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‘Facebook Memories: 27 May 2024 – Memorial Day 2023’

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‘Facebook Memories:  27 May 2024 – Memorial Day 2023’
(27 May 2024)

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Dear Reader:

Preface.

Suck is gone mad – touched mad – deleting posts throughout Faceplop, anything that presents ideology that he opposes.

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Here are today’s Faceplop Memories of this date at prior years, with selected narrative.

Fear not, Dear Reader.  I continue posting current original compositions – I have countless ideas about topics that I have never discussed here or not commented in depth.  Posting these recent ‘Memories’ allows me to catch up to what past essays I missed posting here concurrent with Faceplop posts.

 – Sharon 

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Sharon Nichols
27 May 2024

Facebook Memories:  27 May 2024

Some posts may not appear here because of their privacy settings

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1. Memorial Day 2023

2. The Resistance:  Crooked Drumpf’s barbaric policy separates immigrant children from their parents

3. Mic:  Serena Daniari has a powerful message about the Trans Community for the Con-servative

4. Elite Post Cards from the Bubble:  Land of the Free? Or rule by a Theocratic tyrant?

5. Vote4Friendship:  The people of the United States of America would do well to learn from the European Union

6. Trans In-formation and Chris Paige:  Genocidal Politics

7. Faceplop Jail:  Suck’s Big Brother is watching (1)

8. Faceplop Jail:  Suck’s Big Brother is watching (2)

9. Mara Glubka:  Trans folks have existed with crumbs of acceptance and occasional affirming policies

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Memorial Day 2023

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Unfortunately, my former Bestie Clint apparently did serve in the Navy to express his opposition to Trans Constitutional Rights.

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Sharon Nichols
27 May 2023

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‘Memorial Day (2023)’
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Dear Reader:

I was browsing through my collection of memes and screen print images.  I was looking for something for this Memorial Day weekend.

I need to write something.  Maybe not too much.  Allow the attachments speak for themselves, tell their message.

My father was drafted at age 18, sent to Boot Camp, then sent to serve at the Pacific Theater of World War II.  The military assigned him to duty throughout the East all the way west to the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.

The military assigned my father to the Occupation Forces at Japan.  The military awarded him a Japanese ceremonial sword; those were special awards to a limited number of GIs.

My father’s older brother served with the Code Talkers.

Both my father and his older brother opened a family tavern after the military discharged them.  Something akin to Kelsey’s / ‘Archie’s Place’ on ‘All in the Family’.

The USA military came calling for my father when ‘conflict’ developed at the Korean Peninsula.  They drafted him a second time.  He served under extreme hardship; his DD-214 documents that the military awarded the Bronze Star to him.

My father would later serve as Commander for his local Veterans group during the 1980s.

My father bought an SLR camera and an 8mm home movie camera while on Occupation; he took pictures and movies during his Occupation service and then of Korea.  During my childhood (the 1960s), my father allowed me to view those slides and 8mm home movies of his military experiences.  My father rarely talked about the details of his military service.

My father returned home from military service, but the family tavern business failed.  My father worked as a city cop while attending college through the GI Bill.  He later worked as a drafting engineer for an aerospace corporation; he was on various design teams, one was creating what would become the Space Shuttle.

My father left the aerospace job to teach.  His first assignment was a high school History teacher, then middle school Mathematics, and high school Mathematics.  He also took later assignments as an elementary school Principal (Greece, New Mexico, and Arizona).

Jimmy was my neighbour and friend during my childhood.  Actually, Jimmy is his nickname, he worked on his hot rod.  We – Jimmy, myself, and other neighbours – played basketball at his driveway.  The USA military drafted him at age 18, sent him to Boot Camp, then sent him directly to Viet Nam to die as cannon fodder at age 18.  I have an etching of his name from the Viet Nam War Memorial Wall.

Dunno that I could have served in the military.  I was in Transition at age 18.  The military was not admitting Trans people in 1974. BBesides, I registered for the Draft as a Conscientious Objector.  I did work as Civilian at a military base (1977 – 1978).

I sincerely doubt that my father fought in two wars to support the Hate agenda of Republi-cons, Christian Con-servatives, and Christian Nationalists.  Nor Jimmy.  Did you or your family or friends fight for the USA to become a nation of Hate!  You are out there, either openly or else you enlisted falsely; you violated your solemn Oath of Office to gain expertise in military operations to eventually join anti-American terrorist groups to help overthrow our Constitution.

– Sharon

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Republi-cons and Christian Con-servatives will gather around and burn those books at the public square.

Meanwhile, their Bible remains the sole book safe at the library.

– Sharon

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(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=909075513529545&id=100032813145442&mibextid=Nif5oz)

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Janna Marie
23 May 2023

Part one: Good job Republican trumps. Hope you’re proud of yourself.

God forbid we teach about BIPOC history 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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They call themselves Christian Taliban and Christian Nationalists.  They proclaim ‘In God We Trust’, the motto established to differentiate the USA from those ‘godless Commies’.  They assert that they are exclusively White European.  Christian Nationalists render Black and Hispanic Christians to subordinate class status, which puzzles me why multitudes of Black, Hispanic, and other minorities flock to Christian Nationalist churches where their place is 2nd Class citizen.  Political operatives who are convicted felons, convicted for Perjury and Bribery, are proclaiming honesty and the adherence to the Bible and the 10 Commandments.

– Sharon

(https://youtu.be/cnG-BI98-_0)

BBC News
28 Nov 2022

How a new Christian Right is changing US politics.

‘America:  Faith on the Front Line’.

The religion that the USA was established as a White European, Christian nation.  That the Privilege of citizenship comes to only White Christian Nationalists:

‘The Republi-con goal is to bring Christian Nationalism into Public School and American government. ‘

‘The rise of the New Christian Right – Christian Nationalism. Privilege of Christian Nationalism and citizenship. BWhite Christian Nationalism. ‘

‘We Republi-cons need to be the Party of Christian Nationalism. ‘

‘We ARE the Christian Taliban!  This IS the era of Christian Nationalism!’

‘Racial implications of the Christian Nationalist movement. ‘

‘Pray for the death of President Biden.’

‘Leftists are the enemy.  They stole OUR nation.  Take back OUR nation. ‘

‘If you don’t like our Christian Nationalism rule, you can leave. ‘

‘This is the Apocalypse between good and evil!  Our survival!’

‘Christian warfare of spiritual warriors.  Called by god to take back America. ‘

‘God’s gonna come down and make things change.  Live by the 10 Commandments. ‘

‘God in politics, god in guh’mint. ‘

‘Preach election fraud. ‘

‘Political opponents are your enemies. ‘

‘A minority backed by powerful politics. ‘

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(https://truthout.org/articles/the-anti-trans-panic-is-rooted-in-white-supremacist-ideology/)

The Anti-Trans Panic Is Rooted in White Supremacist Ideology
Gender-affirming care poses a challenge to the reproductive imperative imposed by white supremacy.
Florence Ashley & Blu Buchanan , TRUTHOUT
May 19, 2023

Protesters and counterprotesters square off outside a drag makeup class for teens taught by a local drag queen at the Peabody Institute Library of Danvers on May 10, 2023, in Danvers, Massachusetts.
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In March 2022, the Idaho House of Representatives, like legislatures in 13 other states, voted to criminalize providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender youth. When asked about the bill’s threat to the lives of trans youth, Republican State Rep. Julianne Young replied, “I see this conversation as an extension of the pro-life argument.… We’re not talking about the life of the child, but we are talking about the potential to give life to another generation.”

On the one hand, we want to emphasize that Young’s assertion, suggesting that trans people never have or raise children, is false. Not only do trans people have and raise children, they often do so biologically, using their own gametes. On the other hand, it is important not to reproduce the implicit logic of Young’s statement, that adoption, fostering, extended family and kinship networks are somehow less important than biological reproduction. By reducing the definition of family and care to biological reproduction, Young is participating in the increasingly common “great replacement” discourse, a rhetorical framework grounded in the belief that society is structured first and foremost as a set of competing groups jostling for biological superiority.

So, whose group matters to Young? Using the basic demographics of her state, its clear that she is concerned with white trans youth. Looking beyond demographics, we have to think about who “counts” as a child in the United States. As scholars like Jules Gill-Peterson and others suggest, whiteness and childhood are co-constructed. Children of color are rarely described the way we describe white children, as something to be protected, nurtured and supported. Instead, they undergo “adultification,” being treated legally and socially as adults. White children, within this framework, need to be protected from the “social contagion” of transness. In comparison, children of color are already contaminated because of the historical connections between race and sexual and gender transgression.

Her comments not only point to common ground between anti-trans and anti-abortion movements, but are reminiscent of neo-Nazi David Lane’s infamous 14-word white nationalist slogan: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” The similarities point to the profound interconnectedness of transantagonism, sexism and racism. And the parallel proliferation of anti-trans, anti-abortion and anti-critical race theory bills isn’t a coincidence, either: They, too, are ultimately rooted in racism and white supremacy.

The bills flow from a fundamental belief that whiteness — both the category and those who occupy it — is under threat. The validity of this belief is less important than its influence; studies demonstrate that white Americans tend to see racism as a zero-sum game they are now losing. White people, as a category, tend to think of themselves as victims in a “winner-take-all” battle between supposedly “natural” racial groups, in which survival (and reproduction) of the fittest determines the dominant group. From this perspective, any advance made by non-white racial groups is seen as a direct attack on white supremacy and the ongoing ability of white people to reproduce — not just children, but the power and privilege of whiteness itself.

This social Darwinism produces two other rationales for violence: fear of demographic shifts which place white people in the numerical minority (“great replacement” theory), and fears about declining white reproduction (“white genocide” theory). These anxieties are deeply rooted in the collective American psyche and enshrined in its legal traditions.

White fears over Chinese immigration, particularly after the completion of the transcontinental railroad, led to the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, restricting all Chinese immigration to the U.S. and developing a legal point of reference for anti-Chinese pogroms and town burnings across the West Coast. The 1924 Johnson-Reed Act continued this tradition by completely closing off immigration from Asia and limiting all other immigration to 2 percent of each nationality as measured in the 1890 census.

More recently in 2003, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement department was

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Hate is amidst the core ideology of Republi-cons, Christian Con-servatives, and Christian Nationalists.

– Sharon

(https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/19/megan-hunt-filibuster-machael-cavanaugh-nebraska-trans/)

Nebraska lawmaker says Republicans ‘hate’ her trans son more than they love their own kids
May 19 2023
Michael Baggs

Nebraska Democrat has said Republican rivals ‘hate’ her trans son. (Credit: Getty / Nebraska State Legislature)

Nebraska Democrat Megan Hunt, one of two politicians who have filibustered anti-trans Republican bills in the state for three months, has issued a powerful message to her rivals.

Hunt, a mother to a trans son, was responding to senator Lou Ann Linehan in the Nebraska state House, who had complained that the filibuster on Legislative Bill 574 (LB574) meant she had missed her grandson’s preschool graduation.

A ‘filibuster’ is when politicians talk for as long as possible in a bid to stop legislation from passing.

“I hate that for you. I’m so sorry, seriously, I would hate to have that happen to me,” Hunt responded, before saying she was “happy” her efforts had rivals listening.

“I am not asking you to sit here through late nights to vote on these bills that we’re dragging out. I’m asking you to love your family more than you hate mine.

“If you want to see your grandson graduate from preschool, you should do that.”

She told the House she was blocking the passing of the bill because of the effect it would have on her family.

“Instead, you are here to drag out this session because you won’t come off this bill that hurts my son. You hate him, more than you love your own family and that’s why you’re here,” Hunt said.

“We don’t need you here. We need you to vote ‘no’ or present not voting on 574.

“There’s nothing else in this body that’s affecting your family that way.”

