Places like Crunch are vanishing from American life. Researchers call them "third places" — not home, not work, but neighborhood anchors where people of many different backgrounds come together, find community, and banish loneliness. When a private equity firm decides a small community gym no longer fits its growth model, something irreplaceable is lost. This Crunch works precisely because of its intimacy and scale. You know the staff. You know your classmates. As one member put it: "I used to never go to the gym — but once my kids were grown, I found myself needing a place to gather, to see people, to feel part of something. Now I go six days a week. This place is not just about physical health, but it's mental and emotional health." The things that make this Crunch not fit Onelife's corporate model — its intimacy, its neighborhood feel, its scale — are precisely what make it irreplaceable to us. IMPORTANT:  If you want to stay connected and receive updates, please sign up at savecrunchdc.org or email [email protected]. We don't want to lose touch with you!

Because I know they like truffle tots too.

Spice lovers love this chip; and as Frito-Lay expands their spice palate, the fiery habanero Dinamitas should undoubtedly be a permanent staple in the Dinamitas chip line.

It’s important because it shifts public safety from **reaction** to **prevention**, and it creates measurable outcomes instead of slogans. - **Lives:** early intervention + de‑escalation reduces shootings, retaliation, and victimization.   - **Jobs:** it funds paid roles, training, and pathways so people aren’t forced into survival economies.   - **Trust:** communities cooperate more when they see accountable, local solutions—not just after-the-fact punishment.   - **Cost:** prevention is cheaper than incarceration, ER trauma care, and long-term instability.   - **National impact:** safer communities strengthen the whole country—economically, socially, and politically.

This is an important location for our community as a whole. It is a wonderful place to take the family during the summer. If offers a break from the hustle and bustle of the world around. It is a place for a person to come find their inner peace and reflect. It is a wonderful place to bring your pets to cool off in the heat of summer. The location has so much potential as a place of peace, fun, and good times for our community. For years the property was maintained relatively well, but this past year it was completely trashed and destroyed leading to the owners closing it down. We are hoping with your signature we can gain enough public support from our community to show they members of the Tyger River Foundation that the park is valued by us and should be reopened. 

Others should join this campaign for change because creating an inclusive and accepting school environment benefits everyone—not just LGBT+ students or those who express themselves differently. When all students feel safe and respected, it leads to better mental health, increased academic achievement, and a stronger sense of community. Discrimination and exclusion harm the entire school culture by fostering fear, division, and missed opportunities for understanding. By standing up for fairness and dignity, supporters can help ensure that schools are places where every child has the opportunity to thrive without fear of bullying or judgment. This campaign is about affirming basic human rights and modeling kindness, empathy, and respect for future generations. Joining together amplifies our voices and demonstrates a united commitment to building a better, more equitable educational environment for all.

Why This Matters Transparency laws only work if they are enforced. The Epstein case exposed a system where wealth and power operated in the shadows. When Congress passes a law requiring disclosure, it is a promise to the public that no one is above accountability. If required files are withheld, delayed, or selectively released, public trust erodes. Survivors are left without full acknowledgment. Citizens are left wondering what is being protected and why. This petition is about one simple principle: laws passed by Congress must be followed. If transparency can be ignored in one of the most high-profile criminal cases in modern history, it sets a dangerous precedent for every future case involving powerful individuals. Accountability strengthens democracy. Secrecy weakens it. That is why this matters. That is why we are asking Congress to enforce the law.

While individual members of Congress have refused to attend the State of the Union in the past, there has never been a collective boycott. Now is the time for elected leaders to demonstrate unified dissent.  American families are facing an uncertain job market and rising costs impacting everything from groceries to health care premiums. Meanwhile, Trump is enriching himself while he advocates for higher house prices and cozies up to tech billionaires. And as communities in cities like Minneapolis band together to protect each other from ICE’s terrifying attacks, Trump continues to push for mass deportation raids.  But we know Trump won’t tell these real stories of what’s happening on the ground to American families—he’ll only keep spreading misinformation.  When history looks back at Trump’s authoritarian address to Congress, the record should reflect a half-empty room. Demand members of Congress boycott Trump’s State of the Union and refuse to legitimize more lies to the American people! 

