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peep🌙💭 retweeted
you guys know how when people download fan art and then post it on their own accounts even with credit to the og artist, the artist still doesnt like that? and everyone agrees with the artist because there's lack of consent? yeah, so why is that different for writers?
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This is a crime. States should start taking this destruction seriously and protect against it.
Trump's second border wall is going up through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, and they're ripping out sacred saguaros to build it. 🌵
This video from Russ McSpadden of the Center for Biological Diversity shows saguaros on the ground next to the bollards for the new wall. It shows thousands of saguaros have been removed, along with ocotillo and all kinds of other plants and vegetation.
The Tohono O'odham call the saguaro ha:şañ. In their custom, saguaros are considered people. Removing one isn't just destroying a plant, it's considered an act of violence against a person.
These creatures grow about an inch in their first eight years. They don't flower until 35. They don't grow an arm for 50 to 70 years. They live 150 years or more.
And they provide homes for other critters. Gila woodpeckers carve nests into saguaros, and elf owls, kestrels and purple martins move in after.
And "just transplant them" doesn't always work. An NPS official told federal auditors that as many as half didn't survive the move. In 2020, thousands were removed for the first 30-foot wall. Some were transplanted. Most didn't survive. Now the survivors are being torn out again. McSpadden: "The few that did survive are being transplanted again, so exponentially less chance of survival for those saguaros."
And thousands more are slated to be ripped out of the Tohono O'odham Nation's own land. The Nation says Border Patrol told them it's happening. Chairman Verlon Jose: "Trespassing on our land to remove the sacred saguaros is like having masked men break into your house and take away your children."
So the Nation went to court to stop it, including an emergency request to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. A federal judge has refused to block the wall and the removal of the saguaros.
Removing a saguaro without a permit is illegal in Arizona. But last November, DHS waived legal requirements there to speed up wall construction.
Check out Russ's video below to see the desecration of the ancient saguaros. It's in the first reply.
What would you do if invaders came onto your land and started desecrating it?
#DemsUnited
🎥 Russ McSpadden, Center for Biological Diversity
peep🌙💭 retweeted
If your vote didn't matter, Elon Musk wouldn't be spending $500 million to try and stop it (please vote)
peep🌙💭 retweeted
These accounts exist to talk leftists into complacency. Fuck that. Go vote tomorrow if you aren’t useless
That's a wrap!
House:
🔵 240 - (224-252 Likely Seats)
🔴 195 - (183-211 Likely Seats)
Senate:
🔵 54 - (51-55 Likely Seats)
🔴 46 - (45-49 Likely Seats)
Governorships:
🔵 29 - (26-30 Likely Seats)
🔴 21 - (20-24 Likely Seats)
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peep🌙💭 retweeted
People need to stop looking at lines like this and thinking wow this is so awesome so many people are voting and start seeing these insanely long lines as what they are- a form of voter suppression.
peep🌙💭 retweeted
i cannot stress this enough: DO NOT pay attention to the maps you are seeing. they are not final!!! nothing is final until the polls are CLOSED. if you did not participate in early voting, do not think to yourself “oh it will be fine, i don’t need to vote.” GO VOTE!!!!!
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With AO3 now taking action against people stealing fics and reiterating that creators of fanwork DO own the right to their fic I really hope the people who died on the hill that it's ok to repost fics without consent can be honorable enough to admit their mistake and apologize 🙏
peep🌙💭 retweeted
It's not enough we just had that mess with ao3.life now we have another one targeting specifically black creators from ao3. I've found 3 of my usernames and fics I'd orphaned or put on private on this site.
peep🌙💭 retweeted
maybe we ARE in a literacy crisis if 125k people don't know the difference between “download for personal use” and “reupload to external websites without consent”
