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If you feel unsafe or threatened by the current political climate, or if you wish to avoid controversial or disturbing subjects for your own personal mental health, then please do NOT read this post.

All those CAUTION tags are there for a reason.

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And so it begins……..

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Illegal search and seizure of a U.S. citizen by ICE. This is exactly what we fought against in 1776, and now Trump and his Nazi administration are bringing it back to our country.

This man was born In Georgia and is an American citizen. A judge examined his birth certificate and determined that is is “undoubtably valid”, yet he is still being held in an ICE detention center in violation of his rights as a citizen, as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.

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A recent blog posting here made me remember a movie……

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That I saw some time back - The American President. In it, Michael Douglas stars as the President of the United States. His character is a widower with a teenage daughter, his wife having died during his campaign. The movie also stars Annette Benning as a professional lobbyist who is hired by an organization to push an environmental bill.

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Welcome to the American gulag……..

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Donald Trump is trying to figure out how to deport US citizens to prison in El Salvador, which is apparently his new American gulag. In a press conference at the White House, his Press Secretary admitted that Trump was looking for a way to revoke the citizenship of naturalized citizens in order to deport them. Apparently he is also working on trying to retroactively revoke the citizenship of people born within the United States in order to deport them as well.

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Five years ago today...

Elsbeth disappeared five years ago today.

She posted so many wonderful stories on BCTS. My favorites are Harry Potter - Season of Change, Freyja's Daughter and The Lost Queen. I still re-read them regularly. In 2020 she was posting a chapter a week, regular as clockwork, in addition to logging in to leave comments several times a week. Many of us were in a private chat group guessing what was going on in The Lost Queen. We were so SO happy whenever a new chapter came out and we could see how close we are.

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One of my favorite movie quotes…….

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Is a scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In the scene, Indiana and his father travel to Berlin just before the start of WWII in order to retrieve his father’s diary. While there, they witness a book burning in the town square, with hundreds of people cheering as the Nazis pile books upon the flames. Indiana’s father, played by Sean Connery, turns to him and says, “My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.”

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My beloved US Navy becomes just the latest to erase history……

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How the mighty have fallen as the fascist purge marches on. The US Naval Academy posted a list of nearly 400 books being removed from the Nimitz Library as part of Trump’s purge of anything smacking of truth in history or social reality. Amongst the items purged were works by Maya Angelou, as well as books memorializing Holocaust survivors, or books on the history of the Ku Klux Klan or racism.

Here is an excerpt from an article posted online:

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Help, wolfjess7's death dealers saga

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Help i have been trying to buy books 1,4 and 5 of wolfjess7's death dealer saga from Amazon uk and usa both site are telling me they are unavailable to purchase I have managed to buy books 2,3,6,7,8 now iwant to complete the set can anybody tell me where i can read or better still download the missing books.
I do hope someone can help me with this problem.
Lots of hugs
sim1cats

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I was watching 60 Minutes this evening…….

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And a story about the Broadway play Good Night, and Good Luck was airing. The show stars George Clooney, and is about Edward R. Murrow and his fight against McCarthyism. During the segment on 60 Minutes, Clooney is recorded telling the cast, "When the other three estates fail, when the judiciary and the executive and the legislative branches fail us, the fourth estate has to succeed.”

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This past week I was reminded of something important……

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By a few people that I thought I could trust; people who I have always thought of as family, people that I was under the impression thought of me the same way. These are people that I care for and thought that I could trust them because they cared about me. But I was reminded of the fact that trust is a fickle and fleeting thing for some people in this world.

Over the past several months, I have been re-reading a lot of stories and books that I have previously read. This line was in one of those stories and it really hit home after the week I have had……

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News items

Please be aware of the warnings in the tags I selected. I am referencing and linking some current news reports that are highly disturbing. So if your blood pressure tends to spike at disturbing news, or if you get triggered by the same, you might want to just skip the rest of this post.

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Excellent News as Intelligence Returns

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Trump and Elon tried to erase a class of people as he claimed only male and female exists. Think of it this way, remove American Indians, or Spanish Americans, or..., by claiming only Genetic White Americans exist. There would be a huge outcry from the public. Ver few have any idea transgender is a class of the human genome. Even fewer of those who do know have an understanding what that means.

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Funny how the Trump administration claims that hiring should be based…….

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Solely on merit and capabilities - that the most qualified person for the position should be the one placed in that position - yet the most qualified person according to him and his cronies always seems to be a white male as far as the military is concerned. He has already replaced the only two members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who were not white men, one a woman and the other a black man. Apparently only a lily white, all male staff is qualified to lead the US Military.

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DOD doesn't want us any more

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A new Department of Defense memorandum "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276..." states that gender dysphoria is incompatible with the US Military.

