#united states politics

[lucina-rae]

#196 #r196 #r/196 #gay #gay memes #gay rights #trans #trans memes #trans rights #america #american #american politics #politics #political #political memes #united states #united states politics #protest #protesting

[troythecatfish]

#threads #threads app #current events #social justice #human rights #important #political #political posting #politics #workers rights #late stage capitalism #capitalism #anti capitalism #national labor relations board #unions #union #labor unions #us politics #usa politics #american politics #united states politics

[ineffably-ryuu]

My parents are conservatives and watch Fox News 24/7. I just saw an ad FOR KOSA saying it would help stop kids from preventing suicide due to content online, which is not at all true or what the bill is even about. The bill is about tracking you and everyone else in the United States by what they look at online and shutting down any websites that contain content the government doesn’t agree with, including sites with queer content like ao3.

If you value ao3 or ANY of the resources the internet gives you, call your senators and tell them not to vote for KOSA. Because you know the conservatives are calling in support.

#kosa #ao3 #us politics #united states politics #kids online safety act

[violet-phoenix-nebula]

2nd Trump term would be ‘the end of American democracy as we know it’

All 3 of these women are Republicans who worked in the White House under Donald Trump.

If you're a republican, if you're considering voting for Trump this year, I am BEGGING you to watch these, to listen to what these republican women have to say.

By all means, don't listen to me. But please listen to the women of your own party, your own ideals, who worked under this man.

#united states politics #us politics #politics #american politics #united states #united states election #2024 elections #2024 presidential election #donald trump #anti donald trump #republicans #republicans against trump #Youtube

[shu-of-the-wind]

in the united states:

-41 states allow child marriage

-47 states allow corporal punishment of children by school admins and all states allow corporal punishment of children in the home

-22 states allow JLWOP (juvenile life without parole)

-all states allow children to work in agriculture and many states are proposing child labor laws be loosened or repealed entirely

when they say "protect the children" they don't mean it. they never mean it. they use children to jam a wedge into human rights and lever them backwards.

do. not. fucking. believe them.

cites here, here, here, and here.

#united states #us politics #united states politics #juvenile law #child rights

[fiapple]

ATTENTION PRO PALESTINE COMMUNITY:

ISRAEL WANTS TO REPLACE UNRWA WITH A CIA-FRONTED GROUP.

The specific group is called USAID & they have been tied to the overthrow of multiple foreign governments that go against US interests under the guise of humanitarianism. They are literally banned in multiple countries for that reason, & have previously experienced a shut down in the 70's because of it.

If you live in the united states, now is the time to start applying extra pressure to your representatives if you haven’t already, to protest, try to organize regular strikes within your workplace, block ports, etc. Take whatever you’ve been doing already & ramp it up by 100%. Make it as clear as humanly possible to your government that if the USA works with Israel on this, there will be hell to pay. in addition, if you have the means, make a donation to unrwa. even if it’s only a dollar.

We cannot let this happen.

As they say: fight, resist, Palestine still exists.

#raise hell americans you HAVE TO raise hell about this #usa politics #united states politics #israhell #israel is a terrorist state #fuck the cia #cia #fund unrwa #unrwa #free palestine #free gaza #settler colonialism #settler colony of israel #signal boost #gaza strip #gaza genocide #colonization #colonialism #gaza #palestine #Youtube #usaid

[musicofthenightphantomoftheopera]

ATTENTION PLZ READ: Serious Post & Call To Action

I almost never get serious on here, but this is an emergency that effects ALL of us. This is gonna b a long post, but there's a lot of info so plz bear with me.

If you're not on tiktok, you probably haven't heard abt this cuz I've heard and seen NO ONE outside of tiktok talking about this and that's scary.

We have a major mass internet censorship bill that Facists- I mean "Conservatives" are trying to get through congress that was co-signed by Dove (yes, the soap company) & LIZZO of all people back in April of this year.

This bill is called the "Kids Online Safety Act" or KOSA for short.

Under the guise of "protecting children" it is the worst mass internet censorship bill to date and if it passes, it will give state senators and the government the power to censor and destroy anything they don't like off the face of the internet. And by that I mean in a recent video interview of Senator Marsha Blackburn (one of the senators that introduced the bill) said the quiet part out loud and detailed EXACTLY what we knew they were gonna do.

