Trump of course is pretending it’s totally his doing.
…fight, and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 23, 2020
Just to nitpick…it’s not dedication and loyalty to the country to help a lying cheating criminal steal the election. More the opposite.… Read the rest
It’s about fucking time.
NEW: GSA has informed president-elect Joe Biden the administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN.
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) November 23, 2020
BREAKING: GSA head, Emily Murphy, has moved to officially begin transition and give president-elect Joe Biden the resources to transition including $6.3 million. Here’s her letter. pic.twitter.com/Xlv6y6IWvt
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) November 23, 2020
ABOUT DAMN TIME I SAY.
Whiny letter though.
Killing my "Hold Emily Murphy in Contempt" column, but this whiny letter is more evidence that contempt is justified https://t.co/xA2Z2EKoKJ
— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) November 23, 2020
Embiggening:… Read the rest
That article by Tina Traster dropped by Psychology Today and picked up by Transgender Trend:
Tina Traster is a socially-conscious, award-winning journalist, author, and filmmaker. She is the director of the award-winning documentary Catnip Nation and author of the award-winning memoir Rescuing Julia Twice: A Mother’s Tale of Russian Adoption and Overcoming Reactive Attachment Disorder. She has written about the transgender trend for Psychology Today. We are happy to re-publish her post here.
Traster notes that a lot of LGBQT teenagers are in foster care.
… Read the restLet’s talk about trans kids. The generally accepted narrative among activists, the therapeutic community, and the media is that many trans kids are living with parents who reject them based on morality or intolerance.
JL at the Glinner Update reports on another successful “REMOVE THAT ARTICLE!!!” campaign.
On Friday, leading psychology journal, Psychology Today, published an article by one of its regular contributors, award-winning journalist and documentary maker, Tina Traster. It was called “Trans Kids May Reject Family, Not the Other Way Around”.
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Parents responded to the article with gratitude and by sharing their own experiences, stories which reflect just what Traster has written about.
Until.
… Read the rest… the voices of concerned parents were drowned out by a barrage of abuse from trans rights activists in what looked like a co-ordinated campaign to get the article shut down. These comments all seemed to follow a particular pattern ie the article is
A variation on the Whig theory of history:
If you find yourself constantly at odds with younger generations (who as a rule are totally cool with being trans) the thing you swore would never happen probably has. Perhaps the process of becoming your parents – out-of-touch know-it-alls – is subtler than once you credited?
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) November 23, 2020
“The younger generations are always right” is the foundational belief and claim here. But is that true? Plenty of younger generations (it’s not clear how many Maugham thinks there are) belong to neo-Nazi groups, white power groups, Islamist groups, Brexit groups, pro-Trump groups.
And more generally and abstractly, what about the fact that people have time to learn more … Read the rest
It seems that Emily Murphy was supposed to talk to a House committee today to explain why tf she is refusing to ascertain Biden as president.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has summoned Emily Murphy, who is blocking the Biden transition team, for a private briefing.
If she appears she'll face questions from Katie Porter, Ayanna Pressley, Ro Khanna and Jamie Raskin among others. https://t.co/Ak3rxGNHac
— Swing Left (@swingleft) November 23, 2020
… Read the restGet the popcorn ready-Emily Murphy, the head of GSA, who refuses to sign off on the election to appease Trump, faces questions from Katie Porter and other House members about her refusal to comply.
When she pulls out that whiteboard, it's going DOWN. pic.twitter.com/Ahda0WOorO pic.twitter.com/mVg89TC15V
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Anne Applebaum notes that there are rules, and Trump and his rabble are breaking them in ways that no predecessor ever has.
… Read the restMurphy is the head of the General Services Administration, the unglamorous bit of the federal government that actually runs the federal government. Part of her job—a part that no one has ever before considered controversial or even noteworthy—is to “ascertain” who has won the U.S. presidential election, and then to release the congressionally mandated funds that allow the winner to begin his transition. Usually, that process also unlocks cooperation between incoming and outgoing officials. Before leaving office in 2017, aides to Barack Obama had prepared elaborate explanations of the state of the world, including a 69-page playbook
But she sounds perfect for Trump.
[Sidney] Powell had made headlines in recent weeks for her increasingly outrageous and unsupported claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, repeatedly vowing to “release the kraken” of evidence, only to refuse to produce it when asked by reporters. She has accused election officials in multiple states of committing crimes, and in recent days turned on Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, who on Friday helped certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the state. Her attack on Kemp, which also included the threat of a “biblical” lawsuit, appeared to unsettle some of Trump’s allies.
It seems ethically questionable for lawyers to accuse people of crimes without offering any evidence. I’m being polite; I … Read the rest
It’s all quite melancholy, really, because the thing is, she was going to release the Kraken, at least she said she was. Newsweek November 17:
… Read the restSidney Powell, one of the attorneys on Donald Trump‘s legal team contesting the election results, has been on the media circuit lately. She visited The Rush Limbaugh Show yesterday and Mario Bartiromo on Fox News the day before. The appearance that’s really gained traction, though, happened days before on Lou Dobbs Tonight on the Fox Business Network. During that conversation, Powell repurposed a popular phrase that has since taken off on Twitter as a clarion call for the right while a source of mockery for the left.
