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evictions will begin again in NYC in about a month, and this will leave many people and families homeless, which in the heart of this country's epidemic could be a death sentence. shelters are already overcrowded as it is.

please donate to the NYC Eviction Fund started by Esteban Martinez here:

many cities are also about to be facing a mass eviction crisis. one way to help is donate to or start mutual aid funds like this specifically for eviction prevention in your city. housing is a human right!

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It's 1 am, who wants to learn how to make maple candy?

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HELP DEFUND THE LAS CRUCES POLICE

https://lascruceeightcantwait-main.carrd.co/

Las Cruces as a city has the highest rate of per capita police killings in the country between 2015 and 2019. HERE is a link to a one of the recent victims, with a story that sounds all too familiar as well as a citation for the above statistic.

The carrd linked above lists all the city officials email addresses and provides a form letter that you can email to them by copying and pasting. Every email and bit of pressure on elected officials helps.

#please send these emails and boost this

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The most comprehensive link to donations, petitions, resources and information. Silence is compliance in violence.

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25 Black-owned bookstores you can support right now

while i don’t claim to be a “book blogger” by any account (more of a cranky publishing-person blogger most days), i know a lot of people have followed me through my book posts, so i’m taking advantage of that captive audience to boost these bookstores. shop them through their own websites and if you’re local, look into curbside pickup to minimize shipping costs and overhead. okay that’s all thanks bye stay safe.

the lit bar (a personal favorite and the bronx’s one remaining bookstore)

hariett’s bookshop

semicolon bookstore

mahogany books

uncle bobbie’s

loyalty bookstore

dare books

listening tree books

underground books

multicultural bookstore

pyramid books

black dot bookstore

brain lair books

medu bookstore

wild fig books and coffee

frugal bookstore

olive tree books

detroit book city

cafe con libros

revolution books

sisters uptown bookstore

source booksellers

hakim’s bookstore

sankofa books and cafe

turning page bookshop

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PLACES TO DONATE AND SIGN TO SUPPORT BLM

(Do not donate money to change.org, none of their funds go to their petitions or organizations)

I Run With Maud - a fundraiser for the family of Maud to support them financially and seek justice. Ahmaud Arbery is black man who was chased and gunned down by two white men. (donation)

Minnesota freedom fund - raise money to bail out minnesota protesters (donation)

Official George Floyd donation fund (donation

The heart of a chef - Help pay for a black chef’s medical expenses

Justice for Sheku Bayoh - A black male who was taken into police custody and never returned home (petition)

Justice for Jennifer Jeffley - A black woman who was arrested at the age of 15 for a crime she did not commit (petition)

Abolish prison labor in the US (petition)

Free Willie Simmons - A black man serving 38 years for stealing $9 (petition)

Free Siyanda Mngaza - A young black woman sentenced to 4 1/2 years for self defence (petition)

Drop all charges against trafficking survivor Chrystul Kizer - A black woman incarcerated for using self defence against a trafficker (petition)

Justice for Zinedine - A black woman who was r*ped and he walks free. (petition)

Justice for Joāo Pedro - A 14 year old black boy who was shot in his home by the Rio de Janeiro police and died. 72 bullet holes were found in his home. (petition)

Justice for Sean Reed - A young black man who’s life ended after excessive violence by the cops against him while he was unarmed. (petition)

Justice for Breonna Taylor - A black woman, an award winning EMT who was killed by police in her home after an illegal unnanounced drug raid. They went to the WRONG HOUSE. (petition)

Exonerate Eric Riddick - A black man who was sentenced to life in prison for a crime he did not commit in 1992. There was no physical evidence. (petition)

Justice for Elijah Nichols - A black man who was attacked by a predominantly white fraternity party, stabbed his attackers in self defence, and is now incarcerated for it. (petition)

Justice for Emerald Black - A black pregnant woman who was attacked by the police for having bad registration tags. She was stomped in the stomach causing her to miscarry. (petition)

Justice for Amiya Braxton - A black child who was hit by a car. No one took her case serious and the driver was not charged. (petition)

Justice for Belly Mujinga - A black woman who was attacked while she had COVID-19 which likely lead to her death.(petition)

Justice for Tamir Rice - A 12 year old black boy who was shot and killed by officers for playing with a toy gun. The officers were not charged. (petition)

Justice for Andile Mchunu - A missing black man who was last seen beaten by a group of men. (petition)

Disbarment of George E. Barnhill - The man who decided to sit on the case of Ahmaud Arbery. (petition)

Criminal charges against Travis and Greg McMichael in the murder of black jogger Ahmaud Arbery. (petition)

Correcting a wrongful conviction against Kyjuanzi Harris - A black man who was arrested without cause. He has been in prison for 9 years now. (petition)

Justice for Darrius Stewart - A black man who was killed by a cop for a mistaken identity. (petition)

Reopen Kendrick Johnsons case - A black man who was killed by a man through a jealous fight over a girl. The autopsy revealed that his death was not accidental, the man admits to murder, yet the case is closed. (petition)

