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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Jan 9, 2025

#Bountylaws offering #cash for reporting #trans people, #abortions, and #librarians are expected in 2025.

#Texas and other states push bills letting #privatecitizens #sue, targeting #marginalized #groups.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Texas #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://prismreports.org/2025/01/08/bounty-laws-texas-trans-rights-abortion/

More bounty laws offering cash for reporting trans people, abortions, and librarians expected in 2025

Texas lawmakers pre-filed bounty laws for the 2025 session that allow private citizens to sue over issues targeting trans and pregnant people

Prism

We Can Be Gyros Mar 27, 2024

Rape Patrols in Nassau County, NY. I CANNOT BELIEVE I LIVE HERE.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, is creating a "special" #militia of armed #privatecitizens, accountable only to him.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/nassau-special-deputy-f72oc9g0

Bruce Blakeman looking for 'special deputy sheriffs' in Nassau

The county executive is asking residents with gun licenses "for the protection of human life and property during an emergency."

Newsday

MeaTLoTioN Mar 22, 2024

Good talk from Naomi
#privatecitizens

https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Impact-of-surveillance:b

Psychological Impact of Surveillance

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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Aug 14, 2023

#Laws like these which #deputize #privatecitizens to #enforce it should result in them being treated as #agents of the #state and subject both the #state and the #individuals to "#UnderColorOfLaw" #lawsuits under 42 USC §1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights.

PhoenixSerenity Mar 18, 2023

#SponsorCircles #empowered #PrivateCitizens in communities across the country to #RaiseFunds & #provide #resettlement #support for #Afghan #refugees who were being housed on #American military bases & in need of #SafeRefuge .

https://crosscut.com/equity/2023/03/refuge-after-war-vietnamese-refugees-aid-displaced-afghans

#VietsForAfghans #AfghanHealthInitiative #CrossCultural #RefugeeAid #HelpRefugees #POC #BIPOC #PeopleOfColor #Humanity #Compassion #Kindness #PeopleHelpingPeople #BeTheChange #POCinAmerica #AsianMastodon #GoodNews #heartwarming #Empathy

Refuge After War: Vietnamese refugees aid displaced Afghans

Sponsor Circles are empowering private citizens across the U.S. to provide resettlement support.

Crosscut

Poetry News Jan 19, 2023

Welcome
Private citizens, sponsors
Invited to help settle refugees
Fund raising, training, too
Compassionate opportunity

#bidenadmin #refugees #sponsorship #privatecitizens #cinquain #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/us/refugee-resettlement-policy-biden.html

Biden Administration Invites Ordinary Americans to Help Settle Refugees

The program to speed up refugee arrivals will allow private citizens to sponsor families in their communities after raising funds and undergoing training.