Category: Racism

Liberals Are Cool

This is a web site I really enjoy.  Especially when I don’t feel well as it gives the facts and clear information in easy to digest segments.   Randy introduced me to it years ago.  Here is a sample of the author’s work.    Hugs

https://liberalsarecool.com/

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Capitalists choose fascism over democracy.

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Goals

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‘Personal responsibility’ does not exist in the Right Wing. They are always a victim.

Someone else made my kid mediocre.

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🙌🙌🙌 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=528699626046744

Kindness and human empathy towards vulnerable children are a weakness in Conservative theology.

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They should get Trump today and use this tweet as evidence.

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The Hague is coming for Putin for stealing thousands of children from Ukraine and shipping them to Russia.

The definition of child trafficking.

Conservatives will watch a dweeb with a bowtie fawn over Putin on FOX and POOF, all gone.

The white supremacy is that obvious.

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Conservatives do not want a debate or a conversation. It’s non-stop bad faith.

They are taking ‘kill the messenger’ literally.

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Cruelty is their unifying flaw.

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Christofascism wants you to ignore the real systemic problems of the church and focus on their boogeyman projections.

A youth pastor is going to molest/rape/sexually assault your child, not a drag performer.

Evolution of GOP coded language.

Evolution of GOP coded language.

(via not-safe-for-democracy)

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Not knowing the meaning or having context is the language of groomed conservatives.

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Until bankers go to prison, the bailouts will get bigger and bigger.

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Sharing space is nothing new. Sharing bathrooms is nothing new. The reactionary outrage is so manufactured.

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Get rid of the private health insurance industry and provide health care to all. #M4A

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The TikTok handle is @newgirlny_fl

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Cancel FOX in every waiting room. I hope this inspires us all to do the same.

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Republicans demand submission from kids.

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Fuel for your empathy.

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Conservatives, writ large.

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the guy is not wrong

Republican filed bill to ban Pride flags, fly Confederate flag in goverment buildings

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/03/republican-filed-bill-to-ban-pride-flags-fly-confederate-flag-in-goverment-buildings/

This is what passes for Republican patriotism, denying rights to people but instead trying to honor the active attempt to overthrow the US government in order to continue to own people as property.   No joke, and no it was about heritage bullshit, even the people at the highest levels said it was about the right to own those people with a non-white skin as property.   That is what the republican party has become and seems to have been for nearly 70 years.   They wanted to deny black people rights, and now they want to keep denying anyone but white Christians rights.   It if fucking time they grow up and realize that modern society is not built on their racism and bigotry.   That is why they are attacking the schools that teach children acceptance and tolerance, not racism and bigotry.   Hugs

The legislator’s spokesperson said he filed the amendment by accident. Yeah… “whoops.”
 
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Republican filed bill to ban Pride flags, fly Confederate flag in goverment buildings
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Florida state Sen. Jay Collins (R) filed an amendment to legislation about what flags could be flown on public government buildings and properties to allow the Confederate flag to be flown at such buildings, classrooms, and offices. The legislation excluded the LGBTQ+ Pride flag from a list of approved flags.

Collins has since withdrawn the amendment, with his spokesperson saying that Collins filed it in “error” and is not a “confederate sympathizer.” The spokesperson didn’t explain why Collins had pro-confederate amendment laying around his office for him to accidentally file.

 

“That is a set up. We’re going to get treated sh**ty and then get no tipped and possibly hate crimed.”

Collins’ legislation, S.B. 668, allows only the following flags to be flown: the U.S. flag; U.S. military flags; the United Nations flag; the Olympic flag; the flags of foreign countries; the prisoners of war-missing in action (POW-MIA) flag; the Firefighter Memorial flag; the flags of Florida, its counties, municipalities, public universities, and colleges; and flags indicating beach warnings. His amendment would have added the Confederate flag to that list.

While the legislation didn’t explicitly mention the LGBTQ+ flag, Maxx Fenning, president of LGBTQ advocacy group PRISM, told Miami New Times last month, “This [legislation] feels like a no-brainer that this is directed at pride flags.”

Orlando Gonzales, executive director of local LGBTQ nonprofit SAVE (Safeguarding American Values for Everyone), called the bill “a fake, postured patriotic bill” that violates free speech.

