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Stop the bill, sign as many petitions as possible, protest and help organize protests, mail and email representatives, bombard your reps and your government with demands to stop KOSA.
We won't let this pass, we won't.
Do everything you can, spread this message, to other platforms other than [tumblr].
To people with voices, to everyone, to stop it.
It will not pass with our collective effort.
Don't vote red, don't let any censorship pass. Stop KOSA
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meandmybigmouth · 3 days
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Republicans:
Call it anything but "Rich Socialism"! We do!
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phoenixyfriend · 10 hours
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So. We all know by now that the US has passed legislation banning any funding to UNRWA for the next year.
We have also recently learned that Israel is now banning ALL UNRWA convoys from Gaza, regardless of security investigations of the trucks.
The timing is a bit curious, so...
Is there any chance that the reason the US left wing put up so little resistance to "ban UNRWA funding for the next year" is not just the seeming impossibility of passing actual aid funding in a split Congress, but that they were aware of the coming blanket ban that Israel would place on UNRWA convoys, had already failed to convince them to not do that, and decided that "not donating to a charity that would soon be banned from the area it operates in" was a fair compromise with plans to put funding into UNICEF or WFP instead? A reshuffling of funds and grants, planning to get other countries to increase funding to UNRWA while the US picks up the slack with the other, non-banned orgs?
It's possibly just wishful thinking, but... maybe.
At any rate, call your reps and urge them to increase funding to UNICEF and the WFP, maybe phrase it as 'rerouting funds previously earmarked for UNRWA into alternate programs that Congress feels are more secure."
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godisarepublican · 11 hours
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We are in a battle for the soul of the nation
Joe Biden will destroy this nation
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i-am-aprl · 3 months
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Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib submits to the Congressional Record the entire South African genocide case against Israel and makes an impassioned call to Congress to stop funding the ongoing atrocities in Gaza.
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mysharona1987 · 4 months
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He should of course be in jail, but we can surely lament that America will never have a congressman this hilarious again.
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emperornorton47 · 5 months
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They have no desire to represent your interests.
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lennythereviewer · 1 year
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Hey remember when Tumblr banned porn and everyone fled to Twitter and the internet by and large became that much more insufferable? Yeah well, we’re about to get the sequel no one’s been waiting for
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A recent lawsuit is calling into question the very law that makes user-generated content possible on the internet and it’s going before a bunch of old people who have no idea how the internet works. If Section 230 gets repealed or modified, the internet as we know it will radically change forever. Content policing will be that much worse; and either the guidelines will be so restrictive it’ll squeeze the life out of their sites, or sites will close their doors all together by not being able to meet the moderation demand and not wanting to risk being liable. 
Unlike SOPA way back in the day, this one is quietly flying under everyone’s radar so there’s no big pushback like last time, so there is a very real possibility this goes down in the worst way possible. So Yeah Ya’ll may want to start saving your favorite content if you feel it’s going to go bye-bye
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reasonsforhope · 6 months
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Holy crap, I didn't think Biden would be able to get the Climate Corps established without Congress. This is SUCH fantastic news.
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"After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program.
In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels and do other work to boost conservation and help prevent catastrophic wildfires.
The climate corps had been proposed in early versions of the sweeping climate law approved last year but was jettisoned amid strong opposition from Republicans and concerns about cost.
Democrats and environmental advocacy groups never gave up on the plan and pushed Biden in recent weeks to issue an executive order authorizing what the White House now calls the American Climate Corps.
“After years of demonstrating and fighting for a Climate Corps, we turned a generational rallying cry into a real jobs program that will put a new generation to work stopping the climate crisis,” said Varshini Prakash, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, an environmental group that has led the push for a climate corps.
With the new corps “and the historic climate investments won by our broader movement, the path towards a Green New Deal is beginning to become visible,” Prakash said...
...Environmental activists hailed the new jobs program, which is modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps, created in the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, as part of the New Deal...
Lawmakers Weigh In
More than 50 Democratic lawmakers, including Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, had also encouraged Biden to create a climate corps, saying in a letter on Monday that “the climate crisis demands a whole-of-government response at an unprecedented scale.”
