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Biden plans swift moves to protect and advance LGBTQ rights - 0 views

  • Lifting the Trump administration’s near-total ban on military service for transgender people,
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      Which he did
  • Trump and Vice President Mike Pence “have given hate against LGBTQ+ individuals safe harbor and rolled back critical protections.”
  • Biden says his top legislative priority for LGBTQ issues is the Equality Act
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  • Anti-equality forces are trying to use the framework of religious liberty to strip away individual rights
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      Absolutely horrible
  • Ensure that LGBTQ rights are a priority for U.S. foreign policy
ritschelsa

Three officers suspended after police pepper spray 9-year-old girl in Rochester, N.Y. - 0 views

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      As they should be punished!
  • Rochester Police Department immediately removed the three involved officers from patrol duties
  • "This isn't how the police should treat anyone, let alone a 9-year-old girl,"
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      Exactly!!!!
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  • "Such use of force and pepper spray should never be deployed against a child, period. My office is looking into what transpired and how a child was ever subjected to such danger."
  • “You’re acting like a child,” one of the officers says at one point.“I am a child,” she can be heard responding.
  • We don't have a simple (situation), where we can put out our hands and have somebody be instantly handcuffed and comply."
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      Very true
ritschelsa

This Is How TikTok Responded To The Chaos In Washington - 0 views

  • This is Gen Z–style coping.
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      The use of dark humor is really enlighting on how Gen-Z copes with anything
  • Now, hours later, the tone has shifted again to people trying to make sense of what happened.Like, how are we just going about our days as normal right now?
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      It wasn't normal and it was very hard to go through classes while trying to process this
ritschelsa

Was Nancy Pelosi's lectern actually sold on eBay? - 0 views

  • While it remains unconfirmed if Johnson actually managed to get the lectern out of the Capitol building — seems highly unlikely, but so did the riot’s prolonged runtime — a listing for the House Speaker’s podium appeared on eBay soon after the siege.
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      Why would you steal and then sell anything from the Capitol?? Seems like a terrible idea, then again, so was breaking into it
  • the post isn’t close to legitimate.
  • In any event, it’s another case study in how easily you can dupe a board full of Redditors during a coup.
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  • But perhaps the defining image of this leisurely, stupid, and largely uninhibited affair came from the grinning, waving man who waltzed out of the House floor with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern.
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      The fact that people took pictures is really telling...
ritschelsa

Adoption agency should be able to reject gay couples, Trump administration argues - 0 views

  • The Trump administration submitted a brief to the Supreme Court on Wednesday arguing that a taxpayer-funded organization should be able to refuse to work with same-sex couples and others whom the group considers to be in violation of its religious beliefs.
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      This is disgusting and absolutely horrible
  • the government intervened on behalf of baker Jack Phillips who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple due to his religious beliefs.
  • “While this case involves rejecting LGBTQ families, if the Court accepts the claims made in this case, not only will this hurt children in foster care by reducing the number of families to care for them, but anyone who depends on a wide range of government services will be at risk of discrimination based on their sexual orientation, religion or any other characteristic that fails a provider’s religious litmus test,”
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  • The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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      Actions have consequences!!
  • “Our government provides critical social services to people in need, including through partnerships with private secular and religious organizations,” Cooper said. “Discrimination has no place there.
  • Under President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice has not shied away from weighing in on LGBTQ rights cases at the Supreme Court. I
ritschelsa

House Democrats to consider impeachment, 25th Amendment measures - 0 views

  • impeachment against President Donald Trump on Monday for "incitement of insurrection" when his supporters violently breached the Capitol last Wednesday.
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      It's important to impeach him now so that Trump can not run for office again
  • "We are calling on the Vice President to respond within 24 hours," Pelosi said in her letter, which said that Democrats would pursue impeachment legislation next.
  • The measure says that Trump has "demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law."
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      What he promoted was domestic terrorism, a threat to national security indeed
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  • "to expel members to voted to overturn the election and incited a white supremacist coup that has left people dead. They have violated the 14th Amendment,"
  • House impeaches Trump this week, the earliest the Senate could begin to take it up would be January 19
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      He may not have long in office, regardless of impeachment, it is still vital to impeach him in order to regain faith in our democracy
ritschelsa

Nevada election results: Why it's taking so long to count ballots in Nevada and how man... - 0 views