“What are they afraid of? What is the fear?” Gonzales asked the publication. “I think the fear is very clear and that is less and less America is being made of white individuals, and those individuals feel that their power is being threatened.”

The House version of the bill was introduced by state Rep. David Borrero (R), a co-sponsor of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which prohibits the mention of LGBTQ+ identities in public elementary schools.

In a statement posted to Twitter, Collins’ spokesperson Ted Veerman said that Collins, a military veteran, “is an American patriot who personally sewed his arm back together on the battlefield in Afghanistan as he was hemorrhaging blood along with losing his leg due.”

“Any insinuation that Jay is a confederate sympathizer is disgusting,” Veerman added. “This amendment draft was filed in error and has already been pulled as we work to ensure the wording of our bill is in line with the state constitution and statute, which is what created this issue in the first place.”

 
 
 
The Confederate flag, created by pro-slavery forces during the U.S. Civil War of the early 1860s, was revived by white supremacists and others in the South during the Black Civil Rights era of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s, according to National Geographic.

Florida Now Going After Social Studies Textbooks

Florida Now Going After Social Studies Textbooks

The white nationalist religious racist maga fanatics are not satisfied with wiping out the LGBTQ+ from schools and making their lives difficult in Florida.  Now they want to whitewash the racist history of the US to wipe out the mistreatment and economy of the slave states built of free slave labor that gave no benefit of that labor to the black people but instead benefited only the white people.   This started with outlawing any teaching that would make white kids uncomfortable, with no care how the black kids in the same classes / age groups felt.   It was totally geared to the comfort and image of the white students.   This current drive removed the historical context as to why the standard economic situations are so different when you compare white economic status to the average black family’s economic status.   This denies the systematic racism that has existed in the US even to today.   Red lining preventing community up grades, loans for businesses in majority black areas, the taking of black areas by the government so businesses could make profit that again destroyed black communities.   Mass transit was often denied to lower income black areas that needed it for work because they couldn’t afford cars.   There are so many ways the systems are designed to disadvantage blacks that make the current economic situation clear it is not the black communities fault.   Look at the difference in funding and supplies between traditional majority black public schools compared to white majority public schools.  This is being done so that racist can make a case that the situation black people are in is their own doing, they are less intelligent than whites, they care less about their families than whites, they care less about their homes / property than whites, the reason police action against blacks is they don’t respect police or follow their directions like white people do leaving out the context of the way blacks are treated by police in the US even in the modern day.   

We must fight back against this with everything we have.  Florida has already become the Meca paradise for the white supremist white Christian nationalist crowd backed up by thug gang enforcers that love the Gov. DeathSantis attacks anyone who is different while acting like a king with any who disagrees with him, threatening what little free press remains.   Oh ya, this is the free state of Florida according to DeathSantis campaign slogan. Hugs

The New York Times reports:

In Florida, textbooks have become hot politics, part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign against what he describes as “woke indoctrination” in public schools, particularly when it comes to race and gender. Last year, his administration made a splash when it rejected dozens of math textbooks, citing “prohibited topics.” Now, the state is reviewing curriculum in what is perhaps the most contentious subject in education: social studies.

In the last few months, as part of the review process, a small army of state experts, teachers, parents and political activists have combed thousands of pages of text — not only evaluating academic content, but also flagging anything that could hint, for instance, at critical race theory. The Florida Citizens Alliance, a conservative group, has urged the state to reject 28 of the 38 textbooks that its volunteers reviewed.

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They’re even going after Rosa Parks.

 

 

TrollopeReader31 minutes ago

Hey Teacher … what does “different sorts of groups” mean?

Why did a lady being asked to move her seat go to the Supreme Court?

Todd20036  TrollopeReader18 minutes ago

Kids won’t ask such questions. I remember being told “savages” liked being civilized by European invaders when the country was founded

I thought that sounded wrong but I didn’t speak up as a kid

heleninedinburgh 30 minutes ago

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
– democratic Socialist George Orwell.

vap 32 minutes ago

I can’t wait for FL kids to learn about the War of Northern Aggression and the reign of the Tyrant Lincoln. /s

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Melissia 9 minutes ago

It “focuses too much” on the “negative side” to our genocide of the collective tribes and nations of the Native American cultures?

So they’re saying they want us to celebrate genocide then?

