The end of the month... paying taxes! Picking up drugs! Going to the P.O. for a temporary change of address to the Cape. And my brother called...
Tomorrow... FOOD! Wash & pack.
Saturday... I'm out here.
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Money, Money, Money!
It is a rich man's world!
The latest attack by Trump & Company is on the environment... money is more important than breathing. Money is more important than wildlife! Mass Audubon said in an email...
A major loss for the nature of Massachusetts. A critical moment for action.Earlier this month, you heard from our President, David O’Neill, about the devastating news: the largest federal grant in Mass Audubon’s history—$25 million that would have protected 10,000 acres, restored critical wetlands, and fueled innovation—was terminated.This loss was more than a funding cut. It was a blow to the bold, science-driven conservation solutions our communities and climate desperately need. But we’re not giving up and hope you won’t either. Will you stand with us as a monthly donor to protect our natural world in the months ahead?
Were they alone in getting their grants cut... nope!
- This animal is on the edge of extinction. Trump just fired the people trying to save it: Job cuts and frozen funding could inch one of the world’s rarest species even closer to extinction. (VOX)
- Defenders Condemns Administration's Dangerous Proposed Budget Cuts to Wildlife Conservation (Defenders of Wildlife)
- Trump cuts would scrap USGS biological research arm: Scientists are lobbying Congress and others to save the almost $300 million program, which pays for a wide array of work and supports research centers. (E&E News)
- President’s FY26 Budget Outline Slashes Funding for Ag Land Conservation (Quail Forever)
- Federal budget cuts threaten Jamestown Wildlife Research Center’s future (KSJB am)
- Proposed Trump budget cuts target NOAA climate research agencies that Texas relies on (Houston Chronicle)
- ‘Is it “woke” to care about the environment?’: how Trump’s cuts are dismantling global conservation work (Guardian)
- Trump administration revives plan to open most of Arctic Alaska land unit to oil development (Alaskan Beacon)
- Trump officials consider shrinking 6 national monuments in the West: Interior Department officials are considering scaling back the boundaries of national monuments in the West to encourage energy development on public lands. (Washington Post)
- Trump Administration Resurrects Oil Drilling Threat to 850,000 Acres of Central Coast Public Lands (Forest Watch)
- Executive order from Trump seeks to ramp up mining operations on federal public lands (Reddit)
The billionaires bought this election and they want their money's worth from their investments! The environment is to make money off of... screw the next generation!
Money, money, moneyMust be funnyIn the rich man's worldMoney, money, moneyAlways sunnyIn the rich man's worldAhaAll the things I could doIf I had a little moneyIt's a rich man's worldIt's a rich man's world
Mini-Post: Are You Linked?
We have been dropped from Linkedin!
LinkedIn has quietly removed a clause prohibiting deadnaming and misgendering from its community-wide hateful content policy.Pink NewsBy Charlie DuncanJuly 31, 2025Networking and employment company LinkedIn has edited the ‘Hateful and Derogatory Content’ segment of its Professional Community Policies to remove a clause to do with misgendering and deadnaming trans people.[...]The change to LinkedIn’s policy was first noticed by nonprofit Open Terms Archive, an organisation dedicated to publicly recording every version of terms of digital service for companies.According to the nonprofit, LinkedIn now does not list the act of “misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals” as an example of “prohibited conduct” in the ‘Hateful and Derogatory Content’ section.
Trump tentacles are far reaching!
A spokesperson for LGBTQ+ rights advocacy group GLAAD told The Advocate: “LinkedIn’s quiet decision to retract longstanding, best-practice hate speech protections for transgender and nonbinary people is an overt anti-LGBTQ move — and one that should alarm everyone.“Following Meta and YouTube earlier this year, yet another social media company is choosing to adopt cowardly business practices to try to appease anti-LGBTQ political ideologues at the expense of user safety.”
It seems like Trump has his grubby little hands in all things trans.
My guess... and it is only a guess is that Trump had the hots for a woman and it turned out she's trans and it flipped him out. So this is his revenge... trying to drive us to extinction!
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
This Hits Right To The Point Of What's Happening!
Illinois governor gave a the State of the Union speech in where he said (From NBC News Chicago), in part...
“I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.“As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.“The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.“The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.“As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.“I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.“The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.“I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.“I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.“All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.“I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.”“My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.“If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:“It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.“Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.“Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.“Thank you.”
The handwriting is on the wall... Trump is using Hitler as his playbook! He is following it to the letter.
Turning Back The Clock
Trans and LGBTQ rights are not the only things being sent back to the 1950s.
I had a summer job in the late ’60s, and I had to drive into Hartford every morning. As I crossed over Wethersfield Ave on Rt. 5, looking toward Hartford, the Traveler’s Tower was covered in a brown smog. At the stoplights up the turnpike, there would be clouds of smoke out of the tailpipes and the smell of gas and oil.
Rivers catching fire, Love Canal belching toxic chemicals, acid rain — it’s all coming back.
WSFA 12 NewsBy Stetson MillerMarch 12, 2025The Trump administration announced plans on Wednesday to rollback dozens of environmental regulations.Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said that the agency will take 31 “historic actions” in what he called, “the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history.”“EPA will be reconsidering many suffocating rules that restrict nearly every sector of our economy and cost Americans trillions of dollars,” said Zeldin, in a video posted to X.Some of the actions that were outlined in EPA press release included reconsidering rules on pollution at power plants, regulations for the oil and gas industry, wastewater regulations for coal power plants and a set of standards that aim reduce mercury and other hazardous air pollutants in coal plants.
