So Apparently Some People Feel Like It’s Annoying When Someone Engages With A Lot Of Stuff From The

If you are American, PLEASE SUPPORT THE SSI RESTORATION ACT OF 2021

This new bill has been introduced in both the house and the Senate.

Among other things, it will:

Raise the monthly disability income by just over 30 percent - bringing it to poverty level.

Remove penalties for recieving financial help from friends and family.

Increase the amount of assets a disabled person may have from $2,000 to $10,000 (this hasn't been updated since 1989)

Update outside income restrictions to allow disabled people to receive up to $399 a month without reducing their benefits.

REWARD, not penalize, people who want to receive additional income while on social security income.

REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT THIS WILL REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN

For those unaware current regulations do a lot to oppress disabled people. In fact marriage equality doesn't even extend to disbled people who risk having their benefits reduced or outright taken away if they marry someone. This means that in common law states disabled people can't even live with their significant other or they risk losing their financial independence.

Current regulations mean that if you're disbled you can't have so much as one penny over $2,000 to your name. So buying a car and gaining more independence or freedom is largely out of the question for disabled people.

Current regulations penalize social security recipients who receive income from outside sources, even if those sources are reimbursement. Did you get paid to babysit for a few hours? That's income, and you get your benefits reduced. Did you loan a friend $10 and they pay you back? The government considers that $10 income, and you get your benefits reduced.

These aren't mere anecdotes - these are all examples of actual things that have happened to disbled people I know, and if you have any disabled friends in your life I'm sure they can tell you the same stories.

If you value marriage equality, if you value financial independence, if you value the rights of disbled people, please PLEASE support this bill! Contact your reps, vote, and make noise! This is a great thing!

Fun fact

Native Americans weren’t allowed US citizenship until 1924.

Let that sink in. We lived here first…for thousands of years. And less than a hundred years ago we were finally given citizenship.

The rich are getting more rich tho

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WHO Urges Fully Vaccinated People To Continue Wearing Masks As Delta Variant Spreads—But No Word From CDC

“People cannot feel safe just because they had the two doses” in areas where community transmission is high, one official said.

And in other news, keep wearing those masks, y’all.

So I recently decided to try making a discord server for p much everything! The rules are a bit strict, but that's bc I want a safe space for anyone who joins.

The server is still in progress, but I'm opening it up now and taking suggestions for things to add to it. So far there are categories for books, gaming, art, writing, disabilities, etc., and most include plenty of channels that will get additions from suggestions received.

Here's the link, and I hope I get to talk to you!

Discord

Join the Armana Discord Server!

Check out the Armana community on Discord - hang out with 2 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

I’d like to add that if you’re in Ohio and can’t work and earn money because of businesses of any sort closing, you can get unemployment benefits starting March 16!

Breaking News: The Governor of Illinois has ordered that all bars and restaurants be closed to dine-in customers, starting Tuesday

Chicago Sun-Times

Pritzker orders all bars and restaurants to close to dine-in customers by end of day Monday

"The time for persuasion and public appeals is over. The time for action is here," the governor said. "This is not a joke. No one is immune

Those that offer it can still do carry-out or delivery orders, but they cannot serve food on site.

It’s 3:40 AM and all I wanna do is make lists.

........I’m gonna make some lists.

“People have always felt a sort of ownership over art, and that’s actually good. It’s why you keep a book on your shelf and return to it, it’s why you hang a picture on your wall that speaks to you. But when this gets out of hand and you mistake access or a personal connection with your rights, as happens so often in our Internet age, it leads to a dangerous sense of entitlement. That’s why readers feel empowered to complain, directly to the creator, that a book or show doesn’t have absolutely everything they want: the romantic pairing they’d hoped for, the language they find most friendly, the ending they desired. And it’s also why, for instance, the last Harry Potter book leaked on the internet before it was officially published: fans saw the book as something they were owed, not the product of labor that deserved compensation. Not that J.K. Rowling needs more money—but she, and all authors, deserve to have their work recognized as work.

“Consumers hold a pernicious power, so this trend towards free content won’t reverse itself unless we want it to. This is a sad thing, and we will all be much worse off if we can only hear stories from people who can afford to write.”

For future reference.