It’s April Fools’ Day. To celebrate, we spent a couple minutes earlier this week dreaming up some quality jokey headlines for this post.

For example: “Comcast Merges With House Energy & Commerce Committee to Increase Synergy.”

And: “Comcast Abandons Business Because Title II Net Neutrality Was Just Too Scary.”

But then we realized something. The actual, real-life headlines about Comcast are so horrible it’s hard to believe they aren’t a joke.

For example: “Comcast Changed Customer’s Name to ‘Asshole Brown’ but Is Totally Sorry.”

And: “New Homeowner Has to Sell House Because of Comcast’s Incompetence, Lack of Competition.”

This is what we’re up against: a company so bad we can’t write jokes that come close to what Comcast’s actually doing.

So on this April Fools’ Day, we ask you this: Could you donate to help the Free Press Action Fund fight the evil that is Comcast?

Comcast is trying to buy out Time Warner Cable and exert even more control over our Internet connections. This is a company that skips out on its taxes in its home city of Philadelphia. This is a company that’s anti-Net Neutrality. And need we remind you that those last two headlines above are real?

Defeating a company this powerful isn’t easy. It takes smart lawyers and lobbyists, which we have. It takes creative and talented organizers, which we have. But for us to do our work we need the support of people like you.

Donate today to help us stop Comcast. Because the amount of control big telecom companies want over our lives is no joke.

Your support will enable us to:

• Bring activists to speak out against the merger at a California Public Utilities Commission meeting in Los Angeles. We’ll make sure folks have everything they need to push this influential agency to vote no on the Comcast takeover — and send a strong signal to decision-makers in D.C.
• Strategize, share information and dream up creative tactics with the best national and local organizers we know.
• Collect and publicize Comcast customers’ horror stories — and highlight how awful it would be if this company could abuse even more consumers. 
• Deliver these stories to D.C. We’re going to hatch a plan to grab the attention of policymakers. Stay tuned!

Original photo by Flickr user Lori Erickson