#us stuff

[in4newz]

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[queerpunktomatoes]

For non-USA-inauguration reasons (/sar) I'm just going to drop this list of anti-carceral mental health supports. (988 and other government-run resources are ultimately connected to the cops. This is a list of resources that will not report you /srs) Obviously, the bigger issues are things like housing, food, discrimination, etc, but if you need a life vest while we're still working on fixing the system, here they are.

~~~THRIVE Lifeline: text “THRIVE” to +1.313.662.8209 from anywhere, 24/7. Text-based support, by and for multiply marginalized people. ~~~Trans Lifeline: call 877.565.8860 in US or 877.330.6366 in Canada, Mon-Fri 10a-6p PT. Peer support and crisis hotline for trans people. ~~~BlackLine: call or text 1.800.604.5841 in US, Mon-Fri 6a-8p, Sat-Sun 5p-9p PT. Crisis support with a Black, LGBTQ+, and Black Femme lens, and a safe line to report police brutality. ~~~Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: call 888.407.4515 in the US, open 4-6p PT Mon-Thurs, and 4-7p PT Fri-Sun. Lived experience with psychiatric diagnosis, trauma, addiction, etc. ~~~Project LETS: text 401.400.2905, Mon-Sat 7a-1p PT for urgent support with psychiatric incarceration / involuntary hospitalization in the US. ~~~Don’t Call The Police: A database of local and national community-based alternatives to calling the police or 911 has been broken down by major US cities. https://thriv.life/DontCall

Please trust in the hundreds of thousands of people fighting for you right now. We love you. We are trying so hard to make a better world for you /gen

[nokingsnocrowns]

I.C.E. can kiss my ass

📷 Brooklyn, NY

[craycray-wolf]

IMPORTANT POST FROM THE BEACONTOWN SERVER

The following is a screenshot of the announcement, PLEASE READ

Someone also shared on the server the following prompts:

"SOME STUFF IF YOURE STUGGLING TO FIND WORDS FOR THIS

"I urge you to recount the election and investigate election interference. Bomb threats have been called into multiple polling locations. Domestic terrorists have burned ballot boxes. Ballots are being discarded. An investigation and recount for this election is urgently needed."

OR

" I am a concerned citizen, and I need you to hear me. I urge you to recount the ballots from this election and investigate election interference. Bomb threats have been called into multiple polling locations, causing some to close early. Domestic terrorists have burned ballot boxes. An unprecedented number of ballots have been rejected and require curing. There have been reports of polling officers allowing voter intimidation in and outside of polling places across the country. And an estimated 20 million mail in ballots are unaccounted for. A thorough investigation and recount for this election is urgently needed. Please take action, all votes cast should be heard. Thank you. "

OORRRR

"As of the 6th of November 2024, there have been at least 32 fake bomb threats called into democrat leaning polling locations, which ended up in many polls to have been closed for at least an hour. Many people have reported that ballots were not counted for suspicious reasons such as signature invalidation which is information that vote counters do not have access to. These events have occurred in swing states such as Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia, for instance. This is very coincidental and is unfairly in favor of candidate Donald Trump's favor after months of suggesting electoral foul play. A recount of the votes is not enough. Launch an investigation on tampering, interference, and fraud." "

[dir7eater]

haven’t seen anything on this on tumblr yet. share this around. the main goals are to reinstate federal funding, rectify wrongful terminations of fed employees, protect dei, and stop political censorship of science.

im working on staging a walk out in my area. consider doing so too.

[schattendumonde]

If they didn't want us to lionize him, why did the NYPD parade him around like Jesus Christ before nailing him to the cross?

[dreamerinsilico]

The report published by the Roosevelt Institute argues: “These apps encourage nurses to work for less pay, fail to provide certainty about scheduling and the amount or nature of work, take little to no accountability for worker safety, and can threaten patient wellbeing by placing nurses in unfamiliar clinical environments with no onboarding or facility training.”

Just, you know, yet another way in which American healthcare is currently a horrorshow. This is something to make noise about to providers - a lot of us may not be in a position to take our business elsewhere over it, but they shouldn't get to fly under the radar.

[cacodaemonia]

Protip from someone who's had to deal with way too many US doctors over the past 20 years:

If they have a contact form or email address on their website, do NOT bother using either of them.

As near as I can figure, this is a trap to get patients to waste their time or to weed out patients who have difficulty making phone calls. It's a simple fact that even if the practice bothers to have anyone check those messages, they certainly won't bother responding to them.

Your only chance is to call and wait on hold while the automated message tells you, "We're experiencing higher than usual call volumes," over and over and over. And then it will usually tell you to log onto the 'patient portal,' where your messages will be ignored, or to leave a message, which will also be ignored.

Ahh, good ol' US healthcare, making people opt for the 'crawl under the porch and die' option for decades.

[mrsjellyjoculatrix]

Found this on Reddit and it encapsulates my mood literally every time I read the news

[elkian]

Not to sound like a boring adult but if you're doing any kind of US tax thing may I offer:

The IRS' scam list of the year. Tiktok influencers recommending people ruin their lives with fraudulent tax returns is a big on this year apparently! Crypto (you know, the money laundering scheme?) got a highlight for 2024.

Also if you see stuff about OIC:

There are a ton of free resources on the IRS website (remember to make sure it has a .gov!) for filing taxes easily. Do NOT trust some random influencer with your tax info. Hell, don't trust me! Go do some research!

[in4newz]

Everyone keeps saying "four years" as if we are not living in a christo fascist oligarchic dictatorship now. I envy your optimism and naivety.

It's been three days since I originally posted this and I'm here to say

I just told y'all.

[queerpunktomatoes]

If we cede on trans people in sports, they will not stop, you know. They won't say, "Oh okay cool, let's make different categories for trans athletes, and fund them equally, and encourage people to watch them as well as cis athlete teams." They will say, "Great, we got the 7 trans athletes out of college softball, they're not visible anymore, we're riding this win, and we had public support for the sports thing. Let's go back to the bathroom thing." They want trans people out of healthcare, and education, and academia, and media. They want trans people to be denied loans and medications and housing. Don't give them the sports thing. Don't give them anything.

[ladydisdain5]

This is only a half-baked idea, but do you think our obsession with sports (and in particular having one team you root for no matter what) has something to do with our complete and utter blind loyalty to political parties? That being raised and taught to have school spirit primes us to stick with the group we identify with even when we have more reason not to? I'm not saying supporting a sports team or your school is wrong, but I'm just saying we need to put more critical thinking into this. I see parallels between the fighting that breaks out between fans after two rival teams play each other and the riots when your political party loses. I don't know, I just think this starts young, they brainwash us young, nothing exists in a vacuum

[outeremissary]

Due to circumstances I can't discuss on Tumblr dot com for privacy reasons I'd just like to reiterate that I Hate It Here

[tiggymalvern]

All those immigrants who have been quietly working in the US for years and paying their taxes to contribute to society are now going to be targeted. The firewall between IRS and ICE was put in place for a reason. People will stop paying taxes.