Friday, April 11, 2025

Poof! All Gone.

Trump is trying to make us go away! Removing our history, removing our healthcare, removing our books, and removing our research!
At least 24 termination letters have been sent out, according to one official.
ABC News
By Mary Kekatos
March 7, 2025


Several active research grants related to studies involving LGBTQ+ issues, gender identity and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are being canceled at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) because they allegedly do not meet the "priorities" of the current administration.

Starting last week, at least 24 termination letters were sent to researchers at various universities and dozens more have likely occurred, an NIH official with knowledge of the matter, who requested anonymity, confirmed to ABC News.

According to copies of some of the termination letters, viewed by ABC News, canceled grants involved research around "transgender issues" and "gender identity," including studying stress in older LGBTQ+ adults and the epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease and other dementia in LGBTQ+ older adults.

[...]

Category two involves projects "partially" supporting DEI activities. The award can only be granted if the "non-compliant" activities are negotiated out of the project.
"Non-compliant" activities means us we are not in compliance with Trump's bigoty!
"This award no longer effectuates agency priorities," all of the letters read. "Research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific, have little identifiable return on investment, and do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans. Many such studies ignore, rather than seriously examine, biological realities. It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize these research programs."
They make these broad sweeping allegations that have no bases in truth!

"Defend women from gender ideology extremism" trans people and women are not mutually exclusive we have coexisted since the beginning of time. What has changed is that the bigots are in charge of the hen house.
AP News
By  CARLA K. JOHNSON
March 24, 2025


A surge of grant cancellations hit researchers focused on the health of gay, lesbian and transgender people last week, as the Trump administration continues to target what it describes as ideologically driven science.

Last week the U.S. government terminated at least 68 grants to 46 institutions totaling nearly $40 million when awarded, according to a government website. Some of the grant money has already been spent, but at least $1.36 million in future support was yanked as a result of the cuts, a significant undercount because estimates were available for less than a third of grants.

Most were in some way related to sexual minorities, including research focused on HIV prevention. Other canceled studies centered on cancer, youth suicide and bone health.

[...]

“We now no longer have anywhere studying LGBT cancer in the United States,” said Rosser, who saw his grants canceled on Friday.

“When you decide to cancel all the grants on sexual minorities, you really slow down scientific discovery, for everyone,” Rosser said. Young researchers will lose their jobs, and the field as a whole will suffer, he added.

“It’s a loss of a whole generation of science,” Rosser said.

Termination letters seen by The Associated Press gave as reasons that the research was “unscientific” or did “nothing to enhance the health of many Americans.”
Just like Hitler and the Nazis tried to eradicate us, Trump and his minions seek a pogrom against anything LGBTQ+.

Here is my prediction for the month of June... Trump & Company will cut funding to cities with Pride events!
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Mini-Post: Have We Reached That Point Yet?

You can read the handwriting on the wall, Trump is ready to give the Supreme Court a gesture that isn't fitting of someone in that office.
The justices ordered the government to seek the return of a man whom it had wrongfully deported.
The Atlantic
By Adam Serwer
April 10, 2025


America has reached a very dangerous moment, as the Supreme Court’s indulgence of President Donald Trump’s belief in his own untrammeled authority collides with the justices’ expectation that he will abide by their decisions.

This evening, the Supreme Court upheld part of a lower-court decision ordering the Trump administration to seek to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom—as The Atlantic first reported—the administration has acknowledged it mistakenly dispatched to El Salvador’s notorious Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT. Abrego Garcia, who came to the United States illegally but was allowed to stay after a judge ruled that he was likely to be persecuted by gangs in his native El Salvador, would be the first person publicly known to be released from CECOT.

“The order properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador,” the justices wrote in an unsigned order.

[...]

The consequences of this evening’s ruling are difficult to predict. The Trump administration could choose to comply with the court order and secure Abrego Garcia’s return. It could also choose the path of open defiance. But it might instead make a token effort to retrieve Abrego Garcia and then shrug, telling the Court that it tried its best but was unsuccessful. The Salvadoran government has declared that anyone who is imprisoned at CECOT will never leave—if Abrego Garcia returns, he could speak out about the conditions he experienced at the facility, which could have political consequences both for the Salvadoran leadership and for the Trump administration.
Lady's and gentlemen! Place your bets! Will Trump lead us into a constitutional crisis? Is Trump leading us down the road to fascism? 
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There Is No Recourse

Do you know what departments Trump & Company have closed?

Well one of them that he gutted was the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Education... So if you have a civil rights complaint there is nowhere to go to seek help.
‘They Don’t Care About Civil Rights’
Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights
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By J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam, ProPublica 
April 9, 2025


On Feb. 10, more than a dozen Department of Homeland Security officials joined a video conference to discuss an obscure, sparsely funded program overseen by its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The office, charged with investigating when the national security agency is accused of violating the rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, had found itself in the crosshairs of Elon Musk’s secretive Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. 

It began as a typical briefing, with Homeland Security officials explaining to DOGE a program many describe as a win-win. It had provided some $20 million in recent years to local organizations that provide case workers to keep people in immigration proceedings showing up to court, staff explained, without expensive detentions and ankle monitors.
 
[...]
 
None of it worked. On March 21, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem shut down the office and fired most of the 150-person staff. As a result, about 600 civil rights abuse investigations were frozen.
The Republican believe that they are exempt from laws and can do what they want! In a ProPublica article they write;
With a mass email sharing what it called “difficult news,” the U.S. Department of Education has eroded one of its own key duties, abolishing more than half of the offices that investigate civil rights complaints from students and their families.

Civil rights complaints in schools and colleges largely have been investigated through a dozen regional outposts across the country. Now there will be five.

The Office for Civil Rights’ locations in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco are being shuttered, ProPublica has learned. Offices will remain in Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
Hmm... did you notice that all the offices shut are from Democratic states?
 
All that lead up to this...
 
Students, additional parents join lawsuit challenging Department of Education's abandoning of civil rights investigations
April 10, 2025
 
 
Multiple parents and students, including two in middle school, from various states across the country have joined a federal lawsuit that seeks to restore the functions of the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and reverse recent actions that effectively eliminate OCR’s ability to process and investigate civil rights complaints, according to an amended complaint filed today.

