brit @britvulcan@mspsocial.net

This thread is for myself and other white folk to share things we read and ways we can confront and deal with our Whiteness and work towards Anti-Racism.

I am white. I was raised to be racist by my white parents. I am trying to be anti-racist. I'm gonna fail sometimes. This thread is for me to connect with myself and other white folk to read work by Black authors and activists and work on our shit.

Hey,

Head's up.
If you want to recommend something to me, just mention it offhand and something you liked about it.

The more you push the more i'm NEVER EVER GOING TO READ IT.

Sorry. It's a brain thing.

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Re- #introduction

I have some more followers now and have mostly settled into my mastodon self.

Generally I post about #uspol , #mnpol , #localpol regarding the MSP area, #zoning and #urbanism , #socialism but from a pro-market and pro federation of peoples/larger groups are fine actually perspective and mental health stuff about #adhd #anxiety and #arfid or #pickiness with food and sensory issues.

Sometimes there are dog pics and home renovation stuff. Enjoy!

I still don't have my bill yet. sigh. (yes, i know, accounting takes a while... but i do have my anesthetics bill already.. sooooo)

Want to know what we actually spend our tax money on?

Turns out MPLS has an open budget system so we can all drill down and find out that of the $164M we spend every year on $100M of that is Patrol and only $35M is investigating any crime with detectiving.

https://minneapolismn.opengov.com/transparency/#/35901/accountType=expenses&embed=n&breakdown=ee076d02-de82-4b3b-9f8e-4a4c99429caf&currentYearAmount=cumulative&currentYearPeriod=years&graph=stacked&legendSort=desc&proration=true&saved_view=null&selection=DF9E2D0B81BDAC88F2AD80E47F3C2946&projections=null&projectionType=null&highlighting=null&highlightingVariance=null&year=2021&selectedDataSetIndex=null&fiscal_start=earliest&fiscal_end=latest

we fund our communities and ensure every person has safety and security by ensuring they have a home, enough food, and medical care.

we reallocate police money to non-armed de-escalation and specific issue trained responders.

we stop sending armed enforcers to crimes.

This was absolutely inspired by @lawremipsum and @firewally 's levy sim. so, i'm glad @lawremipsum likes it.

The current custom bracket and rates are based on the 1948 rates using an inflation calculator and the actual rates according to https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/fed_individual_rate_history_nominal.pdf

but you can change those numbers.

Answer... uhhh... i made a spreadsheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tcvn9Lj5w8NFL_yHBzjQ1oYRGQ6UMusDUaNR4i2sB-E/edit?usp=sharing

It's still the first 2 weeks, and while i'm doing really well physically, i'm having some intense emotional volatility that i think is primarily hormone adjustments (we took out 1/2 ovaries) and pain response. Bright side, in low enough pain generally that forgetting to take meds for 8 hrs today hasn't been a huge issue. downside - large pain when i finally stopped hyperfocusing and huge frustration spike and crying.

hoping hormones even out a bit more soon.

I mostly am incumbent skeptical, but if they are doing good work already, they should be re-elected even if somebody else running is slightly more aligned with my values bc institutional knowledge is actually valuable.

Just had a phone convo with kate knuth, and mentioned my favorite new BET candidates levy sim game. She sounded interested. ^_^

@lawremipsum out here educating the mayoral candidates on how to make the budget more accessible. ;]

The first shot! It happened!