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(posted 9/19) Hi y’all. I know most folks on this site are probably reeling from the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. If we want to preserve rights for women that she fought for her whole life, we need to follow her lead and mobilize.

At this point, the only real hope for escaping a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, absent Biden winning in a landslide and packing the court, is if four Republican Senators stand up to Mitch McConnell’s double standards and maintain the precedent that the Republicans followed in 2016: not voting on a Presidential SCOTUS nominee in an election year.

Is McConnell’s “election year” rule a hundred percent fake? Yes. Do I hate that we have to play ball on this shitty, institution-shattering court that he’s set up? Yes. But McConnell & co. robbed Barack Obama of his SCOTUS appointment in 2016. There should be one more Dem judge seated than there is right now, and this is our only chance to keep the playing field even remotely equal.

If you live in one of the following states, please call these specific Senators right now and plead them to go against McConnell. I really can’t stress enough that this may be the only path to stop the Senate adding a THIRD Trump appointee in four years. I have included scripts and phone numbers to make this as quick and easy as possible. It will take you five minutes, less, and there are never as many callers as you think there are. Your voice could make an actual difference.

ALASKA: Lisa Murkowski, (202) 224-6665 Hello, my name is X, and I’m a constituent from Alaska, zip code XXXXX. I don’t need a response to this message. On September 18th, Senator Murkowski said she “would not support” filling a Supreme Court vacancy before the inauguration, because it would be a “double standard.” I was glad to hear Senator Murkowski standing up for what’s right and I encourage her to keep this position, staying consistent with the precedent set in 2016. Senator, please oppose filling the vacancy before the inauguration. Thank you.

UTAH: Mitt Romney, (202) 224-5251 Hello, my name is X, and I’m a constituent from Utah, zip code XXXXX. I don’t need a response to this message. I want to urge Senator Romney to oppose filling the Supreme Court vacancy with a Trump nominee, due to the precedent set by Mitch McConnell in 2016. Earlier this year, Senator Romney voted to convict President Trump during his impeachment trial, and that gives me confidence that he can resist party pressure and fight this double standard. Senator, please oppose filling the vacancy before the inauguration. Thank you.

MAINE: Susan Collins, (202) 224-2523 Hello, my name is X, and I’m a constituent from Maine, zip code XXXXX. I don’t need a response to this message. I want to urge Senator Collins to oppose filling the Supreme Court vacancy with a Trump nominee, due to the precedent set by Mitch McConnell in 2016. In an election year for Senator Collins, it’s important to me to see that she can stand up for what’s right despite party pressure. Senator, please oppose filling the vacancy before the inauguration. Thank you.

IOWA: Chuck Grassley, (202) 224-3744 Hello, my name is X, and I’m a constituent from Iowa, zip code XXXXX. I don’t need a response to this message. In August, Senator Grassley said that he “couldn’t move forward with” filling a Supreme Court vacancy before this year’s election if it were on the table, because it would backtrack on the standard he helped set in 2016. I want to urge Senator Grassley to stick to this position and oppose double standards. Senator, please oppose filling the vacancy before the inauguration. Thank you.

SOUTH CAROLINA: Lindsey Graham (I know, long shot), (202) 224-5972 Hello, my name is X, and I’m a constituent from South Carolina, zip code XXXXX. I don’t need a response to this message. Senator Graham has said, and this is a direct quote, “I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.“ He repeated the idea again in 2018, saying, “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.” I urge Senator Graham to stand by his previous words and play by the rules the Republican Party has established for election-year nominations. Senator Graham, please oppose filling the Supreme Court vacancy before the inauguration. Thank you.

Fuck ‘Em

Listen to me, Tumblr, because apparently somewhere along the line a whole bunch of yall decided that we should just accept that whatever rich white people do as morally excusable if it happened a long enough time ago: owning slaves was evil. 

Slavery was evil. Slave owners were evil. Even if it was legal, even if they inherited their slaves, even if they weren’t as physically abusive as they could have been- all slave owners were evil.

Abolitionists existed in America before, during, and after the American Revolution. Folks KNEW. Folks knew that owning other human beings was evil. It wasn’t fucking an unheard of idea that you shouldn’t OWN PEOPLE.

Thomas Jefferson spent years raping a slave girl and then kept the resulting children as slaves. George Washington used the teeth of slaves to make his own dentures. This is not “product of their time” wishy washy nonsense. This is not “Well, EVERYONE was doing it” like drinking their cocaine and canning their food with lead. 

So yes, when you see someone pulling down a statue of Robert E Lee, or that sucking slave trader in Bristol, or Columbus, or Thomas Jefferson, and when you ask “who’s next? GEORGE WASHINGTON?” The answer should be - YES, FUCK EM. 

Slavery, especially Atlantic chattel slavery as we saw it here in the Americas, was morally repugnant, start to finish, and without question an institution of untold horror and human suffering, and ANY ONE who directly and knowingly benefited from it was a bad person. We don’t need fucking STATUES of them because they can not and should not represent the values we wish to celebrate.

CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS

CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS 

CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS 

it wasn’t george floyd’s protesters who started reacting violently; it was the cops.

the protest was peaceful until the cops showed up in riot gear, and started using water cannons, followed up by tear gas and rubber bullets. i got videos from friends who were there, of people screaming and running away from the cops shooting the water cannons, rubber bullets and throwing tear gas at them. they were even shooting at the protesters dragging people away to get medical attention.

speaking of medical attention, dispatch refused to provide any medical attention to the protesters. people literally had to drive their bleeding friends to the hospital because they refused to send ambulances.

cops are using non-lethal weapons in a lethal way. they shot rubber bullets into people’s heads and injured them. there’s dozens of photos of protesters with bleeding head wounds from the rubber bullets.

multiple people used police scanners and heard that there were undercover cops pretending to be violent protesters who were throwing rocks and whatnot at the police, with dozens of eyewitness accounts confirming that information.

the person who instigated all the chaos last night (it was a fire at an autozone) with the looting and burning buildings is highly suspected to be an undercover cop pretending to be a protester, because the video of him keeps getting taken down. protesters tried to stop him but couldn’t because he had a hammer and they were scared for their safety.

the cops jammed cell phone towers and cut live streams to interrupt broadcasts and to prevent people from seeing what was really going on and who actually started the violence.

the cops lied about protesters being armed and about throwing rocks and are literally trying to continue the violence happening and yet no one is holding them accountable for that.

and during all this, the cop that murdered george floyd still hasn’t been arrested. he has had more than ten complaints filed against him and was involved in three other civilian shootings in the past. and yet he’s still out free along with his three other buddies involved, probably sitting on his couch while all this chaos is happening.

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