Notice at the end The Majority Report crew plays a clip of all of tRump’s hateful rhetoric after the White House spokesperson blasts Democrats for hate speech inciting violence, which was the democrats telling the truth about tRump.ย Hugs
On a personal note I have allergy shots this morning.ย Hugs
(Click the headline right up there for more info, or scroll down for yet more links and info)
The next National Day of Action is right around the corner, May Day, Friday, May 1st.
The national call is for no business as usual. This will look different in different places. In some locations, it will mean no work, no school, and no shopping. (snip)
This May Day, weโre flexing our economic power as workers, students, and everyday people to send a clear message to the Trump regime: we will not do business as usual while they trample our rights, terrorize our communities, and drag us into a senseless war in Iran.
Note: A core principle behind all May Day events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. No weapons are permitted under any circumstances. (snip)
It’s time for the conditions and standard of living that the working class deserves. We’re beginning a year of action on May 1st with a series of protests, strikes, and other direct action opportunities.
MAY 1 NATIONAL DAY OF ACTIONS:
THRIVING WAGES The working class people have been taken advantage of for far too long! Join us as we mobilize to create worldwide plans of action for THRIVING WAGES. We are demanding at least $20/hr as well as better union laws, the ease of information for organizing co-ops, and better working conditions. But wait, there’s more! We are also demanding mandatory PTO, paternal leave, and good benefits.
Why do we want these demands? Inflation over the last year has risen over 7% and continues to climb. Rents and housing costs have skyrocketed. The costs of consumer goods as greatly increased. Yet corporations and billionaires have doubled their wealth in 2 years as the working class has struggled during a pandemic that has killed over 850,000 Americans and counting. (snip-MORE)
May 1, 1886 May Day was called Emancipation Day in 1886 when 340,000 went on strike (though it was Saturday it was a regular day of work) in Chicago for the 8-hour workday.
May 1, 1890 May Day labor demonstrations spread to thirteen other countries; 30,000 marched in Chicago as the newly prominent American Federation of Labor threw its weight behind the 8-hour day campaign.
May 1, 1933 Dorothy Day Theย Catholic Workerย newspaper was founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. Dorothy Day said, “God meant things to be much easier than we have made them,” and Peter Maurin wanted to build a society “where it is easier for people to be good.” Peter Maurin
May 1, 1948 Senator Glen Hearst Taylor (D-Idaho) was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked for “Negroes” rather than using the โwhites onlyโ door, and convicted of disorderly conduct. Taylor was the Progressive Party candidate for Vice President, running mate of Henry Wallace. He was in Birmingham to address the Southern Negro Youth Congress.
May 1, 1965 Second Factory for Peace opened in Onllwyn, Dulais Valley, in south Wales, employing disabled miners. Tom McAlpine, active in the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament, and a supporter of cooperatives and industrial democracy, established Rowen Engineering in both Wales and Glasgow, Scotland.
May 1, 1967 Soviet youths openly defied policeย and danced the twist in Moscow’s Red Square during May Day celebrations. In the early โ60s the Twist had been banned in Buffalo, New York, and Tampa, Florida. The religious right claimed the Twist was actually a pagan fertility dance. Are you old enough to remember Chubby Checker? — May 1, 1971 Five days of anti-war May Day protests began inย Washington, D.C., resulting in over 14,000 arrestsโthe largest mass civil disobedience in U.S. history. — May 1, 1986
One million South Africans demonstrated their opposition to apartheid in a strike organized by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
So, some of us don’t get around much anymore. Some of us may be somehow constrained to go to work. Some of us have waited all week to buy a few needed groceries. Maybe we wanted to participate, but just forgot and now it’s tomorrow, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to do it. How can we participate? Well, click onto any or all of these links to find out. There is no fault or fail in not being able to do the primary actions, but there are other ways to participate, and even if we don’t find a way, we can certainly work toward being able to observe a personal May Day now and then on our own. We can simplify, and always work to keep our spending where it will be most useful to community. And maybe we can watch someone else’s kids or pets while they go and do.Benefitting our communities while not feeding the already-wealthy with our commerce, labor, and dollars will benefit people, and is the objective. Above this graf are resources. May Day is tomorrow. Let’s do all we can!
Thisย guest is an immigration attorney with expertise in ICE tactics and in ICE detention.ย She dispels the misunderstanding and the myths created by the tRump administartion.ย These detentions are civil detentions not criminal and entering the country with out inspection is a class B misdemeanor.ย Another thing she mentions is the ever-increasing costs for detention which is currently $200 a day per detainee and there are over 70 thousand detainees.ย She gives a lot of other useful to know information including the brutality in the detention centers.ย For example they are taking detainees out in the Everglades and forcing them to stand with hands shackled in the hot sun being eaten by misketoes and bugs.ย ย They are putting people in “hot boxes” and leaving them there in the hot Florida sun with no water or medical treatment when they are let out.ย She describes many more examples.ย Hugs
Katie Blankenship, an immigration attorney from Sanctuary of the South, a grassroots legal services organization that provides critical, affordable legal defense to immigrant families affected by detention, deportation, and abuse, joins Sam to discuss abuses at the Alligator Alcatraz ICE detention center in Florida. To find resources or ways to help those targeted by ICE in your area you can visit Freedom for immigrants, American Immigration Council or visit the ACLU to find your local affiliate.
