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I haven't heard people talking about this much, but I feel like it's important for people to know. Especially since SB 63 essentially bans bail funds by not allowing organizations, charities, individuals, or groups to bail out more than three people per year and requiring them to register as bonding agencies.
This is a direct response to all the protests happening here in Atlanta. So far, spreading the word can help as well as donating to The Atlanta Solidarity Fund .
In the meantime, here's some phone numbers of politicians you can go bug.
Randy Robertson (Guy who's sponsoring the bill): +1-404-656-0045
Brian Kemp (Governor of Georgia): +1-404-656-1776
#atlanta#stop cop city#politics#project 2025#cop city#prison abolition#Georgia#Brian Kemp#Randy Robertson#activism#intersectional activism#black lives matter#SB 63#weelaunee forest
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Short version, they are trying to get rid of cash bail for things protesters and the very poor are likely to be arrested for. It also makes bail funds not a things as they'll be limited to posting bail thrice a year. It's a way to clear out protesters and render the 1st Amendment mostly a dead letter.
If you live in Georgia, please make your voice heard now, lest you lose the ability in future.
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SB 63 — which would criminalize bail funds in Georgia — passed the Senate on 2/1. The bill would make bailing more than 3 people out of jail per YEAR a crime for bail funds and nonprofits. It also increases the number of non-bail-eligible offenses.
#criminal justice system#Georgia#news#current events#politics#us politics#government#the left#progressive#important#abolish prisons#prisons
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23/VI-1963. Class IV detention unit, State Security department No. 138, Středočeský region, People's Union Republic of Czechoslovakia, EESU.
[From the interrogation record of the arrested "SB-7067" ("Radím Štušek") on 23/VI-63]
Question: Where did you and comrade Veverka receive the content of the leaflets you've been writing?
Answer: I've written it all by myself.
[From the actual interrogation, recorded by State Security lieutenant Blažek for Minister of State Security comrade Günther]
[Class 2 interrogation techniques implied.]
Comrade Přibyl: Where did you and comrade Veverka receive the content of the leaflets you've been writing?
SB-7067: Does that bother you, you scum? Anyone gonna write it when they've had enough of you...
Comrade Kopecký: Watch your mouth, traitor.
Comrade Přibyl: Look in the eye. Now! Where did you get them? Obviously you didn't write it all yourself. I might even know a couple of boys from Prague that helped you...
SB-7067: Bullshit... I don't remember anyone from Prague...
Comrade Kopecký: Look there, that bastard's lying to us. Maybe whip him up a bit?
Comrade Přibyl: Fine, a bit. Get one of the guys to ask if room 45 is ready - let's clear his memory up there.
Now, one more time. Who did you take the text on the leaflets from? Who helped you write them? Where did you find that anti-socialist shit?!
SB-7067: I've written it all by myself!
Comrade Přibyl: What's this? Don't want to answer? Now this is gonna hurt for you.
[Class 3 interrogation techniques implied.]
@whumpuary #3: "This is gonna hurt"
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update!
New chapter for zenith of stars is up!
Chapter 59 (update #63) has been posted.
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Coin of the Day #16 (5/20/2024)
Justin just in time for the new week.
Byzantine Empire
AE Follis - 29mm 15.64g
Justin I 518-527 AD
Constantinople Mint
Obverse D N IVSTINVS P P AVG
Bust of Justin I right, diademed, draped, cuirassed
Reverse Large M between star and cross, cross above, Δ below, CON mint
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I posted 331 times in 2022
That's 331 more posts than 2021!
105 posts created (32%)
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I tagged 310 of my posts in 2022
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My Top Posts in 2022:
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My offering for the y/n community aaaa
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It has occurred to me that I haven’t draw moon in some time 🌙
Also just wanted to test out some colors weee
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Hello!!What are your favorite Sadistic beauty fanfics.
There aren't many SB fanfic out there. On 63 in ao3 and 15 in English. I wish I was a polyglot 😭
Anyways, here's a few that caught my attention
I don't wanna make you cry anymore
Short but a good character study done from wookyung pov about him realizing his feelings for Minho. Mostly canon compliant. I hope they'll continue. He suffers here so bonus point. Hehe
A Piece in a Stained Glass Window
with an oc, deals with Minho's trauma. They both bond with each other. From friends to lovers. Ongoing
What it could have been
From multiple POV but mainly Minho's inner thoughts. Doesn't glorify rape and actually talks about the damage being caused to Minho's body and mind, unfortunately on hiatus. Hope they'll update soon.
