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Why Are They R a c i s t??

Protesting works: don’t let it die

Reminder to not give up, you are bringing about change.

List of positives to come out of the recent protests as of June 4:

- George Floyd’s murderer charged with murder and manslaughter, then had charges increased, then the officers that watched it happen were charged with aiding and abetting

- Louisville police (Breonna Taylor’s murderers) department will now be under review from an outside agency, which will include review on training, bias-free policing and accountability. (Unfortunately her killers have still not faced charges yet as far as I could find.)

- Charges are to be dropped for Kenneth Walker

- Atlanta has announced plans to create a task force + public database to track police brutality in metro Atlanta area

- Minneapolis city council members are considering disbanding police force in favor of a “community-oriented, nonviolent public safety and outreach capacity”

- Colorado lawmakers have introduced an incredible police reform bill that includes body cam laws, repealing the “fleeing felon” statute, banning chokeholds, and more

Feel free to add more if you know of more!

Hello.

Hope this finds you well. Yesterday we in Russia faced a dehumanizing bill proposed by an ultraconservative deputy that, in fact:

1. adds an "assigned gender at birth" field to our birth records

2. forbids to change birth certificates (legal gender change)

3. presumably forbids to change gender in ID cards (it is bound to changes in birth cert)

4. FORCES to change your replaced birth certificates back to gender assigned at birth (and presumably in ID cards by same reason) if you’ve changed it before

5. forbids any trans person to adopt children

6. forbids any trans person to get married

There is some translated info about that law:

https://twitter.com/VioletOlya/status/1283154150797332481 (a thread)

https://twitter.com/liveshowsdnp/status/1283332792252805121 (a thread)

And analysis made by lawyers: https://vk.com/wall-41739538_5260 (ru) + machine translation: https://telegra.ph/Machine-translation-of-analysis-of-anti-transgender-bill-made-by-the-project-of-legal-assistance-to-transgender-people-07-15

I’d really appreciate it if you could help us to get international support to stop this bill, for example, tweet about this with the #ProtectRussianTransLives hashtag. There is a petition on change.org: https://www.change.org/p/госдума-отклоните-законопроект-о-запрете-трансгендерным-людям-на-брак-и-усыновление-детей that needs support too.

Please, spread this information.

Good Luck, I really hope you're able to get out of the situation

ATTENTION TUMBLR!!!

Since I wasn’t able to raise enough money to escape my abusive home and get a new apartment, I’ve had to move back in with my homophobic dad who is legally my guardian through the courts. I am an adult, but he’s had me deemed mentally incapable by a judge, even though this is far from true. He is trying to send me to conversion therapy in the United States, right now it is just threats but I need out before he actually does it. Please help if you can. I need to raise enough for lawyer fees to contest his guardianship (5,000 to start), the move (rent is $1600 altogether because I need first and last months) and food + basic necessities/furniture ($1,000). Altogether, I am trying to raise $7,600. Below is the link to my money pool where you can contribute.

@zerocapitalism @thebibliosphere @lostindaydreams-gemz

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Am I the only one who thought sunstone was the exact opposite of what we expected from garnet and Steven

Nick- "Dear Piper, What are emoticons?

Sincerely, Nick Valentine."

Piper-" oh my god nick"

Modern AU hot take: Cait and Strong have Nokia Bricks, Deacon has a new phone every two weeks, Preston has a random iPhone that’s always 2 or 3 generations behind, and Danse has a flip phone. MacCready refuses to use an iPhone and will only use Androids. Piper hates Androids and will only use her iPhone, which she tries to get the new one of whenever she can afford it (which is about when the next gen comes out; she’s always behind). Nick has a Blackberry, the heathen.

Indrid uses the hot nog to cope

Something I’ve always liked about Amnesty is how each of the Sylphs copes with being exiled in a different way and each embraces Earth Culture differently. It’s so cute??

Take Dani for example. She’s found so much joy and beauty in the natural elements of Kepler. She loves seeing the cycle of how plants grow every year and what new animals she can find hiding under decaying logs. It’s so beautiful to her, in a way that’s completely different than Sylvain’s landscapes. But Sylvain is beautiful too, and she’s one of the very few people who can compare and contrast the two. She uses art to show people the beauty in both! Art is something she can pour herself into when she’s sad and she can draw home when she’s homesick.

Jake, on the other hand, is all for the social aspects of the new planet. He wants to make as many friends as possible and learn as much as he can from them. He picks up quirks and phrases from them, which he thinks is really cool! Even when it’s not actually that cool because the slang he’s using is a couple decades old at this point. He’s learning how to be as human as possible in either a conscious act or subconscious act to leave his old culture behind. (maybe this is the reason we still don’t know what his Sylph form is??? hmm)

Barclay has cooking. He probably didn’t even cook that much on Sylvain but something drew him to Earth foods. He loves to cook, with or without the “ironic” bigfoot novelty apron. It gives him a sense of home on a planet where he feels like he doesn’t belong, and he loves to pass a similar feeling on to the other residents in the lodge. Giving the exiled a safe place to eat, sleep, and live is really important to him, especially since he didn’t have that when he first came to Earth. He only wishes for other exiles to have a smoother transition into life on Earth than he did.

Moira,,, We don’t know much about Moria other than she loves music. She plays the piano and probably has found great interest in Earth music. When she plays in the lobby of the lodge it seems like she’s only playing for herself and we don’t see much of her. She probably copes with being exiled by hiding herself away. :(

Indrid… fucking exists I guess.

Y'all are high high

This is a great idea for so many reasons.

Crave D&D but nobody to play with :/