CHATGPT "EDU" is an "investment" that means our school will commit to a product that causes learning decay, funds ICE, and damages the environment at an extremely alarming rate. Let CU know that we want AI OUT NOW.

It is important because too many people have suffered for us to sit back idlily and do nothing. It is important because way too many people cannot tell their story. Too many victims whose name we will never know. Too many people have been traumatized into silence, into never talking about the evil things that happened to them. Millions of Americans are suffering under a government who do not accurately represent them. Under broken systems that leave countless people behind. That leave people hungry, and homeless.  We will fight for a country that boosts up its citizens with laws and ordinances that benefit peoples pockets, health, and leisure time. We want a change to the laws that protect people in high positions of governmental power or social status, to reflect the will of the people. More financial security, more trust in the government, more criminal charges for the people in these Epstein Files. 

We're organizing Americans and people around the world to quit ChatGPT. Is this boycott going to work? ChatGPT is the biggest chatbot in the world, but that advantage is fragile. ChatGPT has been losing market share. Their creator OpenAI is losing 3x more than they earn. ChatGPT users skew young and progressive, and many don't know about alternatives. We can push OpenAI over the edge. If we make an example of ChatGPT, we can send a clear signal to ICE enablers that their actions will not go unpunished. Let's make CEOs think twice before they get in bed with Trump. Aren't all the AI companies bad? Why ChatGPT? OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife donated $25 million to MAGA Inc in 2025 (and CEO Sam Altman donated $1M to Trump's 2025 Inaugural Fund). They gave Trump 26x more than any other major AI company. ICE's resume screening tool is powered by OpenAI's GPT-4. They're spending 50 million dollars to prevent states from regulating AI so only Trump can. They're cozying up to Trump while ICE is killing Americans and the Department of Justice is trying to take over elections. ChatGPT enables mental-health crises through sycophancy and dependence by replacing human relationships with AI girlfriends/boyfriends. Many employees have quit OpenAI because of its leadership's lies, deception and recklessness. Who's organizing this? We are a group of democracy activists that are gravely concerned about AI companies contributing to the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S. If your organization is interested in joining the organizing committee, reach out to [email protected]! Open to all. OpenAI—the company behind ChatGPT—openly attacks and intimidates its critics. Several nonprofits have been subpoenaed in recent months for trying to get AI regulated, including Encode, The Midas Project, and the San Francisco Foundation. These attacks have absorbed organizer capacity, dulling their ability to hold OpenAI accountable. The same cannot happen to us. That's why we're staying anonymous. What about alternatives? Some higher privacy and open-source alternatives include: Confer, Alpine, Lumo. Alternate corporate options include Gemini from Google and Claude from Anthropic. Larger companies are doing much more to enable authoritarianism than smaller companies and open-source models. We strongly advise against using Grok for the obvious reasons. People think ChatGPT is the only chatbot in the game, and they don't know that OpenAI execs are Trump's biggest donors. It's time to change that. Isn't Elon's AI company way worse? Yes. Thankfully, hardly anyone uses Grok (Elon's chatbot) anyway, but yes, please don't use Grok. What do we mean by "Trump's biggest donor"? In Trump's Super PAC, MAGA Inc.'s latest filings, OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife gave $25M, more than any other group in the report (by $5M!). If we zoom out to all of 2025, only one company (Crypto.com) gave more than this ($30M), spread throughout the year. To put this in perspective, companies like Palantir and JUUL "only" gave $1M.

Data centers can use more energy than entire cities, and Big Tech’s rapid AI expansion is driving up energy costs for everyone. Utility bills are soaring because tech firms are pushing the cost of powering mega data center operations onto residential customers.  The rampant growth of data centers isn’t just raising our monthly utility bills—it’s draining local energy, robbing communities of natural resources, imposing new health risks for nearby residents, and only helping to make tech billionaires even richer. And too often they pop up without any consent from local communities. American families are struggling to put food on the table and pay rising health care costs as it is. They can’t afford to also foot the bill for Big Tech. It’s time to stop passing the environmental consequences and costs of data centers onto working people.