🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Feb 26

#Trans folx in #Kansas given 1 day to surrender their (now invalid) IDs and driver's licenses to the state. As of tomorrow (Thursday), driving while trans is a class-B misdemeanor ($1000 fine and up to 6 months in jail).

The zero-grace-period execution means driving to turn in your license is a crime.

Oh yeah, this bill also enacted a bathroom bounty program allowing private individuals to sue trans folx for using the restroom.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-advancing-anti-trans-bill

#AntiTrans #Authoritarianism #FuckTrump #FuckRepublicans #ProtectTransFolx

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses

"The legislature did not include a grace period."

Erin In The Morning
Show threadSimon WaldmanFeb 26
@alice ....and yet European countries still (so far as I understand it) refuse asylum claims on the basis that "The USA is a Safe Country".
Show threadJürgen HubertFeb 26

@swaldman @alice

Personally, I would recommend Americans who need to escape to Europe to move there via a student visa. Those are much easier to get, and you will have a much better status - you can get part-time jobs with them.

Show threadIlka 🌐Feb 27
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I feel the need to clarify: I oppose the suggestion for all USAmericans to flee via students visa. B/C this is a hypothetical & imo for many reasons a bad idea. This hypothetical idea following I oppose for many as well hypothetical reasons. 330 Mio ppl fleeing would flood capacity & systems & worsen the sit. for everyone and not change 1 thing. 500 sign limit doesn’t help a deep convo.
Show threadWoozle HypertwinFeb 27

@Ilka4You

Well, good news -- the number of people seeking to flee is only a tiny, tiny fraction of 330 million.

(P.S. many other fedi instances have larger character-limits; I agree that 500 is ridiculous for having substantial discussions.)

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Show threadIlka 🌐Feb 27
@woozle thank you ;) Yes, 500 limit is annoy.. It wont be possible to predict "real" numbers, we will only know "after the fact". Currently ~5k did leave in '25, double is expected for '26. Indeed a tiny number. Looking at housing though, for example AMS lacking 220k appartments missing to accomodate (just)students, Europe has diff. dimensions than USA. 1/2 @juergen_hubert @Alice @gneilyo @Njord @Raccoon @joe_vinegar @miss_rodent @ChuckMcManis
Show threadWoozle Hypertwin

@Ilka4You

Housing is a problem everywhere, it seems -- one major symptom of the plutonomy sucking the street-economy increasingly dry: more and more property is owned by fewer and fewer, who can then collaborate (often illegally, but it's too often always okay for them to do it) to raise prices to squeeze more life from the rest of us.

The mass media seems to be ignoring or glossing over this, and talking only about how we need to relax regulations so the property-owners can build more properties (which too often then become more useful to them as unoccupied "investment vehicles" than as residences).

...to oversimplify a bit, with a sprinkling of salt.

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Show threadIlka 🌐Feb 28
@woozle very true, again agreed. @juergen_hubert @Alice @gneilyo @Njord @Raccoon @joe_vinegar @miss_rodent @ChuckMcManis