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we're collectively joking about a year of quarantine ruining our social skills and ability to function in the regular world -- but we just can't understand how people come out of prison after 5 or 10 or 20 years maladapted / how incarceration only continues cycles of harm.
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The #ksleg banned transgender athletes under the pretense that lawmakers care about fairness in women's sports. In an in-depth story, @SamarahBailey explores real inequities for female athletes kansasreflector.com/2023/08/…
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Up late working. Don’t let anyone tell you that people don’t go to prison in KS for weed possession. My client is doing 7 years in a cage at a cost of over $260,000 to taxpayers. If he had had the means to drive 175 to 250 miles either direction on I-70 he’d be free. #ksleg
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One year ago today, on August 2nd, democracy and reproductive freedom won in Kansas—and won big.
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Undocumented youth are some of the most vulnerable populations in our country. Often these undocumented youth are being put into dangerous situations such as this. These companies have a long record of neglecting, abusing, and exploiting workers. #ksleg
Duvan Tomas Perez, a 16-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, died in an accident at the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Miss., on July 14, 2023. It’s the plant’s third worker death since December 2020.
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It's unsurprising Mr. Kobach is asking the court to adopt his flawed, unconstitutional view of an anti-trans law without hearing from the very people who would be harmed: transgender Kansans.
Why is he so afraid of our clients having their voices heard?
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.@KrisKobach wants to keep trans people from intervening in his lawsuit over changing the sex listing on their driver's licenses. apnews.com/article/transgend…
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That approach, ACLU of KS legal director Sharon Brett argues, ignores "the reality that transgender Kansans are going to face every single day in this state." #ksleg
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In its Gideon ruling, the Supreme Court said it's an "obvious truth" that a defendant cannot adequately defend themself without counsel.
To most Kansans & Americans, this IS an obvious truth. Justice shouldn't depend on what you can or can't afford.
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It really feels like Kansas needs trans joy today. Appropriately, here's the second installment of our video series, Trans Joy in the Sunflower State. In the face of nastiness from elected officials, we want trans Kansans to remember that we see you, and you are valuable.
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It's insulting to all Kansans that Kobach and other extremists who propped up the anti-trans law SB 180 claim to be helping women, but have not actually done so. They have instead weaponized women’s rights and re-entrenched oppressive gender stereotypes that hurt all of us.
I'm not sure who should die, just that SOMEONE should, so let's get on with it" --@GovParsonMO
in any other context this would be malicious intent
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absolutely unconscionable. @GovParsonMO has blood on his hands.
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The same way slavery evolved to Jim Crow then mass incarceration, the new evolution of oppression is “rehabilitative centers” or high tech prisons. Don’t be fooled.
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Attorney General Kris Kobach issued an extremely flawed “advisory opinion” today about SB 180, the new law passed by #ksleg codifying scientifically inaccurate and underinclusive definitions of sex into state statute.
It's just that—his opinion. It's little more than bluster.
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ACLU rips Kobach for asking judge to modify 2019 consent order allowing transgender Kansans to change gender marker on birth certificates. #ksleg sunflowerstatejournal.com/ko… via @sfstatejournal
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I think about billionaires a lot (kinda my job?) so let me say this:
Most every billionaire on the planet would happily kill you for an extra few points on their investment. This isn't theoretical, it literally happens. They literally make decisions they know will kill people.
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🚨KS AG Kobach has filed a motion seeking to nullify the 2019 consent judgment between Lambda Legal & the Kansas Department of Health & Environment that established the right of trans people born in Kansas to correct their birth certificates to accurately reflect who they are.
ALT An indigo background with a white speech bubble and text “Breaking news Lambda Legal denounces Kansas Attorney General’s attempt to revisit judgment on transgender birth certificate policy.”
absolutely shameful
A day after voting to raise tuition at each of the six Regents universities, the Kansas Board of Regents moved to give every university president a raise -- including a 10.2% raise for the K State president #ksleg #ksed
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We've joined two amicus briefs filed last week by ACLU national, local affiliates, & orgs dedicated to privacy rights.
We're calling on the Court to reverse or halt the erosion of our 4th Amendment protections against police surveillance and excessive force by federal officers.