Figures. They are neo-nazis after all.

tamiasmin 16 minutes ago

I’m glad we are getting some actual examples now of what these changes entail. They are even worse than I imagined. So bad that the students, I hope, will be correcting the teachers.

Todd20036 21 minutes ago

A whole state full of white supremacists. That’s what ROnda Sandtits is shooting for

Because no one will know that white people did anything wrong .

Bilderbeck 23 minutes ago

DeSantis vs. diversity: Blacklists have universities playing defense as Republicans attack<.b>

” In more than a dozen interviews with the Herald, faculty and staff described a quiet calculus on campuses as educators navigate an increasingly hostile work environment resulting from vague and ever-evolving directives coming from Tallahassee.

https://www.miamiherald.com…

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TrollopeReader24 minutes ago

Hey Teach … what does “Colored” only mean?

Can I use my Crayolas and markers?

Jonathan Smith 34 minutes ago

How long before the first highschooler cant get into college because they learned nothing?

TnCTampa  Jonathan Smith30 minutes ago

That wont happen. As it is the red states will pass laws to make it mandatory that all colleges accept their new standards and then sue to get in front of SCOTUS and thats all it takes. Red states know how to take over the country and impose their will without firing a shot.

I wonder if any democratic governors beside Newsom in CA will have the nerve to play hardball with the feds on enforcement of red states rules for blue state citizens?

Eli Bradley  TnCTampa23 minutes ago

Schools are already eliminating the SAT as a requirement.

Gustav2  TnCTampa22 minutes ago

There are legislatures pushing state colleges and any college that takes state monies to follow the Hillsdale “classical” education model.

tbj5 37 minutes ago

Count on the NYT to call censorship and book destruction by a fascist state ‘hot politics’.

heleninedinburgh  tbj522 minutes ago

I thought that was a bit unfair until I clicked through and saw an article which was the current affairs version of the altered ‘Studies Weekly’ textbook.
I can’t remember who said it first but if someone says it’s raining and someone else says it’s not, your job as a journalist isn’t to say ‘A says it’s raining, B says it’s dry,’ but to look out of the window to see which one is correct.

TnCTampa 39 minutes ago

Honestly if we the people are content to let it happen its going to get much worse. I just ask myself and our leaders and all of us… why the fuck are we not in the streets marching every weekend, every chance, protesting and standing up to fascist.

pileated woodpecker 43 minutes ago

So Cuban Floridians you fled a regime in your country supported by Russia and now you vote and support a Russian leaning authoritarian as your governor. Where will you exile next and aid in its demise?

TnCTampa  pileated woodpecker40 minutes ago

Yes but the whites preach racism against blacks and Mexicans. Let me tell you from living in a Cuban neighborhood and knowing and interacting with many of them.. they give the white rednecks a run for the money on hating those two peoples specifically.

 

Arizona Schools Chief Launches Anti-Teacher Snitch Line

Arizona Schools Chief Launches Anti-Teacher Snitch Line

Over the last 50 years while the democrats pursued only the highest offices in the land the republicans were pushing hard to take over state government and the churches rushed to take over the school boards.  I remember that in the 1990s in Palm Beach Conty that the big churches were fielding stealth candidates to take over the boards and change what was being taught.  It was underway back then!  Now the right wing /maga republicans are using their complete control over the levers of state power to end right, roll back protections, to take the states back to a time of strict gender roles for the sexes and a time when minorities were second class citizens who either knew their place or they were not allowed in society in any way.  In fact they are not just trying to return society where gays were a shame to the family but they want a time when gays could be arrested along with denied working for any level of government being banned from security clearances.  They are driving hard for this.  Look at the red states trying hard to bring back banned conversion therapy that has been well and full debunked as not only something that doesn’t work but was found to be very harmful to those subjected to it.   They again want to deny the medical science because it shows their ideology is wrong.   Being gay or trans is not a choice, it is not a disease needing to change or cured.   People are born gay / trans and while some manage to hide it, they should have to.  They should be able to live their lives freely as they really are.   Plus now they want to set up secret hidden police where neighbor spys on each other and reports to hotlines those not following the party rule.    Hugs

From the Arizona Department of Education:

Arizona schools chief Tom Horne has launched the Department of Education “Empower Hotline” so that Arizonans can report inappropriate public school lessons that detract from teaching academic standards.

