収束ゾーンでのライフ: Life in the Convergence Zone

This is basically me clearing the decks late Sunday night so it’s a bit less organised than usual.

One of the big proponents of Missouri’s trans medical care ban has, naturally, doubled down on saying 12 year olds should be able to marry, because that’s the kind of sick motherfuckers they are.

Here’s a link to the Trans Health Legal Fund. I kinda wanted to do a deeper dive before posting it but it’s time to clear some decks, so you’ll have to do your own groundwork. But the Transgender Law Centre has been around for a while, so it’s going to be fine.

Equality Florida have issued a travel warning telling LGBT people not to come to their state. Calling it a “Travel Warning” vs. calling for a boycott is interesting – not invalid, the danger is very real, but an interesting difference between now and the not-that-recent past. Talking of Florida, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation on a six-week abortion ban into law late Friday night.

Arizona, anyone local interested in or trying to work up a protest of The Bridge Church after their recent attacks on drag queen story hour in Tucson? I’m nowhere near there so I’m not in, but there’s (a very small amount of) talk about it.

Salon has a dive into the 5th Circuit‘s partial reversal of the MAGAt judge in Texas – but it’s only partial and they invoked the hideously censorious 19th century Comstock Law along the way in support of the fascist’s ideas of standing and relevance. It’s bad shit, and an allez-oop to an authoritarian Republican Supreme Court if they choose to take it.

The fundamentalists have a long history of running “stealth” candidates for office, running as moderates or even centre-left only to turn fundamentalist – or fascist – as soon as they take office. I suspect but do not know that the recent turncoat in North Carolina was such a stealth candidate. Matthew Kacsmaryk, the MAGAt judge involved above buried some of his most christofascist writings. They’re probably his most honest. Since he was confirmed by the Republican Party under Trump, it coming out wouldn’t’ve changed a goddamn thing – but it is another example.

Tesla’s hideously racist work environment is under sanction in California. Particularly relevant since, well, That Fuck Elon Musk. It’s taken long enough.

Meanwhile, back in Texas, Republican Governor Abbot prepares to pardon a white convicted murderer for killing a Black Lives Matter protestor after driving into a crowd with his car, the same Republican state “just sentenced a Black man to 70 years in prison for “spitting at police” to “make an example out of him.”” Your Christian White People’s Party at work, folks.

Finally, here’s Maggie Tokuda-Hall writing in more depth about how Scholastic wanted to publish her new book – but only if she took out all the discussion involving racism, which is direct complicity because Republican censorship and racism.

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The CBC/Radio Canada have paused twitter over Elon’s mislabelling / mischaracterisation of their service.

Canadians, now’s the time to tell the CBC you approve of the suspension, and tell them to set up elsewhere – such as Mastodon, or some other aspect of the Fediverse. Particularly since we broke the one billion posts-per-month mark just now.

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