#OpenLetter

[spicymangomargarita]

Officially closing our chapter, the gray area of all in betweens, I can finally breathe clear knowing that I no longer have the amount of hope that he can still step up as a man, because now, I am fully accepting him as the person he truly is without hopes, without bitterness, without romanticizing things. It satisfies me that I did my time, I gave it all, I'm not asking anything back, just the chance of bringing myself with me as I walk away is the empowering relief.

[ivygorgon]

An open letter to the U.S. Congress

Pass the “No Kings Act!”

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I’m writing in support of the “No Kings Act,” introduced by Leader Schumer in August. This bill would reassert Congress’s constitutional authority and curb the judiciary’s unchecked power.

The "No Kings Act" addresses several key issues:

Congressional Authority Under Article III: The No Kings Act uses Congress’s constitutional authority under Article III to set "Exceptions" and "Regulations" to the Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction. This power has been historically recognized as an important tool to limit the Court's reach, particularly when it comes to cases that could undermine democratic governance.

Neutralizing the Trump v. United States Decision: Leader Schumer’s legislation aims to counteract the Supreme Court’s decision granting former President Trump—and all presidents—immunity from prosecution for official acts. By removing lower courts' jurisdiction over presidential immunity and removing the Supreme Court’s appellate authority in this context, the No Kings Act asserts Congress’s constitutional role in preserving the rule of law and ensuring accountability at the highest levels.

Legal Safeguards: The bill also limits the Supreme Court's ability to review the bill's constitutionality, thereby reinforcing Congress’s role in determining the boundaries of judicial authority. This is not only a constitutionally justified action but also a necessary measure to protect democratic norms from judicial overreach.

If we don’t set limits on the power of a sitting president, or on our out-of-control Supreme Court, our democracy will suffer—greatly. Please support the No Kings Act. Thanks.

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[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

I wish I could say the things I want to say to you, but instead, I'm writing them down. Maybe someday I find the courage to release them.

[pieceoplastic]

An Open Letter to our Anarchist, Socialist and Radical Leftist Comrades

Our small radical communal care group for chronically ill/disabled people and their carers has written an open letter to our comrades: “Dear comrades We think you may have forgotten about us. Or at the very least you are trying to. The new normal in society at large excludes a number of people, among them some of your comrades: us. Need we remind you, that disabled and chronically ill people can…

[sugarbeau16]

An Open Letter to You

my wish would be that i have met you in my most healed version, and that i wasn’t really afraid to love with all my heart.

and that i would’ve seen you in a better light, far from my inhibitions and doubts and fears of waking up next day thinking of the possibility that you will not love me anymore.

i wish i have never experienced that before, so there will be no concept of betrayal ever in my life, so i could’ve trusted you completely and just believe what my eyes can see.

i wish you could’ve seen my most confident era, far from the comparisons i have made up in my mind when i lost to love the first time.

so i could never had these second thoughts that you will ever leave me for someone who could possibly be better, more beautiful, wittier and funnier than i was.

i wish we saw each other in a better place, in a much better time, when were both the best versions of ourselves, because i know deep down, we are two good people who lost to love, to the battles of life and the poverty and the hurt alike.

i will have to end this with deeper sorry, because spending time with you was just the greed of me. i knew i wasn’t the best at the moment, but i promise you that the most parts was me authentically loving, pouring my heart out, however please leave the crying moments, the drunken nights and the sadness you may have felt sometimes because the hurt was just too great and too deep it oozes out, and goes unconcealed.

pardon my love, this is my first life too. i tried. honestly tried to make it and i wish i could’ve spent in a much perfect world, where i could save just everyone i love but then the reality is, i couldn’t even save my self. i couldn’t even discern that love wasn’t there for me anymore or if will i ever find it in this life? i wish, i can only wish.

[yourangelsins]

ive lost count, Cent

i can still vividly feel the day when your friend confesses your choices. Nasa trabaho ako, working my shit up when ur friend called me to tell me the truths. truths u never want me to know. putangina. ang sakit parin pala.

