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Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #3

Jan 26-Feb 2 2024

The House overwhelmingly passed a tax deal that will revive the expanded Child Tax Credit, this will effect 16 million American children and lift 400,000 out of poverty in the first year. The deal also supports the building of 200,000 housing units over the next two years, and provides tax relief for communities hit by disasters.

The Biden Administration has begun negotiations on drug prices for Medicare. Earlier this year the administration announced it would negotiate for the first time directly with drug manufacturers on the prices of 10 common medications. This week they sent their opening offers to the companies. The program is expected to save Medicare and enrollees billions over dollars over the long term and help push down drug prices for everyone.

The Department of Transportation has green lit $240 Million to modernize air ports across the country. Air Ports in 37 states will be able to get much needed updates and refurbishment.

The Biden Administration announced 10 sites across America as sites for innovation investment. They will receive up to 2 billion dollars each over the next 10 years. The goal is to stimulate economic growth and innovation in semiconductor manufacturing, clean energy, sustainable textiles, climate-resilient agriculture, regenerative medicine, and more.

The State Department reviews options for recognizing Palestinian Statehood. While as of yet there's been no policy change this review of options is a major shift in US diplomatic thinking which has long opposed Palestinian Statehood and shows a seriousness of reported Biden plans to push for Statehood as part of a post-war Israel-Saudi normalization deal.

President Biden imposes sanctions on Israeli settlers who have engaged in violence against Palestinians and peace activists. This marks the first time the US has leveled sanctions against Israelis and sets up a standard that could see the whole settlement movement cut off from the US financial system

the Department of Energy has tentatively agreed to a $1.5 Billion dollar loan to help reopen a Michigan nuclear power plant. This would mark the first time a closed nuclear plant has been brought back online. Closed in 2022 it's hoped that it could reopen in time to be generating power in late 2025. This is part of Biden's plan to decarbonize the electricity grid by 2035.

the Internal Revenue Service launched a program to allow tax fillers file for free directly with the government. In 2024 its a pilot program limited to 12 states, but plans for it to be nation wide by tax day 2025

The Department of Health and Human Services announced $28 million in grants to help with the treatment of substance use disorder, including a program aimed at pregnant and postpartum women, and expanded drug court aimed at directing people into treatment and out of the criminal justice system.

The Department of Energy announced $72 million for 46 hydroelectric projects across 19 states. This marks the single largest investment in Hydropower in US history.

The Senate confirmed President Biden's 175th federal judge. Biden has now appointed more federal judges in his first term in office than President Obama did in his, however still lags behind Trump's 186 judges. For the first time in history a majority of a President's nominees are not white men, 65% of them are women and 65% are people of color, President Biden has appointed more black women to judgeships than any administration in history.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

And much more besides. And I got all of this through fraud and deception.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

February 3, 2025

Heather Cox Richardson

Feb 04, 2025

I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate. They also control the White House and the Supreme Court. If they wanted to get rid of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), for example, they could introduce a bill, debate it, pass it, and send it on to President Trump for his signature. And there would be very little the Democrats could do to stop that change.

But they are not doing that.

Instead, they are permitting unelected billionaire Elon Musk, whose investment of $290 million in Trump and other Republican candidates in the 2024 election apparently has bought him freedom to run the government, to override Congress and enact whatever his own policies are by rooting around in government agencies and cancelling those programs that he, personally, dislikes.

The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs created and funded by Congress, and a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing to try anything so radical.

But Republicans are allowing Musk to run amok. This could be because they know that Trump has embraced the idea that the American government is a “Deep State,” but that the extreme cuts the MAGA Republicans say they want are actually quite unpopular with Americans in general, and even with most Republican voters. By letting Musk make the cuts the MAGA base wants, they can both provide those cuts and distance themselves from them.

But permitting a private citizen to override the will of our representatives in Congress destroys the U.S. Constitution. It also makes Congress itself superfluous. And it takes the minority rule Republicans have come to embrace to the logical end of putting government power in the hands of one man.

Musk’s team in the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has taken control of the U.S. Treasury payment systems that handle about $6 trillion in annual transactions for the U.S. government, thus gaining access to Americans' personal information as well as information about Musk's competitors. From there, Musk claims to have been cancelling those transactions he thinks are wasteful. He claims, for example, to have “deleted” the popular Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Direct File system that enabled people to file their taxes online for free, without the help of paid tax preparers.

