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it’s time to go stan immediately!! listen to this talented person right now!!

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she needs $5k in 5 days in order to finish the documentary, and there’s an anonymous donor matching all donations up to $1000 until 3 PM

bebe is one of the hardest working and most underappreciated winners of drag race. let’s get her the story that she deserves!

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Stop associating women of color, butch lesbians/gnc bi women, and trans women with violence and aggression. Not a single person in the groups listed is inherently mean or angry or scary or intimidating. Stop using language that correlates them with sexual roughness (i.e. “step on me queen”, “kick me”, punch me in the face”, etc). The only way to humanize someone is to give them the room to be fully fleshed and multidimensional instead of diminishing the full spectrum of their personality and presence. 

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shoutout to the men who are wearing black tonight but still shamelessly worked with woody allen and other known abusers!

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NEVER FORGET that Tarana Burke started the #MeToo movement over a DECADE ago. A lot of people think that a white woman celebrity came up with #metoo in 2017. That’s not the case. Tarana started the #Metoo movement in 2006 to raise awareness about sexual assault, especially against black women. She plays a big role on why everyone is wearing black at one of the most prominent nights in Hollywood. Please give her credit where it’s due. SAY HER NAME

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tbt this specific moment of me looking good way back in like september!! it was a better era back then smh

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How To Actually Fight For Net Neutrality

There’s a lot of big, wordy articles going around tumblr right now, and they’re all great. But I wanted to make a mastpost of sorts of all the actions you can take and sites/bots that are here to help.

battleforthenet - The main hub for all things net neutrality. Fill out a form in seconds to e-mail your rep, or enter your phone number and a prerecorded message will call you, tell you exactly what to do and provide a script before connecting you with your representative. You can also set up a daily call.

Verizon Protests - Protests are happening at Verizon stores across the country on Dec 14th. 

5 calls - This site is my favorite for calls. They provide a script and directions for calling the FCC, senators, and local state rep. 

Resistbot - A phenominal service for those who cannot call, this bot will contact your rep on your behalf. However, every time I try to use it, they are busy.

Many of you are hitting the same roadblock I am: Mailboxes are full. So what do we do at that point? We send letters. Go to WhoIsMyRepresentative.com and enter your zip code to find addresses for your senators and house reps. You can use the phone script from the sites above, or compose your own note, or simply write “I am your constituent and I want you to fight to keep net neutrality.”

I know a lot of this is very overwhelming and hopefully this makes things easy and straightforward. You can send an e-mail, make 4 phone calls, and write a letter in less than 10 minutes. Please take the time to do so. 

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This isn’t art-related, but this is EXTREMELY SERIOUS IF YOU LIVE IN THE US.  The following message is pasted from Reddit user DrDreamtime. I did not write this, but it contains all the most important information you should know. It should be spread as far and wide as possible.

For those that do not know or understand what net neutrality is and would rather see a video instead of a LOT of text, here is a good video by John Oliver on Net Neutrality.

Don’t want to do that? Understandable, it’s a 15 minute video. So heres a simple picture to highlight what things could look like

Please take the time to at least do the first easy step, either of the two options work and take very little time.

If this fails, the possibility of actually having to pay more to access reddit, facebook, and any other website or face massive loading speed increases or even a straight out site-block by your ISP.

Tell him how you feel.

Ajit Pai, FCC Chairman: 1-202-418-1000

Reddit won’t let me post the rest of the FCC contact information, something with the formatting and the automod, I think. You can click here, to go to the FCC’s official contact page.

You need to contact your representatives and senators about Net Neutrality even if they already support it, but especially if they don’t.

Remember that this very thread is only possible because of a free and open internet; kill net neutrality and threads like this might be a thing of the past.

Easy way:

Step 1: Go to BattleForTheNet.com. Step 2: Do what BattleForTheNet.com tells you to do.

