#minnesota flag

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New Minnesota flag looks great

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It's now illegal for Minnesota  libraries to ban LGBTQ+ books under this new law

The North Star State has officially banned book bans.

Minnesota joined pioneering Illinois in making it illegal to ban LGBTQ+ and other books at libraries. The bill, known as MN SF3567, was signed into law by Democratic Gov. Tim Walz on the 17th.

Minnesota has banned book bans, making it illegal for libraries to remove titles based on ideology. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed HF3782 into law last week, which prevents libraries from removing books “based solely on the viewpoint, content, message, idea, or opinion conveyed.” Instead, content curation will be managed by “a licensed library media specialist, an individual with a master’s degree in library sciences or library and information sciences, or a professional librarian or person with extensive library collection management experience." "Censorship has no place in our libraries. As a former teacher, I’m clear: We need to remember our history, not erase it," Walz said on Twitter/X. "Today, I signed a bill into law putting an end to book bans based on ideology in Minnesota."

In the Minnesota Senate, all 34 Democrats voted for the bill along with 1 Republican (Sen. Jim J. Abeler). All 31 Nay votes came from Republicans.

In the Minnesota House, all 68 Democrats voted for it and all 59 Republicans voted against it.

So don't take shit from third party losers who tell you that both major parties are alike.

This vote is another reminder of the importance of state government and state legislatures in particular.

The passage of Minnesota's anti-censorship bill was made possible when Democrats flipped the state senate in 2022. 😉

Look up who represents you in your state's legislature.

Find Your Legislators Look your legislators up by address or use your current location.

If you're represented by Republicans, work to defeat them. Volunteering to help in a legislative election is an excellent way to get your feet wet in politics. It's very grass roots and you'll probably get a chance to talk with the candidate yourself.

BONUS: Minnesota's new state flag became official this month. It's VERY blue and even if Justice Alito flies it upside down it won't make any difference.

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NationCats - Minnesota Design Disaster

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Minnesota decided on six flag finalists

As you can see, all of these look like boring corporate hockey team logos and don't include any of the cool ones

(That last one is not just a picture of a random dog. That is Duke, the late mayor of Cormorant Village.)

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Right-Wingers Are Using A Really Weird Line Of Attack On Tim Walz

Voters have repeatedly signaled that this is not a winning electoral strategy.

Nathalie Baptiste at HuffPost:

For the last four years, conservative and right-wing activists and pundits have been engaged in a culture war that demonizes racial justice, the LGBTQ community and progressive ideals. So, when presumptive Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate on Tuesday, the culture warriors immediately dusted off their old playbook to attack Walz. Walz, a veteran and former teacher, has been a champion of LGBTQ rights, public education and racial equality — a platform that is anathema to Republican ideology. As governor, he approved a measure that would provide free menstrual products to public schools, including putting them in both girls and boys bathrooms.

Scandalized by the idea, Chaya Raichik, the person behind the Libs of TikTok account, which is dedicated to smearing the LGBTQ community, began calling Walz “Tampon Tim,” suggesting that he should be embarrassed by advocating for period products. But studies have shown that there is still a lot of stigma around menstruation, and 23% of students struggle to afford their own pads and tampons. Elsewhere, Fox News’ Jesse Watters recently took aim at Minnesota’s new flag, which debuted this year, and blamed Walz for the change. “This guy changed the flag of the state to look more like Somalia,” Watters claimed this week. The old flag, which was introduced in 1957, depicted a white man plowing the land while an Indigenous person rode horseback. Native communities in Minnesota asserted that the flag promoted the removal of Indigenous people from the land.

The new flag design was conceived by a state commission created by the legislature. While Walz did sign the bill creating that commission into law, he played no part in the design process. Also, the star design that conservatives allege was a copy of the Somalian flag was actually intended to be a literal representation of the state motto, “The Star of the North.” But that hasn’t stopped conservatives and right-wing figures from making false claims like this and others about Walz. During a recent Fox News appearance, Stephen Miller, who was a senior adviser to Trump, said Walz and Harris would “turn the entire Midwest into Mogadishu,” also citing Walz’s backing of refugee resettlement programs. Meanwhile, Angela Morabito, the spokesperson for the Defense of Freedom Institute, a conservative nonprofit, posted claims on social media Tuesday that Walz kept “pornographic books in Minnesota schools” and “promoted critical race theory.”

These are popular lies among conservatives and right-wingers, who have spent the last three years attempting to ban books that promote racial equality or have LGBTQ themes from schools by falsely claiming they are sexually explicit or harmful to children.

But some of the most unhinged attacks have come from Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist who is largely credited with manufacturing a panic about critical race theory and helping Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) takeover of the New College, a small liberal arts school in Florida. In a series of social media posts filled with lies, Rufo said Tuesday that Walz “shouts ‘trans women are women’ in the shower,” “knows that child castration is life-saving, gender-affirming care” and “speaks fluent critical race theory.”

The right-wing attacks on Minnesota Governor and Kamala Harris running mate Tim Walz are weird, especially the fake outrage about tampons in schools for grades 4-12 and the redesign of the Minnesota flag.

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shoutout to the new minnesota flag . i'd much rather have the star have 4 prongs instead of 8 but honestly i don't care that much considering the old flag was BAD bad

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PUT HIM ON THE FLAG!!!

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We stand for the Minnesota flag in this house