Each of the additional plaintiffs in the suit, filed by the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) and Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc. (COPAA), have pending claims with OCR alleging discrimination on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or disability. The initial lawsuit was filed March 14.

"At a time when hostility toward the transgender community is at an all-time high, it is immoral and irresponsible for the agency charged with safeguarding students from discrimination to turn their back on these kids," said Melissa Combs, a parent plaintiff who was forced to move her child to a different school after her child was harassed due to their gender identity. "No student should have to experience what mine did, and no parent should have to take the extraordinary steps I’ve had to take to ensure my child’s equal access to an education."
It is a sad that that the government has to be sued to do their job of enforcing the law!
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Thursday, April 10, 2025

So You Think You Are Safe In A Blue State?

Well think again! Libraries are trying to ban books, hate flyers are found on lawns... no, everything is not Blue here.
WFSB
By Luke Hajdasz and Kaitlyn Burzin
April 3, 2025


Police are investigating flyers that targeted a transgender activist and the LGBTQ+ community in Deep River.

Multiple flyers were found across town. Most of them targeted a transgender woman who held an event at the library on Wednesday night.

Many people called the flyers hateful.

“It was loose right at my spot where I always park,” said Hilary Montenegro.

Hilary and Aryana said they felt targeted by the flyer when they found it on the ground near their apartment with a rainbow flag in the window.

One side of the notice had questionable statistics about homosexuals. The other side told people to keep children away from Jillian Celentano, a transgender woman.

“We picked it up off the ground, read it, and felt extreme concern,” said Aryana Galbraith.
I here time and time again, "I don't believe in bias crimes" Well it all goes to motive. These flyers are to generate fear in the community, it is not just the an individual that they are targeting but a whole community!
Hartford Courant
April 3, 2025


State and town leaders are condemning hate after flyers with transphobic and homophobic messaging were found littered across Deep River and surrounding towns.

The flyers, which were found Wednesday morning, were apparently in response to a planned presentation at the Deep River Public Library by the Tri-Town Youth Service Bureau.

Deep River First Selectman Carole Jones condemned the “messages of hate and intolerance” and thanked people who had gone around town removing the flyers. Messages of the flyers targeted both the LGBTQ+ community and the library presenter and included misinformation.

The presentation was aimed at “confronting misunderstanding and misinformation.”

“I am thankful to the community members who have taken the time to call, email, text or stop in to talk to me about the negative response and disturbing vitriol. The flyers when seen have been picked up and discarded. Thank you to the angels collecting and destroying this message of hate,” Jones said in a message to the community.
Back in November on the TDoR flyers were left in West Hartford,


Four days after a group known as the Nationalist Social Club left dozens, perhaps hundreds of flyers on West Hartford lawns attacking pediatricians for their work in gender affirming care with youths, police were still investigating. They were not calling the incident a hate crime.

[...]

The two-sided flyers, all or most in plastic bags with small stones, took aim at three physicians who are or were affiliated with Connecticut Children's, the Hartford-based pediatric medical center and network.
The flyers were designed to created fear in the doctors!

Sadly however, they do not constitute a bias crime because of the First Amendment, they don't cross the line and call for violence.

But it is not always flyers on front lawns, sometimes it is elected officials!
More than 200 callers waited to make their voices heard at a virtual meeting on Tuesday.
Fox 61
By Bridgette Bjorlo
April 8, 2025


Controversy is growing in Suffield over a potential book ban involving LGBTQ+ material.

 The Kent Memorial Library Commission was supposed to consider the matter on March 20 but abruptly canceled the meeting when more than 70 people showed up for public comment.

 The next meeting was scheduled for Tuesday, and the commission decided to hold it over Zoom. More than 200 callers waited to make their voices heard.

"I can't help but wonder what the next subject will be that is too dangerous for youth in our community to have access to,” Amanda Steben said.

[...]

 “It appears that this policy is primarily targeted toward LGBTQ+ issues and is largely driven by a primary unease with the reality of gender fluidity. Why? Because trans persons and gender dysphoria are to 2025. What gay persons were to the 1980s and millennia prior. LGBTQ+ folks have always existed and will always exist, and your efforts to discredit their knowledge of themselves will never erase them,” Ann Franczyk said.
The next quote is what got me...
 “Parents have a right to be able to drop their kids off at the library or leave their kids in the children's section of the library while they go into the adult section, without having to worry about their kids being exposed to inappropriate sexual and other material,” Eric Harrington said.
Do you see anything wrong with this?

What I see wrong is... this woman want to control what your children can read because she can't stop her children from reading what she doesn't like!

The Hartford Courant writes...
Tuesday’s meeting was held on Zoom only over the objections of residents and advocates who said the public had the right to address the commission in person. Officials said the format was necessitated by a total lack of buildings in town that would allow for both a large crowd and internet streaming.

[...]

In public comment periods at both the beginning and end of the meeting, more than 60 people spoke against the proposed policy and four in favor. Though most of the speakers were Suffield residents intent on defending their library from the threat of censorship, some were from other towns and a few were transgender teens and parents speaking against the proposed erasure of material on gay and transgender people.

The proposed “Youth Collection Acquisition and Retention Policy” states “materials and services presenting gender identity ideology are only permitted in the young adult section of the youth collection and only if balanced by other viewpoints regarding gender identity ideology directed to the same age group.” The policy also would ban sexually explicit materials.
And one speaker hit the nail on its head...
John Woods offered a painful hypothesis on the meaning of the policy to the town’s gay and transgender youth: “When we say to someone we don’t want books about you, aren’t we really saying ‘We don’t want you’?”
Exactly! And it gives the green light to the bullies.
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There Is A Reason We Don't Talk

[Editorial]

I was reading an editorial from Bloomberg the other day and I thought yes, it is true but...
We once disagreed. Now we don’t talk
By F.D. Flam Bloomberg Opinion


Since the COVID pandemic began five years ago, the U.S. has gone from being merely polarized to split into two separate and incompatible realities. Worse, according to a recently released survey, we lack a “common understanding of facts.” So much for the new normal.

