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omg-hockeyboys:

idk if this exists already but

okay so I’ve read (and loved!) quite a few fics now where zimbits are out publicly and the falcs are playing a game where one of the opposing team members says something derogatory/awful about bitty to jack without the refs hearing and jack just immediately gets thrown in the sin bin for kicking the guy’s ass and it got me thinking

what if it was the other way around?

what if it’s a samwell game and some punk ass douchebro from the visiting team decides to make a nasty comment about jack to bitty (for his sexuality or the OD or smth) and the next thing anybody knows is bitty’s gloves are on the ice and the winger who opened his mouth has a split lip to show for it? and here’s the thing, bitty isn’t generally a violent person, and it’s not like what this dude is saying hasn’t been thrown in jack’s own face already. but like, bits is just so, so tired of every athlete, fan, and sports commentator who have any knowledge of hockey ripping into jack like they know anything about him. like, bitty can take the slurs when they’re directed at him bc he (sadly) is used to it after growing up in georgia. but he’ll be damned if anyone is going to badmouth his loving, kind, generous, and extremely hardworking boyfriend in front of him. not anymore.

If you’re wondering why people are protesting:

jawnbaeyega:

morecolorfulmetaphors:

heartsinhiseyes:

howtolivefatandhappy:

Trump’s presidency isn’t final. Candidates do not actually recieve electoral college votes until December 19 when appointed individuals (called electors) vote, which finalizes the presidency. Electors generally vote the way their state suggests, but they are only obligated to do so in 26 states. The electors can choose to cast their votes for any candidate. There’s more that happens should they choose to vote for someone besides the majority suggestion, but the point is that nothing is final until December.

If you know an elector, please encourage them to vote for HRC!

If anyone has contact information for electors in swing states, now is the time.

Hey everyone, I know this and other efforts like it are well meaning and coming from a good place, however, they’re not going to yield any fruit and could actually be more problematic. Hear me out, because I want us to fight, but we need to focus our efforts and energy on feasible outcomes. 

The electors aren’t going to upend “the will of the people.” They can’t and they won’t because a pillar of American democracy is the peaceful transfer of power & acceptance of free & fair election results. I know you’re going to say “but it’s not official until the electors vote” but the people have voted, the electoral votes divided, & the electoral college vote is mostly just a ceremonial ratification of what has already happened. Also, the need to accept the result of a free and fair election is precisely why you won’t hear President Obama or Hillary Clinton expressing outrage and calling for people to rise up against Trump. They can’t and they won’t. Because if they do and if the electoral college goes against free and fair election results, it sets a terrible precedent: It means that should the tables be turned, a decent and qualified candidate who properly won an election could be ousted because the people who voted for Trump this time around don’t like the newly elected president. In short, the electoral college defying election results effectively ends the veneer of American democracy and the tradition of peaceful transitions of power (because if you think Trump’s supporters won’t take to the streets with their guns if this victory is taken from them by 60 or so unknown electors, you’ve got another thing coming). It’s not going to happen and it can’t because it would destabilize the entire democratic system (which probably needs to happen, but not like this). 

So what can we do?

1. Before the transition of power, folks need to take personal precautions and secure themselves and their families. Get an IUD if you need one, go to the doctor and get checked for things you might lose coverage for, get a VPN, etc. Save money because the economy is about to significantly change. Make sure you and your family have Passports and any necessary documentation as to your identity and citizenship. There are lots of good posts going around on this stuff. Read up. This is important, because it’s infinitely harder to successfully organize if we don’t have our basic needs of health, safety, and shelter met.

2. Congress is up for re-election in 2018 & we have to stop the Republican majority. Two years might seem like a long time, but the Presidential election went on for nearly two years. In order for challengers to have a chance they need to be working and organizing right now! Folks need to figure out who their Representatives are, what party their from, and who their potential challengers are in the next race. Build that voter base right now! 

3. Donate to, volunteer at, & join progressive legal organizations & nonprofits giving direct services to marginalized communities.

It’s important that people really understand the situation we will soon be in. We haven’t had a Republican dominated Executive, Legal, and Judicial branch since 1928. Then we had the Great Depression. These people are about to do their best to literally reset the clock to the 1950s…and they can make it all legal because they now have the power to do so. The rest of us are literally in survival mode. The language we will use in Amicus briefs to the Supreme Court must now change. The arguments lawyers use in court rooms to protect and defend marginalized people will have to change when Trump appoints more federal judges. The goals and tactics of our organizing and mobilizing must change. 

I’m not trying to be an alarmist. It is vitally important the people understand what the situation in and what’s at stake so that we can concentrate and focus our efforts on things that have a chance of working. 

We are in survival mode. Our efforts must focus on taking back the Legislative branch and working to mitigate the damage and impacts on the most vulnerable among us when new policies and altered laws start going into effect. 

I cried because I want my daughters to feel that blazing pride, that affirmation of their boundless capacity — not from their husbands, but from their world, from the atmosphere, from inviolable wells of certainty inside themselves. I cried because it’s not fair, and I’m so tired, and every woman I know is so tired. I cried because I don’t even know what it feels like to be taken seriously — not fully, not in that whole, unequivocal, confident way that’s native to handshakes between men. I cried because it does things to you to always come second.

Hilary Clinton, New York Times (via yesdarlingido)

for those looking for some light reading:

Trickster’s Choice and Trickster’s Queen, by Tamora Pierce, are two fun books about a former slave helping the indigenous people of a nation overthrow their white imperialist masters to put a young woman on the throne

danchatvbb:

livebloggingmydescentintomadness:

I do take some small, cold, bitter satisfaction in one thing, and that’s the fact that Trump is going to be absolutely fucking miserable for the next four years. 

He’s an entertainer and an attention whore, not a public servant. He wants to be on TV and in front of crowds, not actually working a difficult, grueling, stressful job he can’t opt out of. He’s going to have to sit through SO many meetings, be forced to read SO many briefings, get shoehorned into serious business all day every day, without crowds to perform for, and he’s going to hate Every. Single. Minute. 

And then, when he doesn’t deliver on his promises, when he doesn’t build the wall or create jobs or make people rich, when it becomes clear how incompetent and buffoonish he is, the country and all his supporters will turn on him. They’re gonna start blaming him for everything, and those crowds that cheered for him are going to start booing. He’ll be humiliated at every turn, and leave office with the lowest approval rating ever, and he’ll be universally despised. 

Because if he’d lost to Hillary, he would have played the martyr forever, called everything rigged, and had a cushy gig on Fox News complaining every day about how he would have done it better. But now he’s going to have to actually WORK, he’s going to be forced to deal with RESPONSIBILITIES, while surrounded by people who hate him and don’t respect him, people vastly more intelligent and competent than him, and he will be exposed as a loser. And then, we’ll fire him. He’ll go down as the worst president in history. And he’ll have no one to blame but himself. 

I know this isn’t much against the fear of what’s going to happen, but friends, hear me. We are going to make Donald Trump’s life a living nightmare, and I for one take immense pleasure from that. 

Remember his acceptance speech when he was like, “this was REALLY tough” or whatever… Buddy, that was level one, get fucking ready.