@3967703f
Why is Alaska opening up to more drilling?
Why are 26 environmental and cultural protection laws getting exempted so border wall construction can quickly resume?
Why do the new Title IX trans student regs ensure trans kids won't get protection when they most need it?
Why are so many, "at the pleasure of the President" positions still filled with Trump loyalists?
Why do Federal fuel economy regs still heavily favor massive vehicles over small ones?
And so on.
@a4e385b2
These are things people knew 100, 150 years ago because they needed to. And they passed that knownledge on. Now people who don't really need to do it at all pass on bad information because they just want the views.
Xitter issued fact-checks to Jonathan Van Ness's tweet in which he stated that trans women athletes do not have an advantage over cis woman athletes.
Said "context notices" misgendered and spewed right wing viewpoints regarding trans women.
If you are trans or a trans ally...please leave Twitter? Please tell other people to leave the platform?
It really has me concerned, just how many journalists, public figures, politicians, etc. frequent the platform, refuse to leave, and are exposed to this ongoing, large scale effort to normalize transphobic behavior and attitudes.
"Off-duty Texas police officer shoots Black neighbor through closed door"
"The latest case of an off-duty law enforcement officer encountering and shooting a member of the public..."
I wish lawyers would start compiling these incidents and use them to destroy prosecutors & judges who try to assert that cops are in any way better than ordinary citizens at things like decision making, observation, and so on.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/26/texas-police-officer-shoots-black-neighbor
@56440538
I notice they're just fine with, "Emma and Mommy Talk to God" being part of the display.
And it's not just Ruth Splitter, it's library board members, too. The story at the link is really worth reading.
"I do not want any kind of rainbow display (aside from solely colors focused) especially in this month," Miller said. "We have a conservative town and as a library do not need to make political statements (see Target and Budlight as negative examples). I certainly do not want the library to promote LGBTQ agendas."
"Miller later sent a follow-up text asking to let her know if she misunderstood the display and writing that "I am totally fine with diversity of skin color display, just not represented with rainbow colors."
Two Kansas librarians were fired after the library board mistook an autism symbol (neurodiversity infinity symbol) for a Pride display. They're suing.
"On June 22, Ruth Splitter, a temporary summer library employee, complained about the display to Lancaster, saying she found the “gay Pride” symbol offensive and going into “an anti-LGBT diatribe” even though Lancaster explained that the infinity symbol represented neurodiversity and autism."
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/09/2-librarians-were-fired-after-the-board-mistook-an-autism-symbol-for-a-pride-display-theyre-suing/
"Editorial: GOP hunt for 'rogue' prosecutors is attack on democracy" - Los Angeles Times
It makes me wonder what the LA Times Editorial Board thinks has been happening for the last umpteen years if they think this headline is going to be the one that really grabs people's attention to what the GOP really is.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-09-14/gop-assault-prosecutors-democracy
"Florida law restricting transgender adult care can be enforced while challenged in court
A new Florida law restricting health care for transgender people can still be applied to adults while it is being challenged in court, a federal judge ruled Monday."
I wish journalists would convey to their readers & listeners that under any other circumstances if a doctor suddenly rescinded the prescription for hormones someone has been taking for decades, it would be malpractice.
So many basic body functions are moderated by sex hormones, and many trans people no longer make their own, or their bodies didn't work right on the ones their bodies made. To suddenly withhold them causes physiological harm, full stop, as well as emotional harm.
In case you missed it:
"MOUNT DORA, Fla. -- Some central Florida lawmakers said they were considering 'all legislative, legal and executive options available' to stop business owners in a small town from voluntarily displaying rainbow decals in their windows indicating that they are “safe place” for LGBTQ+ people who feel threatened."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/gop-lawmakers-aim-lgbtq-safe-places-program-small-102885536
@3967703f
The only metrics left are hospitalizations, hospital deaths, and sewage counts. Those are all high lag measurements better for retrospective reporting. We are officially ignoring the problem, but that's been the case ever since McConnell promised to block all further Federal funding in Q1 of 2021.
@c17393bb
We have the ability to regulate them.
What's needed is the political will to do so.
And that requires us to pressure our governments to choose regulation over personal greed.
@d09f3e72@3967703f
Kaiser has been consistently a month or two late with all of the COVID vaccines &/or systems needed to reimburse other companies. Which is really weird for a company that profits from people not requiring too much extensive care.
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