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justinspoliticalcorner · 27 days ago

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Alejandra Caraballo at Erin In The Morning:

Early last fall, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Dallas pediatrician, Dr. May Lau for providing gender-affirming medical care to teens. The lawsuit accused Dr. Lau of prescribing testosterone to “at least 21” minors between the ages of 14 and 17, in an alleged defiance of a new state ban on providing gender affirming care to trans youth. Lau’s medical license is now on the line under Texas Senate Bill 14, which prohibits hormone therapy for transgender youth and requires the state medical board to revoke any doctor who violates it. Within weeks, Paxton’s office filed similar suits against two more physicians, branding them “scofflaws” and “radical gender activists” for treating adolescents with puberty blockers and hormones. By February, Paxton boasted that he had effectively shut down these three doctors’ ability to practice: two agreed to stop treating patients entirely, and a third is under court injunction barring any care for trans youth. Paxton’s lawsuits are the first enforcement of Texas’s new transgender health restrictions. What is not immediately apparent is how it is a striking example of how government officials can weaponize private prescription records to target anyone they want. At the heart of these cases lies a statewide database that quietly logs every controlled substance dispensed to Texans: the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program ("PDMP"). The database enabling this crackdown was never billed as a tool for political persecution. PDMP's were originally established in the 2000s to combat the opioid epidemic and “doctor shopping” for narcotics. Every U.S. state and territory now maintains a PDMP – an electronic registry of controlled substance prescriptions, typically Schedules II through V, that doctors and pharmacies are required to report. Testosterone, classified as a Schedule III controlled substance, is automatically tracked in the PDMP database. Although the attorney general’s complaints do not spell out how these physicians were caught, the detailed counts of their hormone prescriptions and the fact that virtually all of the patients were transmasculine points to the usage of the PDMP to find providers still prescribing hormones to trans youth. The reason for this is that estrogen is not a controlled substance and is not subject to PDMP surveillance. The PDMP itself is administered by the Texas State Board of Pharmacy. Within the system run by regulators, authorized personnel can query exactly which providers are prescribing a given drug, and even filter by patient age or other criteria. Paxton’s investigators appear to have combed through Texas’s pharmacy records for evidence that certain doctors continued providing testosterone to minors after the ban took effect, evidence they are now using to sue the providers and strip their licenses.

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From Opioid Tracking to Dragnet Surveillance

In theory, PDMP's allow physicians to spot signs of addiction and help authorities flag illicit prescribing practices and abuses by patients and doctors. In practice, PDMPs have evolved into something much broader. From a recent law review article by Jennifer Oliva in the Fordham Law Review, she describes how modern PDMP platforms “collect a litany of sensitive, prescribing-related information about every monitored prescription drug” and increasingly about other medications as well. Oliva goes on to say that what began as a targeted public-health database has morphed into a “dragnet” of personal health information. PDMP datasets typically include patient details, medication dosages, refill schedules, and identifying information for the prescriber and pharmacy. In nine states, the PDMP entry even contains the diagnosis code (ICD-10) associated with the prescription. That means a police officer scrutinizing the file could directly see why a person was prescribed a drug. In states like Tennessee or Florida, which track diagnoses, a record showing testosterone cypionate accompanied by an ICD code for “gender dysphoria” would immediately telegraph that the patient is transgender. As is often the case with law enforcement surveillance tools, PDMPs have proven susceptible to mission creep, Oliva writes, noting that most state programs now track not only opioids but “all controlled substances as well as non-controlled ‘drugs of concern.’” In other words, a system built to catch illicit OxyContin refills has quietly become a mechanism to monitor any number of treatments – from anxiety medications and stimulants for the treatment of ADHD to testosterone for gender transition. Crucially, this vast trove of prescription records exists in a legal gray zone outside standard medical privacy protections. The questions about HIPAA compliance typically come up when I've discussed this subject. However, once a pharmacy uploads your data to a PDMP, that information is no longer covered by HIPAA privacy rules. Instead, each state dictates who can access the PDMP and for what purpose. Unfortunately, law enforcement agencies have lobbied hard for access.

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Gender-Affirming Care and Reproductive Health in the Crosshairs

The Texas cases underscore how PDMP surveillance can be aimed at politically charged medical care. But gender affirming care isn’t the only area of concern. The same prescription databases could be used to monitor and punish those seeking reproductive care or other stigmatized treatments. After the overturning of Roe v. Wade, states that outlawed abortion began exploring new avenues to track and prevent medication abortions. Their task is made easier by the sheer scope of PDMP monitoring. Ultimately, the PDMP effectively becomes a shortcut to gleaning some of the most sensitive details of a patient’s health status. While Abortion medications like Mifepristone are not federally scheduled controlled substances, and thus not routinely logged in PDMPs yet, Louisiana recently classified the abortion medication Mifepristone as a controlled substance, which could now be tracked by Louisiana's PDMP and might be flagged with a code indicating miscarriage or abortion. But many states vest their pharmacy boards with power to add any drug to the PDMP’s watch-list as a “drug of concern,” without legislative approval. Conceivably, an anti-abortion regulator could designate abortion-inducing medications or other reproductive treatments for tracking, instantly pulling them into the surveillance dragnet. The targeting of gender-affirming care is thus part of a much larger pattern. It exemplifies how data collected for one purpose – public health and patient safety – can be repurposed for surveillance and social control.

