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Rowan Driftwood
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Fanfic writer, tea drinker, hobby genealogist, professional archaeologist, GenX, Queer (they/þei/xe), Burien (greater Seattle area).
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Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.

Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
Ooh yes, I need the Groundhog Day advent calendar.
Last night I watched The Lost Boys for the first time in at least 20 years, and I realized it is just Rebel Without a Cause + vampires (- gay subtext).
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Tucked in President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill was a ban on Medicaid funding for health care providers that perform abortion services and receive more than $800,000 a year in Medicaid payments.

It crippled Maine Family Planning.
Trump's abortion-related cuts prompt Maine clinics to end primary care
Maine Family Planning, a health care provider that lost federal Medicaid funding because it performs abortions, is shuttering primary care services Oct. 31.
www.washingtonpost.com
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“Dozens of adoptees have been deported to their countries of birth in recent years, according to the Adoptee Rights Law Center. A man born in South Korea and adopted as a child by an American family—only to be deported to his country of birth because of a criminal record—took his own life in 2017.”
The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember
Thousands of US adoptees do not have citizenship despite being brought to the country as babies decades ago. Now many fear deportation.
www.bbc.com
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Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.
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Archaeologists speak up against the Vice President's blatantly disinformative use of archaeology for spreading these harmful Christian nationalist narratives
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Trans people have warned for years that these anti-trans policies would hurt far more than just trans people.
Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
www.propublica.org
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Resilience Networks include medical care. Find local open clinics and street medic collectives, build relationships and contribute to medical supply funding. Supplement whatever (if any) health care you can afford with networked care advice and support.
Understand the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) groups in your local watershed. Help them network and solve problems like local distribution and ordering. Build food resilience, and systems to access food locally.

Here's a great Puget Sound example

www.pugetsoundfoodhub.com
Puget Sound Food Hub Cooperative
www.pugetsoundfoodhub.com
Hey, I know it’s an odd-numbered year, but please remember to VOTE. Local elections are vital, and impact your life more directly than whatever bullshit is happening in DC. 🗳️
And now the government is preventing 40 million Americans from buying food. I wonder if that will be good for the farmers?
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"[Cishet] white men are the only ppl who are entitled to freely and fully participate in society" is their fundamental position.
Amazon is also in the process of replacing thousands of employees with AI. If you are still using Amazon, why? There are many other options.
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
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Yikes! This is fake news. More trans kids felt safe to come out, now they don't. Government's are painting a target on the back of trans kids backs, forcing them tk stay in the closet.

www.wsj.com/opinion/evid...
Opinion | Evidence Backs the Transgender Social-Contagion Hypothesis
The share of young people claiming another ‘gender identity’ exploded. Now surveys show it is receding.
www.wsj.com
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NEW: Devastating imagery from Jamaica, before & after Category 5 Hurricane Melissa.

Black River — near total destruction.