President Donald Trump - J.D. Vance Administration

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Because we're amigos, I share advice given me: Look around, think, then opine.
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The game seemed routine until the opposing transgender player spiked the ball into McNabb's head, leaving her unconscious for 30 seconds. McNabb was rushed off the court, leaving her team to continue the match. The injuries she sustained — a concussion, neck damage and two black eyes — were just the beginning.

In the weeks that followed, McNabb was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury, a brain bleed, partial paralysis and loss of peripheral vision on her right side. Cognitive impairments such as memory loss and confusion, coupled with severe headaches, have become a constant struggle.

“It was 100 per cent avoidable if only my rights as a female athlete had been more important than a man's feelings,” she was quoted as saying.
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Volleyball Player Speaks Out After Life-Altering Injury By Trans Opponent

A new documentary highlights US volleyball player Payton McNabb’s journey from injury to becoming an advocate for women’s sports safety.
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Oops...there I go mAKiNG eMoTioNal ApPeaLs again.

Say, did you know that in co-ed volleyball nets are set 7.5" higher to protect female players, a precaution that is absent when abusive males pose as women players - ? Mmm, mmm...I feel myself getting eMoTioNal again:
Take a recent game between the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell in Massachusetts and KIPP Academy in Lynn, Massachusetts. A trans-identified six-foot-tall male player with facial hair playing for the KIPP Academy girls’ basketball team, injured multiple players and eventually forced the Collegiate Charter School to forfeit. In now widely circulated video, he is seen wrestling the ball away from one of the girls, causing her to hit the ground where she clutches her back in pain.
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sniffle!...I'm such a wreck:

Dighton-Rehoboth superintendent Bill Runey said the girl suffered "significant facial and dental injuries" and ended up in the hospital.

The MIAA allows boys to play on girls' teams under the Massachusetts Equal Rights Amendment when there is not an equivalent team for boys. massachusetts-field-hockey-male-female-injury-swampscott-dighton-rehoboth
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Yes, yes - I understood your analogy, responding that the only locking up of boys and girls would be the state of Maine, with their choice is to either stand by abuse of female athletes at the hands of M2F 'athletes', or prepare to be denied ed. funding. I held out some hope the analogy was purposeful caricature; oh, well.

And yes, I do think it is a right to not be state-sanctioned victims of abusive men on the field, arena, rest room, or the locker room. If Maine government's idea of self-determination is to allow it, then I'm against Maine having that self-determination. We can both think of a litany of state-sanctioned evil and discrimination - "self-determination" - the Fed squashed. Are you taking an absolutist position, or just this issue?

Does this mean we're done with deer-hunting analogies to girls being obliterated physically and in opportunity, by males, for which Title IX was not created? I'd hoped we could flesh that out a bit.

I do like the clever alternating caps usage.
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Because we're amigos, I share advice given me: Look around, think, then opine.

There are other names, but this is the one we know: Amber Thurman has become the first woman whose death was preventable in relation to an abortion ban since Dobbs. Her name and story have become public as reporting by ProPublica’s Kavitha Surana details how Thurman, a Black 28-year-old mother to a young son who had dreams of becoming a nurse, died a painful, preventable death in Georgia after doctors at a hospital there refused to perform a simple procedure that could have saved her life – because the law did not allow them.

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Amber Thurman was killed by Georgia's abortion ban. There will be others | Moira Donegan

Thurman, a 28-year-old mother, died because Georgia barred doctors from doing a simple procedure to save her life
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Oops...there I go mAKiNG eMoTioNal ApPeaLs again.

Say, did you know that some procedures used in an abortion are also sometimes used after a miscarriage to remove tissue from the uterus to allow the organ to clamp down and reduce bloodflow? A procedure that’s not available under some state’s anti-abortion laws. Mmm, mmm...I feel myself getting eMoTioNal again:

Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her.

Over the course of six hours on June 11, 2023, Porsha Ngumezi had bled so much in the emergency department at Houston Methodist Sugar Land that she’d needed two transfusions. She was anxious to get home to her young sons, but, according to a nurse’s notes, she was still “passing large clots the size of grapefruit.”

