Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Dec 16, 2024

#Texas #CityCouncil that #targeted #LGBTQ+ #people gets #votedout — and #replaced with first #gay #member.

#Odessa #voters rejected three #incumbents a month after they passed a #harsh #antitrans #bathroomban, replacing one with the city’s first #out #gay #councilmember.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Texas #Politics #Progress #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-odessa-first-gay-city-council-member

This Texas city just elected its first gay City Council member

Voters in this city rejected three incumbent City Council members just one month after they voted to implement a harsh anti-trans bathroom ban, replacing one with the city's first out gay council member.

Advocate.com
SherBearethDec 24, 2023

Per #TheNewYorker

Are We #Sleepwalking Into #Dictatorship?

Liz #Cheney, the former congresswoman from Wyoming
and an ardent #conservative, is an #apostate for modern times. In a political party that has evolved into a personality #cult, her #apostasy resides in her #refusaltoworship its leader and in her defense of the #Constitution.

For such impudence, she was #banished and #votedout of Congress.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/18/are-we-sleepwalking-into-dictatorship

Are We Sleepwalking Into Dictatorship?

David Remnick on Liz Cheney’s apostasy, Donald Trump’s defenders, and why, if Trump wins back the White House in November, his election could be our last election.

The New Yorker
Show threadMufasaDec 20, 2022

#ElonMusk polled #Twitter users on whether he should remain as the company's #CEO and claimed he would abide by the results.

It concluded with 17.5 million votes—and a large majority urging him to step down.

Musk hasn't confirmed whether he will actually step down. "The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive," Musk wrote last night after posting the poll. Musk denied already having a new CEO already selected.

#VotedOut
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/musk-polls-twitter-users-on-whether-he-should-be-ceo-57-5-want-him-to-quit/

Musk polls Twitter users on whether he should be CEO—57.5% want him to quit

"Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll."

Ars Technica