Lima? Sampo? Di mabilang ng daliri ko kung ilan sila. Ilan sila nasa gitna natin while I was focusing to you. Nasa sayo lang buong pagkatao at atensyon ko. i let u carry my heart, my world... sarili ko. Pinagkatiwala ko sayo yun.

You know what was the sickest thing that happened? Yung gc. Tangina. Umabot talaga sa ganun karami, Vince? And yes, sa gc andun sila. Dropping every messages, every words u said to them. Kung paano ka lumambing, humingi ng mga di dapat... i saw it vincent, bawat salita, letra, nakita ko. nabasa ko. shit. bullshit.

di ko alam bat deserve ko ang ginawa mo. when u were my first. You were my first in everything.

sa tatlong taon natin, pinilit ko maging bulag sa mga mali at kulang mo. how u still want others habang gabi gabi inaantay kita maglaan ng oras sakin. despite ur lapses, willing ko pinuno ang kailangan ng relasyon natin, cent. Financially, physically and emotionally. i was there. i was prepared. sinasalo ko ang kelangan ayusin sa atin so we can reach that forever- putangina forever na yan.

Hindi ko alam kung kaya pa kita patawarin.

i do hope we'll never cross our path again.

di ko deserve ang mga ginawa mo.

[jane-does-ramblings]

open letter to the previous lover

I live to see

your life through a screen 

the shimmering sheen

of beauty untouched 

alice my dear

its beautiful here

but its nothing like you

and the way that you look 

you loved him i know 

and im letting it go 

but its hard not to look

at you and see

every pain

and every pinch

every inch

of you i cant be 

its hard to be living

and eating and dying

and i see you

im crying 

at all that you are

theres no one like alice 

the way you have status

owning my psyche 

is quite bizarre

i was the other

while being the lover 

ill never be

in the place that you were

but really im happy 

you dont even know me 

you cant even tell 

youre my wish on a star

[dumbwa-sian]

Open Letter to you

Dear you,

I told you how many times I loved 'Gone with the Wind' and to my surprise when I met you you knew everything I was talking about when reliving my favorite movie of all time and how deeply I lived my life trying to be like Scarlett as a strong independent woman and would settle for no one less than a man like Rhett. You knew this and although I played it cool, you snuck your way into my heart and broke down my walls, making me truly love you from the deepest parts of my heart, sharing my darkest and brightest thoughts. Through trials and tribulations you happily supported me when I didn't even know I need it. I grew to love you deeper and let my guard down to not only you but others. I truly thought you were my Rhett Buttler and that this was the happy ending the two deserved. The ultimate power couple, the couple people aspire to be, the one that makes people believe in true love again.

But obviously I was wrong.

I really and honestly thought that through more trials and tribulations we would find a way to figure everything out and make it through the storm as Scarlett and Rhett would. But somewhere along the way you let go of my hand and replaced it with a dummy, happily stringing me along, making me believe you still cared and loved me the same way I did you.

I am not one to believe in hope, in fact as you'd know I am an not an optimist but started to become one through your bright personality. So I believed in hope and put faith in the universe and us, believing everything really would be okay. Through the past year I had no lack of suitors asking for a moment of my time, in fact they came and tirelessly tried to woo me despite their futile attempts. Some may have been genuinely nice men, but my heart belonged to you and only you, every broken, cracked, scared, bruised part of it. It was yours and you accepted it. You knew how hard it was for me to do that. So why would you string me along and lead me towards a dead end?

I told myself all this time, "I swear I did everything right" and blamed myself for my short comings and yours. I won't say I sacrificed a lot for you but opportunities to fight harder for things that may have been better for me because I believed it was right were sacrificed. For this the blame falls on me and me alone.

Let me be frank, I am not blaming you for my mistakes but simply asking why you felt it appropriate to toy with my feelings for months the way you did.

At this point I realized you were not my Rhett but in fact Ashley. I even to quote Scarlett. "tell me you love me, I'll live off it for the rest of my life." I truly was willing to believe that. But after a conversation with your closest friend I realized you in fact were neither Rhett nor Ashley and I was not Scarlett. In fact you were Hamilton and I Eliza. A convenience for you.

