here: https://medium.com/…/ten-reasons-why-tom-price-as-health-an… You can also join with Senate Democrats' call to investigate Price's ethical conflicts of interest and potential violation of the STOCK Act.
Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, about whom you can read the latest press from the ACLU here: https://www.aclu.org/…/sen-jeff-sessions-trumps-nominee-att… Sessions is also additionally worrisome because of Trump's plan to investigate the voter fraud that never happened: https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/trump-seeks-major-invest…/…
Betsy "grizzly bears" DeVos as Secretary of Education, about whom you can read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/whats-the-worst-that-cou…/…
Obviously Scott Pruitt, Rick Perry, Rex Tillerson, Andy Puzder, and let's face it, all of them, are deeply objectionable and worrisome, but these three already have large groundswells against them.
2) READ. EDUCATE YOURSELF. These are now acts of resistance. Trump issued a gag order on federal agencies yesterday. You can read about it here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/9daa6aa4-e26f-11e6-ba11-63…and here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/9daa6aa4-e26f-11e6-ba11-63… SUBSCRIBE TO QUALITY PAPERS TO SUPPORT OUR FREE AND FAIR PRESS. THIS IS NOT A TEST. And find independent non-US news outlets to err on the side of caution. The Guardian has been on its game lately.
3) LIKE Caring for Us on Facebook to stay up to date with what's going on with the Affordable Care Act, why you should care, and how you can help. Our first event is this Saturday, and you can find the event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1434229176627419/
4) VOICE YOUR SUPPORT of the Affordable Care Act, which Trump dealt a blow with Friday's executive order that weakened the individual mandate upon which the system rests. See here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/1afb3500-e046-11e6-ad42-f3…
And here: http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx…
Also SIGN this petition to demand that Republicans not repeal the ACA: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/713/819/785/
5) Our healthcare at home and women's and girl's healthcare around the world are in serious peril. READ up about Trump's reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule and why it's even more devastating now that it had been when previous Republican presidents instantiated it. CALL your representatives and urge them to denounce the Global Gag Rule and publicly stand with Planned Parenthood. Want to do more to help protect Planned Parenthood? SIGN UP to become a Planned Parenthood Defender here: https://secure.ppaction.org/…/pp_ppaf_IStandWithPP_0117_Gui…
6) It is unacceptable that Trump has still not released his tax returns or divested from his businesses. SIGN these petitions to register your demand that he do so.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/…/immediately-release-dona…
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/…/divest-or-put-blind-trus…