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Rapture. They believe it’s still ‘coming’.
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It’s too sad, too pathetic, to be funny. Pat Robertson blathered last week that Rapture is coming.
That’s fine by me. The rest of us will get along fine without them.
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Jeffrey F Adams-Vampy is feeling amused with Curtis Wood and 2 others.
May 6, 2018 ·
I would LOVE to see this! It’d be HILARIOUS!!! 😂😂😂
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I’ll have to patch mine. It’s sprung a leak. Lol
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I would LOVE to see this! It’d be HILARIOUS!!! 😂😂😂
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I’ll have to patch mine. It’s sprung a leak. Lol
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I would LOVE to see this! It’d be HILARIOUS!!! 😂😂😂
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Please read Alana’s Comment – she had it correctly four years ago.
‘Blame the Democrats!’. This is all part of the Republi-con long con to destroy any Democratic Party President or Democratic Party Congress. ‘Suckering’ their ‘Loser’ constituency to vote Republi-con.
Meanwhile, Crooked Drumpf told you that it is your ‘patriotic duty to take a hit’ for him.
Crooked Drumpf’s ‘Poorly Educated’ – his ‘Suckers ‘ and his ‘Losers’ – remain firmly entrenched in their Disconnect from Reality.
Now these ‘Poorly Educated’ throng of ‘Suckers’ and ‘Losers’ blame Biden for the policies that they espoused under Crooked Drumpf. Yep. Disconnected from Reality.
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Remember!
Crooked Drumpf is the one who calls you Drumpfian and Deplorable minions ‘Suckers’ and ‘Losers’. You are proving it each day.
Coronavirus. Real? Concoction?
Doesn’t matter in this point. Crooked Drumpf used Coronavirus as a way to crash the American and international economies in order to further divide him and his Wealth Class from the rest of us Working Class.
Commodity prices are skyrocketing. That means price ncreases at the grocery, the department store. Gasoline prices rose from $2 per gallon of regular to more than $3 per gallon for regular. You can thank Crooked Drumpf and his Corporate Bosses for these price manipulations.
Meanwhile, Crooked Drumpf and his Republi-cons opppose raising your Minimum Wage. Republi-con obstructionism keeps your Minimum Wage stagnant at little more than $7 per hour, where Republi-cons keep you poor.
Cassidy tried to claim he’s for wage increases for Working Class, but fails because his Republi-con Party oppose all increases to Minimum Wage.
‘It’s okay to have lower wages for working people. Less investment is Working Class. Increase wages is success, not taking trillions and trickling it down, hopefully to the folks you want to help. ‘
– Senator Bill Cassidy, R-Drumpf (Fox News Sunday, 2 May 2021)
‘The Biden plan would undo the Drumpf ‘tax cuts’. Drumpf tax cuts are now projected to add $1.5 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years. What’s wrong with raising the top tax rate to where it was during Bush? It will help the Middle Class. Drumpf tax cuts benefited the wealthy and corporations more than the Working Class and Middle Class. Over $400.000 will pay more. ‘
– Chris Wallace, R-Drumpf (Fox News Sunday, 2 May 21)
Meanwhile, Cassidy accused the Democrats of Reagan’s Tinkle Down Economics, and Wallace failed to correct him.
Yep. Crooked Drumpf has you pegged. You. Drumpfian and Deplorable loyalists: ‘Suckers’ and ‘Losers’.
– Sharon
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US farmers were struggling before Trump started a trade war with China. But now that he’s put them in the crosshairs, he’s sure they’ll understand.
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Alana Joy
It’s not just the farmers that will take the hit. We all will. Watch your grocery prices.
And watch how many small farmers, family farmers go under. But that’s ok, as the banks and big business farmers will gladly buy up more and more of our nations heartland farms. Farming will soon be all big business, big corporate farms.
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Crooked Drumpf used your American taxpayer Dollars to pay off his Corporate Farm buddies.
Do you realise that Corporate Farm owners collect a cool $250.000 each for claiming a piece of a farm. Yep. That’s your money going directly from your pocket to Crooked Drumpf’s and his Corporate Farm buddies.
So … you keep voting for Crooked Drumpf and Republi-cons. You keep lying to yourself. Your choices are destroying the USA – and you are responsible for it, same as Crooked Drumpf.
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I agree with Crooked Drumpf. Those farmers should take a huge hit.
File bankruptcy same as Crooked Drumpf. Fail to pay your debts same as Crooked Drumpf.
Maybe that will teach them to quit voting for Crooked Drumpf and Republi-cons.
Naw. Stoopid farmers will continue voting for Republi-cons and will continue blaming Democrats. That is all they know.
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(http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-cohen-russia-vekselberg-20180508-story.html)
(https://www.facebook.com/MichDemPC/posts/579797755737736)
(https://www.politicususa.com/2018/05/08/maddow-presidency-ending-question.html)
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You can read an alternate version of this essay at my web-site:
(https://slimandme.wordpress.com/2021/05/07/rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-rogd/)
‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD)’
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An article about a study called Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) is making the rounds again.
ROGD claims that the Trans person makes a sudden decision to Transition, has placed no thought or consideration about their Transition.
ROGD is a fraud, a false concept.
ROGD truly reflects upon the way a family is entirely oblivious to their Trans child growing up.
ROGD is an excuse for the Trans person’s family who refused to acknowledge and embrace their Trans child many years earlier; ‘rapid’ for only the family, clearly not ‘rapid’ for the Trans child or Trans adult experiencing it.
ROGD research are extremely flawed in many ways. They exemplify poor studies that gain media attention by reinforcing the CisHet narrative as the norm. It is more comfortable for the Trans person’s family to believe in their ignorance than it is for them to examine their own internal prejudice.
