At 5 am this morning, the Iowa Senate passed a child labor bill that “allows 14-year-olds to work six-hour night shifts, allows 15-year-olds to work in plants on assembly lines” and more
All Democrats voted against it as well as two Republicans
https://t.co/SSR636rHNT
Hard to overstate how much worse things are going to get in a country where the population is armed to the teeth then conditioned to live in a constant paranoid state of fear.
You know of all the Rowling shenanigans, we don’t talk enough about how movie Lavender Brown was Black until they recast the part with a white girl so a main character could date her.
@shannonrwatts Every time another shooting happens or my daughters have a lockdown drill I go back to this paragraph that my daughter wrote last year for class! It shouldn’t be this way!
This is Sherry Johnson.
A church member raped her at eight, and she became pregnant at 9. She had her first child at age ten and was forced to marry her rapist at 11. By age 17, she had six kids. Why act like these abuse victims still being married is a success, not a tragedy?
@Dreadful4Tymes The open secret of sexual abuse by an uncle/abuelo/cousin, and those people still being welcomed to family get togethers as if nothing happened while the victim gets shamed into silence seems to be a thing a lot more LatinX people are calling out and I’m so glad for it