‘Facebook Memories: 3 Jun 2024’

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‘Facebook Memories:  3 Jun 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.

Notice on posts at my Faceplop page that Suck deleted the URL links and posts that reference to my Faceplop page:

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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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Dear Facebook Reader:

You can read my Slimandme.wordpress.com web-site for the clear Original Posts of these Facebook Memories, no matter if Suck deletes these Original Posts at Facebook.

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Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2024

Facebook Memories:  3 Jun 2024

Some posts may not appear here because of their privacy settings

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1.  Facebook Memories Summary (3 Jun 2024)

2.  Media Matters: Broadcast and Cable news fail to report record-high violence against Trans people

3.  Kitty pictures to add to a prior post

4.  Left Pinewood School (May 1973)

5.  Left Utah Technical College (May 1985)

6.  Left Phoenix College (May 1998)

7.  Graduated from Grand Canyon University

8.  Graduation Season

9.  Crooked Drumpf praises the Chinese dictatorship for their Massacre of the Democracy heroes at Tiananman Square

10.  ‘Being Detained While Black As A State Legislator Because ‘You Don’t Look Like’ A Legislator’ – not once, but Repeatedly.

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Facebook Memories Summary (3 Jun 2024)

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(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3127922840841893&id=100008726227817)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/3127922840841893/)

(https://www.facebook.com/share/p/E6dSF3CCKFJR1X5f/?mibextid=oFDknk)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2023

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(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3127922840841893&id=100008726227817)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/3127922840841893/)

Facebook Memories: 3 Jun 2023

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Surge in violence against Trans Community during the past year goes unreported by The Press

(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2869923536641826&id=100008726227817)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2869923536641826/)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2022

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Kitties

(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2869745836659596&id=100008726227817)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2869745836659596/)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2022

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Left Pinewood

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2623961191238063/)

(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2623961191238063&id=100008726227817)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2021

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Left Utah Technical College

(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2623968061237376&id=100008726227817)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2623968061237376/)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2021

Shares

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2868068040160709/)

1 Jun 2022

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2356444024656449/)

31 May 2020

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/1806025286364995/)

31 May 1985

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Left Forest Service

(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2623967194570796&id=100008726227817)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2623967194570796/)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2021

Shares

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2868066113494235/)

1 Jun 2022

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2356445834656268/)

31 May 2020

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/1806034713030719/)

31 May 1985

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Left University of Utah

(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2623966364570879&id=100008726227817)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2623966364570879/)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2623966364570879/)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2021

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2868063150161198/)

1 Jun 2022

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2356441091323409/)

31 May 2020

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/1806029273031263/)

31 May 1985

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Left University of Arizona

(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2623965564570959&id=100008726227817)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2623965564570959/)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2623965564570959/)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2021

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2868061516828028/)

1 Jun 2022

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2356446924656159/)

31 May 2020

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/1806030976364426/)

31 May 1987

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Left Phoenix College

(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2623964534571062&id=100008726227817)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2623964534571062/)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2021

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2868059083494938/)

1 Jun 2022

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2356448241322694/)

31 May 2020

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/1806036679697189/)

31 May 1998

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Graduated from Grand Canyon University

(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2623963454571170&id=100008726227817)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2623963454571170/)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2021

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2868057453495101/)

1 Jun 2022

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2356452464655605/)

31 May 2020

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/1806032569697600/)

31 May 2000

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Left Pinewood (1973)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2623968977903951/)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2021

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/3029170110717167/)

31 Dec 2022

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2356434537990731/)

31 May 2020

A Facebook ‘Memories’ from, if my rattled brain’s mathematical skills serve me well, 47 years ago.

My reason for being taken to Greece was suspect, but I made what I could from my two school years there, tried to make friends, tried to experience what I could of Greece and Europe (history, culture, cuisine), and return home wiser.

Thank you to my TIHI friends. Thank you, Mary G, for coming back into my life.

– Sharon

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/1806026493031541/)

31 Dec 1973

Left Pinewood, International School of Thessaloniki, Greece

May 1973

High School

Attended main Pylaia campus for 10th Grade, attended Dasahori campus for 11th Grade. Yasou!