These include those that focus on race or ethnicity, rather than individuals and merit, promoting gender ideology, social emotional learning, or inappropriate sexual content.

The hotline provides the opportunity for constituents to provide feedback, concerns or complaints, which is a standard service offered by multiple government agencies and private-sector businesses.

It is available at 602-771-3500, or through email at empower@azed.gov. The phone line will be staffed during normal business hours, but after-hours phone calls as well as emails will be accepted at any time and followed up appropriately.

Horne explained, “Some say critical race theory (CRT) is a graduate study, not taught in K-12 schools. The evidence is to the contrary. I have a list of 250 Arizona teachers who signed a shocking statement promoted by the national teachers’ union, that if critical race theory were banned, they would defy the law.

“They would not have signed if they were not already teaching it. They come from 25 school districts, including the largest ones. Teachers must teach academics, not use their power over a captive audience, to promote their personal ideology. That is unprofessional conduct.”

Horne added, “I promised to establish this hotline so that anyone could report the teaching of inappropriate lessons that rob students of precious minutes of instruction time in core academic subjects such as reading, math, science, history and the arts. That promise is being kept.”

While Arizona state attorney general, Horne threatened to sue cities that recognized out-of-state same-sex marriages. That same year he proposed legislation allowing public school teachers to carry guns. Horne has faced multiple allegations of campaign finance crimes and has a lifetime trading ban by the Securities and Exchange Commission related to an investment firm he founded before running for public office. As you can see below, he is a supporter of QAnon freak show Vaseline Woman. 

 

Rex 4 hours ago

Isn’t it odd that they think that they can actually change someone from being gay to being straight after months or years of therapy, but they also think an entire classroom of children will become gay after hearing a guy in a dress read them a story.
Fuck these people and their hatred of the LGBTQ community. They want to exterminate us. Ain’t gonna happen.

Buford 3 hours ago edited

We need to lodge complaints in response to any lesson which mentions mommy/daddy, sister/brother, aunt/uncle, etc, as unnecessarily provocative.

‘Gender’ has no place in schools, right?

 

JWC an hour ago

Oh sure let’s further harass and penalize the educators They are already the most over worked under appreciated segment of employment

NotMiguel2 hours ago

Just call it the Karen Hotline. Teachers union will have a field day with this. Elections matter.

Houndentenor 2 hours ago

The real point of this is to force out any teacher who isn’t full-on MAGA. Who would want to work with a witch hunt going on? It’s not worth it.

Name 3 hours ago

“Teaching academic standards.” Is that what they’re calling White Supremacy indoctrination these days?

Frank McCormick an hour ago

“…detract from teaching academic standards…”

So, no “social emotional learning”?

Granted, I went to Catholic school, but half of my report card was based on behavior. So it’s wrong to teach children social skills like how to behave in class and with each other?

This smells of a Libertarian influence.

tbj5 3 hours ago

I hope that students flood the call line with reports of teachers talking about their heterosexual spouses, or wearing crosses and talking about their faith.

heleninedinburgh 3 hours ago

Horne explained, “Some say critical race theory (CRT) is a graduate
study, not taught in K-12 schools. The evidence is to the contrary. I
have a list of 250 Arizona teachers who signed a shocking statement
promoted by the national teachers’ union, that if critical race theory
were banned, they would defy the law.


He missed a great opportunity to use the phrase “I have here in my hand…”

Makoto 2 hours ago

“They would not have signed if they were not already teaching it.”
Uhh.. assumes facts not in evidence. The question did not ask that.

Paula 2 hours ago

So he has a definition of what CRT is? I wish he would share it with the rest of us.
Is it that white treated black people bad, killed them, and kept them as slaves for decades in this country? That’s not a theory, that’s true…..
This is just what Arizona needs for their teacher supply. It is a common belief among teachers around her that two places you don’t want to go teach is Colorado and Arizona. The pay and benefits are very low. This won’t help the state find teachers.

Wintercat3 hours ago edited

They were pulling that up in New Hampshire after passing their law banning “divisive concepts” in the classroom.

Now they’re whining about a big teacher shortage because all the good ones who could got the hell out and moved here to Massachusetts or elsewhere.

