If you’ve been following me for a while, you more than likely know what’s going on, but for those who don’t know: I’ve been in an extremely toxic, abusive relationship for the past 6 ½ years with my son’s father. We have a 3 year old together. While I did leave him last year, I (stupidly) came back in March under the promises of “things would change” etc etc. He has been emotionally, verbally, physically, sexually, and financially abusive. I am cooperating with the state in applying for all kinds of state assistance I am eligible for. I have an apartment and have our most basic needs covered. I need help with covering rent at the end of the month as I can’t do it by myself (my rent is $936), I have no consistent means of transportation (there is no bus/public transit in the city I live in) and I really realllyyy don’t want to have to allow my abuser into my home just to help cover these bills. I can manage on my own, but I need help getting on my feet and establishing my independence in the time being.
Any resources, encouraging words (I have virtually no support system), or other help is so much appreciated.
My PayPal is c.newago@yahoo.com, or PayPal.me/bizaanideewin
Please please don’t send anon hate or criticism, I cannot stress how hard I am struggling with my own guilt and self-blaming right now
Miigwech
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Bringing this back, with an update: I wasn’t able to survive on my own so I had to let him in. Lo and behold the abuse continues. Today he punched a hole in the bedroom door. My dad is going to cosign for a new apartment for me back in my hometown, as long as I cover the costs he is going to help me move. I’ve already got a rental application submitted. I’m done I’m leaving I’m OUT. I have tangible proof and I can break the lease without repercussions through the domestic violence clause in the lease.
I just need help with the intial moving costs and initial housing costs- the apartment I applied for is $645 a month, security deposit same amount. First months rent and security deposit due at lease signing. Moving costs are around $400 (it’s a 300 mile move so it gets expensive fast)
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REBLOG
I’m almost 15% of the way there!! Please boost!
UPDATE: before my best friend came to get me to visit her, he and I got into a huge fight. He was screaming at me at the top of his lungs calling me a selfish bitch and a slut. He then proceeded to tell me Makoons won’t have any parents anymore if I call the cops.
Please boost!! I want to leave BEFORE this escalates!!!!
UPDATE: so it escalated last night. He’s in jail. He’s getting charged for domestic disorderly conduct or some shit like that. Once he’s released from jail he’s legally able to come back, if I take him off the lease I’ll be evicted unless I have a cosigner (which I do not have.) so my options are essentially continue dealing with this or move.
I have an update on this lil dude apparently he has now been permanently banned from leaving his house because he walked his ass down to the train station got on a train and spend the day hanging out in a caffe a few suburbs over
We have two cats like this on our street one follows you around like a dog and likes tummy rubs.the other cat acts cute so you let in to your house so it can sleep.both are well looked after but they are very cheeky.
I’m sharing this article from 2015, because I’m not certain anyone has bothered to explain to younger generations why the current environmental movement in the US is so bland and inoffensive. Why do we beg for recycling and sign online petitions instead of marching in the streets and burning down shit? Why is the environmental movement covered in layer of corporate greenwashing with a focus on individual action (which IS important), while we tend to actively avoid more radical collective actions?
The general story* is that in the mid to late 90s, people started to really organize, and a few folks started destroying property as a form of protest. This attracted the attention of the FBI, who declared environmentalists the “number one domestic terror threat”. The FBI started to infiltrate these most active environmental groups, and then encouraged and funded members to become even more violent. The few idiots that took the bait ended up in prison – many of them are still there. The Patriot Act helped law enforcement tremendously.
Media headlines equated ALL environmentalists with the radical blowing-shit-up few.
Paranoia ran high in groups – had you been infiltrated too? How well did you really know the person sitting next to you?? How can you accept new members when you can’t really trust the people in your group now? Maybe you’re better off on your own before someone here ruins your life.
Many people distanced themselves from the environmental movement as a whole, because they did not want to be associated with violent idiots, nor to attract the attention of the FBI, nor to rot in prison, they just wanted to save the planet we all depend on.
All right, listen up, folks, because this is really important. The media has been completely silent on this. The only way I found out is through the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) but that’s it. No articles, no news reports, nothing.
There’s a new bill up on the table (H.R. 620) that could keep businesses from not being penalized if they don’t follow the Americans with Disabilities Act.
That’s a mouthful of many contradictions so let me clarify:
The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 and is one of the few actual pieces of legislation that disabled Americans have. It’s the big one, the reason there are elevators in buildings, the reason there are ramps, the reason there are curbcuts, the reason there are options for Braille or subtitles, the reason service dogs need to be allowed into a building, the reason accessible parking exists, the reason accessible bathroom stalls exist, the reason you can’t be fired based on your disability, etc. etc. etc.
