[allamericansbitch]

i know all eyes are on the presidential candidates for this election, and rightfully so, but some very wonderful and important things are happening statewide that should be celebrated and highlighted, so here’s a few:

Florida passed Amendment 2, which will raise minimum wage to $15/hour by 2026

South Dakota, Montana, Arizona and New Jersey all passed an amendment that legalized marijuana 

Utah will now be removing gendered language in the Utah Constitution and will replace it with gender-neutral language

California passed Prop 17, which restores voting rights to previously imprisoned citizens

Delaware elected the first ever openly trans state senator

Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones are the first ever openly gay black members of congress

Cori Bush is the first ever woman of color to win a seat in Congress in Missouri

Mauree Turner became the first non-binary state lawmaker in America and the first Muslim member of the Oklahoma state house

Oregon has become the first state to decriminalize all drugs (small amounts of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs will have lesser punishments, similar to traffic tickets, and no jail time.)

Kim Jackson is the first out LGBTQ+ state senator in Georgia

UPDATED WITH MORE GOOD NEWS:

Shevrin D. Jones is Florida’s first opnely LGBTQ+ state senator

Jabari Brisport became New York’s first gay Black member of the house

Arizona flipped blue for the first time in 24 years

Michele Rayner-Goolsby became the first Black LGBTQ woman in the Florida Legislature

Voters in Colorado overwhelmingly rejected Prop 115, a state ballot measure that would have banned abortions after a fetus reaches 22 weeks gestational age. In rejecting the initiative, Colorado remains one of the most progressive states in the country on reproductive rights

Arizona will now send two Democrats to the Senate for the first time since 1951, thanks to the win of ex-astronaut Captain Mark Kelly.

Democrats have flipped the senate seat in Colorado, with the win of former Gov. John Hickenlooper

Mississippi is removing the confederate flag from their symbology

Marie Newman, who has been titled ‘a leader of the pro-choice movement’, will now represent Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District in Congress

Nevada became the first state to protect same-sex marriage in it’s constitution

Immigrant rights activist and former public defender José Garza won the race for District Attorney of Travis County, Texas

[stuft]

FYI: The US Government is not advertising this, because of course not, but enrollment for 2021 Obamacare opened today, and you have to be enrolled by December 15 or you are out of luck. It's really easy to apply. healthcare.gov

[gun-to-ya-head]

It’s the “you were always weak” line that gets me about Cullen attending Samson’s judgment. Like not every struggling addict had a high ranking, high paying, high prestige job with lodging and guaranteed meals just fuckin fall into their laps like you did and the only reason Samson’s even in the position he’s in was because he treated a mage like a person. A crime by Templar standards. A personal flaw by your standards. Ironically, the reason you aren’t in his position was because you spent a decade doing the opposite.

“You were always weak” God I would’ve hopped off that fuckin throne

[bellybuttonblue-deactivated2021]

[dancinbutterfly]

Like to charge, fucking reblog to cast

[ginathethundergoddess]

Just so the universe knows they mean landslide election victory don't actually give us a goddamn natural disaster

[whitepeopletwitter]

[gunggaygirl]

white europeans are absolutely in NO position to have a say when it comes to america

[gunggaygirl]

actually i changed my mind, if you’re white (regardless if you’re from america or europe or etc.), you are required to reblog this 

[whitepeopletwitter]

[hurglewurm]

when the vampire lady is trying to seduce you but you’re workin through stuff

[destroyboydestroy]

yknow it really pisses me off that white people say acab and don't even understand it. i personally know white people who say acab but feel safe in the presence of police. they use acab for white brownie points but wouldn't protect you for a second. white people say all cops are bastards but risk nothing. that statement is a gun-shell. white people will say all cops are bastards before they say black lives matter. but that is the root of all cops are bastards. black and brown people have suffered fatally and endlessly at the hands of police and we say acab with that in mind. in every situation regarding police, we know aggressively who we are and where we stand in regards to justice. we can do "everything right" and still lose our lives. white people say acab because they have nothing to fear. they use it freely and jokingly. they say all cops are bastards but don't remember why.

[greenterrene-deactivated2022101]

When the air becomes too toxic to breathe due to the neglect of large companies, they will bottle clean air and sell it to us for profit.

[rennergroupie]

Mel Brooks and Dr Seuss called it years ago.....and sadly it’s already happening all over the world..🙁

The man who sold the bottled air in China made 6 million dollars in four days.....for something that is meant to be freely available to us

[malevon]

was playing among us last night, staying in the same lobby with pretty much the same people, and i got all buddy-buddy with yellow over the course of several games and we stayed together ALL THE TIME.

so this goes on for about four or five games, and we’re just walking around skeld, doing tasks, and suddenly yellow goes and calls an emergency meeting. and im like! yellow!! what did you see!!!!!

and they say. “it’s me. im the impostor. i can’t bring myself to kill purple [me]. they trust me too much.”

now I understand why people are making fucking art shopping impostor and crewmate because this shit happens

[hishap]

white women: omg i read an article that men hate high waisted skirts so i wore 17 pairs on top of eacha other to school because fuck the patriarchy and my principal told me to take it off because it was a hindrance so i spit acid into his eyes. ANY WOMAN SHOULD WEAR WHATEVER SHE WANTS. #feminism

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black women: i can’t go shopping without dressing like i’m going on an interview. i have to prove with my clothing choice that i have money to the store clerks because if i go out in sweatpants and a t-shirt they’ll accuse me of stealing and perform embarrassing and degrading searches on me in front of everyone. white women may be free to wear whatever they want, but i am not.

