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not to be a poor millenial on main but like

I really don't know how to put into words how utterly defeated it feels to know in the back of mind that I'm about to be 30 soon and will likely never own a house. Something that was a drilled into Young Me as a marker of success and independence.

Not only that, but I can't work. I've tried. I'm relying Heavily on my partner. Honestly, with rent the way it is, we might struggle just to rent our own place, let alone buy one. And I have a daughter. Like... I'm really not gonna be able to do everything for her that I want to.

"Try disability"

Disability is complicated and I was so neglected as a kid that I wasn't dxed with Anything in time to meet requirements. I'm still working on a couple of them in fact. My psych eval isn't til December and I made that appointment last April. That to say, it's going to be a Very long process. And my work history makes it worse. It's going to be an uphill battle and I'll likely need a lawyer. The thought of being denied kills me. Idk wtf I'm gonna do if I can't get disability. And the best part? you can't be married on disability. Sometimes they cancel you just for having a partner. The Trump admin even had ppl scouring Facebook's seeing if disabled ppl were "too happy".

Can y'all f e e l my rage? I rely on my partner because I don't have family to rely on. If I don't have her, I end up in the ground. Period. That's it. Those are my choices. File and hope to the damn heavens or... idek.

I thought the child tax credit Biden passed would help but all it did was move food stamps to cash (meaning it lowered my EBT a Lot, did it do that for everyone?). Which is absolute bullshit. How are you gonna tell me I need almost $300 Just For Food then take that away and give me $250 for everything including food and call that help??

Like I genuinely feel so stuck. And I know it's not just me. There are people I know Trapped in living situations because of how unaffordable it is to change their circumstances. A studio where I am goes for the same price as a two bedroom was last year. Two bedrooms apartments are now the price that a 3-4 bedroom houses were. My partners income isn't that much. That's so fucking beyond affordable.

What the fuck am I supposed to do??? What are any of us in this situation supposed to do? Like what happens to the queer, traumatized, disabled, BIPOC adults who've fallen through the cracks for our whole lives?

What happens when my amazingly patient gf decides that she's inevitably given all she could? Because she's functional but this kind of support takes a toll on you financially, emotionally, physically even. It isn't sustainable forever and as I said, right now I see no guaranteed way out of it.

Something has to fucking give.

But nothing is. Not rent. Not landlords. Not the precious Blue Man in office. Not the Blue governor I live under. Not the laws. Not the protests. Not disability regulations.

I'm ready to fucking burn something down. ANYTHING. at this point ANY empty building is option because at least I'd get their fucking attention. Maybe that's all it'd take too, you know? Maybe one person just has to do something absolutely fucking insane for everyone else to realize how fucked everything is. To be that catalyst. And every single day that passes I get closer to being that person.

Like honestly???

What have I got to fucking lose that's not already on the fucking line anyway. Y'all are waiting for something and idk what. It's been 243 years and idk how many generations fighting the same fight, how fucking long are we waiting for change?

I'm ready for that revolution that y'all keep talking about, now. Ready for the FIND OUT part.

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https://www.no-gods-no-masters.com

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fuck with one bee, u get the nest.

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Israel has already destroyed Gaza’s water desalination plant.

According to the UN, Israel’s blockade has already rendered 97% of Gaza’s water unfit for human consumption for more than 2 million people living in an open-prison that they legally can’t leave.

Source: X and X

#palestine #palestinian

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Eric Andre’s stupid Margaret Thatcher thing has literally set back the feminist movement by 30 years

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this is so fucking funny that it literally gave me an asthma attack that i am still currently experincing

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One final thing, if there isn’t any of these in your area, just start one! You don’t have to label it “mutual aid” “leftism” anything like that either. Start the groups, gather folks in your area, help eachother and have conversations with them about how easy it is to help each other. Slowly incorporate the ideas of leftism into these everyday things. People will come to realize the only path forward is one littered with mutual aid, help groups, and tons of other stuff. We have the means to do this. We have the means to build a better world and it’s right under our noses. Don’t give up! Keep fighting!!!

Simple mutual aid ideas

Many people are demotivated from providing mutual aid to their community because they assume it’ll be expensive, complicated, and/or illegal. Not so! You can make a big difference in your neighbors’ lives just by sharing what you have and building solidarity with them (Note: Your local public library, community garden, or makerspace may be happy to host one or more of these if you get in touch with them!)

