Hi there. Probably a few of you know something about me, but if you don’t, I’ve been posting at this site [refers to TOP] a long time, since 2005. Written a hell of a lot of diaries or stories or posts. You want to know my real name? Go to my profile page. It’s right there. Or read this post I wrote when I stopped being anonymous here at Daily Kos.
Yesterday was International Transgender Day of Visibility. I've had some concern with the existence of a single day for that. I pretty much try to make transgender issues and/or people visible every day.
In honor of the event, there were some special presentations.
In the UK, the beautiful people put together a video.
The video was produced by Jake Graf of the Danish Girl and features model Laith Ashley, blogger Evie Andrew, YouTube veteran Kieran Maloney, DJ/model Munroe Bergdorf and British Army Officer Captain Hannah Winterbourne:
The issue of how Speaker Clinton finances her campaign, and the contrast with the small-donation funded Bernie campaign, is not going away, and it should not. Our campaign finance system is a big driver of the Great Inequality because it leads to unequal policy outcomes that both create and exacerbate the economic and other inequality. Who really believes that Big Money does not poison our democracy? Citizens Union was just the latest victory for the billionaires.
Saturday April 1, 1916
Indianapolis, Indiana - John M. O'Neill Address Convention of United Mine Workers
First this somewhat breaking news from ex-MSNBC Alum, now working for Al Jazeera America: the possible charges against Hillary Clinton and her staff will likely happen, sooner as opposed to later:
A lot of people the other day made hay over a poll showing that Hillary supporters were more enthusiastic than Bernie supporters . I think they spoke to roughly 600 people in total but it was like very significant, statistically speaking, at least according to the pollster, Gallup.
Yesterday, just four months before the start of the 2016 Olympics, Brazil's sports minister resigned.
Hours later, it was reported that the commander of a Brazilian security force involved in preparations for the upcoming Olympics in Rio de Janeiro stepped down amid scandal.
This evening's music features Delta bluesman Houston Stackhouse. Enjoy!
Houston Stackhouse - Cool Drink of Water
If you plan to vote in the upcoming primaries in Wisconsin, New York and Pennsylvania here is a list of things you should do to make certain you can vote and that your vote will be counted.
General Info on Checking Your Registration Status, Party Affiliation and Polling Place
Vanessa LoBue, assistant professor of psychology at Rutgers-Newark, has contributed an article at The Conversation that was forwarded to me. When do children develop their gender identity?
It turns out that for young children, initial concepts about gender are quite flexible. In my own research, I’ve found that children don’t begin to notice and adopt gender-stereotyped behaviors (e.g., preferring colors like pink or blue) until the age of two or three. A few years later, their concept of gender becomes quite rigid, and although it becomes more relaxed by middle childhood, even adults have trouble going back to thinking about gender as something that’s flexible.
--LoBue
