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So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom

It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education

602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡

and for the love of god, don’t just spam it with memes or le funny shrek jokes or whatever, they’ll just hang up

make plausible-sounding reports for things that don’t actually exist, so that they actually have to waste time/resources investigating false leads - the goal is to waste time they would otherwise be using to do their jobs, not to get tumblr clout for being an epic troll

So apparently the internet article said the superintendent wouldn't be deterred by the prank calls because they would 'taper off eventually'. It'd be a real shame if this post stayed in circulation via queues so they get a consistent list of prank calls to filter through. 😇

That would be horrible, hopefully nobody does that by putting a reblog of this post into their queue /sar

And DEFINITELY don't call them and say weird stuff, DEFINITELY /sar

a tragedy really /sar

Major tragedy. Please don't call them and say weird things! /sar

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Rent is due and we're a couple hundred short. I've exhausted my other options for getting help to pay it so I'm asking here. If you appreciate my education on intersex issues and can swing me five bux, that'd be awesome.

I am disabled and chronically ill and haven't been able to work since 2017. My partner is also disabled and works a part time job that barely keeps us afloat. I started fighting to get disability benefits and help in 2018 and still haven't gotten anything more than medicaid.

We get govt food assistance, but they're cutting our food money significantly. We are going to food pantries, but they don't always have what we need, and I have significant dietary restrictions.

Any help is super appreciated.

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‼️please help me get a wheelchair‼️

hello, my name is leo, or more commonly known as ‘lav’ on here.

i’ve been dealing with debilitating chronic pain for over 10 years and i really need a wheelchair. i haven’t gotten much help from my healthcare system, being fat and afab has really fucked me over while trying to seek medical attention..

i am still fighting to completely figure out what’s wrong with me, but for now i know that i have several bulging discs in my lower back, as well as scoliosis. (as well as medically recognised POTS).

my pain is getting worse and worse, and i barely leave my home since walking and being upright in general hurts so much. a wheelchair would improve my life immensely, both physically and mentally.

i am currently on disability benefits, which pretty much is the lowest income group in sweden, and saving up for a wheelchair myself would take a very long time.. i will of course also be saving up as much as i can and putting into an account meant for wheelchair funds.

so i’m asking you to donate if you want to and if you are financially able to, and if not, please reblog this.

i have found a good chair that is also accessible to a fat person, and i need 7111 SEK (around 650$) to cover the cost of the chair & the shipping. i have started a gofundme that i’ll be sharing in this post, and i welcome all help, donating just a little helps, and reblogging and sharing the gofundme in general helps immensely too.

thank you so much for reading💜

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Hiiiiii everyone! Happy disability pride month! I’m a black autistic enby currently trying to raise a bit of money to pay off prior school debt so I can reenroll this fall!Additionally, I’m trying to raise money for a tablet to use for school work and as an aac device! I’ve been experiencing severe panic attacks lately and Verbal communication has gotten increasingly difficult for me after experiencing a sexual assault in an abusive relationship. If you can’t donate, please help me spread the word!

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‼️ I NEED HELP ‼️ I had to sleep in my car last night due to severe flooding in my apartment 😭

If anyone is able to help with ANY amount of $50-100 for a motel , please message me ! I’ll do whatever I can via content to return the favor 💖

Please reblog if you can !!

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this is happening at my college right now. i’m in my third year here and everyone i know is like, haha, im in danger.

one of my professors earlier today had the perfect word to describe the feeling of it: traumatizing

what they’re doing seems almost illegal, like.. considering desantis brought in the majority of the trustees in one sweep, we didnt even have a chance to dissent their new supermajority firing president okker with no cause. or if it isn’t, it should be illegal, there’s literally no checks and balances happening here. no democracy involved. genuine fascism at work, it’s actually absurd. extremely fucking filthy and despicable political ploy.

yesterday wrt the board of trustees meeting, a student commented, “The fact they are playing [the college president] like she's a game and she is sitting at that table CRYING is something that shakes me.”

this is who they replaced our president with

they don’t care about education or the students at all. they don’t care. we’re chess pieces to them.