Your reality depends on whether you identify with the political right or left. In its study, Bright Line Watch asked political scientists, experts in online misinformation and members of the general public to rate the country’s performance on 31 different democratic principles, from fair elections to free speech. A shared understanding of the facts ranked last among the respondents, which included Democrats and Republicans.

Cornell University sociologist Michael Macy predicted some of this a few years ago, arguing that the pandemic had precipitated a tipping point, tearing us apart in a way that wouldn’t be easily reversed. Disasters often have the opposite effect, bringing people together, he told me in a recent interview. But the pandemic was surprisingly divisive.
Okay looking though my "trans lens" I see something that I cannot even begin to discuss. My right to exist! As James Baldwin said about Civil Rights, I also say about Trans Rights...
We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.
How can you even begin to talk when they want to force you our of existence! What can we even discuss when they want to lock your ass in jail? What are we supposed to do..."Okay we can go out in public after 9PM on weekends." negotiate our rights?
Today, one side sees the actions of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency as cleaning up fraud and waste. In contrast, the other sees vital services and programs being dismantled. The split views of facts and reality could help explain the differing responses to the Signalgate controversy, with some viewing the text message scandal as a consequence of gross incompetence and negligence that’s put the nation at risk. Others downplayed its significance or shifted the blame. Both sides looked at the same evidence and came away with entirely different views.
But when the Republicans went after Hillary Clinton 70 times for supposedly using an unsecured server but then dismisses the use of an unsecured app as not the same! Or when one side ignores the Constitution's Check & Balances and wants to deport judges who do not rule in their favor?
Fear makes people feel justified in bullying, she said. Many of those using what was then Twitter in 2020 and 2021 saw that. People who wanted to start talking about reopening schools, for example, were labeled grandma killers. People on both sides were proud of bullying and cruelty as long as it was done for the correct (their) side.
Okay let us look at fear. What political party used fear? What political party came out and said that undocumented immigrants were eating the kittens and puppies? What political party came out and lied saying that trans students were forming whole teams of trans student to play sports? How can you even begin to talk when one side is yanking people off the streets in defiance of the courts, that it even worries Supreme Court justices?

How can you even sit down with someone to work out a middle ground when they do not even believe in vaccinations? Or even cannot agree on fluoridated water? 62.8% of the total U.S. population drinks fluoridated water do you think that if what they say is true that we would have seems massive evidence of the side affects if there were problems over the 75 - 80 years that water have been fluoridated. But they don't believe in evidence!
And so it’s possible that random chance dictated that it was conservatives who were more concerned with the possibility the COVID virus came from a lab leak and liberals who were more determined to keep schools closed. Today, the conservative right is more distrustful of scientists and the government and has been through the pandemic, while historically, it’s gone the other way — with liberals more distrustful, especially about the U.S. involvement in wars from Vietnam to Iraq.
That is totally bull! I think liberal are more distrusting of everything that is coming out of the White House today.

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He Is Playing Games!

One minute it is down with a recorded drop low the next it is up to records gains! He is playing us and I have to wonder if his friends are playing the stock market?
April 9, 2025


Stocks surged Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced a pause in some of the ‘reciprocal’ tariffs, causing a market that’s been under extreme pressure for the last week to explode higher.

The S&P 500  skyrocketed 8.5%, on pace for its biggest one-day gain in five years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average  advanced 2,711 points, or 7.2%, also its biggest gain since 2020. The Nasdaq Composite jumped 10.8%.

“I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately,” Trump posted on his Truth Social. Trump, in the same post, said he was raising the tariff on China higher again to 125%.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent later clarified that all countries except China would go back to the 10% baseline tariff rate as negotiations take place. The pause would not apply to sector tariffs, Bessent said.

Stocks that were heavily pressured by the trade war tensions led the comeback Wednesday afternoon. Apple and Nvidia soared more than 11% and 13%, respectively. Walmart shares rallied 9.7%. Tesla shares climbed more than 19% on the back of the pause announcement.
Is Trump playing a game with the Stock Market? Are people playing the ups and downs of the market? You can make money either way in the market, if you sell short you make money in the down market along with making money when stocks prices rise, but if you sell short you say I pay the price of the stock in 7 day. If the stock price goes down you make money.

I knew someone who bought stocks "short" in an orange juice because a cold front was moving for Florida and she bought short because a cold front was moving toward Florida and she thought that the stock price would drop because of freezing weather... but the cold front never made it to Florida and the price of the stock didn't drop. So she ended up losing money.

So with this on and off tariffs are people playing the market with the switching of the tariffs? So in the back of my mind I'm wondering if his billionaire friends are playing the market.


Since I wrote this Wednesday morning, it turns out that I wasn't the only one thinking that especially after Trump said this on social media! Senator Elizabeth Warren said yesterday morning...
And right before Donald Trump declared that some of his tariffs were “off” again – he sent out a message for his billionaire buddies. He posted “this is a great time to buy” in all caps. Was that market manipulation? Was it corruption in plain sight? We need an independent investigation into market manipulation. Because Americans deserve to know whether President Trump or anyone in his Administration manipulated the market to benefit their donors – all while working people and small businesses paid the price.
Especially after he said that it was a great time to buy! Very, very suspicious! The Washington Post writes about this,
 Less than four hours before President Donald Trump’s tariff pause announcement sent markets soaring, he posted online telling his 9.4 million followers that it was a good time to buy.

“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT” he posted on social media site Truth Social at 9:37 a.m. Wednesday. Shortly after 1 p.m., he announced on the same site that he would pause most new tariffs, causing the ailing stock markets to sharply rise.

Democrats are now accusing Trump of “market manipulation,” and the term is trending on the social media platform X, with more than 33,000 posts.

“The President of the United States is literally engaging in the world’s biggest market manipulation scheme,” the Democrats from the House Committee on Financial Services posted on X Wednesday afternoon.

