16 August 2020

New Zealand - New Zealand rugby grapples with transgender debate

Greg Stutchbury
Reuters


Wellington, New Zealand


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Kansas - Human Rights Campaign on Kansas Republican Primary Results

lead story - Ancient Viking warrior given a hero’s burial may have actually been ‘transgender, non-binary or gender fluid’, researchers say

Patrick Kelleher
Pink News


Birka, Sweden


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Donald Trump - Trump's finger-pointing on USPS is latest attempt to rewrite history in real time

15 August 2020

Indonesia - Meet Hendrika Kelan: Indonesia’s First Ever Transgender Public Officer

Jamie
worldofbuzz.com


Indonesia


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Georgia - Timothy Graves (J.D. ’20) strives for inclusivity Timothy Graves (J.D. ’20) strives for inclusivity

Press
Georgia State University


Georgia State University College of Law
Atlanta, GA


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lead story - Bronx Man Arrested for Fatally Stabbing Transgender Woman

Press
Spectrum News


The Bronx, NY


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Donald Trump - Trump administration to withdraw controversial nominee for Bureau of Land Management

Jason Hoffman
CNN


William Perry Pendley


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14 August 2020

South Dakota - Trump Denies Asking To Add A President’s Face To Mount Rushmore. OK!

Asia Ewart
Refinery29


Mount Rushmore
Keystone, SD


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lead story - Two transgender women arrested at rights rally call treatment at Miami jail ‘dehumanizing’

Donald Trump - Marge Simpson responds to Trump adviser's Kamala Harris comparison

Lisa Remers France
CNN


Marge Simpson (voiced by Julie Kavner)



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13 August 2020

Oklahoma - Oklahoma ScissorTales: Array of talent on OKC police reform panel

Editorial Board
Oklahoma News


Oklahoma City, OK


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lead story - Employers reject transgender people

Linköping University
EurekAlert


Linköping University


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Donald Trump - Judge orders Trump campaign to produce evidence of voter fraud in Pennsylvania

Katelyn Polantz
CNN


The Evidence (2006)


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11 August 2020

Kansas - Kansas could elect its first openly transgender lawmaker this fall

Katie Shepard
The Washington Post


Wichita, KS
  

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lead story - New center in Santa Ana helps hard-hit transgender people during coronavirus pandemic

Deepa Bharath
The Orange County Register


Anaheim, CA


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Donald Trump - Lincoln Project expands GOP target list, winning Trump ire

Jonathan Easley, Max Greenwood
The Hill


Abraham Lincoln


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09 August 2020

Mississippi - Hattiesburg clinic offers hormones for transgender community

Sarah Fowler
Clarion Ledger


Hattiesburg, MS (April 1968)


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lead story - The Matrix is a 'trans metaphor', Lilly Wachowski says

Press
BBC News


The Matrix (1999)


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ezs note:  Hmmm... but Ma Vie En Rose was made 2 years before The Matrix... and much more frankly.

Donald Trump - Pelosi calls Trump's coronavirus relief executive actions 'absurdly unconstitutional'

Chandelis Duster
CNN


Sisyphus, Franz Stuck
(Absurdist art)


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08 August 2020

Alabama - Birmingham rally calls attention to Black trans lives lost

Jonece Starr Dunigan
AL.com


Birmingham, AL


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lead story - Idaho district court upholds decision on transgender birth certificate changes

Donald Trump - Trump antagonizes GOP megadonor Adelson in heated phone call

Alex Isenstadt
Politico


Sheldon Adelson


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02 August 2020

New Mexico - Members of New Mexico Council for Racial Justice named

lead story - El Salvador: Police Officers Convicted for Transgender Murder

Press
Human Rights Watch


San Salvador, El Salvador


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Donald Trump - ‘Hating Joe Biden doesn’t juice up their base’: Key swing state slips away from Trump

Holly Otterbein
Politico


ezs note:  Yaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!


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31 July 2020

Donald Trump - Trump's trashing of democracy will have consequences far beyond America

What I believe...



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) 

It behoveth thee to consecrate
 thyself to the Will of God.
 Whatsoever hath been revealed
 in His Tablets is but a reflection of
 His Will. So complete must be thy 
consecration, that every trace of worldly
 desire will be washed from thine heart.
 This is the meaning of true unity. 
(Baha’u’llah)

29 July 2020

lead story - A transgender female inmate received her gender confirmation surgery after a three-year court battle

Donald Trump - Trump again attempts to stoke racial divisions in housing message

Kevin Liptak, Gregory Wallace
CNN



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What I believe...



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) 


I have heard Mulla Abdu'l-Karim
 recount the following incident: 
"My companions and I were fast 
asleep in the vicinity of the tent of
 the Bab when the trampling of 
horsemen suddenly awakened us. We
 were soon informed that the tent of
 the Bab was vacant and that those 
who had gone out in search of Him had
 failed to find Him. We heard Muhammad
 Big remonstrate with the guards. `Why 
feel disturbed?' he pleaded. `Are not 
His magnanimity and nobleness of soul
 sufficiently established in your eyes to
 convince you that He will never, for the
 sake of His own safety, consent to involve
 others in embarrassment? He, no doubt,
 must have retired, in the silence of this
 moonlit night, to a place where 
He can seek undisturbed communion
 with God. He will unquestionably return
 to His tent. He will never desert us.' 
In his eagerness to reassure his colleagues,
 Muhammad Big set out on foot along the 
road leading to Tihran. I, too, with my 
companions, followed him. Shortly after,
 the rest of the guards were seen, each on
 horseback, marching behind us. We had 
covered about a maydan
 when, by the dim light of the early dawn, 
we discerned in the distance the lonely figure
 of the Bab. He was coming towards us
 from the direction of Tihran. `Did
 you believe Me to have escaped?'
 were His words to Muhammad Big
 as He approached him. `Far be it from
 me,' was the instant reply as he
 flung himself at the feet of the Bab
, `to entertain such thoughts.'
 Muhammad Big was too much awed
 by the serene majesty which 
that radiant face revealed that
 morning to venture any further 
remark. A look of confidence had
 settled upon His countenance, His 
words were invested with such 
transcendent power, that a feeling of
 profound reverence wrapped our 
very souls. No one dared to question Him
 as to the cause of so remarkable a
 change in His speech and demeanour. 
Nor did He Himself choose to allay
 our curiosity and wonder." 

(Dawn-Breakers)

28 July 2020

Georgia - Savannah’s first openly gay council member helps shepherd city’s new LGBTQ+ task force

lead story - As transgender rights debate spills into sports, one runner finds herself at the center of a pivotal case

Donald Trump - Misleading Virus Video, Pushed by the Trumps, Spreads Online

Sheera Frankel, Davey Alba
The New York Times


Quack, quack!


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26 July 2020

Maine - Maine transgender man claims he was wrongfully fired and sexually harassed by Dunkin Donuts co-workers

lead story - Transgender women strive to create more accepting environment in Mansfield

Donald Trump - Trump is behind in a state no Republican has won the presidency without in 96 years

Harry Enten
CNN


Florida
Sabal Palmetto


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What I believe...



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.  If you wish to peruse the Writings more thoroughly, you can see http://bahai-library.com/. (Baha'i Library Online) 

His face their lesson and their only book.
Learning of wonderment,
of longing love their duty,
Not on learned chapters and
dull themes they look.
The chain that binds them
is His musky hair,
The Cyclic Scheme, to them,
is but to Him a stair.
(Baha’u’llah)