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Trump’s Cruel “Public Charge” Rule Would Harm Millions of Immigrant Families

It’s an inhumane attempt to deny immigrants access to health care, housing, and food.

In October, the Trump-Pence administration issued a proposed regulation known as the “public charge” rule. The rule would jeopardize immigrants’ ability to stay in the U.S. if they’d used public benefits they’re legally allowed to access. Simply having accessed health care coverage, nutrition assistance, or public housing could mean they’d be denied visas, green cards, and entry into the country.

This policy is cruel and inhumane.

By linking people’s immigration status to whether they’ve used public benefits, the “public charge” rule would cause extreme harm to immigrants across the country — including documented and undocumented families alike.

What Would the “Public Charge” Rule Do?

Trump’s proposed rule would make a number of changes to U.S. immigration law. The rule would expand the government’s power to look at whether someone who’s applying for a visa, green card, or entry into the country has accessed public benefits — so that this information could be used against them.

Someone could be penalized for having used:

Medicaid in order to meet their health care needs;

Food assistance programs like SNAP to feed their families;

Public housing benefits to ensure their families are safe.

The public charge rule would also penalize anyone who meets criteria that the government considers would make them LIKELY to use public benefits. That includes someone with a poor credit history, limited education, or a medical condition that requires extensive medical care or could interfere with their ability to go to work or school. Even a person’s limited English proficiency would count as evidence against them under the rule.

Ultimately, the rule would empower the government to prioritize wealthy immigrant families over families with low incomes who have waited years to be reunited.

How Would the “Public Charge” Rule Affect the Health of Immigrant Families?

If the “public charge” rule goes into effect, its harms would be serious and wide-ranging. It would directly affect nearly a million immigrants in the U.S. — in addition to millions more people living overseas who are trying to gain legal status in the country. Most of the immigrants that would be forced to pass the new “public charge” test have family members that are U.S. citizens, so the rule would add yet another obstacle to keeping families together.

Already, the “public charge” rule has caused widespread fear and confusion for all immigrants — including the 23 million noncitizens living in the U.S., which includes U.S.-born children of immigrant parents. Even before the rule was announced, immigrant communities had been avoiding essential public services, such as nutrition and health programs, out of fear of drawing scrutiny from the government.

The proposed “public charge” rule would make this problem much worse. It would force immigrant families to choose between permanent legal status and their ability to access basic needs like health care.

The combined effect would be incredibly harmful to the health and well-being of immigrants, their families, and the communities they live in. We’re likely to see large declines in Medicaid enrollment, a program that provides access to care and financial security for families with low incomes. This will mean worse health outcomes and less financial stability for millions of immigrant families, which would be worsened by losing access to affordable housing and food.

How Can I Help Oppose it?

You can tell the Trump-Pence administration that its proposed “public charge” rule is cruel, inhumane, and must be rejected. The administration is collecting input from the public until December 10, 2018. Leave a comment now to demand that the administration withdraw the rule.

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A better, more positive Tumblr

Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

Jeff D’Onofrio CEO

fandomsandfeminism

So did you know that HALF of all food grown in the US is thrown away?

And much of it is tossed for purely AESTHETIC reasons? Fruit with bumps on it or that are slightly off color just get thrown out or plowed over.

So what if like, instead of THAT, we like…GAVE FOOD for free to people who like, need it? What if like, that food was just free to have?

iammyfather

“But that would be unfair to poor people. Giving them unaesthetic unappealing food is classiest.” Liberals

thatcuriouswench

Well, gee: maybe we could bring people who don’t have enough food into the food distribution cycle earlier, like before the food gets all “unaesthetic.” Too radical??

iammyfather

This is in the fields when harvested actually.

Out of a total 15 Metric Tonnes (MT) of food waste, 3 MT or roughly 20% of food waste occurs even before it leaves the farm’s gate.

https://blog.oddbox.co.uk/food-waste-in-a-local-british-farm-eb2c2a85959f

bisadbipolaroldsoul-deactivated

Salsa and ketchup from what????

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I know this isn’t politically related, but food insecurity is a real problem so:

There’s an ‘ugly fruit’ and ‘ugly vegetable’ subscription box called Hungry Harvest that ‘rescues’ unattractive fruits and vegetables and mails them to your door. They only deliver in a few states (pa, md, va, fl, dc, mi, nc) and in certain areas, but they are growing. They take SNAP and have a price reduced model for people paying with snap and they donate to food banks. If you’re in an area they’re located in, you should sign up for a box, and if you can, buy a subscription for your local food bank or shelter.

