#draconian laws

[mexicanistnet]

In the tumultuous world of Mexican politics, AMLO faces off against accusations of corruption, exposes a shadowy smear campaign, condemns draconian laws in Texas, and navigates censorship challenges from the INE. Amidst the chaos, the resilience of Mexico's political institutions is put to the test.

[wausaupilot]

Your letters: Overturning Roe V. Wade hurts poor people more than people with means

"How could a country that values freedom outlaw a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body and put those decisions in the hands of legislators?" - Marge Langer of Danbury

Dear editor, Fifty-one years ago, on Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that full reproductive healthcare for women was a constitutional, human right when it issued the Roe V. Wade decision. The decision was overturned on June 24, 2022. I am shocked by this development. It is an authoritarian move. How could a country that values freedom outlaw a woman’s right to make decisions about…

[amarriageoftrueminds]

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Americans, have you called your reps about KOSA yet?

(they've already passed on in kansas)

[secretmellowblog]

SO true

[jocu1atrix]

I remember being stopped by morality police in Iran while I was still a minor. At the time, I was shocked and laughed it off because my aunts reassured me they had no real power.

It's been 7 years since, and I've seen so many whatsapp videos as of late, of violence from these thugs against women. And its always about hijab, not zakaat, not prayer, nothing actually mandatory in the religion. And now there's been an active victim of Irans morality police, Mahsa Amini, who was also vacationing from abroad with her family. She was brutally beaten by the morality police and died while in police custody. Authorities are lying about her having a prior medical condition that led to her alleged heart attack (her family is speaking out against this lie).

Please don't forget about Mahsa. Protests have begun but knowing the government, a media blackout can follow and people will be met with violence until they obey again.

[nando161mando]

A group led by the NSW Council for Civil Liberties is calling on the state government to revoke the draconian anti-protest regime introduced two years ago.

[toskarin]

how would you feel if people wrote x reader fanfiction of your ocs

it's totally fine. I don't really have a say in what other people write, but I'm always flattered when I find out I've inspired someone else to create in any form

as always, be aware that if you're doing it for Boyfriend of Steel stuff in particular, you're running a high risk of getting hard contradicted by canon when the VN and side stories beyond the primers drop. if you're fine with that, go ahead!

[ave-dominus-nostramos]

“Did you call for me?”

"Who else could it have been, Archivist? Surely you've yet to mistake me for one of the rats."

Curze chuckles at his private joke, languidly running his razor sharp talons across the back of a dead rat impaled onto his meeting table with a knife through the skull. Its internal organs were strewn across the table in a spiral pattern she could not hope to discern the meaning of. Curze idly plucked the still beating heart from his disgusting array of viscera and popped it into his mouth. He gave a sigh of satisfaction before offering its bloody liver to his pet.

"My Chief Librarian informed me of your affliction."

[forgottenbones]

Tim Pool's Claim He's Not Conservative SHREDDED By Lance From The Serfs

[eeveedel]

If you want to bring a revolting sign to a concert pls spell it correctly

[bayonettas-tits]

Calling it now, that ai art copyright lobbying thing is gonna be the next big crowdfunding scam that'll be talked about for years lmao

[sirfrogsworth]

Today in transphobic idiocy...

Avery Jackson did a non-medical transition at the age of four. At the time, they felt more comfortable as a girl. As they grew up and their understanding of gender evolved, they decided nonbinary transgender suited them better.

And now that they are 15, their family is moving out of Missouri because they fear the recent draconian anti-trans laws.

"No longer identifies as a girl" does not mean they identify as a boy. They are still trans. They knew from the age of 4 that being a boy was not right for them.

I don't think they changed their mind. I think they just found a better understanding of who they were.

These bigots know nothing about trans people yet think they are qualified to criticize them.

