ANGRY SOCIALIST COMING THRU

Kris. cis female lao kid. also a grad student studying sciencey things mostly related to primates and parasites. also pretty hella gay. this is a personal blog; deal with it.

[yamelcakes]

With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, I need to let people know how dangerous the healthcare privacy climate is now. As someone that works with PHI (protected health information) I want to stress that HIPAA (the law that prevents your health data from being shared) does not apply to healthcare apps. These are incredibly dangerous to use, not only because law enforcement can procure a subpoena to access this information, but because these apps can sell your health data to any third party—potentially anti-abortion activists. Anyone with a uterus should delete not only period trackers, but mental health apps, because if you have a miscarriage or seek an abortion in a state that outlaws it, your mental health history can be used against you.

I would also discourage people from using online therapy apps like BetterHelp and Talkspace. Though BetterHelp says they are HIPAA compliant, that is a lie. They have shared data with Facebook. Their most recent privacy policy update says “We may share your information in connection with an asset sale, merger, bankruptcy, or other business transaction.” Any data breach could put your information at risk. Any health app could suddenly decide to change their privacy policies without notice.

Most responsible clinicians put your health data under (many times literally) lock and key. PHI software like Epic or Cerner have numerous failsafes to prevent data leaks. This is not the case for apps. BetterHelp and healthcare apps in general do not care about this. They only care about money. Do not trust any healthcare provider or app that operates strictly online. And for your own sake, use a VPN if you’re searching for abortion providers or advice.

[lilmamabeyellin]

1 thang bout Me im gone laugh

[camp-counselor-life]

From Girl Scout’s social media. The original Twitter thread is here.

[marq-winks1067]

White supremacy and blatant racism has held the US back since the beginning. 

[thatisnotamistakewellbemaking]

[Image Description:

The images are a series of tweets by Twitter user @dst6n01 that reads

“Story I learned last night: I started Girl Scouts in first grade and was an active scout until I was 17 (12th grade) - did ALL the GS stuff and loved my scouting experience. I was a GS national delegate. My troop, 1001, was in Detroit and almost all black.

Our leaders were Black women and they genuinely loved us. Because they loved us, we did ALL the GS things: we sold cookies, and earned badges, and did community service, and went camping.

Real camping - out in the ‘forest.’ Cabins and s’mores and trails and knapsacks and walking sticks and campfires and songs and lakes and ALL THE THINGS.

LOVED IT.

I was young when I started camping, maybe 4th or 5th grade, don’t remember exactly. But I do remember getting in our cars, with our paper lunches and sleeping bags and flashlights and books of badges to earn outside and being so excited.

We would drive a VERY LONG TIME (at least to a 9 year old) and end up at the campgrounds. And then we’d learn the camp rules and review the Girl Scout requirements: leave a space better than you found it, clean your trash, be kind, have fun. And we did all those things.

My memories of camping are [100 emoji] wonderful and positive and I’m getting warm fuzzies.

Last night I talked to my best friend, who’s mom was one of our leaders and camp chaperones. We were talking about camp, and her mom mentioned staying up with two other moms all night, taking stations at each door and window of our cabin and having night watch.

‘Night watch?’ I asked, genuinely confused. ‘What kind of bears did y’all think were going to open the door of our cabin and eat us?’ [laugh cry emoji] I asked, jokingly.

She got quiet. ‘Not bears,’ she said, ‘the Klan.’

Silence. ‘What?’

‘The Klan.’

Yesterday I learned that one of our GS camps was in Howell, Michigan. This Howell: [attached is an article titled “Why is Howell considered the KKK capital of Michigan?”]

Howell is about an hour outside of Detroit, halfway to Lansing. To me, a kid somewhere between 8-12, camping was fun. To our mother and leaders, camping was potentially dangerous.

But, they wanted us to experience ALL the experiences Girl Scouts have. They just had night watch so we could. So they stood watch - all night. In the 90s.

This is NOT a post to debate the rational of us camping in Howell. That’s not the fair conversation to have.

This is a post to illuminate how deeply unfair it is to live in a state of terrorized, racial fear. How that fear creates a space for ongoing trauma.

How Black mothers have to exist in a dual space: providing all social and cultural experiences that you believe your daughters need and being constantly aware of the dangers that exist in non black spaces where those experiences often are.”

