As Jim Wright of Stonekettle Station points out, although you can gift money to the United States, it goes into the general fund and it is illegal to designate it to a specific purpose.
Also the guy organizing this is a known grifter, so one has to wonder which pocket the money will end up in…
i have a friend that, god love him, doesn’t photograph well. he’s very laid back but the problem is that his resting face looks absolutely fucking furious and he’s started to lean into it. me and my friends have a few group photos that look like this
recovery starts with deinstitutionalization. recovery starts with housing without strings attached. recovery starts with empowering people, not in the bullshit you-can-decide-which-of-two-equally-terrible-meals-you-can-eat-but-you-can’t-leave-your-room-without-permission sense, but in the you can chose your own housing sense, in the you can decide when to leave your house sense, in the you can have enough food to eat and it can be food you want sense, in the you can make choices about your health care sense. in the you can make meaningful choices just like any other human being sense
recovery starts with equality and treating psychiatrically diagnosed people as human beings and not as problems that need to be locked away or controlled and told their hopes are too high and unrealistic and that they need to accept a life of living in institutions or institution-adjacent homes where they have every meaningful decision about their lives made by them for someone else
meaningful attempts at helping people recover must address poverty, lack of housing, food insecurity, institutionalization, police violence, and countless other things if they want to attempt to be even remotely meaningful, let alone helpful to the people who need them
Who is a fan of birds? Whether you are a beginner or a veteran birder, you can find a wondrous variety of birds in Saguaro National Park in Arizona. From birds that are adapted to the extremes of the desert, to birds that prefer the tall pines of the mountains, over 200 species of birds live in or migrate through the park. This owl family looks quite at home in the crook of a large saguaro. Photo courtesy of Jeremy Johnson.
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