Another brick added to the wall separating us from our rights and our existence as citizens of the United States of America. Be strong, they don't know the type of people they are discriminating against, we will not be denied, we exist, we have a voice and we shall be heard. Love to all, Emily

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Trump & Elon's Exec Order

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Need to be real careful how I state this so I don't end up in a million dollar liable lawsuit. Most is what I have read from other sources and some is my own personal opinion and not in any way to be assumed as fact. Reality, I don't have dozens of foot notes listed here pointing to other sources and research. Forty years, six dead worn out printers, half dozen hard drives stacked in a box, thousand of pages over a foot high doesn't translate into viable medical and transgender research..., yet.

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I'm beginning to think my wife has given up objecting.

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She seems to have become very tolerant of how I dress when I go out. First it was when we were going to the doctor for her appointments. My attire was seriously on the feminine end of androgynous even with lipstick and mascara. She twice allowed it where she used to make a fuss if I wore knee high nylons instead of socks.

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Don't Renew Gov Docs

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My psychiatrist informed me a month ago she was telling everyone to stay away from passports, driver's licenses, virtually all government documents and not renew them at this time.

Trans star of hit HBO series says renewed passport now says male after Trump order

Trump signed executive order narrowing federal government definition of the sexes
Hunter Schafer, a transgender actor and star of the HBO series "Euphoria," revealed that her new passport was issued with a male gender marker because of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.

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Stopped by the police while en femme

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Last week, I went to the "big city" (I live in a small town; 2500 pop.) to do some shopping. Most of the time, I dress out of the butch side of my wardrobe; women's clothes but the effect is androgynous. That allows people to see me the way they want to. I'm always surprised when they look at me and address me as a woman, but it does happen and when it does my voice doesn't shake their perception.

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Are your books safe?

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There have been repeated reports in the past of Amazon Kindle stealing money from consumers. As well as Kindle being a proprietary and closed standard for content delivery. The underlying issue is not only restricted to Amazon Kindle, but any and all cloud-based streaming content providers.

Who controls the content that is saved on the cloud? Is it the owner of the content? Or is it the owner of the infrastructure?

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Road Safety?

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I just ran across this 13 minute video on road safety in Europe (and more specifically the UK) versus the development of electric vehicles at NEWS: UK Bans Cybertruck - 5 Fatal Design Flaws Tesla Can't Fix.

This is more for those techno-geeks and EV geeks out there. So you might like this FYI,

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Justice for sale - at a rock bottom price…….

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I have been reading and listening to the news articles regarding the Eric Adams criminal prosecution for the better part of the day today. I live some 150 miles north of New York City, but as a resident of New York State, especially one who lives in the Capital/Saratoga Region, the potential criminal prosecution of the Mayor of New York City makes the news here on a fairly regular basis, as does most state politics.

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Developments on the left side of “The Pond”

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If you are willing to see how Europeans view the current political developments in the United States of America, you might want to the following broadcast posts on YouTube. Be warned that these could be triggering to you, and therefor a risk to your personal mental health. So viewer discretion is advised.

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Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day.

I just posted a short story for Valentine's Day, titled, "The Valentine's Day Gift" It comes in at just over 8100 words.

Thanks to my beta reader. She assures me that I was successful in giving the story the look and feel I was after.

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Summer Camp

I am looking for a story, I began rereading Anistasia Allread's story "Camp Kumoni"

I remember another story where the MC signs their-self up for a summer camp my pulling a fast one on parents, think it may be Guide\Girl Scout camp

can't remember but there may have been a leather working workshop

please help

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Help

Hi all
A few years ago l read the first 4 chapters of a story by Lorraine B on crystals storysite entitled the alien within or holy crap there's an alien in my bed at the time she said the story would continue with part 5 war children which i later discovered on another web site.
After re reading the story this weekend and trying to find the 5th chapter l am coming up with nothing does anybody on this site know where I can find this chapter or did anybody else copy and save it if you did could you let me have a copy.
Many thanks and hugs in advance.
sim1cats

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I was doing some reading tonight…….

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And I was reminded of the speech which Thurgood Marshall gave in 1992 when he received the Liberty Award. The following excerpt from his speech always reminds me of the reasons why I joined the Navy in service to my country, and why I still believe in the people of this country. I believe that it is even more applicable in light of our current political situation and that we need to take heed of his words once again:

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Please, please, please read this!

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As a card carrying member of the ACLU, I regularly get communications from them. Yes, many of those are asking for money to support their programs, but many others are asking for me to sign a petition or to reach out to my Congressman or Senator. They also send out communications regularly to help keep members informed.

I received this one today………

https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/trumps-executive-orde...

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