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The EARN IT Act Has Been Reintroduced
For my followers in the US, here is a linktree I’ve found with more info, as well as petitions and forms you can fill out to tell your representatives why this would ruin everything for everyone on the internet.
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This is about the 7 mountains mandate and dominion theology. One of the biggest reason why what is happening now is happening, child labor laws being loosened, no reproductive rights, no gun control, increased violence on BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities. On top of that the government is actively funding climate change at this point. List of some of the extremist groups with known affiliation to the government: Proud boys, The Heritage Foundation, ALEC, ADF, Council for National Policy, Patriot Mobile, Florida Citizens Alliance, Moms for Liberty, Americans for Prosperity
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The RESTRICT Act, Jim Crow laws, police brutality directed towards bipoc communities, ICWA, train derailment with chemicals poisoning major water sources, anti-Trans laws, controlling education, active hate groups, militarized police force, extremist values in government….the list goes on. Does anyone else see the parallels to how fascism rose in 1930s Nazi Germany? I feel it would be wise to know what exactly we are fighting for and against at this point. It’s not just individual issues. This has been planned for years. It comes after marginalized communities first. Now it’s big enough that it’s noticeable almost at a glance. Keep on being loud. It doesn’t have to be protest, it can be emails, petitions, it can be building your local community and then when the day comes that we have no more options, we band together. Silence and compliance is where fascism gains ground and thrives. Stay strong everyone! 🤝 🩷💜💙 I will continue to add links and resources in the comments when I come across them. https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative <—– email, call your representative. Find their socials and leak all their secrets
https://www.opensecrets.org/ <—— find out where to hit them where it hurts! This website has all the information on where politicians spend money.
Petition to stop cop city which will create a training grounds for cops to learn military techniques on how to kill a protest
ICWA petition
https://www.pointofpride.org/ <—– Resources for Trans people
https://www.desireebstephens.com/ <—– resource to understand how white supremacy works and how to de-colonize
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So confused by thst scooby doo meme post. i thought the tik tok ban was the SOPA act
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Nope. The tiktok thing is the RESTRICT Act. A new bill being considered.
The SOPA act was in 2012. The tl;dr is that it is essentially the same policy (but I think the RESTRICT might be worse) and they were serious about passing it until EVERYONE on the internet spread awareness and protested against it. The only reason why it didn’t go through was because there was so much outrage.
What concerns me about this bill is nobody’s talking about it because they think it’s just banning tiktok which is an awful mindset to have on internet censorship imo.
If you tolerate banning of any app here you’re telling congress you’re setting a bar of what content you’re okay with censoring when advocating against censorship applies to ANY material. Especially the kind you hate. So please if any of your friends shit talk tiktok being banned as a good thing call them a bobo head and that kind of talk is how books and media gets banned.
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You can also email the representatives in your state calling on them to release a statement condemning the Tennessee house speaker for refusing to allow elected representatives serve their constituents. Honestly I would recommend doing the same thing, sending a letter to your reps and to the president, for Flordia right now. DeSantis has violated the constitution enough times that letter should be thick.
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i’m as tired of finding out crazy information from my distraction outlets as the next person, but this is important.
if you are in the us, please call your representative and tell them you oppose bill s686, the RESTRICT act (linked).
they introduced it and are trying to get it going without public knowledge. it completely infringes on our first amendment rights and goes hand and hand with what happened to net neutrality not long ago. i would recommend taking the time to read it as i have a hard time explaining things, but it basically throws our internet privacy further out the door and puts the government’s hands directly into our internet pies. if they don’t like something, sucks for us.
the ongoing attempt to ban tiktok probably started this, and if anyone can add a better explanation, please do.
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I truly don’t have any words about what’s happening in Ohio right now. I want to post something like I usually do. Give vocabulary, etc, whatnot. It’s important, it’s so important. But I don’t have words. What could I possibly say about the level of devastation that has happened, is happening, will happen in the future? This is worse than the BP spill. And I don’t know how to respond to that with anything other than a shocked numbness.
There has been a complete media black out regarding the catastrophic and deadly environmental disaster currently happening in Ohio right now, which began a full week ago at time of writing.
A train filled with extremely toxic and reactive chemicals, specifically vinyl chloride, was derailed. A cloud of poisonous chemicals has sprouted and since the cloud is heavier-than-air, it will persist to continue to travel downwind, polluting the atmosphere and environment of everything it touches. All pets will die. Reaching the Mississippi will completely eradicate the safety of all its waters from that point and everywhere downstream. Creeks are already filled with dead fish which the Ohio government claims is not to be worried about. The entire state’s soils and ecosystems will be contaminated to deadly carcinogenic levels for the rest of all our lives and far beyond it. If and when it reaches the Gulf of Mexico the currents will carry its poisons globally.
I wish I could say anything of hope right now. I wish I could even say I’m angry. But I’m not right now. I just feel numb. The scale of this is just so beyond anything I can comprehend and there’s an explicit and purposeful refusal to report on this.