Musk’s team apparently consists of six engineers, aged 19 to 24, who are taking control of the computers at government agencies. From the Treasury Department, they went on to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which receives foreign policy guidance from the State Department. Their breaching of the computers there compromises our national intelligence systems, which must now be considered insecure.

From there, they went on to the General Services Administration (GSA), which manages the federal government’s 7,500 or so buildings. Musk’s people sent an email to regional managers telling them to begin ending the leases on federal offices. According to Chris Megerian of the Associated Press, the person in charge of that initiative is Nicole Hollander, who describes herself on LinkedIn as employed at Musk’s social media company, X.

Today, according to an email sent to employees of the Small Business Administration, Musk’s people have gotten into that agency’s human resources, contracts, and payment systems. The Small Business Administration supports small businesses and entrepreneurs, and under the Biden-Harris administration, small businesses boomed thanks to small-dollar loans to women, Black, and Latino entrepreneurs.

By this afternoon, Musk’s people were digging into the data of the Department of Education with an eye to dismantling it from the inside before Trump tries to shut it down with an executive order, although only Congress itself can shutter the department. According to Laura Meckler, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, and Hannah Natanson of the Washington Post, Musk’s DOGE staffers had accessed sensitive internal data systems, including the personal information of millions of students who are taking part in the federal student aid program. It is highly unlikely that Congress would destroy the Department of Education, so Musk and Trump hope to hollow it out from within.

On a livestream last night, Musk said of his destruction of the federal government: “If it’s not possible now, it will never be possible. This is our shot, This is the best hand of cards we’re ever going to have. If we don’t take advantage of this best hand of cards, it’s never going to happen.”

Three federal employees unions are suing the Trump administration to stop Musk, and today, Democratic members of the House and Senate tried to enter the USAID building but were denied entry. Led by Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT), Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Representatives Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the Democrats condemned what Raskin called Musk and Trump’s “illegal, unconstitutional interference with congressional power.”

“Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payment systems of the United States Department of Treasury,” Raskin said, “but you don’t control the money of the American people. The United States Congress does that—under Article I of the Constitution. And just like the president, who was elected to something, cannot impound the money of the people, we don’t have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk. And that’s going to become real clear.”

Senator Murphy said: "[L]et's not pull any punches about why this is happening. Elon Musk makes billions of dollars based off of his business with China. And China is cheering at [the destruction of USAID]. There is no question that the billionaire class trying to take over our government right now is doing it based on self-interest: their belief that if they can make us weaker in the world, if they can elevate their business partners all around the world, they will gain the benefit.”

Murphy continued: “But there’s another reason this is happening. They’re shuttering agencies and sending employees home in order to create the illusion that they’re saving money, in order to…pass a giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations.”

While Musk and his DOGE team are trying systematically to dismantle the government, today Judge Loren L. AliKhan of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to freeze trillions of dollars in grants and loans before DOGE got going. AliKhan said that by impounding funds—which Congress declared illegal in 1974—Trump’s Office of Management and Budget “attempted to wrest the power of the purse away from the only branch of government entitled to wield it.” It is Congress, not the president, that determines federal spending.

Meanwhile, the elected president, Donald Trump, sparked a crisis last Friday when his White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, announced that he fully intended to go through with the trade war he had hyped on the campaign trail. Trump announced he would levy tariffs of 25% on most products from Mexico and Canada and of 10% on products from China, beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, in violation of the trade agreement his own team had negotiated during his first term.

As soon as Leavitt announced the upcoming tariffs, the stock market began to fall, and by last night, stock market futures had fallen 450 points on the expectation of tariffs hitting at midnight tonight. Today, the stock market continued to fall. Even reliable Trump allies began to complain that the tariffs would raise prices. The Wall Street Journal editorial board called Trump’s tariffs “the dumbest trade war in history.”

Today, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced that she and Trump had “reached a series of agreements” that would pause the threatened tariffs for a month. Mexico agreed to “reinforce the northern border with 10,000 elements of the National Guard immediately, to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States,” while the U.S. “commits to work to prevent the trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico.”

When Trump announced their conversation shortly afterward, he omitted the part of the agreement that committed the U.S. to try to stop the flow of guns to Mexico. He also did not mention that, in fact, Mexico committed to putting 10,000 troops at the border in 2021. As Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post commented above a record of Mexican troop deployments: “Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn’t realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there[.]”