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  • But government officials say they are emphasizing accuracy over speed in a year when processing an unprecedented flood of mail-in ballots under extended deadlines is taking more time.
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      Accuracy is key but Nevada doesn't have as large of a population as Texas and Texas is done counting.
  • "The volume is definitely something that we've never seen before in the state as far as receiving and processing mail-in ballots."
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      The large influx of mail-in ballots is different, yes, but it still shouldn't be taking this long
  • More than 1.2 million ballots had been counted by Friday afternoon, with Joe Biden holding a 20,137-vote lead over President Donald Trump - an edge of about 1.6 points. About 87% of the estimated vote has been tallied, but tens of thousands of votes remain uncounted statewide.
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  • The vast majority of those untallied ballots are in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas and its populous surrounding suburbs
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      Vegas... Of course
  • Election staff manually examines signatures not verified by the machine. Later, a review is done to make sure the total number of ballots processed matches the number of ballots received. Once verified, those ballots are counted.
  • Gloria said he expected the majority of the remaining ballots to be counted by Sunday.
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      Tension arises and anxiety heightens
  • Processing mail-in ballots takes longer but "we haven't had any hiccups, we haven't had any delays," said spokeswoman Bethany Drysdale.
ritschelsa

Why Latin is Not a Dead Language - Argonauts and Emperors - 0 views

  • Latin still breathes. As long as there is civilisation, it will live on.
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      If Latin is still taught (which it is, especially in Europe!), it is still alive as it is still relevant to students
  • Thus, this ‘dead language’ remains integral to the religious faith of billions.
  • Latin is also a practical tool for anyone learning to read or speak them.
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      Latin is the root of all languages
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  • many of today’s key political concepts have their origins in Latin
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      Like phrases (Ad Nauseam, etc) and architecture
  • Latin also continues to have a practical purpose. Any student of Law or Medicine is expected to be familiar with technical Latin or even Greek terms.
ritschelsa

What's At Stake For LGBTQ Voters This Election? : NPR - 0 views

  • Many say they feel like their lives depend on this vote.
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      Same-sex marriage is on the line for the LGBTQIA+ community which is a big factor in why they're voting this year
  • Donald Trump is doing what Donald Trump does best, which is gaslighting people into believing that he supports them when, in fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
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      This is an accurate statement
  • Trump's ban on openly transgender people serving in the military
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      The worry is what else he will ban and take away from the community if he is given the power to
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  • White House opposed the Equality Act, which would provide comprehensive protections for LGBTQ people inside and outside of the work force. And appointing conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court this week doesn't help.
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      Freedom of expression and equality is at stake, isn't it ironic that America is the land of the free?
  • Her professional actions as a scholar and a jurist raised significant concerns about her ability to be impartial and fair when considering cases that will impact the LGBTQ community.
  • more than 70% of LGBTQ voters favor Biden, while only 17% support Trump.
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      This is because Trump is threatening their rights as people and citizens of the U.S
  • For you, it's a financial argument. For me, it's a can-I-even-be-in-the-room argument.
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      Preach! Perspective is very important this year regarding the election
  • Sun says if Biden is elected, she'll be holding him accountable for the promises he's made to the LGBTQ community.
    • ritschelsa
       
      As she should!
ritschelsa

How the election affected society and communication across America - USC News - 0 views

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      Family dinners will be really awkward, especially if the new presidency specifically affects them as a POC, woman, or a member of the LGBTQIA+ community
  • was that social media, which was intended to help people connect with one another, instead has led to the emergence of echo chambers — social bubbles in which people only engage people with whom they agree while they avoid, block, disconnect or dismiss friends, relatives or contacts with different viewpoints.
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      This kind of reminds me of cancel culture and how easy it is to metaphorically delete things/people from your life on social media
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  • We impose our beliefs and our biases on social media to make these echo chambers.”
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      Much of the news given to us through social media is heavily biased, thus creating widespread false information
  • people expressing anger about injustice either during or after the election are now very angry and hostile
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      This is a major concern post-election, will citizens be facing hostility no matter who wins? I think there will be major civil turmoil regarding the election results
  • “Underneath most anger is fear,”
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      I agree that most of the anger regarding this election is a product of the fear caused by the threat against people's rights
  • “The fact that another candidate can say such disgusting and vulgar things and still be elected — that’s very difficult to accept. There’s a double standard that comes across in this election.”
  • “The United States is so concerned with freedom of speech that we’re unwilling to impose sanctions on this, Dundes Renteln said. “There are consequences of that and we’re going to have to come to terms with how to protect civil liberties and civil rights.”
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      There's so much controversy regarding citizen's rights right now and whether or not those rights are being respected
  • We have to try to be more educated. “Facebook is not to blame. We have to blame ourselves.”
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