State Sen. Nathan Dahm (R-OK) has penned several bills loosening gun restrictions, including the nation’s first anti-red flag law. He thinks these bills protect the Second Amendment – and that they make us safer. We think it's probably one or the other. Watch it on @AppleTVPlus.
Powerful speech from Rep Zooey Zephyr @ZoAndBehold in Montana against an anti trans bill.
"I take issue with the comment 'transition is a travesty'. My life is full of joy. I come every day excited to serve the people of Montana."
“We’ll fight like hell on the house floor.”
@justinbustin47 I mean, that sounds like it's mostly about one specific topic (probs ltd by characters for nuance), but yeah, I think I get what you mean. It may depend on what the observation is, but generally yes, people do tend to get lumped into stereotypes based on a few opinions.
@justinbustin47 I think certainly media literacy is a huge challenge. 100%. I find myself trusting first impressions far more often than I'd like to admit. It's been really helpful to pursue/follow fact-checking sources to try to insulate myself from that instinct lol
@justinbustin47 Accountability is so huge. Hypocrisy should be called out. I would disagree that it's awkward - we should always be addressing flaws in leadership. I don't think I've seen that awkwardness? But it may just be the rampantly critical circles I run in lol
@justinbustin47 I don't think I saw national vitriol towards Trump being hard on Russia/China, just that he was chaotic with it? I would also add immigration policy; they haven't changed much there.
That being said, I wouldn't say these two areas of commonality rep the parties as a whole.
20 GOP-led states are suing the USDA over a rule from the agency that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ students in free school lunch programs. The AGs argue schools have the right to deny queer and trans kids lunch money.
https://t.co/xM3IGonUIB
@themckennakane You should absolutely try mealime. You pick a few recipes; it pulls together the shopping list for you, and then you just remove whatever you already have. 10/10.
Texas Gov. Abbott says the Uvalde school shooter had a "mental health challenge" and the state needed to "do a better job with mental health" — yet in April he slashed $211M from the department that oversees mental health programs. https://t.co/psXFaffu4q
In Justice Alito’s draft opinion reversing Roe, he writes about “an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment,” up until Roe in 1973.
He cites, as historical authority, Sir Matthew Hale.
Let me tell you about Hale & his views toward women.
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@aleccarver There's no need to view it that way. There's so much to learn all the time, so much more information, so many other perspectives. Everyone is just working toward growing and expanding understanding of one another. No one is perfect. No viewpoint is perfect.
@aleccarver Dude, I get the difficulty of this topic, but these are some bad takes. It may be worthwhile to find someone offline to talk to about this stuff.