#us politics 2023

[classycoffeecat]

✨ RIP to C-SPAN's camera free-for-all. You will be missed 😢

[the-final-sif]

Shoutout to all the people of Ohio who just passed abortion, contraception, and reproductive rights of all people into constitutional law by a fucking 12+ point margin despite the state legislature desperately trying to do everything they can to fuck up the vote. I'm so proud of y'all!!

Edit: Trans people fucking rule, sex work is cool and deserves respect, sex isn't a binary, gender critical theory is based on terrible disproven science and is just Phrenology for sex.

[smashing-yng-man]

[emuanon34]

[lynati]

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

Love C-Span’s “due to the fact that we are ruled by the Lord of Chaos here in the House of Representatives and there are NO RULES our cameras are allowed to ROAM FREE and provide you HOT GOSSIP of who is talking to who and how many ugly-ass ties are present on the floor” 

[bozoclowncake]

Penelope scott tried to warned us

[hopethisdoesntawakenanythingnme]

but how are the redditors doing having experienced their first November 5th-like week on the hellsite?

like are y'all still alive?

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Critics are saying a new bill introduced into the Texas Legislature this year will only encourage a bounty-hunting trend that targets drag queens and transgender people. Texas state GOP Rep. Steve Toth filed House Bill 4378 on Thursday, March 9 that will allow anyone in Texas to sue people who perform in drag or host a drag performance where children are present.

The bill targets events like family-friendly brunch shows at restaurants or drag queen story time events at libraries or other family-oriented drag queen events. The bill says that people who sue a person or venue can be awarded $5,000 in damages.

Erin Reed, a transgender rights activist and independent reporter, tweeted about HB 4378 on Saturday, March 11, saying that the piece of legislation could easily be used to target transgender people who perform.

The bill defines drag as "a performance in which a performer exhibits a gender that is different than the performer’s gender recorded at birth." It goes on to say this performance can involve using makeup and clothing to dance, lip sync, or perform "in a lascivious manner."

The bill joins 17 other proposed pieces of Texas legislation that targets transgender people, drag queens, and the LGBTQ+ community. The Advocate reported in November 2022 that Texas legislators have proposed anti-LGBTQ+ bills for the upcoming legislative session. This now includes HB 4378 and the recent heterosexual tax cut bill from state Rep. Bryan Slaton.

That proposed bill would provide massive tax cuts, up to 100%, for straight families that stay married and have children. Slaton also pushed a bill that would have outlawed minors at drag shows.

[stillgotscars]

i can’t believe two “it’s joever” events have occurred in less than two years

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[classycoffeecat]

Update:

(via C-SPAN)

They are considering adjorning until 10pm ET tonight so they can bring back 2 of the Republicans missing.

My thoughts and a bit of math:

Even with the current results from vote no.13, that would get McCarthy only 216 (and he would then need 218 instead of 217 to win).

As long as those 6 hold out I dont see McCarthy getting the nomination.

(Now, if 5-6 votes flip to Jefferies....)

[ohwaitihaveamemeforthat]

[justabarbiegirl05]

Happy one year of Barbie you did big things for us Madame President

[yakityyaku]

As much as I'm aware that it's ultimately terrible for our country to have a major party be so thoroughly incompetent, as a certified Republican-hater I'm very much enjoying watching these clowns try to put out a circus fire by launching cream pies at each other

[commiepinkofag]

[Genocide Joe] Biden: 'I Am a Zionist'

From 2021, but worth a read, from Truthout:

Christian Zionism must be challenged as a powerful threat to a larger progressive agenda. Because Christian Zionism is predicated on Christian salvation coinciding with the end of the world and annihilation of non-Christians, Christian Zionism is at its core anti-Muslim and antisemitic. — Jonathan Brenneman & Aidan Orly | Truthout | May 20, 2021