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we're not kids anymore.
noise dept.
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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@adventure-theorum
✊🏽Black men deserve peace.
✊🏾Black men deserve respect.
✊🏿Black men deserve to feel safe.
✊🏽Black men deserve to grow.
✊🏾Black men deserve to thrive.
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i feel like the rest of that tweet should be shown:
‘Possible nuclear use in Iran: UN-linked diplomat Mohamad Safa, the Main Representative of Patriotic Vision (PVA) at the United Nations, has
Yeah, just so we have an actual source and not a picture of a twitter post. Be sure to check sources! This is real though. Spread wide.
[Image Description: first image: tweet by Nerdeen Kiswani, @ NerdeenKiswani, that says "He resigned from the U.N. and ended his diplomatic career to leak the fact they're preparing for a nuclear weapon to bomb Iran. We are not doing enough to stop this." This is in reply to a tweet by Mohamad Safa, verfied, @ MHDKsafa. The entirety of the tweet makes up the rest of the images, and says
"I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the U.N is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.
This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.
Tehran is a city with nearly ten million people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.
I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspend my duties so as to not be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it's too late.
Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested 'No Kings' in the United States. The possibility of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us." Beneath the tweet is a skyline photo of part of the metropolitan city of Tehran, filled with houses and skyscrapers an stretching out towards mountains. End I.D]
Also relevant:
World Health Organization staff remain ‘vigiliant’ in the event of a nuclear incident
btw it's not spelled "Maori", it's Māori. the tohutō (the line above the vowel) is important for the pronunciation of the word. if you don't have the tohutō on your keyboard (it should be on your phone keyboard at least), it's "Maaori" as the tohutō lengthens the vowel it's placed over. never Maori, preferably Māori but Maaori in a pinch. thanks
Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to defund libraries!
SHOW UP FOR OUR LIBRARIES! 📚 CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSPEOPLE!
Here’s a couple actual links to concrete things you can do to help, as determined by the American Library Association, who already stopped this maniac from doing this once. There are many smart & experienced people fighting for libraries & museums, but they need your help too.
This link allows you to send your personal library story directly to Congress: https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=23577
And this is a straightforward petition you can sign in about a minute: https://action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025
And if you want an easy way to contact your Congresscritters directly, text 50409 or search for ResistBot on Telegram to email, call or fax you Congresscritters. Libraries support democracy & are the last free reliably available 3rd Space in America. This is absolutely an emergency as serious as any of the other major institutional destructions so far this year.
In a new executive order, President Trump has targeted the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency charged with
Please share a story about how libraries have a positive impact in YOUR community. This might be a story about you or your family, or about
Americans stand with...
Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
National Parks 🌲⛰️🌲
Science 🔬🧪🐁
Women
LGBTQ+ 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Immigrants 🇲🇽🇨🇺🇩🇴
And stand against...
Oligarchy🎩💰🎩
Tyranny 👑🤡👑
Fascism
The Muskrat 🐀
and Felon-in-Chief
Join the Resistance!
UPCOMING DAYS OF ACTION March 14th - Veterans March & March on Washington March 15th - Postcards to Trump #TheIdesOfTrump April 5th - 50501 Nation-wide Protests (find an event) Ongoing - Tesla Takedown (find an event) Ongoing - The Big List of Protests
Unable to protest? Here are other ways you can resist.
UPCOMING BOYCOTTS
March 7-14 - Amazon (including Whole Foods) March 21-28 - Nestlé Brands (full list) March 28th - 24-hour Economic Blackout April 7-13 - Walmart April 18th - 24-hour Economic Blackout April 21-27 - General Mills Ongoing - Target
And pledge to join the General Strike!
Piece of financial advice, because I've seen too many people make this mistake: never pay off medical debt on a credit card unless you are 100% sure you will be able to pay the credit card balance off in full as soon as you get the first bill. Why? It is ALWAYS better to have medical debt than credit card debt. There is a long list of reasons why.
State and federal laws severely restrict medical debt in ways that credit card debt is not restricted.
Credit card debt can charge much higher interest rates, and in general it IS much higher in rate. Medical debt sometimes charges no interest, at least for a certain period of time. When it does charge interest, the rate is lower, and in some states it is capped as low as 5%, always at 20% or lower. Credit card interest rates are almost never below 15% and are sometimes MUCH higher than 20%.
Medical debt is less damaging to your credit history than credit card debt. And it is easier to eliminate in bankruptcy.
Medical debt also does not affect your spending limits on a credit card. If you use a credit card for monthly expenses, adding medical debt to it can bring you closer to your credit limit which might make you unable to use the card for expenses (even ones you could afford to pay off immediately.) This negatively affects your credit rating through increasing your credit utilization, it can reduce your potential to earn rewards, and it can reduce your spending power in an emergency.
Also, the penalties and fees for deliquency on medical debt are much milder and those for credit card debt are more severe. Again, laws are more restrictive on medical debt. You will have far fewer fees or penalties going delinquent on medical debt.
Also it is often easier to get medical debt forgiven or negotiated down, than credit card debt,
If you ever end up with medical debt, keep it as medical debt and keep paying it as medical debt. Go delinquent on your medical debt before switching it to a credit card. Once you put it on a credit card, you can't go back.
By keeping your medical debt as medical debt, you save money, protect your credit history, and increase your chances of having the debt forgiven, negotiated down, or eliminated through bankruptcy.
NEVER CONVERT MEDICAL DEBT TO CREDIT CARD DEBT.
PSA - do not try to get a last-minute gender marker-related passport in the US right now!! Your documents will be seized. Reposting this to get the info out there.
