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Read the Project 2025 manifesto RIGHT NOW

It's MUCH worse than y'all have been hearing

There is so much here you'll have to look at it for yourself, but the climate policy alone is nightmare fuel.

The republican coalition wants to essentially end funding for green energy, dramatically promote and expand fossil fuel industries, and eliminate funding and regulations in all sectors promoting climate change mitigation. Task forces and offices related to clean energy and lowering carbon emissions will be eliminated and replaced with offices for promoting fossil fuels.

They want to LOG NATIONAL FORESTS TO "THIN" THE TREES TO STOP WILDFIRES.

THEY WANT TO FORCE OREGON AND CALIFORNIA TO LOG THEIR NATIONAL FORESTS AND TREAT THEM AS FOR TIMBER PRODUCTION

There are specific provisions in Project 2025 to essentially destroy the Endangered Species Act, causing it to defer to the rights of "economic development" and "private property." The plan includes delisting gray wolves, cutting the budget so that a "triage" system is used to determine which species will get protection, removing funding for research, removing experts and specialists from the decision-making process, and preventing "experimental" populations of animals from being established.

This is so much worse than I expected it to be and there's much more past that: They want to deregulate pesticides and remove much of the EPA's ability to regulate pollutants as well.

Also included in the manifesto is that we should

withdraw from nuclear weapons nonproliferation agreements, build more nuclear weapons, and resume nuclear weapons testing

The manifesto comprehensively outlines the scorched-earth elimination of abortion access, down to ensuring doctors aren't even trained to perform abortions. There are plans in here to disrupt abortion access GLOBALLY, not just domestically.

Not only that,the Republicans plan on reframing family planning programs around "fertility awareness" and "holistic family planning."

I can't even describe it all. I'm trying to give screenshots of the most important things but there's so much.

The foreign policy is a nightmare. They plan to push fossil fuels onto the Global South and promote the development of fossil fuel industry in the "developing world."

It is aggressive and antagonistic towards other nations, strongly pro-military, proposing that we INCREASE (!!!!!) defense spending, improve public opinion of the military and military recruitment, and increase the power to fund new weapons technology.

Just read the Department of Defense section. It's about greatly increasing and strengthening the military-industrial complex, collaborating more closely with weapons manufacturers, removing regulatory barriers to arming our allies and to inventing new military weapons, and recruiting more people into the military. They include provisions to develop AI technology for surveillance. And of course, continuing to support Israel is in there.

Elsewhere it proposes interfering in foreign countries with creepy pro-USA propaganda campaigns, even establishing international educational programs where faculty have to pledge to promote USA interests.

There's a line in here about getting rid of PBS because SESAME STREET is LEFTIST for God's sake.

HOW are people claiming democrats have the same policies. I feel like i'm losing my mind.

sniperct

This isn't just Trump, this is the entire republican party. This is what they want, this is what they've been working towards for decades, bit by bit, step by step, and now they're so close they won't rest until they pull it off.

galadriel1010

I'm just going to say this, but basically, if you are such a single issue voter that you cannot bring yourself to vote for Joe Biden over Donald Trump, you do not get to say that you care about Black and brown people, you do not get to say you care about injustice, and you don't even get to say you care about genocide.

What you care about is either being made to witness it, or being made to feel complicit. End of.

The environmental impacts of Project 2025 alone will cause suffering and death to billions of people, and most of all in the Global South. Climate change is already killing people, and that is only going to get worse. If you are US American, you have a chance this year to put your vote on the scales of justice.

This is our no pasaran moment. I don't give a fuck if you hate everything about the person you're standing next to, that is not the point. When the fascists come to your neighbourhood, you stand shoulder to shoulder and keep them out. The far right are on the march worldwide. It's going to take more than voting, but if you don't vote, nothing else matters.

Vote for president, vote for your senators, vote for your judges, vote for your school board and your HOA. Give the people trying to hold back the tide the absolute bare minimum you can - your vote.

And if you're looking at this and thinking it only applies to Americans, get your head out of your ass. The EU swung hard right. France is swinging hard right. Fucking New Zealand voted in the right wing, and they immediately rolled back years of progress. The White House and the EU are the big ones, but every election matters. Vote.

