A gay man deported to a different country than his own has gone silent

A gay man deported to a different country than his own has gone silent: Pietro Graza was shackled for 36 hours and taken to a hotel where he and other deportees remain in legal limbo.

History will damn us for our treatment of trans kids

History will damn us for our treatment of trans kids: We can't act like we don't know better - we know the effects of targeting trans youth for discrimination.

 

 

 

In 1986, a man named Donald Miller disappeared from his home in Hancock County, Ohio. He left behind his wife Robin, two children, and roughly $25,000 in unpaid child support. No one knew where he went. By 1994, after eight years with no contact, Robin Miller petitioned a court to have her husband declared legally dead. The ruling allowed her to collect Social Security death benefits to support their children. The case was closed. Donald Miller was, on paper, no longer alive. Then, around 2005, he resurfaced. He had returned to Ohio and was trying to re-establish his Social Security number. In 2013, he walked into Hancock County Probate Court, very much alive, and asked a judge to reverse the death ruling. Judge Allan Davis said no. Under Ohio law, a death ruling can only be challenged within three years. Miller had missed that window by over a decade. It did not matter that he was standing in the courtroom, breathing and speaking. The law had a deadline, and he had blown past it. "I don't know where that leaves you," Judge Davis told him, "but you're still deceased as far as the law is concerned." The ruling meant Miller could not get a valid driver's license, could not collect Social Security, and had no legal identity. He was, in every way the state of Ohio recognized, a dead man. He had walked away from his family. And when he tried to walk back, the law had already moved on without him 👀

 

World War III won't start with a press release warning us that it begins tomorrow. But look at what's happening in Europe. 🇩🇪 Germany is preparing its healthcare system for a scenario of up to 1,000 wounded soldiers per day. 🇵🇱🇱🇹 Poland and Lithuania are working on mass population evacuation plans in the event of a possible conflict. 🇸🇪🇩🇪 Sweden and Germany are rehearsing the rapid deployment of 1,500 troops to Gotland, right in the middle of the Baltic. 🇫🇮 Finland is alerting its population to sabotage, drones, and possible attacks on infrastructure. 🇱🇻 Latvia is preparing protocols to respond immediately to incursions without waiting for collective NATO decisions. 🇨🇭 Switzerland has just approved a new security and defense strategy in response to the deteriorating situation in Europe. 🇬🇧 The United Kingdom is asking its population to be prepared with household reserves of food and water for emergencies. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg had to temporarily close its airport due to unidentified drones. And all this while Europe accelerates its rearmament and its leaders increasingly speak with casual ease about preparing for a possible confrontation with Russia. The question isn't whether the war starts tomorrow. The question that should truly terrify us is another: Why is half of Europe being prepared—psychologically, economically, and militarily—to assume that a war with Russia could happen? Because wars don't start when the first tank rolls in. They start much earlier, when what was absolutely unthinkable yesterday begins to seem normal to us.

 

Texas scraped the rainbow off Montrose's streets at two in the morning. On Thursday, it goes back up, this time where the state can't reach it. Pride Houston 365 announced this week that Progress Pride banners will hang from utility poles along Westheimer Road, through the heart of Houston's historic gay neighborhood. They go up on September 24. The crosswalk they replace was never just decoration. It was laid in 2017 for Alex Hill, a 21-year-old struck and killed by a driver at Westheimer and Taft the year before. Crews arrived just after 2am last October with a cold-planing machine, after Texas governor Greg Abbott ordered cities to strip "political or ideological" markings from their roads. Protesters sat down on the stripes and sang Radiohead and R.E.M. until police moved in and started making arrests. "It takes a lot of hate to dig up a rainbow," Jeffery Gielow, who owns a bike shop a block from the intersection, told Houston Public Media. "They dug it up. They threw it away. How do you think his family feels?" Houston is not the only city answering back. Austin put up a historical marker where its crosswalk had been, and Dallas painted the steps of a library in its own gayborhood.

 