Connect on social media: A good first step is to start a group message, Facebook group, Discord server, email list, or anything else that allows people to talk to each other consistently. From here you can start to build solidarity and discuss what unmet needs your community has and how to address them

Bartering, time banking, and free stores: From there it’s easy enough to start the conversation about how to provide each other with material aid. Poor communities often have needs and the ability to meet those needs right next to each other, but they are never matched together just because people don’t have enough pieces of paper to give each other. A way around that is to start trading with each other - a jar of jam for an old unused bike, car repairs for fresh honey, 2 hours of guitar lessons for 2 hours helping repaint your deck, etc. This doesn’t have to be formalized and kept precise track of - “I’ll owe you one”s or just a general culture of “homies help homies, always” are a great way to build up trust and a sense of community

Buying coop: Buying wholesale can save a lot of money, but a lot of people never have enough money at one time to take advantage of that (besides not needing an entire pallet of dish soap). A buying coop lets a group of people pool their money to buy wholesale instead, saving everyone money in the process

Food sharing: Food waste/excess and food insecurity are a perfect match, and as such there have been plenty of ideas for bringing them together. Community pantries can pool and hold nonperishables inside something like an apartment building; a simple veggie share can be built and set up outside for communities with a lot of gardeners/farmers; a people’s fridge can hold perishable items if you can get a hold of the appliance itself and space/power for it; a setup like MIT’s FoodCam can connect hungry people to unwanted leftovers; and Food Not Bombs collects commercial food waste to share with communities all across the world (your city might very well have one already - look it up!)

Tool share/library of things: There are a lot of things that you use once or twice a year at most and then let sit in your attic the rest of the time. Post hole diggers, Batman-shaped cake molds, 3D printers, turkey basters, etc. Not only do these sit around unused for a majority of the time, but worse, if someone in your community needs one, they’ll likely go out and buy a whole new one. Instead, try finding a community area where you can put a lending library. That way, everyone in your community can pool their scarcely-used resources, and rather than owning 20 hammers altogether, everyone can share 2

Little free seed library: Little free libraries are a fairly well-known way to informally share resources with your neighbors, but if you live in an area with a lot of gardeners, or hopeful gardeners, saving seeds can be another way to use the same design. Just set aside the seeds from your harvest, or your groceries, then put them in reused envelopes from your junk mail and leave them in the box to be picked up by your neighbors. You can also share cuttings and clones from your garden!

Community composting: Composting is a dead simple process for turning food scraps and other organic waste into rich fertilizer - saving any gardeners in your neighborhood money (and keeping harmful pollutants out of the environment) with no ongoing investment needed. Personal setups require specific inputs in specific quantities for best results, but in large enough piles those rules can be largely ignored and still give great compost. If you get enough people involved, then, your composter can be as simple as a large box on the side of the road. ShareWaste can connect you to people with food scraps, whether you have a personal or community composter

Bike/car sharing: People aren’t moving around at all hours, meaning a majority of the time their transportation is sitting in garages or driveways unused. Starting a bike share can be a fairly easy, low-cost way to address this and improve people’s mobility. A car share can be a lot more involved, but worth it for all the money and carbon it can save (especially for areas with little or no public transit)

Feel free to share other ideas below!

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turkey and azerbaijan are attacking armenia right now, and it’s 1915 all over again because the world is distracted and people are too busy wondering if they’re gonna live or die, and who gives a shit about my country anyway? my mum told me to tell my friends and explain to them what’s happening and that we are the victims in this war because azerbaijan is spreading lies and people are believing their lies and i told her, what good is that going to do? do you think anyone’s going to come to our aid? is russia going to help us? is america? is england? erdogan said they will finish what their ancestors started, and he means genocide. he means ethnic cleansing. he means to massacre every last one of us. and in doing so admitted to the very same thing turkey has spent 105 years denying. i don’t know who to tell and what good telling people will do because we’re a small, insignificant country, and we have nothing to offer to the people in power, the handful who rule the world. so i sit here with my pain and i feel helpless. i know there’s twitter threads and links to petitions and people being urged to contact their senators, and sorry if im being pessimistic, but azerbaijan has been attacking us for the last 22 years, and though we defend ourselves, we can’t do anything to stop them. they’ve violated ceasefires (and geneva conventions) multiple times. i don’t think they’ll rest until every last one of us is dead.

we just want peace. we just want to live peacefully. we’re not asking for a lot here.

