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https://twitter.com/twindad7536/status/1449077204042739715?s=20
Love seeing this billboard in Times Square
https://twitter.com/CherylP13/status/1448395874770436103?s=20
Texas removes suicide hotline from LGBTQ site because it could hurt GOP governor's reelection
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) quietly removed information intended to help prevent LGBTQ youth suicide from one of its websites after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was criticized by a primary opponent for “promoting transgender sexual policies to Texas youth.”
The site for Texas Youth Connection, part of DFPS, used to have a page called “Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation” that had links to various LGBTQ youth resources, including a suicide prevention hotline and educational materials.
In August, Don Huffines, who is challenging Abbott in the Republican primary, criticized the site in a video posted to Twitter.
“Governor Abbott’s political appointees that are running the Department of Family and Protective Services have put out and has been on their website some very disturbing information,” Huffines said in the video. “They are promoting transgender sexual policies to our- to Texas youth!”
MORE:
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/10/texas-removes-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-site-hurt-gop-governors-reputation/
https://twitter.com/JOHNGIDDING/status/1448055535945887745?s=20
Rep Swalwell's reply to Rep Jordan!!!
Rep. Jim Jordan
Ohio should ban all vaccine mandates.
@RepSwalwell
Ohio should mandate sexual assault reporting for coaches.
https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1448019395079512067?s=20
Wow. Jen Psaki just owned Ted Cruz.
Jen Psaki mocking Ted Cruz’s Southwest Airlines tweet, jokingly dismissing the Texas senator as a “world renowned” business travel & health expert.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1447993554857570304?s=20
You Think? - "a lot of journalism is broken- and wrong."
https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1447659645468876802?s=20
Sen Whitehouse re: Election Subversion-"You can actually connect the President ... to the scheme."
Sen. Whitehouse tells NBC the Judiciary Cmte. is aware of the extent of Trump's involvement in election subversion efforts.
"You can actually connect the President ... to the scheme."
He later adds: "Was this really just one little guy in the DOJ with a wild idea? I doubt it."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1447547543030620169?s=20
CHUCK TODD:
I want to start with -- I know that you were limited in your investigation because you're the Judiciary Committee and this was about the actions of the Department of Justice. So, how complete of a picture do you think you have of what President Trump did and what more would you like to know?
SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE:
Well, we have a very complete picture of the extent to which Trump was personally involved in this. This is a question in which you can actually connect the president of the United States to the scheme. The second thing that we know is that it focused very heavily on Georgia. So, that relates and feathers into the Georgia prosecution that's underway, I should say the investigation that's underway, down in Fulton County. Those two things link up. What we don't know is who was really behind this. The text of the transcript and the body English of the witnesses suggests that they had very little regard for this character Jeffrey Clark, who was nominally going to be the new attorney general. They doubted his qualifications to even have that role. So, it's a possibility, I suppose, that he saw this moment and grabbed it, but it's an equally real possibility that he was a cog in a larger machine and we've got a lot of work to do to figure out how that machine ran through this period, who was behind it, where the money came from, and what's been going on.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/news/meet-press-october-10-2021-n1281185
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Dan Rather: Change Is Inevitable - We Must Make Sure It's Good Change
Very little about what life was like when I was growing up remains intact. It is easy to focus on technology. I do video calls on my telephone with distant friends, even as I remember party lines when I was a child. (For those unfamiliar with the term, look it up. It wasn’t a party.) But the social changes are even more profound.
I have witnessed broad recognition of systemic biases, injustices, and cruelties. But a lot of the necessary progress we need to make on race, LGBTQ rights, the environment, as well as many other issues, remains maddeningly elusive. For many in this country this lack of progress harms and even kills. We take steps forward and backward. . . .
We have just lived through an administration that sloganeered about going backwards to when America was “great.” Time travel is of course impossible. But the era they seek to return to was not one of unadulterated greatness. It was one of systemic injustices and white supremacy.
We still live with the echoes of that era, of our past. The currents that haven’t changed in our country undermine our democracy. But we must all approach the present with humility.
Things can change. They will change. It can be for the better. And for the worse. But what I have also learned is that change need not be a passive exercise. From climate change to changing and expanding the rights and democratic values of our nation, we can all play a role. Rather than frighten us, change can be a powerful inspiration for hope.
There is so much about our nation in need of change that it can be overwhelming. But another lesson I have learned is that even small acts of change can add up. . . .
So perhaps we can all pledge today to endeavor this week to do something that we believe will change our neighborhood, our community, our city or town, and thus our nation and our larger world, for the better. Change need not be destructive. It can be just what we need to put us on a more peaceful, inclusive, and productive path into the future.
https://steady.substack.com/p/positive-change
http://jobsanger.blogspot.com/2021/10/change-is-inevitable-we-must-make-sure.html
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