#5 calls

The US Government is currently trying to pass an incredibly dangerous national law for trans youth called HR 2616.

This bill would ban all Federally funded schools from teaching about gender identity or sexual orientation, prevent teachers from using the correct pronouns and names for trans students, remove books with any trans representation in them, and even go as far as to prevent teachers from acknowledging trans identity AT ALL.

Any school that does not follow this will lose all federal funding. This bill would also require teachers to forcibly out trans students to their families, which would be fatal to any trans student with a transphobic Family or just hateful family in general. Trans people are already a group that already has some of the highest rates of being victim to suicide, domestic violence, and sexual assault.

This bill actively makes teachers put those innocent children at such a big risk. This bill has rapidly passed the house this week with support from all 209 republicans, as well as 8 democrats. But, it's still being voted on in the senate, which means there is still time to help stop this.

To help stop this, you can visit 5calls.org (look up 2616 in the search bar), one of the most top issues filed Oppose Attacks on LGBTQ+ Students. Once you put in your general location, it will pull-up contact information for your senator, and give you a script for calling them.

If you are a minor and/or do not feel comfortable doing this, PLEASE repost this on here, or any other platform you are on/can find! This needs to be heard and fought against.

Thank you for reading this, my lovely people!

As someone who would rather cut off my own limb than talk on the phone, I do not say this lightly. Now is the time to conquer our phone anxieties!

Amongst huge cuts to social programs that benefit millions of Americans, like medicaid and SNAP, the Big Beautiful Bill also includes provisions that will cut billions to student aid, cuts to the Federal Employee Retirement System, cut funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and ban states from regulating AI for the next decade.

BAD NEWS: The House GOP and Democratic members of the Energy and Commerce Committee have been working on a package of age-verification bills and have finally struck a deal (I believe some of these are the same bills in the KIDS Act which they had passed out of committee a few months ago). Theoretically, this means that the House of Representatives could bring this package up for a vote at any time, with some reporters saying as early as this week or next week.

If this package were to pass it would still face an uphill battle as the House version of KOSA doesn't not include a duty of care provision, which the Senate wants.

However, we need to do everything to can to stop this from passing now, so it doesn't advance any further.

We must call House Leadership, our representatives, and our senators to express our opposition and we need to spread the work. If we can make noise and create pressure over how unpopular age verification is, it makes passing bills like these less enticing.

(Note: this is different from whatever deal the Senate and the White House are trying to reach over AI and age-verification)

You can use the resources linked to find more information and 5-calls to call:

Also noting that leaders in the push for age-verification don't like the House's version. So, if the House doesn't like the Senate version and the Senate doesn't like the House version, and no one likes Marsha Blackburn's AI package, that is a weakness/friction that can work in our favor, so PLEASE CALL TO OPPOSE:

Below is a link. You can give your zip code and it will send your your rep's and your senators' phone numbers and a script to call them

I know you feel powerless. You think nothing you do will make a difference. Maybe that's true, but you don't know for sure.

You have to choose to act as if it is possible for your actions and words to make a difference. There is no other moral way to live.

This is something so incredibly easy you can do if you're American. Demand that congress immediately do whatever it can to stop him from committing a genocide of the Iranian people in your name. There is no excuse not to.

So the SAVE Act stalled in the Senate (because of Dems), which means some asshole Republicans made a different, even worse version, and called it MEGA because they are pathetic MAGA tools.

The SAVE Act was supposedly about voter fraud (except all evidence points to voter fraud being extreeeemely rare (and recently, seems to be all Republican but anyway) but included language that basically means anyone who has changed their name from what is on their birth certificate will have a lot more steps required to vote.

Back in my day, we called that a poll tax. Because it places an undue financial burden on certain members of the population in order to vote.

Women who changed their names when they got married, trans people, people avoiding stalkers, etc, would all now need more paperwork to vote. (Amazing how it doesn't really affect most cis, straight guys.)

This is not about voter fraud. It's the Christian Nationalist agenda again.

Once again, my lovelies. stay on their necks.

Also, a lot of Republicans are sexist but they do know women do vote for them, right? wtf?

So I wanted to let everyone know about KOSA gaining about 60 corresponders, which is a horrible thing.

In case you didn’t know about KOSA, to make it quick, it’s another protect the children bill (the main one over here in America) that would allow governments to erase content they deem inappropriate for minors. It would basically be their easy ticket to censor whatever they want.

So we need fight against them, and in order to fight them, we need to make sure our voices are heard. So let’s implement a similar strategy when fighting the payment processors, mass calling

If we clog their phone lines, they will listen to us eventually and back down out of supporting this bill

Go to this website and look up Kosa and then set your location up. That way you can have an easy and simple way of finding who to call about the issue

If you want a more detailed guide, here’s one

Also, mention how you will not vote for them if they support this bill. They want your vote and therefore become even more worried about supporting it.

I highly encourage you call daily or even whenever you have some free time

But if you can’t call due to certain reasons. Please do spread the word via stuff like reblogs and sharing the sites and images here

Also, use this site to send a message to your local representatives (it’s pre typed up, but I do recommend you change it a little bit to avoid the spam folder)