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Peace & Justice History for 3/24

March 24, 1616
William Leddra was executed by the Charter government of Massachusetts for being a Quaker. He was the fourth and last of his religion to be hanged with the approval of Governor John Endicott. Though the court did not find him “evil,” he had sympathized with the Quakers who were executed before him; he had refused to remove his hat, and he used the words “thee” and “thou,” which, to Quakers, implied the equality of all people.
(Check out the way the link works for this. Much better than the terrible transcription I read the other day. -Newsletter author)
Contemporaneous letter describing Leddra’s and other Quakers’ persecution  (starts p.58)
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March 24, 1918
Native-born Canadian women over 21 (except native, or First Nations, women) won the right to vote in federal elections, but not to run for office for yet another year. Suffrage was not granted to women in Quebec provincial elections until 1940.
Read about Thérèse Casgrain 
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March 24, 1964
In a sit-down against nuclear weapons at Parliament Square in London, England, 1,172 were arrested.
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March 24, 1965
The first Teach-In on the Vietnam War was held at the University of Michigan a month after President Lyndon Johnson ordered bombing of North Vietnam. The U-M teach-in was among the first of a new form of campus protest that was to spread nationwide, as a means of mobilizing students to examine policies of their government that they previously had taken for granted.

About the 1st Teach-In 
view original leaflets 
Very few Americans had ever heard of the country in southeast Asia, and the event was intended to educate the participants in the history of Vietnam and foreign aggression there.

Young protester in Chicago march, photo Jo Freeman
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March 24, 1967
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. led an anti-war march for the first time in Chicago, opposing the Vietnam War by saying:
“Our arrogance can be our doom. It can bring the curtains down on our national drama . . . Ultimately, a great nation is a compassionate nation The bombs in Vietnam explode at home—they destroy the dream and possibility for a decent America . . . .”

Reverend King addresses rally at the end of the Chicago march, photo: Jo Freeman
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March 24, 1980

The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) was founded, electing as their first president Olga Madar, a vice president of the United Auto Workers.
The convention adopted four goals: organize the unorganized; promote affirmative action; increase women’s participation in their unions; and increase women’s participation in political and legislative activities.
CLUW history 
CLUW today
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March 24, 1980
The archbishop of San Salvador, Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was assassinated while consecrating the Eucharist during mass.
Monseñor Romero had become a well-known critic of violence and injustice and, as such, was perceived in the right-wing civilian and military circles of El Salvador as an enemy, and criticized by the Roman Catholic church. Romero had exhorted the police and soldiers to disobey orders to kill innocent people, refusing to be silenced. Worshippers had interrupted, with ovations, his homilies condemning the terrorism of the state.

The ongoing legacy of Monsignor Romero (The Fransiscans have scrubbed him away. Here’s another place to read about him)
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March 24, 1989
The most environmentally damaging oil spill to date began when the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation, ran aground on Bligh Reef in southern Alaska’s Prince William Sound. An estimated 11 million gallons of oil (257,000 barrels or 38,800 metric tons) eventually leaked into the water.Attempts to contain the massive spill were unsuccessful, and wind and currents spread the oil nearly 500 miles from its source, eventually polluting more than 1300 miles of coastline. Hundreds of thousands of birds and thousands of sea mammals were lost in the disaster.

A dead murrelet, one of the hardest-hit sea birds in the Valdez spill.
25 years after the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, read more

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorymarch.htm#march24

Some Women’s And Labor History

When They Jailed The Most Dangerous Woman In America, Mary ‘Mother’ Jones, For ‘First Amendment’ by Rebecca Schoenkopf (Eric Loomis on Wonkette)

March 22, 1914, in labor history! Read on Substack

Mother Jones, c. 1910, marching in Trinidad, Colo. Photo courtesy of The Newberry Library, Chicago. Call # MMS Kerr Archives.

On March 22, 1914, Mary “Mother” Jones was arrested on a train in southern Colorado for her work in fighting for the coal miners on strike that area. This was her second arrest in this conflict, as she had previously been detained by the state militia in Trinidad and then sent to Denver. Upon release in Denver, she immediately went back to the coal fields, daring the mine owners and their bought police forces to arrest her again. Her work here was typical of the sacrifices this iconic organizer made in the second half of her life as she fought for the miners so badly exploited in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America.