Alejandra Caraballo wrote in Erin In The Morning wrote about Texas AG Ken Paxton (R)’s data privacy-invading accessing of prescription records to attack reproductive health and gender-affirming care.

#Ken Paxton #Privacy #Data #Texas #LGBTQ+#Transgender #Prescription Drug Monitoring Program #Gender Affirming Healthcare #Abortion Medication #Abortion #Reproductive Health #Texas SB14

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serenhob · 19 days ago

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I saw this video today of a republican woman (forgot her name) who said, quote:

'Women are like 'oh well I'm autistic, my husbands autistic and we have 7 autistic kids and actually we are all fine and thriving', hi OK so that's not normal, that's actually an issue. Why do you have autism and why do all of your kids have autism'

It startled me cause how are there people like this and I just wanted to remind us all that autism is largely genetic.

Crazy concept I know. Yes, science does agree that there are outside factors that they've seen that *could* influence whether a child is autistic (particularly having older fathers) but the majority of the time (up to 90%) it is simply the matter of genetics. Most autistic people have autistic family members whether they are diagnosed or not (personally my sibling also is and we suspect with my mother). So obviously, if you have 2 autistic parents that greatly increases thr chances of having autistic kids. The same as if they both were brunette or blue eyed or they wear glasses. Their kids would likely share those traits.

From the side always arguing about 'basic biology' I think its kinda funny that it stops as soon as we get to autism. It's like they pick the most stupid argument for every issue they are presented and run with it. We have many studies that over and over affirm the role of genetics (like twin studies) but apparently that all is a lie and we should be looking back at studies that have been debunked (the 1998 study in particular is so stupid, the mans medical license was literally stripped and out of the 12 kids he had, some weren't even autstic)

Also on the 'its an issue' part, autism isn't this scary, infectious and fatal disease. It is a neurotype, a type of human being. You can't seperate the autism and the person. Yes, there are negative sides to autism, violent meltdowns, harmful stims, the isolation of not understanding people, overstimulation and all of that, but that doesn't mean there aren't positives as well. Besides, it is a human experiance and for everyone there are strengths and struggles.

(Also just to address the autism epidemic vibe this is giving, the reason the diagnosis rates are higher is the following: the expansion of the definition of autism aka autism spectrum disorder which includes lower support needs; research of how autism presents in women and people of colour as it used to be reserved for affluent white boys; medical care becoming more accesable in general; the growing population (again if you've got an autistic person haveing two autistic children then both of them go on to have two autistic kids each and so forth then there will be more autistic people) due to life expectancy going up; awareness of autism in general; the inclusion of masking to the diagnostic criteria and probs more. Its not vaccines)

Autism isn't inherently less worthy than being allistic, a household full of autistic or otherwise disabled people isn't automatically worse or more harmful than a family of allistic, abled bodied individuals. In fact, operating in a neurodivergent house as a neurodivergnt person is often times quite good. Having the relatability and understanding between neurodivergent people is very helpful. Like personally all of my friends are autistic (not on purpose) simply because I find autistic people easier to interact with. There is less conflict.

Autism like every state of existence is neutral. Disabled doesn't mean inferior, nor is it intrinsically bad. Autistic people are just as worthy of compassion and life as anyone else, no matter their support needs or if they have an intellectual disability. So yes, autistic families and people at large aren't abnormal or an issue in any way. If you want to help autistic people then advocate for more support (especially given to high support needs autistic people and their carers) instead of to 'eradicate autism'.

#Autism #neurodiversity #Rfk jr #Please if you want to talk about something you know nothing about do minimal research #Cause otherwise you just sound dumb or at worst abelist #autism awareness #Begging you to educate yourself if you agree with her #Autism isn't a chronic illness #They are not the same things #Please give your kids vaccines #Even if it did 'give them Autism' I don't see how Autism is worse than measles #Not giving your kids vaccines can be detrimental to their health #They can be refused organ transplants because their body may reject it and doctors don't want to waste an organ #Just looked #Her name is #Emily Wilson

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nicklloydnow · 2 months ago

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“The escalating tension between the Trump administration and Ukraine in recent weeks has been accompanied by an alarming surge of extreme anti-Ukraine rhetoric in pro-Trump quarters. Some of this rhetoric has even implied that Ukraine is America’s enemy. On Monday, Trump administration official Elon Musk called Arizona’s Democratic senator Mark Kelly a “traitor” for travelling to Ukraine in support of that country’s defensive war effort.

Hostility to Ukraine is becoming a party line on the MAGA Right. The issue isn’t just the cost to American taxpayers. The US$128 billion that the US has given Ukraine over the past three years amounts to less than US$120 per year per American. And as a recent article on the Council of Foreign Relations website noted:

A large share of the money in the aid bills has been spent in the United States, paying for American factories and workers to produce the various weapons that are either shipped to Ukraine or that replenish the U.S. weapons stocks the Pentagon has drawn on during the war. One analysis by the American Enterprise Institute found that Ukraine aid is funding defense manufacturing in more than seventy U.S. cities.

Nor is antipathy to Ukraine simply about bringing an end to the bloodletting, notwithstanding the Right’s professed disdain for “warmongers” eager to “fight to the last Ukrainian” and Trump’s own claim that he wants to “stop the death.” When Trump suspended air-defence supplies and intelligence-sharing to Ukraine earlier this month in an attempt to pressure the country into “settling,” Russia began bombing Ukrainian cities with renewed vigour. Asked during a press conference on 7 March if Vladimir Putin was “taking advantage of the US pause right now on intelligence and military aid,” Trump was phlegmatic about the loss of life: “I actually think [Putin’s] doing what anybody else would do. I think he wants to get it stopped and settled, and I think he’s hitting them harder than he’s been hitting them. And I think probably anybody in that position would be doing that right now.”

