... February 18, which #criminalizes #federal #obstruction of polling places and explicitly prohibits troops from patrolling voting sites. Colorado is advancing HB26-1113 to protect mail-in ballots from federal postal weaponization.
Let's see. Party of law and order. #Owns the #prisons and #criminalizes people to fill them. 🙈🙉🙊 NO. Any #MissKitty platform includes all prisons being run by the governments. It must be so. It is the state that has an interest, not the company. This would be thrown out for no standing. 🔦🔦🔦

California's newest ICE center...
California's newest ICE center has 1,400 detainees. What Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla saw there

Both California Democrats highlighted what they described as inadequate medical care inside the immigration detention center.

CalMatters

"#Sexwork in #Sweden operates under the #NordicModel, also known as the “Equality,” “Entrapment,” or “End Demand Model,” which #criminalizes #buyingsex but not selling sex. The text of the newly-passed bill states that criminal liability for the purchase of #sexualservices shouldn’t have to require physical contact between the buyer and seller anymore, and should expand to online sex work, too.

Sweden’s law isn’t isolated to European countries. In the U.S., #Maine adopted the Nordic Model in 2023."

https://www.404media.co/sweden-sex-work-internet-law-nordic-model/

Sweden Expands Anti-Sex Work Law to Criminalize Paying for Custom OnlyFans Clips and Camming

The Nordic Model criminalizes buyers of sex in multiple European countries (and Maine). Sweden just voted to expand its reach to the internet.

404 Media

#TeamLGBTQ is now in 7th place in the #ParisOlympics medal count with 8 golds

The #athletes of Team #LGBTQ are off to a good start, currently in 7th place with 8 #goldmedals, that’s ahead of every single #country that #criminalizes being #gay. That is the #power of being able to be #out.

https://www.outsports.com/2024/8/7/24098533/olympics-medal-count-paris-team-lgbtq-gold-silver-bronze/

Team LGBTQ now 7th in Paris Olympics total medal count - Outsports

The athletes of Team LGBTQ are off to a good start, currently in 7th place with 8 gold medals, the power of being out.

OutSports
Team LGBTQ now 6th in Paris Olympics total medal count - Outsports

The athletes of Team LGBTQ are off to a good start, currently in 6th place just ahead of Japan and South Korea.

OutSports

Did #Kentucky Legalize #Shooting #HomelessPeople?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDPuXZr364

Kentucky’s crazy #SaferKentuckyAct decriminalizes #deadlyforce against #homeless people.

The bill which goes into effect in July, allows #privateproperty owners to #shoot first and questions later if they believe that a trespasser or homeless person is going to commit a #felony or is attempting to “deposses” them.
The set of #toughoncrime laws also #criminalizes being homeless.

Did Kentucky Legalize Shooting Homeless People?

YouTube

#LGBTQ+ #activists in #Africa await another #LegalChallenge to an #AntiGay #law in #Uganda & a proposed one in #Ghana, Western donors are urged to increase #funding for the movement, develop more effective narratives to support rights in the #GlobalSouth & counter Western #evangelical influence.

The bill #criminalizes LGBTQ+ sexual activity, prescribing prison sentences ranging from 6 months to 3 yrs for engaging in such acts.

https://www.devex.com/news/what-african-lgbtq-activists-need-from-donors-amid-anti-gay-law-surge-107589

#HumanRights #LGBTQrights #discrimination

Liberians React to Ghana's Anti-Homosexuality Bill

The recent approval of an anti-homosexuality bill by the Ghanaian Parliament has ignited significant discourse and evoked varied reactions from Liberians.

allAfrica.com
LGBTQ+ folks rally for “Strippers’ Bill of Rights” that would also end police raids on gay bars - LGBTQ Nation

One stripper said the state's "lewd conduct" regulations are symptoms of a society that criminalizes both sex work and the LGBTQ+ community.

LGBTQ Nation