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An Incomplete List of US LGBTQ+ Helplines

I just saw the news that the Trump administration is ending funding for The Trevor Project as a 988 Lifeline partner.

First and foremost, the Trevor Project is not shutting down. They can be reached directly at 1-866-488-7386, or by texting START to 678-678. What is shutting down is the ability to call 988 and be directed to the Trevor Project’s LGBTQ+ youth lifeline.

However, I wanted to share the various LGBTQ+ helplines that I have bookmarked anyway, because god forbid one of these incredibly vital organizations DOES shut down, I want y’all to know what other support is out there.

Please feel free to add additional helplines in reblogs if I’ve missed anything!

LGBT National Hotline. 888-843-4564. Open Mon-Sat

LGBT National Youth Talkline. 800-246-7743. Open Mon-Sat

LGBT National Senior Hotline. 888-234-7243. Open Mon-Sat

Trans Lifeline. 877-565-8860. Open Mon-Fri. Peer support helpline for trans folks

Pride Institute. 833-926-2100. Open 24/7. Helpline for queer folks dealing with substance use & addiction

Call Blackline. 800-604-5841. No longer 24/7 but hours aren’t posted publicly. Open to all but geared toward queer & BIPOC folks. Will not call the police

DeQH. 908-367-3374. Open Thurs and Sun. Peer support helpline for queer Desi folks. Will not call the police

Inara. 717-864-6272. Open Fri and Sat. Peer support helpline for queer Muslims. Will not call the police

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ANYBODY ELSE...

HAVE A HANKERING FOR A MEANINGFUL... ADDRESS TO CONGRESS???

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“The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That’s what we would call it. You’ve got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You’ve got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go “off the reservation, into Indian Country.” So what is that messaging that is passed on? You know, it is basically the continuation of the wars against indigenous people. Donald Rumsfeld, when he went to Fort Carson, named after the infamous Kit Carson, who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Navajo people and their forced relocation, urged people, you know, in speaking to the troops, that in the global war on terror, U.S. forces from this base have lived up to the legend of Kit Carson, fighting terrorists in the mountains of Afghanistan to help secure victory. “And every one of you is like Kit Carson.” The reality is, is that the U.S. military still has individuals dressed—the Seventh Cavalry, that went in in Shock and Awe, is the same cavalry that massacred indigenous people, the Lakota people, at Wounded Knee in 1890. You know, that is the reality of military nomenclature and how the military basically uses native people and native imagery to continue its global war and its global empire practices.”

— Winona Laduke - Native American activist and writer. She lives and works on the White Earth Nation in northern Minnesota. She is the executive director of Honor the Earth. She has just published a new book, The Militarization of Indian Country. (via kenobi-wan-obi)

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Obama Gave the Saudis the Bombs. Trump Pressed the Button. You Clapped.

I remember when Obama helped bomb a school bus in Yemen. August 9, 2018. A bunch of kids, most of them under 11, on a damn field trip. Forty boys. Eleven adults. Blown to pieces. Some of the bodies were so torn up their parents couldn’t even recognize them. And the bomb? It was made in the US. Sold to the Saudis. Dropped with our help. A 500 pound laser guided MK 82 bomb. US tech. US tax dollars. US fingerprints all over it. And while Yemeni parents were pulling little limbs out of the wreckage, liberals over here were still crying about how people once made fun of Obama’s tan suit like that was the biggest scandal he ever faced. Let’s not pretend this came out of nowhere. The US had been backing Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen since 2015. Obama started it. Trump continued it. Biden pretended to stop it. Same machine. Obama approved arms deals worth over 115 billion to the Saudis. Biggest arms sale in US history. He let them use our planes, our refueling, our satellite intel. Congress didn’t vote on it. Nobody asked us. The media barely covered it. But the bombs kept falling. Markets. Weddings. Schools. Hospitals. Kids. Over and over. And every time we said anything, people told us to calm down. Be reasonable. Be civil. Like this was a fucking debate club. You know how wild it is to see people defend a guy because he had good manners while he was helping to starve millions? Yemen was collapsing. Blockades cut off food and medicine. Cholera spread like wildfire. Kids were eating leaves to survive. But sure. Let’s talk about how Obama made people feel calm. Let’s post one more gif of him dancing or crying or slow jamming the news while children were bleeding out under rubble. You wanna talk about dignity? Try looking a Yemeni father in the eye after a bomb we sold killed his entire family. See how dignified you feel. This isn’t about one bus. That bus was just one piece of a massacre. We trained their pilots. Gave them coordinates. Gave them the bombs. This wasn’t rogue. This was policy. Deliberate. Quiet. Slick. It was empire with a smile. And Obama played it well. He made war look good. He made Democrats feel smart for liking him. Liberals treated him like a messiah. Never mind the kill lists. Never mind the drone strikes on American citizens. Never mind the kid he killed two weeks after his dad. Sixteen years old. Sitting outside. Boom. Gone. And people still had the nerve to say he brought decency back to the White House. Decency. What a joke. Every time we tried to talk about this, we got shut down. “Foreign policy is complicated.” “He had no choice.” “What about the Republicans.” No. He made choices. He made them every Tuesday when he looked over his assassination list. He made them when he approved arms deals. When he ignored Congress. When he let the Saudis run wild on a country full of poor brown families. He knew what he was doing. He did it anyway. And liberals still treat him like a saint because he didn’t yell on Twitter. I remember those kids. I remember their little blood soaked backpacks. I remember the survivors. Little boys missing legs. Missing eyes. Shell shocked forever. What were they doing? Just trying to go on a school trip. And the media barely cared. Nobody wore Yemeni flags on their Instagram profiles. Nobody cried on SNL. Nobody even knew their names. But we knew Obama wore a tan suit once and that was apparently the great liberal trauma of our time. This is the problem. People care more about style than substance. They care more about vibes than bodies. Obama looked cool. Spoke nice. Made white people feel safe. So the wars didn’t count. The killings didn’t count. The war crimes were fine because he smiled. That’s what liberalism became. A hollow performance.