Maybe like Hamilton, maybe you did at one point love me, or maybe you didn't. But kept me at an arms length so that you'd have someone to comfort you when you deemed it convenient for you. Regardless, like Eliza my blood and heart broke when I found this out. I want to burn the memories and times we spent together, scream in your face and make you feel a fraction of how I feel. But I know it'd do me no good. Maybe thats why I'm writing this letter that will never reach you. Instead I'm screaming into the endless void of the internet for some reason, hoping to maybe ease the pain.

I want to take the high road, don't get me wrong, but a part of my mental unstable persona is screaming at me to throw reason aside and do unspeakable things all in the name of revenge. Instead I will attempt to take as high a road as I can, but you know me. I can't and won't.

You were my safe person. I felt like whatever I troubles I had you'd be there for me and supported me 100% unconditionally. I don't even receive the same treatment from my family, how laughable. I spent the entirety of my life believing this would never happen to me, that I would never truly feel safe and accepted by another, yet you made me feel that way, despite my efforts to keep you away. Maybe you love the game rather than me.

So tell me, how do you think it felt to lose it all? To no longer live life but instead go back to struggling to survive after getting a taste of how sweet and colorful life is supposed to be. All I've ever wanted is simply to survive and not have to scour and forage for connection and acceptance.

How do you think it feels to lose the only person I ever felt safe with and go back to keeping to myself and constantly having to be suspicious and cautious around people? You say you still care, yet show no sign of doing so. After the strength it took for me to come and voice my feelings to you multiple times you yelled in my face and blamed me for my feelings.

At that moment I knew it was truly over and when I could feel the ground beneath me start to crumble. When I said I was on the edge, I didn't lie. I'm standing on the edge, watching the waves crash below me and feeling every particle of dirt slowly fall there. I don't know where else to go but to run away.

Running away may be the best decision I've ever made for myself, or be the straw on the camels back. Either way, I'm lost and searching for answers, answers you refuse to give me since you obviously only see myself and my feelings as a toy to play with when your drunk. It hurts more to know that your best friend repeatedly told you how morbid and disgusting your actions were yet chose to let those words fall on deaf ears. If you valued me as a human, much less your friend, why would you behave in such a way?

I write this with tears threatening to leave, yet my heart filled with both love and fury for you. I want to say I wish you well but I'm not that good of a person. But I am not bad enough to wish you the worst. I'm conflicted on how to say goodbye to you and our memories, the photo in my wallet that follows me around, the videos on my phone, the memories that live in my heart and my dreams. I do love you, even still I do.

Somewhere your optimism has infected me and I'm hoping this is a nightmare or some cruel joke and you'll apologize with lilies like you did on valentines day, that you'll hold me in your arms and kiss me, telling me you've been an idiot and look at me as if I'm the only thing that matters, like you used to. Somewhere I'm hoping it happens.

But it won't, wont it?

so goodbye, thanks for at least pretending with me.

-from me.

[usnewsper-politics]

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[presexpre]

Letters and Statements: Lie against the country

Nonetheless, Hundreds of Nobel laureates have sent a veiled threatening message to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh through letters expressing concern about the case against Dr. Muhammad Yunus. Along with asking for the pending lawsuit against him to be put on hold...

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[ivygorgon]

An open letter to the President & U.S. Congress

Stop trying to defund the DOJ antitrust division!

