#i donated to Kamala Harris on Sunday I'm all in let's fucking go

[artielu]

Listen up, y'all.

This is what happens when you have Democrats in the White House. Biden appointed Deb Haaland, an Indigenous woman, to lead the Department of the Interior, which is the federal agency primarily responsible for relations with Native Americans. So, for the first time, the Dept of the Interior was led by a person who is native.

Because elections have consequences and voting MATTERS.

And that Department undertook an investigation into the horrific boarding schools created by the federal government for the purpose of destroying native cultures. And then published its findings.

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"The federal government today expanded the number of children known to have died in the repressive boarding school system that, for more than a century, pulled Native American children from their homes and communities. The Interior Department also called for billions in federal funding to begin a “healing” process.

The report concludes a three-year investigation that saw, for the first time, the federal government accepting responsibility for its role in creating the system, which included more than 400 schools across 37 states.

“The federal government – facilitated by the Department I lead – took deliberate and strategic actions through federal Indian boarding school policies to isolate children from their families, deny them their identities, and steal from them the languages, cultures and connections that are foundational to Native people,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement."

The report advocates spending at least as much money the federal government spent tearing apart indigenous people to repair the damage it caused. "In other words, investing $23.3 billion back to the tribes, spread out over a long period of time. The report advocates spending on programs such as family reunification, language revitalization, and Indian education – programs intended to address the ways in which the boarding school system wreaked havoc on tribal communities."

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Whom you vote for in November matters for so many reasons, including this. Harris will continue this work. Trump will ignore it. If you care about attempting to repair the atrocities the US federal government has inflicted on indigenous people, you need to vote blue. You need to vote for Harris and then continue to advocate for indigenous people and other systemically marginalized groups.

Your vote is your voice and your voice matters but only if you actually use it to influence the election.

Vote Harris. Vote blue.

[artielu]

Imagine his ego after losing to

a Black,

South Asian

woman

whose parents are brown immigrants including an Indian woman scientist who researched cancer (Shyamala Gopalan) and a Jamaican-African heritage Stanford economics professor (Donald J. Harris)

whose parents divorced when she was seven and she was raised basically by a single mother

born in Oakland, CA, a historically minority-majority city

grew up during elementary school in Berkeley, CA (the People's Republic of Berkeley) in an apartment

who visited her maternal grandparents in India as a child

who grew up singing in choir at a Black church

went to Berkeley public elementary school under the city's desegregation program

grew up during middle and high school in Montreal after her mom got a job at McGill University

a graduate of Howard, an HBCU and

a member of the powerful Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha,

a graduate of University of California law school, with her admission supported through a diversity program called Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP)

prosecutor, first a DA in San Francisco and then a California AG

sued banks during the mortgage crisis

tackled and cleared the massive backlog of rape kits in 2012 in California

refused to defend the anti-gay-marriage Prop 8

targeted revenge porn

defended reproductive rights

married to a Jewish lawyer who fully supports his wife with his full effort

whose brother in law is the general counsel of Uber (Tony West) married to her bad ass lawyer sister (Maya Lakshmi Harris)

chosen by Joe Biden as VP, a man seen by many as a decent, kind, lifelong public servant

endorsed by major unions representing tens of thousands of hard working people

Tough, smart, confident, hard working, pro-choice, lgbtqia ally and has earned the respect of her peers

Let's fucking go, y'all.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kamalaharris2024

Donate $5 now and tell Trump and his billionaire fascist oligarchs to fuck all the way off, including Elon. Let's ruin their day. His entire world view will implode if he loses.

Get everyone fired up to vote for Kamala. Talk to everyone. We can beat fascism if we try.

Sí se puede. Yes we can.

I'm not going to wax poetic about the underdog and miracles and pulling together to save the country. Smarter people than me do that already. I just need you to think of something. Remember how good the memes were right after Trump lost last time? How funny it was? How for a brief moment in time we felt we had defeated true evil and could laugh at it right in its stupid face? We can do that again. Remember him making a pathetic little speech in that stupid parking lot, so perfect it could have been an Always Sunny bit?

The embarrassment of it a second time could kill the guy. We need it to happen. Please help me make it happen.