Now another bill protecting homophobic and transphobic discrimination is past the Mississippi House, and likely to make it through the Senate tomorrow:
https://mobile.twitter.com/chasestrangio/status/714966131723919361/photo/1https://mobile.twitter.com/chasestrangio/status/714966131723919361
― one way street, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 03:27 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CewR6GyW4AA9QaE.jpg
― one way street, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 03:28 (eight years ago) link
"Male (man) and female (woman) THE LORD created them, referring to their immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at birth"
― petulant dick master (silby), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 04:43 (eight years ago) link
So do we know who's written these laws? ALEC? The Family Council? Someone Koch-related?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 07:01 (eight years ago) link
I think it's the Family Research Council:http://www.frc.org/transgender
― one way street, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 13:44 (eight years ago) link
That brief concludes by presenting trans people's identities as delusions, and transphobia as a matter of conscience:
A person's sex (male or female) is an immutable biological reality. In the vast majority of people (including those who later identify as "transgender"), it is unambiguously identifiable at birth. There is no rational or compassionate reason to affirm a distorted psychological self-concept that one's "gender identity" is different from one's biological sex.Neither lawmakers nor counselors, pastors, teachers, nor medical professionals should participate in or reinforce the transgender movement's lies about sexuality--nor should they be required by the government to support such distortion.
Neither lawmakers nor counselors, pastors, teachers, nor medical professionals should participate in or reinforce the transgender movement's lies about sexuality--nor should they be required by the government to support such distortion.
― one way street, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 13:49 (eight years ago) link
Along similar lines, the Republican Party resolved a few months ago to challenge the Obama administration on Title IX: http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/2/25/republican-national-committee-endorses-anti-trans-bathroom-bills
― one way street, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 13:59 (eight years ago) link
Enshrining those three particular religious beliefs into law is so clearly a First Amendment violation under Lemon, but I wouldn't trust the conservative wing of this Supreme Court to give even a passing nod to it at this point.
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
when some people are so fervently supporting legislation affecting a relatively tiny subset of the population, who they likely do not even know, it's some suspicious shit
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
Wider stakes: rolling back the whole concept of gender as a social construct, feminism, unwifely behavior, and other products of the cultural Bolshevik infiltrators. If sex roles are god-given then government has no business giving any legs up to women in the workplace, controlling their own bodies, etc. etc.
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
(And,obviously, any recognition of trans, intersex, and genderqueer people as people, going far beyond bathrooms.)
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 14:44 (eight years ago) link
NC Attorney General Roy Cooper is not a particularly inspiring candidate, but he's raised a shitload of money and also has refused to defend both this law and Amendment One (NC's anti-gay marriage law which was ultimately struck down in court), so here's hoping he gets into the governor's mansion to act as a check on our insane legislature.
― Gatemouth, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
what are roy's negatives, asking as an out-of-stater
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 30 March 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
He's a long-time member of the Democratic political establishment in rural eastern NC who served almost 20 years in the legislature. Not necessarily the most dynamic, out-of-the-box-candidate. Plus the Democratic-controlled state government was often accused throughout the 90's of shortchanging urban areas in road and education funding and instead funneling their tax money to rural and over-represented districts. There's not a lot there-- he's just an old face.
― Gatemouth, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link
feel like people in NC can't complain much when a non-blue dog dem has a serious shot to win governor
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 30 March 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
well this is different: tying your attacks on minimum-wage increases to food truck popularity:
A higher minimum wage is no way to solve the problem of poverty
Contains the bit:
Big Brother can mandate a $15 hourly minimum wage, but Big Brother cannot mandate that firms hire workers. As minimum wages have risen, cashiers have vanished from drug stores and food trucks have replaced restaurants. Few would have thought 10 years ago (when the national minimum wage was $5.15) that food trucks would line the streets in the D.C. downtown area and people would line up for their lunch...
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
Food trucks have existed since forever and most of the current crop charge as much as a restaurant, if not more.
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 19:20 (eight years ago) link
also assume that food truck quality was pretty piss poor 10 years ago and the only ones lining up to them for lunch were construction workers
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 19:22 (eight years ago) link
the DC food truck trick is to offer you $7 entrees that are only 2/3 of a full meal. in the heat of the moment you just add on a $4 side to avoid afternoon stomach grumbles.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
Update on the anti-LGBT bill HB1523 in Mississippi: the state Senate voted 31/17 to pass it with amendments, so it'll be going back to the House. @EWagsterPettus and @arielle_amara have been livetweeting the proceedings, if you want more details, and @aclu_ms and @chase_strangio are also useful for context.
― one way street, Thursday, 31 March 2016 01:06 (eight years ago) link
*@chasestrangio, rather
― one way street, Thursday, 31 March 2016 01:07 (eight years ago) link
Summary here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/mississippi-scheduled-for-final-vote-on-anti-lgbt-religious
― one way street, Thursday, 31 March 2016 01:51 (eight years ago) link
is there even one incident ever, anywhere, of anyone being assaulted by a transgender person in a public bathroom?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 March 2016 01:56 (eight years ago) link
Not as far as I know, but that doesn't mean we can't be convenient scapegoats!
― one way street, Thursday, 31 March 2016 02:05 (eight years ago) link
The idea that letting trans women use women's restrooms would lead to sexual assaults is, and I do not use this term loosely, blood libel.
Blood libel doesn't merit opposition with evidence, it merits condemnation.
― eyecrud (silby), Thursday, 31 March 2016 02:23 (eight years ago) link
See, if I was a smart piece of shit GOPer, I'd say it was to protect the transgendered person.
