UNAPOLOGETIC

25 years old. Feminist. Ready to resist.

[femestella]

[left-reminders]

[blooooom]

there’s a misconception that grief only happens when we lose people. this is not true. we can grieve circumstances, relationships, missed opportunities. in fact, sometimes when you find yourself plagued with waves of emotion from sadness to melancholy you may be grieving yourself. the version of yourself that you might have been if things had been different, or if only you had said something, or if someone had stood up for you.

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Your body is a garden, allow it to grow~  ღゝ◡╹)ノ♡ ❀ ✿ ❁

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[femestella]

[infectedwithnyanites]

Sometimes a girl just get this strong urge to hunt nazis

[feministfront]

in my peripheral vision this looked like “haunt mazes”

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Trump will deliver killing blow to the USPS

The USPS is about to declare bankruptcy. It’s at the center of the longstanding plans for disaster recover and has been since the Cold War. It’s the only institution that could (for example) deliver covid meds to every home in America in one day.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/25/national-emergency-library/#going-postal

But Congress has decided not to bail out the postal service, despite Art 1, Sec 8 of the US Constitution: “To establish Post Offices and post Roads.”

Maybe it’s because without a USPS we couldn’t have a postal vote in 2020?

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/27/just-asking-questions/#save-usps

The proximate cause of the post office’s bankruptcy is the pandemic, but that is merely the finishing blow. The USPS was murdered in 2006, when Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/04/will-the-united-states-post-office-become-a-victim-of-covid19.html

The Act gave the USPS a mere 10 years to “prefund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years.” That is, to set aside cash to pay medical bills for future employees who hadn’t been born yet.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6407

The Act gave the USPS a mere 10 years to “prefund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years.” That is, to set aside cash to pay medical bills for future employees who hadn’t been born yet.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6407

The USPS’s murder is straight out of the neoliberal playbook: “1 Defund, 2 claim crisis, 3 call for privatizatization, 4 profit!”

As Lambert Strether points out, it was a bipartisan act of murder, cosponored by the “centrist” Democrat Henry Waxman.

Killing the USPS looms large in the Trump admin’s (nonmetaphorical, actual) privatization playbook, “Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century Reform Plan and Reorganization Recommendations”:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Government-Reform-and-Reorg-Plan.pdf

The proposals are for USPS to become a Wework clone or franchisee, but not to become a publicly owned bank - a common line of business for other nations’ postal services, natural based on the amounts of cash they handle.

The USPS is the nation’s second largest employer of veterans, with 630,000 employees. Trump is about to allow it to collapse so that UPS, Fedex and other private firms can skim off the most profitable parts of its business and leave rural Americans totally isolated.

The loss of the USPS would mean the loss of the last truly universal federal program in America and would unduly hammer the people whom Trump claims to love – veterans and rural voters.

https://twitter.com/lildipshit3/status/1248741868440940544

[wilwheaton]

I read a diary at Daily Kos which suggested that if half the households in America bought 2 sheets of Forever Stamps, for about 16 bucks, it would provide enough funding to keep the USPS alive. How fucked up is this? We’re trying to save the fucking Postal Service, which is in the fucking CONSTITUTION, from Republican sabatoge. There is no such thing as a moderate, or patriotic, Republican. They are anti-American Fascists.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

don’t miss the fact that this is coinciding exactly with the push to increase mail-in voting, which would seriously jeopardize Trump’s reelection. you can’t have mail-in ballots if there’s no postal service, right?

Americans, please text USPS to 50409 and ResistBot will send a message to your senators and congressperson telling them to save the Post Office.

i did it yesterday and it couldn’t have been easier. my senators are both pieces of shit, but that doesn’t mean i’m not going to give them an earful about this.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Texting resistbot was SUPER easy, and I got an email reply from my senator’s office today confirming my email went through. Please do at least that!

[fuckyeahasexual]

Bad headline. Let’s save the USPS

[feministfront]

SAVE THE USPS

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[feministfront]

so my employer did file for unemployment for me as they said they would.

but the base period the DOL uses to determine your benefits is from before i started working at my job, and therefore they allotted me 0$. (or at least that’s what was explained to me; it’s all very confusing).

so i had to file an appeal to get the DOL to consider the more recent period so they’ll consider my wages from this job.

i filed that appeal two weeks ago. no response yet, which i understand ‘cause this situation is unprecedented and i know the DOL’s systems are all bogged down.

but my job shut down a month ago. so i haven’t made any money in a month.

not a good feeling. in fact, very very bad feeling.

[rneliflua]

there’s a large grey area between “this creator is a misogynist/homophobe/racist” and “this creator did not fully think through the implications of some of their writing choices” and it would be nice if people would stop to assess where in the scale between those two cases their criticism applies, instead of going for a hard zero on the first option all the time

[pocblog]

nothing but respect for MY president.

[hurleyquinnzel]

this is what celebrities need to be doing not singing some fucking john lemon song on twitter

[maresmermaid]

Rhianna is a legend! $1M to Barbados, $5M to food banks in the US. That's huge from an individual.

[deejay]

LEGEND!

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[unskinny]

Bodies aren’t meant to stay the same. We are supposed to grow and change. We shouldn’t be making people in their 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, etc feel like they need to strive for the bodies they had in their teens and 20’s. Or making people feel like they “need to get their bodies back” after they have had children. These mindsets aren’t healthy and change is inevitable.

[okiedoke-deactivated20221020]

people get caught up in the mindset that “beauty fades”. beauty doesnt fade, it only changes

[unskinny]

❤️❤️❤️

[liberaljane]

It’s okay if all you did today was survive.

Art by Liberal Jane

[aristhought]

‪not to be dramatic but the arts saves souls and hearts during this time and we should value creative expression and connection as intrinsic to our nature as human beings ‬

[mens-rights-activia]

Scarlett Johansson Gets The Surgery

[alovesogentle]

Where is her Emmy

[feministfront]

i haven’t seen my dog in a month because my asshole ex has her and i’m just heartbroken. i miss her so much. and i don’t want her to think i abandoned her, i wanted so so badly to take her with me but at the end of the day i couldn’t and god it hurts.