Last year hurricane Matthew scorched the Gulf Of Mexico hitting the whole Caribbean region, parts of South-Central America, and Southern US states. Today we have hurricane Irma and Jose executing a two-punch set which will make more deaths and destruction.
We can’t continue the denial of climate change and pretend this is something out of our hands. It was predicted decades ago but dumb politicians get to keep their seats in Washington, and this is costing countless lives as well as a final bill in the order of the billions footed by US tax payers adding insult to the injury.
As of September 10 two violent hurricanes have hit the Caribbean and the US
It’s time to exit the denial in which far too many got cozy; local governments have to stop letting this disasters happen and should rethink their approach on home building in those areas who suffer the most from violent weather, from the tornado alley to the states impacted by hurricanes.
How are we going to safeguards the lives of millions of people who live in dangerous weather areas?- We stop pretending plywood and drywall are enough to shield lives with homes poorly designed and too fragile to withstand any type weather phenomena out of the norm.
The three little pigs survived because upon trial and error they develop a house that would resist the wolf’s breath.
The reconstruction process after natural calamities has become a hefty business for material providers, developers, working crews, transportation, and so on; there’s a chain of events that allows enterprises to continue to make money out of these disasters rebuilding homes.
Governments and voters have to get serious and demand a change in building practices, they have to demand future homes will be able to resist strong winds and provide a minimum amount of structure integrity to safeguard families inside their places.
Many countries around the world have been using hollow bricks to pull up all sorts of structures knowing that according to specific standards they would have resisted strong winds. It surely is a better option than constantly rebuild the same houses displacing thousands of people from their dwellings.
Nations affected by natural disasters like earthquakes have geared up to seek the latest technological achievement to save lives and their economy. Japan for instance is known for facing more than one type of calamity, yet the country knew that protecting people was a priority, so they developed engineering and architecture practices to design homes and buildings that would resist earthquakes.
Until the US government continues to set their order of business in the wrong orders many more lives will be lost, breaking down local economies until the whole landscape will be so bruised we won’t be able to turn back.
Show this photo to your daughters as they grow up.
Show them that courage is important, even in the scariest of situations. This woman stood up and faced her fears, spoke her truth in front of a group of men while balancing the world on her shoulders. She is a hero. She is a representation for all women who are done being assaulted and abused.
I Believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
Show it to them because our mothers didn’t show us this one:
Who is she? Anita Hill.
What’s she doing here? Testifying about the sexual misconduct of then supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas aka nowthe most senior justice on the Supreme Court.
Please register online if you aren’t already. Check your registration and your friends. Lots of people don’t have much time left to register! Don’t wait until the last minute!
Memes are all very good, but to get the assholes out, you have to VOTE.
I you live in Kentucky, there’s still time! Please get out to register, take your friends, make them get registered if they aren’t. This November’s election is critical.
“oh homeless people are just gonna use your money to buy drugs” and? and?? the government uses my tax money to buy bombs and cops, you think I care if someone in a shitty situation uses money I gave them to feel marginally less shitty? fuck off!
I’m looking at a lot of replies to this and some people really don’t get what this is like.
For context; I’m a recovering poly addict (somebody who was addicted to multiple different substances). For those who are nosy, it was alcohol and opioids.
I was also *technically* homeless for a period. I was lucky to be able to couch surf but there was definitely days where I had no idea where I was going to stay, and constantly had to rely of the kindness of others. I was on welfare at the time, but not much.
I was trying to get sober while couch surfing and holy fucking shit, it’s hard, I don’t think anyone understands how hard it is. I was fortunate to be able to lay on a warm couch and have withdrawals and even then, it was hard. That added stress of knowing that I was going to have to move on to the next kind person in my life was an extra layer to add onto how fucking sick I was. A lot of people don’t understand the physical aspect of drug use. My first night I spent violently shaking and clinging to a toilet bowl, wondering if I was dying.
I cannot even begin to fathom what it is like for those living on the street going through withdrawls. Hungry, cold, sleeping in a tent or on a cardboard box or on the god damn ground. I do not blame a single person for using money I give to avoid that. That is not a situation where it is reasonable to ask people to get sober. It’s just not.
