welcome I guess

im just a person who's trying to enjoy life

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Gay_irl

[omghotmemes]

Missile incoming

[lizardlicks]

[hotvampireadjacent]

[all-bloody-inspired]

Abbot is trying to convince people that we’re freezing because the wind turbines froze over.

That’s not even half the story.

Since we normally have less demand for power in the winter, some power plants are routinely shut down this time of year, so we had less power available to begin with. And several coal and gas powered plants had or currently have frozen instrumentation.

Our system isn’t winterized and we can’t borrow power from elsewhere because most of the state is on its own grid. This isn’t a green energy failure. It’s an infrastructure failure.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[ruinsoftheempire-deactivated202]

If you're living in Georgia, early voting has started for the Senate runoff race. Get out there if you can, and make sure your voice is heard. Mitch McConnell needs his power stripped away for the benefit of our country!

[am1na1992]

who else feels like tumblr is a dying platform and it’s the virtual equivalent of being at the club still when it’s about to close in 15 minutes

[creachert]

that’s how it felt when i signed up in 2011 and my sorry ass is still here. the club’s been closed. they locked the doors from the outside now we stuck here forever

[kp777-deactivated20241106]

The Electoral College continues to be an archaic mess, by the way

The Electoral College method of electing presidents is an archaic relic of buggy-whip times and needs to be put out of its misery. We are now perfectly capable of counting every individual vote ...

[meetnategreen]

[mindfulwrath]

There is currently a movement ongoing to render the electoral college obsolete before going through the lengthy process of completely abolishing it. It’s called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

[dollsonmain]

House passes bill to reverse Postal Service changes, infuse $25B in emergency funds

The rare Saturday session in August comes amid a national uproar over mail interference.

Heeeeeey.

[enberlight]

If your Senator is Republican, call their line and tell them to pass this.

Because it’s going to get blocked or shot down otherwise.

[elfpen]

I live in a very small blue state, and my reps have already made their positions on the USPS clear (they support funding). For this reason, there’s very little I can do as a state resident. I (and every American) are counting on people in red/purple states to make their opinion of the American people known to the senators who need to hear it.

If you are in a red state or a purple state with republican senators, call them and tell them to pass this bill. PLEASE. I know talking on the phone is horrifically anxiety-inducing, but this is our right to vote safely that we’re talking about. This is about ensuring that every vote is counted, especially for veterans, people with disabilities, people in rural communities, people who are sick or affected by the pandemic. This is about life-saving prescriptions arriving on time. This is about paychecks and the ability to pay rent. During a global pandemic wherein the United States accounts for ~25% of all infections and ~22% of all deaths.

The U.S. Post Office is provisioned as a Federal responsibility in our Constitution. Treating it like a private business is an insult to the values and ideals of our founders, and endangers very basic personal liberties guaranteed by that same Constitution. The U.S. Department of Defense was allotted $721,531,000,000 for the 2020 fiscal year—and that is for a normal fiscal year. That is nearly 29 times as much as this bill requests for *emergency* funding for the USPS.

The United States Postal Service is not a business. It is a public institution overseen by Congress (and Congress alone) that safeguards the rights and liberties of all American citizens, particularly those who are most vulnerable. If you are represented by a Republican congressperson, call them and remind them that it is their job and their job alone to ensure that the mail arrives on time.

I never foresaw the Post Office standing as one of the last bastions of our electoral process and democratic integrity as a nation, but here we are.

[elfpen]

Oh, and for goodness sake,

MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE.

[jaylor]

he’s literally rigging the election and next to nothing’s being done about it what the actual fucking living hell

[jaylor]

HE’S LITERALLY TARGETING USPS IN BLUE AREAS WHERE HE LOST THE LAST ELECTION

[typhlonectes]

Save the U.S. Postal Service!

[iesnoth]

I knew it was bad, but wow. Seriously, no centralized postal service means so much more than hiked up prices. It means the mail-in vote is threatened as well. Save the USPS.

Imma go buy some of their merch right now.