PFAS... you all know about them, the forever chemicals...
The Environmental Protection Agency said it will reconsider drinking water standards for four chemicals that have been linked to a range of illnesses.The Washington PostBy Amudalat AjasaMay 14, 2025The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it plans to rescind and reconsider limits on four “forever chemicals” under a landmark drinking water standard implemented last year by President Joe Biden.The drinking water rules were adopted as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to limit public exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), hazardous chemicals linked to a range of serious illnesses. The original rule covered six common PFAS contaminants, including PFOA, a known human carcinogen, and PFOS, a likely carcinogen.The EPA estimates that more than 158 million Americans are exposed to PFAS through their drinking water.
You know when you spend millions you want something in return.
Houston ChronicleBy James Osborne,July 29, 2025The Trump administration moved Tuesday to roll back an Obama-era finding that greenhouse gas emissions posed a threat to human health, which is essential to federal efforts to crack down on industries like Texas’ oil and gas sector.Speaking on a podcast uploaded Tuesday morning, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin described the move as “driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion.”“Most Americans, we care about the environment. We want clean air land and water,” he said. “Then there are people in the name of climate change willing to bankrupt the country.”[...]Those regulations were meant to reduce fossil fuel consumption over time, with many forecasting that global oil demand would peak before the end of the decade.The oil and gas sector was divided by efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with many smaller companies railing against what they said was the end of an industry and larger companies like Houston-based Exxon Mobil and Chevron in recent years acknowledging the dangers of climate change and attempting to reduce their emissions.
He is taking us back to the 50s!
The proposal to roll back the endangerment finding, which came after a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that climate change posed a danger to public health, is expected to set off a protracted legal battle that will likely take years to resolve.
All hail the mighty dollar!
NPRBy Camila DomonoskeJuly 29, 2025For years the Environmental Protection Agency has pushed carmakers to reduce how much vehicles contribute to climate change.Today the EPA laid out plans to not just weaken those rules, but end them entirely.In 2009, the agency determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are a form of air pollution that the agency can regulate under the Clean Air Act. That's because those gases contribute to climate change, which harms human health.That determination, called the "endangerment finding," underpins major regulations — including strict tailpipe standards for carmakers that envisioned at least half the new cars sold in the U.S. being electric or plug-in hybrids by 2030. The transportation sector is the largest source of direct greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
In another article in the Washington Post, they write...
The American Petroleum Institute, an oil lobby group, said the tailpipe rules would have effectively banned gasoline-powered vehicles and that it hoped to work with the administration on policies to balance affordable transportation with emissions reductions.The endangerment finding has long been a target of libertarians and many conservatives seeking to cut back regulations they see as burdensome.
Welcome to the 1950s! Where Blacks knew their place, gays were persecuted, trans were arrested, and a woman's place was in the kitchen, barefooted and pregnant.
Mini-Post: Open Season
In the military it is open season on trans servicemembers... Trump gave the green light so now we can be bullied with impunity.
Leaders in the Trump administration have minced few words in articulating how they feel about transgender troops.Military.comBy Konstantin ToropinJuly 29, 2025As a 20-year veteran of the Army sat in a classroom attending a mandatory course for soldiers getting out of the military and transitioning to civilian life, the civilian instructor made an odd request. He asked the couple of dozen people in the room to scratch out the words "pronoun, gender, diversity and inclusion" from the workbooks they had been issued.Much of the class likely thought little of the request -- a lingering effect of the Trump administration's efforts to eliminate diversity initiatives in the government -- but the soldier's mind filled with frustration and anger.The soldier is transgender and was sitting in that class because the Trump administration had made the choice to deny trans troops the ability to serve.As the soldiers around her were dutifully censoring their workbooks, she felt like they were quietly removing the change that she, and fellow trans troops like her, worked so hard to instill in the military. A soldier from her unit shot her a look that just said, "I'm sorry this is happening to you."
These countries allow trans service member; Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK, the Czech Republic, Finland, Estonia, Austria, New Zealand, Australia, and Israel.
What Are They Hiding?
We all know that they haven't release the Epstein Files have not been released even though Trump said he would. Well now it turns out that the raw video that the FBI released of the monitors in Epstein's cell was altered! Fox News reported,
By Austin WilliamsJuly 16, 2025The Brief
- Nearly three minutes of footage were cut from the DOJ’s "raw" video of Epstein’s cell, metadata analysis shows.
- The video appears to be stitched together from multiple clips using Adobe Premiere Pro.
- The DOJ had previously said the 11-hour video was unedited.
Newly uncovered data reveals that nearly three minutes were cut from the surveillance footage outside Jeffrey Epstein’s cell—despite prior claims that the video was "raw" and unedited.Digital forensics experts discovered the clip released by the Department of Justice was actually made from at least two separate video segments stitched together using Adobe Premiere Pro. That finding raises fresh concerns about transparency, particularly because the video was released by the Trump administration last week to help dispel conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s death.The discrepancy was first reported by WIRED, which worked with metadata specialists to analyze the file. The analysis showed that one of the original source clips used to create the final video was 2 minutes and 53 seconds longer than what the DOJ ultimately released.
#1 They must be really dumb to not think that the video would be gone over with a fine tooth comb.
#2 Editing the video when they said it was the RAW uncut video... stupid!
#3 You know that now we know it altered they are going to be thinking... conspiracy theories will be running rampant.
Wired reported that,
Working with two independent video forensics experts, WIRED examined the 21-gigabyte files released by the DOJ. Using a metadata tool, reporters analyzed both Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) and Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) data to identify signs of postprocessing.The “raw” file shows clear signs of having been processed using an Adobe product, most likely Premiere, based on metadata that specifically references file extensions used by the video editing software. According to experts, Adobe software, including Premiere and Photoshop, leaves traces in exported files, often embedding metadata that logs which assets were used and what actions were taken during editing. In this case, the metadata indicates the file was saved at least four times over a period of several hours on May 23, 2025, by a Windows user account called “MJCOLE~1.” The metadata does not show whether the footage was modified before each time it was saved.The embedded data suggest the video is not a continuous, unaltered export from a surveillance system, but a composite assembled from at least two separate MP4 files. The metadata includes references to Premiere project files and two specific source clips—2025-05-22 21-12-48.mp4 and 2025-05-22 16-35-21.mp4. These entries appear under a metadata section labeled “Ingredients,” part of Adobe’s internal schema for tracking source material used in edited exports. The metadata does not make clear where in the video the two clips were spliced together.
A digital forensics said...
Farid says the metadata raises immediate concerns about chain of custody—the documented handling of digital evidence from collection to presentation in a courtroom. Just like physical evidence, he explains, digital evidence must be handled in a way that preserves its integrity; metadata, while not always precise, can provide important clues about whether that integrity has been compromised.[...]Farid points to another anomaly: The video’s aspect ratio shifts noticeably at several points. “Why am I suddenly seeing a different aspect ratio?” he asks.
No matter who altered the video, it still leads back to Trump & Company and makes you wonder what are they hiding?
Mini-Post: I Have No Problems
Students are criticizing their professors for using AI...
Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs.The New York TimesBy Kashmir HillMay 14, 2025In February, Ella Stapleton, then a senior at Northeastern University, was reviewing lecture notes from her organizational behavior class when she noticed something odd. Was that a query to ChatGPT from her professor?Halfway through the document, which her business professor had made for a lesson on models of leadership, was an instruction to ChatGPT to “expand on all areas. Be more detailed and specific.” It was followed by a list of positive and negative leadership traits, each with a prosaic definition and a bullet-pointed example.Ms. Stapleton texted a friend in the class.“Did you see the notes he put on Canvas?” she wrote, referring to the university’s software platform for hosting course materials. “He made it with ChatGPT.”“OMG Stop,” the classmate responded. “What the hell?”
Okay, why do I not object to the professor using AI and not the students?
It has to do with what you are in school for... to learn. What is the professor there for... to teach. And if the best way to teach a topic is to use AI then yes I see no problem with that. While a student is there to learn, to learn how to do research, how to examine sources, and how to write research papers.
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
There Are Differences
All religions are not the same... there are affirming religions and then there are fire & brimstone religions!
The Maine Monitorby Sean ScottJuly 28, 2025The Rev. Gwen Fry realized she was a transgender woman in 1976 as she watched the transgender tennis player Renée Richards fight to compete in the U.S. Open as a woman.Now an Episcopal priest working in Waterville, Fry joined dozens of clergy and religious leaders from across Maine this spring to testify against a slew of bills that aimed, in part, to prevent transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.“My church and now my state protects the trans community,” Fry said in her testimony. “I no longer live in fear to leave my house like I did in Arkansas because of the protections afforded me here in Maine. If these bills pass we will be taking giant steps backwards and my small community will experience a return to the same discrimination and oppression I fled moving to Maine.”
The news media darlings are the fire and brimstone religions, GLAAD reports,
The media often gravitates toward voices that provoke strong reactions, and that usually means highlighting conflict rather than nuance as a result it reinforces the fire & brimstone and it marginalizes the affirming voices!A three-year study of mainstream news coverage about the intersection of religion and issues affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community1 showed that media outlets overwhelmingly quoted or interviewed sources from Evangelical Christian organizations to speak about LGBT lives, and the messages from those sources were significantly more negative than positive, resulting in a 'religion versus gay' framing.Where are the pro-LGBT religious voices?The ‘Missing Voices: A study of religious voices in mainstream media reports about LGBT equality’ study, released by GLAAD and the University of Missouri Center on Religion & the Professions, analyzes messages presented in national news outlets by religious voices about issues affecting the LGBT community. The research, a three year study of 316 news stories about LGBT issues, using 1,387 different religious sources on national television and print news media, shows a disproportionate reliance on anti-LGBT religious voices commenting on LGBT people and issues. Three out of four religious messages came from people whose religions have formal policies opposing LGBT equality, despite the fact that acceptance of LGBT people is growing across faith traditionsThe news media is largely omitting a pro-LGBT religious perspective and ignoring individuals who identify as both LGBT and religious, particularly those who identify as Christian. As a result of this framing, it is likely that media consumers have distorted views of the relationship between LGBT people and religion and follow a false 'gay vs. religion' frame.
Major Findings
- Media outlets persistently quoted sources from Evangelical Christian organizations to speak about LGBT issues, and the messages those sources conveyed were significantly more negative than positive.
- Individual Evangelicals are consulted at a higher rate than their presence in the population would warrant (34% of media coverage versus 26% of the U.S. population).
- Furthermore, Evangelical Christians account for almost 40% of all the negative statements about LGBT issues made by religiously identified spokespeople. Spokespeople for the Roman Catholic hierarchy account for another 12%.
- Pro-LGBT or LGBT-identified sources are predominantly presented without any religious affiliation, thus reinforcing the mainstream media framing of 'religion vs. gay'.
The article goes on to write...
A Maine Monitor analysis found that roughly 50 clergy members, religious leaders and other representatives of faith-based groups testified individually on the anti-transgender legislation — significantly more than testified on abortion legislation this session. All but four of them opposed the bills, invoking their faith to defend the rights of transgender youth.
When we were passing the gender inclusive non-discrimination bill we had a number of religious leaders speak in favor of the bill, including a bishop.
Cuckoo Award
Republicans across the country are pushing bills to stop government 'weather modification'
“If it doesn't exist,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., a co-sponsor of federal legislation targeting geoengineering, “then you don't have anything to worry about.”NBC NewsBy Allan Smith and Matt DixonJuly 29, 2025For years, outlandish theories about the U.S. government’s using airplanes to spray harmful chemicals over U.S. homes or powerful elites controlling the weather were relegated to the fringes of society.Not anymore.As the internet has provided rocket fuel for such claims, Republican lawmakers across the country are introducing, passing and enacting laws to ban “weather modification” and environmental geoengineering and allude to the use of “chemtrails,” a longtime theory that planes are spreading chemical agents on an unsuspecting public. As more people are exposed to dangerous flooding, the GOP lawmakers have pointed to the fringe theories as potential explanations for extreme weather, pushing them further into the political mainstream. (Scientists have found evidence tying the increasing frequency of extreme weather to climate change.)Republican lawmakers in nearly 20 state legislatures have proposed such legislation, with governors in Tennessee and Florida having signed bills into law. On the federal level, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., recently introduced the “Clear Skies Act,” which would outlaw forms of geoengineering and hit alleged weather modifiers with penalties of up to $100,000 for each violation and potential prison sentences of up to five years.
Quack... quack... quack!Of course Reps Marjorie Taylor Greene is involved, she is the leading quacking in Congress!
Greene, who is leading the charge to pass federal legislation to ban weather modification, said she saw “kind of a funny hypocrisy” among climate change activists who are “yelling, ‘We’ve got to stop climate change.’”“But yet they’re like, ‘No, don’t stop manmade climate change,’” she continued. “So I find that to be a laughable hypocrisy. And so it just doesn’t add up to me.”
It just shows the level of education that the Republicans... none.
“It’s not a conspiracy theory,” Pennsylvania state Sen. Camera Bartolotta, a Republican who co-sponsored legislation in her state, said in an interview. “All you have to do is look up.”
Cuckoo, cuckoo!
“I get a lot of calls on it,” Burchett said, adding: “It’s a hot button issue. … And it’s an issue that was in the real realm of the conspiracy theorists. But if you look [online], you’ll notice that it has taken on a little bit more mainstream. You have one group that says it’s real, and the other group says ‘you’re a lunatic,’ that it doesn’t exist.”Asked what he would say to someone who believes he is a lunatic for proposing his legislation, Burchett said the bill is a no-lose proposition.“If it doesn’t exist,” Burchett said, “then you don’t have anything to worry about.”
Does that mean most of your constituents are stupid so you cater to them?
“They’re upset over what they call chemtrails they see in the sky,” Greene said of constituents who have contacted her about the issue. “They’re continually upset about it, and they’re engaged on it. But it hadn’t gotten there on a wide scale. Remember the flooding in Dubai? That was one of the first times I saw, like, ‘Oh, this went mainstream, and people are paying attention.’”
I don't have an idiot award but if I did she would be the first recipient!
“I know so many people today, they’re finally noticing, and it gets worse and worse and worse,” she said. “Every single day, you can’t look at the sky and not see huge stripes sprayed by all these planes every single day and every night.”
Today the award is not given to any one person but to the entire Republican party! They are all cuckoo.
Okay, that being said, contrails do affect the weather. When the World Trade Center was attacked and all the planes were grounded, well the weather changed. It became one big science experiment!
David J. Travis1, Andrew M. Carleton2 & Ryan G. Lauritsen1Nature volume 418, page601 (2002)Cite this articleA brief interval when the skies were clear of jets unmasked an effect on climate.AbstractThe potential of condensation trails (contrails) from jet aircraft to affect regional-scale surface temperatures has been debated for years but was difficult to verify until an opportunity arose as a result of the three-day grounding of all commercial aircraft in the United States in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001. Here we show that there was an anomalous increase in the average diurnal temperature range (that is, the difference between the daytime maximum and night-time minimum temperatures) for the period 11–14 September 2001. Because persisting contrails can reduce the transfer of both incoming solar and outgoing infrared radiation and so reduce the daily temperature range, we attribute at least a portion of this anomaly to the absence of contrails over this period.
This is a natural process. The engines burn carbon based fuel and it particles of soot comes out of the engine and water vaper condenses around the particle and creates clouds. If you look at picture of of WWII bomber over Germany there are all contrails coming from their engines!
There Is No Difference...
How many times have we heard that from trans people who didn't vote. Do they still feel that way?
July 28, 2025Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Democrats should approach transgender rights, including eligibility requirements for trans athletes, “with compassion” during an interview aired early Monday with NPR’s “Morning Edition.”Buttigieg, who confirmed in May that he is weighing a bid for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination after passing on a Senate run in Michigan, was asked about his messaging on transgender rights in response to remarks from former Obama White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel that diminished trans identities.Emanuel, a Democrat and former Chicago mayor, has also said he is considering a 2028 presidential bid.“Your approach starts with compassion — compassion for transgender people, compassion for families, especially young people who are going through this, and also empathy for people who are not sure what all of this means for them,” Buttigieg, who ran unsuccessfully for the 2020 Democratic nomination, told host Steve Inskeep on Monday.
Do you really think that the Republican's have compassionate bone in their body? In Democrat control states they passed a bills...
- In Washington, HB 1971 expands access to prescription hormone therapy by hospitals and health systems.
- In Michigan, in late January 2025, Michigan enacted legislation expanding its hate-crime statutes to explicitly include gender identity and expression
- In Delaware, Governor Matt Meyer signed an executive order designating Delaware as a "sanctuary state" for gender-affirming care, protecting both patients and providers from punitive action by other states.
- In Massachusetts, in July 2025, Massachusetts lawmakers moved ahead with legislation to codify protections for gender-affirming care and related patient privacy rights.
- In Colorado, the Kelly Loving Act (HB 25‑1312): Expands the Colorado Anti‑Discrimination Act to include protections based on gender identity, mandates respectful use of chosen names and pronouns, removes court order requirements for gender marker updates if previously changed documents exist, and prohibits enforcement of out‑of‑state restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors. Signed into law.
- In California, Senate Bill 59 (“Transgender Privacy Act”): Introduced in January 2025, it extends court records confidentiality (including name/gender changes) to adults, retroactive, building on earlier protection for minors. Still moving through the legislature; not yet law as of now.
- In Connecticut, we passed House Bill 6913, titled “An Act Prohibiting Long‑Term Care Facilities from Discriminating Against Long‑Term Care Facility Residents”, was passed by the Connecticut General Assembly.
But, but...
According to Trans Legislation Tracker, 953 introduced bills represent an unprecedented volume in a single year and 120 bills were signed into law.
So don't give me this crap about both parties being the are the same! One is helping us and one s trying to kill us!
Mini-Post: Cheater, Cheater...
Caught on camera cheating... what does say about the integrity of the President of the United States that he cheats with even batting a eyelash. He sees playing by the rules for suckers.
He is a sleaze bag!
Updated 7/29 @ 8PM
Commander in Cheat!
President Trump is likely "not happy" with his golf nickname, according to his supporters.The President of the United States has developed a new nickname on the course this weekend. President Trump, 79, played a couple of rounds of golf in Scotland. The President of the United States has a prestigious course, Trump Turnberry, in Scotland, where he has family roots.President Trump, who was in Scotland to work on a deal with the European Union, played a round of golf on Saturday and another round on Sunday.However, video of President Trump potentially getting caught bending the rules is going viral on social media.In the wake of the video, President Trump is being referred to as the "Commander in Cheat."He's not going to like that."PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE CADDY DROPPING A BALL FOR ME! INVESTIGATE OBAMA AND KAMALA HARRIS INSTEAD! STOP CALLING ME COMMANDER IN CHEAT!" one fan joked."No wonder the Commander in Cheat always wins the championship trophy at his own golf courses. He cheats at everything because he sucks at everything," another fan added.
Monday, July 28, 2025
Weirder And Weirder
With Trump anything is possible, even letting go a convicted sex trafficker (AP News) who is serving a 20 year sentence.
This is all about the "Epstein Files" why do they need to talk to her? Release the files! It is as simple as that!
The Hillby Miriam WaldvogelJuly 25, 2025The Justice Department (DOJ) granted Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, limited immunity before she sat for two days of interviews with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, ABC News reported Friday.Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking and other charges. The interview comes as the Trump administration faces significant pressure from its base to reveal additional information about Epstein, who has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories.[...]Blanche, meanwhile, said the department would share more information “at the appropriate time.” He and Maxwell spoke for a total of nine hours over two days.ABC reported that the immunity Maxwell was granted is often granted in order to help individuals cooperate with a criminal case.
It is very suspicious that the Deputy Attorney General met with her... what are they up to?
Newsweek reported that,
The unusual one-on-one meeting between the deputy attorney general and Maxwell occurred amid renewed pressure on the Trump administration to release the files surrounding the Epstein case.The DOJ has faced fierce bipartisan backlash since releasing a memo saying that the government never had an Epstein "client list," and that the sex offender and disgraced financier died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019.[...]The New York Times reports that Maxwell was granted conditional immunity, often known as proffer immunity, which is commonly used to encourage cooperation by protecting the interviewee from self-incrimination in exchange for testimony.
Now here is the kicker and what makes it suspicious...
Markus said that included discussions about a potential pardon. "We haven't spoken to the president—or anybody—about a pardon," he added. "The president this morning said he had the power to do so. We hope he exercises that power in a right and just way."
Ghislaine Maxwell is “finally able to say what really happened,” her lawyer claims as the convicted sex trafficker meets with a top White House official.News.com.au [Is owned by Rupert Murdoch]Benedict BrookJuly 26, 2025Ghislaine Maxwell will “finally be able to say what really happened,” her lawyer has said as the convicted sex trafficker met with a top White House official for a second day.On Friday, US time, it was reported Maxwell had discussed around “100 different people” linked to the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.[...]Asked about a possible pardon by President Trump for Maxwell, Mr Markus said Mr Trump was the “ultimate deal-maker”.“We haven’t spoken to the president or anybody about a pardon just yet. And, you know, listen, the president this morning said he had the power to do so,” he told reporters.
Here is my take on all this, I think that when all the dust settles... she will have her pardon, she will not name Trump but she will add a whole list of others perverts who raped young girls. And the original list of names will fade back into the darkness.
Mini-Post: "Say it ain't so..."
Surprise, surprise... Federal agents lied!