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Allow me to share my experience.
In my Trans experience, I was out many, many times – my entire lifetime, in fact. My out Trans child presence was right in front of them – I was wearing my sister’s clothes, I was painting my fingernails, I was using my teen cousins’ make-up, I insisted that I grow my hair long – these events occurred from age 3 through to my teenage years living at home with my father, my mother, my sister Kathy, my paternal grandmother, my paternal grand aunt, playing with my teen cousins Gail and Carole – all who observed my Trans behaviours in one manner or another. How much more could I have been out!
My being out, my Feminine Protesting was precisely the reason why my father beat me. Yet my family failed to actually hear what I was saying, failed to see what I was doing.
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I was out as a M-F Transsexual child at least from age 3 (1959). My parents and my extended family called me a ‘cute little girl’. My sister and I played house, played Barbie, painted each other’s fingernails. I played with my teen cousins’ make-up when our family visited their family.
That environment would eventually change. My parents divorced and our father obtained full custody of my sister and me by the time I was age 7 (1963). My father began to beat me because of my Trans behaviour. That continued throughout my childhood, my teen years, my years living at home as a dependent adult attending college.
Skip to age 18 (1974) when I count beginning my adult Transition. My family did not want to hear anything about it, but they certainly took pleasure making their own gossip about me.
My father repeatedly demanded that I ‘talk to a priest’ when I was age 21 (1977). Yeh? His priest, our Catholic parish Pastor, was hard core anti-Trans. The fact that my father made his demands documents that he was quite well aware of my Transition.
Christmas 1979 dinner was strained. That year had been the most momentous of my Transition, to that time. I attended to several health care appointments to begin the medical portion of my Transition, my Team Sharon approved my Estrogen hormones: I took my first taste of Estrogen in February, I took Norinyl birth control pills through Summer, I began my prescription Diethylstilbestrol by September. My body started changing the way I wanted it to change since my earliest expectations. But my father sat me down and commanded me to keep my mouth shut – I was not going to test his ‘or else’ warning that day.
I had my first two surgeries at age 26 (1982, 1983). I was left to exclude my family from it because my physician offered no counseling about my eventual Intersex diagnosis. I had no idea how to explain my being Intersex to them when my medical team barely explained it to me; I would spend years doing my own research. Sharing my diagnosis without any explanation was probably a ‘no win’ situation anyway. My father snooped through my box of medical papers, presumed my first surgery to be something different (BA), and spread more false gossip.
After my departure from the Forest Service, I spent almost two weeks with my father trying to get him to stop for a moment and finally listen to me (May 1985). He refused to grant time for me to speak, he interrupted me to change the subject.
I finally began full-time at age 28 (June 1985). My father had invited me to a birthday dinner (July 1985). What better way, better time, to present my true self to my father after all those years of strain! What did my father say?
– ‘Why didn’t you ever say anything? Why didn’t you talk to me?’
My father reacted as if I woke up that morning and decided to put on a dress.
– He ignored my entire childhood and teen years of Feminine Protesting and suffering.
– He ignored all the abuse and beatings throughout my childhood, teens, young adult years.
– He ignored all the postal mail that came to our home addressed to me Sharon, particularly my correspondence with Stanford University Medical Center’s ‘Gender Dysphoria Program’.
– He ignored my name change at Social Security that drew his ire (1978).
– He ignored my changing body, my loss of facial and body hair.
– He ignored my Transition wardrobe that devolved into unisex female attire.
That’s my point from my experience. Twenty-eight years and Dear Ol’ Dad still claimed to have no idea.
That’s why ROGD is not the Trans person, but the family and friends in their midst who deliberately chose to ignore the lifetime of events.
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Thank you to the Resources who contribute to this page. Acknowledgement and credit goes to those who create their social media content, essays, and images.
Additional Resources:
I included a brief summary about ROGD in this article at my web-site.
That same article is also available as a two-part post at Facebook, published around December 2019. You’d need to dig deep for it at my Facebook page.
(https://slimandme.wordpress.com/practical-issues-of-trans-and-transition/)
‘Practical Issues Of Trans and Transition’
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This is so skewed it’s disinformation. Among other things, its portrayal of the ROGD thing is complete BS. I’d refer your friend to Julia Serano’s article on ROGD and point out that if the article treats ROGD as if it’s legitimate or has any empirical basis then the rest of it isn’t trustworthy either.
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This is an answer published on the same page
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The American Medical Association and other major medical groups in our country state that affirming Gender Identity and providing care for Trans kids is necessary for their physical and mental health.
This article, while focusing on the recent anti-Trans state laws, mentions those trans-affirming policies.
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‘A Critical Commentary on ‘Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria’ (Florence Paré)
A less academic discourse.
(https://psychcentral.com/lib/there-is-no-evidence-that-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-exists)
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(http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2019/02/origins-of-social-contagion-and-rapid.html)
‘Whipping Girl: Origins of ‘Social Contagion’ and ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’. (Julia Serano)
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The CPATH position statement (includes a fairly extensive reference list).
(https://cpath.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CPATH_ROGD.pdf)
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Arjee Restar is a Trans graduate student in the same department of the same graduate school whose faculty member published the original article.
(https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-1453-2)
‘Methodological Critique of Littman’s Parental-Respondents Accounts’ (Arjee Restar)
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‘Deferral: The Sociology of Young Trans People’s Epiphanies and Coming Out’ (Natacha Kennedy)
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The concept is similar to Trans Panic Defence, where the CisHet person of privilege holds the Right to murder a Trans person, for any reason, for no reason.
