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Update 6/26: the senate will be voting on the bill TOMORROW. Please call tomorrow morning or call tonight and leave a message. Any cuts to Medicaid will kill people.

The restrictions on trans healthcare have been removed for now, but republicans can still force a vote on them. If this happens, it would require at least 7 democrats voting with republicans to pass. If your senator is a democrat, please add that you want them to support trans healthcare.

Icymi, republicans are trying to kill a lot of people right now. There’s a bill to gut Medicaid and kick millions of people off their insurance, which would cause up to 15,000 preventable deaths PER YEAR. Iowa Republican senator Joni Ernst straight up admitted that she thinks it’s fine if people die because if we’re that worried about it, we can always “embrace [her] lord and savior Jesus Christ” (yes that is a cemetery in the background…).

It’s not too late to fight this. The proposed cuts are extremely unpopular, with less than 15% support nationally. Republicans know people hate this and some of them are worried about being reelected next year.

Please call and tell your senator you don’t want any cuts to medicaid (calling after hours and leaving a voicemail counts!). Here is a script you can use if you don’t know what to say:

“Hello, my name is [NAME], I'm a constituent and I live on [STREET NAME in CITY/TOWN, ZIP CODE]. I'm calling to urge Senator [SENATOR'S NAME] to do everything possible to oppose any cuts at all to Medicaid funding. I do not want Medicaid's funding reduced in any way.”

If you can, call every week for the next few weeks while this bill is being debated. And please send this video to someone you know who doesn’t pay attention to politics-it’s the kind of thing that breaks through to people.Extra ask for people with Democratic senators: The bill would also keep government insurance from paying for gender-affirming care for trans people. The Democrats can use something called the Byrd rule to get this policy taken out of the bill, but some of them wrongly believe that voters don’t care about trans people (note: this Bluesky thread is about an upcoming plan to deny gender-affirming care, NOT what is currently being debated). So if your senator is a Democrat, please add to your statement that you don’t want any cuts to gender-affirming care and you expect them to do everything in their power to prevent this.

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Icymi, republicans are trying to kill a lot of people right now. There’s a bill to gut Medicaid and kick millions of people off their insurance, which would cause up to 15,000 preventable deaths PER YEAR. Iowa Republican senator Joni Ernst straight up admitted that she thinks it’s fine if people die because if we’re that worried about it, we can always “embrace [her] lord and savior Jesus Christ” (yes that is a cemetery in the background…).

It’s not too late to fight this. The proposed cuts are extremely unpopular, with less than 15% support nationally. Republicans know people hate this and some of them are worried about being reelected next year.

Please call and tell your senator you don’t want any cuts to medicaid (calling after hours and leaving a voicemail counts!). Here is a script you can use if you don’t know what to say:

“Hello, my name is [NAME], I'm a constituent and I live on [STREET NAME in CITY/TOWN, ZIP CODE]. I'm calling to urge Senator [SENATOR'S NAME] to do everything possible to oppose any cuts at all to Medicaid funding. I do not want Medicaid's funding reduced in any way.”

If you can, call every week for the next few weeks while this bill is being debated. And please send this video to someone you know who doesn’t pay attention to politics-it’s the kind of thing that breaks through to people.Extra ask for people with Democratic senators: The bill would also keep government insurance from paying for gender-affirming care for trans people. The Democrats can use something called the Byrd rule to get this policy taken out of the bill, but some of them wrongly believe that voters don’t care about trans people (note: this Bluesky thread is about an upcoming plan to deny gender-affirming care, NOT what is currently being debated). So if your senator is a Democrat, please add to your statement that you don’t want any cuts to gender-affirming care and you expect them to do everything in their power to prevent this.

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I loved when AI art could never be anything but AI art. the dreams of a computer. now it's all boobs and photorealistic women doing bad kink. but I remember you. I miss you. I love you, Secret Horses.

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thinking about that post about how, to conservatives, gender is something you can fail at and that is a punishment that opens you up to abuse, and i think the same is true of being a child.

the Innocent Child (to be protected!) is a class of people that does not include all children, and like gender, it is something you can fail at. Failed Children are not longer Innocent and To Be Protected, but instead a class of people who need to be abused back into compliance.

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has anyone seen my sharp rock? i left it in the river for 100 years for safe keeping and now i can't find it. its many uneven edges have sentimental significance

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i get to say characters would have been better if they were fat. i’m a dying child and this is my make-a-wish

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Currently obsessed with the works of Sarah Gee Miller. If you know of other artists who do paintings with geometric color blocking, weird panel shapes, and gradients let me know so I can absorb them with my eyeballs

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ah yes, the elusive rainbow-tailed coati

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I still think that a key function of the way we think of the concepts "adult" and "child" is to separate the human population into "people who deserve autonomy but no protection" and "people who deserve protection but no autonomy" and in the process dehumanize both groups of people. We ignore the fact that all people need both autonomy and protection, and that our society could easily be set up to provide everyone a healthy mix of both.

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Vivek calling for an end to birthright citizenship while being a birthright citizen is such a perfect embodiment of the Republican spirit. Set that ladder on fire once you've gotten off on top

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Sometimes an extremely stupid thought comes to you and you go ‘yeah sure I’ll make art about that’

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Enchanting Ecosystems Crocheted by Melissa Webb Envelop Interior Spaces with Verdant Fibers

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I like the idea of inventing a way to easily and perfectly remove tattoos, because by merely inventing it you're permanently ruining the ability of everyone on the planet to ever get a tattoo with the same meaning that they used to have

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I wonder if….it’s possible that “acceptance” isn’t what’s called for right now, regarding long COVID. Not that individual people with long COVID should burn themselves out seeing a million useless doctors or hurt themselves trying random things other people said work for them*; I’m not saying that people shouldn’t accept their current reality. But we’re living through a unique moment in disability history. The socialist post-COVID future we were promised on this website (lol) is looking less likely every day, but it may not be too late for another kind of revolution.

This isn’t an original thought on this subject but—people with HIV/AIDS didn’t just individually accept that they were untreatably sick and going to die. They didn’t just fight to destigmatize their disease, or participate in community care. They demanded medicine. People with me/cfs** have been fighting for treatment for decades, and anticipated a wave of newly disabled people from COVID. Maybe those of us with long COVID who are able to participate in activism can be the cavalry for them, bringing all of us out of hell.

* there appear to be some very good, open minded doctors out there who may be able to help, and there are treatments that appear to help some people.

** many, but not all, cases of long COVID are me/cfs. You can be really fucked up with long COVID and not have me/cfs, but there’s no reason to silo post viral illnesses from an activism perspective; we’re stronger together.

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I guess I’m gonna keep following the default “library” “archives” “dark academia” tags instead of things I actually am interested in that would just bum me out right now. Hiking and cooking and road trips and playing music and other things that I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to safely do again. 🫠