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Birds of prey are so badass. Like they got this goshawk to fly through tiny little holes barely bigger than it’s body to show just how extreme they can get
Moral of the story: Be glad you’re too big to be eaten by a Goshawk
Just imagine birds of prey the size of the eagles from LoTR, okay. Terrifying.
All right, listen up, folks, because this is really important. The media has been completely silent on this. The only way I found out is through the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) but that’s it. No articles, no news reports, nothing.
There’s a new bill up on the table (H.R. 620) that could keep businesses from not being penalized if they don’t follow the Americans with Disabilities Act.
That’s a mouthful of many contradictions so let me clarify:
The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 and is one of the few actual pieces of legislation that disabled Americans have. It’s the big one, the reason there are elevators in buildings, the reason there are ramps, the reason there are curbcuts, the reason there are options for Braille or subtitles, the reason service dogs need to be allowed into a building, the reason accessible parking exists, the reason accessible bathroom stalls exist, the reason you can’t be fired based on your disability, etc. etc. etc.
People, especially businesses, have been getting away with loopholes for years. But there’s always been some sort of enforcement in place, penalizing businesses who don’t adhere to the ADA.
But this bill?
This bill gets rid of that accountability.
This bill sets forward specific requirements (such as a disabled person having to make a formal claim before a building is investigated) that one has to follow before a business is penalized. If nobody is able to meet those requirements, that business gets to get away with not following the ADA without having to change anything or face any legal/monetary consequences.
This bill could destroy everything that the ADA stands for and make the nation even more inaccessible/unaccommodating than it already is.
And I know what you’re thinking. “Oh, that dastardly Trump, he mocked that reporter once, I guess this makes sense.”
And no, no, it’s so much worse than that reporter, it’s always been worse than that, we’ve been trying to tell you for over a year and none of you listened. This isn’t just about him being ignorant or prejudiced.
This is about this:
An article from almost a year ago that most of the world ignored.
Other members of congress have been sued as well. And now, rather than fix the problems, they’re all trying to secretly pass a bill that makes it so that they can no longer be held accountable for not following the ADA, letting hundreds of thousands of businesses get away with it as a result.
Don’t let them get away with it!
Signal boost the hell out of this. Send it to your news sources. Call your representatives. The world’s already inaccessible enough. Don’t let it get worse. Don’t let them lose their accountability.
Fight the hell out of this, guys. It’s not on people’s radar like other things are but it’s terrible bullshit. Please don’t forget to call your representatives and tell them to OPPOSE HR620.
Thanks for posting this. I just hung up from calling my Representative.
These are the points I’ve made:
The ADA is the law. It has been on the books for 27 years. If businesses cannot follow the law, and run an establishment according to legal requirements, they shouldn’t be in business.
This is a civil rights law, if we start rolling it back now, other laws will likely follow.
Ignorance of the law is no defense. A business can’t claim ignorance of the law if they fail a health inspection in their kitchen, they shouldn’t be protected by ignorance of the law in this case.
And finally, disabled people deserve the same free and safe access to public spaces as everyone else.
Look if you’re going to be exposed to purring for the first time, Oskar’s are top notch. What a great moment to witness.
Fun fact: I did not experience a purring cat until I was thirteen and until that point I thought that purring was…basically an elaborate joke that society had played for itself.
I was very alarmed when a cat started to vibrate and the cat was very alarmed when it made me yell.
State legislative races don’t usually draw a lot of national attention – but Virginia’s House District 13 race is: it pits a Republican incumbent known for unsuccessfully sponsoring a so-called “bathroom bill” against a transgender woman.
If she succeeds in unseating Delegate Bob Marshall, Democrat Danica Roem would be the country’s first openly transgender state lawmaker.
Roem’s background may set her apart as a political candidate, but her message to voters in this district, in the outer Washington, D.C. suburbs, is pretty standard for a local politician. She’s focusing on bread-and-butter “quality of life” issues, she says, like roads funding, schools, and water infrastructure.
Roem argues she’s uniquely informed about local issues and prepared to problem-solve because of her years working as a newspaper reporter in the region.
“I’ve dedicated my professional career to vetting information…and then reporting the truth as it is, not what other people hope it should be,” she said. “…And when I’m in office I can do the same thing.”
