Kaiamar

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

usa what are you doing :|

[kaiamar]

Democracy is fucked and so are we.

How long will it take for the total fascist takeover of the US? We'll see. We're fucked. Trump and his goons have wrecked us all.

[kaiamar]

Trump is not joking about being a dictator

I call bullshit on Senator Tom Cotton. The only thing Trump doesn't lie about is wanting to be a dictator. He thinks dictators like Putin and Kim Jong Un are the cool kids and he desperately wants to be cool. It's pathetically embarrassing.

When people tell you who they are, believe them.

Trump tried one coup attempt to stay in office when he was voted out. He will absolutely try it again. This time more thoroughly.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4796955-cotton-says-trumps-you-wont-have-to-vote-anymore-comment-was-him-obviously-making-a-joke/

[kaiamar]

Trump openly says he'll be dictator

“Christians, get out and vote, just this time,” Trump exclaimed to a cheering crowd in West Palm Beach, Fla.

“You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians” he added.

This is a clear admission that he would refuse to allow the next election and would make himself dictator for life of a Christian White Supremacist hellscape. The Maga cult want to take their country back, all the way back to the 1850s.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4795823-trump-encourages-christians-vote/

[liberalsarecool]

Judges should be impartial. They are not.

SCOTUS is filled with Republican operatives, wined and dined on million dollar vacations, bribed directly by Republican oligarchs with cases before the Supreme Court.

This is not conjecture.

[mariacallous]

[neil-gaiman]

This whole thread. Voting is a chess move, not a Valentine.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[kaiamar]

Season of the Witch, Donovan.

Love this song. And Halloween is coming. ...but it's always the season of the witch with me...

[storybookprincess]

utterly losing my mind that literally right as i was putting up our display for banned books week coming up in september, my boss got a call saying that the county higher ups have declared that we’re prohibited from saying “banned books” in association with any library programs or materials. “freedom to read” is okay apparently, but the phase “banned books” is, well, banned. if i tried to publish this scenario in a novel, my editor would probably send it back with a note saying that the irony is a bit too on the nose & that i need to tone it down a little. we have censored the discussion of censorship. i cannot handle how hilarious this is

[biglawbear]

So I went to read the Kids Online Safety Act, thinking that it couldn't possibly be as bad as what people are making it out to be, I mean I'm a lawyer and expert in statutory interpretation, it can't be that bad, right?

Oh no. KOSA IS that bad. It will literally eradicate queer people online.

The bill says that a "covered platform" - broadly defined as "anything on the internet a minor might use" which is literally the entire fucking internet- has a "duty" to protect minors from anything that might harm them, including "sexual exploitation" and other undefined terms

It also gives state attorneys general the ability to sue to enforce it.

So here's exactly what's gonna happen:

Wacko republicans, as they've been doing with increasing force this year and last, are going to sue any and every website in existence, saying that the mere existence of LGBT people online constitutes sexual abuse of minors. And websites are gonna be so afraid of not doing the most that they'll just axe all LGBT everything.

Like. Republicans have been calling all LGBT people groomers and child molesters for years. The lead Republican literally admitted this bill will be used to attack trans people.

This bill is BAD bad. I'm appalled that democrats are lining up behind what is clearly a republican Trojan horse to eradicate LGBT people from the entire internet.

Call your senator

[shit-goblins-r-us]

And right now? Don't trust courts to shoot this down. You might get lower courts who are reasonable and refuse to play ball with the "won't somebody think of the children?!" argument but a) this'll likely be taken to the SCOTUS, who absolutely cannot be trusted since they're comfy with trafficking children and b) the Seven Mountain Prophecy is slowly but surely coming true because both gerrymandering and no one left of neo fash understands that power is built locally first. There's a reason the Right has this much power and it's bc they control a lot of local politics.

[mollyjimbly]

🚨🚨I MUST ASK ONCE AGAIN FOR THE FUTURE OF A FREE AND EQUAL INTERNET I AM BEGGING YOU TO SIGN THESE PETITIONS, DONATE, SHARE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, THIS IS SERIOUSLY THE VERY LAST CHANCE!!!🚨🚨

I do not care how busy you are right now, I implore you to take 15 minutes and sign all of these petitions and spread awareness. Share these links absolutely everywhere, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Ao3. everywhere!!

Because if these bills pass:..

Say goodbye to fandoms...

Say goodbye to fanfiction/fanart...

Say goodbye to LGBTQIA+ safe spaces...

Say goodbye to private messaging...

Say goodbye to proper sexual health education (including info about safe and healthy abortions)...

I am not exaggerating...

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

TELL CONGRESS TO STOP THE EARN IT ACT

Contact your lawmakers now to demand them to reject the dangerous EARN IT Act and protect your free speech and security online

Linktree. Make your link do more.

Stop KOSA

KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a fr

Tell the UK’s House of Lords: Protect End-to-End Encryption in the Online Safety Bill

The UK government has had years to revise its Online Safety Bill into a proposal that wouldn’t harm users’ basic rights. It has failed to do

Linktree. Make your link do more.

Defend encryption: SAY NO to STOP CSAM

New legislation introduced in Congress would undermine secure encryption and threaten our free speech online.

Donate to Stop the Bad Internet Bills

It's a hurricane of bad internet legislation. EARN IT, KOSA, STOP CSAM and RESTRICT all pretend that they'd help kids… but they would actual

DM me for more questions.

[gremlinsbooty]

For all my folks who live is US and UK.

[phrogreblogs]

Once again reblogging to say that this is not something you can pass off and hope will get better.

SIGN. THE. PETITIONS.

HELP OUT WITH WHAT YOU CAN!!!

