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queendread:

Like it literally doesn’t matter if Trump can’t do any of the impossible, illegal things he’s promised. It doesn’t matter, because as soon as a platform built on hate is validated in this way, culture changes. Britain the morning after the Brexit vote was a different place. It wasn’t just the measurable rise in hate crimes and plummeting economy, it was people feeling free to say all the ugliest things they’d ever thought because they knew at least half the country was behind them.

In the coming days and months, please stay safe. Please never stop fighting for a better world. This won’t be forever.

suricattus: “ quote from Terry Pratchett. A reminder that sometimes the worst times to be truthful as a writer is exactly when it’s most important to be truthful as a writer. ”

suricattus:

quote from Terry Pratchett.  A reminder that sometimes the worst times to be truthful as a writer is exactly when it’s most important to be truthful as a writer.

discworldtour:

It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told the children bed time stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. 

–Terry Pratchett, Jingo

rockscanfly:

Alright! That sucked!

Currently some very scary people are slated to take over two of the three branches of government. 

We can’t do much about the executive for four years, which sucks, but we can do something about the legislature.

In 2018 there are 33 SENATE SEATS UP FOR GRABS, ALONG WITH ALL 435 HOUSE SEATS.

36 of 50  Governors will be up for re-election. 

You need to vote in the midterm elections!  

One of the most productive things you can do right now is register to vote and sign up for an absentee ballot. 

Tumblr is a very young population, and very mobile. We move around a LOT–for school, for jobs, for relationships, etc. So an absentee ballot is great way of ensuring that you stay ready to vote even if you have to move for school. 

Just make sure that you either have the ballot sent to a family member you can trust to forward it to you in the mail, or that you keep your current mailing address updated in the system. 

Go HERE to register


Go HERE to register for a mail-in ballot

And remember–2018 matters!

stfusterling: “ Inspirational quotes and uplifting messages can do little to soften the shock felt over last night’s events. So many of us woke to a knot in our throats and genuinely shaken by the conclusion of this race. Staring about ourselves...

stfusterling:

Inspirational quotes and uplifting messages can do little to soften the shock felt over last night’s events. So many of us woke to a knot in our throats and genuinely shaken by the conclusion of this race. Staring about ourselves wondering how an un-qualified, bought and sold disgrace of a man could have succeeded in winning authority over the direction of this great nation.


A man who spews hate and cynicism, preaching violence towards human beings, has managed to slither his way into a seat of power reserved for those who truly believe this nation can be a united force for good and prosperity regardless of their party affiliations.


Quotes and metaphors, these things will do nothing to cure the devastation potentially awaiting our country and her people…but they can serve as a reminder of what we have overcome. What generations before us have fought for in a more dangerous world. How people dared to raise their voices and refuse to accept that which was unlawful, immoral, and cruel. In worse times we as Americans have stood together, protected one another and our individual rights in hope that one day there will be no further need to hurt for the simple idea of justice and liberty. Now it is time to do so again, even louder.


This morning is one my generation will never forget. This broken feeling which will remain at our sides for the next four years as a reminder of the moment our fellow Americans failed to protect human rights so as not to be inconvenienced.


But I refuse to give up hope. I refuse to sit back and be convinced my vote doesn’t matter and that my feelings and beliefs of how America can be are worthless. I will not let the work of so many before myself go to waste because of this decision by those who can’t see past themselves.


So please, Protect our country. Protect one another. We can and will survive this.