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A former city council member of a New Jersey town and local Republican Party leader allegedly called the police on a 9-year-old Black girl when he saw her catching spotted lanternflies—an invasive species killing trees in the area—while wearing a hoodie, the girl’s mother, Monique Joseph, said at a local board meeting last week.
“There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees. I don’t know what the hell she’s doing, it scares me though.”
An October issue of The Progress quite literally spotlights Bobbi’s work to combat the environmentally hazardous invasive species in the community. “She was not only doing something amazing for our environment, she was doing something that made her feel like a hero,” Hayden said. “Our neighbor across the street…decided it would be appropriate to call the police on my sister.”
According to Joseph, Gordon Lawshe—the former council member for Caldwell, New Jersey, who’s also her neighbor—told police, “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees. I don’t know what the hell she’s doing, it scares me though.” Joseph’s daughter is, again, 9. The allegation speaks to the widespread crisis of young Black girls being adultified, placing them at greater risk of police violence, sexual violence, and harsher disciplinary action in schools that feeds the school-to-prison pipeline.
Can someone please get Gordon a wooby to hold when he feels scared
A 9 year old is “a little black WOMAN”? And also, scary to an ADULT MAN? Who is, actually, a neighbour? Are all republican politicians absolute cowards and sleaze-balls? This is revolting on a visceral level 🤮🤬
This man, looking at a young child: What is this, a small woman?
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The Kids Online Safety Act Is a Heavy-Handed Plan to Force Platforms to Spy on Young People -
Because, god knows when it rains it pours, there’s yet another horrible internet bill on the table, and it is a doozy!
It’s called the Kids Online Safety Act and it’s basically designed to force internet companies to mandate ID for website logins, destroy websites with any hint of a kid looking at things they aren’t supposed to (With an extremely broad definition of “what they aren’t supposed to”), force companies to send data “for study” to the government (IE, spy on kids) force them to use an age-verification system that will likely include mandatory government ID checks, and put on mandatory parental controls cranked up to high by default for parents to spy on their kids!
Now, this is a nightmare for several reasons. The mandated ID checks are horrifying and intrusive violation of privacy for adults and the young alike, in a way that screws over queer sex workers especially, and the increased liability for websites will lead to truly biblical purges of NSFW content, but there’s another big one:
This bill will lead to kids getting abused and killed.
Like, imagine that parental spying being used on queer or mentally ill teens. Imagine the definition of “not okay for minors” being expanded by, like say, the transphobic push in Texas or Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill. You see where this goes.
Now, this is before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, who’s members are:
- Maria Cantwell, Washington, Chair
- Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota
- Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut
- Brian Schatz, Hawaii
- Ed Markey, Massachusetts
- Gary Peters, Michigan
- Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin
- Tammy Duckworth, Illinois
- Jon Tester, Montana
- Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona (Unfortunately)
- Jacky Rosen, Nevada
- Ben Ray Luján, New Mexico
- John Hickenlooper, Colorado
- Raphael Warnock, Georgia
- Roger Wicker, Mississippi, Ranking Member
- John Thune, South Dakota
- Roy Blunt, Missouri
- Ted Cruz, Texas (Ugh)
- Deb Fischer, Nebraska
- Jerry Moran, Kansas
- Dan Sullivan, Alaska
- Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee
- Mike Lee, Utah
- Ron Johnson, Wisconsin
- Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia
- Todd Young, Indiana
- Rick Scott, Florida
- Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming
You can find their contact info here, and if they’re a part of your state, contact them and tell them this bill is a spying bill that will kill children, it needs to die.
But, even in other state, contact your sentators any way you can, and tell them this is a bad bill, and if it gets out of committee, it needs to die.
Tell your friends IRL to do it too either way, because they measure this shit in terms of how many messages they get, and so we need to flood their offices, and this goes for the other bad internet bills I’ve talked about too.
Again, deeply fatigued by all the godawful internet bills, but this is a goddamn war, and nobody ever won a war by giving up…
Reblogging because the bill just left committee and is now in the full Senate.
And it passed committee fucking unanimously, which is terrifying.
Call your Senators and tell them this bill needs to be destroyed, make it controversial, make it legislative poison.
Blogging this again because it got worse, in that they are trying to push it through the “lame duck” session of Congress.
Which, for those who don’t know what that means, basically they’re going to try and sneak it into a big “must-pass” bill or just try and push it out while everyone’s asleep at the wheel.
Which has happened very recently with another bill, the awful streaming act by Thom Tills!
And, there’s a lot of people who want this shit passed, including fucking Frances Haugen who; if this passes; I guarantee will go down in history as the Frederick Werthan of the internet.
So, we can’t afford to do nothing on this. Again, here’s where you can find your representatives and senators and their contact information via your address or zip code.
Again, it only works if we do it in volume, so call them and tell them you want it dead!
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