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Jase Roe works for the Homeward Bound shelter in minneapolis MN, Homeward bound is asking for donations of shoes, clothes and other items.

Jase Roe uses she/her or they/them pronouns

below is the link she mentions in the video

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Here is a link to an amazing list of orgs and myself that welcome donations!

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Every interaction I had with a true crime enthusiast left me with hot tears in my eyes because they were treating the cases of mmiw, from Pickton's victims to current mmiw like Ashley Loring HeavyRunner like it was a fun intellectual puzzle or a gory horror movie for them to gawk at or make a "dead h***ker" comment.

Anyway everyone should donate to indigenous survivor led orgs for missing and murdered indigenous relatives like The Sovereign Bodies Institute.

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i really didn't want to make this post, i hate asking for help, i hate being vulnerable, and above all, i hate feeling like i am not enough.

hi everyone. i'm bones, and i have not had health insurance since January, 2022. my forms were mailed to an address i haven't occupied since 2018, and after repeatedly calling the state's insurance marketplace multiple times, i was told "your forms are coming. be patient." by the end of the month, they still had not arrived. i couldn't pay my initial premium without my forms, and being that they never arrived, i was in a catch 22.

i called again. "just wait! we'll re-send them." they sent them to another old address, despite me updating it on the phone TWICE.

by the end of the month, my coverage had been cut off. "well, why didn't you pay?!" was the answer i was given. i've spent the last four months trying to get my coverage reinstated, only to continually be told it was my own fault for not paying--even though they're the ones that made it impossible for me to do so. finally, they said i was welcome to reapply--the only catch being that they want me to pay $800 for the months I received no coverage.

yes, you read that right. Blue Cross Blue Shield is requiring me to pay them for FOUR MONTHS OF COVERAGE I DIDN'T HAVE.

i'm at the end of my rope. i haven't had my medication, gone to therapy, treated my endometriosis, adhd, or bpd, for four months. my mental health is in absolute shambles, i'm having pain flares every week, and now i have to find almost a grand somewhere just so that i can continue getting the care i need.

on top of everything, my fiance and i are now going to have to postpone or cancel our wedding entirely to pay for this. we were already on a shoestring budget for the ceremony as things were, and now it looks like my wedding will just be the two of us signing paperwork in the city hall parking lot.

if you're able and want to help, my paypal is paypal.me/boxofbones. thank you for even reading this rambling mess. ❤️

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Finally, some good news.

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From Tennessee Lookout:

MASON, Tenn. – The Tennessee Comptroller issued an unusual appeal last week to residents of this small, majority Black town, which occupies fewer than two square miles in rural west Tennessee.

“In my opinion, it’s time for Mason to relinquish its charter,” Comptroller Jason Mumpower wrote in a letter mailed to each one of Mason’s 1,337 property owners.

Mumpower urged local residents to “encourage your local officials to do what’s necessary to allow Mason to thrive. There is no time to waste.”

State comptrollers, responsible for financial oversight of local government, typically communicate directly with elected local leaders and not their constituents. “We have not issued a letter to citizens like this before,” Comptroller spokesman John Dunn said, noting it is “unprecedented for us to publicly call for a town charter to be relinquished.”

But the Comptroller’s unprecedented public callout comes at an unprecedented time not only for Mason, but for the state. Mason, located in the southeastern corner of Tipton County, now finds itself with some of the most coveted real estate in Tennessee.

It’s one of the nearest towns to the massive new site to be built for Blue Oval City, a key component in Ford Motor Co’s multibillion-dollar pivot to electric vehicle manufacturing.

Mumpower’s letter has infuriated Mason’s part-time elected officials, who insist they have no intention of ceding their town’s 153-year-old charter – which would subsume the largely African-American, majority Democratic community under the governance of Tipton County, which is predominantly white and Republican.

“This is our home. We were born and raised here. The majority of the town is homegrown people that live here,” Vice Mayor Virginia Rivers said. “He is trying to conquer and divide us. It’s akin to a hostile take-over and it’s not hard to figure out why here, why now.”

Town leaders are accusing Mumpower and other state officials of big-footing a long-ignored, largely Black community now that major investment is heading its way.

Mason is 60% Black and includes descendants of men, women and children enslaved in the area before Emancipation. For more than a century the town was led by White elected officials.

That changed in 2016, when fraud and mismanagement allegations led to the resignations of nearly all City Hall officials, all of whom were White. Mason’s current mayor, vice mayor and five of its six alderman are Black.

“It’s because of the Black people that are in office,” said Rivers, who first became Vice Mayor in 2021.

“And it’s because of all the places in the world, Blue Oval could have selected, they selected here. There’s no way Mason won’t prosper and grow. And now they want to take it away from us.”

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Yet again like in the past. New day, new Jim Crow-esque tactics, perfectly timed takeovers. This Black American town needs to be promptly saved without handing a damn thing over. The town elected mostly Black officials back in 2015. They’ve been trying to pay off the debt from when the town was previously ran by mostly white officials. Literally playing catch-up. 

This ain’t nothing but a glimpse of what it looks like before eventually uprooting and displacing Black people off the land they have resided on since forever and where their ancestors labored said land as property in chattel slavery and the move into Jim Crow.  

There’s a change.org petition to sign and share to get the word out there.

This person suggested to put Ford in the hot seat by sending a letter like this. Others are suggested to call their office. 

This is the CEO of Ford’s twitter.

Something gotta give. 

This shit should be on the news. But as usual, they make it known after the deed is done or not at all and you end up finding out years later. 

King Shit