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made a slight edit so it better reflects the world
ID: The logo of The Washington Post's "Democracy Dies in Darkness" logo, with "in darkness" crossed out and replaced with "behind a paywall."
Democracy Dies Behind a Paywall.
#wealth inequality#capitalism#democracy dies in darkness#democracy#anti capitalism#socialism#communism
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As if you needed another reason not to vote for Trump, here it is... all the stories here that you enjoy reading could be subject to new laws that could put your favorite writers in prison or at the very least subject to criminal action.
Project 2025 is by a conservative think tank & it is literally all the most dystopian ideas you can think. Like there are literally plans in it to suspend or get rid of parts of the US Constitution & The Bill of Rights. It is also what they are pushing to pass if Trump is elected in November. These are the plans they want to put in place and are already at work writing so Trump can rubber stamp.
There have been many articles about other horrifying parts of Project 2025, but a new revelation that strikes close to home as a smut writer is their plan to redefine & criminalize pornography. Including artwork that depicts nudity (think Michaelangelo's David) and books that depict sexual physical contact. That would put many of us on this site & others like AO3 at risk.
This is just the tip of the iceberg & there are plenty more heinous & inhumane things in Project 2025, including making homosexuality and being transgender illegal & providing gender affirming support punishable by incarceration. The people behind Project 2025 & The Heritage Foundation are telling you exactly what they plan to do. Believe them.
If you care about the people on this site and their work, please take them into consideration in Nov. Is Joe Biden my favorite person? No. Do I think some of his policies are wrong? Yes. Will I still be voting for him in November? Absolutely, because democracy is literally on the line this fall.
#vote blue#democratic party#biden 2024#project 2025#it really is that bad#the heritage foundation#democracy dies in darkness#protect democracy#us politics#politics#election 2024#southern poverty law center#slpc#protect our rights#democrat#lgbtq+#protect lgbtq+ rights#protect trans rights#protect abortion rights#biden vs trump#biden administration
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Project 2025 and how they're going to strip healthcare from everyone
I know everyone is focused on Gaza. The genocide happening there is unconscionable.
But, back here, in the States, where most of us live, there's this. This is the plan starting January 1. This is just ONE section - Health and Human Services.
I'm currently involved in a grassroots project to present the entirety of the 923 pages in this form to get the information out. Their plan is literally Gilead.
I want to be clear that nowhere in their policies, goals and rhetoric does it account for what happens to all of us when these things happen.
Summary
Scary vague thing:
Investigate, expose, and remediate any instances in which HHS violated people’s rights by:
Colluding with Big Tech to censor dissenting opinions during COVID
Colluding with abortion advocates and LGBT advocates to violate conscience-protection laws and the Hyde Amendment
P. 488
Public health entities (CDC, NIH, ACL, OASH)
Can’t prescribe any behavior (meaning masking/quarantine would never have happened) (454)
Can’t use fetal cells for research (454, 461)
No mask/vaccine mandates in hospitals (475)
LGBTQ
CDC - No data collection on gender identity (456)
Medicare - No national coverage determination for Gender Reassignment Surgery (474)
Allow discrimination
in healthcare
Reverse ACA’s prohibition on discrimination against gender identity and sexual orientation in health programs/activities (475)
Withdraw Ryan White guidance (aims at reducing barriers to HIV care, medication, and support for transgender people living with HIV) (485)
OASH will withdraw support for gender-affirming care (490)
Allow LGBTQ folks to be discriminated against in healthcare (remove Biden protections - 495) and intend to have the DOJ bring the discrimination protections to the supreme court (496) which could potentially set a precedent.
