Notices by Wren Archer:bc::trans_heart:🏹 (wrenarcher@beige.party)

If you follow any trans people here you’ll probably see some posts about Trans Day of Remembrance today.

Like everyone, we all have special days we mark… birthdays, those of loved ones, anniversaries, graduation dates, first kiss, when we got a beloved pet.

But there are two days we in the trans community all mark.
One of them being Trans Day of Visibility in March and the other today, Trans Day of Remembrance. .

#TDoV is essentially: “Hey! Look at us. We really do exist.”
#TDoR is: “Please stop murdering us.”

There have been at least 30 trans and gender diverse people who have been killed this year. There have been too many trans people who have attempted suicide and so many who think about it constantly because local, state and federal governments actively and deliberately make it difficult for us to exist.

We need your help allies. Speak up in our defense when you can.

I feel both seen and attacked.
Happy #Wrensday everyone.
We're half way there.

A couple of days ago I posted a vid on the clock site about how people are setting a boundary and/or cutting ties with their family. I'm in the same boat and am struggling with what and how to do that.

Apparently the mother of Jesse Waters the Fox commentator is not struggling at all.
He said on his show yesterday, "I’ll have you know that I wasn’t invited to my mother’s house for Thanksgiving. Apparently, there wasn’t enough room."

@nikatjef
Yeah, there are a number of reasons *why* he won... one of those beings apathy and third party voters.
But there were approximately 72 million fellow citizens who voted for him.

The people who didn't vote and purity test voters... they suck!

But to deliberately for a convicted felon and rapist, whose party platform wants to eradicate transgender citizens and who has said over and over he wants to dismantle the Constitution and is proud of eliminating the right to privacy a woman once had with her physician about her healthcare.

I'd feel this way even if VP Harris were the winner.

No. I'm done.
I am done with that half of the U.S. including my friends and family.

I had a discussion yesterday with my wife about continuing relationships with friends and family who voted Republican.

I said I wasn't going to maintain that connection anymore. I hate the phrase that is already being tossed around again... "We can have a difference of opinion and still be friends."

Look... a difference of opinion is:
— it's okay to put pineapple on pizza,
— Batman could totally beat up Superman or
— the ’77 Yankees were a better team than the ’96 Yankees.

Those are differences of opinion.

But if you voted for Trump and any other Republican, we have a difference of morals.
You have told me with one action that you are a racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, a xenophobe and a transphobe. You are complicit in helping to eradicate me. You have told me you believe bringing down the cost of eggs is more important than protecting basic freedom in this country.

You are not worth my time anymore and I do not want you in my life.

My wife doesn't understand. She thinks people can still be friends even though they disagree.

FUCK THAT!!!

I just had my UPS driver come to my office to pick up stuff we need to send out to clients. He immediately begins talking about how great it's going to be to have Trump back in office.

"Now we have freedom of speech again. We can say the "N" word again! (a little pause) and then he says "Notorious!" and begins laughing. "Yeah, the Notorious Trump is going to fix things. You'll have more money in your pocket. Interest rates will go down. We'll help Israel and he's gonna end the war in Ukraine."

So I immediately start going after him. In answering back he had no logic or reason when I pressed him on why he supported the issues he was talking about.

He is indicative of every uneducated, moronic, parroting Trump supporter. No idea why he supports the issues he does other than he's told that's what to support. And supports that guy because it allows his racism to show. In the three minutes he was here he showed how he and others like him are racist, transphobic, misogynistic, lack consistency in their morals/positions and in general just fucking ignorant.

I don't use the word "hate" lightly... but I hate people like that. And I really fucking hate that more than half my fellow citizens voted that piece of shit into office and further emboldened racist guys like my delivery driver to think they can do and say whatever they want.

@PhoenixSerenity
One of the first things my Trump supporting biz partner said was, "I wonder how the stock market is doing on the news of the Trump win. Hey! I"m up 7800 bucks!"

So we talk about some work stuff, client stuff and then it moves to how we'll have to renew the insurance plan for the company.

I said one of Trump's promises throughout the campaign was the he would dismantle Obamacare. He didn't have a solid plan for a replacement only "concepts of a plan". Most likely we'd go back to insurance companies being able to deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions.

He was like, "that's not good!!!"
I respond with, "but hey... at least your up 7800 bucks."

He has diabetes and a heart condition among a couple of other things.
Fucking idiot.

@CoachMark @kimlockhartga

Just gonna put this riiiiiight here.
I trust my fellow 13yr-old-humor having people will appreciate this.

This is one of the funniest celebrity endorsements...

endorsements?

... bashings of Donald Trump you'll see.

Thanks to @MoiraEve for boosting and @juliehuz for sharing this delightfully disrespectful vid from @davebautista on Masto.

Vote for #AuntieAndCoach

https://mastodon.world/@juliehuz/113322874312950495

My biz partner is convinced a Trump presidency would be better for the country on no other issue but that the economy would be better. A close second is because VP Harris is a woman and because she's black.

When I told him there are dozens and dozens of economists who have said a Trump presidency would wreck the U.S. economy almost beyond repair as well as wrecking the global economy he wasn't convinced.

So he very quickly looked up under which presidencies is the economy better... a republican or democrat president. Apparently under democrats the economy is typically better.

But he had to add that under Reagan the economy was better.