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Anniversary of Tiananman Square Massacre

(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2358678971099621&id=100008726227817)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2358678971099621/)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2020

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3 Jun 2022

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2624104994557016/)

3 Jun 2021

(https://www.facebook.com/100022490776003/posts/736196543806698/)

Luna Bell
4 Jun 2020

(https://www.facebook.com/100022490776003/posts/736196740473345/)

Luna Bell
4 Jun 2020

(https://www.facebook.com/100022490776003/posts/736197297139956/)

Luna Bell
4 Jun 2020

(https://www.facebook.com/100022490776003/posts/736197650473254/)

Luna Bell
4 Jun 2020

(https://www.facebook.com/100022490776003/posts/736198073806545/)

Luna Bell
4 Jun 2020

(https://www.facebook.com/100022490776003/posts/736198327139853/)

Luna Bell
4 Jun 2020

(https://www.facebook.com/100022490776003/posts/736199160473103/)

Luna Bell
4 Jun 2020

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Being detained while a Black state legislator

(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1849690018665188&id=100008726227817)

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/1849690018665188/)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2018

3 Shares

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2869834299984083/)

3 Jun 2022

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2624108407890008/)

4 Jun 2021

(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/2358761001091418/)

3 Jun 2020

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(https://www.facebook.com/295732903793433/posts/2046043712095668/)

(https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2046043712095668&id=295732903793433)

God Bless the United States
3 Jun 2018

This is the price for racism and stupidity…People who judge others based on their prejudice and inability to decipher reality; like what a Statehouse representatives badge looks like over their White colleague. How can you have dialog when you’ve already made your mind up based on the color of someone’s skin? And then insulted them?

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(https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210689869)

(https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/you-dont-look-like-a-legislator-security-stops-black-female-lawmaker-going-to-work-in-ohio/ar-AAyaxyE)

You don’t look like a legislator’: Security stops black, female lawmaker going to work in Ohio

COLUMBUS – State Rep. Emilia Sykes was walking to work in the Ohio Statehouse last year with a fellow lawmaker when she was stopped by security. Officers needed to search her bag, she was told.

Sykes is serving her third year as a Democratic state representative from Akron. She is also a 32-year-old black woman. Her colleague, who was not searched, is a 65-year-old white man who has served in the Legislature for many years.

Sykes said she questioned why her bag needed to be searched when that wasn’t protocol. Lawmakers only need a badge to gain access to the Statehouse or the nearby Riffe Center, which houses many lawmakers’ offices.

(https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/you-dont-look-like-a-legislator-security-stops-black-female-lawmaker-going-to-work-in-ohio/ar-AAyaxyE?li=BBnb7Kz)

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‘You don’t LOOK like a legislator!’

(https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/03/officer-says-black-female-lawmaker-doesnt-look-like-legislator/667361002/)

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(https://www.facebook.com/100008726227817/posts/3126031727697671/)

Graduation Season
31 May 2023

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”Tank Man’ – He Demonstrated Courage’
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Media Matters:  Broadcast and Cable news fail to report record-high violence against Trans people 

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(https://www.facebook.com/share/p/KK2g1zaY8fVK6bsL/?mibextid=oFDknk)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2022

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(https://www.mediamatters.org/justice-civil-liberties/despite-surge-brutality-broadcast-and-cable-tv-news-spent-just-43-minutes)

RESEARCH/STUDY

Despite a surge in brutality, broadcast and cable TV news spent just 43 minutes covering anti-trans violence in 2021
Last year marked the deadliest year of anti-trans violence on record, but coverage by corporate TV news networks dropped by 20% from 2020 to 2021

Special PROGRAMS
LGBTQ
WRITTEN BY ALEX PATERSON
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MIA GINGERICH & BRIANNA JANUARY
PUBLISHED 05/17/22 10:07 AM EDT

At least 57 transgender or gender-nonconforming people were killed in the United States in 2021, making it the deadliest year on record for the community. The vast majority of these victims were Black or Latina trans women. A Media Matters analysis of broadcast news shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as cable news coverage on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC found that cable and corporate broadcast TV news networks failed to adequately report on anti-trans violence in 2021, discussing the topic in just 19 segments for a total of 43 minutes of coverage. Reports from MSNBC accounted for more than two-thirds of this coverage; every other network covered the topic for 5 minutes or less each.

Top trends from a year of anti-trans violence coverage on broadcast and cable TV news