The crisis at the northern border worked out in a similar fashion. After conferring, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Trump announced a 30-day pause in the implementation of tariffs. Trudeau agreed to appoint a border czar and to implement a $1.3 billion border plan that Canada had announced in December.

In other words, while Musk was causing a constitutional crisis, Trump created an economic crisis that threatened both domestic and global chaos, then claimed Biden administration achievements as his own and declared victory.

The tariffs on Chinese goods went into effect as planned. China has promised to levy tariffs of up to 15% on certain U.S. products beginning a week from today. It also said it will investigate Google to see if it has violated antitrust laws.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[bitchesgetriches]

How to Pay Hospital Bills When You’re Flat Broke

It’s a fucking travesty that the leading cause of bankruptcy in these United States is medical bills. Not credit card bills nor risky investments. Not even student loans, but hospital bills. Invoices racked up through freak accidents and diseases the patient certainly didn’t ask for and would probably prefer to live without.

To our readers in other, more civilized countries, you’re dismissed. This week we’re going to be dissecting a uniquely American problem: exorbitant medical bills and how to pay them.

The CEO of GoFundMe, an online crowd-funding platform, never dreamed that his company would become synonymous with “I’m broke and need $300,000 to pay for my child’s cancer treatment.” What he envisioned as a way for entrepreneurs and artists to raise money for their passion projects has become the last desperate hope of sick and injured Americans on the verge of total financial ruin.

It blows, dear readers. It fucking blows.

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Heather Cox Richardson

February 3, 2025 (Monday)

I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate. They also control the White House and the Supreme Court. If they wanted to get rid of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), for example, they could introduce a bill, debate it, pass it, and send it on to President Trump for his signature. And there would be very little the Democrats could do to stop that change.

But they are not doing that.

Instead, they are permitting unelected billionaire Elon Musk, whose investment of $290 million in Trump and other Republican candidates in the 2024 election apparently has bought him freedom to run the government, to override Congress and enact whatever his own policies are by rooting around in government agencies and cancelling those programs that he, personally, dislikes.

The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs created and funded by Congress, and a private citizen tapped by a president has even less standing to try anything so radical.

But Republicans are allowing Musk to run amok. This could be because they know that Trump has embraced the idea that the American government is a “Deep State,” but that the extreme cuts the MAGA Republicans say they want are actually quite unpopular with Americans in general, and even with most Republican voters. By letting Musk make the cuts the MAGA base wants, they can both provide those cuts and distance themselves from them.

But permitting a private citizen to override the will of our representatives in Congress destroys the U.S. Constitution. It also makes Congress itself superfluous. And it takes the minority rule Republicans have come to embrace to the logical end of putting government power in the hands of one man.

Musk’s team in the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has taken control of the U.S. Treasury payment systems that handle about $6 trillion in annual transactions for the U.S. government, thus gaining access to Americans' personal information as well as information about Musk's competitors. From there, Musk claims to have been cancelling those transactions he thinks are wasteful. He claims, for example, to have “deleted” the popular Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Direct File system that enabled people to file their taxes online for free, without the help of paid tax preparers.

Musk’s team apparently consists of six engineers, aged 19 to 24, who are taking control of the computers at government agencies. From the Treasury Department, they went on to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which receives foreign policy guidance from the State Department. Their breaching of the computers there compromises our national intelligence systems, which must now be considered insecure.

From there, they went on to the General Services Administration (GSA), which manages the federal government’s 7,500 or so buildings. Musk’s people sent an email to regional managers telling them to begin ending the leases on federal offices. According to Chris Megerian of the Associated Press, the person in charge of that initiative is Nicole Hollander, who describes herself on LinkedIn as employed at Musk’s social media company, X.

Today, according to an email sent to employees of the Small Business Administration, Musk’s people have gotten into that agency’s human resources, contracts, and payment systems. The Small Business Administration supports small businesses and entrepreneurs, and under the Biden-Harris administration, small businesses boomed thanks to small-dollar loans to women, Black, and Latino entrepreneurs.

By this afternoon, Musk’s people were digging into the data of the Department of Education with an eye to dismantling it from the inside before Trump tries to shut it down with an executive order, although only Congress itself can shutter the department. According to Laura Meckler, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, and Hannah Natanson of the Washington Post, Musk’s DOGE staffers had accessed sensitive internal data systems, including the personal information of millions of students who are taking part in the federal student aid program. It is highly unlikely that Congress would destroy the Department of Education, so Musk and Trump hope to hollow it out from within.