Fridayan hour ago

Arizona Republican Gestapo thinks kids are too stupid to hear anything non-negative about LGBT people, but does think they’re qualified to tell the state to fire their teachers over ‘not meeting the academic program’ before they even learn the material, never mind what the vaguely-worded ‘standards’ are supposed to be?

Umm, the thing is, education on history and racism is not what ‘Critical Race Theory’ is, but you use it as a buzzword to ban or silence any mention of actual things in the laws.

 
  
Rebecca Gardner 3 hours ago

“The whole function of education is to create a Nazi.” ~ Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister, February 1938

HomerTh 2 hours ago

This Canadian immigrant, son of Polish immigrants, cost Arizona millions of dollars when as Attorney General he got the Republican-run legislature to ban Mexican studies here in Tucson. Went all the way to the Supremes, who told this old fuck to fuck the fuck off. The bill he promoted banned well-known history books because they mentioned discrimination against Mexican-Americans. Always interesting to see immigrants coming to the US and promoting hatred towards other immigrants (e.g., Rupert Murdoch).

Gigi2 hours ago

Superintendent Horne said, “There’s nothing more outrageous than religious prejudice…”

Nothing? I can think of a few things:

– pastors who sexually abuse children
– revivals
– evangelical parents who brainwash their children
– “ex-gay” torture
– Anti-Semitism
– racism
– rape
– laws that dehumanize and persecute LGBTQ people
– Republicans
– Trumpvangelicals
– QAnon cultists
– White/Christian Nationalists
– book bans
– the dissemination of far-right propaganda
– everyone who works at Fox

OTOH..2 hours ago

“Um… my teacher talks about the Bible all the time and wears a cross necklace. I feel threatened…”

Melissia 3 hours ago

Trans man forced to play in women’s sports due to transphobic Texas laws.

He wants to play in men’s sports but is not allowed.

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  • Melissia  Melissia3 hours ago

    Posting it mostly because this picture has been making the rounds in transphobe twitter as an example of why trans women shouldn’t be allowed to play womens’ sports… but this is actually a trans man, not a trans woman.

    Ultimately the attempts to ban certain women from sports is stupid, it’s the same logic that leads the Olympics to banning all three medalists in the 800 meter race from participating unless they take feminizing drugs.

    These medalists were all AFAB and identify as women.

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    Gustav2  Melissia3 hours ago edited

    The Ohio legislature is contemplating banning trans folks from high school sports.

    The Ohio schools athletic association said there are 4 trans students (didn’t identify male or female) in the high school sport system. But only 2 would be playing any sport this year. Out of almost 500,000 high school students, the legislature is all about 2 of them. Wasting time about 2 students.

 

 

 

Florida Schools Remove Book About Holocaust Survivor

Florida Schools Remove Book About Holocaust Survivor

West Palm Beach’s NBC affiliate reports:

A new list shows dozens and dozens of books have been removed from library shelves in the Martin County School District. This comes as the state puts in new requirements for school librarians to review reading material, and districts must have a process allowing community members to challenge books.

Books by well known authors like James Patterson, Toni Morrison, and Jodi Picoult are now off the shelves in Martin County schools.

“99% of the books we have filed challenges on are highly sexually explicit books,” said Julie Marshall, who leads Moms For Liberty in Martin County and filed many of the objections. Jennifer Pippin, a fellow Moms For Liberty activist in Indian River County, said they share lists and work together.

The Washington Post reports:

The removal list includes Picoult’s novel “The Storyteller” about the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor who meets an elderly former SS officer. It contains some violent scenes told in flashbacks from World War II and an assisted suicide.

“Banning ‘The Storyteller’ is shocking, as it is about the Holocaust and has never been banned before,” Picoult told us in an email.

“Martin County is the first to ban twenty of my books at once,” Picoult said, slamming such bans as “a shocking breach of freedom of speech and freedom of information.” Picoult said she’s puzzled by the ban, because she does not “write adult romance,” as objections filed against her books claimed.

Sporkfighter2 hours ago

“I like Florida; everything is in the eighties: the temperature, the ages, and the IQs.” —George Carlin

Mike C2 hours ago

This is the point I always make. You ask these people to show you the “pornographic” books and whoopsy-poopsy it’s a bunch of books about the Holocaust, slavery, Jim Crow America, on and on and on….

