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  1. The #USPS is older than "America", because communication knows no borders.

    Now :dumpster_fire: Donald Drumpf's idea for AmeriKKKa is to privatize the postal service to further pollute democracy.

    The #Intercept has emailed a bunch of people with these notes, and a simple request: Demand that your #Senate rep disallow this takeover. Three SEPARATE BUT EQUAL branches are how we are supposed to stop this, not a conglomerate of Drumpf's hatred for humans and the ugliness of his soul.

    Donald Trump has nominated four candidates for the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors in an attempted takeover of the cherished public institution, which is older than the nation itself. And he knows that USPS is responsible for carrying millions of ballots during the midterm elections.

    We made enough noise that two of the nominees never made it to committee, but the other two — Jeffrey Brodsky and William Gallo — were voted through committee, and the Senate could soon convene to confirm or reject them.

    This is our last chance to stop Trump from dominating the postal board and bullying forward his election interference schemes, as well as everything from price hikes and delivery slowdowns to privatization.

    Brodsky has spent 30 years in the corporate restructuring world, treating distressed companies as projects to be cut apart, reorganized, and squeezed for investors — a literal privatization expert. Gallo comes from commodities trading and private business. Neither one has any postal experience, much less a record of defending universal service, postal workers, affordable rates, rural delivery, or election mail.

    Trump wants a Postal Service that follows his political orders and prepares itself for a corporate sell-off. The Senate can stop him.

  2. The #USPS is older than "America", because communication knows no borders.

    Now :dumpster_fire: Donald Drumpf's idea for AmeriKKKa is to privatize the postal service to further pollute democracy.

    The #Intercept has emailed a bunch of people with these notes, and a simple request: Demand that your #Senate rep disallow this takeover. Three SEPARATE BUT EQUAL branches are how we are supposed to stop this, not a conglomerate of Drumpf's hatred for humans and the ugliness of his soul.

    Donald Trump has nominated four candidates for the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors in an attempted takeover of the cherished public institution, which is older than the nation itself. And he knows that USPS is responsible for carrying millions of ballots during the midterm elections.

    We made enough noise that two of the nominees never made it to committee, but the other two — Jeffrey Brodsky and William Gallo — were voted through committee, and the Senate could soon convene to confirm or reject them.

    This is our last chance to stop Trump from dominating the postal board and bullying forward his election interference schemes, as well as everything from price hikes and delivery slowdowns to privatization.

    Brodsky has spent 30 years in the corporate restructuring world, treating distressed companies as projects to be cut apart, reorganized, and squeezed for investors — a literal privatization expert. Gallo comes from commodities trading and private business. Neither one has any postal experience, much less a record of defending universal service, postal workers, affordable rates, rural delivery, or election mail.

    Trump wants a Postal Service that follows his political orders and prepares itself for a corporate sell-off. The Senate can stop him.