“I’m going to release the Kraken,”
One minute Sidney Powell is at a Trump team press conference spouting deranged conspiracy theories about the election, the next minute Giuliani is issuing a statement saying she’s not part of the Trump team. Probably the next item is Trump will do a presser holding Giuliani’s dripping head aloft.
President Trump’s campaign said in a Sunday statement that Sidney Powell is neither a member of its legal team nor a lawyer for Trump in his personal capacity.
Powell was a part of the campaign’s wild, conspiratorial Thursday press conference and baselessly floated unfounded conspiracy theories that included a claim that President-elect Biden won the 2020 presidential election thanks to “communist money” from the Venezuelan regime.
Which sounds funny, but … Read the rest
They’re gluttons for punishment.
INBOX: @RudyGiuliani and @TeamTrump are appealing the judicial smackdown they got from Judge Brann last night to the Third Circuit, for reasons passing understanding. pic.twitter.com/Nr4xkisl7r
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) November 22, 2020
More from the “individualism run amok” file:
https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1330187901976662017Yeah yeah yeah, we’re all impressed, but the point you’re missing here is that your house FULL of people is a risk to other people, people who are not you and not part of your “we.” It’s not tough or self-reliant or brave or clever to take risks that endanger other people as well as you.
It shouldn’t be a “liberal” monopoly to want to avoid spreading a lethal virus. Why do conservatives want to wave that particular flag?… Read the rest
Is Trump finally running out of road?
Donald Trump faced growing pressure from Republicans on Sunday to drop his chaotic, last-ditch fight to overturn the US presidential election, as victor Joe Biden prepared to start naming his cabinet and a Pennsylvania judge compared Trump’s legal case there to “Frankenstein’s monster”.
Despite Republican leadership in Washington standing behind the president’s claims that the 3 November election was stolen from him by nationwide voter fraud, other prominent figures, including two of his former national security advisers, were blunt.
So, in other words, no, Trump is still marching up that road with Republican “leadership” right beside him. John Bolton said things on tv, but who cares.
… Read the restAnd another former Trump administration national security
Well whaddya know, Tory equality commissioner has a Tory idea of what equality is.
(Spoiler: it’s to stop whining and find some way to “circumvent” the obstacles that discrimination puts in place.)
… Read the restJessica Butcher, a successful digital entrepreneur, was last week appointed as one of four new commissioners at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) by Liz Truss, the minister for women and equalities.
The EHRC’s role is to enforce the Equality Act, Britain’s key equality law, and to reduce inequality and tackle discrimination. Commissioners help set the body’s strategic direction.
But in a series of speeches, interviews and articles, Butcher – who describes herself as an “old-school feminist” – has criticised many recent feminist campaigns, including on
People are enjoying the smackdown.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1330293124770435072Judge laughs Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani out of court, dismisses case with prejudice, “DENIED AS MOOT” https://t.co/DBoN8XzHVF
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) November 22, 2020
https://twitter.com/rumpfshaker/status/1330303129859055616
SOMEbody is not so happy.
The Media is just as corrupt as the Election itself!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 21, 2020
A US District Court judge Saturday dismissed a lawsuit by the Trump campaign trying to invalidate millions of Pennsylvania mail-in votes.
“Plaintiffs ask this Court to disenfranchise almost seven million voters. This Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in the context of an election, in terms of the sheer volume of votes asked to be invalidated,” US District Court Judge Matthew Brann wrote Saturday.
Plus, the case is crap.
… Read the rest“One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption, such that this Court would have no
How to do better at pronouning.
Yes! That’s so important! Always get into the habit of interrupting people to tell them what to say. Life is drab and tedious without that.
What a fun afternoon that sounds like.
What if my authentic self is someone who doesn’t believe in specialty pronouns?… Read the rest
There’s another one of those Open Letters, this one from “the LGBTQ+ community” of Ireland.
For decades the transgender community has advocated, marched, and fought for equality, and inclusion. This fight has never once wavered in supporting movements that garner equality for all marginalised communities.
Well that’s a lie. “The trans community” doesn’t advocate or fight for all marginalized communities, it advocates and fights for its own. Individual trans people may have joined in, but the “community” has not, and it has gone way out of its way to shit on women.
… Read the restOur work, our fight, our campaigns, have all been underscored by two things, intersectionality and solidarity. The transgender community has always worked in advancing the equal rights
Katherine Morgan says it’s white women’s fault:
… Read the restThe 2016 exit polls reported that 52 percent of white women had voted for Trump, though according to TIME, that number was closer to 47 percent.
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The bookstore where I worked was similarly hectic in June: We received countless anti-racism book orders. And yet, despite all of the learning that supposedly took place via these books, in early November 2020 exit polls stated that among white women, Trump still held their support: An estimated 55 percent of white women voted for Trump. This is at least a two-point increase for this demographic since the previous election. As I sit with this number—more than half—I think about how one
Trump is SULking, na na na na nah.
Used to was, we couldn’t get away from him.
The outgoing US president held endless campaign rallies, verbally sparred with reporters on the way to his helicopter and spent so long on the phone to Fox News shows that even pliable hosts had to gently but firmly hang up.
He’s that guy. He’s that guy who never shuts up, that guy who has no interest in anyone else, that guy who thinks his every word is enthralling.
But now he’s hiding.
… Read the restFor critics, it is evidence of a monumental sulk as Trump contemplates his imminent loss of power and exit from the White House. In their view, it is also a
