#Banned & Restricted

[protestforchangeorganization]

Never forget, Pride was a riot! We still have so much work left to do. Information and petitions available below!! #protestforchange #happypride #pridemonth #pride

*FOR ACCESSIBILITY, there is a link attached here that links directly to all the resources and petitions!!!*

Education, resources and petitions:

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/marsha-p-johnson#:~:text=Marsha%20P.%20Johnson%20was%20one,and%20gay%20and%20transgender%20rights.

https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/FL%20Dont%20Say%20Gay%20KYR%20-%20Updated2022.06.pdf

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2023-03-30/what-is-gender-affirming-care-and-which-states-have-restricted-it-in-2023

https://fortune.com/2023/06/02/tennessee-drag-queens-fighting-anti-drag-bill/amp/

transtexas.org

thetrevorproject.org

https://www.history.com/topics/gay-rights/the-stonewall-riots

https://www.glyswny.org

https://www.change.org/p/say-no-to-gop-bills-that-ban-drag-shows

https://www.change.org/p/educators-say-gay-and-trans

https://www.change.org/p/mateusz-morawiecki-pass-laws-that-would-protect-lgbt-people-in-poland-and-abolish-current-anti-lgbt-laws?source_location=topic_page

https://www.change.org/p/petition-against-the-don-t-say-gay-bill-hb-1557-sb-1834?fbclid=PAAaYXjNZbxm_y7QRFrBlsGCfw4hUiFznaWRju9MNi54KddZJ1nCxEgUqz3F4

[mariacallous]

Across the United States, anti-LGBTQ lawmakers have been amping up efforts to legislate trans people, particularly trans youth, out of existence. And a recent viral story from our neighbors to the north indicates just how far-reaching that rhetoric has become.

Earlier this week, an incident at an elementary school track-and-field event in Canada — a man verbally assaulting a 9-year-old who he believed was trans — went viral in the U.S. The man, who was identified as a grandfather of another student, allegedly yelled to “get that boy off the field” and demanded proof of the child’s gender while his wife called the girl’s parent “a genital mutilator, a groomer and a pedophile.” The child is a cisgender girl who happens to rock a pixie haircut and wore “floppy” sports shorts to the field event, according to one of the girl’s mothers.

HuffPost reporter Lil Kalish spoke to the girl’s mothers, Kari and Heidi Starr, about the incident, which the Starrs said left their daughter rattled and crying. “The initial day was horrible. This is a girl that is very secure in who she is,” Kari Starr told HuffPost. “This really shook her.” They told Kalish how their family is dealing with the aftermath, including how they are reassuring their daughter and why they have chosen to speak publicly about it. 

The Starr family’s experience is part of a larger narrative around the escalating efforts to exclude trans people from public life, the effects of which are resonating in all sorts of public spaces. In the U.S., anti-LGBTQ legislators in many states are seeking to ban trans people from things like access to gender-affirming care, using the bathroom associated with their gender identity and participating on gender-segregated sports teams. Conservatives smear anyone who opposes these harsh restrictions by accusing them of prurient interests, calling them pedophiles and sexual predators. Meanwhile, everyday citizens are increasingly empowered to harass and intimidate anyone they suspect might be trans — down to fourth-graders at school sports events.

“I said, ‘Sir, you’re asking for a certificate determining what genders are in my daughter’s shorts. That’s not OK,’” Heidi Starr told HuffPost.

[opedguy]

Trump Sues Journalist Bob Woodward

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Jan. 30, 2022.--Former President Donald Trump, 76, sued 79-year-old Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward and his publisher Simon & Schuster for $50 million, a division of Paramount Global, for unlawfully publishing in person and phone interviews during 2019 and 2020.  Trump claims he had no clue that Woodward would use the interviews to discredit his 2020 campaign discussing such hot-button tops as the deadly novel coronavirus and North Korea.  Trump filed his suit in federal court, Pensacola, Florida’s Southern District.  “This case centers on Mr. Woodward’s systematic usurpation, manipulation and exploitation of audio of President Trump,” said Trump’s lawyers.  Trump’s lawyers Robert Garson and Yanina Zilberman, claiming that Woodward sold about 2 million copies at $24.99 to arrive at the $50 million figure, claiming Woodward was not authorized to publish the confidential recordings.