On a livestream last night, Musk said of his destruction of the federal government: “If it’s not possible now, it will never be possible. This is our shot, This is the best hand of cards we’re ever going to have. If we don’t take advantage of this best hand of cards, it’s never going to happen.”

Three federal employees unions are suing the Trump administration to stop Musk, and today, Democratic members of the House and Senate tried to enter the USAID building but were denied entry. Led by Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT), Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Representatives Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the Democrats condemned what Raskin called Musk and Trump’s “illegal, unconstitutional interference with congressional power.”

“Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payment systems of the United States Department of Treasury,” Raskin said, “but you don’t control the money of the American people. The United States Congress does that—under Article I of the Constitution. And just like the president, who was elected to something, cannot impound the money of the people, we don’t have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk. And that’s going to become real clear.”

Senator Murphy said: "[L]et's not pull any punches about why this is happening. Elon Musk makes billions of dollars based off of his business with China. And China is cheering at [the destruction of USAID]. There is no question that the billionaire class trying to take over our government right now is doing it based on self-interest: their belief that if they can make us weaker in the world, if they can elevate their business partners all around the world, they will gain the benefit.”

Murphy continued: “But there’s another reason this is happening. They’re shuttering agencies and sending employees home in order to create the illusion that they’re saving money, in order to…pass a giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations.”

While Musk and his DOGE team are trying systematically to dismantle the government, today Judge Loren L. AliKhan of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to freeze trillions of dollars in grants and loans before DOGE got going. AliKhan said that by impounding funds—which Congress declared illegal in 1974—Trump’s Office of Management and Budget “attempted to wrest the power of the purse away from the only branch of government entitled to wield it.” It is Congress, not the president, that determines federal spending.

Meanwhile, the elected president, Donald Trump, sparked a crisis last Friday when his White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, announced that he fully intended to go through with the trade war he had hyped on the campaign trail. Trump announced he would levy tariffs of 25% on most products from Mexico and Canada and of 10% on products from China, beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, in violation of the trade agreement his own team had negotiated during his first term.

As soon as Leavitt announced the upcoming tariffs, the stock market began to fall, and by last night, stock market futures had fallen 450 points on the expectation of tariffs hitting at midnight tonight. Today, the stock market continued to fall. Even reliable Trump allies began to complain that the tariffs would raise prices. The Wall Street Journal editorial board called Trump’s tariffs “the dumbest trade war in history.”

Today, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced that she and Trump had “reached a series of agreements” that would pause the threatened tariffs for a month. Mexico agreed to “reinforce the northern border with 10,000 elements of the National Guard immediately, to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States,” while the U.S. “commits to work to prevent the trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico.”

When Trump announced their conversation shortly afterward, he omitted the part of the agreement that committed the U.S. to try to stop the flow of guns to Mexico. He also did not mention that, in fact, Mexico committed to putting 10,000 troops at the border in 2021. As Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post commented: “Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there[.]”

The crisis at the northern border worked out in a similar fashion. After conferring, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Trump announced a 30-day pause in the implementation of tariffs. Trudeau agreed to appoint a border czar and to implement a $1.3 billion border plan that Canada had announced in December.

In other words, while Musk was causing a constitutional crisis, Trump created an economic crisis that threatened both domestic and global chaos, then claimed Biden administration achievements as his own and declared victory.

The tariffs on Chinese goods went into effect as planned. China has promised to levy tariffs of up to 15% on certain U.S. products beginning a week from today. It also said it will investigate Google to see if it has violated antitrust laws.

[samueldays]

Most Americans can't read. A majority of yanks are Maga fascists and proud of it. Openly terrible, terrible people. Every other yank? Desperately trying to find a way to do nothing. Desperately trying to be as lazy and uncaring as possible while also trying to claim moral superiority. Delusional, maybe? Dishonest, completely. Lazy? Definitely. Yanks don't vote. Yanks don't volunteer. Yanks don't help. What do Yanks do? Yell online to convince themselves that they're the good ones. They're heroes. They're the guy/gal/they that's definitely smart and forward thinking. None of them get off their fat hole. None of them do shit. Then they go and lecture other people about how good they are and bad other people are. It's predictable. Rote even. See it all the time. Hyper focus on something that doesn't matter to distract themselves from their entire cultures moral failings. In January Trump will become the last president of the United states. What will yanks do? Nothing. At all. You did nothing for Iraq. Nothing for the patriot act. Nothing for the bailout. Nothing for Kurds. Nothing for police brutality. Nothing for Yemen. Nothing for the tax breaks. Nothing for the schools. Nothing for the ppp loan fraud. Nothing on J6. Nothing about the attempted coup and you'll do NOTHING when he takes the crown.

