tweets that did get a chuckle out of me

Stay safe, guys

it’s three taps anywhere on the screen on a smartphone!

This is important punks. Deadly important.

I’ve texted their hotline before. It was super helpful and even if it hadn’t been the amount of time you’re there can be enough to let your urges fade and stay safe.

Trump’s term is ending as it began, with a likelihood of street conflict. The following guides offer a great deal of information about how to participate in effective protests while protecting yourself and your community.

Getting Connected

Security Culture

You can find a lot of important information about general security in protest situations here.

Digital Communications and Security

This thread spells out how to protect your privacy via proper phone safety at demonstrations—before, during, and after the protest.

Dressing for Success and Security

Safety Gear

You can read some more tips about protest gear from protesters in Hong Kong here.

Strategy, Planning, and Tactics

Jail Support

When Things Go Badly

Basic First Aid in the Streets

You can obtain more graphics on this subject here.

For Experienced Medics

These four zines from the Rosehip Medic Collective include a range of useful information.

This collection of resources that appeared shortly before Trump took office includes more topical material, addressing non-violence, solidarity, white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, and more.

I have been very anxious and worried and upset for obvious reasons, so I have been collecting resources that people have been posting into a master post, as well as adding my own resources. This post is LONG so it's under a cut, but it includes:

if you are waiting in line and polls are closing, keep your ass in that line

if you're in line before it clsoes, you get to vote

Dedicated to Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teen who recently died in Oklahoma after being beaten in a bathroom and extensive bullying at school.

Protect Nonbinary Kids on Threadless and Redbubble, Protect Trans Kids on Threadless and Redbubble

IMPORTANT REMINDER AS WE REACH THE END OF ELECTION DAY: If you are in line when polls close, stay in line. You have the right to vote. Call 866-687-8683 if you have any issues

The election is getting closer! Have you made your plan to go vote?

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If you are in line to vote today, stay in line until you get to vote. Know your rights and know who to call if something wonky is going on.

That number is 866-Our-Vote (866-687-8683) and is a non-partisan Election Protection line. Go vote, bring your friends, and stay in line.

“There are other forces at work in this world besides the will of evil.”

Best go vote add I’ve seen, maybe ever

I remember posting this back in 2020, not even intending the message to be “go vote”. The last photo was chosen among many others simply because it was a nice visual conclusion to the preceding chaos. The post was made many months before the election, and I had intended more to speak to the overall terrifying political climate of 2020 and all the small things we were doing to fight back and make changes that year.

But upon posting this, I received over 400 asks (I stopped counting) from different people demanding that I take the post down, telling me how dare I suggest that people vote in this political climate, and even several dozen anonymous asks threatening to attack/kill me for “spreading nationalistic propaganda”

It’s hard to remember, but that was the general sentiment around the election online in 2020: Rampant disinformation. Large-scale campaigns dissuading people from voting. Hundreds of negative comments on any post that even MENTIONED voting. You couldn’t get away.

But this election? It’s night and day. While I’m sure there’s still some people whining in a sad dark corner somewhere that moral purity is dead and they’re the last chosen saints of leftism, etc etc, the vast, VAST majority of people have zero tolerance for that bullshit this time around.

We are voting. We are talking to our friends and family about voting. We are reading the actual news and trying to cut through BS online quick-takes. We are getting people to the polls and donating to Harris and standing in line with others waiting to vote.

I’ve voted in every primary and election since I turned 18, but I have never seen young people voting on this level before. It’s truly mind-boggling just how much the younger voting block has mobilized in this election. This is the kind of thing that can change a nation if we let it.

Honestly, regardless of how the election turns out tomorrow, everybody should be so proud of what we tried to accomplish here. Keep up the good fight.

This is a present for a friend because she said this exact thing at the March for Our Lives over the weekend. I will be taping this to her door before Spring Break is over because honestly, who isn’t tired of this shit?

Buy a print and gear here.

So now we vote because I'm fucking tired of Trump, and if he gets voted in, tired is the least of my negative emotions.

This is my response to the horrendous policy that Trump enacted to separate children from their families at the border. While this has changed recently, there are style a myriad of issues at the border and his executive order did not fix these by any means.

Buy gear here (and bring it to a protest because this isn’t a happy piece and hopefully won’t continue to be a relevant piece), or support me with a ko-fi.

THIS SHOULDN’T BE ANYWHERE NEAR RELEVANT A YEAR LATER.

This is pictures of how we are treating people. This is unacceptable. People have died. Children have died. There is over crowding, there is sickness, there are children separated from their families.

There is no excuse for this.

As we sit in the middle of pride month with protests around the country for black lives, we need to remember that Pride in the US started with a riot against the police lead by a black trans woman, Marsha P. Johnson.

This is not a time to sit back and judge other’s rage and hurt at being consistently hurt and killed by the police, especially if you are white. This is a time to stand with them in whatever way we can. The LGBT+ community asks for support from other communities, and we need to return it while remembering our own history. Importantly, these are identities that regularly intersect for people. Do not erase that and learn their names too.

The deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd are just a few of the people in a long line of police brutality and killings.

Ways for to support:

Not everyone can do everything, but if nothing else, we can educate ourselves to be allies.

Finally, don’t forget to take care of yourself. Self care is important, as always. You can’t do everything. You will burnout. You need to sleep, eat, and do the things that make you can keep going, including things that make you happy. Make sure you speak up, and make sure you can keep speaking up.

And now: GO VOTE