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Miss Gayle

Today I sent an email to my nonprofit clients reminding them to start getting their program accomplishments narratives ready for efiling their 990s.

I also told them if at all possible to revise their mission & program descriptions to avoid using any of the words this administration doesn't like.

I presume the efiles will be scanned for the "offensive" keywords, same as other docs from other agencies. And many nonprofits will have their status revoked.

activism cultural heritage implicit bias prejudice affirming care cultural sensitivity inclusiveness pronouns anti-racism DEI Increase diversity racial inequality assigned at birth disability inequalities sexuality at risk discriminatory Injustice social justice biases disparity intersectionality socioeconomic biologically male diverse groups LGBTQ stereotypes BIPOC diversity marginalized systemic black and latinx equal opportunity most risk they/them clean energy equitableness multicultural transgender climate crisis feminism Mx traumatic community gender ideology nonbinary unconscious bias diversity Gulf of Mexico people + uterus underprivileged confirmation bias hate speech pregnant people victims
#Nonprofit#Coup#ChristianNationalism
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Speaking of not having a lot of faith in American courts to stop all this fascism, have you heard that a 6-3 fascist high SCOTUS has agreed to hear a troll case that might overturn bans on trying to torture (psychological, or otherwise) the gay out of your kids?

web.archive.org/web/2025031104

The Supreme Court Might Re-Legalize LGBTQ Conversion Therapy

"The Supreme Court is taking up yet another case that threatens to roll back the clock for gay and transgender Americans. The justices announced on Monday that they would hear a First Amendment challenge to Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, the first lawsuit of its kind to reach the high court.

More than 20 states currently forbid medical professionals from offering corrective “treatments” for gay and transgender youth that seek to change their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Major medical organizations have unanimously condemned conversion therapy as unscientific and potentially dangerous for patients. If the justices strike down such laws, states would have far fewer tools to protect gay and transgender Americans from harmful and often coercive treatments."

This entire case is a viper's nest of Christian Nationalist, anti-LGBTQ fuckery so I encourage you to read the whole article; but in the short term I'd like to focus on three important things:

First, there is literally nothing "therapeutic" about so-called "gay conversion therapy" and nobody has a right to try to force heteronormative gender identities and sexual orientation on anyone, including their children, because they think their God wants everyone to be heterosexual. There is no scientific support for these treatments, and while this would still be a monstrous violation of civil liberties even if they did work, they do not. Under the best of circumstances these "therapies" start from a position that non-heteronormative sexual orientations or gender identities represent aberrant, immoral behavior that must be clinically corrected through negative reinforcement; sometimes that's a whole lot of verbal shaming, and sometimes it's literally physical torture. These programs, which are typically targeted at LGBTQ youth, actively harm queer kids and work to scandalize and otherize the existence of LGBTQ identities in our larger society; this harm is reflected directly in studies showing an increase in suicidal ideation among LGBTQ youth exposed to gay conversion "therapies" - which is probably fine with fundie fascist American parents who'd clearly rather have a dead child, than a queer one. I shouldn't have to point this out, but you can bet your ass that heterosexual society would (rightfully) lose its shit if someone tried to berate and electroshock straight people into being gay, and there is no constitutionally protected right for people to sell scientifically discredited, actively harmful treatments to straight people under the guise of providing medical care - in fact, that's pretty much illegal unless you make it clear that you're not a doctor or therapist.

Additionally, it should be noted that this case is just another part of a longstanding, and highly organized winger project to use free speech and parental rights, to legally override the autonomy and civil liberties of young people (including their own children) to justify the larger criminalization and suppression of identities they don't think should exist, and they'd like to legislate away as soon as possible. I don't have the space to go down the entire fascist rabbit hole connected to these ideas, but I can assure you that at the bottom of all this are bonkers fascist conspiracy theories that treat existing outside of the heterosexual norm as a type of contagion that can be stopped by legalized repression; which in turn makes this case part of a broader effort to literally criminalize being LGBTQ in our society. This didn't start with, and won't end with, gay conversion therapy.

Finally, and as the author of this piece notes, this whole case is yet another fascist troll job focused on the hypothetical harms to people who want to *checks notes* torture the gay out of kids, rather than any actual dispute rising out of really existing conditions:

"Another issue in Chiles v. Salazar is that the court appears to have taken up yet another case featuring a phantasmal injury to a plaintiff in order to achieve a predetermined outcome. The Supreme Court has an unfortunate habit in recent religious freedom disputes (or religious-adjacent free speech ones, as in this instance) of taking up cases with either underdeveloped records or nonexistent ones."

The undeniable purpose of this case is to overturn legal (and necessary) bans on gay conversion therapy; it has nothing to do with free speech or the plaintiff's right to practice legitimate therapeutical medicine. There is literally no reason for SCOTUS to hear it besides legalizing torturing LGBTQ ppl out of existence.

The New Republic · The Supreme Court Might Re-Legalize LGBTQ Conversion TherapyFollowing a recent and troubling trend, the high court has taken up another case of fanciful claims that could do real harm to gay and trans Americans.
#LGBTQRights#SCOTUS#Fascism
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Miss Gayle

Republicans dishonest use of bills by attaching things that have little or nothing to do with the original needs to be illegal.

Read about the for-profit school that ignores requirements: courier-journal.com/story/news

"Haynes estimated about 500 were previously home-schooled...Most concerning was student performance...Of the district's virtual third grade students, 9% were proficient in math, compared to 43% statewide."

