Ron DeSantis just kidnapped a 13-year old boy.

Earlier this evening, at around 7 PM CT U.S., Rebekah Jones (notably one of DeSantis’ biggest political enemies right now) underwent a raid on her home by state police.

Guns were pointed in the face of her 13-year old son, Jack. They arrested him under the charges of digital terrorism and “on state orders.”

They are refusing to let him go home and they are refusing to let Jones see him.

These are her screenshots recounting the incident from earlier tonight. They were taken at 10:23 PM CT U.S.

Reblog. I don’t care who you are, reblog this. We have to make sure that this doesn’t get buried – it’s already happening.

An update by her. She’s the COVID-19 whistleblower in FL. The scientist that pointed out that FL was covering the real number of cases

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The Onion really ain’t fucking around.

You mean like slavery?

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Facebook post from Matt Norris.

Post reads like a conversation between 2 people:

Prison labor is a problem we need to address soon.

Convicts in prison should have to work like the rest of us.

No, we’re giving them 3 meals and a bed, at our expense, while they just sit around and watch TV. They should have to work!

Right. Like slavery.

It’s not like slavery!

Can they leave?

No.

Can they refuse work?

No.

So how exactly isn’t this slavery?

We DO pay them!

Do we pay in accordance with labor laws?

No. We pay them between 33 cents and $1.41/hour with a maximum daily wage below $5, then take up to half of that as room&board fees and victim compensation.

Right. So like slavery.

BUT.

No.

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Below URL image reads “fun bonus fact: enough of our labor market currently relies on labor at these depressed rates, that it has a substantial downward pressure on both wages and job availability in low-skilled sectors. Immigrants aren’t taking your jobs. Slavery is.

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I’d also like to add it’s not just private prisons. It’s also private detention centers where ICE keeps the immigrants.

-fae

The constitution even acknowledges that it’s still slavery

a hefty chunk of items with that ‘made in america’ sticker are in fact made by prison labor at the very least anything that is a product of prison labor should be required to have a similar sticker to inform consumers they are taking part of this system, which is difficult to track because prison made manufactured goods include almost the entire uniform of a US soldier, road construction in most southern states, and agricultural goods sold in most stores

this…. looks familliar

Prison is just covert slavery and that’s why they wanna keep so many black people in there for the smallest offences.

This is insane

(Just to clarify, I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m just giving you more information because you’re right, and I like your blog, and I want you to have sources in case you need them.)

It’s not even covert. It’s blatant and overt. It’s even called slavery in the constitution.

“Slavery is illegal except as punishment for a crime.”

People just don’t care because they think it’s all murderers and rapists, despite the fact that the number of violent criminals in jail is so small it might as well be negligible.

It’s literally slavery, just dumbass racists and capitalists don’t care enough to figure out why we’re calling it that.

-fae

Actually, no, I got something to add and it’s this video by Knowing Better on Youtube:

Slavery is baked into the US American system so much more firmly than anyone ever really acknowledges.

There’s a very good and very hard-hitting documentary about it on Netflix

Second Amendment fetishists are some of the stupidest people in the world.

All y’all like to forget the extrajudicial murder and mass incarceration of African Americans that continues unabated, except when you try to criminalize our protests. You remember what happened in Oakland when African Americans armed themselves? Governor Reagan supported gun control.

And I’m so white and privileged, I had entirely forgotten about The Tulsa Race Massacre.

The Venn Diagram of Second Amendment fetishists and white supremacists is almost a perfect circle.

Via Indigenous Action

I'm so tired of cis people asking stuff like, "Why would Texas want a lisf of trans people who legally changed their names?" or "Why would Florida want a list of college students who have seeking gender affirming care? We can't figure it out."

It's eliminationist.

Ken Paxton wants a list of trans people who have changed their name in Texas so he can reverse all of those decisions (and that's the most charitable interpretation). Ron DeSantis wants a list of college students who have seemed affirming care so he can force them to detransition.

Oklahoma introduced a bill to forcibly detransition people under the age of 21 (ironically doing what they accuse us of doing, forcing someone to live as the wrong gender). Texas has a new bill that will ban gender affirming care for every Texan of any age and makes it a felony for doctors to provide it. Multiple states either have passed or will pass bills that will ban legal name changes. Some states have slipped in language to anti-drag bills (which are horrific enough on their own) that ban anyone from displaying, presenting, or dressing outside their "biological" gender (one state has language about "DNA gender") in public.

