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Things at my partner’s place have gotten to the point where it is unsuitable and unsafe for him to be in. We need to get him out of there. We have been formulating a plan to secure a safe place for both of us, and we need some help. More details are within the gofundme itself.

Truly anything helps! Thank you for reading.

https://gofund.me/bab9cf12

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While I don’t post on here much, I do like this app

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Have you redistributed funds to a Black Trans Person TODAY?

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If this is not FACTS. Then show me what is. . . It’s really disgusting to see how much white fundraisers get met in the matter of a day to a month. Meanwhile I been raising funds on my GoFundMe for the last year and a half.

Black Trans people & Black people IN general shouldn’t have to breakdown and share what’s been going on in their lives. We should be passed that point in 2022. We should understand that mutual aid is the only way out of this capitalistic society we are in. Mutual aid is the closes thing in proximity to receiving #reparations when you’re a marginalized person.

The simple fact I should just say I’m a Black trans woman who needs help getting clothes, food and other SURIVAL needs in my house should be eye opening enough for someone with Disposable income to be like here you go.

I’ve put in the countless work from being a physical activist to e-activist. There’s no difference ofc. I’m proud to organize and be apart of a revolution that is much needed and continuously needs more attention.

Black trans people are forgotten about so quickly. . . We are discarded and only sought after for sexual favors or use us to be the token to be seen as “progressive” or so they don’t have the “transphobic.” Label under them. Not only does me being a Dark Skin Person play apart now my identity as a woman- -a trans woman at that.

You should always and forever DONATE to Black Trans People. You should never question how a Black Person spends their money.

Black Trans Women are in the forefront and we are HERE TO STAY.

Please do your part to make sure Black Voices are heard and that our needs are Met.

If this post has moved you in a way and you feel it is your duty to help a BLACK TRANS PERSON THEN PLEASE HELP I am trying to raise funds for gender affirming clothes and other SURIVAL necessities.

If you are a Black LGBTQ+ woman, trans, non-binary, femmes please do not hesitate to REBLOG with your pay links ❤️🧡💛💚💙

Non black people please STEP up and do your PART.

V: nyahlee

C: $ny21x

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Y’all, this is time sensitive and critical!

Sianna needs 200 by 5pm eastern standard time or not only will she and her family be houseless, but she will owe an exorbitant amount of money each Friday until she can pay off the whole thing.

It does not need to get to that point.

We can support Sianna today!

Pls amplify, circulate with intention and contribute critically!

If you have funds to spare, or more, pls send 💕

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If y'all wanna know how Canada is doing with the apocalyptic heatwave, an entire town spontaneously combusted the other day and is now Gone

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If you are American, PLEASE SUPPORT THE SSI RESTORATION ACT OF 2021

This new bill has been introduced in both the house and the Senate.

Among other things, it will:

Raise the monthly disability income by just over 30 percent - bringing it to poverty level.

Remove penalties for recieving financial help from friends and family.

Increase the amount of assets a disabled person may have from $2,000 to $10,000 (this hasn't been updated since 1989)

Update outside income restrictions to allow disabled people to receive up to $399 a month without reducing their benefits.

REWARD, not penalize, people who want to receive additional income while on social security income.

REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT THIS WILL REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN

For those unaware current regulations do a lot to oppress disabled people. In fact marriage equality doesn't even extend to disbled people who risk having their benefits reduced or outright taken away if they marry someone. This means that in common law states disabled people can't even live with their significant other or they risk losing their financial independence.

Current regulations mean that if you're disbled you can't have so much as one penny over $2,000 to your name. So buying a car and gaining more independence or freedom is largely out of the question for disabled people.

Current regulations penalize social security recipients who receive income from outside sources, even if those sources are reimbursement. Did you get paid to babysit for a few hours? That's income, and you get your benefits reduced. Did you loan a friend $10 and they pay you back? The government considers that $10 income, and you get your benefits reduced.

These aren't mere anecdotes - these are all examples of actual things that have happened to disbled people I know, and if you have any disabled friends in your life I'm sure they can tell you the same stories.

If you value marriage equality, if you value financial independence, if you value the rights of disbled people, please PLEASE support this bill! Contact your reps, vote, and make noise! This is a great thing!

