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look what they titled the clip omg

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Bayley watching Bianca happily shake hands and celebrate with Io

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If you haven’t started already, start archiving/downloading everything. Save it to an external hard drive if you’re able. Collecting physical media is also a good idea, if you’re able.

Download your own/your favorite fanfics. Save as much as you can from online sources/digital libraries. Recipes, tutorials, history, LGBTQ media, etc. It has been claimed, though I can’t find the exact source if true, that some materials about the Revolutionary War were deleted from the Library of Congress.

It’s always better to be safe than sorry and save and preserve what you can. Remember that cloud storage also is not always reliable!

Library of Congress - millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps, manuscripts.

Internet Archive - millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Has been taken offline multiple times because of cyber attacks last month, it has recently started archiving again.

Anna's Archive - 'largest truly open library in human history.’

Queer Liberation Library - queer literature and resources. Does require applying for a library membership to browse and borrow from their collection.

List of art resources - list of art resources complied on tumblr back in 2019. Not sure if all links are still operational now, but the few I clicked on seemed to work.

Alexis Amber - TikToker who is an archivist who's whole page is about archiving. She has a database extensively recording the events of Hurricane Katrina.

I'll be adding more to this list, if anyone else wants to add anything feel free!

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Ok, real quick, speaking as a librarian, you absolutely cannot despair about the adult literacy crisis and shame adults for reading fiction books you do not personally care for or think are "challenging" at the same time. It doesn't work with kids, and it doesn't work with adults.

Here's how to increase someone's reading level:

1) Let them read whatever they choose without shame or judgment. Maybe get them talking about it using open-ended, non-leading questions to encourage critical thinking and comprehension.

2) Let them get bored after a while and seek out different books.

3) Repeat.

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This morning there was a nation-wide text spam campaign targeting Black Americans (largely students) telling them that they’ve been selected to pick cotton and will be picked up to be sent to a plantation after Trump’s inauguration.

People online are making jokes about it, but it’s genuinely a disturbing sign. Someone was emboldened enough to intentionally run a background on thousands of young Black people and send them racist messages the day after a very exhausting and stressful election.

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if you're waking up like me thinking "where do we even go from here?"

you:

build community & involve yourself locally

learn self sustainability skills

choose kindness

protect others & yourself

join or build a mutual aid group and/or network

find time for small joys (the arts, cooking a meal you love, spending time with loved ones, etc.)

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Things will get really bad over the next four years. Nobody is coming to save us. We save us.

It is time to organize and build community if you haven't already. It is time for mutual aid networks to build and strengthen. It is time for abortion funds, direct support for LGBTQ people, particularly trans people who have faced two years of the most vicious legislative backlash. It is time to organize your work place. It is time to be ready to get in the streets and put your body on the line if you are able.

Donald Trump has made it clear he will pack the federal government with sycophants and act completely unrestrained compared to 2016. What exactly that looks like I won't speculate on now, but it will be bad.

Be there for each other. Build for each other. We save us.

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I hope none of you disappear in the coming days. Seriously don't do anything that can't be undone.

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“I hate Bruce, why is he like that” and “Bruce is the one person I can count on at the end of the world no matter what” are two things that can be true at the same time. “I hate that man” and “that man will put his body and soul between me and the threat every time.”

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i'm already seeing people blame third party voters, but the numbers don't support the idea that the spoiler effect handed trump this victory. trump won an outright majority in PA, GA, and NC, and is on the track do the same in MI and NV; even if every third party voter instead voted for Harris, she still would have lost. hell, it looks like trump is even on track to win the popular vote for the first time. this is entirely the fault of Harris and establishment democrats for having run a shit campaign.

they had so much momentum at the start of her campaign, especially with young people, and they fucking massacred that momentum. they stopped calling maga weird, stopped feeling like they needed to court progressives or young voters, cozied up to republicans, threw trans people under the bus, and continued to side step questions about the ongoing genocide in Palestine that they're funding. hell, they sent Bill Clinton to MI to condescend to the arab community there. they basically said "we don't need the arab vote, we don't need the youth vote; we need the vote of rural white women by dangling reproductive rights just out of reach."

turns out trying to appeal to the "median american voter" doesn't work as well as energizing your base, making at least some concessions to them, which we already learned in 2016. but now trump is going to have a second term, and women, queer people, people of color, immigrants, the entire country, the entire fucking WORLD are going to have to live with the consequences

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To all the dumb-as-rocks people in the Palestine tag blaming the pro-Palestine Americans, arabs and muslim people for Kamala’s disastrous loss, rather than blaming the Democratic Party and the way they’ve been handling every issue while they’ve been in power. Yes, including funding a genocide in Palestine.