This person of privilege is invariably White, Republi-con, Christian Con-servative, male. The Black person, the Trans person, is an affront, an insult in the presence of the person of privilege.
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You murdered Ahmaud same as the shooters when you support Crooked Drumpf, Republi-cons, Christian Con-servatives, Drumpfians, Deplorables.
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Rob Barge
(6 May 2020)
Like everyone, I have things to do today. Pressing obligations that require my attention. But first I have something to say and I cannot proceed with this day until I’ve said it.
By now you should be aware that on the afternoon of Sunday, February 23, 2020, a young black man named Ahmaud Arbery was out jogging near his home in Brunswick, Georgia when two white men, a father and son, saw him, got their guns, jumped in a truck, chased him down, pulled up next to him and fired three shots, killing him on the spot. Ahmaud uwas unarmed and had broken no laws. He had done nothing wrong when he was murdered in the street. Nothing.
I watched a video yesterday of the final seconds of this young man’s life. I didn’t want to watch it, but having closely followed this story for weeks I felt obligated to confirm with my own eyes what I already knew I would witness. I know evil when I see it and what I saw in Ahmaud’s cruel, calculated murder was evil in its most naked and horrific form. This was a bloodthirsty public lynching in broad daylight and it was soul-crushing to observe.
The attackers were Gregory McMichael, a former police officer and retired investigator for the district attorney’s office, and his son Travis. The initial police report shows an appalling lack of investigation into the case, citing only Gregory McMichael’s account of the case. Ahmaud’s family was first informed by local police that he had been killed during a burglary. That was a lie.
Presently, neither Gregory or Travis McMichael have been arrested, claiming they acted out of self-defense and their actions fell within Georgia’s citizen arrest laws. On 911 calls the dispatcher asked the men what Arbery was doing that was of criminal concern. They had no specific answer beyond, “He’s a black man running down our road.”
In their minds, that was his crime and their justification for Ahmaud’s murder. Being black and running down a road.
So here’s the thing. Here’s the the thing that hangs me up and stops me in my tracks today and on so many days. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting it is really cooperating with it.” He also had much to say about the response of moderate Christians who through their silence are complicit in the daily indignity and brutalization imposed on their black neighbors.
Yesterday a close friend wrote, “Please know your Black friends and acquaintances live in abject fear of being murdered for no reason EVERY GODDAMN DAY OF OUR LIVES… And if you are not a person of color – stop denying you were born with the privilege of not living in fear of being killed for simply existing. My soul is so, so weary.”
She should know. My friend speaks the truth and I hear her.
Another dear friend writes, “I don’t have to stop being black for you to stop being racist.”
And again my heart breaks.
According to The Rev. John D. Perry II, president of the local NAACP in Brunswick, “It is clearly evident that this young man (had) to fight for his life. In this situation it’s either fight or flight. I don’t know what was in their hearts, but that was an overzealous act on their behalf. They put him in a situation where he had to fight for his life. They created the circumstances for that to happen, and they have to be held accountable.”
“This outrageous case shows just how dangerous it is to be black in America,” says Ben Crump, an attorney representing Ahmaud’s family, “A black man can’t jog through a neighborhood without being chased and gunned down execution style. We will not rest until we see justice for this family.”
To date, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery has largely escaped public attention, but the case is ongoing and reportedly will eventually be presented to a grand jury in coastal Georgia. The FBI and Georgia Bureau of Investigation must get involved in this case which demands thorough disclosure of the facts and truth. Meanwhile I wonder where all this ends. If ever. With so much happening in the world to provoke our outrage and stoke our selfish concerns, when will we finally confront the racism, inequality, and injustice that festers like a cancer on our nation. Do we really want to live in a society where the mere suspicion of a possible property crime prompts citizens to form an armed posse to chase down, confront, and end the very life a suspect? The image of a group of white men in pickup trucks armed with shotguns and handguns casually chasing down and murdering a young black man should not be the profile of justice in 2020 that any of us wants to share with the world.
Dr. King reminds us, “The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.” Today I grieve for young Ahmaud Arbery and his hurting family. I grieve for a society that blithely accepts Ahmaud’s death, or any such assault on the innocent, through complacency and inaction. I grieve the resounding silence that allows injustice and racism to continue. If we cannot change, if we can’t do better than this for each other, if we can’t speak out about this curse on our brothers and ourselves, I wonder if we are deserving of any better than the hottest place in hell.
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Michael Moore
(6 May 2020)
I will not accept the inconceivable position trump is now pushing…”People will die, but the country has to get back to work”. It is beyond disrespectful to the people who have lost their lives and is a clear indication that he puts optics ahead of human life.
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Video Leaks of Unarmed Black Man Gunned Down on Street by White Father-Son Duo: ‘They Literally Hunted This Poor Man Down’
By Ashleigh Atwell – May 5, 202005603
A video showing the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery has emerged more than two months after the incident occurred.
The video begins with Arbery jogging down a Brunswick, Georgia, street wearing a white T-shirt and shorts. Seconds later, a struggle ensues after the 25-year-old tries to wrestle a shotgun from Travis McMichael, who had pulled up next to Arbery and gotten out of his vehicle armed with the weapon to confront the Black man. Gregory McMichael, Travis’ father, watched from the back of a pickup truck.
Video footage shows jogger Ahmaud Arbery tried to defend himself before he was gunned down in a Brunswick, Georgia, street.
The men fought over the gun until shots rang out. Arbery took a couple of steps before he dropped to the ground.
The source of the video is unclear. Activist Shaun King posted it on his Twitter page, but it is unclear how he acquired the footage, WGIG Radio also shared it online and credited an anonymous source before it was deleted.
