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The entire state of Hawaii has endured 40 inches of rain with no end in sight. There are multiple flood zones. 233 people have had to be rescued. A levee will most likely break and raise the water level to be 40ft high in some places.
If you want to help, please donate to the housing for homeless project Hui Mahi’ai Aina
And to the no kill animal shelter that needs to evacuate animals Oahu SPCA Veterinary Clinic and Animal Shelter
hey everybody, i normally don't post stuff like this but it's way too important not to share. republicans are trying to essentially strip the right to vote from anyone who has a last name different from the one on their birth certificate. they claim it's to protect the integrity of elections, but it's clearly part and parcel of their goal of female disenfranchisement: women are pressured by patriarchy into changing their last name upon getting married, so this is these cowards' attempt at a backdoor repeal of the 19th amendment. of course, it could have huge negative impacts on other groups of people as well. the key aspect that makes this plan so sinister is that, if it passes the senate, it will already be too late to gather these documents, so anyone without them could be turned away at the polls. we're talking about tens of millions of american women and others being disenfranchised without their knowledge. please check out this free guide if you have a last name that's different than the one on your birth certificate and share it with everyone you know.
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at this point "they're both the same" is just as detached from reality as "he's making america great again"
I agree, but the Democrats in Senate unanimously voted in Rubio and then Schumer decided not to block the budget vote. They voted to pass Laken Riley and they have voted in several of his other terrible picks. The Dems in the House failed to block the bill cutting Medicare because 2 Democrats who held on to the seat until they died and left 2 key votes vacant that could have blocked the bill.
They may not be the same but they are feckless to a dangerous degree.
Had to add an update to the list:
88 Democrats just thanked ICE for kidnapping innocent people. Trump and republicans are inflicting gestapo like tactics on this country and Democrats are thanking his fascists tools.
At what point will you call out the democrats on shit like this? They are handing the country to the fascists willingly. Some democrats want to let Musk rehab his image and let him in with open arms. He did the Nazi salute not even 6 months ago! He stole our personal information and he destroyed necessary government programs with a sledgehammer!
During the next election, when you all try to say choose the lesser evil, are we supposed to vote for the Democrats supporting Trump’s fascism? Are we supposed to vote for a party that welcomes Musk with open arms?
Stop treating the democrats with kid gloves, push them back left now or they’re going to follow republicans right because they feel secure than their complacent base will never go against them.
I didn't think I needed to go back to this post but I need to rant.
8 Democrat senators decided to cave in to the Republicans to open the government for the promise of a vote in December for ACA. One of those senators even admits that she thinks the vote will fail in December and still voted to open the government. 40 days of the shutdown have passed, the pressure building on Republicans and the Orange toad to cave and then these feckless, weak traitors gave in. What was the point of all of this? What was the point for 40 days of people suffering if you were going to just agree to whatever the Republicans want?
These are the Centrist Democrats that apparently decided that 24 million people don't deserve affordable healthcare:
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
And likely Fetterman as the 8th vote.
What kind of opposition party is this?
We live in the dumbest, lamest cyberpunk dystopia possible.
So LA has been — and continues to — protest against ICE. These protests haven’t gotten any smaller or lost any momentum, but social media wasn’t reflecting it.
TikTok users, realizing that the platform/other social media are censoring/deleting/shadowbanning these protest videos, decided to find a workaround.
They’re calling it the LA Music Festival. Ice detention centers and other protest locations are “stages.” The hottest band is Rage Against the Machine. “Here’s what gear you should be bringing to stay safe at the LA Music Festival.”
And it fucking worked.
TikTok has become a proving ground for a lot of new music, meaning lots of labels and organizations have lucrative deals with TikTok to promote their new artists and music festivals. So they absolutely cannot censor the words “music festival” or train the algorithm to ignore it, or they risk endangering that very important revenue.
So now protest videos are flooding feeds again, but it’s the LA 24/7 Music Festival. Truly an incredible timeline we’ve landed in.
During the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s, radio broadcasts would refer to upcoming marches as "parties" and use other such euphemisms to sneak calls to organize past censors. For example, the Birmingham marches of 1963 were called "a field trip in the park with a luncheon".
This is, frankly, a timeless strategy, just done online.
two million people starving to death because it's geopolitically convenient and we're all expected to go about our day normally like the casual cruelty on display for the past two years has been so insane to me like i'm not even trying to make a point it's just truly something i can't wrap my mind around
Hey guys something fucking bad happened
KOSA/the kids online safety act has been reintroduced into legislature after it passed Senate last year and then got snubbed. It is not unlike the bill that just passed in the UK a few weeks ago. If you don't want what happened in the UK to happen here, now would be a good time to vocally oppose it.
Here is a petition that can be signed by Americans. Attached to the petition is an easy tool that allows you to call and leave messages for your representatives. I have already done so. You can also email your representatives by searching for their name, most have message submission boards as well. This thing died once, it can die again.
Please sign/share the petition and contact your representatives.
PSA to Naturalized Citizens in the US
Some time ago I went to request a new ss card on the social security website and it said I wasn't a citizen despite being naturalized over 15 years ago as a kid. Then found out my parents and siblings have the same problem.