read more:

please help us defend ourselves, not just for NCF but for educational freedom in academic institutions in general. donate, spread the word, etc. here’s the site

this son of a bitch is definitely going to run for president in 2024. pay attention to what’s happening on the ground here. it’s very bleak.

a lot has happened but this is really peak shit. they fucking hate us and want to inconvenience us as much as possible

here’s a pdf of the article. i’m a senior btw. i don’t know what to do

New College of Florida is shifting returning students into housing in buildings with mold problems identified by an outside consultant to make way for student-athletes and other incoming freshmen who are part of a conservative transformation of the school launched by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Weeks before the start of the fall semester, the college emailed returning students Tuesday to tell them their housing assignments had been changed at the last minute to accommodate an influx of student- athletes and freshmen. The new cohort would live in the apartment-style Dort and Goldstein buildings — which have historically housed upperclassmen — while returning students would be moved to other, shared-space dorms, such as the older I. M. Pei designed buildings.
Pei dorms, however, were considered virtually uninhabitable due to mold as of early this summer. Although New College housed students in the Pei dorms last semester, a May report commissioned by the school and obtained by the Herald-Tribune concluded that the Pei dorms "should not be occupied in their current condition" due to a systematic mold issue that would require a fiscal investment to repair.
Mold can cause symptoms such as stuffy nose, sore throat, coughing or wheezing, burning eyes, or skin rash, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People with asthma or who are allergic to mold could have more severe reactions, and immunocompromised people could get lung infections from mold.
The college's email to students mentioned ongoing renovations, but it was unclear if those included repairing mold damage and the underlying building issues causing mold.
Students had until July 14 to cancel their housing agreements with no penalty, a deadline only three days after the email was sent.
For many upperclassmen working on thesis projects, living in an apartment-style dorm is preferable because of the private living and study spaces each student receives.
The idea of living in shared-space Pei dorms again has prompted some students to consider off- campus living options, or even transferring to another college. For many, living off-campus is financially impossible because of the cost of rent in the Sarasota-Manatee area.
On-campus housing costs between $3,000 and $5,000 per semester, a student housing employee told the Herald-Tribune. The estimated median monthly rent in Sarasota for a one-bedroom apartment is $1,500, and since March 2020, rents have increased by 43.5% in the North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton metro area, the sixth-largest increase in the country, according to apartmentlist.com data.
Zoe Fountain, a 20-year-old psychology and gender studies student involved in student government, said giving student-athletes the nicer apartment-style dorms is indicative of the school's new DeSantis- appointed leadership trying to shape a new student body while neglecting the needs of current students.
Earlier in the year, the college fired an LGBTQ librarian and denied tenure to five faculty members. "To all of us (students), that just sounds like they're trying to drive us out," she said.
In addition to being given priority in housing assignments, student-athletes have been given preferential treatment in admissions and promised $1,400 laptops if they enrolled, a New College admissions official told the Herald-Tribune.
As the college seeks rapid renovations of different residential buildings, the treatment of the current student body is "dehumanizing," Fountain said. Current summer residents have dealt with construction crews and dust. “We are being treated as inconveniences that they need to move around," she said.
Fountain said that the housing situation, coupled with other actions by the administration, have alienated her from New College. She said she plans to take a gap semester this fall to find another college destination.
"The rug is being pulled out from under you, and all of us are just very desperately wanting to go back to the way things are and realizing that that's not possible for us anymore," Fountain said.
Megan Nigro, a 19-year-old zoology fourth-year student, was set to live in the Dort building with three other students this fall. Now, she's likely going to live in Pei dorms, where she lived last year. One of the biggest draws for the Dort and Goldstein dorms is the kitchens in each unit, something Nigro said she was excited to use because of the limited food options on campus. She said she's exploring off-campus living options. However, Nigro said she pays for housing through scholarships at the school, so being able to afford an apartment off-campus would be difficult.
Some students won't be given an on-campus housing opportunity at all. Andy Trinh, a 20-year-old computer science third-year, said they were supposed to live in the Palmer B dorm, but they received an email saying the dorm had been taken offline. Corcoran had previously received approval from the Board of Trustees to begin the process of demolishing the building, despite not having obtained permits to do so.
In the meeting, Corcoran said displaced students could be moved to a nearby hotel or to USF's Sarasota-Manatee campus.
"I don't have a car. I don't know how to get to campus from there unless I take the bus, but it's not something I can do for like every single meal," Trinh said. "It's not completely feasible unless they have like a shuttle or something running."

