#florida issues

[m-12-7-jo]

I haven't been out in public much due to taking a year off from school and not being able to work. I've been watching the news around the i/p conflict from indoors and have admittedly been reluctant to look at my states numbers.

So, i finally decided to take a look at the ADL's H.E.A.T. Map and uh...

Florida's had a huge rise in white supremacist propaganda and antisemetic hate crimes since the start of 2023. I figured there would be, since the backlash against the global jewry has been particularly volatile both on and offline. But i hadn't checked the local numbers until now.

We are one of the few states into the 100+ range and that's particularly horrifying. If we look into the specific numbers, we have:

123 antisemitic incidents, with a majority being vandalism and harassment. A number of these incidents occurred with white supremacist movement (propaganda being spread as well as gatherings).

I know everyone's probably exhausted. But i just want to point out some of the hotspots: Orlando (17 incidents), West Palm Beach (10), Boca Raton (7), Fort Lauderdale (4), and Miami (6).

Thankfully, my city has not had any, and I hope that remains.

I don't know enough about the conflict to say anything more than this: I want jews and palestanians to be safe. I want them to have an ability to govern themselves and not be infringed upon or attacked. I don't want more people to die, on either side.

And, it is not "decolonization" to suggest that an entire civilian population be destroyed for the wrongdoings of their government.

We can call for the dismantling of Israel's government all we want, but THIS here only proves what others have said: the diaspora is too unsafe. This is what is used to reinforce the notion that Israel is necessary at all costs.

We cannot call for deconstruction without being willing to address the rampant white supremacy and antisemitism throughout the US and most of Europe. We can't keep kicking jews out of their homes.

You can't support a free Palestine then use antisemitism as a bludgeon, and expect that to somehow save them.

Focus more on combating antisemitism in your area and generating support for Palestinian relief.

Check out: Palestine Red Crescent Society to support Gaza, especially in providing medical relief.

Learn about antisemitism: Antisemitism Uncovered to understand its forms and prevent an increase of it in the diaspora.

#I so far haven't made any posts of my own on this #but I wanted to check a few things out and here we are #do I have a solution? No #do I know the best way to prevent bloodshed and destruction for either group? No #but I don't want to just act like this isn't a complicated situation #or that it's not callous and horrible to cheer on ANY of their deaths #I don't support Israel's government but that doesn't mean we should be cheering for Israelis to die for that #and some of you are so fucking gleeful about it #and so many of you are cloaking your hatred for jews in progressive words #maybe care more about sharing resources that can give Palestine and Gaza relief support #i/p #mine. #look around and see #Also if you're American and your cheering for the destruction of Israel and its citizens in the name of “decolonization” #then I sincerely hope you're willing to die if those colonized here call for it #because that's what you're asking them to do – even if that is supremely unfeasible and actually not a good solution #we shouldn't be calling for any group to die #florida issues

[reasonsforhope]

"Georgia Republicans bundled over a dozen measures that targeted the state’s transgender residents into omnibus packages in a desperate attempt to get them passed. In a stunning defeat for the GOP, every single one of them failed.

Legislators gutted bills that had passed through committee and instead stuffed them full of their anti-LGBTQ+ wishlist items.

Bills that would ban transgender students from playing on teams aligned with their gender identity, ban transgender students from bathrooms aligned with their gender identity, opt parents into notification for every book a student checks out of the library, bar sex education before sixth grade, make all sex-ed classes opt-in and expand obscenity laws to make it easier to ban books with LGBTQ+ content all failed.

“MAGA politicians in Georgia tried it all in service to their anti-LGBTQ+ agenda,” said Human Rights Campaign Georgia State Director Bentley Hudgins, “including silencing debate and gutting unrelated, popular bills that had bipartisan support to ram through policies that would have put young LGBTQ+ Georgians in harm’s way. They failed.”

“It’s undeniable that the tides are shifting, both here in Georgia and across the nation,” Georgia Equality executive director Jeff Graham added. “Anti-LGBTQ actors are losing their political power, and more and more Georgians who know and love LGBTQ people are standing up against their baseless fear-mongering.”

In Florida recently, nearly two dozen anti-LGBTQ+ bills were defeated in the wake of Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R) presidential campaign implosion, dozens of measures in Virginia were tabled [Note: In the US, "tabled" means "shelved" or "taken out of consideration - the opposite of its meaning in the UK and other places], and Ohio’s governor backed off his attempt to restrict gender-affirming care access for transgender adults and minors. 

