Transgender Kansans Sue After Driver’s Licenses Are Abruptly Canceled

The assault on Americans by their government continues.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops

Racial Profiling is perfectly legally

Extrajudicial murders of foreign citizens on international waters (WAR Crime)

Removing access to weapons to the most frequently attacked subpop (transgender folx)

Fascism doesn't adequately cover what is happening right now.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

Best to avoid revisionist history involving Madam Vice President Harris...and really any Black person. We keep receipts.

#FreePalestine #Genocide #Starvation

www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Trump administration freezes $108 million for Duke Health after accusing university of ‘systemic racial discrimination’ | CNN Politics The Trump administration has frozen $108 million in federal funding for Duke Health, a senior administration official confirmed, amid allegations of “systemic racial discrimination.”

File under: Your Silence Will Not Protect You

#Duke #ForeverDuke #HealthEquity #SavingLives

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Senate Republicans shrink Trump's spending cut package ahead of a key vote GOP senators said they would remove $400 million in cuts to PEPFAR from the rescissions bill, trimming it to $9 billion ahead of a Friday deadline for Trump to sign it into law.

BREAKING NEWS!

#PEPFAR is not being eliminated per the proposed Congressional Budget coming out of the U.S. Senate.

Far too soon to figure out what that does & does not mean to the millions of lives impacted around the world.

Watch this space.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Supreme Court upholds state bans on transgender care for minors At issue was a Tenneessee law that bars minors from accessing gender-affirming care as they transition genders.

For those of us who work in #queer youth #healthcare, we know what comes next for so many families: Funeral planning.

Our jobs are ending but we'll wake up tomorrow. More children will not. Not hyperbole. #FACTS

#ProtectTransKids #TransRightsAreHumanRights

www.npr.org/2025/06/18/n...

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of killing poor children by cutting foreign aid, and says he's giving away his wealth Gates also announced that his Gates Foundation will cease operations in 2045, sooner than previously planned.

Even though the #philanthropy world is not resetting itself overnight, this is a major step in the right direction.

Side note: Drink your water, take your meds, take that flight, dance in the grocery store, laugh loudly, smile at strangers

#GatesFoundation #Equity

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

For those who thought we were being alarmist in Oct 2024: raids on gay bars have begun in USA; Palestine will cease to exist before year's end; white folx are calling Black babies the N-word & then crowd-funding $650k; higher education is no longer; citizens may be deported. That's just the start

Mid-commute traffic stop left US citizen detained under an ICE order. Then, a Florida judge verified his US birth certificate | CNN A US-born man initially charged with being an “unauthorized alien” in Florida has been released after spending the night in jail on a 48-hour hold requested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement a...

Maybe one of the most predictable news stories for 2025 since the election.

Navigating this country as a Brown person is simply dangerous. I'm sure Georgia Gov K-E-M-P is about to rip into the racist detainment of a fellow Georgian.

Any minute now.

Just you wait.

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Goodbye Jeffrey!
It's been real.
And by "it"...I mean your embrace of systemic racism and queerphobia.
#DeleteAmazon #ByeBezos #Amazon

This is the type of news that we need more of...

Two Black gay men who are public health geniuses have been announced as the next CEOs of storied #HIV service orgs.

Dr. Travis Gayles at Howard Brown Chicago & Carl Baloney, Jr. of AIDS United give this author hope.

www.thebody.com/hiv/hiv-orga...

At #CROI2025, round of applause when the impactful #HIV research program that saved numerous lives was funded by the #NIH

#Black #transgender #women will be most impacted by this abusive policy. The hatred for all things Black, trans, and female by DJT2 is beyond the pale. Condemning these Black humans to abuse, r-a-p-e, and even death is status quo in today's America.

Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as next week The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.

“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”

--Nelson Mandela

#Mandela #Madiba #Prison #Transgender #PREA

www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

Any questions?

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I didn't think so.

New York police find body of missing man they say was tortured for more than a month by 5 people New York State Police have charged five people with murder in the killing of a missing man who authorities said died following repeated acts of violence and torture for more than a month by multiple i...

We all knew days like this were coming sooner than later when half of the politicians in America decided that since their policies were unpopular then they should get votes by enciting hate against a tiny minority of humans.

#ProtectTransKids #SamNordquist

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Trump freezes funds and Africa counts the costs As programmes pause, health officials and programme leaders wait for the fallout

The chaos from DJT2 across Black #Africa has led to preventable deaths; treatment disruptions; communicable disease surveillance cessation; and programmatic destruction of prevention activities.

This is the best summation article that I have read to-date.

www.nature.com/articles/d44...

New York governor calls for criminal charges in beating death of Robert Brooks after autopsy rules it a homicide | CNN New York Governor Kathy Hochul called for criminal charges to be filed and arrests being made

It is simply dangerous to be a Black man who is also breathing in the United States. This is not up for discussion.

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We need to talk. I need you on my next Black Folx Organizing panel.

Oh. I was about to ask you what you thought of James... it's on deck for me. Reading "Ordinary Notes" right now.

African women are leading (as a shock to literally no one) in developing a coordinated yet forceful response to not only the American government, but also to the governments across Africa to do better to ensure gender equity in healthcare & #HIV prevention.

awpcab.org/call-to-acti...

Dictators usually resort to force or fraud to gain despotic political power, which they maintain through the use of intimidation, terror, and the suppression of basic civil liberties.

They may also employ techniques of mass propaganda in order to sustain their public support.

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Modern dictators, however, resemble ancient tyrants rather than ancient dictators. Ancient philosophers’ descriptions of the tyrannies of Greece and Sicily go far toward characterizing modern dictatorships.

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The term dictatorship comes from the Latin title dictator, which in the Roman Republic designated a temporary magistrate who was granted extraordinary powers in order to deal with state crises.

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PSA: #Dictatorship as defined by Brittanic (no editing below)

Form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations.

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Also: The person who sent waiver is Jeff Graham who is Acting Global AIDS Coordinator (Head of PEPFAR). Qualifications are leading school foreign exchange in East Asia

Here is the waiver in full for your reading pleasure.

The global HIV program, #PEPFAR, has received a waiver to resume some services focused on #HIV treatment.

Exclusions:
a. PrEP not available to anyone except pregnant people (banned term by DJT2)
b. No family planning
c. No programs for key populations esp transgender people

Making AIDS Great Again