Cable and corporate broadcast TV news networks failed to adequately report on anti-trans violence in 2021.
From 2020 to 2021, every network’s total amount of coverage of anti-trans violence either decreased or stayed the same, and the quality of this coverage varied drastically across networks.
TV news coverage of anti-trans violence decreased from 54 minutes of coverage in 2020 to 43 minutes in 2021, despite the fact that incidents of violence increased.
Deadly violence against trans people was discussed in only 19 segments; corporate broadcast networks covered the topic for just 9 minutes, while cable networks covered it for 35 minutes.
The majority of TV news coverage of anti-trans violence did not include a trans person as a guest, with only 7 of the 19 segments featuring a trans or gender-nonconforming guest.
Only 4 of the 19 segments even mentioned the name of one slain trans person.
MSNBC produced the most reports on the topic, with 29 minutes of coverage combined across 9 segments, more coverage than all other networks combined.
CNN covered the topic for 4 minutes across 3 segments, while Fox News covered it for 2 minutes across 2 segments. In comparison, Fox News aired 86 segments about trans people from January 20, the day President Joe Biden took office, through March 18 — primarily fearmongering about trans athletes and lying about best practice health care for trans youth.
On the corporate broadcast networks, ABC covered the topic for 2 minutes, CBS for 5 minutes, and NBC for 2 minutes.
Nearly one-third of the total coverage came during LGBTQ Pride Month in June, with cable and corporate broadcast TV news networks reporting on the topic for 13 minutes in that month.

At least 57 transgender or gender nonconforming people were killed in 2021 — the deadliest year on record

In 2021, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) identified at least 57 transgender or gender-nonconforming people who were brutally killed in the U.S., marking the deadliest year on record. The majority of victims were trans people of color; at least 36 of the victims were Black, 34 of whom were Black trans women, and 10 were Latino, including nine Latina trans women. Official records of anti-trans violence only go back to 2008 and likely represent just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to such crimes, as many of the crimes against trans people go unreported or are reported using the incorrect name.

The 57 transgender or gender-nonconforming people who HRC reported were killed in 2021 were:

Tyianna Alexander, Samuel Edmund Damián Valentín, Bianca “Muffin” Bankz, Dominique Jackson, Fifty Bandz, Alexus Braxton, Chyna Carrillo, Jeffery “JJ” Bright, Jasmine Cannady, Jenna Franks, Diamond Kyree Sanders, Rayanna Pardo, Jaida Peterson, Dominique Lucious, Remy Fennell, Tiara Banks, Natalia Smut, Iris Santos, Tiffany Thomas, Keri Washington, Jahaira DeAlto, Whispering Wind Bear Spirit, Sophie Vásquez, Danika “Danny” Henson, Serenity Hollis, Oliver “Ollie” Taylor, Thomas Hardin, Poe Black, EJ Boykin, Aidelen Evans, Taya Ashton, Shai Vanderpump, Tierramarie Lewis, Miss CoCo, Pooh Johnson, Disaya Monaee, Briana Hamilton, Kiér Laprí Kartier, Mel Groves, Royal Poetical Starz, Zoella “Zoey” Rose Martinez, Jo Acker, Jessi Hart, Rikkey Outumuro, Marquiisha Lawrence, Jenny De Leon, Angel Naira, Danyale Thompson, Cris Blehar, Nikai David, Ke’Yahonna Stone, Za’niyah Williams, Nikki Turietta, Rubi Dominguez, Keeva Scatter, Martina Caldera, and Gerri Judd.

In addition to lethal attacks, trans people faced alarming rates of violence in the past year: they were sexually assaulted while incarcerated, stabbed, beaten at work, and relentlessly attacked in public. Trans people are disproportionately vulnerable to violence due to discriminatory social factors, such as heightened barriers to accessing health care, stable housing, and jobs. A 2021 Williams Institute study found that “transgender people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to experience violent victimization.”

In 2022, at least 12 trans people have been killed in the U.S. so far. This coincides with right-wing media outlets – including Fox News – launching hateful attacks against the trans community, including specific calls for violence. On March 31, Fox’s Tucker Carlson even falsely claimed that trans people face relatively lower rates of violence, lying that in the U.S., “you are a lot better off being trans than being not.” Right-wing outlets have also incessantly lied that trans people are “grooming” children for sexual activity, and trans people in turn have faced real-world harassment and violence, including being publicly assaulted and called a “groomer.”

Cable news networks spent 35 minutes covering anti-trans violence in 2021, with the vast majority of coverage airing on MSNBC

Cable news time count
Cable segment count
From January 1 to December 31, 2021, Media Matters reviewed news programming between 6 a.m. and midnight on cable channels CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. During that time frame, cable news networks spent a total of 35 minutes discussing anti-trans violence across 14 segments.

MSNBC spent the most time reporting on the topic, with 29 minutes of coverage across 9 segments. This was more than four times as many minutes of coverage as CNN and Fox News combined. MSNBC’s Velshi produced three segments on anti-trans violence throughout 2021, the most of any cable or corporate broadcast news show.

CNN covered anti-trans violence for 4 minutes across 3 segments, while Fox News covered it for 2 minutes across 2 segments. Fox News’ 2 segments on the topic were about L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón, who was allegedly blocked from pursuing “gang enhancement” charges against “an alleged MS-13 gang member” who was charged with assaulting a trans woman in Los Angeles.