-OR-

Text RESIST to 50409 to get help from RESIST Bot. It helps you find your reps, write letters to them, and sends them faxes FOR FREE. Everyone who cares about Net Neutrality should take 5 minutes to write to your representatives, once a week (or a day). Be heard.

The harder, but still very easy way:

Step 1: Find out who your Representative and Senator is/are.

Find your Representative.

Find your Senator.

Local elected officials.

Step 2: Find your Representative and Senator’s contact information.

5calls.org has a decent repository of Representatives and Senators contact information, though the site is a bit difficult to navigate.

Call My Congress just asks for your zip code and tells you what district you live in, who your Representatives are, and how to contact them.

DailyKos has a list of all of our Senator’s phone numbers, not just the DC office. (Current as of February, 2017.)

FaxZero has a system set up allowing you to fax your Representatives and Senators for free! (Faxes are good if you can’t get through on the phone lines, or just if you want congressional staffers to listen to fax machine noises until Net Neutrality is safe.)

Fax Congress

Fax Senators

Step 3: Call, write, or fax to express your feelings on this.

A lot of people are nervous about calling their elected officials for the first time, maybe you don’t know what to say, or how to say it, or even who you’ll be talking to, so here’s what you’ll need to know.

There’s a 75% chance your call will be answered by a Secretary who is specifically there to listen to your concerns, there’s a 25% chance your call will be bumped into a voicemail box which is specifically there to listen to your concerns, there is a ~0% chance you’ll find yourself on the phone with your Senator or Representative.

You may be asked for your name and address or zip code, it’s okay not to tell them if you don’t want to, but the information is useful for your elected officials. I usually just give my first name, zip code, and the name of my town.

Don’t worry about a script, don’t worry about being eloquent, you’re not writing Shakespeare here, you’re a concerned citizen voicing their frustrations, fears, and hopes. “I’m really scared of Ajit Pai’s plans to roll back net neutrality, a free and open internet is important to me because [Your reason here. Some suggestions: An open internet is important to democracy/I worry what Donald Trump might do with more power/Cable bills are already too high/etc.]. Please tell [Senator or Representative] that I support a free and open internet, I support Net Neutrality, and I vote.” The only hard and fast rule is that you need to be polite; these folks are getting dozens, if not hundreds of calls a day, they don’t need you bitching and swearing at them for something they have no control over. Be passionate, but be polite.

Reminder: Only call YOUR OWN elected officials! Calling Mitch McConnell from sunny Florida won’t do anyone any good, and might actually harm the cause. Only call your own elected officials, period.

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You also have these baby teenage mutant ninja turtles to protect you.

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so, me, my brother and my mother had to physically fight my dad back in september and have him arrested. he’s out of the house now, but he lost his job as a result of being charged with 2nd degree assault, and he’s also an abusive asshole, so we can’t depend on him for any help.

me and my brother are both on workstudy, so we’re only making enough cash to cover the basics. we found out that my dad hadn’t paid utilities (electricity, water) in awhile, and we have mortgage payments coming up at the end of the month. the car also refused to turn on until we got a jump, and we know that the engine already has problems, (and i’m praying that it’s not both, bc i’m already paying for the diagnostic). my mother is looking for work, but hasn’t found anything yet. 

honestly, i could really, really, use the help. me and my brother are trying to support my mom and sister the best we can. 

if you can donate anything: https://cash.me/$CatAnti

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any white at a protest who tries to go against police and deliberately provoke a response from them is not to be trusted and does not have the safety of black and brown people in mind.

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This video has been ruling my life

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liberals, and africa: a compendium

2009, President Barack Obama:

2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:

2017, President “Leader of the Free World” Macron:

this is what I like to call “liberal white supremacy” 

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A total of 210,000 gallons (5,000) of oil leaked Thursday from the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota, the pipeline’s operator, TransCanada, said. Crews shut down the pipeline Thursday morning and officials are investigating the cause of the leak. 

Gee, who could have foreseen this happening? Oh. Wait. EVERYONE. EVERYONE KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO FUCKING HAPPEN.