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I’m looking forward to a day when we no longer call them women’s rights or lgbtq rights or the rights of people of color.
I’m looking forward to a day when we just call them rights.
#election2024 #voteblue #lgbtq
#womensrights #rights #KamalaHarris
"Threatening to cancel votes":
Florida officials allege fraud to kneecap abortion rights amendment
The last-minute report threatens to "cancel" votes for an amendment to restore abortion rights in the state
In a last-minute effort ❌to kill a proposed ballot amendment that would #restore #abortion #rights in Florida, state officials are accusing a group that gathered signatures to get the amendment on this year's ballot fraud.
Florida Deputy Secretary of State #Brad #McVay claimed in a 348-page report released on Friday night that "Floridians Protecting Freedom" paid out-of-state petition circulators to harvest fraudulent signatures. That group that gathered nearly 1 million signatures for the abortion rights effort.
The report alleges that “more than 20” of the 911,000 signatures were from now-deceased Floridians.
Florida law allows voters to add amendments to the state constitution directly, if 60% of voters agree with a given proposal.
⚠️Though the election is just three weeks away and ballots have been printed, challenges to the amendment could invalidate votes cast for the initiative.
🔥Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration has worked hard to kneecap the rights-restoring proposal,
💥reportedly sending state troopers to interrogate petition signers and threatening to prosecute television stations that run ads supporting the measure.
🆘On Thursday, state's Supreme Court ruled DeSantis was not abusing his powers in his attacks on the amendment.
⭐️Florida Democrats warn that the report is just another tactic aimed at killing the effort to repeal the state's DeSantis-enacted six-week abortion ban.
Florida threatens to
🔥criminally charge TV stations airing #abortion #rights ad
🆘The Florida health department is demanding stations pull the ad,
❇️which urges voters to defeat the state’s six-week abortion ban at the polls
Florida’s health department threatened #criminal #charges for television stations that run a political ad calling for the repeal of the state’s six-week abortion ban,
one of the nation’s strictest.
💥At least two stations received cease-and-desist letters Thursday
written by John Wilson, general counsel from the Florida Department of Health,
❌demanding they pull the advertisement.
The health department and office of Florida Gov. #Ron #DeSantis (R) did not respond to requests for comment.
Wilson wrote that running the 30-second spot was a violation of Florida’s “#sanitary #nuisance” law,
🔸which is commonly used to charge people with overflowing septic tanks or unclean slaughterhouses.
🔥He ordered the stations to remove the ads within 24 hours or open themselves up to a second-degree misdemeanor charge,
which in Florida carries a 🆘sentence of imprisonment up to 60 days and a fine up to $500.
In the ad, Caroline Williams describes how ➡️ Florida’s current #abortion #ban would have put her in an early grave if it had been enacted a couple of years ago.
washingtonpost.com/nation/2024…
Florida threatens to criminally charge TV stations airing abortion rights ad
The Florida health department is demanding stations pull the ad, which urges voters to defeat the state’s six-week abortion ban at the polls.Ben Brasch (The Washington Post)
#LGBTQ #rights: Where do #VicePresident #KamalaHarris and #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump stand?
Harris and her #vicepresidential #pick, #Minnesota #Governor #TimWalz, have both made #LGBTQ #rights a #legislative #priority throughout their long #political #careers.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #DemocraticParty #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews #Megathread
theconversation.com/lgbtq-righ…
LGBTQ rights: Where do Harris and Trump stand?
Have they expanded or restricted rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people? A scholar of the LGBTQ community examines the candidates’ records.The Conversation
The US election is on a knife edge.
My trip to Georgia showed how easily it could end in tragedy
To my right: a cluster of #election #conspiracy #theorists who still believe Donald Trump won in 2020.
To my left, a group of #voting #rights #campaigners, singing an old spiritual popularised during the civil rights era.
They were here to observe
🔥last-minute efforts by hard-right officials to alter the way in which votes will be counted next month.
The measures, many say, will sow doubt in this crucial swing state, 🆘creating chaos that is likely to favour Trump.
A man wearing a Trump T-shirt had weaved his way into the voting rights group
– most of whom were Black
– and was grinning with satisfied amusement.
Others started hanging pro-Trump flags behind them as police officers intervened.
The conspiracy theorists
– mostly white
– pointed and laughed
theguardian.com/us-news/commen…
The US election is on a knife edge. My trip to Georgia showed how easily it could end in tragedy
Georgia’s conspiracy theorists are still disputing the result of the last US presidential election. Will this year’s be more peaceful? I looked for clues in the Atlanta suburbsOliver Laughland (The Guardian)