[thevampireviolet]

@writing-for-life @tryan-a-bex @orionsangel86

At anyone reading this, I know you may be familiar with these already, but please help to spread the word where you can. I’ll be honest, I’m scared of what this can do. I know just seeing this can be stressful, but any of this becoming reality is far worse. We need to protect our online spaces.

If you live in the US or the UK, please at least sign and/or call. I’ll admit I’m just nervous typing this but we can’t ignore this, not when we know what can happen if they pass. We need to stay informed about these bills, so for my part I’ll be posting whenever I learn new information.

If you don’t live in the US or the UK, please spread the word because this can happen anywhere. Also if you want to spread the word about similar laws, feel free to tag.

Overall we need to stay vigilant. Thank you and please stay informed.

[kaiamar]

Houston school district to turn libraries into disciplinary centers

The largest school district in Texas announced its libraries will be eliminated and replaced with discipline centers in the new school year.

Houston independent school district announced earlier this summer that librarian and media-specialist positions in 28 schools will be eliminated as part of superintendent Mike Miles’s “new education system” initiative.

Houston school district to turn libraries into disciplinary centers

Critics condemn superintendent Mike Miles’s ‘new education system’ that removes students’ access to books

So it looks like Mile Miles is going to shorten the school-to-prison pipeline by making his schools into prisons. WTF! Give kids books and librarians and support. That's what they need. Not "discipline centers".

[modern-politics111]

‘People need to be riled up’: meteorologist names US heatwaves after oil and gas giants

Guy Walton has christened two previous heatwaves this summer Amoco and BP in attempt to name and shame fossil fuel firms

[ms-cellanies]

CHEERS TO GUY WALTON FOR “OUTING” THE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES

From the article:  

Walton has devised his own criteria for named heatwaves in the US, based on duration and extremity, on a one to five scale similar to hurricanes. Heatwave Chevron is classed as a four and is “historic”, Walton said. The meteorologist said he has a list of 20 oil and gas companies – including Exxon and Shell – for upcoming heatwaves and will turn to coal companies if he runs out of names.

[headspace-hotel]

OUTSTANDING MOVE

[headspace-hotel]

Y'all know what to do. Use Walton's naming system. Make it catch on.

[arctic-hands]

Hoopla, Overdrive/Libby Now Banned for Those Under 18 in Mississippi

Public libraries in Mississippi have cut off access to digital platforms like Overdrive and Hoopla to those under 18.

I never want to hear conservatives go on about repressive censorship in China, North Korea, and Iran ever again

[ryanthedemiguy]

To be clear to those unfamiliar: these are the companies that libraries use to lend ebooks.

They are literally cutting off library access to minors.

[ayellowbirds]

If you are affected by this or other bans and restrictions in the United States, be aware that the Brooklyn Public Library is offering free digital library cards to anyone age 13-21 nationwide as part of their Books UnBanned initiative:

Books Unbanned

Brooklyn Public Library joins those fighting for the rights of teens nationwide to read what they like, discover themselves, and form their

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

BOOOOOST

[elfwreck]

Seattle has joined them:

The Seattle Public Library Joins Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned Initiative to Fight Censorship

[kaiamar]

We need Medicare For All

Medicare Advantage: major insurance companies act as middlemen and find ways to cut services for patients so they can keep a growing portion of government payments for themselves.

In nearly every state, once patients have opted for a Medicare Advantage plan, it’s almost impossible for them to return to traditional Medicare — essentially trapping them in the for-profit system.

And the government is tossing people off Medicaid in droves for bullshit reasons.

What we need: Medicare for All, which would expand the government insurance system to cover all Americans, was recently reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives with a record number of cosponsors and a companion bill in the Senate.

Why It’s Dangerous To Get Sick In America

The U.S. health care system is broken and corrupt — our coverage shows we can fix it.

[gauntletqueen]

Hi Zoey. Asking from a place of ignorance, could you please explain why Threads is dogshit?

Threads is the Hot New Garbagedump by Certified Scum Of The Earth and Facebook/Meta owner Zuckerburg. It is like if twitter was even worse.

There is ONLY a For You page, meaning you can never just see the posts from your followed accounts who, yknow, you followed for the purpose of seeing their posts.You can't see those. you have to see the algorithm's posts ONLY. You also require an instagram to get full access to all the features like Posting Images. You need a separate social media account to properly access this new social media. And once you've done so, the only way to delete your Threads account, is to delete you instagram account. The Whole Thing. For Some Fucking Reason. Not to mention, obviously since it's zuckerburg, the thing syphons your personal information like crazy, worse still than twitter.

Like ALL your data. as much as it can get. (Love that it says "Other Data" btw. Nice subtle way of saying "whatever else we want") ALSO wouldn't you know it? It's fucking banned in the EU because it violates a bunch of fucking privacy laws!! So it's DEFINITELY not safe to use!

It is as predatory and exploitative as can be, created by someone that we collectively agreed Sucks Shit and Has No Empathy For Human Life and Individuality, and nobody should be touching it with a ten foot pole let alone sign up for it. Not even to test the waters or because it's where everyone is heading, or to see how bad it is for yourself. It doesn't matter if you're joining to get an account ready in case the platform ends up the new big thing. You're feeding the statistics. Even if you're not using that account, Zuckerburg can show the number of signups to shareholders and investors to prove to them that it's viable. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon in case it succeeds, inform people why they shouldn't join, to reduce its chance of success! It's like strikes and protests; The more of us get the word out, the more effective it'll be!

[dooper64-deactivated20250211]

Please do your research and don’t blindly follow trends.

[twingotime]

like this post to run over elon musk with a 1993 renault twingo

reblog to put it in reverse and run him over again