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welcometonegrotown

disgusting

thedisdainfullysilentvisitor

holy sh*t

nativenews

Trayvon Benjamin Martin (February 5, 1995 – February 26, 2012) would have been 23.

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Moonlight win is historical an should have been treated much better.

professionalpenthief

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#Moonlight

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phoenix-ace

I’ll say it before and I’ll say it again:

You cannot challenge racism, on this level, by being nice to and reaching out to white supremacists. Their entire ideology revolves around dehumanizing us. It just does. not. work.

You cannot fight fascism by prioritizing the feelings of fascists and letting them think they’re safe around you. You don’t “get them on your side”. Because treating them kindly and respecting them, gives them your silent approval and access to those of you who are way more vulnerable than you are and who cannot afford to feel safe enough to “debate” with these monsters.

Our humanity is not a question or a debate topic, and by giving these people a platform you legitimize their views and help spread them to a larger audience.

nido-is-sorry-4-everything-deac

Then… How did it work for this guy?

soyeahso

They shot him in the fucking head.

phoukanamedpookie

Say that shit again!

They shot him in the fucking head.

chrisdornerfanclub

The idea that MLK was ‘nice’ to white supremacists is also just historical revisionism @kuurihaunt.

He was sent death threats. The FBI considered him dangerous. People assaulted and murdered many of his followers. White America thought he was too confrontational and not appeasing enough to the sensibilities of whites. He was considered disruptive and an “outside agitator.” He was not a beloved man. He was hated and despised.

His protests came with the risk of being brutalized or killed by police or vigilantes. He decried the white moderate for caring more about order than justice. He refused to condemn riots, ‘the language of the unheard,’ because of how violent America was to Black people. Despite their differences, Malcolm X offered him protection and self-defense. Even though he was committed to nonviolent resistance, which meant breaking the law, disrupting traffic and yes - willingly opening yourself to being brutalized, he was more complicated than you give him credit.

The United States hated him and for his troubles he was killed.

He was not the caricature of nonviolence you think he was. Read a fucking book.

newwavefeminism

I’m going to need to bring this back up again in February when during peak “re-write black history” time

#martin luther king jr #racism #white supremacy

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theonlinemuse

nevaehtyler:

So um, let me guess it straight - it is absolutely fine for white people to dress up as Native Americans, Egyptians, Geishas or do Black face for Halloween, but Santa can’t be Black? No, this is not how it works. “But Real Santa is white!” Santa Claus is a fictional character, he DOESN’T even exist! Now do me a favor and sit cho asses down, that grandpa is as adorable as one can be.

#BlackSanta

hipsters-watch-tv

A Straight: Why do queer people star watching a show only after they see there’s a gay character?

Me:

timballisto

bowtiejarvis

Want to know the sad truth? I won’t watch a show any more if there’s a queer woman on it. Not until the series is over. Not until I know they make it to the end, or if they’re written off or killed it’s done in a way that makes sense and doesn’t fall into tropes. In fact, I only watch one current show live with a queer woman/women. How to Get Away with Murder. Because Viola Davis is that good and I know she isn’t going anywhere. Otherwise? Nope. Last time I tried to trust a non-HTGAWM show from the start? Black Sailz. What happened? Queer woman, who was a character of color and you know how shitty women of color get treated in media, who was raped in episode three and was written to defend her rapists and the only reason she was raped was to advance the plot of straight men. Stopped that episode. Can’t do it anymore. Can’t just give faith to creators and studios. Just can’t anymore. There’s little joy at always having the nagging feeling in the back of your head like you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop, walking on egg shells. I think now, as things stand, I’d only ever take in media with queer characters in them from trusted queer writers.

neutrois

Female celebrities come out as genderqueer and are celebrated. Men come out and are called ‘confused.’

Masculinity isn’t just fragile, it’s deadly.

