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[weatheriscool]

So was the roman republic of old, Mexico, Brazil, etc. Yet, this suppose to mean that we are not suppose to invest in our fucking countries infrastructure, leadership in science or health of its citizens or have the slightest bit of safetynet within this cunts eyes. Piece of subhuman crap that she is.

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Texas Senate passes school library bill meant to keep "harmful" materials off shelves

The Texas Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would significantly change the processes and procedures Texas’ school libraries have to follow.

Senate Bill 13, from Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, would let parents receive notice each time their children obtain school library materials, prohibit the acquisition or retention of “harmful” and indecent materials, and create local councils to help districts ensure “community values are reflected in each school library catalog in the district.” Members of the upper chamber approved the bill with a 18-12 vote. It now heads to the House.

Under the bill, school boards would have to approve all new library materials and publicly release lists of proposed library purchases 30 days ahead of acquiring new materials. Exceptions to that would include replacing damaged copies or buying additional copies of existing materials.

The bill is among many that target school libraries, proposals that mark the latest front in an ongoing battle about what information schools can provide to children. On the Senate floor, Paxton said parents had provided examples of several books that contained explicit material.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/13 ... ul-senate/

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Right-wing Bud Light boycott crumbles as GOP faced loss of major donor

Bud Light's partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney caused many conservative voices to boycott the beer company, but there is reportedly now a GOP-led push to back off, or risk losing major funding.

The National Republican Congressional Committee initially used the beer beef to raise funds in its latest "anti-woke" campaign, but on Saturday quietly deleted a tweet critical of the beer, whose owner happens to be one of their biggest donors, Anheuser-Busch, according to the Daily Beast's report.

The outlet reported that the NRCC, which backs Republican congressional campaigns, sent out a now-deleted tweet suggesting that Bud Light "tastes light water."

“Thanks to Dylan Mulvaney, we can all finally admit that Bud Light tastes like water,” the revived tweet says. “With our new koozie’s, you can make sure no one confuses Bud Light with real beer ever again.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA19Uku9

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South Dakota governor says her two-year-old grandchild has several guns
Source: The Guardian

While speaking on Friday at a National Rifle Association (NRA) lobbying leadership forum in Indiana, the Republican governor Kristi Noem told audience members her toddler grandchild has multiple guns, reported Mediaite.

During her remarks, Noem spoke about her grandchildren: Addie, who is almost two, and Branch, who is a few months old. Noem then said that Addie already had a shotgun and a rifle.

“Now Addie, who you know – soon will need them, I wanna reassure you, she already has a shotgun and she already has a rifle and she’s got a little pony named Sparkles too. So the girl is set up,” said Noem.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... d-guns-nra

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TN bill that allows students to report professors who teach 'divisive concepts' passes House and Sen

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that the bill was deferred to 2024. It was updated to reflect that it passed the House and Senate.

A bill that made its way through the Tennessee legislature aims to strengthen rules passed last year that can change how schools approach teaching many kinds of lessons in social justice, racial inequity, political science, social work, psychology and many other fields.

The bill passed the House of Representatives on April 13, after passing Senate on April 5.

In 2022, lawmakers passed rules that allow state leaders to withhold funding for schools that teach about social, cultural and legal issues related to race and racism. Most of those concepts focus on how the impact of racism affects people today.

The law also specified that schools can teach about ethnic groups' histories as described in textbooks and instructional materials. Educators can also only teach about controversial aspects of history, such as racial oppression or slavery, as long those discussions are impartial.

The bill, HB 1376, was introduced by Representative John Ragan (R - Oak Ridge). He previously said that the new bill was meant to strengthen the law passed in 2022 by "promoting freedom of expression," and keep "colleges about advancing knowledge, not about advancing political or social agendas."

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/educa ... 84740b4cb7

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Ron DeSantis's Director Is Literally Cheering on LGBTQ Parents Fleeing Florida
https://newrepublic.com/post/171979/pus ... ts-florida

No paywall
https://archive.is/RGJoV

Team Ron DeSantis continues to demonize everyday Americans, this time targeting his own state’s residents. On Saturday, Christina Pushaw, rapid response director for the Florida governor and potential 2024 presidential candidate, celebrated the idea of people fleeing Florida and the measures DeSantis has supported with the explicit goal of making their lives worse.

In response to a headline that a majority of Florida LGBTQ parents are considering leaving the state in response to the repressive “Don’t Say Gay” bill, the DeSantis right hand had one simple reaction: Bye!

The actual study Pushaw was smugly responding to found that nearly one-quarter of LGBTQ Florida parents feared harassment, with parents of school-age children in public schools expressing the greatest concern for their safety. Over half of the parents surveyed have considered moving out of Florida, while 17 percent have already taken steps to do so.

Such a reaction illustrates why some donors have recently started to sour on Ron DeSantis’s political prospects. In tacking further and further right by pursuing repressive policy after repressive policy—and surrounding himself with people of the same persuasions—he displays how shockingly little he cares for millions of Americans. In pretending to be the more “reasonable” Trump, he appeals neither to actual Trump supporters, who would have no reason to vote for the second-rate version, nor to the rest of potential voters who are simply not interested in such radical, out-of-touch politics that treat millions of hardworking Americans like pawns at best and garbage at worst.