The duo claimed they pursued Arbery because they witnessed him running through the neighborhood. Gregory McMichael told police after the shooting that he suspected Arbery was responsible for a string of break-ins in the neighborhood. When the senior McMichael spotted Arbery around 1 p.m. on Feb. 23, he alerted his son, and both men armed themselves — the son with the shotgun, the father with a .357 handgun — before taking off after Arbery in the pickup.
“McMichael stated he then ran inside his house and called to Travis [McMichael] and said, ‘Travis, the guy is running down the street, let’s go,’” a police report stated.
After chasing in their truck and attempting to get Arbery’s attention twice, Travis McMichael pulled up next to him and said he wanted to talk, the father told police.
“[Gregory] McMichael stated he saw [Arbery] begin” to “violently attack Travis and the two men then started fighting over the shotgun, at which point Travis fired a shot and then a second later there was a second shot,” the police report continued. “McMichael stated the male fell face down on the pavement with his hand under his body.” The leaked video footage seems to indicate three shots actually were fired.
Ahmaud Arbery died on Feb. 23 in Brunswick, Georgia, following an altercation with Travis and Gregory McMichael.
Neither McMichael has been charged for the death. The previous DA on the case was preparing to invoke Georgia’s citizen’s arrest statute to absolve the men of culpability in the slaying. Attorney Lee Merritt, who is representing Arbery’s family, argued the law does not apply to this case because the deceased was not committing a crime when he was approached.
“According to that law, you actually have to be observing the crime or be in the immediate knowledge of the crime,” Merritt told CNN on Sunday. “The only thing they have ever said is … that Ahmaud stopped by a house that was under construction and he looked through the window. We don’t know if that happened or not, but even if that did happen that is not a felony that would invoke the citizen’s arrest statute that would make this allowable.”
Arbery’s death has sparked outcry from people who see it as a modern-day lynching by two white men.
“This type of hatred is taught and handed down for generations. This will never end. This is Amerikkka,” tweeted one viewer.
“I’m traumatized. I just witnessed a murder of a young man who was clearly in danger. They just shot him in broad daylight in the middle of the street,” lamented another person.
“This is just disgusting! I’m sooo triggered they literally hunted this poor man down,” noted another tweeter.
Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney Tom Durden said he wants a grand jury to examine the case but the process might be delayed due to the pandemic.
“I am of the opinion that the case should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges against those involved in the death of Mr. Arbery,” Durden said in a statement on Tuesday.
“I have no control over the suspensions due to the pandemic,” he added. “However, I do intend to present the case to the next available grand jury in Glynn County.”
Durden began investigating the case after two prosecutors recused themselves due to conflicts of interest. George McMichael is a former investigator for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office.
Merritt told CNN the family hopes for an indictment soon.
“We expect action this week,” the lawyer declared.
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Ahmaud Arbery Shooting: Video of Georgia Man’s Death Leaks on YouTube
Date Posted: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia, while jogging in a neighborhood on February 25 after he was chased down by two men, a father and son. The men, Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael, have not been charged. Video of the shooting was posted online on May 5, the same day that prosecutors said a grand jury will hear evidence in the case and decide if the McMichaels will face charges.
The 25-year-old Arbery was black. The McMichaels are white. Gregory McMichael, a 64-year-old former police officer and investigator for a local district attorney’s office, told police after the shooting that he and his 34-year-old son suspected Arbery was involved in burglaries that had occurred in the neighborhood, according to a police report released by the Glynn County Police Department. They chased him down in their pickup truck while armed with a handgun and shotgun. Travis McMichael shot Arbery because he believed he was being “violently attacked,” Gregory McMichael told police.
Arbery’s family and friends say he was not involved in any burglaries and it was a case of mistaken identity. Jason Vaughn, Arbery’s high school football coach, told WJXT-TV, “People are known for jogging in that area all the time and we all know Maud likes to jog the area. He would stop and, sometimes in the middle of his workout, he’d play basketball with the younger kids and at the game, he’d go back to jogging. That’s the kind of person he was.”
Here’s what you need to know about the video and the shooting:
The Video, Recorded by a Third Man Who Was in ‘Hot Pursuit’ With the McMichaels, Shows Arbery Running in the Street Before Before He Was Shot by Travis McMichael–
The video of the shooting was leaked online and posted to YouTube on May 5. According to the New York Times, the video was recorded by a third man who had joined the McMichaels in “hot pursuit” of Arbery. The video had previously been turned over to investigators before it was made public.
In the video, which can be watched above, Arbery can be seen running down the middle of the road behind the McMichaels’ white pickup truck. The camera moves for two seconds and Arbery cannot be seen. Yelling can then be heard as Arbery runs around the right side of the truck and toward Travis McMichael, who was armed with a shotgun. A shot is fired and Arbery and Travis McMichael begin struggling over the shotgun while Gregory McMichael, who can be seen standing in the bed of the truck, draws his handgun.
A second gunshot can be heard while Arbery and Travis McMichael are outside of the video frame. The two men come back into the video and a third shot is heard. Arbery then stumbles away from Travis McMichael and collapses to the ground as the video ends.
Gregory McMichael Called 911 & Said ‘There’s a Black Man Running Down the Street’–
The Glynn County Police Department incident report can be read here. According to the report, police were called about 1 p.m. on Sunday, February 23, to the area of Satilla Drive and Holmes Drive for shots fired. The responding officer said Arbery was found on the ground “bleeding out,” and he later died at the scene.
