The beginning of stripping women of our right to vote. Next will be the right to assemble. He will not bow down before the rule of law, he and his administration believe they are above the law. We have to organize and push back
I would love to organize but I’m on disability and 63, seeing a neurosurgeon tomorrow and need shoulder surgery as well. I’ll do what I can from here, but right I need to leave it to the healthy and younger people. That hurts me more than anyone can know
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I don’t know the laws in your state but I live in PA and they have different laws for that. I changed my name back to my maiden name about 20 years after my divorce when my kids were mature enough not to be bothered by it. That was 15 or 20 years ago and it cost me $5 and was a simple process. Worth exploring anyway. Good luck and CAN YOU FREAKING BELIEVE WE ARE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION? BIZZARO WORLD.
Well I just can’t right now due to my health etc, plus if I change my name I’ll have to notify social security and I’m not making any changes to that in this moment. I’ll get a real id or passport if that’s what it takes. No I can’t believe we are discussing this it’s so ridiculous
But why? Surely they don't expect anyone to have been married at birth? I'm missing something.
I didn't choose to change my name when we got married. But I have changed it with prior marriages. In VA, we take our birth certificate, driver license and marriage license to Social Security to apply for a replacement card with the new name. Then we go to DMV with all the earlier IDs along with the new SS card to change the name on our license. Since I'd gone though all that when I got divorced years ago and opted to return to my maiden name, I didn't want to do it all again. I never knew adding a married name to a birth certificate was an option or necessity.
Just join Indivisible & 50501 they are already organized & fighting back. They are the 2 organizations that are coordinating all of these protests. Next one is April 5. No need to reinvent the wheel.
Just join Indivisible & 50501 they are already organized & fighting back. They are the 2 organizations that are coordinating all of these protests. Next one is April 5. No need to reinvent the wheel.
I researched and in Calif you cannot get a birth certificate with your married name? You have to change your social security card etc. hopefully I’ll be able to vote
I’m confused on this. I’m single and have kept my married name my whole life because of a child. Will this affect me? My legal name doesn’t match my birth certificate.
Depends on if his executive order stands and if the save act passes, in August I’m going to dmv to get a real id if necessary, I’m on disability and 63 and I really don’t want to go thru this, but I will not let anyone take away my right to vote, especially after women fought and bled for this right
You’ll have to prove who you are if your name doesnt match your birth cert. I think for a real id I need birth cert, 2 utility or mortgage statements, ssn and in my case a divorce decree or marriage license but I’m going to check into it when the midterms get closer, do I can vote.
While true, those countries don't have our 1st Amendment. I stand by my comment. Votes are a form of speech, and compelled speech is not free speech. Were there a law requiring a vote, even a vote to abstain would be compelled speech.
We also dont have your stupid drama that threatens the whole world!! and we still do have free speech!!
Am too cranky with your ignorance and arrogance to even come up with a suitable insulting word for you. But lets face it, most of us have been running iut if swearwords since 2020.
Maybe that would improve our democracy but I don’t know. We have a lot of stupid people in this country and we already have an oligarchy so I’m left wondering???
Bring back the fairness doctrine/ equal time rules that required equal time for both sides of an issue on news broadcasts. Bye bye Faux News and MSNBC.
It’s the non-voters that are idiots, they’ll vote from ignorance, not research or reason opinions. Most voters pay at least a little attention, care enough to register, even if they just vote party line.
I believe it’s the candidate that’s running for office that needs to be able to pass a basic civics test. We have an entire administration that couldn’t pass that test if it was given to them.
Non-citizens with Social Security numbers should be able to vote? I respectfully disagree. Voting should be compulsory for all citizens, yes absolutely!
Green-card holders are not allowed to vote; each state has it's own voter registration process to verify the ability to vote, yes? So having a SS number does not equate being a citizen--it's for taxes and other purposes.
Really? You think they like hetersexual men? They might start caring about women. They prefer their own kind. Misogynistic closeted self loathing gay men.
He's already been impeached twice before. It does nothing. Him & his entire government need to be removed from office. It goes far beyond one man. There are hundreds more to take his places & push these agendas. We have to make them ALL understand we're not going back & they're not gonna make us.
Rep Al Green filed for impeachment on day 1 already. Of course it’s not going anywhere until we get enough Dem votes in the House & Senate. So if it’s important to you that we get him out of there, then help get Dems registered to vote.