Morning and evening broadcast TV news shows spent 9 minutes covering anti-trans violence in 2021

Broadcast time count
Broadcast segment count
From January 1 to December 31, 2021, morning and evening corporate broadcast TV news shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC spent 9 minutes across 5 segments covering anti-trans violence. CBS produced the most reporting, with 5 minutes across two segments. ABC spent 2 minutes covering the topic in 1 segment and NBC covered it for 2 minutes across 2 segments.

The quality of coverage of anti-trans violence varied across networks

Key moments and notable trends include

From 2020 to 2021, TV news coverage of anti-trans violence decreased from 54 minutes of coverage to 43 minutes. Every network except NBC decreased its total amount of coverage during this time period. NBC’s coverage stayed the same at 2 minutes.
The majority of TV news coverage of anti-trans violence did not include a trans person, with only 7 of the 19 segments featuring a trans or gender-nonconforming guest. CBS and NBC each aired 1 segment that included a trans guest, while ABC’s only segment on the topic did not. As for the cable networks, 4 of MSNBC’s segments included a trans guest while only 1 of CNN’s 3 segments did. Fox News did not include a trans guest while covering the topic.
Only 4 of the 19 segments — two from MSNBC and 1 each from CBS and CNN — actually said the name of a trans person who was killed in 2021.
Additionally, during a CBS Mornings segment on the topic, CBS reporter Jamie Yuccas deadnamed Nikki Kuhnhausen, a 17-year-old trans girl who was killed in Washington in 2019. Deadnaming is when someone calls a trans person by their former name – and it goes against journalistic best practices.
Nearly one-third of the reporting on anti-trans violence occurred during LGBTQ Pride Month in June, with TV networks covering the topic for 13 minutes in that month.

Violence facing the trans and gender nonconforming people deserves robust TV news coverage

It is paramount that broadcast and cable networks produce accurate coverage about the record levels of anti-trans violence — and that coverage must actually feature trans voices. That TV news networks decreased the amount of coverage they dedicated to anti-trans violence at a time when right-wing voices are spreading anti-trans hate and encouraging the passage of discriminatory legislation is just one symptom of corporate TV news’ larger failure to adequately report on issues facing trans people.

Corporate TV news networks have clearly demonstrated that they have the capacity to cover anti-trans violence but continuously choose to ignore the subject. Each network has a responsibility to inform their viewers with accurate coverage and finally improve this woeful dearth of reporting.

Methodology

Media Matters searched transcripts in the SnapStream database for all original programming on cable networks CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC and corporate broadcast news networks ABC, CBS, and NBCfor any of the terms or any variations of the terms “transgender,” “trans,” “transphobe,” “transphobia,” “gender identity,” “gender nonconforming,” “nonbinary,” or “gender fluid” within close proximity of any of the terms “violence,” “crime,” “hate,” “attack,” “homicide,” “shoot,” “shot,” “murder,” “death,” “die,” “dead,” “kill,” “stab,” “strangle,” “beat,” or “burn” from January 1 through December 31, 2021, 6 a.m. EST to midnight daily.

We also searched for the names of the transgender and gender-nonconforming people who were killed in 2021: Tyianna Alexander, Samuel Edmund Damián Valentín, Bianca “Muffin” Bankz, Dominique Jackson, Fifty Bandz, Alexus Braxton, Chyna Carrillo, Jeffery “JJ” Bright, Jasmine Cannady, Jenna Franks, Diamond Kyree Sanders, Rayanna Pardo, Jaida Peterson, Dominique Lucious, Remy Fennell, Tiara Banks, Natalia Smut, Iris Santos, Tiffany Thomas, Keri Washington, Jahaira DeAlto, Whispering Wind Bear Spirit, Sophie Vásquez, Danika “Danny” Henson, Serenity Hollis, Oliver “Ollie” Taylor, Thomas Hardin, Poe Black, EJ Boykin, Aidelen Evans, Taya Ashton, Shai Vanderpump, Tierramarie Lewis, Miss CoCo, Pooh Johnson, Disaya Monaee, Briana Hamilton, Kiér Laprí Kartier, Mel Groves, Royal Poetical Starz, Zoella “Zoey” Rose Martinez, Jo Acker, Jessi Hart, Rikkey Outumuro, Marquiisha Lawrence, Jenny De Leon, Angel Naira, Danyale Thompson, Cris Blehar, Nikai David, Ke’Yahonna Stone, Za’niyah Williams, Nikki Turietta, Rubi Dominguez, and Keeva Scatter. Martina Caldera and Geri Judd, whose names were added to the HRC tracker after the conclusion of this study, were not searched for.