Meanwhile, in D.C., Democrats successfully excised 50 anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in the two budget bills passed and signed by President Joe Biden to fund the federal government.

Even Fox News has been forced to acknowledge transgender issues are among the lowest-priority concerns among voters."

-via LGBTQ Nation, April 1, 2024

#united states #us politics #lgbtq #lgbtq issues #lgbtq positivity #transgender #trans issues #trans positivity #transphobia #homophobia #anti trans laws #book bans #gender affirming care #georgia #florida #virginia #ohio #d.c. #republicans #democrats #voting matters #good news #hope

[mysharona1987]

#Trans #trans issues #climate change #democrats #republicans #politics #florida #united states #news #conservatives #bid light #science

[barzyhughes]

matthew i am begging you to please bring the racing stripes back 🙏

#i think all of my issues would vanish if he did so #i will literally pay him to bring them back #matthew tkachuk #florida panthers

[bigbrotherlouis]

who’s up thinking about soulmates (peter draisaitl and keith tkachuk played against each other in the olympics)

#mattdrai #hockey #personal issues #they were soooo red string of fate until matthew moved to florida

[gxlden-angels]

I think it's so funny when Christian flat out reject the concept of being intersex like oh so me and about 2% of the population aren't real but you expect me to believe homeboy's gonna come back after (holy) ghosting us for over 2000 years?

#I plan on coming out to my dad as trans this weekend #And thought about the time I explained what intersex is to my uncle #and how he flat out refused to except it as a real thing #which is fuckin wild #male and female should be used as adjectives not nouns #cause there's so many factors that contribute to biological sex that it'd be easier to say every person is their own sex #but yea i'm medically considered intersex cause of my flavor of PCOS #and other issues #it's just so wild cause you'd think that would be a great 'miracle' for them to brag about #'Look at science say there's female and male but Jesus says in Galatians there is no male and female because we are all one in Christ.' #Like the opportunity was literally right there #oh well #florida gov ronald desantis if ur reading this you know what would be so fuckin funny for you to say right now? #also I'll be back on the book soon I've been Working. got 38.5 hours the past 2 weeks tho let's gooo (limit is 40 as a pt student) #[pt working and full time student not pt student] #bro fundie christians' obsession with sex/genitalia in general is fuckin wild #ex christian #religious trauma

[handkinkbis]

#destined with you cast #jo bo ah #jo boah #2021 keyeast november issue #ig photos #korean actors #she's rocking the aengcho hairstyle and vibe in these (obvs unintentionally since these are old photos but you know) #apparently the purple flower is clematis florida #thanks google reverse image search lol #it symbolizes intelligence and mental strength #clearly they chose it for boah for a reason 😌😌 #our clever queen #destined with you

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

answer within the next like 2 hours bc I'm making a decision before I go to bed

#basically my dad has a pair of these banger shoes #and my dad has actual literal podiatry issues and he is harder on shoes than anyone I've ever mey #met* #like. buying a new set of sneakers and/or hiking boots nearly annually bc he's worn through them and stuff. he's that hard on shoes #and he has had THE SAME PAIR of these sandals LITERALLY since before my sister was born. so like. OVER 14 years at this point #so like... seems like a worthy investment to me #better than buying a new set of cheap $20 sandals every year yknow?? #I told myself that once I saved up a certain amount of money following my Florida trip I could buy a good set of shoes #I just need backup lol bc I'm gonna have to justify myself to my parents who hate it when I spend ANY money sksksksks #Lu rambles #adulthood woes

[keepbirdieweird]

since chapter three (link here!) of my domesticated-war-dragon!gov au is now up, i get to post this hehehe (click for better quality!)

testygov is. large.

#welcome to the table #wttt #welcome to the statehouse #wttsh #wttt gov #wttt florida #as you can see! i am not dead! #if anyone wants to poke me about the intricacies of testygov's self worth issues i am always literally frothing at the mouth

[khandedoe]

You put me high up on your shoulders

Or sometimes on your back

Mama I remember that

I still think back to when I saw you in gold

Cherry blossom in the snow

We're getting older

Mama I remember that

Mama I remember that

Oh remember this

You hold my life in your bliss

Oh I remember it

Your the only reason I exist

Man I'm lost cause I don't have you

To hold me back

Mama I remember that

I still think back to when I saw you go

I don't know where you go

The food is getting cold

Mama I remember that

Mama I remember that

Oh remember it

You held my hands and you kissed it

Oh I remember it

I just stood there to take it in

Please

Please

I just want to know you

Like the wind knows a brids wings

So mama hold me

Just hold me

We're older

I'm older

Now your gone

Grew up all alone

Your son.

