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Defunding Planned Parenthood will be in reconciliation bill.

Y’ALL.

CALL YOUR REPS AND YOUR SENATORS. MAKE NOISE.

“Hi, I’m a constituent from [town], and I’m calling to urge [rep name] to oppose all attempts to defund Planned Parenthood.”

finnglas

I want to tell you a thing about Planned Parenthood: Planned Parenthood is the reason a lot of people are alive. They offer medical services – anything from annual check ups to “i have a bladder infection” to “I need a prescription for antidepressants” – to people, and most of them have a sliding scale payment system that allows them to offer services to low-income people and people without insurance.

That is why they receive federal funding at all – so that poor people who are sick can see a doctor. So that poor people who aren’t sick can receive preventative medical services. That is why they are subsidized by the federal government. Part of the government’s money goes to make up the difference between what poor people can pay for their medical treatment and what that treatment actually costs Planned Parenthood.

Regardless of where you stand on issues of abortion, you should know that they are already prevented from using federal subsidies to fund abortion services. So when conservatives talk about defunding Planned Parenthood and try to hide behind the excuse of “well I don’t want my tax money paying for abortions,” they are full of absolute shit. They are just trying to take away one of the few sources poor people have to stay healthy and treat their illnesses, and it’s not like they’re contributing to our GoFundMe’s when we end up in the emergency room because we couldn’t afford to receive preventative treatment. Fuck that shit.

Don’t stand for this.

wrangletangle

Phone calls from constituents blocked the gutting of the congressional ethics office. Phone calls from constituents can block this, too. (You are still a constituent if you are represented by someone, whether you can vote yet or not; this is something teens can do.)

People in the US: get on your phone on Friday. Call your rep, regardless of party. If your rep is a Republican, especially call them. The call will take less than 5 minutes, unless the office is overwhelmed, in which case, stay on the line. Most offices only count you if you speak to someone.

bigfootcryptid

This is way more effective than tweeting at them or making petitions or whatever! Boosting this!

bando--grand-scamyon

If we fucking lose planned parenthood…. This world will burn. IN THE DRAWS.

undercovertacobell

hey kids we’re living in a fascist regime

bed-dweller

This is a very cool resource for people who want to fight back but aren’t sure how.

undercovertacobell

reblogging for the swingleft.org link. It’s a really great, easy to use/understand resource

autohaste

Look what white people put in power

sinbadism

it’s a good thing npr and pbs are largely funded by private companies and organizations and individual donations

heartinamitten

White women: FIX UR FACE.

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‘Caroline’ rapper Aminé using his national television platform effectively

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allthecanadianpolitics

Today marks the 26th anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre, in Montreal, Canada. A cowardly, misogynic act which left 14 promising women dead, simply because they were women:

Twenty-five-year-old Marc Lépine, armed with a Mini-14 rifle and a hunting knife, shot 28 people, killing 14 women, before committing suicide. He began his attack by entering a classroom at the university, where he separated the male and female students. After claiming that he was “fighting feminism” and calling the women “a bunch of feminists,” he shot all nine women in the room, killing six. He then moved through corridors, the cafeteria, and another classroom, specifically targeting women to shoot. Overall, he killed fourteen women and injured ten other women and four men in just under 20 minutes before turning the gun on himself.[1][2] His suicide note claimed political motives and blamed feminists for ruining his life. The note included a list of 19 Quebec women whom Lépine considered to be feminists and apparently wished to kill.[3]

After this despicable act, Canada adopted gun control measures. Since gun control measures were adopted there has not been another mass shooting killing more than 10 people in Canada. Since École Polytechnique there has only been 9 massacres in Canada; 9 in 26 years.

Please remember these women.

Tweets by the YWCA of Toronto

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Halloween Food Girls! I can attest to the fact that candy in the 60′s was crap. Fuck Chick-O-stick

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I love these food goils so much

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Visit Original Link

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me in the mornings & me omw to work

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Ready to give the suck up at a moments notice.

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Lil Kim registers to vote, 2004

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white people are so bored of their white privilege that they wanna experience oppression for adventure

aint-it-fun-alisha

i literally laughed so fucking hard because omg

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Is this true??

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For clarification, there are a lot of articles and think pieces where a white person will “experience a different way of living” that entails things like wearing a headscarf for a day or working a low-wage job with Latinos or going to live in an impoverished area for “the experience”.

The problem with this is that it frames POC’s experiences as some kind of fantastic sensational otherworldly life, a costume almost, and dehumanizes them in the process. Instead, they could get a perspective by interviewing and talking to and EMPATHIZING with people that LIVE the oppressed experiences, but they focus more on LIVING it THEMSELVES as if that helps anyone.

At the end of the day, they can take off the “costume”, go back to their lives as white (usually well-off) individuals; POC can’t. Hope that makes sense.