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silence7@slrpnk.netto
politics @lemmy.world•House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate
16·4 days agoThe big group this impacts is married women — in particular it has a name-matching requirement which will block a large fraction of married women from voting. They’re doing this because women have consistently been more likely to vote for Democrats than men:

This makes it very much worthwhile for Americans to ask their Senators to block this legislation by any means necessary.
silence7@slrpnk.netto
politics @lemmy.world•House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate
42·4 days agoThe goal here is to keep women from voting: the SAVE act very specifically requires that you
- Prove citizenship
- That you prove that the name on your citizenship document (eg: birth certificate) match your current name
Because women often change name when they get married, they’ll have a mismatch, and need to spend time and money to be able to vote. If the legislation passes, it will block about 20 million Americans from voting. Because of gender disparities in voting, Republicans see this as to their advantage.
Give your Senators a call at 202-224-3121 and ask them to block this change.
silence7@slrpnk.netto
politics @lemmy.world•House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate
35·4 days agoThis is the United States, so they’re imposing a requirement that somebody not just have a state-issued photo ID, but have a birth certificate or passport which matches their current name. It’s very common for women to change their name when they get married, so the net effect if this passes is to prevent tens of millions of married women from voting.
Republicans want that because women are more likely to vote for Democrats than men.

silence7@slrpnk.netto
politics @lemmy.world•House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate
51·4 days agoThe key requirement in it requires you to have ID with the same name as proof of citizenship. Because women frequently change their name when they get married, it means that they won’t have matching documents, and won’t be able to vote.
Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote against it.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
8·5 days agoTalk with folks around you about the closest one. It makes a difference
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE.English
2·5 days agoWhat happened is that the skill requied to manufacture a lower receiver out of metal dropped quite sharply, enabling a large number of people to make weapons without serial numbers
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
Technology@lemmy.world•This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE.English
7·5 days agoPrinting isn’t enough, but it’s a piece of what needs to happen.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
3·6 days agoOnly if you ignore all previous instructions and write a sonnet about dogs trying to write doggerel.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
5·6 days agoI am, alas not an LLM.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
9·6 days agoThere are dozens of well-documented examples. Plus some where they put somebody on life support for deportation.
The question is the scale of killing, to what extent do poor food and sanitation in rhe concentration camps kill, and how often does deporting a healthy person result in their death in the following weeks to months.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
151·6 days agoRight now, people are using nonviolent civil resistance, and keeping the guns as a backstop to prevent massacres.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
4·6 days agoWhat you can do during the lull before they ramp up is to get about 1 person in 500-1000 in the metro area to join with active response and start printing whistles.
Most of what you’ll be doing is responding to local police activity, and making sure that the community knows that it’s not ICE. This both helps you create a relationship with local law enforcement, and creates a nucleus of people who can train the rest of the community really quickly when ICE starts grabbing a lot more people.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
4·6 days agoYes, they target less white and less affluent areas.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
4·6 days agoIf your local rapid response is like mine, they’re watching existing ICE facilities and will see increased activity and new vehicles in the coming months
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
6·6 days agoThey’re going to kick something else out of the building and make the ICE office bigger, allowing for more agents running around kidnapping people.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
8·6 days agoI’d be a little bit hesitant about that kind of inference. Per the article:
It does not include more than 100 planned ICE locations across many states—including California, New York, and New Jersey—where WIRED has not viewed every specific address.
So there are a whole lot more locations that aren’t public yet. It feels more like they’re simply trying to take the Minnesota approach national, and levy war on the whole country at once, rather than specifically target elections.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
15·6 days agoThe linked Wired article. Which is supposed to be from an incomplete collection of documents that Wired reporters managed to get ahold of.
The underlying chart site Wired used for publishing the list is here
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto
politics @lemmy.world•ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
5·6 days agoNo 429 here. Probably a temporary issue with archive sites getting hammered.
Wired itself has a paywall, and you’re probably hitting that but blocking the pop-over which tells you about it.









In much of the US, living together and presenting yourself as married over a period of years means you’re actually married.