President Trump has repeatedly flouted the will of the majority, causing lasting harm to individuals from migrant children to our citizens with pre-existing healthcare conditions. The former touches me as a mother, the latter as well - willful sabotage of the ACA threatens my daughter’s well-being and even her life. Muslim Americans, LGBTQ community members, and many other people I count as friends are similarly harmed and perpetually on guard against new attacks on basic human and American rights by a president who rejects democratic debate and expresses authoritarian entitlement. Our faith in a fair, just land of opportunity for all is shaken, largely by the overreach of this President and the failure of Congress to provide reasonable checks on the President’s powers. These are extraordinary circumstances, including the active ongoing criminal indictments by Robert Mueller. The effect is a mass loss of confidence in our very democratic system. Our democracy will survive a mere delay in this president’s power to appoint a SCOTUS member until at least after 2018’s mid-term elections, when we’ve had a chance to express our preferences for representation. But our strained democracy will suffer irreparable harm if this president under these circumstances is green-lighted in his nomination for SCOTUS, especially where the nominee advocates even greater, nearly impenetrable presidential powers.

Safety

Since May of this year, the Trump Administration has been separating children from their families at the border in order to deter future migrants from coming across. This has been a horrific/devastating practice. Even babies have been taken away; a one-year-old child appeared before an immigration judge this week without his parents and cried uncontrollably the whole time, and the judge said he was “embarrassed” that he had to ask whether the child understood the proceedings. Federal courts have ruled that the Trump Administration MUST reunite children under five with their parents immediately, but Trump has failed to do so. Reports have shown that the Department of Homeland Security never collected records for some of these children, or in some cases destroyed them, or misplaced them, or never shared them. This might mean that children are NEVER reunited with their actual parents. This is a scandal, but so far Congressional Republicans have been missing in action. Tell Congress that they need to open an investigation on Trump’s horrible practice of separating families, and its apparent inability to reunite them.

As a vet, I have proved my citizenship, why make vets pay, wait or only able to get a non-citizen? drivers license in California?

We believe the proposed housing site, Map ID #19, consisting of 6 lots: 682 Clark Ave, 672 Clark Ave, 672 Clark Ave, 2 x Union Street and 556 Union Street if developed, will result in a substantial increase in traffic in our small neighborhoods and will create a health and safety issue. The proposed development (Map ID #19) is buried in our small neighborhood with access only via our rural, narrow streets which already act in a single lane capacity given the street widths combined with the residential street parking. This is true for ALL access points: Clark Ave, La Mirada Ave, Del Rio Ave, Del Riego Ave, and Union St. Additionally, a housing development is now in construction on Clark with no infrastructure or street development to support the increase in traffic. As such, we the undersigned, given the additional hazards the proposed development will present, and in order to protect our children, maintain the safety of our neighborhood and maintain the quality of life in Leucadia, request the City of Encinitas to remove the proposed at Map ID #19 from the housing plan.

The Ohio House Bill 658 introduced by Republican representatives Tom Brinkman and Paul Zeltwanger targets an incredibly vulnerable group. According to surveys conducted in recent years, as much as 48% of transgender participants attempted suicide. Their trust needs to be earned. They are being put into potentially dangerous situations if they are outed to a family who is unsupportive, and may face homelessness or abuse. Furthermore, they deserve to tell people on their own and under the right circumstances. Do not take away this basic right. Do not trivialize their experiences by inferring that they are wrong or do not know. We need to protect these students and provide them an environment in which they feel safe, not further isolate them. To quote TransEquality: "A national survey by GLSEN has found that 75% of transgender youth feel unsafe at school, and those who are able to persevere had significantly lower GPAs, were more likely to miss school out of concern for their safety, and were less likely to plan on continuing their education ."(https://transequality.org/issues/youth-students) Our children deserve better than this. They are entitled to the same education and safety that we intend to provide to our cisgender students. Do not take that away from us.

I recently boarded my animals in a facility in Gahanna, Ohio over the 4th of July weekend while I was in Las Vegas on my honeymoon. My animals were sick while I was gone and the facility failed to contact me to make me aware of the situation. They clearly state that the facility is required to contact the pets owners upon showing any signs of distress or illness. I was charged double boarding charges when my animals boarded in the same kennel. They said those charges are for the care of the animals. They also charged me $20 per dog due to it being a holiday weekend and them paying for extra help. When I arrived to pick them up they were covered in feces and urine. The receptionist even had gloves on when she brought them to us, meaning she had to have known they were disgusting. When I told them the dogs were covered in feces and urine they said they were gonna go wipe them off. They brought them back still with feces on them. They took them back a second time per my request and didn't even offer to bathe them. An hour after I got them home, I noticed they had really bad sneezing, coughing, fevers, lethargy, and the runs; not to mention I told the receptionist that one of my animals had green eye funk and she wiped it and ignored it. Clearly, that meant infection. Now its been 2 days and they have full blown kennel cough or upper respiratory infections. Why did they let them come home this sick? There are other reviews on YELP stating a man nearly lost his dog due to this facility administering the same shot to his animal 4 times because they couldn't keep the medical records straight. So many people say this place is more worried about how fat their pockets are vs sincere animal care. This place doesn't deserve to be open.

