#D.C.

[reasonsforhope]

"Georgia Republicans bundled over a dozen measures that targeted the state’s transgender residents into omnibus packages in a desperate attempt to get them passed. In a stunning defeat for the GOP, every single one of them failed.

Legislators gutted bills that had passed through committee and instead stuffed them full of their anti-LGBTQ+ wishlist items.

Bills that would ban transgender students from playing on teams aligned with their gender identity, ban transgender students from bathrooms aligned with their gender identity, opt parents into notification for every book a student checks out of the library, bar sex education before sixth grade, make all sex-ed classes opt-in and expand obscenity laws to make it easier to ban books with LGBTQ+ content all failed.

“MAGA politicians in Georgia tried it all in service to their anti-LGBTQ+ agenda,” said Human Rights Campaign Georgia State Director Bentley Hudgins, “including silencing debate and gutting unrelated, popular bills that had bipartisan support to ram through policies that would have put young LGBTQ+ Georgians in harm’s way. They failed.”

“It’s undeniable that the tides are shifting, both here in Georgia and across the nation,” Georgia Equality executive director Jeff Graham added. “Anti-LGBTQ actors are losing their political power, and more and more Georgians who know and love LGBTQ people are standing up against their baseless fear-mongering.”

In Florida recently, nearly two dozen anti-LGBTQ+ bills were defeated in the wake of Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R) presidential campaign implosion, dozens of measures in Virginia were tabled [Note: In the US, "tabled" means "shelved" or "taken out of consideration - the opposite of its meaning in the UK and other places], and Ohio’s governor backed off his attempt to restrict gender-affirming care access for transgender adults and minors. 

Meanwhile, in D.C., Democrats successfully excised 50 anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in the two budget bills passed and signed by President Joe Biden to fund the federal government.

Even Fox News has been forced to acknowledge transgender issues are among the lowest-priority concerns among voters."

-via LGBTQ Nation, April 1, 2024

[holly-natnicole]

Cassandra "Duke, are you okay?"

Duke: *face down on the floor, slumped partially off the sofa* "Every new language I start learning is more fuel on the fire of me wanting to shoot English in the face."

Cass: "...Valid."

[possible-streetwear]

[mudwerks]

Hammond Dance Studio classes, 1941 (LOC)

Dancer Bernice Hammond teaching ballet to young African American girls at her dance studio on U Street, N.W., in Washington, D.C.

Robert H. McNeill, photographer.

[retropopcult]

A Good Humor ice cream truck serving a large crowd in Washington DC, 1942.

[gwydionmisha]

Musk was angry Michael Whitaker had grounded his unsafe Space X rockets and correctly ordered an investigation after this happened:

Remember that time Reagan fired all the experienced Air traffic controllers and hired scabs and the rate of plane crashes went up for years?

[breathtakingdestinations]

Washington D.C. - USA (by Thomas Hawk)

[icantdrawrt]

I was reading batman/superman AND BATMAN THINKS CLARK IS GOING TO DIE AND HIS FACE :(((

[real-odark]

i think there should be more like. cute and/or cartoony style superhero fanart because wheres the space for artists who cant draw big buff strong men or bulky complex armor.... ​where my circular batman at

[muddypolitics]

(via People's March protesters take to D.C. streets ahead of Trump inauguration)

[possible-streetwear]

Minor Threat

[galerymod]

The storming of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on 6 January 2021 was an attack on the United States Congress by supporters of the then incumbent, but already voted out of office, President Donald Trump. The incident, unprecedented in US history, is being investigated by law enforcement agencies such as the FBI as an act of domestic terrorism and is seen by many political observers as an attempted coup d'état by Trump.

Trump's successful victim-perpetrator reversal

Many of those who stormed the Capitol in 2021 have been sentenced to long prison terms. However, Trump has successfully managed to stylise them from perpetrators to victims – at least in the eyes of his supporters.

From perpetrators to victims

Over the past four years, Donald Trump has successfully transformed the ‘J6ers’ from perpetrators to victims. Sometimes he called them martyrs, sometimes even hostages. Part of his election campaign appearances was the song ‘Justice for all’. A mobile phone recording of detainees singing the national anthem – interrupted by Trump quoting the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’.

In an NBC interview a few weeks ago, Trump promised to pardon the offenders of that time: ‘I'll act very quickly. On the very first day. They've been through hell.’

News and Wikipedia....

Twisting the facts will be the order of the day at the White House over the next four years.

The writing of history will become the reproduction of the liar's propaganda.

mod

In any other country, Trump would have been held responsible for the call to overthrow the government.

America: the land of impossible opportunities if you have money and influence.

mod

‘Now it is your duty to tell the truth and remember what happened. Don't let January 6 be rewritten or even erased.’

Joe Biden

[instructionsonback]

[iamdangerace]

Toni Young of DC Punk band Red C in 1980. Photography by Susie J. Horgan.

[dreamings-free]

Screaming

https://x.com/facedn4/status/1752677924530991610?s=46&t=OslfnJmU12a9PXhsd2BB6Q

STAAAAAAAHHPP 😂😂

31/1/24