HELLS KITCHEN MOVIE CLUB #5: DEATH WISH! With guest artist @meredithmcclaren, who did one of my fave stories in our Twisted Romance anthology (out now from @ImageComics.) Find all previous episodes of Hells Kitchen Movie Club with the hashtag #hkmc.
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In early 2019 I’ll be donating one of my kidneys! In order to help fund the time I’ll have to take off work for recovery I have opened my shop back up until january. I have prints, pins, and magnets available for sale!
All prints are buy 2 get 1 free. No code needed as it should be automatically applied on checkout. Please be aware I will only be shipping on Mondays.
If you aren’t in the market for prints, I also have a gofundme set up to cover costs and any signal boosts would be greatly appreciated!
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Memes are all very good, but to get the assholes out, you have to VOTE.
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And if you have ANY question as to why you should vote, just think of it this way. The current administration thinks that sexual abuse of women is just “boys being boys”. Doesn’t matter if the accused is the President or his Supreme Court nominee. THIS IS NOT RIGHT. The only way to get these people to take us seriously is to VOTE.
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I’ve started a fundraiser to stock my local food pantry with some amazing spices from Penzeys and I’m hoping you can help me. You can donate as little as $2 to be a part of helping make the world a bit more tasty.
For personal reasons this hits home to me on two fronts and because I am asking you to donate to me personally and not a verified NPO or business, I will open up and share those with you.
1. I’ve never liked food. I have struggled with my relationship to eating for 38 years. It has only been in the past 2-3 years that I started actively cooking and trying to be more connected to what I eat in the hopes that the whole process will become easier. Learning how and when to spice things is a constant uphill battle for me, but it’s one that is helping me tremendously in finding a more equal balance with food.
2. I’ve been poor. Food stamp poor. Free lunch poor. WIC poor. And food pantry poor. Not just as a child but again as an adult. Being beholden to the kindness of strangers to provide meals for me, depending on a government determined to shame me, fighting against instinct to shun help and be unhealthy instead – these are demons I have fought and these are demons that can come back at any time. I want to do something to add a bit of dignity to our local food pantry. I want to show anyone who walks through that door that food can be fun. Everyone deserves access not just to food, but to food that makes them feel good.
So I’m raising the money to buy enough jars of 7 different spices so that everyone who walks into my local food pantry* can have access to what spices can do to cooking. 50-60 families walk through the doors of this pantry each time they are open, so I’m asking for 50 of each spice. With your donations I can buy in bulk from Penzeys and help make the next visit to the pantry a little tastier.
Please consider not just donating but sharing this to your networks as well. You are my village, but your own villages are even bigger. Please share, share, share.
*The pantry I’m donating to is run out of a Columbus East High School and is available for an hour just to students before the general public.
Mark Zuckerberg is now working overtime to convince the American people to trust him with their personal data. Facebook knew tens of millions of Americans had their personal information stolen by Cambridge Analytica for the purposes of helping Steve Bannon and billionaire Robert Mercer elect Donald Trump, but only took responsibility for the breach after it became international news — two years after the fact.
Facebook’s lack of transparency is part of a broader pattern by its leadership. Mark Zuckerberg is an unelected, unregulated oligarch who controls industries and shapes the fate of our democracy without our consent. Congress must stop relying on his empty promise to self-regulate his monopoly, and take action to protect the American people.
Politicians shouldn’t be afraid to take on Zuckerberg — I’ve done it myself, and won. In 2014, he bought 700 acres of beachfront land in my home state of Hawaii. He built a wall around the property and then tried to force hundreds of Native Hawaiians to forfeit their gathering rights to the land by suing them. This same tactic was used by sugar barons in the Gilded Age to displace thousands of Native Hawaiian families from their ancestral lands.
Instead of letting a billionaire buy another vacation home and displace local families, I introduced a bill that would keep Hawaiian lands in Hawaiian hands. We organized thousands of Native Hawaiians and residents to fight back, and we won; Zuckerberg dropped the lawsuits.
Washington needs to learn from the people of Hawaii. We need bipartisan congressional investigations into unregulated monopolies like Facebook, and once Democrats retake the House in 2018, we need to push for bold new antitrust policies that challenge corporate power.
Hawaii has a long history of dealing with oligarchs like Zuckerberg. After it was annexed by the United States in 1898, five families quickly consolidated control of the sugar industry and rigged the political system to their favor. The attorney general of Hawaii, Edward Dole, said that the government of Hawaii was “probably almost as much centralized as it was in France under Louis XIV.“ At the height of the Gilded Age, these ultra-wealthy monopolists had an iron grip on our island, much like the railroad tycoons and robber barons on the mainland.
Today, we’re seeing a new generation of billionaires take control of our democracy. The growth of unregulated giants like Facebook has given rise to a digital oligarchy and a new Gilded Age. Our democracy is on the brink of collapse because our economy is owned by a handful of enormous corporations and our elections are being manipulated by a small group of billionaire donors.
Facebook has grown into a monopoly the size and scope of which the world has never seen, and the lack of oversight and competition encourages reckless behavior, stifles innovation, and leaves the rest of us bearing the personal and financial risks. Facebook strives to be a public utility that informs and connects the public, but unbeknownst to many of its users, it acts like a surveillance machine that sells our data to enrich billionaires.
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