Mother Jones is one of the most fascinating characters in American history. An Irish housewife who had little connection to political activism for much of her adult life, she emerged in middle age as a fiery agitator after her husband and all four of her children died of yellow fever in Memphis and her dress shop burned in the Chicago fire of 1871. She quickly became the voice of the mineworkers, especially in the coal country of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. She bridged generations of activism, being extremely close friends with Terence Powderly while also hailing the rise of the United Mine Workers and radical activists that Powderly could barely understand at his peak in the 1880s. She said she was much older than she actually was, which had both rhetorical powers and helped cement her in our historical memory, as she claimed to be 100 years old the year she died when in fact she was probably 93.

By 1897, she was known as Mother Jones, wearing out of style Victorian black dresses and using the mantle of motherhood as central to her organizing prowess. Calling her “mother” both established her as a maternal figure among the miners but also centered her emphasis on childhood and motherhood in organizing. For instance, she opposed women’s suffrage and ultimately believed that women should be taking care of their children rather than getting involved in politics. Her own life story made this stance not hypocritical. She also used children in her organizing, including the 1903 Children’s Crusade, a march of miners’ children from Pennsylvania to Theodore Roosevelt’s home in Oyster Bay, New York, where the children carried signs reading, “We want to go to School and not the mines.” Roosevelt refused to meet with them. She worked for the UMWA but attended the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905 and worked as an organizer for the Socialist Party in the late 1900s, returning to the UMWA as a paid organizer in 1911.

Though all of these actions, Mother Jones became known as “the most dangerous woman in America,” a title given to her by a district attorney in West Virginia named Reese Blizzard. During a 1902 trial where she was charged with ignoring injunctions against miners holding union meetings (First Amendment in the coal fields indeed!), Blizzard pointed at her, saying, “There sits the most dangerous woman in America. She comes into a state where peace and prosperity reign … crooks her finger [and] twenty thousand contented men lay down their tools and walk out.” That wasn’t true and served the interests of the owners to say that their employees were actually good people but stupid and easily led astray by outside agitators, instead of admitting their employees had a bloody good reason to go on strike. Anyway, the nickname stuck and this attitude from employers was something Jones reveled in.

In the fall of 1913, Mother Jones traveled to Colorado to participate in mineworkers’ organizing in the coal fields in the southern part of that state. Conditions in the coal fields were all too typical of the time: complete industry control over a workforce that was polyglot and desperate. Working conditions were horribly dangerous. Between 1884 and 1912, 1,708 workers died in Colorado coal mines (over 42,000 nationwide). Companies controlled not only the mines but housing, stores, and education. Union organizing was met with brutality and murder. Effectively, the coal companies controlled workers’ lives in Colorado as they did in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. These were Mother Jones’s people.

The companies did not welcome Jones’s presence. She was thrown off company property several times. She was arrested twice. After the first arrest, she was placed in a comfortable hospital for a month. After all, she was an elderly woman and a bit harder to crack the whip on than the miners themselves. But on March 22, 1914, she was arrested again. This time, the companies were less kind. They threw her into the Huerfano County jail in Walsenburg. This was no nice hospital. She spent 23 days in the jail.

The United Mine Workers tried to capitalize on Jones’s arrest. They issued a pamphlet describing (and perhaps exaggerating a bit) the conditions this old woman had to suffer through as she lived her faith of defending the miners. The pamphlet discussed the filth, the rats in the cell, the snow pouring in a broken window, a guard jabbing her with a bayonet. On the other hand, the mine owners and their friends accused Mother Jones of having been a prostitute in a Denver brothel in 1904 and said her support for Coxey’s Army had consisted of procuring women for sex. On both sides, Mother Jones elicited strong opinions.

After her second release, Mother Jones went to Washington DC to testify on the conditions in the coal country. A few days later, the Colorado coal wars would see their most violent incident, with the Ludlow Massacre. Between Ludlow and the aftermath when enraged miners went on a rampage against anyone associated with the coal companies, up to 200 people died in this strike, possibly the most deadly in American history. John D. Rockefeller Jr. agreed to meet with her about the conditions of the miners as part of his public relations effort when he was savagely attacked for his role at Ludlow.