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[whimsicalwomon-deactivated20231]

I wish people realized that the people in their 20s currently speaking out against hypersexual internet culture aren't doing it because we're killjoys but because we were the first generation of people who grew up fully online and we can see the damage its done to us. If you can't tell the difference between us and your puritanical conservative uncle then that's on you!

[msburgundy-but-worser-deactivat]

and so much of that damage was done not by even partaking directly in that culture but by being desensitized to it through exposure and subsequently losing our concept of healthy expectations and boundaries, and being groomed by people we thought were our friends. we have normalized receiving unwanted sexual advances and comments/opinions and you get called a prude for telling someone not to be inappropriate with you.

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

me after even thinking about being productive: wow that was stressful. i should take a break and get a snack for a little ~self-care~

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

btw the hero who shot the pigs is in custody, here is a link to donate to the louisville community bail fund

[fanonical]

quick PSA about the upcoming Hogwarts Legacy videogame.

i’m not here to tell you what to buy or not buy (that ultimately is down to you) but if you’ve seen the post going round tumblr from somebody claiming to be a developer on Hogwarts Mystery telling you to buy the game to support the devs, don’t listen to it. here’s why.

1. everybody who worked on that game has already been paid in advance. making videogames isn’t like selling earrings on etsy – everybody involved was paid – as they worked – to write, code, model, voice-act, draw, and overall develop this game. nobody will be going hungry if you do not buy this game.

2. the post very correctly states that not buying the game won’t directly harm Rowling, which is true… however, the decision to boycot Hogwarts Legacy should not be one aimed specifically at the contents of Rowling’s bank account. the message one is trying to send buy not buying this game is “hey, stop working with transphobes. it’s unprofitable for you and i don’t trust you as long as you work with her and her brand.” it doesn’t matter that she wasn’t involved, it is public knowledge now that Rowling is a terf and standing with her brand is going to evoke that. to reiterate, Rowling’s money is not the point of a boycott. the point is to tell anybody who works with her & her brand “hey, fuck you, and fuck your company”. we are holding the company accountable for working with her.

3. many people have, again, correctly stated that the individual programmers involved with this game probably had no say on whether they worked on the project, and that all of the negotations for this game probably existed long before it was public knowledge that Rowling was a terf. this is true – the game was first leaked at a seemingly very far-along build in 2018 (late enough in development that it appeared to have something resembling gameplay and elements that seem unchanged to this day) which, if we account for the time working on and developing the game before that, suggests the game has been in development for at least a year earlier than that, probably longer. this, however, is irrelevant because by boycotting the game one is NOT boycotting individual graphics designers, artists and programmers – they’re already paid, remember? – one is boycotting a company (who has already received money to develop the game from Warner Bros, that’s how videogame development works) who can either continue to work with Mrs. Rowling and her brand, or cease to.

4. whilst the particular (possible) dev in mention thinks we should all buy the game, interviews from other devs leaking aspects of Hogwarts Legacy from earlier this year suggest that many of the people working on the game would not like to be and are very dismayed by having to work on the game whilst Mrs Rowling’s opinions on minorities loom over them. rather than leaving them without pay, deciding to boycot the game would be showing these individuals solidarity whilst they are directly affected by Mrs Rowling’s horrible legacy.

like i said. it’s your choice whether to get the game or not, but if you decide to, no amount of matching a trans charity donation to the cost of the game, no amount of extending solidarity to trans people in your community or fandom, etc… none of that will change your choice to align yourself ideologically, ecnomically and culturally to the world’s most famous TERF.

[masseffectdoctor]

As a game developmer this is all true. Whatever post the OP is talking about is most surely not from a developer of the game itself but likely of someone trying to guilt people into buying the game.

You should not buy this game because a company spent a ridiculous sum of money to get the right, make the game, etc and money is where the power lies. Boycotting means that they’re gonna go “oh shit we spent money and have nothing to show for it….we can’t do THAT again!” Making it HARDER to get her money and popularity.

You are gonna make your own choices but for the love of God it’s been years of us telling you how shitty the harry potter franchise is. Maybe it’s time to just STOP SUPPORTING THE FUCKING FRANCHISE

[snommelp]

So, I’ve been pulled over a few times in my life. Not many, but a few. And I’ve also been in a couple of cars that got pulled over. And let me tell you, if you were actually doing something wrong, the officer doesn’t make any small talk, just straight into “I clocked you doing 70 in a 55.” The only time I’ve ever gotten the “do you know why I pulled you over?” was the time when I wasn’t doing anything wrong, and I got let go even though he insisted to the end that I was doing 87 in a 70 (white privilege at work).

“Do you know why I pulled you over?” is a trap. It means there’s a good chance the officer doesn’t actually have a good reason to ticket you, and is trying to get you to waive your 5th Amendment rights and incriminate yourself. If you make a guess, that’s a confession of guilt.

But there’s another trap, that I’ve heard of but haven’t yet experienced. It’s “do you know how fast you were going?” With that one, they’re hoping you’ll say no, because then they can name whatever speed they want – you just said you didn’t know how fast you were going, if you deny the speed they name then you’re lying to them.

[themightytej]

Oh, I’ve had that one. Go with “yes.” Don’t give them a number, just say “Yes.” Then they still have to offer a number and you can deny it without contradicting yourself. They could just ask you, at that point, but that’s suspiciously similar to saying they don’t know, and they tend to avoid doing that.

[fattyatomicmutant-deactivated20]

Reblog to save a life

[suspiciouslysharklike-deactivat]

if you scroll past this just because it doesn’t affect you personally, i see you.

[dovewithscales]

Also, you can always go to court and contest a ticket, and a lot of times you’ll win. Or if the cop thinks you’ll win they won’t even show up and you’ll win by default.

They like to target out of state plates because anyone who would be majorly inconvenienced by a court date two months away is a lot more likely to just pay it.