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thereās a lot pointing toward it: the immigration enforcement raids and the border detainments which are all scary and inhumane. the further attacks on education and attempts to rewrite history (which was happening at state-level like Florida but are harder to fight at the federal level). the president is seriously talking about a 2028 term which is technically unconstitutional in the US (presidents can only serve for 2 terms). they have arrested a mayor and a judge for different reasons related to the immigration legal fights which is unheard of. the treatment of Gaza is even worse than under Biden (which was already evil). theyāre straight up ignoring judges on certain decisions. DOGE funding cuts are destroying the public sector and theyāve repeatedly fired completely essential workers and had to re-hire them bc it ābrokeā systems. ending funding for things like cancer research and HIV medication, attacking vaccines, banning so-called āDEIā and trans girls from sports, and so much more.
honestly in my opinion the US has been hardly a democracy forever, for marginalized folks, but this is like steps above that in that theyāre reversing so much progress so quickly. weāre not even 6 months into Trumpās second term.
also i work in the ngo/nonprofit sector and something else scary is how much human rights workers are very concerned about the possibility of our organizations even being able to exist within the next few years (if not sooner) due to the administration which i also feel says so much. and this applies across issue areas from immigration legal support to climate action and many other types of orgs
from a historical standpoint we are actually an outlier in not having a new form of government since the country was founded - other countries have had changes but our system has been the same for 100s of years so weāre āoverdueā in a sense.
one silver lining is how incompetent these leaders sometimes are but i still think it is going to take a very long time to reverse the damage being done. however iāve been keeping up some hope! just yesterday i saw this video of a neighborhood successfully kicking ICE out simply through booing them and keeping a united front. so there are more things like that happening and i hope we continue to see it!
Jun 6, 2025
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@JILLY TRULY !!! just remembered another one: weāre not getting accurate weather reporting anymore because they cut a bunch of the government funding for weather science š¤¦š»āāļø
Jun 7, 2025
ok links r broken but this is what i was linking to, an article on US communities resisting ICE (immigration police) raids/arrests https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/3/adriana_jasso
Jun 6, 2025
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There's been a numbing, sinking, unescaping feeling of dread at the pit of my stomach and the depths of my chest these days that continues to augment on the daily due to the current landscape of the world. Being in high school right now is such an experience in and of itself, I hear so much insensitive, immature, inaccurate, idiotic rhetoric, insults, and straight-up slurring left and right. Reading and any form of intellectual gain or self-actualization is immediately met with accusations of being a "nerd" or how it's some waste of time, which is influenced by the rapid consumption of social media in all of our daily lives. People in my circles are becoming radicalized and desensitized to really, really frightening ideologies that are facilitated through the lack of discernment and punishment for simply just wrong exclusionary statements that are said to attack people's integrity, race, gender, what have you. I am not hearing many positive things going on, and every insane headline I accidentally see, even when I avoid the news (not that that is the answer), is something straight out of a dystopian novel.
It hasn't been a month and a week if I'm correct. Left and right, I see exclusionary, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, racist, classist, chauvanistic, and outright outdated policies and rhetoric normalized and spreading like wildfire. We tried to tell ourselves it wouldn't be this bad. It is that bad. And pray to whatever you worship that it won't get worse. But don't leave it at that. Do your part. Please do your damn part.
Volunteer. Donate. Talk about it. Use your platforms. This post is not meant to catastrophize, but to shake you hard and wake you up. When tomorrow comes around, remember the plan. Please look up the "People's Union USA" for more information on the February 28th boycott, and try your hardest to do your part.
We are the people, the masses they fear. We have the power.
Feb 28, 2025
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For those who havenāt heard, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a sweeping freeze this week on all federal grants, loans, and assistance, accompanied by executive orders calling for an āideological reviewā of federal funding. The directive from OMB was blocked by a federal judge minutes before it was to go into effect, but this stay is set to expire on February 3rd. OMB rescinded the memo but the administration still intends to go forward with the freeze.
State and local governments, along with charitable organizations, rely on these grants to fund aid programs for low-income people, the arts, and public services. Nonprofits are preparing for mass layoffs, especially those reliant on DEI grants, which are a primary target of the ideological review. If this funding freeze were to go into effect, it would have ripple effects that touch even the professional workforce and leave new swaths of people vulnerable to homelessness.
I really have no answers on whatās best to do and Iām hoping this doesnāt go through. I would say that you should still focus on trying to help people in your own community too because even in major metropolitan areas a lot of people are going to be unmoored.
With these funding sources at risk, itās important to look at alternative ways to support vulnerable communities. Formal NGOs and charitable organizations may struggle to remain in operation, and Iām unsure how effective donations to them would be in staunching the bleeding; it would probably be a better use of your money to put it towards grassroots efforts. Iāll echo deardoveswings in her recent rec and suggest looking into mutual aid organizations; Iāve attached the link she shared to this post.
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i really hope that americans know how highkey pissed the rest of the world is for bringing trump back????
i already canāt afford to put petrol in my car, but letās go ahead and increase tarrifs??
thousands of children are kidnapped and forced into slavery and child marriages or being sexually exploited eacb year by people of power, but nooooooāletās ban transgender individuals from participating in sports??????
isnāt this also the same guy alluding to an ethnic cleansing of the gaza strip?
my god
(this is not targeted at the anti-trump americans)
Feb 11, 2025
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unions help address racial and gender pay gaps, issues workplaces impose on families and those having kids, addressing unsafe conditions, plus things like better health insurance, wages and overtime, weingarten rights to representation, and more!!!
if you donāt have a union but are thinking about forming one, check out AFL-CIOās page (linked) or Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. thereās always more power in a union!! āš„š¹
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