FactCheck.org continues to wildly underestimates the potentially disastrous impact of this bill currently being rammed through the legislative process:
-29 million U.S. citizens don’t have the documents necessary to would be put at risk of losing their ability to vote.
-69 million women will be ineligible to vote because the married name doesn’t match their birth certificate.
-12 million citizens of color will be put risk because the don’t have the necessary documents.
Nope. I even knew a couple that had been separated for years, the woman got pregnant with a new guy and the cutie died for divorce. The husband nearly got custody of that kid because they were married and she was going to prison. They had to track down the kids biological dad, he was in a different jail, to do blood tests to prove he was the father. It was Jerry Springer esque.
I know! Let’s just go back to before 1920 when women weren’t allowed to vote! Or, and this is even better, let’s go back to, what was it…prior to 1974 (?) when women couldn’t have their own bank account or credit card without a man (father or husband?) signing for it.
Careful. Pete Hegseth already belongs to a church where they teach that women are "children" and thus incapable of voting and that there should only be a "household vote" for the husband. Don't humor them even with sarcasm.
Omg!! I am just seeing your post!! The worst case scenario has to be considered. We are literally heading that way which you already know. Not an over reaction but a reality! The urgency to resist is necessary!! Thank you!!
Doesn't the reintroduction of this legislation make it abundantly clear that everyone knows Trump will not be successful in removing illegals? And since that's one of the main reasons they claim they voted for him, is this not an admission of his inevitable failures before they even happen? It's almost like it has nothing to do with illegals and everything to do with controlling women. Go figure. 🍊🤡
That's exactly what it is, these Morons are Control Freak's....with too much time on they're Hand's.....
The 14th Amendment Sec 3, OATH BREAKER and Insurrectionist, is Still Disqualified STILL....
Just waiting for the Universe to Align, to Do what Needs, to be done.....
Namely Hand Cuffs, and a Padded Rubber Room, Complete with Fake Launch Code, Lincoln Block toy , and let the Orange 🍊 Mango INSURRECTIONIST, Pretend all the rest of his life, Bouncing off the walls, like the Useless Idiot, Troll that he is...
Trump will only allow an “election” like Putin allows them. He knows that once he’s out of office he faces jail. It absolutely won’t happen if he has anything to say about it. Oh! That’s right he already did! He TOLD people that they would only have to vote once….
Women, get your names legally changed to your birth name or get an ID under your Birth name and register to vote under that name. Beat them at their own game. Dont let this country turn into Gilead.
That doesn't work for me as I refuse to take back my abusers name. And I shouldn't have to. I fight for the right to be known as me not him. My choice.
But still there may be some women who like having their husband's name so that should be fine.
It seems they're doing so of this to ensure so voters are born in the U.S.A. Men aren't targeted bc they never had to change their names when they got married.
As a single mom, my son had my last name. He has a two page birth certificate. Oh, boy! What will the youngsters at the polling place do with THAT? 🥴
I think they did this to get women embassy into the facial recognition system. Didn’t JD Vance joke that the government should have a way yo tract the movements of all women? Didn’t Musk take over the banking data, including ACH so they know when you pay for you doctor visits with a debit card, or credit card? Isn’t Palantir using AI to help the Federal government, using facial recognition to locate people? Hasn’t Elon Musk launch more satellites since Trump became president than he has in the past few years? Aren’t red states holding passport fairs for women?
I cannot reiterate enough the fact that this entire Republican administration is a bunch of clowns…asking about fucking suits when this man is fighting for his life and the lives of his people..If anyone in the world still questions orangina’s fealty to Putin they’re more stupid than I give them credit for. This White House and its occupants and every republican who is sucking the toes of Orangina and kissing the ring in fidelity - every single one is a SHAME AND DISGRACE and will go down in history as actively and knowingly perpetrating crimes against the citizens and denying the constitution causing the destruction of our democracy!
This is just another useless pile of Crap, to Pester American's, with Bill's that just complicate Marriage and Married Couples lives, with more , Control Freak's, Dumb ideas....as if life isn't already a pain in the Ass....
Apparently they’re still in denial about the sheer amount of rage women have.
This will result in:
✨ Fewer women choosing to 1) change their name after marriage 2) never get married.