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I’m writing to urge you to provide enforcement agencies with the resources they need to rein in corporate lawbreaking. Alongside the FTC, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division plays a critical role in holding illegal, monopolistic behavior accountable. Despite this important responsibility, the Division has long been deprived of the resources it needs to police anti-competitive behavior. This is why I am alarmed by proposed appropriations language released this week that would unravel the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act enacted by Congress in 2022. I am adamantly opposed to this and all efforts to undermine the Division’s budget and urge all parties in negotiations to restore the Division’s full access to merger filing fees. While Congress has made little progress on antitrust priorities in recent years, the passage of the Merger Filing Fees Modernization Act was a bright spot and represented an important bipartisan success in supporting antitrust policy and enforcement. And it was a welcome departure from recent decades, in which Congress failed to give the Antitrust Division adequate resources to combat monopolistic actors even as corporate concentration sharply increased. As noted by Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, the Division employed some 230 fewer staffers as of February 2023 than it had in 1979. Despite insufficient resources, the DOJ Antitrust Division has still worked tirelessly to rein in anti-competitive behavior across a variety of sectors, including airlines, publishing and the tech sector. At a time when American consumers are reeling from high prices, it should be a bipartisan priority to promote competition and prevent monopolistic behavior. American consumers need relief from unconstrained corporate concentration, and it would be a major mistake for Congress to roll back progress on reinvigorating antitrust enforcement. I once again urge the White House and congressional lawmakers to stand in opposition to the proposed appropriations text and accompanying conference report, and enhance funding for antitrust enforcers to do their jobs. Thanks.

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[feminism-lesbianart]

東京レインボープライド2024へのイスラエル大使館と BDS対象企業からの協賛についての公開質問状 〜植民地主義と民族浄化・ジェノサイド共犯と決別するために〜

NPO法人東京レインボープライド 御中

貴団体の長年にわたるLGBTQ+権利運動への貢献に敬意を表し、感謝申し上げます。 きたる2024年においても、プライドに集うことを心待ちにできることは多くの人にとって大きな喜びにつながるものと思います。

1994年の東京での最初のパレード以来、プライドは良くも悪くも大きな成長を遂げてきた観がありますが、その過程で、東京レインボープライド（TRP）が、立ち上げから間もない2013年から東京五輪開催を控えた2019年までの7年間にわたり、イスラエル大使館の協賛を受け続けてきたことを振り返らないわけにはいきません(＊1)。当時、すでに「イスラエルのピンクウォッシング」が活動家・研究者などに知れわたっている状況になっていたにもかかわらず、同大使館のブース出展やステージ登壇、広告���載などを通じてTRPはピンクウォッシングに協働し続けました。このことは、長年のパレスチナの人びとの苦難を敢えて無視するのみならず、イスラエルによる暴虐・戦争犯罪に敢えて加担し、それを常態化させ加速させることにほかなりませんでした。そして、現在、2023年10月7日以来、とめどもなくガザ地区（人口の半分が子ども）と軍事占領下のパレスチナ全土に襲いかかっているイスラエル国家によるジェノサイドと民族浄化（殺戮、傷害、破壊、強制移住、集団飢餓、非人間化）につながる役割を果たしてしまったと認めざるをえないのです。 イスラエルによる犯罪への加担を看過・許容した人びと、止めることができなかった人びと、わたしたちは、その責任の重大さを痛感せねばなりません。同時に、これを終わらせるために行動を起こす必要があります。

この大きな失敗をしっかりと踏まえ、二度と繰り返さないために、今こそ、貴団体がその立場を鮮明にするべき時ではないでしょうか。 大量虐殺者の側に立つのか。土地を追われ、財産を奪われ、殺されている者の側に立つのか。 人権運動に連なる団体として、あまりに自明のことかと思います。

貴団体は、ウェブサイトでこう述べています。 「多様な誰もが公平に、そして自分らしく幸せに暮らせる未来のために、私たちはあきらめない。」 ……多様性・自由・平等をもとに謳われたその「幸せに暮らせる未来」は、誰かを踏みつけた上に築かれたものであってはならないはずです。LGBTQ+の生と権利は、西側先進国の特権などではなく、日本を含めたグローバルな先住民の権利運動や入植者植民地主義抵抗運動との連帯を強めなくてはならないでしょう。 「これまで積み重ねてきた歩みをみなさんと共に振り返り、しっかりと次世代につなげていく、そんな機会にしたいと考えています。」 ……現在地までを「共に振り返り、しっかりと次世代につなげていく」ために、わたしたちは、貴団体に対し、以下、2点を質問させていただきます。