Last year I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. The Affordable Care Act saved my life, and is why I am in remission today. President Trump's pick has come out publicly against the ACA, in his record and most recently in his speech to the Heritage Foundation. His record against women's healthcare is also clear. Our Senators must listen to us and vote NO on Kavanaugh. Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/brett-kavanaugh-could-take-an-ax-to-obamacare/2018/07/09/c8817c50-83df-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html Slate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/how-brett-kavanaugh-will-gut-roe-v-wade.html

For years, several people, including myself, have made requests to Facebook to be able to disable all Messenger calls from Facebook on our phones and be able to turn off all voice and video calls completely. Many people feel that their privacy is violated and are irked by being woken up at 3 or 4 in the morning by strangers calling them on their phones using Facebook Messenger. Despite all of the complaints I saw on a thread a few years ago, Facebook not only did nothing to solve the issue, they actually closed the thread so additional comments could no longer be added to this thread. This is seriously virtually harassing people since many have reported being woken up by strangers calling them at 3 or 4 am on Facebook Messenger and several others have also commented on not even being able to do a simple task on their phone without being interrupted by yet another Messenger call from some stranger on Facebook. There isn't even an option to log out of this application, and despite setting your status to inactive and muting all notifications on this app, it still makes an annoying noise when someone who tried to video-call you on your phone hangs up. This violates our privacy. If a telemarketer knocks on our door trying to sell a product, we've always had the option to be able to shut the door and walk away without being bothered by a telemarketer. And if they did try to bother us again and again by knocking on our door at 3 or 4 am, we could call the police and get them arrested. This is not the case with Facebook Messenger, and I think we should still have the right to be able to walk away and not be bothered by intruders, whether it's in person or virtually. Therefore I think we should get our voices heard, so we don't have to hear unwanted voice calls (especially at 3 am) due to disgracebook violating people's privacy and ignoring several complaints to fix this issue. Feel free to sign my other petition that addresses the same issue on a different site. https://www.change.org/p/facebook-petition-for-turning-off-facebook-messenger-calls-completely?recruiter=641097989&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_petition Also, great minds petition alike. Someone else made a petition for the same thing. Yay. To sign my long lost twin's petition, go to the link below...ok she isn't really my twin but she is dandy. https://www.petitions24.com/allow_facebook_messenger_calls_to_be_switched_off?utm_source=twitter

To the House of Representatives, Members of the Senate, my fellow Americans, and, most pointedly, President Donald J. Trump, My name is Charles Porter. I am a middle aged, working class American man. And I am forming this petition in the hopes that there is still decency remaining in what we call America. Since President Trump has been in office, I have watched the decline of the country I love. Allow me a moment to give you a brief overview of my family ties to our nation. My ancestors were among the first pilgrims to this land. My family, through my paternal grandmother, share family lineage with President GeorgeWashington. I am a direct descendent of the first Rear Admiral of the U.S. Navy. My family has been as American as one can possibly be. Sadly, I no longer recognize the America my family helped establish, uphold, and defend. And I fear we are on the verge of a constitutional crisis as never seen before. Our President's campaign and administration has been under investigation for over a year and a half, the results of which should be widely known by now. And now we have the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh as SCOTUS. This same Brett Kavanaugh, has written he believes the President should be above the law. As an American, I find this idea offensive, and downright wrong. The President is supposed to serve the country. Not himself. The office of President is supposed to be held by citizens! And no citizen, however powerful, is above the law. If we allow Mr. Trump to get his nominee into the Supreme Court, it could very probably destroy our country. We must stand against the man trying to stylize himself into an autocrat. It is now or never. Please, stand with me. Please stand with America

We must not have a repeat of the repression and massacres on the 1980s, when our government condoned gross human rights violations against the Guatemalan people, in particular against indigenous communities. Stop the attacks on environmental and human rights activists.

As a Phoenician, I expect all of our elected leaders to act in the best interests of children who cannot defend themselves and hold bad actors accountable. AZDHS needs to conduct a thorough investigation and, if appropriate, pursue legal remedies to ensure similar events never occur again. Children depend on responsible adults for their safety; we cannot fail them again.