The end of Spring
Can't tell anything without spoiling but wookyung suffers here which is always a welcome and Minho is free from torment. But not the way you think.
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BTS 방탄소년단 August 2023
August 2023 part 1
1st August - 5th August 2023
Jin - 317 days (10 months 12 days - 45 weeks 2 days ) until discharge from military (221213 - 240612)
JHope - 444 days (1 year 2 months 17 days - 14 months 17 days - 63 weeks 3 days ) until discharge from military (230418 - 241017)
August
1 August
Instagram: Big Hit (1) RM (1), (2.) (3). Weverse: JK (1).(2) (3). (4). (5) (6). (7). (8). Jimin (1) Jin (1) Tae (1).
230802 SEVEN #9 BB Hot 100 (1). SEVEN #1 BB Global 200 (1). SEVEN #1 BB Global 200 excl US (1).
230801 | Yoongi x Samsung Mobile (1).
230801 | JHope x Louis Vuitton (1). (2).
230801 | Tablo (1). Peakboy (2). Audacy (3).
230801 | Tae Weverse live (1).
2 August
Instagram: Yoongi 1.
230802 SEVEN #9 BB Hot Trending Songs (1).
230802 | BTS won Seoul Music Awards "July World Trend Artist". (1). Tae won the July Fan Choice of the Year (2).
230802 | Jimin x Tiffany and Co (1). (2) Esquire (1). (2).
230802 | Jungkook "Seven (feat. Latto)" #Seven4thWin on Show Champion (1). (2).
230802 | Guinness World Records (1). (2). (3)
Jimin : ▪️ Fastest K-pop soloist to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify- 393 days - 230522 (1)
▪️ Most streamed track on SoundCloud - 330,000,000 total number - 230617 (1)
▪️ Most streamed track on SoundCloud in 24 hours - 8,500,000 total number - 181231 (1)
Jungkook: ▪️ The most streamed track on Spotify Charts in one week (male) - Seven with 89,748,171 streams (1)
▪️ Fastest time for a music track to reach 100 million streams on Spotify (male) (1)
230802 | Japan Fanclub BTS CORNER Wallpaper #26 - Jin (1)
3 August
Instagram: RM 1 Weverse: Tae (1) Tik Tok JK (1) (trans)
230803 |JK SEVEN MCountdown SEVEN 5th win - M!Countdown triple crown #Seven5thWin (1).
230803 SEVEN #2 - BB Top Selling Song (1)
230803 | 슈취타 EP.16 TEASER (ft Hwang Minhyun) (1). (2).
230803 | [EPISODE] Jung Kook’s Calvin Klein Commercial Shoot Sketch - BTS (방탄소년단) (1). (2).
230803 | Samsung mobile Yoongi (1). JHope (2).
230803 | 정국 - Seven (feat. Latto) - Sky Cam (1) . 정국 - Seven (feat. Latto) - One Take Cam (1) You tube shorts (1).
230803 | Tae Weverse live (1)
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4 August SUGA - Agust D TOUR ‘D-DAY’ THE FINAL KSPO DOME Day 1
Twitter: Big Hit (1). Instagram: RM (1), (2) Weverse: JK (1), (2). (3).
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230804 | Jimin Tiffany and Co - Elle Singapore instagram (1).
230804 | Jimmy Fallon instagram story (1).
230804 | SBS official photos JK SEVEN - inkigayo stage (1). (2).
230804 | BT21 (1)
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5 August SUGA - Agust D TOUR ‘D-DAY’ THE FINAL KSPO DOME Day 2
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230805 | Arrival - RM (BTS), Incheon International Airport (1). (2).
230805 | "Seven (ft. Latto)" by JUNGKOOK won its 1st win on Music Core #Seven6thWin (1). (2).
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On Monday, February 5th 2024 the Atlanta City Council voted to adopt a ordinance for signature match for referendum petitions. It's already difficult for referendum petitions in Atlanta since you have to be in person with a witness AND have been registered to vote in the last mayoral race. Now, on top of all that, your signatures have to be verified and an exact match.
