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Blue state refugee WA➡️FL🐊🌴🇺🇸 Christian ✝️, wife 👩‍❤️‍👨, mom x 4, Founder of Conservative Ladies of America
Mar 21 4 tweets 2 min read
⁉️In 2025 Florida legislature passed an amendment to create a special carve-out removing bond rating requirements specifically for Israel bonds via HB 669.

This special treatment does not exist for any other type of bond - no other foreign government.

🧩There's a pattern here - and Florida seems to be leading the way 🧵Image In 2024 FL leg passed HB 187, adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism, expanding state power over speech. The IHRA definition is extremely broad.

Governor DeSantis signed HB 187 in Jerusalem at the Museum of Tolerance with bill sponsors by his side.

Why was a Florida criminal law bill signed in a foreign country?

We have a right to ask these questions and to demand answers. 2/Image
Mar 20 4 tweets 2 min read
The White House just dropped it's AI legislative framework and the first point is "protecting children and empowering parents"

While the language is softer than many of the universal age verification policies we see, there is NO prohibition on universal age verification - age assurance, parental attestation, tools to manage digital environment - in most policies this looks like universal age verification

Age assurance is a nicer way to say "national age verification." 🧵Image In alignment with the December 11th EO directing the DOJ to crack down on state AI laws- the new framework calls for one national standard Image
Mar 19 6 tweets 2 min read
🚨America's newest Digital ID proposal just dropped in the US Senate.

Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn has introduced a new AI bill that bundles 17 different policies into one massive, 291 page bill.

This is just like all these other tech bills we've been seeing - a massive Digital ID framework - with universal age verification being the key to access to the tools.

The bill includes mandatory age verification for every existing account and freezing accounts until users verify their age.Image New accounts will be required to age verify and all accounts will be subject to "periodic age verification." Image
Feb 10, 2025 4 tweets 2 min read
My kids' therapist moved to Texas after SB 5722 passed in 2018, forcing her and every other therapist in WA to be "gender affirming" or lose their license to practice.

If your child is seeing a therapist for mental health reasons in WA, including for confusion about their gender brought on by the gender ideology pushed in schools and just about everywhere else in WA, the counselor can only affirm whatever the child believes.

Child thinks they are a cat, counselor must affirm that child is a cat.

HRC and many other LGBTQ advocate groups celebrated the passage of this horrible bill. 1/Image In the House, 13 Republicans voted YES for this bill.

Why? Clearly most of the caucus understood that this was a bad bill. 2/ Image
Jan 27, 2025 4 tweets 2 min read
👀What's this? Doesn't WA have a hiring freeze for government jobs?

🚨WA - you must see this!!🚨

State of WA posted a job listing for a "Vaccine Accountability Coordinator" on Jan 22.

Let's go down the rabbit hole - there's an important connection to a proposed law you need to see...1/🧵Image It appears that WA's "Vaccine Accountability Coordinator" will be primarily focused on the "vaccination" of children by developing programs, training and collecting data and collaborating with vaccine manufacturers and other "stakeholders" 2/ Image
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Jan 14, 2025 5 tweets 2 min read
🚨WA Dems drop another anti-family bill 🚨

If you have children in public schools, care about children in public schools, pay taxes to public schools...you need to c'mon down into the rabbit hole with me

HB 1296 will codify into WA state law a "student's rights" policy that will completely allow the government schools to exclude and alienate parents/guardians. 🧵Image HB 1296 will amend the existing "gender inclusive schools" policy, making it more expansive to include pretty much any kind of identity a student might adopt (furries, etc)
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Jan 9, 2025 4 tweets 2 min read
🚨WA PARENTS BEWARE🚨
WA senate democrats have pre-filed a bill to strengthen the "gender inclusive schools" policies in public k12 education 🧵

1/ Image SB 5180 requires schools to update their "gender inclusive policies" to include :

➡️Name and Pronouns: Students have the right to be addressed by their preferred name and pronouns.

➡️Participation in Activities: Students can participate in school-sponsored activities consistent with their gender identity or expression.

➡️Restroom Use: Students can use restrooms that correspond with their gender identity or expression.

➡️Dress Code: Students can dress according to their gender identity within the constraints of existing dress codes related to health and safety.

➡️Confidentiality: Information about a student's sexual orientation, gender expression, or identity must not be disclosed without consent.

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Dec 30, 2024 8 tweets 3 min read
🧵Come on down into the rabbit hole with me...

How did we get here?
It's a tangled web of legislation, over the course of many years. It's fun to think "if only we could get rid of those dirty rotten democrats everything would be better."

The problem: we got here in "bipartisan fasion". Oooooh, I love when we work together on stuff. So great!! 1/ In 2021 when we crashed head on into WA's anti-family laws, I started going back in time to try to piece together WHO and HOW these horrific laws came into existence that had devastating effects for my child, our family...that will ultimately have life long consequences.

Down in this rabbit hole I learned a lot of uncomfortable and unfortunate truths. Since then, it has been my mission to show other parents and citizens the truth. 2/
Nov 23, 2024 5 tweets 2 min read
HATE CRIMES & BIAS in WA🧵
The new "domestic extremism & mass violence" task force is WA is part of a several years' long project.

In 2019 #waleg pass HB 1732 which created a Hate Crime Advisory Working Group. This bill was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. You can view the roll calls HERE: app.leg.wa.gov/BillSummary/?B…Image Among the many recommendations of the work group was more DEI, SEL and restorative justice training for K12 educators. 2/ Image
Nov 22, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Yesterday FL House Rep Chamberlin filed a bill to prohibit employers from forcing employees/contractors to use pronouns and penalizing them for not doing so. 1/ Image Because the truth is too common sense and does not evoke an emotional response...the radical left/Marxists have to lie & gaslight. 2/

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May 8, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
A King County project collecting data from area middle school students. 68% of which identify as "gender diverse" or "trans"

*A $50 Amazon/Safeway gift card included for participants. 1/4 Image Perhaps the OSPI policy for WA schools to keep "gender identity" a secret from parents is causing students anxiety and furthering their "identity crisis", that of course is not influenced by gov't schools 🙄 2/4 Image