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What to do if you are facing eviction

Eviction protections are expiring across the United States and Canada right now, and millions of people are suddenly finding themselves facing eviction with a pandemic still raging and the start of winter just around the corner. 

Not knowing where you’re going to live next month is an unbelievably scary position to be in, and there are a lot of people out there who are facing this for the first time in their lives. It’s okay to be scared. But it’s also important to start taking steps to deal with this as soon as you realize that might be at risk of eviction. 

As someone who has worked in homelessness and housing advocacy my whole career, here’s what I recommend you do:

Do not leave your home. Many landlords count on their tenants not knowing or understanding their rights, and take advantage of that to try to illegally evict them without following proper procedure. I have seen landlords attempt some flagrantly illegal things during my time working with vulnerable people. Many landlords have been ignoring and violating eviction moratoriums during this pandemic. Don’t fall for it. There is a legal process that has to be followed to evict you, even if your name isn’t on the lease - your landlord cannot simply slip a note under your door ordering you out by the end of the week, no matter what they tell you. Do not leave your home until a judge orders you to do so. You may have a better shot in court than you think you do, and seeing the court process to the very end buys you valuable time to figure out your next move. 

Get a lawyer. Many legal aid societies and law school legal clinics offer free legal assistance for people facing eviction. Having a lawyer can make an enormous difference - one study found that people without lawyers were evicted 65% of the time, compared to just 15% of people who had legal representation. Start calling and contacting legal aid services as soon as your landlord threatens or files eviction - these services often only do intake for new clients on certain days, so it’s a good idea to research these services ahead of time. 

Understand your rights. The protections you have under the law depend on where you live - it’s critical that you take the time to educate yourself about what those protections are. Your area will likely have a Residential Tenancies Act, a Tenant Act, or something along those lines. Look online for information specific to your area. There may also be special protections and procedures in place because of the pandemic. If you live in NYC, for instance, you have a right to free legal counsel if you are facing eviction. Find out what protections you have in your area.

Contact resources in your area. Again, depending on where you live, there are different resources available. There may be a tenant support agency that can connect you to free legal resources directly. You might be eligible for unemployment benefits or emergency income. Your state or city might also have emergency funding or eviction prevention programs in place. NYC, for instance, offers “one shot deal” emergency grants that cover rental arrears for people who are facing eviction due to unexpected crises. You should also look at emergency housing options, community food banks, or other resources that can help you survive this situation. In many cities you can call 211 or 311 to learn more or about resources, or you can go online. 

Attend your eviction hearing. Once you are given a date and time for your eviction hearing, it is critical that you attend. Even if you have not paid rent in several months and you think your case is hopeless, you absolutely must show up for this hearing. If you don’t attend, you will lose by default - if you attend, you may be successful in winning leniency, the opportunity to pay back rent with a payment plan and avoid eviction, or even just a few weeks’ extension on the eviction date so you have more time to come up with a plan. Attend your hearing. 

Have a back-up plan. Even with legal aid resources on your side, you have to prepare for the possibility that you might not be able to fight your eviction. Buy yourself as much time as you can, and use that time to start researching possible options. Is there a cheaper room for rent that you can afford with your unemployment benefits? Do you know anyone you can stay with? Are there any housing non-profits in your area that can help? Do you have any leads on employment in the future? Explore your options, and remember that it’s okay to ask for help right now - people in your life can’t help you unless you tell them that you’re struggling. 

Call your representatives. You are not the only person suffering as a result of expiring COVID protections - your elected officials need to know that letting these programs expire is having serious, dire consequences for real people that they represent. Call everyone. Call the office of your congressman, call your MP, call your state senator, your MLA, your local city counsellors. Tell your story, and make as much noise as you can. It doesn’t guarantee that anything will be done, of course, but it makes the problem harder for your elected officials to ignore.