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those ads for ai integration on phones are so funny bc it seems like they cant. come up with that many use cases that arent already on a phone? "ask gemini to give you recipes when youre cooking!" "use our AI assistant to find the perfect gift for your girlfriend" yeah or i could just like. google it. you've spent millions on a slightly fancier version of an alexa. good job man.

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"trans men/mascs transition out of oppression and towards privilege" is a terf talking point and it will never be progressive.

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This is a hard truth to swallow, but let me tell you, the healing that takes place when you accept that no, you aren't any more or any less important to the workings of the world than any other rando you see whilst you're out and about.

Realizing that while you are *very* important to the well-being of the people who truly love you, to the world at large, the part you play is no bigger or more important than the parts that the Karen in the café or the Chad at the mall or literally any other of the 8+ billion souls on the planet is such a relief.

It's freeing as fuck to really just absorb the message that we can't control anyone or anything outside of ourselves.

i really do believe that the answer to a lot of people's self hatred is not to try and reassure them that they are wonderful and okay and enough, but instead to remind them theyre a completely unremarkable regular ass person who is not the center of the universe or especially important so why would they expect themselves to be some superhuman savior. like there really is a kernel of out of control self importance at the heart of thinking youre an evil lazy piece of shit. because why would you expect you be anything but just like some guy. if you wouldnt expect the guy who works at the vape shop or your mailman or whatever to be able to do something then why would you expect yourself to? youre just some random ass person. its fine

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sometimes I'll see someone express an opinion that's like, "anyone else sick of the colour blue. I mean it was fun at first but it's like, we get it, you like blue. "ohh the sky the ocean ohhhh" pack it up already. no one ever talks about orange or chartreuse" and then I'll be over here still enjoying blue thinking aww they're right, I must be stupid. and then my rationality smacks me in the head and goes wait this literally doesn't matter. it's fine for them to like orange and chartreuse and it's fine for me to continue liking blue.

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the infuriating thing is that there is genuinely so much good queer literature out there, contemporary and not, but there is also a sizeable chunk of readers who think that a book only "counts" as good queer literature if it's a) unproblematic, b) contains romance as its central focus, and c) has the characters state their orientation and/or gender identity directly to the audience using socially acceptable 21st-century terms (as opposed to resorting to cowardly tactics such as Subtext and Themes)

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What's frustrating about the Musk and Trump thing is that. Like.

It's a distraction.

Trump cancelling the subsidies to electric cars was a campaign promise. That was basically announced months ago, I think Musk just didn't expect Trump to go through with it

And Musk saying Trump is in the Epstein files, is like. We knew. The files are everyone that Epstein associated with, and Trump has photos with the guy. We all knew.

I mean, it's a lot of flash, but to me it does feel like a bit of a nothingburger?

It feels like a distraction.

Even if the emotions are genuine, Trump might be getting encouragement to blow up the relationship so that people are distracted from the many real problems of the Big Beautiful Bill. And also so that the Left feels like there's momentum on Damaging The Right As A Cohesive Block.

So we're distracted, instead of:

Noticing how many Republicans are saying "I wouldn't have voted yes if I'd actually read the BBB"

Paying attention to the new travel ban

Recognizing that this isn't really moving anything

Calling our senators about the insanely stupid tax breaks in the BBB

And any number of other government actions that are shaping up to have real and lasting impacts on us

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SHOOTING CIVILLIANS POINT BLANK. SHE WAS TRYING TO GET HOME AND THEY SHOT HER FOR NO REASON. GET THIS FOOTAGE OUT!

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i feel like we aren’t talking about elon confessing to oligarch election interference enough. i don’t care if the girls are fighting the girls are enemies of the state and should be shot like brian thompson

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That's racist, authoritarian magats for you

I need to speak on something that I thought was absolutely disgusting…

on the news a Florida “anti riot” cop stated to the public that they would and I quote verbatim “we will notify your families where to collect your remains because we will shoot you dead”

“if you spit on us we will send you to the hospital and then jail”

and

“we will have our beautiful police dogs bite you”

I find this absolutely disgusting, no official should speak in such a distasteful manner, they are bitching and moaning about people rioting meanwhile they’re fantasizing on live tv about killing people??? I don’t care what’s going no one should ever be that casual and excited about hurting people.

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Trump is desperate and panicking. He’s doing anything he can to shift the narrative so he can move toward martial law.

Don’t fall for it.