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xdaringdamselx:

BOOKS. BUY LOTS OF BOOKS.

This is a good suggestion in the best of times, but I’d particularly like to extend the suggestion now.

Buy books detailing everything important in our pasts: black history and culture, Muslim history and culture, Latinx history and culture, LGBTQ+ history and culture, Jewish history and culture, feminist history, labor and organizing and activism history, science texts, everything. I would suggest hard copies, and if possible, multiple copies to share. Don’t let anybody erase or alter the past. Never let a moment of it be forgotten or revised or washed away. Hold onto it, and hoard it like treasure.

And grow your wealth in this form, too–write your own histories, document and detail things if you can. Don’t let them change the present, and don’t let them normalize any of this shit. Write things down, remember them, and keep shouting to the heavens–we won’t be forgotten and kept down.

And buy lots of fiction from those same groups as well! Fantasy breeds hope, and we’re gonna need a lot of hope in our hearts, and a place to escape to when things get rough.

I am just… DEEPLY CONCERNED about the kind of people soon to be in charge, the people who want so desperately and direly to crush all of us underneath their heels and stamp us out, and have made no secret of it. All too often, that kind of shit starts with a controlling of the story and the press, and sometimes even worse. And that walking hairclog has made no secret of how he wants the story to be told.

So extend your library. Just in case. Stay knowledgeable and clever and wise.

chthonicserpent:

kaijutegu:

jezebelxx:

littlefroggies:

I try not to get political on my art blog, but I am gonna share this sentiment from my twitter.

It’s nice to hear “Fuck Trump” but piling all hate on him is misguided, Trump is not the only person who should be factored into protests, impeachment and human rights lawsuits: his team DEFENDED him and ENABLED him.

There are a lot of people who either played down, ignored or supported his conduct

Fact is, if Trumps impeached, all the people who helped his campaign will flip and agree and chastise him, cuz it’ll make them look noble, which they would LOVE, they get to sweep house and senate, have Pence be president, and pretend they’re on our side. “We hate Trump too, friends! We agree, he’s a bad man, let us fix his mess for you.” 

Think about it, anyone on his team right now looks really good by comparison to him. People who’re just as bigoted and heartless.

Do not forget that Vice President Pence is poised and ready to help anti-women and anti-LGBT legislation roll out and take away 50~ years of human rights progress. [source] And he just sat back and watched Trump be Trump, cuz all he cares about is getting his foot in the door – and we all just held it open for him and welcomed him inside. Slam it on his stupid foot, friends. Fact is, Pence is a hateful bigot, but he looks really good superficially next to Trump.

If we’re gonna support lawsuits for human rights violations, impeachments, etc, we can’t fixate on Trump alone. A lot of people made Trump happen via complacency and lies, with smiles on their faces.

Not My President… Not My Vice President.

Note: I genuinely don’t have time for debates or arguments on Tumblr even on my good days, so sorry if you wanted to engage me about this, even if you agree with me. I’m not ignoring people (unless, you know, insults), I just can’t give this more time. I have to get back to work and stuff.

Mike pence said literally that “cigarettes do not cause death.” He wants to fund gay conversion therapy. He is the literal embodiment of Satan.

Mike Pence caused an HIV crisis in 2015. In an age of STD tests and anti-retrovirals, Mike Pence’s attack on Planned Parenthood (meaning that in rural areas, there very often weren’t any places to get STD tests- the HIV wasn’t actually spread through sexual contact as much as it was injecting drugs- but no PP access meant no testing that could pick up on HIV) caused an actual HIV crisis. 

And his response? “I’ll pray for them.”

Later, he did authorize a needle exchange, but his first response wasn’t “I’ll take actual legislative action because holy shit, people are dying,” but “I’ll pray for them.”

Pence and Trump are two very different kinds of dangers. I want to stop the political posting and just go back to my regular blogging, but I grew up in Indiana. I’ve seen what Pence’s terrible decisions have done to my friends and family, and as bad as a Trump presidency’s going to be, a Pence presidency might actually be worse.

Pence is what I was afraid Cruz would be. 

discworldtour:

It was much better to imagine men in some smokey
room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting
over brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you
didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened
because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told the
children bed time stories, were capable of then going out and doing
horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame
it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. 

–Terry Pratchett, Jingo

queendread:

Like it literally doesn’t matter if Trump can’t do any of the impossible, illegal things he’s promised. It doesn’t matter, because as soon as a platform built on hate is validated in this way, culture changes. Britain the morning after the Brexit vote was a different place. It wasn’t just the measurable rise in hate crimes and plummeting economy, it was people feeling free to say all the ugliest things they’d ever thought because they knew at least half the country was behind them.

In the coming days and months, please stay safe. Please never stop fighting for a better world. This won’t be forever.