Woodward and Simon & Schuster claim that the recordings were done on the record for a future book, whether written or audio, at a time of Mr. Woodward’s choosing.  Woodward published his book “Rage,” a month after the last interview in 2020, perfect timing for the Democrat strategy of discrediting Trump’s management of the Covid-19 global pandemic.  In a Jan. 28, 2020 interview, Woodward claimed that Trump knew everything about the Covid-19 global pandemic but chose to ignore the deadly effects of the new virus.  Woodward knows that there were no deaths in the U.S. at the time, no matter how many bodies stacked up on the streets of Wuhan, China, the presumed epicenter of the viral outbreak.  Woodward used his private tape recordings to present Trump as deceiving the American public, minimizing the lethality of the virus that would take over one million U.S. lives.

.Trump granted the interviews to Woodward thinking his stature as a Watergate-famed journalists would etch Trump’s position in history.  Trump surely knew that Woodward, a lifelong Democrat, would use every word to discredit his 2020 presidential run.  Trump’s contention that the interviews were authorized only for a purpose of a written book is disputed by Woodward and Simon & Schuster. Trump’s attorney’s claim that Woodward misrepresented in-person or phone interviews.  “They were done voluntarily,” Woodward told CNN about the interviews.  “It was all on the record,” meaning that everything recorded was fair game for any future dissemination.  Trump didn’t like the contents because instead of making him look good, it did exactly the opposite, no surprise for the journalist that despised Trump policies and bombast.  Woodward used the interviews to smear Trump politically.

Woodward claimed in his 2020 book “Rage,” that Trump knew everything but did nothing on Jan. 28, 2020 when they discussed the Covid-19 global pandemic.  How ironic because World Health Organization [WHO] Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebryesus did not declare a global pandemic until March 11, 2020.  All Woodward knew Jan. 28, 2020 was there were a few cases of Covid-19 in the U.S. with no deaths.  On Jan. 30, 2020, Trump banned all U.S. and Chinese flights to-and-from the Peoples Republic of China.  Woodward said nothing in “Rage” about Trump taking draconic steps to keep the deadly infection out of the U.S.  When Tedros spoke Feb. 5, 2020 in Geneva, he told a press conference that no country had a right to impose travel restrictions to impact global business activity.  Woodward mentioned nothing about how the White House took steps to contain the Covid-19 outbreak in the U.S.

No one in the press wants to admit that Woodward used his interviews with Trump to sabotage his presidential campaign.  Trump naively thought that Woodward would give a favorable picture of his presidency while he juggled many domestic and global challenges confronting the country.  Little did Trump know that Woodward and Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of Trump’s Covid-19 task forces, were busy night-and-day giving interviews to the Trump-hating press, blaming Trump for mismanaging the Covid-19 crisis.  Trump’s $59 million case could still get tossed out of court, even in the conservative Pensacola District.  Trump’s decision to give his enemy an interview was at his own risk, knowing Woodward was no fan of his presidency.  Trump lost a defamation suit by Bloomberg opnion writer Timothy O’Brien whose 2005 book described Trump as  a millionaire, not a billionaire.

Trump faces an uphill battle with his suit against Woodward and his publisher, Simon & Schuster for his 2022 audio-book, publishing his 2019 to 2020 interviews with the former president.  If Trump wanted to protect his reputation, he should have avoided Woodward like the plague, knowing he would say nothing flattering.  How hypocritical that Woodward would criticize Trump’s relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean President Kim Jong-un.  Where’s Woodward’s criticism of 80-year-old President Joe Biden who has the U.S. at war with the Russian Federation, nearly at war with China and facing a nuclear-armed North Korea?  Trump relations with foreign adversaries were night-and-day from Biden who has the world closer to WW III, possibly nuclear war. But how ironic that Woodward finds only criticism for Trump.

About the Author

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

[bluepostmtg-blog]

Banned & Restricted Announcement - August 26th 2019

[rosecatgirl9]

Information about the Iran Internet Potential Shutdown

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/07/iran-instagram-pandemic-economy-ban/

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wireStory/iranians-fear-bill-restrict-internet-79257819

https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/iran-protests/iran-internet-censorship-plan-and-regimes-deadlock/

!!Remember the best we can do at this point is spread awareness!!