Early police reports and local coverage often referred to victims by their deadnames. We also searched for the deadnames of the 2021 victims but have not listed those names here as deadnaming is a form of harassment.

We also searched transcripts in the Nexis database for all of the above terms and names; however, this double-check was limited to news shows airing between 5 p.m. and midnight on Fox News and MSNBC. We were able to search all cable news transcripts for CNN and all broadcast news transcripts for ABC, CBS, and NBC.

We included segments about anti-trans violence, which we defined as instances when anti-trans violence was the stated topic of discussion or when there was significant discussion of anti-trans violence. We defined “significant discussion” as any back-and-forth exchange between two or more people about anti-trans violence; we did not include passing mentions. We also excluded teasers, which we defined as short mentions from the host of segments coming up later in the broadcast. We rounded all times to the nearest minute.

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Kitty pictures to add to a prior post

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(https://www.facebook.com/share/p/utj6xDFdnVF9PV7A/?mibextid=oFDknk)

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3 Jun 2022

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Left Pinewood School (May 1973)

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(https://www.facebook.com/share/p/95bbgcXzTP5kh7Ln/?mibextid=oFDknk)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2021

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A Facebook ‘Memories’ from 48 years ago.

– Sharon

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ON THIS DAY
48 years ago

(https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1806026493031541&id=100008726227817)

Sharon Nichols
May 1973 · ·
Shared with Public

Left Pinewood, International School of Thessaloniki, Greece

May 1973

High School

Attended main Pylaia campus for 10th Grade, attended Dasahori campus for 11th Grade. Yasou!

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Left Utah Technical College (May 1985)

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Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2021

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A Facebook ‘Memories’ from 36 years ago.

It was called Utah Technical College when I attended there.

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ON THIS DAY
36 years ago

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Sharon Nichols
May 1985 · ·
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Left Utah Trade Technical College

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College — Business Administration/Management

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3 Jun 2021

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Sharon Nichols
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College — Business of Administration

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3 Jun 2021

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Sharon Nichols
May 2000 · ·
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Graduated from The Honors College at Grand Canyon University

May 2000

College — Business Administration/Management

Completed more than 150 semester credits throughout my post-secondary education

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3 Jun 2021

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Sharon Nichols
May 2000 · ·
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Graduated from The Honors College at Grand Canyon University

May 2000

College — Business Administration/Management

Completed more than 150 semester credits throughout my post-secondary education

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Sharon Nichols
May 1998 · ·
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Left Phoenix College

May 1998

College — Business of Administration

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ON THIS DAY
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Sharon Nichols
May 1987 · ·
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Left The University of Arizona

May 1987

College — Medical research

Continued self-studied in Inter-sex and Transsexualism; completed more than 100 CME credits in medicine and pharmacology.

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Sharon Nichols

May 1985 · ·

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Left The University of Utah

May 1985

College — Medical research

Self-studied various medical concepts, including Inter-sex and Transsexualism; completed more than 300 CME credits in such topics as organ transplantation, embryology, prosection. Also completed ‘Seeds of World Conflict’ (Autumn quarter 1983) conducted by Elie Wiesel.

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Sharon Nichols

May 1985 · ·

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Left Job at USDA Forest Service

May 1985 — Personnel Management

Recruitment and placement (S/STEP and Competitive Service appointments); position classification; payroll; employee benefits.  Supervisor initiated termination action against me on the accusation that ‘You are a woman working as a man.  We can’t have that here.’ (May 1983); responded to their efforts by enacting a Whistle-blower complaint in which the US House of Representatives determined that both the Chief of the Forest Service and the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture committed perjury trying to silence me.

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Sharon Nichols
May 1985 · ·
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Left Utah Trade Technical College

May 1985

College — Business Administration/Management

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ON THIS DAY
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Sharon Nichols
May 1973 · ·
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Left Pinewood, International School of Thessaloniki, Greece

May 1973

High School

Attended main Pylaia campus for 10th Grade, attended Dasahori campus for 11th Grade. Yasou!

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Crooked Drumpf praises the Chinese dictatorship for their Massacre of the Democracy heroes at Tiananman Square 

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Fact Check reports that a meme quoting Cicero could not possibly have named Crooked Drumpf, therefore, that meme is misleading. 

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(https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Z2zxHxii4h76wk9A/?mibextid=oFDknk)

Sharon Nichols
3 Jun 2020

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On the Anniversary of the Chinese dictatorship crushing the Peoples’ Democracy movement.

Crooked DrumpFuhrer, instead, praises the Chinese dictatorship for the slaughter in the streets of Beijing.