Article discussing some of the safety concerns:
While vinyl chloride itself is a carcinogen, the burning of the chemical, which releases hydrogen chloride and phosgene, can be immediately lethal. Phosgene, a highly toxic, colorless gas with a strong odor, was notoriously used as a weapon during World War I.
Another article:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90848025/ohio-train-derailment-toxic-chemicals-pvc-spill-fire-disaster
Meanwhile, the crash site was leaching other hazardous materials besides vinyl chloride. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says they seeped into surrounding waterways, and “were immediately toxic to fish”—though it added that “actions were taken to minimize that.” The agency has assured the public that, the poor aquatic life’s fate notwithstanding, everybody’s drinking water was “protected.”
Yesterday [Feb 9 2023], the agency announced that the air in East Palestine was finally deemed safe enough for residents to return.
The oldest source I can find discussing this is from Feb 8.
Here is the New York Times reporting on this on February 4th.
Here are NBC and The Daily Beast reporting on this on February 5th.
Here are People Magazine, the Sacramento Bee, The Daily Beast again, CBS News, Reuters, and Reuters again reporting on this on February 6th.
Here is CNN reporting on it on February 7th.
The EPA response profile has been active and updating since February 4th.
I want to preface this by saying THIS IS NOT GOOD, and we shouldn’t act like nothing is happening. This is bad. This is a serious environmental disaster. There are currently risks to humans and animals, and risks to humans and animals will be ongoing for quite some time at various levels.
However I think that “this will kill all the pets in the area and will lay a swathe of poison from Ohio to Mexico, burning the world between” is perhaps something of an overstatement and I’m aware that folks are upset about this but holy shit let’s please try not to catastrophize the catastrophe.
The purpose of an intentional burn at the site was as a containment measure, because it is better to temporarily have extremely toxic chemical byproducts in an evacuated area than it is to allow an extremely carcinogenic chemical to slowly disperse.
There was a similar chemical spill in New Jersey in 2012 (still not a good thing! Not something that we should let go lightly!) and it did not result in “all pets dying” or a mass poisoning of rivers and streams.
Here is the DHHS Toxological Profile for Vinyl Chloride, a nearly 300-page document that goes over risk factors and harms caused by the chemical. Given the tone of the original post, here’s what people probably want to see right now:
At the moment, there appears to be one man who claims that his pet fox died as a result of exposure to the vinyl chloride, and it sickened some of his other pets. There is some discussion of dead chickens and one dead hawk was found. Dead fish were found in some bodies of water, and the EPA is monitoring other bodies and has issued directives for dams and spillovers to collect chemical runoff to prevent as much downstream contamination as possible. At the moment, it is very difficult to say whether there will be a significant amount of acute animal deaths (wild or domesticated) as a result of this, though I would guess there will be a very significant increase of cancer in the area in the coming years.
One reporter at a press conference from the Ohio governor was arrested, he has been released and the AG’s office is investigating his arrest. There are a lot of photos of the derailment and its consequences on social media and other news websites, and it does not appear that anyone is preventing people from taking or sharing photos of the disaster.
Look. I am not someone who thinks that you should blindly trust the government. There are huge issues here. This is a disaster that happened for a number of reasons, many of which are related to absolute shit regulation of chemical transportation and which were probably exacerbated by overworked railroad employees who got fucked over for the sake of the economy in December. There is bad shit here that is worthy of criticism, there are legitimate things to be concerned about.
But just because I don’t trust the government doesn’t mean I think it’s a better idea to trust a shitpost account on twitter that provided “evidence” in the form of an instagram account posting screenshots of text messages from one guy who had a collection of exotic animals he wasn’t able to retrieve from the evacuation area and a tiktok video.
There are definitely things to worry about with this, but please don’t panic.
Also look, if the news is too miserable and you don’t want to look at it too much but you want to at least pretend to stay informed, the Daily Beast’s Cheat Sheet is a constant stream of paragraph-long reports on breaking news. Two of the stories I linked up above are from the Cheat Sheet. Just. Keep it open in a browser tab and check headlines once a day, okay? This has been news for an entire week, if People Magazine is doing human interest stories on it there isn’t a media blackout please don’t get your news from twitter or tumblr please I am begging you.
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(Cis/trans)women aren’t the only ones that can get breast cancer, either.
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So my other post has kinda died in terms of traction so here is a new one! Hi my name is Sierra I’m 27, bisexual, mixed race, very physical disabled, mentally ill and I need help to get my teeth removed and to get new teeth! Here is everything super condensed! I have a connective tissue disorder and am unable to work, along with this came chronic nausea, vomitting, and cyclical vomitting which had completely destroyed my teeth. It’s incredibly hard to eat and is so embarrassing I do not leave the house without a mask if I leave at all. I’m going to regret this but under the cut you will see any actual photos of what my teeth look like today Any help you can give would be so so appreciated! Including reblogs! They help more than you know!
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