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[jack-bytez-genuine-corner]

Every shooting it's "No one could have expected", "It's unprecedented violence", "One of the bloodiest days in Modern American History." What you see, consistently, is that the shooter had effectively free access to a gun and anyone else could have done the exact same thing with minimal hurdles. Over 80 casualties by a gunman is, in earnest, entirely expected at this point. And once this one is shot and killed, as per usual, we'll have another mass shooting within the next day. Every time they are "Responsible gun owners" until they are "Lone wolves" and they kill a dozen people and permanently scare a town for a generation, but also thoughts and prayers is all we ever get. It's deplorable that anyone even agrees to bring that poison into their own homes and into their communities. If I sound callous it's because I am. I've seen gun violence DESTROY communities and we're still fighting over the literal smallest scraps of gun restrictions that do less than the bare minimum just to appease gun lobbyists and it's sickening. You could throw a dart at the map of the US and find a gun tragedy in the last 2 decades that happened there, if not multiple, but we just gotta accept that every new tragedy is TOTALLY unexpected and TOTALLY unfixable like we're dumb fucks or something.

I'm glad we had a law on the books that is nothing better than toilet paper. "Yellow flag law" was the color of the bill after the gun lobbyists got done pissing all over it. I'm glad we have politicians who fight tooth and nail to get a gun into everyone's hands, infants included, but will fight to ban books and cripple education. Apparently, in America, we've just accepted that this is how things have GOT to be, we just HAVE to have several dozen random people pointlessly mowed down, familicide, toddlers shooting mommy in a Zoom call and young kids shooting their teachers dead cause apparently that's all accepted freedom. How else will we know we're free unless you are walking on the corpses of the innocent every day?

It's fucking disgusting that THIS is the line in the sand and so many people would rather see their own communities destroyed than hurting the bank accounts of blood money gun makers and their lobbyists. It's fucking disheartening that nothing about any of this rhetoric has changed since I was a kid, since Columbine, since Sandy Hook, since Last Vegas, since the last several hundred shootings at schools and hospitals and Walmarts. This country fucking sucks.

And if you're a POC who likes owning guns, I'm proud of you for fucking over every other POC, because now your private ownership, no matter HOW it is used, will enable the talking point that cops should be allowed to extrajudicially murder anyone of the same color of skin in droves. "Oh but I'm safer!" You're not, the white supremacists also have guns. "Oh but I'm Trans and it'll save me from the bigots!" The bigots have guns. "Oh but the outside world is so big and scary" Yeah cause a lot of white paranoid asshats like you also own guns and they have no qualms shooting and killing another old white guy for DARING to walk his dog in Florida. "Oh but I'm in an abusive relationship!" Cool, your abuser now has a murder weapon they will use to kill you cause if you held the power in that abusive relationship you wouldn't be scared. My favorite is "Well I own mine to hunt" yeah and I don't see any of you pissing on the miltech cosplayers who outnumber you at the point. I'm glad that we can rationalize why we all need this poisonous gun fetishization while just happily ignoring the reality that private gun ownership is more likely to fuck you over, every time, without fail, than it is to ever be used to help you. Should we have full body armor, stressed out and amped up gunman at the fucking roller rink on the off chance a SINGLE GUY will want to kill a dozen people, or should we stop giving everyone who has a damn pulse the option to get a gun and a god damn pat on the ass for doing so?

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

August 4, 2021

Heather Cox Richardson

Today seemed to mark a popular backlash against Republican lawmakers who have been downplaying the coronavirus pandemic. The Delta variant of the deadly virus is ripping through unvaccinated populations in the U.S. with an average of 85,000 new cases a day, numbers that rival those of February, before we had accessible vaccines. One in three cases in the nation comes from either Florida or Texas.

Lawmakers in South Carolina, Iowa, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and Utah have prohibited schools from requiring masks, and South Carolina, Iowa, Florida, Montana, Arizona, South Dakota, Texas, and Tennessee prohibit local governments from doing so.

Yesterday, President Joe Biden called out governors, especially Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott, for banning mask mandates and refusing to require the vaccine. At a press conference, Biden said “to these governors, ‘Please, help.’ But if you aren’t going to help, at least get out of the way of the people who are trying to do the right thing. Use your power to save lives.”

Today DeSantis responded: “I am standing in your way.” After sitting on Biden’s criticism for almost a day, DeSantis could find as a response only an attack on Biden for allegedly ignoring the “border crisis.” DeSantis blamed Florida’s devastating virus numbers on immigrants coming over the nation’s border with Mexico into Texas.

