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This article gives no information about the status of this bill, or even the number for the bill so you can look it up yourself.

Covering bills like this at the point of introduction is pure fearmongering. Anyone in the legislature can introduce a bill. Most bills go nowhere. Unless it leaves committee or gets co-sponsors, it’s not really being considered at all.

If something happens with this make sure to pay attention. But covering this at this point is just trying to make you afraid to get a click.

Nearly all studies cited by right wingers are really old and debunked. They cherry pick to the one thing they can find that supports their views.

It’s also a myth that appears in trans communities on occasion. The right wing misogynist to trans-girl pipeline is alive and well.

Soy is not feminizing. Plant estrogens are not mammal estrogen. You have to actually take estrogen. It’s really inconvenient.

The rural parts, and most of eastern Washington are very Ohio. The difference in bigotry and political leaning is urban vs rural.

I think its misguided to tell someone they have to move to another state. That’s a really big commitment. You can find accepting places much closer by moving to a nearby big city. That is far more achievable than moving to another state.

They fly pride flags in downtown Boise. The color of the state only changes the state level laws, not the local culture.

agreed, but at this stage expecting more than a statement is unreasonable. no organization could be in full go mode this early.

their actions to come will be telling.

so far the news is only that the executive branch is pursuing this, and this news is only a few days old. This is their first response to the matter.

No organization can move quickly enough to already be doing the things you suggest at this point. This is the make a statement of intent phase, which they have done.

Give it time, nothing happens immediately.

That’s the old washington. We’ve had plenty of updates and fixed many of the issues for the new one. Good way to remember it is that the nation’s capital is called Washington DC. DC is an Italian abbreviation for Da Capo which means from the beginning.

Probably make us territories to start with full province status later. Joining Canada as provinces would be much more like Canada becoming the outer Pacific states. California alone has nearly the same population as the entirety of Canada.

Good first step. We can and should do more.

Yes, that is what that line means. Washington has very similar language in their constitution and it blocks a lot of shenanigans.

The federal legislature is one of the worst. They do a ton of awful shenanigans. I would support a constitutional amendment to ban all of those practices.

Bills can have only one subject. The subject needs to be the title. The title cannot be changed.

Those three rules block at least 90% of federal legislative nonsense.

The supreme court denied the republican’s claim that democrats didn’t wait 30 days before passing the legislation.

Democrats used the technique of “editing” an existing bill by replacing all the text. Its not technically new legislation, its an edit, which doesn’t require 30 days before passage. Clearly against the spirit but not letter of that rule.

Courts can only rule on things they are asked to rule on. The court declined to stop the bill based on the specific procedural issue in this case. The court did not rule on the merits of the redistricting law itself. There will surely be more judgments in future

Polls, especially before any campaigning are meaningless. They are a popularity contest. Those surveyed will select names that are familiar. Newsom is in the news, so he gets poll points for being in the news.

It means nothing about the future election. This is putting the proto-cart before the proto-horse.

asking for reviews does that too. The company can choose who they ask. Reviewers being paid for their work is fine.

I just don’t provide ratings. You shouldn’t either. Reviewing is a job. Some people are professional reviewers. Don’t do free labor for corporations. Do not rate products or services.

Call it what it is, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Alfred Nobel made awards for 5 fields. Economics is not one of them. Economists invented their own prize with Nobel’s name somewhere in the title to try and trick people into thinking its a real science. The headline is wrong and should be corrected to read:

Trump Goes Nuclear on Riksbank Prize-Winning Economist Paul Krugman Over Tariffs Jab: ‘Deranged BUM’

You can ask it to turn off the summaries. It still shows them but you can ask.

This isn’t much of a change. Before AI it was SEO slop. Search for product reviews and you get a bunch of pages “reviewing” products by copying the amazon description and images.

security through obscurity is not security