This is despicable and makes it almost impossible to pass anything through referendum to ballot. With SB 63 essentially banning bail funds and not allowing anyone to bail someone out more than three times it basically makes it impossible to protest lest you be arrested and not be able to gain bail.
Be assured, Cop City will never be built. We'll keep fighting and writing. It ain't over until the Citizens of Atlanta say it's over!
#stop cop city#atlanta#politics#environmentalism#weelaunee forest#cop city#atlanta southern river forest#tortuguita#city of Atlanta
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JUSTICE+DEBATE
Para muchos le gusta afirmar que Tashigi es un personaje que Oda creo y es un desperdicio de personaje… Pero le mostraré que es una de las mujeres que Oda toma como relevantes en la trama de One piece.
Tanto Tashigi como Kuina suelen llevar el nombre de “Aves no voladoras”. Este simple nombre es de gran importancia para Oda ya que en el SBS 16, el mismo hizo referencia a este, afirmando que: "solo porque un pájaro no pueda volar no significa que nunca lo hará". Tomando por ejemplo, a un pato que vio volar en un anime.
Esto demuestra, que Oda quiere dejar en claro que Tashigi es un personaje que aun no ha volado, pero llegará un momento que pueda extender sus alas. Me imagino, que ese momento será cuando tenga un desarrollo de batalla relevante en el manga. LO ESPERO CON ANSIAS.
2. Tashigi es la segunda mujer Marine en aparecer en el manga. La primera fue Bellarme (mamá de Nami y su hermana). Pero a pesar, de esta primera, Tashigi es la primera mujer Marine en mantenerse en todo la historia del mundo manga/anime.
3. El sueno de Tashigi. Si algo ha caracterizado al mundo del manga de One Piece es la construcción principal de sus personajes. En la introducción de Tashigi, ya de primera Oda quiso dejar en énfasis la solidez de su sueño. Siendo la segunda mujer de One Piece de proclamarlo.
Todos los sueños de One Piece, son el desarrollo o la meta de cada personaje. Para muchos -para mí misma- el sueño de Tashigi es como una utopía, es decir, algo imposible de conseguir. Para conseguir las 83 espadas, debe de hacerse mucho más fuerte, ya que, por sus propias palabras, con sus propias manos liberará a las espadas de los malvados que la llevan. Tomará muchísimo tiempo hacerlo.
Algo que me dio una luz de este sueño utópico, es la introducción de Sword-Organización de Espadas-, algo me dice que esto debe de tener una conexión con Tashigi. Sosteniendo que, Tashigi en la portada 560 del manga aparece como profesora de espada tanto para Koby como Helmeppo. Su enigma es el símbolo de espada. ADEMÁS QUE ES UNA MANIACA DE LAS ESPADAS. Con Sword, seria muchisimo mas facil llegar a las 83 espadas, claro si Tashigi sería una de los capitanes de dicha organización.
4. La conexión de Tashigi con Zoro
Sin duda esta es una de las razones principales de la existencia de Tashigi. Tomando en consideración que Tashigi al momento de ser creada por Oda, la refleja como Sargento Mayor de la Marina y exponiendo la impresión de Zoro al verla.
Lo más importante, es que desde el comienzo de One Piece, Zoro no había vinculado ni explotado su pasado con nadie de la tripulación, no hasta que aparece Tashigi en el capítulo 96 del Manga-63 del anime.
Hay tantos hilos que faltan unir para establecer el significado esencial del camino de Marine de Tashigi ¿Como llego a ser Marine? ¿De donde proviene? ¿Cuál es su apellido? Su pasado aún es un misterio: su introducción fue para deshabilitar emocionalmente a Zoro y crear una conexión de enemigo a amantes (Que es otro tema que hablaré en otro post). Aunque, para mi Tashigi y Zoro nunca los he visto como enemigos en su totalidad, desde el momento que cruzaron miradas, hubo muchas emociones intercambiadas. Tashigi como la persona justa y buena que es, vio en Zoro desesperación y lo comparó con un mendigo xD, y quiso ayudarlo. Zoro vio en Tashigi a una mujer torpe e usurpadora de personalidad.
