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In the category of: Voter suppression is the sign of a dying democracy.
Voter-Suppression Tactics in the Age of Trump
The suppression of minority votes is the homegrown corollary of the Administration’s xenophobic rhetoric—an attempt to place a white thumb on the demographic scale.
In the category of: The continued effort to make people illegal.
Despite Trump’s promises, his administration’s anti-LGBTQ record just keeps growing and growing.
The proposal would effectively erase protections for trans people, who identify with a gender different from the one assigned to them at birth, from federal civil rights laws — ensuring that the laws do not prohibit discrimination against trans people in any setting, including the workplace, housing, schools, and health care.
HHS has refused to comment on “alleged leaked documents,” CNN reported. Civil rights groups and LGBTQ advocacy organizations, meanwhile, have suggested that they will take the administration to court should it move forward with the change.
The move would be far from the first time that the Trump administration has taken action that hurts LGBTQ people. For much of the past couple of years, the administration has been mired in court battles over its attempts to ban transgender people from the military after the Obama administration lifted the original ban. And different parts of the Trump administration have already taken steps to prevent federal civil rights protections from applying to trans and gay people.
In the category of: With police like this they don’t really need a KKK.
#SayHerName: Florida Police Viciously Beat 14-Year-Old Black Girl for ‘Resisting Arrest’
And so it continues, with the vicious beating of a 14-year-old girl, whom a big grown ass cop can be seen punching twice in her side as she lays prone with her face in the dirt, with his knee in her back, gripping and yanking her by the hem of her jean shorts (which is violating in and of itself). According to the Coral Gables police, her treatment was warranted because she “resisted arrest.”
But as anyone with eyes can see, the girl is a victim of excessive force, in a scenario we have seen play out far too many times; just another day in the hood for so many black people, again captured on video.
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