[carolxdanvers]

So I’m concerned that people don’t realize just how messed up the situation at Standing Rock really is. The United States signed treaties acknowledging and agreeing that there are certain areas of land that were never ceded to them. These areas do not belong to the United States. They belong to a sovereign nation governed by indigenous people. The land that the Dakota Access Pipeline runs through is not part of the US. It is part of the Lakota nation. That means it is essentially a separate country.

Please imagine if the US wanted to build a pipeline from Washington to Alaska and they went through part of Canada to get there. Canadians protested, saying they have no right to be there and they’re destroying their water, and in response the USA sent militarized police to attack, harass, and harass these protesters, then arrested them for trespassing… on their own land.

That is what’s happening. This is an invasion, and the police are interfering on behalf of a foreign oil company.

[reniedraws-deactivated20230506]

[9vil-passions]

Evil Passion

[kekuib-ankh]

Hex Hypoxia

[interruptmag-blog]

A word of advice to trans women

Go to your nearest target. Buy a two pack of pushup bras (24$ for 2), and target’s bra inserts (12$). Then go to your nearest Walmart and buy the Vasserette Control Shapewear Panties (2.50 each), they do wonders for helping your tuck. There you go! You just saved yourself a lot of money, you can afford to buy enough to wear every day, and best of all you look fabulous. -@twidx

[orangelemonart]

recs for trans women are so rare on tumblr!! spread this, people.

[phoenixcollective]

Please reblog this, in total it’s about $38.50 to make a huge difference for a trans woman/trans feminine person. 

[kaygatsby-deactivated20170514]

for my trans fem followers

[chonce]

#NotMyPresident

The electoral college does not vote until December 19th. We have 40 days.

What does this mean?

Right now, the presidential election results are only a PROJECTION of the election outcome. They are PRELIMINARY RESULTS. A candidate still needs to earn 270 electoral votes to win. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, which means that more than 50% of the voters wanted her for president. The electoral college shouldn’t guarantee an override of the public’s opinion– and it doesn’t have to.

There are 21 states that do NOT restrict which candidate the electors vote for. Out of these 21, Hillary lost the following:

As you can see, these states are worth 166 electoral votes. As it currently stands, Hillary Clinton is projected to receive 232 votes. Trump is projected to win 306. This means that 37 votes need to be taken away from Trump to bring him down to 269. Hillary Clinton needs 38 votes ADDED to win 270. These electoral voters can also abstain, which means that they can refuse to vote for either candidate. If 37 of the voters within these states abstain then no candidate will have reached the required 270. In this case, the vote would be taken to the House.

Trump won Pennsylvania, a state that typically votes blue, by less than 100,000 votes. While it is highly unlikely to get all 20 electoral voters to cross party lines and vote democrat, it also isn’t impossible to convince a few of them to be “faithless electors.” We only need to convince 38 out of the 166. That is 23%. There are SIXTEEN states we need to focus our attention on.

A move like this would be unprecedented. However, as we all saw on November 8th, odds don’t guarantee reality. Trump had a less than 20% chance of winning, yet given the circumstances, enough people came together and made it happen. We can make this happen. 

Ask yourself this: What do we have left to lose? We can stay complacent and accept that this country will be run by a racist, sexist, islamophobic, homophobic, ablest bigot, or we can at least try. 

How?

SPREAD THE WORD. Trend #NotMyPresident to let people know that we do not accept being led by a man who does not care about our wellbeing. Email your professors, email the dean of your colleges. The last thing a university wants is negative press. Millenials can take a stand, but that doesn’t mean we have to be the only ones. Church-led events helped bring a lot of disillusioned voters to the polls. Spread the word in any way possible, whether it be on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or even in person. Stage a peaceful protest. Hand out flyers. Let the people around you know that you don’t accept this man as your leader when he won’t even accept you as a citizen with your designated rights.

These 166 people need to face the consequences of electing this man. 

Do this for the people who couldn’t vote. Do this for the people who live in the very real fear of being deported. Do this for the people who will have to face the rise in hate crimes. Do this for the people who have a very real possibility of losing their rights. Do this for the people who will no longer be able to afford necessities. 

[chonce]

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

Is this possible?

Yes, I wouldn’t have made the post without doing my research. Read the following paragraphs, taken from archives.gov:

Are there restrictions on who the Electors can vote for?

There is no Constitutional provision or Federal law that requires Electors to vote according to the results of the popular vote in their states. Some states, however, require Electors to cast their votes according to the popular vote. (The 16 states listed above do NOT restrict their electors to this rule.) These pledges fall into two categories—Electors bound by state law and those bound by pledges to political parties.

The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the Constitution does not require that Electors be completely free to act as they choose and therefore, political parties may extract pledges from electors to vote for the parties’ nominees. Some state laws provide that so-called “faithless Electors” may be subject to fines or may be disqualified for casting an invalid vote and be replaced by a substitute elector. The Supreme Court has not specifically ruled on the question of whether pledges and penalties for failure to vote as pledged may be enforced under the Constitution. No Elector has ever been prosecuted for failing to vote as pledged.

