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hi. so turns out i am not borderline, and instead ive just got that audhd and childhood trauma!
it’s been super interesting (depressing) to go through all me old posts though. poor little Nebula 😞
im doing much better now though! still depressed anf struggling but not suicidal like i once was, it does get better
recently saw ppl discuss whether they put their medicines in a kitchen cabinet or a bathroom cabinet and i was shocked by the fact that many ppl said kitchen cabinet. so now i need you to reblog this and say where you keep yours
Hi everyone! Here's your Daily Reminder to Click for Palestine!
Thank you for helping how you can!
struggling with how to word this, but putting it out there anyway:
i can fully understand the posts on here from a lot of americans being tired of “vote blue no matter who” posts when the #1 thing that people are constantly (and sometimes only?) addressing is how the republican party is going treat trans/queer people if elected.
it’s part of an unfortunate pattern of prioritizing the effects on a demographic that includes white + upper class people, when people of color and those in the global south are actively and currently being killed or relegated to circumstances in which their survival is very unlikely
it is genuinely exhausting to witness this, and i was also on the fence about even participating in voting because i a) felt like it didn’t matter and b) every time i voiced being frustrated with the current state of the country, white queer people would immediately step in with “but what about trans people!” -> (i am mixed race trans man)
and i say this with unending patience toward people who do this, because i know that it’s not something they actively think about. but everyone already knows how the republican party is going to treat queer people. you are probably talking to another queer person when you bring up project 2025. the issue is that, for those of us who aren’t white, or for those of us who are but who are conscious of ongoing struggles for people of color worldwide, the safety of people around the world feels more urgent than our own. that is the calculation that’s being made.
you’re not going to win votes for the democratic party by dismissing or minimizing these realities and by continually centering (white) queer people.
very few people on here and twitter are actually talking about issues beyond queer rights that concern people of color, or how the two administrations differ on these issues instead of constantly circling back to single-issue politics. this isn’t an exhaustive list. but these are the issues that have actually altered my perspective and motivated me to the point of committing to casting a vote
the biden administration has been engaged in a years-long fight to allow new applicants to DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the program that allows undocumented individuals who arrived as children to remain in the country) after the Trump administration attempted to terminate it. the program is in limbo currently because of the actions of Trump-backed judges, with those who applied before the ruling being allowed to stay, but no new applications are being processed. Trump has repeatedly toyed with the idea of just deporting the 1.8 million people, but he continues to change his mind depending on whatever the fuck goes on in his head. he cannot be relied on to be sympathetic toward people of hispanic descent or to guarantee that DREAMers will be allowed stay in the country. biden + a democratic controlled congress will allow legal challenges to the DACA moratorium to gain ground.
the biden administration is open to returning and protecting portions of culturally important indigenous land in a way that the trump administration absolutely does not give a fuck. as of may 2024, they have established seven national monuments with plans to expand the San Gabriel Monument where the Gabrielino, Kizh / Tongva, the Chumash, Kitanemuk, Serrano, and Tataviam reside. the Berryessa Snow Mountain is also on the list, as a sacred region to the Patwin.
i’m recognizing that the US’s plans for clean energy have often come into conflict with tribal sovereignty, and the biden administration could absolutely do better in navigating this. but the unfortunate dichotomy is that there would be zero commitment or investment in clean energy under a trump-led government, which poses an astounding existential threat and destabilizing force to the global south beyond any human-to-human conflict. climate change has caused and will continue to cause resource shortages, greater natural disasters, and near-lethal living conditions for those in the tropics - and the actions of the highest energy consumers (US) are to blame. biden has funneled billions of dollars into climate change mitigation and clean energy generation - trump does not believe that any of it matters.
i may circle back to this and add more as it comes up, but i’m hoping that those who are skeptical / discouraged / tired of the white queer-centric discourse on tumblr and twitter can at least process some of this. please feel free to add more articles + points but i’m asking for the sake of this post to please focus on issues that affect people of color.
As someone who works in immigration, The whole system is fucked. However, Biden has done a lot to make it easier. Here are some highlights:
- Work permits for asylum seekers. Trump did not allow asylum seekers to work above board, forcing them into cash paying, near slavery jobs. Biden has made work permits relatively quick and easy to get. Also, even though they aren’t cheap, ($520 each) his admin has waived fees for many categories including initial asylum seekers and Violence Against Women Act seekers. Also, anyone with a work permit that was renewed this year will have it for 5 years, enough that if trump fucks the process for everyone people can at least still make a living.
