Understand this is about indoctrination and preventing social acceptance. Where do kids encounter their most diverse and accepting environment, yes watching social media influencers who are openly different, LGBTQIA / or supporting of, and display rainbow flags and talk about how grand diversity and inclusion is? That leads kids to understand the truth, it is OK to be different. Young people’s programming on media starts with cartoons, and animated shows, and moves online. Why do you think the right / DeathSantis went after Disney so hard also why the hard rabid right Daily Wire started all their own kids programming with hard right indoctrination? It is why states like Florida approved using Prager U YouTube videos in public schools. It is all about getting to the kids when they are young and developing so they can be indoctrinated in a regressive fundamentalist Christian right wing philosophy. Also to prevent the Taylor Swift phenomenon from happening. Hugs. Scottie.
Ever wonder why left leaning stars are so popular they can sway large majorities of the public, but the right wing stars are so much less able to do it, especially individually? Because the idea, policies, and goals of the repressive right are unpopular with the majority. They want minority rule.
“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.”
The Florida House of Representatives has passed two bills banning social media for minors under age 16 and requiring age verification for pornographic sites, just two weeks into their 2024 legislative session.
With House approval, the bills will now head to the state Senate before making its way to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s desk. If the governor signs both bills, they will likely go into effect in July, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.
The measure does not include which social media platforms will be banned for users under 16. State House Speaker Paul Renner, R, said the bill doesn’t focus on content, but on “addictive technologies” and “the courts will decide” what those are.
Read the full article. As I reported earlier this month, the social media ban is authored by freshman Rep. Fiona McFarland. Republicans hold supermajorities in both Florida chambers and can therefore force pretty much anything they want into law.
RELATED: McFarland’s mother, K.T. McFarland, served as Trump’s Deputy National Security Advisor under Michael Flynn and she was accused by Robert Mueller of complicity in Flynn’s lies to the FBI. The accusations scuttled the elder McFarland’s nomination by Trump to be US ambassador to Singapore.
ONE STEP CLOSER: Florida bill meant to ban minors from having social media accounts has passed. What it could mean for teens across the state 📱 https://t.co/yQWLF7oSPR
The measure does not include which social media platforms will be banned for users under 16. State House Speaker Paul Renner, R, said the bill doesn’t focus on content, but on “addictive technologies” and “the courts will decide” what those are.
I thought the exact same thing. Then I was going to say it sounds like they’d probably put the onus on Social Media sites to follow the law, but the point would remain the same: Enforcement is going to be a bitch.
I hope social media co.s do what pornhub did and just make their sites unavailable in that state (although I could see how that could have a negative impact on the kids who count on it for social support and stuff).
Between Nikki Haley enthusiastically supporting a national abortion ban, to Donald Trump’s rape case, to the GOP’s entire personality, the Republican Party has declared war on women, and we just can’t be ok with it.
Earlier this year the Trump Campaign released a video called “God Made Trump.” As with all releases from the Trump Campaign that needed to be fact checked. which it was – by the Lincoln Project. They discovered that God had been badly misquoted in the campaign ad. This parody is based on their findings.
This is known as the foot in the door bill / law. Once this gets passed, then the next year a bill / law is introduced to add more right wing groups. Notice parents are not to be notified and from what I read students can not opt out, which totally wipes out parents rights. Think on it, any parent can keep an entire school from reading a book with LGBTQIA characters, but no parent can keep their child from right wing indoctrination in public schools. Just mull over what groups the new approved list might include? The local mega / hate church? The RNC? All military branches, which I think most schools allow but students need permission from parents, that permission no longer required. However written into the law is not available to other groups, such as left leaning or science groups. No Satanic Temple for science stuff, no equality groups, no pro abortion groups, no other religion but the “good” one Christianity, right? By law, only right wing indoctrination 1950s society groups may have this right to brainwash kids without the parents being told. Let the public reeducation camps begin with public schools. They will wipe all that progressive modern acceptance and tolerance shit out for good, right? Hugs. Scottie
The House Choice and Innovation Subcommittee is advancing a bill that would give some groups certain rights in K-12 schools.
Rep. Wyman Duggan’s bill (HB 1317) would allow representatives of so-called “patriotic organizations” time to meet with students and distribute recruitment materials, with schools providing designated time for these groups to pitch their attendees.
The bill also clarifies that certain groups can use school buildings even after the instructional day is over, and stipulates that other groups don’t have the legal right to “equal time.”
