My dear friend narrowly escaped an assault attempt made by a Berkeley Lyft driver early yesterday morning. As a woman and a person who drives for Lyft, I am hyper aware of the interest and necessity for passengers to be able to request a ride from a female driver. This feature would allow women, children, queer/trans folk, and any one who feels vulnerable to minimize the risk of experiencing violence, which statistics show is significantly more likely to be perpetrated by men.

Two years ago, the EPA allowed farmers to spray the dangerous pesticide dicamba on genetically engineered cotton and soybean plants. The hope -- for biochemical companies like Monsanto -- was that this system could replace the line of "Roundup Ready" GMOs that are already creating superweeds resistant to Roundup's herbicide. But the EPA and Monsanto didn't think things through. Dicamba drifted in the air, damaging 3.6 million acres of soybeans in 2017 -- an area larger than Yellowstone and Grand Canyon National Parks combined. This year, more than 1 million acres of soybeans have been damaged. Neighbors are complaining of dicamba destroying trees, flowers, and gardens, indicating even greater environmental damage. Pesticides must be registered by the EPA, and dicamba's approval runs out for GMO crops in November. Monsanto is telling its seed customers to write to the EPA in a last-ditch effort to save their product from the dustbin of history. Please write to the EPA and tell them that dicamba is too risky and destructive to continue another year!

A Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) investigation at a California dairy farm in Stanislaus County found a mass graveyard of cows and calves piled on top of one another. Investigators also documented baby cows confined in hutches smaller than the length of their bodies for months at a time, forced to sleep each night on a hard wooden floor and live on top of their own waste. Baby calves just weeks old were recorded coughing from the toxicity of the ammonia-rich air in the overcrowded wasteland. This is animal torture and criminal animal cruelty in the state of California. Ask the Stanislaus County Police Department to free the baby cows who are confined in filthy crates barely bigger than their own bodies.

I’m starting this petition because it is wrong for a sports team that the entire state of Georgia cares about to come out in favor of a candidate for governor, especially one as divisive and seemingly bigoted as Brian Kemp. Do the Atlanta Braves want to support an anti-immigrant candidate ? An anti-LGBTQ candidate? A candidate who does not support common sense gun laws? Send the Atlanta Braves a message: Atlanta does not support Kemp, and they shouldn’t either.

I (the American people) want to know the truth about the President's racism, misogyny, and xenophobia. If recordings exist from out takes, rehearsal footage, or edited content regarding the President's comments, the American people deserve to know.

MoviePass started out by reeling members in with a deal too good to be true (unlimited movies, one per day, every day). But their terms state they can change their terms any time they want--and they've done that with a vengeance. Today, they’re down to only 3 movies per week with limited times per day, a 2-week wait to see blockbusters, and members can’t see movies more than once. This is a drastic change and not what I, or many others, paid for. Many signed up for an annual plan, but they weren't grandfathered against these changes. There are also problems with their app that prevent customers from using the service. Intentional programming errors to limit use perhaps? MoviePass needs to be stopped.

I am starting this petition, because I feel terrible knowing that our mail carrier looks exhausted from the heat and the UPS delivery employees are drenched in sweat. Sometimes I can see them taking a break in the indoor airs just to cool off. It's inhuman and I want to help make their jobs better.

The Media is saturated with advertising for prescription drugs. Putting a cap on advertising budgets for pharmaceutical companies would lower the costs of health care to our states, country, and individuals.

The Petaluma Police Department has been ignoring criminal animal cruelty at Petaluma Farms for years. This certified "humane," "cage-free" egg supplier to Whole Foods has been exposed for cramming thousands of birds inside of filthy sheds where their stressful environment leads to sickness, feather loss, and even cannibalism. Direct Action Everywhere investigated Petaluma Farms in 2014 and found dead, rotting birds among the living, and recent footage shows nothing has changed. With this recent news, over 150 activists mobilized at Petaluma Farms in July to demand the police help these suffering birds, and they said they would look into the farm and take action by September 1st. Animals are starving to death right now and the longer the Petaluma Police wait to take action, the more animals will die. We need to show them the public does not support animal cruelty and urge them to take action now.

We have being impacted by untruths. Neighbor is being pitted against neighbor. Family being torn apart due to inaccurate facts that are being mass marketed. I do not blame people for believing what they believe. People every day are being fed false information by Fox news so why are we surprised that half the population believes what they believe. The only means we have to stop this spread of false and inaccurate information is to boycott eh sponsor who enable this behavior.

Regal no longer will honor a companion ticket for individuals with intellectual disabilities because they aren’t “visible”. Many of these individuals depend on companion tickets for their aids so that they are able to get out into the community and participate just like everyone else! Without companion tickets activities are even more limited and just like you and I, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities love movies, too! I am asking for Regal theaters to honor companion tickets with requiring proof that the companion is, in fact, a support person, whether that means a pay stub or a card issued from an agency/brokerage.

Too many posts depicting animal violence have been uploaded by animal abusers with no retribution. When a report is made, Instagram, time and time again, has said the post is within its regulations. It is inexplicable why images of abused and murdered animals are deemed appropriate when nudity and selfies of people with exotic animals are not.