In adoption (477)
Possibly take children away from LGBTQ couples if they didn’t conceive them? “married men and women are the ideal, natural family structure because all children have a right to be raised by the men and women who conceived them” (489)
Prioritize faith-based education programs & grants (that don’t acknowledge LGBTQ folks’ existence) (480, 481)
Reproductive rights
Programs/education
CDC - Implies the Division of Reproductive Health and the 6|18 initiative will be cut (454)
Fewer doctors trained in abortions - Make abortion training opt-in rather than opt-out in all medical schools (485)
No “approved curriculum” or “evidence-based lists” in Teen Pregnancy Prevention or Personal Responsibility Education Programs (477)
Deal with STDs and unwanted pregnancy by focusing on abstinence and strengthening marriage (490)
Remove the experts - Install pro-life advocates in the Health Resources & Services Administration advisory committee (who makes the mandates around abortion) and cut ties with American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (484)
eliminate the HHS Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force and install a pro-life task force (489)
Foreign aid - Require foreign non-government orgs to certify that they wouldn’t perform/promote abortion as a condition of receiving funding. (493)
Protections
Remove protections from the woman and enforce protections for born-alive infants (including criminal consequences) (474)
Make it harder for people to understand how/where their protected health information is protected (rescind guidance - 497)
Drug/contraception access
FDA - Reverse approval of chemical abortion drugs (458)
Limit pills to 49 days gestation, in-person dispensing, report all adverse events (459)
Reduce access to contraception - Allow insurance providers to morally object to providing contraception on nonreligious grounds (it’s already allowed for religious grounds) (483)
Male condoms will no longer be mandated coverage (485)
No more Ella (week-after-pill) in the contraceptive mandate (485)
Make access harder - Withdraw OCR’s pharmacy abortion mandate guidance which prohibits discrimination when providing abortion meds (496)
Travel
Prohibit abortion travel funding (eliminate the section 1115 waivers that allow funds to help cross state lines) (471)
No abortions for refugees (478)
Government funds
No funds for Planned Parenthood (471)
prohibit family planning grants from going to entities that perform abortions or provide funding to other entities that perform abortions (491)
Cut up to 10% of medicaid funds from states that require abortion insurance coverage (CA, IL, Maine, MD, NY, OR, WA, Vermont, Hawaii, Connecticut) (472)
Oversight
Track every abortion in every state (455)
New mission statement “furthering the health and well-being of all Americans ‘from conception to natural death.’” (489)
Require health care workers to report abortion pill complications (459)
Medicare
Use AI to detect fraud (463)
Lots of regulations impacting healthcare system reporting/fund-access/insurance pool etc.
Would be good to get someone in healthcare to analyze, I’m betting these gut the ACA
“Separate the subsidized ACA exchange market from the nonsubsidized insurance market” (469)
Eliminated programs
Medicare Shared Savings Program (465)
Inflation Reduction Act (465)
Medicaid
Add work requirements and lifetime caps (468)
Eliminate benefit requirements/mandates and middle/upper income recipients (468)
Cut up to 10% of medicaid funds from states that require abortion insurance coverage (CA, IL, Maine, MD, NY, OR, WA, Vermont, Hawaii, Connecticut) (472)
Child/family welfare (some overlap with lgbtq, copied in here)
Combine child support with visitation support court (implied via example, 479)
Prioritize faith-based HMRE (healthy marriage & relationship education) programs & grants and don’t pressure them to conform to “nonreligious definitions of marriage” (480, 481)
“in cases where the father or mother does not make a sincere or serious effort to be involved in the child’s upbringing, termination of parental rights for children in foster care should be swift” (482)
Eliminate the Head Start program (482)
Potentially (implied) cut programs related to bullying prevention, children’s safety, health disparities, early childhood support, poisoning and SUID prevention. (486)
Take children away from LGBTQ couples if they didn’t conceive them? “married men and women are the ideal, natural family structure because all children have a right to be raised by the men and women who conceived them” (489)
Housing
“Rescind legal analysis that authorized HHS to impose a moratorium on rental evictions during COVID” (492)
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Joe Biden is going to make it illegal to throw your stems away. if you smoked all your nugs you will be required by law to grind up your stems and smoke those too. if you're smoking stems only you're supposed to use the rolling paper that burns unevenly
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Is it just me, or do other people also feel that sympathy is getting a bit too weaponized? That if someone ever claims to have been victimized by you, you just... get screwed over like there's no tomorrow? Social justice doesn't feel like justice a bit too often, because it often doesn't really care about true details. Its just uproar that might or might not lead to any good.
