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Were you helping refugees at the border last week by donating to mutual aid groups or doing translation and outreach?
Were you calling for ceasefire and doing what you could to aid Palestinians last week? (Esims for gaza here)
Were you talking to your unhoused neighbors with respect and advocating for them and protesting encampment clearances last week? (There's no link just treat people like people and share cash if you can)
Last week were you participating in community meal shares and free stores?
Were you supporting bail funds and protesting the carceral state and trying to stop executions and humanizing incarcerated people last week? (How to write a letter to an incarcerated person)
Were you working to increase access to abortion medications and birth control and abortions in general last week?
Did you share information about DIY HRT and spend time paying attention to the books your school board was banning and make your lgbtqia friends welcome and included last week?
Were you aware of the groundwork being laid for a 2028 general strike and the ways that you could support one (contributing to strike funds, joining and supporting unions, attempting to unionize your workplace) last week?
Were you helping the people around you, were you caring for your friends, were you making information free, were you picking up trash, were you sharing a meal, were you tracking fascists, were you challenging the wrongs done by your government in the ways available to you last week?
Good. Keep doing that.
A better world is possible. Keep working toward it.
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Grieve AND organize.
Good article by David Hunter on how to survive the Trump presidency, both on the personal and on the political plane.
This is an excellent article. It talks about the psychology of tyranny, the history of resistance and the paths we have to take to rescue each other and recover.
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remember when i said every presidential election comes down to the absolute most checked the fuck out people in the country
pre election mood
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extremely long shot but my reach is bigger here - if you are in the portland/vancouver area and dropped off a ballot in a drop box this weekend, check with the county auditor to get a new ballot. at least one drop box in vancouver was set on fire and hundreds of ballots were damaged or destroyed.
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Rent control is on the ballot for California voters this November.
I uh, get that tumblr isn't exactly sorted by geography, but this is a huge deal.
It's a huge deal even for people who don't expect to be personally affected by it -- rent control is a protection against the poorest people living in a city being forced out, and that's just bad for everyone. When you have a city where only medium well off to rich people live, you get their service employees coming in from a suburb an hour and a half away (blech) or else you get people stacked three to a room. Or people holding down a job or three while trying to earn enough to get off the street or, well, out of their parents' place or away from the abusive partner they can't afford to break up with. Point is, a lack of housing that people can just keep living in at the same price, means a lot of bad things for society, and we probably aren't going to socialize housing within the next ten years but maybe we can get rent control back.
It is important to know that CA, being the fifth largest economy IN THE WORLD, has a huge effect on how things go in the rest of the US. If CA gets rent control, this is likely to exert pressure on other places to enact rent control. So, like. It would be super fucking rad if that happened.
Cory Doctorow wrote a great piece about rent controls and the numerous net benefits they bring when enacted last year: https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/16/mortgages-are-rent-control/#housing-is-a-human-right-not-an-asset
If you don't know much about rent control and how it actually helps entire communities, it's a good read.
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man for a country that loves its guns the lot of you cant aim for shit
Getting sent to the organic work farms for taking Prozac
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the aging head of state is in seclusion after catching the plague. his advisors are convenening against him. His strongest rival, the deposed former ruler, is mustering forces after a failed assassination plot. Rumors abound that he may be forced to abdicate his throne, leaving an untested hier to face these crises.... truely we live in the most crusader kings era of american politics.
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good news for trans women: kamala harris is not, in fact, a vicious transmisogynist. the actions of her office and of the california department of corrections were wrongly attributed to her and her alone by people who wanted someone else to win, and when harris did become involved in the cases, she rewrote the entire policy for dealing with trans inmates so that they would get the care they need.
This is a good reminder, because I would not be surprised if people start trotting this nonsense out again 
Added some article highlights because I think paywalls are shitty
Who is Kamala Harris?
These are all from her Wikipedia page. I have picked the top 5 for each of these sections. Maybe you think other things are more important, these are just the things that stood out to me:
Highlights as District Attorney of San Francisco:
- was tough on gun crime: created a gun crime unit, set 90-day minimum sentences, raised bail for gun-related crimes, and prosecuted all assault weapon possession cases as felonies.
- created a hate crimes unit specifically focused on LGBTQ hate crimes against children and teens in school.
- was (and is) against the death penalty; during her time as DA did not cave to pressure in several cases to seek the death penalty.
- helped create the San Francisco Reentry Division, aimed at helping prisoners reintegrate after their sentences are through; the program became a national model.
- refused to enforce prop 8, which was at the time California's ban on gay marriage.
Highlights as Attorney General of California
- introduced the Homeowner Bill of Rights and fought against banks, mortgage companies, and credit card companies.
- fought for financial reimbursement for public employee and teacher pensions.
- fought for environmental protections and secured settlements and indictments against several oil companies for oil spills.
- conducted a review of implicit bias in policing and the use of deadly force and introduced implicit bias training.
- declared a law that California law enforcement had to collect and report police violence.
Highlights as a California Senator:
- condemned Trump's Muslim ban.
- opposed Trump's appointments of Betsy DeVos and Jeff Sessions, his nomination of Neil Gorsuch, and voted against confirming Kavanaugh.
- tried to make lynching a federal hate crime.
- urged the Trump administration to investigate the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China.
- voted to convict Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Highlights as Vice president:
- as President of the Senate, cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate that ensured the passing of the American Rescue Act.
- has cast more tie-breaking votes than any other Vice president in US history - she is responsible for many of the achievements of the Biden administration actually passing the Senate.
- created task forces on corruption and human trafficking.
- created a women's empowerment program.
- has criticized Israel's actions during the current conflict in Gaza and called for an immediate ceasefire.
this took me out 😭😭