so strange, and yet

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[pusheen]

[qthamtaro]

sad

[nevver]

How the West was Won, Hayley Eichenbaum

[qthamtaro]

so depressed i might start tellin the truth when people say “hey how are you”

[qthamtaro]

i am straight up not having a good time rn

[killyridols]

praised and confused by grace lee, 2023, oil on linen, 8 × 9.75 inches

[qthamtaro]

we’re back and we’re EMO

[qthamtaro]

testing

testing

is this thing on

[stickerfae]

[quiet-nymph]

All rights reserved by Mattia Camellini on Flickr

[quiet-nymph]

All rights reserved by Mattia Camellini on Flickr

[milf-zone]

All police departments are evil but the NYPD is exponentially more evil than any other PD in the country.

The NYPD has an annual budget if $6 billion. A lot of this budget goes into excessive overtime. When you have such a large budget, it translates into over-policing and dramatically shifts the type of policing that happens. Cops will be more interested in issuing fines as opposed to spending time solving actual crime. This affects poor people and neighborhoods (often people of color) at a disproportionate rate. So over policing for revenue collection and under policing for serious crime ends up becoming a loop.

So when you hear that the NYPD needs an annual budget of $6 billion because “NYC has a high crime rate” just know that it’s like this on purpose. The NYPD drains tax revenue and distributes it internally through excessive overtime and uses fines and fees (officers literally have quotas) to justify it’s need for such a large annual budget.

If the NYPD budget was cut, I promise you they wouldn’t impose an 8pm curfew and have 8000 officers on duty collecting overtime. A budget cut for the NYPD means we could allocate much needed funding to help small local businesses hurt by COVID. We could fund programs on homelessness, mental health, youth services, combating overcrowding in schools and transportation.

If you live in NYC, I urge you to call/email the New York City Council and ask them to cut NYPD funding. This is your right as a tax payer.

The current chair of the Finance Committee is council member Daniel Dromm

Email: [email protected]

District office phone: [phone]

Legislative office phone: [phone]

[astoriachef]

Reply All did a great story about how this came to be. 

Part i

Part 2

[kallistoi]

an addition! defund12.org is a tool that allows you to send an email to ALL of your representatives (there are versions for NYC and other cities) with a script calling for defunding. 

[domesticflight]

[damianimated]

Pride was always a protest.

[damianimated]

Here is a list of Black-led LGBTQ community organizations you can donate to, compiled by pfpicardi and RaquelWillis_:

Snapco - Builds power of Black trans and queer people to force systemic divestment from the prison industrial complex and invest in community support.

Black AIDS Institute - Working to end the Black HIV epidemic through policy, advocacy, and high-quality direct HIV services.

Trans Cultural District - The world’s first-ever legally recognized trans district, which aims to stabilize and economically empower the trans community.

LGBTQ+ Freedom Fund - Posts bail for LGBTQ+ people held in jail or immigrant detention and raises awareness of the epidemic of LGBTQ overincarceration.

House of GG - Creating safe and transformative spaces for community to heal, and nurturing them into tomorrow’s leaders, focusing on trans women of color in the South.

Trans Justice Funding Project - Community-led funding initiative to support grassroots trans justice groups run by and for trans people.

The Okra Project - Collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black trans people by bringing home-cooked meals and resources to the community.

Youth Breakout - Works to end the criminalization of LGBTQ youth in New Orleans to build a safer and more just community.

[lluviagf]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwZpXvVngpR/

[oxane]

fruit is love (by 午安陳狐狸)

[corporationkills]

love letters…. you’ve got mail