Coronavirus was Crooked DrumpFuhrer’s prelude distraction by his shiny object, to keep you frightened, indoors, off the streets, un-employed, and financially desperate while he moved his military into place.

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We are Amerika, now in martial law status.

There will be no mutiny, no saving the Constitution by Mattis or by the military.

There will be no mutiny to dispatch Crooked DrumpFuhrer to the dustbin of world history where he belongs.

The USA military prove themselves loyal to Crooked DrumpFuhrer, NOT to the Constitution, NOT to their Oath of Office.

Crooked DrumpFuhrer has all his generals lined up on his side, scared to fulfill their Oath of Office to defend the Constitution from ALL enemies both foreign and DOMESTIC.

There is little that can be said or be done by Mattis or by any other current or former military officer or Cabinet Secretary.

As did Hitler, Crooked DrumpFuhrer did this one step at a time, cunningly developed through decades of plotting and scheming; Crooked DrumpFuhrer as both a Republi-con and a Christian Con-servative whose constituent members have been fully supportive.

Enough of Amerika went for it, going along for the ride while the getting was good. It’s too late, you are still riding out this proverbial tiger and you can no longer let go of its tail.

I perceived Crooked DrumpFuhrer as the con that he is since the 1970s when I first heard of him. Any time his name came up for conversation or debate, I made my say. Some people accepted my warnings, some people told me that I was completely twisted, some people now Gaslight me.

Crooked DrumpFuhrer issued his National Emergency. That in itself gives him authoritarian powers when either branch of Congress or the Supreme Court conspire with him. Moscow McConnell proved that this complicit Senate fully supports Crooked DrumpFuhrer’s dictatorship. The five Republi-con Supreme Court justices and the panoply of the federal judiciary are fully subservient to Crooked DrumpFuhrer’s command.

The American experiment in Civilian self-governance was cool while it lasted.

I sit on my back patio and watch the steady stream of police helicopters and high altitude surveillance aircraft flying over my home. Mind you, I deliberately chose to buy my home here because it is not under any designated flight paths; my overhead skies are supposed to be free of all aircraft.

This is now Crooked DrumpFuhrer’s Amerika

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Additional Resources:

A version of this Facebook post at my web-site.

(https://slimandme.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/welcome-to-amerika/)

Tiananmen Square Massacre in words and photographs.

(https://slimandme.wordpress.com/2019/06/08/tiananmen-square-massacre-30-years-later/)

Cops are counter-protesting AntiFa.

(https://www.vox.com/2020/6/1/21276669/protests-george-floyd-police-brutality-brooklyn-seattle)

Crooked DrumpFuhrer and Barr ordered the tear-gassing and military assault against Saint John’s. They gassed the priest.

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/episcopal-priest-describes-being-gassed-and-overrun-by-police-at-lafayette-square-church/2020/06/02/c5dbb282-a4ed-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html)

(https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clergy-st-johns-church-trump_n_5ed6403ac5b6f9c2444b5851)

You are educated enough to know where to find more on your own.

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You are either Fascist or Anti-Fascist.

Guess where Crooked DrumpFuhrer is:

‘Drumpf calls Anti-Fascism protesters terrorists.’

‘Drumpf Security Forces surrounding the area cleared the protesters with tear gas. Drumpf stood for a photo while holding a Bible.

– PBS Newshour (1 Jun 2020)

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How noble.

#justiceforbreonnaTaylor #justiceforgeorgeFloyd

Update: this happened in two cities. This picture is from Columbus, Ohio.

Tweet: https://twitter.com/_jordynkiera/status/1267224844392898564?s=21

The links have video of the same thing happening in Louisville, KY.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.courier-journal.com/amp/5295840002

https://www.google.com/amp/s/wfpl.org/louisville-mayor-claims-without-details-protesters-seized-supplies-were-hazardous/amp/

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(https://www.facebook.com/100004915090098/posts/1543657785808043/)

Matthew Desmond
(31 May 2020)

This needs to go viral. Police and national guard are patrolling neighborhoods in Minneapolis, shooting at people in their own yards.

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THEY FOR SURE DID THIS KETTLING IN CINCINNATI, TOO!

copied & shared from a comrade:

If you’re not following the Swann Street siege story this morning, it’s incredible.

Yesterday evening, D.C. police forced a large group of peaceful protesters and demonstrators into a residential neighborhood in a tactic known as “kettling.”

Kettling is a military technique to encircle people, to box them in on all sides, into a smaller and smaller and smaller space where they can’t retreat or escape from. In American protests, it’s often accompanied by police forces taking advantage of the fact that protesters can’t retreat to inflict maximum harm with teargas, batons, and other weapons for an extended period before doing mass arrests.