From Kentucky State Senator Reginald Thomas: One measure the Senate took up was the second House Bill brought before us this session, House Bill (HB) 241. I originally supported this measure because it provided critical flexibility for schools recovering from closures due to extreme weather and other emergencies. It was a bipartisan and common-sense solution to help students and teachers. But what followed is exactly what frustrates so many people about politics. In a rushed, behind-the-scenes process, the Senate Education Committee altered the bill by attaching unrelated provisions to shield a struggling virtual school from oversight, despite its documented failures. This maneuver sidetracked meaningful discussion and undermined the bill’s original purpose, transforming it from a practical solution for lost instructional time into a protection measure for an unaccountable online program. Had the Senate received a clean bill that remained true to its intent, I would have fully supported it. However, I cannot support a bill that prioritizes political maneuvering over student success. As a result, I voted against the measure, which passed by a vote of 23-14. It now returns to the House with the Senate’s changes, and I urge lawmakers to remove these harmful provisions. If the House rejects the changes, the bill will move to a conference committee, where I hope we can restore it to its original intent and ensure it truly serves Kentucky students and schools.
#Kentucky#RedStateHellhole#Education
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Miss Gayle

Same old right wing puritanism dressed up in economic drag - republicans still believe that the elderly, poor, disabled, and under-educated should be left in a gutter to die b/c they're not profitable for corporations.

Link: motherjones.com/politics/2025/

It's vile & disgusting. This is what christainity and being republican *is* now, and they should both be soundly rejected by every decent person.

They worship mammon.

If not savings, then what is the aim of DOGE? My colleague Alex Nguyen makes a good argument: It's the old Republican attempt to attack the poor. —Julianne McShane DOGE Is a New Way to Talk About an Old GOP Aim: Attacking the Poor How Musk, Trump, and other billionaires are rebooting austerity for the era of Big Tech. Alex Nguyen, a fellow at Mother Jones Alex Nguyen "...The party has continually found rhetoric to suggest poor people are to blame for each new crisis. When the Tea Party took over the GOP, a key frustration was that “taxpayers” were supporting a population of the unworthy. Mitt Romney almost rode a similar “47 percent” sentiment to the White House. This “free enterprise” mindset has assumed strange textures as venture capitalists take the vanguard of the GOP. Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen pointed to the New Deal as Roosevelt’s “personal monarchy.” We need a Caesar-like CEO in Trump, he said, to undo FDR’s grasp. Given the upper crust’s latest New Deal backlash, the left’s challenge goes far beyond lawsuits against DOGE—it is how to revert “entitlements” back to its original meaning. In Williamson’s view, mainstream liberals have failed to show how government is good. Progressives, she says, need to start promoting a different version of government “efficiency.” Namely, the adoption of policies that better the lot of regular people and protect them from the excessively rich and self-entitled DOGE boosters..."
#Eugenics#HumanRights#ChristianNationalism
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Miss Gayle

People with a 3rd grade understanding of biology should not be making laws about people's gender & sexual orientation.

People who think bronze age fairy tales are an accurate description of how the world works should absolutely not be making laws about people's gender & sexual orientation.

Hating & persecuting people b/c of scientifically false fairy tales is deranged.

George Dinwiddie @gdinwiddie@mastodon.social Once more, for those in the back not paying attention. “It’s a scientific fact that humans come in two varieties: XX for female and XY for male.” Except * You can be born appearing female, but have a 5-alpha reductase deficiency and grow a penis at age 12. * You can be born legally male with an X and a Ychromosome, but your body is insensitive to androgens, and you appear female. * You can be born legally male with an X and a Y chromosome, and have a penis and testes, *and* a uterus and fallopian tubes. * You can be born legally male with an X and a Y chromosome, but your chromosome is missing the SRY gene, which gives you a female body. * You can be born legally female with two X chromosomes, but one of the Xs has an SRY gene, which gives you a male body. * You can be born legally female with two X chromosomes — and also a Y chromosome, which gives you a male body. * You can be born legally female with two X chromosomes, but your adrenal gland doesn't produce enough cortisol, and your body develops as a male. * You can be born with XX chromosomes — *and* XY chromosomes (chimerism). So the next time you attempt to use science as justification for your bigotry, remember that God created humans in many variations, and maybe stop trying to stuff everyone into little “male or female” checkboxes.
#LGBTQ#CivilRights#HumanRights
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Lorry

Also I'd never considered that AI is a perfect replacement for the right wing's God, it uses a hell of a lot of power, it acts completely differently to everyone who talks to it, it makes absolutely no logical sense because all it does is predict the next word, and it's an invisible person they can all talk to and program with a huge bias.

A gab advert for some shit or other, with a tower computer with a huge white LED crucifix on it.
#Gab#Religion#Rightwing
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EmilyDuffy

IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE CALL WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE UNITED STATES RIGHT NOW BY IT'S PROPER NAME...IT IS A COUP!
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A self-coup, also called an autocoup (from Spanish autogolpe) or coup from the top, is a form of coup d'état in which a political leader, having come to power through legal means, stays in power illegally through the actions of themselves or their supporters. The leader may dissolve or render powerless the national legislature and unlawfully assume extraordinary powers. Other measures may include annulling the constitution, suspending civil courts, and having the head of government assume dictatorial powers.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-cou

#coup#trump#musk
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Geriatric Gardener

“The Empire Self-Destructs”

by Chris Hedges in The Chris Hedges Report on Substack

“We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression”

open.substack.com/pub/chrished

The Chris Hedges Report · The Empire Self-DestructsBy Chris Hedges
#Press#US#Empire
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The Wild Hunt News

Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning, President Donald Trump announced the creation of a White House Faith Office and a task force to combat what he called “anti-Christian bias” in the federal government, appointing Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the initiative.

wildhunt.org/2025/02/trump-ann

The Wild Hunt · Trump Announces White House Initiatives to combat Anti-Christian BiasBy Manny Moreno
#FaithOffice#AntiChristianBias#NationalPrayerBreakfast
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