Post AVffjLhQ9svlM1imno by DwigtRortugal@poa.st
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 (DIR) Post #AVfY3wPCb1pPM3VXkW by barney@mas.to
       2023-05-15T02:07:06Z
       
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       Disney's "Strange World" is an animated film for kids, about a family of explorers who journey to a mysterious subterranean land. A fifth-grade teacher showed it to her Earth Science class as a teaching aid. Now she's being investigated by the state. Because the movie happens to contain a gay character. And, in #Florida, the #Republicans have made it illegal for anyone to be gay. Even animated characters.#USPol #LGBTQStory: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/14/florida-teacher-disney-film-strange-worldTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKh2G73gCCs
       
 (DIR) Post #AVfY3x04NxJpCOkzDM by barney@mas.to
       2023-05-15T02:10:31Z
       
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       Imagine being a gay kid in #Florida, and learning in school that your mere existence is grounds for a criminal investigation. How would that make you feel?Now, imagine calling yourself a "progressive," but saying "I'm not going to vote. I don't give a shit what happens to gay kids in school. I see no important difference between the two political parties."#USPol #LGBTQ #Florida
       
 (DIR) Post #AVfY3xjRfFcBT7zDwO by mybarkingdogs@universeodon.com
       2023-05-15T02:15:06Z
       
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       @barney Agreed, but I really wish more would be done to stop entire states from falling to Christofascist bigots. Like there *has* to be something that could be done to stop places like Florida from becoming their own mini hate-fiefdoms
       
 (DIR) Post #AVfY3yTssalHn9iJKC by barney@mas.to
       2023-05-15T03:26:21Z
       
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       Me too. This is why i posted that.DeSantis won his first gubernatorial election, in 2018, by 32,463 votes. Only 0.4%. If just a few more people had shown up to the polls in Florida, a massive human catastrophe could have been averted, and thousands of lives saved.@mybarkingdogs
       
 (DIR) Post #AVfY3z90Phefqgx9Q8 by mybarkingdogs@universeodon.com
       2023-05-15T03:27:18Z
       
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       @barney and how many of those people were gerrymandered or inconvenienced or threatened out of voting, too...
       
 (DIR) Post #AVfY3znly8GTt81hxo by barney@mas.to
       2023-05-15T03:38:22Z
       
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       A lot! And we outside of #Florida are partly to blame for the voter suppression behind the atrocities that are going on there.In 2018, Florida voters overwhelmingly approved Amendment 4 to the state's Constitution, by a 65%-35% margin. It overturned an old Jim Crow-era law that blocked ex-felons from voting for the rest of their lives. Inventing ways to convict Black people of felonies was a common way to suppress Black votes in the Jim Crow South.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Florida_Amendment_4@mybarkingdogs
       
 (DIR) Post #AVfY40PLiQK3lfbiXA by barney@mas.to
       2023-05-15T03:43:52Z
       
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       However, because DeSantis had just become governor, the Republicans were able to nullify the wishes of 65% of voters.They enacted SB7066, an absurd law that added a limitation to Amendment 4: Ex-felons can only vote if they've served all their time AND paid all their fines and court fees. And the state provides no way for ex-felons to find out if they had any outstanding fees. They have to guess. And if they guess wrong, and vote, they go to jail.@mybarkingdogs
       
 (DIR) Post #AVfY42vKMV5fZQaHei by barney@mas.to
       2023-05-15T03:52:27Z
       
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       Florida Republicans' voter suppression law was absurd, and a federal judge quickly overturned it. However, a panel of three Trump-appointed judges on the 11th Circuit reinstated the law.Because of those three Trump-appointed judges, over 1.6 million Floridians are unable to vote. 23% of the Black people in #Florida cannot vote right now, because so-called "progressives" in other states didn't give enough of a shit to show up and vote in the 2016 presidential election.#USPol@mybarkingdogs
       
 (DIR) Post #AVfYJ5UJ6uqhro7NZY by eee@poa.st
       2023-05-15T05:25:29.441348Z
       
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       @barney @barney kids aren't gay.why do you sexualize children?
       
 (DIR) Post #AVffjLhQ9svlM1imno by DwigtRortugal@poa.st
       2023-05-15T06:48:40.429584Z
       
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       @barney Imagine being gaywell you don't have to imaginegay
       
 (DIR) Post #AVffndcJU0ti5DNSls by Jiub@poa.st
       2023-05-15T06:49:26.784736Z
       
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       @DwigtRortugal @barney got em