#HannahDreier got a #Pulitzer for her MYT article revealing how child labor laws are being flouted in, among other states, Alabama.
In textile factories, meat plants & roofing companies, immigrant children work in clear violation of the law, & few folks seem that concerned, especially at the #Alabama Attorney General’s office.
"This is the world that #SamuelAlito and his friends in the #SupremeCourt have created, and this is the world they want for us....Ladies of America, #women#voters of America - is this good enough for you?"
…The bill in CT, pending before an #education cmte, is 1 of a raft of measures advancing nationwide that seek to do things like prohibit #BookBans or forbid the #harassment of school & public librarians…. Legislators in 22 mostly blue states have proposed 57 such bills so far this year, & 2 have become #law….
But the #library-friendly measures are being outpaced by bills in mostly #RedStates that aim to restrict which #books#libraries can offer & #threaten#librarians w/ #prison or thousands in #fines for handing out “obscene” or “harmful” titles. At least 27 states are considering 100 such bills this year, 3 of which have become #law…. That adds to nearly a dozen similar measures enacted over the last 3 yrs across 10 states.
Amazing thing about most all the Red States, is that they claim to have the secret to low taxation. Evidently that means to have low taxes, but provide few if any basic services. Whenever there is an emergency or dire need, they rely on the Federal government for even the most basic things as sewers and roads. #redstates #leeches #services
"You could suggest that is what Oklahomans deserve for electing Republicans. Why don’t they pick up and move? They must not be able to pack their yokelmobile fast enough.
But as Jessica Valenti explains, this is the right’s plan for the entire country. Oklahoma is just the test case.
But I live in California! Rhode Island! MASSACHUSETTS!"
To this I say, where do you think those death threats started? And who do you think is on the Supreme Court? …
I have some bad news for anyone in a blue state who feels a little schadenfreude or urge to tell people to just 'get up and go!' when a horrible law or hate crime comes up in a red state. As long as we have a Supreme Court dominated by six Republicans, we all live in a red state."
How do #parents, who aren't also sadists, justify staying in these #redStates where their #children will be given an objectively sub-standard #education, and be subject to arbitrary #cruelty by people who should be looking out for their welfare? If I was a #Texas parent, I would sell every possession to fund moving to a blue state.
@br00t4c wow, just wow. Where our kids go to visit the #annefrankhuis here in the #netherlands, republican led #redstates are slowly descending towards a society that made the horrors of #ww2 possible.
I just can’t get my head around it.
@br00t4c
Sorry "Ms. Magazine", but that's a pretty idiotic response.
Unless pregnant women in #RedStates are arguing they are being held "prisoner" (which they aren't), telling them they DO have an option IF they can convince a private "abortion fund" to pay for their air travel to a state where abortion is still legal is no one's idea of an acceptable "option". 🤦♂️
Just wait till Red States begin stopping pregnant women at the airport or stopping cars at the border. 😡
This isn't that surprising, but the numbers are quite shocking.
Living in a southern red state likely means dying younger: report
Some of the world's best life expectancy outcomes, according to United Nations (UN) data, can be founded in "socialist" countries that MAGA Republicans despise — including 84 in Switzerland, Italy and Spain; 83 in Sweden, Norway, Canada and France; and 82 in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Greece and Portugal.
Meanwhile, overall life expectancy in the United States, according to UN figures, is around 79. But how long one is likely to live in the U.S. can vary considerably from state to state.
Journalist/author Colin Woodard, in an in-depth report published Politico on September 1, stresses that on the whole, Americans living in the Deep South or Appalachia — are more likely to die younger.
"On paper, Lexington County, SC and Placer County, Calif., have a lot in common," Woodard explains. They're both big, wealthy, suburban counties with white supermajorities that border on their respective state's capital cities…. But when it comes to how long their residents can count on living, the parallels fall apart. Placer has a Scandinavia-like life expectancy of 82.3 years. In Lexington, the figure is 77.7, a little worse than China's."
Scraping data using #AI.
Making people recognizable for authoritarian regimes that need to stay anonymous (no, #VPN is not a decent protection).
Handing over user data to the FBI or law-enforcement officials from #RedStates for people seaking #abortions.
Scraping data using #AI.
Making people recognizable for authoritarian regimes that need to stay anonymous (no, #VPN is not a decent protection).
Handing over user data to the FBI or law-enforcement officials from #RedStates for people seaking #abortions.
California is on the cusp of repealing travel ban to anti-LGBTQ+ states (www.latimes.com)
California lawmakers vote to repeal 2016 law that forbids the state from spending money on travel to other states with anti-LGBTQ+ laws.