There’s also one called Imperfect Produce that seems to run off a similar model (including reduced price SNAP plan) but which I haven’t tried and can’t vouch for. edit: here’s a criticism of imperfect produce that the company refutes if you’d like to read more

#food insecurity #hunger

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7 Ways To Be Gender-inclusive In Your Language

via @glaad

anistarrose

Normally I don’t like bringing this up, but: Tumblr is making it increasingly difficult for writers and artists to get their posts to show up in tags and searches, meaning that our fics and art are being exposed to fewer people.

Yes, it’s still possible to get posts to show up, but in the case of the search function, it’s only if they have no links - not even links to other Tumblr posts. For people like me who include links to other chapters in my fic so readers can get caught up on chapters they might miss, this is a huge problem. I basically have no choice but to include those links, or else I would make things massively inconvenient for my readers.

So why am I telling everyone this? Because this means reblogs are becoming more and more important to creators. With posts so difficult to find in searches and tags, reblogs are one of the few other ways for people to find new artists or writers.

You’re under no obligation to reblog my stuff, of course, but I want to put it out there why reblogs are so important to those of us who write/draw/create content.

(Also: While I’ve personally verified the stuff that’s going on with searches, I have no clue what’s going on with tags. Some of my stuff is showing up there, some isn’t, seemingly with little correlation to the links included. So tags might not be quite as strict, but they do seem to be less consistent.)

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I have several posts ready to go but until this issue and the issue with posts containing links not showing up in searches is resolved I’m going to hold off on posting them. In the mean time I’m looking for another platform to cross-post to. Hold tight, we’re not gone and we’re still working on bringing you information.

#Housekeeping

anistarrose

You’re under no obligation to reblog my stuff, of course, but I want to put it out there why reblogs are so important to those of us who write/draw/create content.

Just a little housekeeping announcement, we’ve added a new mod account trump-administrationfollows so if you get a message or response or follow from there, that’s actually us!

#housekeeping

The president had soured on the former Alabama senator after Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigns at Trump’s request - hopefully this isn’t a move to get rid of special council Robert Muller who has been in charge of the investigations into the Trump Administration’s ties with Russia. I’ll keep everyone updated on new developments as more information comes out.

2018 midterm roundup

Democrats took control of the House of Representatives, disrupting the complete republican control of the country that we’ve had for the last two years. Republicans kept control of the Senate, but there were a lot of close races in states that usually go red by a landslide. Overall we saw a moderate but definitive blue wave sweeping the country. There were also a lot of important Ballot Measures in some states, highlights of which include voting rights for felons in Florida, Increased minimum wage in Arizona, expanded Medicaid coverage, and legalization of Marijuana in Michigan. Seven governors flipped blue, 22 Democratic seats were gained in the house, and 4 states swapped their republican attorney generals for democrats. There have been a series of historical firsts and there are a record number of women in congress.

Under the cut is a breakdown of positions won, seats gained, and ballot measures passed and what they mean for your state and the country, as well as if one party has the trifecta in your state.

The list is currently a work in progress, but will be updated over the next few days as runoffs finish and races are called.

#midterms #election #news #politics #voting #blue wave #trump

Republicans won every statewide office in Texas, as they have in every election for the past 20 years. But Democrats are taking heart in their narrow losing margins.

#news #beto #ted cruz #texas #midterms

goosewithajob

Hey so friendly reminder about voting and elections that I haven’t seen going around yet but is SUPER IMPORTANT.

Watch what you wear and say while you’re waiting in line for the voting booth/at the polls. It is against federal law to do anything that might be considered campaigning once you’re there, and since we know that voter suppression is the name of the game this election, there will be people looking for ANY reason to remove you from the polling place. And they will nitpick. You have a shirt with a artistic picture of donkey on it? You’re visibly supporting the Democrats, you’re disqualified from voting. Want to wear a Black Lives Matter shirt? Not there you don’t. They’ll call it intimidation and kick you out. Pins, buttons, stickers, none of it. Wear the most bland, plain clothes you can imagine.

And then keep your mouth shut. Even the slightest hint of discussion about which candidate you’re voting for can get used against you. Don’t assume the people around you are safe to discuss it with. You might be overheard. There WILL people watching for these things, hoping to get rid of anyone they can. Voter suppression isn’t just about making registration impossible. It happens at the polling stations too. Be smart, be bland, be quiet, and make sure your vote gets in.

Also- and I have seen this mentioned but it bears repeating- DO NOT TAKE A PICTURE OF YOUR BALLOT. EVER. It’ll also disqualify your vote. Take a selfie when you’re out of their with your fun little sticker.

#voting

News Roundup from Hell

Special edition of news roundup because the past few weeks have been wild to say the least.

Wed 10/24

A man mailed several pipe bombs to CNN, George Soros, the Clinton home, the Obama offices, and the offices of several democratic congresspeople, among others. He claimed that the bombs weren’t meant to hurt anyone, however the FBI reports that the bombs were active and dangerous. He had a list of people 100+ long that he had planned on working his way through before he was captured. The bombs were sent to media outlets, while Trump continues to attack US media institutions, members of the Democratic party, and a Jewish billionaire philanthropist (George Soros) who, according to the bomber, was responsible for funding the group of asylum seekers travelling towards the US (an accusation that Donald Trump later echoed).

