Mighty Christian of this first one. Good old republican Christian concern and caring. Hugs. Scottie
Florida’s Senate approves a bill that would ban cities and counties from adopting requirements for mandatory water breaks and other workplace protections against extreme heat. https://t.co/zGlFrAG8Kr
Read the full article. The bill’s author, state Sen. Jay Trumbull, previously appeared here for his successful bill allowing medical professionals to refuse to treat LGBTQ patients. Last year, he authored a bill allowing businesses to sue to block local LGBTQ rights ordinances and other regulations.
Of note, the lead attorney in the lawsuit is Roberta Kaplan, who is best known to most as E. Jean Carroll’s attorney. Kaplan was also Edith Windsor’s attorney in the landmark Supreme Court ruling on DOMA.
This is quite a story and as you’d expect a portion of their ideology centers against LGBTQ people.
OK with this first batch I am trying to reduce the 74 posts window I have open. I have to start shrinking these windows. That means I can not go deep in depth on each thing I think is important to share. So for a few days I am going to shotgun a bunch of older stuff out. Do I expect everyone to read all of them? NO! What I hope is people see story titles that interest them, open them, and follow the story which is what I do. So expect a few more of these as I clear out old tabs. Hugs. Scottie
I do not understand the fear fundamentalist Christians republicans have about sex and the nude human body. They are terrified by both those things. But why? There god clearly meant for it to be fun and we are created in his image, hell they even call their god father. So does god have a penis? If so he must have used it. Many religions have embraced sex. Sadly too many belittle women to benefit men. But there was a time when nudity, especially male nudity, was not only accepted, it was expected. Boys swam nude even with girls present. Kids in school showered together. No one thought a kid seeing a penis would destroy their lives, but parents have so traumatized young people now that I knew a boy who would only shower with his underpants or shorts on. He dressed in as low a light possible. His parents were hyper religious. I have read stories from others that also had religious parents that made the topic of sex and any form of nudity forbidden leading to unpleasant consequences as they were growing up. From being less when informed on sexual things / how it all worked, to not being able to talk with their parents and family when they need to tell them about being abused or hurt. Hugs. Scottie
The May 2023 post states, “Conservatives have to lead the way in restoring sex to its true purpose, & ending recreational sex & senseless use of birth control pills.”
The original post included a C-SPAN clip from a Heritage Foundation panel, in which author Mary Harrington promotes what she calls “a feminist movement against the pill” in order to help return “consequentiality” to sex.
The Heritage Foundation has been scouting personnel for a potential upcoming Republican administration. The group’s resurfaced post sparked outcry from critics and support from conservatives.
Earlier this month, FSC Director of Public Affairs Mike Stabile flagged the 2023 post, replying, “It’s not just abortion, trans healthcare or porn. One of the most influential conservative groups in the country is now calling for the government to ‘end recreational sex.’”
Leading conservative culture-war crusader Christopher Rufo defended the 2023 statement, posting, “‘Recreational sex’ is a large part of the reason we have so many single-mother households, which drives poverty, crime, and dysfunction. The point of sex is to create children — this is natural, normal, and good.”
The term “recreational sex” originates in religious — particularly Catholic — discourse that considers the sole purpose of sex to be procreation. The mainstreaming among conservatives of a war on “recreational sex” parallels a current effort to revive enforcement of the infamous 19th-century censorship Comstock Act in order to restrict access to abortion medication, birth control and contraception, as Rolling Stone reported.
As XBIZ reported, the Heritage Foundation leads “Project 2025,” a coalition of conservative organizations whose road map for the next Republican presidential administration includes a call to immediately outlaw all pornography and imprison people who produce and distribute it.
Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership” blueprint, including the call to criminalize all adult content, was first reported on by Brynn Tannehill in an August 2023 feature for Dame magazine.
In the piece, Tannehill quotes the introduction to the conservative policy road map, which declares that pornography “has no claim to First Amendment protection” and states, “Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.”
It amazes me, but maybe it shouldn’t, that our community all reads the same blogs. Thank you Tengrian for posting this, It is such important information on who news media works for. The wealthy people in this story are arrested, yet all the blame From the media is placed on the poor people stealing the stuff for 7 to 10 cents on the dollar of what the wealthy people sold it for. Yes think on it. For at least four or more years, maybe for others the right has blamed the poor homeless people for shoplifting, but like a lot of stories on car thefts, the real money is not to the thieves doing the stealing, it is the resale of the items by wealthy people that were making the real profit. The poor people were as always being used as the villains when the wealthy people behind the entire operation but normally they don’t get mentioned or ever blamed. Right wing media has been going on for years about poor black neighborhoods and claiming that Target moved out of those areas due to theft even Target told their stockholders it was because the stores were underperforming on profit compared to the cost of the rent and they only moved a couple miles down the road. So that is what the right wing news is spewing and what garbage we have to debunk and correct.