Trump has long drawn questions from ethics experts about his various business holdings, and he made no promises after he was elected to divest from any of his financial interests. Trump’s assets are in a trust managed by his children, the White House said.
CNBC write this about possible market manipulation.
April 9, 2025


Investors who followed President Donald Trump’s blunt advice to buy stocks on Wednesday morning received a windfall when the president hours later rolled back some of his market-roiling tariffs.

[...]

If you invested $1,000 at that moment, you could have sold for as much around $1,110 when the holding hit its peak of the session.

The SPY finished the session higher by 10.5%, which was its biggest one-day gain since 2008.
Hmmm... it would be interesting to see if any large blocks of stock were traded.

Here is her speech,

Can you say Teapot Dome?


Updated 3:00PM

MSN reported that...
Donald Trump is openly bragging about just how much money his billionaire buddies made off of his dangerous tariff gambit.

After announcing a 90-day pause Wednesday on his sweeping “reciprocal tariff” policy on nearly every country—with the exception of China—Trump was excited to take credit for making a buck for his guests at the Oval Office.

“He made $2.5 million today, and he made $900 million! That’s not bad,” Trump said, pointing to financial investor Charles Schwab and Roger Penske, a NASCAR team owner, respectively.

Schwab’s estimated net worth is $12.6 billion, while Penske’s is $5.6 billion.

Bloomberg reported that Wednesday was the “best day ever” for billionaires, as the world’s wealthiest people raked in a heaping $304 billion as the markets shot back up.

The day’s biggest individual winner should come as no surprise: Elon Musk made a whopping $36 billion as Tesla stock soared up 23 percent. Trump’s surprising decision to temporarily back off his steep tariffs has sparked major concerns of obvious market manipulation, and even potential insider trading.
Of course the Republican Congress will do absolutely nothing! And neither will the DoJ so he will probably get away with it!



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Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Your Name Is Your Name

Another state another trans bill!

But this is a pro-trans bill form Colorado...
Bill would also require family courts to consider a parent’s misgendering of a child in a custody dispute
The Denver Post
By Seth Klamann
April 2, 2025


Transgender Coloradans — particularly children and supportive parents — would gain increased legal protections against discrimination under new legislation that cleared its first hurdle in the state House early Wednesday morning.

The party-line vote to advance House Bill 1312 came after 10 hours of dueling testimony from backers who decried anti-transgender discrimination and opponents who invoked parents’ rights and other objections.

The bill is formally named the Kelly Loving Act for a transgender woman killed in the 2022 Club Q nightclub shooting in Colorado Springs. Under the proposal, the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, which includes gender identity as a protected class, would add intentionally misgendering transgender people or referring to them by their “deadname” — meaning the name they used before they transitioned — to the discriminatory acts covered by the law in public accommodations.

The measure would also require family courts to consider a parent’s intentional deadnaming or misgendering of their transgender child during custody proceedings. It would prohibit courts from using other states’ anti-transgender laws to facilitate transferring custody of a child from one parent to another because the child received gender-affirming care.
Meanwhile Fox News is having a hissy fit over the bill!
Colorado Republicans says Dems pushed radical bills through on Sunday, a day for 'family and prayer'
By Jamie Joseph
April 7, 2025


The Colorado Democratic House majority pushed through a slate of controversial gender and abortion bills on Sunday, curtailing floor debate in what Republican lawmakers called an "unprecedented" tactic.

"It should alarm every American that Colorado's Majority used a Sunday — a day typically reserved for family and prayer — to force through four of the most extreme bills of the session," Republican House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese told Fox News Digital on Monday.

Pugliese said while "weekend work" is a "tactic the majority uses to punish the minority," it was especially "unprecedented" this time because of the highly controversial nature of the bills.
Gee have you noticed that then the Republicans do something like this Fox News praises it. And then "reserved for family and prayer" yeah at the shopping mall! Or in front of a sports game on TV.
The bills that were passed include SB25-183, which requires taxpayers to fund abortion services; HB25-1309, mandating insurers cover transgender procedures regardless of age; HB25-1312, which imposes state-mandated gender policies on schools and considers it "coercive control" in child custody cases when a parent does not affirm a child's gender identity; and SB25-129, which prohibits cooperation with out-of-state investigations on transgender procedures and abortion services.

According to state House Majority Democrat Leader Monica Duran, the four bills were debated on the floor for more than 12 hours last week.
I was in the House Gallery in the Connecticut House watching Republicans do the same thing!
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Big Brother Is Watching!!!

The government is now surveilling trans people as possible terrorist!!!! This is no belated April Fools joke! This is for real!
The policy manual change emerged after President Donald Trump called to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion practices at federal agencies.
Snopes
By Nur Ibrahim
March 10, 2025


The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis policy manual has omitted "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" from a rule prohibiting "intelligence activities" targeting someone on the basis of their identity.


True



Context
A spokesperson for DHS told Snopes that the department will not engage in surveillance based on a person's sexual orientation. The language change in the manual folds discrimination based on sexual orientation into "sex discrimination" at large, per the U.S. code, according to the spokesperson.

In February 2025, as U.S. President Donald Trump called for an end to diversity, equity and inclusion practices in the federal workforce, reports claimed the Department of Homeland Security — led by Secretary Kristi Noem — had removed bans on conducting intelligence activities on people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Such reports shared copies of the original DHS report, which showed a rule that originally prohibited personnel from conducting intelligence activities based only on a person's "race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, country of birth, nationality, or disability." The latest such report appeared to have removed the references to sexual orientation and gender identity.
DANGER DANGER Will Roberson! Danger!
The DHS quietly updated its policy manual earlier this month, removing LGBTQ+ identities from the section prohibiting surveillance based solely on immutable characteristics.
The Advocate
By Ryan Adamczeski
February 26 2025


The Department of Homeland Security has eliminated policies preventing the investigation of individuals or groups solely based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.

The DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis quietly updated its policy manual earlier this month, as first reported by Bloomberg, removing LGBTQ+ identities from the General Requirements section that prohibit surveillance based solely on immutable characteristics.

