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“Your story matters most, ignore the stereotypes” - @_mbadams

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Sportscaster Dale Hansen defends student wrestler Mack Beggs and takes a stand against transphobia

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How to call your reps when you have social anxiety

When you struggle with your mental health on a daily basis, it can be hard to take action on the things that matter most to you. The mental barriers anxiety creates often appear insurmountable. But sometimes, when you really need to, you can break those barriers down. This week, with encouragement from some great people on the internet, I pushed against my anxiety and made some calls to members of our government. Here’s a comic about how you can do that, too. (Resources and transcript below.)

Motivational resources: There are a lot! Here are a few I really like:

Emily Ellsworth explains why calling is the most effective way to reach your congressperson.

Sharon Wong posted a great series of tweets that helped me manage my phone anxiety and make some calls.

Kelsey is tweeting pretty much daily with advice and reminders about calling representatives. I found this tweet an especially great reminder that calls aren’t nearly as big a deal as anxiety makes them out to be.

Informational resources: There are a lot of these, as well! These three are good places to start:

Find your representative at house.gov

Find your senators at senate.gov

Use the “We’re His Problem Now” scripts when calling (or write your own!)

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This is important enough to spread to followers on my main account here instead of my side reblog account. It’s informative, concise, supportive, and cute! For those of you who follow me on twitter, I’ve become very active politically, but try to keep my posts to helpful actions and information (and still post art there of course). I may occasionally post such helpful things here, like this!

Please spread this wonderful comic! <3

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tomorrow the senate is voting on jeff sessions + besty devos. jeff sessions is extremely racist + supports the muslim ban and betsy devos will likely plan to cut public education. CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE AGAINST THEM.

here is an example of what you should say when you call- “Hello, my name is Jane Smith. I’m a constituent from New York, zip code 10001. I don’t need a response. I am opposed to the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and I strongly encourage the Senator to please oppose any type of repeal. Thank you for your hard work!”

phone numbers:

*= republican (likely to vote in favor of sessions + devos, make sure you call them if you have a republican senator in your state)

alabama *richard shelby- 202-224-5744 *jeff sessions- 202-224-4124

alaska *lisa murkowski- 202-224-6665 *dan sullivan- 202-224-3004

arizona *john mccaine- 202-224-2235 *jeff flake- 202-224-4521

arkansas *john boozman- 202-224-4843 *tom cotton- 202-224-2353

california dianne feinstein- 202-224-3841 kamala d harris- 202-224-3553

colorado michael bennet- 202-224-5852 *cory gardner- 5941

connecticut richard blumenthal- 202-224-2823 christopher murphy- 202-224-4041

delaware thomas r carper- 202-224-2441 christopher a coons- 5042

florida bill nelson- 202-224-5274 *marco rubio- 202-224-3041

georgia *johnny isakson- 202-224-3643 *david perdue- 202-224-3521

hawaii mazie hirono- 202-224-6361 brian schatz- 202-224-3934

idaho *mike crapo- 202-224-6142 *james e risch- 202-224-2752

illinois tammy duckworth- 202-224-2854 richard j durbin- 202-224-2152

indiana joe donnelly- 202-224-4814 *todd young- 202-224-5623

iowa *joni ernst- 202-224-3254 *chuck grassley- 202-224-3744

kansas *jerry moran- 202-224-6521 *pat roberts- 202-224-4774

kentucky *mitch mcconnell- 202-224-2541 *rand paul- 202-224-4343

louisiana *bill cassidy- 202-224-5824 *john kennedy- 202-224-4623

maine *susan m collins- 202-224-2523 (independent) angus s king jr.- 202-224-5344

