thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

cogitoergofun:

Historians spill the tea on Moms for Liberty, urge museum to throw group overboard

A group of professional historians urges the Museum of the American Revolution to cancel plans to host Moms for Liberty over its campaigns a

Arkansas Times

History is already not looking kindly upon the Moms for Liberty 2023 summer conference in Philadelphia, and it hasn’t even happened yet.

The American Historical Association put out a statement Monday taking the Museum of the American Revolution to task for hosting an organization known “to censor history teachers, harass them, and threaten their employment in our schools.” Part of their letter reads:

The AHA would not be making this request if it was only a matter of disagreement over content or interpretation. Moms for Liberty has every right to argue for an approach to history education with which we disagree. However, Moms for Liberty has crossed a boundary in its attempts to silence and harass teachers, rather than participate in legitimate controversy. Moms for Liberty promotes legislation that censors honest and accurate history teaching, and even threatens teachers with termination for no offense other than teaching history with professional integrity.

Founded in 1884, the American Historical Association is the biggest membership organization for professional historians in the world. You can read their letter in full here.

Speaking up for history teachers against a group that harasses and wishes to criminalize them is the right thing to do, and you’d think it would be a universally popular stance. Amazingly, though, Arkansas’s very own education secretary, Jacob Oliva, is not only not denouncing Moms for Liberty; he’s taking the anti-government extremist group up on their invitation to speak at their Joyful Warriors National Summit this weekend.

Oliva shares the speaker roster with former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, whose attempts to portray himself as the sane, anti-Trump alternative in the crowded Republican presidential field might have veered off track here. Other speakers include once and maybe future President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

“Moms for Liberty” or as I like to call them “Cunts for Idiocy”

These brainless neo-nazi morons shouldn’t be legally allowed to own pets, let alone be allowed to be parents

Klanned Karenhood

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

embrace-your-inner-kid:

Warrior Nun saved in the last week of Pride Month. What a gift.

Originally posted by cylonalyna

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS :D

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

espanolbot2:

Squid Game Increased Netflix's Value by Almost $1 Billion While Its Creator Received Virtually Nothing - IGN

A new report details how Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk lost the rights to his creation, which has made Netflix close to $1 billion.

IGN

Cruelly ironic that the guy wrote Squid Game based on his own negative experiences with poverty and exploitation, only to be exploited in turn as the project both make Netflix a ton of money AND turned into a reality show spin-off that cynically wrings more money from the IP.

We Live In The Bad Place O.O

We live in the Worse Place.

rejectingrepublicans:

rejectingrepublicans:

socialjusticeinamerica:

Kobach says trans Kansans' IDs will be changed back to their sex assigned at birth

The Kansas attorney general downplayed expected changes to transgender residents' use of bathrooms and other facilities.

KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR

Voting isn’t enough anymore. You need to find a way to actively resist every single day or you will be ruled by Nazis hell bent on your eradication.

😡

rejectingrepublicans:

Life was so simple she felt compelled to change her name to something Anglo. Wasn’t she fortunate she could pass?

millennial-review:

justinspoliticalcorner:

Kansas, Other States Threaten To Undo Legal Gender Changes; What To Do

Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, and Tennessee all have passed laws "defining sex" to exclude trans people. Now Kansas intends to revert all g

erininthemorning.com

Erin Reed at Erin In The Morning:

In a shocking announcement, Attorney General Kris Kobach of Kansas released an official opinion on Monday that will threaten transgender people’s legal documents in the state. If Kobach’s opinion is enforced, transgender individuals who had moved ahead and legally corrected their birth certificates and driver’s licenses now may have their corrections reversed. The wrong gender marker may be placed on all legal documents provided by the state.

Kansas Senate Bill 180, passed in April, defines sex as “biologically determined at birth.” Kobach interpreted this to mean that state agencies must now revert the gender markers on driver’s licenses and birth certificates for transgender people in the state, even if they were changed legally in the past. This is an unprecedented move; transgender people who have changed their legal documents have often seen those changes as safe from legal interference once the process has been completed.

Kansas is not the only state that could begin taking such steps. North Dakota, Tennessee, and Montana have also passed similar bills this year. There is concern that these states may follow Kansas’ lead in enforcement, leaving transgender people uncertain about how to proceed and protect their legal gender changes.
[…]

The consequences of rolling back transgender people’s legal markers would be disastrous and fraught with difficulty. The state would have to compile a list of people who have changed their gender marker and determine the reason that each change was made, otherwise it would risk overturning gender markers for intersex people as well—a risk they may decide to take. It would potentially make it so that transgender people stopped by police will come under extra scrutiny for not having a matching gender marker or gender presentation. Likewise, it could affect the way transgender people are treated in situations where they do not wish to disclose their gender identity, such as presenting it in restaurants, bars, or at entertainment venues.

Furthermore, transgender people who are made to have incorrect gender markers are much more likely to experience harassment and abuse. For transgender people whose ID’s listed the wrong gender, a third of them reported harassment or abuse happening directly from the mismatch. This ranged from verbal harassment to denial of services and even assault. Correct gender markers reduce suicide risk by up to 50% for transgender people - it is an essential part of transition for many.

[…]

Although Kansas is the first state where there is potential action to reverse changes to gender markers, it is not alone. In Montana, HB 458 gained notoriety when transgender Rep. Zooey Zephyr stood up in protest after being silenced and denied the opportunity to speak on the bill. This legislation defines sex as binary and eliminates protections for transgender people in 41 sections of code. Similarly, Tennessee and North Dakota have passed comparable laws. This has prompted organizations, including The Name Change Project, to hold expedited legal clinics to assist transgender individuals in changing their IDs ahead of the Tennessee law taking effect on July 1.

So far, four states have enacted or are in the process of enacting laws that define sex as the gender assigned at birth for legal documents like state IDs, driver’s licenses, and birth certificates, leaving trans, nonbinary, and intersex people to use gender markers not congruent with their current gender identity.

These anti-trans policies are part of the disturbing trend of erasing trans existence from public life.

mondengel:

swholli:

weirdlylyricalnotes:

Despite some of its misses, Firefox still matters. Mozilla is pushing companies to be more private, and its key product is different at its core. The browser market is dominated by Google’s Chromium codebase and its underlying browser engine, Blink, the component that turns code into visual web pages. Microsoft’s Edge Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera all use adapted versions of Chromium. Apple makes developers use its WebKit browser engine on iOS. Other than that, Firefox’s Gecko browser engine is the only alternative in existence.

“This market needs variety,” Willemsen says. If Firefox diminishes further, there’ll be less competition for Chrome. “We need that difference for open internet standards, for the sake of preventing monopolies,” Willemsen says. Others agree. Everyone we spoke with for this story—inside and outside of Mozilla—says having Firefox flourish makes the web a better place. The trick is figuring out how to get there.

Download and start using Firefox if you don’t already, I made the switch back to Firefox after not using it for years and being a chrome person until 2020 and have never regretted it

firefox is so amazing.  Seriously.  If you haven’t, give it a try.  At the very least, you can watch youtube videos with 0 (zero) ads.