First thing you should know, Anon, is that I'm a Norwegian citizen living in Norway. "You did nothing for" doesn't have the impact you think it does.

I go on about America partly because Norway is arguably a sort of American client state. America is an overlord who one-sidedly guarantees Norway's sovereignty. Norway is an informal vassal who holds American-style BLM protests as a display of loyalty. America is the world hegemon, and when America sneezes, Norway gets a cold.

Second, I'm a monarchist. If Trump takes the crown, that's great. I will cheer.

Third, I don't think you know what a fascist is. I don't think the word "fascist" conveys any useful information, it's "badguy" in fancy language. The American government is increasingly totalitarian, try that word out.

[bucksboobs]

Most Americans can't read. A majority of yanks are Maga fascists and proud of it. Openly terrible, terrible people. Every other yank? Desperately trying to find a way to do nothing. Desperately trying to be as lazy and uncaring as possible while also trying to claim moral superiority. Delusional, maybe? Dishonest, completely. Lazy? Definitely. Yanks don't vote. Yanks don't volunteer. Yanks don't help. What do Yanks do? Yell online to convince themselves that they're the good ones. They're heroes. They're the guy/gal/they that's definitely smart and forward thinking. None of them get off their fat hole. None of them do shit. Then they go and lecture other people about how good they are and bad other people are. It's predictable. Rote even. See it all the time. Hyper focus on something that doesn't matter to distract themselves from their entire cultures moral failings. In January Trump will become the last president of the United states. What will yanks do? Nothing. At all. You did nothing for Iraq. Nothing for the patriot act. Nothing for the bailout. Nothing for Kurds. Nothing for police brutality. Nothing for Yemen. Nothing for the tax breaks. Nothing for the schools. Nothing for the ppp loan fraud. Nothing on J6. Nothing about the attempted coup and you'll do NOTHING when he takes the crown.

Is this about you not liking the phrase “a hit dog will holler”

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Best college research is in USA cost vs degree use which has a list of schools, this gives you the best loan for degree cost of the degree is the goal. Look at that and the subject then online at the best cross matches. Unless you want a social experience mostly then whatever vibes. Listen you know anti-trans bigotry like in your about has NO ethical point in feminism, it's just bigotry.

Thank you for the advice on college :)

I'm not a bigot. I'm not anti-trans. I don't think trans people are inherently evil. But I do not believe you can change your biological sex. I do not believe allowing trans women into women's sports, changing rooms, sexualities (lesbians being pressured to date trans women), etc. is good for women and girls. It's not just a belief I have, it's factually proven to be dangerous to put TW in women's prisons (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and in bathrooms (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 [5 is written by a trans woman]).

I'm not saying I hate trans people or that I don't trust them or that teens/children who identify as transgender are "broken" or "wrong" like people have said I do. I think we have manipulated an entire generation of lesbians and homosexual boys (though not all trans-identified people are homosexual/bisexual) into believing they have to be the opposite sex. We've lied to dysphoric teens and told them they're going to die if they don't recieve gender-affirming care (see all the posts on the protecttranskids, transgenocide, transrights etc. hashtags).

This is also evident in that anytime you question someone who says trans people are experiencing a genocide, especially a younger person (like a teenager who gets all their information from Instagram and TikTok) they actually can't come up with a single example. Even when they bring up the so-called "anti-trans legislature" being passed in the United States, they can't name any specific bans, because that actually does not exist. What I linked for you is HB1276, which, if you read it, allows minors who underwent sexual reassignment surgery to sue their doctors up to 30 years after they turn 18 for malpractice if they regret surgery. Trans Legislation Tracker labels this an "anti-trans" bill.

They have reason to regret it, too. Lupron, the drug administered in FtM transition to dysphoric females, has painful and sometimes deadly side effects that gender-affirming medical clinics will not disclose with you in full. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Also, a disproportionate amount of FtM females are autistic, homosexual, and depressed. I care especially about these women because I'm eighteen, autistic, and a lesbian, so I really resonate with their pain and struggle. I'm not disgusted by transgender individuals and I'm not angry with them. I feel terrible for them. And I want to help.