― pplains, Thursday, 31 March 2016 02:30 (eight years ago) link
trans women get assaulted and murdered outside of restrooms in awful numbers, telling them they should be using the men's room is basically violent.
― eyecrud (silby), Thursday, 31 March 2016 02:34 (eight years ago) link
i don't think anyone could possibly buy that forcing a trans woman into a male bathroom would be for her protection
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 March 2016 02:34 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, that's right.
I was trying to turn it around backwards and wound up going 360°.
― pplains, Thursday, 31 March 2016 03:55 (eight years ago) link
@ggreenwaldArab-American family of 5 going on vacation - 3 young kids in tow - removed from @United plane for "safety reasons"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctIMBz-42qk
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 April 2016 17:15 (eight years ago) link
not sure where else to put it, but andrew sullivan is joining new york magazine as a contributing editor
― Karl Malone, Friday, 1 April 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
try Damage ContrLOLz
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Friday, 1 April 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link
@chrislhayes How Habitat for Humanity used federal dollars to push poor people out of Bed Stuy
https://www.propublica.org/article/habitat-for-humanity-brooklyn-bedford-stuyvesant-poor-lose-homes
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 April 2016 20:07 (eight years ago) link
Check out this shit in Kansas re voting:
http://cjonline.com/news/2016-04-01/kansas-county-elections-head-used-political-ties-kris-kobach-then-curbed-voting
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 April 2016 20:10 (eight years ago) link
crazy, and if he gets into legal trouble, maybe the Kansas legislature will bail him out with some changes to the judiciary
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/02/us/outraged-by-kansas-justices-rulings-gop-seeks-to-reshape-court.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 April 2016 20:19 (eight years ago) link
The federal body is supposed to have two Republican and two Democratic commissioners but has only one Democrat now because of a vacancy.
i'm sure the vacany is totally organic and not part of a concerted campaign by the gop to keep it that way.
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 1 April 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link
Andrew Bacevich on the transformation of POTUS into unchecked warlord
"Collaborating with a president they roundly despise — implicitly concurring in Obama’s questionable claim that “existing statutes [already] provide me with the authority I need” to make war on ISIS — the GOP-controlled Congress thereby transformed the post-9/11 AUMF into what has now become, in effect, a writ of permanent and limitless armed conflict. In Iraq and Syria, for instance, what began as a limited but open-ended campaign of air strikes authorized by President Obama in August 2014 has expanded to include an ever-larger contingent of U.S. trainers and advisers for the Iraqi military, special operations forces conducting raids in both Iraq and Syria, the first new all-U.S. forward fire base in Iraq, and at least 5,000 U.S. military personnel now on the ground, a number that continues to grow incrementally.
"Remember Barack Obama campaigning back in 2008 and solemnly pledging to end the Iraq War? What he neglected to mention at the time was that he was retaining the prerogative to plunge the country into another Iraq War on his own ticket. So has he now done, with members of Congress passively assenting and the country essentially a prisoner of war."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-bacevich/writing-a-blank-check-on-war_b_9616466.html
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
funny how elastic the definition of war can be
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link
Mississippi's bill protecting citizens' sacred freedom to discriminate against LGBT people passes into law: http://www.advocate.com/religion/2016/4/05/mississippi-governor-signs-sweeping-anti-lgbt-religious-liberty-law
― one way street, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
PayPal abandons plans to open facility in Charlotte because of LGBT law
(an office opening that the governor was crowing about days before signing the NC anti-trans bill)
― eyecrud (silby), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
that's right: http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/San-Francisco-poised-to-vote-on-full-paid-leave-7228281.php
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
\o/ Seattle next let's go
― eyecrud (silby), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:25 (eight years ago) link
ased on Tuesday by the Office of Congressional Ethics listed a half-dozen possible violations of House rules by Representative Alan Grayson of Florida. Credit Loren Elliott for The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Representative Alan Grayson, Democrat of Florida, may have improperly used his House office and staff to handle personal financial matters involving a family-run hedge fund as well as political activities related to his bid for the United States Senate, the Office of Congressional Ethics concluded in a 986-page investigation released Tuesday.
The report, which found as many as a half dozen violations of House rules, provoked an angry response from Mr. Grayson, who accused the quasi-independent agency of conspiring with his Democratic opponent for the Senate seat.
“I didn’t do anything wrong,” Mr. Grayson said repeatedly in a telephone news conference after the report was released.
The exchange came on the same day that the House Ethics Committee — the only entity that has formal powers to sanction a House lawmaker — announced that it was still studying the case and that, at least for now, it would not create a formal investigative panel to examine possible misconduct charges against Mr. Grayson.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/us/politics/alan-grayson-florida.html?ref=politics
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 10:44 (eight years ago) link
Did video of Rick Scott getting berated at Starbucks get posted?
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 12:39 (eight years ago) link
Thank you (really) big government Treasury Department for new rules that have led Pfizer to give up for now on corporate inversion plan that would shift their headquarters to Ireland to avoid taxes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/04/06/pfizer-and-allergan-call-off-their-merger-after-u-s-move-to-block-inversions/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 14:17 (eight years ago) link
xpost Didn't see it here, out do love the idea of people yelling at politicians, forcing them to face the targets of their shit policies in an up close and personal way. I've always wondered what I'd say if I bumped into one of these jackasses but don't think I'd be as brave as that woman.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 14:20 (eight years ago) link
for everyone's benefit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXYzgTLoQjY
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link
agree that she is remarkably well composed and articulate, I would probably be stumbling over my words out of nervousness
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 15:13 (eight years ago) link
also love the "I'm not talking to you"
hero
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link