Doing Good

Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?" because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.

We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.

Below are some excerpts from an AP article today, describing the effect our ocean of calls is having on congresspeople.

Personally, I got a lovely phone call from my representative’s staffer, asking to confirm my concerns and opinions so they could be brought up at the next staff meeting.

Here's the number for the congressional switchboard. Please call your reps and senators. This man needs to be removed from office now. (202) 224-3121

You can also sign this petition by the ACLU.

I keep spamming this but John Larson filed impeachment articles yesterday. Every congressperson can sign on to it right now, it’s already drafted! https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres1155/BILLS-119hres1155ih.pdf

fiveforfive - collective fund for trans women and girls and transfem causes

gendered intelligence - trans led advocacy org

mermaids - supports trans youth

akt - lgbtq youth homelessness charity

loving me - domestic abuse service for trans people in england

Health care workers in the Twin Cities report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are entering hospitals with detained individuals, sometimes with warrants and sometimes without, and they are frequently present during patient care.

Their presence is terrifying medical staff and raising concerns about patient care, according to five nurses at HCMC hospital in Minneapolis who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs.

“A part of me wants to go on the news with my face and scream this at the top of my lungs,” an HCMC nurse said. “But I am very much right in the middle of this.”

Community organizers from Unidos MN, an immigrant advocacy nonprofit, told reporters last week that federal immigration officers were present inside the hospital without a judicial warrant. The officers were reportedly at the bedside of a patient receiving medical care for over 24 hours.

Health care workers said that the patient was denied family visitation and was at times shackled to the bed and not given privacy.

A Hennepin County Commissioner and state legislators showed up at HCMC, prompting immigration officers to leave after speaking with them, according to Unidos MN.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO EXPOSE YOURSELF TO POLITICAL NEWS ALL THE TIME!

YOU CAN TAKE THAT MENTAL BREAK, YOU CAN GO ON THAT WALK, HELL, YOU CAN EVEN KEEP POSTING LIKE NORMAL

Those BASTARDS want you to always be stressed and angry, but one of the BEST things we can to online besides educating ourselves is also cheering each other up!

MAKE ART! MAKE VIDEO! MAKE MUSIC! MAKE STUFF BECAUSE STUFF LIKE THIS IS IMPORTANT IN THIS ERA!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO ENDANGER YOURSELF IN A PROTEST KNOWING ICE IS AROUND, YOU JUST GOTTA KEEP GOING!!

cruz roja (red cross)