If they pass it, they're going to use it to wipe any LGBTQIA+ content & info off the face of the internet, but ESPECIALLY anything to do with Transgender people and being Trans. And they intend on targeting Transgender children especially.

Due to the purposefully vague wording of the bill giving the gov. the power to destroy anything they deem "a danger to kids" you know that's what they're gonna use it for instead of censoring anything that's an actual danger to kids. They said it themselves.

But it gets SO MUCH WORSE than that. This bill would also give th4em the power to control EVERYTHING you do and EVERYWHERE yo go on the internet and no. A VPN won't help you.

This goes way beyond just lgbtqia info and fandom content/culture being in danger. This also means our right to free speech, access to accurate and factual information, and ability to communicate & organize with each other is also up on the chopping block. They're trying to make it harder for us to fight back against what they're doing.

And even if you don't live in the US, this will also effect you too. Access to any US based content creators and US based media as well as your ability to communicate with your US friends & Family as well as access to info on what's happening in the US will also be in danger as well.

If you're on tiktok and want more info, I reccomend looking up omarsbigsister who has an entire playlist on the bill as well as info and petition links in her bio and a call script to read off for contacting your senators. but I will also be providing those same links at the end of this post.

So what can we do to stop it?

Sign petitions

COntact your senators and reps. Call them, email them, send physical letters,

but most importantly,

SPREAD THE WORD.

share and repost this because the fact that no one oustide of tiktok is talking about this even though it will effect ALL OF US and could spell the end of the internet as we know it is SCARY

This bill is text book fascism and we need to kill it in its crib.

Here are all the links:

Resources for learning about KOSA

Sign this petition and call your senators! (this one includes a call script for you to read from

Sign the open letter against KOSA

Stop KOSA movement's linktree with even more petitons and resources to help

#emergency #please reblog #please repost #free speech #stop kosa #internet censorship #lgbtqia #trans rights #transgender #trans rights are human rights #protect trans kids #antifascist #human rights #activism #help #call to action #united states politics

[hobbitinthetardis]

as a non-american it makes no sense to me so if you do support it can you reblog and say why? (also reblog for larger sample size <3)

#uspol #us politics #united states #united states politics #democrats #republicans #donald trump #joe biden #kats.txt

[dddemigirl]

#video #tiktok #Florida #state of emergency #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #USA #united states politics #lesbian #gay #bisexual #transgender #queer #asexual #nonbinary #pansexual #aromantic

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Confederate monuments bear what the anthropological theorist Michael Taussig would call a public secret: something that is privately known but collectively denied. It does no good to simply reveal the secret — in this case, to tell people that most of the Confederate monuments were erected not at the end of the Civil War, to honor those who fought, but at the height of Jim Crow, to entrench a system of racial hierarchy. That’s already part of their appeal. Dr. Taussig has argued that public secrets don’t lose their power unless they are transformed in a manner that does justice to the scale of the secret. He compares the process to desecration. How can you expect people to stop believing in their gods without providing some other way of making sense of this world and our future?

Swords Into Plowshares might have been the first to propose melting, but other communities are working out their own creative visions for Lee’s afterlife. One of the biggest changes so far has been at Arlington House, the historic plantation mansion at the center of Arlington National Cemetery, which is the official national Robert E. Lee Memorial. In 2021, Arlington House reopened with displays not only about Lee’s family, who lived there after they inherited it from Lee’s father-in-law, but also about the lives of the families enslaved there. Even Lee’s burial site at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. — where he served as president after the war — has changed. The university decided to focus on Lee the civilian rather than Lee the general, for example by moving a prominent portrait of him in uniform. And it constructed a wall to enclose the large sculpture of Lee that once claimed an insistent place in the university’s chapel.

Covering this story over the past few years, I’ve come to realize two things. First, when a monument disappears without a ceremony to mark why it is coming down, a community has no chance to recognize that it has itself changed. (Ideally the ceremony is public, but because of safety concerns, the melting I attended was not.) Second, if you are outraged that something’s happening to your community’s heroic statue of Lee, you’re not going to be any less outraged if the statue is moved to some hidden storeroom than if it’s thrown into a landfill. So if all changes, large or small, will be resisted, why not go for the ones with the most symbolic resonance?