That is like the republican State of the Union rebuttal. It was all a lie, but the right wing media will never tell their cult like followers of that. Not only did it happen when George Bush was president, it also did not happen in the US but in Mexico. So what is important is that the woman who is trafficked is now 32 years old, yet Katie Britt also claimed she went to the US southern border and talked to a 12 year old who suffered trafficking. What the fuck. But again their cult viewers won’t ever see the truth and will believe that is happening right now. Hugs. Scottie
republicans are racist and culture warriors, white supremacist, so they don’t see that the nation needs immigrant workers, skilled and non-skilled. They don’t seem to understand just how large this country is. They think the entire country is just the town or city they live in. We do not have enough workers to fill all the jobs, and some jobs their superior white people just won’t do. The other side of the coin is they have made higher education so expensive we do not have the highly skilled workers needed for some high-tech specialty jobs. We need to bring them in from other countries that subsidize their education systems. Think of that. The republicans have attacked the US education system so much they have dumbed down the US education to the point we need to bring in people educated from other countries, or foreigners educated here paid for by their country. Hugs. Scottie
“I can’t have a conversation with any business owner that doesn’t revolve around the fact that they simply cannot find the skilled workforce they need,” says Jay Timmons, chief executive officer of the National Association of Manufacturers.
Some 9 million positions are open across the economy, equal to 1.4 vacancies for every unemployed worker. The worst-affected industries are trying to figure out the best way to make themselves heard.
A trade group for companies in the construction industry is buying digital ads to push for immigration reform. An association that represents makers of heavy equipment is flying members to Washington from such places as North Dakota to beg lawmakers for help.
But Republicans keeps saying immigrants take away jobs from Americans who would gladly do them? So weird. It’s almost like the GOP are full of shit on yet another issue they claim to care about.
Bingo. That’s precisely why when DuhFascist began to kick out all the migrant workers on farms in FL not a single Republican kid took those jobs. NOT ONE.
All I hear from my GQP relatives are about how “no one wants to work anymore.” They still cling to this belief that the three stimulus checks that were given away several years ago (the first two from Trump, I remind them), made everyone quit their job and quit the workforce. I keep asking them — you seriously think people can live on $5000 for years without a job? But they hold fast — between those checks and all the other freeloading gummint programs, no one has to work anymore.
Or responded to their application? Some of these employers should take a look at their hiring process. They all expect top-tier talent then make the application process so laborious and tedious to then not even bother with responding once all steps are completed.
It’s been like that for years, but from what I’m reading it looks like it’s gotten even worse. (Not even sure how that’s possible.) The process for applying for jobs is a nightmare. And so is the onboarding process once you’ve been hired but haven’t started. Some companies outsource the background check. You can get flagged as lying if you said you started on 3/11/19 but really started (according to that company’s records) on 3/12/19. I’m not exaggerating. They’ve made everything as difficult as possible which they got away with for 20 years because there were way more job seekers than jobs. Someone would put up with the bullshit to get a job. Now, not so much.
As for skilled labor, we don’t two generations they had to go to college even if school wasn’t their thing. Electricians, plumbers, etc are retiring and there are few replacements. That crisis is already here, especially in rural areas and small towns.
Though this was about Scotland an article I just read was about how small areas over there were paying big bucks to get doctors to move there to practice.
In the isolated community I live in, the doctor they found who was willing to work here does not prescribe birth control to teenagers, nor encourage vaccinations. And those are his least offense beliefs and qualities…
Years ago I applied for a job for which I was more than qualified, and after jumping through a few preliminary hoops, the employer ghosted me. Happily, another application had progressed and I decided to accept that offer (which turned out to be a great opportunity after all). Months later, the first company contacted me to invite me for an interview. I declined and told them why I wouldn’t be interested in working for them.