Where are the Cubans who scream about the dangers of Castro and forced government stuff at on this? Oh wait, they’re fine if it’s people they like doing it. Biggest bunch of hypocrites around.
Heney I live in the hood with them.. Its fuck biden flags and bumper stickers all over the place . The show their hatred for freedom and the constitution everytime they scream for trump
Nations – and the citizens that come from them – who have never tasted a history of being a democratic republic really don’t understand how it’s done. I think we’ve got plenty of migration around the world now to recognize that.
Sadly, we’re witnessing how easy it is for even a nation like ours – WITH said history – to easily lose it once history is no longer considered an important topic in classrooms. No wonder MAGAts hate an educated population.
Castro’s revolution was against the semi-fascist regime of Fulgencio Bautista (who eventually took refuge in exile with Franco!). The original people who fled Castro were allied with / members of / happy under a semi-fascist regime.
It is entirely on brand for them to support Trump.
Yep. Let’s see – Catholic Priest Altar Boy Appreciation Society – check! Hitler youth – check, check! Baptist Attractive Young Male Interns International Pimpery – check, check, checkity-check!
The Girl Scouts are on the conservative S-list. They don’t kick out lesbians and trans girls. They teach girls skills that help them become successful as independent women holding good jobs. They may teach health that includes accurate information about their genitalia and those of men.
I will not be surprised to see the FL legislature and governor coming up with a State of Florida designation of “patriotic and national organizations” to include many favored groups.
The bill also clarifies that certain groups can use school buildings even after the instructional day is over, and stipulates that other groups don’t have the legal right to “equal time.”
I like when they include clearly unconstitutional poisoned pills into their legislation.
Children can’t read or do arithmetic, don’t understand civics, but let’s take time out of the day and do this and sing the National Anthem. What fucking morons.
The bill also clarifies that certain groups can use school buildings even after the instructional day is over, and stipulates that other groups don’t have the legal right to “equal time.”
The way Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) won the right to meet in schools is through the federal Equal Access Act (EAA) of 1984. Any school that permits non-curriculum related student groups must provide equal access to all student groups, and that includes equal access for GSAs. I’m no lawyer, but I wonder if this law can be used in this way.
You will live by the doctrines of state Sen. Dusty Deevers (R-Elgin) church. It matters not if you like seeing nude humans, or if you enjoy touching yourself and having sex with others, it doesn’t even matter what religion you may or many not have, you will like a strict all ideas of sex is bad because state Sen. Dusty Deevers (R-Elgin) does. You know, because republicans are not public servants but they are your rulers. The moral police have spoken, the Christian Taliban will be around soon to check your computer. Hugs. Scottie
An Oklahoma state senator has proposed a law that would make watching pornography a felony and ban sexting among people who are not married. The bill, set to be introduced next month by state Sen. Dusty Deevers (R-Elgin), would prohibit consuming or producing sexual content that “lacks serious literary, artistic, educational, political, or scientific purposes or value” in any medium.
The measure defines “obscene material” as the depiction or description of any “acts of sexual intercourse,” including those that are “normal or perverted, actual or simulated.”Content depicting sodomy and masturbation would also be off the table, in addition to videos, movies, video games and text messages that involve “sadomasochistic abuse” and “acts of excretion in a sexual context.”
Under the bill, Oklahoma would ban the distribution of virtually any material that displays explicit sexual content if it lacks “serious literary, artistic, educational, political, or scientific purposes or value.” Additionally, Oklahoma would empower any citizen to open a lawsuit against an individual who “produces or distributes unlawful pornography” and/or “knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets the production or distribution of unlawful pornography.”
A Twitter user could face significant legal risk just for retweeting adult material on Twitter. The Oklahoma state government could allege that Twitter knowingly allowed the distribution of “unlawful pornography” on the site. And theoretically, Oklahoma citizens could try to take Twitter to court in a civil suit, seeking damages. While it’s unlikely that Twitter would outright pull out of Oklahoma, the site could take multiple steps to try to find itself in the state’s good graces.
Deevers, of course, is a Baptist pastor who won a special election last month to represent some hillbilly rural district where the largest town has a population of 2100.
Per the Oklahoman newspaper, Deevers’ campaign was centered around Christian nationalism, banning COVID vaccines, banning abortion, and banning divorce.
Last year he ran a failed campaign for vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, getting 20% of the vote.
As you can see below, his bill has the enthusiastic support of Ella Maulding, who is an ardent fan of self-proclaimed Nazi Nick Fuentes and who runs social media for the Nazi-adjacent Texas Republican group, Defend Texas Liberty.