The manual now states: “OSIC Personnel are prohibited from engaging in intelligence activities based solely on an individual’s or group’s race, ethnicity, sex, religion, country of birth, nationality, or disability. The use of these characteristics is permitted only in combination with other information, and only where (1) intended and reasonably believed to support one or more of I&A’s national or departmental missions and (2) narrowly focused in support of that mission (or those missions).”
So translated from Newspeak it means that they can investigate us just because we are trans!!!!

We are now possible terrorist of the nation just by being trans!

Go Magazine writes...
Trump’s appointed pick for Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, has a long history of targeting LGBTQ+ rights. The former governor of South Dakota signed executive orders banning gender-affirming care for youth and transgender athletes from participating in sports teams that align with their identity.

The Office of Intelligence and Analysis states on its homepage “I&A’s main focus is to provide the Department with the intelligence and information it needs to keep the Homeland safe, secure, and resilient.”

The Brennan Center for Justice reported the “Department of Homeland Security. DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has for years engaged in abusive domestic intelligence practices targeting Americans’ political views and broadly painting certain groups of Americans as terrorists. Since at least 2016, I&A officers have conducted interviews with people held in jails without sufficient constitutional protections, targeted journalists and activists protesting local monuments under the guise of homeland security, surveilled racial justice demonstrators, and monitored political views shared by millions of Americans — about topics like abortion, government, and elections — that DHS baldly asserts will lead to violence.” 
And it is not just us worrying about where this could lead but also one of the Supreme Court justices, Justice Sotomayor said this...
“The implications of the Government’s position,” Sotomayor stressed, “is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise.”
Tell me are you worried now?

Frist they came for the immigrants...
Then they came for the LGBTQ+ community...
But I was a White, straight American and I wasn't worried.

There is a Latin phrase that I remember at times like this it say… "Ne permittas bastardus te deprimere"
“Don’t let the bastards get you down!"

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Tuesday, April 08, 2025

Lies, Lies, And More Lies

We have seen it time, time and again with the Republicans, they lie.

This morning I wrote about Maine being attacked by Trump over trans athletes, well now we have another lying Republican...
Sen. Tommy Tuberville's office did not return The Advocate's request about evidence supporting these claims.
The Advocate
By Christopher Wiggins
April 07 2025


Over the weekend, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican, appeared on Fox News and made a baseless, inflammatory claim about transgender people in sports — this time suggesting that entire teams of men are deciding to transition to compete in women’s athletics.

That's not happening.

The former Auburn football coach, who should know a thing or two about student-athlete eligibility, offered zero evidence during his appearance on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Barteromo. “We have entire men’s teams across this country now that are turning trans,” Tuberville, 70, said. “Women’s teams, they’re turning trans.”
Of course he offered no evidence because it is all a lie!
His remarks came amid a broader attack on Democrats, LGBTQ+ people, and youth in sports.

“The Democrats know that transgender boys in women’s sports is wrong, but they can’t abandon them because the rest of the group would probably say, ‘Hey, if you’re not going to stand with us, we’re out of here for you Democrats,’” Tuberville said. “And so it’s wrong. Everybody knows it’s wrong. We’re going to ruin women’s sports. It’s a disaster.”
He is playing on the fears of his evangelical Christian base!
"It's dead wrong," the Republican senator said.
HuffPost
Jazmin Tolliver
By Jazmin Tolliver
Apr 6, 2025


Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) is taking aim at the “woke globalists” who he claims are “pushing kids” to become transgender athletes in women’s sports.

“We have entire men’s teams across this country now that are turning trans — women’s teams — they’re turning trans,” Tuberville told guest host Jackie DeAngelis while appearing on Sunday’s episode of Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

He continued, “That’s going to be a situation where it’s going to pick up speed because these woke globalists are pushing these kids to say, ‘if you can’t compete in men’s sports, let’s just transition and say you’re a woman and participate in women’s sports.’”

Tuberville declared the situation “dead wrong,” adding, “We gotta stand up against it, but the Democrats are all in.”

Tuberville’s comments came after the Republican senator’s measure to preserve Title IX protections for female athletes by restricting transgender students from playing on women’s sports teams failed to garner the votes it needed to break a filibuster last month.
Them lying Republicans will say anything for their right-wing base... remember during the elections and the immigrants eating dogs and cats! No lie is outrageous enough!

I leave you with the John Oliver show on trans rights where he shows up all the Republican lies about trans athletes...




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Breaking News: The Supreme Court Rules??????

The Supreme Court allows Trump to use the Alien Enemy's Act late last night or did it?
A divided court said migrants filed their challenge to the Alien Enemies Act in the wrong jurisdiction but also said potential deportees must get due process
The Washington Post
By Justin Jouvenal and Ann E. Marimow
April 7, 2025


A divided Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to use a controversial wartime authority to deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang, but said detainees must first have an opportunity to challenge their deportations.

The 5-4 ruling did not touch on the underlying legal questions about the government’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, one of the most high-profile and contentious immigration enforcement actions so far in President Donald Trump’s second term.

Instead, the majority ruled that the five Venezuelan immigrants who challenged the policy did so in the wrong court, leaving open the possibility that those targeted for deportation could refile their case in Texas or other jurisdictions where they are detained.

“The detainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia,” the justices wrote of the challenge in U.S. District Court in D.C. “As a result, the Government is likely to succeed on the merits of this action.”
Wait a minute contrary to all the headlines on the front pages this morning it seems like the court said... no cigar, try again in the right court.

Some of the headlines this morning...
  • Al Jazeera: US Supreme Court upholds deportations under Alien Enemies Act
  • BBC: US Supreme Court allows Trump to use Alien Enemies Act for deportations
  • Fox News: Supreme Court grants Trump request to lift stay halting Venezuelan deportations
  • NPR: Supreme Court backs Trump in controversial deportations case
  • The New York Times: Supreme Court Overturns Block on Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Deportations
Now don't those headline sound like a major defeat for the Venezuelan immigrants?
The ruling said detainees are entitled to notice within a reasonable time frame and must have an opportunity to challenge their removal, including the government’s use of the wartime act.

