...the real issue is that the bills ban municipal governments (cities and counties) from passing their own anti discrimination laws.

Also, due to the passive nature of enforcement, this means the police cannot intervene to a hypothetical predator until after the crime has been committed. And since restroom doors remain unlocked, these laws would literally fail to protect anyone. Even in a worst case scenario, all a hypothetical predator has to do…

This is part of how the “social conservative” machine operates: find a small group of people who society already mistreats, then pin a lot of shit on them and act as though your religion forbids you from being a decent human being. Then, when people start moving to protect that minority, cry “religious persecution!!”…

I really enjoyed the first podcast and now I’m really looking forward the the second.

Not everyone can be a civil rights hero, but a civil rights hero can come from anywhere.

I hate Paul Ryan with a fiery passion, but I’ll take him as President over Trump in a heartbeat, no questions asked, and I’d expect him to just be another George W. Bush with conventionally crappy and offensively bigoted right-wing policy initiatives. We can survive that for four years, though. It’ll be awful, but it…

A semantic criticism: This IS a political action, but it is NOT a partisan one.

Wait, so you “calls it as you sees it” but think that it’s just biased to say Trump is a disaster? So by your logic, to be unbiased you have to never criticize the fucked up shit he’s doing? WHAT?!

I love how all the Trump supporters in the comments who are ‘appalled’ at Gizmodo expressing something vaguely akin to a political bias (gasp!) can’t recognize that Donald Trump is, at this point, far beyond the traditional left / right divide in Washington discourse.

“I’m as anti-Trump as can be, but let’s just let him fuck everything up without questioning any of it for the next four years.”

There’s no safe spaces anymore snowflake.

“No more journalism here, just pure politics.”

Oh, don’t worry— as long as your ovaries are still firing, they’ll take you! And a 27-year-old uterus is prime prime prime real estate. You’d get farmed out to somebody WAY high-up in the Drumpf Cabal, that’s for sure.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHGGGGGHHHHH WHERE’S THE BRAIN BLEACH

Well, see, they thought of that! The father can request a paternity test. So don’t you worry, we won’t be strapping any poor, unsuspecting men into forced fatherhood! Nothing to worry about!

Because they’ve spent 40 years stacking the judiciary with hack judges from the Republic of Gilead School of Law

Posturing for their base, hoping that the bill at least momentarily disrupts abortion services and convinces doctors to close their practices, and hoping that Donald will appoint more anti-choice judges and Roe v. Wade will be struck down.

And why aren’t the people who vote them into power more annoyed at the waste of money that represents?

Oh, oh, guess where else you need to seek a male guardian’s permission before medical procedures*? That’s right, Saudi Arabia!!!

Why in the world are they putting out laws that have already been judged as unconstitutional?