Beatrice Gauthier

Every 5 seconds I’m hacking up a lung on this plane and I can’t help but feel bad for everyone who is hearing this. Ugh 😭😭

I wish it was the year 2023

HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

Impeachment email to your local representative:

Step 1: Visit White House.gov, click “Find your representative”
Enter your zip code
Enter your street address
Click the email button under the representatives name

For Booksky 📚

❌ Goodreads: owned by Amazon.

✅ StoryGraph: black woman-owned, inclusive, has mood based recommendations!

❌ Audible: owned by Amazon.

✅ Libro.fm: supports local books stores.

What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.?

In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently

Wait, is TikTok back?

Selling Native children to anyone who wrote to them and sent in $10. American history. Repulsive.

Friendly reminder that if you buy a book on Kindle, you're only paying for the rights to read, not own. If a book truly gets banned, it will be taken away from digital platforms like Kindle, nook, etc. Consider getting physical copies of banned (or other) books!

READ BANNED BOOKS

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TikTok you will be missed and forever cherished. 💔