The decision appears to take the central legal issues of the case away from Judge James E. Boasberg of U.S. District Court in Washington, whose temporary restraining order blocking the deportations prompted impeachment calls from Trump and his allies and triggered a showdown between the president and the judiciary.
So I would say that this ruling muddles the water a lot on the issue of deportation. It looks to me like it was kind of a draws down to: Trump won the use of the Act, but the Venezuelan immigrants won the right to challenge the deportations in court.
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Dave v. Goliath

The federal government in all it might is going after around a dozen, that is twelve athletes in Maine, the feds cut off funding to Maine because of a dozen trans athletes out tens of thousands other student athletes!
The administration claims acceptance of transgender students has "pernicious effects."
The Advocate
By Trudy Ring
April 04 2025


In the Trump administration's latest anti-transgender action, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education Friday announced a Title IX Special Investigations Team to investigate what they call “the pernicious effects of gender ideology in school programs and activities.” By that they mean acceptance of transgender students, and LGBTQ+ organizations are condemning the move.

In a press release, they claimed they have received “a staggering volume of Title IX complaints.” Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 bans sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding. Democratic administrations have interpreted it to include discrimination based on gender identity, but the current administration has adopted a strict binary definition of sex as assigned at birth.
You know when Trump's administration uses words like “a staggering volume of Title IX complaints.” it means that they probably only received only a couple of complaints.
“Protecting women and women’s sports is a key priority for this Department of Justice,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in the press release. “This collaborative effort with the Department of Education will enable our attorneys to take comprehensive action when women’s sports or spaces are threatened and use the full power of the law to remedy any violation of women’s civil rights.”
So what are they cutting to the hundred of thousands of students... school food programs!
AP News
By  PATRICK WHITTLE
April 7, 2025


Maine officials sued the administration of President Donald Trump on Monday to try to stop the government from freezing federal money in the wake of a dispute over transgender athletes in sports.

Trump and Maine, which is controlled by Democrats, are in the midst of a weeks long dispute about the Title IX anti-discrimination law and the participation of transgender students in high school sports. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said earlier this month that the U.S. Department of Agriculture was pausing some funds for Maine educational programs because of what she described as Maine’s failure to comply with the Title IX law.

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey filed a complaint in federal court on Monday that described the pause as “illegally withholding grant funds that go to keeping children fed.” The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order preventing the USDA from withholding money until a court is able to hear the case.
In the feds hatred of us they are will to cut food assistance to hundred of thousands of other students because of twelve or so students.
Tensions between Maine and the Trump administration have simmered since February when Trump threatened to pull funding from Maine if the state does not comply with his executive order barring transgender athletes from sports. Mills, who was present at the White House for a meeting of governors, told the president: “We’ll see you in court.”
There have been a number of Supreme Court cases that have affirmed that trans students are protected by Title IX contrary to Trumps rants. In the case of Bostock v. Clayton County
...in which it held that “an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII.”1 Despite the holding’s language and Bostock’s focus on firing under Title VII, the potential impact of the decision is much broader: The Supreme Court’s opinion states that “it is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex.”

This framing has much larger implications and provides a critical tool to address the widespread discrimination that LGBTQ people face not just in employment but in other key areas of life as well. Although Justice Samuel Alito’s dissent in Bostock is dripping with transphobia and homophobia, it correctly notes that the court’s broad holding could advance LGBTQ equality under civil rights statutes that prohibit sex discrimination, such as Title IX, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Fair Housing Act, and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
And in the Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board the Supreme Court refused to hear a lower court case appeal and let the ruling stand.
The United States Supreme Court has declined to review a federal court ruling in favor of a transgender student and his family challenging a discriminatory restroom policy at an Indiana public school district.

Represented by the ACLU of Indiana, an adolescent transgender boy and his parents filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville in December 2021 for failing to provide him with access to bathrooms consistent with his gender in violation of his rights under Title IX, the law prohibiting sex discrimination in educational programs, as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In an August 2023 opinion, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals found the school district policy did likely violate the student’s rights under Title IX and equal protection.

“We’re thankful the Court allowed this momentous victory for the transgender youth of Indiana to stand,” said Kenneth Falk, Legal Director of the ACLU of Indiana. “This case is about the fundamental right of every student to a safe and inclusive learning environment, and the policy at its core is an affront to the freedom of transgender youth to be themselves. We look forward to continuing to advocate for transgender Hoosiers and their families wherever their equality before the law is challenged.”
But the Trump administration totally ignores court rulings that they don't like.
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Mini-Post: We Got To Cut The Budget!!!!

You all have heard Trump & Company say they are cutting waste out of the government... how much will this cost to stroke Trump's ego? All hail King Trump!
April 7, 2025


The Trump administration is planning a June 14 military parade through the streets of Washington, D.C., to mark the president’s 79th birthday.

It will also mark the Army’s 250th anniversary. A senior administration official confirmed the plans to NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network.

Washington City Paper first reported on the parade, noting it will stretch almost 4 miles from the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., to the White House.

An Army official confirmed the parade’s length to The Hill, and said that “there are plans for a parade that will involve the Army,” adding that nothing is yet solidified.

The official noted that the Army had planned to celebrate its 250th anniversary with a “robust capability increase in what you would see in previous years.” Planning began last year and the event has since expanded, with the number of units participating now increased.
How much will it cost? Well the last Trump wanted to do this was in his first term...
But that event, set for Nov. 10, was canceled after defense officials quoted the price tag at $92 million and were slow to plan it, citing more pressing issues. The event also was heavily criticized both publicly and in private within the administration.
Gee this is something you normally in countries with dictators! Or Russia or China... not here in the U.S.
And Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a staunch Trump backer, warned against treating the parade as a “Soviet-style” display of military might.
Amen.
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Monday, April 07, 2025

Racist? Xenophobe? Misogynistic?

You have to wonder is we are entering a new age of Jim Crow+ with all this anti-DEI stuff. Stop and think for a moment what it really means all this banning of DEI.
 
DEI =  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
 
So in other words it means that they will not discriminate! That they will hire the best person for the job! So translated from Trump's Newspeak... Anti-DEI means that they want to discriminate!
By Zoe Sottile
April 6, 2025
 
 
 An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.