It’s not a dispersement technique, it’s the complete opposite — it’s a technique of intense aggression, and it’s controversial because it’s seldom used in good faith and often results in intense prolonged violence, with the intention of also cutting everyone caught in the kettle off from medics, aid, food, water, the ability to leave, etc.

Last night, D.C. police pushed demonstrators into a residential neighborhood in an attempt to kettle them. But residents of the neighborhood had been watching, and threw open their front doors to protesters, including a first-generation Indian-American man named Rahul Dubey.

Rahul and his neighbors sheltered a hundred people or more, between them, for eight hours last night, including having teargas fired at their homes and having the police try to enter their private property several times through various methods. They were rebuked and dispelled every time.

Rahul and his neighbors orchestrated food, medical aid, and lawyers during the siege, including ensuring protesters had safe escorts this morning.

You can read the first-person accounts from the people who were trapped there:

Allison Lane: https://twitter.com/allieblablah

Meka from the 307:

(https://twitter.com/MekaFromThe703)

And you can read Marcella Robertson’s coverage on her timeline here, including Rahul’s speech to media this morning:

(https://twitter.com/Marcella_Rob)

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Step by step, Trump has paralleled Hitler’s rise to power. Now he’s setting the stage to declare martial law nationwide:

[Full article is as follows]

“Exclusive: President Trump Moves Military Forces to Near-Wartime Alert Level in Washington D.C

BY WILLIAM M. ARKIN ON 6/2/20 AT 2:29 PM EDT

The Pentagon has ordered forces and bases in the Washington D.C. area to “Force Protection Condition Charlie,” a threat condition that indicates “likely” targeting of military forces and or terrorist action and the second highest alert level available.

The state of higher alert was ordered as of 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning for the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. The order follows a rapidly moving and confusing set of statements and threats coming out of the White House in the previous 24 hours. During this period, President Donald Trump has threatened state governors with federal intervention, and appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley as the commander of federal forces—a legally questionable order. Under the law, the chairman serves as the principal military adviser to the president, not a military commander.

“The role of the U.S. military in domestic U.S. law enforcement is limited by law,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said in a statement Tuesday. “It must not be used in violation of those limits and I see little evidence that President Trump understands this fundamental premise.”

“I remain gravely concerned about President Trump’s seemingly autocratic rule and how it affects the judgment of our military leadership,” Rep. Smith says.

As a further measure Monday, the president quietly federalized the District of Columbia National Guard, the first National Guard troops to be federalized in response to the outbreak of national protests responding to the death of George Floyd.

The D.C.-area troops fall under a little known command—Joint Task Force National Capital Region (JTF-NCR), which was originally activated in March to implement secret continuity of government and other emergency plans in response to coronavirus.

The Joint Task Force is commanded by Army Maj. Gen. Omar Jones. He reports to the “combatant commander” for North America, Air Force Gen. Terrence J. O’Shaunghnessy, the commander of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM), headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO. And Gen. O’Shaunghnessy reports to the president, through the secretary of defense.

In addition to federalizing the D.C. National Guard, additional National Guard units from adjoining states and West Virginia were also brought into the capital region Monday night, also under federal orders.

And right after midnight Tuesday morning, transport aircraft from Ft. Drum, New York, and Ft. Riley, Kansas, arrived at Andrews Air Force Base in southern Maryland and disembarked active-duty military police and infantry soldiers to take on the military defense of federal buildings and bases. Some 250 active duty military police from Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, had already been staged at military bases inside the district by midnight.

“I am mobilizing all available federal resources, civilian and military,” President Trump said Monday, referring to “thousands and thousands” of military and federal civilian forces at his disposal. Last night, law enforcement officers of 10 federal agencies took up positions in the D.C. area, most around the White House and Capitol building as well as federal offices and monuments. This includes the FBI, ATF, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Marshals and Bureau of Prisons officers of the Department of Justice, and Customs and Border Protection, ICE, the Secret Service and Coast Guard officer of the Department of Homeland Security.

Across the country, at least 26 states and the District of Columbia have now mobilized over 20,000 guardsmen and women to “protect life and property; and preserve peace, order and public safety,” according to Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief of the National Guard Bureau.

The 26 states that have activated National Guard troops are: Arizona, Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. The Guard units in the states continue to serve under “state active duty” and the command of each state governor.

On the ground, FBI and other federal law enforcement officers have joined local police.

