The House delivered a rebuke to President Joe Biden Thursday for pausing a shipment of bombs to Israel, passing legislation that seeks to force the weapons transfer as Republicans worked to highlight Democratic divisions over the Israel-Hamas war....
Daniel Perry, a former US Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020, was released from prison Thursday after he was pardoned by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott....
Abbott’s decision comes after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted unanimously Thursday to recommend a full pardon and the restoration of firearm rights for Perry
Can we discuss how FUCKED the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is too?
Even if it is referring to right-wing assholes, the US is one of the safer places in the world for LGBT folk. That's not high praise of the US so much as damnation for most of the rest of the world, but either way, one is definitely not in "FAR more danger" inside the USA than "almost anywhere else".
Trans Day of Remembrance wasn’t invented by the US, it was invented by Black trans women.
American Black trans women, in the US, where it was celebrated almost exclusively for a decade. Because society here in the US has to at least pretend to care about trans problems, unlike, say, Russia, or China.
Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in 1999 by a small group, including Gwendolyn Ann Smith,[4] Nancy Nangeroni, and Jahaira DeAlto,[5] to memorialize the murders of Black transgender women Rita Hester in Allston, Massachusetts,[6] and Chanelle Pickett in Watertown, Massachusetts.[7][8] After Hester's death in 1998, Smith was surprised to realize that none of her friends remembered Pickett or her murder three years prior, saying "It really surprised me that it had already, in a short period of time, been forgotten, and here we were with another murder at the same site.”[8][9] The first TDoR took place in November 1999 in Boston and San Francisco, as both Hester and Pickett's deaths occurred in November.
But we all know that truth or the health of trans folk comes second to "US GREAT SATAN" in your worldview.
I'd be more giddy about that except it's not the cops who ever pay. It's just the city (and thus, by extension, the taxpayers and their non-policing interests). And the city will keep sucking on the department's toes.
Explanation: Roman soldiers are the Battle of Carrhae were pincushioned by a steady rain of Parthian arrows. The Parthians, in fact, shot so many arrows that they had to organize baggage trains of camels bring them a steady supply!
Explanation: Roman soldiers are the Battle of Carrhae were pincushioned by a steady rain of Parthian arrows. The Parthians, in fact, shot so many arrows that they had to organize baggage trains of camels bring them a steady supply!
They Supported Biden in 2020. What Made Them Change Their Minds in 2024? (www.nytimes.com)
House votes to require delivery of bombs to Israel in GOP-led rebuke of Biden policies (apnews.com)
The House delivered a rebuke to President Joe Biden Thursday for pausing a shipment of bombs to Israel, passing legislation that seeks to force the weapons transfer as Republicans worked to highlight Democratic divisions over the Israel-Hamas war....
An East German border guard passing a flower through a hole in the Berlin Wall, 1989
Gov. Abbott pardons Daniel Perry for 2020 fatal Black Lives Matter protest shooting after recommendation from pardons board | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Daniel Perry, a former US Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020, was released from prison Thursday after he was pardoned by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott....
Attire of Mastro Titta, executioner of the Papal States, retired 1864 AD
State Department issues travel alert for LGBTQ people, events abroad (abcnews.go.com)
Teenager Danuta Siedzikówna, medic of the Polish resistance, executed by the postwar Communist government in 1946
17th century Russian soldiers
Hattusa Green Stone from Bronze-Age Hittite ruins in Turkiye
Tibetan people, ~1908
A Columbia University protester says the NYPD made her remove her hijab—despite new policy (www.motherjones.com)
Space Marine genderswap
Reconstruction of an antiquity-era Greek trireme next to a modern frigate of the Greek Navy.
Ceremonial axehead of a Venetian admiral, 16th century AD
Black cats auditioning for the film 'Tales of Terror', USA, 1961
18+ Take care where you're shot!
Ottoman forces assaulting an islet fortress in Candia, Crete, mid-17th century AD
Leather Roman shoe, found in Germany, 1st century BCE-AD