The National Parks Service webpage for the “Underground Railroad” used to lead with a quote from Tubman, the railroad’s most famous “conductor”, a comparison on the Wayback Machine between the webpage on January 21 and March 19 shows. Both the quote and an image of Tubman have since been removed, along with several references to “enslaved” people and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

The Washington Post first reported on the changes. The webpage now leads with commemorative stamps of various civil rights leaders with text including the phrase “Black/White Cooperation.” Whereas previously, the article started with a description of enslaved peoples’ efforts to free themselves and the organization of the Underground Railroad after the Fugitive Slave Act, the article now starts with two paragraphs that emphasize the “American ideals of liberty and freedom” and do not specifically mention slavery.

Tubman’s removal from the “Underground Railroad” page “is both offensive and absurd,” Fergus Bordewich, a historian and the author of a book about the Underground Railroad, told CNN Sunday. He described the new webpage as “diminished in value by its brevity.”
 


President Trump’s push to eliminate DEI from federal agencies through executive orders claimed an unlikely casualty: The Tuskegee Airmen.

This weekend, it was revealed that Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, the hub of Air Force basic training that sees 35,000 recruits, among other institutions under the United States Air Force—had removed courses that contain video footage and stories of the Tuskegee Airmen, in order to comply with the commander in chief’s directive.
 
 The videos are part of the Air Force’s basic training learning materials. One is titled “Breaking Barriers.” I encourage you to watch it, then ask yourself: Is this DEI?
Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou's famous autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy's library this week after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office ordered the school to get rid of ones that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

The Navy late Friday provided the list of 381 books that have been taken out of its library. The move marks another step in the Trump administration's far-reaching effort to purge so-called DEI content from federal agencies, including policies, programs, online and social media postings and curriculum at schools.
 
In addition to Angelou's award-winning tome, the list includes "Memorializing the Holocaust," which deals with Holocaust memorials; "Half American," about African Americans in World War II; "A Respectable Woman," about the public roles of African American women in 19th century New York; and "Pursuing Trayvon Martin," about the 2012 shooting of the Black 17-year-old in Florida that raised questions about racial profiling.
 
March 20, 2025
 
 
 After a recent change by the Trump administration, the federal government no longer explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains.

The segregation clause is one of several identified in a public memo issued by the General Services Administration last month, affecting all civil federal agencies. The memo explains that it is making changes prompted by President Trump's executive order on diversity, equity and inclusion, which repealed an executive order signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 regarding federal contractors and nondiscrimination. The memo also addresses Trump's executive order on gender identity.
 
[...]
 
 "It's symbolic, but it's incredibly meaningful in its symbolism," says Melissa Murray, a constitutional law professor at New York University. "These provisions that required federal contractors to adhere to and comply with federal civil rights laws and to maintain integrated rather than segregated workplaces were all part of the federal government's efforts to facilitate the settlement that led to integration in the 1950s and 1960s.

And then let us not forget Musk...
  

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Mini-Post: Crisis In The Courts

There is a approaching a crisis in the courts over the undocumented immigrant who was sent to El Salvador.
She rejected the idea that the Trump administration has no power to bring the deportee back.
Politico
By Kyle Cheney, Hassan Ali Kanu and Josh Gerstein
March 6, 2025


A federal judge is sticking by her demand that the Trump administration seek the immediate return of a Maryland man erroneously sent to El Salvador, where he is being held in “one of the most notoriously inhumane and dangerous prisons in the world.”

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis rejected the Trump administration’s entreaty to back off her Friday order, which requires the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia by Monday night. The Justice Department said the court had no power to order the decision and was intruding on President Donald Trump’s exclusive power to direct foreign policy.
I do not think Trump & Company will comply with the judge. I think they will thumb-their-nose at the judge.
“Defendants seized Abrego Garcia without any lawful authority; held him in three separate domestic detention centers without legal basis; failed to present him to any immigration judge or officer; and forcibly transported him to El Salvador in direct contravention of [immigration law],” Xinis wrote in a 22-page opinion issued just after 1 a.m. Sunday morning. “Once there, U.S. officials secured his detention in a facility that, by design, deprives its detainees of adequate food, water, and shelter, fosters routine violence; and places him with his persecutors.”
I foresee the judge holding someone in contempt of court and Trump pardoning them. And Congress will do nothing.


Update: 1:30PM

Trump & Company wants the Supreme Court to get the case immediately!
A judge on Friday ruled he must be returned to the U.S.
ABC News
ByLaura Romero and Devin Dwyer
April 7, 2025


The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court for emergency intervention in the case of a Maryland man the government -- by its own admission -- removed to El Salvador by mistake and now must return by 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday under a lower court's order.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued in the filing that a federal court cannot order a president to engage in foreign diplomacy, which he says is implicitly involved in any potential return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who the Trump administration alleges is a gang member.

"The Constitution charges the President, not federal district courts, with the conduct of foreign diplomacy and protecting the Nation against foreign terrorists, including by effectuating their removal," Sauer writes. "And this order sets the United States up for failure. The United States cannot guarantee success in sensitive international negotiations in advance, least of all when a court imposes an absurdly compressed, mandatory deadline that vastly complicates the give-and-take of foreign-relations negotiations."
And if the Supreme Court says send him back? Then What?


Update: 3:45PM 
By Reuters
April 7, 2025

A U.S. appeals court has declined to block a federal judge’s ruling that said the United States must bring a man back to Maryland after he was wrongly deported to El Salvador amid the Trump administration’s hardline crackdown on immigration.

The order by the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday allows a Friday ruling by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis to take effect. Xinis had ordered the United States to return the man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, on Monday. The Trump administration was challenging the order in the appeals court.

Update: 5:00PM
USA Today
By Michael Collins, Eduardo Cuevas, & Nick Penzenstadler
April 7, 2025


Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has temporarily placed on hold a judge’s order that the Trump administration must bring back to the United States a Maryland father it had mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

The decision on Monday came hours after government attorneys asked the Supreme Court to block an earlier ruling that gave the administration until the end of the day to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States.