Mary Jones died in 1930. Earlier that year, on the day she supposedly turned 100, Mother Jones was filmed with sound about workers’ rights.

FURTHER READING:

Elliott Gorn’s The Most Dangerous Woman in America.

Thomas Andrews, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War.

An Early Monday Brain Cleanser

From ‘Himalayan fur goblin’ to ‘teacup werewolf,’ these silly videos are helping dogs find homes

(I’m sorry you’ll have to click through to see the video; either the live headline above, or the link beneath the next graf. It won’t embed. It’s worth it, I promise!)

Nashville animal shelter volunteer Adrian Budnick was looking ideas to showcase the adoptable dogs on social media. Looking for a Himalayan fur goblin or a teacup werewolf? Her silly videos have increased both adoptions and donations. (AP video/Kristin M. Hall)Published 7:06 AM CDT, March 22, 2025

https://apnews.com/video/from-himalayan-fur-goblin-to-teacup-werewolf-these-silly-videos-are-helping-dogs-find-homes-0244d1b2f4df422ebe7e62304be87671

Peace & Justice History for 3/22

March 22, 1933
The Nazi German concentration camp at Dachau was opened, the first of many such camps built for the incarceration and extermination of those considered unfit: Jews, Polish Catholics, Communists, the Roma (frequently referred to as Gypsies), the “work-shy,” homosexuals, the “hereditary asocial,” and those with mental and/or physical handicaps.

The gate to Dachau “Work will make you free”
Over 200,000 prisoners were registered at Dachau, nearly all of whom died there.
The early days of Dachau 
March 22, 1956
Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., was convicted of organizing an allegedly illegal boycott by black passengers of buses in Montgomery, Alabama. He was fined $500 but when his lawyers indicated his intent to appeal, the sentence was changed to 386 days of imprisonment.
Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott 
March 22, 1965
3,200 civil rights demonstrators, led by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and under protection of a federalized National Guard, began a third attempt at a week-long march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capitol at Montgomery in support of voting rights for black Americans.

Marchers on their way to Montgomery
A week before, the march had been violently stopped before leaving Selma. People from all over the country arrived to support the effort for enfranchisement of African Americans in the South whose right to vote had been systematically denied.
From Selma to Montgomery: An Introduction to the 1965 Marches – Lesson Plan
March 22, 1974

The Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (ERA) was passed by both houses of Congress with two-thirds majorities. The amendment, to give women full equality under law, was ratified by the legislatures of only 35 states, short of the required three-quarters of the 50 states, and thus never became law.
Detailed history of the Equal Rights Amendment 
March 22, 1980
30,000 marched in Washington, DC against re-introduction of draft registration.
  Denise Levertov’s lines from her poem,
“A Speech for Antidraft Rally, D.C., March 22, 1980″”…Let our different dream,
and more than dream, our acts
of constructive refusal generate
struggle. And love. We must dare to win
not wars, but a future
in which to live.”
The entire poem (pdf) 

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorymarch.htm#march22

Have An OT Comics Post This New Spring Friday AM! 🌞

Here’s one for Ollie, and for all the hopeful squirrel chasers.

Bliss by Harry Bliss for March 21, 2025

Bliss Comic Strip for March 21, 2025


Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for March 21, 2025

Dark Side of the Horse Comic Strip for March 21, 2025


Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 21, 2025

Frazz Comic Strip for March 21, 2025


Heathcliff by Peter Gallagher for March 21, 2025

Heathcliff Comic Strip for March 21, 2025

Slightly political but funny (or maybe I’m weird!🌞)

Last Kiss by John Lustig for March 21, 2025

Last Kiss Comic Strip for March 21, 2025

Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 21, 2025

Non Sequitur Comic Strip for March 21, 2025

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 21, 2025

Pearls Before Swine Comic Strip for March 21, 2025


Scary Gary by Mark Buford for March 21, 2025

Scary Gary Comic Strip for March 21, 2025

For all of us undergoing or who’ve undergone:

