hey now, you're an all star 🇵🇸

Remus: that’s okay-

The number one best tip I have for anyone dealing with chronic illness is to make your health binder.

I’m waiting in the lobby at urgent care, and I swear, even when the intake nurses see it, they treat me so differently.

In my binder I have all my current prescriptions, a log of my hospital visits, and treatments. I also have the names of my doctors and specialists and my blood work. Being able to reference an official looking thing has really seemed to help from my concerns being dismissed.

I no longer feel like I get dismissed as drug-seeking. It feels easier to get the medications I know work, or talk through other treatment plans that are informed by my history.

no really i could talk about this shit for hours. you guys probably don’t know this but i actually am one of those autistic history “let’s play devil’s advocate 🤓” virgin losers in your history class, and i have been watching every single rally, news segment, interview, etc about this election. there are a few very real issues that back up the claim that this election was fraudulent.

(yap for those who care)

So here is my advice. You have to pay attention. You have to read actual newsources, like AP and Reuters and NPR and your local paper. You have to be informed. Today NHPR posted an article contemplating whether Trump is going to revert to the Schedule F changes for civil servants. Do you know exactly what that means? Do you know which employees in which offices would be affected, and how? Do you know if you even support or oppose that actual policy change? What about context - what's the median salary for workers in that field, and how has it changed under Biden?

Nobody can know everything about everything, so pick a couple of issues you care about and get REALLY, really informed. Research deep dive. Triple check sources. It's not enough to disagree with Trump's general brand. If you're able to go into the next election with concrete policy changes Trump made that you disagree with, it's going to be less emotional to confront Trump supporters and gauge how misinformed they really are. I know it's boring and stressful, and the absolute worst part of it is that you're going to find there are an awful lot of policy points where this asshole doesn't diverge from what the Democrats did / wanted to do at all. The DOT was equally underfunded under Trump and Biden, for example. If you care about bridges and highways and trains and airplanes, maybe make that one of the issues you get informed about. Or make a friend you trust who is covering that, and get updates from them. Do not depend on mainstream news outlets.

Find out the names of all the mutual aid and advocacy groups in your region. Are there a whole lot? What have they accomplished? Don't jump right into volunteering until you know what their work fully entails. Who are they helping? Who do you want to help the most? And if the answer to that question is not "people who have the least" but rather "people who are like me," think hard on that.

You could start an affinity group under the guise of a book club as soon as TOMORROW if you arranged it with the people in your phone's contact list right now. You could even read revolutionary theory as a bookclub until you have a grasp on what to do.

Just saying.

The revolution is only as unrealistic as the effort you make.

Get people together, free food is an excellent way to get people to show up to pretty much anything so say you'll order pizza or something if they show up

Discuss politics! See what people are unhappy with, what they believe in, and how hard they'd fight to see the change they want. Keep meeting up with the serious members.

Develop a system of beliefs for your group and stick to them. Nobody will be perfect and incapable of harm so find some beliefs you all agree on and make sure group members act within those beliefs, excuse other trespasses.

Next discuss some goals you want to achieve and plan out how you'll reach them, utilize the organizing link for this if necessary

Act to achieve your goals. This could be within the bureaucracy like attending city hall meetings and refusing to leave until your demands are conceded or outside of bureaucracy ex: mutual aid, preventing evictions, dearresting people, training for black bloc/frontline action, or anything else. Use the direct action link for this if necessary. Start as small as you need until youre confident enough to take more major actions.

Reach out to other groups & mutual aid orgs and start networking. Come up with ways to be cohesively more effective for your common goals. Compromise and communicate for the greater good as necessary.

Listen to marginalized voices. Stand against white supremacy. Stand against fascism. Prioritize each other.

Solidarity can save us and it will.

This holiday season, if you know someone who likes house plants,

DON'T

get them a houseplant. DO NOT.

instead, get them a NICE, MEDIUM-LARGE, AESTHETIC, BOTTOM-DRAINING, INDOOR

POT.

that is what they want. that is what they dream of. ok? thats what will be most useful and appreciated. in fact, if you can, get them a CUTE MATCHING SET. OF POTS!!!! NOT PLANTS, POTS!!!!!!!!

they may be more excited initially about the plant. that is true. but a pot is a gift that they will go home and use to upsize one of their already beloved houseplants, and every time they look at it they will remember how much they appreciate you.

HOUSEPLANT:

- they already have so many

- needs to be watered

- takes up window space

- comes in a pot thats already too small, needs to be upsized, costing money

- can die

AESTHETIC POT

- lets them care for an existing plant they own

- they will be grateful every time they see it in their home

- does not take up window space not already occupied by a plant

We earnestly seek your support for our family. This fundraiser stands as our beacon of hope, our lifeline amidst the depths of despair. With profound sorrow, I implore your generosity as we endure this unimaginable ordeal. Your contribution can mean the difference between survival and oblivion for my family, and for this, we are eternally grateful ✌🍉🙏

We have lost everything in Gaza. Currently, we are under deplorable conditions, bereft of essential supplies. Procuring water and food for our children is a daily struggle. Please, help us leave Gaza as soon as possible to save our lives. Every moment is precious.😞💔

Thank you for your unwavering kindness and compassion during our darkest hour. Because of you, my family will be safe, and they will forever remember your help.💚💖🤍🖤

paliliberation posted:

Family 167 - Imagine being a mom, a wife, and a dedicated career woman on the brink of life-saving research, only to have everything ripped away. This isn’t just a personal loss; it’s an assault on progress and humanity itself. When the pursuit of knowledge and the chance to help others is brutally stopped, we should all be enraged. A world that allows this to happen is failing us all. It’s time to stand up and refuse to let dreams and lives be crushed.

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but now i've noticed that as things have gotten worse, as so many of the things we asked you to speak up before they happened have come to pass, people are actually less likely to talk about palestine than they were ten months ago. now that it's palestine and lebanon, now that it's genocide and carnage, now that it's clear that the rule of law really doesn't apply equally no matter how much people protest and how much evidence they compile, now that people are criminalizing free speech and actively inviting authoritarianism simply to curb protest on palestine, i've noticed a withdrawal that isn't just exhaustion, but also disillusionment. and unfortunately this has left the onus on the most vulnerable to continue to be the most visible

so let me get back to it. yes, it is the bare minimum and it is small. yes, it can be more complicated now with an election you care about coming up soon. yes, things are very bleak. but i've said it before. this isn't a short term process. this is the long haul. there is no button that ends a genocide, there is only a lever we are all collectively pulling together.

the least and most you can do is speak up. i will give you concrete examples: when you see a post that dehumanizes arabs, a post that ignores genocide, a post that justifies massacres, you actually should object to that. it's not nothing. this is the rhetoric that allows these wars to continue, as poisonous as overt warmongering is covert normalizing with warmongering, is ignoring the genocide in gaza and the massacres in lebanon, and all the other overreaches of the US war machine. when you see people being unfairly targeted for being pro-palestine, you should still support them. when you see the things you love—movies, celebrities, literature, publishers, companies—supporting genocide, normalizing israeli war crimes, ignoring the sheer amount of suffering in the world, ignoring the wars happening with your taxes, you should still speak up against them. this isn't something you stop doing. this is now something you live with, the way you live with every other principle you hold dear, whether it comes to racism, to homophobia, to kindness, to cruelty, to keeping libraries open, to keeping children alive.