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Feb 20 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
BREAKING: The sponsor of the "Don't Say Gay" bill in the Florida House, @josephbharding, just introduced an amendment that would REQUIRE SCHOOLS TO OUT LGBTQ STUDENTS even if the school believes THE DISCLOSURE WILL RESULT IN "ABUSE, ABANDONMENT, OR NEGLECT"

(Via @CarlosGSmith)
@josephbharding @CarlosGSmith Corporate donors to @josephbharding, who sponsored the "Don't Say Gay" bill and filed this amendment, since 2020:

@GetSpectrum
@Chevron
@comcast
@NBCUniversal
@CoxComm
@DukeEnergy
@Merck
@TMobile
@TruistNews
More on the corporate donors to the politicians behind the "Don't Say Gay" bill, which includes a bunch of companies that claim to be champions of LGBTQ rights

popular.info/p/florida-poli…
This is scheduled for a vote in the full Florida House on Tuesday.

Opponents have been given 40 MINUTES to speak

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If you want a sense of what kind of guy @josephbharding is, he recently promoted a tweet claiming "the left is having full-blown meltdowns" about his bill because "teachers are not going to be able to groom kids anymore in Florida."
@josephbharding I've reached out to all the top corporate donors to the politicians behind this bill. None have responded.

We did not see this kind of corporate ambivalence to anti-LGBTQ legislation in North Carolina in 2016.

2022 is different.

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Feb 21
1. TOMORROW the Florida House will vote on the "Don't Say Gay" bill

Opponents are allotted 40 MINUTES to speak

There's one person responsible for the fast-tracking of this bill: Speaker @ChrisSprowls

Sprawls is backed by a slew of major corporations

Follow along if interested
@ChrisSprowls 2. @PepsiCo has donated $30,000 to @ChrisSprowls since October 2020

3. @DraftKings donated $50,000 to @ChrisSprowls on 2/22/21

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Feb 17
1. This will be a thread of tweets from corporations promoting their impassioned support for LGBTQ rights along with how much the same corporations have recently donated to the politicians behind Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill

Follow along if interested
2. @UnitedHealthGrp donated 200K to the politicians behind Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill

3. @CharterNewsroom donated $102,000 since 2020 to the politicians behind Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill

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Feb 17
1. The Florida politicians behind the "Don't Say Gay" bill are backed by corporations that claim to be champions of LGBTQ rights

Follow along for details and receipts

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2. The bill would prohibit teachers through 3rd grade from engaging in any discussion involving "sexual orientation or gender identity"

Should it become law, young students w/same-sex parents could be prohibited from discussing their family in class

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3. All teachers would be prohibited from discussing gender or sexual orientation in ways that are not "age-appropriate," a term that is undefined.

The ambiguity is the point. It is likely to chill any discussion of sexual orientation or gender

popular.info/p/florida-poli…
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Feb 16
1. Louisiana @AGJeffLandry appeared last December with RFK Jr. at a hearing to spread misinformation about COVID vaccines and the state "mandate" to vaccinate students.

Now he's using the same dishonest tactics to raise money.

Follow along for the details of this grift
@AGJeffLandry 2. Landry claims he's fighting against an "illegal rule mandating Covid shots for all children attending school K-12"

First, COVID vaccines will be treated like all other vaccines in LA. And that means parents can opt-out for any reason - medical, religious, or philosophical
3. Second, even that optional "requirement" only applies to situations where the vaccine is fully approved by the FDA. And that applies, right now, only to students 16 and older

So the claim that children as young as 5 will be forced to get the vaccine is false in multiple ways
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Feb 15
1. It's not just Florida.

There are now 15 BILLS IN 8 STATES prohibiting discussions of LGBTQ identities in schools, according to a new report by @PENamerica

pen.org/educational-ga…
@PENamerica 2. In Kansas, HB 2662 would make it a Class B misdemeanor for a teacher to use any material in the classroom depicting “homosexuality.”

Not sexually explicit depictions of homosexuality.

ANY DEPICTION WHATSOEVER
3. In South Carolina, H 4605 forbids teachers from “subject[ing]” students to “controversial and age-inappropriate topics” like “gender identity or lifestyles.”
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Feb 15
1. Anytime you turn on the TV, you'll see ads promoting the efforts of major corporations to achieve "net zero" emissions.

They want you to know they are taking the climate crisis seriously.

But are these companies actually taking meaningful action?

popular.info/p/zero-credibi…
2. @Amazon is very into climate pledges. It created The Climate Pledge to encourage other companies to pledge to reach net zero by 2040

And they renamed the home of the NHL's Kraken "Climate Pledge Arena"

But Amazon's CO2 emissions have been INCREASING

popular.info/p/zero-credibi…
3. It's very easy to MAKE a pledge.

It's much harder to CREATE a credible plan to achieve net zero.

And it's even harder to EXECUTE against that plan.

A new study shows that corporate rhetoric around net zero is mostly smoke and mirrors

popular.info/p/zero-credibi…
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