Trump administration is considering defining gender as being based off a person’s genitals (nyt) at birth under title ix, a move that would severely harm transgender and intersex people.

Mon 10/29

Shooter kills 11 in Jewish Synagogue in Pittsburgh in act of anti semitic terrorism. He had previously posted on social media about committing violence against jewish people, and blamed them for funding a caravan of migrants seeking asylum. Anti semitic attacks continue across the country and anti-jewish hate crimes are on the rise. Here’s how you can support the victims.

Tues 10/30

Donald Trump asserts he can end Birthright Citizenship with an Executive order. ‘Birthright citizenship,’ or the idea that anyone born in the United States is a citizen of the US regardless of whether or not they are born to US citizens, is protected under the 14th amendment. The constitution cannot be altered by executive order, and any attempt to challenge its interpretation will be met with significant pushback from courts. The 14th Amendment, Explained.

Wed 10/31

Trump threatens to send 15000 troops to the southern border to intercept a group of 3000 migrants seeking asylum in the US. These migrants plan to go through the legal process of applying for asylum status once they reach the border, and are not attempting to enter illegally. Trump plans to set up tent cities to hold the migrants, similar to the one set up to house unaccompanied migrant children already. This particular ‘caravan’ of asylum seekers is at the heart of a conspiracy theory believed by both the pipe bomber and the synagogue shooter, which alleges that Jewish charities and the Jewish billionaire George Soros are responsible for funding the ‘caravan’.

EPA releases memo raising the amount of allowable air pollution

Even after the recent domestic terrorism attacks, the Trump administration will not be renewing funding for the anti domestic terror program past 2019

Midterm voting is Tuesday. Here’s how to check if you’re registered and find your polling place. Here’s how to find out more about who’s running. And Here’s what to do if you get turned away at the polls. Also, here’s a bit about voter supression

#trump #news #politics #maga #soros #mod g

firelightmystic

I work with a lot of Brazilians since I handle international corporate insurance. I’ve had two of them break down in tears on me, and the third requested a job transfer to a different country because she’s black and terrified for her kids. She doesn’t even care about a potential pay cut–she just wants out.

I have a co-worker in my office who is a Brazilian immigrant who is in a perpetual state of terror because her brother and his partner of 20+ years can’t get out.

I have had two requests from businesses I insure to write trip travel policies that arrange ‘business trips’ to other countries for extensive amounts of time for their Brazilian employees. Like, year-long trips. One of my clients literally said, “It worked for us in the 40s.”

Do you understand how fucked up this is?

This is a WW2 tactic used to save the lives of Nazi targets.

History is literally repeating itself, and no one cares yet because the targets are minorities.

It’s time to start paying close attention to what’s going on, because once shit like this gets established, it only ramps up into a full-blown horrorshow.

Get your asses out and vote, because the people who support this for damn sure are, and the system is rigged in their favor. We’re primed to fall headfirst into this territory ourselves.

Not only do you vote, keep attentive, keep your heart open, and be ready to help however you can, not just here in America, but abroad. The world is not so large that you can ignore a crisis like this wherever it occurs, and one day it could very well be us in this position.

We’re halfway there; what did you think the synagogue attack and grocery store shooting were about? Complacency will undo us all in the rise of facism and racism and hatred. There is already a will, and our guns are legal and easily obtained.

Complacency kills. Apathy lets it occur again, and with impunity.

#brazil #international

date-a-jew-suggestions

If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you

prismatic-bell

A note:

I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:

Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.

Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.

And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.

date-a-jew-suggestions

Very good very important addition

appropriately-inappropriate

Essentially, this is the civil society version of a work-to-rule strike.

Don’t do more than is expressly asked of you, and do what you are asked with such an intense attention to protocol that not asking you at all becomes more effective than even bothering.

In this case:

“Have you seen an illegal immigrant?”

“Could you describe an illegal immigrant, officer?”

*officer describes a person who is in the country without appropriate paperwork, or who has crossed the border illegally*

“No, sir, I haven’t seen any illegal immigrant.”

And this is correct. You have NOT seen an illegal immigrant, because you have no way of knowing if Jose Fulano is here legally or not. And since you can’t see his paperwork (or lack thereof), and did not personally see him cross the border illegally, you are only answering precisely the question asked.

dancingwiththelostboys

I’m not American, and I have like, three followers, but this is important.

