I’ve been told before you shouldn’t talk about politics or religion on a date because it might make things awkward, so I try to touch on both, partly because those are genuinely interesting subjects and partly because “bad first date” seems a thousand times better than “finding out six months later that you’ve fucked a staunchly conservative fundamentalist”.
Like yeah disagreements are uncomfortable but you know what’s worse? Waking up next to a dipshit
To date, the climate migrations that have attracted federal policy attention in the United States generally have fallen under the category of “managed retreat.” Recall, for instance, the 2016 headlines announcing that Isle de Jean Charles, La., would receive $48 million in federal funds for a first-of-its-kind wholesale community resettlement project, or the Biden administration’s announcement last year that it had awarded $75 million to Indigenous communities in Alaska and Washington state to pack up and move. “Managed retreat,” or the planned relocation of vulnerable coastal communities to higher ground, is at once a proactive tactical move and an act of resignation—an acknowledgment that, in a warming world, some geographic communities are fated to disappear into the sea. But what should we make of this intense political fixation on managed retreat? And when climate migration policies prioritize the most extraordinary and poignant cases, who is left behind?
Jake Bittle’s new book, The Great Displacement, offers a different way to view climate migration. All over the country, he argues, millions of Americans are already uprooting themselves in response to climate change—not as part of an organized program of preemptive strategic retreat but of their own accord. “Climate displacement,” as Bittle calls it, describes the idiosyncratic turns that people’s lives take in the wake of a climate-intensified natural disaster after they decide they can no longer shoulder the risks of living in their current place. This might not sound like much, but as Bittle shows, climate displacement is often a deeply painful, financially destabilizing process—one made worse by the shortcomings of federal disaster policy, the whims of the private real estate market, and decades of racist policies that determined who could own property, and where, in this country. Over the course of the book, Bittle takes us to seven different places and chronicles the stories of individual Americans who are already navigating displacement and attempting—often unsuccessfully—to rebuild their lives. By documenting these experiences, Bittle draws out some of the political stakes of thinking about climate-change migration through the framework of displacement. Our current systems for administering post-disaster aid are already failing so many, he argues—and things are only going to get worse.
Don’t think for a moment that conservatives in the states won’t be studying the legalese used in this bill and will attempt to use it here.
Help these agencies out. Help people get out.
DO NOT donate to russian organizations operating in russia, it will brand them as foreign agents and put everyone involved in danger!!!
If you want to show support, make sure it’s toward those whose leaders/employees/main offices are abroad but who still have enough connections within russia to help. NEVER transfer any money to any russian bank accounts with the goal of helping from abroad!
This is extremely important, y'all. They’re trying to Hyde Amendment trans care for people of all ages.
Medicaid and Medicare coverage would go away, no matter what state you are in. ACA plan coverage would go away. Hospitals would fully just have to stop offering trans care, full stop, or lose their federal funding.
I know we hate the phone but we absolutely can’t sleep on this. If you have a Democrat rep, you absolutely have to tell them to hold the line against this.
🚨🚨CONGRESS SECRETLY TRYING TO SNEAK IN EARN IT ACT COPYCAT INTO MUST PASS SPENDING BILL (PLEASE READ EXTREMELY IMPORTANT)
July 20, 2023 Congress is right now determining what is included in a must pass spending bill the NDAA. Often congress will sneakily add as amendments their bills that they can’t pass in a normal setting.
If you remember, I made a previous post about EARN IT being reintroduced here.
The EARN IT Act and it’s copycats are bipartisan bills that will greatly censor if not completely eliminate encryption and anything sexual and LGBTQ+ from the internet, globally.Anything the far-right doesn’t like will be completely gone. The best way to stop them is to use https://www.badinternetbills.com/to call your senators.
Following it’s initial introduction earlier this year was massive opposition from human rights, LGBT, tech, political groups, and grassroots groups. Bc of this, the senators decided to remake the bill but give it a new name, so they can still pass Earn It without actually passing Earn It. Those bills are the Stop CSAM Act (yes really, they actually named it that), and the Cooper-Davis act.
they gut encryption, the one thing actually protects you from having your data seen by anyone. Do you want republicans to know you’re trans? that someone had an abortion? that they spoke out against the govt? to see your private photos you have uploaded to the cloud? to see what porn you watch? if youre a journalist, or an abuse survivor, any hacker or abuser can see your stuff and track you.
they gut parts of Section 230, the one thing that allows anyone to post online and birthed social media. Previous gutting into 230 gave us the tumblr nsfw ban and killed that site.
they create an unelected commission with some already established govt body (DOJ, FTC, etc) that will include law enforcement and people from NCOSE or other Christian conservative groups who will decide what is and isn’t lawful to say. no citizen can vote who’s on this commission, and the president gets to pick. it’s like the supreme court, but for the internet.
lead to mass censorship and surveillance because of the above
We have until the end of the month to stop this, but this can be added literally any moment until then. It’s literally code red. If this is added it goes into effect immediately. The BEST way to stop this is to drive calls and emails to the senate. https://www.badinternetbills.com/ connects you directly to your members of congress & gives you a call script.
All these people expressed concern over Earn It, so we need to press them hard to not allow it’s copycats Cooper-Davis or Stop CSAM into the NDAA. This is URGENT and needs all hands on deck. Chuck Schumer(D-NY) (202) 224-6542 Maria Cantwell(D-WA) (202) 224-3441 Jon Ossof (D-GA) (202)-224-3521 Alex Padilla (D-CA) (202) 224-3553 Cory Booker (D-NJ) (202) 224-3224 Mike Lee (R-UT) (202) 224-5444
Please please please spread this message and blow up their phones.
TLDR; The Senate is trying to quietly push the Earn It Act’s copycat bills into the must pass NDAA, which will lead to mass censorship and surveillance online by gutting Section 230 which is the entire reason you can even be on tumblr and why the internet exists, killing encryption which put everyone’s lives in danger, and appointing far-right people to a supreme court-esque commission that the president has direct control over. They could be added in ANY DAY and we need to push hard to stop it before it gets to that point. CALL YOUR SENATORS **NOW** BY USING https://www.badinternetbills.com/ AND CALL THE SENATE LEADERSHIP AND SPREAD THE WORD!!!!
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