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What in the actual **** are you doing, Senator? You don't have Family, Friends, Peers that you'll listen to? You literally roll back into your job about to turn 90 years old to do what? Make decisions for the probably 95+% of Americans younger than you?

 

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Orlando Publix bakery refused to put the word ‘trans’ on a cake, says support group

 

Yasmin Flasterstein and Dandelion Hill had just one stop left on their way to a "transgender joy" event hosted by the Orlando group they co-founded, Peer Support Space. They walked into Publix at Colonialtown with the intention of picking out a cake and grabbing some flowers.

 

But when the two asked the bakery associate to write, "Trans people deserve joy," on their flowery sheet cake, they were met with a face of confusion. Then the bakery manager told them they couldn't do that.

 

The manager said "it was taking a stance, and that they weren't allowed to take a stance on stuff like that," Flasterstein told Orlando Weekly.

 

The incident happened April 26, as Flasterstein and Hill prepared for Peer Support Space's "Spread Trans Joy" event at the Mexican Consulate just outside downtown Orlando. Amid the anti-trans legislation and discriminatory environment raging through Florida, the volunteer-based event was intended to uplift the community, with time spent putting together care packages and writing handwritten letters to send to trans folks in Florida.

 

"The whole event was about trans joy, just celebrating the trans community and specifically to not talk about legislation," Flasterstein told Orlando Weekly. "To just come together and spread love."

 

After Flasterstein dropped off the cake with the bakery associate, she noticed he seemed confused. She even spelled the word "trans" out for him. She wondered if he thought she said "trains."

 

Flasterstein walked away from the counter, thinking it was going to get done. When she returned, Hill, who is trans, was crying by the bakery counter.

 

The bakery manager apologized to the pair, but said that writing, "Trans people deserve joy," was against corporate policy at Publix.

 

Instead, the bakery offered to write, "People deserve joy," on the cake,  leaving extra room at the top. They said they would give Hill and Flasterstein icing to use themselves.

 

As consolation, the manager told them they weren't allowed to write "Black Lives Matter" on cakes, either.
 

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Extended boycott disqualifies 2 GOP senators, 1 independent in Oregon Senate from being re-elected

 

Two Republicans and an independent taking part in a boycott that has stalled hundreds of bills in the Oregon Senate, including measures on abortion and gender-affirming care, were disqualified Monday from re-election under a new constitutional amendment aimed at stopping such walkouts.

 

The GOP-led walkout of the Democrat-dominated Senate has stretched to 10 days, though some participating lawmakers have rotated in and out since the boycott began May 3. Each of the three affected senators accumulated 10 unexcused absences, making them ineligible to serve in the Legislature for the period after their terms expire under a ballot measure voters passed overwhelmingly last year.

 

“The majority of Senate Republicans continue to walk off the job that the voters elected them to do, in which our Constitution compels them to attend,” Senate President Rob Wagner said from the Senate podium. He added in an email: “Three senators have now unnecessarily disqualified themselves from a subsequent term in the Legislature.”

 

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