#civil disobedience #ice #immigration #undocumented immigrants #how to be an ally

incendavery

we all deserve respect and dignity!!

to learn more, or to donate time/money to the cause, please visit freedommassachusetts.org

incendavery

just a quick reminder that transphobes are fighting to deny us basic human rights on both a state AND federal level!!

meradorm-archive-deactivated202

Actual genetic testing for intersex, gnc, and trans people is going to be great because everybody in the workplace is going to shuffle into the break room (”beats workin’” one of the old white guys will say) and we’ll sit down at the plastic lunch tables and management will pass out a little baggie with a tube to spit in and painstakingly go over how to seal it and affix the label. It’s just like drug testing, you did that when we hired you, except you can’t fail! And you get twenty minutes off your workday, right? Great.

I could get lucky at this point. It doesn’t always show up on tests. I wouldn’t say that my body is a fifty-fifty split. But.

Days or weeks later a couple people from management will pull me off the lanes and take me into the nurse’s office. They’ll open the door for me and say “Sorry, buddy, I know this is a hassle” and they’ll say I have to do it again because my sample looked contaminated. (I did like a 23andMe thing once and they kept telling me they thought my sample must have gotten mixed with some else’s - it’s probably just the way these labs work, the checking process for your sample is probably automated.) But I’ll grunt and say “it’s fine” and sit in a chair and spit into another tube while they stare at me. I might have to repeat the process until they figure out I used to be twins, a boy twin and a girl twin, and my genetics reflect that. (”Oh wow I didn’t know that about you,” will the manager say, trying really hard to make encouraging small talk.)

Then I’ll find out that there’s some problem with my paycheck or the ID reader thing won’t let me clock in and I’ll go to the HR desk and spend like ten minutes being bored in line while the people in front of me figure out their parking passes or lost passwords and they say there’s some red tape I have to jump through about my gender, it’s not a big deal, you just have to go get a doctor to sign off on - (awkward pause) - on one or another before I go back to work, it’s a federal regulation thing. I’ll irritably play a lot of phone tag trying to make sure I don’t use my UPT (unpaid time off) hours while I can’t work, and then go to the health center the next town over where I used to get my fillings done. The 21-year-old receptionist will give me kind of a pained look when she calls me to the front and I’ll try to act casual for her sake, or maybe I’ll feel defiant and show her I’m uncomfortable and annoyed just to make her feel bad, because she’s the closest approximate thing to a target. (although I won’t, because I’m too old for that and it’s not her fault). The doctor will give me a tight smile and say “Sorry, I know this is invasive.” Then I’ll go home and bitch about it on Tumblr.

I don’t know exactly what happens next, maybe I’ll lose my job and the state will give me a letter saying that owing to United States regulation they can’t offer Medicaid to (they’ll phrase it in the most neutral possible way, like “those with a gender or sex ambiguity“ - you know, they’re trying to make it sound like they’re still progressive and their hands are tied, all saying that gender and sex are different), and then I’ll bitch about that on Tumblr too, but whatever, I managed bipolar for so long when I was undiagnosed, I don’t need to afford my meds.

That’s about as far as my imagination goes, but even if they decided to straight-up euthanize me it’s going to be boring, and there’ll be a lot of papers to sign and a lot of shuffling around near plastic tables under fluorescent lights, and it’s not going to feel dramatic and it’s not going to feel like something with a clear way to fight. Jackbooted thugs who I can heroically punch or physically escape from will probably not show up at my house in the middle of the night (and if they do I’d really be fucked, but at least I’d get an adrenaline rush out of it).

I dunno, it might come from being a Slav and knowing people who lived under Communism, but I see the future and not only are we all going to lose our rights and die, it’s going to be slow, boring, and really fucking annoying, and because of that it’ll creep up on us.

Of course, the upside of this is that the change we want will creep up on them too. You vote, your friends vote, Republicans lose the majority. You vote (vote, goddamn you) in local elections and get better quality candidates if you don’t like the ones we got. Donation posts go around Tumblr and we can gofundme crack teams of immigration lawyers. (Also, check Charity [Navigator] for charities that work with refugees and immigrants.) (While you’re at it, here are [some] LGBT charities too, including one for intersex rights and those supporting LGBT immigrants and asylum seekers.) The ways that you can help are also not dramatic. When they come you have to notice them.

They are also vulnerable to a death by a thousand cuts. Don’t forget that.

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Here’s what Donald Trump doesn’t want you to know: ACA open enrollment begins TODAY!

Spread the word and #GetCovered.

ironlion919-the-lone-vvoolf

Also, the time to enroll has been CUT IN HALF. They tried to kill off the ACA, but could only manage to damage it.

*****You have until Dec. 15! Don’t delay!*****

outforhealth

healthcare.gov GO GO GO

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Reminder: the deadline is December 15

solitarelee

I did this last year and inexplicably turned out to be eligible for Medicaid in WV, which I STILL have. Absolute and total lifechanger that’s letting me go to school instead of having to work full time.

#healthcare

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