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She/Her ll My 18th Birthday was in the 1990s || Part -time Josh Segarra fangirl

So stupid. So dumb. #MAGA

America will die trying to protect the myth of white superiority. First Felon has broken the minds of mediocre whiteness. The media has betrayed its mission to warn the public in favor of profits/greed.

The world will pass this American generation by.

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The fact that Senator Booker's filibuster has smashed the record of a racist ghoul who ranted against the passage of the Civil Rights Act is not lost on me.

Thank you, Sir. Thank you for speaking up for all of us. Not just my state, but ALL of us.

And SUCK IT Strom, I hope you're spinning in your crypt.

I tag my posts for three reasons

  1. So people can blacklist whatever they don't want to see. Customize their following experience.
  2. So I can find old posts and look at them fondly like I'm going through a photo album of my grandchildren.
  3. So you can go through my posts like a raccoon digging through the trash finding the most nutritious garbage.

The last one is my favorite.

I'm so proud of Senator Booker (and his staff) for breaking the longest filibuster record by speaking for people's rights for over 24 hours, not only because I support his message but because the record he broke was Strom Thurmond's filibuster against civil rights in 1957. The fact that a person of color broke a record held by a racist man by speaking on caring for all people

THE PITT 1.08 • 2:00 P.M.

It wasn't just in the US that black people started the EMT services. In Britain, the Harrow and Wealdston train crash in 1952 was the worst peacetime rail disaster in UK history(112 dead, 340 wounded). A United States Air Force medical unit was among the first responders, and while most ambulances at the time(including this incident) just picked up anyone injured and rushed them to the hospital, the USAF people recognized that things were so bad this should be handled like battlefield medicine, treating and triaging on-site. 7 doctors and, crucially, 1 nurse, Abbie Sweetwine made up the USAF medical unit.

While ambulances were rushing off with "walking wounded" who had made it out of the accident first, the more seriously injured were still being dragged from the wreckage. The doctors who had rushed over with whatever they happened to grab treated those on-site. Meanwhile, Lt. Sweetwine handled triage and recorded what treatments had been performed by writing on the patients with lipstick and directed the returning ambulances which patients to take back to hospitals next. This was crucial for saving lives, and when the various UK organizations were figuring out how to make sure this sort of disaster didn't happen again, the role of ambulances as actual medical providers rather than as a fancy taxi service was one of the big realizations. It wasn't a wholly new concept, but news articles and pictures showing doctors on-site, crucially with Abbie Sweetwine following up with patients and covering basic care, gave a solid basis that the NHS could model it's Paramedic system after.

And Abbie Sweetwine was black. This was almost unheard of for the time, a black woman serving with the USAF, and the impact of a black woman being lauded for heroism throughout the UK on your average Joes cannot be overstated. She basically just did her job, continued doing it for the next few decades, and retired to her home state of Florida with some unusual medals on her wall, but she also changed a country and that's not something most people can say.

(source, please click through for a better writer than me tackling this)

Source: noahwylle
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Happy Transgender Day of Visibility.

This might seem silly but knowing that J. Jonah Jameson is a civil rights activist and thus would be upset with me about rampant transphobia and anti-trans legislature keeps me going. He saw me transition many times and never left.

I’D SAY THIS SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.

J. Jonah Jameson says Be ANYTHING you want, except Spider-Man.

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