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[lesbianshepard]

apparently native american tribes were in contact with the donner party and offered them food when they saw the colonists were starving and the donner party turned them down and decided to go the whole “cannibalism” route instead. 

[lesbianshepard]

Until now the Native American perspective has been left out of the telling of the Donner tragedy, not because the wel mel ti did not remember the pioneers, but because they were never asked, or perhaps were not ready to share. Their oral tradition recalls the starving strangers who camped in an area that was unsuitable for that time of year. Taking pity on the pioneers, the northern Washoe attempted to feed them, leaving rabbit meat and wild potatoes near the camps. Another account states that they tried to bring the Donner Party a deer carcass, but were shot at as they approached. Later, some wel mel ti observed the migrants eating human remains. Fearing for their lives, the area’s native inhabitants continued to watch the strangers but avoided further contact. These stories, and the archaeological evidence that appears to support them, certainly complicated my interpretation of the Donner Party event. The migrants at Alder Creek were not surviving in the mountains alone—the northern Washoe were there, and they had tried to help.  (source)

tfw a group of unprepared strangers show up, refuse the food you offer them, start fucking cannibalizing each other, and then call you the savages

[sindri42]

The story of the Donner Party is hilarious to me because like, everybody talks about them like these brave pioneers who made the ultimate sacrifice in pursuit of their destiny or whatever the fuck, but they were just complete dumbasses.

Like, have you ever heard of the Murphy Party? Sometimes called the  Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party? They were the first wagon train of the pioneers to make it over the Sierra Nevada, two full years before the Donners tried it, first of the american pioneers to reach the shores of lake Tahoe, first licensed physician in California, etc. etc. Ten families, about fifty people, not a single casualty (they actually arrived with more people than when they left). Because when the Donners picked the most charismatic city boy as their leader, the Murphys picked a mountain man. Where the Donners decided to take a “shortcut” that was completely impassable based on a letter they got from somebody who wanted to drum up business for a trading post he was building but who had never actually driven a wagon, the Murphys scouted properly and stuck to paths their vehicles could actually traverse. Where the Donners decided to shoot at the people who were already living in the area, the Murphys asked the natives for directions. When they got snowed in, they sent a few men on ahead to bring back supplies to the rest of the party after building a sturdy cabin for shelter, instead of trying to hole up in shoddy tents and lean-tos before eating each other.

Not to mention all the idiotic in-fighting in the Donner party; they were constantly brawling or stabbing each other or exiling people or just leaving old men on the side of the path to die or “accidentally” shooting their rivals while cleaning weapons, while literally hundreds of other wagon trains somehow made it through the same trials without any murder.

So naturally, the Donners got a lake and a pass and a state park named after them and became household words, while anybody who wasn’t a complete moron got maybe a local park or a small creek.

[ironbite4]

Daaaaaaaaaamn.

[thedoormowse]

It gets even better!

Donner was not the original leader of the group- the expedition started out under the leadership of a man named Reed, who did know what he was doing and had lead several groups safely to the Oregon Territory before.

When they reached the point where the new “California Trail” diverged from the Oregon Trail Donner convinced a large portion of the group to join him and travel across the Sierras.

Reed knew this was a very, very bad idea but Donner was apparently just- extremely charismatic and persuasive. Not only did the Reed Party safely make it to Oregon, as originally planned, but Reed immediately headed south as fast as he humanly could, and upon reaching Sacramento recruited a rescue party to bring emergency supplies up from the other side of the pass.

Unfortunately, it was already too late in the year and the weather forced the rescue party to turn back. Despite knowing the odds against the Donner Party surviving Reed refused to assume their deaths and stayed in Sacramento waiting for the mountain trail to clear.

So not only did Reed warn them not to, he was also the one that found the survivors afterwards.

Fuck Donner.

[romcommunist]

lukewarm take but i personally do not give a shit if poor people cheat a system that was designed to fail them anyways. i also coincidentally do not enjoy the taste of boot rubber

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[carrionthird]

"Stop scrolling and please help me spread the word, because if I've landed on your page you're most likely either a black woman or someone who cares about black women and the simple phrase I'm about to share could help save a black woman's life.

Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.

If you've seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn't feel pain the same as white people.

And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there's a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people's kidneys, meaning we're less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.

