My mother is a Depression baby (almost 88 and still sharp as a tack) who had every communicable disease in the 30s-40s and remembers classmates who died of Polio. You can bet your bippie she got me every vaccine available — basically I’m of the first generation (born in ‘64) to benefit from ALL the vaccines for childhood diseases.
Fck these antivax disinfo asswipes for making all our children less safe.
From: @cambskeptics
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No longer content with merely murdering just the elderly and disabled in Florida by discouraging masking and vaccination against COVID-19, now surgeon general Joseph Ladapo goes after school kids too by promoting #measles. https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-surgeon-general-trying-worsen-193952828.html
Biden cancels ANOTHER billion dollars in student debt
“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/
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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/
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.
@AlliFlowers @michelestrider @deepmud Oh boy, my tax burden needs to be relieved — I've gotta pay for a frozen embryo, dear IRS!
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.
Rare & historical moments of honesty
Surprisingly speaking truth to competence, Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzed in 2004:
""It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't be that way. But if you go back, I mean it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats..."
Yeah, economies managed by qualified & dedicated servants of the people always do better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Donald_Trump
#AmericaMoves #AmericaWon #PresidentBiden #UnelectableGOP #ServingPutin
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.”
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