Gregory McMichael told the officer there had been several break-ins in the neighborhood where the burglar was caught on surveillance video. Gregory McMichael told the officer he was in his front yard and saw a man be believed to be a suspect in the burglaries “hauling ass” down Satilla Drive toward Buford Drive. According to the report:
McMichael stated he then ran inside his house and called to Travis (McMichael) and said, ‘Travis the guy is running down the street lets go.’ McMichael stated he then went to his bedroom and grabbed his .357 Magnum and Travis grabbed his shotgun because they ‘didn’t know if the male was armed or not.’ McMichael stated, ‘the other night’ they saw the same male and he stuck his hand down his pants which lead them to believe the male was armed.
Gregory McMichael told the officer he and his son got in their truck and drove down Satilla Drive toward Buford Drive when they saw the man, later identified as Arbery, running down the street. McMichael said his son drove down the street and tried to cut off Arbery. According to the report, McMichael said Arbery tried to turn around and run the other direction, where the man in the other truck, “Roddy,” tried to block him, but he was not successful.
McMichael told police he got into the bed of his truck and his son began driving after Arbery again. They saw him running again and shouted, “Stop, stop, we want to talk to you,” Gregory McMichael told police. He said his son pulled their truck alongside Arbery and again told him to stop. McMichael said his son then got out of the truck with his shotgun. According to McMichael, Arbery then began to “violently attack Travis,” and they began fighting over the shotgun.
McMichael told police his son fired a shot and a second shot before Arbery fell down to the street. McMichael said he went to check to see if Arbery had a gun. Arbery was not armed, according to police.
A transcript of a 911 call made by Gregory McMichael was obtained by WJXT-TV. In the call, McMichael said, “I’m out here at Satilla Shores and there’s a black man running down the street.”
The 911 dispatcher replied, “I just need to know what he was doing wrong, was he just on the premises and not supposed to be?” McMichael answered, “And he’s been caught on the camera a bunch before at night. It’s an ongoing thing out here.”
An Attorney for Arbery’s Family Says the Video Shows ‘This Is Murder’–
Lee Merritt, a civil rights attorney who is representing Arbery’s family, said in a statement after the video surfaced online, “The series of events captured in this video confirms what all the evidence indicated prior to its release— Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by three white men that targeted him solely because of his race and murdered him without justification. This is murder.”
Merritt said the McMichaels, whom he called “armed assailants,” tried to block Arbery’s path with their truck while he was running and then confronted him with the shotgun. Merritt said the video shows Arbery trying to avoid the “armed strangers” before the first shot is fired.
“Mr. Arbery then appears to collide with the attacking gunman, now known to be Travis McMichael,” Merritt said. “Mr. Arbery then struggles for the gun and in defense of his life. At this point, Travis McMichael shoots Mr. Arbery two additional times with shotgun at point-blank range. Mr. Arbery collapses to the ground while still trying to escape his attackers.”
Merritt added, “Mr. Arbery had not committed any crime and there was no reason for these men to believe they had the right to stop him with weapons or to use deadly force in furtherance of their unlawful attempted stop. This is murder.”
Arbery’s Father Says His Son Ran Every Day–
Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper told CNN her son jogged and ran everyday and she never worried about him because he wasn’t bothering anyone. Arbery’s father, Marcus Arbery, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “My kid was murdered. That’s all I can say. He ran like that every day – all his life. He ran in his neighborhood and that one too. That’s the only place he ever had a problem.”
A Facebook page, “I Run With Maud,” has been started to organize support for Arbery and his family and to call for charges to be brought against the McMichaels.
Arbery’s friend, Demetris Frazier, told WJXT-TV, “It’s not about one race. We are all a community and we see this as a tragedy to the community. It’s not about black about white. We can’t make this about race. It’s about what’s right and wrong and what happened.”
The Case Has Been Passed Between Multiple Agencies Because of Gregory McMichael’s Ties to Law Enforcement–
The case has been passed among multiple law enforcement agencies and prosecutor’s offices because of Gregory McMichael’s ties to law enforcement. He recently retired as an investigator with the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s office and he was previously a Glynn County Police Department officer.
Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson recused herself from the case and it was given to Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Barnhill. He also recused himself because his son works in the Brunswick prosecutor’s office. Tom Durden, the prosecutor for the Atlantic Judicial Circuit, is now handling the case.
Durden issued a statement on May 5 he plans to present the case to a grand jury in Glynn County when courts reopen.
Before recusing himself, Barnhill said in a letter there was no probable cause for charges because the McMichaels were legally carrying their firearms under Georgia’s open carry law, according to The New York Times. He also said the father and son were within their rights to pursue a “burglary suspect” and attempt to make a citizen’s arrest. He wrote, according to The Times, Georgia law says, “a private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge.”
Barnhill also said Travis McMichael was “allowed to use deadly force to protect himself.” The letter also mentions that Arbery has prior convictions and mental health issues. The family’s attorney, Merritt, told CNN, “The reference to … alleged conduct from high school or shoplifting is absurd and has nothing to do with his murder.”
Merritt said in a statement, “There is no reasonable argument justifying the murder of Mr. Arbery.” Merritt said the Brunswick Police Department’s failure to arrest the McMichaels after seeing the video “violated their duty to the people of Brunswick, Georgia.” He added:
While this video was withheld, a false narrative was constructed where the victim was slandered as a criminal with mental health concerns. The Glynn County Police Department has both the authority and the legal imperative to make an arrest today pending the presentation of this case to a grand jury. The newly assigned DA, Tom Durden, has concluded this case must be brought before a grand jury for a criminal indictment. Due to (the) Georgia Supreme Court decision to suspended grand juries temporarily due to the pandemic, these men must be taken into custody pending their indictment.
Officials have not commented about the video. It is not clear if the McMichaels have hired attorneys and they have not commented about the shooting or the video footage.
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Date Posted: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 , Total Page Views: 2784
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Video: Armed White Supremacists, Chased Down And Lynched Ahmaud Arbery.
