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Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.
This woman needs to be kicked off the bench and disbarred. Then, she must be prosecuted for abuse of power.
https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist
Read the article. It left me shaken.
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“Indigenous resistance has stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions.”
To put it in perspective, that’s equivalent to the emissions caused by 400 coal plants.
Stand with Indigenous Peoples, recognize thier efforts, and fight for the end of fossil fuel expansion.
Source: Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon Report, Indigenous Environmental Network
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it’s still going. i took this screenshot at the time of this reblog
That screenshot is from 10 hours ago, as of 8:50 pm (central time) on june 23rd 2021.
I feel like I should make a post about this because it’s not something that’s very well-known, and that Americans in particular may need to know about given the uncertain state of our healthcare system at the moment. I’ve wanted to write this out for a while, It’s kind of a long post, so sorry about that!
If you have an emergency and have to go to the hospital, you’ll owe the hospital a lot of money. (I got into a car wreck and broke my ankle and my arm. My hospital bill was around $20,000)
You’ll also owe the ambulance provider, if you need one. (My ambulance bill was about $800)
You may get separate bills from the anesthesiologist or surgeon. (My anesthesiologist bill was $1,700)
You may need follow-up appointments. (My orthopedic surgeon billed me for the appointments and his surgery together and it was about $1,000)
You’ve also got to pay for medical equipment you need afterward, like crutches or a walking boot. (Mine cost about $75)
Altogether, I ended up with almost $24,000 in medical debt from one car accident. That’s a really scary number for someone like me who makes $10/hr at a 12 hour a week job.
I got my debt down to $1075 by making some phone calls and submitting some paperwork.
The first thing I did was contact the hospital. They don’t make it easy to find, but many hospitals (perhaps most hospitals?) have financial assistance programs for people who can’t afford medical bills. I don’t make a lot of money, and I have bills to pay, so they were able to help me. I called the billing department and asked if they had any assistance programs for low income people who can’t pay their bills. I had to call multiple times, and I got transferred in circles by people who didn’t know what I was talking about. Finally, I got an appointment with someone in “Eligibility Services” (I don’t know what other hospitals call it, if it’s something different). I had to bring my pay stubs and copies of all of my bills. When I got to the hospital for the appointment, nobody knew what I was talking about so I had to wander a little to find where I needed to go. I spoke with the guy in Eligibility Services, and I waited for a decision on how much of the bill they would forgive. A month later, I got a call telling me it was totally forgiven.
I did the same thing for my ambulance bill and my anesthesiologist, but the process was a LOT easier. I just had to mail some paperwork and it was totally forgiven.
I didn’t bother with the medical equipment suppliers, since the bills came from separate companies and I didn’t feel like going through the process twice for $75. I was assured at the hospital that they had similar programs for debt forgiveness, so I could have probably avoided paying that too.
The only thing I couldn’t get taken care of was the surgeon/follow-up appointment cost, but they were able to put me on a no-interest payment plan.
Medical debt is scary because it’s something that can come from stuff that’s already really scary. I didn’t need the burden of $24,000 in debt on top of trying to get around on a crutch with a broken arm (it’s not easy, believe me!).. but I can’t imagine what it would be like with a bigger debt or a more severe medical emergency. I see lots of people in even worse trouble than I was in, both financially and medically. Please know that there are options for you when that GoFundMe doesn’t do enough. Even if your income is higher than mine, it’s worth a shot even for partial debt forgiveness.
I am about 900% sure there are people who don`the know this.
PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU LIVE IN AMERICA AND HAVE MEDICAL BILLS
I had to do this once as well and I can ABSOLUTELY confirm that this is true.
Get in contact with the hospital. Don’t just…sit there and let the anxiety grow and panic and then ignore it in an effort to find peace.
Hey psst @allfrogsarefriends i found it.
additionally, your state may have laws – often called charity care laws – that restrict the hospital and other providers from charging you anything at all or require the hospital/providers to only charge you a percentage of what your care costs, depending on your income. if you fall under the federal poverty line, in some states that have charity care laws, you cannot be required to pay a single cent if you are a resident of that state.
Oh work bitch
Just gonna remind everyone there are still children in literal cages and Biden could have fixed that back in January but he didn't want to. All that changed is neo-liberals aren't outraged by it because now a Democrat is doing it.
y'all want some fumking cat?
Buddy, friend, mate, pal-o, why did you reblog this so many times? How many times did you even reblog it? Why did you fill my dash with this cat?
i do not know how many times i have reblogged it
but i have reached the post limit once today amd i,xm not afraid to reach it again
Looking down the barrel of a .44 Mognum is a violation of basic weapons safety, IMO.
Because I’ve lost control of my life
reblog for the blessed 100k
IVE ONLY HEARD WHISPERS OF THIS POST
A classic image.