Support homeless addicts, unconditionally, or don’t bother pretending like you care about them. Take the niciesties out the fucking door. If your criteria for helping homeless people includes “sobriety” then you don’t actually care.
Just me crying in the bathroom so I don’t wake my partners with this, fuck.
So to sum up: CT and DC have passed laws making it illegal to extradite someone to another state if they are being charged in that other state for crimes pertaining to abortion or trans health care, and makes it legal to sue and get your money back if you are targeted by a TX-style “bounty” law. DC also includes “crimes” of consensual adult sex, gay and interracial marriage and cohabitation and providing or using contraception.
This is, as the thread explains, basically legal interstate warfare. CT and DC’s laws bar compliance with such laws.
This is, on one hand, kind of terrifying, because this is where we are now. It’s going to get worse long before it gets better.
On the other hand… holy shit, someone fucking did something.
If you are American, PLEASE SUPPORT THE SSI RESTORATION ACT OF 2021
This new bill has been introduced in both the house and the Senate.
Among other things, it will:
Raise the monthly disability income by just over 30 percent - bringing it to poverty level.
Remove penalties for recieving financial help from friends and family.
Increase the amount of assets a disabled person may have from $2,000 to $10,000 (this hasn’t been updated since 1989)
Update outside income restrictions to allow disabled people to receive up to $399 a month without reducing their benefits.
REWARD, not penalize, people who want to receive additional income while on social security income.
REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT THIS WILL REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN
For those unaware current regulations do a lot to oppress disabled people. In fact marriage equality doesn’t even extend to disbled people who risk having their benefits reduced or outright taken away if they marry someone. This means that in common law states disabled people can’t even live with their significant other or they risk losing their financial independence.
Current regulations mean that if you’re disbled you can’t have so much as one penny over $2,000 to your name. So buying a car and gaining more independence or freedom is largely out of the question for disabled people.
Current regulations penalize social security recipients who receive income from outside sources, even if those sources are reimbursement. Did you get paid to babysit for a few hours? That’s income, and you get your benefits reduced. Did you loan a friend $10 and they pay you back? The government considers that $10 income, and you get your benefits reduced.
These aren’t mere anecdotes - these are all examples of actual things that have happened to disbled people I know, and if you have any disabled friends in your life I’m sure they can tell you the same stories.
If you value marriage equality, if you value financial independence, if you value the rights of disbled people, please PLEASE support this bill! Contact your reps, vote, and make noise! This is a great thing!
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Following years of abuse at the hands of the U.S. government, imprisoned transparency advocate Chelsea Manning has released a statement announcing that she will be going on hunger strike to protest years of bullying and harassment by the U.S. military, and demand basic respect, humane treatment, and access to needed healthcare related to her gender transition.
Chelsea needs our support now more than ever. If you care about free speech, human rights, and government transparency, sign the petition to show you stand with Chelsea during her nonviolent protest for basic rights and dignified treatment.
100 YEARS – A film by Melinda Janko and produced by Michele Ohayon. National TV premiere on America Reframed,Tuesday, March 13, 2018at8 P.M. on the WORLD Channel.
“… inspiring and enraging …’100 Years’ emerges as a portrait of one remarkable rabble-rouser, the late Native American activist Elouise Cobell.” –Kate Walsh,The Los Angeles Times
EXPLAINED: Massive TD Bank FRAUD, Fake Accounts Uncovered
Krystal and Saagar have Matt Stoller analyze the new TD Bank scandal that flew under the radar because of regulatory indifference and a lack of media coverage.
American comedian Jimmy Kimmel responds to the evil massacre of American schoolchildren earlier this week in Texas, as well as of the teachers who tried protecting their pupils. Kimmel does not hesitate to identify the cowardly, law- and life-hating politicians whose inaction and excuse-making empower murderers. Apparently, the US has already had over 25 shootings this year, and six months have not even passed. Something is morally wrong with a society that can keep allowing these atrocities to occur.
