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Thom warns us not to get taken in by “smishing” (he explains the term in the video). His advice is well worth a listen.

Aside:

I ignore emails and texts from (those purporting to be) political activists. And, believe me, I get a lot of emails and an annoying number of texts. (In Thunderbird, my preferred mail client, I filter the emails into a special folder and delete them unread.)

I also get texts from persons who think I am Jeremy from North Carolina, even though I’m not Jeremy and I have never lived in North Carolina (and given what’s happening in North Carolina these days*, I wouldn’t move there on a bet) and I’ve had my cell phone number for years.

Even when said emails and texts are legitimate, they are almost always overwrought and often obnoxious. They are designed to appeal to emotions, not to brains.

My advice, for what it’s worth: Use your brains.

I do my contributing, political and otherwise, the old-fashioned way.

I use the United States Postal Service.

As I told someone who called me on the telly phone yesterday claiming to represent a cauxe that I support, “I do my contributing by mail.” Then I hung up the phone.

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*I’m so old, I can remember when North Carolina was considered a “progressive” Southern state.