Sherman’s Lagoon by Jim Toomey for March 21, 2025

Sherman's Lagoon Comic Strip for March 21, 2025

Ten Cats by Graham Harrop for March 21, 2025

Ten Cats Comic Strip for March 21, 2025

I hope everyone’s Friday the 21st is really nice. Enjoy all you can! 🌞

Peace & Justice History for 3/21

March 21, 1937
On Palm Sunday (the Sunday before Easter), the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico was to march in Ponce (city on the southern coast of the island) in support of Puerto Rican independence. They were also protesting the imprisonment of Albizu Campos, leader of the Party and the lawyer for the sugarcane workers who had led a general strike.The colonial military governor, Blanton Winship (a Georgian who had been Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army), revoked the parade permit at the last minute. Nationalists insisted on marching regardless and, surrounded by the well armed police, were fired upon as they began. Whoever fired the first shot, 18 Nationalists and 2 policemen died. 200 others, Nationalists and bystanders, were injured, 150 arrested. This incident is known as Masacre de Ponce, or “The Ponce Massacre.”

Families of those who died in the Ponce Massacre
A history of Puerto Rico 
The Ponce massacre remembered 
March 21, 1960
South African police opened fire on unarmed demonstrators in the black township of Sharpeville near Johannesburg. The demonstrators were protesting the establishment of apartheid pass laws which restricted movement of non-whites.

In Sharpeville itself, 69 were killed and 176 wounded when police fired on the crowd, 63 of them shot in the back. In the aftermath of the Sharpeville massacre, protests broke out in Cape Town and elsewhere, and there were further casualties. Overall, 13,000 were jailed.
The organizer, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, head of the Pan-Africanist Congress, had written to the police commissioner, notifying him of the plans, and had said at a press conference, “I have appealed to the African people to make sure that this campaign is conducted in a spirit of absolute nonviolence, and I am quite certain they will heed my call.” 
The Sharpeville Massacre and its significance in South African history 
March 21, 1990
The Plowshares Two damaged a U.S. F-111 bomber in Upper Heyford, England. This was the first plowshares action in Britain.
The details of this and other Plowshares actions of the time 
March 21, 2003
The report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa was released. The commission was led by the Reverend Desmond Tutu, a bishop in the Anglican Church, the first black General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, and Nobel Peace Prize winner for his efforts to bring peace and justice to all South Africans.

.Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu
The Commission was charged with investigating and providing “as complete a picture as possible of the nature, causes and extent of gross violations of human rights” under the racial separatist apartheid regime from 1960 until the inauguration of Nelson Mandela in 1994, South Africa’s first black president.
But the Commission sought to go beyond truth-finding to promote national unity and reconciliation, to facilitate the granting of amnesty to those who made full factual disclosure, to restore the human and civil dignity of victims by providing them an opportunity to tell their own stories, and to make recommendations to the president on measures to prevent future human rights violations.
Reverand Tutu concluded in his foreword to the report, “Quite improbably, we as South Africans have become a beacon of hope to others locked in deadly conflict that peace, that a just resolution, is possible. If it could happen in South Africa, then it can certainly happen anywhere else. Such is the exquisite divine sense of humour.”
The complete report of the Commission 
March 21, 2008
More than 300 people participated in an annual Good Friday peace action at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, organized by Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment (CARES). The lab is a key participant in the design of all weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. The Alameda County Sheriff arrested 91 of the protesters. CARES Executive Director Marylia Kelley said, “The emphasis is on nonviolence and rejecting violence.”
The organization behind the action 
March 21, 2011
An estimated 14 million Egyptians voted in an essentially problem-free election. 77% voted to endorse a process that would bring elections for parliament within six months and a presidential election later.

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorymarch.htm#march21

Held Hostage!

If it can happen to them, being held without due process.  It can happen to any of us.  We know it has happened before with US citizens of Mexican heritage that were not allowed any due process but just deported.  We know tRump had unmarked black bag groups just adduct people off the streets during the BLM protests.  They were held with no charges, interrogated by people who did not identify themselves, and had their items take and phones searched.  In some cases they never got their phones back.   It can and will happen to any of us if it is not stopped now.  Hugs

 

A man being held by ICE at the KROME detention center in Miami is posting videos to TikTok about the inhumane conditions and treatment.

tRump ignoring judges and courts say. They think tRump is king and they are desperate to be a white dominated ethnonation.

