Midnight_heart

hey! just a quick update on what's going on for tumblr's lock nation. this is mostly from the discord, if anyone wants the join link dm me but don't feel pressured to join anything! you don't have to do anything you don't want to.

the petition links are here and here, please sign! at the time of writing one of them has 4000+ signs.

we have the google site and the padlet right here, as well as an open letter in the works!

articles have also been written by a few major agencies covering the massive outcry, a few linked here! leisurebyte, forbes, wegotthiscovered, express, sportskeeda

jonathan and georgina stroud have been interacting with posts on twitter about passing to another studio, which is a positive sign that they want to do something. it's unclear how much control the strouds have over this, but they're on our side.

authors like rick riordan and eoin colfer have interacted with instagram posts about the cancellation, sharing their thoughts on how it shouldn't have been cancelled.

#savelockwoodandco has reached 10k+ tweets!

and pls consider reblogging so this reaches more people :')

At one point, Mr. Kaminsky was asked to produce 900 birth and baptismal certificates and ration cards for 300 Jewish children in institutional homes who were about to be rounded up. The aim was to deceive the Germans until the children could be smuggled out to rural families or convents, or to Switzerland and Spain. He was given three days to finish the assignment.

He toiled for two straight days, forcing himself to stay awake by telling himself: “In one hour I can make 30 blank documents. If I sleep for an hour 30 people will die.”

Mr. Kaminsky died on Monday at his home in Paris, his daughter Sarah Kaminsky said. He was 97.

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JFC. As if reliance on deregulation and prison slave labor somehow wasn’t bad enough, the failed, late stage capitalist, Republican state of Alabama also depends on child labor. Republican states are willing to sacrifice their own children—or more accurately, sacrifice the children of desperate migrants, and the children of the disproportionately white, impoverished constituency that keeps voting Republican.

Any reporter worth their salt should be dogging Kay Ivey over this from now until eternity.

Across Pakistan, torrents of floodwater have ripped away mountainsides, swept buildings off their foundations and roared through the countryside, turning whole districts into inland seas. More than 1,100 people have died so far, and more than one million homes have been damaged or destroyed.

After nearly three months of incessant rain, much of Pakistan’s farmland is now underwater, raising the specter of food shortages in what is likely to be the most destructive monsoon season in the country’s recent history.

“We are using boats, camels, whatever means possible to deliver relief items to worst-hit areas,” said Faisal Amin Khan, a minister in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, which has been severely affected. “We’re trying our best, but our province was hit worse now than in the 2010 floods.”

That year, flooding killed more than 1,700 people and left millions homeless. At the time, the secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, described the disaster as the worst he had ever seen.

The crisis unfolding this summer is the latest extreme weather event in a country often ranked as one of the most vulnerable to climate change. Pakistan this spring began experiencing record-breaking, drought-intensifying heat, which scientists concluded had been 30 times as likely to occur because of human-caused global warming. Now much of the country is underwater.

While scientists can’t yet say how much the current rainfall and flooding may have been worsened by climate change, researchers agree that in South Asia and elsewhere, global warming is increasing the likelihood of severe rain. When it falls in an area also grappling with drought, it can be particularly damaging by causing sharp swings between far too little water and far too much, too quickly.

“If that rainfall was distributed over the season, maybe it wouldn’t be that bad,” said Deepti Singh, a climate scientist at Washington State University Vancouver. Instead, strong cloudbursts are ruining crops and washing away infrastructure, with huge consequences for vulnerable societies, she said. “Our systems are just not designed to manage that.”

Pakistan is already beset by skyrocketing food prices as well as political instability, leaving the country’s government shaky precisely when leadership is most critical. The former prime minister, Imran Khan, was forced out of office in April and this month was charged under antiterrorism laws amid a power struggle with the current leadership.

In the port city of Karachi, Afzal Ali, a 35-year-old garment-factory worker who earns just over $100 a month, said on Monday that prices for basic food items like tomatoes had quadrupled in the past few days since the rains intensified again. “Everything has already become expensive because of rising petrol prices, and the recent floods will further worsen the situation,” he said.

On Monday, Pakistan’s finance minister, Miftah Ismail, was quoted by local news agencies as saying that the floods and accompanying increases in food prices could lead the government to reopen certain trade routes to India to ease supply issues despite persistent tensions between the two countries.

India itself has been so hard-hit by drought this year that it has dramatically decreased its food exports. That decision deepened fears of a prolonged global food crisis, spurred in part by huge reductions in wheat and fertilizer supply after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a major wheat producer.

Nonbinary people with uteruses and trans men should not be a fucking afterthought. We are included in this issue. We are also under attack. This affects us too. This also puts us in danger. This is proof they hate us too and they want you to erase us. Quit fucking leaving us out of this conversation.

Quit responding to us with "you know what I mean / you know I include you too / you know most of the world doesn't understand the whole trans thing". Quit brushing us off when we tell you to correct your vocabulary. Quit dismissing us. Correct people saying this is a women's issue. Correct people leaving us out of this conversation. Because no one is fucking listening to us and I am absolutely sick of it.

This is not an attack on women, it's an attack on reproductive rights. This is not proof that they hate women, this is proof that they hate bodily autonomy. This is not a women's issue, it's a reproductive healthcare issue.

Forced sterilization - not the "gotcha" you think it is. This has already happened in the U.S. and has historically targeted Black, Brown, and disabled people.

Calling it a woman's issue - trans men and nonbinary people are also affected by this. There are women that this doesn't effect.

Gasden flag imagery - also known as "Don't Tread on Me" even if it's changed into a uterus. The history behind this flag is racist and many Black people have spoken out about not using this flag and that it's especially inappropriate for white people to try and reclaim it.

Handmaid's Tale imagery - again, many Black, Brown, and Asian people have spoken up about how it was based on how they were treated in America and elsewhere in the world. This isn't some new dystopian imagery and many people are just glossing over how real it is.

Camping posts - this is just performative and I've already spoken about this, but just direct people to valid resources. Do not encourage people to reach out to strangers. Camping isn't a secret code. Everyone knows.

Underground Railroad comparisons - does this.. really have to be said? Comparisons or talking about bringing it back, especially when you're saying that's what "camping" is... gross and appropriative and many Black people have spoken up about this.

Saying we should go on a sex strike - many sexual assault survivors have spoken up about how this is harmful and feels like it is erasing the amount of people who have had abortions due to a sexual assault.