This is an important clip that exposes the fallacies that Maher and the right push about trans people and the democrats supporting the LGBTQ+ and progressive causes such as equality of religions and government working for the people.ย Maher tried to push the idea that kids become trans only due to being pushed into it by adults, but when corrected with facts and examples he has no retort except to make more debunked claims.ย The idea that simply buying a child the clothing they want is somehow making them transition.ย ย Every study indicates that cultural issues that republicans try to use against democrats make no difference to how people vote.ย Only die hard haters who were already going to vote republican care about the woke cultural issues supported by progressives.ย Yet many Democratic candidates run from even tepid support for protecting minorities due to the made up idea of courting the center that doesn’t exist in any large size now.ย People leaning right are not going to vote democrat who is republican lite when they can have the real full republican but any votes that are gathered by turning on the LGBTQ+ / Trans / minority communities are countered by the loss in left / progessive votes. Maher talks about how girls who were tomboys in the past would be “forced” today to become trans.ย Emma talks about how she was a tomgirl who wanted to wear boys clothing and was allowed to do so but no one tried to suggest she needed to change her gender.ย He mistakes allowing a kid to express themselves is some how forcing them to be trans.ย I love how completely supportive of trans people / trans children and up on the facts / reality the people on the show are. Hugs
Tyson makes great points how the privacy issues dealing with trans people and also the sports issues.ย He suggests ways to handle each of these situations.ย He explains it is better to solve the issues instead of forcing everyone to live as was done in the past.ย Hugs
This video explains what everyone on the real left already knew instead of forgetting the transย / woke culture wars and moving right, the center left keeps demanding which is simply code speak for leaning right.ย While all the same democratic strategists since the Bill Clinton days demand candidates move to the right to “triangulate” to capture republican voters these polls show what we already knew.ย The culture wars are losing for the republicans.ย After republicans spent nearly 3 million dollars in ads against trans people the polls showed almost no one felt those adverts influenced their vote.ย Even as red states rail against higher education, acceptance, and tolerance of people who are different it is losing them votes.ย Some thing the Christian nationalists who are in the height of their influence now in political circles don’t understand is that people who grew up with LGBTQ+ classmates, friends, and even dated some do not find them the evil that these hate religions preach they are.ย ย
*** Personal note.ย ย I explained to Ali in an email that I am not functioning.ย For what ever reason wheither it be anemia or something worse I am desperately tired from the time I manage to get up.ย I often get up only to a few hours later go back to bed for four or more hours.ย I have started taking vitamin B-12 and a woman’s one-a-day vitamin.ย That with more red meat which was recommended to me in the past every time I go into anemia.ย ย How ever I get up, I have coffee and stuff with Ron then I need to go back to bed for normally 4 hours, get up and do dishes while watching The Majority Report.ย How ever some days like yesterday I did not even get that far, going to back to bed by 2 pm only to have Ron wake me and beg me to eat.
I have done better today only going back to bed for 3 hours later in the morning.ย I wanted to go to bed two hours ago, but Ron was all upset he couldn’t sleep due to the neighbors having new skirting put around their home outside our bedroom.ย So I got him in his recliner and moved his CPAP out to his chair.ย Still he was not tracking.ย Good news as I was falling asleep at my desk he woke up and is fixing supper.ย At this point I am so tired I don’t really care whether I eat or not.ย ย
I tried to reply to comments, but I couldn’t.ย I even started to move old saved open tabs out by making a new cartoon / memes post but I simply couldn’t do it.ย Right now the best I can do to function is make doctors appointments and watch videos that don’t take too much thought to understand.ย That means most political videos are outside my ability.ย I am sorry but right now I am functioning at the level of a confused grandpa.ย Sorry.ย I hope to get better soon.ย Ron says if I don’t clear up by next week we will demand the primary care see me and deal with it. I’m not sure if I want that as my last visit he was insisting I thinkย about getting a colonoscopy.ย ย Anyway.ย This is a good video and one I watched several hours ago when I was much sharper than I feel now.ย ย ***ย Hugs
I did some reviews on the Cass report because it was supported by so many anti-trans bigots. Turns out there were so many lies and errors in the report that it became clear the purpose was to discredit the clinic and get it shut down.ย The report was driven by anti-trans people and even Cass herself was well known to be anti-trans.ย But what is so irksome is the lies still get told and circulated repeatedly even when they are pointed out.ย The idea of social contagion was found to be entirely made up by people desperate to keep their child from transitioning.ย The idea came from a website set up for parents that had kids transitioning and they hated it.ย The Cass report used lies from that site as if they were medical facts saying that parents were not told and children were being rushed to transition, when even the parents admitted they had all the information in writing that they had to sign and the biggest complaint was how long it took to get seen by the clinic with many kids going through puberty before they got gender affirming care.ย The idea of large amounts of detransitioners is totally made up as real studies have found it is less than 2% and the regret levels are well below any other medical procedure.ย I wish haters and bigots would understand if they have to make up stuff and lie to prove their point then they have no point to make.ย They just hate the idea of people not accepting they are the gender / sex assigned at birth and don’t want to accept new medical data.ย Hugs