Heartland Signal
@HeartlandSignal
NE State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan (R) complains filibusters of anti-trans bills made her miss her grandson’s preschool graduation.
Sen. Megan Hunt (I): “You won’t come off this bill that hurts my [trans] son. You hate him more than you love your own family. That’s why you’re here.”
1:28 PM · May 18, 2023

Hunt, along with fellow Nebraska Democrat Machaela Cavanaugh began to filibuster LB574 on 23 February. If the bill isn’t passed by 9 June, when the current legislative session ends, it will fail.

LB574 would end gender-affirming healthcare for under-18s in the state, and when the filibuster began, Cavanaugh promised she would “burn the session to the ground” in order to stop it being passed.

In a blow to Hunt, Cavanaugh and their supporters, Republicans held a successful vote to combine its trans healthcare ban with a bill banning abortion after 12 weeks in the state earlier this week.

“You are willing to drive this state into the ground. You look ridiculous,” Cavanaugh said in response, Associated Press reported.

“Women will die, children are dying, and you are responsible.”

She echoed Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr in claiming Republicans have “buckets and buckets of blood on your hands.”

When Zeyphr made her “blood on your hands” speech on 18 April 2023, she was censured by Republicans and expelled from the Montana state House.

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(https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/18/ron-desantis-florida-anti-lgbtq-laws/)

Ron DeSantis signs five new hateful anti-LGBTQ+ bills into Florida law
May 18 2023
Amelia Hansford
Ron DeSantis, in a blue tie and navy blue suit, speaks infront of a black background.
Ron DeSantis signed a collective five anti-LGBTQ+ bills on Wednesday. (Getty)

Ron DeSantis spent Wednesday (17 May) indulging in what seems to be one of his favourite pastimes – enacting new laws that will make life much more difficult for LGBTQ+ people.

Florida’s hard-line Republican governor approved five new laws targeting the queer community, including a ban on gender-affirming care, restrictions on trans people using toilets, and drag show bans.

These newly implemented restrictions come amid an already-hostile environment for queer people in the state thanks to DeSantis’ war against what he sees as “woke ideology”.

He signed House Bill 1438, restricting drag shows, House Bill 1069, which expands the state’s Don’t Say Gay law, Senate Bill 254, banning gender-affirming care, House Bill 1521, to restrict the rights of trans people to use public toilets, and House Bill 225, which restricts trans people’s access to youth sports programmes.

Two days earlier, the governor – and possible presidential candidate – signed Senate Bill 266 into law, restricting equity initiatives from the Florida education system, which pulled funding from diversity, equality and inclusion programmes at public universities in the state.

He said that the new legislation would make Florida a “refuge of sanity”, seemingly referring to laws in some other US states, which have declared themselves safe havens for LGBTQ+ people fleeing places such as Florida.

“We need to let our kids just be kids,” he told reporters, after signing the bills. “What we’ve said in Florida is we are going to remain a refuge of sanity and a citadel of normalcy.”

Human rights groups condemn Ron DeSantis’ attacks

DeSantis’ continued attacks on LGBTQ+ people have been shamed by human rights groups and progressive politicians.

Human Rights Campaign (HRC) president, Kelley Robinson, said “extremist” Republicans passing these bills in Florida are some of the “most anti-LGBTQ+ politicians in America.”

She added: “DeSantis has made [it] clear that demonising LGBTQ+ people will be [at] the centre of his legislative agenda and presidential run.

“From doctors’ offices to classrooms, they show no shame in assaulting the freedoms of those different from them. They are trying to whitewash history and use the power of the government to punish anyone they disagree with.”

In association with several legal teams, the HRC will look to block SB 254 because of the potential damage restricting gender-affirming care could do to trans children.

Meanwhile, Lambda Legal’s deputy legal director for policy, Kristine Kippins, noted the audacity of signing the bills on International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.

“Governor Ron DeSantis is demonstrating an intentional, callous disregard for LGBTQ+ Floridians and, in particular, trans youth, by facilitating homophobia and transphobia and exposing his most vulnerable population to discrimination,” she said.

DeSantis’ tirade against LGBTQ+ people isn’t set to stop yet, with a sixth bill, that would discourage cities from passing non-discrimination ordinances, by raising restrictions, seemingly set to be signed into law in the near future.

The combined anti-LGBTQ+ bills signed into law exceed the past seven years of state anti-LGBTQ+ legislation combined, according to the HRC.

Speaking out against the bill, democratic state senator Shevrin Jones, who is gay, told the Associated Press: “Every parent has the right to raise their child the way they want to as long as your child is not gay, trans [or] bisexual. That’s freedom for some parents, but not for all parents.”

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‘Memorial Day (2023)’
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Addendum for 2024.

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I wrote a Comment to a social media page decrying GIs and Veterans who are completely loyal Republi-cons, who submit their full devotion to Crooked Drumpf.

Here is the Original Post and the thread of Comments:

(https://www.facebook.com/share/p/xCDZ8HrYTApDjjhr/?mibextid=oFDknk)

Brian Cobb
22 May 2024

BLUE IS THE HEW JUNGLE CAMO

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With all due respect, tell that to your fellow GIs and Veterans who support Drumpf and Republi-cons, vote for Drumpf and Republi-cons.

This should make you absolutely filled with glee:

‘The US Military LOVES this President!’
– Fli Mackey, R-Drumpf (his radio show, 17 Feb 2019)
22 May 2024

Stan Kidwell
Sharon Nichols
Sept.3, 2020
Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’
The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic
23 May 2024

Mary Powell Lundgren
Sharon Nichols WEAKLING, COWARD, BULLY, DRAFT DODGER TRUMP LASHES OUT AT AMERICAN HEROES LIKE JOHN MCCAIN AND MARK MILLIE BECAUSE HE IS JEALOUS & ENVIOUS OF THOSE HE THINKS HE SHOULD BE BUT IS NOT AND NEVER WILL BE. HE DOES THE SAME TOWARD FALLEN SERVICE MEMBERS. HE DID NOT SERVE, BUT THEY ARE SUCKERS AND LOSERS. IN TWISTED WAYS, HE IS EVEN JEALOUS, ENVIOUS, OF THE DEAD, BECAUSE THEY WERE MORE THAN HE EVER WILL BE.
#goldstarfamilies #Novotesfortrump

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Yet GIs and Veterans adore Drumpf.

They must be those ‘Poorly Educated’.
23 May 2024

Mary Powell Lundgren
Sharon Nichols don’t believe everything you hear. This from a veteran with a son in the Marines.🇺🇸💙
25 May 2024

Brian Cobb
Sharon Nichols about 64% of veterans oppose Trump. In 2019, at least 60% of military officers were unhappy with Trump as commander.

One problem is the military was over exposed to FOX NEWS, on all bases, even in the Pentagon. That BS needs to stop.
25 May 2024

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Michelle Drake-Boyd and I exchanged texts this morning (25 May 2024).

I await her reply how this stands.
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25 May 2024

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Michelle Drake-Boyd sent this text message sent to me (25 May 2024):

As a veteran and mother of a Marine who is also a democrat I find you remarks extremely offensive and rude. This is a warning. This group if full of veterans and you will not disrespect our own members.

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I sent this reply:

Michelle Drake-Boyd:

Good morning Saturday.

I’m not certain what specific post or comment that you are referring.

My apologies that you perceived something that I posted or commented as offensive, rude, or disrespectful.

I browsed your Facebook page.  You appear politically Left, Liberal, Progressive, Democratic.

Please browse my Facebook page or, better, my Slimandme.wordpress.com web-site, and you will likely find my political position similar.

I do recall a couple comments in a series in which I tried to express my sarcasm, frustration, anger at GIs and Veterans who are Republi-cons, who absolutely adore Drumpf.  I don’t comprehend people who support candidates and ideology that opposes their own position.  Drumpf hates GIs and Veterans, demeans their service.

My father served in WW2, the Occupation of Japan, and Korea.  The Army awarded my father the Bronze Star for his action during his services at Korea.  I’ve paid my respect at Arlington.  I attend services when the mobile Wall comes to town, one of my friends has his name on that Wall.  Small efforts in comparison.

I made enquiries about military service when I turned age 18.  They rejected me in 1975 because I was in my Transition – Eisenhower’s Lavender Scare laws asserted that my existence is a ‘national security risk’.

You can note that I am Trans / Inter-sex and Lesbian.  Yet countless people of our LGBT Community are loyal Republi-cons, devoted to Drumpf who opposes our very existence.

My high school Bestie served in the Navy, saw action during the Viet Nam War, was disabled by Agent Orange.  Unfortunately, he rejected me because I am Trans, yet he claims himself to be Liberal, Democratic; a lesson to me that people can claim to be Liberal or Democratic while supporting illiberal and undemocratic ideology.

If you want, I can repeat these comments here to your page.

Thank you for reading my reply.

– Sharon

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I was browsing Michelle’s ‘Save Our Democracy 2025’ page this afternoon. 

I noticed that on 20 May 2024, Michelle published an editorial image of Crooked Drumpf calling out ‘What a Sucker!’ to the passing flag-draped casket of a fallen soldier. 

That image was something that I included in a Comment last week, the very Comment that Michelle claims outrage at me for using. 

I, thus, sent this text to Michelle:

Michelle;

Good afternoon Monday, Memorial Day.

Now I am puzzled.

You wrote at your Facebook page that my comment using that image is ‘extremely offensive’.

Today I noticed that you posted that same image.

Huh?

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Dunno what will come next.

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Michelle Drake-Boyd 
No problem, we had to focus on messaging the military this week. And tried to stay away from going off message or using memes… tonight we switch to the threat of Christian nationalism and the 2025 plan. Post away after midnight EST…💙🇺🇸❤️🌺💙
27 May 2024

Then, a separate text a few minutes later  …

Michelle Drake-Boyd
I didn’t post it… just woke up out here in the far West….. might have been one that skipped by or a junior admin let in. They weren’t supposed to.

I found it funny….
27 May 2024

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 – Sharon 

 

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Crooked Drumpf skimmed from the ‘9 / 11’ relief fund.

(https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/09/11/pure-evil-report-on-trump-administration-draining-fund-for-fdnys-911-responders-draws-outrage/)

‘Pure Evil’: Report On Trump Administration Draining Fund For FDNY’s 9/11 Responders Draws Outrage
Lisette Voytko
Forbes Staff
Senior Entertainment Reporter
Sep 11, 2020, 08:53am EDT
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.

Attacks World Trade Center

Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, [+]
AP PHOTO/MARK LENNIHAN

KEY FACTS

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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Suck is gone mad – touched mad – deleting posts throughout Faceplop, anything that presents ideology that he opposes.

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Fear not, Dear Reader.  I continue posting current original compositions – I have countless ideas about topics that I have never discussed here or not commented in depth.  Posting these recent ‘Memories’ allows me to catch up to what past essays I missed posting here concurrent with Faceplop posts.

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1. Memorial Day 2023

2. The Resistance:  Crooked Drumpf’s barbaric policy separates immigrant children from their parents

3. Mic:  Serena Daniari has a powerful message about the Trans Community for the Con-servative

4. Elite Post Cards from the Bubble:  Land of the Free? Or rule by a Theocratic tyrant?

5. Vote4Friendship:  The people of the United States of America would do well to learn from the European Union

6. Trans In-formation and Chris Paige:  Genocidal Politics

7. Faceplop Jail:  Suck’s Big Brother is watching (1)

8. Faceplop Jail:  Suck’s Big Brother is watching (2)

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Zuck could be sending me to Facebook Jail soon.

Dunno how long the sentence this time.

This current episode started yesterday.

A Friend posted about criminal cops killing Black people.

I commented with a meme image making the rounds.  I added my own commentary text.  Notice that what I was re-writing to that Comment were derived from a selection of my own prior posts that Suckerburg did not censor.

I later tried to edit the text, the edit didn’t take.

Then I noticed that both my Comment and that image are deleted.

I went to where I found that meme from my Facebook Feed.  That same meme remains where I found it.

I mentioned to my Friend that maybe the Zuck bots hit but didn’t yet send me to Facebook Jail.

Yowch!

As I was writing my text to her, Auto Fill wrote that last sentence as soon as I typed ‘Zuck bots’ – all the options were on my keyboard screen.