That’s why the idea to melt Lee down, as violent as it might initially seem, struck me as so apt. Confederate monuments went up with rich, emotional ceremonies that created historical memory and solidified group identity. The way we remove them should be just as emotional, striking and memorable. Instead of quietly tucking statues away, we can use monuments one final time to bind ourselves together into new communities.

...

When the remaining legal barriers were cleared (including a last-minute lawsuit that sought to have the statue reassembled), Lee was finally ready to surrender to the furnace. The foundryman turned on the propane supply and laid Lee’s sword across the hole in the lid. He told the spectators that the metal had to get hot enough to release any moisture before he maneuvered it down through the hole into the crucible.

When he did, its blade stuck up out of the furnace for a moment, then melted down “like a stick of butter,” as Dr. Schmidt put it.

Lee’s face was the last piece to go into the crucible. Given how often the monument and its ideals were celebrated with flames — from Klansmen’s torches to the tiki torches of white nationalists in 2017 — it seemed fitting for flames to close over the monument.

...

Dr. Douglas, Swords Into Plowshares’ other co-founder, apologized that the ceremony could not be public. She thanked those in attendance, telling us we were witnessing it on behalf of Charlottesville’s residents, including those long gone who lived under slavery. Someday, she said, when we think of Civil War heroes, we will imagine not Lee but, instead, those who fought for their freedom against him.

The man in the protective visor dropped the red-hot piece of metal that once represented Lee on the ground. It fell to pieces, which he fed into the crucible. A line of cameras faced him, making new images of history as the old image finally disappeared in flames.

- Erin Thompson, "The Most Controversial Statue in America Surrenders to the Furnace." New York Times. October 24, 2023. Photo by Eze Amos.

#swords into plougshares #confederate monuments #robert e. lee #tear them down #historical monuments #american civil war #historical memory #united states history #united states politics

[youareprobablywrong]

Katie Britt probably doesn't even know what inflation is, and yet she's up here trying to convince America that you're in more danger than ever before. She is sounds like a hostage. This is so dumb.

#politics #state of the union #united states politics #katie britt

[cleverclovers]

Hey, if you're on the ACP (Affordable connectivity program) in the USA, please read this

I received an email this evening from my broadband provider. Here's screenshots, and I'll copy paste the text, as well. TL;DR at the end of the post.

"Important ACP Update

Dear Valued Astound Broadband Customer: On January 11, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) will end in a few months unless the US federal government provides additional funds for the program. The FCC is requiring ACP providers like Astound Broadband (Astound) to inform ACP participants about the potential end of the ACP.¹

What Happens Now

You should begin to review your options.

•  If you are an Astound ACP customer on or before February 7, 2024, you will continue to receive the up-to $30 ACP benefit to your ACP-supported internet services until the end of the ACP so long as you continue to be eligible to participate in ACP and remain an Astound customer.²

•  After February 7, 2024, the ACP will not accept new or re-enrolled ACP participants and you may not be able to transfer your ACP benefit to another ACP provider.³

What Happens if the ACP Ends

If the ACP ends, you will no longer receive the up-to $30 per month ACP benefit and other Astound promotional credits for your internet services and, in the final month of the ACP, you may not receive the full up-to $30 per month ACP benefit and other Astound promotional credits for your internet services. If you continue to receive Astound internet services after the ACP ends, the full undiscounted rate for your service will apply or there may be the option to select an alternate package. Additional information will be coming soon regarding your future package options.

The FCC will provide more information on the status of the ACP in the coming weeks, and Astound will provide you with further updates.

If you have questions about the ACP, please contact the Universal Service Administrative Company ACP Support Center at [phone] or visit www.fcc.gov/acp or https://affordableconnectivity.gov/ for more information. In the meantime, thank you for being a valued customer. We look forward to serving you.

Sincerely,

Astound Broadband Team"

the footnotes I forgot to screen cap are thus:

"¹Astound Broadband refers to the following ACP participating entities operating in separate service areas throughout the US: RCN Telecom Services, LLC; RCN Telecom Services (Lehigh) LLC; RCN Telecom Services of Philadelphia, LLC; RCN Telecom Services of Massachusetts, LLC; ETS Telephone Company, Inc.; Grande Communications Networks, LLC; and WaveDivision Holdings, LLC.