✨ An increasing number of 1) Executive Orders, 2) Legislative Actions to restrict or eliminate the rights of people who are not: white, male, straight identifying, Christian Nationalists, and 3) misuse of the Judicial System via bullshit and/or unconstitutional arguments.
✨ Unprecedented waste of taxpayer dollars spent on unproductive, useless, inefficient nonsense or contracts awarded to the billionaires who continue to leech off the American people while making net-negative contributions to humanity and the planet.
The beginning of stripping women of our right to vote. Next will be the right to assemble. He will not bow down before the rule of law, he and his administration believe they are above the law. We have to organize and push back
I would love to organize but I’m on disability and 63, seeing a neurosurgeon tomorrow and need shoulder surgery as well. I’ll do what I can from here, but right I need to leave it to the healthy and younger people. That hurts me more than anyone can know
Exactly, that's my same problem. I am disabled & try & do what I can from home
Good luck with your surgery. ❤️
If you are home bound, you can still go online and post articles, share good things you receive, and add comments. You can also do phone calling for candidates.
Once your shoulder heals, look into it. 😊
In the making for a long time, I wish I would have changed my name back during my divorce, now it’s expensive and very time consuming.
I don’t know the laws in your state but I live in PA and they have different laws for that. I changed my name back to my maiden name about 20 years after my divorce when my kids were mature enough not to be bothered by it. That was 15 or 20 years ago and it cost me $5 and was a simple process. Worth exploring anyway. Good luck and CAN YOU FREAKING BELIEVE WE ARE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION? BIZZARO WORLD.
Thanks I will research that option.
Well I just can’t right now due to my health etc, plus if I change my name I’ll have to notify social security and I’m not making any changes to that in this moment. I’ll get a real id or passport if that’s what it takes. No I can’t believe we are discussing this it’s so ridiculous
I applied for a Pennsylvania birth certificate with my married last name. It was $40. It will be worth it to vote.
But why? Surely they don't expect anyone to have been married at birth? I'm missing something.
I didn't choose to change my name when we got married. But I have changed it with prior marriages. In VA, we take our birth certificate, driver license and marriage license to Social Security to apply for a replacement card with the new name. Then we go to DMV with all the earlier IDs along with the new SS card to change the name on our license. Since I'd gone though all that when I got divorced years ago and opted to return to my maiden name, I didn't want to do it all again. I never knew adding a married name to a birth certificate was an option or necessity.
How will you organize?
Just join Indivisible & 50501 they are already organized & fighting back. They are the 2 organizations that are coordinating all of these protests. Next one is April 5. No need to reinvent the wheel.
I volunteer and I want to do more, plan on more.
How will you organize?
Just join Indivisible & 50501 they are already organized & fighting back. They are the 2 organizations that are coordinating all of these protests. Next one is April 5. No need to reinvent the wheel.
I researched and in Calif you cannot get a birth certificate with your married name? You have to change your social security card etc. hopefully I’ll be able to vote
If you have a passport or passport card it should be sufficient. Passport card is cheaper if $ is an issue.
Already have right to assemble being taken away. They are disappearing immigrants
and we will not bow down to a tyrant
We are organizing get out and protest while we still can! Join the movement! I will not go down without a fight!
You already can’t assemble in front of a Tesler dealership.
And that is against our first amendment rights. We will just keep showing up and peacefully demonstrate
I’m confused on this. I’m single and have kept my married name my whole life because of a child. Will this affect me? My legal name doesn’t match my birth certificate.
Depends on if his executive order stands and if the save act passes, in August I’m going to dmv to get a real id if necessary, I’m on disability and 63 and I really don’t want to go thru this, but I will not let anyone take away my right to vote, especially after women fought and bled for this right
So if it does pass I’ll have an issue?
You’ll have to prove who you are if your name doesnt match your birth cert. I think for a real id I need birth cert, 2 utility or mortgage statements, ssn and in my case a divorce decree or marriage license but I’m going to check into it when the midterms get closer, do I can vote.
I’ll try for a real id if it comes to that
Amen!!!
voting should be COMPULSORY for anyone over 18 with a social security number.
Compelled speech is not free speech. But I do think everyone should vote.
Voting is taken very seriously in many countries…citizens are required to vote.
While true, those countries don't have our 1st Amendment. I stand by my comment. Votes are a form of speech, and compelled speech is not free speech. Were there a law requiring a vote, even a vote to abstain would be compelled speech.
