Want to get involved before the 2020 Election? Let me help you with that.
Make sure you’re registered to vote here!
And as always, remember to check your local community for continued Black Lives Matter protests (and educational opportunities), and keep learning on your own!
Illinois has a tax referendum on the upcoming ballot which, if passed, would put a higher income tax rate on any household that makes over $250,000 a year.
One of the tv ads trying to convince average citizens (so... for Illinois at large, households earning roughly $63,000 a year or less) to vote this thing down has a middle-aged farmer humbly pleading with us to "stand with family farms and small businesses," but what he fails to mention is that his "family farm" (a term which still generates sympathy in the Midwest and evokes images of impoverished, overworked manual laborers struggling to put food on the table) generates $500,000 each year and has a whopping two (2) employees. That's literally ten times the average household income of the zip code they're in.
But we're supposed to feel bad for this family that's making half a million dollars annually because... the state wants them to pay their fair share in income taxes like the rest of us???
so I didn’t notice until a few months ago that BLM’s logo font is so similar to Star Trek’s! (srsly go to their website if you don’t believe me) (and as long as you’re there, consider donating to them or one of the amazing organizations they work with)
anyway, some icons (with varying degrees of glitter) for Trekkie activists if you’re interested, just credit please
…and boost #Trekkies for Equality if you can 💛💙
(please forgive the rough/warped lines, I did these with ink & paper & cheap photo manip software because I’m not a digital artist)
yo, more star trek, less american politics, nobody cares about that
Hi anon, thanks for the ask--I hope you're well and staying safe 💛💙
Firstly, I really truly want to thank you for not swearing at me or telling me to "f*** off." I've gotten several of those kinds of messages lately and I very much appreciate that you kept your request/criticism civil. 💜
This might sound naïve, but I want to give you the benefit of the doubt since I have no idea if you're a Tumblr vet or a new arrival, if you're a minor or not, if you actually follow me or not, etc. etc.
I understand that not everyone cares about US politics. And I know I'm not an important person. But I am a person, and I do happen to care very deeply about US politics. I've lived right in the middle of the country my whole life, I'm 30 years old [which I only mention as proof of my sincere and legitimate disillusionment], I'm affected every day by the decisions and [in]actions of our local/state/federal officials, I've witnessed too many times the harmful consequences of large portions of the electorate being apathetic about what is supposed to be a participatory government, and I'm exhausted by the dangerous willful ignorance currently being exhibited by many of my friends and fellow citizens. Since the nation is in quite a bit of turmoil right now, it's highly likely that I'll continue to occasionally post or reblog information related to sociopolitical issues which hit close to home for me, because this blog is one of very few places I have to express my opinions and do what I can to support the causes I believe in.
A lot of people don't read tags, I know, so if you saw reblogs from me that didn't duplicate my tags, or if you skip over them in general, I want to assure you I try to be as vigilant and diligent as possible about tagging things I post and reblog (I have moderate obsessive compulsive disorder, so meticulous organization is... sort of important to me 😳). All of my recent posts concerning American and/or world politics have been tagged with #politics, #us politics, #tw: politics, and #tw: us politics so I would encourage you to put some or all of those on your filter list (bonus: then you won't have to see appropriately-tagged political posts by anybody on your dash 😉).
All of that said, I completely sympathize with using Tumblr as a means of escaping reality, I do. My blog has mostly been that exact sort of thing for me; I make a lot of posts about mental health, yes, but otherwise I like to think I'm pretty on-brand with K/S content and that I don't inundate people's dashes with content unrelated to my main focus. Fair warning, though, I do intend to keep posting/reblogging activism-related resources as I come across them during this period of extreme unrest in the States/around the world, as well as, I'm sure, an occasional political or current-events-type post here and there in the future. I've come to understand just how much of a privilege it is for me even to have the option of ignoring the news and escaping into my fictional interests when I get overwhelmed, and that newfound understanding has me wary of escaping too often and becoming complacent about the struggles of other humans, people who I might be in a position to help simply by paying attention. So...
TL;DR if you follow me but don't want to filter your dash by the above tags, I encourage you to consider unfollowing; while I'd hate to see you go, I don't want the content I post to trigger or upset anybody. If you don't already follow me, I wish you nothing but the best and would advise you not to spend too much time on my blog in particular if political stuff bothers you. Either way, just please do whatever is healthiest for you.
Be safe, and LLAP friend. 💛💙🖖
this is a petition to stop mark zuckerb*rg from trying to steal native hawaiian land to build his 11th mansion. eat the rich pls sign n share 🧡
I have no peers, no one my age to speak with about the horrifying things going on in the US right now. My only real-life friends refuse to discuss anything in the news and anything that has to do with my emotional state because it's triggering to them, which of course I understand. But not being able to talk at least about current events triggers all of my severest shut-down/withdrawal responses. I know this is all super immature and spoiled-brat stuff to be upset about, but there is no social group or friend group that I belong with anymore (well, not that there ever was), I even feel like I'm just a nuisance to everyone here on tumblr and all two of the discord servers I'm in. I'm scared, exhuasted, discouraged, despairing, and I have no one to commisserate with about any of it because I'm so tired of burdening other people with my miserable attitude.
Sorry I have nothing more pleasant to say. And I'm sorry for filling your dash with more narcissism and self pity.