SOURCE: https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/electors.html

Can Hillary still receive votes from the electoral college even though she’s conceded?

Think about it, Mitt Romney lost the 2012 election. All of the electoral voters didn’t immediately vote for President Obama the second he conceded. The election still ended up being 332 votes to 206. Not 538 unanimous votes for Barack Obama.

“For starters, it doesn’t matter if a losing candidate concedes, as far as the Electoral College process goes, according to Amy Bunk, director of legal affairs and policy at the Office of the Federal Register, among other experts.”

SOURCE: https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/10/20/can-losing-presidential-candidate-actually-challenge-election-results/s42xw8h3pcwFcXx7rsS14I/story.html

Conceding does not take a candidate’s name off of the ballot that the electoral voters see. In the past, “faithless electors” have voted for the projected losing candidate, or even voted third party. 

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector#List_of_faithless_electors

Concession really only means acceptance of the PROJECTED outcome. This does not mean that the actual outcome cannot be different from the projected outcome. Please keep this in mind.

[chonce]

HERE ARE THE ELECTORS YOU CAN BE CONTACTING

ARIZONA (9 Electors): J. Foster Morgan of Glendale, Walter Begay Jr. of Kayenta, Bruce Ash of Tucson, Sharon Giese of Mesa, James O’Connor of Scottsdale, Jerry Hayden of Scottsdale, Robert Graham of Phoenix, Edward Robson of Phoenix, Carole Joyce of Phoenix, Alberto Gutier of Phoenix, Jane Pierpoint Lynch of Phoenix

ARKANSAS (6 Electors): Jonathan Barnett, Jonelle Fulmer, Keith Gibson, Tommy Land, John Nabholz, Sharon R. Wright

GEORGIA (16 Electors): Not Listed, previous reports of a likely faithless elector

IDAHO (4 Electors): Layne Bangerter, Caleb Lakey, Jennifer Locke, Melinda Smyser

INDIANA (11 Electors): Stephanie Beckley, Jamestown; Daniel Bortner, Bedford; Laura Campbell, Carmel; Jeff Cardwell, Indianapolis; Donald L. Hayes, Jasper; Randall Kirkpatrick, Ligonier; Ethan E. Manning, Indianapolis; Macy Kelly Mitchell, Indianapolis; Edwin J. Simcox, Muncie; Fishers Kevin Steen, Muncie; Chuck Williams, Valparaiso

IOWA (6 Electors): Not Listed

KANSAS (6 Electors): Not Listed

KENTUCKY (8 Electors): Not Listed

LOUISIANA (8 Electors, includes alternates): Chris Trahan, Candy Maness, Lloyd Harsh, Jennifer Madsen, Charles Buckels, Christian Gil, Louis Avalone, Constance Diane Long, Kay Kellogg Katz, Verne Breland, Lennie Rhys, Glenda Pollard, Garret Monti, Scott Wilfong, John Batt, Raymond Griffin

MISSOURI (10 Electors, missing 2): Tim Dreste, Jan DeWeese, Hector Maldonado, Sherry Kuttenkuler, Casey Crawford, Tom Brown, Cherry Warren, Scott Clark

NORTH DAKOTA (3 Electors): Not Listed

PENNSYLVANIA (20 Electors): Not Listed

SOUTH DAKOTA (3 Electors): Marty Jackley, Dennis Daugaard, Matt Michels

TENNESSEE (11 Electors): Not Listed

TEXAS (38 Electors): Marty Rhymes, Thomas Moon, Carol Sewell, John Harper, Sherrill Lenz, Nicholas Ciggelakis, Will Hickman, Landon Estay, Rex Lamb, Rosemary Edwards, Matt Stringer, Shellie Surles, Melissa Kalka, Sandra Cararas, David Thackston, Robert Bruce, Margie Forster, Scott Mann, Marian K. Stanko, Tina Gibson, Ken Muenzter, Alexander Kim, Virginia Abel, John Dillard, Tom Knight, Marian Knowlton, Rex Teter, Stephen Suprun Jr., Jon Jewett, Susan Fischer, Lauren Byers, William Greene, Mary Lou Erben, Arthur Sisneros

WEST VIRGINIA (5 Electors, missing 1): Ron Foster, Patrick Morrissey, Ann Urling, Mac Warner

SOURCE. If anyone can find information on those not listed, please let me know.

ALSO a friendly reminder that a concession is not set in stone, and can be reversed:

“…a spoken concession does not necessarily deny a candidate office if there is a drastic reversal in the vote count…

It is exceedingly rare for a concession, once issued, to be retracted; BUT such an event occurred in the United States 2000 presidential election, when Democratic candidate Al Gore, Jr. telephoned Republican George W. Bush to concede the contest. Gore was apparently unaware of the close vote count in the state of Florida, and when he realized it, he proceeded to cancel his concession address.”

SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concession_(politics)

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[thatfeministjewishgirl]

PSA: Stop spray painting and drawing swastikas places in protest of Trump.

Trump is supported by white supremacists who hate Jews.

