I never knew such a thing went on in any state in this country and found it hard to believe such injustice prevails:

"the judge sentenced Hoffman to seven years in prison. She served 10 months after the judge allowed her to participate in a youth offender boot camp."

And yet the state of Florida charged her $50 a day for the 7 years of her original sentence, so that now she owes the state $127,750. And apparently she is not the exception but the rule and "thousands of others" are in a similar situation.

Background on Thomas Klingenstein:

The far-right financier giving millions to the Republican party to fight woke communists'

Video at link:

Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social
@TrumpDailyPosts

"TRUMP'S VIRTUES"

I suppose you could add illegal immigrants and the MSM to list of American's enemies Trump is seen to leading the charge against.

I was alert for most of the Trump presidency. Did he win a war? What did I miss?
#2 | POSTED BY DBT2

According to GOP theory, Trump was winning the war against liberal, progressives, Democrats of all stripes, the woke mob, everyone they preceive as anti-Christian. Those are the enemies in the war Trump is seen to be fighting.

Correction: If you cut the girl's hair short like her brother's and put her in his clothes, most would think she was a boy.

Look at the two kids in the photo. If you cut the girl's hair short like her brother's and put her in his clothes, most would think she was a girl. If you let the boy grow his hair long, placed a bow in it and put him in a girl's t-shirt like the one his sister is wearing, you'd think he was a girl.

But the crowd's first question to themselves would yet be, "Is this child a boy or a girl?" Unfortunate, maybe. Yet if trans 5-year-olds (!) become a significant cohort, perhaps "gender nonspecific" would be the best identifier of all.
POSTED BY DBT2

With young children it is often hard to tell what gender they are except for the clothes they wear and the length/style of their hair.

FTA:

How Musk let this happen

A few years before Elon Musk acquired the platform then-known as Twitter, the company rolled out a new feature that provided written context for trending topics. The technology powering the written trend descriptions? Humans.

Previously when a story would break, Twitter's algorithms would catch the relevant keywords being posted and share the trend, but it sometimes wouldn't be obvious why a given set of words was trending.

But, in 2020, Twitter put together a team of human editors to curate news and put trends in context. In addition, the top tweets that showed up under a trending topic would no longer just be algorithmically ranked, but include human curation as well. One year later, Twitter partnered with AP and Reuters to further bolster its efforts to provide human-provided context to trending topics.

Shortly after Musk bought the company in October 2022, though, the written context on trending topics disappeared. Musk had laid off Twitter's human editors. As Reuters reported in November 2022, "Twitter's curation team, which was responsible for 'highlighting and contextualizing the best events and stories that unfold on Twitter,' had been axed."

"gender nonspecific, loose flannel shirt and jeans, no pronouns please!"

Brown haired 5 year old child, blue flannel shirt and jeans. Red sneakers.

FTA:

Not only can the state bill an inmate the $50 a day even after they are released, Florida can also impose a new bill on the next occupant of that bed, potentially allowing the state to double, triple, or quadruple charge for the same bed.

FTA:

Trump shared an unhinged, right wing article titled, "Trump's Virtues Part II" arguing that Trump's fighting against his political opponents, who the article called "America's enemies" and the "woke regime," takes precedence over concerns that Trump's not "a real conservative" or "a role model for children."

This section of Trump's shared article deemphasizes the need for Trump to have good character:

"We shouldn't much care whether our commander-in-chief is a real conservative, whether he is a role model for children or says lots of silly things, or whether he is modest or dignified. What we should care about is whether he knows we are in a war, knows who the enemy is, and knows how to win. Trump does."

Also from the article:

The trial would also be the first of more than a dozen high-profile defamation cases to face a jury, all stemming from the false claims that Smartmatic and another voting company, Dominion Voting Systems, rigged the 2020 election by flipping millions of votes from Trump to Joe Biden. Those lies " championed by Trump and his allies in Congress and the right-wing press " fueled the deadly insurrection on January 6, 2021.

The Newsmax trial is slated to take place in Delaware Superior Court, and Judge Eric Davis, who presided over the historic case brought by Dominion against Fox News last year, is similarly handling the Newsmax-Smartmatic lawsuit. The case is still in the discovery phase, and it's possible Davis decides later that it shouldn't proceed to trial.

Ever watch a show like House Hunters? A lot of people don't want to share a bathroom with anyone, including their own spouses.

Staff Sergeant Gonell, Aquilino
@SergeantAqGo

40+ "hostages" attacked me on Jan 6. These criminals/convicted felons the Trump wants to pardon, claiming he supports law and order, the rule of law. ... @SpeakerJohnson said these people "happen to walk through the Capitol". He was running/hiding in fear from the mob.

#57 Oh, sorry, it's just for assisted living:

Assisted Living Benefits for Veterans: A Comprehensive Guide

#50 | POSTED BY MIRANDA7

Was she married to someone who was in the military? A friend's mother was able to get money each month based on her deceased husband being a veteran when she was in an assisted living facility. I don't know if the program is good for folks in an independent living facility or not.

#3 TY for sharing that, Corky. I had never heard that story.

"Some women may be uncomfortable around a transwoman, obsese woman or even an elderly woman."

Also someone who is disabled or disfigured. People can be make uncomfortable by a lot of things.

*there are are people = there are other people

IOW, it's not the presence of men per se that make the women anxious but the presence of unknown men/strangers in an isolated area. I think the presence of a transwoman in a locker room would make women less anxious if there are are people around and/or they got to know the transwoman personally. I would also point out that anxiety is different from discomfort. Some women may be uncomfortable around a transwoman, obsese woman or even an elderly woman.

"#244 you're right it should and it's not. I have read numerous articles in runners world and other like magazines about the anxiety women feel when men are just nearby when they are out on a trial, or the road. It would seem they should at least have a place to change afterwards without having to have that same anxiety."

I think women can feel anxious when they are in an isolated area by themselves whether it is a hiking trail or downtown alley. I also think women in a locker/shower room will feel less anxioius if there are other people around, either in the dressing room itself or in a nearby room where someone can hear them if they scream.

#1 Trump's strange bedfellows include an entity called ES Family trust that opened a small bank which offered finanical services to the porn industry and which has ties to a Russian who in turn has ties to Vladimir Putin? Boy, God really does work in mysterious ways, huh?:

For anyone wondering how some Republicans get from banning abortion to banning birth control and why sex for its own sake is taboo to them, read on:

Molly Jong-Fast
@MollyJongFast
When we say they're coming for birth control this is what we mean:

Ben Zeisloft
@BenZeisloft
Birth control pills sometimes cause abortions by stopping embryos from implanting.

They should be banned for that reason alone, without even getting into the massive societal harm they cause by discouraging fruitfulness and enabling widespread sexual immorality.

Our children should not be born to be indoctrinated.

The irony here, of course, is that I'm pretty sure Pastor Burns doesn't realize he himself is indoctrinating children. Donald Trump has been annointed by God to carry out a great mission in America? Heaven help us all.