Luego, en Punk Hazard tenemos un desenvolvimiento en su relación. Para ambos, era más importante proteger a aquellos que debían salvar. Trabajaron juntos (aunque fue un “yo ataco y tu rematas”), pero fue lindo de ver, ya que, desde el primer vistazo de Zoro a Tashigi con Law, se ve su preocupación por ella, en la batalla de Monet se intensifica.
Zoro como el hombre estoico y serio que es, no debía poner a salvo a Tashigi y curar su herida, pero aun así lo hizo. Bueno en Tashigi su momento de timidez y vergüenza al ser cargado por Zoro, revela su gran cambio de la percepción que tiene por el cazador de piratas. Como el mismo Oda dijo en el SBS 70, Tashigi está avergonzada por otra razón, no por la simple idea de ser vista en los hombros de un pirata. HABÍA ALGO MÁS QUE HACIA QUE ACTUARA DE ESA MANERA ¿SERA AMOR?
5. Sentido de Justicia de Tashigi
Cada pelea de Tashigi ha sido una derrota pero en sí, cada una de ellas le ha dejado algo del que aferrarse. Es su camino buscar una union entre su justicia y su deber como marine.
Como se ve en Alabasta (ayudando y dejando marchar a los Sombreros de paja).
En Marineford (al no creer el porque de "justicia de los Marines y Piratas").
En Punk Hazrd, en su intencion de unir fuerzas con los Mugiwaras y Law, para poner a salvo a los peques. Asumiendo toda la carga y responsabilidad de ellos, con el fin de ponerlos a salvo (aun en Egghead, se nota que aun los niños siguen con ella).
Para concluir, tanto Smoker como Tashigi, son personajes valorados por Oda, ya que , Tashigi y Smoker han aparecido en más arcos que cualquier otro personaje fuera de los Mugiwaras, apareciendo actualmente en los arcos: Loguetown, Alabasta, MarineFord, Punk Hazard, partes de Dressrosa y Water 7, y finalmente en Egghead.
Algo un poco humillante pero revelador son las frases que le dijeron tanto Trafalgar D. Water Law y Cocrodile:
PARA MI ESTAS DERROTAS HARÁN MÁS FUERTE A TASHIGI, NO CREO QUE ODA CADA VEZ QUIERA HUNDIRLA ANTE ALGUIEN MÁS FUERTE POR NADA.
ELLA BRILLARA.
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BACK IN ENGLANDIA.
okay so im 169cm tall and i weigh 63-65kg. im trying to lose weight BUT I CANT. ITS IMPOSSIBLE. LIKE IM FINE WITH MY BODY BUT MY ARMS ARE SO WIBBLY WOBBLY AND BIG IM EMBARRASSED TO WESR SHORT SLEEVED. todsy i was like: okay sb heute diät. bruder guess what😁 i just ate noodles with so many side dishes its insane. idk if im stress eating the last few days/weeks or whatever but i want to stop. btw ich habe mich beim arzt getestet (bin chronisch krank und muss oft testen) und ich habe eine krankheit losgelassen💪💪💪 aber eine neue ist dazu gekommen. ich war am heulen heute weil nicht nur habe ich jetzt studium stress, jetzt wieder gesundheit stress😍😍 ich hab angst die machen mir wieder colonoscopy (literally schlauch im arsch). JUNGE KEINE AHNUNG ICH BIN GERADE SO DURCHEINANDER ICH CHECKE NICHTS. crying screaming throwing up vandalismus
NO BC I GET YOU FRFR TODAY WAS RESLLY CRAZY FOR ME TOO LIKE???
First of all I cried bc of a boy. Like I'm the class president (lwk exposing me rn anyways) and he like fought eith a girl so he had a conference and I attended it aswell. He used to he famous for being kind of aggressive and short tempered but he really improved over the years. Anyways they were talking and he explained everything what happened. (For context some students were scared of him bc he said some weird things and ofc his aggression problems even tho he wouldn't hurt a fly) and it obviously bothered him.
He then said "I don't want people to be scared of me, I'm human too" and began crying at atp I cried too (IT WAS SO EMBARASSING BRO). Like we NEVER talk and it's not like I have feelings for him, but his raw emotions and the genuine vulnerability in his voice really made me cry bro😭😭 Feels weird bc I've been thinking about it ever since but ig it's just me being a thinker
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Whumper: 16, 29; Whumpee: 50, 24, 6
Thank you for asking!! Sorry for being so late again🥺
I've had a really tough time last month but now I'm finally back on track💫
16) How possessive you are about your whumpee?