Important Resources for Americans: LawHelp.org - website for learning more about local laws and finding free legal aid in your area  JustShelter - a database of community resources available to people facing eviction (might not include all emergency pandemic programs) Eviction Moratorium Database - a database showing where evictions have been legally paused or restricted because of the pandemic National Evictions Database - a database where you can look up what the legal eviction process is supposed to look like in your state  Tenant’s Union Resources - a website where you can find information for the tenant’s union or pro-tenant organizations in your area  Legal Services - a federal non-profit that helps connect low-income households to legal resources for fighting eviction 

Fannie Mae Renters Resource Finder - a database that will tell you if your rental unit is federally financed, and show you resources to fight eviction accordingly  Freddie Mac Renters Resource Finder - another website to show you if your rental property is federally backed and connect you to resources

Eviction Lab - a website that outlines information about pandemic eviction moratoriums and restrictions currently in place in your state The National Housing Law Project - a comprehensive database of resources for people facing eviction or foreclosure  Important Resources for Canadians: The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation - up-to-date information about eviction moratoriums in each province and territory  Affordable Housing Programs Across Canada - information on affordable housing programs in each province and territory Western Law Eviction Information - a website outlining the eviction process in Ontario and what you need to do to fight it Community Legal Education Ontario - a website that shows the proper procedure for eviction in detail and outlines steps that can be taken to fight it  Nova Scotia Legal Residential Tenancy Law Resources - detailed information about the eviction process in Nova Scotia and how to fight it Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta - resources and information for renters facing eviction in Alberta  BC Housing - information and resources for tenants facing difficulties in British Columbia  Saskatchewan Office of Residential Tenancies - information for tenants facing difficulties in Saskatchewan  Tribunal Administratif du Logement - resources and information for tenants living in Quebec. Available in both English and French. 

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What will it take for you to realize that the President isn't a fascist? And if he was, why are all the people who call him one also anti-gun as shit, not wanting citizens to defend against supposed fascism? Fucking commie scum.

What would it take for us to realize that the President isn’t a fascist?   Oh, man, that’s such a good question!  Let’s see:

More specifically:-he’d have to not have been forced to sign an agreement to not discriminate against black people after the Department of Justice successfully sued him for refusing to rent apartments to black tenants and lying to black applicants.  -he’d have to not have ordered his casinos to remove black staff from his view when he entered the building.

-he’d have to not have taken full page ads out in newspapers calling for the death penalty for the Central Park Five - four racialized teenagers falsely accused of the vicious rape and near-murder of a jogger.  And he’d have to admit today that he was wrong about their guilt.  

-He’d have to not have been the leading proponent of a baseless conspiracy theory alleging that America’s first black president was not an American citizen.

-the whole calling Mexicans drug-smuggling rapists thing would have to not have happened.  

-the Muslim ban would have to not have happened.

-he would have to not have cut legal immigration in half.-he’s have to not have redirected ICE to arrest any undocumented migrant, not just ones that may pose a danger.

-he’d have to not regularly retweet an rebroadcast talking points from white supremacist extremists.-he would have had to condemn the white supremacist violence an terrorist attack in Charlottesville in 2017 instead of victim-blaming and implying that neo-nazis were morally equivalent to those opposed to neo-nazis.

-he would have had to refrain from continually attacking NFL players exercising their first amendment rights in protest of police murders of black people. 

-he would have to have not said that people coming to the U.S. from Haiti “all have AIDS or that people from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts” once they saw America.

-He would have to not have referred to Haiti and countries in Africa as “shithole countries” and lament the fact that fewer people from white, European countries were immigrating to the U.S. 

-He would have to not have made a career out of stiffing creditors or running a scam university.

-He would have not not have a history of sexually assaulting women which he boasts about.

-He would have to not have lied about seeing thousands of Muslim Americans cheering when the World Trade Center fell.-He would have to have not mocked a disabled person during one of his rallies.

-He would have to not have encouraged his supporters to physically attack protestors or pledge to pay for their legal defense if they were arrested for doing so.

-He would have to not have used propaganda strategies and terms from the Nazi Germany playbook like calling the media “fake news.”

-He would have to not have used white supremacist Darren Beattie as his speech writer.

-He would have to not have hired white supremacist Ian M. Smith as a policy analyst.

-He would have to not have hired white supremacist Larry Kudlow as his economic advisor.

-He would have to not have hired racist immigration consultant Stephen Miller.

-He would not have hired alt-right white supremacist and anti-semite Steve Bannon to manage his election campaign or as a top aide afterwards.

-He would not have hired Hungarian neo-nazi Sebastian Gorka as an advisor.