Raise the degree - remove bail for Derek Chauvin, the man who killed George Floyd (petition)

Exoneration of Albert Wilson - A black male wjo was sentenced by an all white jury 12 years for making out with a white woman in a bar. (petition)

Julius Jones - An innocent man set to be excecuted in oklahoma (petition)

Junk the anti-terrorism bill- a bill is trying to get passed calling protests, mass mobilizations, and political activities “terrorism” and trying to make them illegal (petition)

Justice for Darrius Stewart - a 19 year old who was gunned down by a white police officer (petition)

Free Wis. teen facing life in prison for killing her rapist (petition)

Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez - A black 15 year old who was shot 7 times while walking to school (petition)

I need to share this right now so I can eat but i will add more later! I DON’T care if its not ACNH. If this bothers you, unfollow me. I couldn’t care less. It bothers me how little I see donation and petition links on here, i have a good amount of followers on here, so see this. sign them.

Please sign them ALL. It really is NOT that hard. And share so others will do the same.

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HOW TO DONATE TO BLM WHEN YOU HAVE NO MONEY

a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it will be split between the following, dependent on necessity

brooklyn bail fund

minnesota freedom fund

atlanta action network

columbus freedom fund

louisville community bail fund

chicago bond

black visions collective

richmond community bail fund

the bail project inc

nw com bail fund

philadelphia bail fund

the korchhinski-parquet family gofundme

george floyd’s family gofundme

blacklivesmatter.com

reclaim the block

aclu

turn off your adblocker and put the video on repeat. do not skip ads. let it play on loop whether you’re listening or not. mute the tab if you need to focus elsewhere. but let. it. play.

youtube will donate to blm for you.

please, please reblog. for people who don’t have money to spare, this is incredibly important information to have.

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Trump will deliver killing blow to the USPS

The USPS is about to declare bankruptcy. It’s at the center of the longstanding plans for disaster recover and has been since the Cold War. It’s the only institution that could (for example) deliver covid meds to every home in America in one day.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/25/national-emergency-library/#going-postal

But Congress has decided not to bail out the postal service, despite Art 1, Sec 8 of the US Constitution: “To establish Post Offices and post Roads.”

Maybe it’s because without a USPS we couldn’t have a postal vote in 2020?

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/27/just-asking-questions/#save-usps

The proximate cause of the post office’s bankruptcy is the pandemic, but that is merely the finishing blow. The USPS was murdered in 2006, when Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/04/will-the-united-states-post-office-become-a-victim-of-covid19.html

The Act gave the USPS a mere 10 years to “prefund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years.” That is, to set aside cash to pay medical bills for future employees who hadn’t been born yet.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6407

The Act gave the USPS a mere 10 years to “prefund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years.” That is, to set aside cash to pay medical bills for future employees who hadn’t been born yet.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6407

The USPS’s murder is straight out of the neoliberal playbook: “1 Defund, 2 claim crisis, 3 call for privatizatization, 4 profit!”

As Lambert Strether points out, it was a bipartisan act of murder, cosponored by the “centrist” Democrat Henry Waxman.

Killing the USPS looms large in the Trump admin’s (nonmetaphorical, actual) privatization playbook, “Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century Reform Plan and Reorganization Recommendations”:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Government-Reform-and-Reorg-Plan.pdf

The proposals are for USPS to become a Wework clone or franchisee, but not to become a publicly owned bank - a common line of business for other nations’ postal services, natural based on the amounts of cash they handle.

The USPS is the nation’s second largest employer of veterans, with 630,000 employees. Trump is about to allow it to collapse so that UPS, Fedex and other private firms can skim off the most profitable parts of its business and leave rural Americans totally isolated.

The loss of the USPS would mean the loss of the last truly universal federal program in America and would unduly hammer the people whom Trump claims to love – veterans and rural voters.

https://twitter.com/lildipshit3/status/1248741868440940544

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i am going to be lazy and ask for ideas here because i’m like,, officially out of them. if you were a student what kind of activities would you like to do at a history museum

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfr1A29Ji93KEe8dkkPQSiYxYbOSew7PgC6OAj9_9oHHRyE6w/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Another really good option finding cast iron online is the goodwill website (here). I would also highly recommend looking in actual thrift stores once quarantine ends as it’s often really easy to pick up dish sets or pot and pans there if you go a couple of times.

Its also worth mentioning that thrift stores vary wildly in pricing and what they have available so it’s worth checking more than one and finding a favorite.

Sustainable cookware brands?

Hey guys,

I’m moving to the United States next month, and I’m hoping to get an apartment soon after I finish my quarantine. Unfortuntely, a lot of the things I currently have I cannot bring, as I live in Japan right now. My question is: does anyone have any good sustainable brands of cookware/kitchenware/bakeware that they can share with me? I’m hoping not to spend too much. I’m just hoping to start off right with these things.

Since I’ll have nothing, I’m basically looking at everything: from dishware and utensils to bakeware to cookware or whatever.

Summary:

- Must be available in United States

- Must not be grossly expensive

- Must be practical

- I’d prefer to get as much in one colour scheme as possible, as I get overhwhelmed by unintentional multiple colours in a space.

