#Resist

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Most people just don’t get that under Ron DeSatan and Greg Abbott the red states of Floriduh and Tex-ass are for all intents and purposes no longer part of the United States. I’m not exaggerating or being sarcastic here, I’m dead serious. These states stopped following US laws and have refused to obey directives from the Federal Government, Federal Courts, and the White House. They also have refused to respect the laws of other states or to respect established reciprocal agreements as set forth by the Constitution.

They have both expanded state guards that answer only to their governors. These are not to be confused with the Nationa Guard that answers to the Department of Defense and the President. They are run by state level military departments and their respective governors. They are state militias/private armies. Texas has used its state guard to occupy federal land and prevent the Federal Government to enforce customs and immigration laws.

President Biden has taken them to court but even when ordered to desist these states have refused to back down. Both states use their law enforcement and guard units to persecute and imprison political rivals and non-compliant businesses. And as everyone knows they have both assumed the right to enforce their own immigration laws which are a strictly federal jurisdiction. They have even taken to prosecuting their own female citizens for reproductive decisions made in other states. They’re even trying to prosecute out of state doctors for violating the laws of those states which is preposterous. They’ve also taken it upon themselves to allow residents to carry weapons on the properties of others.

None of this is normal. President Lincoln would have sent the military into those states by now. We can no longer use kid gloves and play by the old rules with MAGAt Republicans and hostile red state legislatures, governors, and state attorneys general (Ken Paxton). These are fascist semi-autonomous entities within our borders. They are flaunting their defiance and encouraging other red states to follow suit.

We either crack down on these self-appointed dictators or allow them to secede because we are on the brink of a civil war. A war that may happen no matter what they or we do at this point. It won’t be a simple war along a regional border like a first Civil War. It will be fought in every state and county in the nation. There will be terrorism, bombings, assassinations, and the closing of power grids and supply chains. The revenge killings will go on for years. There’s a good chance the entire nation will slip into anarchy which is exactly what our foreign geo-political rivals want.

Indeed it is why Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and other state and non-state actors are currently encouraging. It’s no secret the Republican Party has been purchased by our foreign adversaries and domestic renegade fascist oligarchs.

This woman was arrested for WORDS.

We should rally for her as much as the guy who actually shot someone. Push back.

[republikkkanorcs]

Survivor: Oligarch edition.

[jasondamien93]

Resist ✊

[rejectingrepublicans]

[savagebeauti]

As someone who works in healthcare billing, this is 100% correct. They tell you they cover more than MediCare but that is a straight up lie. They absolutely cover LESS. You also can and will lose access to providers because they also get screwed by these plans and stop taking them.

Do not. Get. A Medicare Assvantage Plan

You know what since I’ve got a ton of new followers because my post on puberty blockers took off and people apparently want to see me rant, I’m gonna get up on my soapbox for a PSA for tumblr’s aging userbase.

Do not! Get! A Medicare Advantage plan!

Tell your parents not to get one. Tell your aunts and uncles not to get one. Tell your friends not to get one.

Why is that, you might say? Kouri, what is a Medicare Advantage plan, you might say?

tl;dr Medicare is the government healthcare plan for Americans of a certain age or with certain disabilities. It is owned, administered, and operated by the government. You are entitled, if you wish, to outsource your Medicare and have your policy run by a commercial group, such as United HealthCare, Cigna, Aetna, et cetera.

Here’s how it works: For everyone who signs up for, say, a plan that rhymes with Figna Medicare Advantage, Medicare gives Figna a certain amount of money and says ‘use this to take care of this patient’.

You can see where this is going, right? Figna says ‘sure boss! *wink nudge*’ and then shoves as much of that money into their own pockets as possible, and they do that by finding excuses to NOT pay for your medical care.

Medicare Advantage plans are pushed and marketed heavily. They’ll call you. They’ll set up stands in your PCP office to try to encourage you to buy in. They will say things like ‘with Medicare, you have to pay a 20% coinsurance, but with us you only have a 10% coinsurance’ and completely neglect to tell you that having a smaller coinsurance only matters if they approve the fucking care that you need, which often they won’t (while Medicare would have) and if your doctors are willing to accept it, which often they don’t (while they do accept Medicare).

Is Medicare perfect? Absolutely not! I've got my share of bones to pick with them. But simply put:

Medicare is government administered. It is a service. It costs the government money, which is why the GOP is always trying to cut funding to it. Medicare Advantage is corporately administered. It is supposed to make money. Which gives them incentives to deny your care and fuck you over that Medicare simply does not have.

Do not. Get. A Medicare Advantage Plan.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

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[friday-911]

Trigger Warning:

Yet another limerick about the UHC CEO Assassination.

The head of United Healthcare Made millions on patients' despair Just 2 in 3 cases Were all he would pay, 'cuz High profits demand they don't care

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LMK if you want on or off the list.

@calaisreno @helloliriels @naefelldaurk @peanitbear @totallysilvergirl

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[rejectingrepublicans]

Local and state government have been using the police to increase revenues at our expense for decades. Traffic enforcement, and the police themselves, were never meant to create profit at the expense of the citizenry.

[gwydionmisha]

11/30/23: KOSA is an anti-LGBTQIA+ censorship bill. It is essential you call THIS week. Tell them you are specifically against KOSA and especially against hotlining the bill.

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the Senator of your choice.

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

[aquatixwitch]

By the way. If yall want to do a small and energy-saving act of resistance...start keeping a journal. No I mean seriously. Document everything about your daily life. Not so much the headlines, but I mean how things are for YOU, personally, every day. Your joys, pains, struggles, lights in the dark. Document it, because there are gonna be a lot of lies and gaslighting down the road in the future, and yes, historians read these and they're important to keep an account of everything happening.

Don't let them erase you from history. Don't let them make up lies to feed the future. We don't inherit the world from our parents, we borrow it from our children. Make sure they have a means to know the truth.

[poemsforthesehours]

Poem by Leslie J Anderson.

[myvoteismyvoice]

[republikkkanorcs]

Did the CEO’s family not realize he made his living as a mass murderer?

[c86]

Photography by Nicholas Blair

Taken from Castro to Christopher: Gay Streets of America 1979–1986