-He would have to not being using his position as President to enrich himself by doing things like insisting that all government staff stay in Trump hotels when traveling or overcharging the Secret Service for space in his properties or proposing to host a G7 Summit at his golf resort.

-He would have to not appoint unqualified family members like his daughter or son-in-law to important positions in his administration.

-He would have to not have ordered state agents to kidnap children from their parents, hold them in concentration camps, and then “lose track” of at least 1500 of them.  Or else turn them over to U.S. families for adoption, which BTW insofar as this can be described as “forcibly transferring children of the group to another group,” meets the UN definition of genocide. 

-He would have to not be refusing to provide children detained in his concentration camps with toothbrushes, toothpaste, or soap. -He would have to not be refusing to vaccinate children in his concentration camps, even after three of them died of influenza.  

-He would have to not be taking steps to deny citizenship rights to and deport native-born Americans who are Latino and live too close to the Mexican border.  

-He would have to not be signing more executive orders than any other president in living memory.

-He would have to not have ordered a pointless multimillion dollar military parade or the creation of the “space force.” 

-He would have to not have declared his own inauguration day “National Day of Patriotic Devotion.”

-He would have to not have publicly declared himself “a nationalist.”-He would have to not being taking away the legal rights & status of trans people, making them completely vulnerable to all types of discrimination.-He would have to not be attempting to subvert the 14th Amendment of the Constitution by revoking citizenship from people born in American to people without U.S. citizenship.-He would have to not have used the old racist trope “go back to your country” to call out four racialized Democratic congresswomen, who are some of his strongest critics.  

-He would have to not be ending automatic US citizenship for children born overseas b/c their parents are in the military and stationed there. 

-He would have to have not attempted to profit from the 2020 G7 summit by insisting it take place at one of the resort properties he owns.

-He would have to not have assisted & supported Turkey’s attempts to commit a genocide against the Kurdish people in Rojava (aka NE Syria).

-He would not have announced that he was declaring anti-fascists are “domestic terrorists” and would be outlawed.-He probably wouldn’t have advised governors to use the U.S. military against U.S. citizens protesting police violence in an effort to “dominate them.” -Fabricating evidence against antifa in an attempt to justify using military force against U.S. citizens seems alot like the Reichstag Fire to us.  -Having non-violent protestors tear gassed so he could make his way to a photo op is pretty fascistic, too.-He probably wouldn’t have taken out ads decrying the “dangerous MOBS of far-left groups” “DESTROYING our cities,” calling on Americans to “stand with the President against ANTIFA” and then illustrate the ad with the symbol the nazis made political prisoners wear in concentration camps. -When discussing the concentration camps China built for Uighur Muslims with the president if China, he probably shouldn’t have said “it was exactly the right thing to do.”If none of that had happened, then we’d see that Trump probably isn’t a fascist.  But that all happened.  So.Oh, and BTW, you’re dead fucking wrong about everyone that sees Trump’s fascism being against gun ownership.  Exhibit A: The Huey P. Newton Gun Club:

Finally, we’re pretty sure that “fucking commie scum” are the last people interested in taking firearms away from the people.  Given how they, you know, believe in the armed uprising of the proletariat and all.  Maybe you should read a book about communism before you start throwing that word around?  Here, we found one with pictures for you.

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They always attack Black protest by claiming it is the work of “outside agitators”

They always attack multiracial working class solidarity as the sole work of “white anarchists”

It’s propaganda to get you to condemn the ongoing liberation struggle happening in this country. Don’t fall for it. It’s the oldest tricks in the book they’ve been using this narrative since the Civil Rights Movement.

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READ. EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS. Account of a medical team out in St. Paul last night.

Link to original tweet thread.

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DESPERATELY NEED FINANCIAL HELP

Hey, I'm Alyx, I'm a poor af trans lesbian and I'm in a very bad position right now. I'm currently unemployed and I need to refill my hrt supply very soon, which is particularly expensive since I don't have insurance.

I really really don't want to have to ration it or stop altogether to get through this, and on top of everything else I also don't have any foreseeable way to pay for rent these coming months. I'm desperate and genuinely begging for help right now, please send some money my way if you can afford to!!

I also have kofi and venmo! Just DM me if you need something else!

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the only ehtical consumption capitalism can create

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