Potential Groupie Garbage

Set your social media to private

Do a clean up of your public posts

Block everyone of your friends who have voiced pro-government sentiments. You don’t know who will sell you out.

Do a check of your facebook groups. If you’re part of anti-admin groups, make sure it’s legit and not a fake group used to redtag.

Increase your email security

Stop signing petitions vs terror bill on change.org as this is what they’re using to redtag (remember the influx of fake accounts? Yeah)

Instead, send emails to your representatives using a vpn

Have your lawyer’s number on standby

Be aware of your rights (i will post a refresher here later on)

Hi, guys.

Sorry for disappearing again, life is hectic now, lots of things are changing. I will adapt, soon, I hope, and will come back to all of you and all of my stories.

But today I came to talk not about that and not even about me.

Today I came here to ask you for help. Please, read this post. It’s super important.

I’ve never asked much from you, I believe. Besides asking to send me some stupid questions or read something I’ve written.

So, I hope it gives me the right to ask you today. I’m asking not for much. Just, please, guys, help me save a life.

This is Sofia Darbinyan. She’s four months old. She’s from my city, from a very good family I know, the youngest of three wonderful girls. She’s only started her life, but, unfortunately, she’s in a big trouble already.  Sofia has Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), it’s a neuromuscular disorder that results in the loss of motor neurons and progressive muscle wasting. Babies with this awful genetic disease usually die at about six months old, as they stop breathing and suffocate.

Several years ago, there was absolutely no treatment and kids were basically left to die. Last year the genetic medicine was produced, tested and licensed. There’s a cure. It’s called Zolgensma. The only problem, it’s the most expensive medicine in the world.

Sofia needs just one shot to keep living almost absolutely normal life. But this shot costs $ 2,125 million.

This is enormous money for one family. In my country some people (a lot of people, to be honest) won’t earn even 10% of this sum in their entire life. It’s almost impossible to get this medicine through our governmental programs, as it’s not licensed officially on the territory of our country. And most of charity funds refused to help due to the high cost of the medicine.

Sofia’s parents are doing everything to get at least some official help and support, but unfortunately, for now, we, usual people, are the only hope they have. The thing that makes it all even worse is that we have less than two months left, Sofia has to get the shot till she’s six months old for it to help her.  We’ve collected about $ 140 thousand already, but it’s not enough, of course.

So, today, I’m asking you, please, guys, help me save this little angel.

$ 2 million is an extreme amount of money for one person. But if 1 million people donate $ 2 and 20 cents, it’ll do the trick. In my country it’s a price of a coffee cup. Not that much for one person, right? But more than enough for Sofia to stay alive.

You can get more info on this instagram page  https://www.instagram.com/helpsofiadarbinyan (tho it’s all in Russian, but I think instagram can translate it)

The PayPal for donations is paypal.me/vladarbinyan

If you need, I can help you see all the official documents and proof you need.

If you can’t donate money (I do understand that lots of people have lost their jobs and are experiencing hardship rn), please help us with reblogs. It’s extremely important for as many people as possible to find out about Sofia, it’s more important than any fic reblogs, guys.

I see a lot of action happening every day, here on tumblr and outside, in the world. I see people standing by each other during all the madness with COVID-19, I see people protecting each other against discrimination, racism, violence and injustice. People hasn’t invented diseases, but it’s also a problem we have to fight. I believe in people. I believe in 5sos fam. I have seen how powerful we and our small actions are. I’ve seen you guys doing incredible things, like having all this disabledsos marathon or helping clean Michaels name. So, please, help me do one more good thing.

I do believe that kids like that come to this world to help us be better and kinder. And I’m gonna try my hardest to try save this little angel’s life.

Don’t scroll past this. Kylie Armstrong was diagnosed with breast cancer and these small dimples were the only signs. She posted the image on Facebook so everyone knows that “that breast cancer is not always a detectable lump.” Here’s how Kylie is doing today.

Justice for Elijah McClain

This is not as detailed as I wanted this post to be, but Tumblr hasn’t been cooperating. Regardless, please sign the petition to have Elijah McClain’s case reexamined!

On August 24, 2019 three police officers in Aurora, CO murdered McClain after someone reported him for “wearing a ski mask” (he had anemia and wore the mask to stay warm) and “waving his arms” (he was listening to music and likely dancing).

He was wrangled to the ground, put in a carotid control hold, injected with ketamine, and declared brain dead three days later. Despite the release of body cam footage that shows excessive use of force, all officers involved were cleared.

McClain was 23. He weighed 140 lbs. He was a massage therapist. He often brought his violin to work so he could go to the pet shop next door and play for the kittens. But he was deemed a threat because he was black and a little bit weird.