Pictured in OP in the upper left is: Assistant Secretary for Health, Admiral Rachael L. Levine, MD..

Her clinical and public health work has helped people dealing with a range of medical issues, including eating disorders, the opioid crisis, and COVID-19

• graduated from Harvard College in 1979
• Graduated Tulane University School of Medicine in 1983
• Chief resident in her final year
• Held staff positions at Mount Sinai and Lenox Hill
• Worked in private practice in New York City until 1993
• She specialized in the treatment of adolescents suffering from eating disorders
• In 1993, Levine accepted a job on the faculty at the Penn State College of Medicine
• Director of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the Poly-Clinic Medical Center
• In 1996, Director of Pediatric Ambulatory Services and the Director of Adolescent Medicine at Penn State Hershey Medical Center
• Transitioned fully by 2011
• Worked with the administration to craft the “Levine Policy” that included gender identity and expression as protected categories.
• Levine, previously the faculty advisor for the LGBTQ student group, became the diversity office’s liaison for LGBTQ affairs and helped the medical center establish itself as a more welcoming environment for members of the LGBTQ community.
• joined the board of Equality Pennsylvania, a state-wide LGBTQ rights group, as well as her regional Stonewall Democrats group (an LGBT caucus).
• When Democratic candidate Tom Wolf won the election for governor of Pennsylvania in 2014, Levine was asked to serve as co-chair for his Transition Committee for Health.
• January 2015, Governor-elect Wolf appointed Levine Physician General of Pennsylvania and she was unanimously confirmed by the Pennsylvania state senate.
• Kept her faculty appointment at Penn State but gave up her clinical duties to work with the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
• named Pennsylvania Secretary of Health in March 2018,
• As Physician General and Penn Sec of Health, Levine worked to provide greater access to healthcare for the LGBTQ community.
• Also sought to improve maternal health and childhood immunization rates.
• Her main focus was the opioid crisis in Pennsylvania.
• Levine issued an order that let Pennsylvanians buy Naloxone without a prescription and allowed law enforcement to carry it, preventing many overdose deaths
• President Joseph R. Biden nominated Levine to serve as the 17th Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• Confirmed by the Senate in March 2021 by a vote of 58-42
• She is the first openly transgender official to be confirmed by the Senate
• She is also the highest-ranking openly transgender official in U.S. history.

Having read about her, I think she is awesome and a fantastic choice!

#🏳️‍⚧️

I mean, he was old...people die—

It said the 62-year-old had died from a "self-inflicted" wound on 9 March and police were investigating.

oh shit they totally fucking killed him

Again for the chuds and shills in the back:

“Not enough people are sounding the alarm, that based on his behavior, and in my opinion, Donald Trump is dangerously demented. In fact, we are seeing the opposite among too many in the news media, the political leaders and among the public. There is also this focus on Biden's gaffes or other things that are well within the normal limits of aging. By comparison, Trump appears to be showing gross signs of dementia. This is a tale of two brains. Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing.

And let's be honest, Trump has shown signs of dementia since the beginning of his first term. It was obvious when hearing his communication when he was younger.

I can't imagine -- don't want to imagine losing a child. I had no idea until I had a kid but... Nothing in the universe matters more to me than my kid and I would be destroyed forever if anything ever happened.

To lose a kid (very likely) due to bullying? I can't imagine the blind rage mixed in with the universe shattering grief.

What sick fucked world do we live in where school bullying turns into violence that turns into death? Just for being different from most? Jesus Christ. These psychopaths should be in jail getting intensive therapy to try to unfuck their twisted minds.

This child could have lived a full life but instead because of fearful, hateful monsters, the kid is dead.

Fuck Oklahoma and fuck this school and the parents of the murderers.

It's only going to get worse if Trump gets back in power. As if it isn't bad enough now.

Boy, girl, non binary, whatever WHO GIVES A FUCKING SHIT?! Mind your own goddamn business and don't be a fucking evil piece of shit. Let people fucking exist as they are.

She said he told her that he picked up four bananas, one of which he ate on the way to the register, and that he told the cashier that he needed to pay for four bananas even though she scanned only three. Anjelica Lee said her father told her he was followed closely while he was shopping by a white female employee, who, she said, accused him of stealing the banana he ate.

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“At first, I was trying to ask her what happened, and she was like, ‘People like you and him shouldn’t come into the store if you don’t have money to pay for things,’” Anjelica Lee said. “My mom is white, and my dad is Black. So I’m mixed. So I think she meant Black people. And it just escalated from that, and she went to cussing me out.”

JFC. Racist piece of shit.

Fuck the cops. Fuck this piece of garbage cashier.

Fuck all this.

Which is one reason this anti WFH campaign pisses me off so much. We could cut emissions quite a bit just from that but we can't even do that little because: greedy assholes.

Was I the only one who, during covid lockdowns, was amazed at how fucking clear the air was? Did everyone just forget? Idk why most humans can't look at that and go "we all need to make this permanent" and then do it. But we evolved to prefer the worst of us in charge.

Anyway. Yeah. I WFH and drive about 5000 miles a year. And we tend to keep our cars 10-15 years. It's way more affordable than a new car every few years, assuming you get a car that has low maintenance costs. More people oughta do that.

Ha that's just my regular code.

I will keep saying this like a broken record:

"Law and order" is a dogwhistle that means "oppress minorities"

“I do not believe we have to choose between law and order and racial justice in America,” Biden said in a speech this week. “We can have both.”

At the apex of the civil rights movement, ... “Law and order” was “a strategy for reaching suburban voters without having to say the ugly part [talking about race] out loud,” says Leah Wright-Rigueur, a political historian and public policy professor at Harvard University. Source

Trump Declared Himself the ‘President of Law and Order.’ Here’s What People Get Wrong About the Origins of That Idea

Except from above:

“Law and order” might sound simple, a 1968 TIME cover story on the campaign pointed out, but to some it was “a shorthand message promising repression of the black community”—and to that community, it was “a bleak warning that worse times may be coming.”

From "law and order" to MAGA - why dog whistles may be even more powerful than overt appeals to racism.

Pass it on.

An annual Pentagon report on extremism within the ranks reveals that 78 service members were suspected of advocating for the overthrow of the U.S. government and another 44 were suspected of engaging or supporting terrorism.

I wonder how many they don't know about?

Watching a movie about WWII "I wonder who won??"

We want teachers to be teaching and not having to waste time measuring a girl’s shirt or making a girl feel uncomfortable,” Shultz said.

Good because policing what girls wear stems from this fucked idea that boys have no sexual self control or responsibility for same and that women thus have to take responsibility for it via modesty.

So with those idiotic notions, rape victims get blamed for appearance, consent doesn't enter the conversation, rapey boys are "boys being boys", and similar awful shit.

Enshittification of "enshittification"

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