#megan hunt

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Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt torches Republicans for hating trans people more than they love their own families

👉🏿 https://heartlandsignal.com/2023/05/19/nebraska-state-sen-megan-hunt-torches-republicans-for-hating-trans-people-more-than-they-love-their-families/

[gracegordongreene]

An endless list of scenes i think about a normal amount Body of Proof ✦ 1x01

[katebeckets]

Megan Hunt in Every Episode ⤷ 1x01 — "Pilot"

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A Nebraska Republican state senator who voted for a combined anti-trans and anti-abortion bill that passed by one vote in the legislature has admitted that she didn’t pay attention to the issue.

State Senator Christy Armendariz represents the 18th District in the state.

Writing for New York magazine, journalist Lila Shapiro said that the Senator “led me to a bench in an empty hallway” to say that she “found it puzzling that a reporter from New York would come all the way to Nebraska to cover this affair.”

“I don’t watch the news or get the newspaper,” she told the magazine. “Is there anything going on I should be aware of?”

The writer told Ms. Armendariz that other states have passed other similar bills restricting trans and women’s reproductive rights and that an appeals court on the federal level in the Nebraska circuit had ruled that one of them was unconstitutional.

“So is it a big widespread thing?” she asked the writer, adding that regular Nebraska residents were unaware of the issue.

“I knocked doors for a year, and nobody brought this up,” the Senator said, adding that she wished that the legislation had never been brought to the floor.

For three months, a group of lawmakers in the state ground nearly all legislative business in the state to a halt, grabbing the nation’s attention with a remarkable filibuster to stifle a bill that would end gender-affirming care for young transgender people.

Late Tuesday 16 May, Republican lawmakers broke through, advancing a bill that not only bans gender-affirming care for trans people under 19 years old but also tacks on an amendment to outlaw abortion after roughly 10 weeks of pregnancy and hands the state’s GOP-appointed medical officer the authority to set the rules for affirming care for trans youth.

Hundreds of protesters filled the capital in Lincoln, standing outside the doors and in the gallery above lawmakers while chanting “one more vote to save our lives”; only one Senator would have had to defect from supporters of the bill to kill the legislation.

The vote – on the 78th day of a 90-day session – followed a series of manoeuvres that opponents argued were bending and breaking the rules of the state legislature to hammer through the legislation and avert the filibuster, which would allow opponents to occupy their allotted time to speak the bill to death.

“What you are attempting to do today is the lowest of the absolute lows,” state Senator Machaela Cavanaugh, who spearheaded the filibuster, told Republican lawmakers.

“You literally have to cheat at every moment of this debate in every possible way … You are allowing it to happen,” she added. “You do literally have blood on your hands, and if you vote for it, you will have buckets.”

State Senator Megan Hunt, the first openly LGBT+ member of the state legislature and the mother of a trans child, lambasted lawmakers for their “escape routes” from the capitol to avoid facing protesters.

“If you can’t go out and face them, you are not worthy,” she said. “Your legacy is filth.”

Protesters surrounded the state capitol chambers in Lincoln again on 19 May, chanting “keep your bans off our bodies” and “save our lives” as lawmakers made their final round of votes on the bill, which passed 33-15. The bill reached the exact number of votes needed to pass.

Republican Governor Jim Pillen signed it into law on Monday.

“We are working to inspire Nebraskans to get in the game so that abortion is simply unthinkable in the state of Nebraska,” Mr. Pillen said, according to WOWT.

He called the legislation “the most significant win for [the] social conservative agenda that over a generation has seen in Nebraska. I think that’s something we need to clap and shout about.”

At a show in Nebraska hours after the vote on Friday night, the artist Lizzo lambasted the legislation from the stage. “It really breaks my heart that there are young people growing up in a world that doesn’t protect them,” she said.

“Don’t let anyone tell you who you are. ... These laws are not real. You are what’s real, and you deserve to be protected,” she said.

“Hat tip to Senator Armendariz, who says she doesn’t know anything about the issue, doesn’t pay attention to current events, and wishes the bill she voted for hadn’t been introduced. It passed by 1 vote,” wrote Ari Kohen, a political science professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

“These are the people who devoted an entire legislative session to taking away people’s rights in the face of massive opposition from experts and ordinary citizens. They openly admit that none of their constituents mentioned this issue to them and they don’t know much about it,” he added. “We have a handful of legislators who care enough to listen and learn. And then we have the majority, who seem not to know or care what they’re doing as long as it feels right to them and they have the votes to do it. Awful.”

The Independent has requested comment from Ms. Armendariz.

[a-anglwilson]

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[ladyorlandodream]

this episode was "I am going to cite Desperate Housewives" all the way

[batboyblog]

Nebraska state Senators Megan Hunt and Machaela Cavanaugh are leading master class in dealing with transphobes in power:

Be mean to them.

from Senator Cavanaugh:

“I’m going to block anything from changing this bill. I tried to get the committee to change this bill before it came out of committee. I tried to convince the committee members that we should consider an amendment. I asked if the introducer requested an amendment. No. No. No.”

“So now you wanna compromise? To assuage your guilt? No thank you. I will not allow you to assuage your guilt. If you want to find a way to vote for 574, vote for 574. It’s there for you. Go for it. Have at it. But it’s not gonna get better. It’s going to be in its pure from that Sen. [Kathleen Kauth] and the male members of the HHS committee decided it would be in.”

