House bill HR 3492, dubbed the ‘Protect Children’s Innocence Act’, passed through the US House with a slim majority in a 216–211 vote on Wednesday (17 December).
…The legislation would make it a federal crime to prescribe potentially life-saving gender-affirming healthcare such as puberty blockers to [individuals younger than 18 years old]. Those found guilty of violating the law, should it pass, could face up to 10 years imprisonment and considerable fines.
…four Republicans join[ed] the 207 Democrats [in] voting against the bill, while three Democrats – Henry Cueller, Vincente Gonzalez Jr, and Don Davis – voted for the ban…
The bill would have failed by a single seat had the Democratic candidates not joined the Republican majority in approving its passage.
Trisha McLaughlin, assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, pledged to have anyone involved in the campaign prosecuted, she told the New York Post.
Borelli is a fierce critic of the Democratic Party and has been an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump. In 2020, she served as the co-chair of the Black Voices for Trump coalition.
when people are arguing against socialism or communism or frankly even, like, the welfare state, they’re always like “well no one is entitled to the product of my labor!” and ohhh maaaan are you ever going to be mad when you learn about capitalism, then. ive got the biggest news for you about the economic model under which you currently live. you might wanna sit down
original image: four panel comic titled “Proximity” by @JNYMFG (op). Each is numbered in the corner, counting from 3 down to 0.
Panel #3 is yellow-toned, with an over-the-shoulder shot of a cheerful man reading the newspaper headline MORE WAR and thinking: “How awful… but I have my own problems!” Panel #2 is orange-toned, showing a distraught woman reading the same headline, and thinking: “But my husband has family there!” Panel #1 is red-toned, showing a pensive man reading the same headline, and thinking: “If I’d stayed, maybe I could have saved them.” Panel #0 is entirely blacked out.
reblog image: photo of poem titled The Diameter of the Bomb. Poem reads:
The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range - about seven meters. And in it four dead and eleven wounded. And around them in a greater circle of pain and time are scattered two hospitals and one cemetery. But the young woman who was buried where she came from over a hundred kilometers away enlarges the circle greatly. And the lone man who weeps over her death in a far corner of a distant country includes the whole world in the circle. And I won’t speak at all about the crying of orphans that reaches to the seat of God and from there onward, making the circle without end and without God.
Yehuda Amichai (translated from the Hebrew by Yehuda Amichai & Ted Hughes) /end ID
