1. Big ruling out of Connecticut. A federal judge has ruled that blanket denials for FFS violate the affordable care act.
Though it only applies to two plaintiffs, class certification is pending, and it will provide strong legal rationale for challenges.
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Hey, this is quite big!
Hadn't checked the bill until now (PDF); it really is removing sex work related sanctions!
Including sex work itself. ❤️
(Yes, minors and trafficking is still illegal. None on those is removed).
There's apparently a hearing this Wednesday.
leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-097
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The angry part of Bluesky remembered KOSA (now under the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, or H.R. 7757) exists but rather yell at you. I'll say:
If you have REALLY bad anxiety (like me!), you can call your reps after hours! Voicemail counts! The site 5Calls give you a script to read off of:
ICYMI: Last week @aoc.bsky.social ripped age verification mandates to shreds at the kids online safety bills markup- accurately summed up what we and other human rights, LGBTQ+ and youth advocacy orgs have been saying for years!
Today is a new week. Time to make those calls.
#savespeech #StopKIDSact #notodigitalid
Demand your Congressfolk reject #KOSA, #ScreenAct, the so-called Stop CSAM Act, et al. These bills are anti-privacy, anti-free speech, anti-consumer. They are a power grab by predatory corporations, and would put a pedophile present in charge of "child safety" online
www.badinternetbills.com
WE DON'T NEED LAWS ONLINE TO PROTECT CHILDREN
WE NEED THE PARENTS TO PROTECT THEIR OWN CHILDREN
OPPOSE KOSA
This week's (March 09 - 14) schedule. Twitch.tv/SariFaun All days are 5 PM - 12 AM Eastern (Mostly). Monday, 9:30 PM Est: Pathfinder 2E: Age of Ashes (Tabletop, Played via Fantasy Grounds) Tuesday: Xenogears (PS1, 1998) Wednesday: Terraria Skyblock Run! With @sleepycalitv.bsky.social, @silaxandra.bsky.social, & @spookypeppers.bsky.social! (PC, 2011) Thursday: Resident Evil: Outbreak - With @akibread.bsky.social, @vampirevalkyrie.bsky.social, & @starfy99.bsky.social! (PS2, 2003) Friday: Rogue Trader - With Koe! (PC, 2024) Saturday: Salt 2 - With @senjizimon.bsky.social! (PC, 2025)
So many games with friends this week!
Fuck the SAVE act and Fuck KOSA.
Keep calling your reps and senators and demand they oppose KOSA and COPPA 2.0
Your voice matters, it is better to have tried than not tried. We can defeat these horrible bills
You need to call your reps and demand that they OPPOSE:
-the KIDS Act
-KOSA
-the Screen Act
-Sammy's Law
-the App Store Accountability Act
And additionally, oppose:
-reforming/sunsetting Section 230
-online age verification/ID laws
www.congress.gov/members/find...
This is a semi-annual reminder that Daylight Savings was a colonialist project by white settlers trying to control the weather.
Science has long shown the health benefits of permanent Standard Time. Lawmakers who want permanent DST also tend to support KOSA, ending Section 230. It's about control.
The angry part of Bluesky remembered KOSA (now under the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, or H.R. 7757) exists but rather yell at you I'll say:
If you have REALLY bad anxiety (like me!), you can call your reps after hours! Voicemail counts! The site 5Calls give you a script to read off of:
To y'all young artists out there, take in comfort that your "poorly drawn" picture has more copyright protection than some GenAI slop piece. Thanks to the latest Supreme Court ruling against GenAI, it's a major victory for us artists.
USA folk, you need to annoy these assholes as much as you can. this bill is not to protect children. they want to erase transgender people from public life and classify them as degenerate content in the internet. we will not be seen or heard. they want our *existence* to be a sex offense.
#savespeech #transrightsarehumanrights
They are adding anti-trans legislation to the "SAVE America Act/SAVE Act." It'll likely be used as a "gotcha" to get Senate Democrats on board.
CALL YOUR REPS. TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON THIS BILL. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
www.congress.gov/members/find...
Hi: It's a deliberately fake, loaded title for an act which actually intends to ban good books for kids. Please read. And act. Thanks, Andrea
authorsguild.org/news/oppose-...
Call your representatives now and tell them how much you love Section 230 and hate domestic mass surveillance.
Remember to keep calling and pressuring your senators and reps to oppose KOSA and COPPA. We must do what we can to try and stop these bills
Don't try to rationalize them in a sense of "it won't be that bad" Because the OSA in the UK is no different then those bills and it's been misery in the UK
Grammarly out grave-robbing in public
Extremely funny to hear "900 people would lose billions but still be rich and every single member of the middle class--millions of people--would get a check big enough to not have to stress about rent for a month or two" portrayed as a BAD thing
As I've said on other accounts that have been canned for being too openly queer and kinky in a fascist regime: When queers aid fascists in banning what they deem 'problematic' kink, all they're doing is holding the door open for Nazis to redefine *us* as 'problematic' kink and banning us from life.
a black and white edit that reads "the future includes trans people". around the text is a floral pattern. the image is grainy
the future is for trans people
Barry repeatedly told his mother he was sorry because he knew it was the only way to stop her from lashing out at him. From experience, he knew that trying to hold his mother responsible for any unwanted outcomes resulted in her making herself the victim and lashing out at him. The only way to stop her was to say he was sorry, even though the only thing he was actually remorseful about was relying on her for something time-sensitive and important to him. He would try to avoid this situation in the future. Barry learned from consistently being treated this way as a child that when unwanted outcomes occur, the only way he can avoid verbal abuse is to get ahead of it and apologize profusely. He generalized this in all of his relationships, even though most of his relationships are not abusive.
here's a source for a similar claim that is less likely to be AI generated (and the author seems to be a real psychologist) www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/my-s...
Oh. Oh! ... Oh... Damn. I'll bet that also translates really well to being yelled at/upset with for apologizing not being AT ALL helpful with correcting that. Spoilers: It just makes me want to apologize more/better.
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
I dunno, I feel like "I'm siding with Ken Paxton on genociding trans youth" should be the demoralizing bit here Jesse
Don't ever listen to people who tell you to be satisfied with the status quo, who act like your voice doesn't matter.
Progress has been made due to folks making their voices heard. If nothing you did mattered, we wouldn't have the hard-won rights many folks have today.
Don't stop.
Bro, ICE is still here kidnapping people, now they’ve even got transit vans advertising fake companies.
I hope Keir Starmer wakes up covered in caterpillars and there are so many caterpillars, he’s telling his wife he doesn’t even know where the caterpillars came from but she’s SO angry at him for the caterpillars and when he tries to eat breakfast caterpillars pour out of his stupid cornflakes box.