The party line is now strong enough that even some ��heterodox” pundits and publications with large right-wing audiences have pivoted away from their initial support for Ukraine. In the first two years of the conflict, coverage at the Free Press was firmly pro-Ukraine. But since the reelection of Donald Trump last November, the publication’s position has become more sympathetic to “right-wing peaceniks” (once described by Free Press contributor Eli Lake as “Code Pink Republicans”) and correspondingly unsympathetic to Ukraine’s cause. Some of this commentary has been shoddy and even dishonest.

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Much of this hatred for a country valiantly resisting a war of aggression reflects Trump’s own prejudices and sense of personal grievance. The “Russiagate” investigation that dominated his first administration perversely fortified his preexisting sympathy for Vladimir Putin, while his antipathy to Ukraine increased following his 2019 impeachment for pressuring Zelensky to provide dirt on Biden in return for US armaments. (Conservative writer Jeff Blehar thinks these grievances are justified. I do not.) And because the MAGA movement is cultish, its leader’s likes and dislikes are automatically adopted by many of his supporters.

But some of the reasons given for the anti-Ukraine stance are transparently bogus. In a 2023 speech at the Heritage Foundation, then-Senator JD Vance—one of the staunchest opponents of aid to Ukraine since the start of the war—paid lip service to the courage of Ukrainian troops before asserting that “they have the most corrupt leadership and government in Europe and maybe the most corrupt leadership anywhere in the world.” Like all formerly communist countries, Ukraine does have a serious corruption problem, but Vance’s statement is blatantly untrue.

According to Transparency International, the leading global anti-corruption watchdog, Ukraine currently ranks 105th in public-sector corruption out of 180 countries with a score of 35 out of 100, while Russia ranks 154th with a score of 22 out of 100 (the lower the score, the more prevalent the corruption). Before the 2014 popular revolution that toppled the pro-Kremlin regime of Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine was plagued by Russian levels of corruption and a score of 25, but Ukraine’s record on corruption has been improving ever since. It is also worth noting that Vance is inconsistently bothered by corruption: Viktor Orbán’s Hungary is only slightly less corrupt than Ukraine (and its corruption score is moving in the opposite direction) and the most corrupt country in the European Union, but Vance believes that American conservatives ought to emulate Orbán’s illiberal democratic model.

Claims that Ukraine is “not a true democracy” because it persecutes Christian churches, or controls the media, or forcibly mobilises men are usually made in equally bad faith. Ukraine is a country fighting a defensive war on its own territory, a situation in which restrictions on civil liberties are not remotely unusual. The United States instituted a draft and suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War, and it introduced forced conscription and censorship during World War II when it was not fighting an invasion. While there have been reports of forcible conscription in Ukraine, which is deplorable, the number of such conscripts is dwarfed by the number of Ukrainian soldiers who either comply with draft orders or volunteer at recruitment centres.

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In a bizarre segment on the Free Press podcast, the publication’s regular contributor Batya Ungar-Sargon argued that support for Ukraine is related to an “elite” tendency to “villainise” Putin because the chattering classes hold him responsible for helping Trump win the 2016 election. But the late Russia scholar Stephen F. Cohen was already complaining about the “relentless demonisation of Putin” by the American media in February 2014, and lamenting that not even Stalin’s Soviet successors were “so personally villainised.” This was before Putin’s seizure of Crimea the following month, and over a year before Trump announced his first run for president. It does not appear to have occurred to Ungar-Sargon that Westerners dislike Putin’s destruction of Russia’s fledgling democratic freedoms, his habit of jailing and murdering journalists and political opponents, his brutal wars against Chechen separatists in the 2000s, and his invasion of Georgia in 2008.

Ungar-Sargon is correct that Trump’s 2016 candidacy had a partisan effect on American views of Putin, but she has misidentified the party most affected. Polling indicates that Republicans had a slightly more negative opinion of Putin than Democrats in 2014. Around the time of the 2016 presidential election, Democrats’ approval of Putin fell by eight percentage points, from -54 to -62. Republican approval of the Russian dictator, on the other hand, rose by 46 points, from -66 to -10. The number who regarded him “very unfavourably” dropped from 51 percent in July 2014 to fourteen percent in December 2016, while the overall “favourables” jumped from ten percent to 37 percent.

As I wrote in the early days of the war, growing sympathy for Putin on the US Right is partly explained by a shift towards the populism and “anti-globalism” of which he is seen as a champion—and by the implausible belief, cultivated by Putin and his propaganda machine, that the Kremlin stands for traditional religious and sexual values in opposition to an increasingly godless, “woke,” and pathological West. The corollary is that Ukraine is suspect because it wants to leave the Russian orbit and join Western liberal degeneracy—specifically, the European Union, which the Right believes is a cesspit of progressive authoritarianism and creeping Islamisation.