This is the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery. That’s not hyperbole. These armed white supremacists, led by Gregory and Travis McMichael, chased down and lynched Ahmaud Arbery.
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I am trembling with anger over what I just witnessed. CLICK OR SWIPE AWAY if you need to.
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This is the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery. That’s not hyperbole.
These armed white supremacists, led by Gregory and Travis McMichael, chased down and lynched Ahmaud Arbery.
It’s one of the worst things I’ve seen in my entire life. 🆘GO NOW to RunWithMaud.com or click the link in my bio to join us as we fight for justice. I need you to do this.
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I am sorry, from the bottom of my heart, for living in a nation that is forcing me to share this, just to get justice for Ahmaud, but the police and prosecutors in Georgia will not budge. So here we are.
I love you all.
Shaun
“This is an ongoing investigation,” the Glynn County Police Department said in a statement April 28, adding that it “continues to gather and provide information to the District Attorney’s Office that the case has been assigned to.”
Georgia prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to present evidence to a grand jury for possible charges against the two men.
“I am of the opinion that the case should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges against those involved in the death of Mr. Arbery,” said Tom Durden, District Attorney Pro Tempore for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, who started investigating the incident on April 13.
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Ahmaud Arbery: Biden demands justice for Georgia killing of black jogger
BBCMay 6, 2020
The Democrats’ likely presidential candidate Joe Biden has demanded justice over the killing of an unarmed black man in the US state of Georgia.
Mr Biden said his heart went out to the family of Ahmaud Arbery.
Mr Arbery, 25, was jogging in February when confronted by an ex-policeman and his son. Video purported to show the shooting emerged online on Tuesday.
A district attorney in Georgia has now ruled that a grand jury should decide whether charges should be brought.
An earlier decision by a prosecutor in the Brunswick jurisdiction argued there was no probable cause to arrest Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis, 34.
More than 100 people took part in a protest in Brunswick on Tuesday night, demanding justice for Mr Arbery.
How did Arbery die?
Mr Arbery was out running in the Satilla Shores neighbourhood of Brunswick in Georgia’s Glynn County early in the afternoon on 23 February.
In a police report, Gregory McMichael says he saw Mr Arbery and believed he resembled the suspect in a series of break-ins.
He and his son armed themselves and pursued him in a pick-up truck.
In the police report, Gregory McMichael says he and his son had said “stop, stop, we want to talk to you” and that Mr Arbery had attacked his son. Shots were fired, with Mr Arbery falling to the street.
Mr Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, said police told her her son had been involved in a burglary before the incident, but the family say they do not believe the keen jogger had committed a crime and he was unarmed.
A number of calls were made to the emergency services around the time of the confrontation, CBS reports. In one 911 call, a neighbour said a black man was seen at a home under construction in the area.
When asked what the man was doing now, the caller said “running down the street”.
What does the video show?
The 36-second video is shot from a vehicle following the pick-up truck said to be involved in the incident.
It shows a man jogging and then approaching the stationary pick-up from behind. He tries to bypass the truck and then is seen struggling with a man carrying a shotgun. There is muffled shouting and shotgun shots are heard.
A second man is standing in the bed of the pick-up. The second man is then shown with a pistol standing alongside the other armed man with the jogger no longer in view.
Mr Arbery’s mother told CBS on Wednesday that the video was too painful for her to watch immediately, but that she hoped the video “proves that my son was not committing a crime. He was out for his daily jog and he was hunted down like an animal and killed.”
What have Mr Biden and other officials said?
Joe Biden sent out a tweet saying: “The video is clear: Ahmaud Arbery was killed in cold blood. My heart goes out to his family, who deserve justice and deserve it now. It is time for a swift, full, and transparent investigation into his murder.”
A statement from Lee Merritt, a lawyer for Mr Arbery’s family, said: “This is murder. The series of events captured in this video confirm what all the evidence indicated prior to its release.”
Tom Durden, the district attorney for the Atlantic Judicial Circuit, decided on Tuesday that a grand jury should be involved.
“After careful review of the evidence,” he wrote in a statement, “I am of the opinion that the case should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges.”
Governor Brian Kemp tweeted that “Georgians deserve answers”.
The McMichaels have not been charged and have so far declined to comment. They have not responded to the video.
The New York Times said it had obtained a letter in which a prosecutor had earlier argued there was not sufficient probable cause for arrest because the pursuers were legally carrying firearms, were within their rights to follow “a burglary suspect” and were able as private persons to “arrest an offender if the offence is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge”.
Mr Merritt told CNN: “The only thing they have ever said is … that Ahmaud stopped by a house that was under construction and he looked through the window. We don’t know if that happened or not, but even if that did happen that is not a felony that would invoke the citizen’s arrest statute that would make this allowable.”
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Shocking Video Shows White Men Chasing and Killing Black Jogger in Georgia
HEADLINEMAY 06, 2020
In Georgia, disturbing video has emerged showing two white men shooting dead an unarmed 25-year-old African American man named Ahmaud Arbery in February while he was jogging. The video shows Arbery running down a narrow road in Brunswick, Georgia, when he was confronted by the armed men — a former police officer, Gregory McMichael, and his son Travis. Travis was waiting for him in the road with a shotgun while his father stood in the back of the pickup truck with a revolver. After a brief confrontation, Arbery was shot at three times.
The video appeared to have been taken by a third person who was following Arbery. Brunswick police have reportedly had a copy of the shocking video since February, but no charges have been filed against the McMichaels, who claimed they chased Arbery because he looked like a burglary suspect. On Tuesday, a local prosecutor announced he would bring the case to a grand jury.
