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Project 2025 ain't gonna roll out all at once. So what we're gonna wanna do is make passing each individual part of it as difficult as possible, so there's less to undo once we finally get this country back on the rails.

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Thank you for tagging me!! That was a fun quiz 😊

Drumroll, please!

I got:

Sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what Berf is made of 🫶

I nominate @wellthatschaotic, @69constellationsinatrenchcoat, @maevesweirdart, @wizardfigurine, and @sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog to try this quiz next 🤗

Which oddly specific colour palette are you?

Thank you for the tag, @citrus-moonlight!!! This is... quite literally my wardrobe color on top of the eyeshadows/lipsticks I wear on the daily so this is actually quite spooky skfjsdkf

Link to quiz.

No pressure tags (and you if you see this!): @sixpennydame @nube55 @littlerequiem @pinkberryfox @thechaoticarchivist

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Here’s the thing I think conservatives don’t understand: I don’t care what someone else does with their own body.

You wanna get surgery or take medication to make you look a certain way? Okay. I don’t care

You wanna ctrl+alt+delete that clump of cells in your uterus. Sure. I don’t care.

You wanna use meds to block a natural aspect of your body’s system? Alright by me. I. Don’t. Care.

I don’t care because it’s not my body

“But what if they regret it?” So? Let them regret it. That’s their choice to live with.

“But what if that baby would have grown up to cure cancer?” Kinda short sighted on God’s part to only put that potential in one baby, yeah? (Also … you can’t cure cancer, but that’s a level of nuance for a different time)

“But what if they want to use that function in the future?” Funny thing about meds: you can just stop fucking taking them and things usually go back to normal.

I DON’T CARE WHAT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING DOES WITH THEIR OWN BODY! I don’t care 🤷‍♀️ it’s not my body so why should I have a say in it?

The choice is not “being left up to the states instead of the federal government”, it’s that the choice is being taken away from individuals.

Why the fuck to they care so much what other people do with their own shit??

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Goncharov (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese

“The greatest mafia movie (n)ever made.”

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Canada can confirm this

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One more thing before I go bury myself in a pile of blankets:

To everyone who voted Democrat for the first time, every former trump supporter who voted for Harris, everyone who voted for the first time, every Republican who did not want this result and voted for Harris, thank you.

I got a text from my cousin who has voted third party for decades who voted for a Democrat for the first time yesterday.

My aunt who voted for trump in 2016 and who's husband is a proud MAGA sent me a Snapchat late last night saying she is one of the women who secretly voted for Harris.

A former friend from college who used to be deep in the Republican party posted on Facebook yesterday that he voted for Harris.

I know you aren't the only ones.

I see that you tried.

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Stop & look at this happy kitty for a min before you continue your doom scrolling.

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“But you’re a white cis male. Don’t you think that, if you were actually autistic, you’d have been assessed in your childhood?”

Of course not! Not since my narc mother was more focused on my family keeping up appearances. Not since my parents tried to raise me as a “normal” boy. Not since I had to mask very early on to survive my childhood. I flew under the radar and now I’m paying the price.

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To my US friends, there may be a border in the way of me helping make a better nation BUT I will keep on loving you 🫶

Feel free to either vent or seek refuge with your worries in my inbox or DMs. Depending on the volume, I may not be able to reply to everyone. I will read everything, though, and will listen!

If your life is particularly on the line, please see the resources I reblogged earlier and, failing that, maybe we can band together to get you up here for judgment-free health care and quality of life - 2SLGBTQIA+ members, women, people of colour: I’d welcome you ♥️

Yours in fear and loathing from Canada,

Berf

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💙 USA 💙

national suicide prevention (edit: alternatives to 988)

national domestic violence hotline

national sexual abuse hotline

trans lifeline and resources

💙INTERNATIONAL💙

list of suicide hotlines by country

domestic violence hotlines and resources by country

sexual (+ domestic) abuse agencies by country

international trans resources

edit: taking this opportunity whilst this gets traction!

Palestine Children Relief Fund

Lebanon Red Cross

International Rescue Committee (Sudan, Lebanon, Gaza, Congo etc.)

Ukraine Red Cross

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(by secretlifeofzelda)

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I hope everyone who is at risk of having their rights stripped from them stays safe.

As bad as things are, it is important to not give up no matter what because that's what they want you to do, they want you to become just another statistic the best way to stick it to them is to continue to exist in whatever way is safest for you to do so.

It's been a late night, so try your best to get some rest and know that there are people out there who support you

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A friendly reminder to USians: if you are planning to vote on Election Day, your mantra is "Nothing I see today convinces me not to go vote."

Exit polls suggest DT cannot be caught? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Exit polls suggest KH has it in the bag? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Pundits are saying the country is swinging overwhelmingly red? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Pundits are saying the country is swinging overwhelmingly blue? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Polls can be misleading (intentionally or not). The methodology can be biased (or simply poor). Early results may not reflect what the full count will show. There may be a red mirage. NOTHING YOU SEE CONVINCES YOU NOT TO VOTE.

The biggest Democratic win in swing states means nothing if democrats don't turn out everywhere to keep the reliably blue states blue.

VOTE. Wear appropriate weather gear if you think you may have to stand in a line outside (coat, hat, gloves, umbrella, sunhat, whatever, you know where you live). Bring water and a snack and something to do (book, game on your phone, podcast and headphones, whatever, you know what you like). GO VOTE.

NOTHING YOU SEE ON ELECTION DAY CONVINCES YOU NOT TO VOTE.