- Prosecutorial discretion. Under Trump, if you didn’t have a path to citizenship and you had immigration court, you were finished. Biden has essentially paused proceedings for hundreds of thousands of people who don’t have a case now, but might in the future, giving them time to work, marry, have children, and potentially open new doors for themselves.
- The one that made the news: Parole in place. To immigrate legally, you have to enter the country legally except under very narrow circumstances. If you crossed the border and don’t win in court, you currently have to apply for a hard to get waiver with a 4 year waiting list to leave and come back legally. Biden is trying to waive this by expanding the options for people who crossed the border and married citizens to eliminate the waiver process.
These changes could be gone as soon as january 25th 2025 if Biden loses, as the new administration will replace the whole administration with political appointees frothing at the mouth to send people back regardless of their personal circumstances.
Sure, immigrating to the US isn’t what everyone wants. I dream of a future with truly open borders where nobody would have to do any of the things I do for them. Right now though, Biden will make things better, even if only to a point. Trump will make them much worse.
Also poor disabled people.
Recipients of SSI are - by definition - not “upper class” because you can’t have more than $2000 at any give time. Half of SSI recipients aren’t white. (People of Color are also more likely to have jobs where they’re injured or working in dangerous conditions, and have also been disproportionately impacted by COVID.)
The Biden Administration removed the In-Kind Support and Maintenance Rule as it applies to food. This means that - as of September 30th, at least - you won’t be at risk of losing your benefits if someone shares food with you. Previously, if your parents bought you groceries or your friend cooked for you, you could have your benefits reduced by up to 1/3.
The Biden Administration is also removing some of the obsolete jobs that are used to deny people disability benefits. Applying for disability benefits involves the government telling you “Well these are jobs you could do with your disabilities” - and the list of jobs was established in the 1970s and hasn’t really been updated, and a lot of the jobs don’t really exist in the US anymore. So you can be told “Sure, you’re too disabled to stand, but you could be a Linen Grader, so you’re not Disabled Enough that you can’t work.” - even though that’s not really a job that exists in the US anymore. Under Biden, the SSA is removing some of those jobs like “reptile farmer”, “barrel assembler”, “nut sorter”, and “microfiche mounter”, so you can’t be denied disability benefits based on your hypothetical ability to farm reptiles.
Being told every four years “we need you to vote for the lesser evil” is hell. I know. I want to scream.
We vote for the lesser evil every four years because there’s a fundamental flaw in our voting system. We use a “first past the pole” voting system, awarding the prize to whoever gets the most votes (with some electoral college nonsense thrown in). That inevitably means that if there’s a candidate “sorta-like the Democrats, only better” then all the non-Republican votes will be split between two candidates and the Republicans will win.
It inevitably results in two parties. There’s no room for alternatives because alternatives just hurt your own side.
The good news is that Ranked Choice Voting is spreading. Ranked Choice Voting lets you rank the candidates in order of how much you like them. Under Ranked Choice Voting you can say “I like Jill Stein the most, then I suppose Biden’s better than Trump, and Trump is the worst.” Under this system if no candidate wins over 50%, then the candidates with the least votes are removed, and everyone that picked those candidates as their #1 choice has their vote shifted to their #2 choice. Under this system you can vote for Jill Stein (or Kennedy, or Ralph Nader) without electing Trump. It’s a system that allows third parties to grow, gain recognition, and hopefully put an end to “pick the lesser evil” politics (here, have a link).
But that system won’t be in place for the November 2024 election.
Things aren’t completely hopeless, we do have a path forward, there are things we can do. But it’s not going to be done by November 2024. You’re going to have to vote for the lesser evil. You’re going to have to remember just how much this election matters, because it’s very likely the next President is going to pick another two Supreme Court Justices. And they will be young judges, given lifetime appointments. This next election could have repercussions for generations. Donald Trump appointed 1/3 of this court, and in a short amount of time it has repealed Roe vs. Wade, gutted the EPA, FDA, and other Federal regulatory bodies, ruled that it’s okay to pass laws making it illegal to be homeless, and gave Trump and other Presidents nearly complete immunity. They essentially ruled that Nixon could have said “the men I sent to Watergate were just investigating” and he would’ve been fine.
