#usa legislation

[chaithetics]

WRITE TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES! WRITE TO YOUR POLITICIANS!

AMERICANS PLEASE WRITE TO YOUR SENATOR! YOUR VICE PRESIDENT! YOUR PRESIDENT! The US House has passed a bill to expand the definition of anti-semitism which has many issues for being vague and including the criticism of Israel as anti-semitic.

It will now go to the Senate and then Genocide Joe to sign in. This is clearly a weaponised response against your students who are protesting across your nation in solidarity and to support Palestine. WRITE TO GENOCIDE JOE! WRITE TO KAMALA! WRITE TO YOUR SENATORS!

Antisemitism and anti-zionism are not the same. It is more than possible to criticise Israel without being antisemitic and the reality is most anti-zionists aren't antisemitic. Many Jewish people out there are anti-zionists, who understandably do not want their heritage and religion to be used as justification for colonisation and genocide.

If you follow/know me for fics and it would incentivise you to do this, I would even write a fic for you if you wrote. Just please use your voice and time however you can to support our Palestinian family.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Justin Horowitz at MMFA:

Project 2025 advisory board members have attacked or outright called for the end of no-fault divorce, the option to dissolve a marriage without having to prove wrongdoing by a partner. Research highlighted by CNN found “no-fault divorce correlates with a reduction in female suicides and a reduction in intimate partner violence,” including “an 8 to 16% decrease in female suicides after states enacted no-fault divorce laws.” Project 2025 is backed by a nearly-900 page policy book called Mandate for Leadership, which extensively outlines potential approaches to governance for the next Republican administration, including replacing federal employees with extremists and Trump loyalists and attacking LGBTQ rights, abortion, and contraception. The Heritage Foundation’s proposals have a track record of success — the first Trump administration implemented 64% of Mandate’s policy recommendations. Project 2025 is also supported by a coalition of over 100 conservative organizations, many of which have spent years promoting critiques of no-fault divorce as “destructive” for society — or even blaming it for enabling a “culture of death.” According to a Media Matters review, at least 22 Project 2025 advisory board members have made similar comments targeting, restricting, or eliminating no-fault divorce. Additionally, MAGA and far-right media figures have pushed for the removal of no-fault divorce laws across the country, and several local Republican parties in Texas, Nebraska, and Louisiana have called for the dissolution of no-fault divorce in some capacity.

Project 2025 partner organizations, including the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, and The Heritage Foundation, have called for significant restrictions or an outright ban on no-fault divorce.

[dancesingay]

Even though Amazon is talked bad about as an employer, they're the only viable full time entry level jobs available right now and part of the reason is because they put almost every industry out of business.

Another job viable for people, especially immigrants, disabled, and neurodivergent people that's being phased out is uber and taxi services. The self driving car is not only unsafe, it's actively taking jobs. I trust a human more than a self driving car (especially living in a coastal city with cliffs).

We need legislation to protect our jobs and automate industries that are dangerous for humans to do. I went to my local job center, do you know what they were hiring for? Coal miner. What century are we living in? Humans deserve safe and clean jobs. Have the robots mine the coal.

Look at this little guy, he yearns for the mines.

[trans-slenderman]

I collected your hormones what now?

also, you should put these somewhere where you’ll remember ‘em next time.

hmmm.. now you should go call your local representative (if in the usa) and tell them to vote no on the protect children’s innocence act, which would prohibit gender affirming care for minors.

[coochiequeens]

Nassau County will ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girls sports at local facilities.

County Executive Bruce Blakeman announced the executive order, which will go into effect immediately, at a press conference on Thursday, Feb. 22.

The order applies only to female competitive sports, not co-ed or male sports. It will prevent transgender women from participating in women’s sports at all county-run facilities.

"This is not precluding anybody from participating in sports," said Blakeman. "What it is, it's identifying that there are women and girls who spend a tremendous amount of time and effort to excel and compete in their sports that are women's sports.”

Further calling the allowing of transgender women in women’s sports “bullying,” Blakeman said that “it’s a situation of fairness…it is an unfair advantage for someone who is a biological male to compete against a biological female."

He was joined by District 18 Legislator Samantha Goetz and Kim Russell, a former women's lacrosse coach at Ohio's Oberlin College who said she was terminated after speaking out against transgender athletes participating in women's sports.  

New York LGBT Network President Dr. David Kilmnick condemned the move in a statement released shortly after the announcement.

“We are profoundly disappointed in Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s announcement of an executive order aimed at banning transgender athletes from participating in sports teams that align with their gender identity.”

Calling the order “deeply alarming,” Kilmnick said that it “not only undermines the principles of inclusivity and fairness but also perpetuates harmful stereotypes and exclusion.”

Blakeman said he did not know how many transgender athletes there are in Nassau County, but cited that between half a percent and one percent of all residents in the county identify as transgender.

[skulls-and-wishbones]

been thinking about what it means to be american. to have been raised on these frozen grounds.

I was born in Alaska, left by the time I reached first grade. I remember explaining to people that no "it wasn't a part of a Canada" when I was very young. I remember running sled dogs, trading meat and furs and art with the native Alaskan tribes - bone-tools and carved statues still sit on shelves in my parents home.

