esmie in ks voted no

we're collectively joking about a year of quarantine ruining our social skills and ability to function in the regular world -- but we just can't understand how people come out of prison after 5 or 10 or 20 years maladapted / how incarceration only continues cycles of harm.

@AndrewBahl @CapTimes What a loss for Kansas -- we will miss your tireless work here. Congrats and wishing you well in your next chapter!

Exciting life update: Today is my first day back in Wisconsin, covering state government and politics for @CapTimes If you have story ideas/tips/ideas on how Badger football can play better, send them to abahl@captimes.com or hit me up on here!

The #ksleg banned transgender athletes under the pretense that lawmakers care about fairness in women's sports. In an in-depth story, @SamarahBailey explores real inequities for female athletes kansasreflector.com/2023/08/22/sex…

Up late working. Don’t let anyone tell you that people don’t go to prison in KS for weed possession. My client is doing 7 years in a cage at a cost of over $260,000 to taxpayers. If he had had the means to drive 175 to 250 miles either direction on I-70 he’d be free. #ksleg

@CindyHoedel @aclukansas oh Cindy, wow. This is shocking and disappointing to hear from you of all people in this space.

@aclukansas My rights as a woman are violated when the state issues a man a document that identifies him as a woman, basically denying the existence of biological sex. A trans woman is not a female and falsifying birth certificates and drivers licenses does not make it so.

We're in the Shawnee Co. District Court this morning on our motion to intervene in a lawsuit between AG Kris Kobach & the KS Dept of Revenue. Mr. Kobach should have to answer to the transgender Kansans whose constitutional rights he's trying to violate.

One year ago today, on August 2nd, democracy and reproductive freedom won in Kansas—and won big.

Undocumented youth are some of the most vulnerable populations in our country. Often these undocumented youth are being put into dangerous situations such as this. These companies have a long record of neglecting, abusing, and exploiting workers. #ksleg

It's unsurprising Mr. Kobach is asking the court to adopt his flawed, unconstitutional view of an anti-trans law without hearing from the very people who would be harmed: transgender Kansans. Why is he so afraid of our clients having their voices heard? twitter.com/APjdhanna/stat…

That approach, ACLU of KS legal director Sharon Brett argues, ignores "the reality that transgender Kansans are going to face every single day in this state." #ksleg

@vigneshr4m i like this worldview

too many folks on the internet trying to sell you a whole ass worldview. make some art, build a community of friends and loved ones, find work that you can tolerate if not enjoy, be kind and honest. most of all, accept people for who they are and stop projecting your hangups.

In its Gideon ruling, the Supreme Court said it's an "obvious truth" that a defendant cannot adequately defend themself without counsel. To most Kansans & Americans, this IS an obvious truth. Justice shouldn't depend on what you can or can't afford. twitter.com/FedDefenderKS/…

@eeeiiieeeiiiooo @Ho8Go8L1N @Davis_Hammet if you were genuinely interested in a good-faith discussion about the constitution, you'd have gone and read the filings by now instead of tweeting

@esmietee @Ho8Go8L1N @Davis_Hammet Well then, show us where the Constitution supports this?

KS Judge denies motion to dissolve restraining order. Meaning the DMV will keep blocking transgender folks from updating their drivers license. Notably, the Judge did not hear from 5 trans Kansans who seek to intervene bc their constitutional rights are being violated. #ksleg

It really feels like Kansas needs trans joy today. Appropriately, here's the second installment of our video series, Trans Joy in the Sunflower State. In the face of nastiness from elected officials, we want trans Kansans to remember that we see you, and you are valuable.

It's insulting to all Kansans that Kobach and other extremists who propped up the anti-trans law SB 180 claim to be helping women, but have not actually done so. They have instead weaponized women’s rights and re-entrenched oppressive gender stereotypes that hurt all of us.

@MsKellyMHayes Go outside. Take an afternoon and just sit on a park bench or near some water. Feel small.

I'm not sure who should die, just that SOMEONE should, so let's get on with it" --@GovParsonMO in any other context this would be malicious intent missourinet.com/2023/06/29/gov…

absolutely unconscionable. @GovParsonMO has blood on his hands. ky3.com/2023/06/30/mis…

The same way slavery evolved to Jim Crow then mass incarceration, the new evolution of oppression is “rehabilitative centers” or high tech prisons. Don’t be fooled.

Attorney General Kris Kobach issued an extremely flawed “advisory opinion” today about SB 180, the new law passed by #ksleg codifying scientifically inaccurate and underinclusive definitions of sex into state statute. It's just that—his opinion. It's little more than bluster.