The recent attention to the methods of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who rose to power by stoking anti-immigrant hatred and who continues to whip up a frenzy over immigration despite the fact that refugees coming into Hungary have dropped to unremarkable levels, shows the Republican fallback on immigrant caravans to distract from their own scandals in a new light.

In fact, our southern border remains closed because of public health directives put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unaccompanied minors are admitted so that they do not become victims of gangs or sex traffickers, and their numbers likely hit an all-time high of about 19,000 in July. Those children are processed and then transferred to facilities run by the Department of Health and Human Services, which then finds suitable foster situations for them while they await immigration hearings.

Interestingly in terms of the timing of DeSantis’s outburst, today the Mexican government sued a number of U.S.-based gun manufacturers for lax controls that permit illegal weapons to flow over the border. A 2016 study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office showed that about 70% of the weapons seized in Mexico came from the United States.

Back in the U.S., the president has mandated vaccines in the federal government and has asked private employers to require vaccines. Google, Walmart, Disney World, and Microsoft, among many others, including hospitals and more than 400 private universities, are requiring masks or vaccines. So is Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker, who today issued a mask requirement for schools and a vaccine mandate for workers in state prisons and other facilities.

By Labor Day, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to give final approval to coronavirus vaccines, reassuring people reluctant to get the vaccine that it is safe.

Increasingly, people dying of Covid-19 or their survivors are publicly begging their friends and neighbors to get the vaccine. In addition to videos and facebook posts, a six-minute television segment on CBS This Morning featured Republican Representative Julia Letlow of Louisiana, who lost her husband to the disease in December. She is using her story to try to change people’s minds about refusing the vaccine.

Implied in these calls to ignore the disinformation out there about the vaccine is criticism of those Republican leaders who have pushed that disinformation.

Rising case numbers put lawmakers who have downplayed the virus in a tight spot. A new poll today from St. Pete Polls shows that DeSantis’s popularity has fallen behind that of a Democratic rival, Charlie Crist, in the 2022 governor’s race. Forty-nine percent of Floridians disapprove of DeSantis’s job performance, while only 44% approve. He is in positive numbers only with voters older than 70. In contrast to the older folks, most voters disapprove of his opposition to masks in schools.

Other Republican governors have expressed regret that they were so quick to outlaw masks. Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson today said he wished he hadn’t signed into law a measure banning state and local mask mandates. He has called the legislature into special session to change the law, claiming that he signed the previous measure because “I knew it would be overridden by the legislature if I didn't sign it.”

The new spike in infections has meant an uptick in vaccinations, with numbers matching those of early July. On Tuesday, Jeff Zients, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, reported that Louisiana has seen a 302% increase in the average number of newly vaccinated per day; Mississippi, 250%; Alabama, 215%; and Arkansas, 206%. On Tuesday, almost a month late, the nation met the goal President Joe Biden had set for July 4 of having at least one vaccine shot in 70% of eligible Americans. About 49% of all eligible Americans have been fully vaccinated.

Today, two parents of school-aged children in Arkansas sued the state over its law banning the use of masks in schools. They are seeking immediate “protection from an irrational act of legislative madness that threatens K-12 public school children with irreparable harm.” “Without immediate intervention by the Arkansas judiciary,” the lawsuit says, “the restrictions imposed on state and local officials by Act 1002 will result in many more Arkansas children becoming very sick, and some of them will inevitably die.”

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Notes:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/08/02/press-briefing-by-white-house-covid-19-response-team-and-public-health-officials-47/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/02/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/04/florida-governor-ron-desantis-tells-biden-he-standing-your-way/5489876001/

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/13/17823488/hungary-democracy-authoritarianism-trump

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s080221-southern-northen-land-borders-order-extended.html

https://apnews.com/article/health-immigration-coronavirus-pandemic-a361bb903e71011432012d11ac33f9fc

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/07/29/covid-mandates-trigger-a-new-clash-between-florida-officials-and-desantis-13891

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/08/02/florida-covid-hospitalizations-shatter-record-as-desantis-downplays-threat-1389356

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-guns-us-lawsuit/2021/08/04/181fdbaa-f52d-11eb-a636-18cac59a98dc_story.html

https://apnews.com/article/health-immigration-coronavirus-pandemic-a361bb903e71011432012d11ac33f9fc

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/us/politics/pfizer-vaccine-approval.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/04/1024939859/arkansas-governor-reverse-law-let-schools-require-masks

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/566301-letlow-describes-final-moments-with-husband-urges-people-to-get-vaccine

