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Hey, yes, I know you are all being inundated by messages about contacting your representatives to flood them with demands to not let the United States and our rights be stripped away.

Trust me, I am ANXIOUS. Just looking at the news gives me heart palpitations and makes my depression spiral these days.

But here are some easy ways you can contact your reps relatively painlessly and feel like you are helping and doing your duty.

I first recommend 5Calls. It is an easy, free to use app that gives you who your reps are, the current issues, and a CALL SCRIPT. That's super helpful and important.

Do you hate calling people like me, a super anxious millennial?

I would still get 5Calls but THEN, do this:

Take the script and type it into the Email Me/Message section of your Congressmen's Contact options.

All House Representatives and Senators have options where you can message them online. While calls/voicemails are quickest and most effective, there are staff who are REQUIRED to check these messages and record constituent responses. Always ALWAYS check any box that says you want a response back, it forces them to look at your message and accurately record your concerns.

5Calls tells you who your congressmen are, BUT if you need to find your congressmen's official website and contact details, go here: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Simply enter your address, click enter, their info will be pulled up including the phone numbers for their local offices where you live and if you press 'Contact' you'll be led to the pages where you can message them.

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World Firefly Day: Help Keep the Sparkles Burning

Every year on the first weekend of July, an annual event is organized to celebrate the importance of fireflies in our ecosystems and to increase public awareness about the risks these luminous insects face.

The theme for 2025 World Firefly Day is “Help Us Keep The Sparkles Burning,” which will be held on July 5th and 6th.

World Firefly Day serves to draw attention to the ongoing threats these luminous beetles are facing.

One of the many reasons for their population decline is habitat destruction.

Fireflies flourish in wetlands, forested areas along riverbanks where their larvae grow in moist soil or leaf litter, and in mangrove forests where they thrive in the brackish water.

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Fireflies rely strongly on mangroves as habitats due to its unique wetland ecosystem with the mangrove swamps acting as shelters to insects and other invertebrates, while acting as first line of defence during extreme weather like storms and flood surges. 

Mangrove trees along riparian areas are the best sites for fireflies to establish their habitat as a food source and breeding site.

Unfortunately, large tracts of mangroves have been cleared for agricultural, aquaculture, flood mitigation projects, and logging of mangrove trees for the charcoal industry, making these areas unsuitable for the continued survival of firefly larvae and their snail prey.

As forests are cleared for development, firefly habitats dwindled and disappear.

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Preventing fireflies from becoming extinct is both a challenge and an opportunity for conservation.

The Consumers’ Association of Penang calls for effective firefly conservation that requires addressing multiple threats simultaneously:

protecting and restoring habitats, reducing light pollution, limiting pesticide use, managing invasive species, mitigating the effects of climate change, among others.

The challenge of saving fireflies also provides an opportunity for the public to participate in broader conservation efforts by developing an emotional connection with these beloved insects.

your drawing I had to make

two a shittier ones

It doesn't even mention Julius Caesar or the Ides of March.

It's from a very different segment of the play

It's not even the famous part of that segment that everyone knows by heart

The "I'm just sayin'" attitude of all the Seinfeldians in the screenshot (although if memory serves, what they're actually saying is, "not that there's anything wrong with that")

It just comes at the whole situation in such an oblique fashion

I don't think I've ever seen an Ides of March meme do anything like this before

mention Julius Caesar or

the Ides of March.