Houston lawsuit seeks to halt looming “Death Star” bill
From the title alone you can tell this article is going to be sensationalist because the law doesn’t “ban” water breaks. That’s not even a mistake it is an intentional lie to make it sound worse.
Maybe you’d like to explain then.
“Once HB 2127 goes into effect in September, local ordinances mandating water breaks for workers outdoors in cities across the state, which the Observer writes contributed to a “significant decrease in annual heat-related illnesses and heat deaths,” will be overturned and localities will be barred from passing new ones.”
I think they are meaning that it removes the requirement to give water breaks, doesn’t ban them, but leaves if they are actually allowed to the employer (of which could now penalize the employee if they wanted)
If Texans could grow a pair and actually start voting. Team red is no longer in the majority, I’m sure of it. The only thing holding the state back is voter apathy.
That and they purposely make it difficult to vote down here to dissuade people even more from voting. I do my part every time to try to get these pieces of garbage out, and somehow it just stays the same. It’s so frustrating.
It’s really not that difficult. You’ve usually got at least a week of early voting available.
I’m a leftist in a red area. I waited 5 minutes to vote. There were dozens of voting booths, just as many volunteer workers, and it’s a relatively unpopulated area. The only reason I even had to wait was because two or three people ahead of me there was an argument about needing ID. There were also three or four voting locations within a 15 minute drive.
My buddy lives downtown. The entire city only had a few voting locations. It was a two hour wait, for like six voting booths. It was also outside of downtown proper, and was a 30 minute walk away from the nearest rail line.
They know that people won’t want to wait longer than their lunch break. They know that people in the city don’t have cars, and will rely on the train to get where they’re going. Yeah, voter suppression is in full swing.
The only thing holding the state back is voter apathy.
Don’t forget the rampant voter suppression.
Don’t forget all the fifth-columnists who keep on trying to convince young people that voting can’t change anything. They’re desperate to push that ideal, and why not? It’s worked for decades.
GOP, the party of death and destruction . Trying to take us back to a 3rd world country
How people can see laws like this and then scoff at hearing “the cruelty is the point” is beyond me.
Because they have not experienced the cruelty of what they are supporting. . . yet. The moment they do, they’ll cry and whine that it’s affecting them.
See Florida stopping permanent alimony and the blow back from Republicans that are shocked it’s affecting them.
I just left two massive comments over on that thread explaining why the Florida law is problematic despite parts of it sounding common sensical.
I’ve been online way too much over the past couple days, and I haven’t even come across any posts about that. Was that here on the fediverse? If so, apparently I need to find some more communities.