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-pritzker-school-masks-20210804-gdo7vctdgre4laxtk7kyfyfjfm-story.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/08/03/arkansas-parents-sue-state-over-ban-on-school-mask-mandates---could-other-states-be-next/amp/

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/445635-poll-ron-desantis-approval-rating-sags-as-covid-19-rages/

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[kindthots]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.texastribune.org/2021/05/18/texas-heartbeat-bill-abortions-law/amp/

This is so shitty. Women should have their right to choose and not be imposed on. If Republicans got their rights tripped away they would be complaining even more. Honestly i wish Greg Abbot could understand the fear of a pregnancy scare... 🤔🤔🤔 mpreg greg 🤔🤔🤔

[on-fic-writing-spree]

Okay so yup just gonna go through and start listing what’s important so y’all don’t have to sift through each of these articles yourself. All articles will be linked. Let’s also be very clear: this is NOT fuckin pro Biden. At all. This is just the executive orders he’s signed in or shit he plans to do. I don’t agree with everything on this list, and some of it I don’t know enough on to agree or disagree on. This is literally just me looking up what he’s doing and has done.

:readmore:

The majority of these are executive order. Because I’m stupid and I know I’m not the only one, here’s what an executive order means:

ex·ec·u·tive or·der - a rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law.

Also some were proclamations. Though I know what that is, I don’t want to assume everyone does so here:

proc·la·ma·tion - a public or official announcement, especially one dealing with a matter of great importance.

and some were memorandums

mem·o·ran·dum - a document recording the terms of a contract or other legal details.

So here we go...

- signed 10 executive orders aimed at, among other things, boosting vaccine production and distribution and mandating masks in airports and on airplanes, trains and maritime vessels

- made a plan for how to handle the pandemic (Biden assumes that it will still take a few months to get out of it)

- 32.9 million people have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, 9.8 million of them have been fully vaccinated (Biden is hoping for 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days of his presidency)

- plans to create an 8 year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people

- plans to establish a nationwide government mandate for masks

- HOWEVER Dr. Sadiya Khan says that it’s good that Biden has plans, but they are not fully fleshed out.

- executive order banning discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation

- executive order that government officials must pledge their ethics

- bye bye funds for the border wall

- paused federal student loan payment

- blocked the deportation of Liberian refugees living in the U.S

- reaffirmed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) - this is for immigrant children

- encouraged National Guard being used in response to COVID-19

- executive order that’s intended to help plan for any future pandemic or similar threats

- established the Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force (supposed to help those who are more likely to be affected by the pandemic)

- wants to reopen schools / continue their operation

- encouraged new guidance lines to follow in workplaces for the pandemic

- COVID-19 pandemic testing board

- assisting veterans debt

- more assistance in government aided food programs

- guaranteed unemployment insurance for workers who refuse work due to Covid-19

- coordinating with state and federal agencies to facilitate the distribution of federal aid amid the pandemic

- pushing for stimulus payments to go out (and quicker) / pushing for COVID-19 economic relief

- trying to get federal workers and contractors paid a minimum of $15 per hour

- bye bye anti trans military act

- reinstating travel restrictions

- evaluate Trump’s housing policies

- re-establish a counsel on science and technology

- combat climate change

- stopping reliance on private prisons

- reaffirm commitment to tribal sovereignty

- denounced anti-Asian discrimination and xenophobia

- reinforce Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act

- more access to repoductive health care (abortions)

Source list:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/priorities/covid-19/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine-doses.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/biden-to-tackle-immigration-reform-with-eight-year-path-to-citizenship-99692613704

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/experts-praise-biden-s-covid-19-plan-warn-undoing-trump-n1255210

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/experts-praise-biden-s-covid-19-plan-warn-undoing-trump-n1255210

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1255564

There is absolutely so much more that I’ll be making notes on, but this is just a little start on what he has done. This has NOT put consideration into things he needs to do, which will come AFTER I know what he has done.

[flammableengineering]

The link provided in the original post is a Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) link. Please sanitize your links (remove the /amp after the domain name), because AMP pages are proprietary nonsense where Google caches and reproduces the page using nonstandard practices that reduce user control and let Google collect more data.

For comparison, AMP link here: https://www.sportskeeda.com/amp/gaming-tech/why-threads-banned-europe-personal-data-usage-restricts-app-in-eu

Normal link here: https://www.sportskeeda.com/gaming-tech/why-threads-banned-europe-personal-data-usage-restricts-app-in-eu

Great post though, watching the EU ream facebook over this is hilarious.