We also dont have your stupid drama that threatens the whole world!! and we still do have free speech!!
Am too cranky with your ignorance and arrogance to even come up with a suitable insulting word for you. But lets face it, most of us have been running iut if swearwords since 2020.
I might have to consult Chaucer.
Goodnigh.
The two sides of this argument have been going on forever.
Maybe that would improve our democracy but I don’t know. We have a lot of stupid people in this country and we already have an oligarchy so I’m left wondering???
Fuck your fucking free speech
Fuck free speech
Artistic expression, criticism of the powerful, political satire and ACTUAL NEWS should all be PROTECTED SPEECH
free fucking speech means fox news
fuck off
Bring back the fairness doctrine/ equal time rules that required equal time for both sides of an issue on news broadcasts. Bye bye Faux News and MSNBC.
In some countries you get fined if you don’t vote. I think that’s an excellent idea. It would prevent idiots like this getting into power.
That’s true but we have to change the gerrymandering too!
It’s the non-voters that are idiots, they’ll vote from ignorance, not research or reason opinions. Most voters pay at least a little attention, care enough to register, even if they just vote party line.
People should be required to pass a basic civics test before they can vote.
I believe it’s the candidate that’s running for office that needs to be able to pass a basic civics test. We have an entire administration that couldn’t pass that test if it was given to them.
Non-citizens with Social Security numbers should be able to vote? I respectfully disagree. Voting should be compulsory for all citizens, yes absolutely!
Green-card holders are not allowed to vote; each state has it's own voter registration process to verify the ability to vote, yes? So having a SS number does not equate being a citizen--it's for taxes and other purposes.
I like that!
Totally agree
I like that
Just another good reason never to change your birth name.
They sure made it easy to do that though
But of course. The Rs simply don’t want women to vote. Or anyone who isn’t white, heterosexual male. Preferably Christian.
Correct. And one of them who believes there should only be a household vote is already in a leadership position.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/hegseths-former-sister-in-law-says-he-believed-women-shouldnt-vote/
The amount of Christian women supporting the felon is astounding. Unless their husbands told them to.....
It wont let me edit. The first they is het men. The second they is the r's.
I am so tired that my face hurts. I am so angry, that I understand everyone on substack!
Really? You think they like hetersexual men? They might start caring about women. They prefer their own kind. Misogynistic closeted self loathing gay men.
Oh, and paedos.
Are we really going to go along with this insanity? Are we really going to sit back and take this insanity???
When will we start impeachment proceedings I say immediately
He's already been impeached twice before. It does nothing. Him & his entire government need to be removed from office. It goes far beyond one man. There are hundreds more to take his places & push these agendas. We have to make them ALL understand we're not going back & they're not gonna make us.
Rep Al Green filed for impeachment on day 1 already. Of course it’s not going anywhere until we get enough Dem votes in the House & Senate. So if it’s important to you that we get him out of there, then help get Dems registered to vote.
The republicans will never let this happen. We are doomed.
Yes the Republicans will let this happen .
FactCheck.org continues to wildly underestimates the potentially disastrous impact of this bill currently being rammed through the legislative process:
-29 million U.S. citizens don’t have the documents necessary to would be put at risk of losing their ability to vote.
-69 million women will be ineligible to vote because the married name doesn’t match their birth certificate.
-12 million citizens of color will be put risk because the don’t have the necessary documents.
Highly underestimated !!!
Yet another good reason to avoid taking a “married name.”
I wish I never did, divorced and never changed my name back, time consuming and pricey to do now.
Yes
It might facilitate more divorce
Unless they get rid of no fault divorce
Women in Missouri just won the right to divorce while pregnant.
What!!!! They couldn't before now? How ludicrous and archaic!
Nope. I even knew a couple that had been separated for years, the woman got pregnant with a new guy and the cutie died for divorce. The husband nearly got custody of that kid because they were married and she was going to prison. They had to track down the kids biological dad, he was in a different jail, to do blood tests to prove he was the father. It was Jerry Springer esque.
Heaven forbid 😳
I know! Let’s just go back to before 1920 when women weren’t allowed to vote! Or, and this is even better, let’s go back to, what was it…prior to 1974 (?) when women couldn’t have their own bank account or credit card without a man (father or husband?) signing for it.
