On Wednesday the Oregon Senate voted 23-6 to pass HB 2673, which removes barriers to transgender people obtaining state official document in keeping with our gender identity.
The bill now moves on to Gov. Kate Brown's desk.
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— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 13, 2017
Howdy folks! It's been a while since I've written much of anything. Since the election, I've been pretty much dealing with the anger and disgust at what has happened.
I've read a lot of election post-mortems and proposals for how left/progressive people should move forward in the current political climate.
It appears that there is a very real political realignment going on now. On the right, there is a lot of energy, enough to elect somebody who promised to pay attention to the 99% (though seems quite unlikely to do anything useful for them). On the left, there is energy, but it is (as usual) being co-opted by the Democrat party and being channeled into a fake resistance movement which is an attempt to associate electing corporate democrats and preserving Obama's neoliberal "achievements" as real change that will help the 99%. The establishment Democrats at the head of this fake resistance have no intention of making actual change.
If left/progressives don't organize behind an agenda and force the Democrats to swallow it, the "resistance" will fizzle out into support for more of the same, sorry, "pragmatic" corporate crap that establishment Democrats have been shovelling out for decades and the right will own the nation's politics - perhaps even awarding them the preponderance of states (they are one state shy now) to amend the constitution or call a constitutional convention.
The stakes are a lot higher than most people realize and the corporate donors behind both parties would be delighted by an opportunity to modify the constitution to more fully lock down the prerogatives of the 1%.
I've had no internet this week. It is a capacity issue they hope to resolve shortly, which I think means they oversold their capacity and are making up for lost time. Do you think they will discount my $60/month for 3 Meg service?
At any rate, I couldn't do any research this week and only heard the big stories...Macron, the banker, wins the French presidency; the son of N. Korea refugees won the S. Korean election; and Comey, Comey, Comey ad nauseum.
It's time someone said it:
Trump is NOT Hitler. So everyone can just chill.
Trump is merely the Son of Satan.
What? You don't believe me?
Well, I have proof.
Economists at the NY Federal Reserve recently made an interesting observation.
Honestly, I had never heard of Kat Blaque until I read about her in the Advocate
Kat Blaque is not just any other girl. She is amazingly talented, wonderfully witty, and fiercely intelligent. Blaque has a gift for words, but not in the usual way. She is subtle and charming. She is soft yet strong.
My Saturday morning epiphany has certainly been a long time coming. Only now, very late into the endgame, do I realize how far behind the curve I have been, and how I have been willingly exploited by people far smarter and more ruthless than me.
When we [Americans] talk about the rule of law, we
assume that we’re talking about a law that promotes
freedom, that promotes justice, that promotes equality.
—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy
As Glenn Greenwald says in the video below, we have two, and only two, options:
A nation of men, or
A nation of laws.
