Tamra Moon

Dear Mayor (insert name), My family and/or I have recently moved away from (insert city). We/I lived in (city) for (length of time) and (owned/rented) a home in the (school name) district. My/Our (mortgage/rent) was (insert amount.) My/Our favorite grocery stores/restaurants were (insert names), our favorite small business(es) were (insert name), and our favorite weekend activity was (yard work, festivals, shopping, ect.) My/our income was (insert gross income). I/We am/are leaving (insert city) and taking my/our income and spending power elsewhere because of legislation passed by (Republican politician/Governor/President) that I/we disagree with and do not support. I/we will not spend any more of my/our income in (insert city) or (insert state) because of the Republican leadership. Thank you. (Your name)

Here's a script idea if you need help writing it:

And then tell them why you're taking your income, your spending power, & your taxes elsewhere. It's time to tell them what they're losing because of Republican politicians. They need to see the consequences of their actions/choices. The only way they'll see it is if they see numbers. 👇

An idea for anyone moving away from a state due to GOP:

Write a letter to your former mayor's office informing them that you have moved away. Tell them how much income you brought to the city. Tell them the places you used to get groceries. Tell them if you owned or rented & how much you paid. 👇

PROP - PR Over Policy.

Don't confuse them.

He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.

Dems need to be strategic.

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

We in the US need to take accountability for what our lack of voter turnout is doing to people outside the US. Our new leadership isn't just a threat to people HERE. It is an immediate threat to innocent people elsewhere. Our individualism has caused significant harm beyond our borders.

Thank you for reminding me to share it!!

We're watching Babylon 5 again and I think y'all should probably be watching it too.

The hardest part of managing someone else's social media is remembering to log out of their account before you start posting memes while stoned.

Speaking of. Look at these memes. I'm stoned.

They Filled In Swimming Pools Instead Of Sharing Them Our white great-grandparents filled in the pools instead of sharing them with Black folks. But, their time is running out. And they know it.

There are people alive today who protested the Civil Rights Act. People who closed their public pools just so Black children could not enjoy them, even if it meant their own children would lose those things as well.

But, their time is running out. And as Sam Cooke told us, "A change is gonna come."

Hi, BlueSky. I'm Tamra Moon. I'm a writer and essayist from the Deep South. I'm also the Digital Media Specialist for Gay Valimont, a Democrat running for Congress in Florida.

I talk politics, writing, and whatever comes to mind.

I Would Choose Him Again. For two decades we've been a team. It isn't perfect, because we aren't perfect, but I am so grateful for him. And I would choose him again.

We celebrated our anniversary recently. Here we are, early 20's, broke and pregnant. Just babies.

For nearly two decades we have been a team. And I would do it all over again if given the choice. I would choose him again. Here's why. 👇

www.tamramoon.com/post/i-would...

“I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost Network Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health providers. But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could…

Ravi bought insurance thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health care providers. After 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could find him a therapist.

“I don’t want to die,” he told his mom.

Nice to meet you!!

Gay Valimont for Congress

This starts GayforCongress 2.0!

I am the Democratic nominee who ran against Matt Gaetz, and lost, on Nov. 5th, only for him to resign 9 days later so ethics investigation into sex crimes would go away or perhaps AG!

My focus remains the same-The people of FL's 1st.
Gayforcongress.com

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Bluesky algorithm: please bring me some #RedStateBlueDots. Bonus points for being Southern too.

How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...

NEW: UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.

ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.

Here’s what we found.

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

Corporate logic:

You pay us for our product.

But you don’t own that product, we do.

And when that product breaks you can’t fix it unless you pay us more money.

Right to repair laws will fix this scam.

The worst part about this is there’s an entire right-wing industry out there today devoted to marketing this “customized education” and “parents rights”

Human rights defender’s story: David Yambio, from South Sudan David told us about his work, the difficult path that led him to it, and his aspirations for a future where migration is recognised as 'a natural right'. David was also one of the participants in ISHR...

Listening to David Yambio, spokesperson of Refugees in Libya at DAIR's Surveillance/Resistance conference. Telling a personal story of war, being kidnapped, tortured, serving as a child soldier, and encountering European discriminatory refugee systems needs incredible courage. I am in awe.

Acknowledging my privilege doesn't detract from my struggles. So I have no shame in talking about it. None of us can help the circumstances we were born into. But those of us with more privilege than others have an opportunity to use it to benefit others.

I hope you'll join me in doing so.

To me, THAT is what privilege is: access to success. I will always have to work harder than some, but my privilege gets my foot in the door. A door often slammed in the faces of those who aren't white, cisgender, and Christian.

If you've struggled with understanding privilege, I hope this helps.

My privilege does not take away my hard work. But it does mean that I was able to see the fruits of my labors, whereas my peers who don't have my same privilege labor without the fruits. They work just as hard, usually harder, without the same reward.

I am a living testament to the benefits of privilege. I was able to "pull myself up by my bootstraps" and create a career despite my lack of education. I was able to achieve a middle-class status despite growing up in poverty.

I had access to success, even if I had to work very hard for it.

When I talk to people in my community about privilege, this is what I say:

Being white, straight, cisgender, & Christian does not mean you haven't or won't experience loss, heartache, betrayal, & poverty.

It just means those things aren't amplified by racism, transphobia, & xenophobia.

I had no control over who my parents were, the choices they made, and the way Alabama treats people in poverty. But, the reality is this:

My skin color didn't make my life harder. My religion didn't make my life harder. Being cisgender made life easier than if I were transgender.

If I'd been born into a culture/religion that wasn't Christian, many of my employers would not have hired me, based on their own faith systems and biases.

Without access to work and community, I would not have survived the circumstances of my birth. I doubt I would be alive today.

If I'd been anything other than white, I would not have been given every job I applied for. My skin color did not act as a barrier to my access to decent, minimum wage jobs.

If I'd been transgender, employers would have been less likely to hire me, even if I had a college degree.

It took years for me to heal enough to understand my privilege, and how the color of my skin, my religion, and my being cisgender allowed me to survive in ways my peers who weren't white, weren't cis, and weren't raised Christian couldn't.

Here's what I understand now: