New Jersey - Jane Fee Award will honor the memory of Barbara “Babs” Siperstein

 Press

Out In Jersey

Jersey City, NJ

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lead story - Another transgender woman fatally shot in Puerto Rico – the 6th killing of a trans person this year in the U.S. territory

Muri Assunção

Daily News

San Germán, PR

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ezs note:  To all those in Puerto Rico - and in particular those in San Germán - if you have my information about the murder of Michelle Ramos Vargas, please contact the San Germán police department or  the state police department. Thanks. 

Nota de ezs: A todos los de Puerto Rico, y en particular a los de San Germán, si tienen mi información sobre el asesinato de Michelle Ramos Vargas, comuníquese con el departamento de policía de San Germán o el departamento de policía estatal. Gracias.

Donald Trump - Romney calls first Trump-Biden debate 'an embarrassment'

 Alexander Bolton

The Hill

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Utah - Utah Coalition Plan Focuses on LGBTQ Suicide Prevention

 Press

Public News Service

Salt Lake City, UT (1910)

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lead story - Police: Transgender Woman Killed In Broad Daylight Shooting In West Philadelphia

 Staff

CBS Philly

Philadelphia, PA (west section)

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Donald Trump - 7 takeaways from New York Times report on President Trump's tax returns

 Press

CBS News

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DEBATE TONIGHT

 

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Debate!

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ezs note:  If you've missed it, this is it! Here are the time zones for the Biden/Trump debate:

Eastern Time:  9:00 pm

Central Time:  8:00 pm

Mountain Time:  7:00 pm

Pacific Time:  6:00 pm

Alaska Time: 5:00 pm (most)

Hawai'i Time:  4:00 pm   

North Dakota - Third annual North Dakota LGBTQ+ Summit to be held online Oct. 2-4

 Hannah Shirley

Grand Forks Herald

Grand Forks, ND (1912 postcard)

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lead story - Court: Private locker room violated transgender boy’s rights

 Amy Forliti

Federal News Service

Hennepin County, MN

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Donald Trump - Trump's Taxes Show He's a National Security Threat

 Timothy L. O'Brien

Bloomberg

NSA headquarters

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Maryland - Court Victories for Transgender Students Will Impact Md.

Allison Stevens

Maryland Matters

 Takoma Park, MD

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lead story - California will house transgender inmates by gender identity

 Press

NBC News

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Donald Trump - Amid talk of civil war, America is already split – Trump Nation has seceded

 Robert Reich

The Guardian

Trump's vision of America

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ezs note:  To Connecticut residents, and those of New England, I REST MY CASE. 

An open letter to State Senator Derek Slap and State House of Representatives Jillian Gilchrest

 

nation of Connecticut (if the worst happens)

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I am writing to you about a subject I would never have dreamed of. However, Donald Trump currently is our President.

Let us examine the upcoming 2020 race. More and more, Trump is not planning on winning the popular vote. He is not even planning on winning the Electoral College. Rather, he plans on winning by fiat and baldfaced lying.

It is late September, and much remains to occur. However, experience tells us that Trump consistently lies, in matters both small and large. If the worst happens, can we honestly give this cretin a pass? For me, the answer is clearly NO.

Once again, if the worst happens, I urge you to separate Connecticut from the rest of the states. I hope that, in time, the rest of the New England states will do likewise.

I hope that this never happens, and the United States will steer a just, more equitable course.

Sadly, Trump will not allow this to happen.

1Emily Shorette

Donald Trump - Donald Trump's plot against democracy could break America apart

 Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian

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Kentucky - Louisville, Kentucky, has finally banned conversion therapy, but the practice is still legal in over half the US

Canela López

Insider

Louisville, KY

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lead story - Lawmakers push schools to consider transgender sports policy

 Stephen Groves

AP

Sioux Falls, SD

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Donald Trump - Trump booed as he pays respects to Ginsburg at court

 Kevin Liptak

CNN

Pollice Verso, Jean-Léon Géröme (1872)

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SPECIAL (continued) Frontline's extended interview with Mary Trump (video)

 

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SPECIAL - Frontline: The Choice 2020

 

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Mississippi - ‘Safe, non-judgmental.’ Coast native opens 1st MS clinic dedicated to trans healthcare

Isabelle Taft

SunHerald

Hattiesburg, MS (1910 postcard)

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lead story - What does transgender mean and what does the law say? (UK)

Press

BBC

London, UK

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Donald Trump - Donald Trump seems to think he has already won the Nobel Peace Prize

Chris Cillizza

CNN

What Donald WON'T be getting

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Illinois - Chicago takes small step toward transgender equality

Fran Spielman

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago, IL

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lead story - Stonewall to continue trans campaign for right to change birth certificates

 Libby Brooks

The Guardian

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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Donald Trump - ‘It’s a big, big swing’: Trump loses ground with white voters

 David Siders

CNN

Swing!