Revealed: records show border patrol gave inaccurate testimony about people it jailed. Prosecutors now face ‘embarrassing’ dismissalsThe GuardianSam LevinMon 28 Jul 2025US immigration officers made false and misleading statements in their reports about several Los Angeles protesters they arrested during the massive demonstrations that rocked the city in June, according to federal law enforcement files obtained by the Guardian.The officers’ testimony was cited in at least five cases filed by the US Department of Justice amid the unrest. The justice department has charged at least 26 people with “assaulting” and “impeding” federal officers and other crimes during the protests over immigration raids. Prosecutors, however, have since been forced to dismiss at least eight of those felonies, many of them which relied on officers’ inaccurate reports, court records show.
But now weeks latter...
The Guardian’s review of records found:
- Out of nine “assault” and “impeding” felony cases the justice department filed immediately after the start of the protests and promoted by the attorney general, Pam Bondi, prosecutors dismissed seven of them soon after filing the charges.
- In reports that led to the detention and prosecution of at least five demonstrators, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents made false statements about the sequence of events and misrepresented incidents captured on video.
- One DHS agent accused a protester of shoving an officer, when footage appeared to show the opposite: the officer forcefully pushed the protester.
- One indictment named the wrong defendant, a stunning error that has jeopardized one of the government’s most high-profile cases.
“When I see felonies dismissed, that tells me either the federal officers have filed affidavits that are not truthful and that has been uncovered, or US attorneys reviewing the cases realize the evidence does not support the charges,” said Cristine Soto DeBerry, a former California state prosecutor who is now director of Prosecutors Alliance Action, a criminal justice reform group.
The government got what they wanted... a perp walk! They got on every newspaper, on every evening news of them busting heads and enforcing the law... so what the cases got thrown out, they got the talking heads on the evening news to talk about them.
Open You Pocketbooks! $$$$$
Trump is in Scotland on a business trip or is he?
Trump’s Scotland trip are kind of reminds me of my neighbor who used to go on vacation always made sure each day he attended a business meeting so he could write off the trip as a business an expense. is Trump’s Scotland more of a golf trip than a business trip.
The Standard reported that Trump’s Sunday and Saturday were golf-heavy, with no formal meetings scheduled aside from trade talks with Ursula von der Leyen and the Starmer meeting later in the week. On Saturday, he played at least 18 holes at Turnberry—nine in the morning, lunch break, then another nine in the afternoon. It also reported that nothing official was scheduled Saturday, leaving Trump free to spend the day on the course.
As reported by Reuters... After meeting Starmer on Monday, most remaining time at Turnberry and later at Aberdeen was spent opening a new golf course, playing rounds, and hosting family—all with substantial security and little sign of official business beyond the trade talks.
As the US president fires thousands in the name of preventing alleged fraud, he continues to spend taxpayer funds on his outingsThe GuardianBy Mohamad BazziJuly 25, 2025Donald Trump will be visiting Scotland for five days, but he won’t spend most of his time in high-level diplomatic meetings or conducting other state business. He’s primarily visiting two of his golf resorts, and dedicating a new golf course named in honor of his mother, who was born in Scotland.In other words, Trump appears to be going on a junket, paid for by US taxpayers, to check out his golf properties in a foreign country.The White House has shared few details about Trump’s upcoming “private” trip, which starts on Friday and runs through 29 July. The secrecy is deliberate – to avoid questions and criticism of a presidential visit that is mainly focused on promoting Trump’s business interests. As of Tuesday, three days before Trump’s expected arrival in Scotland, the US administration still had not shared the president’s itinerary with the Scottish police force, which is bracing for protests in several cities.Most coverage of Trump’s trip has focused on the fact that the White House decided to ban Wall Street Journal reporters from the press pool that will travel with the president, in retaliation for the outlet’s recent report connecting Trump to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But few media outlets have asked why Trump is visiting Scotland in the first place, especially since the White House is planning another, more elaborate state visit to the UK in September, when Trump will be hosted by King Charles.
Well I can tell you "Where's the Backlash" there isn't any because the news media here is covering that angle of the trip!
AP News wrote...
Donald Trump’s getaway is taking him considerably farther from the nation’s capital, to the coast of Scotland.[...]The White House isn’t calling Trump’s five-day, midsummer jaunt a vacation, but rather a working trip where the Republican president might hold a news conference and sit for interviews with U.S. and British media outlets. Trump was also talking trade in separate meetings with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
$10,000,000 of our dollar!
I asked the AI ChatGPT: "So maybe a total of 6 or 8 hours spent on business and the rest of the time golfing?"
Yes, based on available reporting, your estimate is very plausible—and likely generous.
🕰️ Estimated Breakdown of Trump's Scotland Visit
Trump’s Scotland trip spans about 5 days. Here’s a realistic view of how the time seems to have been spent:
| Activity | Estimated Time |
|---|---|
| Business Meetings | ~6–8 hours total |
| Golf / Leisure | ~30+ hours (multiple rounds + ceremonies) |
| Travel / Transfers | ~5–6 hours |
| Press / Media / Events | ~3 hours (combined) |
📊 Business Activity: What’s Actually Documented?
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Meeting with UK PM Keir Starmer – ~1 hour
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Meeting with Scottish First Minister John Swinney – likely ~30 minutes
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Trade talk with Ursula von der Leyen (EU) – possibly up to 1.5–2 hours
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Private briefings or aides meetings – maybe another 2–3 hours if you include prep/debriefs
🟰 That totals around 5–7 hours—with some optimistic padding.
⛳ Golf & Resort Promotion
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Saturday: Played two full rounds (Turnberry) – ~7–8 hours
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Sunday: Ribbon-cutting + golf at new Aberdeen course – ~5–6 hours
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Monday–Tuesday: Golf + media/photo ops each day – ~3–5 hours per day
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Total golf/leisure time: Easily 25–35 hours, if not more.
