Denise Hemphill

Making music again and I think I’ll achieve great things but mostly I hope I keep the innocence of it

I made the best pot of rice I’ve ever made last night on accident

4 years ago today 💔

transgender woman finds herself fending off a vampire with her syringe of estrogen because unbeknownst to her the process of transition is exceptionally Holy to her

Ma Yang is quite possibly going to fucking die because of ICE and the border regime

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

DHS said she was a terrorist sympathizer and “involved in activities supporting Hamas, a terrorist organization." Revoked visa, but offered no evidence.

Social media was pro-Gaza, but she said she did not attend any protest. Offered no due process.

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

We’re getting a clearer view of the privacy concessions people will have to make to avoid bricking the functionality of already-purchased devices.

I lost still but Deb was on her heels for a bit ngl

Another reason I don’t go to anything white people organize cause I been seeing them as the primary culprits of this since about January-ish.

There is absolutely NO reason to sign-up for a protest. You dont know who has access to that info or where it is going.

Honestly this is the whole thing. While there are some professional bigots who will never change, I truly think a ton of everyday people who have been brainwashed by the hate campaign against trans folks would stop after meeting and learning from real trans folks. That's why they wanna silence us.

Was not expecting tears of joy this morning but here we are!

Congress passed a Continuing Resolution(CR), to keep the government funded through 9/30 and prevent a government shutdown. A CR continues the previous year’s budget, but some adjustments can be made to agency budgets. The CR passed on 3/14 included cuts to transportation, housing, and the VA, and an increase in defense spending. A CR also allows Trump to make decisions about which programs get funded within each agency for the remainder of the year. He can decide to cut off funding for any program he wants. For example, he can now redirect money allocated for clean energy toward coal and gas projects. This could have been prevented, but nine cowardly Senate Democrats backed down by joining Republicans to vote in favor of “cloture”. Cloture ends the debate period and prevents a filibuster from delaying the passage of a bill. Democratic Senators could have forced Republicans to come to the negotiating table by withholding their votes. Led by Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, they gave up their power because they were scared they might look bad if the government shut down. As a result, Trump and Musk’s administrative coup is allowed to continue. On 3/11, about 1,300 employees at the Department of Education (DOE) were fired. The overall staff is now half the size it was at the start of the Trump administration. Trump and Republicans are saying that this won’t affect students; they’re lying. Slashing resources for Head Start, pre-k, elementary, high school, trade schools, community colleges, universities, libraries, and museums will be catastrophic for students and the greater public. No staff will be left to investigate and address discrimination within educational settings. There may not be financial assistance or support for rural schools. The DOE sets aside between 15-25% of most grant funds to go towards rural schools. If there’s no one to process your Federal Application for Student Aid (FAFSA), you can’t get financial aid.

Call your Senators and US Representative - find them here. Tell them to elect a new leader in the Senate. Tell them you will support a primary challenger if they don’t start fighting dirty. https://bit.ly/43dvUAu get ready for HANDS OFF National Day of Action on 4/5 Indivisible is organizing a nationwide mobilization on Saturday 4/5. Travel to DC or join an event in your home state, but please SHOW UP! https://handsoff2025.com Learn how school segregation is coming back A key goal of the right is to re-segregate public spaces. https://shorturl.at/7F4Od School segregation never really ended. Donate to Run for Something If we are going to get these geriatric Senators out, we have to have a strong bench to replace them. Run for Something recruits and trains people to run for local or State office. https://runforsomething.net/give/ -don’t like these options? Here’s a very long list of so many actions you can take! http://bit.ly/4gRDlQU

🗣️🗣️ WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THIS WEEK ⁉️ MARCH 10-16

Here is your weekly flyer with key policy updates coming out of the federal government. Please share far and wide! Print these flyers and post them everywhere in your neighborhood! Hand them out at protests!! SPREAD THE WORD!!

honestly feels like if i didn’t have my beautiful partner and my lovely fluffy cat and my silly little hobbies reading the news on the daily would be leading me to a much much darker version of myself. go hug a loved one!

My dreams graduated from failing high school math and science to failing college math and science will I ever be free

The right wing media sphere being so much larger and more influential than the left is because they have every institutional and infrastructural advantage. The right has the money to fund them, the hosting platforms have an interest in boosting them.

Mobile scrabble match where I got a 50+ word bingo using all of my tiles to spell branches for 70 fucking points!

It drags when I walk

Georgia weather is so flip floppy will we have a tornado or no

Columbia University is collaborating with a foreign country committing genocide, but I guess the real problem is young people applying pressure on them to please fucking stop

#OtD 14 Mar 2018 Marielle Franco, bisexual Afro-Brazilian socialist and feminist was assassinated in Rio de Janeiro. She spoke out against extrajudicial killings by police. The suspects so far all have links to police, security forces or Pres Bolsonaro. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

Shit I luv making music fuck

its the 6 year anniversary of this image. i drew over this coloring page for a class contest and lost... history was made that day but i didn't even realize it

The NYT, WaPo, LAT, CNN, etc etc have shifted to the right. Fox & the Post et al have always been hard right. Twitter & Meta are controlled by right wingers. On a daily basis, millions of Americans - probably the majority - see nothing but sanitized, accomodationist, right wing coverage of Trump.

HOW TO COMMUNICATE AND DOCUMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS DURING AN INTERNET SHUTDOWN - Steps you can take before and during an internet shutdown to safely communicate and document critical evidence of human rights violations by LIKHITA BANERJI

HOW TO COMMUNICATE AND DOCUMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS DURING AN INTERNET SHUTDOWN

- Steps you can take before and during an internet shutdown to safely communicate and document critical evidence of human rights violations

by LIKHITA BANERJI
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Trying to posit insanity as a strategy as a rebuttal is certainly a… choice

turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

My observation is that most people are maintaining a level of suspended disbelief because acknowledging what’s going on means they would need to recognize the gravity of the moment (and the fact that what comes next is entirely up to US)—no one is coming to save us.

A stylized green and purple rendering of a photo of Beck Levy performing before COVID-19. The text reads, “THE SICK TIMES: Missing the gig: When your subculture leaves you behind with Long COVID. By Beck Levy.”

A black background white white text and purple accents reads, "I thought our deal was fuck the state, we’ll do it our way. I found myself slipping through the subcultural safety net that exists for outcasts who are slipping through the cracks of mass culture and late capitalism. - Beck Levy, Missing the gig: When your subculture leaves you behind with Long COVID."

Before COVID-19, Beck Levy was a hardcore punk rock performer. Now, she has severe #LongCOVID and has watched her place in the world creep away from her. This week at The Sick Times, read Beck’s essay about what it feels like when your subculture leaves you behind. bit.ly/3V0KJBv