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Arkansas - Suspect charged in murder of Arkansas transgender teen Brayla Stone

 John Riley

MetroWeekly

Sherwood, AR

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lead story - 'This is about my safety': Trans Americans on November's high-stakes election

Elizabeth Kuhr

NBC News

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HAVE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE YET???

Donald Trump - Trump mocks MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi for getting shot with rubber bullet

Oliver Darcy

CNN

our "president"

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Arizona - Advocates share concerns, safety tips for South Phoenix residents as light rail expands

Gianluca D'elia

Downtown Devil

 Phoenix, AZ (1908)

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lead story - Why Barbara Bush had a change of heart on transgender issues in her 90s

Alexander Kacala

NBC News

Barbara Bush (1925 - 2018)

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Donald Trump - New revelations reinforce concerns that Trump's political motives are a higher priority than Americans' health

Maegan Vazquez

CNN

The (other) White House

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg 1933 - 2020

 

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Donald Trump - Trump under fire for 'shocking' Covid failures as ex-adviser turns against him

Martin Pengelly, Mario Koran, Tom McCarthy

The Guardian

"I don't like shaking hands with people, I don't have to shake hands with these disgusting people. (italics mine)

Donald Trump

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Alaska - 'Tell Me Why': Video game features transgender lead character

 Cynthia Silva

NBC News

Alaska

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lead story - Video reviewed of police shooting of transgender woman

Tom Rader

69 News

Reading, PA

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Donald Trump - Donald Trump accused of sexual assault by former model Amy Dorris

Lucy Osborne

The Guardian

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Tennessee - Pastor threatens school with lawsuit after daughter sent home for homophobic T-shirt

Rhuaridh Marr

MetroWeekly

Livingston, TN

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Delaware - Sarah McBride poised to become U.S.'s first transgender state senator

Press

NBC News

Claymont, DE

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Donald Trump - Fox News Host Grills Kayleigh McEnany on Trump’s Disastrous ABC Town Hall ‘AGAINST THE SCIENCE’

Matt Wilstein

Daily Beast

Slowly they turn...

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Arizona - Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel Blasted For Trans Joke

Erasmus Baxter

Phoenix New Times

Add caption

Phoenix, AZ (1940s)

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lead story - Communication Professor Awarded Grant to Study Transgender Suicide History

 Press

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, AR

University of Arkansas

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Donald Trump - Trump ad asks people to support the troops. But it uses a picture of Russian jets.

 Daniel Lippman, Bryan Bender

CNN

Uh... need a little help here...

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What I believe...

 

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ezs note:  I've given this some thought - no, a great deal of thought - but I've given a great deal of respect and admiration to Baha'u'llah (1817-1892).  I'll be ending this with a quote of Baha'u'llah, as well as His son, Abdu'l Baha, as well as Shoghi Effendi (among others).  If you wish to peruse the Writings more thoroughly, you can see http://bahai-library.com/. (Baha'i Library Online) 

The Asiatic continent, the cradle of the principal religions of mankind; the home of so many of the oldest and mightiest civilizations which have flourished on this planet; the crossways of so many kindreds and races; the battleground of so many peoples and nations; above whose horizon, in modern times, the suns of two independent Revelations--the promise and consummation of a six thousand-year-old religious Cycle--have successively arisen; where the Authors of both of these Revelations suffered banishment and died; within whose confines the Centre of a divinely-appointed Covenant was born, endured a forty-year incarceration and passed away; on whose Western extremity the Qiblih of the Bahá'í world has been definitely established; in whose heart the City proclaimed by Bahá'u'lláh as the "Mother of the World" is enshrined; within whose borders another City regarded as the "cynosure of an adoring world" and the scene of the greatest and most glorious Revelation the world has witnessed is embosomed; on whose soil so many saints, heroes and martyrs, associated with both of these Revelations, have lived, struggled and died--such a continent, so privileged among its sister continents and yet so long and so sadly tormented, now stands, at the hour of the launching of a world-encompassing Crusade, on the threshold of an era that may well recall, in its glory and ultimate repercussions, the great periods of spiritual revival which, from the dawn of recorded history have, at various stages in the revelation of God's purpose for mankind, illuminated the path of the human race.  (Shoghi Effendi)

Kansas - Kansas commission adds LGBT nondiscrimination protections

Heather Hollingsworth

AP

Mission, KS (not printed, extreme upper)

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lead story - Arrest made in connection to murder of transgender woman, LGBT activist

 Fernie Ortiz

KTSM.com

Chihuahua City, Mexico

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Donald Trump - Trump baselessly questions climate science during California wildfire briefing

 Maegan Vazquez

CNN

Our leader, Donald Trump

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Philippines - Filipino (sic) transgender wins online pageant

Press

manilastandard.net

Manila, Philippines

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Hawai'i - Hawaiʻi wahine among ‘Women of the Century’ in national publication

 Press

University of Hawai'i Press

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

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lead story - Transgender anarchist wins GOP nomination for sheriff in Cheshire County

 Damien Fisher

New Hampshire Union-Leader

Keene, NH (seat of Cheshire County)

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