GOP Rep To Seek Impeachment Of Deportation Judge

 Gill, the son-in-law of notorious cultist Dinesh D’Souza, ran a fleet of clickbait fake news sites and promoted D’Souza’s debunked “2000 Mules” film before being elected in 2024.

Earlier this month Gill introduced a resolution that would replace Ben Franklin with Trump on the $100 bill.

Last month Gill earned national headlines when he called for deporting Rep. Ilhan Omar over of a fake Russian video promoted by Elon Musk.

Gill first appeared here when he called for Trump to seize Greenland and Panama by military force.

His tweet below currently has over 34 million views thanks to it being shared by Elon Musk to his 220 million followers.

Doctor Deported To Lebanon Despite Judge’s Order

Alawieh, who had worked and lived in Rhode Island previously, was detained at least 36 hours, through Friday, and was going to be sent back to Lebanon, the complaint said. Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist, was to start work at Brown University as an assistant professor of medicine.

Trump Admin Mocks Judge After Defying Flights Order

“Oopsie…Too late,” Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally who agreed to house about 300 migrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his country’s prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article about Boasberg’s ruling. That post was recirculated by White House communications director Steven Cheung.

Erik Prince Pushes $25B Deal To Privatize Deportations

Prince is the most famous mercenary of the contemporary era and the founder of the now defunct private military company Blackwater. For a time, it was a prolific privateer in the “war on terror,” racking up millions in US government contracts by providing soldiers of fortune to the CIA, Pentagon and beyond.

Now he is a central figure among a web of other contractors trying to sell Trump advisers on a $25 billion deal to privatize the mass deportations of 12 million migrants. Prince also has the ear of Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, and was a character witness for her Senate confirmation.

Politico first reported on Prince’s deportation pitch to the Trump administration late last month.

Prince, the brother of former Education Sec. Betsy Devos, appeared here in 2023 when he went on trial in Austria for arms trafficking.

In 2022, he appeared here when he told then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he could have prevented Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Also in 2022, he told Steve Bannon that the US should be supporting Putin because he hates LGBTQ people.

Later that year, Prince was exposed for having spied on progressive groups.

In 2021, Prince was charging Afghan refugees $6500 for seats on planes doing evacuations.

Axios: How WH Defied Judge’s Order On Deportations

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller “orchestrated” the process in the West Wing in tandem with Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Noem. Few outside their teams knew what was happening.

 

https://x.com/MarkSZaidEsq/status/1901298029916815731

https://x.com/OMGno2trump/status/1901377645444804631

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A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place.Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T20:23:44.931Z

Border Czar: “I Don’t Care What The Judges Think”

 

Maga Parents BRAINWASH Their Kids For Trump

Some of the worst of the republicans.

Canada is furious at tRump for the bullying treatment they are receiving.  But Canada is not a small country that tRump can bully with impunity.  The border is a treaty.  tRump has no legal authority to violate it, especially for his personal gain.  Ask yourself why tRump and crew want Canada to be only one state?  It is made up of thirteen administrative divisions: ten provinces and three territories.  Why not bring all of them in to one big country.  Because that would wipe out the republicans, they wouldn’t win elections.  Canada is far more progressive than the US.  But again why does tRump want Canada.   Because they have a much higher standard of living, longer life expectancies, the government works much better for the people than in the US.  It would stop people in the US from pointing to the north and saying … “see they understand how to do it, why can’t we”.   Now tRump is on to something great he is just too stupid to realize it.   I would love to see the three major countries in the Americas join as one state, with equality and inclusion of all. Something like the EU but closer.  Eventually it could include the lesser nations.  Think of the ways these countries could help build a better future for all if it could be one country.   But tRump doesn’t want Mexico because those people are mostly brown in his mind, Canada is white in his mind.   He should have watched more Star Trek.   Hugs