²The ACP is a US federal government benefit program operated by the FCC that reduces one eligible household’s broadband Internet service bill by up to $30 per month. Without incurring a termination fee, at any time, a household may apply the ACP benefit to any broadband Internet service plan available in the area, at the same terms available to households not eligible for ACP, or a household may transfer the ACP benefit to another provider or opt-out of the program. If the ACP benefit does not completely cover the cost of your home and/or mobile internet services, you must make monthly payments to your ACP-supported broadband Internet services. If the ACP benefit covers the full retail rate of your home and/or mobile internet services, you must use your Internet services at least once every 30 days. If the ACP ends, if the household transfers its ACP benefit to another provider but continues to receive Astound Broadband Internet service, or if de-enrolled from the ACP, the full, undiscounted retail rate and general terms and conditions of service apply.

³If the ACP does not receive additional funds, after February 7, 2024, ACP providers are not required to allow ACP households to transfer their ACP benefit from other ACP providers."

This is a link to the PDF fact sheet from the FCC regarding the ACP wind down

TL;DR:

In April, 2024, it's expected that the fund that makes low cost or free access to the internet possible for low income families and individuals, and college students on pell grants, will run out, without federal intervention. People on the program will loose that financial support, and internet may no longer be a thing people with restricted incomes can afford. Pressure needs to be put on the federal government so that people who rely on the internet for work and education, or even just access to friends and family, can continue to have that access.

The pandemic taught us that the internet is a vital resource that people need access to. A lot of us disabled people already knew that, having fought for work from home/school from home options for years, only receiving them finally during lockdown. Access to the internet has greatly improved most of our lives, and we can't lose that now.

If you know you need the financial support to have cheaper internet, you have until the 7th of February to get your application approved by the FCC, and your provider set up with that information, to give you a little relief until April. Take. that. opportunity.

I have not, as yet, received any indication from other low income support programs, like Social Security, utility discount programs, or food stamps, being cut. I'm keeping an eye out.

I'll update this post in reblogs as I get more information going forward.

#affordable connectivity program #internet service #low income #disability #accessibility #poverty #united states federal low income support #united states politics #united states #federal government

[troythecatfish]

#political #political posting #usa politics #american politics #us politics #politics #current events #social justice #human rights #tiktok #tiktok ban #late stage capitalism #capitalism #anti capitalism #united states politics #genocide joe #fuck the usa #fuck the us government #fuck the united states

[alwaysbewoke]

christian fascism is here. don't let anyone tell you or try to convince you that voting democrat is the wrong choice. what little democracy we have left is on the ballot. before we can help anyone outside the united states, there must be democracy in america. without it, we are of no use to anyone anywhere.

#christian fascism #voting democrat #democracy at stake #defend democracy #save democracy #democratic values #election2024 #democratic party #political activism #united states politics #democracy matters #democracy in danger #voting rights #democracy first #progressive values #anti-fascism #democratic principles #election integrity #political engagement #vote for democracy #fascism #Dictatorship

[violet-phoenix-nebula]

So, a ton of people have said in 2016 and 2020, and are now saying in 2024 that if Trump wins they're going to leave the United States. I'm curious this time around, because of Project 2025, how many people legitimately mean it.

Note: I am asking if you would genuinely, literally move to another country.

Pretty please read all the options before voting!

Project 2025 Wikipedia

Project 2025 Official

Please reblog for a bigger sample size

#us politics #us presidential election #us elections #american politics #american president #american elections #politics #united states politics #election 2024 #2024 presidential election #2024 elections #anti donald trump #project 2025

[tabney2023]

Former President Trump + 18 Allies Indicted in Georgia. Willis: "The grand jury issued arrest warrants for those who are charged. I am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on Friday the 25th day of August, 2023."

#us politics #american politics #donald trump #us elections #criminal case #georgia #atlanta georgia #president donald trump #presidential election #presidential candidate #presidential history #american history #us history #unitedstates #elections #politics #united states politics