-kahndedoe

#my poems #poems on tumblr #write write write #writers on tumblr #mommy issues #trauma #childhood #nostalgic #arizona #mother #long hair #poetry #abandoned #florida #gothic poem #vent

[beardedmrbean]

For once, AOC is right: “They can’t afford to live here any more,” she said Monday of working-class Gothamites.

Thing is, it’s the policies that she and her progressive allies wants more of that have made the city so expensive.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bx./Queens) is, after all, a Democratic Socialist.

Look at what occasioned the digital town hall where she spoke: recently announced cuts across city agencies.

Why are these needed?

To pay for the migrants AOC and her ilk demand we admit in infinite numbers, and house and feed forever at a cost of more than $12 billion through fiscal 2025 (and that’s a conservative estimate).

What about housing? A recent survey shows a third of New Yorkers are paying over half their income for rent.

Lefties used that fact to call for even more rent control — which in fact is a huge reason city housing is so limited.

Beyond that is the way progs have done so much to reduce the amount of housing, from blocking renewal of the 421a tax break for developers (responsible for the vast majority of new affordable housing in the past two decades) to 2019’s Tenant Protection Act, which has taken 43,000 units off-market because it doesn’t let landlords cover the costs of bringing old apartments up to code.

Now, the city’s on track to see only 11,000 new units built this year, half the number from 2022. 

And this is to say nothing of the state’s “Green New Deal” climate laws that are already sending power prices for New Yorkers skyward. 

Or the billions of dollars stolen by shoplifting thugs from retailers big and small thanks to the criminal justice “reforms” AOC and her compatriots back. 

AOC offered her usual prescription on this issue: tax the rich!

But they’re fleeing the state and city in droves, also thanks to our progressive overlords. 

AOC and her fellow leftists simply don’t care what their ideas actually mean for the people whose interests they claim to represent.

And if progressive ideology continues to rule New York, it’ll get ever more unaffordable — and the exodus accelerate.

#nunyas news #enough leave housing won't be a issue anymore #tax the rich thing is funny too #let's look at why bezos moved to florida for starters

[tinogiehd]

#ignore tbhat they called him a native of florida like the whole issue was that he isn’t american #one of the top craziest things he’s ever done and that’s saying soemthing

[the-starlight-papers]

Alabama is trying to pass a bill that will ban DEI. It will also prohibit trans people from using the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity.

I have a few friends at the University of Alabama who are very worried about the loss of programs there such as their LGBTQ+ student lounge, which has been a refuge for a ton of queer people at that college.

#I know tumblr can only focus on like one or two issues at a time #and I also know that people are burned out on this stuff after Florida and Utah #but please sign this petition

[bryan-damage]

Twisted Issues 1988 Splatterpunk movie from Gainesville, Florida

#punk rock #punk #twisted issues 1988 #indie film #splatterpunk #punk movies #gainesville #florida #80s movies #direct to video #indie movie #charles pinion

[simplyghosting]

Mention burrowing owls and the elementary school memory and emotions of “Hoot” by Carl Hiaasen wakes up in me with a vengeance

#ghost posts #that book changed me as a kid #especially as a kid that lived in Florida #was a big factor in recognizing environmental issues and hating bad urban planning for me #news was talking about the owls being in danger and i got emotional #he wrote another book that I read as a kid too #can’t recall the name at the moment

[thebookworm0001]

Hi hello queer southerner here:

The word y’all is already inclusive. if I see one of y’all using “y’xll” because you don’t want to associate with the south, I’m smacking you with my cast iron skillet.

You’re not better than us because you’re from a northern/blue state.

#why do I still have a tiktok I regret everything I learn on it #I actually only have a cast iron pot #but I’ll borrow my mother’s skillet for this #some of y’all need to reevaluate how you write off the entirety of the south #because of your preconceived notions of who lives here #yes we have major issues and there are bigoted people here #but y’all ain’t better #you just get to feel superior by saying you should cut florida out of the USA #congrats there are marganlized folks of every stripe in the south #and you’ll fuck them over to feel better about your own situation #and we don’t need bullshit like talking our words and making them ‘inclusive’ by trying to distance them from their origin