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Attention inevitably turned to USAID’s assistance for Ukraine. Altogether, Ukraine-related projects received about US$5 billion in US funds between 1991, when Ukraine became independent, and 2014—mostly through USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy, a formally private nonprofit that received an annual appropriation from the US State Department as part of the USAID budget. While most of this money was spent on nonpolitical projects like healthcare and environmental protection, a portion of it also went to various anti-corruption, election-integrity, and civic-education NGOs involved in the 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2014 Revolution of Dignity.

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The idea that the Ukrainian state is a stronghold of “the woke Left” is as detached from reality as the idea that Ukraine is a Nazi regime. Indeed, as a number of people have pointed out, Ukrainian patriotism and military valour are precisely the sort of virtues that one would expect national conservatives to applaud—unless, of course, national conservatism is less about conservatism or national sovereignty than it is about the appeal of authoritarianism.

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Likewise, those on the Right who see Putin’s post-communist Russia as a conservative-friendly state ignore the degree to which his regime valorises Russia’s Soviet past. Ukraine’s post-2014 “decommunisation” drive has been a sore point for the Kremlin. Putin may have blamed Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks for creating the modern Ukrainian state and giving it historically Russian lands—but in the areas of Ukraine under Russian control, the authorities have been restoring previously demolished Lenin monuments as well as Soviet-era street names honouring Lenin, Karl Marx, and other communist heroes. Conquered and devastated Bakhmut has had its name changed back to the Soviet Artemovsk—after “Comrade Artyom” (Fyodor Sergeyev), a Bolshevik revolutionary and close friend of Stalin’s. In a particularly cruel mockery of their victims, Russian occupiers recently opened a museum honouring Stalin’s henchman Andrei Zhdanov in his native Mariupol, a city taken in spring 2022 after a particularly horrific siege.

This “recommunisation” in the occupied areas of Ukraine isn’t about communist ideology per se; it’s about imposing Russia’s imperial will on Ukrainians and suppressing their cultural legacy. Even so, it honours an unspeakably evil left-wing totalitarian regime. Unfortunately, many people on the modern US Right seem to despise liberalism more than communism.”

#ukraine #zelenskyy #trump #maga #jd vance #russia #putin #authoritarianism #war #invasion #foreign policy #treachery #treason #kakistocracy

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olderthannetfic · 2 years ago

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The Republican party has 492 currently proposed anti-trans laws in addition to the laws that have passed and at CPAC stated they wanted to "exterminate" trans people. Yes, being a Republican automatically disqualifies you from ever being supported by myself and any decent, rational person. If you proudly participate in the genocide of a minority, you are never getting my support, whether it's a vote in an AO3 election, a bake sale or a date. If you are affiliated with a group that wants to kill my brother and my girlfriend, then I see no reason why I should go, "oh no I'm sure this isn't a red flag! I'm sure this person is one of the good fascists! I won't take their being a fascist into consideration when voting" because hot take: there is no such thing as a good fascist.

An OTW candidate could have given only answers that purely aligned with my beliefs 100% and I would still not vote for them upon learning they were a Republican. They want to exterminate people I love. I can't overlook that. And it's absurd to ask that people do so and act as if being a fascist is not a red flag or dealbreaker in and of itself.

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qqueenofhades · 2 years ago

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As much as I love hearing trump getting more charges and would love nothing more than him to get sent to prison, I fear that when he eventually goes to trial, they’re will be some crazy maga nut who could watch him kill their mother and would still claim he’s innocent.

Honestly, I am... not totally sure what y'all want me to say here? I get the fear, believe me, but also, after every Trump indictment, just like clockwork, a lot of Gloomy the Doom Men pop up to pre-emptively insist that it doesn't mean anything, it won't go anywhere, he won't actually be punished, etc. I'm not saying this is that, but it does happen every time, and I just... don't know what I'm supposed to do about it? Is this part of the whole "The System Doesn't Work and Therefore We Are Justified in Not Participating" thing that the online leftists habitually do, or what? Honest question. First it was he'll get re-elected, then it was he will never leave power, then it was the Republicans will win in 2022, then it was he will never get indicted, etc. The goalposts keep shifting so any progress we do make on holding him to account (which is far more than has ever happened to any other American president, including actual war criminal George W. Bush) somehow is "meaningless" and I just?? Don't get it??

First of all, jury selection is a thing, and aims to weed out those who, in this case, are either too vehemently against Trump or too vehemently for him. They want the exact sort of mushy middle voter of which there are far too many in this country, who can be persuaded one way or the other but doesn't have ironclad previous biases. Also, they must have done a good job selecting jurors so far, given that all the grand juries have returned indictments, and at least one of them (the one in NY) had someone who was a fan of conservative talk radio/right wing politics. So if by this you mean one rogue juror will preclude a guilty conviction, that is something that can actually be planned for and prepared, and as I said, all the grand juries seated to hear evidence against Trump so far have returned indictments.

Also, this case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is an Obama appointee and has been willing to sentence J6 defendants harshly in the past. She is widely regarded as competent, fair, and firm, and will not grant any of the bullshit delays that Aileen Cannon the Trump-stooge judge will bend over backward to find for him in the Mar-a-Lago docs case in Florida. So there's a strong possibility this one goes to trial before May 2024, and the judge in this case is neither a Trump judge or a slobbering Trump partisan: indeed, quite the opposite. So I don't think we can assume that she will be so incompetent as to not manage her own trial and/or jury.

