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Chronicling 2012 Republican Voter Fraud
This post chronicles efforts by the GOP and their surrogates to systematically and fraudulently stop Democrats from voting: True The Vote – a Republican poll-watching org (see other TTV issues below) – just got caught committing voter fraud, was banned from operating in Franklin County. Caught on video: Voting machine switching Obama votes to Romney votes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpGd74DrBM Pensilvania Republicans trying to stop black…
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Bigots Unite! Deploying the Klan Fallacy in 3… 2… 1…
It’s happened. The H-BSers, the RadPhlems and the people who DEFENDED Prop 8 have untied as one voice to proclaim that pre/non-op transwomen as a group are 1.) icky because 2.) they’re actually men, and therefore 3.) a danger to cisgender women. “Now, it’s a Right Wing Organization that is standing up for Women and…
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Jan 2, 2013: Republicans, Transgender People, HIV & Death
So, you know how awesome the GOP is for coming up with the Sequestration on January 2? If that happens, this is what WILL occur in HIV: 15,708 people would lose access to crucial life-saving drugs and die. 4,738 households would lose housing support. 460 AIDS research grants would be eliminated. Republicans will return America…
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GOP: The Party of Rape >:(
Richard Mourdock: “I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.” What a stupid fucking statement. You know what’s worse? The National Republican senatorial committee chairman John Cornyn voiced his support for Mourdock and added that he also believes “life is a gift…
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Lana Wachowski: In Her Own Words
Years later I find the courage to admit that I am transgender and this doesn’t mean that I am unlovable. I meet a woman, the first person that has made me understand that they love me not in spite of my difference but because of it. She is the first person to see me as a whole…
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A Grateful Life
Sometimes I feel so amazingly grateful for my life – even in the midst of all the difficulties, stressors and hardships. As I write this, I’m on a airplane heading back to Houston from New York. I just spent the weekend reviewing national epidemiological trends and how those trends are being responded to by government…