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#fuck desantis
sourcreammachine · 4 months
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identitysoups · 8 months
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Im outraged and you should be too.
Recently in the state of Florida, Governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis passed a law making it illegal for teachers to call students any name but their legal first middle and last name. Not even if its a shortened version for example if your name is Alexander your teacher cannot call you Alex without risking being fired and fined. Not only does this law apply to names but to preferred pronouns and gender. The only way you as a transgender or cisgender individual can get your teachers to call you by your "nickname" Is if you get a form SIGNED BY YOUR LEGAL GAURDIAN THAT LISTS THAT "NICKNAME" AND OR PREFFERED PRONOUNS. This law is fucking evil and is going to get so many trans youth murdered or dehoused. some Trans youth with cant get those forms signed without risking harm and its not a matter of "its just a nickname so get over it" because its not that simple. Im a non-binary individual and i go by the name of Max, this is not on my birth certificate yet i have such visceral sickening reaction to hearing my deadname not to mention i dont even recognize it. Ive been so uncomfortable the past few days because of all my teachers deadnaming me and i dont blame them because there is nothing they can do about it. So many teachers are leaving their professions because of what DeSantis is making them do to kids. I know my teachers dont want to out kids to their parents, i know my teachers dont want to deadname kids. I know my teachers love me. But he is taking away my right to my NAME like i am an object. I am not an object i am a CHILD. Hes also done things such as take away classes such as AP Psychology because it teaches on sexuality and AP African American history. He also wants to make sure we dont learn about the slavery period in U.S. History and wants us to teach that Slavery helped African Americans. Its fucking disgusting Please use your votes and make sure this fucker doesnt get into office because hes a fucking murderer
-Max (They/It) PS: Sorry for getting political but this is bullshit.
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soberscientistlife · 1 month
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Well now he knows we all laugh at him behind his back🤣🤣🤣
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fru1typunch · 6 months
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Here's a little post ranting about the Floridian education system and how it fucked over public school librarians this year, from the adult child of one who spent his whole summer helping his poor mom try and keep up with Desantis's ridiculous requests.
Every school year, the librarian always gets a couple weeks with a "closed" library to take inventory of the school's stock at the end. Normal stuff, y'know, if a bit tedious and boring. Scan every. Single. Thing. See what you have and figure out who last checked out what you should have, that sort of thing.
Well, Ron Desantis, in his genius, decided that concept had to be applied to all the books in the entire school to determine if they're "appropriate" (by his batshit conservative standards).
My mom didn't JUST have to do the usual inventory thing for her own library. She ALSO had to do something similar but far WORSE for her entire school's personal classroom libraries.
The objective of this SCHOOL WIDE requirement was to "approve" every book in the school as "appropriate". Every. Single. Book. In. The. School. Not the school library, no, the SCHOOL. All classrooms.
My mom's an elementary school librarian. There's around 1000 students at her school, give or take, and around 50 or so classroom libraries to sort through. And this was supposed to be done over summer, before the kids came back in the fall. Entirely unpaid.
She had to personally approve around 25,000-30,000 books school wide based on whether or not they're "appropriate for kids" (again, by Desantis standards), entirely unpaid, in about 2 months. Keep in mind these classroom libraries had been pre-existing for many years or even decades in most cases, so it's kinda useless to just now care about whether the books are "appropriate".
Mind you, you can't read that many individual books in under two months and then approve them in the system if you tried, even if most were children's books. She spent every single day of her summer, her only real time off each year, logging into the online portal and manually approving books from 8 in the morning to 8 at night, looking them up and trying to determine if they might be okay by the new standards since she couldn't possibly have the time to read them all and check, and again, entirely unpaid on her own. Teachers were scanning in their classroom's books to the system to be approved by her in real time, so she really never could get very far ahead. At most she'd knock out a few hundred a day, which I think is wildly impressive given the circumstances.
Even with all that work, she couldn't open her library for nearly a month into the new school year this August because she spent every school day finishing that approval thing for the classroom libraries for teachers. At least by that point she got paid for it. She was also way behind on getting her library ready for the school year, she really hadn't had time to prepare like normal. It was a crazy stressful time for her all around, moreso than back-to-school time normally is each year.
I helped as much as I knew how to, which mostly just meant looking books up for her or texting back and forth with my friends that work at Barnes and Noble or Books A Million asking if they could skim through certain books that might pose a threat at times, and coming up to the school with her sometimes while she worked on approving books and I worked on preparing her library for "business" again.
My mom was upset because she didn't have time for a real summer vacation, the most she got to do was occasionally visit the beach a few hours away for a day trip. (On one of the beach days, she even took her blessed laptop with her to work on it in the car ride over.) She was in the thick of it neck deep all on her own for months with hardly any time off and no pay to show for it.
