IN THE STATE OF…
TEXAS……….Greg Abbott Says the Only Thing Stopping Texas From Shooting Migrants Is the Headache of Potential Murder Charges
Otherwise they’d apparently go for it. The only thing that we’re not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border because, of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder.”(-Greg Abbott (R) Governor of Texas-(Vanity Fair) Days after Texas Governor Greg Abbott complained that Texas can't shoot migrants attempting to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border, three migrants -- a woman and two children -- drowned in the Rio Grande river while Texas National Guard "physically barred" U.S. Border Patrol from trying to rescue them. (RollingStone)
MISSISSIPPI………..Mississippi quits child food program amid Republican ‘welfare state’ attack Critics condemn ‘cruelty’ of state opting out of federal program to feed children from low-income families during summer break. “Mississippi gave millions of dollars of welfare funds to former NFL quarterback Brett Favre to build a volleyball facility for his daughter’s school, but they won’t take federal funds to feed hungry children. Because helping poor kids is the kind of welfare that Republicans hate,” (The Guardian)
WEST VIRGINIA……….Senate Bill 195 amends the state’s indecent exposure law to criminalize engaging in “obscene matter.” It defines “obscene matter” as something that the “average person” would find sexually explicit, offensive, or void of literary, artistic merit or scientific merit. The proposed law specifically includes “any transvestite and/or transgender exposure, performances, or display to any minor” in this definition. Paired with Senate Bill 197, which prohibits “obscene matter” from being within 2,500 feet of a school, this would criminalize being openly transgender in front of a minor or near schools as indecent exposure. The bills also increased the associated fines and jail time.
THE STATE OF THINGS WITHIN OUR NATION ARE JUST DEPLORABLE, as in the description Hilary Clinton used when she spoke about the anti-Democracy minions who supported TRUMP then, and who now, as I see it have become Fascist for now. The State of Texas supports a Governor and Legislature who have decided that Immigrants being murdered is truly no big deal. The State of Mississippi prefers keeping a Fetus alive, but once it exits the female let it starve to death. The State of West Virginia seems to yearn for the days of segregation, this time starting with isolating folks Transphobes have decided are not as human as they.