People, especially businesses, have been getting away with loopholes for years. But there’s always been some sort of enforcement in place, penalizing businesses who don’t adhere to the ADA.
But this bill?
This bill gets rid of that accountability.
This bill sets forward specific requirements (such as a disabled person having to make a formal claim before a building is investigated) that one has to follow before a business is penalized. If nobody is able to meet those requirements, that business gets to get away with not following the ADA without having to change anything or face any legal/monetary consequences.
This bill could destroy everything that the ADA stands for and make the nation even more inaccessible/unaccommodating than it already is.
And I know what you’re thinking. “Oh, that dastardly Trump, he mocked that reporter once, I guess this makes sense.”
And no, no, it’s so much worse than that reporter, it’s always been worse than that, we’ve been trying to tell you for over a year and none of you listened. This isn’t just about him being ignorant or prejudiced.
This is about this:
An article from almost a year ago that most of the world ignored.
Other members of congress have been sued as well. And now, rather than fix the problems, they’re all trying to secretly pass a bill that makes it so that they can no longer be held accountable for not following the ADA, letting hundreds of thousands of businesses get away with it as a result.
Don’t let them get away with it!
Signal boost the hell out of this. Send it to your news sources. Call your representatives. The world’s already inaccessible enough. Don’t let it get worse. Don’t let them lose their accountability.
Fight the hell out of this, guys. It’s not on people’s radar like other things are but it’s terrible bullshit. Please don’t forget to call your representatives and tell them to OPPOSE HR620.
Thanks for posting this. I just hung up from calling my Representative.
These are the points I’ve made:
The ADA is the law. It has been on the books for 27 years. If businesses cannot follow the law, and run an establishment according to legal requirements, they shouldn’t be in business.
This is a civil rights law, if we start rolling it back now, other laws will likely follow.
Ignorance of the law is no defense. A business can’t claim ignorance of the law if they fail a health inspection in their kitchen, they shouldn’t be protected by ignorance of the law in this case.
And finally, disabled people deserve the same free and safe access to public spaces as everyone else.
Well, that was restful right before going to bed. I just opened the back door, and there was this sudden startled angry fox yelling noise retreating from the patio.
I figured it was probably Feist again, and yep. She came strutting in soon enough. Very smug about running off another intruder.
Just happened again. Though this one sounded way more terrified than pissed off 😽
(This cat started defending against roving foxes when she had kittens in the house. And she’s kept it up ever since, for over 10 years now…)
I am viscerally horrified at fascists too, anon. I sometimes very strongly want them all to be shot, though I don’t tend to post about this because it’s not a pleasant state of mind to be in, it’s not the way the world should work, and trying to bring it about will make the world less safe for the people I care about. Please don’t feel like you’re a bad person for hating Nazis or for finding something soothing and reassuring about people being willing to fight Nazis. That’s a completely understandable state to be in, and completely compatible with principled pacifism, principled commitment to the rule of law, pragmatic pacificism, pragmatic commitment to the rule of law, and all of the many other reasons someone might rightly conclude that antifa is a bad way to fight Nazis.
I’m in favor of overwhelming Nazis with peaceful protest. I’m in favor of deradicalization efforts by people who have any idea how to go about that. I am in favor of drives to direct tons of money to good causes for every word a Nazi speaks, so when they host their protests they are directing millions to improve the lives of the people they want to kill. I’m in favor of legal action to protect rights that are at risk of being eroded, and I’m in favor of peaceful civil disobedience. We have lots of options. It’s not ‘violence or nothing’.
“It’s not violence or nothing” – oh my god, this. If violence is the only solution you can imagine, you don’t have a very good imagination. And you sure as hell don’t belong on the front lines. Those who would use violence as a first resort are very, very unlikely to use it judiciously and with respect for its inherent risk.
Do you ever start bullshitting a paper, and then look over it halfway through and think, ’…Wait a minute, I could be onto something here.’
this is the definition of college.
Literally I was writing a paper on Asian salt water crocodiles, like a simple about them paper for a college class, and I started noticing some inconsistencies in the scientific papers I was sourcing and I accidentally discovered that the crocodile has been misdiagnosed as least concerned on the endangered species list when they should be classified as endangered and now my professor is having me write a formal report to the international Red List to have them reclassified and all I wanted to do was write this paper on an animal I thought was cool and now I’m considered an expert on this species…
this is how it works half of esteemed biologists trip and fall into their specialty while pursuing something else. one lecturer i just went to started as a biochemist researching antibiotics and discovered that crocodiles change colors based on environment and now he has 30+ crocs in his yard for research purposes and he’s just like… “wait… i’m a chemist…”
How did so many people end up with crocodiles on accident?????
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