The Arbery family’s attorney, Lee Merritt, said Tuesday, “The series of events captured in this video confirm what all the evidence indicated prior to its release — Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by three white men that targeted him solely because of his race and murdered him without justification. This is murder.”
TOPICS:GeorgiaBlack Lives MatterRace in AmericaGun Control
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DA blocked cops from making arrests in Ahmaud Arbery shooting: commissioner
By Laura Italiano May 8, 2020 | 2:21pm
Atlanta mayor calls Ahmaud Arbery shooting a ‘lynching,’ blames Trump
Georgia DA called Ahmaud Arbery shooting a ‘justifiable homicide’
Ahmaud Arbery’s dad reacts to new footage of son right before his death
New video emerges of the minutes before Ahmaud Arbery’s shooting death
The local district attorney blocked police from making arrests immediately after the Feb. 23 shooting death of unarmed jogger Ahmaud Arbery, two county commissioners said Friday — with one accusing the two of being in cohoots because they were friends.
Cops at the scene of the Georgia shooting had believed they had probable cause to make arrests, Glynn County Commissioner Peter Murphy told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — but were told to stand down by the DA’s office.
“They spoke to an assistant, who relayed their request to [Glynn County District Attorney] Jackie Johnson,” Murphy told the paper of the cops at the scene.
“They were told not to make the arrest.”
“She shut them down to protect her friend McMichael,” a second county commissioner, Allen Booker, told the paper.
Johnson recused herself from the case entirely a few days after the shooting, Booker said.
Travis McMichael, 34, and his father, Greg, 64, were arrested Thursday, more than two months after Arbery was shot.
The chilling 911 calls made before unarmed black jogger was killed
The father is a former cop who had worked as an investigator for the DA’s office, the paper reported earlier Friday. He had helped prosecute Arbery in the past, when he was in high school, on a weapons charge.
Johnson’s office did not respond to the Journal-Constitution’s request for comment on Murphy’s account.
Arbery’s 26th birthday would have been today.
“I saw the tape and it’s very, very disturbing,” President Trump said Friday of a video that emerged Tuesday showing the pair scuffling with the unarmed Arbery before he is shot and falls to the ground.
He ran 2 miles carrying a TV to prove ‘looking like a suspect’ is no excuse for murder
Tod Perry 05.11.20
via Richard Desmick / TikTok
Over the weekend, an estimated thousands of people ran 2.23 miles to show their support for Ahmaud Arbery, a former high school football player and avid jogger. Arbery was shot and killed in February near Brunswick, Georgia after being pursued in a truck by a former policeman and his son who claimed he resembled someone responsible for break-ins in the neighborhood
The incident is seen by many as another in a long list of instances of black people’s lives being threatened while engaging in normal, everyday activities that wouldn’t arise any suspicions if done by a white person.
Richard Desmick, a 34-year-old former pastor living in Vero Beach, Florida, showed his support for Arbery by running 2.23 miles and doing so in a way that exposes racial disparity in America.
“I just started crying when I just saw this poor young man running – as I have thousands of times in my life – get shot down,” Demsick told Business Insider. He said he thought “maybe I should run with a TV to show that being a suspicious character isn’t enough that someone should be shot down. Being a white person, that’s just not going to happen to me.”
Since Demsick posted the video on Saturday, it has already received over 279,000 likes.
“Alright, I figured it out. I’ve got my hat on backwards, I’m shirtless like I’m on some episode of ‘Cops,’ I’m running with a TV,” he said in a video posted to TikTok. “Someone’s going to stop me now, for sure. Cause, if not, what was the problem with Ahmaud?”
The video has received an overwhelmingly positive response on social media, with many praising Demsick for engaging in activism that proves a significant point about race in America: a white man can run through the streets looking like he just stole a TV and no one bats an eye.
A black man minding his own business and jogging has to worry about being murdered.
“People have been incredibly kind, undeservedly kind,” Demsick said about the response to his video. “There are people who are daily working trying to correct the injustice, I just made a video.”
Demisck’s passion for social justice stems from his life growing up in Detroit. He was raised in the suburbs and attended dance competitions where most of his friends were black. It was through his interaction with the black community that he learned of the struggles they face.
Demsick was also a pastor at what he calls a primarily upper-class conservative church in Florida. He later moved on to start an outreach program for individuals experiencing homelessness.
He made a follow-up video on Mother’s Day where he asked his mom if she’d be worried for him if he went running with a television in his hand.
“No, of course not,” she said.
“Huh, I wonder why that is,” he responded.
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Our Gay History in 50 States
7 May 2018
Alan L. Hart (birthplace – Halls Summit, Kansas) was an influential American physician, radiologist, and tuberculosis researcher. Hart’s was the first documented transgender male transition in the United States. His surgery occurred in 1917–18 at the University of Oregon Medical School and he lived the rest of his life as a man. Hart married his first wife, Inez Stark, in 1918 and his second wife, Edna Ruddick in 1925. Alan also served for eight years as vice president for his local Unitarian Church council.
Hart pioneered the use of x-ray photography in tuberculosis (TB) detection which helped implement early TB screening programs that saved thousands of lives. In the early 20th century, TB was the biggest killer in America. Hart was among the first physicians to document how TB spread via the circulatory system, causing lesions on the kidneys, brain, and spine, eventually resulting in death. Hart was extremely educated attending the University of Oregon, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.