My iPad keyboard has three word options along the top.  Each word following ‘Zuck bots’ was in the center location.  Suckerburg and his algorithm bots even selected the words that agree with my style of writing.

It felt really weird seeing those words show.  As in, ‘somebody is watching’.

Suckerburg is actually watching us.

THAT’S Zuck Big Brother watching us!

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Look at my ‘criminal’ history on Zuckbook.

Suckerburg charged me with posting ‘nudity’ and ‘hate’.  The memes that I shared are all publicly posted and found throughout his Facebook.

I posted photographs of Melanoma and satirical memes shared throughout the Zuck-o-sphere.  They obviously challenge Zuck’s Right-wing ideology.  Those images remain where I found them, while Suckerburg deleted them from my page.

Hey, Zuck!  Ya gonna send me to Facebook Jail, again?

If not, then certainly you are obligated to reverse your most recent decision about the meme describing Christians as ‘morons’.  That meme presents words published by famous journalist HL Mencken.

You lose, again!

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That meme that Zuck decided to be offending to his ideology represents historical fact.  The 2nd Amendment established the Right of White plantation owners to conduct Slave Patrols – to capture or murder runaway Negro Slaves.

That meme also represents that these Slave Patrols now exist as our local or state police – White cops who track and murder Black people as their ‘sport’.

Suckerburg charges me with ‘false advertising, fraud, and security breaches’ in addition to ‘spam’ for daring to post that meme and write my original Comment.  That meme and my Comment presents Truth.  Truth is definitely NOT ‘false advertising, fraud, and security breaches’ or ‘spam’!

Suckerburg wants to single-handedly re-write American history.

– Sharon

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Please take note of the specific and the random memes and screen print images that may be attached to this article, that I present throughout this web-site.  They add to the essence of this post.

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:

Broadcast network news reported during the trial of the murder of George Floyd that White cops murdered nearly 130 Black people from April 2020 through March 2021.  Licence for White cops to commit murder comes with their city, county, state issuing that cop badge to them.

That number counts that White cops murder more than two Black people each week.  Yet how many White cops actually face prosecution, conviction, sentencing?

America is truly a sick and disturbed society.

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PBS News answered my question with further details:

‘Since Floyd’s death, more than 900 people have been shot and killed by police.  Black Americans are more than two and one-half times more likely to be killed by police than White Americans.  Persistent racial bias and the history of discrimination are a big part of the disparity.  Police are rarely prosecuted.  Only about 1% of police are arrested for failed shootings.  One-third are ever convicted of any charge.  To truly address Racism in America, much needs to be done. ‘

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(https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/americas-cops/)

America’s cops are having their Harvey Weinstein moment

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Thom Hartmann and Independent Media Institute May 26, 2021

Sometimes cultural change takes generations or even centuries; sometimes it happens in the seeming blink of the eye. America’s bad cops — and their enablers — are having their Harvey Weinstein moment.

Harvey was a big shot in Hollywood for decades when it was not uncommon for powerful men to help make women into stars in exchange for sex. It was so common that in a Cagney and Lacey TV show from the 1980s one of the characters openly asks the other if a particularly ditzy “movie star” character in that episode of the show “slept with the producer” to get the part.

As Larry Getlin wrote in a review of a new book about Lucille Ball (“I Love Lucy”):

She eventually found work as a model, and as she sought acting roles, received advice from Lela Rogers — mother of her good friend Ginger Rogers — that she would later follow.

“If you want to be a star within two years, get auditioned on the casting couch,” Lela told her. “That’s the advice I gave my own daughter.”

The “casting couch” was legendary, and predatory men were almost never held to account. As Weinstein’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, (unsuccessfully) argued, “The casting couch in Hollywood was not invented by Harvey Weinstein. … If a woman decides that she needs to have sex with a Hollywood producer to advance her career and actually does it and finds the whole thing offensive, that’s not rape.”

But culture had changed, and “normal behavior” in the industry was, through the actions of a few brave women, redefined.

As Weinstein’s Hollywood story unraveled, women in other fields and other parts of the country came forward to say “me, too!” and America discovered this kind of abuse wasn’t restricted to movie-land. It was also happening on TV shows, across television networks, and even in public broadcasting. It was happening in pretty much every kind of major company across America, and often went from transactional sex to rape in moments.

It took half a decade and a number of well-researched exposés, but it appears Hollywood largely no longer tolerates such things, and the same is true increasingly across our corporate landscape.

And that was just phase 1.

Now, in phase 2, people who knew what was going on but had no direct involvement other than failing to alert anybody are being held to account, as well. Executives and managers who were in a position to know about and stop the “casting couch” and its equivalent in other industries but did nothing are now losing their jobs and even being sued.

America, having experienced this extraordinarily rapid transformation in business culture is now, it appears, on the verge of a similarly deep, meaningful and rapid transition in police culture.

Police have been getting away with killing the poor, the powerless and the non-white — and with raping and otherwise abusing women — in this country since it’s inception. Just like wealthy, powerful men had been getting away with forcing themselves on women wanting to get or hold employment.

And it’s not just American police: in El Salvador they’ve pulled eight bodies out of graves in the backyard of a Salvadoran police officer just in the past week and the country is furious. When you give someone deadly weapons and a legal license to use them largely at their own discretion, the temptation is often too great, particularly for the type of person drawn to authoritarian-type positions like police work.

The murder by police of George Floyd didn’t just trigger the largest protest demonstration in the history of the United States; it is resonating all over the world.

In much the same way women are sick and tired of being mistreated by men, much of humanity appears to have reached the absolute limit of their tolerance for being abused by police.

When movements like #MeToo! and #BadCops go international, you know culture is changing in a way that won’t fall back to its old standards.

Here in America, we’re learning of a 2-year coverup of murderous Louisiana cops by their supervisors (and trying to learn how high up the chain of command it goes); the cops beat, Tased, hogtied with chains and brutally dragged Ronald Greene to death, all while joking about how much blood he was getting on their clothes.

Yesterday’s story was about an off-duty Texas cop who shot a Black woman who’d simply made a U-Turn that got in his way and pissed him off; we’re hit with almost daily stories of police shooting Black people just because they can and they believe, based on centuries of experience, that they can always get away with it.

As the evil reality of a presumed minority of cops who regularly get away with rape, beatings and murder — and the horrible reality that the vast majority of cops ignore or cover up such crimes for their “thin blue line” colleagues — is sinking into the white American psyche (this is no secret for Black people), pro-American legislators are trying to get the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed out of the Senate.

It will even provide for “Phase 2” — not just holding individual cops accountable, but also adding significant civilian oversight to hold management to account, too.

And reform is absolutely needed, particularly civilian oversight. The Founders put a civilian in charge of the military for the very simple reason that military-style organizations tend to become internally culturally insular and powerful factions themselves. Thus, the Secretary of Defense must be a civilian, as well as the President above the SecDef.

For the same reason, police must be ultimately responsible to civilian oversight.

Similarly, while even presidents can frustrate legal processes as Bill Clinton tried to do getting out of a deposition about Monica Lewinsky, and Donald Trump has temporarily pulled off so far by simply defying Congress and the courts, they must ultimately never be able to avoid accountability. No person in America is above the law.

This was the point George Washington made in his farewell address:

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Republican senators — apparently fans of cops terrorizing women, Black people and other minorities (they don’t want them voting, anyway!) — continue to block the legislation and oppose real accountability for America’s cops. But, long-term, they may as well be trying to stop water from flowing downhill.

Culture has changed. It’ll take a while for law and justice to catch up with it — and it’ll take longer in Red states than Blue — but it’s unlikely things will ever go back to how they were.

The generation coming up now is not going to let this moment pass like previous generations were forced to do by the powers-that-be after horrors like the brutal murder of Emmit Till, the beating of Rodney King or the murder of Eric Garner.

The casting couch is largely now a relic of the past. If we all join forces and push hard, calling our senators (the Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121) and otherwise working for change, soon the same could be true of murderous, corrupt and unaccountable cops.

Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of American Oligarchy and more than 30 other books in print. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute and his writings are archived at hartmannreport.com.

This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.

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What follows is the offending Original Post that Suck deleted, accusing me of violating his Community Standards.

I expected to re-type that post because I wasn’t certain where else it might be that I could simply copy-and-paste its text. 

Ya know what’s amazing, Dear Reader?  My Original Posts that Suck deleted on his charges of violating his Community Standards are still in my system’s keyboard Auto Correct.  I re-type it for you here using the screen prints of those deleted posts as a guide; you can see the screen prints of the Original Post that Suck deleted at the current post of this Memories.

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Sharon Nichols
26 May 2018

On the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.

White cops are murdering more than two Black people each week. There are no prosecutions, no convictions, no sentencing.

White crooked cops commit their acts of police brutality because they can. White courts and White prosecutors do nothing to hold their White Crooked cops accountable.

On the very day of Chauvin’s conviction on three counts of murder, there was a White cop who murdered a Black man within a couple miles of that court house. No charges filed against the White cop.

Those pigs need to be prosecuted, send their *ss to prison, sue the city for millions.

Still, I don’t understand why Blacks are voting for Crooked Drumpf and Republi-cons. Maybe it is the Niemohller Effect: you don’t care ’cause it isn’t happening to you.

I would use terms and words for you Drumpfian and Deplorable Blacks, but that is not appropriate.

So, suffice to say: get a clue, buy a vowel.

How much really is changing?

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Add ‘Parking Cattywampus During Early Morning Hours While Being Black’ that brings out the entire night shift and gets you manhandled, Tased, arrested, jailed, then no charges filed ‘Never Mind’ go home.

You get the Meter Maid if you’re White.

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(https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/23/us/milwaukee-police-body-camera-footage-sterling-brown/index.html)

(https://www.facebook.com/cnn/videos/10158373597701509/)

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Milwaukee police have released body camera video of the arrest and tasing of NBA player Sterling Brown as the department’s chief apologized for the incident. “Black men shouldn’t have to have their guard up and instantly be on the defensive when seeing a police officer, but it’s our reality and a real problem,” Brown said in a statement.

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(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2619289321705250&id=100008726227817&mibextid=Nif5oz)

Sharon Nichols
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Zuck could be sending me to Facebook Jail soon.

Dunno how long the sentence this time.

This current episode started yesterday.

A Friend posted about criminal cops killing Black people.

I commented with a meme image making the rounds.  I added my own commentary text.

I later tried to edit the text, the edit didn’t take.

Then I noticed that both my Comment and that image are deleted.

I went to where I found that meme from my Facebook Feed.  That same meme remains where I found it.

I mentioned to my Friend that maybe the Zuck bots hit but didn’t yet send me to Facebook Jail.

Yowch!

As I was writing my text to her, Auto Fill wrote that last sentence as soon as I typed ‘Zuck bots’ – all the options were on my keyboard screen.

My iPad keyboard has three word options along the top.  Each word following ‘Zuck bots’ was in the center location.  Suckerburg and his algorithm bots even selected the words that agree with my style of writing.

It felt really weird seeing those words show.  As in, ‘somebody is watching’.

Suckerburg is actually watching us.

THAT’S Zuck Big Brother watching us!

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Look at my ‘criminal’ history on Zuckbook.

Suckerburg charged me with posting ‘nudity’ and ‘hate’.  The memes that I shared are all publicly posted.  They are photographs of Melanoma and satirical memes shared throughout the Zuck-o-sphere.  They obviously challenge Zuck’s Right-wing ideology.  Those images remain where I found them, while Suckerburg deleted them from my page.

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That meme that Zuck decided to be offending to his ideology represents historical fact.  The 2nd Amendment established the Right of White plantation owners to conduct Slave Patrols – to capture or murder runaway Negro Slaves.

That meme also represents that these Slave Patrols now exist as our local or state police – White cops who track and murder Black people as their ‘sport’.

Suckerburg charges me with ‘false advertising, fraud, and security breaches’ in addition to ‘spam’ for daring to post that meme and write my original Comment.  That meme and my Comment presents Truth.  Truth is definitely NOT ‘false advertising, fraud, and security breaches’ or ‘spam’!

