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Well...finally got a chance to come back to dA looking for a good time and I am not a fan of the proposed Eclipse...maybe it's just me being a dum-dum but I'm finding it pretty hard to navigate...what are you all thinking? Are you going to stay on or will you be posting elsewhere?
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Well, we Yankees have certainly failed to make this year any better, haven't we?!?!? 

Urgggggg.....well, in the first week of this administration, they've effectively implemented the first step of a Muslim ban, explicitly indicated that there's going to be a combination of church and state, ripped away funding for women's reproductive rights, made the first moves to take away health care from millions, emboldened nazis, brought two pipelines that promise to cause all sorts of harm back from the dead, put a gag law out on our scientists, fired the US attorney general for not going along with a decree that would support terrorists, yelled time and time again that the president is not to be criticized and that all "real" information comes from him alone, decided it would be a good idea to get rid of as many regulations as possible, etc. etc., etc., and generally done their best to make the USA into a fascist hellscape. 

To the rest of the world, I'm so so sorry that you also have to deal with the atrocities my country seems to be hellbent on causing. To the rest of us, here's a few things we can do: 

CALL YOUR LOCAL AND FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES
Unless the country ends up going into full-on dictator mode, our elected representatives are supposed to listen to the people and act accordingly. Find scripts and the numbers of who you can call here: 
5calls.org/
thesixtyfive.org/weeklyCTA
www.tellallyourfriends.org/

I'll keep you updated as to when and if the public comments line to the White House opens up. Currently, they're not taking any calls. 

LEARN HOW TO RESIST
It's becoming more and more obvious that waaay too many U.S. politicians are willing to go along with fascism if it means they keep their seats of power. Real change is going to have to happen staring from the ground up. Here's a guide on how to organize and resist: 
www.resistancemanual.org/Resis…

LEARN SOME SELF DEFENSE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A WOMAN
Given that the neo-nazis of the U.S. are being increasingly emboldened by the current regime and are getting more and more violent, and given that American women are being further and further subject to a whole slew of laws meant to make them even more into second-class citizens (with all the horrors that implies), it's probably a good idea to learn some self-defense. Definitely keep your eyes out for any training with a instructor, but this seems like a pretty good start:
survival-mastery.com/skills/de…

SEND PUBLIC COMMENTS ABOUT THE DAPL
A comment line is still open about this pipeline, which so far promises not only to bulldoze through a burial ground and poison drinking water but also set dogs, tear gas, rubber bullets, and a whole host of other evils against those resisting it. Let them know you find this awful. 
www.yesmagazine.org/people-pow…

RECONNECT WITH YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY
Everyone is going to suffer from this regime's policies in one way or another, wether it be through direct discrimination, defunding of federal programs for health, education, and safety, or the general incompetence of those now in charge. We need to resist it all, staring at the local level.
 www.yesmagazine.org/people-pow…

FINALLY, IF YOU CAN, DONATE
There's a whole bunch of organizations that are doing their best in the ever-increasing struggle against the pure evil that the current regime is revealing themselves to be. Pick one and give what you can! 
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Goodbye to 2016, hello to 2017! Congratulations to everyone who made it through. 
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Oh Hypocrisy

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Sooooo...I know that everyone is likely having nice Thanksgivings right now, and that no one likes the bearer of bad news, but please keep in mind that even on this day supposedly dedicated to peaceful feasting, the indigenous people protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline are being subjected to horrible human rights abuses and are even being threatened with death right now. If you could, PLEASE donate to their cause for clean water for millions of people and against state violence!

standingrock.org/news/standing…


And afterwards, if you want to see some info on the bird of the season, you can look at this documentary about living with wild turkeys here: 

www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/my-lif…
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So my country has elected it's new leader, and given the history of the USA maybe I shouldn't be surprised that the rich white fear-mongering guy won. While the usual calls for unity are going on right now, I spent the day with so many people who are crying and scared not just for their jobs, but for their lives. So many of my lgbtqa+ friends are terrified that they're going to be even more at risk of being murdered than they were before, and from what I've seen many, many men on social media are already gleeful at the prospect that they can "grab [women] by the pussy," to sexually assault people, and get away with it. This is, of course, to say nothing of the millions of dark-skinned people who have been made even more susceptible to being killed than they were before, and all of the immigrants and children of immigrants who are going to face and increased amount of hatred and likely death. I think that what terrifies me the most about this election, besides the fact that the last time the Republican Party had control of both the House and the Senate the Great Depression happened, AND that environmental destruction, which will now be heightened, is leaving more and more people across the globe and in the U.S. itself (remember Flint Michigan) in increasingly dangerous positions, is that it has made terrorism against minority groups and women both acceptable and even read as a social good. 
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