It's about legally and morally mandating trans people out of existence.

Plain and simple. It's about making sure that trans people can not exist. Period. It's not about restrictions, or "think of the children!" It's about eliminating us from public life and then eliminating us from private life so that we have a choice of either die or conform.

When will y'all realize this isn't some wedge issue or a political football that they'll just give up on if they lose an election or two. These are ideologues who are singularly focused. They don't care about the marketplace of ideas. They don't give a shit if they get mocked on lefty Twitter and the late night shows. They only care about one thing: gaining and then wielding power to achieve their goal of eliminating trans people (and then gay people, and then women who don't conform to their gender standards, ect).

If you give them that power they will use it.

They're fascists. They are literally, zero exaggeration, fascists. There's no pretending that's not the case or watering it down anymore.

FOLKS, PLEASE…DO YOUSELVES A BIG BIG FAVOR AND STOP USING TURBOTAX!  IT IS USELESS NOW!!!

THE IRS website will let you fill out and file your return THERE ON THE IRS SITE.  You pay like $12 for the actual electronic filing process, and THAT’s IT!

Unless you have tremendous amounts of Schedule D stock shit, TurboTax is NOTHING BUT A RIPOFF!!!

The IRS website is EXCELLENT.  They allow you to look up your past returns, and have every bit of information you MIGHT POSSIBLY NEED!

FUCK TURBOTAX!

LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM IT!!!!!!!

Actually, with Free File it’s FREE

No $12 fee

That’s the point of free

If you make less than an income threshold you get to file for FREE using various softwares that are REQUIRED to be and stay free or they lose the license to work with the IRS as part of the Free File program

If you make more than that threshold you can file for FREE using the Free File Fillable Forms where you type in numbers and click “do the math” and the website does all your math for you

Also fuck turbotax, I’m not even allowed to use it because it’s inaccurate enough that I’d get fired since Congress mandated all IRS employees’ taxes need to be PERFECT as a condition of employment

Before you say “Duh,” remember they are using the social contagion lie to make life saving health care from children and teens.  Studies like this can be used in court to fight for the rights of children in our community.

How about “It’s about damn time.”?

Book mark this article, find the source study and bookmark that too. Drown them in facts, in truth, not to change their ways but to make sure they cannot spread their lies to others.

We just got handed a powerful tool against the transphobes. Use it.

Haven’t gotten all the way through the article yet, but here’s a good place to start if you want to gauge the potential accuracy of the two studies: The “social contagion” one surveyed 260-something *parents,* while this new study surveyed over 90,000 actual trans youth. The new study has a better design and a MUCH larger sample size, making its results significantly more likely to be accurate.

And to my fellow cis people, please remember not to grow complacent. Media is siding with trans kids, but that doesn’t mean the fight is won yet. The nazis know they’re losing and that means they’re gonna do everything they can to hurt and scare the trans community before their campaign falls apart. They want to put trans kids in death camps. They want to kill cis leftists. They want to create an ethnostate. Until GNC folks in the US are in a position that could be reasonably called safe, we need to keep fighting. This won’t go away on its own. This isn’t about “feeding the trolls”. It’s about preventing another Holocaust. America may not learn from its mistakes, but we can. Love, support, and fight alongside trans folks in every way you can. It’s time to step up or shut up.

For those who would like to read the paper, I found it here

okay so i actually read the paper and i really recommend doing so before you reblog it but here are the main points:

so, yeah, the vast majority of this article will have most trans people shrugging and going ‘yeah we know’, but having an academic source to point to is hugely important, and it’s nice to see the findings being reported in the news as well

I have to hand it to Musk, nobody else could have fucked up quite on this scale, Twitter is a disaster right now

there will be lawsuits over this stuff

I'm too slow - Eli Lilly is apparently thinking about suing over this one:

Another fake verified Eli Lilly account is up

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I changed my notification sound to this and my life has improved since

*sound of half life scientist screaming but sped up an made deeper*

*sound of someone trying to feed me burger king*

@gudakko

@argumate

thank you I needed that.

Enormous thank you to @softbutchtaako for the best damn tags

thanks i’m here to help

I would like to thank this one three second audio file for making me laugh harder than I have in weeks

@ my mutuals