So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren't getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you've requested, say to them the following:

I will need you to document on record that you are refusing the treatment (or medicine) I've requested, and the reason you are doing so."

[dovewithscales]

This works. I have used it in other situations. If medical staff have to document and take responsibility and be on the hook legally for doing shady shit they behave much differently.

If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.

But particularly women, and especially black women.

[asexual-spock]

This is the energy I need in my life 

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[tiddiebaby-deactivated20210816]

kpop fandom dead at 3:27 AM in a miami hotel bathroom floor

[okayysophia]

yeah this needed to be said cause ive seen those comment sections and yall are disgusting to say the least…

[mashallah]

[boopednose]

LIES AND DECEIT

[robotsandfrippary]

A THOUSAND YEARS IN JAIL FOR MOTHER

[thank-you-for-the-vampire-money]

We need to thank the Navajo a nation! They all got out and voted with no cars and few polling places- their population was enough to swing BOTH Arizona and New Mexico

[galsinspace]

This is Navajo organiser Allie Young and her "voting squad" on the way to the polls. They rode 10 miles to vote early!

[autisticchangeling]

[Image: is a photograph of a group of eight Navajo people on horseback. End]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[papasmoke]

It is funny that Hitlers last moments of life were pure misery and terror before he blew his own brains out, it is funny that Luis Carrero Blanco was blown up by a bomb so powerful it sent his car flying over a 3 story building, it is funny that Ronald Reagan got shot and that his wound led to health complications that plagued him for the rest of his vile life, it is funny that Margaret Thatcher lived in constant fear of assassination by the IRA, it is funny that Mussolini ended life looking like a prized ham in the deli section, and it is funny that Trump might die from covid.

[papasmoke]

America is the least educated country in the world when it comes to American history

[badgraph1csghost]

For any of my followers who may genuinely have this question:

Gay people know Reagan as the president who laughed at AIDS and did nothing because “all the right people” (aka us gay people) were dying from it.

Reagan is the president under whose auspices the incarceration rate of Black people on drug charges ballooned to caricaturishly high levels.

Reagan is the president that abolished the air traffic controllers’ union.

Reagan is the president who espoused the flawed “trickle down economics” theory, cut federal funding for state welfare programmes by 80%, froze the federal minimum wage while taxes and costs skyrocketed, and established the capital gains tax cuts that set our corporate feudal state into motion.

Reagan is the president who gutted federal assistance programmes, purging the Social Security disability rolls, and caused my own grandfather to die because he could no longer afford to buy both food and medicine.

Then of course, there’s the Iran-Contra Affair, Star Wars (not the film, but the space based missile platform), school prayer, blah blah blah

But American History textbooks only remember him for “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” treating him like he alone was the force that united East and West Germany and brought the Soviet Union to its knees.

[socialistexan]

Reagan in his first term was consided much the same way Trump is right now, which is why I’m convinced if Trump wins a second term he’ll he deified the same way Reagan was.

I’ll add to the list though:

Left a wreath at a memorial for Nazi SS soldiers, said they were the true victims of Nazism

Supported apartheid

Sold out countless peers/competition in Hollywood to the House Unamerican Activities Committee

25,000 dead in El Salvador

Go look at his governorship of California, it’s bad

Ketchup is a vegetable

[infectedwithnyanites]

Bringing about the undemocratic overthrow of the ussr is also another crime of Reagan’s 7 million people died because of the restoration of capitalism in Russia

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

“Ketchup is a vegetable” should be elaborated because it’s more insidious than it sounds. He wanted to broaden health food guidelines in schools to decrease funding of education. So, both ruining kids’ health AND education for The Free Market™️. Ever wonder why US is a very unhealthy country including its children? Profit. This was combined with deregulation of advertising too.

Reagan was a dishonest greedy excuse for a human being, so of course he’s praised in US history.

[memewhore]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[extraloved]

the unexpected joy of the worst summer of our lives by christine mi for vox

[nierreplicantver122474487239]

the people who make facial recognition software and do logistics for ICE and deny care to black patients and micromanage the gig economy are all highly educated and Believe in Science. it means fuck all

[birlinterrupted]

[officialweatherwax]

"We can't fight this year's round of global warming-induced wildfires because the prison slave laborers we would normally sacrifice to fight the fires have instead succumbed to the plague". Is 2020 even real?

[afronerdism]

Say slave labor with your whole chest please.