When a Jewish person sees a Swastika next to the word Trump they feel unsafe.

There has already been an uptick in antisemitism during this election season and there will likely be an even greater uptick in the number of hate crimes against Jews now that Trump has won.

Jewish people are scared.

I don’t fucking care what your intentions are. Stop it.

[returnofthejudai]

Seriously, don’t do this. Swastikas are used to terrorize Jews and Romani. Don’t use Swastikas in protest of Trump. We don’t know your intent and it creates an environment of fear for us. Swastikas represent a collective trauma to us of events that occurred within living memory. Don’t do this.

[rosebramblewolf]

almost asked “are people really this fucking stupid” but yes of course they are, forgive me i havent finished my coffee yet

[ladyshinga]

If your form of protest is literally indistinguishable from the things his supporters are doing, you are doing something HORRIBLY WRONG

[mod2amaryllis]

Saruman believes that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I’ve found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love.

Gandalf the Grey (via seraphsfire)

[thegodthief]

No matter how much you like to help people, help yourself first. If that means establishing limits on what you do, how you do it, and how you are accessible to get it done, then do so. Without apology. You don’t owe the world a favor. You owe yourself everything.

So don’t mortgage yourself to try to maintain a false standard that benefits those that won’t even try while grinding you into dust. You know your limits. Set your boundaries accordingly. Keep yourself safe.

There will always be those that demand more from you than what you are willing to give, or sell. They will be loud in your face and all caps in your inbox. They will not be satisfied until they have wrung out every mote of worth out of you and then they will spit on the dregs and say you weren’t ever good enough. Don’t give them anything. Delete them, remove them, erase them from your presence as best as you can.

Then continue being magnificently you.

You are more than enough. 

Thank you.

[yourmajestyyy]

[ladiesloveloki]

#NotMyPresident

[dsudis]

Read it. Share it. Take courage. Organize. Resist. Don't give up hope.

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[rapid-artwork]

My thoughts on the election

I am going to wake up tomorrow. I am going to be nice to everyone I see. I am going to make people feel comfortable when they are around me. I am going to let people know I appreciate them. I am going to let people be themselves around me without judgment. I am going to support people who are different than me. I am going to spread Love. I am going to make people laugh and be happy to be alive.

Donald Trump can’t stop me.  And he can’t stop you no matter how much power as he thinks he has. He can’t stop you from being a good person.

[medievalpoc]

misskale replied to your post: “I want you to know how glad I am that you are running this blog,…”:

Do you have a patreon or gofundme?

I do have a Patreon here, and a donate button. Right now everything’s going to trying to get the heat and battery in my car fixed. I’ve said before that I’d keep doing this project as long as I have breath in my body and people who are interested, and I plan to stick with that. Also, not really sure what else there is to do.

[femonologue]

Please, please donate to MedievalPOC if you can spare anything. Determined, knowledgeable, intellectually honest, outspoken sources of unbiased history are more important than ever. The white supremacist power bloc that rigged the US election (by overtly denying Black and PoC citizens their right to vote in droves) is going to bring about a renewed spate of bigoted historical revisionism, and folks like MedievalPOC are critical in preserving and publicizing a truthful narrative in spite of widespread academic racism.

Please help if you can.

[medievalpoc]

I don’t have words for how humbled and grateful I am to all of you for your support. This has been incredibly alienating; I’ve literally been hiding in my house because of the dangerous atmosphere here now. You make me feel less alone.

You have my thanks.

[pammiejr]

[andythanfiction-deactivated2017]

I know there are a lot of people terrified of a Trump presidency for a lot of reasons, but some of the most vibrant horror I’m seeing is coming from young queer people. These people were in middle school or grade school when Obama was first elected, when Glee came on with its revolutionary act of portraying a blatantly Disney-saccharine gay love story. RuPaul and Ellen are huge tv stars, Sulu owns Facebook. RENT is a musical theatre standby performed in high schools. Marriage equality and bathrooms have been their biggest fights. So this? Looks like the apocalypse.

It’s not. Within my lifetime, a president laughed at hundreds of thousands of people dying of AIDS. Within my lifetime, that was a death sentence, not a footnote on a Grindr profile. Within my lifetime, “transsexuals” only existed as cruel punchlines. The only trans guy I had even heard of at 19 was from a movie about him being murdered. Ellen was a pariah who had lost her show for coming out. Being gay was career suicide if you were anything but a hairdresser. It was automatic dishonorable discharge from the military.

This is not saying Trump couldn’t undo a lot of that. But not all of it. And even if, EVEN IF he did? Queer people survived. Flourished. Got to where it is now. And where it is now includes a younger generation who will not go back, and in another 20 years, will be the CEOs, the senators, the governors, the president.

If you don’t give up.

Don’t you fucking dare give up.

[toastheaven]

thx dashboard thx

[guy]

guys please, I cannot answer all 0 messages

[kekuib-ankh]

interrogator: say it

me, tied to a chair: i'm not saying shit

interrogator: *slaps me* say that the customer is always right. SAY IT.

me: *spits blood in their face* fuck you