Sending in a resume only to have to fill out a lengthy and unnecessary set of questions that the resume should answer but satisfies the needs of dolts who mainly work in HR. Then if you’re lucky to pass a phone screen, you interview with people who have no idea how to interview potential candidates and then decide that instead of 2-3 interviews, 7-10 over a couple months is appropriate. And then sometime 6 months later, if they don’t outright ghost you, they send a standardized email saying you didn’t get the job, an application most people would’ve long forgotten about.
Oh, you get an email? I never do. I’ve gone through series of interviews at top level jobs, and never heard back. After waiting several months, I sent them an email, and a few weeks later they tell you they gave the offer to someone else, but they just loved me and would like me to assist in their non-profit mission in any way that I can. Effing idiots.
The housing crisis in the United States has reached a tipping point. And instead of helping unhoused people and fixing a broken system, cities and governments are turning to draconian measures to criminalize homelessness and make the lived environment more hostile to homeless people through hostile architecture. This isn’t the solution.
Why do the republicans hate young people on social media? Because it exposes them to ideas that are now banned in Florida schools. It is about information control, it is about indoctrination to a conservative mindset / ideology. Think of it, even though the republicans managed to remove all reading material from schools about LGBTQIA people so LGBTQIA kids won’t see themselves represented and other students won’t see that the LGBTQIA kids are as normal as they are, young people can still see it on social media where the stars they love tell them that it is OK to be different. Plus social media clearly shows how wrong and backwards the Republican Party is, and how out of touch a minority the fundamentalist Christians are. Then you have the times that social media influences older teens to vote progressive / democrat, not regressive conservative like the state wants them to do. Social media also makes republicans and maga look as stupid as they are, mocking them, and showing young people out of touch with the modern times the fundamentalist Christian republicans are. Hugs. Scottie
Language for a new social media bill with provisions for parental consent has been filed in the Senate. The move came after Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed an all-out ban on those under 16 using most social media platforms.
Sen. Erin Grall, a Fort Pierce Republican, filed an amendment with new language negotiated with the House, Senate and Governor’s Office. The legislation includes exemptions for 14- and 15-year-olds to open accounts on any platform so long as they have a parent’s permission.
“A social media platform shall prohibit a minor who is 14 or 15 years of age from entering into a contract with a social media platform to become an account holder, unless the minor’s parent or guardian provides consent for the minor to become an account holder,” the amendment states.
Read the full article. The bill vetoed yesterday by DeSantis would have banned all minors under age 16 from having a social media account.
New social media ban proposal would allow parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds
The FL legislature somehow thinks kids 16 and under are mature enough to have children when raped or molested but somehow not mature enough to use social media.
FL ledge DESPERATLY needs to find a way to keep queer kids from seeing positive messaging about themselves. They have seen the stats that 25% of Gen Z identify as something other than straight/cis. They are freaking out that Gen Alpha (yeah I had to look that one up but don’t you dare OK Boomer me) is going to follow the same curve. I for one welcome the rest of our rainbow plenty of bisexuals out there and now they are not afraid to be counted.
This is 100% the reason they want to stop young people from using the internet. I don’t remember seeing my first rainbow flag until I was 18. Up until that point, I thought there was something wrong with me. And as a result, I was politically neutral, and not fiercely anti-conservative at the time.
Keeping kids from life -saving support groups online when they are living in Hell. They want gay and trans kids to kill themselves. That’s what I take from this tripe.
They seem to think 11 year olds know nothing about the internet. Facebook has long had an age requirement, and I’ve known children as young as 11 who have had accounts. The kids figure it out quickly.
Perhaps it’s just another way to quickly create a whole new juvenile criminal class. I wonder what the consequences are, and if the parents will be held responsible for their little criminals.
I was just thinking about that. Is the 16-year-old cutoff meant to protect them from teenagers’ wrath? There won’t be any current 16-year-olds voting in 2024.
Children have long memories when it comes to blocking them from interaction with their peers whose parents have given permission to have social media accounts. Denied an account, they would be relegated to a lower social order in their school and school community.
Isn’t this a decision best left between parent and child? Does it really need legislation? Perhaps a law mandating making one’s bed before school should happen?
What is it with Republicans trying to pass the same shit over and over again recently? 15 times to elect a Speaker. Two tries to impeach Secretary Mayorkis. Do it right the first time… or don’t do it at all.
Michael has written a great post on the new postal system under the destroyer himself, Louis DeJoy. We must never forget that tRump put the man in the job to destroy the postal system even though the constitution requires it, so it could be taken over by private business for profit. In the US profit is king, and all must serve the king. Hugs. Scottie
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