It's frustrating because if she were to have approved a book that a parent later complains about, it could mean bad news for her. Again, no way in hell would she have been able to both read every single book, determine if she thought it was okay by Desantis's standards, and then approve every single book within the system. She did her best, but she's still nervous someone will complain.
All this conservative bullshit around books is hurting so many kinds of librarians and educators in so many ways, so just take a moment sometime soon to appreciate your local librarians and public school teachers putting up with this crap. They could use the love. Maybe some strong alcohol. And a big wad of cash, they do a lot of shit unpaid.
And do vote these assholes out of office that are making these poor librarians' and teachers' jobs harder with no additional support or pay.
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beensjamin · 9 months
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Shark mafia boss and Local Twink™ disrupt Florida government.
(For legal reasons, this is a joke.)
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reality-detective · 3 months
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Steve Bannon: Thin-Skinned DeSantis Calls the Cops on the Indefatigable Laura Loomer.
It was just a few days ago that Nikki Haley called the police on her for being at her town hall meeting and she was escorted out. 🤔
Here is the Nikki Haley incident 👇
Globalist Turds are in our punch bowl. 🤔
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yeahiwasintheshit · 8 months
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quote from the politico article:
“Many Black Republicans find themselves in a quandary: on the one hand having to push back on perceptions that slavery has positive attributes, but also fighting the perception that if they voice criticism, it leads to questions of whether they are sufficiently conservative.”
if being a conservative means thinking there are positive attributes to slavery, maybe its time to rethink who you’re allied with.
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fuzzywitchcollector · 9 months
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queerism1969 · 11 months
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disastercomingfaster · 10 months
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So, let me get this straight. Swimsuits for children at Target that are trans based are wildly inappropriate and indoctrinating and grooming…
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With these????
Stop making gay people the fucking enemy. We don’t want to groom or “corrupt” your children. We just want to fucking live!
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slipping-into-madness · 11 months
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reasonsforhope · 9 months
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Federal Judge Gregory Presnell has placed a preliminary injunction on a Florida bill banning individuals under the age of 18 from attending drag performances. 
[Note: "Preliminary injunction" means that the judge has blocked the law from going into effect. The ban is temporary, and is designed to keep the bill from being enforced or applied while the bill goes through the appeals process, where higher-level judges will rule on whether they agree with DeSantis, or with this judge.
Given how incredibly overbroad the law is, previous recent rulings on these issues, and this judge's ruling in particular, DeSantis's government will almost certainly have a difficult time convincing any not-a-total-right-wing-crony lawyer that the law is constitutional. Because, in fact, this law is a huge violation of the first amendment, which protects freedom of speech and freedom of expression.]
The law, dubbed the “Protection of Children Act,” would allow “the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to fine, suspend, or revoke the license of any public lodging, establishment, or public food service establishment if the establishment admits a child to an adult live performance.” DeSantis previously said that drag shows, which are covered by the ban, “sexualize” children.  
In his ruling, Presnell sided with Hamburger Mary’s, a restaurant that hosts drag performances and sued the DeSantis administration, claiming that the restrictions implemented by the act were too broad and not only violated their first amendment rights but unfairly harmed their business. 
In a move the DeSantis administration likely did not see coming, Presnell cited previous laws passed by the Florida governor in his reasoning for placing an injunction on the law. Presnell wrote that the Florida government had failed to sufficiently narrow the breadth of the ban to prevent its unjust application and its “inevitable clash with the Florida ‘Parents’ Bill of Rights’ and other laws.” 
The “Parental Bill of Rights” was signed into law by DeSantis in July of 2021. The law, as quoted by Presnell states that “all parental rights are reserved to the parent of a minor child in this state…including…[t]he right to direct the upbringing and the moral or religious training of his or her minor child.” 
-via Rolling Stone, June 23, 2023
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bigdadskypilot · 11 months
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“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republicans today are the antithesis of what they once were. They bear no resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, or Dwight Eisenhower. They are not erudite like William F. Buckley. They are identified by the horrible things they stand for: hate, fear, and violence. They wrap themselves in flags and clutch bibles, while displaying the honor and loyalty of neither. Any dedication to the principles upon which this nation was founded demands full and complete opposition to them. If that’s what makes me a “liberal.” Then so be it.
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soberscientistlife · 2 months
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mysharona1987 · 3 months
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Stuart Stevens with quite the epic diss.
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humanbyweight · 9 months
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My close friend Mabel needs help to escape the escalating political prosecution of transgender people in her home state of Florida. 
Mabel is one of the kindest and sweetest people I have ever met. She doesn’t deserve to have to risk harassment and arrest just for existing in public spaces, nor does she deserve to be arbitrarily ripped from her lifesaving medication. No one deserves that.
Please donate and share to support her, and then donate to and share as many other funds for trans refugees as you can. This is a humanitarian crisis. The lives and livelihoods of tens of thousands of innocent people hang in the balance. They deserve a chance to live in peace. 😢
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