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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

@here4tehbeer Wins Twitter for the night 🏆 — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

RT @JoyAnnReid: @ForsettisCreed Totally agree. And lots of other religious communities manage to do the same. The only ones attempting to c… — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

@Albert1049 Good question. I suspect because many people in these states are just so beaten down, they’ve given up. Fascists count on that. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

@DianeE_NJ Cheers ❤️🙏🏿 — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

@ForsettisCreed Totally agree. And lots of other religious communities manage to do the same. The only ones attempting to command the rest of us to live their way and pretend we like them, are right wing white evangelicals. They literally can’t handle our disinterest. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

@Juggleguy76 You follow me on Twitter… https://t.co/fDHG3pqEOU — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

@Top10Ap The government passed a law; not a law directed at Hobby Lobby. Hobby Lobby, which literally covered those same birth control options and only dropped them once the law passed, sued, demanding an exception. Facts matter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@OrganicOracle @GovRonDeSantis None of that is happening, except in your right wing imagination. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

Chocolate cookie??? 🧐 — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

RT @MollyJongFast: The people banning the books are never the good guys. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

If you can’t win the culture wars and convince a majority of people to like your cultural ideas or vote for you, just pass laws essentially saying they HAVE to. They must accept your way of life, bear the children you want & they aren’t allowed to complain and can’t vote you out. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

This feels like the biggest bottom line to me. So-called “conservatives” are using government to try and force people to praise their chosen historical heroes (anti-so-called CRT), and to not just live under their version of Christian societal mores, but to do so without protest. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

Because other than Florida (and if you’re a woman, several other red states where pregnancy, even involuntarily via rape or incest, makes you state property) it’s still a free country. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

If right wing snowflakes like @GovRonDeSantis are so chaffed at Disney for opposing Ron’s hateful laws, they-like all consumers-are free to not patronize or even to boycott Disney. Just as people who oppose Putinite authoritarian socialism, fascism and racism cld boycott Florida. — PolitiTweet.org

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And given their current pro-DeSantis fever, I guess they were fine with then-Boston mayor Menino telling Chick-fil-A to stay away? And maybe the MA gov should pull a DeSantis & hike residents’ property taxes to punish Boston for now having one anyway…? https://t.co/dQZs99vtaq — PolitiTweet.org

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Meanwhile, Christian companies are operating quite freely, but with the risk of facing CONSUMER rejection and boycotts over their CEOs or corporate stances. Well that’s called freedom. Conservatives have no constitutional right to be liked. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

Ditto Little Sisters of the Poor. The current SCOTUS leans HEAVILY on the side of right wing Christians getting exemptions for everything from cake baking to COVID rules. What are they complaining about? Oh, right. That companies see the financial benefit of being anti-hate. https://t.co/Ov7Awjut6M — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

I mean, they keep going back to Masterpiece Cakeshop, which was being asked to follow an anti-discrimination law in Colorado. Again, it was MASTERPIECE that brought the suit challenging the government, and they won, cementing a religious exemption that applies nationally. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

Because that sure sounds like what they are actually upset about is that government sometimes protects minority groups… (or that social media companies won’t let people freely abuse others and promote dangerous lies) which are interesting hills to die on. https://t.co/l2l5P0MMC4 — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

When the right talks about liberal govt punishing speech-do they mean the SCOTUS removing tax breaks for segregated schools, which is what launched the modern religious right or the CRA which outlawed racial discrimination in public accommodations or the VRA that they’re gutting? — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

If capitalism is a marketplace, then corporations—like, say, Twitter, have a right to decide that they will protect their users against abuse or disinformation, and they get to have rules of engagement about using their products. Again: freedom, not this authoritarian socialism. — PolitiTweet.org

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And they are the ones who insisted on establishing this idea that corporations are people. So those “people” have a right to locate where they want (or move All Star games out of Georgia), to take stands on laws (as right wing companies have done) and to defend their employees. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

Christian companies are operating quite freely, everywhere; but with the risk of facing CONSUMER rejection or even boycotts over their CEOs’ or corporate stances. Well that’s called freedom. Conservatives have no constitutional right to be liked. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

There’s no liberal government equivalent to that kind of war on corporate speech. The right always cites Chick FilA & Hobby Lobby, but those companies’ CEOs are free to say what they want. They just have to abide by the CRA and deal with any public backlash. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

DeSantis and the Florida Republican Party are literally punishing an individual corporation for speech (and let’s be clear: also for pausing donations to the State Party). And essentially saying that counties who vote ideologically aligned w/ that speech must be punished too. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

What @GovRonDeSantis is establishing is that any company that merely SPEAKS OUT against a law will be punished. That’s a huge 1st Amendment problem. And he’s such a bungler, his “punishment” turns out to be of Florida families and cities, who will take on Disney’s $1bn bond debt — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

What @GovRonDeSantis is establishing is that any company that merely SPEAKES OUT against a law will be punished. That’s a huge 1st Amendment problem. And he’s such a bungler, his “punishment” turns out to be of Florida families and cities, who will take on Disney’s $1bn bond debt — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

The Hobby Lobby comparison is not quite on. No gov’t “went after” Hobby Lobby & the co didn’t simply speak out against ACA provisions covering IUDs & morning after pills-they sued the federal government & ultimately won. DeSantis isn’t hurting Disney he’s raising Floridians taxes — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JohnFugelsang: Hobby Lobby covers Viagra, but not IUD; because a fertilized egg is clearly God's will but impotency clearly isn't — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @crampell: Meanwhile, over in Florida, fellow GOP presidential hopeful Gov DeSantis tries to one-up him by raising taxes on his own vote… — PolitiTweet.org