I played Sita, in a second grade performance of the story of Sita and Rama. the idea brought forth by my Indian classmate, because at my Pennsylvanian quaker school, we put aside a traditional curriculum for something that would connect directly to the students there. for my part, we learned about the aboriginal dreamtime.

I am a child of an immigrant. I'm still learning what parts of my life are aussie and what are american. tucker, chinwag, supermarket, fairybread, bubble and squeak.

my mother explained to me when I was ten that my aunts weren't sisters. that they were in love - just like my parents. two strong, polish women - we were making our family line damn proud, weren't we? I made perogies to celebrate.

In maryland - I came of age in a remarkably diverse. I learned how to make scrambled eggs in fourth grade from my friends mother, Deepali. they were green - because of all the herbs. I traded spicy burritos for slices of pavlova and chat papri and chicken nuggets from the lunch room. joked about being the only white kid in my school orchestra.

in fifth grade, I went to the News Muesum on a celebratory, end of primary school field trip, and cried with another girl, when we discovered that 9/11 was done with passenger planes. because having grown up in the impact zone - no one ever cared to really tell us what happened. learned the flaws of Bush's war on terror, complemented my classmates hijab.

that same day, I saw a piece of the berlin wall, got to press my small hand against the cold, colorful stone. I decided I would be a freedom fighter.

COVID hit at the end of middle school. I was trapped inside, so I walked my dog barefoot and picked daffodils and ate crab apples from the free outside and watched as people filled with hate led a violent insurrection on our capital.

I decided that I hated being American.

it's been four years. four years of protesting, and crying, and yelling, and staying up late to watch the news so that I knew what was happening, and leading climate summits - last year I met Al Gore - and making art, and starting my backwater, upstate NY town's first GSA, and getting into fights with boys, and planting a garden, and hiking, and traveling and getting the guest bedroom ready because sometimes my friends weren't safe at home. and somehow we're back.

I was born a year before Obama was elected. for much of my childhood - he was there. my mother told me about how much good he was doing for the country, our first african american president, and how important that was. Somehow, though, when i look at my childhood, I remember trump - above all.

when he won the election, I was eight and I fell asleep on the couch before the winner was announced. when I woke up the next morning. it was the first thing I asked my dad.

he told me trump, and I thought he was joking. and then all I felt was dread. and that dread has followed me for nearly a decade.

but he's here. and I'm here.

and I'm an american. so I will continue to be an american, and I fight however I can.

[mosswolf]

i keep seeing people who aren't usamerican reblogging that post about being protected under the migratory birds act and im like lol no tf u arent

[drumlincountry]

Okay I'm not sure who you talked to, but I'm an archaeologist in the US southwest, and the law is that any construction that gets federal or state money - which includes all road construction - does in fact need a full archaeological survey by an accredited Cultural Resource Management firm before construction. I have studied books and books and books of publications that come from per-construction archaeological survey, and artifacts found have to be both reported to the state and properly housed in a state repository museum. Privately funded construction might get that blithe go-ahead unless something is found, but I promise that salvage archaeology before construction is a HUGE part of US archaeology - in fact, it's pretty much the only time when Native American burials are allowed to be excavated, and if burials are found, excavation HAS to stop and the local tribal authorities be notified and collaborated with to determine what to do with them.

I am delighted to hear these standards exist! & I should be more careful about blithe 2am tag ramblings that r second hand stories from a guy I know lol

[nando161mando]

Nearly 700 Jewish professors call on Biden not to sign controversial antisemitism legislation

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4651826-jewish-professors-biden-antisemitism-legislation/

[apocellipse]

good news everyone :)

[transpolling]

i already asked this question a while ago but in my opinion a lot has changed since then, so i want to see if the results change.

[rabbitcruiser]

Governor of New York David B. Hill signed legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York’s first state park on April 30, 1885, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.

[iolojones]

Enough is enough, Biden has to load the Supreme Court and bring freedom back to America

[ivygorgon]

An open letter to the President

The U.S. must staunchly oppose the offensive in Rafah

681 so far! Help us get to 1,000 signers!

The Israeli government continues to threaten an all-out offensive on Rafah, the last “safe” zone from the incessant bombardment and fighting in Gaza. The latest reports indicate that such an assault could happen by Ramadan. That’s just days away. Approximately 1.5 million people are sheltering in Rafah, the vast majority of them displaced by the Israeli military’s bombs in the north. They are scared, starving, and desperate. There is a humanitarian disaster unfolding there as it is. An assault on Rafah would make everything a hundred times worse. Further escalation in Gaza will only push the region into further violence and cause more unnecessary suffering and death. No one wants this. The U.S. is likely the only government in the world able to sway the Israeli government away from this disastrous plan. I urge President Biden to do all he can to secure an immediate ceasefire on both sides, as well as the release of all of Hamas’ hostages. The whole world is watching. We need diplomacy. We need Netanyahu to be reined in. We need a two-state solution. We need a bilateral ceasefire. What we don’t need, and must not have? More carnage, more dead children, and more civilians killed by U.S. bombs. Thanks.

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