“You get to vote for that and nothing else. If you want to blame me for your inability to stand up for your own beliefs, fine. I don’t have to live with you. I don’t have to live with your conscious, you do.”

and Senator Hunt:

“This bill harms me in an unforgivable way. This is a line you don’t cross with me. If you cross it today you’re staying on other side of it, because you have done irreparable harm. You’re doing harm to the body and Nebraska as well. Don’t say hi to me in the hall. Don’t ask me how my weekend was. Don’t walk my desk and ask me anything. Don’t send me Christmas cards. Take me off the list. You don’t know me. We have no relationship. And if you don’t believe me, if you think I’m going to cool down and change my mind? You should believe me. No one in the world holds a grudge like me. And no one in the world cares less about being petty than me. I don’t care. I don’t like you. You aren’t welcome in my space. You aren’t’ a safe person for my child to be around or any child frankly. Don’t believe me? You should.”

[down-in-dixie]

Don’t you dare die on me. Believe it or not, I don’t have a lot of girl friends. I can’t afford to lose even one.

Megan & Kate --- Body of Proof

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delucafiles masterlist

Request: Open!

on this blog, i write for romantic character x reader. so request anything fluff, angst, smut, etc. my other blog, @a-anglwilson, is where i write for teen!reader, platonic imagines.

- andrew deluca

- april kepner

- carina deluca

- cristina yang

- izzie stevens

- jo wilson

- lexie grey

- maggie pierce

- megan hunt

- meredith grey

- headcanons

[mrsannellaperlman]

Dr. Megan Hunt and Dr. Maura Isles’ IG posts. (If they are in the same universe.)

[julieverne]

They really sold this show as ‘straight woman works for her ex-husband's current girlfriend and that is fine and no one catches feelings’.

And the network bought it.

[anewkindofme]

Just saw this comment that said Owen is so good with April because she reminds him of Megan and now I can’t get that out of my head.

[ladyriot]

Fic! In which Megan Hunt is allowed to say "fuck" (and also, um, do that)

and we'll make the old new again (with a softer kind of love) (5298 words) by LadyRiot Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rizzoli & Isles, Body of Proof (TV 2011) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Megan Hunt (Body of Proof)/Maura Isles, Maura Isles & Jane Rizzoli Characters: Maura Isles, Megan Hunt (Body of Proof), Jane Rizzoli, Lacey Fleming Additional Tags: Exes to Lovers, Second Chance Romance, Long-Distance Relationship, Smut, Dirty Talk, Found Family Summary: Maura Isles doesn't date surgeons anymore. Dr. Megan Hunt may just be the reason for that. But when a resume crosses her desk and reveals that Megan isn't a surgeon anymore, she knows the woman has changed. She had to have changed.

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In response to a Nebraska bill seeking to ban anyone under 19 years old from attending drag shows, a progressive lawmaker in the state has proposed an amendment that would ban “religious indoctrination camps,” which she defines as “a camp, vacation Bible study, retreat, lock-in, or convention held by a church, youth group, or religious organization for the purpose of indoctrinating children with a specific set of religious beliefs.”

The proposed amendment came from State Sen. Megan Hunt (D) and states, “The Legislature finds that there is a well documented history of indoctrination and sexual abuse perpetrated by religious leaders and clergy people upon children. Abusers within churches and other religious institutions often use events like church or youth-group-sponsored camps and retreats to earn children’s trust and gain unsupervised access to such children in order to commit such abuse.”

It also suggests a fine of $10,000 for any organization that hosts a “religious indoctrination camp” for anyone under 19 years old. The original bill proposes the same penalty for any organization that hosts a drag show and allows those under 19 to attend.

Hunt admitted on Twitter that she proposed the amendment to make a point and not with any intention of it actually passing.

“This is an amendment that I will use to make a point about the underlying bill, LB371, which bans all-ages drag shows,” she wrote. “It won’t pass, I would withdraw it if it had the votes to pass. It’s a device to make a point. We need not clench nor worry.”

While some may wonder if Hunt is wasting time with something she never intends to pass, others have pointed out that methods like hers are essential to spark conversations.

“She’s using the tools at her disposal to make a larger point and get conversations going,” wrote journalist Hemant Mehta, adding, “It’s not that different from proposing mandatory vasectomies in response to Republicans forcing women to give birth against their will.”

Mehta continued, it can make a big difference in public opinion when lawmakers help make a point about how ridiculous a bill is if they don’t have any other recourse for bringing it down. In such a red state, Hunt is outnumbered regarding votes. Nevertheless, Hunt is doing more than just making a point. She is also actively working to kill the bill, having filed a motion to “indefinitely postpone” it.

When the bill was proposed in early January, the legal and policy counsel for the ACLU of Nebraska, Jane Seu, called it “an unconstitutional attempt rooted in a coordinated national effort to push LGBTQ+ people out of public life.”

It is one of several bills across the country targeting drag shows, the result of a far-right smear campaign accusing drag queens of being “groomers.”

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a-anglwilson masterlist

Requests: Open!

i write teen!reader. So it's usually daughter!reader or younger sibling!reader. the reader could also be a patient. Other than that, there's not many rules. For romantic imagines see @delucafiles

- addison montgomery

- alex karev

- amelia shepherd

the meeting

- andrew deluca

- april kepner

- arizona robbins

- ben warren

- callie torres

- carina deluca

don't worry

- catherine avery

- cristina yang

- derek shepherd

- george o'malley

- izzie stevens

- jackson avery

- jo wilson

- lexie grey

- maggie pierce

- mark sloan

- megan hunt

- meredith grey

- miranda bailey

- nathan riggs

- owen hunt

- richard webber

- teddy altman

- tom koracick

- headcanons