Anyway, yes. We don't know what will happen, but similar to the Espionage Act charges he got hit with last time (themselves meriting of a stiff prison sentence) Trump is facing yet more high-level felony charges that come with serious jail time. So how about for now, we don't automatically assume that what will be the most watched and covered trial in a generation will fall apart because of a simple and easily avoidable mistake that even I, a non-lawyer, know how to fix, much less a team of extremely experienced prosecutors who know this has to be absolutely fucking watertight and then some? It will be better on your mental health for the long run and arguably also much more accurate.

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts #the giant orange monster

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danielt1985 · 7 months ago

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What We Can Do Regarding 2024 - 2028

(CW // Discussions About Homophobia, Politics & Abortion)

I usually try to stay apolitical on this channel, and I am not one to usually talk about politics. But given that most of my community know that I'm an LGBTQ+ ally, and have discussed about media that usually isn't enjoyed by the republican end of the political spectrum, I feel comfortable when discussing this. If you are at all not happy about what I will discuss here, please note that I am not one to completely disregard a person over political beliefs. To me, it's mainly how you view people & how you treat people that matter. But for the sake of those that are going to be affected for the next few years, I will not refer to *him* by name, and but *his* pronouns in asterisks.

Like many of you, I am very disappointed and saddened about the 2024 Election. Now that *he* has been elected, there will be a number of unfortunate changes, including the abortion bans, who will get added to the Supreme Court, and of course, Project 2025. And while we can no longer control who goes into office and what can be done about it, what we can do however, is control what we do while *he* is in office, and what we can do to help each other.

#1: Get Off Of Twitter

I will no longer be posting to Twitter as of either now or into January 20th. All of the income made from that platform, since El*n is one under control, will be going toward all of the bigoted practices *he* will be putting in office, including Project 2025. From now on, all of my social media updates will be on Bluesky, and you can follow me there: @danieltg.bsky.social

NOTE: Once you do move to Bluesky, note that there are also still a lot of pro-M*GA people on that platform, and that's why there's an account group created that automatically adds new accounts found to be for *him*. Hit "Subscribe" and then hit "Block Accounts". Now, all accounts on that list (including new ones that get added), will be blocked immediately on your account. You're welcome. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e4elbtctnfqocyfcml6h2lf7/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s

#2: Know Where Your Money Is Going

Reach out to your local grocery stores, and ask about how purchases from that store will go toward. Some retail brands (like Home Depot and MyPillow) have been known to have their income or their higher-ups support the kinds of hateful organizations. Any online shops you also go to, you should also look there & see if they have a history of having their money go to the government for these kinds of practices.

#3: Donate To Organizations

Donate to any organizations made to help any of the things that *he* is against, like the tride & true Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization for the LGBTQ+ community. There's also Indivisible, an organization to help keep America's democracy.

#4: Donate To Your Friends

Try to also send donations & share donation pages to those that are affected by this & will have to change their living situations. This is going to be a very painful four years. Rights will be taken, economies will crash, and will have to rebuild this, hopefully, very soon.

#5: Speak

Speak to your closest friends who will be potentially impacted from this election. We are losing more & more people one by one because of this election, and there will be more struggling individuals once *he* gets put in office.

I myself haven't been doing so well living-wise. If you would like to donate, I have a linktree where you can see my Ko-Fi, and I'll try to re-open PayPal donations as well. Any bit will help during this time. https://linktr.ee/danieltg

To those who are reading this, and are in serious mourning & is feeling defeated, please understand that we are here for you. There will be a large community out there who are in the same boat as you, and there will be friends who are there to hear you out & understand your pain. The world may seem gloom at the moment, but like anything else in life, this too shall pass.

Stay safe, and stay strong everyone. I love you all. We'll get through this.

#2024 #election 2024 #fuck trump #lgbtq #help #donate #organization #hope

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eisforeidolon · 2 months ago

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https://www.tumblr.com/eisforeidolon/781446918384615424/the-jared-confirming-hes-republican-thing-comes

What happened is that MISHA started the joke, saying he would want to make all republicans identify as trans “but then Jared would be mad at me.” Then Jared just continued the joke to keep the laughter going, before immediately shaking his head “no” multiple times and making it clear he wasn't being serious

Also, it was that same con where someone that didn’t even like him admitted that he was open about not being happy with what’s politically happening in the U.S. during his meet and greet, and then jokingly asked european fans if they could keep him

Which makes perfect sense since Gen made a multi tweet thread encouraging people to vote for Kamala. But the antis who saw that thread wanted to go “this doesn’t mean they have the same political opinions!”

Yeah, I kinda want to apologize a bit for my excessive bafflement to the original anon, as I was half asleep, didn't clearly remember Misha's answer for myself, and read what they typed as "everyone" instead of "every registered Republican".

Still, as you say, the point of it being ridiculous in the context of Jared just playing along with the joke Misha made stands. Like, what, was Jared supposed to stop dead seriously to disclaim what Misha said instead of playing along? With Misha's dig that he wouldn't do something more important? Despite how obviously ridiculous it would be to take it seriously given basically all Jared's public charity and political statements/contributions? Here's the relevant context:

Question: So my question is, if you were invisible for ten minutes, what would you do?

Jared: Whoah-oh-ho-ho-ho. Might have a fourth child. [shakes head] I would [laughs] -

Misha: I'm not sure that answer reads well. [both laugh]

Jared: For ten minutes? I'd have a fourth family -

Misha: It's like, Genevieve would be like oh my god, I fucked the tiniest little prick, what was that? [laughs]

Jared: [touches Misha's shoulder, laughs] I, uh, ahem, wow. Alright, I'm gonna reverse back. I - so ten minutes?