Trump Told Trudeau US-Canada Border Treaty Is Invalid

Stop the testing tRump demanded during his first term.  If we don’t admit the bad thing exists we can pretend it doesn’t hurt us.  Right.  Tell that to every frightened child.  The free tests are very important to people on a limited budget and it is a way to keep co-workers safe.  If these people can test themselves before they go to work then they might not spread what they have to their friends, family, and fellow workers.  In the story after this one is about a pregnant Texas woman unvaccinated who had measles and never told the hospital staff when she went in to deliver her baby.  She exposed every one of the newborns there, she exposed all the woman who gave birth, their families and the staff.  All of them should sue her if any of the newborns have issues or die.  These people are so stupid.  The US used to have massive infant / child mortality over measles.  If it did not kill you, like covid it can leave lasting organ damage.  It will make the other newborns getting their vaccinations in question.  Selfish people who have not lived through the horrifying consequences of these preventable diseases, so they ignore history and science.  How many children need to needlessly suffer for them to wake up?  Hugs

Trump Administration Ends Free At-Home COVID Tests

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Newborn Babies Exposed To Measles At Texas Hospital

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Texndoca day ago

The Governor and Lt Governor have referenced “measles’ on their Twitter 0 times. Dan Patrick has however posted about renaming the New York Strip the Texas strip, served with Gulf of America shrimp, 5 times”.

USDA Cancels $11M In Funding For NC Food Banks, Asheville Must End Diversity To Get Hurricane Relief

 

I love how people who never served in any branch of the military feel they know all about what it takes to do so.  I love that people who claim to honor the Vet’s and then cut all funding that would actually help veterans and military people.  It is like the pro-life crowd that claims they need to erase the LGBTQ+ people from society to protect the children then slashing all funds for feeding and caring for those very same children.   Hugs

Musk Brands Decorated Combat Veteran/Astronaut And Dem Senator Mark Kelly A “Traitor” For Visiting Ukraine

 

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Study after study has been done by both serious military leaders and hate groups.  It doesn’t matter who does a serious study of LGBTQ+ people in the military as they all show that LGBTQ+ are great assets for the military that increase military effectiveness.  I have often told the story of how my sub unit begged me to reenlist when I was saying good by the site went down and I was the one that got us back on the bird.  But the new company commandeer was a homophobe Christian and he told me he would destroy me if I reenlisted.  The unit lost a grand technician with a great future in the military due to bigotry.  Compare the personal life of Pete Buttigieg a gay man who was in the military, seen action in Afghanistan and is in a stable same sex marriage with children to the life of the new straight cis Christian Nationalist Pete Hegseth.  Hegseth often called kegseth by late night TV hosts, has married and devoiced several times currently on his third marriage, he has been married three times, his first wife, who he admitted to cheating on five times, is Meredith Schwarz. He is also stepdad to Rauchet’s three children so Trump’s appointee for Secretary of Defense has four biological children and is stepdad to three.   He is credibly accused of being a drunken jerk who harasses women, has committed domestic violence on one of his wives.  Really a moral guy compared to the gay guy though right because he has the right religion and is straight cis.  Hugs.

Trump Shares “No LGBTQs” Symbol On Truth Social

Read the full article. The Washington Times is a far-right outlet founded and owned by the Unification Church – which is better known as the Moonies. Surely homocons Scott Bessent and Richard Grenell are thrilled with a no-gays symbol.

My but all those pesky freedoms in the constitution being thrown away as fast as possible.  Freedom to protest the goverenment, the freedom of the press.  You know the very things keeping the government in check.   Look the democrats said the project 2025 was designed to destroy democarcy and install a authoritarian dictatorship such as Russia or Hungry.  Wake up and act because tRump  / republicans want to make it illegal to do anything that is not supportive of the cult leader.   Think about what is being protected in the stories below, it is the profits of the wealthy and the ability of the cult leader to simply ignore any law or normal decency that displeases him.   Hugs.  

 

I’ll be reposting this on many stories I’m sure…
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The GOP clearly hates American values.

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/03/bondi-vows-to-jail-anyone-funding-tesla-protests/

Felon Vows To Prosecute Outlets That Displease Him

The setting was part of an effort to emphasize the power of the institution Mr. Trump controls through loyal and compliant appointees.

