vaspider:

thecolorblockcurator:

nerdlingwrites:

roachliquid:

thecolorblockcurator:

thecolorblockcurator:

thecolorblockcurator:

Took this from Instagram because this is urgent US folks.

You need to call and email your reps no matter if you live in a red or blue state. This cannot be allowed to pass.

It will prevent anyone who has ever changed their name from voting (including their last name)

Here is an article explaining the ambiguous language of the bill how it’s intention is to strip millions of Americans their right to vote

& how its republicans top priority to get passed

Spread this far- this could end voting rights for hundreds of millions of Americans

Keep sharing this folks. & take action. This is a major bill that has republican’s support. It is essentially the reversal of the 19th amendment using citizenship as a scapegoat

There will be a lot of distractions preventing folks from focusing on this bill. Because this is the one that will bring democracy down.

This would also affect shitloads of trans people, BTW. They know what they’re doing.

FYI this horror show has PASSED THE HOUSE.

First, call your senators and tell them if they vote yes on this BS that they’re going to lose their job.

Second, find out how your rep voted and if they voted yet, remember to vote them the fuck out of office.

Third, if you are a cis woman who has taken your spouse’s name, and you don’t have one, GO GET YOUR PASSPORT. Get the process started now because I guarantee you passport processing is about to slow to a crawl.

If you are a TRANS person, be very very very very careful about trying to get a passport right now. I’m hearing of people presenting the necessary documentation and having the documents taken away and not returned, leaving you completely without documentation.

We’ve got to find a way to stop this. This is BLATANT voter suppression and this won’t be the first time the administration tries it.

Turns out my democrat representative was one of 5 who voted for this

Because she’s too concerned about the threat of undocumented Mexicans at our country’s southern border. (& I’m living in one of the furthest states from Mexico btw) that was literally her email back to me about this issue.

So fight like hell, contact your senators explain the gravity of 140 million people having the right to vote disenfranchised. (155 million people voted in the 2024 elections) and the nearly 75 million people who have legally changed their last name – the majority of which are married women. (77 million voted for trump) which this bill threatens to disenfranchise.

Explain that you support mail in voting, online voter registration.

And explain that your continued support of them relies on them stopping this bill. It is your top priority (because without voting any hope of stopping the fascist takeover is completely gone & the GOP knows this.)

Personally, This is the bill for me that signals when it’s time to leave the US. It’s the red flag that I decided to keep in mind about if to stay or leave.

So, for clarity’s sake:

A previous version of the bill passed the House in the last session, but that bill died bc the Senate did not take up the bill before the session ended.

So this is a new bill. Same text, but logistically, an entirely new bill. It has to go through every stage again, from House committee on up.

Introduced on Jan 3, 2025

This bill is in the first stage of the legislative process. It was introduced into Congress on January 3, 2025. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly sent on to the House or Senate as a whole.

Other activity may have occurred on another bill with identical or similar provisions.

Prognosis Details

This bill has a . . .

29% chance of getting past committee.
6% chance of being enacted.

Only 11% of bills made it past committee and only about 2% were enacted in 2021–2023.
Factors considered:
↑ 	The bill was introduced in the first 90 days of the Congress.
↑ 	The bill was introduced in the first year of the Congress.
↓ 	At least two cosponsors serve on a committee to which the bill has been referred.
↑↓ 	This bill was reported by committee as H.R. 8281 (118th) in the previous session of Congress.

These factors are correlated with either an increased or decreased chance of being enacted.ALT

This bill is NOT CURRENTLY BEFORE THE SENATE.

While you can contact your Senator preemptively about it, they can’t do anything about this bill right now. It is not even before the various committees in the House that it has to pass before the House actually votes on it and passes it up to the Senate.

Please please please please please please stop scaring people about bills that died last session and aren’t before the Senate and have been sitting doing nothing for six weeks. There is plenty to be scared about. There are plenty of urgent calls to action to be made. This isn’t one of them as of 2/15/25.

This is a nothingburger bill at this point. Put it on your bill tracker and move on to something that you can actually do something about.

the-goddess-of-annoying:

insomniac-arrest:

sqgworld:

insomniac-arrest:

I find it kind of funny that human babies are so fragile and helpless and useless that natural selection went like HARD-hard on humans finding babies cute. This thing is a wailing messy resource sinkhole so please find other reason to enjoy it. And the humans that did find baby cute and invest time in them, the crazy bastards?? Lived!!

And now there’s so much spill-over from “baby cute” gene that humans see literally any “baby” creature that even slightly resembles us, like

and we’re like 😍🥰🤩🥺🥺🥺 I wanna love you so bad. I wanna make so many images of you, you are so small, just baby. I’m inventing new emotions as we speak bc I love you so much.

Like, I’m almost convinced humans didn’t even domesticate dogs bc we thought they’d be useful, we saw some puppies and it activated our Big Boi Primate Baby buttons, it wasn’t even logic time baby, it was 🥺 time.

The funniest thing about that is the fact that neuroimaging of elephant brains have proved that they think that we – humans – are cute in exactly the same way. They most likely want to squish and cuddle us the way we want to do with puppies based on the firing of their neurons.

This is so important to me.

Actually hatebros, “survival of the fittest” means you have to make as many friends as possible in one lifetime. Naruto understands Darwinism better than you.

(These images are sourced from ethical places to interact with elephants)

reblogging for “Naruto understands Darwinism better than you”

queerculus:

saywhat-politics:

Keep your messaging simple:

“Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.”

That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.

  • Trump removed bird safety regulations in his first term and now bird flu is killing so many laying hens that eggs are $5 a carton
  • Trump removed food safety standards his first term and now we have recalls every few weeks
  • Trump cut the subsidies for the solar farms under construction so now electricity costs more
  • Trump disbanded the pandemic response team and we now we have bird flu and tuberculosis outbreaks

derinthescarletpescatarian:

castielismyhusband2266:

writing-n-ocs:

adorably-confused-fallen-angel:

sparklesmccheesy:

ittygittydiddynator:

iheichouguys:

lifehackable:

This is potentially life saving information everyone should know.

No you guys this post helped me find my cat. He was missing for almost a month and I’ve had him for over 12 years. After seeing this I put his favorite blanket he always slept on outside hoping he would smell mine or his scent and he was back the next fucking day asleep on it.

When my cat got out, we called and called for him, and then, later that night, I remembered similar advice to this, and so put his little scratching pad, which he adores, on the front porch. Not even half an hour later, I heard a thump, opened the door, and there was his big butt, meowing at me.

Important and vital

I don’t care that I reblogged this today I’m reblogging it again

This is an exception to not being related to writing.

I hope this helps somebody

Whenever someone in one of my buy swap sell groups reports a missing cat, I remember this post and pass the advice on. So far, ALL of the missing cats have come home.