I still don’t see what is so bad about a curfew, really. Like, don’t be out late.
I got used to that since I was 5. It shouldn’t be too difficult, really.
are you absolutely brain dead
you think its fine for government to put a damn curfew for citizens, like idk how to tell you that parents putting curfews for their kids is not the same as government putting a mandatory curfew for citizens
we aren’t children and government is not supposed to be our parent who controls us.
The Government is supposed to control you, that is their job. One way or another though, it’s still not really that bad.
There is still a pandemic going on (that all protesters apparently really want to get, idiots), and a curfew will qt least somewhat slow the spreading. And what would you really want to do late out except for like Night Jobs?
The (majority conservative) Supreme Court wants to cause a civil war, and they want to burn this country to the ground to rebuild anew. This is the goal, this is how they are going to do it, and we are witnessing in real time the fall to fascism.
So about 200 million people just had their 4th Amendment rights abolished, but they say nothing can be done about the 2nd Amendment?
Politics and Government - La política y el gobierno
disclaimer:as always, let me know if i made any mistakes and if i should add any words/regional words! Here’s a link to the election vocab list and the politician vocab list
act - la ley administration - la administración amendment - la enmienda appointment - el nombramiento asylum seeker - el/la solicitante de asilo político bill - la proposición, el proyecto de ley cabinet - el Consejo de Ministros chamber - la cámara citizen - el ciudadano/la ciudadana civil disobedience - la resistencia pasiva civil servant - el funcionario público/la funcionaria pública civil war - la guerra civil coalition - la coalición constituent - el/la constituyente constitution - la constitución cooperation - la cooperación corruption - la corrupción coup - el golpe de estado crime - el crimen crisis - la crisis debate - el debate decree - el decreto delegate - el delegado/la delegada, el diputado/la diputada demonstration - la manifestación duty - el deber emergency meeting - la reunión extraordinaria equal opportunity - la igualdad de oportunidades executive - el ejecutive/la ejecutiva
there’s so much under the cut, im tryna save your dashboard here
flag - la bandera foreign policy - la política exterior freedom - la libertad freedom of speech - la libertad de expresión government - el gobierno judiciary - la judicatura law - la ley, el derecho legislation - la legislación legislature - la legislatura liberty - la libertad local affairs - los asuntos locales majority - la mayoría meeting - la reunión middle class - la clase media ministry - el ministerio minority - la minoría office - el cargo, el puesto pact - el pacto politician - el político/la política power - el poder (not to be confused with the verb) preamble - el preámbulo public opinion - la opinión pública reactionary - el reaccionario/la reaccionaria reform - la reforma region - la región revolt - la revuelta, el levantamiento rule - la regla sanction - la sanción seat (political) - el escaño solidarity - la solidaridad speech - el discurso support - el apoyo tax - el impuesto taxation - los impuestos term (in office) - el cargo, el puesto term of office - la duración del cargo Treasury - el Ministerio de Hacienda unity - la unidad veto - el veto welfare - el bienestar working class - la clase obrera
to abolish - anular, revocar, suprimir to appoint - nombrar, designar to become law - cobrar fuerza de ley, entrar en vigor to bring down - derrocar, derribar to cut taxes - reducir los impuestos to demonstrate - participar en la manifestación to dismiss (from office) - distituir to draw up (a bill) - redactar to form a pact with - pactar con to govern - gobernar (e > ie stem changing) to introduce (a bill) - presentar to lead - encabezar to offer an amendment - proponer una enmienda to overthrow - derrocar to pass (a bill) - aprobar to ratify - ratificar to reform - reformar to reject - rechazar to repress - reprimir to resign - dimitir to rule - regir (e > i), disponer to support - apoyar to take office - tomar posesión del puesto, tomor posesión del cargo to take power - tomar el poder to throw out (a bill) - rechazar to veto - vetar to vote - votar
100 YEARS – A film by Melinda Janko and produced by Michele Ohayon. National TV premiere on America Reframed,Tuesday, March 13, 2018at8 P.M. on the WORLD Channel.