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Entire post here (watch the rest of the videos)

Israeli occupation forces began the demolition of 100+ Palestinians homes in the Silwan neighborhood of Al-Bustan. They started with Nedal Rajabi’s meat shop. At the end of the plan, 1500 Palestinians will be homeless. Their intention is to build a biblical theme park on the land.

DON’T STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE‼️

THIS IS FAR FROM OVER‼️

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The rest of the month’s content is much more entertaining, I promise.

[ID: 3 infographic images in comic format. /1: Text reads: “July is disability pride month! To participate, I will be posting only relevant content this month.” Image depicts an orange flag with the international symbol of access waving on a pole. /2: Text reads: “Why Disability Pride Matters: /’disabled’ is often treated as a bad word /invisibly disabled people are harassed due to narrow mindsets of what disability looks like /US disability financial aid forces disabled people into poverty–and all aid is stripped if you get married /ignorance is rampant around both physical & mental disabilities /disability is regarded as a fate worse than death /the world is still largely inaccessible /…and more” /3: Text reads: “Why Disability Pride & BLM Coincide: /doctors deny adequate treatment & pain management to black people /police disproportionately target, arrest, brutalize, and murder black disabled people /black people are disproportionately disabled due to systematic racism in healthcare /any discrimination a black person faces? double it if they’re black /…and more /THE BLACK PANTHERS JOINED THE FIGHT FOR THE ADA /But I can’t speak for black people; I can only recite the facts. Read black disabled people’s experiences!” /end ID]

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“Wildfires and record temperatures in Canada are generating ‘fire-breathing’ pyrocumulonimbus thunderstorms.”

“Absolutely mind-blowing wildfire behavior in British Columbia. Incredible & massive storm-producing pyrocumulonimbus plumes.” [From: Dakota Smith,  Dakota Smith, meteorologist at Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, 30 June 2021.]

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“Pyrocumulonimbus: a new word to learn in 2021. It means fires so big and hot they create storm clouds, which shoot out lightning that starts new fires.”

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The Pacific Northwest’s hell is just beginning. After being seared by record heat, the fires arrived with a roar.

In what is one of the most unprecedented displays of fire weather on record, lightning lit up British Columbia on Wednesday [30 June 2021]. Data shows a staggering 710,117 lightning bolts – 5% of all of Canada’s lightning in an average year – formed over the province and parts of Alberta. The concentrated display was caused in part by fires already burning on the ground that were so intense, they created their own weather system. […]

“The potential for things to burn there is extreme if it gets dry enough,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said. “It’s bloody well dry enough. The one thing we were all hoping wouldn’t happen happened. It’s a little hard to wrap the numbers around.” […]

Things turned for the worse late on Wednesday. Lytton, a town that became famous in the preceding days for breaking Canada’s all-time high temperature three days in a row, burned to the ground. […]

Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist and lightning applications manager at Vaisala, said in an email that the 710,117 lightning events captured by sensors on the ground that are part of the North American Lightning Detection Network included “nearly 113,000 cloud-to-ground strokes.” Some of that lightning was generated by the fires already burning, which created pyrocumulonimbus clouds. […]

That’s what happened on Wednesday at a scale that’s honestly hard to comprehend. The most recent notable example of a lightning-driven firestorm occurred in California last August [2020]. But even that’s not really a great analog; Vagasky noted that, during that storm, “there were about 20,000 cloud-to-ground strokes” over a four-day period – a fraction of what happened in Canada on Wednesday [113,000 cloud-to-ground strokes in one day]. The heat then was also nowhere near as extreme as what the Pacific Northwest just saw.

Swain said some of the satellite imagery shows the clouds reached heights near 60,000 feet (18,288 meters) above the Earth’s surface. That allowed them to punch through the tropopause, a boundary that delineates the lower atmosphere from the stratosphere, and pump smoke into the upper atmosphere. This is extremely rarified fire behavior. “It essentially looked a lot like a pretty significant volcanic eruption,” Swain said. […]

“This is going to affect a bunch of tribal areas and Indigenous lands that don’t have the same relatively minimal level of resources these incorporated towns have in BC,” Swain said. 

