The Russian government of Georgia🇬🇪 approved the Russian law in the third reading in 64 seconds.

Protests are taking place in all major cities of Georgia.

If the Russian army enters Georgia tomorrow to save this government, don't be surprised, it is a standard procedure.

Europe is our home, look at our culture and history.
Never back to pigsland! Never back to russia!

Here we go again!

#Georgia
#RussiaIsATerroristState

Via #IneBackIversen

🇬🇪 World, are you still watching? Tonight might have just been the biggest gathering of #Georgians marching in #Tbilisi against the #Russian violations and law infiltrating the Georgian government! Please watch, share, stand with the brave people of #Georgia!🇬🇪 #NoToRussianLaw

Ah, #Georgia... my only impression from the semi final was "fire". I didn't know you could over-do pyro like this, but apparantly its possible...

So yeah... fire. That is all.

#Eurovision #Eurovision2024

Georgia GOP vice chair booted for illegally voting 9 times as a convicted felon. He was convicted for felony check forgery in the past.

Voter fraud aside, the GOP voted him is as vice chair in 2023, the number two spot, knowing he had been convicted of a $38,000 bad check forgery scheme, where he knowingly deposited bad checks into his construction business. #USPol #Georgia

https://www.rawstory.com/georgia-gop-vice-chair-booted-for-illegally-voting-9-times-as-a-convicted-felon-2668234016/

Georgia GOP vice chair booted for illegally voting 9 times as a convicted felon

Brian K. Pritchard is no longer the vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party after a large majority of his fellow Republicans voted to remove him from his position this week.

^{Carl Gibson, AlterNet (Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism)}

"“As we watch this #species go #extinct one by one, the solution sits idle in the hands of the administration”...

this year, a dead female turned up off #Virginia with a dislocated spine, a calf was discovered in #Georgia with head lacerations, & a young female was found — again in Georgia — with a fractured skull. All the injuries are consistent with vessel strikes.

“It’s only #humans that kill right #whales”"

#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/4dDItaQ

#Nature #Wildlife #Animals #News

#Georgia Promised to Fix How #Voter Challenges Are Handled.
A New Law Could Make the Problem Worse.
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SB 189, which goes into effect in July, will give Georgia residents more time to contest the eligibility of fellow citizens’ inclusion on voter rolls.

The #law will make it easier to use questionable evidence in those challenges.

#News #Elections #Voting #Election2024 #Government

https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-law-could-lead-to-more-voter-suppression

Georgia Law Could Lead to More Voter Suppression, Advocates Warn

SB 189, which goes into effect in July, will give Georgia residents more time to contest the eligibility of fellow citizens’ inclusion on voter rolls and make it easier to use questionable evidence in those challenges.

^ProPublica

A demonstrator gestures to riot police during an opposition protest against ‘the Russian law’ in Tbilisi. Western politicians and diplomats called for a halt to spiralling violence in Georgia after security forces used water cannon, teargas, stun grenades and rubber bullets to break up a peaceful rally against a ‘foreign influence’ bill

Photograph: Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP

@photography
#Georgia
#protest

#Georgia: Lots of fire. Lots and lots. Thats basicly all I saw.

#Eurovision #Eurovision2024

Why did bill to stem ‘foreign influence’ trigger protests in Georgia over country’s media freedom?

Widespread protests continue In Tbilisi, Georgia. Parliament has moved a step closer to passing a law that critics fear will stifle media freedom and endanger the country’s European Union membership bid.

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-protest-russian-law-media-83271a5a81a235fc8c9e8d3d2e1877ff

#TbilisiProtests #Georgia #NoToRussianLaw

Why did bill to stem ‘foreign influence’ trigger protests in Georgia over country's media freedom?

Georgia has been engulfed by huge protests triggered by a proposed law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union.

^{AP News}

In Tbilisi, a large-scale march against the "foreign agents" law is taking place again.

#Georgia #Tbilisi #GeorgiaProtests #TbilisiProtests

A woman reacts as law enforcement officers use a water cannon to disperse the crowd near the parliament building, during a rally to protest against a bill on "foreign agents" in Tbilisi, Georgia. Georgian parliament is set to debate the second reading of the bill described as authoritarian and Russian-inspired by Georgia's opposition and Western countries. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze

@photography
#Georgia
#protest
#women

A University of Georgia student was sent this notice of interim suspension after he was arrested Monday at a protest.

The email at 5:09 pm asked him to explain why he shouldn't be suspended by 5:10 pm or it would go into effect at 5:11 pm.

(h/t Patrick Quinn/ATLNewsFirst)

#georgia #palestine #protest #highered #news