When the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990, Jesse Helms insisted on tacking on an amendment which excluded application of the ADA to transgender people.
Kate Lynn Blatt of Pottsville, PA sued Cabella, Inc. in 2014 for sex discrimination in her dismissal after she suffered much harassment, including being forced to wear a name tag with the name she was assigned at birth.
Finally, a major union leader and political activist, RoseAnn DeMorro, head of National Nurses United and a former Bernie supporter, lets Democrats know that the days of assuming activists will just fall in line behind whatever corrupt corporate Dem is on the Ticket are over. See her tweet with embedded video below:
I'm beginning to have sporadic internet service, but too little too late to put together my usual news review. So how about something completely different...ever heard of Lotus Dickey?
Note: I am updating this to add an incredible article published by Caitlyn Johnstone just two hours ago. I will link it here and below where I have excerpted two paragraphs from it . I urge everyone to read her article.
Back in the 80's Leona Helmsley famously said, "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
She could just as easily have said the same about committing terrorism.
The discourse about Trump is, in general: Oh My God It's the Apocalypse, This Unthinkable Horrible Extreme Person is President.
But for the most part he's not doing anything that all the other politicians haven't been doing for quite a while. In some cases, for decades.
YouGov has published a new survey about the conditions in which transgender people live.
Twenty-four percent of American adults think being transgender is a mental disease. Fort-seven percent think being transgender is a choice.
“Hey, shut the f... up or go outside!”
- California state party Chairman John Burton to impudent peasants
Did you know we spend over $9,000 per person per year on health care, more than any other country? Did you know that lots and lots of Americans are dying from preventable causes because of our disastrous health care system?
