lead story - Canadian WNT player Rebecca Quinn comes out as transgender

 Jason Owens

Yahoo! Sports

Toronto, ON (Quinn's birthplace)

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please press:  sports.yahoo.com

Donald Trump - 'Play it down': Trump admits to concealing the true threat of coronavirus in new Woodward book

 Jamie Gangel

CNN

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lead story - Temple senior’s thesis film shares transgender experience

Nico Cisneros
The Temple News

Philadelphia, PA (home of Temple)

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please press:  temple-news.com 

Donald Trump - Trump visibly distressed over Atlantic story fallout from claims he disparaged the military

Kaitlan Collins
CNN

White House (ca. 1846)

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Idaho - 6 eastern Idaho districts with competitive November races

Nathan Brown
Post-Register

Idaho Falls, ID

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ezs note:  Idadoans - If you live in District 33 (Idaho Falls)  you have a decent chance of unseating Barbara Ehardt (R).  Now, wouldn't that be a pleasant surprise!   

lead story - Transgender crisis hotline is flooded with calls every time Trump admin rules threaten LGBTQ community

Press
KTLA5

Los Angeles, CA

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please press:  ktla.com

Donald Trump - Trump reportedly took home $750,000 worth of art from the home of the US ambassador to France in 2018 after canceling a World War I cemetery visit

Sinéad Baker
Business Insider

Chen Hongshou, Leaf album painting, (1598-1652)

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Alabama - Parks, Rice, Ledbetter among 10 influential women from Alabama

Melissa Brown
The Gadsen Times

Laverne Cox

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please press:  www.gadsdentimes.com  

lead story - Mexico's Transgender Community in Fear After Second Murder

Jose Luiz Gonzalez
US News & World Report

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

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please press:  www.usnews.com

Donald Trump - Trump says Department of Education will investigate use of 1619 Project in schools

Kevin Liptak
CNN

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REGISTER.  VOTE.

Kazakhstan - Fighting For Identity: Kazakh Laws Make Life Difficult For Transgender Community

Kira Leadholm
RFE/RT

Almaty, Kazahkstan 

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please press:  www.rferl.org   

Maine - Downtown Bangor Partnership turns an ugly situation into something beautiful and prideful

Sam Rogers
NewsCenter Maine

Bangor, ME

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lead story - Conservative group relea ses anti-transgender political ads in Michigan

Brooke Sopelsa
NBC News

Lansing, MI

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please press:  www.nbcnews.com

Donald Trump - Biden puts two feet in the ring as Trump wobbles

Gregory Krieg
CNN

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

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Maryland - After life sentence overturned, guilty plea in Md. transgender murder case

Neal Augenstein
WTOP

Rockville, MD

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please press:  wtop.com

lead story - Star Trek introduces first non-binary and transgender characters

Alix Culbertson
Sky News

क

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please press:  news.sky.com

Donald Trump - What Will You Do if Trump Doesn’t Leave?

David Brooks
The New York Times

ezs note:  First, make the fences way higher...

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please press:  www.nytimes.com

lead story - U.S. Marine Who Killed Transgender Woman in Philippines Is Ordered Released

Jason Gutierrez
The New York Times

Jennifer Laude (1987-2014)

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Donald Trump - Donald Trump accidentally revealed something very important in a tweet

Chris Cillizza
CNN

Jackass-in-chief

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please press:  www.cnn.com

Donald Trump - Mike Pence's laughable response to questions about Trump's Walter Reed visit

Chris Cillizza
CNN

Mike Pence

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lead story - Transgender Woman Found Dead in Sand at NYC Beach, Police Say

Press
NBC News

New York City, NY

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please press:  www.nbcnewyork.com

Donald Trump - How Jim Gaffigan's profanity-laced tirade could hurt Trump

Dean Obeidallah
CNN

Jim Gaffigan

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please press:  www.cnn.com

ahem... VOTE!!!!

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ezs note:  If you aren't one of those who vote regularly, hey, I feel for you.  For those of us in the northern climes, I much prefer to stay in a warm apartment.

But this, my friends, is life in Shithead Country.

While Voting Day is officially November 3, some states offer mail-in voting as early as 50 days earlier!  That's, like, really no excuse.  What you can do now is REGISTER.

See you in a week.     

Donald Trump - Biden condemns violence and asks if Americans 'really feel safe under Donald Trump'

Eric Bradner
CNN

Joe Biden

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Massachusetts - Kennedy to Trump: Drop your administrative actions harming trans people

Chris Johnson
Washington Blade

Newton, MA

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please press:  www.washingtonblade.com

lead story - Transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson will get a monument in her New Jersey hometown

Christina Maxouris
CNN

Elizabeth, NJ

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Donald Trump - Trump Program to Cover Uninsured Covid-19 Patients Falls Short of Promise

Abby Goodnough
The New York Times

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lead story - Transgender woman says she was beaten in her Point Breeze home and called slurs

Julie Shaw
The Philadelphia Inquirer

Point Breeze, PA

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please press:  https://www.inquirer.com/news/attack-on-transgender-woman-kendall-stephens-point-breeze-20200826.html

Donald Trump - Will Jerry Falwell Jr's fall from grace end his influence over Trump voters?