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NH Stands Up and Gets it Right: “The Triumph of Transgender Rights in New Hampshire Is a GOP Rebuke to Mike Pence and Jeff Sessions”
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The Triumph of Transgender Rights in New Hampshire Is a GOP Rebuke to Mike Pence and Jeff Sessions
MARK JOSEPH STERN
MAY 03, 2018 3:28 PM
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On Wednesday, the New Hampshire Senate passed a landmark bill outlawing discrimination against transgender people in housing, employment, and public accommodations. The state House of Representatives has already passed the measure, and Gov. Chris Sununu has confirmed his intent to sign it. What’s remarkable about this victory is that Sununu is a Republican, and both houses of the state legislature are controlled by the GOP. Democrats pushed hard for the bill and supported with near-unanimity. But it was Republican legislators who carried it over the finish line.
This bipartisan triumph for transgender equality contrasts sharply with Donald Trump’s unrelenting assault on transgender rights. Indeed, it should be been seen as a rebuke to his persistent attacks on LGBTQ Americans. The Trump administration has revoked federal guidance protecting transgender students, employees, and homeless people. It is poised to attempt to repeal nondiscrimination protections for transgender patients under the Affordable Care Act. And, of course, it is striving to ban open transgender military service by arguing that trans people are mentally unstable deviants. Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are the driving force behind the onslaught: Pence intervened behind the scenes to overrule Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ support for trans service, while Sessions has issued a stream of directives designed to undermine LGBTQ rights under federal law.
New Hampshire Republicans are not entirely immune to the anti-trans animus that grips the Trump administration. Just last year, Republicans in the state House defeated the same trans non-discrimination bill by a slim margin, expressing concern about the “bathroom predator” myth—the canard that sexual predators will exploit these laws to abuse women and children. LGBTQ advocates responded with more appeals to empathy, bringing some of the state’s 4,500 transgender residents to the legislature to explain why they need legal protections. This strategy worked: About fifty Republicans voted with Democrats to pass the bill by a 195–129 vote in the House, and four Republicans voted with Democrats in the Senate to clear the bill by a 14–10 margin.
New England Republicans, of course, tend to be more moderate than the average GOP politician in Congress. And New Hampshire’s lawmakers pride themselves on their support for individual liberty; when a faction of anti-gay Republicans attempted to repeal the state’s marriage equality law in 2012, dozens of their GOP colleagues voted against the measure, scuttling it in a rout. But as last year’s failed effort to protect transgender people illustrates, securing Republican votes for LGBTQ bills still isn’t easy. Advocates at Freedom New Hampshire and the New Hampshire ACLU had to convince skeptical legislators that expansive non-discrimination protections for gender minorities are good policy and good politics.
Their success proves that Pence and Sessions’ anti-trans extremism is increasingly anachronistic in contemporary politics—and even, perhaps, in today’s Republican Party. Multiple GOP governors have signed bills banning LGBTQ “conversion therapy;” a coterie of moderate Republicans blocked Texas’ anti-trans bathroom bill; and Republican senators have spoken out in opposition to the trans troops ban. Democrats remain the unmistakable champions of LGBTQ rights, but not all Republicans are as viciously anti-trans as the Trump administration. Pence and Sessions are relics—they may hold power right now, but they see their hardline views losing favor, hence the mad dash to enshrine as many into law as possible. They may win a few more battles. But as New Hampshire demonstrates, they’re likely doomed to lose this war.
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Farmers should take a huge hit for Crooked Drumpf’s Trade War
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7 May 2018
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Suckers!
I agree with Crooked Drumpf. Those farmers should take a huge hit.
File bankruptcy same as Crooked Drumpf. Fail to pay your debts same as Crooked Drumpf.
Maybe that will teach them to quit voting for Crooked Drumpf and Republi-cons.
Naw. Stoopid farmers will continue voting for Republi-cons and will continue blaming Democrats. That is all they know.
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US farmers were struggling before Trump started a trade war with China. But now that he’s put them in the crosshairs, he’s sure they’ll understand.
Trump says struggling US farmers will patriotically take hit for his Trade War
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Crooked Drumpf skimmed from the ‘9 / 11’ relief fund.
‘Pure Evil’: Report On Trump Administration Draining Fund For FDNY’s 9/11 Responders Draws Outrage
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Updated Sep 12, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
TOPLINE A New York Daily News scoop published Thursday revealed that the Trump administration has siphoned around $4 million from the New York City Fire Department’s fund for its September 11 first responders, drawing outrage on the 19th anniversary of the attacks, but the U.S. Treasury says the money was diverted because of “delinquent debt” owed by New York City to the federal government.
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The funds are part of the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, which was established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, a bill passed by Congress that provides healthcare to first responders who have suffered a range of illnesses from exposure to dust and smoke at Ground Zero.
“TRUMP DOESN’T ONLY HATE VETERANS, HE HATES FIRST RESPONDER HEROES,” tweeted actress Debra Messing in reaction to the Daily News report.
Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland school shooting victim Jamie Guttenberg, said he was “F—KING P—-ED” about the report, because his brother died of cancer from 9/11.
“From the administration whose identity is built on claims of honoring first responders,” Julie Cohen, director of the RBG documentary, wrote on Twitter.
“This doesn’t surprise me at all,” Army veteran and advocate Paul Rieckoff wrote on Twitter. “Trump did NOTHING to push for the extension of #Zadroga last year.”
“We are also working with Congressman King and others to examine any potential authorities to provide relief in this case to support our nation’s 9/11 heroes,” the Treasury spokesperson. told Forbes, but could not provide any examples of how they would do it, and did not have a timeline.
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“Here we have sick World Trade Center-exposed firefighters and EMS workers, at a time when the city is having difficult financial circumstances due to COVID-19, and we’re not getting the money we need to be able to treat these heroes,” FDNY Chief Medical Officer David Prezant told the Daily News.
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“Pure evil,” tweeted Dr. Dena Grayson, a medical expert who specializes in ebola and other viruses.
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