29) Did you know your whumpee before capturing them?
"Possessive isn't the right word, comrade. You wouldn't say "possessive" of any other property, would you? It's called being vigilant. You need it a lot in our work. One can't protect our country if he can't even protect his own belongings."
"My comrades in Czechoslovakia reported a riot in May '63 with some photos and tape records. There was a boy on a couple of them, standing at the top with that old bourgeois traitor flag. That was him. When the next uprising started - this time in Prague - I arrived there when our patrols were cleaning it up. There were crowds and crowds of corrupted capitalist parasites. Infesting the towns like invasive cockroach despite our Commander's best efforts.
That day I've seen him firsthand. He wasn't just some poor metal factory boy who listened to Radio Free Europe too much - it's a cold-blooded vicious enemy, with values of the West, trained to destroy. Look at him there for a second - it would be obvious. I've ordered to look out for that boy right then. Where there are vermin like him, there is destruction, revolt and decay. They cannot be cured - only put for the right use. That's what class 4 was made for.
Oh, it'd be a disrespect if I'd conceal from you, comrade. SB-7067 isn't only socially dangerous - he's particularly pretty as well. Incredibly pretty. A perfect state-supplied plaything."
-Erhardt Wilhelm Günther, Minister of the State Security
7/V-1964
6) Do your friends or family know you're here? Do you think they miss you?
24) How often does your whumper punish you? Why?
50) Share one of your happiest moment of freedom for us!
"The thing is, y'know - they all count me dead. That's it. You're sorted class 4 and from that there's no "you" anymore. Everyone say you're dead, the gov says you're dead, by law you cease to exist. I thought exactly like that back then. They all told me if you're gonna get class 4 it's a nine gram bullet to your head that awaits you. Even West radio said so. I get it why they did. The stuff they do to you, it's much worse than a bullet. It'd be an outrage if anybody found out.
I'm sure they miss me. Mom, dad, grandpa... I didn't know I'd miss them so much... My friends as well. They were all with me in the underground, I've seen half of them snatched. Chances are the rest were caught too. I don't want to imagine what they're going through. If only I could do anything about it...
I love them all but... after all of that i wish they'd rather forget me. I don't want anyone to see me like that."
"What did Günther "punish" me for? For talking back, for not doing exact what he said, for resisting anything, for asking wrong questions, for snacking on his food or drinks, for getting out of bed at night, for not studying Marxism-Leninism enough, for not cleaning room or office enough, for speaking Czech, for hiding, for running... Can I just say "for anything"? And of course when he just feels like it. Fucking sadist. Not surprising he made such a career."
"Happy moments in my life? Let me think... It'll be quite a lot. Wouldn't say life was any easy, but when you're locked for life, it's like... almost everything before counts as a happy moment.
For what I miss really much - definitely the summer of '62. Me, Evžen, Martin, other guys, we had so much fun back then. Everything was calm, no martial law, no curfews, no patrols out there. Not gonna lie, we already knew the government was shit, we snuck out to listen to radio in the woods without fear of getting caught somehow. I could just lie on the grass, maybe with the boys, or with Evžen alone, counting the clouds and snacking on the berries we picked along the way. In these moments you think like, hey, everything's gonna be fine, life's a great thing! I know it sounds so funny but me and Evžen dreamed of sneaking off to Austria and starting a new life there. We even discussed how tasty Austrian chocolate would be... Silly, isn't it?
... May I ask you for a small favor? If you ever see him anywhere, could you please send him a little bar of Austrian chocolate? If you have any, of course. Just don't tell him who it was from. Don't say anything about me. And try to give it in secret - having Western goods can get anyone arrested. Except those in high government of course.
-Class 4 subject SB-7067 (Radím Štušek)
7/V-1964
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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a measure that will overhaul the state’s alimony laws, after three vetoes of similar bills and a decade of emotional clashes over the issue.
The measure (SB 1416) includes doing away with what is known as permanent alimony. DeSantis’ approval came a year after he nixed a similar bill that sought to eliminate permanent alimony and set up a formula for alimony amounts based on the length of marriage.
The approval drew an outcry from members of the “First Wives Advocacy Group,” a coalition of mostly older women who receive permanent alimony and who assert that their lives will be upended without the payments.