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Excerpt from: Brian Kahn. “‘'I Suspect It Will Get a Lot Worse’: Firestorm in British Columbia Helps Spark 710,000 Bolts of Lighting.” Gizmodo. 1 July 2021.

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Imagery of pyrocumulonimbus developing in British Columbia, with smoke blanketing the entirety of interior British Columbia (Okanogan and central valley systems in brown color in the middle of the imagery; Pacific coastline and Coast Range to the left; Northern Rockies and Alberta to the right.) Illuminated flashes indicate lighting. Imagery by Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere and NOAA.

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If you are American, PLEASE SUPPORT THE SSI RESTORATION ACT OF 2021

This new bill has been introduced in both the house and the Senate.

Among other things, it will:

Raise the monthly disability income by just over 30 percent - bringing it to poverty level.

Remove penalties for recieving financial help from friends and family.

Increase the amount of assets a disabled person may have from $2,000 to $10,000 (this hasn't been updated since 1989)

Update outside income restrictions to allow disabled people to receive up to $399 a month without reducing their benefits.

REWARD, not penalize, people who want to receive additional income while on social security income.

REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT THIS WILL REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN

For those unaware current regulations do a lot to oppress disabled people. In fact marriage equality doesn't even extend to disbled people who risk having their benefits reduced or outright taken away if they marry someone. This means that in common law states disabled people can't even live with their significant other or they risk losing their financial independence.

Current regulations mean that if you're disbled you can't have so much as one penny over $2,000 to your name. So buying a car and gaining more independence or freedom is largely out of the question for disabled people.

Current regulations penalize social security recipients who receive income from outside sources, even if those sources are reimbursement. Did you get paid to babysit for a few hours? That's income, and you get your benefits reduced. Did you loan a friend $10 and they pay you back? The government considers that $10 income, and you get your benefits reduced.

These aren't mere anecdotes - these are all examples of actual things that have happened to disbled people I know, and if you have any disabled friends in your life I'm sure they can tell you the same stories.

If you value marriage equality, if you value financial independence, if you value the rights of disbled people, please PLEASE support this bill! Contact your reps, vote, and make noise! This is a great thing!

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[video description: Muna El Kurd talking to the camera. Transcript reads below:

But still, all the people who are watching us and can't get to Jerusalem and specifically the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, don't feel you're helpless, that you're not doing something important, it's the opposite, believe me, you guys are changing history! You're influencing change, you guys raised our voices and videos for the world to hear and see. Please don't understimate any post, any tweet or anything that we're sharing or doing on social media. This is social media and our movement through social media has changed the world. It brought masses of people from around the world together to be in solidarity with the Palestinian cause, the Jerusalem cause, the Gaza cause, and the cause of Sheikh Jarrah. So don't understimate, on the contrary, we are being repressed through various ways - water, stun grenades, rubber and live bullets. For example, more than once live bullets have been fired in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah by the settlers because the settlers have the occupation forces who exist to protect them and take orders from them for everything. We are not only being repressed through various ways on the ground but also on social media. So you guys are fighting just like us / end id]

Pro Palestine movements have been massively censored through all social media. Instagram has deleted posts and shadow banned stories from people in Sheikh Jarrah. IOF soldiers said they would arrest any non-journalists filming the scenes in Sheikh Jarrah and followed through, while also arresting and brutalizing palestinian journalists. Facebook is flagging pro Palestine posts as terrorism.

They're very scared of people seeing what's going on in Palestine because their lie depends on ignorance. Don't look away and show support. Take two minutes to tweet in support of Sheikh Jarrah or share an IG post about the situation in Palestine. The hearing on the ethnic cleasing of Sheikh Jarrah is going to be scheduled soon after the attorney general said there was no need for him to intervene, framing the conflict as a real estate dispute instead of an international law matter, be angry

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Happy Pride month to all Kingdom Hearts (and Eva I guess) fans, Utada Hikaru is non-binary!

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old max skeches

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Can't buy a Max plush? Get some fuzzy socks and improvise!

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Hey y'all, I left my Twitter and decided come onto here. Anyways, here's some art that I'm proud of

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owl house is back so it’s lumity time 😎✨