Maybe Youre Young, And You Think This Doesnt Affect You. But, It Will Affect Your Parents, Or Your Grandparents.

  Maybe you’re young, and you think this doesn’t affect you. But, it will affect your parents, or your grandparents.   And, remember, if Republicans kill these programs, the dollars you pay in – that are/have been withheld from your paycheck – you will never get back.

I haven’t seen this on my dash so here it is. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill codifying same-sex marriage and it is now going to the Senate where there really is an actual chance of it passing. Sure, there are assholes who won’t support it, but there are Republican senators willing to support it and we need their support to get this passed. If you live in a state with a Republican senator, please call the senate office telling them that as a constituent, you support same-sex marriage and the Respect for Marriage Act.

The following senators are reported to be undecided, if one of these senators is yours, CALL!!!

Richard Burr, North Carolina

Roy Blunt, Missouri

Mike Braun, Indiana

Joni Ernst, Iowa

Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming

Rand Paul, Kentucky

Mitch McConnell?, Kentucky (yeah, I’m shocked the evil undead gizzard demon is in the undecided category as well but…might as well pressure the fucker)

Mitt Romney, Utah 

Mike Rounds, South Dakota (specifically Mr. Rounds is quoted as acknowledging difference between a religious marriage and a legal one, go ahead and specify that you support granting couples the legal rights and protections that are given with a legal marriage)

Rick Scott, Florida 

Dan Sullivan, Alaska (notably, Mr. Sullivan is quoted to recognize and respect the existing Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage! Pressure this man!!)

John Thune, South Dakota

Patt Toomey, Pennsylvania

Tommy Tuberville, Alabama

Todd Young, Indiana

This information was gathered from CNN on 7/21/22.

For clarification: Same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states right now based on the 2015 Supreme Court ruling. But, with the court standing as it is and with Roe being taken down, codifying same-sex marriage in law would mean that the Supreme Court would have a much, MUCH harder time stripping away the right. This is important. Marriage as a legal binding is critical to allowing spouses to visit each other in the hospital, make medical decisions, share assets, adopt and form families, and more. We need TEN Republicans to support the bill, so far there are FIVE likely supporters - we need AT LEAST FIVE MORE.

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Hello, mutuals, followers. Anyone that sees this. My homeland Sri Lanka has fallen into the worst economic crisis in her history. I’ve lived through multiple of these crisis’ before but this is worse than rock bottom and I did not ever realize we could even dig ourselves deeper than rock bottom.

My home has run out of food, petrol, medicine, and more. My people are dying in queues waiting for food , petrol and medicine. My own loved ones are barely hanging on. There’s on going protests nation wide and they are met state violence.

So while the Sri Lankan people are fighting for basic needs here’s some small ways you can help through donations. Down below will be an article about the crisis and then I’ll list a link tree which will take you to a google doc. I’ll post what it’ll look like and please please consider donating even 1 dollar because it goes long way. And of course share all around. Thank you!

aljazeera.com

No Sri Lankan, rich or poor, spared as economic crisis worsens

Savings evaporate, businesses face closure and the Sri Lankan poor struggle to eat as value of the rupee plummets.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LMM2-wGsGCl5-33t-1qVLCbzEWxwi3s-qXaCCW1v4lk/edit

Google Docs

#EconomicCrisisLK - Relief

#EconomicCrisisLK Ongoing relief efforts Online donation gateways for listed organisations Donating from overseas Starting your own relief

For Overseas Donations this is what it looks like and there’s pay pals and venmos linked in the google doc as well. Please please consider checking it

DONATE if you can, BOOST AND SHARE without tags.

AO3 donators, it’s voting time. And one particular candidate not only doesn’t understand AO3 on a fundamental level (somehow, despite being a tenured user and an unfortunate volunteer) but actively wants to push censorship. They are the exact kind of person we don’t need involved with OTW or AO3 for that matter. The same kind of person we have to actively fight against like, all the time. I frankly don’t know how the hell they even became a volunteer but, anyway. Got vote for people who won’t actively work to destroy it.

Tons more info in the reddit thread here https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/wlxk3m/otw_board_election/

There’s already several posts around here on tumblr of people with the same worries, but not enough imo.

this might be because I’m a family law lawyer and also an old crone who remembers when marriage equality wasn’t a thing (as in, marriage equality only became nation-wide two months before I went to law school), but I have Strong Feelings about the right to marry and all the legal benefits that come with it

like I’m all for living in sin until someone says they don’t want to get married because it’s ~too permanent~ and in the same breath start talking about having kids or buying a house with their significant other. then I turn into a 90-year-old passive-aggressive church grandma who keeps pointedly asking when the wedding is. “yes, a divorce is very sad and stressful, but so is BEING HOMELESS BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF MARITAL PROPERTY, CAROLINE!”

MY PEOPLE STORMING THE SRI LANKAN PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARIAT, THROUGH TEAR GAS AND WALLS OF COPS IN RIOT GEAR AND BUSTING DOWN THE BARRICADES.

MASSIVE PROTESTS IN EVERY PART OF THE ISLAND. OUR COUNTRY BARELY HAS ANY FUEL LEFT, SO THEY GOT HERE ON FOOT AND BICYCLES FOR MILES AND MILES, HANGING OFF TRAINS AND LORRIES AND CLINGING TO THE ROOFS OF BUSES. THEY TOOK THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE. GOTA HAS FLED!!

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