ICE raids happening in Chicago on Tuesday January 21st. Get organized and get prepared.
what to do if you are arrested or detained by law enforcement, a resource from the National Immigration Law Center, available in English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese
immigration law help, database of free and low-cost immigration lawyers, searchable by zip code as well as by detention facility if you or a loved one has already been detained
report an ICE raid or arrest in Chicagoland to the Resurrection Project, a Chicago nonprofit that works on immigration justice as well as housing affordability and other community needs
for those of us watching in horror from the sidelines, one of the best things we can do right now is donate to immigrant justice legal services, like the National Immigrant Justice Center or a local group in your community
in the longer term, we can all help by speaking out in support of immigrants and against these xenophobic deportation campaigns — in public discourse and in caring but firm one-on-one conversations with loved ones who've been swayed by hateful anti-immigrant rhretoric
The previous government proposed changes to the NHS constitution which would mean transgender hospital patients in England may not be treate
Well fucks? Get to it!
please remember that a ceasefire has not been reached yet and that israel's attacks have actually recently ramped up. people are also still being starved. combat this by donating to gaza soup kitchen
Spread this video
spread this video for awareness.
to me it's counter intuitive that little person and dwarf are more acceptable so it's really helpful to know.
also spread this video to appreciate the fucking killer mustache on that one guy in the suit. holy shit, it's like a work of art.
i know hearing people on this website love to pass around those posts with links to free sign language lessons but you know you need to actually put effort into learning about Deaf culture, too, right?
if you are currently learning ASL, you need to read Introduction to American Deaf Culture by Thomas K. Holcomb
resources for other Deaf cultures include, but are not limited to:
Black Deaf Culture Through the Lens of History (BASL and ASL-centric)
Understanding Deaf Culture by Paddy Ladd (which can also be found on archive.org)
Many Ways to Be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities
the British Deaf Association website
directory for Deaf Australia’s “Our Deaf Ways” video podcast (presented in Auslan with audio from an interpreter and accurate closed captioning for all episodes)
The Irish Deaf Community by Patrick A. Matthews
Breaking the Silence: The Education of the Deaf in Ireland, 1816-1996
the Canadian Deaf Culture Center website
History of Hawai'i Sign Language and Hawai'i Deaf People by Barbara Earth, with Linda Lambrecht
‘We did it ourselves’: The Deaf Social Movement and the Quest for the Legal Recognition of the Libras Sign Language in Brazil
as someone who has gone long stretches without electricity, let alone an internet connection
BACK UP YOUR WORK---YES, EVEN PHYSICAL COPIES. HAVE OFFLINE RESOURCES. KEEP YOUR LANDLINE. CARRY CASH. DON'T GET IMPORTANT APPLIANCES THAT RUN ON WIFI. LEARN TO READ A PAPER MAP
Just going to add:
HAVE A RADIO (with a battery power option).
If you do not have electricity, the radio may be your only source of information!
Local radio will: give weather updates, give updates on restoring power, let you know if you need to evacuate or are on evacuation alert, and as a bonus, it can provide entertainment/music.
y'all sleeping on this post/info. this isn't about "oh, but natural disasters don't happen where i live" this is about
"natural disasters are going to start happening here as the climate keeps changing"
"one shift in government regulations or corporate ownership and essential needs become artificially scarce"
"they haven't updated the infrastructure since the 1940s and it's about to blow"
"one financial downfall and i'm living out of my car"
"i can live without basic needs for a while, but my kids/pets/dependents can't"
also, some of you are living in countries with unstable govts or with conflict right next door and you need to be at least a little prepared in case the unthinkable happens. PLEASE
Most U.S. voters want to stop U.S. arms sales to Israel and end Israel’s war on Gaza.¹ The Biden administration hasn’t listened. But that c
To all my American friends, the time is now.
Please, execute a BOMBARDMENT. Call your representatives!
The excerpt paragraph made me look up and stare at my wife for three solid minutes waiting for them to return to the couch. I couldn’t move on with my life. I had to read it aloud to them to their audible disgust and then they read all the comments with unbridled delight.
Now we keep repeating “Like Zorro.”
In 2016, over 75,000 mail-in ballots were left uncounted and discarded because they were received after mail-in voting deadlines, which all vary by state, according to CBS news.
Some states like California allow you to check with the Registrar of Voters on-line to verify both if a ballot has issued and if it was received to help prevent voting errors.
Remember, the most common forms of voter fraud are 1) gerrymandering, 2) voter suppression and 3) foreign participation through both lobbying and online misinformation.
OCTOBER 13. IT’S BEING DELIBERATELY SLOWED. OCTOBER 13.
He said WHAT
Hey, so this actually is a form of fake news. The tweet specifically ignores the context of the conversation - Nato. Here are some other quotes from President Biden during this interview:
"I asked the — our NATO Allies that we bring on the group from the South Pacific: Australia, New Zealand, Japan-"
"And, by the way, I was able to get 50 other nations — 50 — five-zero — to support Ukraine. Fifty. And we were able to bring about a coalition between — in — of Europe and Asia — Japan and South Korea."
"I just met with — we’ve talked about AUKUS and we talked about the relationship between Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, the United States. We’re making the world safer and stronger, because we have to deal with a new arrangement that exists in the world"
Listen, I don't give a shit about Biden, but I hate fake news. South Korea and Japan have had 80 years of history now post WW2, and it is bizarre to claim that Biden is out of his mind for saying "I brought them both to the table to help support ukraine". Context matters, and your goddamn bad faith interpretation of literally goddamn everything is annoying as hell. Shame on y'all
everyone in the notes is taking the original tweet at face value and I'm terrified for the country as a result
but also like. WHY would you assume that's something he would just Say? why wouldn't you look it up and see what the context was?
guys. he's not actually doddering and losing it. he remains a standard politician, with all that implies, but still mentally together. that's media spin and you should know better than to trust it at this point