Halou  Mike C2 hours ago

I would be really happy if one of them were to ever hold up a copy of a “pornographic” book at one of their rant rallies, because it means I would get to alert the cops to a crazy person displaying / distributing pornography to the public.

Zorba  Mike C2 hours ago

But…but…but…Any book that shows white, Christian people doing hateful things is obviously pornographic. Right? Right? /s

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad  James Parson (Zero-One-∞ Rule) 2 hours ago

Why are only right wing wackos challenging books? A gutsy liberal could challenge the bible. Of course they’d need 24/7 security, bulletproof windows and and armored vehicle to travel in because Florida is filled with dangerous raging cultists.

Jean-Marc Canada – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ2 hours ago

When exactly will the Florida Führer finally face push back, because he’s storm trooping along with nary a pebble blocking his way.

What, me worry?  Jean-Marc Canada – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ2 hours ago

I think that right now, people are in shock. It’s like having a firehose turned on them.

(((GC))) – End the filibuster!  amy cuscuriae2 hours ago

Let’s hope you’re right! Right now he seems to be steamrolling right along in creating not a bastion of “liberty” for moms and kids and dads and other adults, but a SLAVE STATE.

Halou 2 hours ago edited

a fellow Moms For Liberty activist in Indian River County, said they share lists and work together.

So none of them have a goddamn clue what is even in the books they find so offensive, and if pressed on why they want to ban any particular book they would be unable to really explain it.

What, me worry?  JoeMyGod2 hours ago

And like most of these morality groups, they probably don’t even have children in the public schools.

bambinoitaliano2 hours ago

At what point do majority of the Americans and the rest of the world realize we are repeating history again? Until millions of people shove into the oven? Or until it get so uncontrollable that nations need to set off multiple nuclear bombs in the US to make blowing up Hiroshima looks like popping a balloon?

Friday  bambinoitaliano2 hours ago

The press actually reporting on this to the general public would sure help.

Todd20036 2 hours ago

No surprise. At all. Mustn’t show books that depict white people as bad guys

GOP Florida Bill Forces Colleges To Host Hate Activists.

Anything they can do to force a regressive return to a time before progressive civil rights and a progressive society that valued people for who they were including women, minorities, ethnic groups, and the LGBTQ+.   Look all those groups  / people have been around and part of us since the dawn of man, but the ability of those people to live openly in equality as they are, to live normal lives in society is something new in the last 80 years.   That is something the wealthy barons, the religious fundamentalists, and those unable to accept the changes in society are desperate to deny and reverse.  

I am sorry, I wish I could do more to promote this story.   I simply am not up to it.   Don’t just stop at the article I post, go to the story.  Things are changing fast and badly in Florida.  This is vitally important to what is happening in Florida due to the republicans under the direction of DerSantis.   It is a story of not allowing the majority to prevent the minority from forcing an ideology, a ridged ideological regressive conservative rule on a public that doesn’t want it.  This a group of ideologs that got a little authority and gerrymandered / voter suppressed it into a majority party win, and each time they gained more power they did everything they could even as their party shrank to increase their lock on power.  This is about big corporation money to force a government into office that will allow them to disregard human life while increasing profit.  Profit is king and greed is good.  But having ideas that support the importance of people or the government using its power to assist or support the public interferes with profit.  That cannot be allowed.   So in Florida they managed to get a few republican state legislature wind even using illegal means that still let the illegally elected person stay in office, then trump managed to get a failing far behind candidate for governor elected and the minority part who did not have a majority of the state’s votes changed everything to give themselves great advantages meaning large wins.   The situation in Florida is the public is 50/50 or even leaning blue but the republicans have made it almost impossible for a democrat to win in a lot of places and even if a democrat looks to win in at least three documented elections republicans violated laws to make sure the democrats cannot win.   Republicans want a one party rule which equals a dictatorship, just look at the governments around the world they support.   So to stop any free thought or kids getting the idea that there is any other way than republican ideology they make it illegal to teach it, to mention it, to disagree with the grand republican party and its minority rule will not be tolerated in the schools, in higher education facilities and now not even in the press or media.   Is this what the US wants?  Don’t you see examples of this in history?     Sorry I must go lay down.   Hugs

Comments are disabled as most posts going forward will be.   Due to health reasons.  Hugs.   Scottie

GOP Florida Bill Forces Colleges To Host Hate Activists

Bill more closely regulating on-campus speakers advances

Some videos I felt the desire to share, now I am going back to laying down.