Misha: Yeah.

Jared: That's enough time.

Misha: Yeah, that should be enough time.

Jared: Yeah, yeah, [jokingly] I'm happy with my answer. I would -

Misha: [?] you gotta watch the clock, too, because like, if your cloak of invisibility stops and you're like oh, like sorry, I thought I had another minute!

Jared: I - there are so many ways to go with this and I'm gonna try and avoid them. I would take a nap. I'm not kidding, I'm not kidding. Genevieve, you know I'm 42, so, two years ago, Gen's like, hey, I know you're not into surprises or whatever, just give me some guidance for your fortieth birthday, what do you want? Do you want like a gift or do you want to have friends over, or be somewhere just the two of us? What do you want for your fortieth birthday? And I was like, a nap. And that was it. So I'd probably nap.

Misha: That's a real waste of a superpower. You know you can do that visible, too, right?

Jared: [exaggeratedly, but without mic] Oh yeah?

Misha: Shh-yes! Um, I think I would probably, if I were invisible for ten minutes I think I would - I would sneak into the Oval Office. [Jared nods] And I would swap out the text of one of the executive orders that Donald Trump is about to sign? Like, he's gonna sign an executive order that says, 'and we must cut down every last living tree in America's national parks', right? And right before he signs it, I'd swap out that text for another one that says if you're a registered Republican, you're automatically transgender. [Jared looks down, grabs his nose, makes a little why gesture] And he would sign it, and then that would become the law. [Jared nods] That's what I would do. But Jared would be napping. [Jared laughs looking at him]

Jared: I'd wake up and be like, oh god, I'm transgender. [laughing, shakes head no, puts hand up] I didn't even know we could fly to fucking DC! Like, that's more than ten minutes.

#askboxery #anonymous #con drama #jibcon 2025

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pi-ying-xi · 1 year ago

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Get to know me better tag game

thank you so much for the tag @redemption-revenge. I'm sorry it's taken me nearly a week to get to it!

Last song I listened to: 老朋友 by Liu Yuning, from the Eternal Brotherhood OST. There's always a Liu Yuning song on any playslist these days, but this one is a current favourite because somehow it hits a little differently from the usual cdrama OST type music? It's so wistful and hits me right in the feels.

Currently watching: War of Faith. If I'd done this last week when I was tagged, it would have been Legend of Shenli! I loved Xingzhi and Shenli so much, and I'm loving Wei Ruolai and Shen Tunan equally. I have a weak spot for S+ category minguo dramas and this one falls in with The Disguiser and The Rebel, so there's a lot to like - the cast is excellent, including all the support characters; there's a good enough budget to not let the sets look tacky (as they do in some Republican dramas); and I love both Wang Yibo ad Wang Yang, so it's an automatic must-watch.

Currently obsessed with: This is hard! I have several obsessions on the go at any given time! But perhaps obsession # 1 atm is finding more Liu Xueyi stuff outside of dramas? Idk it happens every once in a while, when I get curious about a person outside of their drama personas and want to see what they're like as regular people (for a given value of 'regular' in the context of actors). I hear his cooking vlogs are entertaining. That's good to know, because there's precious little by way of variety shows etc, which he apparently doesn't like to do. Cooking is good. Men should look pretty and be good at cooking.

Tagging: Who can I tag？Let me see...I want more Liu Xueyi, so I'm going to pick all the people who post about him often: @mademoiselle-red, @mr-danger-to-my-sanity and @zamalla. Also tagging twitter pals @lunarriviera and @busarewski.

#tags from moots #cdrama #liu xueyi #the legend of shen li #war of faith #wang yibo #wang yang #liu yuning

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usafphantom2 · 1 year ago

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MYTH BUSTING

On July 24, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson announced the existence of the USAF Lockheed SR-71.

~This was six months before the first test flight on Dec. 22, 1964.

~He read his script correctly. It said SR 71.

~The Press’s copy of what the President said RS -71, the rumor started that Johnson made a mistake and it had to be renamed. This is not true.

During the 1964 Presidential campaign, the Republican nominee, SEN Barry Goldwater (AZ), repeatedly criticized President Johnson and his administration for falling behind the communist Soviet Union in the Arm’s race.

Vice Pres. Johnson “inherited” the Presidency when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. He automatically became President. He was reelected in 1964. In 1968, when he was running yet again for President for the second time, John F. Kennedy’s brother Robert decided to run against him. Johnson dropped out of the race; by then, the public was fed up with Johnson and his views on the Vietnam War. Bobby Kennedy was assassinated like his older brother was.

This is when Lyndon was brief about the fastest airplane in the world. He kept that information as a weapon to win the war of politics against Goldwater.

USAF Chief of Staff, GEN Curtis LeMay, preferred the SR (Strategic Reconnaissance) designation and wanted the RS-71 to be named SR-71.

Before the President’s speech, LeMay successfully lobbied to change the designation to SR-71. The transcript given to the press ahead of time still had the earlier RS-71 designation in place, creating a MYTH that the President had misread the aircraft's designation. Now, you know the real story.

