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If two people on SSI are married, the MAXIMUM they can receive is $1,491 a month, total, for both of them. (Meaning marriage to another SSI recipient reduces your maximum income possible to $745 a person each month.)

Could you live on that?

AND IT NEEDS TO FACE A LOT OF OPPOSITION, SO CALL AGAIN!!

Due to where it is typically grown, coffee farms are particularly vulnerable to damage from erosion when rain comes either too intensely or too sparsely. A coalition assembled by the Global Environment Facility set up test farms to help provide local coffee farmers in Uganda with the resources to apply regenerative agricultural techniques to their local farming conditions.

The results have led to better yields, healthier soil that is less prone to erosion, and more stable income for farmers.

Use the medications properly to prevent interactions with healthcare providers. The pills are very effective, but they have to be used right. Carefully follow the instructions provided on the How to Use Abortion Pill website. Note that misoprostol tablets should always be taken by dissolving them under the tongue. Do NOT insert misoprostol vaginally if you are self-managing an abortion. While this is medically safe, it can leave incriminating pill remnants that can be detected in the vagina during a pelvic exam if you end up needing to seek medical care. 

If it’s not an emergency but you need expert health advice, use a free calling service like Google Voice to call or text the Miscarriage + Abortion Hotline at 1-833-246-2632. Medical complications are very uncommon with abortion pills, but they’re not impossible. The M+A Hotline is safe to use and is staffed by trustworthy clinicians who volunteer their time to help those who choose SMA. Do not use your own phone number to call as this will create a record that is visible to your cell service provider. 

Don’t disclose any information about SMA to emergency room staff if you do need to seek medical care. This is how most people who are arrested for SMA are reported. Healthcare providers are almost always who calls the police in cases of SMA criminalization. Contrary to popular belief, HIPAA does not protect your private health information from being shared with police if you are suspected of doing something that could be considered a crime. If you believe you need to seek urgent medical care, do not hesitate to go. Say “I think I’m having a miscarriage” and provide your symptoms. Do not mention any use of or purchase of abortion pills. There is no widely available test to detect misoprostol in your bloodstream. If you do not disclose it, there is no way for a medical provider to tell the difference between a medication abortion and a spontaneous miscarriage.

🪼🌙 Moon jellies are more than pretty faceless beauties—they play an irreplaceable role in the ocean food web. Healthy jelly populations sustain beloved endangered species like the Pacific leatherback sea turtle.

These turtles migrate 6,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean all the way from Indonesia each fall when jellies bloom here in Monterey. Their jelly-heavy diet makes them especially vulnerable to plastic pollution, as they may accidentally mistake drifting trash like single-use shopping bags for their see-through seafood of choice. 🪼

We can protect ocean life like leatherback sea turtles, moon jellies, and countless other species by cutting single-use plastic use out of our lives and standing up for science-backed United States laws like the Endangered Species Act.

see, we generally have a rule that if you wanna pick up a stick, it has to be the length of or shorter than your elbow to the tip of your finger. which stick cult followed for a long time! they battled gently with sticks, or marched around with them, or built castles. it was a pretty good way for them to spend their breaktimes. sometimes we'd have a stick thrown into the coyote or fox enclosure, or theyd chant 'stick cult stick cult stick cult' too loud and we'd have to tell them off, but it was pretty okay for ~3 years. it got passed down from older kids to younger, etc.

all that was fine, until the Fire Nation Rock Cult attacked. see the rock cult was exactly the same as the stick cult- but with rocks. and we dont have a lot of big rocks on site, but we have a lot of gravel- and you can't really play fight with rocks the same as you can with sticks- but you can throw them. and rock cult was INSISTENT on usurping stick cult, to the point where we had multiple friendships end (for the day) due to it. we also got gravel in some kids eyes- it was a whole issue. then stick cult started picking up bigger sticks in retaliation and we had to stop the whole thing altogether

eventually (due to conservative parent complaints) the cults had to be ended. they lived on in spirit in rock castle & stick crew, who we eventually convinced to work together on building a large eagle sized bird nest on the decommissioned well.