Some items Randy sent me I want to share with everyone. Hugs

This is the republican view of governance, using the powers of the government to enforce their minority views on the public who disagrees with the party and to enrich themselves off the public treasury / legal bribery called lobbying.    Hugs

This last one is to counteract all the crazy cruel crap and republican shit above.  Enjoy with amazement at the skill of both of these two performers.   Hugs

Some news articles I wanted to post over the last few days.

I tried to group these articles in some sort of order.  But you can see the goals of the right just from the titles.   The eradication of transpeople at any age from society. The removal of any gay rights with the goal of eradicating gay people from society.  The enforcement of stereotypical gender roles and the returning to the days when women were dependent on men, and few had authority or independence on their own.  They want tyranny and dictatorship of one party rule with no restraint on their activities even to the point of attempting the overthrow of the US constitution / government and the celebration of those that committed the illegal acts in the coup attempt.    Republicans want to rule not govern, they want to have the people afraid to disagree with them or dare to speak against their rule.  Just like the countries of China, North Korea, and their beloved Russia.   Please notice the attempt is to return the US to the regressive oppressive times before the New Deal that empowered the public.   They want 1910 to 1920.  We had better join together to stop them or we won’t be able to.   DerSantis is shopping the campaign slogan “Make America Florida”.   Is that not enough of a threat to the country?   Has the trump years not shown how quickly the right can move if given power to destroy all norms and rights to enforce their minority rule.   McConnell even said that while republicans will lose elections the democrats couldn’t stop a republican stacked court system from enforcing republican goals for decades.  He was correct.  Mitch McConnell said, “My goal is to do everything we can for as long as we can to transform the federal judiciary, because everything else we do is transitory.”   Hugs

Florida Bill Lets State Seize Trans Kids From Parents
CPAC Speaker: “Transgenderism Must Be Eradicated”
Shapiro Host: Having Trans Kids Is Worse Than Death
Florida Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill Carries $10,000 Fine
MTG Vows To Criminalize Provision Of Trans Healthcare
TN Gov Signs First-In-Nation Ban On Public Drag Shows
MO “Don’t Say Gay” Bill Would Apply To Grades K-12
Alaska Quietly Dropped Its LGBTQ Protections
Texas Property Tax Relief Bill Excludes LGBTQ Couples
FRC: Iowa May Get SCOTUS To Overturn Obergefell
Iowa Rep Defends His Bills To Ban Same-Sex Marriage
Hate Pastor Appointed By DeSantis To Oversee Disney District Says Drinking Tap Water Can Turn People Gay
FL Bill Requires Political Bloggers To Register With State
DeSantis Cronies Dissolve FL College’s Diversity Office
Texas Copies Florida On University Diversity Hiring
MAGA Rep. Scott Perry Vows To Have Democrats “Quaking In Fear” That They’re About To Be Arrested
GOP Texas Bill Would Force Referendum On Secession
Politico: Supporting J6 Rioters Now A GOP Litmus Test
Oregon Proud Boy Convicted Of Ten Felony Charges
DOJ Issues Breakdown Of 1000 Arrests In Capitol Riot
Gaetz Calls For Defunding Federal Law Enforcement
FBI “Whistleblowers” Are Being Paid By Trump Crony
Carlson: Video Proves Most Rioters Were “Sightseers”
Trump Calls For Release Of Rioters: “Let Them Go Free”
Trump Records Song With Imprisoned Capitol Rioters
GA House Passes Bill That Could Oust Trump Prosecutor
Sarah Sanders To Sign Bill Loosening Child Labor Law
Read the comments on this to see how things used to be for families and kids before labor laws and government assistance were created. Kids younger than five working a full day in the farm fields. Is this the grand vision of the future the country needs or wants? Think of every movie of the future that has a great working society and they are progressive but the ones with dystopian unfair or dangerous future and it is regressive oppressive hellish places were greed is king with businesses in charge killing any regulation that prevents profit. Hugs
South Carolina Woman Arrested For Using Abortion Pills
Walgreens Caves To More States On Abortion Pills

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