Thia happened with me a few days ago. I got accused of having been homophobic, with the end impact of making a certin someone, and ｏｎｌｙ that certain someone, feel unsafe in a community they and I shared. Without any considerations whatsoever, I was removed from the community, with no chance being given to defend myself, because, and I quote, ''We should not be giving that transphobe a platform to present his views from''. And this is a community where I have given two and a half years of my time, tried to make newcomers feel as welcome and accepted as I could, and help the community function as a whole.
I honestly feel quite shit about this, because, everybody wanted to be on the right side of this, without ever considering what all actually went down, and whether or not I had actually done anything, because all of their accusations were quite literally based on hearsay. This person ended up abusing and exploiting power given to them by the community to enact a vendetta, and given their queer nature, nobody is even willing to entertain the notion of letting me defend myself, because of how easily the tables can be flipped by said queer person tagging them as enabling a transphobe.
Understanding pain is one thing, but just downright ignoring due process is another
#lgbtqia#social justice#sympathy#like wtf#mental abuse#emotional abuse#severe bullshit#democracy dies in darkness
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Is there a possibility of corruption in this democracy? Falsifying some votes? Gerrymandering? Some good old bribes?
as an upholder of democracy...... I am not immune to political influence... if you can guarantee the comments* I can turn a blind eye to the votes 🙈
*paragraph long MINIMUM, no one word fire emojis
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Paywalls create a two-tiered system: credible, fact-based information for people who are willing to pay for it, and murkier, less-reliable information for everyone else. Simply put, paywalls get in the way of informing the public, which is the mission of journalism. And they get in the way of the public being informed, which is the foundation of democracy. It is a terrible time for the press to be failing at reaching people, during an election in which democracy is on the line. There’s a simple, temporary solution: Publications should suspend their paywalls for all 2024 election coverage and all information that is beneficial to voters. Democracy does not die in darkness—it dies behind paywalls.
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[The Washington Post]
https://wapo.st/46mUmy8
I am terrified by what is happening in my country.
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"If we let journalism die, our #democracy won’t be too far behind" #SeattleTimes
"When used wisely, it has been wielded as a compass to navigate change — from a nation hesitant to expand its democracy to one that produces an amendment abolishing slavery even without one Black vote, and an amendment franchising women with the right to vote despite not a single woman being eligible to vote that right into law. "
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/if-we-let-journalism-die-our-democracy-wont-be-too-far-behind/
#Journalism And Democracy#Seattle Times#Democracy Dies In Darkness#Journalism Matters#Power of the Press#1st Amendment#Vox Populi#Support Local Journalism
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Stupid, shortsighted people are going to be more concerned about gas prices that are completely outside of any politicians’ control until fascists are rounding folks up and putting them into camps… then it’s too f*^%ing late, and nothing will matter but survival.
#election#fascism#fascists#stupid people#elections have consequences#democracy dies in darkness#and this is how liberty dies
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Idk why so many fantasy otome games have the mc get dropped into a school setting and they just??? Go along with it??? After not being in school for a few years sometimes? "You gotta pass your classes or else" or else what, evil headmaster who is probably the reason I'm here? You're gonna kick me out of the school i don't want to be at??? Bro I'm 25 I'm not doing highschool again. I'm gonna go hang out in the evil magic woods and probably die cause I'd rather do that then magic algebra.
#otome games#mostly about uhhh#court of darkness#but also#obey me#and any other one you can think of#dont tell anyone of your magic powers. they say. go to class. they scold. get good grades. they comand#im a grown adult you cant tell me what to do youre not my real dad#if i were in cod id never go to class and tell the ira king and guys dad that i have power but they gotta fight over me#and cause a war so that iras king dies so lance could take the throne and redistribute the wealth#and then demolish the kingdom and tuen it into a democracy i think he'd enjoy that
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