Harriet Sherwood
The Guardian

       

Jerry Falwell Jr.

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please press:  https://www.theguardian.com

Texas - Local Groups Condemn Proposed Ban on Trans People in Homeless Shelters

Lourdes Zavaleta
OutSmart

San Antonio, TX

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please press:  www.outsmartmagazine.com

lead story - Andersonville’s ‘Say Their Names’ Street Art Honors Black Transgender People Lost To Violence

Joe Ward
Block Club Chicago

Andersonville, IL (part of Chicago)

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please press:  blockclubchicago.org

Donald Trump - Melania Trump taped making derogatory remarks about Donald and Ivanka – report

Martin Pengelly
The Guardian

the (ex-) First Lady of the United States

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please press:  www.theguardian.com 

Vermont - Rhianna Kendrick: We cannot allow HUD to remove protections for trans people experiencing homelessness

Rhianna Kendrick
VTDigger

Brattleboro, VT

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please press:  vtdigger.org 

lead story - Livestreamed Hollywood Attack On 3 Transgender Women Shows How “Truly Unsafe” Being Trans Is

Jamie Wareham
Forbes

Los Angeles, CA

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Donald Trump - In secretly recorded audio, President Trump’s sister says he has ‘no principles’ and ‘you can’t trust him’

Michael Kranish
The Washington Post

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Scotland - Transgender and non-binary cyclist takes on first ever ‘Tour de Trans’

Caitlin Hutchison
The Herald

John O' Groats, Scotland

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Pennsylvania - Lawmaker mimics top health official’s call for transgender acceptance to defend not wearing a mask

Cynthia Fernandez, Julia Shanahan
Spotlight PA

Annville Township, PA

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lead story - Los Angeles police arrest two men, seek another in attack against three transgender women

Alexandra Meeks
CNN

Los Angeles, CA

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please press:  www.cnn.com

Donald Trump - The party of Trump is already a convention of ghoulish clowns

Kathleen Parker
The Washington Post

The Republican Convention

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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) 

Be fair: Is the testimony of those

 acceptable and worthy of attention

 whose deeds agree with their words,

 whose outward behavior conforms

 with their inner life? The mind is 

bewildered at their deeds, and the soul 

marveleth at their fortitude and bodily

 endurance. Or is the testimony of these

 faithless souls who breathe naught but

 the breath of selfish desire, and who lie

 imprisoned in the cage of their idle fancies,

 acceptable? Like the bats of darkness, they

 lift not their heads from their couch except

 to pursue the transient things of the world,

 and find no rest by night except as they

 labor to advance the aims of their sordid

 life. Immersed in their selfish schemes, they

 are oblivious of the Divine decree. In

 the daytime they strive with all their 

soul after worldly benefits, and in the

 night season their sole occupation is to

 gratify their carnal desires. By what law

 or standard could men be justified in

 cleaving to the denials of such petty-minded

 souls and in ignoring the faith of them

 that have renounced, for the sake of the

 good pleasure of God, their life and

 substance, their fame and renown, their

 reputation and honor?... (Baha’u’llah)

Donald Trump - ‘It was great’: In leaked audio, Trump hailed low Black turnout in 2016

Nolan McCaskill
Politico

ezs note:  Aw, all we're doin' is havin' a little meetin'...

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please press:  www.politico.com

To all my Black friends:  I urge you - really, really urge you - to do the following - if you have any doubts, register to vote.  And when the time comes around, VOTE. (And this goes for you allies, too.) 

lead story - Disturbing images of robbery and attack on transgender women in the heart of Hollywood

Christina Gonzalez
FOX News

Los Angeles, CA

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Donald Trump - Steve Bannon, three others charged with fraud in border wall fundraising campaign

Erica Orden, Kara Scannell
CNN

ezs note:  Oh, this is too rich!!!

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lead story - Federal judge says Idaho cannot ban transgender athletes from women's sports teams

Madeline Holcombe, Andy Rose
CNN

Pocatello, ID

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Donald Trump - Trump, While Attacking Mail Voting, Casts Mail Ballot Again

Miles Davis
NPR

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El Salvador - Trans Salvadoran Woman Who Fled to Guatemala Murdered

Ernesto Valle
South Florida Gay News

Salcajá, Guatemala

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Rhode Island - Documentary on transgender boxing promoter is filming in R.I.

Rob Duguay
Providence Journal

Cranston, RI

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lead story - Trump rule on transgender health blocked at the 11th hour

Press
NBC News

E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse

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Donald Trump - Gergen: Trump traps GOP in boneheaded position

Caroline Cohen, David Gergen
CNN

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lead story - Why transgender people are ignored by modern medicine

Zaria Gorvett
BBC News

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

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