The issue of trans women being sent to men's prisons isn't brought up as being a monstrous thing because of the misgendering, it's monstrous because we're sent there to be legally sex trafficked.
That's what V-coding is. That is why they are so adamant about sending trans women to men's prisons, because sex trafficking trans women within the men's prison system is an essential part of that system. Being misgendered by this isn't even an issue that's on our radar!
CLEVELAND — As workers continue to try to clean up the algae bloom that has turned the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool green, 3News has learned that a Northeast Ohio company owned by a supporter of President Donald Trump was hired by the federal government to install the water-purification system for the pool.
Records show that Greenwater Services, located in the Trumbull County town of Brookfield, received $1.7 million on April 13 of this year from the U.S. Department of the Interior to "install a fully integrated Nano Bubble Filtration System designed to replace the existing, failing filtration infrastructure at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool."
The Interior Department opted to hire Greenwater Services without a bidding process, citing "unusual and compelling urgency" as the government sought to complete the work in time for the nation's 250th anniversary celebration.
The New York Times first reported and 3News has since verified that Greenwater Services is owned by the JJ Cafaro Investment Trust, run by John "J.J." Cafaro.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT JOHN CAFARO
Cafaro, who has been a substantial donor to President Donald Trump and has a residence near Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, describes himself on LinkedIn as "a longtime Ohio retail and manufacturing executive who has guided major development projects."
In 2001, Cafaro pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to bribe Rep. Jim Traficant, a Democrat who represented Ohio's 17th Congressional District in the House of Representatives. He was sentenced to 15 months of probation, plus a $150,000 fine. In 2010, he was charged with making a false statement about a campaign contribution to his daughter, Capri, who was running for Congress. He again pled guilty and was sentenced to three years probation, 150 hours community service and a $250,000 fine.
According to The Times, since 2016, Cafaro has given more than $300,000 to political committees connected to Trump.
Interior Department spokeswoman Katie Martin told The New York Times that the department had not been aware of Cafaro's "political affiliation" when it awarded the contract, nor did the White House get involved in the selection process. She added that Greenwater Services was chosen because "they had the expertise, work force and materials” needed to finish the work on time.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE POOL?
As 3News sister station WUSA reported, a large algae bloom has spread across portions of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool just weeks after Trump ordered the landmark painted what he called "American flag blue," leaving sections of the water bright green and prompting cleanup efforts by federal crews.
Experts told WUSA the problems likely stem from multiple factors, including the accelerated timeline of the project.
Algae blooms are not uncommon during the summer, but researchers say the Reflecting Pool’s newly darkened surface may be intensifying the problem.
"The bottom is absorbing light, which heats it up," said Hans Paerl, an algae researcher with the University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Sciences. "Black would be the worst color, but dark blue is a pretty bad color too, in terms of warming up the water. That just adds to the overall temperature and growth potential for these organisms."
Dr. Wayne Carmichael, a biological sciences professor at Wright State University, said minerals and nutrients left in the system when the Reflecting Pool was refilled may have provided additional fuel for the algae bloom, adding to the effects of warmer water caused by the pool's darker surface.
"Some people have said, you know, biology 101 or pool maintenance 101," Carmichael explained, "but there are clear, clear failures in that respect, and you will be living with the algae for some time, probably the rest of the summer, depending on how many resources and people and Vacuum cleaners and things like that they throw at it."
WUSA9 reached out to the National Park Service and the Department of the Interior for comment on both the algae bloom and the peeling sealant, but had not received a response as of Friday evening.
Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.
have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.
and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.
black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.
if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.
This is Juneteenth.
white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.
Do other countries not tailgate? I mean I know pickup trucks aren't a thing everywhere, but they're not a necessity, even if you'd think you need a tailgate to actually tailgate. Ya don't. Just brews and brats and buds.
Off the back of a quick search: The Foxborough stadium there and the largest stadium in Scotland, Celtic Park, have about the same seating capacity, about 65,000.
The Foxborough stadium normally has 20,000 parking spaces.
Celtic Park has 800, with another 600 nearby.
You might not need tailgates, but you do need to be parking there.
In the dream, my partner and I were following the narrow paths in a dirty hallway with deep pools of water. In the deep water were the bodies of horses, bones and remaining flesh bleached white. We could hear a distant scream behind us that was slowly growing closer.
Many of us are taught that slavery came to an end with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but for enslaved people in Texas, freedom didn’t come until June 19, 1865.
Swipe to learn about the history of Juneteenth, and why it’s a celebration of freedom, culture, and progress.
i need you guys to know that when i brought this home my mom was like WHAT is THAT. well i think you’re the only person on earth who would wear that, good that you found it
i show her this post every time it hits another thousand note milestone. she thinks we’re all ridiculous but no longer underestimates the Gay Desire For A Fun Shirt
Adriana Smith’s neonate was delivered today, 3 months early (around 28 weeks).
She will finally be allowed to rest and taken off of life support.
Her family’s fundraiser is nowhere near its goal, and now they have tremendous NICU costs to look forward to based on how her son was able (or unable) to develop under the duress of all those life saving drugs they pumped his mom full of.
Please allow this mother’s spirit to rest and support their family as they’re finally allowed to grieve poor Adriana being used as an incubator for the state.
This journey has been deeply saddening and heartbreaking since F… April Newkirk needs your support for Help Adriana's Family During This Hea
It’s Juneteenth. Let’s get this family to their fundraising goal. They’re 93% of the way there.
Black maternal mortality rates in the US are 3x higher than other races. Antiblackness and misogynoir are still systemically imbedded into our country and it’s our responsibility to keep talking about it and support the families affected.
404 has been knocking it out of the park since they started. Please support their original reporting on this! If you subscribe to nothing else I highly recommend them. Their podcast is great too.
Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
It's Juneteenth, I'm a Black Texan, descendant of enslaved Black Texans. Texas is the only state that fought two different wars to protect slavery and chattel slavery ended the last for it. Juneteenth to me is to celebrate that part of overt white supremacy coming to an end, but it was not the end of white supremacy. It did not stop, with the lynching, the police violence, the redlining, the environmental racism, the segregation. Juneteenth represents a good win aganist the fight against white supremacy, but it's not over.
And for this Juneteenth, I ask for help for my friends that are the victims of this same US white supremacy. Not just today, but everyday Gazans deserve any type of help that you can give them. The technology that is used to segregate and attack and police and destroy Palestinians is the same technology that is sold to Texas to be used for the border patrol and to harass and control immigrants and border communities. This is one, connected fight aganist white supremacy and US control and destruction of Black and Brown bodies. So I ask today if you could donate this, or share, to help provide for a mother and her 2 now fatherless children in Gaza, or anyone else in Gaza who needs help. Like this family with a sick baby. Just do something, especially if you got the day off.
Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!