Careful. Pete Hegseth already belongs to a church where they teach that women are "children" and thus incapable of voting and that there should only be a "household vote" for the husband. Don't humor them even with sarcasm.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/hegseths-former-sister-in-law-says-he-believed-women-shouldnt-vote/
Vance campaigned for Senate on a similar stance.
Women are children? Rewriting the bible. A tale as old as .. well, constantine. 1700 years ago.
Omg!! I am just seeing your post!! The worst case scenario has to be considered. We are literally heading that way which you already know. Not an over reaction but a reality! The urgency to resist is necessary!! Thank you!!
Doesn't the reintroduction of this legislation make it abundantly clear that everyone knows Trump will not be successful in removing illegals? And since that's one of the main reasons they claim they voted for him, is this not an admission of his inevitable failures before they even happen? It's almost like it has nothing to do with illegals and everything to do with controlling women. Go figure. 🍊🤡
That's exactly what it is, these Morons are Control Freak's....with too much time on they're Hand's.....
The 14th Amendment Sec 3, OATH BREAKER and Insurrectionist, is Still Disqualified STILL....
Just waiting for the Universe to Align, to Do what Needs, to be done.....
Namely Hand Cuffs, and a Padded Rubber Room, Complete with Fake Launch Code, Lincoln Block toy , and let the Orange 🍊 Mango INSURRECTIONIST, Pretend all the rest of his life, Bouncing off the walls, like the Useless Idiot, Troll that he is...
https://www.youtube.com/live/A-cleNpTRxk?si=9TM-OqSQInlyt1Yu
He doesn’t have a loving relationship with his own wife, so take a guess why he has the need to control all USA women. It’s pretty clear.
Trump will only allow an “election” like Putin allows them. He knows that once he’s out of office he faces jail. It absolutely won’t happen if he has anything to say about it. Oh! That’s right he already did! He TOLD people that they would only have to vote once….
Women, get your names legally changed to your birth name or get an ID under your Birth name and register to vote under that name. Beat them at their own game. Dont let this country turn into Gilead.
That doesn't work for me as I refuse to take back my abusers name. And I shouldn't have to. I fight for the right to be known as me not him. My choice.
The voice of calm and reason. :)
But still there may be some women who like having their husband's name so that should be fine.
It seems they're doing so of this to ensure so voters are born in the U.S.A. Men aren't targeted bc they never had to change their names when they got married.
As a single mom, my son had my last name. He has a two page birth certificate. Oh, boy! What will the youngsters at the polling place do with THAT? 🥴
I think they did this to get women embassy into the facial recognition system. Didn’t JD Vance joke that the government should have a way yo tract the movements of all women? Didn’t Musk take over the banking data, including ACH so they know when you pay for you doctor visits with a debit card, or credit card? Isn’t Palantir using AI to help the Federal government, using facial recognition to locate people? Hasn’t Elon Musk launch more satellites since Trump became president than he has in the past few years? Aren’t red states holding passport fairs for women?
I cannot reiterate enough the fact that this entire Republican administration is a bunch of clowns…asking about fucking suits when this man is fighting for his life and the lives of his people..If anyone in the world still questions orangina’s fealty to Putin they’re more stupid than I give them credit for. This White House and its occupants and every republican who is sucking the toes of Orangina and kissing the ring in fidelity - every single one is a SHAME AND DISGRACE and will go down in history as actively and knowingly perpetrating crimes against the citizens and denying the constitution causing the destruction of our democracy!
This is just another useless pile of Crap, to Pester American's, with Bill's that just complicate Marriage and Married Couples lives, with more , Control Freak's, Dumb ideas....as if life isn't already a pain in the Ass....
It will but how will you feel if you changed your name and can't vote. It will disproportionately affect married women.
Apparently they’re still in denial about the sheer amount of rage women have.
This will result in:
✨ Fewer women choosing to 1) change their name after marriage 2) never get married.
✨ An increasing number of 1) Executive Orders, 2) Legislative Actions to restrict or eliminate the rights of people who are not: white, male, straight identifying, Christian Nationalists, and 3) misuse of the Judicial System via bullshit and/or unconstitutional arguments.
✨ Unprecedented waste of taxpayer dollars spent on unproductive, useless, inefficient nonsense or contracts awarded to the billionaires who continue to leech off the American people while making net-negative contributions to humanity and the planet.