It’s not hopeless, there are things we can do beyond just “voting for the lesser evil,” but I cannot emphasize enough that your vote (or lack of vote) in November will have repercussions for generations to come.
if you live in America, regardless of whether or not you are eligible to vote, are you aware of Project 2025?
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information:
John Oliver clip
tumblr post with sources
post with a video breakdown
via nowthisimpact on Instagram
breakdown post
All In With Chris Hayes clip via MSNBC
*Please add any additional sources you may have and find useful*
I encourage everyone to not only be aware of Project 2025, but educate yourself on exactly what is — a nearly one thousand page document by Conservatives that describes the creation of an authoritarian state and dismantling of major necessary agencies (EPA, Department of Education, etc), as well as including a plan to remove those who hold high government seats and replace them with loyalists who have little to no experience in that field.
An estimated 41 million Gen Z teens will turn eighteen before this election. Please make sure you are registered to vote by November, and be sure to get to the polls on November 5th.
New voters please help, you might for real be the only hope considering the various poll results with older people so far
just learned that a mutual of mine is pro israel (they’re now blocked) so i wanted to take the time to say that if you believe what’s happening in palestine is not a genocide than you are not welcome here. unfollow me block me whatever i don’t want you interacting with me at all
hi. palestinian here.
i’m reblogging this to all my blogs just as a reminder that all anti-palestinians, islamophobes, pro-zionist, pro-israeli government, and anti-semites are not welcome on this blog.
what is happening in palestine is it’s not just a genocide. it’s a massacre familiar to my people because it is a product of 80+ years of oppression. it is not a thousand year conflict, and calling it that makes it seem impossible to fix or work to end.
we can end this. sign petitions. come to protests. make it clear to the us government that we do not condone funding apartheid and eradication.
that’s all. thank you.
the usa shouldn’t be the political and economic focal point of the entire fucking planet, actually
I just learned that my medication is out of stock COUNTRYWIDE because America is restricting how much ADHD medication Australia is allowed to make... and they're just flat out ignoring Australia's request to meet to negotiate more.
America's Federal Trade Commission is taking public comments on this exact situation right now.
If you've been affected by the actions of US-based regulation in regards to accessing your ADHD medication, please submit a comment! Even if you're outside of the United States. The fact this has such far-reaching consequences is something that needs to be known!
You have until April 15th, 2024 to submit a comment. Please make your voice heard!
“why are you tired? you haven’t done anything all day” the simple fact that i exist drains me. hope this helps
listen i am not american. i understand that even democrats fucking suck and its a genuinely shitty situation to be in. im so sorry. but hey, hey look at me. why are you guys bullying people for saying "you should still vote blue?" Like im curious about the alternatives youve got. voting red? firebombing walmart? tumblr user catboyssepticbutthole, i know you will not be firebombing walmart.
you guys are falling into the "the revolution will fix everything" mindset and then not even occupying tv buildings or organising the coup or anything. youre just posting. Don't encourage being complacent under the guise of encouraging revolution
*clutching the sink*
It doesn’t matter if I’m a burden or not, my friends choose to care about me. My friends choose to care about me. My friends choose to care about me.
ADHD at night: I could write a book. I could get my Master’s Degree. I could go to the club and come home with 12 new friends. I could get a job at that club and meet the mother of my children. I could cure every disease and use my wealth to bring world peace.
ADHD during the day: Fold laundry too hard :( Come back next week
“stop traumadumping to your friends tell this to your therapist” my god they paywalled human connection
"don't worry about how other people perceive you" okay but like how they treat me is frequently determined by how they perceive me and I would prefer people be niceys to me
I know we’re all having fun here seeing trump lose but remember this shit’s a dead end and being a democrat isn’t gonna get us anywhere we really need to be going in the next few decades.
like im seeing people post like, biden positive memes now on my dash and im just sitting here like ok let’s Calm Down now he’s still a right wing freak.
i wish i had enough social media influence to encourage people to call the miami-dade offices, specifically their post office, and demand that the 27% of missing ballots be counted, seeing as miami-dade could flip all of florida blue, and then change the outcome of the entire election
i just discovered that the secretary of state is responsible for calling recounts!
call them here: (850) 245-6500