“On behalf of the thousands of women who our group represents, we are very disappointed in the Governor’s decision to sign the alimony-reform bill. We believe by signing it, he has put older women in a situation which will cause financial devastation. The so-called party of ‘family values’ has just contributed to erosion of the institution of marriage in Florida,” Jan Killilea, a 63-year-old Boca Raton woman who founded the group a decade ago, told The News Service of Florida in a text message Friday.
The years-long effort to do away with permanent alimony has been a highly contentious issue. It elicited tearful testimony from members of the First Wives group. But it also spurred impassioned pleas from ex-spouses who said they had been forced to work long past the age they wanted to retire because they were on the hook for alimony payments.
Michael Buhler, chairman of Florida Family Fairness, a group that has pushed for doing away with permanent alimony, praised the approval of the bill.
“Florida Family Fairness is pleased that the Florida Legislature and Gov. DeSantis have passed a bill that ends permanent alimony and codifies in statute the right to retire for existing alimony payers,” Buhler said in a statement “Anything that adds clarity and ends permanent alimony is a win for Florida families.”
Along with DeSantis’ veto of the 2022 version, former Gov. Rick Scott twice vetoed similar bills. The issue spurred a near-fracas outside Scott’s office in 2016.
This year, however, the proposal received relatively little public pushback and got the blessing of Florida Family Fairness and The Florida Bar’s Family Law Section, which fiercely clashed over the issue in the past.
Along with eliminating permanent alimony, the measure will set up a process for ex-spouses who make alimony payments to seek modifications to alimony agreements when they want to retire.
It will allow judges to reduce or terminate alimony, support or maintenance payments after considering a number of factors, such as “the age and health” of the person who makes payments; the customary retirement age of that person’s occupation; “the economic impact” a reduction in alimony would have on the recipient of the payments; and the “motivation for retirement and likelihood of returning to work” for the person making the payments.
Supporters said it will codify into law a court decision in a 1992 divorce case that judges use as a guidepost when making decisions about retirement.
But, as with previous versions, opponents remained concerned that the bill would apply to existing permanent alimony agreements, which many ex-spouses accept in exchange for giving up other assets as part of divorce settlements.
“He (DeSantis) has just impoverished all the older women of Florida, and I know at least 3,000 women across the state of Florida are switching to Democrat and we will campaign against him, all the way, forever,” Camille Fiveash, a Milton Republican who receives permanent alimony, said in a phone interview Friday.
In vetoing the 2022 version, DeSantis pointed to concerns about the bill allowing ex-spouses to have existing alimony agreements amended. In a June 24, 2022, veto letter, he wrote that if the bill “were to become law and be given retroactive effect as the Legislature intends, it would unconstitutionally impair vested rights under certain pre-existing marital settlement agreements.”
But Senate bill sponsor Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota, tried to assure lawmakers that the 2023 version would not unconstitutionally affect existing alimony settlements. This year’s proposal “went to what is currently case law,” Gruters told a Senate committee in April, pointing to the court ruling.
“So what you can do right now, under case law, we now codify all those laws and make that the rule of law. So we basically just solidify that. So from a retroactivity standpoint, no, because if anything could be modifiable before, it’s still modifiable. If it’s a non-modifiable agreement, you still can’t modify that agreement,” he said.
The bill, which will take effect Saturday, also will set a five-year limit on what is known as rehabilitative alimony. Under the plan, people married for less than three years will not be eligible for alimony payments, and those who have been married 20 years or longer will be eligible to receive payments for up to 75% of the term of the marriage.
The new law will also allow alimony payers to seek modifications if “a supportive relationship exists or has existed” involving their ex-spouses in the previous year. Critics argued the provision is vague and could apply to temporary roommates who help alimony recipients cover living expenses for short periods of time.
Fiveash, a 63-year-old with serious medical conditions, said she can’t afford another legal fight over alimony.
“My fears are that they can take you back to court, and I don’t have the money for an attorney. I literally live off a little bit I get for alimony. I work part-time, because I have all kinds of ailments. And now I’m going to be left without anything, absolutely anything,” she said.
Health insurance, Fiveash added, will “probably be the first thing to go” if her payments are reduced or eliminated.
“This is a death sentence for me,” she said.
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