LarryO
@ymi-blue
Blue: From the expansive sky to the deep blue sea to blue hot flames to the beauty of sapphires, blue talks to me. When I'm feeling blue, the Blues embrace me. Berniecrat progressive, traveler, learner, optimist.
If anti-trans WA initiative 638 passes: "Girls, to protect your privacy show us your private parts!" Boys aren't checked in any way, only girls... for their privacy of course. Or you have to take DNA/Chromosome tests or testosterone tests and turn them over to us - again, for your privacy.
In WA, anti's have Ballot meas 638 that would REQUIRE ALL GIRLS to have their genitals examined, chromosome or testosterone tests in order to play. ONLY girls - NO boys. These are barriers ONLY for girls. Costs extra time, $, added inconvenience, and way too invasive. NOT the way to go.
The Anti-trans folks keep saying "Girls shouldn't be force to play against MEN!" They want you to believe a scenario that doesn't exist. The reality is more like the second image. We're talking school kids. R's in WA want girls' genit@ls examined to be allowed to play! (but not boys')
Today I wrote President Володимир Зеленський urging him to reverse his dismissal of Mykhailo Fedorov. Most of his highest ranking military are steeped in the corrupt, inhumane, loyalty-based, Soviet style leadership. Fedorov was changing all that for the better and to save more soldiers lives.
The Azov Sea should be renamed the Sea of Ukraine! Putin will have a conniption fit. (an outburst of anger, hysteria, or extreme frustration, often characterized by dramatic emotional reactions. It typically describes a situation where someone loses emotional control, resulting in yelling.)
Perhaps Zelensky knew he couldn't dismiss Syrsky without angering the entire military leadership and their entrenched (corrupt?) ways of procurement, decision making, and top-down mandates. Federov turned that all on its head and his style worked. So how to reform the old Soviet/Ukrainian mindset?
Selfie from a past visit to the Islamic Republic of Japan. One of the tenets of Sharia law can be seen in the background. (Shinjuku, Tokyo, IRJ)
Kudos to the person who came up with this one! Dementia Don is an embarrassment to the world and to our country.
Roughly 80-90 million eligible Americans didn't vote in 2024. They represent THE largest voting block. More than Republicans OR Democrats PROGRESSIVE policies & programs have wide support! Will the DNC led Democratic party run on Progressive issues to WIN, or corporatist ones that draw PAC donors?
After these first rounds of poachers and squatters leave Crimea, President Zelenskyy should set a date by which all the others must leave...or their bridge to Russia will be destroyed. Get out NOW! It is no empty threat as demonstrated by the strikes adjacent to the bridge these last few days.
He is STILL violating the law by illegally withholding nearly 1,000,000 pages of the trump-EPSTEIN files. Crank up the volume on this. Repost this, post your own, find another meme to remind those who see your posts. DON'T LET IT SLIP FROM MEDIA ATTENTION! He's a rapist protecting CHILD_RAP1STS!
Pre-Reagan 22 tax tiers w/ top dollars taxed at 90%. Today we have 7 - Top rate 37%. The top got >58% TAX REDUCTION. Did you? Increases for the BOTTOM 2 tax tiers. From 10% to 12%, UP 20% From 12% to 22%, UP 83.3% The TOP 2 tax tiers? From 32% to 35%, UP 9.38% From 35% to 37%, UP of 5.71%
Adolph had his bunker under this building. The rapist-felon who protects child_r^pists wants this one. NO vanity ballroom. NO Führerbunker for 47.
WA's SB 6346 (Millionaires' tax) ELIMINATES state sales tax on hundreds of items from 1/1/29. The m-tax will levy a tax ONLY on income OVER $1 million. It will ELIMINATE the State's B & O Tax for approx 65% of ALL businesses! Petition signature gatherers are trying to repeal it. Don't Sign!
Real Relief for Real Life. NO Washington state SALES TAX on Over-the-Counter (OTC) Drugs & Medical items when SB6346 ("Millionaire's tax") takes effect 1/1/2029. Hundreds of items will have state sales tax REMOVED! Beware if someone wants you to sign a petition to take this all away from you.
Nobody mentioned THIS part. WA’s new law removes state sales tax on diapers starting 1/1/29. Also included: toothpaste, tampons, OTC meds, soap, bandages & hundreds of other personal care items. Republicans want to repeal the law. If they do, the tax savings disappear. #RealReliefForRealLife
Those at the very top $pend on lobbyi$ts, lawmaker$, and media to write the law$ to mo$t benefit them$elves. A few crumbs to the rest of us, but all the re$t for them. It's BOTH parties practice, with R's all in on it, and enough D's to keep the system fully in their favor.
The US needs to honor it's commitment to Ukraine. Best way to do that is for Republicans to pressure not only tRUMP but each and every one of their elected officials. The R's are showing NO morality, NO ethics, NO sense of right and wrong and support a rapist-felon who PROTECTS CHILD_RAP1STS.
It's unthinkable to rational people, but then again people who support a rapist-felon who protects child_r^pists can hardly be called rational.