Suckerburg wants to single-handedly re-write American history.

– Sharon

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Please take note of the specific and the random memes and screen print images that may be attached to this article, that I present throughout this web-site.  They add to the essence of this post.

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:

Broadcast network news reported during the trial of the murder of George Floyd that White cops murdered nearly 130 Black people from April 2020 through March 2021.  Licence for White cops to commit murder comes with their city, county, state issuing that cop badge to them.

That number counts that White cops murder more than two Black people each week.  Yet how many White cops actually face prosecution, conviction, sentencing?

America is truly a sick and disturbed society.

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PBS News answered my question with further details:

‘Since Floyd’s death, more than 900 people have been shot and killed by police.  Black Americans are more than two and one-half times more likely to be killed by police than White Americans.  Persistent racial bias and the history of discrimination are a big part of the disparity.  Police are rarely prosecuted.  Only about 1% of police are arrested for failed shootings.  One-third are ever convicted of any charge.  To truly address Racism in America, much needs to be done. ‘

– PBS News (‘Race Matters: America after George Floyd’, 26 May 22)

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(https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/americas-cops/)

America’s cops are having their Harvey Weinstein moment

(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Thom Hartmann and Independent Media Institute May 26, 2021

Sometimes cultural change takes generations or even centuries; sometimes it happens in the seeming blink of the eye. America’s bad cops — and their enablers — are having their Harvey Weinstein moment.

Harvey was a big shot in Hollywood for decades when it was not uncommon for powerful men to help make women into stars in exchange for sex. It was so common that in a Cagney and Lacey TV show from the 1980s one of the characters openly asks the other if a particularly ditzy “movie star” character in that episode of the show “slept with the producer” to get the part.

As Larry Getlin wrote in a review of a new book about Lucille Ball (“I Love Lucy”):

She eventually found work as a model, and as she sought acting roles, received advice from Lela Rogers — mother of her good friend Ginger Rogers — that she would later follow.

“If you want to be a star within two years, get auditioned on the casting couch,” Lela told her. “That’s the advice I gave my own daughter.”

The “casting couch” was legendary, and predatory men were almost never held to account. As Weinstein’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, (unsuccessfully) argued, “The casting couch in Hollywood was not invented by Harvey Weinstein. … If a woman decides that she needs to have sex with a Hollywood producer to advance her career and actually does it and finds the whole thing offensive, that’s not rape.”

But culture had changed, and “normal behavior” in the industry was, through the actions of a few brave women, redefined.

As Weinstein’s Hollywood story unraveled, women in other fields and other parts of the country came forward to say “me, too!” and America discovered this kind of abuse wasn’t restricted to movie-land. It was also happening on TV shows, across television networks, and even in public broadcasting. It was happening in pretty much every kind of major company across America, and often went from transactional sex to rape in moments.

It took half a decade and a number of well-researched exposés, but it appears Hollywood largely no longer tolerates such things, and the same is true increasingly across our corporate landscape.

And that was just phase 1.

Now, in phase 2, people who knew what was going on but had no direct involvement other than failing to alert anybody are being held to account, as well. Executives and managers who were in a position to know about and stop the “casting couch” and its equivalent in other industries but did nothing are now losing their jobs and even being sued.

America, having experienced this extraordinarily rapid transformation in business culture is now, it appears, on the verge of a similarly deep, meaningful and rapid transition in police culture.

Police have been getting away with killing the poor, the powerless and the non-white — and with raping and otherwise abusing women — in this country since it’s inception. Just like wealthy, powerful men had been getting away with forcing themselves on women wanting to get or hold employment.

And it’s not just American police: in El Salvador they’ve pulled eight bodies out of graves in the backyard of a Salvadoran police officer just in the past week and the country is furious. When you give someone deadly weapons and a legal license to use them largely at their own discretion, the temptation is often too great, particularly for the type of person drawn to authoritarian-type positions like police work.

The murder by police of George Floyd didn’t just trigger the largest protest demonstration in the history of the United States; it is resonating all over the world.

In much the same way women are sick and tired of being mistreated by men, much of humanity appears to have reached the absolute limit of their tolerance for being abused by police.

When movements like #MeToo! and #BadCops go international, you know culture is changing in a way that won’t fall back to its old standards.

Here in America, we’re learning of a 2-year coverup of murderous Louisiana cops by their supervisors (and trying to learn how high up the chain of command it goes); the cops beat, Tased, hogtied with chains and brutally dragged Ronald Greene to death, all while joking about how much blood he was getting on their clothes.

Yesterday’s story was about an off-duty Texas cop who shot a Black woman who’d simply made a U-Turn that got in his way and pissed him off; we’re hit with almost daily stories of police shooting Black people just because they can and they believe, based on centuries of experience, that they can always get away with it.

As the evil reality of a presumed minority of cops who regularly get away with rape, beatings and murder — and the horrible reality that the vast majority of cops ignore or cover up such crimes for their “thin blue line” colleagues — is sinking into the white American psyche (this is no secret for Black people), pro-American legislators are trying to get the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed out of the Senate.

It will even provide for “Phase 2” — not just holding individual cops accountable, but also adding significant civilian oversight to hold management to account, too.

And reform is absolutely needed, particularly civilian oversight. The Founders put a civilian in charge of the military for the very simple reason that military-style organizations tend to become internally culturally insular and powerful factions themselves. Thus, the Secretary of Defense must be a civilian, as well as the President above the SecDef.

For the same reason, police must be ultimately responsible to civilian oversight.

Similarly, while even presidents can frustrate legal processes as Bill Clinton tried to do getting out of a deposition about Monica Lewinsky, and Donald Trump has temporarily pulled off so far by simply defying Congress and the courts, they must ultimately never be able to avoid accountability. No person in America is above the law.

This was the point George Washington made in his farewell address:

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Republican senators — apparently fans of cops terrorizing women, Black people and other minorities (they don’t want them voting, anyway!) — continue to block the legislation and oppose real accountability for America’s cops. But, long-term, they may as well be trying to stop water from flowing downhill.

Culture has changed. It’ll take a while for law and justice to catch up with it — and it’ll take longer in Red states than Blue — but it’s unlikely things will ever go back to how they were.

The generation coming up now is not going to let this moment pass like previous generations were forced to do by the powers-that-be after horrors like the brutal murder of Emmit Till, the beating of Rodney King or the murder of Eric Garner.

The casting couch is largely now a relic of the past. If we all join forces and push hard, calling our senators (the Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121) and otherwise working for change, soon the same could be true of murderous, corrupt and unaccountable cops.

Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of American Oligarchy and more than 30 other books in print. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute and his writings are archived at hartmannreport.com.

This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.

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Crooked Drumpf skimmed from the ‘9 / 11’ relief fund.

(https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/09/11/pure-evil-report-on-trump-administration-draining-fund-for-fdnys-911-responders-draws-outrage/)

‘Pure Evil’: Report On Trump Administration Draining Fund For FDNY’s 9/11 Responders Draws Outrage
Lisette Voytko
Forbes Staff
Senior Entertainment Reporter
Sep 11, 2020, 08:53am EDT
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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Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, [+]
AP PHOTO/MARK LENNIHAN

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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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1.  Memorial Day 2023

2.  The Resistance:  Crooked Drumpf’s barbaric policy separates immigrant children from their parents

3.  Mic:  Serena Daniari has a powerful message about the Trans Community for the Con-servative

4.  Elite Post Cards from the Bubble:  Land of the Free? Or rule by a Theocratic tyrant?

5.  Vote4Friendship:  The people of the United States of America would do well to learn from the European Union

6.  Trans In-formation and Chris Paige:  Genocidal Politics

7.  Faceplop Jail:  Suck’s Big Brother is watching (1)

8.  Faceplop Jail:  Suck’s Big Brother is watching (2)

9.  Mara Glubka:  Trans folks have existed with crumbs of acceptance and occasional affirming policies

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‘Right now, the mere fight to achieve Trans rights is what we are losing.

And I’m sick about it.  Are you?”

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(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2074822609485260&id=100008726227817&mibextid=Nif5oz)

Sharon Nichols
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The Constitution tells us ‘All men are created equal …’

The 14th Amendment is about ‘Equal Protection’.

Yet we of the Trans and Inter Community have yet to be there.  The greater LGBT Community is losing tenuous ground thanks to Crooked Drumpf, Republi-cons, Christian Con-servatives, and the members of our own Community whose endeavour is to end our existence.

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Mara Glubka
25 May 2019

Important words from one of the most loving Mama Bears on planet earth:

“I get asked a lot — mostly by MAGA comments on news articles — exactly what rights trans people have lost under this administration. And it’s a complicated question to answer because the fact is that a lot of the trans community has never really experienced equality or felt like they had the same rights as cis folks.

For far too long, trans folks have existed with crumbs of acceptance and occasional affirming policies. But policies are sometimes only worth the paper they’re written on.

Want to serve in the military?
✅ … if you don’t come out or transition.

Want to keep your job?
✅ … if you work for a really progressive company in a state with gender identity protections.

Need to see a doctor?
✅ … good luck if you can find one educated on trans issues and if you have the money for your care.

Want to focus on your education?
✅ … if you attend a school in a state with protections, staff has been trained, and (often) if you don’t make demands about bathrooms and locker rooms.

Have a civil rights complaint against the Department of Education?
🛑 … sorry, not taking those complaints anymore

Have a workplace discrimination case?
🛑 … sorry, the Department of Justice will no longer have your back.

Need some emergency shelter while you get back on your feet?
🛑 … HUD is not going to affirm your gender and will place you somewhere that you won’t feel safe.

End up in jail for the night, or worse, sentenced to prison?
🛑 … I can’t even say what I feel about this.

And now today, here’s another blow.

Need to see a doctor, get an x-ray, have a prescription filled, what to see a therapist or schedule surgery?
🛑🛑🛑 … someone in that pipeline might object to you and will get a free pass at turning you away.

So what rights have been lost?

It seems trans folks would have needed to have felt they had rights in order to feel like they were lost. Right now, the mere fight to achieve their rights is what we are losing.

And I’m sick about it. Are you?”

-Debi Jackson

#MakingAmericaGrossAgain
#ProtectTransHealth
#ProtectTransKids

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Additional Resources:

(https://www.dosomethingfilms.com/video-portfolio)

(https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/ethics/80077)

(https://kfgo.com/news/articles/2019/may/25/protesters-demand-end-to-killings-of-transgender-women-trump-rollbacks/#.XOrLuywD4Rw.facebook)

(https://www.wbal.com/article/390923/110/not-enough-outrage-in-wake-of-rampant-anti-transgender-murders-activists)

(https://thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-targets-last-major-transgender-protection-section-1557-80d1ce664424/)
(https://transequality.org/press/releases/new-trump-proposal-could-limit-health-care-access-for-two-million-transgender)

(https://www.eriereader.com/article/on-transgender-health-care)

(https://www.ky3.com/content/news/Supreme-Court-rejects-appeal-over-transgender-bathrooms-510507461.html)

(http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/trump-hud-appointee-i-honestly-dont-care-about-hatch-act.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_medium=s1&utm_source=fb)

(https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/05/28/the-discrimination-administration/PNFw7O0nOk9bB3np5znh4J/story.html)

(https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/5/31/trumps-pride-tweets-explained-be-grateful-we-dont-execute-you)

(https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/06/republican-rep-mike-hill-thinks-itd-funny-kill-gay-people/)

(https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-5-worst-states-for-lgbt-people-198931/)

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Crooked Drumpf skimmed from the ‘9 / 11’ relief fund.

(https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/09/11/pure-evil-report-on-trump-administration-draining-fund-for-fdnys-911-responders-draws-outrage/)

‘Pure Evil’: Report On Trump Administration Draining Fund For FDNY’s 9/11 Responders Draws Outrage
Lisette Voytko
Forbes Staff
Senior Entertainment Reporter
Sep 11, 2020, 08:53am EDT
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.

Attacks World Trade Center

Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, [+]
AP PHOTO/MARK LENNIHAN

KEY FACTS

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.

CRUCIAL QUOTE

“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. 

CHIEF CRITIC 

“Pure evil,” tweeted Dr. Dena Grayson, a medical expert who specializes in ebola and other viruses. 

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This is Crooked Drumpf’s Amerika.

(https://www.facebook.com/414507242439358/posts/732780587278687/)

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2. The Resistance:  Crooked Drumpf’s barbaric policy separates immigrant children from their parents

3. Mic:  Serena Daniari has a powerful message about the Trans Community for the Con-servative

4. Elite Post Cards from the Bubble:  Land of the Free? Or rule by a Theocratic tyrant?

5. Vote4Friendship:  The people of the United States of America would do well to learn from the European Union

6. Trans In-formation and Chris Paige:  Genocidal Politics

7. Faceplop Jail:  Suck’s Big Brother is watching (1)

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Unfortunately, my former Bestie Clint apparently did serve in the Navy to express his opposition to Trans Constitutional Rights.

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Dear Reader:

I was browsing through my collection of memes and screen print images.  I was looking for something for this Memorial Day weekend.

I need to write something.  Maybe not too much.  Allow the attachments speak for themselves, tell their message.

My father was drafted at age 18, sent to Boot Camp, then sent to serve at the Pacific Theater of World War II.  The military assigned him to duty throughout the East all the way west to the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.

The military assigned my father to the Occupation Forces at Japan.  The military awarded him a Japanese ceremonial sword; those were special awards to a limited number of GIs.

My father’s older brother served with the Code Talkers.

Both my father and his older brother opened a family tavern after the military discharged them.  Something akin to Kelsey’s / ‘Archie’s Place’ on ‘All in the Family’.

The USA military came calling for my father when ‘conflict’ developed at the Korean Peninsula.  They drafted him a second time.  He served under extreme hardship; his DD-214 documents that the military awarded the Bronze Star to him.

My father would later serve as Commander for his local Veterans group during the 1980s.

My father bought an SLR camera and an 8mm home movie camera while on Occupation; he took pictures and movies during his Occupation service and then of Korea.  During my childhood (the 1960s), my father allowed me to view those slides and 8mm home movies of his military experiences.  My father rarely talked about the details of his military service.

My father returned home from military service, but the family tavern business failed.  My father worked as a city cop while attending college through the GI Bill.  He later worked as a drafting engineer for an aerospace corporation; he was on various design teams, one was creating what would become the Space Shuttle.

My father left the aerospace job to teach.  His first assignment was a high school History teacher, then middle school Mathematics, and high school Mathematics.  He also took later assignments as an elementary school Principal (Greece, New Mexico, and Arizona).

Jimmy was my neighbour and friend during my childhood.  Actually, Jimmy is his nickname, he worked on his hot rod.  We – Jimmy, myself, and other neighbours – played basketball at his driveway.  The USA military drafted him at age 18, sent him to Boot Camp, then sent him directly to Viet Nam to die as cannon fodder at age 18.  I have an etching of his name from the Viet Nam War Memorial Wall.

Dunno that I could have served in the military.  I was in Transition at age 18.  The military was not admitting Trans people in 1974. BBesides, I registered for the Draft as a Conscientious Objector.  I did work as Civilian at a military base (1977 – 1978).

I sincerely doubt that my father fought in two wars to support the Hate agenda of Republi-cons, Christian Con-servatives, and Christian Nationalists.  Nor Jimmy.  Did you or your family or friends fight for the USA to become a nation of Hate!  You are out there, either openly or else you enlisted falsely; you violated your solemn Oath of Office to gain expertise in military operations to eventually join anti-American terrorist groups to help overthrow our Constitution.

– Sharon

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Republi-cons and Christian Con-servatives will gather around and burn those books at the public square.

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– Sharon

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Janna Marie
23 May 2023

Part one: Good job Republican trumps. Hope you’re proud of yourself.

God forbid we teach about BIPOC history 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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They call themselves Christian Taliban and Christian Nationalists.  They proclaim ‘In God We Trust’, the motto established to differentiate the USA from those ‘godless Commies’.  They assert that they are exclusively White European.  Christian Nationalists render Black and Hispanic Christians to subordinate class status, which puzzles me why multitudes of Black, Hispanic, and other minorities flock to Christian Nationalist churches where their place is 2nd Class citizen.  Political operatives who are convicted felons, convicted for Perjury and Bribery, are proclaiming honesty and the adherence to the Bible and the 10 Commandments.

– Sharon

(https://youtu.be/cnG-BI98-_0)

BBC News
28 Nov 2022

How a new Christian Right is changing US politics.

‘America:  Faith on the Front Line’.

The religion that the USA was established as a White European, Christian nation.  That the Privilege of citizenship comes to only White Christian Nationalists:

‘The Republi-con goal is to bring Christian Nationalism into Public School and American government. ‘

‘The rise of the New Christian Right – Christian Nationalism. Privilege of Christian Nationalism and citizenship. BWhite Christian Nationalism. ‘

‘We Republi-cons need to be the Party of Christian Nationalism. ‘

‘We ARE the Christian Taliban!  This IS the era of Christian Nationalism!’

‘Racial implications of the Christian Nationalist movement. ‘

‘Pray for the death of President Biden.’

‘Leftists are the enemy.  They stole OUR nation.  Take back OUR nation. ‘

‘If you don’t like our Christian Nationalism rule, you can leave. ‘

‘This is the Apocalypse between good and evil!  Our survival!’

‘Christian warfare of spiritual warriors.  Called by god to take back America. ‘

‘God’s gonna come down and make things change.  Live by the 10 Commandments. ‘

‘God in politics, god in guh’mint. ‘

‘Preach election fraud. ‘

‘Political opponents are your enemies. ‘

‘A minority backed by powerful politics. ‘

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(https://truthout.org/articles/the-anti-trans-panic-is-rooted-in-white-supremacist-ideology/)

The Anti-Trans Panic Is Rooted in White Supremacist Ideology
Gender-affirming care poses a challenge to the reproductive imperative imposed by white supremacy.
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May 19, 2023

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In March 2022, the Idaho House of Representatives, like legislatures in 13 other states, voted to criminalize providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender youth. When asked about the bill’s threat to the lives of trans youth, Republican State Rep. Julianne Young replied, “I see this conversation as an extension of the pro-life argument.… We’re not talking about the life of the child, but we are talking about the potential to give life to another generation.”

On the one hand, we want to emphasize that Young’s assertion, suggesting that trans people never have or raise children, is false. Not only do trans people have and raise children, they often do so biologically, using their own gametes. On the other hand, it is important not to reproduce the implicit logic of Young’s statement, that adoption, fostering, extended family and kinship networks are somehow less important than biological reproduction. By reducing the definition of family and care to biological reproduction, Young is participating in the increasingly common “great replacement” discourse, a rhetorical framework grounded in the belief that society is structured first and foremost as a set of competing groups jostling for biological superiority.

So, whose group matters to Young? Using the basic demographics of her state, its clear that she is concerned with white trans youth. Looking beyond demographics, we have to think about who “counts” as a child in the United States. As scholars like Jules Gill-Peterson and others suggest, whiteness and childhood are co-constructed. Children of color are rarely described the way we describe white children, as something to be protected, nurtured and supported. Instead, they undergo “adultification,” being treated legally and socially as adults. White children, within this framework, need to be protected from the “social contagion” of transness. In comparison, children of color are already contaminated because of the historical connections between race and sexual and gender transgression.

Her comments not only point to common ground between anti-trans and anti-abortion movements, but are reminiscent of neo-Nazi David Lane’s infamous 14-word white nationalist slogan: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” The similarities point to the profound interconnectedness of transantagonism, sexism and racism. And the parallel proliferation of anti-trans, anti-abortion and anti-critical race theory bills isn’t a coincidence, either: They, too, are ultimately rooted in racism and white supremacy.

The bills flow from a fundamental belief that whiteness — both the category and those who occupy it — is under threat. The validity of this belief is less important than its influence; studies demonstrate that white Americans tend to see racism as a zero-sum game they are now losing. White people, as a category, tend to think of themselves as victims in a “winner-take-all” battle between supposedly “natural” racial groups, in which survival (and reproduction) of the fittest determines the dominant group. From this perspective, any advance made by non-white racial groups is seen as a direct attack on white supremacy and the ongoing ability of white people to reproduce — not just children, but the power and privilege of whiteness itself.

This social Darwinism produces two other rationales for violence: fear of demographic shifts which place white people in the numerical minority (“great replacement” theory), and fears about declining white reproduction (“white genocide” theory). These anxieties are deeply rooted in the collective American psyche and enshrined in its legal traditions.

White fears over Chinese immigration, particularly after the completion of the transcontinental railroad, led to the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, restricting all Chinese immigration to the U.S. and developing a legal point of reference for anti-Chinese pogroms and town burnings across the West Coast. The 1924 Johnson-Reed Act continued this tradition by completely closing off immigration from Asia and limiting all other immigration to 2 percent of each nationality as measured in the 1890 census.

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Nebraska lawmaker says Republicans ‘hate’ her trans son more than they love their own kids
May 19 2023
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Nebraska Democrat has said Republican rivals ‘hate’ her trans son. (Credit: Getty / Nebraska State Legislature)

Nebraska Democrat Megan Hunt, one of two politicians who have filibustered anti-trans Republican bills in the state for three months, has issued a powerful message to her rivals.

Hunt, a mother to a trans son, was responding to senator Lou Ann Linehan in the Nebraska state House, who had complained that the filibuster on Legislative Bill 574 (LB574) meant she had missed her grandson’s preschool graduation.

A ‘filibuster’ is when politicians talk for as long as possible in a bid to stop legislation from passing.

“I hate that for you. I’m so sorry, seriously, I would hate to have that happen to me,” Hunt responded, before saying she was “happy” her efforts had rivals listening.

“I am not asking you to sit here through late nights to vote on these bills that we’re dragging out. I’m asking you to love your family more than you hate mine.

“If you want to see your grandson graduate from preschool, you should do that.”

She told the House she was blocking the passing of the bill because of the effect it would have on her family.

“Instead, you are here to drag out this session because you won’t come off this bill that hurts my son. You hate him, more than you love your own family and that’s why you’re here,” Hunt said.

“We don’t need you here. We need you to vote ‘no’ or present not voting on 574.

“There’s nothing else in this body that’s affecting your family that way.”

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Hunt, along with fellow Nebraska Democrat Machaela Cavanaugh began to filibuster LB574 on 23 February. If the bill isn’t passed by 9 June, when the current legislative session ends, it will fail.

LB574 would end gender-affirming healthcare for under-18s in the state, and when the filibuster began, Cavanaugh promised she would “burn the session to the ground” in order to stop it being passed.

In a blow to Hunt, Cavanaugh and their supporters, Republicans held a successful vote to combine its trans healthcare ban with a bill banning abortion after 12 weeks in the state earlier this week.

“You are willing to drive this state into the ground. You look ridiculous,” Cavanaugh said in response, Associated Press reported.

“Women will die, children are dying, and you are responsible.”

She echoed Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr in claiming Republicans have “buckets and buckets of blood on your hands.”

When Zeyphr made her “blood on your hands” speech on 18 April 2023, she was censured by Republicans and expelled from the Montana state House.

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Ron DeSantis signs five new hateful anti-LGBTQ+ bills into Florida law
May 18 2023
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Ron DeSantis signed a collective five anti-LGBTQ+ bills on Wednesday. (Getty)

Ron DeSantis spent Wednesday (17 May) indulging in what seems to be one of his favourite pastimes – enacting new laws that will make life much more difficult for LGBTQ+ people.

Florida’s hard-line Republican governor approved five new laws targeting the queer community, including a ban on gender-affirming care, restrictions on trans people using toilets, and drag show bans.

These newly implemented restrictions come amid an already-hostile environment for queer people in the state thanks to DeSantis’ war against what he sees as “woke ideology”.

He signed House Bill 1438, restricting drag shows, House Bill 1069, which expands the state’s Don’t Say Gay law, Senate Bill 254, banning gender-affirming care, House Bill 1521, to restrict the rights of trans people to use public toilets, and House Bill 225, which restricts trans people’s access to youth sports programmes.

Two days earlier, the governor – and possible presidential candidate – signed Senate Bill 266 into law, restricting equity initiatives from the Florida education system, which pulled funding from diversity, equality and inclusion programmes at public universities in the state.

He said that the new legislation would make Florida a “refuge of sanity”, seemingly referring to laws in some other US states, which have declared themselves safe havens for LGBTQ+ people fleeing places such as Florida.

“We need to let our kids just be kids,” he told reporters, after signing the bills. “What we’ve said in Florida is we are going to remain a refuge of sanity and a citadel of normalcy.”

Human rights groups condemn Ron DeSantis’ attacks

DeSantis’ continued attacks on LGBTQ+ people have been shamed by human rights groups and progressive politicians.

Human Rights Campaign (HRC) president, Kelley Robinson, said “extremist” Republicans passing these bills in Florida are some of the “most anti-LGBTQ+ politicians in America.”

She added: “DeSantis has made [it] clear that demonising LGBTQ+ people will be [at] the centre of his legislative agenda and presidential run.

“From doctors’ offices to classrooms, they show no shame in assaulting the freedoms of those different from them. They are trying to whitewash history and use the power of the government to punish anyone they disagree with.”

In association with several legal teams, the HRC will look to block SB 254 because of the potential damage restricting gender-affirming care could do to trans children.

Meanwhile, Lambda Legal’s deputy legal director for policy, Kristine Kippins, noted the audacity of signing the bills on International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.

“Governor Ron DeSantis is demonstrating an intentional, callous disregard for LGBTQ+ Floridians and, in particular, trans youth, by facilitating homophobia and transphobia and exposing his most vulnerable population to discrimination,” she said.

DeSantis’ tirade against LGBTQ+ people isn’t set to stop yet, with a sixth bill, that would discourage cities from passing non-discrimination ordinances, by raising restrictions, seemingly set to be signed into law in the near future.

The combined anti-LGBTQ+ bills signed into law exceed the past seven years of state anti-LGBTQ+ legislation combined, according to the HRC.

Speaking out against the bill, democratic state senator Shevrin Jones, who is gay, told the Associated Press: “Every parent has the right to raise their child the way they want to as long as your child is not gay, trans [or] bisexual. That’s freedom for some parents, but not for all parents.”

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Family Values courtesy of the Crooked Drumpf Republi-con Christian Con-servative Party of Death.  Separate immigrant children from their adult family members, families fleeing violence at their home countries here at the Americas, violence that the USA itself fomented through decades of failed foreign policy disasters that supported Amerikan Fascist and NAZI dictatorships.

Following along the ideology of Nixon, what he experimented during the 1950s, what he perfected and taught to the Argentinian, Brasilian, Chilean dictatorships of the 1970s – Disappear – separate immigrant children from their families, kill their parents, and move the orphaned children to live with Ruling Class adoptions.  We know of about 1500 that Crooked Drumpf admits, only Crooked Drumpf and his criminal administration know how many hundreds, thousands more immigrant children suffered such ‘Family Values’ fate.  We may not know til a Truth Commission decades from now that exposes the extent of Crooked Drumpf’s corruption..

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This is your ‘Family Values’.

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(https://www.facebook.com/gbtus/posts/2038261429540563)

(https://www.facebook.com/Samantha.bartilson/posts/1874870165867324)

(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1434061180039335&id=1127703627341760)

(https://medium.com/series/separating-parent-from-child-has-a-history-our-history-1196a05130a9)

(https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/26/politics/hhs-lost-track-1500-immigrant-children/index.html)

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The new Trump policy of separating immigrant children from their parents is barbaric. It is nauseating. It is un-American.

People are fleeing violence or persecution, or desperately need medical care, and we greet them by taking their kids away? Some children as young as 53-weeks-old and being kept away from their mothers and fathers for months on end.

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The ‘Family values’ of my sister and her family – Crickets.

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Bad enough that my older sister turned her children against me, abandoned me, has had nothing to do with me, has had no communication of positive substance with me since 1993.

I learned something bizarre in the intervening years since this 2018 post. My sister disclosed that she has a third child who was born after Rachael.

What kind of sister conceals such information!

Obviously mine. Yet she’s the one who uses slurs and insults.

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My family considers me their ‘misery’; they find their happiness without me.
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With the passing of time, maybe I think about you less.  Neither of you are in my life.  You both chose this.  Your mother chose this.

You want to know how much?

Your mother wrote a Comment to one of my Facebook posts that she has three children, another child in addition to you two.

She calls me ‘Wack’ and ‘Fucked up mind’.  How is one not ‘Wack’ or “Fucked up mind’ when they are your sister who can so easily fail to include this family information!  Again, let’s go to the videotape.  She quite clearly wrote to me:

– ‘You’re not family!’

That’s how.

If she and I are ‘not family’, then obviously neither are you.

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Welcome to my world.

Read.  Peruse.  Browse.  Comment.  Correspond.

I think about you every day.  My thoughts are of kindness and love.

I frequently watch that video and ponder what happened since 1992.

Two decades is a long absence.  Ask your mother why she did it.

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A wise comment to repeat in this campaign season.

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Election 2020 proved the attached essay accurate.  Crooked Drumpf and Republi-cons will never cease their efforts to overthrow our Constitution:

– Insurrection Wednesday is proof,

– the scam with the 128 generals and admirals is proof.

Crooked Drumpf and Republi-cons must be repelled same as the Allies destroyed Hitler and his NAZIs.

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(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1434061180039335&id=1127703627341760)

(https://www.kgw.com/mobile/article/news/education/principal-ousted-in-settlement-of-oregon-lgbt-harassment-case/283-557058506)

(https://cnn.it/2IOLkTE)

(http://www.newsweek.com/will-trump-be-allowed-defy-constitution-547759)

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So…in 2018, the continuing existence of America as the Land of the Free or a theocracy ruled by a tyrant who has no religion, other than gold & power, will be determined by our mid term elections.

Republicans must lose for the former & lose badly. Democrats & Independents must clean house of all festering left overs, so need a clear majority.

We all know the above, & one would assume Republicans know this also & that the resistance has the vote. Yet, Repubs show no motion towards compromise even now, no movement towards moderation. That would signal they have yet, another outrage to commit on American standards of law & common decency.

They have a choice of being defeated at mid terms & suffering at the hands of their opponents, with legal actions against some not beyond possibility. Or, try to stop the mid term votes by any means. What other choice is there for them?

Example scenario: Even though hacking our election is almost guaranteed, Trump & the Repubs are ignoring their Constitutional responsibility & doing nothing…that is not for no reason. Any hacking would be an excuse for invalidating the elections &/or forcing delays in the count. Protest erupt, shots are fired, Trump blames the resistance & calls out the National Guard & winks at his Nazi pals, while they brutalize. Protests are subdued, just like in Russia, Turkey, Iran…etc.

Putin financed Republicans, the religious right & the NRA ignore Mueller & have already started up with their fact-less opinions; blaming American gun violence on culture, videos, movies, Ritalin…Evangelicals on legal abortion, of course. Opinions become pretext for passing morality laws.

There will be a crushing of American liberties as the theocracy thickens. At some point, if not already, America will become an enemy of Europe; have no doubt plans have already being drawn up. Intelligence is not being shared.

It is fact Republicans are at the lower end of the intelligent quotient in America & it seems, any that had brains (relatively speaking) have been driven insane by conspiracy theories, religious quackery & titanic hypocrisy. So, maybe they don’t realize we’re heading for a civil war, or maybe they do…& they want it, confident their final solution will finish off their definition of “Godless” Americans…

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The difference between Democratic versus Republi-con is all too obvious:

– ‘It’s all about polarisation, intentionally trying to divide the electorate so you can mobilise your base.  That’s your strategy.’  Gordon Robertson, R (his CBN ‘700 Club’ TV show, 31 Jul 10)

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United we stand as a Democratic Union.

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The people of the United States of America would do well to learn from the European Union.

The Confederate States of Amerika was quite similar to how Europe was before the EU – disjointed, small-minded, parochial enclaves warring as much among themselves to promote only their own selfish interests at the exclusion of all others.

Today’s politics of Crooked Drumpf – Republic-cons, Libertarians, Right-wingers, Christian Con-servatives – want to change the USA into their old Confederacy.  That is what they call ‘freedom’.

The Confederacy was bound to collapse on itself without a single gunshot.  It was nearing collapse by the time of Appomattox.  Each state, city, locality was in-fighting against another, demanding its own little fiefdom as the universe unto themselves.

I speak from personal experiences.  I lived at Greece and travelled throughout most of Europe (1971 – 1973).  I remember many of the annoyances and hindrances depicted in the video.  Surely we here at America can prevent our nation from sinking into that past – as was the Confederacy.

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Vote4Friendship
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How was life before the EU?

What has the EU ever done for us?

… some people actually don’t know. So we did a little experiment.

#Vote4Friendship

The video:

(https://www.facebook.com/335742437041631/posts/379326546016553/)

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(http://time.com/5594748/girl-dies-border-detention/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm_content=20190526)

(https://www.upworthy.com/human-atrocity-doesn-t-start-with-violence-it-starts-with-prejudice-and-propaganda)

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How was life before the EU?

What has the EU ever done for us?

… some people actually don’t know. So we did a little experiment.

#Vote4Friendship

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A Facebook ‘Memories’ from last year, from three years ago.

STOP!

STOP!!!

STOP Murdering Our Community!!!

Reflecting upon the day – prior years, this year, future years.

I began thinking about a message to post to my social media and to my web-site during this election campaign season. I may not change any minds, or change any votes, but at least I can make my message known now, known frequently.

Get used to it. I’ll likely use it at some place in whatever are my new posts.

I welcome you and any others of like mind to Share this, or something similar, to their social media and web-site, to make our point known.

Feel free to copy this, if you agree, if you want to spread our message to the American Electorate.

Here following is what I have written. Here will be my on-going message this election campaign year:

I address my message to you: Republi-cons, Christian Con-servatives, Drumpfians, Deplorables, hangers-on, etc. This includes Trans and LGBT Republi-cons, Christian Con-servatives, Drumpfians, Deplorables, hangers-on – themselves who are the Cowardly Cohorts.

You show who you are. I have every reason to believe you as you say you are, accept what you accept as you are, that you do as you do for what you are.

You are the same as any NAZI of the 20th Century. Hitler’s earliest targets for his Final Solution were the Trans Community and the LGBT Community of Germany.

These days in America, you vote Republi-con, you support Crooked Drumpf, you surrender to your Big Lie.

I take this quite personally. Your ideology today calls for – demands – the extermination of my Trans Community and my LGBTQIA Community – same as Hitler and NAZIs. You are THE existential threat to my true Friends, to my own well-being and my life.

I hold you accountable for your ideology, responsible for your politics of destruction, answerable for your acts of Hate.

Appeasement to your ideology is never a solution. You and I might be here in social media as ‘Friends’, or at my web-site, or we are amicable in real life; but you can NEVER truly be amongst my real Friends, whether here in the cyber world or in real life. I can NEVER trust you.

The decision is all yours – whether or not you choose to persist your ideology of Hate, Bigotry, Prejudice.

It’s all yours. It’s in your hands.

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A Facebook ‘Memories’ from two years ago.

You are LGBT, Trans, Intersex. You don’t think that Crooked Drumpf, Republic-cons, and Christian Con-servatives are wanting you dead???

Think again!!!

Hitler’s first targets for his Final Solution were LGBT and Intersex citizens. His first book burnings were of Dr. Hirschfeld’s Library. Dora Richer was amongst the first people slaughtered at Hitler’s Death Camps.

Red Republi-con states are pushing Christian Con-servative laws to hasten your demise.

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From: Chris Paige
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These are Hitler’s Three Stages to Genocide:

– you have no rights
– you have no rights to live among us
– you have no rights to live.

