Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

“The Alabama Supreme Court’s attack on in vitro fertilization (IVF), a pair of attacks on marriage equality, and the attack on Nex Benedict in Oklahoma and their death the next day …. We ignore their connections and danger at the peril of all who do not want this to become our national reality.”

New, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/dobbs-ivf-marriage-nex

"We are a religious state. We are going to fight to keep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma, because we’re a Christian state."
Republican Sen. Tom Woods
https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/local-regional/2024-02-23/state-senator-calls-lgbtq-people-filth-when-asked-about-death-of-nonbinary-student

Jury Finds NRA Mismanaged Finances, Wayne LaPierre Diverted Millions for Luxury https://newsfactsnetwork.com/news/jury-finds-nra-mismanaged-finances-wayne-lapierre-diverted-millions-for-luxury/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #leftistnews #news #VSN

Florida’s New “Special Persons Registry”: I Hate It
On January 1, 2024, Florida enacted a new law, and I hate it. The so-called “Special Persons Registry” gives Florida police the right to make lists of residents based on their disability status, including those with formal diagnoses of Downs Syndrome, dementia, autism, and others. Supposedly this will “improve relations”
https://resiliencymentalhealth.com/2024/01/04/floridas-new-special-persons-registry-i-hate-it/
#Uncategorized

Texas judge ruled that because the CROWN Act - which was passed specifically to protect hair styles such as braids, locs or twists - did not mention length of hair, the same school district the act was written in reaction to can go ahead and order a different Black student to cut off his locs. Not even having the author of the law there to explain the legislative intent mattered to Judge Chap B. Cain III.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/22/texas-crown-act-judge-barbers-hill/

a battle of wills in the great sausage standoff

#Caturday

Again:

Take the $388 billion of Russian money sitting in western banks

Create a fund to pay for Ukraine’s defense and reconstruction

Call it the Navalny Fund

Repost -- and comment w #NavalnyFund to send a message to ALL of the western leaders

@AlliFlowers that they are. 😃.

Boy, has Alabama bitten off a nasty hunk. This debacle is going to be a real mess.

A librarian helped me find the book my son requested today. She knew the plot & the characters & even pointed me to the newest story from the series in case he might enjoy that too. Then she recommended other #books he might like.

When I thanked her, she simply shook her head explaining, “It’s my job. And I really love my job!”

I share this anecdote simply bc librarians are the best people 📚✨

@gwaldby people with a simple minded view of the world, determined to force a simple minded view on others, have inserted themselves into the most personal, private, and complicated decisions of other people. Reproducing: if one can or can not, if one should or should not, if one wants or wants not, is nothing that anyone else should involve themselves in.

I read this attempt of these Oklahoma police to try to cover up the circumstances of Nex Benedict's death — which was very obviously the result of anti-trans hate — in the same way I read reports of the determation to hold onto the body of Navalny, which is said to show signs of bruising and which Russian officials are pressuring his mother to have buried secretly.

There's a reason many Trump supporters want the US to be a version of Russia.

#Oklahoma #NexBenedict #trans #violence #police
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Alabama Supreme Court declares embryos as 'children'
Next step: A glimpse on milkman’s eye will be considered ‘children’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68373901

#WompWomp

Via Kyle Griffin:

A federal judge is giving election denier #MikeLindell 30 days to pay a $5 million arbitration award for losing his 'Prove Mike Wrong' 2020 election challenge. #legal

Tommy Tuberville Doesn’t Know What He Thinks

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said that he is “all for” the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision that frozen embryos are children, the HuffPost reports.

“He also said he opposes the effects of the ruling. And that he supports fertility treatments like IVF that are now being denied to women across his state as a result of the court’s ruling. And that he wants to read the legislation more closely before saying more — except there is no legislation.”

"Perhaps one way to navigate yourself through this seemingly insoluble morass would be to ask yourself why Biden, who is stipulated #Old, has managed to helm the most successful presidency in modern history. Booming economy, eye-popping jobs reports, first gun violence reduction bill in decades, $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan plus COVID relief, Inflation Reduction Act, ...

Why Biden’s age doesn’t actually matter, and what the press is getting wrong again.
https://archive.is/Hcafx