🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)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 26
@juergen_hubert @swaldman @alice USAmericans need to stay and clean up the mess they created for themselves. There isn't enough room in Europe to host half their population. USAmericans have not done enough to prevent this, now they need to get up their lazy asses & stop this desaster. You don't want to hear this I am sure, yet this is the reality.
Show threadJürgen HubertFeb 26

@Ilka4You @swaldman @alice

Look, while I can understand this sentiment, there are plenty of Americans who _aren't_ complete assholes and who are not in any way responsible for this mess.

Show threadIlka 🌐Feb 26
@juergen_hubert @swaldman @alice I do know. I have lived in USA, have family & friends in USA I very much love. Yet, everyone who let this happen either by voting, or especially by NOT voting, or by ignoring, or by avoiding political talks with MAGA supporters is guilty. That would be everyone. Nothing will change if the "good ones" flee. It needs the good ones to stay and fight. Fact: we have no room in Europe to take them all in. Housingcrisis. Fleeing JUST relocates the problem to Europe.
Show threadJürgen HubertFeb 26

@Ilka4You @swaldman @alice

I hate this line of reasoning because this is the _exact_ same argument made by German right-wing politicians for why Syrian refugees should return to Syria.

It's easy to say that others should fight for their rights if you are not part of the marginalized group that is being oppressed.

Show threadIlka 🌐Feb 26
@juergen_hubert IMO it is very much different. SYR's couldn't have prevented what came upon them. They couldn't have changed anything except for dying vs being alife. USAmericans are the only ones who can end the regime they brought upon themselves. If half of them flee now it is out of convenience, not need. No one ould be left to stand up & you will have an even more devastating situation for them & the world. Research the market sit. in Europe before suggesting to move here. @swaldman @alice
Show threadJürgen HubertFeb 26

@Ilka4You @swaldman @alice

Please tell me exactly how, for example Black people "could have prevented what came upon them" with the Trump Administration. Or trans people.

Risking death while fighting an evil regime is honorable. Telling _other_ people to risk death while fighting an evil regime... is less so. I will judge Trump supporters, but I will _not_ judge others who have to make that kind of decision.

Show threadIlka 🌐Feb 26
@juergen_hubert they could have done so much. 1 very effective example: they could have voted, instead of not voting, they didn't because many said "dems or reps are all the same" and added to the problem. @swaldman @alice
Show threadNeilFeb 27

@Ilka4You @juergen_hubert @swaldman @alice

That's not what happened.

What happened is the Democrats put forth a candidate who was wildly out of step with their base on critical issues. The onus was on the Democrats to realize this and make corrections. They arrogantly decided to engage in brinkmanship with their own base ("It's either Harris or fascism!") and it cost them the election.

Show threadIlka 🌐Feb 27
@gneilyo "wildly out of step" because she was female & of color. Her politics were not the main issue. Ppl disagreed with her ISR politics - I hope those are now happy with what they voted for & what is Felon 47 is doing for ISR. Most Dems want a 100% candidate they cannot bring themselves to vote for a 95% cand. Reps vote for anything white/male. ~45% did not vote that is the main issue. @juergen_hubert @swaldman @alice
Show threadNeilFeb 27

@Ilka4You @juergen_hubert @swaldman @alice Not even the DNC believes that.

To millions of people backing a genocide with $billions in foreign aid isn't a minor difference of opinion, it is a deal-breaker.

The Democrats have been playing games like this FOR DECADES. They frame every presidential election as an existential crisis so don't dare demand anything of us. That won't fly anymore. They either need to start listening to their base or get used to losing.

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza

Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes

The DNC's research on what went wrong in 2024 has been under lock and key since party leaders decided to hide it from the public.

Axios
Show threadIlka 🌐
@gneilyo this is the mindset that served you hell on earth. @juergen_hubert @swaldman @alice
Feb 27 at 7:52pmWeb
Show threadNeilFeb 27
@Ilka4You @juergen_hubert @swaldman @alice No, it is your mindset that voters should be happy with whatever shit their served. Blame falls squarely on the Democrats. It was their job to get the votes and they failed. If only they fought the Republicans as hard as they fight to hold back progressives like Zohran Mamdani.