Supporting the Resistance

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I'd allowed my ACLU membership to lapse, and that organization wouldn't let me forget it. But I was glad to see in its most recent mailing that the ACLU isn't going after me so much as Donald Trump.

This appeal for money, crafted before Trump took office, includes a poster-sized letter that reads "Dear President-elect Trump:  In case you had any doubt, WE ARE THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION. And we're not moving to Canada."

I like that line so much I wish I'd written it.

But it immediately reminded me how even my adult nieces have talked of fleeing to Germany, where we have roots, as a result of Trump's return to the Oval Office. That's a deeply sad state of affairs.

And ironic. Emigrating to Germany to escape potential fascism in America? Mein Gott.

I did indeed re-up with the ACLU today. While I don't agree with all of the group's positions, this is no time to be fussy. The ACLU fought Trump hard the first time around, and boy, do we need that again. My problem is I lack the money to support all the organizations standing against the Trump agenda.

Perhaps it's time I opened a fake university.

This Week's Quote

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Okay, I’ve gotta call time. Trump just claimed America split the atom. That’s THE ONE THING WE DID.

New Zealand satirist Ben Uffindell after Trump's inaugural address

Source:  The Guardian

And We're Off!

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One of the zillion executive orders Donald Trump signed after being sworn in as president yesterday had this unwieldy title:  "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government."

A more accurate title would've been "Erasing Transgender People for Fun and Profit."

The premise of the order is that women need protecting from all those men who claim to be women so they can gain access to women's shower facilities. It's a solution for a problem that doesn't exist.

Nevertheless, to thwart the "ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex," this country's new firm leader has given us a new firm policy:  "It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality."

Bull pucky.

I know too many transgender people too well to buy the lie that they're somehow making up their gender dysphoria. This executive order and all the anti-trans campaigning that led to it are about fear, ignorance, power and religious extremism, not gender extremism.

The conservative flunkies who wrote this order were thorough. It seeks to wipe out acknowledgement of trans people at the federal level in a variety of ways, from insisting passports "accurately reflect the holder's sex" to forcing all government agencies to remove any statements or policies that "promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology."

The list goes on. But no matter how much Trump panders to his fans, transgender people have always been here, and they aren't going away. They're simply, cruelly, being marched back into the closet.

All under the pretense of protecting women. As a woman, I know that transgender women don't threaten my personal safety. It's Trump, the assaulter in chief, and a number of his wannabe cabinet members who do.

Jan 20, 2025

Here He Comes

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It's challenging for me to believe in a God. But here on the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, I figure any port in a storm.

So America and the planet survive the next four years, I'm pleading for divine assistance from Jesus, Allah, Vishnu, Buddha, the Great Spirit, Yahweh, Isis, Zeus, Odin and the spirit of Betty White.

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This Week's Quote

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Special counsel Jack Smith's final report lays out in no uncertain terms federal prosecutors' position that Donald Trump -- who is set to be inaugurated president in less than a week -- would have been convicted on multiple felonies for his alleged efforts to unlawfully overturn the results of the 2020 election, had voters not decided to send him back to the White House in the 2024 election.

Katherine Faulders, Alexander Mallin, Pierre Thomas, Peter Charalambous, and Lucien Bruggeman

Source:  ABC News