Quotes from #DeSantis' book "support the company’s central allegation: that the #Republican governor improperly wielded state power to punish Disney’s speech criticizing his policies, violating the #FirstAmendment.
"DeSantis’s book brags about his rapid mobilization of the state legislature to target Disney’s tax district...
#DeSantis wrote a WSJ op-ed that explicitly discussed governmental actions against #Disney as an effort to “fight back” against its “woke ideology,” which is to say, its #political speech.
"“You have pretty clear statements from Governor DeSantis that he is seeking to punish a corporation for its speech,” Wilkens told me. “That’s prohibited by the First Amendment.”
On that basis and others, Disney is asking the courts to halt DeSantis’s assault...
I wish I could go on a road trip across the country without fearing I could get killed in a red state and have the murderer get away with it because I’m trans. We can’t have nice things thanks to transphobes. #uspolitics#usa#trans#transphobia#transrights#transgender
"With the moment of disaster approaching, the most worrying thing is that each side seems to believe that the prospect of the unthinkable will eventually force the other to blink to avoid being saddled with the blame."
"Coldly dismissing the Latino victims of Friday’s horrific mass shooting in Texas as five “illegal immigrants” was a new low for Gov. Greg Abbott, a gun-loving Republican.
"For the record, it is apparently not true that all of those senselessly slain in Cleveland, an exurb of Houston, had no legal right to be in this country. It is true, however, that one of the victims was a 9-year-old boy. It is also true, according to authorities, that two of the women who were killed sacrificed themselves by throwing their bodies over children to protect them." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/01/texas-shooting-family-greg-abbott-illegal-immigrants/
"This kind of conflict happens every day in every community in every nation in the world. Such differences are usually resolved amicably. But sometimes, neighbors exchange words. In extreme cases, they might exchange blows. What they do not do, in countries that have reasonable laws about firearms, is fire guns.
"Just in the past month: A teenager was shot in the head (but fortunately survived) in Kansas City, Mo., for approaching the wrong house to pick up his siblings. A young woman in Upstate New York was shot and killed when the car she was in mistakenly pulled into the wrong driveway. A man and woman making a delivery in Florida were shot at for going to the wrong address.
"The usual reaction by Abbott and other GOP officials to mass shootings is “thoughts and prayers,” but this time the governor did not even offer that gesture.
May 1, is #MayDay, aka #InternationalWorkersDay, a day celebrated by those who work for a living around the globe. However, the US does not officially recognize International Workers' Day. Why not?
Another version of that #Meme that seems more accurate lately.
Shills for the rich corporate owners help to stoke divisiveness between members of the working classes (including both working-class White men and "others" such as immigrants, LGBTQ people, etc...).
That's why certain politicians and news orgs continually provoke fear and distrust of "others." It keeps the working classes from uniting and demanding better working conditions and higher pay.
Hundreds of massacres of Black people by white people continued across the U.S. (including Greenwood, Tulsa, OK in 1921 and Rosewood, FLA in 1923) and around that time the FEDERAL government was segregating Black people into impoverished areas across US away from white people. #BlackMastodon#Mastodon#history#usa#reconstruction
Remember that in 1865 the Black Codes (under U.S. President Andrew Johnson, who was later impeached) were passed to restrict Black freedom in many states, notably in the South. Also remember that massacres of Black people by whites were happening across the U.S. throughout the 1800s, before then and beyond then.
May 1, 1867- The start of Reconstruction in the USA. Within seven years or so Reconstruction would end, and Black people in the USA would continue to be lynched by white people—and with such increased intensity and frequency. Klan began in 1865 EXPLICITLY in response to Black liberation, political & economic power.