[homunculus-argument]

Fantasy story where one whole race of characters seems to consist 100% of villainous individuals, from lawful evil to chaotic evil, with very few and rare neutral individuals among them. Everyone assumes that their homeland - which is a closed-off, distant and seclusive place where next to no-one is allowed to visit - must be a dark and horrible place where everyone is insanely cruel, but once the protagonists have the rare opportunity to visit, the place is actually astonishingly pretty, tidy and well-organised, and every individual they meet seems to be a highly upstanding, law-abiding citizen who wholeheartedly trusts everyone they encounter to be one, too.

Then it turns out that their legal system is actually downright draconian, but the only punishment for all but the pettiest crimes is exile. Anyone who breaks the law is simply thrown out, and that's why the rest of the world is only familiar with this community's outcasts and criminals. And as pretty as it is, at the end of the day this land is a dark and horrible place, whose values are insanely cruel.

[metanarrates]

I haven't seen a lot of coverage in the news about this, but my state has just advanced legislation on a bill that would criminalize trans bathroom use in publicly owned buildings. this could mean up to 6 months in jail and up to $1000 in fees for those convicted.

most alarming aspects of this bill:

-"publicly owned buildings" include airports, schools, libraries, government offices, some hospitals, and most terrifyingly AND explicitly within the bill, domestic violence shelters and rape crisis facilities. transgender people, who are estimated to be almost 4 times more likely to be victims of violent crimes than cisgender people, could become criminalized in the very spaces they seek out to shelter from abuse.

-on that note, the bill potentially threatens federal funding of already-underfunded domestic violence and sexual assault facilities. to recieve federal grants, facilities are required to follow nondiscrimination laws. this law could place the facilities in danger of losing the grants they rely on. this is severely going to impact victims' abilities to access critically needed services.

-the bill legally defines "sex" in a way that has a lot of potential impact across state legislature. according to the bill’s text, HB 257 would legally define a female as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is of the general type that functions in a way that could produce ova,” and a male as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is of the general type that functions to fertilize the ova of a female.” this could effectively end the state's legal recognition of trans people.

-the bill demands that trans people who DO use bathrooms in publicly owned buildings must have undergone both gender reassignment surgery and have had their birth certificate changed. this has several issues, obviously, but the biggest one I want to highlight is that this opens the door to potential genital inspection by law enforcement if someone is accused of being transgender in a bathroom. in addition to any other indignities suffered by being harassed by cops when trying to use the restroom, it is completely possible for law enforcement to now demand to see whether someone's genitals are in compliance with these laws. it's an unconscionable and humiliating invasion of privacy.

-the bill requires trans students to develop a "privacy plan" with their school in order to arrange access to unisex spaces. if unisex bathrooms are unavailable, the student can be granted access to a sex-designated space “through staggered scheduling or another policy provision that provides for temporary private access.”

-the bill allows the state’s attorney general to impose a fine of up to $10,000 per day on local governments that don’t enforce the bill. in essence, any government that isn't sufficiently committed to enforcing these draconian laws may face massive fines until they have reached the attorney general's standard of enforcement.

this is one of the most unbelievably severe anti-trans laws that have ever been proposed in the united states. it would effectively ban trans people from participating in public life, harm nearly every single victim of domestic violence and sexual assault who seeks services in the state, enforce criminality on random trans people in bathrooms, and open every single person who could be potentially accused of being trans up to a wave of harassment and discrimination from both private citizens and law enforcement. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that this law would literally force me and my transfemme fiancee to flee this state.

the law's been fast tracked to an insane degree through the legislature. similarly to the anti-dei bill currently making its way through, it's only been a week since it was introduced, and it's already passed the house, and is now up for vote in the senate. if it passes both sets of votes, the only thing left in its way is the governor's decision to veto.

please share this post. make as much noise as you can. if you live in utah, please call and email your district senator as soon as possible. it doesn't matter how late you see this. the bill is up for vote this week (1/23/24 at the time of writing) and we need to do whatever we physically can to protest its passing. we've already moved past the opportunity for public comment on the bill, but a few organizations have called for a rally at the capitol steps on thursday (1/25/24) at noon. if you are in the salt lake area or are able to make it there, please consider attending. wear a mask and bring a sign. we are stronger together.