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Everything is exceedingly normal until it isn't.

DC's ONLY wildlife rehab is about to lose ALL government funding this year if the proposed mayor's budget passes THIS FRIDAY. Without their annual $200k from the city, City Wildlife will be extremely limited in their capabilities to care for patients and train new rehabbers (like me!).

YOU CAN HELP BY:

-submitting written/video testimony here (you dont have to be a DC resident)

-call or email councilmember chuck allen ( (202)724-8072 / [email protected] )

-protesting the meeting on may 1st 8:45am @ 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

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I don't have the spoons to put together my own donation drive thing for Hawaiʻi Flood Relief and I haven't really seen a post going around for places to donate to, so uhhh I will make one.

Here are a few places I grabbed from the local news that I've poked around and did my research on. I'm also an Oʻahu local that's lived here for all 30+ years of my life, so I think my knowledge contributes to... something. THAT BEING SAID, please, please, PLEASE do a bit of your own research and use your own best judgement before donating.

The big, bold title should link to the charity/non-profit's main page or about page, while the blue text links to the actual donation page.

Aloha United Way

This charity has been around for as long as I can remember and its general goal is to support Hawaiʻi's welfare and distribute funds to charities as they need them. They have a Community Relief Fund you can donate to here.

Hawaiʻi Foodbank

Another charity that's been around for forever- people who have lost their homes also need food and the foodbank is distributing supplies to people who need it. The direct donation page is here.

(Also, imo, the foodbank is always a good one to donate to because with the high cost of living and The Economy™, they're always gonna need funds no matter what, you're almost guaranteed to be helping someone with a donation)

Hawaiʻi Agricultural Foundation

The HAF's goal is to support local farmers and raise awareness on eating local. The storms have damaged and washed out a LOT of farmland, with an estimated $7 million in damages so far. Without a stable local farm industry, then we'd have to rely on the continental US for everything. Self-sufficiency and affordable food is important. Together with the Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau, the HAF has started a Farmer's Disaster Relief Fund to help farmers recover and rebuild.

Hawaiian Council

i know hardly anyone reads articles when i share them so to highlight some key parts here:

"under [this policy], the ~2,200 trans people in federal custody will be medically and socially detransitioned against their will, all in the name of helping them “recover” from gender dysphoria."

"...the third study in this category attempts to compare trans women who undergo gender-affirming surgery to those with an entirely unrelated medical condition known as ‘adult acquired buried penis.’ Equating these two is an entirely medically inaccurate and hateful rhetorical decision, and it’s telling of the manner in which the Trump administration is trying to frame trans people’s bodies.

Meanwhile, the fourth study analyzes fertility in 18 trans men who paused their hormone therapy in order to have children, and it constitutes the only fertility study the BOP admits to have reviewed. As if that wasn’t alarming enough, this specific study doesn’t evaluate if trans men can carry children after going off testosterone; it actually evaluates when. Given the fact that the BOP has no legitimate reason to concern itself with fertility, this implies that the Trump administration—at least in part—created the prison policy out of a desire to find out how soon the forcibly detransitioned trans men in its custody will be able to carry children.

Finally, perhaps the greatest confession is provided by the last two sources. The first of these is a medical article providing commentary on a study—a study that was not reviewed during the creation of this policy—of trans patients at Kaiser Permanente clinics, and in its words, its sole purpose is to “describe methods of cohort ascertainment and data collection and to characterise the study population.” Put differently, it communicates two things: how to single out trans people through health information and what data a study on trans people should collect."

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