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Disability representation!!

I was lazy and used old drawings for this

Anyways much love

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THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊

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KOSA is back with Elon Musk

From "Stop Internet Censorship" Discord!

Red Alert!

There is a HUGE push to pass KOSA rn at the end of the year.

Real quick summary: Blumenthal and Blackburn "rewrote" KOSA to appeal to the right more. They worked with ELON MUSK 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️ to push this bill "protecting kids". Tomorrow, many orgs are bringing groups of parents to speak to congress. This is coming at a time when FTC commissioner admitted their agenda is straight transphobia: https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lcogiyr7os24

Top of the agenda is to go after providers of gender affirming care, including for adults. The FTC could also go after online platforms for displaying LGBTQ content which would be supercharged under KOSA. This is catastrophically bad.

Justin Brookman (@justinbrookman.bsky.social) Punchbowl's @benbrodydc.bsky.social got a copy of FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson's pitch to be chair under Trump:

There are two ways KOSA can be passed right now. Either from the House or attaching it to an end of year spending bill. They will try both.

Republican leadership(Scalise and Johnson) are surprisingly what is stopping thia from going through. They wont admit it out loud but they dont like the bill.

WE NEED TO PUSH BACK NOW!! Tomorrow those phones need to be ringing OFF THE HOOK while they meet with parents.

PLEASE SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!! ADD THESE LINKS TO TWITTER, REDDIT, INSTA, TIKTOK!!

USE THESE CALLING TOOLS AND SCRIPTS TODAY AND TOMORROW ALL DAY!!!

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Headlines across eight years. Who you vote for really does matter. None of these headlines delve into the Boar's Head listeria outbreak because I can only post ten photos in one post. But the slaughter house self regulate headline? Yup, that's why.

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A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.

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Whose Fault Was It?

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades.

The settlement with 1,353 people who allege that they were abused by local Catholic priests is the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese, according to experts. The accusers were able to sue after California approved a law that opened a three-year window in 2020 for cases that exceeded the statute of limitations.

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has previously paid $740 million to victims. With the settlement announced Wednesday, the total payout will be more than $1.5 billion.

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Vote Blue and save America from tRump

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Hey, at least now he has a "concept."

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The shocking, disturbing fact is that Texas Governor Gregg Abbott signed the most restrictive abortion ban in the country which forced 26,000 women who were raped in this state to give birth. 

Yes, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, an estimated 26,000 women in Texas became pregnant after rape since the state implemented a total abortion ban. This is about 40% of the total number of rape-related pregnancies in the 14 states that have implemented total abortion bans since the 2022 Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. 

Dr. Samuel Dickman, a co-author of the study and abortion provider, was shocked by the numbers. He said, "It's hard to comprehend" to be confronted with these estimates in states where there's no meaningful abortion access. 

Dr. Rachel Perry, an OB-GYN professor at the University of California, Irvine, said that while not all people who become pregnant due to rape want an abortion, those who do are more likely to choose abortion than to continue their pregnancies. 

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Slave Labour and Wage Labour—How Much of a Difference is There?

I will start by taking about the civil war. In the south, the primary mode of labour was known as slavery. In this mode you are the property of a slaveholder. You are provided with just enough to not die in exchange that you work on and to the extent you are told, at the threat of physical violence in the case of disobedience.

In the north, where slavery was less common, but still very present, the primary method was that of wage labour. This is the primary mode of work located in the US today. You work on typically a factory of some kind in exchange for a pittance. Nowadays, this is at least guaranteed to be a real currency. If you were disobedient, you would be fired. If you were not able to secure another employer as they are known, you would be unable to continue living.

Let us now compare these two modes:

- Your labour is not yours; you do not reap what you so

- Malcompliance will result in physical suffering following an action taken by the one who owns your work.

- In exchange for your work, you are given just enough to live.

- You are a resource to be extracted.

So what are the differences?

- An employed person can take their labour anywhere (this is often not an option for other reasons)

- An employed person costs nothing to replace. (The slaver has the bare minimum incentive to keep their human property alive.)

- Employable people are made to fight eachother for work.

When the slaves were freed by the end of the civil war, their material standing did not fundamentally change. What changed, at least at this point, was still nominal. However, with these freed people now in the same labour pool as the rest, charletons could now claim there was a plot to take white jobs, and thus divide the working class.

In addition to the fact that this societal arrangement of work is not unsimilar to that of slave labour if not in legal semantics, is that the old approach to slavery is still ongoing. A close examination reveals that the law still allows enslavement for those deemed criminals. Not suppose the legal system were used against a particular race, one historically enslaved, and now you are getting the picture.

Additionally, we should not ignore all the slaves and pittance labour that goes on in countries that export to the US. Where do you suppose your clothes come from?

What is ultimately pointed out here is that

Slavery never went away, it simply changed form.

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Sent by God

They’re gathering by the thousands. They’re growing fast. They believe that Democrats are possessed by demons—and that Donald Trump must be president again at any cost.

By Molly OlmsteadSept 25, 20245:35 AM

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Ground-based and satellite observations in the United States show that increased pollen concentrations in spring lead to more cloud ice and more precipitation—even at temperatures between minus 15 and minus 25 degrees Celsius. "This is supported by laboratory results showing that pollen acts as an ice nucleus, influencing the freezing temperature of water in clouds and promoting precipitation," says meteorologist Dr. Jan Kretzschmar, lead author of the study. Without these ice-nucleating particles (INPs), water in clouds only freezes at temperatures below minus 38 degrees Celsius. The findings were published in Environmental Research Letters.

Continue Reading.

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RNC Sues to Block UNC-Chapel Hill Students From Voting

The Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit to challenge digital IDs issued by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as an accepted form of voter ID in the Tar Heel State. The North Carolina Board of Elections approved the ID for voting at a meeting last month. Marc Elias and Paige Moskowitz break down the lawsuit, lies about noncitizen voting and how this is just a move to suppress student voters.