1. Big ruling out of Connecticut. A federal judge has ruled that blanket denials for FFS violate the affordable care act. Though it only applies to two plaintiffs, class certification is pending, and it will provide strong legal rationale for challenges. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Hey, this is quite big! Hadn't checked the bill until now (PDF); it really is removing sex work related sanctions! Including sex work itself. ❤️ (Yes, minors and trafficking is still illegal. None on those is removed). There's apparently a hearing this Wednesday. leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-097 🤞

The angry part of Bluesky remembered KOSA (now under the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, or H.R. 7757) exists but rather yell at you. I'll say: If you have REALLY bad anxiety (like me!), you can call your reps after hours! Voicemail counts! The site 5Calls give you a script to read off of:

ICYMI: Last week @aoc.bsky.social ripped age verification mandates to shreds at the kids online safety bills markup- accurately summed up what we and other human rights, LGBTQ+ and youth advocacy orgs have been saying for years!

Today is a new week. Time to make those calls. #savespeech #StopKIDSact #notodigitalid

Demand your Congressfolk reject #KOSA, #ScreenAct, the so-called Stop CSAM Act, et al. These bills are anti-privacy, anti-free speech, anti-consumer. They are a power grab by predatory corporations, and would put a pedophile present in charge of "child safety" online www.badinternetbills.com

WE DON'T NEED LAWS ONLINE TO PROTECT CHILDREN WE NEED THE PARENTS TO PROTECT THEIR OWN CHILDREN OPPOSE KOSA

So many games with friends this week!

Fuck the SAVE act and Fuck KOSA.

Keep calling your reps and senators and demand they oppose KOSA and COPPA 2.0 Your voice matters, it is better to have tried than not tried. We can defeat these horrible bills

You need to call your reps and demand that they OPPOSE: -the KIDS Act -KOSA -the Screen Act -Sammy's Law -the App Store Accountability Act And additionally, oppose: -reforming/sunsetting Section 230 -online age verification/ID laws www.congress.gov/members/find...

This is a semi-annual reminder that Daylight Savings was a colonialist project by white settlers trying to control the weather. Science has long shown the health benefits of permanent Standard Time. Lawmakers who want permanent DST also tend to support KOSA, ending Section 230. It's about control.

The angry part of Bluesky remembered KOSA (now under the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, or H.R. 7757) exists but rather yell at you I'll say: If you have REALLY bad anxiety (like me!), you can call your reps after hours! Voicemail counts! The site 5Calls give you a script to read off of:

To y'all young artists out there, take in comfort that your "poorly drawn" picture has more copyright protection than some GenAI slop piece. Thanks to the latest Supreme Court ruling against GenAI, it's a major victory for us artists.

USA folk, you need to annoy these assholes as much as you can. this bill is not to protect children. they want to erase transgender people from public life and classify them as degenerate content in the internet. we will not be seen or heard. they want our *existence* to be a sex offense.

#savespeech #transrightsarehumanrights They are adding anti-trans legislation to the "SAVE America Act/SAVE Act." It'll likely be used as a "gotcha" to get Senate Democrats on board. CALL YOUR REPS. TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON THIS BILL. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. www.congress.gov/members/find...

Hi: It's a deliberately fake, loaded title for an act which actually intends to ban good books for kids. Please read. And act. Thanks, Andrea authorsguild.org/news/oppose-...

Call your representatives now and tell them how much you love Section 230 and hate domestic mass surveillance.

Remember to keep calling and pressuring your senators and reps to oppose KOSA and COPPA. We must do what we can to try and stop these bills Don't try to rationalize them in a sense of "it won't be that bad" Because the OSA in the UK is no different then those bills and it's been misery in the UK

Grammarly out grave-robbing in public

Extremely funny to hear "900 people would lose billions but still be rich and every single member of the middle class--millions of people--would get a check big enough to not have to stress about rent for a month or two" portrayed as a BAD thing

As I've said on other accounts that have been canned for being too openly queer and kinky in a fascist regime: When queers aid fascists in banning what they deem 'problematic' kink, all they're doing is holding the door open for Nazis to redefine *us* as 'problematic' kink and banning us from life.

the future is for trans people

here's a source for a similar claim that is less likely to be AI generated (and the author seems to be a real psychologist) www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/my-s...