It sure is!
imagine hiring an assassin and they talk to you in a customer service voice
“Hello, how can I help you today? Wonderful, can I get a first and last name? And how would I spell that? Awesome. And would you happen to have an address for this individual? And place of work? Fantastic.
Now, I’m going to give you a number, and I’m going to ask that you send in a photo of your target alongside any additional information you may have- family members, security, combat training, medical conditions, just anything you can think of that might be helpful.
Wonderful, you are all good. All we need now is a piece of government-issued ID, for insurance purposes, and a location for payment pickup. We accept cash, gold, processed uranium, and etransfer.
I’m sorry, we don’t take american express.
Good, okay, so it looks like we are all set- when the job is complete, you will be notified VIA discreet codeword that a stranger will whisper to you on a crowded street.
We do not issue receipts, but if you’d like, I can arrange for a specific breed of tropical flower to be sent to your home address. Our associates will be able to validate it should the need arises.
And is that everything you were looking for today? Great! Thank you for coming to us. Have a nice day!”
Alternatively,
“I’m sorry sir, but I’m afraid the Pope is a high-status target that is beyond our area of service.
Yes, I- no, I’m sorry, I’m not able to do that for you.
Okay. Okay. Yes, I understand.
Sir, if you’re going to use that sort of language, you should know that our HR department does operate in a hands-on capacity.
Wonderful. You take care.”
They create a perfectly normal call cemter staffed by decidedly amoral college students and paying them at least 4x minimum wage.
hiring manager: you’re not concerned about the ah, services we offer?
a college student who has eaten ramen twice a day for the past year: for $25/hour i’ll pull the trigger myself
college student who transfers to the assassin department:
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to lovely humans who were excluded from invitations, left behind when they tied their shoes, forced to walk in the grass when the sidewalk was full, spoken over when you tried to contribute, whispered about or laughed at, given the side eye when you tried to fit in... you are so worthy of love and I’m sorry people have convinced you otherwise. I promise that your people are out there - people who will see the side of you others ignore, people who share weird inside jokes with you, give you affectionate nicknames and go to museums or roadtrips with you and fulfil whatever idea of friendship you’ve always fantasized about. even if you feel like an empty shell of your former self because you’ve hidden yourself away due to shame, this exterior will melt when you accept yourself or let people in and you’ll realize there was nothing wrong with you all along. you have interesting things to say, you deserve new chances and beginnings, your heart is probably made of gold because you know what it’s like to be left out in the cold, and you have so much to give. you are so worthy and someone’s idea of a friend too, and I hope you receive lots of hugs in the future from yourself and others because you’re so lovable.
Some day I’m gonna talk about how the lgbt community online has created a whole new binary that is “cis or trans” by defining cis as something so specific that isn’t just “identifies as their agab” and trans as “everyone else” and how much damage that does to intersex people who are not trans who have to deal with the repercussions of that all but. I have said A Lot already
Perisex trans folks will sit here talking about gender all day and boil cis people down to specifically just this image
So then when cis people who look like this exist
The trans community has no idea how to address it. Because the mentality is no cis person could ever look like this (because intersex people don’t exist or you’re so misinformed that you think intersex people can’t be cis) and the combo of ignorance about intersex people and blind unconditional hatred towards all cis people results in some really interesting intersexism.
Additionally, it aids in the inherently intersexist and misogynistic ideas that transmeds and t*rfs believe by casting all cis people as people who look “normal” (the standard of Eurocentric white supremacy) while entirely erasing the existence of intersex people, intersex bodies, and insisting people must be one way or the other.
And then we get the fetishizing, the “I wish I had ur disorder so I could look more trans”, the “ur a dwarf goddess uwu”, the incessant chatter about our genitals from the same people who KNOW how much it sucks to have people talk about your genitals, the “ur definitely not cis babe ur just confused”
Like idk y’all but I’m tired. Idk what else to say rly
sorry for adding if its not wanted but i also really wanted to say that im fed up of having to debate whether or not im cis to perisex people based on whether or not i pass to them? cis people do not have to pass either, you all talk all the time about respecting trans people whether they pass or dont try to pass or anything but the second cis intersex people don't pass y’all feel like you have the right to be all up in their business? also boiling any kind of medical intervention when it comes to gender as all trans issues? intersex people often opt in for HRT or gender affirming surgeries too and do not necessarily identify as trans. often intersex people sit in a grey area of cis and trans, i dont identify with my AGAB because my AGAB and biological sex are not congruent, i identify as a man and my biological sex is XY but because i wasnt developed enough that way a doctor decided it was easier to raise me female and deciding to not agree with that decision doesnt make me trans it means im undoing a violation of my body that was made without my consent. respect what intersex people have to say about their own bodies without injecting your personal experience over it, we are talked over enough in the wider discussion about bodies and gender.
Your perspective is appreciated and intersex people are always welcome to add on to the discussion. Perisex people listen and learn.
This still blows my mind
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