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at this moment it is important to know where blame lies with this election. it is not the fault of anti-genocide organizers or palestinians, it is not the fault of the left for failing to pick the lesser evil. from the beginning of the process the democratic party fucked themselves over historically with this one.

they did not have a primary to even allow voters to consider options other than biden, then biden started going publicly senile. he waited until the last possible minute to drop out, making the only viable candidate one who was NOT elected and who was like the fourth or fifth most popular dem primary candidate in 2020. she then had no time to campaign, aligned herself with biden’s intensely unpopular administration at every turn, made no attempt to propose policy or make herself stand out, remained in support of a genocide despite mass protests and polling showing her campaign was suffering for it, and made the baffling decision to court moderate republicans and campaign with war criminals.

yes, it is depressing that half the country would vote for someone like donald trump despite it all. but the democrats shot themselves in the foot repeatedly then wondered why they couldn’t walk. they once again failed to take him seriously, failed to take any critique of them seriously, and failed to create a viable opposition to his very real threat.

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RECOUNT 2024. TRUMP CHEATED‼️

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I think there are some takeaways here, if we want to learn from this.

First: third-party voters were irrelevant. In no swing state did left-leaning third-party voters add up to enough to push Harris over.

Second: many progressive policies and politicians outperformed Harris.

Third: appealing to Republicans did not work.

It has never worked, in the US or in Europe, we've seen time and again that giving ground to right wing policies only legitimizes them and voters then prefer the original. For example, if you worry about immigration, and both sides are saying it's a problem, who do you trust more to handle it?

Fourth: polls were pretty accurate. There were months, years, really, of debate about polling being broken, which demographics were underrepresented, which were overrepresented, herding, hopes that they were overcorrecting for the last two misses on Trump, but they ended up closer than anybody wanted. Which also means that Biden would have lost by even worse.

Fifth: on the one hand, people should hopefully see this graphic and realize there's no minority to scapegoat:

On the other hand, I'm seeing a lot of people take it as a sign the country has simply shifted to the right in a huge, undeniable way that's depressing and ominous and feels hopeless. After all, Trump will win the popular vote by a lot, the first time a Republican has in decades.

However, this should be taken in conjunction with these numbers:

Now THIS is something that's open to further analysis and that can be worked with.

Why did so many Democrat voters not show up?

Here are some potential reasons for this, the truth most likely being a combination of at least several of them:

She's a Black-Indian woman. There's no denying the racism and misogyny among the US electorate, but given earlier polls where she was leading, I don't think this was the main or certainly only reason.

She was seen as too progressive/leftist. Again, by virtue of our racist, misogynistic electorate and our billionaire-owned media, Harris was seen as too extreme left by a lot of people, not just because of policies, but because inherently, her identity itself is extreme left to them. I personally don't think this was a crucial factor because, again, she had been leading when she was going stronger on the progressive messaging, other progressive policies and politicians outperformed her, and a lot of the people who think she's too extreme are Republicans who'd never vote for her. I just don't think it's a good enough reason for the millions of Democrats who didn't show.

Palestine. There's a coalition of pro-Palestine people, not just Muslims and Arab Americans but leftists and other POC too, but numerically, their vote for third parties made no difference. Did enough shift to Trump or not show up at all? Certainly in Michigan they swung to the right, but would that have made a difference? Did they matter in other less tangible ways, e.g., a lot of the same active progressives who'd have been out campaigning simply voted quietly for Harris and left it at that? How much of a distraction was this for Dems, having to constantly address Gaza as opposed to putting forth their own policies, and did it contribute to the overall perception of them being incompetent and weak and bringing chaos when people were tired of it? I think Palestine did have an effect, but enough to swing it overall...?

Not being progressive enough. A lot of people will point to Palestine and immigration, the decision to campaign with Liz Cheney and Mark Cuban and court Republican moderates, stifling Walz, and various other shifts that abandoned the left for the center and then the left didn't show up while the center went for Republicans as they always do, but the left isn't that large. I think, if this one point is a factor, it's more that it was simply difficult for normal voters to show up when they didn't really know what the candidate stood for, aside from "more of the same" and "not Trump".

Biden. When you have a ton of people unhappy with where the country is going, including their biggest priority, the economy, being tied to an unpopular incumbent was going to be tough, especially when, as a Black-Indian woman, she would be judged as disloyal if she broke too much from him. Nevertheless... People were unhappy with him and his administration.

Ultimately, I think there's a lot to learn and I hope Dems will.

I think we're in for a tough time and we're going to need community and solidarity, not fighting among ourselves.