✅ Conclusion
Yes, 6 to 8 hours of business is a solid and even generous estimate. The rest of the time—roughly 80–90% of the trip—appears dedicated to:
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Golf
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Brand promotion
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Family events
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Minimal media interaction
It mirrors your original analogy almost perfectly: like someone who books a 15-minute “business meeting” just to justify a tropical vacation as a tax write-off.
Update: 7/2 @ 4AM
The Hill writes,,,
Plenty of publicity for the golf coursesCritics have long lamented overlaps between Trump’s political activities and his business interests.They were further irked by the Scotland trip, which was at least as much about golfing as about political business.But Trump seems sure to appreciate the massive amount of free publicity he has just got bestowed upon his Scottish courses.
Mini-Post: No Empathy
They are soulless, they are heartless, they know no boundaries!
To so many in Cincinnati, Imam Ayman Soliman was a beloved Children’s Hospital chaplain known for comforting the parents of dying kidsThe Rolling StoneBy Asawin SuebsaengJuly 23, 2025In recent years, if you lived in the Queen City metropolitan area and your young child was severely ill, or dying of a terminal condition, chances are good that you encountered Ayman Soliman, who until recently was a Muslim chaplain at the renowned Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.Whatever your faith or beliefs, he would have consoled you and your family in your darkest hours, in the kind of moment that every parent lives in abject terror of ever having to face. If you and your family were Muslim, the chaplain may have answered your questions about whether a do-not-resuscitate order for your child was permitted by the Quran. One former colleague of the imam recounts that specifically because of Soliman, there are poor members of the community who did not need to worry about paying for the funerals of their babies who didn’t make it out of the hospital alive.Absolutely none of that matters to President Donald Trump and his administration, which is seeking to deport Soliman back to Egypt, where he and his advocates say he will be marked for death — in part due to his work as a journalist there in the midst of the Arab Spring.
This is horrible! This is inhumane! This is Germany 1930s and the Gestapo!
He is playing to his xenophobia MAGA base, he doesn't how many live he kills, he doesn't care who he destroys as long as it brings him votes!
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Mini-Post: Misogynistic?
Tell me do you feel that this misogynistic of the Secretary of Defense?
The Hillby Ellen Mitchell07/26/25The unexplained removal of the first female head of the U.S. Naval Academy last week is the latest in a string of top military women who have either been fired or redelegated to largely invisible roles under the Trump administration.The ousting of Vice Adm. Yvette Davids from her post as the first female superintendent of the academy in Annapolis, Md., makes her one of at least five senior female service members who have been moved out of their roles since January.That trend, coupled with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s well-documented antipathy toward women in combat roles prior to becoming Pentagon chief, could have a chilling effect on women enlisting in the armed forces, experts say.
You know what the Democrats have to do? Is to introduce a bill to allow women in combat and leadership roles! That way if they vote "no" they will have to answer to fifty percent of their voters.
If You Can't Win Honestly Cheat!
The Republicans are worried so they do what Republicans do... stack the deck!
AP NewsBy MEG KINNARD and JOEY CAPPELLETTIJuly 24, 2025The White House is eyeing redistricting efforts beyond Texas to help Republicans hold the U.S. House in 2026 — and Democrats are preparing to escalate in response, with one senator vowing to go “nuclear” if needed.What’s shaping up to be a multistate redistricting battle could mark the opening round for House control ahead of next year’s midterms, when Democrats see retaking the House as the party’s best chance to break Republicans’ hold on Congress and President Donald Trump is determined to keep the GOP’s majority. Democrats, under pressure from their base to match GOP tactics, have grown more forceful in their messaging and are taking concrete steps to push back, even as the party enters at a disadvantage.“If they’re going to go nuclear, then so am I,” said Sen. Elissa Slotkin. “They’re forcing us into this position because they’re trying to pick their voters.”
Yes, both parties do it... but one party has developed the art of jerrymandering to a fine art.
At Trump’s urging, Texas Republicans are looking to redraw congressional maps to favor GOP candidates during a 30-day special legislative session that started this week. Trump has said he wants to carve out five new winnable GOP seats.
They want to make it so that Texas is forever and ever Republican!
The Houston Chronicle writes about their power grab...
The exploits of then-Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay – often called “the exterminator” for his career in pest control management – seem almost nostalgic now compared with the gluttony and hubris driving the Texas redistricting sequel launched this week in Austin under decree of President Donald Trump.“Five, I think we get five,” Trump told reporters, describing the “simple” off-year gerrymander of congressional seats that he reportedly had to strong-arm Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to abide. “And there could be some other states – we’re going to get another three or four or five in addition. Texas would be the biggest one.”
Absolute power corrupts absolutely! KESQ reports that the Republicans now control the process and could flip as many as 2–3 Democratic seats by redrawing 2022 maps! In Missouri the Republicans are discussion redistricting in the House according to WSLS.
They have stacked the deck in their favor!
Mini-Post: Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery
Welcome to the new racist nation... where Black and trans art is eradicated!
July 24, 2025The artist Amy Sherald has canceled a major exhibition of her work at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, citing censorship over one of her paintings depicting the Statue of Liberty modeled after a transgender artist.Sherald, who reached national fame for her official portrait of Michelle Obama in 2018, has since become one of the most prominent living American painters for her vibrant portraits of Black life, portrayed in grisaille, or gray tones, against expanses of blue.Her mid-career survey “American Sublime,” which was set to go on view at the National Portrait Gallery in September, has traveled around the country, debuting at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art before stopping at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where it is currently on view. At the Whitney, the artist Arewà Basit, after whom the painting “Trans Forming Liberty” is modeled, appeared at the opening party to take pictures with Sherald in front of the monumental artwork.
