Welcome to the Lost World.

Gaza is under siege, and the price of staples has climbed tremendously. Community kitchens have been forced to close due to lack of supplies, and have been unable to afford to replenish their stocks.

Gaza Soup Kitchen is a grassroots organization that uses money from global donors to feed thousands of people every day. Their most recent campaign was to provide food parcels for Ramadan, and they are going to struggle to keep people fed in the midst of this new, horrifying war.

While the title of this post is KOSA related, there were several bills to watch for in today's House Energy and Commerce committee markup, including the The App Store Accountability Act and the Kids Act (which I believe is KOSA and some other age-verification bills meshed together).

The House Energy and Commerce committee voted 28-24 to pass these bills out of committee, making them eligible for a floor vote whenever Mike Johnson may choose to bring them up.

While this is bad, I refuse to be defeated. In the past age-verification bills have passed by large margins, and are often bipartisan. This vote clearly was not that, which signals to me that there is weakness and that for whatever reason, Congress members do not agree.

We can take advantage of these weaknesses and that fact that the House and Senate do not agree on the final outlook of these bills (which is why there even is a Senate and a House version of KOSA), we just have to keep opposing and pointing out the flaws in these bills and how ineffective they are. They clearly see it, like when AOC referenced the mess with discord.

From here next steps are to rest, see how organizations like Fight for the Future, EFF, and Net choice interpret today, and be ready to continue calling, emailing, and faxing our representatives, senators, and House Leadership:

⭐Steve Scalise

(202) 225-3015

⭐Mike Johnson

(202) 225-2777

⭐Hakeem Jeffries

(202) 225-5936

"is someone mad at you?"

"there's someone going around pretending to be you. do you know who would do this?"

"they sent my friend pornographic images and they got banned. the issue is the imposter has the same name as you"

"i got this email from staff, and it says they're going to ban you"

"you have to add Tumblr Staff on discord to appeal it"

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I don't know if anyone has talked about this, but lately this has been happening in other fandoms too. There'll be these bot accounts that straight up steals people's posts and adds "expand" "read more" "continue" as a link in the end of the post - DON'T CLICK ON THAT, it's most likely a malware or something of the like.

so if you see a post like this: no profile picture, something that looks reposted (I've seen this happening to artists too) and a link at the end, even if the post has tags, that's a bot. Block and report it.