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Signal boost for siderea | Move [US, pols, Patreon]. (Also noted by @catsittingstill.)

I don't know who in the US needs to hear this: it's time.
If you have a uterus, or love someone who does. If you're trans, or love someone who is – especially if they're a child. If you were married to someone of the same sex. If you are otherwise LGBQ, or your child is. If you are someone who provides medical care that is or is about to become criminalized.
Definitely, if you live in Florida. Probably, if you live in Texas. There's a whole bunch of other states that aren't looking too good either.
If you're one of those people living in one of those places in the US...
It's time to think about moving.

There's more -- go read the whole post. I'll wait.

My extended family includes people in all of the categories at risk. I have already advised my kids, including my trans son, to get their damned passports renewed. Washington (state) is still safe for the moment; all bets are off after 2024, and the US Supreme (kangaroo) Court is already makings things difficult. That will only get worse.

In addition to Florida and Texas, dangerous states include Idaho, Indiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee (all mentioned in comments on Siderea's post); there are others.

Note that the Nazis went after queers first. They didn't stop there. Good luck.

A pretty good day, though a little short; I got up half an hour after the clock radio went on, and crashed an hour before my usual bedtime of midnight. (The skeptic in me wonders whether there's a correlation there; the pessimist fears that there is, and that even more of my time is about to disappear into the black hole of sleep.)

I left a prompt at ysabetwordsmith's Poetry Fishbowl; you can buy the resulting poem for only $10.

The big news, of course, is the 9th Circuit's ruling that Prop 8 was unconstitutional. You can see relevant quotes here. I was initially very concerned, since I don't trust the current Supreme Court at all. But this appears to be narrow enough, applying only to states in the 9th circuit where the right to marry was taken away, that the Supremes might simply let it stand. Maybe.

By using their initiative power to target a minority group and withdraw a right that it possessed, without a legitimate reason for doing so, the People of California violated the Equal Protection Clause. We hold Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional on this ground.

They'll have to deal with it eventually, of course. We'll see.

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