Where are all the good Russian socialists gone?
Submitted by mimi on Sat, 03/16/2019 - 7:55pmThere is a long history of high-profile Russians turning up dead or seriously ill in foreign countries.
murder
As dubya the idiot once said
Submitted by ggersh on Mon, 08/13/2018 - 10:01am"you're either with us or against us"
Well I'm fucking against us
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/13/heres-video-schoolchildren-...
Just before midnight, another horror--murder by proxy.
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sun, 12/31/2017 - 11:07pmLet's face it, 2017 has been another year most of us are just as happy to see gone as was 2016--and many others--were. We have had our cases of murder. Murder by racists. Murder by thieves. Murder by Arkancide. Murder by war. Murder by starvation. Murder by indifference. Lots of ways to kill. Now, before 2017 is officially ended, at least here on the west coast, comes another method of murder.
Death by "swatting".
Las Vegas Massacre
Submitted by Big Al on Mon, 10/02/2017 - 9:22amStunning. Shocking. Sadness.
Over fifty people killed, their lives ended. Many more likely to follow from the over 400 that were injured.
Missouri transgender teen slaughtered in Ozarks
Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 09/27/2017 - 1:33pmEarlier in my life, I lived in Joplin, MO. This story makes me shudder.
Ally Lee Steinfeld, 17, of Houston, Missouri came out as a transgender girl in May. In June, she posted on Instagram:
I am proud to be me. I am proud to be trans. I am beautiful. I don't care what people think.
An even score as the storm hit
Submitted by Robyn on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 1:50pmTwenty-six year-old Derricka Banner became the 20th transgender person murdered this year when she was shot to death in her car early Tuesday morning in Charlotte, NC, as rain and wind from Irma were lashing the city. Montavious Sanchez Berry, 18, was arrested later on Tuesday and charged with the murder.
Banner was originally from New York, but has recently been a resident on Lenoir, NC. Sanchez is a Charlotte resident.
NY Trans man stabbed to death
Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 09/13/2017 - 2:13pmKashmire Nazier Redd, a 28-year-old resident of Gates, NY was allegedly stabbed to death by his 40-year-old partner, Doris Carrasquillo early September 4.
Too many
Submitted by Robyn on Fri, 08/18/2017 - 2:10pmLast Saturday in Waxahachie, TX, Gwynevere River Song reportedly got into an argument with another adult in her home, which led to that other person shooting Song to death. We have no idea what the argument concerned, but we do know that Song was a transgender woman. The assailant was also injured during the shooting and he was transported to a hospital.
16
Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 08/02/2017 - 1:45pmOn Monday Tee Tee Dangerfield, a 32-year-old Atlanta resident became the sixteenth transgender person known to be murdered this year. Dangerfield was found in her car near an apartment complex in College Park suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. She was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital but did not survive.
The back pages
Submitted by Robyn on Fri, 07/28/2017 - 2:35pmTrump's trial transgender ban has blocked a lot of other news of the transgender community from view lately.
In southern Mississippi former navy sailor Dwanya Hickerson pleaded guilty to murdering Dee Whigham, a transgender nurse, in order to avoid the death penalty.