What I think we have in the world now is an extreme lack of education. It's harming girls and women my age, when there are more affordable and better options. We've known for a long time doctors will push medicines that don't work/shouldn't be as expensive as they are in order to make money (I'm talking about things like selling insulin for $500 a vial. I'm not talking about things like vaccines.).

If you want to change your name and use other pronouns, cool, fine, whatever. I don't care what you do with your life, your money, and your time. But don't call yourself male or female when you're not. See my pinned post for why doing so harms women and men.

Transgenderism is motivated by misogyny. Go to any of the subreddits created for TW (r/Egg_irl, r/MtF, r/transgender [though that one contains trans men also]) and you'll see in every "How I knew I was trans" post that these people consider being female synonymous with being feminine, and it isn't. I'm not feminine. Does that make me a man? No. It just makes me a nonfeminine woman.

I'm not denying the existence of gender dysphoria. Many of my mutuals are desisted females who still struggle with it. But hormone therapy/SRS (sexual reassignment surgery) are very clearly not the answer. I hope this helps you understand my position better. I also hope I've not come across as condescending or patronizing in any way.

[marzipanandminutiae]

Cabinet of Curiosities Opinions

Roland (Lot 36) is not a neo-Nazi and the hair wreath is not made from the hair of concentration camp victims.

I didn't think this needed to be stated, since he called the Wolmar family evil, which he definitely wouldn't have done if he agreed with them. But apparently some people see "German guy talking about Nazis" and assume he's one himself. Weird.

As for the hair wreath, such things were popular in the 19th century, not the 1930s-40s. I went looking and couldn't find any extant examples from that era. Given the presence of other antiques from that period in the storage unit, like the summoning table, it makes far more sense for the wreath to be an earlier family heirloom. At the very least, even if it WERE some perverse latter-day craft project made by Dottie or her mother or something, there would be no reason for Roland and Agatha to assume that. So they'd probably believe it was innocent even if it wasn't.

2. Emilia is an avenging angel sent to test people like Nick.

This is a bit more of a stretch, but bear with me. When he gives her the lock, she says (in Spanish) "What kind of man are you?" An understandable response to him being a racist asshole, but to me it sounds like she's saying it in a measuring way, as if she's really wondering. Later, in her final appearance, the light behind her umbrella gives her a halo effect. And condemning him to be devoured by a demon he set loose seems like a pretty fitting thing for an angel to do if she's seen that he's past helping.

(This take brought to you by: whiny pissbabies on Reddit going on about "well he's not THAT bad and even if she couldn't see the demon, she KNEW the loan shark was after him so she should have REALIZED he was in real danger and let him out!!! the clearly symbolic racial-, gender-, and class-disadvantaged person in this 45-minute fictional story is the TRUE bad guy here, not the man who was listening to a white nationalist radio show and agreeing with it!")

3. Stacy's coworkers (The Outside) weren't actually that bad.

She feels isolated from them because they have nothing in common to talk about. We never see them actively being mean to her; just not being her best friend- and nobody is obligated to befriend coworkers if they don't want to. They invite her to the party, so clearly they do think of her. Sure, the one lady reacts badly to being given a taxidermy duck for Christmas, but...taxidermy IS a pretty contentious gift. Not something I would spring on someone at all. Stacy was just doing her best, so I don't blame her either. It's just an awkward situation all around, that's nobody's fault.

I feel like the point is not "this woman's bitchy coworkers drove her to change herself." It's that marketing and the media cause women to be internally critical on a deeply harmful level, even if nobody else is actually being critical of us.

4. The Outside has themes of sublimated homosexual desire.

Stacy has a tense relationship with her hsband, idolizes the women at work who are constantly touching and stroking each other, and literally makes out with the feminine-looking Allo Glo creature in the basement. I mean. Come on. This one seems like a no-brainer to me. I don't think that's the PRIMARY theme, but it's definitely there.

6. Nancy (The Murmuring) had something to do with Ava's death.

One theory I saw online was that she'd rolled over on her while co-sleeping, since the ghost she mistakes for baby Ava appears in the bed next to her. I'd believe it, and it definitely adds another layer to her sympathy with the mother ghost- who I just learned is named Claudette in the credits. Even though I very much doubt she did anything that purposeful.

