“It was excruciatingly clear from his policy positions and the people he surrounded himself with that Trump would sell out LGBTQ people the instant he was elected. The public needed journalists to disaggregate Trump’s pandering from his policy. Too often, they did not. And now, here we are.“
What about when Nazis intimidate or oppress me for walking while Jewish? That’s just free speech, right?
This was introduced by Daniel Donovan (R-NY). If the name sounds familiar, its because he’s the attorney who failed to indict Eric Garner’s murderer. It’s very clear where his loyalties lie.
7308 13th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11228 (office address)
(718) 630-5277 (office phone number)
I’m sure we can all very civily share our concerns with the esteemed congressman.
[ID: a series of tweets. from Lirael Lowenstein – 1: “Unmasking Antifa Act introduced to house of congress. You could get a maximum of 15 years in prison just for wearing a mask at a protest. 2: Notably, there is not even evidence that said bill is intended to be applied neutrally. If you follow the link, its authors refer to it as the “Unmasking Antifa Act of 2018.” (link here.) 3: So under this bill, if you “intimidate” or “oppress” (talk about vague terms) a nazi organizer at a rally, while wearing anything that could be construed as a disguise or mask, it would be a federal crime for which you could get up to 15 years in prison.
from Heather – 1: If any journalist who covers protests thinks this wouldn’t affect them personally because they’ve never assaulted anyone, I’d like to introduce you to the Ferguson police who dumped me out of my wheelchair & charged me for “assault on an officer” for filming on a public sidewalk. 2: If any journalist thinks this wouldn’t affect them personally because they don’t engage in vandalism, I’d like to introduce you to the St Louis police who kettle random groups of protesters, journalists, & bystanders three hours after minor vandalism several blocks away. end image description.]
more sources, all dated today; july 10th, 2018: xx, xx, xx
so what? why should i care about this?
the bill is vague, for one thing. “intimidate” and “oppress” are very unclear descriptors, meaning people could be put in jail for upwards of 15 years just for being at a protest wearing a mask.
as @sylviahook pointed out (and thank you for saying this in your own reblog): this also affects disabled people who need to wear filtration masks in public for any reason
(environmental allergens including pollen and artificial scents, asthma due to pollution, compromised immunity, etc.).
who is Daniel Donovan?
he was the attorney who was on Eric Garner’s murder case.
eric garner was a black man who was killed by a police officer in a choke hold. his last words were “i can’t breathe,” which became a tagline for a series of protests. (source 1, source 2)
he is currently sponsoring the unmasking antifa act. (source 1, source 2)
Deregulation will get you killed. Republican policies make your life worse.
Let’s be really clear that these aren’t farmers in the sense you normally think of. These aren’t oldish guys wearing overalls and women with weathered hands. These aren’t families with kids who come home from school and help with chores of day to day farm life.
These are corporations. Corporate Farms.
It’s known as Big Agribusiness. And it’s been destroying family farms for decades, consolidating ownership of the food supply, and forcing people off their homes and into tighter living spaces in the city.
Because I saw this country simply shrug its shoulders and not demand reform when our elected officials did nothing after 20 innocent first-graders were murdered in their classroom a week-and-a-half before Christmas at Sandy Hook, I’ve believed that we’ll never see meaningful changes. If that couldn’t move elected officials to act and didn’t move Americans to elect different officials who would act, I just couldn’t imagine what would.
However, I am inspired to see the students who survived this latest shooting quickly stand up and take matters into their own hands. I’m not surprised that the Florida legislature basically ignored the hopes of these young people, but I’m hopeful that these kids will use their activism to keep fighting and make those legislators pay at the polls because these students are also their future constituents. I hope that this generation of students across the country reach out to each other, use their mastery of social media, and be the effective activists on this issue that my generation has failed to be. I hope that they are determined and focused enough to achieve what the generations before them were too selfish to see through. They continue to be targets while trying to get an education because Americans before them don’t want to not be able to “hunt” with assault weapons. At BEST that is selfish. And, at this point, it’s downright criminal. But what I’ve seen from these kids over the past few days has given me hope, and that’s far more than I’ve felt after the dozens of other mass shootings that have happened (and quickly been forgotten about if they weren’t ignored in the first place) over the past few years.
so in 2007, there was a law passed that said if you have student loans
and you worked in public services & made student loan payments on time
for 10 years, you’d get loan forgiveness. fast forward to 2017, and guess what happens under this admin with Betsy Devos?
out of 30,000 public service applicants, the Devos/Trump team only forgave the loans of 96 people. imagine 10 years ago deciding to work in public service with shitty pay to pay off loans the govt promised they would and then 99% of applications get rejected. thats absolutely despicable. wtf.
couldn’t post the links since this website is hell and won’t let it show up in searches anymore, but here’s the links. apparently there IS a class-action lawsuit going, and here’s a link to a petition being done by the same union who filed the lawsuit (it’s at the bottom). not sure how much it’s helpful but it’s worth a shot i guess
Yes! Thank you for this great vid. Please pay attention people!!!
2019 is gonna be a shit show
WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!? WHAT THE FUCK??????? WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?!? WHAT???? THE!!!!!! FUCK???????
um exCUSE YOU ME? NANI THE FUCKK? some of us would still like to live in this country without it being a dystopia thank you very much. but someone went hahahaha… no.
This is why you get off your ass and vote.
2018 is the fucking year… Grab Em By The Midterms. If we get someone in Congress who will stand up against these assholes, we can veto this shit with a vote, executive order or not. Contrary to popular belief the President does not have all the power. Sure he can veto a bill but Congress can veto executive orders with 2/3 majority votes. Not only that they can vote out the current Speaker of the House and with the aid of a good Senate and House of Representatives, draw up articles of impeachment and get that fucking asshole who dares to call himself a president out of there.
So if you don’t want this shit to happen, talk to people and share this video with everyone! Let them know the shit that Trump and his buddies are doing and lets nip that shit in the bud.
context: this article is about a bill that was recently passed in the state that bans abortion after six weeks. a republican rep “brought her infant twins onto the floor to shame women who aren’t mothers about their alleged selfishness”. She then said, “Motherhood isn’t easy but it’s necessary,” when arguing about making motherhood mandatory by banning abortions
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