But there is a snag, in her works there is a painting of a trans woman... WHOA!
In a statement, Sherald said she was informed by the National Portrait Gallery that the museum that “concerns had been raised internally” about the painting.“These concerns led to discussions about removing the work from the exhibition,” she continued. “While no single person is to blame, it is clear that institutional fear shaped by a broader climate of political hostility toward trans lives played a role.”
So she did the right thing... all or nothing! She chose nothing!
I say other artist should boycott Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery until stop the discrimination and fire Trump appointed Board members!
I Don't Even Know Where To Begin!
This is how sick the Republicans are. The judge they have just appointed to the bench believes religion show be part of the law!
Joshua Divine has argued that Christians are obligated to impose their values on others.LGBTQ NationBy John RussellJuly 25, 2025Senate Republicans confirmed anti-LGBTQ+ Missouri Deputy Solicitor General Joshua Divine to a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri on Tuesday.Divine’s appointment was opposed by Senate Democrats and progressive organizations due to his extreme conservative record on abortion and voting rights, HuffPost noted. But Sen. Angus King (I-ME), who usually caucuses with Democrats, joined with Republicans to push Divine’s nomination over the line. King, who supports both reproductive rights and voting rights, did not indicate why he ultimately sided with Republicans on Divine’s appointment.
So there was one Democrat who put religion ahead of the Constitution and voted for a bigot!
In a tip sheet on Divine, progressive judicial advocacy group Alliance for Justice said that he “has built a legal career advancing hardline conservative positions that threaten to significantly undermine core constitutional protections related to civil rights, reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ equality, environmental protections, and immigrant rights.”
The Leadership Conference Education Fund writes,
Mr. Divine does not possess the requisite experience to be a federal judge, and in his limited legal career he has demonstrated significant hostility to our civil and human rights. A 2016 law school graduate, most of his career has either been clerking or working for Senator Josh Hawley. In his short time practicing in the Missouri solicitor general’s office, Mr. Divine has tried to distinguish himself among extreme conservatives by attacking our civil and human rights. As the Missouri attorney general stated in response to the selection of Mr. Divine for the federal bench, Mr. Divine “has been the driving force behind some of the most consequential legal battles [the Missouri attorney general’s] office has taken on”[1]— and he specifically notes “[w]hether it was dismantling the Biden Administration unlawful student loan bailout or shutting down radical attempts to harm Missouri children, Josh brought…leadership every step of the way.”[2] Loyal to the anti-civil rights agenda and the Trump administration, Mr. Divine frequently appeals to the Trump administration in numerous cases. These include suing the Biden administration after they halted construction of President Trump’s southern border wall[3] and suing the state of New York after President Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records, accusing the state of election tampering and claiming that the case was brought for politically motivated reasons to “assist Joseph Biden’s campaign”[4] — and that New York interfered when the “aim of millions of Missourians is to elect Trump to the Presidency.”[5]Even before his time as an attorney, Mr. Divine wrote extensively about conservative issues in extremely problematic ways. He authored nearly 50 columns for his college newspaper on a myriad of topics, some of which are detailed below. The topics also include appallingly calling for required literacy tests to vote,[6] defending the man who murdered Trayvon Martin,[7] and saying that opposition to burdensome voter ID laws is “ridiculous.”[8] During his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and in questions for the record, he was asked about his writings and had the opportunity to distance himself from them — but he chose not to. These biases have translated to his legal career, as demonstrated below.
He was groomed for this judgeship... legal career includes clerkships for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge William Pryor of the Eleventh Circuit. He has held significant roles such as Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator Josh Hawley and Deputy Solicitor General of Missouri. As Solicitor General, Divine has been involved in high-profile cases, including leading Missouri's efforts to challenge federal student loan forgiveness programs and defending state laws restricting gender-affirming care for minors.
I asked ChatGPT, "Has he been biased by his Christian views?" It Replied...
Joshua Divine’s legal career and public record indicate that his Christian conservative views have influenced his positions on certain issues, particularly related to LGBTQ+ rights.* **Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage:** In past writings and legal arguments, Divine has expressed opposition to same-sex marriage, often grounding his views in traditional Christian beliefs about marriage.* **Gender-Affirming Care:** As Missouri’s Deputy Solicitor General and later Solicitor General, he defended state laws restricting gender-affirming medical care for minors. These stances align with socially conservative positions often informed by religious convictions.* **Criticism from Advocacy Groups:** Civil rights and LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations have highlighted that his legal work and public statements reflect a perspective that could be seen as biased against LGBTQ+ rights, often tied to his Christian worldview.* **Judicial Philosophy:** As a nominee for federal judgeships, Divine’s record has been scrutinized for indications that his personal beliefs might influence his judicial decision-making, raising concerns about impartiality in cases involving LGBTQ+ civil rights.In summary, while Divine’s legal and judicial philosophy is rooted in conservative Christian values, which inform his stance on LGBTQ+ issues, whether this constitutes “bias” depends on one’s perspective. Supporters argue he is upholding traditional values and the rule of law, while critics see his actions as discriminatory.
This does not bode well for us. LGBTQ Nation goes on...
In a separate statement, Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju blasted Divine’s confirmation, arguing that it proves that Trump lied to voters when he claimed during his campaign that he would leave decisions about abortion access to the states. Trump, Timmaraju said, “is actively working to eliminate abortion access nationwide.
Surprise, surprise... Trump lied!
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