7. Alternatively, Ava was not a baby when she died.

Edgar and Nancy are both on the older side to be new parents (Essie Davis was 52 during filming, though the character is probably somewhat younger), and Nancy has clear experience talking to older children when she addresses the little boy ghost. Ava's death was recent, so while I suspect the intention is that she was a surprise baby to a couple who assumed they'd never have any, she could have been any age within childhood.

8. Ava was named after birds.

"Avis" means bird in Latin and her parents are ornithologists. It just makes sense.

[lumpytoadboy]

Man, I am not doing so great.

I mean, it's been a minute since I've been okay. I'm disabled but ineligible for disability benefits, non-binary trans and not cis passing, unable to work, in 6 digits of student debt, unable to get health care, and still masking due to physical and mental health issues. I'm AuDHD and I have cPTSD; I don't really leave the house and most days I barely make it out of bed. And I live in a rural area of the United States, where every street is speckled with Republican signage.

I don't feel safe here, but I also have the privilege of being white and having a partner who keeps a roof over our heads. So I don't feel like I'm in imminent danger either, as long as I stay inside my house. It's not a wonderful way to live, but it is keeping me alive despite the depressive nature of being isolated from everyone.

Yesterday I heard that a trans acquaintance in NYC fled the country to somewhere overseas. I guess that triggered me a bit. Should I be trying to get out of here? It's been my hope that my partner and I would be able to leave the state since 2016, but we're still here, and we don't have the money for a new place; my student loans cost around $2k a month, and my poor partner pays them. I can't express how worthless that makes me feel. I've tried to find work but I just haven't found anything I can handle, despite my 3 college degrees. I'm enrolled in an online MLS program, but it's so hard to focus when everything is the way it is. I'm scared I won't make it through, even though school is the only thing I'm really any good at.

I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing right now. I'm scared and sad and angry, but more than anything I feel so powerless. I don't have a community, and I don't feel safe or welcome in queer spaces that don't mask. I don't have any friends in my state. I am a Canadian citizen by birth, but if I crossed the border there would be nowhere for me to stay- I'm estranged from my family.

This is a vent post because I feel like I'm going to be sick or explode or stop breathing. It's also a request for advice. I genuinely don't know what I should be doing right now, and I don't have anyone to ask. If you're a friend, please DM me with any advice, especially if you're also a trans person in the US.

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My current situation

Through the past few months my stage 3 spinal cancer has been worsening, about a month ago doctors informed me that a amputation of my left leg will needed to be performed in order to keep my chance up of surviving as my current percentage is around 20%-30% due to my addiction and stress levels.

In the past I have sincerely struggled with substance abuse, not only having easy access to drugs from my home city but also having the knowledge of how to access and at times even create my own substances within crossing to the United States. Being a cocaine addict for about 4 years now, I recently have started fetanayl a few months past as nothing was stopping my cancer from hurting or my spine from locking up. I also saw it as an escape from my life, from my stress, from my family, and even those who somehow managed to keep in touch online. Through this I lost several jobs as I am currently working 4 at once and also attending Grand Canyon University for another chance at an orchestra. It has been my dream as a child to be a violinist in an orchestra that tours the world. No longer am I able to achieve that dream is what I realize. I accept my decisions and understand my wrong doing, and do I preach to never make such decisions again as I will be working to become a better person.

I understand many people are upset about how I treated my boyfriend Elijah, so am I with myself. I ask for no amounts of sympathy or no amounts of respect. Though learning from this I will strive to get myself help.

Many people may know what’ve happened, though without telling the people that don’t know, my reason for becoming a prostitute was because my body is the only thing I have left to make some sort of profit off. My goal was to at least make $400,000 and achieve a loan from the bank to as well pay off my amputation cost. As I will die in about a year with my leg still on my body. I take fault of my actions, It was the wrong thing, I am learning from it. Though I thought it was the easy way out, it was not. I take complete responsibility for committing cheating actions on our relationship. From what I remember though, I had zero intention of committing to a relationship with the client I was servicing at the time. Though taking pride in my relationship, I understand it is all gone. I never meant to cheat, I never meant to do harm, I only wanted some way to help myself as I did through drugs. Now I realize, I am wronged, I should be shamed for it.

I wrote this as an explanation though also an apology to those who are against my situation and tell me to go die.

