A school has banned books portraying LGBTQ+ parents.
In which century are we living?
Do they don't have the right to live peacefully?
Two advocacy groups have filed complaints with the federal government over a North Carolina school system’s decision to ban all books with gay parents and characters questioning their gender from both classrooms and libraries.
»Less than 72 hours after the launch of a reporting form to help #Utah enforce its #transgender#bathroom#ban the Utah auditor’s office says it has received nearly 4,000 complaints — and all of them appear to be “bogus.”«
The vote came after it narrowly cleared the AZ House last wk. The bill is expected to be signed by Gov Katie Hobbs.
The 1864 #law, which predates AZ’s statehood, permits #abortion only to save the patient’s life—& provides NO exceptions for survivors of #rape or #incest.
The law also states the age of consent for a “woman” is 10 yrs.
#Democrats in the #Arizona Legislature made a final push Wed to repeal the state’s long-dormant #ban on nearly all #abortions, which the state’s supreme court said can be enforced.
Voting wasn’t complete but the Senate had the 16 votes it needed to advance.
14 Dems in the Senate were joined by 2 Republican votes in favor of repealing the bill
The justices heard arguments in an appeal by #Idaho ofcls of a lower court's ruling that found that the 1986 US law at issue, the #EmergencyMedicalTreatment & Labor Act (#EMTALA), supersedes the state's near-total #ban in the relatively rare circumstances when the 2 conflict.
President Joe #Biden's admin, which sued Idaho over the #abortion#law, has urged the justices to uphold that ruling.
Varoufakis was not travelling to Germany nor attending the conference in person btw, but Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah was and got also banned from entering #Germany.
Germany moreover seems to believe that their internal #censorship, from their Interior Ministry (right?), should somehow apply outside of their borders, as they threaten people with fines or even jail time if they connect via Zoom from abroad!
#Arizona’s near-total #ban means that any woman who wants/needs to end a pregnancy must leave the state to do so unless her life is determined at risk.
#Florida's top court on Apr 1 cleared the way for a #Republican-backed #law banning #abortion after #6weeks of pregnancy, down from 15 wks, to take effect in May.
FL’s law means that women after 6 wks - before most know they are pregnant - would need to leave the state to do so.
„Israeli authorities informed the United Nations on Sunday that it will no longer approve the passage of any UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, food convoys into northern Gaza.“
Every summer, the Faroe Islands’ beaches are soaked with #whale and #dolphin blood as hundreds of these majestic creatures are needlessly slaughtered.
Fishers in boats circle the whales and dolphins, driving them into shallow waters before killing them with knives.
The government says it is an Indigenous tradition that feeds families on the islands, but only a handful of locals consume whale and dolphin meat yet they kill over 1000 a year.
In 2022, the government limited the number of Atlantic white-sided dolphins that could be killed a year to 500, after over 1400 were killed in 2021, sparking global fury. This shows that public pressure works , and if we turn up the heat on the government of the #FaroeIslands we could force a full #ban!
Experts have said that the lack of sufficient international political pressure is the main reason this murderous practice continues.
Czechia to propose EU-wide grain import ban on Russia, Belarus
There is no reason why we should support the aggressor by buying Russian grain in Europe, as reported on Czech TV, insisting that grain must be added to sanctions list
Last year, 1.5 mil tons of grain were imported into EU from Russia - more grain than was imported before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
While everyone is up in arms over the prospective #TikTok#Ban, no one seems to be paying attention to #BobbyKotick's open desire to buy a controlling stake off Chinese owners, #bytedance
Yes, THAT Bobby Kotick. See below for a quick reminder. Strangely, this never comes up in conversation.
A cynical sod might even wonder if the TikTok furore is just the US government nobbling a competitor to its native social media dumpster fires.
#Mississippi cited that line of reasoning in its case to challenge Roe at #SCOTUS, a move his supporters say helped pave the way for Roe’s fall in 2022.
Arizona Supreme Court reinstates near-total abortion ban from 1864 (www.bbc.com)
Arizona's top court ruled that a strict 160-year-old ban on abortion may be enforced.