Budi
Budi's JournalPres Bill & SS Hillary Clinton Peacefully pay respects to RBG
President Clinton appointed RBG for Supreme Court Justice.
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1308798746608709632
"THE ARCTIC IS OURS" /Russia touts huge new nuclear-powered icebreaker as proof "the Arctic is ours
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1308566688846225408Russia touts huge new nuclear-powered icebreaker as proof "the Arctic is ours
Russia's state-owned company Rosatomflot, which operates Russia's civilian nuclear-powered icebreakers, declared Arktika the world's largest and most powerful icebreaker.
The ship is crucial to Moscow's efforts to develop a clear path for freight traffic along the Northern Sea Route, which runs from Murmansk to the Bering Strait near Alaska. Russia hopes the route can become a regular commercial transport link between Asia and Europe.
Last year, Putin said the country's Arctic fleet would operate at least 13 heavy-duty icebreakers, most of them powered by nuclear reactors. Boosting Russia's presence and commercial potential in the resource-rich Arctic region has been a priority of Kremlin policy during Putin's rule.
In recent years Russia has actively pushed for dominance in the Arctic, where its main rivals are Canada, the U.S., Norway and China.
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Photo surfaces showing ERIC Trump in Ukraine as investigations into the Trump Org intensify:
https://twitter.com/TheDemCoalition/status/1308788275876892672Photographic evidence has surfaced of the President’s second son in Ukraine as Congress and prosecutors continue their investigation into the White House and Trump Organization.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/photo-surfaces-showing-eric-trump-in-ukraine-as-investigations-into-the-trump-org-intensify-report/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
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A photo was posted Friday by Democratic strategist Scott Dworkin.
The Kyiv Post also has an archived photo from the event captioned, “Eric Trump, son of American business magnate Donald Trump, looks on during the Miss Universe of Ukraine competition at the Freedom casino in Kiev, Ukraine, late Friday Feb. 20, 2009.”
Eric Trump is an executive vice president at the Trump Organization.
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https://twitter.com/funder/status/1203385250698735619
Trump mob screams, "Hands off Eric or Hunter Biden gets swiftboated!"
Eric is the crook.. Go get em'
https://twitter.com/Sweetmama110/status/1308868903817408514
NYC Municipal Archives / Street View of 1940s New York/ / Very cool pics!!
(Its an automatic slide show...)
Street View of 1940s New York
Between 1939 and 1941, the Works Progress Administration collaborated with the New York City Tax Department to collect photographs of most buildings in the five boroughs of New York City.
In 2018, the NYC Municipal Archives completed the digitization and tagging of these photos.
This website places them on a map.
Zoom in! Every dot is a photo.
The photos on this site are property of the NYC Department of Records
https://1940s.nyc/map#13.69/40.7093/-73.99397
EDIT:
Click the Interactive map link at bottom of page to explore 1940's NY.
This is so cool. I don't know NY but for those that do, you'll appreciate this.
Tweet from the Green Party, Monroe County, NY / re: RBG
Isn't Jill Stein's party the Green Party too? And Ralph Nader?
I guess there's no longer a question about what their political goals have been.
It's time to just identify them all.
Nader, Stein,....etc
https://twitter.com/GreenPartyMCNY/status/1307466514212282373
List of Barr's entire family employed in WH/DOJ/FinCen
https://twitter.com/TeresacaresUSA/status/1308048401150488581
https://twitter.com/medit8now/status/1308026610059292672
RBG Video. No one dare claim they are of her iconic stature
No one dare claim, by simply standing next to her they are somehow equal to RBG.
That is the most disgraceful thing anyone can possibly do
To use her likeness, not even a week after her passing, when they have no legacy of their own to claim, to use her image to promote themselves is damning to this woman's legacy & all who have gone before us.
It is a sickening grift to take RBG's legacy and promote themselves as though it is their own, & it denounces all RBG embodies.
https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1307465515091341314
ICIJ/Confidential Clients/These are the people zipping money across the world thanks to the global
From: ICIJ
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/confidential-clients/
Confidential Clients
These are the people zipping money across the world thanks to the global banking system.
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https://twitter.com/ICIJorg/status/1307727145486221313
https://twitter.com/ZhiZhuWeb/status/1307755770474307587
ICIJ.org FINCEN Files
https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/confidential-clients/
RBG & The Equal Rights Amendment. What you need to know
Under a RW Supreme Court the ERA is up to interpretation, and therefore fragile.
https://twitter.com/Gram_Kat/status/1307442352890417152
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/01/29/479917/equal-rights-amendment-need-know/
The Equal Rights Amendment: What You Need To Know
Historical precedent in the fight for gender equality rooted in the Constitution
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The modern-day push for the ERA
"Boosted by activism of women’s rights and civil rights advocates, Congress passed the ERA in 1973 and initially gave states until 1979 to ratify it by a three-fourths majority. The deadline was extended to 1982, but the ERA fell three states short of the 38-state threshold. More recently, a groundswell of support for women’s rights led Nevada to ratify the ERA in 2017, followed by Illinois in 2018. In January 2020, Virginia became the historic and crucial 38th state to ratify the ERA.
Pending legal challenges, however, mean the amendment’s future remains uncertain."
Understanding the potential implications
The ERA’s explicit prohibition of sex discrimination could help to sustain or expand critical protections that have been used to challenge a wide range of discriminatory conduct and practices.
Violence Against Women Act
First passed in 1994, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)10 is landmark legislation that seeks to combat GBV11 through a basic infrastructure for governmental and community supports for survivors. VAWA has been reauthorized three times—in 2000, 2005, and 2013—but in 2018, the House of Representatives passed with bipartisan support a reauthorization bill that has since stalled in the Senate.
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Title IX
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs or activities and, thus, requires schools receiving federal funding to respond to incidents of sexual harassment and assault on their facilities or campuses.
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Pay discrimination
The ERA could enhance existing statutory protections against pay discrimination and bolster individual legal challenges to discriminatory conduct. For example, although the Equal Pay Act of 1963 prohibits sex-based pay differences, it includes an affirmative defense framework. More....
Pregnancy discrimination
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) was enacted more than 40 years ago, and while it has enabled more people to continue working—and for longer—while pregnant, it has not ended pregnancy discrimination all together. More...
Reproductive health
Equality means elevating the oppressed to enjoy the same rights and protections as the most privileged. This includes the freedom to make choices about one’s own body.
Foundational rulings protecting reproductive autonomy—including in cases such as Roe v. Wade, which affirmed the constitutional right to access abortion care, as well as Griswold v. Connecticut, Lawrence v. Texas, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey—have made clear that reproductive autonomy is central to people’s abilities to participate equally in society. More...
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Moreover, the effect of the ERA depends in large part on how it is interpreted and enforced. Constitutional protections against discrimination, and existing statutory protections for that matter, are hollow without vigorous enforcement.
Therefore, in addition to ratifying the ERA, it is essential for the public to hold politicians accountable for the ERA’s promise of gender equality and to push for additional anti-discrimination policies that can reach spheres outside the ERA’s direct influence.
Women and people across the gender spectrum still face myriad challenges—but recognition of their equal rights in the nation’s founding document should not be one of them.
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