（質問１）TRPは、2020年〜23年においては、イスラエル大使館の協賛やブース出展などは受けていないものと認識していますが、これは間違いないでしょうか。 また、2024年において、そして、イスラエル国家がパレスチナの占領・アパルトヘイトを終結させるまで、たとえ先方から協賛の申し出があったとしても受けることはないと誓約してくださいますか。

（質問２）これまでの取り返しのつかない失敗をあがない、二度と繰り返さないための方法、その一歩として、「Queers in Palestine」(＊2)からの要求に応答することが可能です。その第1項は、「イスラエルの資金提供を拒否し、イスラエルのすべての機関との協力を拒否し、BDS運動(＊3)に参加してください。」という要求です。 TRPが2017年〜23年に協賛を受けたアクサ（AXA）、2020年・21年・23年に協賛を受けたヒューレット・パッカード（HP/HPE）は、パレスチナの市民社会からボイコットが呼びかけられている企業です。AXAとHP/HPEにとって、TRPはよい評判を得るための絶好の機会ですが、それで血塗られた手を拭うことはできません。ジェノサイドと共にあるプライドなどありえず、TRPがピンクウォッシングに協力すれば、プライドを売り渡し、パレスチナ殺戮に手を染めるに等しい事態となります。日本と世界のLGBTQ+コミュニティーズを背景に得てきた力を持つTRPが、両企業からの協賛を絶つことには重要な意義があります。パレスチナのクィアと人道の危機からどうか目を背けないでください。 2024年において、そして、AXA、HP/HPEがイスラエルのアパルトヘイト政策を支援してパレスチナでの人権侵害から利益を得ることをやめるまで、たとえ両企業から協賛の申し出があったとしても受けることはないと誓約してくださいますか。

ジェノサイドと民族浄化、占領暴力を終わらせる行動の輪に加わってください。 事態の緊急性が高いため、恐れ入りますが、2024年1月18日までにご回答いただけますよう、お願いいたします。

お尋ねなどありましたら、気軽にご連絡ください。 なお、この質問状は送付と同時に公開させていただきます。

2023年12月28日

フツーのLGBTをクィアする フェミニズムとレズビアン・アートの会 足立・性的少数者と友・家族の会 レインボー・アクション

(＊1) わたしたちは、この間、毎年なんらかの形で批判を行い、2016年、18年、19年にはイスラエル大使館協賛にかんする抗議文を発出してきましたが、これに対し残念ながらイスラエル大使館とTRPから一度も応答はありませんでした。 https://feminism-lesbianart.tumblr.com/tagged/trp

(＊2) https://queersinpalestine.noblogs.org/post/2023/11/08/87/ 「パレスチナのクィアからの解放へ向けた要求」（日本語あり） 声明に賛同署名できます。脱植民地化解放運動に積極的に関与することが必要です。

(＊3) https://bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Against-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide 南アフリカ共和国のアパルトヘイトを終わらせた国際連帯運動にならい、BDS＝ボイコット・ダイヴェストメント（投資引���上げ）・サンクションズ（制裁）を呼びかける国際キャンペーン。 AXAのボイコットについては → https://bdsmovement.net/axa-divest HP/HPEのボイコットについては → https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp https://bdsmovement.net/BoycottHP-GazaGenocide-Update （TRPが協賛を受けた日本ヒューレット・パッカードはHPE系の企業です。HPブランドの企業・製品・サービス全てがボイコット対象です。） なお、近年にTRPが協賛を受けてきたアマゾン（Amazon）、Disney、Airbnb、Googleも、現在、圧力をかける対象となっています。

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[egabriells]

✨🌘A quick open letter to @thatskygame . You have all been putting up with a lot recently. There have been some bugs and some rough moments, but we can all see how hard you’re working.

And I wanted to throw out my two cents and let you know that even with bugs, even with hiccups, this game has become a wonderful home for me.

I’ve met some of my best friends here. I’ve gotten through some of my toughest times here. Thank you all so much for making such a wonderful game and fostering one of the best online communities I’ve ever been a part of.

I’m looking forward to more wonderful moments, friendships, and fun for, I hope, many more years to come.