i have a post going around Kinda but it’s clunky

it’s disability pride month and im a disabled mentally ill black trans person and im not able to work

i need help with food, toiletries and bills this month, i make art bc i like it but also i need it to supplement my disability check :3

you can donate/tip on cashapp: $communitysaint venmo: @Carter-Raquel paypal: cnorris98

i make paintings, ashtrays, jewelry etc , i graphic design (?) and incorporate into my onlyfans and kofi and i make music that is available to stream and purchase :3

all on my linktree !

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Just an FYI for those in the US with insurance issues

Important information! Insurance coverage decisions are made by medically ignorant bean-counters. Until we can dismantle the whole shitty system, know how to scare them into submission.

This is like that procedure Mr. Incredible told that old lady

Reblogging for visibility

[Image Description: Text: Medical Hack: So, your doctor ordered a test or treatment and your insurance company denied it. That is a typical cost saving method. Okay, here is what you do:

  1. Call the insurance company and tell them you want to speak with the “HIPPA Compliance/Privacy Officer” (By federal law, they have to have one)
  2. Then ask them for Names as well as Credentials of every person Accessing Your Record to make that decision of denial. By law you have a Right to that informantion.
  3. They will almost always Reverse the Decision very shortly rather than admit that the committee is made of low paid H.S. Graduates, looking at all “criteria words,” making the decision to deny your care. Even in the rare case it is made by medical personel, it is unlikely that it is made by a board cerified doctor in that specialty and they Do Not Want You to Know This!
  4. Any refusal should be reported to the U.S. Office of Civil Rights (OCR.gov) as a HIPPA violation. Description ends]

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I wonder if anyone has made a list like this regarding Medicare (federal run health insurance) and Medicaid (state run health insurance) because the process for challenging denials is absolutely different, but I’ve never known how to do it myself nor found a guide on how to.

this is literally my exact job, @colorsofsocialjustice the process is largely the same, but medicare and medicaid largely outsource their prior approval work.

if you can get the name of the company they need prior authorization from (check with your doctor, they’ll usually know it), call. my company has one phone number for everything and we handle a ton of Medicare stuff, so you’ll usually drop into our call center.

then, continue the same strategy as above, but keep your reason for why its medically necessary and any scientific evidence you have really clear.

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yea that'd be a shame

by the way, just so everyone knows what not to do, shift+r reblogs a post instantly

just make sure you don't reblog anything about oceangate because that would completely undermine their entire plan 😇😇😇

i'm fleeing trans genocide in southern appalachia and i need your help.

hi, you might know me as Nate or Nel. i'm a local East Tennesseean, born in a tiny mountain town and living in Knoxville to attend school.

i love southern Appalachia more than anything in the world; i love the cool hollers in whose woods i ran barefoot as a child. i love the flora and fauna i went to school to try to protect. my heart is here.

and i have to leave. i am going to have to rip my heart out of my chest and run.

i'm visibly trans. even before i ever transitioned, when i was a small child, people called me names and hit me in public for looking gender non-conforming, even when i tried to conform. there was a small break from this once i transitioned and no one knew what trans people were, but after the trans awareness tipping point, my home has become unlivable for me. even other local trans people are flabbergasted at how much i am targeted. thanks to the media wanting a buck, everyone knows.

i have had:

  • a grown man try to attack me in public for being near him in a restaurant, screaming that he didn't know what i was
  • a grown man run out and scream in panic because he saw me in a public restroom
  • a self-identified N-zi pull a gun on me and beg him for a reason to use it
  • grown men hiss "queer!" at me when i walk down the street and shove me
  • coworkers harass me out of a job, even though i worked for the county, because county HR would refuse to address lgbt-phobic harassment.
  • volunteers harass me at food banks while i'm trying to get my food
  • ridiculous amounts of death threats and sexual harassment

all of these are because i don't pass as anything in particular in public. i just don't. whether i grow my beard out ZZ Top style or put on a dress, i'm not gonna pass as something comforting for these people either way. no choice that i can make here will save me. in t-shirts and jeans, people stare at me like i have three heads. i have to leave.