[etraytin]

TFW you want to save the post office in general as an idea, but your actual physical real-life branch of the post office has not delivered your mail properly in months and treats you like shit when you go in to ask about it. 

Is there a ticky box for “Save the USPS and stop it being so shitty?”

[tanoraqui]

Absolutely. It’s the one where we not only stop shitting on them, we give them more funding so they can be less overworked and maybe even change outdated and inefficient systems.

(Though it won’t change anything if your local office people are just assholes, unfortunately.)

[emmeetslawschool]

Also, it’s not a mistake that the mail is slowing down. It’s deliberate sabotage. 

So this isn’t a “save the USPS and make them stop being shitty!” it’s “the USPS is going downhill and it needs to be saved from that shittiness”

[fandomsandfeminism]

Trump suggests delay to 2020 US election

The US president cites concern over mail-in voting, despite little evidence of widespread fraud.

Yall, I don’t want to be alarmist but…. that’s… concerning. 

[fandomsandfeminism]

McConnell, other top Republicans say Election Day isn't moving after Trump floated delay

Top Republicans, including Mitch McConnell, immediately pushed back on the idea - floated by Trump earlier Thursday - that Election Day be d

Well, and least we got this about of it. Even Ted Cruz had to slam on the damage control brakes.

[fandomsandfeminism]

I just want to clarify- even though McConnell and other republicans have slammed on the “NO NO NO we aren’t doing that” brakes- we should still be concerned. 

Between this and Trump’s refusal to commit to election results, he is deliberately undermining his base’s trust in the electoral process. By citing “voter fraud” as his reason to try to delay the election, now even though the election WILL happen on time, if (when) he loses, he can claim that the election was illegitimate- that it was voter fraud, that he warned us, that he knew it was rigged, that Congress didn’t do enough to stop all the ~fraud~ that he knew was there, and he will refuse to step aside peacefully. 

He has been placing armed mercenaries in major American cities run by democratic mayors, and he is laying the groundwork to claim that the election is illegitimate if (when) he loses. 

You need to vote, so that both the Electoral College and the Popular vote are against him, and when this asshole finally breaks the tradition of the peaceful transition of power (which is what he is planning), when you need to be willing to protest and fight more than you ever have before. 

Like, I do not want to be an alarmist here, but we could be looking at like… Congress having to send in armed men to remove this man from office, and depending how the Republicans in power and his base handle that, we could be looking at a level of violence in the transition of power that is literally unheard of in the US.   

[randomslasher]

^^^^^^ This. 

This si why you vote blue even if you’re in a scarlet state with no hope of winning the electoral college. 

This is why you vote for Biden even if you loathe him with every fiber of your being. 

This is it. 

If we are to have any hope of maintaining a fair system and avoiding an all-out dictatorship, the numbers have to be absolutely unambiguous. 

Go. Vote. Blue. 

[spacefaggot1]

Fuck. Joe. Biden.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Look, YES fuck Joe Biden. And I know that asking people to vote for a shitty option because the other viable option is FAR worse is hardly convincing. I know. 

But a vote for Joe Biden isn’t just a vote against Trump. It’s also a vote for all the positions that Biden would get to fill, rather than leave Trump’s people (like Barr and DeVos) in charge. 

It’s also a vote for all the judges Biden would appoint (Which is likely at LEAST 1 Supreme Court pick.)

 It’s a vote for all of the 700+ positions that the President appoints and Senate confirms (Not just being generally better than Trump’s picks, but ACTUALLY GETTING FILLED. Trump still had over 170 unfilled appointments as of this year.)

And honestly, at this point, it’s also a vote that says “You shouldn’t get to undermine our electoral process and threaten the peaceful transition of power and STAY IN POWER.” 

Joe Biden is a bad candidate, and I wish we had gotten nearly anyone else. But I do believe that he’s a candidate who like… generally respects our political process, who could competently staff an administration, who could be reasoned with and compromised with, and who isn’t going to try to crown himself Emperor. Biden probably won’t spend hours a day on Twitter instead of like, reading security briefings.  It SUCKS that we have to aim as low as “isn’t literally trying to power grab himself a dictatorship” but the other option is to forfeit your vote and let the dictator get reelected.