CNN’s Jake Tapper just noted on-air that in the same breath in which Trump raged about a “weaponized” justice system, he vowed to himself weaponize that same system against reporters and outlets that serve up anything other than lavish praise.

 

Think about this :

A convicted felon lectures the Dept. of Justice on what should or should not be ‘allowed’, – having just pardoned over a hundred other convicted felons.

Alice in Wonderland would be embarrassed.

All this is carefully planned and orchestrated.

Everything Trump is doing almost exactly mirrors what Orban did to take control in Hungary. In fact, it’s uncanny how similar the takeover is.

If you want to see what Trump does next, look to Hungary.

tRump has a problem.  First he promised he could solve this before being sworn in to office.  Now he talked tough and attacked Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy while saying he would hold Putin to the agreement with the strongest sanctions / efforts.   Yet when Ukraine agreed to a cease fire and Russia did not … where was tRump’s big tough talk.  He back tracked and demanded that Ukraine give in more.  Now when Putin simply used the pause to attack and take over a large part of the region in the fighting, tRump is silent on his promises to make Putin agree to the cease fire.  In fact again he attacks Zelenskyy as the real problem and the other countries supporting Ukraine.  He guys if you just stop supporting Ukraine and agree with the US / Russia we can stop this war right way.  He will not and never can say a bad thing about his boss Putin, he has been compromised and is desperate to change reality.  Hugs

Trump: When I Said That I Can End Russia-Ukraine War In 24 Hours, “I Was Being A Little Bit Sarcastic” [Video]

Along with the above, those that claim tRump is not a racist simply never worked with / for him and don’t watch what he says about people.  Remember that he wants only white South Africans to be able to come to the US on a fast track, he wanted to annex Canada but not Mexico who he has accused of sending the US rapists and murders, he asked in a meeting why we can’t get more European white people to move to the US. His company was sued by the US government which won the case for not allowing black people to move into his apartment buildings.    Any claim tRump is not a bigot or racist denies reality.  In tRump’s mind and many of his racist white supremacist whites must always be in charge over those not white.   Hugs

 with Mr. Trump having accused Mr. Ramaphosa’s government of discriminating against South Africa’s white minority

Rubio Expels South Africa’s Ambassador To The US

Trump had already issued an executive order last month cutting all funding to South Africa over some of its domestic and foreign policies. The order criticized the Black-led South African government on multiple fronts, saying it is pursuing anti-white policies at home and supporting “bad actors” in the world like the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran.

How long before Trump calls for invading South Africa? Rather obviously, this was done as a favor to Elon Musk, who is wildly unpopular in his home country.

Trump’s “Antisemitism Czar” Retweets Anti-Semites

Read the full article. That Trump’s so-called antisemitism czar is merrily retweeting notorious anti-Semites is classically Trumpian. Terrell last appeared here in January when he declared that Los Angeles’s “DEI firefighters have no intention of putting out those wildfires.” Yesterday Terrell called for a new federal commission on “anti-white bias.”

 

Again look at what these countries have in common.  Being not white is OK if you are wealthy but if you are not, being not white is a ban from tRumpstaia.  Hugs

NYT: Trump Plans To Restrict Visitors From 43 Nations

 In those cases, affluent business travelers might be allowed to enter, but not people traveling on immigrant or tourist visas. Citizens on that list would also be subjected to mandatory in-person interviews in order to receive a visa. It included Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Turkmenistan.

This one is so clear.  The criminal is demanding his crime files never be released.  Why?  If he was as innocent as he claims he is why not release the files for the public to see?  Because he was guilty as hell and this judge was compromised and working with the tRump team to do everything possible to stall the case until possibly he could be reelected making the charges go way.   He was guilty.  Look the facts are clear, he had the files, he was asked to return them, he refused, then told the government he did not have anymore, the government went into his domicile and found he did have them.   What never came out was why he wanted so badly to have these files that was reported he picked himself and why he was desperate to hold on to them.  Everything I have written is fact!  It is reality!  So apparently there is so much more in those files that tRump is terrified will come out.  Why?  again if he is innocent then let the files show it.  But he hides and wants the files hidden and destroyed.   Hugs

DOJ: “Under No Circumstances” Release Docs Report

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