If you're a naturalized citizen of the US check on the Social Security website
You're unfortunately going to have to make an account if you don't have one and confirm your identity.
When you're done request a new card (even if you already have yours) and it'll tell you what the status is
There's an issue where some people were never told they had to change that status with SS after naturalization and that it doesn't automatically change
I'm of the belief that no one should be illegal and fuck ICE all the way, but this is a way to make sure that my fellow immigrants, documented or not, are safe
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I don’t ever want to hear people on the right talk about child trafficking ever again. I do not want to hear them play the ‘Think of the children and the evil pedophiles.’ card again. They do not care. They do not care about trafficked children and they do not care that the people they are backing are known predators and rapists.
at this point "they're both the same" is just as detached from reality as "he's making america great again"
I agree, but the Democrats in Senate unanimously voted in Rubio and then Schumer decided not to block the budget vote. They voted to pass Laken Riley and they have voted in several of his other terrible picks. The Dems in the House failed to block the bill cutting Medicare because 2 Democrats who held on to the seat until they died and left 2 key votes vacant that could have blocked the bill.
They may not be the same but they are feckless to a dangerous degree.
Had to add an update to the list:
88 Democrats just thanked ICE for kidnapping innocent people. Trump and republicans are inflicting gestapo like tactics on this country and Democrats are thanking his fascists tools.
At what point will you call out the democrats on shit like this? They are handing the country to the fascists willingly. Some democrats want to let Musk rehab his image and let him in with open arms. He did the Nazi salute not even 6 months ago! He stole our personal information and he destroyed necessary government programs with a sledgehammer!
During the next election, when you all try to say choose the lesser evil, are we supposed to vote for the Democrats supporting Trump’s fascism? Are we supposed to vote for a party that welcomes Musk with open arms?
Stop treating the democrats with kid gloves, push them back left now or they’re going to follow republicans right because they feel secure than their complacent base will never go against them.
at this point "they're both the same" is just as detached from reality as "he's making america great again"
I agree, but the Democrats in Senate unanimously voted in Rubio and then Schumer decided not to block the budget vote. They voted to pass Laken Riley and they have voted in several of his other terrible picks. The Dems in the House failed to block the bill cutting Medicare because 2 Democrats who held on to the seat until they died and left 2 key votes vacant that could have blocked the bill.
They may not be the same but they are feckless to a dangerous degree.
USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.
Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.
If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.
Are you with me?
Spread the word.
Resisting tyranny takes a lot of forms.
from one chronically anxious person to another: the world is not going to go up in flames. What happens will be more slow, more bureaucratic, more boring. There is no catastrophe to end all catastrophes, no rapture, no sudden end. You can't give into the call of the void, because there is no void. So you just have to do the work to make tomorrow a better place, anyway. Because that's how it gets better.
#A lot of people want it to be too late#Because that means they can just throw their hands up and blame everyone else and not have to do the work anymore#But as long as there are people left it's never too late#Things will keep getting worse for a long time but if we keep working then it WILL turn around#We'll see some horrible days coming up but they will give way to a better future
All of this! And conversely, there won't ever be some magical day when everything is fixed all at once! Progress will be slow! Don't give into doomerism because we can't fix everything right now, right away. Progress, too, will often be kinda boring and bureaucratic. That doesn't mean it's not happening and that it's not important.
so. bad news. we have to keep going tomorrow. good news is that I’ll keep going with you
‘I won’t help Texas, Florida, Louisiana next time a hurricane comes’ oooooh letting marginalized poor people die is soooo fun and cool. Do you feel better? Knowing that the rich, straight, white people will be able to afford fleeing to Cancun and leave millions without power, food, clean water. Do you feel fucking better saying that?
I woke up and checked things and started to spiral.
And then I took a deep breath.
Okay kids. It's time to listen to your organizer elders.
I don't care if every call is reversed and she wins by 30 electoral points.
Get involved. Do one thing to make the world better: mutual aid, volunteer, join your local political groups, read to kids, go to community groups.
Survival on this blue spinning ball means coalition building. It means accepting you save the world by doing what you are good at and sharing it with others.
It means to stop looking for saviors in your political choices, and also not crucifying them. It means getting away from political purity and ideology and fucking working toward the next one and the next one.
Political change is different than political theater. It takes work. So much work. And if you are tired, tap out, but don't leave the game.
Guess what happened tonight?
The first openly Trans woman was elected to congress.
2 black women are serving together in the senate.
It is ugly and it sucks and we need to take a breath, take a nap, and then get up off the mat.
We can do better.
But we gotta do it together.
Wallow as you need but turn that emotion into fuel. Canada, too.
I’m not in the US, but we also recently had a shit of an election. I needed this post.
Come together. The more of us there are, the more we can tap someone else in when we need a break.
if you're feeling powerless right now—and god knows I am—here's a reminder you can donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds, the Trans Law Center, Gaza Soup Kitchen, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and hundreds of other charities that will work to mitigate the damage that has been and will continue to be inflicted
life continues. we still have the capacity to do good, important work. that matters