Linda Sheffield

@Habubrats71 via X

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year ago

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In the case of People of the State of New York v Donald J Trump, Justice Engoron's decision is out, a 92-page decision: damages award in excess of $364 million, 3 year ban on business in state. Add to this the two other judgments, totaling $88.4 million... for a total of $452 million. Add pre-judgment interest and we're likely well over $500 million. Former federal judge Barbara Jones will assume authority as receiver ("independent monitor") of the Trump Organization. Trump is a bankrupt. https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=CJKA2EOIiTRatUAYz6FyeA==&system=prod

Trump's immediate dilemma: how to come up with supersedeas bonds in total value of about a half billion. There may be such bonding capacity in theory, but it's hard to see a path for Trump here. His alternative is the one that Texaco used after the huge damages award for Pennzoil: file a bankruptcy petition and use the automatic stay under 11 USC § 362 as a substitute form of stay as he pursues an appeal. The risk in this: given the fraud findings in two separate cases, there is a probability that the bankruptcy judge would appoint a trustee to run the case, dispossessing Trump and his management team.

At this point, the only part of the Trump business operations not in receivership would appear to be the Republican National Committee... indeed, this may explain why he was so eager to seize control of it.

Trump now goes to his first criminal trial starting on March 25 with two courts making heavy adverse comments on his credibility as a witness... This makes his trial even more uphill than it was before.

[Robert Scott Horton]

#Robert Scott Horton #TFG #rule of law #legal jeopardy

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justinspoliticalcorner · 1 month ago

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Christopher Wiggins at The Advocate:

House Republicans are planning to introduce a bill that would make President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender military service permanent and expand it. The legislation, drafted by Alabama U.S. Rep. Barry Moore, would not only implement the ban through federal law but also require the discharge of any currently serving trans troops and restrict access to national security careers after service. The “Readiness Over Wokeness Act,” first reported by Fox News Digital, targets anyone with a current or past diagnosis of gender dysphoria, anyone who has received gender-affirming care such as hormone therapy or surgery, or anyone who exhibits symptoms “consistent with” gender dysphoria. The bill mandates the administrative separation of all people to whom the policy applies across the armed forces. It also authorizes the Department of Defense to reinvestigate any transgender veteran who held a security clearance at the time of discharge and to revoke their eligibility unless they submit to re-review. If they decline—or if they no longer serve in a role requiring clearance—their access would be automatically revoked. Advocacy groups say the legislation would codify one of the most extreme anti-trans policies ever proposed by Congress. Cathy Marcello, interim executive director of the Modern Military Association of America, called it “a continuation of relentless attacks on transgender Americans who have done nothing wrong other than have the audacity to exist.” She said the bill is particularly cruel given that discharges have already begun under Trump’s executive order, and it seeks to write discrimination into law even before the courts can rule on the current purge. [...] The legislation follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision earlier this month to lift a nationwide injunction in Shilling v. United States, a case challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting transgender people's service. The decision allowed Trump’s ban to take immediate effect. That ruling has already resulted in the Pentagon halting gender-affirming care and preparing to discharge transgender service members who do not resign by June 6.

What a hateful and bigoted move this bill misleadingly called “Readiness Over Wokeness Act” is to codify Donald Trump’s ban on trans troops into law permanently and restrict access to national security careers. Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) is the lead sponsor of this anti-American travesty.

#Barry Moore #Anti Trans Extremism #Transgender Military Ban #Transgender In The Military #Transgender #Readiness Over Wokeness Act #Military Readiness

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strictlyfavorites · 1 year ago

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At least 59.4 percent of illegal immigrant-led homes use one or more welfare programs, compared with 39 percent of households headed by people born in the United States, according to the Dec. 19 report.

High rates of welfare use among illegal immigrants “primarily reflect their generally lower education levels and their resulting low-incomes, coupled with the large share who have U.S.-born children who are eligible for all welfare programs from birth,” the report reads.

“More than half of all illegal immigrant households have one or more U.S.-born children.”

Children born to illegal immigrants in the United States, also known as “anchor babies,‘ are considered to have automatic birthright citizenship even though the U.S. Supreme Court hasn’t explicitly ruled on the matter. Illegal immigrants can’t access most welfare programs, a restriction that eases for their children who are born in the country.

“The American welfare system is designed in large part to help low-income families with children, which describes a large share of immigrants,” CIS states in the report.

A dozen states offer Medicaid to all low-income children regardless of immigration status. Such children also have access to various government food and meal programs.

Programs such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program, free or subsidized lunch and breakfast for students, and Medicaid for children (Children’s Health Insurance Program) were “explicitly created for minors,” the report states.

The CIS report is based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2022 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

“The reality is that illegal immigrants are included in the SIPP, a large share of them are poor, and they or their U.S.-born children have welfare eligibility; and many take advantage of this eligibility,” CIS stated.

“A very large share of immigrants come to America, have children, struggle to provide for them, and so turn to taxpayers for support. This can be seen as especially problematic given that there is already a large number of Americans who are also struggling to provide for their children.”

According to data from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the total number of U.S.-born children of illegal aliens in the United States as of June stood at 5.78 million, a population more than two times that of Chicago.

FAIR estimates that “illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children impose a net annual cost of $150.6 billion on American taxpayers as of the beginning of 2023.” Over the past five years, the annual cost has risen by almost $35 billion.

“This burden will only continue to grow as a result of the Biden administration’s open-borders policies,” the organization warns.

Ending Birthright Citizenship

Multiple GOP members have taken a strong stance against birthright citizenship. In 2018, former President Donald Trump said he would remove birthright citizenship via executive order, which didn’t happen.

