Public library staff in an Alabama town have locked up the library and walked off their jobs after the library's director was fired. The director had refused to remove 113 books with LGBTQ+ content from circulation after being ordered to do so by a library board dominated by right-wing Christian fundamentalists.
There has been a steady stream of Alabama jokes for my entire 72 years here in Georgia.
With Tuberville and the Alabama Supreme Court setting the tone, no one has to go to the effort of writing them. They come as standard features. #Alabama#embryo
“Because here is real danger in what Katie Britt did. And I want to take a moment and sit in the danger and talk about the fact that she weaponized someone's story, not to actually get something done, not to make someone's life better, but to score political points. It's just about the ugliest thing you can do in American politics.” — Alicia Menendez, on MSNBC’s The Weekend.
Horrific stories coming out of #Alabama and #Mississippi - shining a light on the degree of savagery that prisoners are subjected to at the hands of the State.
In Alabama, court documents reveal cases of deceased prisoners being "found missing organs," after having died in the custody of the Department of Corrections.
In #Mississippi, people are shocked after the discovery of "215 bodies buried in unmarked graves behind a jail outside of Jackson, Mississippi, has left a community in disbelief. The families are angry they were never notified of the deaths and how their loved ones are buried in graves marked by just a metal rod and a number."
“Whenever I f---ing rupture,” Norris-De La Cruz said, “I’m giving my lawyers your f---ing name.” Words to live and maybe even die by. This is a must-read article about the devastating consequences of #Dobbs. As we have seen in #Alabama, there is more to come.
Heads up! If you live in Alabama and have frozen embryos stored at a fertilization clinic, you have a good case for claiming them as dependents for tax purposes now. Get those child tax credits!
Proceed directly to the Social Security Administration and have a social security number assigned to each embryo.
Apply for food stamps, Medicaid, and other social assistance based on your new, higher number of dependents.
#Alabama Mayor, Pastor Dies by Suicide After Being Involuntarily Outed as #Transgender Woman
"I am so angry right now and heartbroken. I witnessed a good man be publicly ridiculed and crucified over the last few days…to the point that he just took his own life today.” ... "Are you happy now? What crime did he commit? Some of you people make me sick.”
#Alabama’s GOP-controlled House voted Thursday to give doctors who provide in-vitro fertilization civil and criminal immunity for any death or damage to embryos. #IVF
A panel of three federal judges has struck down #Alabama's latest map of congressional election districts for not following a court order to comply with the landmark #VotingRightsAct.
In an order released Tuesday, the judges said they are "deeply troubled that the State enacted a map that the State readily admits does not provide the remedy we said federal law requires." #VotingRights
A friendly reminder that God kills fertilized embryos at an astounding rate. If abortion is run of the mill murder, let me tell you, friends, God's doing it on a Pol Pot scale.
60 to 70 percent of fertilized eggs do not make it to birth, and thankfully most women don't know they miscarry.
The cosmic joke is that if you wanted to stop the death of babies, #Alabama style, the only ethical way to do so would be to stop all sex, especially the kind that aims for reproduction.
BREAKING: Three #Trump-appointed judges on the 11th circuit just cited the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs that overturned the right to an abortion in their decision allowing #Alabama to ban transition-supporting care for #trans youth. #LGBTQ#legal
It was well past time that Black Alabamians had a fair shot at equal representation. The Voting Rights Act is a thing, and Republicans need to stop suppressing the vote.
Now it’s on us to keep fighting for fair maps, ensuring every voice is heard and every vote counts, and showing up to vote.
He neglected to mention that he has personally prevented hundreds of officers from being promoted, and continues his #blockade on military #promotions to this day.
“#SupremeCourt on Tuesday handed a defeat to #Alabama Republicans for the second time in three months, rejecting their latest attempt to use a congressional map that includes only one majority-Black district.
The court in two related applications refused emergency requests from Republican state officials to block lower court rulings that invalidated the new map. Lower court proceedings to approve a new map are still ongoing.” #SCOTUS#VotingRights 1/…