my long-distance partner's gotten into a prestigious school in LA, got an apartment, and is moving to attend there. i finish school in December, and am going to try to make it out there. I have no family support whatsoever, and I am disabled and struggle to work enough to save up money. my only chance to have a livable life is to pack up everything i own and drive west.

i'll tweak the expenses as we go, but so far it seems like:

  • $2,500 for a uhaul and towing my car behind it
  • $500 for gas
  • $500 for other expenses i am sure i am not anticipating + gfm fees
  • $500 for first month's expenses because jesus christ, i am poor and scared

this fundraiser isn't done, but i wanted to go ahead and get something started. i will of course also be saving up from my own part-time job, and add more details as time passes.

i wanted to end on an example of the treatment i get (this was left as a note for me at my campus), but i think i'd rather end on a high note and show you all some images of my partner and i. they're one of the main reasons my life is still worth living right now, and in their arms is one of the only places where i don't feel like a freak.

so yeah, there's the tumblr version of my post. if you think you could get more reach from the tiktok or insta version, let me know.

I don't wanna release personal details, but I've been doing advocacy work in the community since I was 15, and at 28 I am tired. I'm tired, and very unsafe.

first update 06/12/23

I'm amazed at the response this has gotten so far. It helps me have a little bit of hope for the future, even if it's just a little.

I cried a lot today. I cried every few hours at best, thinking about how little I've been able to keep in my life. Not just personal dignities stripped away from me through surviving abuse, and not just the loss of my mother and my cat, but also the loss of my home itself. I want to live with my partner; I don't want it to be in a big, hot city far away from anything I've ever known, with no clue if it will ever be safe for me to return.

I'm autistic and I don't like change.

I've also undergone such a long journey. I grew up deeply poor and Appalachian, in an impoverished farming family, and I grew up with internalized classism embedded just as deep. It took me so many years, in probably one of the hardest and fiercest and proudest arcs of my life, to unlearn it and come to love my home, my folk heritage, and my ancestors for surviving.

And now I'm hacking off my roots in a frenzy, and abandoning my old family farm to an abusive and evil man, abandoning my neighbors during a genocide, and abandoning my home region to a rising wave of alt-right self-professed Nazi grifters moving in.

I just keep trying to remember that if I can survive this amputation, I can maybe be happy and safe one day.

‼️🏳️‍🌈 Help a homeless TRANS 🏳️‍🌈‼️

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Zelle, venmo & pypal

Homeless, hot, and hungry. (Filthy too) just wondering if anyone out there can help me get something to eat, maybe a coffee, and some stuff to maybe wash up with? Would be also great if someone can help me paying a rent.

I had a camp but lately ive been sleeping wherever the cops dont kick me out of. Last night was under an underpass. Night before, a parking garage. It's been 98° here. I'm just really hungry and badly fatigued. My family in Guatemala needs $1000 more for my younger sis.

Anyway, thanks for reading. Anything helps. Inbox is open mates. Will also update every donations ♡

To the new follower, here's my first blog about it.

I need a help. This is not a joke I've been attempting to do things that I seriously don't want to. I am so stress mates

Help Engineering students understand wheelchair use!

We’re working on a redesign of the standard manual wheelchair, but need more information on the everyday use of mobility aids in general, and wheelchairs specifically. There are disabled people on the team, but we’re looking for as much data as possible in regard to what does and doesn’t work currently.

If you use some sort of mobility aid (any type), please, please, PLEASE fill out this form. If you don’t, please reblog to signal boost. This is vital data and may determine whether my teammates and I pass this course. 

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Hi my union (SAG-AFTRA) is going on strike to protest unfair labor practices and there haven’t been many jobs since end of May. I’ve been looking for work and applying to jobs in the meantime. I have a few bills piling up and my goal is $300. The AMPTP wants us to experience homelessness in order to get us negotiating. As per strike agreements, we are NOT allowed to file unemployment. Therefore, pls help us take a stand in showing solidarity via canceling streaming subscriptions, tweeting your support, picketing, or donating to your black actors/writers. Anything is greatly appreciated!

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