This is your occasional reminder that Republicans are garbage.

And Loki was on his blind side.

Man was just out there disassociating in a field

Yay for freedom

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Unfuckingbelievable

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They don't care about children. If they did they would vote for free lunch, for children's healthcare. They would be at the border keeping families together and not separating babies. Hell they wouldn't want to elect a rapist who told girls he would date them soon. This just makes me so angry. Their only platform is "NO" and take away rights from anyone who isn't cis male and white. Fuck them and anyone who supports them. We need change. I want a socialist state. Since I can't have that I'll take the democrats. Nobody has ever been afraid of Joe Biden finding out where they live.

maga - unforgivable

It worked when women went on strike in Iceland. They demanded things like equal pay for equal work among other things. I think this is a brilliant idea. If we can actually do it.

Yup I agree it would totally fix me

Fuck fixing him, sitting in his lap could fix ME

Well you’re right

Unfortunately still relevant

We need to help stop this. KOSA remains a dangerous bill that would allow the government to decide what types of information can be shared and read online by everyone. It would still require an enormous number of websites, apps, and online platforms to filter and block legal, and important, speech. It would almost certainly still result in age verification requirements. 

This targets fanfic as well as   LGBTQ+ content on social media and or for profit websites. Guess which party has the most people favoring this crap?

I can't believe she just didn't pray for it to get better! That would make her actions and her rhetoric go hand in hand. I want that level of healthcare.

Republican hypocrisy is the design.

GOP politicians take and take, then flip and tell others to do without.

If it's a joke it's a sick one. What if the insurrectionists had been poc? I bet this would have had a very different outcome. Honestly if what happened Jan 6 isn't treason I don't know what is. Can someone explain it like I'm 5?

Robert J. McWhirter for Democracy Docket:

Former President Donald Trump whined to the U.S. Supreme Court that it was “undemocratic” to take him off the ballot after he tried to undemocratically disenfranchise the majority of Americans who voted against him in 2020. Now, Trump crows about his “beautiful” Supreme Court win that he gets to stay on the ballot despite being an insurrectionist. Another institution of democracy bends to accommodate someone who only believes in democracy “if I win.” “This will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy,” noted Hitler’s propagandist Joseph Goebbels, “that it gave its deadly enemies the means by which it was destroyed.” Has the Supreme Court done just so? You will be hard-pressed to find the constitutional foundation of the Supreme Court’s ruling. The Court did not follow Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, its history or original intent. Twenty five of America’s best historians submitted a brief to the Court showing how the Framers intended for the 14th Amendment to apply to a president with no conviction required. Section 3 is self implementing, meaning Congress does not have to pass a law to make it apply; in fact, Congress must act to make it not apply.  

The facts of the case should have disqualified Trump from future office. The Colorado trial court held a five-day hearing granting Trump’s legal team every chance to show he was not an insurrectionist, yet he lost before this court. Moreover, the bipartisan congressional Jan. 6, 2021 commission made a complete and conclusive finding, after days of open and televised hearings, that Trump incited an insurrection simply because he could not accept that he lost the 2020 election.   Just like it did over 20 years ago in Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court made a policy decision, not a legal one. Trump gets a pass because of the prudential concern of having this decision done by states. Maybe that’s appropriate.

After all, having 50 secretaries of state, governors or even state Supreme Courts with the power to disqualify a major political candidate is not a good system. Before you know it, some governor wanting to get on Fox News might engage in a little tortured reasoning by claiming President Joe Biden is an “insurrectionist” for not “securing the border.” (Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Laura lngraham will happily queue this up.) So, the Supreme Court, as an institution of democracy, bent the law and itself to accommodate Trump. That democracy keeps bending for Trump shows how far somebody with no personal shame can go while having no respect for institutions or democracy itself.  

Trump also wants “presidential immunity” for all crimes he committed as president, including those to subvert democracy. Trump single handedly rehabilitates former President Richard Nixon whose claim that “when the president does it, it means it is not illegal” looks benign in comparison. Will the Court bend again to grant Trump this immunity?

[...] Yet Trump continues to whine that everyone treats him unfairly while he gets preferential treatment. The list of his grumbles runs long: the Russia investigation was a “witch hunt,” his squirreling away truckloads of classified, top-secret documents for personal gain and vanity was no big deal, a jury holding him accountable for raping and defaming a woman (and defaming her again) is a “disgrace,” his paying off a porn star to avoid a political embarrassment is not a campaign finance violation, a judge’s finding that Trump committed fraud is “persecution.” On and on his grievance list grows.

Robert J. McWhirter wrote in Democracy Docket about how disastrous it is for our courts to bend to the whims of Donald Trump's autocratic actions.

As of now, Florida and Kansas have passed bills that align with KOSA.

So many people have held back on speaking out against KOSA or signing petitions because "it probably won't pass." But we have proof that it very well can and will.

So what can we do right now?

The same thing we've been doing: bring awareness and protest.

Here are a few websites you can visit to sign petitions:

https://www.badinternetbills.com/

https://www.stopkosa.com/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids-online-safety-act

You can also call your state reps. This post explains how you can do that.

Good luck, everyone! Don't give up yet.