Thank you so much. 🩵 🌒✨

#scotl #skychildrenofthelight #tgc #thatgamecompany #tsg #thatskygame #skyadventures #openletter #weseeyou #thankyou

[brianil]

Hii Sachin,

I hope that is your official name, but well this is the only memory I have of you, and you should be the first friend I ever made. The main characteristics that you had were eating bitter guard raw and soya chunks or Nutella. I am not even sure Nutella is the product name or company's. I don't remember how long we were friends, first, you moved houses and then I. You also taught me the bad habit of eating things raw so that's something I remember very dearly, I think I remember playing some classical Indian street games with you which were in fact not good but before you could even taint me, well you were gone.

I don't know where you are? how are you doing? But I hope, you are doing wonderful in life and Maybe you don't even remember me in memories as I have yours. lol I don't think even if we came across each other somehow we would be strangers but I hope a stranger who is doing well in life.

this is a goodbye from me Sachin the dancer :

For public information, he was the type of guy everybody wanted to be but couldn't become one. He was disciplined, and confident and had a clear goal set in life.

He loved to dance and was quite great at that. He was that cultural guy. Well one of the most obvious envies I have of him is his confidence. I also had my own charm which was ignorance and witty or geeky knowledge, but one is by the discipline he had for arts and mine was temporary as long as I held the information or knowledge with respect to the time and place I was in. how are you doing though, also i am ashamed to admit it but i even left travelling through the route your old house was in, I really wanted to do something great in life and i sure will not stop until i do, but i just can't face you again. Anyway, i remember we did not have goodbyes in school, I hope you are master like Dharmesh sir was one. I don't know if you changed your career or not, but i would not be surprised to see you in Dance plus. I hope you whatever you are doing in life, its something you love doing or you love whatever you are doing. My memories with you feel more like transactions rather than experiences, whats more funny is the classes i attached to the transactions we had. One such was do not share my work with girls.

I don't know how you felt about that but I find it very embarrassing right now.

Well thats all for now, till we meet next time, if you remembered me

hii padosi sachin well you are a peculiar case aren't you?

i mean i could only feel pity for you and still, I can't because of your actions and stupidity. I will give you that you were more conscious about your life rather than me. As a senior, I can only say this to you: do you best and hope will definitely arrive.

I also would like to appreciate the dedication you had for several interests, maybe you could had changed your career around that but who am I to talk. your professor Is struggling in achieving is dream but closer than ever to take a step. I had some fun memories with you, I hope you are doing fine. but don't look at me with eye of those hopes, I felt shattered in heart last time we had conversation, Your disbelief was also one of the reasons I am where I am right now, I will definitely try to create the image you had of professor surreal.

adios, till we meet again.

Now i don't remember many sachin. one I know in the ground who plays kabbadi, one who is my brother by long relationships, oh I know two more sachin in life, both pahadi, one I met in solar class another just a friend from park, Did not have much interaction with either but had amiable hello's. I literally can't say more now, well I hope you do well too in life. maybe say a hii when I pass by? Till I meet next sachin of my life, this is an official Goodbye. Your's Truly Brianil #openletter #writingletter

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Real Truth of Savarkar

19 Mar 2024 #Savarkar #VeerSavarkar #OpenLetter The assessment of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, commonly known as Veer Savarkar, varies significantly depending on one's perspective and historical interpretation.

Savarkar was a controversial figure in Indian history. He played a significant role in India's struggle for independence against British colonial rule. He was an influential figure in the Indian nationalist movement and a proponent of Hindutva ideology.

Savarkar's supporters consider him a courageous freedom fighter who fought relentlessly against British rule and advocated for Hindu nationalism. They highlight his activism, writings, and sacrifices made during his imprisonment.

However, his critics argue that his involvement in certain political incidents, such as the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, raises questions about his commitment to non-violence and his moral integrity. Additionally, his views on religious and social matters have been divisive, with some viewing them as exclusionary and discriminatory.

Ultimately, whether one views Savarkar as "veer" (brave) or not depends on their interpretation of his actions and ideology, which remains a subject of debate and controversy in Indian history and politics.