Oh. Oh! ... Oh... Damn. I'll bet that also translates really well to being yelled at/upset with for apologizing not being AT ALL helpful with correcting that. Spoilers: It just makes me want to apologize more/better.

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

I dunno, I feel like "I'm siding with Ken Paxton on genociding trans youth" should be the demoralizing bit here Jesse

Don't ever listen to people who tell you to be satisfied with the status quo, who act like your voice doesn't matter. Progress has been made due to folks making their voices heard. If nothing you did mattered, we wouldn't have the hard-won rights many folks have today. Don't stop.

Bro, ICE is still here kidnapping people, now they’ve even got transit vans advertising fake companies.

I hope Keir Starmer wakes up covered in caterpillars and there are so many caterpillars, he’s telling his wife he doesn’t even know where the caterpillars came from but she’s SO angry at him for the caterpillars and when he tries to eat breakfast caterpillars pour out of his stupid cornflakes box.

Ghost of Yotei star: 'workers need more protections' in game development

TODAY: The Senate is expected to vote on a War Powers Resolution for Trump’s illegal war with Iran. Like the Iraq War vote two decades ago, this decision will define a generation of politicians. Call your senators and demand that they rein in Trump and prevent further military operations in Iran.

this website literally would not load for a majority of the day yesterday and meanwhile the people ostensibly in charge of programming this shit are smug-posting about their epic bacon vibes coding with the slop machines god thats fucking cringe

A new report and survey of trans people reports that 99% of them have had their mental health negatively affected by the barrage of anti trans stories in the UK media. 64% avoided medical care due to discrimination. This is a crisis. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

This post has a lot of good info. Call your reps and tell them the KIDS Act has to be opposed. Sammy's Law is the least bad out of all of these, so you can tell them to support that and say that the KIDS Act is going too far.

i think its extremely problematic that we keep finding out about adjustments/changes to how moderation is done here by people sharing the emails sent to users by moderation and not an official announcement or explanation of what the rules are from T&S.

Reminder that bluesky isn't your friend either and the people running the site absolutely do hate you and want to spite you

If only neoliberal powers were capable of restraining big tech oligarchs without pushing asinine ideas like KOSA or repealing Section 230 that end up targeting their competition and hurting marginalized communities. Sigh.

Reminder to call your representatives every day & demand that they - oppose KOSA - oppose the App Store Accountability Act - oppose the SCREEN Act - oppose Section 230 reform/sunsetting - oppose/repeal online age verification & ID laws

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright. (Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

They want to make Furry art illegal - Call your Reps -oppose KOSA -oppose the App Store Accountability Act -oppose The SCREEN Act -oppose section 230 reform/sunsetting -oppose/repeal online age verification and ID laws www.badinternetbills.com www.congress.gov/members/find...

Just a reminder that @anthropic.com the “ethical” AI company is donating $20 million to Public First Action, who are backing Marsha Blackburn and KOSA, a bill that’s going to censor the web and make it worse for everyone.. www.anthropic.com/news/donate-... www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Here are the bills that are in the markup. KIDS Act may have bills like KOSA on it. Nevertheless, keep calling your reps to vote no and oppose it and other censorship bills.

KOSA and related bills are up for vote in the House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee on Thursday, and I wanted to make a thread on what YOU can do to stop it! If you aren't aware of what KOSA is, the EFF has a great article here: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... Thread below!

Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

UPDATE: KOSA And other 3 bad internet bills are going to markup as soon as tomorrow. Keep calling your reps and tell them to vote no before we lose the entire internet to ID requirements. #StopKOSA #SaveSpeech

They are at it again! Please call your electeds and tell to vote No on KOSA and other similar bills that operate under the pretense of "protecting the kids". But are really just censorship and speech crackdown bills. Our freedom of speech online is in danger if such bills are allowed to pass.

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it’s time so kill KOSA again 🫩 I’m tired too but call your senators. use 5Calls. call after hours if you prefer. leave your address so they can tally your call. we must remain vigilant.

NEW for everyone who has been asking me: The E&C markup will be Thursday morning! The centerpiece is a package combining a dozen bills including the latest KOSA Then App Store age verification and more as standalone bills