To stop animal torture within the Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Service division. Mahatma Gandhi rightly stated: "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

Many Americans may be unaware of the distinction between regular delegates and superdelegates, and therefore may be misled by Google's current format for showing the Democratic Party's primary election results. It is important that media sources and popular search engines report these results in an impartial and transparent manner by clearly reporting regular delegates that have been fairly won through the democratic process. Google's current reporting of superdelegate votes is misleading. While many superdelegates have already stated support for a particular candidate, superdelegates are being called upon to preserve the democratic process and respect the popular vote. Although a superdelegate may have stated support for a particular candidate early on, it is unlikely they would expressly go against their voter's wishes. Therefore, until the popular vote has been cast, making a candidate appear far more popular through display of superdelegates is misleading and must be changed. Please ask Google to display poll results first and foremost WITHOUT SUPERDELEGATES and then with the option of separately viewing results including Superdelegates. Please sign and share the petition! Thank you for your help in keeping our democracy democratic!

Many of us have a pet, or used to have one. We love or loved the animal very much. We also recognize that farm animals and other animals in our country do not have good lives. We believe that all animals deserve to be treated with love and care.

The West Virginia House of Delegates just voted to block new, high quality science standards for K-12 students in order to stop students from learning about climate change. Speaking in support of the anti-science language in the education bill, HB 4014, Delegate Frank Deem said "there's nothing that upsets me more than the idea that it's a proven fact that climate change is man made." He also said he doesn't want "our children to be taught how bad fossil fuels are." If the anti-science education provision is passed into law, West Virginia students will not only be denied instruction about climate change, they will be denied access to up-to-date standards covering all science subjects. The bill has been sent to the West Virginia Senate. Let's send a loud, clear message to West Virginia legislators that damaging the education of West Virginia kids with climate denial is wrong -- and unacceptable. Please sign the petition to stand up for the right of WV kids to have a high quality science education that includes climate science. Sincerely, Herman Mays (Professor in the biology department of Marshall University, a father, and member of the pro-science education group Climate Parents).

ACS needs to reevaluate the way they do things... It is sickening that reports can be made anonymously and exes or anyone that wants to spite you are able to continuously file report after report... When does it end? ACS should at least know who is making the report each time, and if seeing a pattern, especially year after year of the same nonsense and all unfounded reports, they should not continue to harass, investigate, and interrogate the parent/s... It's beyond unfair and a change needs to be made...

The 2017 Florida Legislature is in session. Once again, there are those who wish to eliminate the Defined Benefit Pensions we currently receive. We need to defeat any plan which seeks to privatize our FRS by putting people into 401K type plans that jeopardize their retirement funds by tying them to the whims of Wall Street . The FRS is a sound and stellar system which must be preserved for the benefit of current and future retirees. This is a critical issue in this year's legislative session, and the United Teachers of Dade Retiree Chapter urges all to sign this petition to have your voices heard.

In early 2016, the United States and 11 other countries signed the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) at a ceremony in New Zealand. This massive trade deal is bigger and scarier than ones we’ve seen in the past, like NAFTA. The TPP was written in secret, without considering workers’ interests, and will shop our jobs overseas, let corporations lower our wages and give rich CEOs and extreme interest groups even more control over our jobs and our communities. Elected officials in Congress still hold the power to stop the TPP, and Rep. Jim Jordan can do the right thing and vote against it when it comes up in the House. Tell Jim Jordan to do the right thing for Ohio and oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and other bad trade deals.

We are being charged ridiculous amounts on our utility bills.

I have seen firsthand the impact of payday lending in my community. People end up paying interest rates 800% or more and trapped in a cycle of debt. If any elected official wants to claim to be for "the little guy", then they cannot support an industry that only survives by misleading and stealing from people least able to break the debt cycle.

We need the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulations to limit predatory and exploitative lending practices.