So please, for the love of fuck, can we try to temper our disappointment with pragmatism? We should always vote for the best possible option, even if the best possible option is kinda shitty. 

[nutmegthings]

[u-bi-k]

The protest is a nightly event.  People are upset over the treatment of our Black community, but the protest was down to a few hundred people before the Feds decided to over-react.  Now we’re also upset to be having an occupying force attacking citizens for exercising their first Amendment rights.  Trump didn’t want to hear that Black Lives Matters, now we’re protesting his goons. 

[smoldewott]

“i complain about tumblr but i refuse to leave unless the site itself deactivates” squad

[ithelpstodream]

[imsuchacapricorn]

Got this talk as an education major too. If you’re going into public service you serve all of the public.

[stop-stalin-and-suck-my-dick]

If you’re going into public service you serve all of the public.

[computationalcalculator]

wish this applied to like … people running for office

[blackqueerblog]

MAILING ADDRESS 

Town of Tusayan 

P.O. Box 709 | 845 Mustang Drive

Tusayan, AZ 86023 PHONE [phone] 

EMAIL

Mayor Craig Sanderson 

[email protected] 

Vice-Mayor Becky Wirth 

[email protected]

Councilor | Brady Harris 

[email protected]

 Councilor  |  Al Montoya 

[email protected] 

Councilor  |  Robb Baldosky 

[email protected] 

if you don’t have time to write an email, here’s a pre-written letter: https://pastebin.com/Cc3YBWYA 

just copy, add your name, and send the email to a town member!

Please do! Corporations are the biggest criminals of climate change, environmental damage and pollution. Capitalism is rooted in destruction. 

[jenniferrpovey]

This project was rejected in 2016, but the developer resubmitted it last year without actually addressing any of the issues.

The Grand Canyon Trust is collecting comments here: https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/protect-grand-canyons-precious-water-mega-resort. These comments will be sent to Heather Provencio, supervisor of the Kaibab National Forest, Cal Joyner, the Regional Forester and to USDA Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen. They are not public,

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

OP: May 2019

Comment: Jan 2020

[gothhabiba]

here’s an article about the original thread, including a transcription of the tweets & some context (May 28, 2019)

another article that goes more into the issue of water (May 28, 2019) (“The Havasupai Tribe has, in fact, voiced concerns about groundwater pumping near the Grand Canyon. In 2016, the tribe sued the city of Williams and other well owners, saying the drilling of more wells for resorts, developments, theme parks and uranium mines, among other businesses, increasingly threatens the tribe’s water. […] Duthie said those sorts of concerns shouldn’t hinder Stilo’s proposal for the hotel on Kotzin Ranch because the company wouldn’t use a well.”)

as of January 24, 2020, Stilo had submitted a “a revised proposal for roads and utility easements connecting to parcels of land they own that are surrounded by the Kaibab National Forest” (unanimously approved). opening these roads would require “some blasting.” as regards the groundwater:

Gitlin also worried that the new proposal did not adequately protect the area’s groundwater.

The proposal promises that commercial water needs — which during peak season, would be 275,000 gallons a day — would have to be hauled in by truck. It still allows “residential uses” to be met by pumping groundwater.

In the proposal, Stilo offered to agree to a “complete prohibition” on commercial groundwater use, except in the event of “technological breakthroughs resulting in proven zero-impact upon groundwater resources.”

It suggested a restrictive covenant or a conservation easement to enforce that restriction, but it’s not clear who would be responsible for that enforcement.

effectively, plans for development are going forward, & previous reassurances that no immediate proposals were being made seem like lies.

it’s worth mentioning in light of some other comments going around that the issue here isn’t preserving the untouched pristine beauty of nature or something–this kind of terra nullius-inflected rhetoric in fact relies upon colonialist & genocidal logic–but rather the responsibilities & livelihoods of the people who belong to the land & stand to be harmed by these proposals.

incidentally, the Havasupai Tribe have a COVID-19 relief fund that you can donate to here, in addition to emailing & calling the people listed above.