I responded with "at what cost though?" What did we lose because of that. He deregulated so much and as a result, the environment was ruined. Home/work life balance destroyed. Gentrification of neighborhoods intensified causing pockets of intense socioeconomic poverty. Food deserts began expanding. Healthcare costs exploded.

He is so invested in being a racist, misogynist and looking out for himself that even the data can't convince him.

And I think it's that way for hundreds of millions of Americans as well and why this race is so damn close.

I just saw an older woman, maybe mid-60s or so. She was riding her #e-bike down a rather busy road out here in the burbs of #Houston.

She seemed undeterred though. She looked determined, with purpose, on a mission if not a little bit of a novice though.

It was awesome!
She is awesome!
It was a pretty cool looking bike and she was pedaling along with the battery-assist. And she was going at a pretty good clip… maybe 25 miles an hour or so?

She was with a friend, another older woman, who was on an e-bike as well.

#BikeTooter

@ClintonAnderson
I'm still watching this thread as I can but it's rather overwhelming. I was able to catch NoriEnolife's comment above this one.

I've said this a number of times and it is in fact, true. Not sure how you see this as conspiracy hallucintion Clinton.

If a deep red state like the one I live in (Texas) will most certainly see Trump winning all it's electoral votes, the three or five percent of voters who vote third party really make no difference in the presidential election. It's different for battleground states obviously be deep red or true blue states... doesn't really matter for the most part.

So Nori is absolutely correct.
However in down ballot elections, this is where votes truly count.

@noricenolife @CatDragon @jeffowski

I’ve come across a lot of people here and in other corners of the interwebz who are extremely adamant and passionate about the response the U.S. should have toward the humanitarian crisis and murder campaign that is currently being waged against the people of Palestine.

They are so staunch in their position against the fact the Biden Administration has supplied weapons and military financial support to Israel in support of this campaign, they vow to vote for a third party candidate or not vote at all.

I get it. I am completely with you on your opinion of how fucked it is that we are supporting Bibi’s Zionist movement in the region.

But Rep Acasio-Cortez articulates rather well why she is voting for #HarrisWalz and why I am too.

Harris can be moved. I believe Harris can change course in Gaza. I believe Harris can be persuaded to place an embargo on Israel. Trump absolutely cannot. And under a Trump presidency so many others will be hurt beyond just those in Gaza.

@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

When conservatives say they want to “eradicate” transgender people, this is one of the humans they are talking about. That photo below is of me.

They are actively creating public policy to eliminate this human. The policy they are creating allows government to deny trans citizens the basic rights afforded to other citizens. And that policy creates a culture in society that makes it acceptable to dehumanize, discriminate against, publicly humiliate, assault, and murder this person.

I am the person the #conservative right is trying to eradicate.

This is what they mean when they say they want to eradicate transgender people from society.

“For the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.”

~ Michael Knowles host at The Daily Wire from his speech at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference.

This directive by Texas Attorney General #KenPaxton requires all original and modified documents to be forwarded to his office so it can be compiled into a database.

From the article:

The email [from Paxton’s office] went on to ask division employees to send copies of documentation requesting these updates to a special email address with the subject line "Sex Change Court Order."

https://www.kut.org/texas/2024-08-21/texas-transgender-trans-drivers-license-change-update-policy

Shall we #Walz?
Yes... let's.

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Photo Credit: MinnPost photo by Craig Lassig

@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

I saw this on Insta by the artist #JenniferVallez who can be found on her .com website of her name and on Insta here:
https://www.instagram.com/sophieandlili

#HarrisWalz2024

@freemo
The thing is... that's not going to happen. It simply is not going to happen in this election or anytime soon.

Those who are policy nerds and news/politics junkies aren't that high numbers. Bread and circuses have made the general public comfortable/entertained enough they don't give two shits about the election.

That's why voter turnout is the way it is. Like Kevin said, "we need to play the hand we're dealt."
@Thumper1964

@unabogie @freemo
I'm begging you Doc Freemo ( @freemo ) don't do that. I'm sure you know history of U.S. elections is replete with examples of how casting a protest vote is not a protest at all. This is very evident in swing states.

Had Hillary garnered those "protest" votes and independent voters, she would have won. We wouldn't have the situation we have with the Supreme Court to the degree that it is now. We wouldn't have the tax cuts that were given to corporations. Roe vs Wade would not have been overturned. Covid wouldn't have been politicized as much as it was.

Now if you live in Texas (like me) Florida, Tennessee, Oklahoma or any other deep red state... then more power to ya. But if you live in a swing state, this trans girl is begging you... please do not throw your vote away on the Libertarian or Green Party candidate. Please don't.

https://rollcall.com/2019/07/29/how-third-party-votes-sunk-clinton-what-they-mean-for-trump/

@Burnt_Veggies @CoachMark @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

There's is so much that Sen Mark Kelly would bring if he got the nod for VP on the #Harris ticket.

But Minnesota consistently will #VoteBlue and replacing Gov Tim Walz with another Dem is more likely to happen than giving the nod to Kelly.

It's a risky move to pull a Dem senator from Arizona, despite a Dem governor in place to appoint another Dem for two years.

Would love to see Mark Kelly but my bet is on Walz or Beshear. This article says it's between Walz and Shapiro but the PA gov is problematic in my opinion.

This article from Reuters published 45min ago as of this toot.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kamala-harris-announce-vice-president-pick-before-battleground-states-tour-2024-08-05/

@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews