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Tennessee anti-trans bill fails

Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 03/23/2016 - 12:53pm

A bill which would have forced Tennessee's transgender youth to use restrooms matching the sex assigned to them at birth failed in a House committee yesterday.

Religious conservatives had pushed the legislation, which was sponsored by Rep. Susan Lynn, R-Mt. Juliet, and Mike Bell, R-Riceville. But there was concern that the proposal might create more confusion — local schools already have their own policies on transgender students' bathroom use.

The bill died in a House Education Administration and Planning Committee meeting that was packed by transgender youth who opposed the measure.

Compelling -" Bernie Sanders Is Currently Winning the Democratic Primary Race and I'll Prove it to You"

Submitted by Phoebe Loosinhouse on Wed, 03/23/2016 - 11:30am

This is a great read - Seth Abramson in Huffington Post -Bernie Sanders Is Currently Winning the Democratic Primary Race, and I’ll Prove It to You

The Real Reason the Dem Establishment wants Bernie to get out of the race

Submitted by Auburn Parks on Wed, 03/23/2016 - 11:11am

People love narratives. And the media love narratives. So lets compare two possible narratives going into the next Dem primary (either 2020 if HRC loses to Trump or 2024 if she becomes the president (keep in mind that these are political narratives, they are not necessarily true)

Narrative 1:

Aisha Dew Surrogate Posts Defense at Daily Kos (UPDATED)

Submitted by Steven D on Tue, 03/22/2016 - 4:55pm

UPDATE: It seems that Noah Cartageno took down his post at the GOS while I was composing this response. Mea culpa. I wish I had copied the entire diary. It was very nasty toward anyone and everyone in the Sanders' campaign other than Aisha Dew. But all that is left of it are the couple of fair use excerpts I've shown here.

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Total measure of a perv

Submitted by Robyn on Tue, 03/22/2016 - 3:10pm

Fayetteville, Arkansas republican alderman John LaTour approached an employee of a Cary Arsaga restaurant Saturday demanding that she choose a gender, claiming that he could not tell if she were a man or a woman.

He then explained that he was a man and could prove it by dropping his pants and showing his penis. That is bullying behavior and unacceptable on so many levels. Please call any news outlets you know and alert them to his “protests.” I doubt offering to expose yourself would be considered protected speech even by the right wing activist Dugger family who funded his campaign. He should be kicked out of office.

--Gavin Smith, civil engineer

Indeed, LaTour has made no secret of his hatred of LGBT people and has called himself the candidate of "Conservative Values." He even earned a $2000 campaign donation from Michelle and JimBob Duggar.

While running for office, La Tour promised to overturn Fayetteville’s anti-discrimination ordinance, prohibiting landlords and business owners from evicting or firing someone because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic background, marital status or veteran status.

Hellraisers Journal: Part II: "Mother Jones & Her Methods -Personality & Power of This Aged Woman"

Submitted by JayRaye on Tue, 03/22/2016 - 12:55pm


I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hellraiser!
-Mother Jones

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Thursday March 22, 1906
From The Boston Herald Archives: Report from 1904 on the Early Life of Mother Jones

The correspondent who travelled recently to West Virginia with Mother Jones, and whose report of that trip was featured in Tuesday's edition of Hellraisers, has reminded us of a similar report which was published in the Boston Herald's "Sunday Herald" of September 11, 1904. Hellraisers published part one of that article yesterday, continues with part two today and will republish part three in tomorrow's edition.

From the Sunday Herald of September 11, 1904:

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