The Moms 4 Liberty cult are bringing anti-LGBT initiatives back to Washington State

Holy hell, it really is 1993 all over again. Moms 4 Liberty, the fundamentalist cult, are trying to overturn parts of our sanctuary state status. Just as in the 90s, when it was the Citizens Alliance groups – of Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Montana, and more – they’re lying like motherfuckers about the law and about reality.

Decline to Sign is all about preventing the referendums and initiatives from getting onto the ballot at all, via watching for people gathering signatures and getting people out there to counteract the lies the signature collectors tell.

Get involved, and if you’re in other states reading this, heads up, because they’ll be coming in your states too.

From Seattle Indivisible:

Decline to Sign R-101
Official Daily Action for Friday, July 14, 2023
The following action comes from the Washington Indivisible Network (WIN) and Stop Moms for Liberty:

Just two months ago, Governor Inslee signed into law SB-5599, a bill that ensures that transgender youth who are not safe at home and seeking life-saving care can depend on the state of Washington for safe shelter. Now, the ultra-conservative, so-called “Moms for Liberty” (M4L) and other conservative groups are gathering signatures for a referendum called R-101 to repeal SB-5599, which the anti-trans M4L claims constitutes “legalized kidnapping” instead of a way to keep kids safe from harm. In reality, all it does is involve the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) when a runaway or homeless teen uses a shelter and says that they lost or left their home due to LGBTQ or reproductive care reasons. This offers LGBTQ+ teens protections similar to those offered to youth who say that they are fleeing a parent who is addicted or physically abusive: a social worker investigates the safety of reunification and offers family services if needed rather than requiring the shelter to immediately notify the parents.

However, the disinformation surrounding this bill is enormous: M4L is claiming that the state will remove non-runaway kids from their homes, immediately assume full custody, provide gender surgery (that is not even available to youth under 18 in most circumstances), etc.

Let’s keep this bad referendum off the ballot, and ensure that safe shelter is available to youth who need it! Spread the word to friends and family: Decline to Sign R-101.

Learn about R-101: Referendum filing | The Everett Herald

Fact checks on the disinformation going around: Associated Press | The Stranger | Crosscut

Learn about Moms for Liberty: https://www.mediamatters.org/…/inside-moms-libertys…

New! Download our toolkit with social media graphics and printable flyers: https://bit.ly/DeclineToSignR101-Toolkit

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Fascism Watch Special Edition: Elon Musk doesn’t just recruit fascists to Twitter, HE PAYS THEM.

(This one won't cross-post for some reason, so I'm doing it manually.)

I’m making this a separate edition of Fascism Watch because we are so far past excuses: Elon Musk pays fascists, misogynists, and alt-right activists of all sorts to be active on Twitter. He pays them THOUSANDS to TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. He does so openly. It is not in contention.

If you are active on Twitter, YOU are helping fund the alt-right. YOU are helping fund, just for example, Andrew Tate, the professional woman-hating misogynist who teaches boys to be misogynists like him, and who is under indictment for rape and sex trafficking. YOU are helping fund conspiracy lunatics like DC_Draino. YOU are helping fund fascist propagandists like Ian Cheong. That’s you.

Twitter is now explicitly worse than most overtly fascist sites. If you’re still on Twitter, you are functionally contributing to the Daily Stormer. There’s no difference now.

Get. The FUCK. Off. Of. Twitter.

That’s really all I have to say. Get the fuck off twitter, get the FUCK off twitter, GET THE FUCK OFF OF TWITTER.

But since I had them, here’s some Twitter fash shit I was going to include in the next Fascism Watch:

Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation, writes the BBC. I’d’ve used a disinformation word there, since so many of them are in bed with Putin. Twitter and Musk are doing everything they can also to keep Nazi and other racist and anti-semitic tweets up even as places like Germany bring legal action. Finally, Elon links and boosts posts from people defending and supporting the use of racist language, because he’s a fucking white supremacist, stop pretending he’s not already.

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