Crooked Drumpf is repeating those Stages.

Which Stage is next?

We know that Crooked Drumpf has taken our Rights and has removed our capacity to live among his Cis-Het Normative Society.

What else remains?

Drumpfians and Deplorables are assaulting us every day. They are already murdering us piecemeal.

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From: Chris Paige
(25 May 2019)

(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10218340042603000&id=1550155206)

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Trans folk already know that 45’s latest moves put all of our lives at risk. Horror stories happen even with the protections in place. I am not going to rehearse them here. Folk who have been around for 10+ years know names of community members who died from lack of basic care. This has nothing to do with gender confirmation services. This means a doctor or nurse doesn’t have to give us CPR, insulin, Albuterol, or even triage. This means they can leave us to die in the streets. This ain’t no political game for our folk. It’s the natural progression from the assumption that we are not human. From ICE to abortion rights to cutting general health care to this, this is an elimination campaign. No need to compare with a different county or different time. They want us dead.

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Additional Resources:

(https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/5/22/these-are-trans-people-killed-2019#media-gallery-media-2)

(https://www.aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/transgender-rights/black-trans-women-are-being-murdered-streets-now-trump)

(https://youtu.be/W-caWqO441I)

(https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-violence-against-transgender-americans-is-a-crisis-thats-under-reported)

(https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6975581/Sexual-assault-survivors-exhibit-clothes-wearing-got-attacked.html)

(https://thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-targets-last-major-transgender-protection-section-1557-80d1ce664424/)

(https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-arrested-gunning-transgender-woman-slaying-believed-hate/story?id=63181424&cid=share_facebook_widget)

(https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2019/05/23/murdered-just-texas-senate-honors-muhlaysia-booker-transgender-woman-killed-dallas)

(https://thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-targets-last-major-transgender-protection-section-1557-80d1ce664424/)

(https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/01/17/politics/conscience-protections-health-human-services/index.html?r=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2F)

(https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/main)

(http://time.com/5594748/girl-dies-border-detention/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm_content=20190526)

(https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lgbt-transgender/protesters-demand-end-to-killings-of-transgender-women-trump-rollbacks-idUSKCN1SV01B)

(https://www.upworthy.com/human-atrocity-doesn-t-start-with-violence-it-starts-with-prejudice-and-propaganda)

(https://www.newsweek.com/im-holocaust-survivor-trumps-america-feels-germany-nazis-took-over-876965)

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Zuck could be sending me to Facebook Jail soon.

Dunno how long the sentence this time.

This current episode started yesterday.

A Friend posted about criminal cops killing Black people.

I commented with a meme image making the rounds.  I added my own commentary text.  Notice that what I was re-writing to that Comment were derived from a selection of my own prior posts that Suckerburg did not censor.

I later tried to edit the text, the edit didn’t take.

Then I noticed that both my Comment and that image are deleted.

I went to where I found that meme from my Facebook Feed.  That same meme remains where I found it.

I mentioned to my Friend that maybe the Zuck bots hit but didn’t yet send me to Facebook Jail.

Yowch!

As I was writing my text to her, Auto Fill wrote that last sentence as soon as I typed ‘Zuck bots’ – all the options were on my keyboard screen.

My iPad keyboard has three word options along the top.  Each word following ‘Zuck bots’ was in the center location.  Suckerburg and his algorithm bots even selected the words that agree with my style of writing.

It felt really weird seeing those words show.  As in, ‘somebody is watching’.

Suckerburg is actually watching us.

THAT’S Zuck Big Brother watching us!

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Look at my ‘criminal’ history on Zuckbook.

Suckerburg charged me with posting ‘nudity’ and ‘hate’.  The memes that I shared are all publicly posted and found throughout his Facebook.

I posted photographs of Melanoma and satirical memes shared throughout the Zuck-o-sphere.  They obviously challenge Zuck’s Right-wing ideology.  Those images remain where I found them, while Suckerburg deleted them from my page.

Hey, Zuck!  Ya gonna send me to Facebook Jail, again?

If not, then certainly you are obligated to reverse your most recent decision about the meme describing Christians as ‘morons’.  That meme presents words published by famous journalist HL Mencken.

You lose, again!

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That meme that Zuck decided to be offending to his ideology represents historical fact.  The 2nd Amendment established the Right of White plantation owners to conduct Slave Patrols – to capture or murder runaway Negro Slaves.

That meme also represents that these Slave Patrols now exist as our local or state police – White cops who track and murder Black people as their ‘sport’.

Suckerburg charges me with ‘false advertising, fraud, and security breaches’ in addition to ‘spam’ for daring to post that meme and write my original Comment.  That meme and my Comment presents Truth.  Truth is definitely NOT ‘false advertising, fraud, and security breaches’ or ‘spam’!

Suckerburg wants to single-handedly re-write American history.

– Sharon

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Please take note of the specific and the random memes and screen print images that may be attached to this article, that I present throughout this web-site.  They add to the essence of this post.

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:

Broadcast network news reported during the trial of the murder of George Floyd that White cops murdered nearly 130 Black people from April 2020 through March 2021.  Licence for White cops to commit murder comes with their city, county, state issuing that cop badge to them.

That number counts that White cops murder more than two Black people each week.  Yet how many White cops actually face prosecution, conviction, sentencing?

America is truly a sick and disturbed society.

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PBS News answered my question with further details:

‘Since Floyd’s death, more than 900 people have been shot and killed by police.  Black Americans are more than two and one-half times more likely to be killed by police than White Americans.  Persistent racial bias and the history of discrimination are a big part of the disparity.  Police are rarely prosecuted.  Only about 1% of police are arrested for failed shootings.  One-third are ever convicted of any charge.  To truly address Racism in America, much needs to be done. ‘

– PBS News (‘Race Matters: America after George Floyd’, 26 May 22)

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(https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/americas-cops/)

America’s cops are having their Harvey Weinstein moment

(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Thom Hartmann and Independent Media Institute May 26, 2021

Sometimes cultural change takes generations or even centuries; sometimes it happens in the seeming blink of the eye. America’s bad cops — and their enablers — are having their Harvey Weinstein moment.

Harvey was a big shot in Hollywood for decades when it was not uncommon for powerful men to help make women into stars in exchange for sex. It was so common that in a Cagney and Lacey TV show from the 1980s one of the characters openly asks the other if a particularly ditzy “movie star” character in that episode of the show “slept with the producer” to get the part.

As Larry Getlin wrote in a review of a new book about Lucille Ball (“I Love Lucy”):

She eventually found work as a model, and as she sought acting roles, received advice from Lela Rogers — mother of her good friend Ginger Rogers — that she would later follow.

“If you want to be a star within two years, get auditioned on the casting couch,” Lela told her. “That’s the advice I gave my own daughter.”

The “casting couch” was legendary, and predatory men were almost never held to account. As Weinstein’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, (unsuccessfully) argued, “The casting couch in Hollywood was not invented by Harvey Weinstein. … If a woman decides that she needs to have sex with a Hollywood producer to advance her career and actually does it and finds the whole thing offensive, that’s not rape.”

But culture had changed, and “normal behavior” in the industry was, through the actions of a few brave women, redefined.

As Weinstein’s Hollywood story unraveled, women in other fields and other parts of the country came forward to say “me, too!” and America discovered this kind of abuse wasn’t restricted to movie-land. It was also happening on TV shows, across television networks, and even in public broadcasting. It was happening in pretty much every kind of major company across America, and often went from transactional sex to rape in moments.

It took half a decade and a number of well-researched exposés, but it appears Hollywood largely no longer tolerates such things, and the same is true increasingly across our corporate landscape.

And that was just phase 1.

Now, in phase 2, people who knew what was going on but had no direct involvement other than failing to alert anybody are being held to account, as well. Executives and managers who were in a position to know about and stop the “casting couch” and its equivalent in other industries but did nothing are now losing their jobs and even being sued.

America, having experienced this extraordinarily rapid transformation in business culture is now, it appears, on the verge of a similarly deep, meaningful and rapid transition in police culture.

Police have been getting away with killing the poor, the powerless and the non-white — and with raping and otherwise abusing women — in this country since it’s inception. Just like wealthy, powerful men had been getting away with forcing themselves on women wanting to get or hold employment.

And it’s not just American police: in El Salvador they’ve pulled eight bodies out of graves in the backyard of a Salvadoran police officer just in the past week and the country is furious. When you give someone deadly weapons and a legal license to use them largely at their own discretion, the temptation is often too great, particularly for the type of person drawn to authoritarian-type positions like police work.

The murder by police of George Floyd didn’t just trigger the largest protest demonstration in the history of the United States; it is resonating all over the world.

In much the same way women are sick and tired of being mistreated by men, much of humanity appears to have reached the absolute limit of their tolerance for being abused by police.

When movements like #MeToo! and #BadCops go international, you know culture is changing in a way that won’t fall back to its old standards.

Here in America, we’re learning of a 2-year coverup of murderous Louisiana cops by their supervisors (and trying to learn how high up the chain of command it goes); the cops beat, Tased, hogtied with chains and brutally dragged Ronald Greene to death, all while joking about how much blood he was getting on their clothes.

Yesterday’s story was about an off-duty Texas cop who shot a Black woman who’d simply made a U-Turn that got in his way and pissed him off; we’re hit with almost daily stories of police shooting Black people just because they can and they believe, based on centuries of experience, that they can always get away with it.

As the evil reality of a presumed minority of cops who regularly get away with rape, beatings and murder — and the horrible reality that the vast majority of cops ignore or cover up such crimes for their “thin blue line” colleagues — is sinking into the white American psyche (this is no secret for Black people), pro-American legislators are trying to get the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed out of the Senate.

It will even provide for “Phase 2” — not just holding individual cops accountable, but also adding significant civilian oversight to hold management to account, too.

And reform is absolutely needed, particularly civilian oversight. The Founders put a civilian in charge of the military for the very simple reason that military-style organizations tend to become internally culturally insular and powerful factions themselves. Thus, the Secretary of Defense must be a civilian, as well as the President above the SecDef.

For the same reason, police must be ultimately responsible to civilian oversight.

Similarly, while even presidents can frustrate legal processes as Bill Clinton tried to do getting out of a deposition about Monica Lewinsky, and Donald Trump has temporarily pulled off so far by simply defying Congress and the courts, they must ultimately never be able to avoid accountability. No person in America is above the law.

This was the point George Washington made in his farewell address:

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Republican senators — apparently fans of cops terrorizing women, Black people and other minorities (they don’t want them voting, anyway!) — continue to block the legislation and oppose real accountability for America’s cops. But, long-term, they may as well be trying to stop water from flowing downhill.

Culture has changed. It’ll take a while for law and justice to catch up with it — and it’ll take longer in Red states than Blue — but it’s unlikely things will ever go back to how they were.

The generation coming up now is not going to let this moment pass like previous generations were forced to do by the powers-that-be after horrors like the brutal murder of Emmit Till, the beating of Rodney King or the murder of Eric Garner.

The casting couch is largely now a relic of the past. If we all join forces and push hard, calling our senators (the Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121) and otherwise working for change, soon the same could be true of murderous, corrupt and unaccountable cops.

Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of American Oligarchy and more than 30 other books in print. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute and his writings are archived at hartmannreport.com.

This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.

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Zuck could be sending me to Facebook Jail soon.

Dunno how long the sentence this time.

This current episode started yesterday.

A Friend posted about criminal cops killing Black people.

I commented with a meme image making the rounds.  I added my own commentary text.

I later tried to edit the text, the edit didn’t take.

Then I noticed that both my Comment and that image are deleted.

I went to where I found that meme from my Facebook Feed.  That same meme remains where I found it.

I mentioned to my Friend that maybe the Zuck bots hit but didn’t yet send me to Facebook Jail.

Yowch!

As I was writing my text to her, Auto Fill wrote that last sentence as soon as I typed ‘Zuck bots’ – all the options were on my keyboard screen.

