#Trump asks #SCOTUS to allow enforcement of #transgender #military ban

Trump's administration asked the #US #SupremeCourt on Thursday to allow implementation of his order banning transgender people from serving in the military, one of a series of directives by the Republican president to curb #TransgenderRights.

#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #EqualRights #democracy #LGBTQ+ #Equality
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-asks-us-supreme-court-allow-enforcement-transgender-military-ban-2025-04-24/

Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance applies to RELIGION as much as it does to FASCISM and RACISM. You cannot believe in equal rights for all people when your God prefers some people over others. PERIOD. RELIGION IS POISON.

Jetzt muss ich meine Ex-Beziehungsmenschen, meine Ex-Spielpartner*innen und die ganzen ehemaligen F+ Personen wirklich nochmal fragen, wo ihr ganzes Gras ist und warum sie mir davon nichts abgegeben haben.

"Bourgeois #democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of #freedom and #equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of #women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited …. There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be real 'freedom' as long as there is no freedom for women from the privileges which the law grants to men, as long as there is no freedom for the workers from the yoke of capital”

— V.I. #Lenin [born #otd], Soviet Power & The Status of Women (1919)

https://bsky.app/profile/melindamagpie.bsky.social/post/3lng7lh57ps2u

Leute, Kapitalismuskritik in allen Ehren, aber dieser Mensch hat Gewalt gegen Kinder gerechtfertigt und sich gegen die Aufklärung von Missbrauch und gegen queere Menschen gestellt. Wir sollten uns von jedweder religiösen Institution distanzieren und Säkularisierung fördern.

So…it’s Arab American Heritage Month. We’re already three weeks in, but I wanted to write about it all the same.

This feels especially important right now, given Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

There are some public figures in my article that I bet you didn’t know were of Arab descent. Also some interesting stats.

https://markwrites.io/arab-american-heritage-month

Courage is Contagious!

The webmaster at Case Western University was told to remove 3 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion pages from the school’s website. She refused. #resist #resistance #diversity #equality #equity #inclusion #Courage

https://www.ideastream.org/government-politics/2025-04-14/webmaster-told-to-remove-dei-pages-from-cwru-site-she-refused

Also, nur damit ich es richtig verstehe. Das hier ist dieser "sympathische Reformer" und "Anwalt der Armen" wegen dem jetzt wieder alle Anteilnahme heucheln?

Arab American Heritage Month

https://markwrites.io/arab-american-heritage-month

From: blenderdumbass . org

The main issue with freeing the kids, is that kids cannot vote. This is not un-doable. With slaves, slaves could not vote. But there were enough non-slaves that agreed that slaves should be freed. So it passed through. With women rights until some point in time women couldn't vote too. But there were e...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/equal_rights_to_kids

If you are in the group of men who think gender equality has “gone too far”, please punch yourself in the neck and disappear into a dark cave where you belong.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-21/men-and-women-are-more-divided-and-it-could-sway-the-election/105188052

In den letzten Jahren habe ich in diesem Job ein paar Dinge erlebt, die mich fast verzweifeln ließen. Doch vor vier Tagen saß ich zum ersten Mal Abends an meinem Schreibtisch und war kurz davor zu weinen. Nicht wegen mir, sondern wegen den Dingen, die meine Geschwister in den USA und in Großbritannien ertragen müssen.

I'll generalize this. "The more unequal society is, the more severe the disaster".

This goes for climate, healthcare, housing, economy, ...

Equality is a form of resilience. Although disasters can be equalizing (see Rebecca Solnit - A Paradise built in Hell), true billionaires / multi-millionaires will extract themselves from rebuilding a community by virtue of being supremely isolated and protected.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/19/climatologist-friederike-otto-the-more-unequal-the-society-is-the-more-severe-the-climate-disaster

Here's an even longer interview with Kathrine Switzer. I'm completely spellbound by her.

This story stirs up so many emotions. Why did it have to be that way for so long? And why are we still taking steps backward? What's wrong with people?

#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1967.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOaLdRnfmhE

Ukraine for equality and love!

whether pink or blue
or endless shades of the two
we are all human

#dailyhaikuprompt - pink
#mastoprompt - #androgynous

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/pink-abstract-art-newness-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html

The wisdom of plants
Most are androgynous
Some are androgenous
Few are purely female
Nature is not biased
So why are we?

*Ginkgos are androgenous.

#dailyhaikuprompt - pink
#mastoprompt - #androgynous

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/mosaic-ginkgo-leaf-wisdom-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html