In his 2024 campaign, President Trump has reiterated his position on the matter. In a May video, President Trump promised to sign an executive order on day one of his second term to solve the issue.

Such an order would end the “unfair practice known as birth tourism, where hundreds of thousands of people from all over the planet squat in hotels for their last few weeks of pregnancy to illegitimately and illegally obtain U.S. citizenship for the child, often to later exploit chain migration to jump the line and get green cards for themselves and their family members.”

“At least one parent will have to be a citizen or a legal resident in order to qualify,” President Trump stated.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called for an end to birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants during the second GOP debate, in September.

“Now, the left will howl about the Constitution and the 14th Amendment. The difference between me and them is I’ve actually read the 14th Amendment. And what it says is that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the laws and jurisdiction thereof are citizens,” Mr. Ramaswamy said.

“So nobody believes that the kid of a Mexican diplomat in this country enjoys birthright citizenship—not a judge or legal scholar in this country will disagree with me on that. Well, if the kid of a Mexican diplomat doesn’t enjoy birthright citizenship, then neither does the kid of an illegal migrant who broke the law to come here.”

In July, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) introduced a proposal called “End Birthright Citizenship Fraud Act of 2023,” which aims to abolish automatic birthright citizenship for U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants.

Under the legislation, at least one parent of the child must be a U.S. national or a refugee, have lawful permanent citizenship, or be an active member of the military.

“My legislation recognizes that American citizenship is a privilege—not an automatic right to be co-opted by illegal aliens,” Mr. Gaetz said in a statement.

“This is an important step in preserving the sanctity of American citizenship and ensures that citizenship is not treated as a loophole to be exploited but rather a privilege to be earned when legally migrating to our country.”

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saintmeghanmarkle · 1 year ago

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📃 Megalist of 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑳𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔 and Other 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 in H&M’s Political Orbit 📃 by u/SeptiemeSens (Part 3 of 3)

📌 Link to Tumblr post Part 2 of 3

📌 Link to Tumblr post Part 1 of 3

10. Kerry Kennedy - Daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, former wife of NY Governor Andrew Cuomo. In 2022, H&M were awarded the "Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope" human rights award. According to Kerry, H&M were given the award for "standing up to structural racism" [source]

11. Members of Parliament (MPs) - In 2019, more than 70 women MPs signed on to a letter of support for and solidarity with the Duchess of Sussex. Their letter was in “solidarity” with Meghan Markle, as she waged a legal battle against the “often distasteful and misleading” press [source 1 // source 2]

12. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer - In 2021, Meghan sent an open letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) advocating for Congress to pass a federal paid parental leave program, even though Congress had already passed the program by the time M released her open letter [source 1 // source 2 // source 3]

13. Ndileka Mandela - In 2023, Nelson Mandela's granddaughter and social activist criticized H&M for using the former South African president’s name to pull in Netflix audiences in their Netflix documentary Live to Lead, saying: “It’s deeply upsetting and tedious.” [source 1] Shortly thereafter, Ndikeka clarified her comments saying that she was misquoted by international media and that she actually supports H&M for the courage of their conviction towards social activism [source 2]

14. Peter Cosgrove, Governor General of Australia and his wife Lady Lynne Cosgrove - In 2018, H&M undertook an official tour of Australia. The Governor General of Australia and his wife and family live in Admiralty House in Sydney. Harry and Meghan were accommodated in the guest wing, as is customary for visiting guests. Meghan demanded the whole house for her and Harry, and when refused, allegedly told Lady Lynn Cosgrove: "Don't you know who I am?" [source]

15. Rory Kennedy - Youngest daughter of Robert F Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, sister of Kerry Kennedy. Together with Liz Garbus, they run Moxie Firecracker Films, a film production company. Liz Garbus was the director of Harry and Meghan's Netflix docuseries [source 1 // source 2]

16. Susan Collins (Republican Senator of Maine) and Shelley Moore Capito (Republican Senator of West Virginia) - In 2021, Meghan cold-called Senators Collins and Capito on their private numbers, using her Duchess of Sussex title to lobby for paid paternity leave. She was given their private numbers by Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic Senator of New York. Meghan wanted to be part of a Senator Gillibrand's 'working group' to formulate policy [source]

17. Zwelivelile "Mandla" Mandela - In 2022, Nelson Mandela's grandson and the tribal chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council criticized Meghan for suggesting that South Africans celebrated her wedding the same way they rejoiced his grandfather Nelson Mandela's release from prison after 27 years. Mandla said: "Overcoming 60 years of apartheid is not the same as marrying a white prince" [source 1 // source 2 //source 3]

📌 Notes:

Originally inspired by South Park's sweet 'n savage takedown of Meghan as ‘First Lady Botherer’ [source 1 // source 2], I then fell down the rabbit hole when I came upon so many other notable names. So, I thought it would be a good idea to keep track of "who's who" in H&M's political orbit and get a bigger (and better) picture of H&M's political motivations and machinations: past, present, and future

A LOT of sources come from our amazing SMM community here but unfortunately, SMM subreddit post links are not allowed as they are automatically removed by Reddit -- ARGH 😖

Thanks again for all the great comments and feedback on my previous popular post: "Megalist of everyone associated with MM via ARO, Archetypes Podcast, and 40x40"

If there are any notable names in H&M's political sphere missing from these lists, please comment below 👇

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