In Oregon this January, protesters began an occupation of the Federal Building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge that lasted for 41 days. The 25 people who occupied the reserve are now facing felony charges for conspiracy to impede an officer of the United States. That federal criminal statute has a maximum penalty of six years. Prosecutors need only prove that two or more defendants agreed to prevent some federal employee from discharging his or her duty by force, intimidation or threat. Prosecutors do not have to prove they were successful. It seems, then, that those listed below and other Senators are collaborating to prevent federal officials, including the President of the United States, from doing their job by: 1. Insisting there would not even be a hearing of a nominee to fill Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s vacant seat, 2. By failure to confirm federal judges, 3. By failure to confirm more than a quarter of the administration’s most senior executive branch jobs. The airwaves and social media are chock-full of their own words: statements in press interviews, statements in YouTube videos, and statements in widely distributed emails. Conspiracy to impede an officer of the United States includes: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Senator Chuck Grassley (IA), Senator Orrin G. Hatch (UT), Senator Jeff Sessions (AL), Senator Lindsey Graham (SC), Senator John Cornyn (TX), Senator Michael S. Lee (UT), Senator Ted Cruz (TX), Senator Jeff Flake (AZ), Senator David Vitter (LA), Senator David Perdue (GA), Senator Thom Tillis (NC), Senator Roger Wicker (Miss.), Senator Ron Johnson (Wis.), Senator John McCain (Ariz.), Senator Pat Toomey (Pa.), Senator Marco Rubio (FL), Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Donald Trump, Speaker Paul Ryan. Part 1 - Supreme Court The Constitution of the United States, Article II, Section 2 states: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. “He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he (the President) shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.” Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee signed a letter (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/23/us/politics/document-Senate-SCOTUS-Letter.html?_r=0) to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declaring they would not hold hearings to ensure the next president, not President Obama, pick someone to replace the late conservative justice, Antonin Scalia. This action is an attempt at intimidation and a threat to the President and people of the United States. If no hearing is granted, the tactics prevent remaining Senators from taking part in a confirmation vote, thereby preventing them from doing their job. The 54-member GOP caucus, and those in lock step with them, are united against taking any step in the Senate’s “advice and consent” process, making them subject to prosecution for “preventing some federal employee from discharging his or her duty by force, intimidation or threat.” The Constitution hasn’t changed, but Mitch McConnell’s interpretation of it has as evidenced by his remarks from 1970-2010. How can this shift be anything other than McConnell’s attempt to prevent federal employees, including the President of the United States, from discharging their duties by force and intimidation? “The framers intended for three separate and independent branches of government. The judiciary was to be free from political influences, insulated from the whims of a changing majority and answerable only to the law and a public that expected the judicial branch to dispense justice free from the taint of popular politics. Any attempt to deny confirmation on the basis of a philosophy, that is within the mainstream of American political and judicial thought, is an assault on this tripartite structure of government. It is clear under our form of government that the advice and consent role of the Senate in judicial nominations should not be politicized.” [Floor Remarks, 10/2/90] “It is time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent. The stakes are high. The Constitution of the United States is at stake. Article 2, section 2 clearly provides the President and the President alone nominates judges.” [Floor Remarks, 5/19/05] “There are few duties more consequential for a Member of the U.S. Senate than to vote on a Supreme Court nominee.” [Floor Remarks, 7/13/09] “Our job is to react to that nomination in a respectful and dignified way, and at the end of the process, to give that person an up-or-down vote as all nominees who have majority support have gotten throughout the history of the country. It’s not our job to determine who ought to be picked.” [Fox News, 7/3/05] “Whether it’s small-claims court or the Supreme Court, Americans expect politics to end at the courtroom door.” [NY Times, 8/5/10] “I believe that a heavy burden must be met by those who would have this nominee rejected. Under the Constitution, our duty is to provide advice and consent to judicial nominations, not to substitute our judgement for what are reason...

On Monday, a Secret Service agent choked a Time photojournalist who stepped out of a press area at a Trump rally. (http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/29/politics/donald-trump-event-protest-rally/) Secret Service has an important role in protecting presidential candidates. But they should not be employed as thugs. The Secret Service agent should be punished for these actions, and all agents should be reminded of their appropriate role in a heated campaign climate. Trump rallies have incited violence before, and he has forcibly rejected journalists from press events. He is attracting enthusiastic support from white supremacists, and as recently as Sunday refused to disavow the KKK In a televised interview. He has verbally attacked women, immigrants, the disabled, and Muslims, while proposing policies that are bigoted, xenophobic, and unconstitutional. Trump events are already heated enough—the Secret Service has an important role, but it should not be adding to the chaos and violence.