The production and distribution of pornography should be met with the death penalty
Engagement with pornography should be met with jail time
Dusty Deevers is a Christian nationalist pastor running for a seat in the Oklahoma state Senate in order to apply "the word of God to every issue" by abolishing abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, and even instituting the public shaming of adulterers. https://t.co/5vIvsVfnbUpic.twitter.com/TbsvKUNEUz
Oklahoma state rep and Christian nationalist pastor Dusty Deevers says any woman who has an abortion should be jailed for murder and divorced people must be "publicly shamed." Dusty calls his personal style "casual serial killer and indicted scoutmaster" pic.twitter.com/keVRJ0lPM9
If you don't know who Dusty Deevers is, he's a religious zealot who ran for office and won on a religious extremists & abortion abolitionist platform. pic.twitter.com/LMfIJrNIbt
And there it is: SB1958, by freshman Sen. Dusty Deevers, looks to make it much harder to receive a divorce here in Oklahoma. It deletes incompatibility as grounds for divorce altogether and moves "insanity for a period of 5 years" under abandonment. #oklegpic.twitter.com/gv4bvatLoC
Because of the saving grace of forgiveness of sin and eternal life through Jesus Christ’s being born of a virgin, sinless life, substitutionary death on a cross, resurrection from the dead, ascension and heavenly enthronement, and current reign as Sovereign over all powers, this…
Statistics show that the more fundy and christian an area is, the more porn they watch. So no, this isn’t going anywhere, his fellow legislators love their porn – for many of them, their real life is so restricted that porn is their only healthy outlet.
It is one thing for a person who commits a crime to be off the ballot, like starting an insurrection against the US. But this is the real weaponizing of the laws to harm political opponents. What are these republicans scared of? They can not fight idea to idea. They can not promote their own ideas because they unpopular, the people don’t want what the republicans are pushing. So republicans resort to dirty tricks. Even the governor said, let her on the ballot. Hugs. Scottie
Vanessa Joy was booted off the ballot because she did not include her deadname on official documents.
The county elections board that disqualified a transgender candidate for Ohio state office because she did not include her deadname on petitions circulated to potential voters is refusing to reverse its decision, even after pressure from the state’s governor and other trans candidates being to run for office without disclosing their deadnames in Ohio.
Despite collecting enough signatures to run as a Democrat for Ohio’s firmly Republican House District 50, real estate photographer Vanessa Joy learned earlier this month that she had been disqualified from the race by the Stark County Board of Elections due to an obscure state law requiring candidates to disclose any name changes that have taken place within the last five years.
People who get married don’t have to disclose their previous names to run for office in Ohio, but apparently trans people do.
Notably, the 1995 law was not mentioned in the Ohio secretary of state’s 2024 candidate guide and has not been included in previous candidate guides in recent years. Nor did the candidacy petition form Joy filled out include any mention of the law or space to list any name changes.
Joy requested a reconsideration of the decision, according to a January 19 statement from the Stark County Board of Elections. The board denied her request, citing an Ohio Supreme Court case that found that the law is “unambiguous,” that the “intent behind the candidate’s use of a different name is not relevant,” and that it could not “add an exception that does not appear in the statutory language.”
“The Stark County Board of Elections is sympathetic to Vanessa Joy’s argument that the campaign election guide put out by the Ohio Secretary of State was not specific enough,” the statement read.
The board added that its “decision must be based on the law and cannot be arbitrarily applied.” However, Joy was one of four transgender candidates running for Ohio office this year. Two others, Bobbie Arnold and Arienne Childrey, had their candidacies for Ohio state House seats challenged under the law. Both have since been cleared to have their names appear on the November ballot. Still, according to the Associated Press, both Arnold and Childrey could technically be removed from office if Joy does not succeed in challenging the law.
A fourth trans candidate, Ari Faber, has not had his candidacy for Ohio’s state Senate challenged. Faber has not legally changed his name and is running with his birth name on the ballot, NBC News reports.
While Joy told the AP that, for now, her campaign is over, she is working with an attorney to get the law changed. “I’m out of the race, but I’m not out of the fight,” she said.
Last week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) said that trans candidates should not be disqualified for not listing their deadnames and argued for changes to ensure that future candidates will be aware of the little-known law.
According to the AP, Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose said that his team will include the law in future candidate guides but opposed changing the law itself.
Vanessa JoyPhoto: Screenshot / News 5 Cleveland
