national/world - Transgender Awareness Week reveals a community in crisis

Christopher Dawson

CNN

knuckledragger-in-chief

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India - India Covid crisis: Hospitals buckle under record surge

Soutik Biswas

BBC

New Dehli, India

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ezs note:  Help our friends in India out!  As bad as COVID is here - and it is bad - the US is dwarfed by comparison.  Here are a few trusted organizations:

msf.org 

redcross.org

If you write a check, be sure to write on it 'India COVID relief'.  Thanks.

US/Mexico border - Southwest border crisis leaves Biden vulnerable on all sides

Stephen Collinson

CNN

US/Mexico border

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Donald Trump - A leaderless nation adrift in a crisis

Scot Lehigh
Boston Globe

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Nevada - Amid Homeless Crisis, LGBTQ Safety Dorm Opens In Las Vegas

Rachel Christiansen
Nevada Public Radio

Las Vegas, NV

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civil rights - Southern lawmakers continue attacks on transgender people amid crisis of violence

Benjamin Barber
Facing South

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lead story - Why violence against transgender Americans is a crisis that’s under reported

Anna Nawaz
PBS News

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lead story - The Crisis of Violence Against Transgender People Is Not a ‘Myth’

Gillian Branstetter
Rewire News

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DONALD TRUMP’S IGNORANCE IS BECOMING A NATIONAL CRISIS

Abigail Tracy
Vanity Fair

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A Global Crisis: Epidemic of Violence Against Transgender People

Saurav Jung Thapa
HRC

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Op-ed: Remembering the AIDS Crisis as a Gay Trans Man in a Double-Closet

H. Adam Ackley
http://www.advocate.com

to read more, go to:  http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/09/25/op-ed-remembering-aids-crisis-gay-trans-man-double-closet