In the face of that toxicity, gender nonconforming people are continuing to challenge the notion that there’s anything wrong with dressing like a woman. Singer-songwriter Ezra Furman frequently performs onstage in pearls and lipstick. Magic Johnson’s son, EJ, regularly rocks the red carpet in diamonds, tennis bracelets, and women’s blazers. But rapper and R&B artist Shamir put it best in a tweet about his orientation last year. “I have no gender, no sexuality, and no fucks to give,” he said.

Despite the public vitriol directed at Jaden Smith, there are signs that even toxic masculinity is coming around. This past January, AXE debuted an ad entitled “Find Your Magic,” an inclusive take on confidence that critics say offered a more “grown-up take on masculinity” than the body spray company’s usual frat-boy aesthetic. The minute-long segment prominently features a man voguing in four-inch stilettos. “Who needs… fire, when you rock those heels?” the narrator asks.

#for me to understand and remember

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“Underground”: New TV series explores black resistance in slave-era America

Underground is harrowing and compelling new 10 episode TV show centered on a group of slaves planning a daring all-or-nothing 600-mile escape from a Georgia plantation. It premieres on March 9th on WGN America.

The journey and escape of thousands of slaves to free states and Canada in the 19th century is one of the most fascinating and defiant parts of American history but one that has received little attention on television or in movies.

The relationships and the agendas of the series’ slave characters, the people who claim ownership and domain over them, the hunters who seek to snare them and the abolitionists who fight to help them find freedom form a complex and intriguing mosaic in this new TV epic.

Why this might actually work:

1. It was created, written and co-produced by a black woman

Misha Green is a writer and producer who has worked on shows including Sons of Anarchy and Heroes.

“One day my sister said to me, ‘You should do a show about the Underground Railroad.’ I liked the idea. I immediately knew the title would be the ‘Underground.’ I knew I wanted it to be epic and big. So I went to Joe Polaski, the co–creator of Underground. We had a great history.

We decided to see it from all perspectives: from the slaves running to those left behind on the plantation, to the slave catchers going after them to those helping along the way. The more we researched, we found truth is stranger than fiction. We knew it was the right time for a television series”

2. It’s not another tragic slave era story exploiting black pain for dramatic effect

Misha Green: “It’s not about the occupation; it’s about the revolution. This is a story that has not been told before. We have a little paragraph in some history books about this time period. But this is an inspiring story that shows what can be accomplished when we stick together. It shows how people traveled 600 miles with people hunting them every step to get to freedom. It shows the ingenuity they used.“

Aldis Hodge, the shows lead protagonist said “to be called a slave is to be called a thing. It’s like being cattle or a machine. We depicted it from the viewpoint that these people are enslaved Americans, and we celebrate their strengths.”

3. It gives a deeper look into the slave resistance than ever before

Unlike many slave dramas that have gone before, this is not a sepia-tinted period drama or a revisionist fantasy. Underground explores the social, moral, and political complexities of this period. It gives viewers a historically accurate glimpse of how the clandestine system of the Underground Railroad operated.

“The Underground Railroad is one sentence – one paragraph – in history books, and they sum it up to one person, the amazing legend of Harriet Tubman,” says Smollett-Bell who plays Rosalee, a shy but internally strong house slave. “But there were thousands of people who risked their lives and who were actively changing our nation.”

Actor Alano Miller who plays Cato said “At first, when it was pitched to me, it was ‘slave drama,’ and that made me cringe. But then I read the script and the humanity; it was about the revolution. The writing was just so excellent; it had so much depth to it and it wasn’t one-dimensional.”

4. It has a stellar cast

As well as being executive produced by John Legend, Underground stars True Blood’s Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Straight Outta Compton’s Aldis Hodge, Jane The Virgin’s Alano Miller, Arrow’s Jessica de Gouw, Law & Order: SVU alum Christopher Meloni, Amirah Vann and Justified’s Mykelti Williamson, among others. Empire’s Jussie Smollett and Treme’s Renwick Scott also guest star.

5. The soundtrack’s gunna be great

John Legend is the show’s music producer, so you know it’s going to be good. The moody R&B and blues rock soundtrack to Underground “emphasizes the struggles of the South in this tumultuous time.“

Underground premieres on March 9th on WGN America.