maryland benjamin l cardin- 202-224-4524 chris van hollen- 202-224-4654

massachusetts edward j markey- 202-224-2742 elizabeth warren- 202-224-4543

michigan gary c peters- 202-224-6221 debbie stabenow- 202-224-4822

minnesota al franken- 202-224-5641 amy klobuchar- 202-224-3244

mississippi *thad cochran- 202-224-5054 *roger f wicker- 202-224-6253

missouri *roy blunt- 202-224-5721 claire mccaskill- 202-224-6154

montana *steve daines- 202-224-2651 john tester- 202-224-2644

nebraska *deb fischer- 202-224-6551 *ben sasse- 202-224-4224

nevada catherine cortez masto- 202-224-3542 *dean heller- 202-224-6244

new hampsire margaret wood hassen- 202-224-3324 jeanne shaheen- 202-224-2841

new jersey cory a booker- 202-224-3224 robert menendez- 202-224-4744

new mexico martin heinrich- 202-224-5521 tom udall- 202-224-6621

new york charles e schumer- 202-224-6542 kirsten e gillibrand- 202-224-4451

north carolina *richard burr-202-224-3154 *thom tillis- 202-224-6342

north dakota heidi heitkamp- 202-224-2043 *john hoeven- 202-224-2551

ohio sherrod brown- 202-224-2315 *rob portman- 202-224-3353

oklahoma *james m inhofe- 202-224-4721 *james lankford- 202-224-5754

oregon jeff merkley- 202-224-3753 rob wyden- 202-224-5244

pennsylvania robert p casey jr- 202-224-6324 *patrick j toomey- 202-224-4254

rhode island jack reed- 202-224-4642 sheldon whitehouse- 202-224-2921

south carolina *lindsay graham- 202-224-5972 *tim scott- 202-224-6121

south dakota *mike rounds- 202-224-5842 *john thune- 202-224-2321

tennessee *lamar alexander- 202-224-4944 *bob corker- 202-224-3344

texas *john cornyn- 202-224-2934 *ted cruz- 202-224-5922

utah *orrin g hatch- 202-224-5251 *mike lee- 202-224-5444

vermont patrick j leahy- 202-224-4242 (independent) bernie sanders- 202-224-5141

virginia tim kaine- 202-224-4024 mark r warner- 202-224-2023

washington maria cantwell- 202-224-3441 patty murray- 202-224-2621

west virginia *shelley moore capito- 202-224-6472 joe manchin III- 202-224-3954

wisconsin tammy baldwin- 202-224-5653 *ron johnson- 202-224-5323

wyoming *john barrasso- 202-224-6441 *michael b enzi- 202-224-3424

please share this and call your senators!!

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Senate Democrats are expected to filibuster, so tell your Democratic Senator (and the two pro-choice Senate Republicans, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski) that you don’t support this bill and don’t want it to pass the Senate.

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http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8635781/house-passes-hr7/

The bill, which passed by a vote of 238–183, codifies the Hyde Amendment, a rule passed in 1976 that prohibits any taxpayer money from being used to fund abortions. What H.R. 7 will do, in effect, is cut off taxpayer funding to insurance plans that choose to cover abortion, even though those funds have been prohibited for use on abortion care ever since the Hyde Amendment was passed four decades ago. That’s why the bill’s title, “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017,” is misleading — it’s already illegal in the United States for federal tax dollars to be used to fund abortions.

H.R. 7 also takes the Hyde Amendment a bit farther and would prohibit abortion coverage from being offered in multi-state health insurance plans created under the Affordable Care Act. According to a statement released by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the bill would cause millions of American women to lose insurance coverage for abortion.

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Heads up, especially to my Maine and Alaska followers who could flip Collins and Murkowski. Call your senators.

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RITE SO LISTEN UP KITTENS AUNTIE OYD HAS SOME IMPORTANT INFO:

guess what? this affects like, every insurance ever. even those of us who have good insurance like tricare. the hyde amendment already makes it impossible to get abortions in any tax-funded facility (like u.s. military treatment facilities anywhere in the world) UNLESS you can prove an imminent threat to the pregnant person’s life. now idk what kind of exceptions we are talking about (if any) with h.r. 7., but you really have to think about what sorts of reasons people have abortions. they’re not always choice or convenience (most of you know this but it bears repeating for the people in the back) but it’s okay if that is why you choose one. but sometimes there are time-sensitive emergencies and even medical professionals don’t treat them as such.

this means termination of ectopic pregnancies may not be covered until something ruptures, which could kill you pretty damned fast. i had to wait two days for blood work to verify that i was at risk with high enough hormone levels before my insurance would allow me to get an abortion. another friend of mine was forced to carry her dead fetus because induction is considered abortion. she ended up getting a severe infection that threatened her life and eventually caused her to go into labor where she delivered a baby she already knew was dead. but this took weeks. and if you’re stationed in a country that outlaws abortion, you have absolutely no recourse unless you can get leave and afford to fly to another country (or find unsafe means like the marine who used the cleaning rod for her weapon on herself) .

the hyde amendment on its own is terrible and scary and puts lives at risk. this spreads this shitshow around to the rest of y’all who may have had coverage for these things up until now, and basically screws all of us over and threatens lives.

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Call. Your. Senators. Now. -V

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My face when people say Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.

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Watch Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shut down a Trump supporter claiming you shouldn’t believe all the racism surrounding Trump’s campaign

Both Adichie and Emmett Tyrrell were discussing the role of racism in the U.S. presidential election, particularly in relation to President-elect Trump’s campaign, when Adichie made a salient point about the conversation around racism that has resonated with viewers, creating a viral clip that’s being shared across the internet.

Gifs: BBC Newsnight

WATCH THE FULL CLIP