Sunbeam Virtuous

Sunbeam Virtuous

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Sunbeam = nom de guerre antifascista extraordinaire 🏳️‍⚧️ she/her (misgendered by Bloomberg)

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I don’t dream of unlimited wealth or power. I dream of being able to live longer. Longer because I have healthcare. I dream of becoming smarter. Because I have education. I dream of getting older. But secure knowing that I have a pension. I dream of peace. Because the people are happy and united.

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The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

erininthemorning.comDon’t Vote For The Worst Anti-Trans DemocratsThe Democratic Party should, and likely will, win big in the midterms. We must not send the worst anti-trans voices to join them.

Denying healthcare to Trans people, especially Trans youth, is like kicking a paraplegic out of their wheelchair and telling them to learn to walk. It’s cruel. Any doctor or hospitals that abandoned treatment of Trans kids are participating in a genocide. They should care for them and take any risk

Misgendering Trans people is not just discrimination it’s rejecting our very existence, and denies to us our humanity. The attack against Trans people, our rights unprotected by a flawed constitution, is the perpetration of a genocide. Trans rights are not an idea, it’s inclusion in our own society

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Lonnie Rouse worked at the Hanford nuclear site for nearly 20 years. It was so toxic, he said, that the floor once melted the rubber off his boots. Now he needs 24-hour care. The DOE has appealed his workers’ compensation claim more than 20 times.

propublica.orgNuclear Weapons Waste Made Workers Sick. Despite a Law Meant to Help, the DOE Keeps Fighting Their Claims.A 2018 Washington state law was supposed to help workers who got sick cleaning up Hanford, a former federal nuclear weapons site. Eight years later, the DOE has spent nearly $12 million fighting to de...

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Americans have now spent $142 billion more on gasoline and diesel since March 1, enough to buy 361,000 homes at the September median price, enough to house over 900,000 people, due to the US war on Iran and other factors like limited output from Russia

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"Trans people are a tiny group with no power" This isn't true, and I hope my trans readers can internalize this. You are more powerful than you think. Trans and gender expansive people are 2.34% of the US population in the latest survey. That is more than enough to swing a race.

newsnationnow.com25.6 million LGBTQ+ adults in US; transgender population twice prior estimates: Study12.54% of Texas adults are LGBTQ+, according to the Human Rights Campaign.

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Another evil layer to this ad from Josh Turek: When he turns to say "stop the nonsense from both extremes," he opens with a clip of Rep. Becca Balint, the first openly gay woman to represent Vermont in congress and one of the few openly gay members of congress.

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Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

Keeping Trans girls out of girls sports is transphobia. You’re scared of girls playing sports with girls? Or do you hate Trans people and you don’t want them to play games, to make friends, or to be happy? That’s what it really is. Sure, call us out our gender in your excuse, and you made my point.

As a Trans girl, if you play sports with cis girls, if you so much as display any skill, it will be used against you. The fascists took victory away from us. They made it impossible to win. They keep us from competing. They hate us so much they don’t realize the games were actually fair without them

Anyone who thinks that Trans women shouldn’t play on cis women’s teams doesn’t understand that Trans women are women and have no physical advantage over cis women. It’s a myth made reality through hateful propaganda that is well funded and frequently reposted. Wash rinse repeat. Don’t be brainwashed

As a Trans woman, any hint of anger expressed is going to be used against us. Cis women could go apeshit and no one questions their gender identity, but let us have one bad day, and our entire people are called into question.

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There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

I’ll never understand people who can enjoy the cuisine of immigrants yet support those same people expelled from the country. America is a diverse nation, every nationality is here. Our diversity is what makes us great. Food is the introduction to understanding a culture. Pull up a seat and learn.

Liberals who think that Trump is a communist have shown us how they assisted the rise of fascism in the US. The lack of their political awareness allowed the threat to rise. And the insistence on cooperation and concessions to the fascist party has reduced the integrity of their every position

There’s not many leftists who would confuse capitalism for communism, nor would they conflate socialism with fascism. Indeed, the political intellect of the non-left in the US seems to be lacking a fundamental understanding of politics. Almost like the rest of America is moonwalking into fascism

I’m a communist. I’m far left. I’m antifascist. And anticapitalist. While I don’t support capitalist Democrats, I’m gonna vote Democrat across the board. I prefer a socialist. Even more so a communist. But there’s no fuckin way I would vote for a Republican. They’re not even a choice imo

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The NY Post is calling this art installation in Tehran, featuring a performer dressed as Trump in a mock jail cell, “sickening.” Surely they jest.

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On the same week the DCCC released its first anti-transgender ad, popular Democratic politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not mince words. When asked about anti-trans Democrats, she called them "shameful," "wrong," and decried them for "scaring so easily." Subscribe to support our journalism.

erininthemorning.comAOC Rebukes Anti-Trans Democrats, Calling Them “Shameful” And “Wrong” For “Scaring So Easily”“The moment you compromise the rights of a trans person in America, you compromise the rights of every citizen in America”

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AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"