Two dozen Black people killed by police, whose names I can immediately recall because I reported on their stories. The youngest was Fanta Bility, 8. The oldest Michelle Cusseaux, 50. But there are THOUSANDS more--many you never heard of. Please RT this 🧵. #SayTheirNames
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They want the date of the girl's first period, how long between periods, how regular the cycle. Know that many girls stop menstruating when they are hyper-athletic.
When girls stop menstruating, schools can claim they are really trans and kick them off the team. I have reported on schools that have checked the medical records of girls whose athleticism is superior to their teammates all the way back to kindergarten to "prove" their gender.
There is ZERO reason to have this data on girls' menstrual cycles. This is to check sexuality, orientation and identity and control their bodies. It's a huge invasion of privacy and ACLU could take this on in between supporting Trump and Fuentes' 1A rights to social media.
Yikes. This guy thinks you are "feeble and ineffectual" at 75 and that if you aren't "contributing to society" you don't deserve to live. Straight up Nazi eugenics.
I presumed this guy was far right because he was on Smerconish. That he worked for Obama and Biden is very disturbing. But it says a lot about the current state of the administration's COVID response that this person was handling it. This thread is so awful.
In point of fact, people are living longer. Millions of people are doing well in their 70s, 80s, 90s. I have friends and family members who are among them. A great aunt who's nearly 100. Still plays Scrabble. Nancy Pelosi was our greatest Speaker--in her 80s. Biden. Bernie.
I wasn't expecting to start the day with this kind of encoded language as a cover story, but here we are. @TIME clearly had ⬜male editors read this and say, "This is great! We prefer the sound of OUR voices over those perky women, BIPOC, LGBTQ and disabled folks anyway!"
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And therein a cover story was born in which those historically marginalized and suppressed voices are silenced for being "attention seekers." No. Activist voices in any given room are NOT attention-seekers or narcissists--we are the voices of the actual majority.
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In the US women are the majority yet treated like a minority in every aspect of society. BIPOC represent 40% of the country and some states like California and Texas, more than half. There are 62M disabled Americans and nearly 10% of Americans identify as LGBTQ.
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On @DeadlineWH, fmr asst AG for Natl Security,Mary McCord is very much letting us know Trump will likely not face any prosecution for January 6th via the DOJ (but maybe Georgia). She said repeatedly that there would be "some form of accountability" but noted it might be a report.
McCord also said, "it is a big bit of business to indict a former president" and "the DOJ is thinking about the short and long-term implications of that." But she states that a Trump could/would "incite the mob" and that must be considered.
McCord also enumerated how much data there are related to January 6th and that is an issue. Wallace countered with people wondering WTF is the deal and how "patient Democrats gave been," but McCord didn't waiver.
No one acknowledges this, but Leana Wen is trending, spreading new COVID denialism. Wen's the "expert" anti-vaxxers, MAGAs and Fox News cite to bolster their "COVID doesn't exist" line. Now she's claiming--against all data saying the opposite--that we over-counted COVID deaths.
In reality:
COVID-19 Death Toll Could Be 20 Percent Higher than Official Tally bu.edu/articles/2022/…
In reality:
Governments have undercounted the COVID-19 death toll by millions, the WHO says npr.org/sections/goats…
Biden is enumerating the strides his administration and the Democrats have made for Black Americans in the areas of everything from housing to internet access to funding for HBCUs.
What are the Republicans announcing?
Biden focusing on how small Black businesses hold communities together and how his admin is helping Black businesses grow.
Biden says he has appointed more Black women to the federal bench than any president in history. Calls Ketanji Brown Jackson the smartest of all the justices.