Roberts' decision will give the court more time to review the case. He ordered lawyers in the case to respond by 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Federal immigration agents arrested Abrego Garcia, 29, on March 12 after pulling him over in an Ikea parking lot near his home in Beltsville, Maryland, about half an hour outside of Washington. Officials contend he is a member of the MS-13 criminal gang, although they have presented no evidence to back up that claim.
The saga continues tomorrow at 5PM!

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Bias Crimes

I like calling them Bias Crimes instead of Hate Crimes because bigotry is not a hate crime, it is a bias crime. "I didn't sell him (__full in the blanks__) because I hate him but because (Select one or more: Lazy, Criminals, Dope addicts, Welfare Queens)." hate is hard to prove, there is discrimination but no hate the salesperson believes in stereotyping which isn't motivated by hate but rather by bias. But it is still a crime, a bias crime.
 
Down the river in Deep River there have been a number of bias incidents...
By Hana Ikramuddin,
April 3, 2025
 
 
 Local officials denounced flyers with "homophobic and transphobic" messaging that were seen around Deep River Wednesday ahead of an event held at a local library.
 
 Deep River First Selectman Carol Jones said in a statement that the flyers had been spread around town and were "full of messages of hate and intolerance."
 
[...]
 
"What do we do when we are so blatantly reminded that the hatred and bitterness that we read about in the paper or see on the television exists here in our own little town? First, we have to acknowledge that this type of hatred does exist and while it offends most all of us, it can and does produce very real fear in some of us, and we ought to think a bit about that," Jones said.
But this wasn't an isolated incident, last December...
 
 
 Police are investigating after flyers with "prejudicial" material were found scattered around the City Hall area Wednesday morning in what they described as a "hate incident."
 
 Dispatchers received reports Wednesday morning that the flyers were "scattered about several streets in the area," a statement released by Deputy Chief Terrence Blake said. 

"The flyers contain prejudicial messaging against certain cultures and religions in various languages," he said.

He did not specify what the flyers said. It was not immediately clear what group or groups were targeted by the flyers.
It is not just here but all around the country that bias crimes are increasing against all minorities! The Hartford Courant reported,
By Ronnell A. Higgins
March 30, 2025
 
 
 Amid the debate surrounding Gov. Ned Lamont’s sound proposal to revise and strengthen hate crime laws in Connecticut, we must step back and again remind ourselves about an alarming reality.

We’ve seen a 50 percent increase in reported hate crimes in Connecticut just since 2021. Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League says that over the past five years it has seen a 450 percent increase in incidents they document in Connecticut.

There is a problem with hate in Connecticut and it isn’t going away. How we address this matters a great deal.

And just as law enforcement would respond to a surge in violent crime, auto thefts, or to disrupt the flow of illegal drugs through our state, it is our duty at the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection to organize and take a leadership role.

We are not waiting to respond to what Gov. Lamont has described as the unconscionable targeting of people “because of the color of their skin, the religion they practice, the person they love, their country of birth, or any other personal attributes that identify who they are.’’
What the governor's bill does is to combine all the bias crime statutes into one location. [Fair disclosing: I am on his council that made the recommendations to the governor], for example bias crimes against gays and lesbians were in a different location in the criminal statutes then bias crimes against us. That made it had for a law officer to look up the statute, now they are all in one place.
 
Here is what the governor wrote:
 The following is a list of existing hate crimes laws in the Connecticut General Statutes that Governor Lamont is seeking to consolidate into one new chapter:

Hate Crime Causing Physical Injury
Hate Crime Causing Physical Contact
Hate Crime Affecting Property
Hate Crime Affecting Religious Property
Hate Crime by Threat of Physical Contact
Hate Crime by Threat to Property
Hate Crime by Threatening in the First Degree with Respect to House of Religious Worship or Religiously-Affiliated Community Center
Hate Crime by Threatening in the Second Degree with Respect to House of Religious Worship or Religiously-Affiliated Community Center
Hate Crime by Advocacy or Urging
Hate Crime by Deprivation of Civil Rights
Hate Crime by Burning Cross
Hate Crime by Noose
Hate Crime with Mask or Hood
Ridicule by Commercial Advertisement
Discriminatory Public Accommodations Practice
Discriminatory Housing Practice
Hate Crime by False Report
Hate Crime by False Report to Law Enforcement
Hate Crime by False Report Resulting in Serious Physical Injury or Death
Hate Crime by Stalking
Hate Crime by Misuse of Emergency 9-1-1 System
Governor Lamont is scheduled to deliver his annual budget address to a joint session of the General Assembly on Wednesday, February 5, 2025. Documents containing the full details of his biennial budget proposal and other legislative proposals, including this bill on hate crimes, will be filed on that date.
 You know you have to wonder why bias crimes are going up?
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Mini-Post: Mine's Bigger Than Your!

This reminds me of tow little boys comparing who has the biggest...
April 7, 2025


The fight to keep the Camping World flag up in Greenville continues.

Four people stood in front of the flag on Evans Street with signs in support of the Camping World flag.

Just last week, the Greenville City Council voted to file a civil action against Camping World. Now, people are showing their support with the company that is refusing to take the flag down.

“Being a retired Marine, this means so much to me, and so when I heard that the Greeneville, all of a sudden decided that they want to stop, you know, have them take it down or do a smaller one, that’s not acceptable,” Marty Rebello said. “I mean, you’ve got to have a lot of love and hope for this country, I mean it takes good care of us, and we need to take good care of it.”
Just what does having a huge flag prove... that you are more patriot than everyone else or that you are a big d**k head then anyone else?

Where I used to live one summer in Rochester NY there was a people down the street who flew a normal size flag. On windy days you could hear the flag snap in the wind... I can't imagine how loud that would be with a flag that size! Also the metal snaps that mount the flag banged against the metal pole... it was like a bell ringing all hours of the day!

If he is so patriot why is he ignoring the law and creating a public nuisance.

MSN write...
A massive American flag flying at Camping World in Greenville sparked a debate between city regulations and patriotic symbolism.

The 3,200-square-foot flag soars 130 feet above the ground.

It has been the subject of fines from the city council for violating ordinances that limit flag sizes to 70 feet in height and 216 square feet in area.
But he is a true patriot fighting city hall and angering the neighbors.

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