Thanks,,

#sustainability #if anyone has more ideas please add

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ya’ll i finally figured out a solution to using replies with this account, from now on my replies will be from @sustainable-thought but I will be keeping this as the blog I actually use.

#i finally figured out a decent work around and im v happy

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Does anyone have any tips/recommendations for easy to grow fruit?

The gardening I’ve done has always been very veggie centric and I would love to change that.

#thank u!!

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Ya’ll if you go sign this it would be great, it’s also super important.

https://action.aclu.org/send-message/tell-ice-reduce-number-people-detention-new-mexico

#sustainability #covid19

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Does anyone have any tips/recommendations for easy to grow fruit?

The gardening I’ve done has always been very veggie centric and I would love to change that.

#sustainability #zero waste #gardening

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Here's a quick FAQ, since apparently this announcement has people confused:

1. "Isn't Sanders still running? He's just suspended his campaign, not dropped out!"

No, today was (unfortunately) the official and practical end of Bernie's 2020 presidential campaign. Bernie might remain on the ballot in some remaining states, but he is no longer actively contesting or seeking the nomination. He is not running as an independent, and he is not going to be on the ballot in November.

In his own words, "I cannot in good conscience mount a campaign that cannot win and would interfere with the important work required of all of us."

The delegates he has earned will still attend the convention and do important work, hopefully advocating for Bernie's causes and helping the move the Democratic party further left today and into the future.

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2. "Sanders was the only hope for a progressive future! What am I supposed to do now?"

Well, keep fighting! Bernie has been in fight this since the 1960s, and he's not going to give up - neither should you. The presidency is important, but it's not the endgame: everything Bernie has accomplished so far has been possible because he won other elections, like Senate races and Mayoral elections.

If you stay home in November, you're missing out on your chance to vote for the next Bernie, because they might be running for school board or mayor or state rep. And more than they need your support in November, they need your support today. Look up the people running in down-ballot races for your location, and get in touch with a local campaign! Phone bank, talk to your family, STAY INVOLVED. Apathy is one of the greatest enemies to the progressive agenda today.

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3. "Isn't Joe Biden just as bad as Trump? I've seen a lot of negative stuff online."

It's important to be critical of political figures, especially during a primary election. Joe Biden has been in politics for a very long time, and his record is by no means spotless. There's lots to criticize, politically and personally. But having Biden in the big chair instead of Trump changes the entire game.

Look at it this way: if Joe Biden wins, a democratic Congress gets a clear path to passing real, lasting progressive laws. If Joe Biden wins, Ruth Bader Ginsburg gets to retire, and be replaced by a young firebrand who will make Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh's lives a living hell for the next 40 years. If Joe Biden wins, all of the horrible executive orders Trump has enacted are gone, on day one: family seperation, abortion bans in VA hospitals, EPA funding gutted, global warming denial in NOAA, removal of LGBT+ protections, all GONE in January 2021. If Joe Biden wins, all the Trump shills in the government disappear: I'm talking about new people in the CPB, the Justice Department, the FTC, and everything other federal agency.

With Biden instead of Trump, we're going to be fighting for Medicare for All vs. Obamacare, instead of Keeping Obamacare vs. Stripping Away Any Kind of Federal Insurance. We're going to be fighting for the Green New Deal vs. Having a Functional EPA, instead of Gutting The EPA or Having No EPA At All. The fight is way different, and we get to pull the conversation further left - where it belongs.

This election is just as much about getting rid of the Republican stench in the Oval Office as it is electing a particular person. So yeah, be critical of Joe Biden, but please don't lose sight of what President Joe Biden would actually look like versus President Trump.

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If you're feeling confused, or want to talk about your feelings today, my inbox is always open. Keep your head up, and stay in this fight. It's not over yet.

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i’ve been trying really hard to make sure our household isn’t wasting any food and this is a reminder to everyone that dried apples/dried fruit is super easy to make and also super good

some basic instructions are:

cut super thin slices of whatever you’re trying to dry out

turn your oven as low as it goes

put them in on (preferably with something underneath to let air flow under as well as over)

turn the occasionally

take out when they’re as dry as u want them to be

#look at me #posting actual content #who would have thought #sustainability #cottagecore

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From someone who lives in the desert and used to have a compost pile, we had to water ours once or twice a week or it got too dry. Idk if that helps but maybe it’s a starting point?

plauntie, how wet should my compost pile be? i live in a desert, and i mostly don't water my lawn. i just went to mix last years compost into my beans and basil (all I'm planting this year cause i plant in pots and i genuinely don't have the spare $10 to buy a bag of soil for my other pots) and i realized that *none* of last year's compost decomposed, and it's bone dry. none of the leaves that I left in the yard over winter have decomposed either, so it's not some fluke, as far as I can tell

And here you found out why deserts are such good preservers of organic material in archeological sites!

But anyway, compost needs to be damp to rot. Not very, just a bit. Dump a bucket over it now and then if you check the center and it’s bone dry in there.