But when Dr. Andrew Ryan Davis, the obstetrician on duty, finally arrived, he said it was the hospital’s “routine” to give a drug called misoprostol to help the body pass the tissue, Hope recalled. Hope trusted the doctor. Porsha took the pills, according to records, and the bleeding continued.

Three hours later, her heart stopped.

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A third woman has died under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors reach for riskier miscarriage treatments

Porsha Ngumezi bled to death as she was miscarrying after her doctor opted against an emergency procedure used to end pregnancies.
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sniffle!...I'm such a wreck:

Experts told ProPublica that the September 2021 death of Josseli Barnica, a 28-year-old mother, was “preventable”. Barnica is the third woman reported by ProPublica to have died in recent years after being unable to access abortion legally or having her medical care delayed.

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Texas woman died after being denied miscarriage care due to abortion ban, report finds

Josseli Barnica died days state passed six-week abortion ban and doctors delayed treatment, ProPublica reports
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Yes, yes - I understood your analogy, responding that the only locking up of boys and girls would be the state of Texas, with their choice is to either stand by murder women at the hands of the state legislature or prepare to be denied funding. I held out some hope the analogy was purposeful caricature; oh, well.

And yes, I do think it is a right to be able to have an abortion. If Texas’s government's idea of self-determination is to deny it, then I'm against Texas having that self-determination. We can both think of a litany of state-sanctioned evil and discrimination - "self-determination" - the Fed squashed. Are you taking an absolutist position, or just this issue?

Does this mean we're done with child-hunting analogies to women being murdered ruthlessly and in opportunity, by legislatures with no respect for the rights of women? I'd hoped we could flesh that out a bit.

I do like the clever alternating caps usage.
 
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it was reported that no response will be taken as a resignation
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The email doesn't say anything about what happens if you don't reply. If Trump wants thousands of federal employees to be fired because someone on twitter said if they dont respond its the same as them tendering a resignation (its not), ok. Lots will retire early and much wealthier after going to court and winning, myself included. A resignation must be submitted, in writing, by the employee. That is federal law. Agencies can decline a resignation, but they can't just make one up out of thin air.

Trump thinks the supreme court that let him get away with supposedly committing crimes gives him carte blanche to do anything he wants, so he is doing it. Problem is just because he is protected doesn't make his actions any less illegal and most of what he is doing with federal employees will result in major losses in the courts.
 
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The email doesn't say anything about what happens if you don't reply. If Trump wants thousands of federal employees to be fired because someone on twitter said if they dont respond its the same as them tendering a resignation (its not), ok. Lots will retire early and much wealthier after going to court and winning, myself included. A resignation must be submitted, in writing, by the employee. That is federal law. Agencies can decline a resignation, but they can't just make one up out of thin air.

Trump thinks the supreme court that let him get away with supposedly committing crimes gives him carte blanche to do anything he wants, so he is doing it. Problem is just because he is protected doesn't make his actions any less illegal and most of what he is doing with federal employees will result in major losses in the courts.
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What are the implications for employees?
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Federal employees who fail to respond to the productivity email risk having their non-response interpreted as resignation, potentially leading to job loss.
Many federal workers are covered by civil service protections, which could make terminations for non-response legally challenging, according to labor experts.
The directive is part of a broader Trump administration effort, led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, to reduce the federal workforce, with over 20,000 employees already fired in the past month.
FBI Director Kash Patel has instructed his employees to ignore the request, citing the FBI's autonomy in evaluating its workforce, indicating potential resistance within some agencies.
Lawsuits and legal challenges are emerging, with federal unions and Democratic state attorneys general questioning the legality of Musk’s role and the administration’s mass firing strategies, creating uncertainty for employees.
 
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Luther is the type of “guy” that would flip a spinning reel upside down and reel backwards.
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Are you saying this is a representation of @luthervol fishing....

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That's no way to run a business or a government. Governments and businesses have different purposes and objectives, or should.
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If you are running a fraud, waste and abuse program seems like a good way identifying issues. They're not running a business, they are eliminating waste in this instance. The guy above is going to be targeted easily with his attitude. Its hard to see how he would of use to anyone.
 
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