The lawmakers cited deadly heat waves in the Southwest and across the nation, as well as dangerous floods in New England and devastating wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, among recent examples of climate-related disasters.
Democrats called creation of the climate corps “historic” and the first step toward fulfilling the vision of the Green New Deal.
“Today President Biden listened to the (environmental) movement, and he delivered with an American Climate Corps,” a beaming Markey said at a celebratory news conference outside the Capitol.
“We are starting to turn the green dream into a green reality,” added Ocasio-Cortez, who co-sponsored the Green New Deal legislation with Markey four years ago.
“You all are changing the world,” she told young activists.
Program Details and Grant Deadlines
The initiative will provide job training and service opportunities to work on a wide range of projects, including restoring coastal wetlands to protect communities from storm surges and flooding; clean energy projects such as wind and solar power; managing forests to prevent catastrophic wildfires; and energy efficient solutions to cut energy bills for consumers, the White House said.
Creation of the climate corps comes as the Environmental Protection Agency launches a $4.6 billion grant competition for states, municipalities and tribes to cut climate pollution and advance environmental justice. The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants are funded by the 2022 climate law and are intended to drive community-driven solutions to slow climate change.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the grants will help “communities so they can chart their own paths toward the clean energy future.”
The deadline for states and municipalities to apply is April 1, with grants expected in late 2024. Tribes and territories must apply by May 1, with grants expected by early 2025."
-via Boston.com, September 21, 2023
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bonesashesglass · 4 months
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They only blocked the bill because the package didn’t include aid to Ukraine, it’s a small step but it’s still a step.
In the meantime, we need to keep sharing, posting, and calling or messaging our reps. Even just talking about it with people goes a long way to spreading the word of what Israel is doing.
Let’s keep it up. We won’t stop until Palestine is free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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whenweallvote · 6 months
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September 30th is the end of the fiscal year and the last day for Congress to fund the federal government. If funding isn’t passed, the government shuts down.
To date, the federal government has shut down 21 times, four times in the past 10 years. What does a government shutdown mean? Who’s impacted? What’s currently happening in Congress? Swipe through and remember, government shutdowns are impacted by your vote. 
Check your voter registration at weall.vote/check and remind a friend to do the same.
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Hey, use these copypaste tag presets to help spread the word of important things easier!
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palestine, gaza, rafah, free palestine, free gaza, eyes on rafah, palestinian genocide, from the river to the sea palestine will be free
genocide, world politics, united nations, un, unrwa, uk, us, usa, west, united kingdom, america
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flurriethefox · 1 month
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Hey, so, uh…
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KOSA literally violates the First Amendment freedoms. If this is passed, then that means the Constitution and Bill of Rights are basically void, because Congress are ignoring them. THATS A PROBLEM
As a teen myself, it pisses me off. I wish for anarchy, with everything the US government has been doing, from supporting Israhell to this bullshit.
Please, do what you can to prevent this from getting passed. It violates everyone’s rights in the US, and if it gets passed, then we’re back to where we started; a monarchy. Just with far too many people.
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iwriteaboutfeminism · 4 months
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"I'm calling to ask the Congressman to vote against House Resolution 894, because of part 4 of the Resolution which equates anti-zionism with anti-semitism. That is absolutely untrue, and not a myth I want my Representative supporting."
Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
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(You can read the full text here)
It is clearly important to always stand against anti-semitism, but this resolution "clearly and firmly" equating anti-zionism to anti-semitism is not only ridiculous but actively harmful to Jewish people and their allies.
Many of the protests we are seeing in the US are organized or co-organized by Jewish activists. Their strength, empathy, resilience, and faith have been truly inspiring.
Falling into the trap of Israeli propaganda that to be against settler-colonialism is to be against Jews is absurd.
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kaapstadgirly · 3 months
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Where'd all that talk about a free Palestine go?
This is exactly that bs I was talking about, it's not trending anymore so it's almost as if the war just miraculously stopped, well guess what "Biden administration again bypasses Congress for weapons sale to Israel".
It's still happening. The death toll is still rising, and Palestinians still need us. Please don't stop speaking about it 🙏🏻
Here's a link from Instagram if you don't feel like reading all that
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meandmybigmouth · 17 days
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