For I am sorry for my actions, as I will be taking a break from social media in order to fix what I have done. Though understanding, the mistakes will never be forgotten nor fixed.

Please consider donating, all donations are greatly appreciated and used well in my journey of recovery.

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[ashadowofburnedoutstardust]

I'm bored and still not sleeping and still scrolling tiktok for what is pretty much the first time

I've come across a few Americans attempting to explain the debt that you encounter in your College/University education system

I've been well aware in New Zealand of what your tertiary education costs in the United States for quite some time

Comparative to here it is horrendously expensive

From my understanding the majority of you end up taking out Bank loans or something along those lines, I understand there's also student loan debt which I am less clear on how that operates but as far as I am aware you also get charged interest on both of these things

In New Zealand our education is still middle range in terms of cost but you should be able to reach PhD level still being under 100K, although you may not reach this level of debt it can greatly depend on what you study and how long you study

We have something similar to your student loans but our conditions are very different

So long as you live in New Zealand after your study while you are still paying off your loan, you are not charged any interest on your loan and your loan repayments are automatically deducted at a rate of 12% from your wages.

We also pay staggered level income taxes on top of that, as well as our ACC levy, but out of that we get healthcare as well as liability insurance in case of an accident. Keep in mind you can't sue people for that in this country, you're simply not able to legally do it without a lot of difficulty

If you have a legal issue with a government agency we also have government funded independent agencies that are able to act on your behalf in place of lawyers, so those ones that stand on street corners waiting for an accident chasing you with a card, they don't exist here

Anyway you can borrow the course fees, you can also borrow up to a thousand dollars per year to help with course related costs, I will admit this amount never covers the actual course related costs and as a bit of a running joke because it's piss all in terms of the cost of books etc although the movement to online learning has helped greatly reduce this over time, but it did mean arise in our course costs so that the provider was then required to provide you with all of your course materials

You can also borrow something called living costs where if you are unable to cover your bills you are able to borrow a little bit extra every week in order to meet your living costs

You are however required to pay back your course fees, your course related costs, and your living costs; all three of these things contribute to your loan total

We also have something called as student allowance

This is basically equal to a UBI that is applicable to students only. You are also able to borrow an accommodation supplement that goes along with your student allowance which is based entirely on your total income and how much you pay in rent. The accommodation supplement is exactly that, a supplement to help fund your accommodation

You are also able to get a job as a student while receiving the student allowance, you are able to earn up to a certain amount before your student allowance will start to be gradually decreased, it's something like it will be decreased 80 cents for every dollar you earn over a certain amount. The last time I studied while I was working the capped amount was about $180 before they would begin the reductions in your allowance amount, but this was also over a decade ago so I imagine it will have increased a bit since then

There is a limit to how much you are able to borrow and we use a system called EFTS or equivalent full-time study, which is basically a measure of time that should enable you to reach a master's level at the very least

We have had restrictions placed on masters degree students by the current ruling party in their previous term that put limitations on their access to the student allowance which enabled people to reach a higher level of study.

As a result people paid off their bachelors degree and then simply saved all of their money moved overseas and studied over there and got jobs there so great job to a shitty government that we are stuck with again on that one

While there are advantages to having this system in place, the student loan system was only introduced in the early 90s as a measure to stem the loss of qualified people leaving New Zealand due to low wages

The system may enable people to gain and education but it also change the student to what is equivalent to a modern day indentured service to the government that refused to improve workers conditions in terms of wages

I will mention that the entire reason that the wages sucked was due to the fact that the country was still recovering from the economic depression intentionally caused by the British government after we kicked them out in the 60s and 70s

This is the real reason you will have come into contact with millennial New Zealanders overseas and as part of the reason we do what is called an OE, or an overseas experience, what the Americans call a gap year

The idea behind it is first and foremost exploring the world as an adult, getting some life experience behind you. But if in that process you find yourself a better opportunity overseas when you were able to get a job that will train you, pay you better, and give you a better quality of life then you would seize it

Wow this post ended up a lot longer than I thought it would be I can't really put a tdlr after that can I?

Anyway it's not perfect, and we end up indentured slaves, but we can still access and education a lot more easily

Personally I think that education, especially higher education should be free at the very least for the citizens in the country that they are born, live, and reside in

It's a bit farfetched to dream that education would simply be free everywhere for everyone in the world but wouldn't that be a nice thing? Everybody could lift themselves up as well as each other

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