And up in the air, federal surveillance aircraft—most belonging to the CBP, but also FBI and military aircraft and helicopters—flew surveillance missions Monday over Buffalo, NY; Chicago, IL; Washington, DC; Detroit, MI; El Paso, TX; Miami, Florida; and San Diego, CA

President Trump, in stating yesterday that his goal was “to stop the rioting and looting, to end the destruction and arson, and to protect the rights of law-abiding Americans, including your Second Amendment rights,” used language that some analysts say could be a step in the direction of invoking the Enforcement of the Laws to Restore Public Order Act—commonly known The Insurrection Act—that would allow him to deploy military troops within the United States to suppress civil disorder, insurrection and rebellion.

President Trump said he would take action in cases where governors “refuse” to enforce the law or protect the civil rights of their citizens. This is considered to be a possible trigger for the White House to invoke the Insurrection Act without the agreement of an individual governor.

Both Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Gen. Milley were at the White House Monday as the national security principals of the administration discussed the federal response and the escalation of the National Guard to involve federal active duty forces. Esper also took part in the presidential conference call with state governors. In that call, Esper referred to the streets of America as “battlespace” to be dominated, an expression that the president has now repeated numerous times.

As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Milley is the considered the senior military officer of the U.S. military and is formally the principal military adviser to the president. But he is not in command of any military forces, nor is he in the chain of command.

Two Pentagon sources with knowledge of the White House discussions tell Newsweek that neither Secretary Esper nor Gen. Milley have questioned the usefulness, propriety or legality of President Trump’s moves to involve federal military forces in the current civil unrest.

In announcing that he was putting Gen. Milley in charge, President Trump said that Milley “hates the way it’s being handled in the various states,” but neither Milley nor the Pentagon has made any official announcement regarding his views or his new role. Last night Milley was seen walking the streets of the District of Columbia after curfew to view the scene.

Esper and Milley—wearing a combat camouflage uniform—also accompanied President Trump in his photo op yesterday at St. John’s Episcopal Church across from the White House.”

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Washington Post
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“Anyone concerned about the state of America’s democracy ought to have been troubled Monday at the sight of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, striding behind Donald Trump during his presidential show of force at Lafayette Square. Dressed in combat fatigues and walking with Attorney General William P. Barr, national security adviser Robert O’Brien and others, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer did more than make himself part of the tableau of Trump’s photo op and campaign commercial. Milley gave tangible meaning to the president’s threat to deploy the U.S. military to put down “domestic terror” in the United States. His presence also raised questions about the military’s role as the country heads toward November and what the president has already declared could be “the greatest Rigged Election in history.”

“The president’s call for military deployments against protesters was not some random Trumpian effusion. He and his advisers and supporters are building a legal justification for deploying troops on American streets. Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper advised the nation’s governors to “dominate the battlespace,” by which he meant American cities. Prominent Republican Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.), a close Trump ally and presidential aspirant, called for deploying “the 10th Mountain, 82nd Airborne, 1st Cav, 3rd Infantry — whatever it takes,” against the “insurrectionists,” a deliberate reference to the Insurrection Act of 1807, which gives the president broad powers to deploy federal troops. Trump tweeted that Cotton’s suggestions were “100% Correct.” This is the context in which Milley appeared with the president in his battle fatigues. It is the context in which a U.S. Army helicopter descended to rooftop level in Washington’s Chinatown hours later, frightening and scattering protesters in a “show of force” that snapped trees and nearly injured the fleeing civilians.”

“Dictators rule by controlling the “power ministries”: the domestic police and intelligence services, foreign intelligence services, and armed forces. U.S. democracy has been sustained by a strong tradition of ensuring that the power ministries serve the Constitution and the broader interests of the American people, not the political and personal interests of the individual in the White House.”

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Here is ‘Being Detained While Black As A State Legislator Because ‘You Don’t Look Like’ A Legislator’ – not once, but repeatedly.

– Obstructed from entry to her office, though she presents her legislature ID card.

– Her purse and possessions repeatedly searched as if she is a criminal or ‘terrorist’.

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See also:

(https://abcn.ws/2J93P5x)

(https://politicaldig.com/black-female-lawmaker-stopped-by-security-in-ohios-statehouse-because-she-didnt-look-like-a-legislator/)

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God Bless the United States
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MSN.com

‘You don’t LOOK like a legislator’: Security stops Black, female lawmaker going to work in Ohio

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(https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/31/emilia-sykes-ohio-state-highway-patrol-ohio-statehouse-security/659121002/)

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‘You don’t look like a legislator’: Security stops black, female lawmaker going to work
Jessie Balmert
Cincinnati Enquirer
May 31, 2018
State Rep. Emilia Sykes, D-Akron

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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. 

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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