I see so many people starting to use Threads as a way to escape Twitter and yes, it's owned by Facebook's CEO and giving Facebook the monopoly of social media is bad but I think we should also talk about the fact that, you know, Threads isn't avalibe in the EU for privacy reasons????? That should be concerning to EVERYONE

[skywitchmaja]

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/18/texas-heartbeat-bill-abortions-law/amp/

texas just passed a law banning abortions six weeks after pregnancy

[jackalpants]

And no matter what, no matter whether you're the politest, meekest, kindest anti-abortion advocates one can imagine, you're advocating for a society that prefers the death of women and girls to abortions.

You argued for this young woman to die, and you got your wish:

https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala

You argued for this woman to die, too, and you got your wish:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-dies-after-abortion-care-miscarriage-delayed-40/story?id=115327460

You prayed and hoped and voted for all these women to die, and boy howdy did you get your wish:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna171631

Because that's what happens when abortion is restricted and made illegal; women, and other people who can get pregnant, die. This is a price you are explicitly willing to pay to stop abortions happening. It is repugnant.

And then you come on tumblr and softly-softly speak about how what you really do is offer free sonograms!

I call this the "modesty-screen" defense. Because what you're doing is, at the fancy party, taking my soup and pissing in it, and then acting like I'm the one being unreasonable - you haven't used foul language, and you even used a modesty screen! I'M suddenly the one making a scene. It relies on the reader being unable to distinguish politeness from kindness.

I assume my readers CAN distinguish these things, ao with my whole heart:

Fuck you, personally, and fuck your death cult too.

Standing on the sidewalk outside Planned Parenthood this morning and a lady driving by yelled out her window “Kill the children!”

Very persuasive, ma’am. That’s definitely going to win people over to your point of view. You should let everyone know that’s what you support.

[sarsootah]

Municipal ISPs Blocked From Providing Cheaper Broadband in 18 States | PCMag

DONT LET WORD PLAY FOOL YOU! BROADBAND IS ANOTHER TERM FOR 5G AND GOOD FOR THE STATES RESTRICTING IT! BROADBAND CAUSES VARIOUS FORMS OF CANCERS! RESEARCH!

[bluepostmtg-blog]

Breaking: Wizards Bumps B&R Announcement Date

[vegan-and-sara]

Thirty percent of respondents to the AAFAA survey noted they had assignment restrictions placed on them, including 52 percent of staff with family links to China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

One former diplomat subject to restrictions was Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), a Korean-American born in Boston who told MSNBC Wednesday that even though he had “top secret security clearance” and had served in Afghanistan, “One day I was told by the State Department that I was banned from working on anything related to the Korean Peninsula.”

[genderqueerpositivity]

I've had a chance to look more closely at the actual proposal itself and the break down by @saltedweather appears to be accurate.

Even my local news reported this change as a ban...and not as an extension of the rules put into place during the pandemic or as an update to the regulations that already existed before the pandemic. So I'm angry right now.

I'd already started to work out the logistics of having to travel to see the doctor that prescribes my HRT in person for the first time later this year...which would be a nearly three hour drive both ways. I've definitely been stressed about this.

The way the media is reporting on this is appalling (and probably politically motivated) and I'm sorry for sharing that MSN article.

As an alternative, here is an article from the National Law Review which clarifies that this proposal is in fact an expansion of access. Actually, this is the ONLY article I was able to find which doesn't report the DEA proposal as a new ban, a limitation, or a restriction.

The Biden administration on Friday proposed tighter limits on the online prescription of some medications, including the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drug Adderall and highly addictive opioids such as oxycodone, a partial reversal of policy changes made during the coronavirus pandemic.

The new regulations, which would require health care providers to have at least one in-person visit with patients before prescribing or refilling certain drugs, would take effect after the public health emergency for Covid ends on May 11, the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a statement.

The proposal will undergo a 30-day period of public comment, after which the D.E.A. will issue a final rule, the agency said.

Heads up: If you started testosterone (a schedule III controlled substance) via telehealth during the pandemic and you've never seen your provider in person, the Biden administration is probably going to fuck you over later this year.

Go to the link below for more info:

There is a link at the bottom you can follow to submit a comment on the proposal (but at this time the link doesn't appear to be working, for me at least).