Watch the trailer below:

#signal boost #Underground

lagonegirl

Woman, 50, died after being ‘deprived of water’ at Charleston County jail

A woman who was arrested at a hospital over the summer for failing to pay court fines died the next day because she was deprived of water at the Charleston County jail, her family’s attorneys said Wednesday.

Joyce Curnell, 50, of Edisto Island was found dead in the jail a day after being taken from Roper Hospital, where she had been treated for a stomach illness.

She spent the last 27 hours of her life behind bars. During that time she became too sick to eat or call for help, according to court documents filed this week. She vomited all night and couldn’t make it to a bathroom, so jailers gave her a trash bag. Some medical staffers ignored the jail officials’ requests to tend to her, the documents alleged.

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Jail for unpaid fines is obscene enough. But no WATER? For the love of God and basic humanity this is an outrage. Nobody should be forced to pay thousands of dollars just receive life saving treatment, and we should not be killing people for not doing so.

#JoyceCurnell #SayHerName #BlackLivesMatter

#Joyce Curnell #Charleston County #signal boost #south carolina #police violence

stitchmediamix

Slash Shipping, Pseudo-Progressivism, and Reinforcing Patriarchal Standards in Fandom

Here’s a newsflash for you my fellow slash shippers: Your male/male ships that focus almost exclusively on white men aren’t as progressive or as rebellious as you think they are.

Especially when (not ‘if’) they come at the expense of women and characters of color who have significant intimate relationships with one or both of the two white guys you’re shipping.

For the rest of article which talks about racism in fannish spaces, the illusion of progress at the expense of women and POC in fannish spaces, and how internalized misogyny is infectious, head over to my blog to read more!

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This article is SO FUCKING GOOD. Please go read it, I beg you. Your white boy on white boy love is not actually subversive.

thecheshirecass-deactivated2018

Fuck it, I’m reblogging it AGAIN because I want to share this quote:

This is actually what happens to many WOC who dare to talk about how fandom has let them down. Their experiences are minimized and their stories reduced to causing “drama” and they get so much hatred in a direct response to them trying to get fandom to do better.

To many people outside of fandom and within it, this push to get fandom to look critically at why they ship the things they do and what happens to characters of color and female characters is met with such an intensely negative reaction that it’s scary.

It’s not just fandom.

It’s not just shipping.

It’s not just a preference.

These aren’t just fictional characters.

You can’t defeat the patriarchy by reinforcing it. And erasing women and people of color in order to prop up relationships between white men is absolutely reinforcing the patriarchy within fandom.

Instead of reacting with anger or disbelief, just do better.

manynamedshe

GLORYYYYYYY

blogtitletaken

This is a really good article.

#fandom #for me to understand and follow

minoritiesinpublishing

Constance Wu from "Fresh off the Boat" talks diversity and representation for Asian-American actors in the latest "Bullseye with Jesse Thorn" podcast.

“[Diversity] doesn’t mean we want the white people to write Asian stories. What I want is to foster the Asian-American writers and directors and producers and actors…foster their stories to come into the spotlight a little bit.”

This explanation for the term “diversity” is very important. Please pay attention.

#diversity #Racism in Hollywood

jillymomcraftypants

“When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.”

Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via notablelove)

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thishumanspace

Damn.

goodluckrob-deactivated20221110

This country ain’t shit, man.

jawnbaeyega

Convict leasing. Look it up. Some scholars say it was even worse than slavery because there was no incentive not to work people to death and then just replace them.

Convict Leasing was followed by Jim Crow and Segregation, which were followed by what we have now: the New Jim Crow.

Racism hasn’t gone anywhere. It just evolved.

#racism #for me to understand and remember

brightorangerain

She says they didn't provide her with a ramp.

disableism

However, when Jay arrived at the event in Birmingham, England on Tuesday Dec. 8, they’d begun the panel discussion without her and not provided a wheelchair ramp for her to access the stage, which was about 15 inches off the ground, she said in a statement on Twitter. Jay, humiliated, left the event without getting to speak.

blind-diode

…..what the fuck

cortney-deactivated20161127

this is sounds like an onion article but it is disheartening and real

#ableism

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