My iPad keyboard has three word options along the top.  Each word following ‘Zuck bots’ was in the center location.  Suckerburg and his algorithm bots even selected the words that agree with my style of writing.

It felt really weird seeing those words show.  As in, ‘somebody is watching’.

Suckerburg is actually watching us.

THAT’S Zuck Big Brother watching us!

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Look at my ‘criminal’ history on Zuckbook.

Suckerburg charged me with posting ‘nudity’ and ‘hate’.  The memes that I shared are all publicly posted.  They are photographs of Melanoma and satirical memes shared throughout the Zuck-o-sphere.  They obviously challenge Zuck’s Right-wing ideology.  Those images remain where I found them, while Suckerburg deleted them from my page.

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That meme that Zuck decided to be offending to his ideology represents historical fact.  The 2nd Amendment established the Right of White plantation owners to conduct Slave Patrols – to capture or murder runaway Negro Slaves.

That meme also represents that these Slave Patrols now exist as our local or state police – White cops who track and murder Black people as their ‘sport’.

Suckerburg charges me with ‘false advertising, fraud, and security breaches’ in addition to ‘spam’ for daring to post that meme and write my original Comment.  That meme and my Comment presents Truth.  Truth is definitely NOT ‘false advertising, fraud, and security breaches’ or ‘spam’!

Suckerburg wants to single-handedly re-write American history.

– Sharon

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Please take note of the specific and the random memes and screen print images that may be attached to this article, that I present throughout this web-site.  They add to the essence of this post.

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:

Broadcast network news reported during the trial of the murder of George Floyd that White cops murdered nearly 130 Black people from April 2020 through March 2021.  Licence for White cops to commit murder comes with their city, county, state issuing that cop badge to them.

That number counts that White cops murder more than two Black people each week.  Yet how many White cops actually face prosecution, conviction, sentencing?

America is truly a sick and disturbed society.

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PBS News answered my question with further details:

‘Since Floyd’s death, more than 900 people have been shot and killed by police.  Black Americans are more than two and one-half times more likely to be killed by police than White Americans.  Persistent racial bias and the history of discrimination are a big part of the disparity.  Police are rarely prosecuted.  Only about 1% of police are arrested for failed shootings.  One-third are ever convicted of any charge.  To truly address Racism in America, much needs to be done. ‘

– PBS News (‘Race Matters: America after George Floyd’, 26 May 22)

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(https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/americas-cops/)

America’s cops are having their Harvey Weinstein moment

(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Thom Hartmann and Independent Media Institute May 26, 2021

Sometimes cultural change takes generations or even centuries; sometimes it happens in the seeming blink of the eye. America’s bad cops — and their enablers — are having their Harvey Weinstein moment.

Harvey was a big shot in Hollywood for decades when it was not uncommon for powerful men to help make women into stars in exchange for sex. It was so common that in a Cagney and Lacey TV show from the 1980s one of the characters openly asks the other if a particularly ditzy “movie star” character in that episode of the show “slept with the producer” to get the part.

As Larry Getlin wrote in a review of a new book about Lucille Ball (“I Love Lucy”):

She eventually found work as a model, and as she sought acting roles, received advice from Lela Rogers — mother of her good friend Ginger Rogers — that she would later follow.

“If you want to be a star within two years, get auditioned on the casting couch,” Lela told her. “That’s the advice I gave my own daughter.”

The “casting couch” was legendary, and predatory men were almost never held to account. As Weinstein’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, (unsuccessfully) argued, “The casting couch in Hollywood was not invented by Harvey Weinstein. … If a woman decides that she needs to have sex with a Hollywood producer to advance her career and actually does it and finds the whole thing offensive, that’s not rape.”

But culture had changed, and “normal behavior” in the industry was, through the actions of a few brave women, redefined.

As Weinstein’s Hollywood story unraveled, women in other fields and other parts of the country came forward to say “me, too!” and America discovered this kind of abuse wasn’t restricted to movie-land. It was also happening on TV shows, across television networks, and even in public broadcasting. It was happening in pretty much every kind of major company across America, and often went from transactional sex to rape in moments.

It took half a decade and a number of well-researched exposés, but it appears Hollywood largely no longer tolerates such things, and the same is true increasingly across our corporate landscape.

And that was just phase 1.

Now, in phase 2, people who knew what was going on but had no direct involvement other than failing to alert anybody are being held to account, as well. Executives and managers who were in a position to know about and stop the “casting couch” and its equivalent in other industries but did nothing are now losing their jobs and even being sued.

America, having experienced this extraordinarily rapid transformation in business culture is now, it appears, on the verge of a similarly deep, meaningful and rapid transition in police culture.

Police have been getting away with killing the poor, the powerless and the non-white — and with raping and otherwise abusing women — in this country since it’s inception. Just like wealthy, powerful men had been getting away with forcing themselves on women wanting to get or hold employment.

And it’s not just American police: in El Salvador they’ve pulled eight bodies out of graves in the backyard of a Salvadoran police officer just in the past week and the country is furious. When you give someone deadly weapons and a legal license to use them largely at their own discretion, the temptation is often too great, particularly for the type of person drawn to authoritarian-type positions like police work.

The murder by police of George Floyd didn’t just trigger the largest protest demonstration in the history of the United States; it is resonating all over the world.

In much the same way women are sick and tired of being mistreated by men, much of humanity appears to have reached the absolute limit of their tolerance for being abused by police.

When movements like #MeToo! and #BadCops go international, you know culture is changing in a way that won’t fall back to its old standards.

Here in America, we’re learning of a 2-year coverup of murderous Louisiana cops by their supervisors (and trying to learn how high up the chain of command it goes); the cops beat, Tased, hogtied with chains and brutally dragged Ronald Greene to death, all while joking about how much blood he was getting on their clothes.

Yesterday’s story was about an off-duty Texas cop who shot a Black woman who’d simply made a U-Turn that got in his way and pissed him off; we’re hit with almost daily stories of police shooting Black people just because they can and they believe, based on centuries of experience, that they can always get away with it.

As the evil reality of a presumed minority of cops who regularly get away with rape, beatings and murder — and the horrible reality that the vast majority of cops ignore or cover up such crimes for their “thin blue line” colleagues — is sinking into the white American psyche (this is no secret for Black people), pro-American legislators are trying to get the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed out of the Senate.

It will even provide for “Phase 2” — not just holding individual cops accountable, but also adding significant civilian oversight to hold management to account, too.

And reform is absolutely needed, particularly civilian oversight. The Founders put a civilian in charge of the military for the very simple reason that military-style organizations tend to become internally culturally insular and powerful factions themselves. Thus, the Secretary of Defense must be a civilian, as well as the President above the SecDef.

For the same reason, police must be ultimately responsible to civilian oversight.

Similarly, while even presidents can frustrate legal processes as Bill Clinton tried to do getting out of a deposition about Monica Lewinsky, and Donald Trump has temporarily pulled off so far by simply defying Congress and the courts, they must ultimately never be able to avoid accountability. No person in America is above the law.

This was the point George Washington made in his farewell address:

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Republican senators — apparently fans of cops terrorizing women, Black people and other minorities (they don’t want them voting, anyway!) — continue to block the legislation and oppose real accountability for America’s cops. But, long-term, they may as well be trying to stop water from flowing downhill.

Culture has changed. It’ll take a while for law and justice to catch up with it — and it’ll take longer in Red states than Blue — but it’s unlikely things will ever go back to how they were.

The generation coming up now is not going to let this moment pass like previous generations were forced to do by the powers-that-be after horrors like the brutal murder of Emmit Till, the beating of Rodney King or the murder of Eric Garner.

The casting couch is largely now a relic of the past. If we all join forces and push hard, calling our senators (the Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121) and otherwise working for change, soon the same could be true of murderous, corrupt and unaccountable cops.

Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of American Oligarchy and more than 30 other books in print. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute and his writings are archived at hartmannreport.com.

This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.

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Mara Glubka:  Trans folks have existed with crumbs of acceptance and occasional affirming policies

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‘Right now, the mere fight to achieve Trans rights is what we are losing.

And I’m sick about it.  Are you?”

 – Debi Jackson

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The Constitution tells us ‘All men are created equal …’

The 14th Amendment is about ‘Equal Protection’.

Yet we of the Trans and Inter Community have yet to be there.  The greater LGBT Community is losing tenuous ground thanks to Crooked Drumpf, Republi-cons, Christian Con-servatives, and the members of our own Community whose endeavour is to end our existence.

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Mara Glubka
25 May 2019

Important words from one of the most loving Mama Bears on planet earth:

“I get asked a lot — mostly by MAGA comments on news articles — exactly what rights trans people have lost under this administration. And it’s a complicated question to answer because the fact is that a lot of the trans community has never really experienced equality or felt like they had the same rights as cis folks.

For far too long, trans folks have existed with crumbs of acceptance and occasional affirming policies. But policies are sometimes only worth the paper they’re written on.

Want to serve in the military?
✅ … if you don’t come out or transition.

Want to keep your job?
✅ … if you work for a really progressive company in a state with gender identity protections.

Need to see a doctor?
✅ … good luck if you can find one educated on trans issues and if you have the money for your care.

Want to focus on your education?
✅ … if you attend a school in a state with protections, staff has been trained, and (often) if you don’t make demands about bathrooms and locker rooms.

Have a civil rights complaint against the Department of Education?
🛑 … sorry, not taking those complaints anymore

Have a workplace discrimination case?
🛑 … sorry, the Department of Justice will no longer have your back.

Need some emergency shelter while you get back on your feet?
🛑 … HUD is not going to affirm your gender and will place you somewhere that you won’t feel safe.

End up in jail for the night, or worse, sentenced to prison?
🛑 … I can’t even say what I feel about this.

And now today, here’s another blow.

Need to see a doctor, get an x-ray, have a prescription filled, what to see a therapist or schedule surgery?
🛑🛑🛑 … someone in that pipeline might object to you and will get a free pass at turning you away.

So what rights have been lost?

It seems trans folks would have needed to have felt they had rights in order to feel like they were lost. Right now, the mere fight to achieve their rights is what we are losing.

And I’m sick about it. Are you?”

-Debi Jackson

#MakingAmericaGrossAgain
#ProtectTransHealth
#ProtectTransKids

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Additional Resources:

(https://www.dosomethingfilms.com/video-portfolio)

(https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/ethics/80077)

(https://kfgo.com/news/articles/2019/may/25/protesters-demand-end-to-killings-of-transgender-women-trump-rollbacks/#.XOrLuywD4Rw.facebook)

(https://www.wbal.com/article/390923/110/not-enough-outrage-in-wake-of-rampant-anti-transgender-murders-activists)

(https://thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-targets-last-major-transgender-protection-section-1557-80d1ce664424/)
(https://transequality.org/press/releases/new-trump-proposal-could-limit-health-care-access-for-two-million-transgender)

(https://www.eriereader.com/article/on-transgender-health-care)

(https://www.ky3.com/content/news/Supreme-Court-rejects-appeal-over-transgender-bathrooms-510507461.html)

(http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/trump-hud-appointee-i-honestly-dont-care-about-hatch-act.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_medium=s1&utm_source=fb)

(https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/05/28/the-discrimination-administration/PNFw7O0nOk9bB3np5znh4J/story.html)

(https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/5/31/trumps-pride-tweets-explained-be-grateful-we-dont-execute-you)

(https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/06/republican-rep-mike-hill-thinks-itd-funny-kill-gay-people/)

(https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-5-worst-states-for-lgbt-people-198931/)

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Crooked Drumpf skimmed from the ‘9 / 11’ relief fund.

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‘Pure Evil’: Report On Trump Administration Draining Fund For FDNY’s 9/11 Responders Draws Outrage
Lisette Voytko
Forbes Staff
Senior Entertainment Reporter
Sep 11, 2020, 08:53am EDT
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.

Attacks World Trade Center

Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, [+]
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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. 

CHIEF CRITIC 

“Pure evil,” tweeted Dr. Dena Grayson, a medical expert who specializes in ebola and other viruses. 

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This is Crooked Drumpf’s Amerika.

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