Downshift , to random
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Right-wing group gets Anne Frank's Diary and other Holocaust books removed from Texas school

https://www.rawstory.com/book-ban-texas-mission-cisd/

DemocracyMattersALot , to random
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GottaLaff , to random
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Via Melissa Murray:

She's been saying this for a long time. You're delusional if you think banning birth control is off the table.

Biden-Harris HQ:

Top Trump supporter Marsha Blackburn says Griswold v. Connecticut is “constitutionally unsound”

(Griswold v. Connecticut is the 1965 Supreme Court ruling that legalized birth control)

HistoPol ,
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@philip_cardella
@GottaLaff

Yes and yes, but not quite:

  1. There is no effective right to privacy anymore, after the FISA ruling, unless you "rip out" your Internet line and lose your mobile.

https://press.coop/@thehill/112287517500737885

  1. The real game plan of the is this, even though I doubt that many of them will have read the books.
    (I think I'm missing out on two.)

Quiz time:

Who is the only author with two novels in this dystopian Venn diagram? 😉

(W/O looking it up, OFC!)

mekkaokereke , to random
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Still relevant:

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111502639878997581

News is such a confused industry. In order for it to be successful, it needs the majority of people to find value in the news that it produces. Most people are not old, wealthy, straight, white, men, but most news stories are framed from that perspective, even when the framing is false and easily debunkable.

Most news rooms don't look anything close to the people that they need to buy their papers to have a sustainable business.

Failure is inevitable.

rgulick ,
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@Npars01 @mekkaokereke @zzzeek @DaywalkingRedhead
The christofascists are here and they're sending money to the GOP.

wdlindsy , to random
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"Trumpism is emptying churches. The former president’s embrace of White Christian militantism coincides with a precipitous decline in religious affiliation in the US. …

In effect, militant Christian conservatism, now tightly wrapped in the gaudy corruption of Trumpism, has produced a backlash."

~ Francis Wilkinson

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-07/trump-s-brand-of-christian-conservatism-is-driving-people-from-church

jonburr ,
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@wdlindsy

every cloud...

bloodravenlib , to librarians group
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Meanwhile, in Illinois . Not banning books fast enough? Damn kids still reading? Ban the book awards they vote for.

>Why Ban Books When You Can Ban Book Awards?: Suburban Illinois District Cancels Caudill Awards

https://bookriot.com/wadsworth-il-bans-rebecca-caudill-awards/

@bookstodon
@librarians

bloodravenlib , to random
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ampersine , to random
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The roadblock is, of course, the Constitution.

This happens regularly with bills introduced by 's legislature full of dildos. Untold millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent losing the inevitable lawsuits. (These clowns have tried multiple times to pass a law that would make the Bible the official state book!)

https://wpln.org/post/a-bill-that-would-ban-pride-flags-in-schools-hits-a-major-roadblock-in-tennessees-senate/

GottaLaff , to random
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🎯Via Shannon Watts:

Sen. Mitch ’s legacy will be that he purposefully undermined America’s first Black president, he broke the Supreme Court, he helped elect a fascist President, and he abetted up an insurrection on American soil.

clearwater53 ,
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@GottaLaff How his legacy is written may depend upon who is writing the history. If the get full control, which I am not at all sure will not happen, he may well appear in a Riefenstahlian documentary as a early hero of the Reich.

Let's hope there is a massive voter turnout in the fall. Even then, the already controlled states may perfect the coup attempted last time around, as Hartmann has described.

GottaLaff , to random
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Of course.

“Revealed: rightwinger linked to efforts to keep on ballot

Federalist Society co-chair has ties to the groups arguing in the US case that Trump should stay on the ballot”
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/feb/09/leonard-leo-federalist-society-trump-ballot-supreme-court?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

DaPickle ,
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@GottaLaff doesn’t this guy have any smart women in his life?!?…..or I guess maybe they all run from this creep like the wind.

paninid , to random
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The are wicked, take the Lord’s name in vain, and should be voted off the island of civilized society.

It’s long past time to find piled up the street and start writing names.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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How to use Mastodon:

Step 1: Sign up.

Step 2: Do regular social media stuff.

Journalists: Only those with advanced degrees in computer science should even attempt to navigate Mastodon, the frustrations of its complexities will drive the average user to a state of hysteria.

Bandersnatch ,
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@lowqualityfacts

It's just like , with no rage algorithm & fewer .

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