[firestar464]

Bonk

https://newrepublic.com/post/171978/jor ... bragg-ohio

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Louisiana House approves punishment for porn websites that don't verify user's age

The Louisiana House of Representatives gave final passage to a bill that would let the state attorney general pursue civil penalties against companies that do not comply with a law that requires pornography websites to verify the age of its users.

House Bill 77, sponsored by Rep. Laurie Schlegel, R-Metairie, builds on a law that went into effect earlier this year that requires pornography websites to verify the ages of its users. The law, which Schlegel also authored, requires websites with at least one-third “material harmful to minors” use certain age verification measures.

The bill passed 101-1, with Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans, voting against it. Landry was also the only member to have opposed Schlegel’s 2022 proposal.

Landry pointed out that minors who want to get around the age verification measures can set up a virtual private network (VPN) that allows a user to disguise their location. Virtual private networks typically take just a few minutes to set up and require no advanced computer knowledge.

https://lailluminator.com/2023/04/17/lo ... users-age/

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[wjfox]

[weatheriscool]

1. no investment in science, tech or anything that allows us to compete with the rest of the world.
2. segregation and separate governments by race. Look at Jackson.
3. No birth control, abortion pills or any medical care for woman.
4. No investment in education. Just private education that is very religious centered.
5. Toll roads everywhere to pay for infrastructure. Can't drive 5 blocks without paying the piper!
6. Gay people and trans people banned and probably made illegal.
7. Elections controlled by the republican party in ways that aint fair. Putins russia would be fairer.
8. No freedom to watch porn, to take part in sexual behavior and quite possibly we could be looking at no sex before marriage laws being put into place again.
9. Child labor and an end to minimum wage. No wage or workers rights. An abolishment of unions.
10. No safetynet for the poor or the disabled. They'd have to work in the sweat shops or the fields all day long until they drop dead.

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FL: So-called 'Don't Say Gay' rules expanded through 12th grade in Florida
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/called- ... d=98691183

The Florida Board of Education has voted to expand restrictions on classroom instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

"This amendment prohibits classroom instruction to students in pre-kindergarten through Grade 3 on sexual orientation or gender identity. For Grades 4 through 12, instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity is prohibited unless such instruction is either expressly required by state academic standards ... or is part of a reproductive health course or health lesson for which a student’s parent has the option to have his or her student not attend," according to the amendment.

This rule would build on the Parental Rights in Education law Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed in March 2022. The law bans classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity for students in kindergarten through third grade.

Either vote democrats this coming election or prepare to live in the dark ages. I am serious.

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[firestar464]

They share the same rabid obsession with regulating every aspect of a person's life in the name of religion

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Mississippi Must Grant Religious Exemptions For Childhood Vaccines, Federal Judge Rules
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/32 ... udge-rules

Anti-vaccine activists are celebrating in Mississippi after a federal judge struck down the State’s long-standing childhood vaccine requirements for public or private school attendance, saying the State must allow religious exemptions like most others already do. Mississippi is one of just six states that only permits childhood vaccines for medical reasons, with no religious exemptions.

The Texas-based Informed Consent Action Network funded the lawsuit, filed in September 2022, arguing that the lack of religious exemptions for vaccines violates the First Amendment’s guarantees of the free exercise of religion. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi Judge Sul Ozerden agreed with ICAN’s argument.

The George W. Bush-appointed judge’s order says that starting on July 15, the Mississippi State Department of Health “will be enjoined from enforcing (Mississippi’s compulsory vaccination law) unless they provide an option for individuals to request a religious exemption from the vaccine requirement.” The State could still appeal the ruling, however.

Mississippi’s compulsory childhood immunization requirements include a vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis; for polio; for hepatitis B; for measles, mumps and rubella; and for chickenpox. The State does not mandate COVID-19 vaccines. Mississippi has the highest childhood vaccination rate in the nation, a fact that MSDH has attributed to strict vaccine laws. While other states with more permissive vaccine laws have reported measles outbreaks in recent years, Mississippi has not reported a case originating in the state in decades.

The State once allowed religious exemptions for childhood vaccines, but the Mississippi Supreme Court struck that law down in its 1979 Brown v. Stone ruling.

“Is it mandated by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution that innocent children, too young to decide for themselves, are to be denied the protection against crippling and death that immunization provides because of a religious belief adhered to by a parent or parents?” the justices wrote at the time.

The answer, they decided, was no.

[firestar464]

So according to the recent decision, conspiracy theories are "religions?"

[weatheriscool]

So according to the recent decision, conspiracy theories are "religions?"

We don't call these assholes the American taliban for nothing!

Oh'looky at this!

Public schools would have to display Ten Commandments under bill passed by Texas Senate
Public schools in Texas would have to prominently display the Ten Commandments in every classroom starting next school year under a bill the Texas Senate approved Thursday.

Senate Bill 1515 by Sen. Phil King, R-Weatherford, now heads to the House for consideration.

This is the latest attempt from Texas Republicans to inject religion into public schools. In 2021, state Sen. Bryan Hughes, a Mineola Republican, authored a bill that became law requiring schools to display donated “In God We Trust” signs.

King said during a committee hearing earlier this month that the Ten Commandments are part of American heritage and it’s time to bring them back into the classroom. He said the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for his bill after it sided with Joe Kennedy, a high school football coach in Washington state who was fired for praying at football games. The court ruled that was praying as a private citizen, not as an employee of the district.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/20 ... ents-bill/