PERFECT STORM OF EVENTS So let’s get this strait with the perfect storm of crisis events and when you can expect it all to hit .. There is ALREADY a global fertilizer shortage caused by the conflict in the Middle East and the Strait of Hormuz, which drives up food production costs, lowers crop yields, and threatens food security worldwide ALREADY. NOW, Russia is BANNING its sulfuric acid exports for the whole rest of this year!! (Sulfuric acid is the primary chemical used globally to convert raw phosphate rock into water soluble phosphoric acid, which is the foundational ingredient used for our FERTILIZER) While at the very same time, Saudi Arabia has informed its European customers that Septembers (maybe even October and Novembers) Crude Oil will be CANCELLED because of the drone bombings of the East-West pipeline .. Even if America wanted to do it, we can’t keep up with the demand.. And stopping exports would be equally as bad right now as I explained in my last post. The U.S. government is debating whether to restrict or ban oil and fuel exports because of all of the above. In the meantime One of the largest diesel refineries in the Midwest is STILL offline. Floodwater overwhelmed the pump at Exxon Mobil's Joliet, Illinois refinery.. The facility supplies a massive amount of regional fuel .. A Tenth of the Heartlands' Fuel 10% of the entire Midwest's refining capacity. Valero Refinery (Port Arthur, Texas) has a partial shutdown of major units. Valero was forced to shut down the larger of its two primary crude distillation units due to an unexpected mechanical leak. BP Whiting Refinery (Whiting, Indiana).. currently undergoing localized unit maintenance. Also has a recent leak as well. We also have a super El Niño climate crisis event unfolding that affects this also. Don’t miss this one! The Worst Mississippi River Flow in 130+ Years.. This halts or limits barge traffic, which carries a huge share of U.S. fertilizer and grain. A severe "flash drought" has just gripped the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi River Basin. The river basin has entered its driest start to a year since 1895, causing total river flow to drop by nearly 40%. Near Baton Rouge and St. Louis, the river is running up to 10 feet below its normal average, shattering daily low water records. Because the spring meltwater snowpack was critically weak, the river lacks the depth to float heavy freight. Barges hauling the Midwest's grain exports down to the Gulf, and fertilizer imports back up to the Corn Belt, are running aground, triggering an immediate logistics logjam just as the fall harvest and top dressing windows begin. Yikes .. ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ There will be a big 2027 harvest lag where because global agriculture operates on a delay, the true impact of this fertilizer crisis hasn't and won’t FULLY hit supermarket shelves YET. Right now, global winter wheat and maize planting seasons for late 2026 are officially missing their required input windows. Yield Declines.. The World Economic Forum and the UN are warning that if these fertilizer constraints last JUST ONE MORE MONTH, global winter crop yields will drop significantly, setting up an incredibly tight global food supply for the first half of 2027. These things can take time to affect us.. While we are already noticing things here at home (prices suddenly increasing), the most likely outcome of this major convergence is a major global stagflationary shock centered on food and fuel peaking in mid 2027!! This is setting us up for a BAD 2027!!! This can be defined by a severe spike in diesel and winter heating costs, sudden regional fuel rationing in the U.S. Midwest, and a sharp increase in global grocery prices. You think it’s bad now just wait … It is my belief that because global supply chains, energy refining, and agricultural cycles operate on a delay, these overlapping crises will hit the public in rolling distinct waves rather than all at once. Rolling waves… There is Immediate to short term issues like localized fuel price shocks and regional diesel rationing. Happening soon through, let’s say, December.. The combination of the Joliet, Whiting, and Valero refinery outages, paired with the record low Mississippi River levels blocking barge transport, will immediately constrict fuel availability in the Midwest. So yes that can be seen now and soon. Retail diesel and gasoline prices will continue to spike sharply across the Heartland. Farmers entering the peak fall harvest season will face localized diesel shortages, forcing some regional cooperatives to implement temporary fuel rationing or hyper inflated surcharges. Now.. January to let’s say about March 2027 Likely see surging winter utility bills and the first wave of grocery inflation. Home heating bills (natural gas and heating oil) will hit near record highs or even break records. In the grocery store, the price of meat, dairy, and packaged goods will climb.. April through July 2027 We will likely see global food supply contraction and severe grocery price spikes. This is when the "fertilizer cliff" manifests also…the global spring 2027 planting season will be severely under fertilized.. Global grain yields (wheat, corn, and soy) will drop noticeably. This will trigger a SECONDARY, much more aggressive spike in global food prices, leading to severe food insecurity in import dependent developing nations and highly visible inflation at U.S. supermarkets. This kind of perfect storm of events can last well into late 2027 and beyond. This is a high risk window for structural grid and refinery failures as well because of how they are running trying to keep up.. likely won’t end good. Late 2027 and on, Watch for increased frequency of unannounced, catastrophic mechanical breakdowns at domestic refineries, causing sudden, unpredictable localized fuel shortages well into the following year. And ALL of that ^ is just from THESE events going on alone.. Imagine when other orchestrated and manufactured many crisis events unfold in the middle of all this 🫠 We are being set up for one big fall The crash of the world as we know it The ushering in of the beast system

 

 

 

50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring👇

1. zoom.earth — Watch the world via live satellite imagery

2. flightradar24.com — See every plane currently in the sky

3. marinetraffic.com — Track all ships at sea in real time

4. windy.com — Live map of winds and storms

5. lightningmaps.org — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time

6. earthquake.usgs.gov — Live list of recent earthquakes

7. submarinecablemap.com — Ocean cables carrying the internet

8. globalforestwatch.org — Watch forests disappear from space

9. worldometers.info — The world's statistics, second by second

10. internetlivestats.com — Current number of tweets and searches being posted

11. thetruesize.com — Compare the true sizes of countries

12. oldmapsonline.org — Maps from centuries ago

13. davidrumsey.com — Archive of 150,000 historical maps

14. openstreetmap.org — World map drawn by volunteers

15. window-swap.com — Look out the window of a random person around the world

16. virtualvacation.us — Virtual walks through cities

17. mapcrunch.com — Teleport to a random spot on Earth

18. atlasobscura.com — Catalog of the world's strangest places

19. neal.fun — Interactive knowledge experiences

20. htwins.net/scale2 — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)

21. eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D

22. stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser

23. apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day

24. images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free

25. pudding.cool — Visual articles told through data

26. ourworldindata.org — The state of the world with real data

27. gapminder.org — What we mistakenly think we know about the world

28. informationisbeautiful.net — Visualizing complex data

29. data.worldbank.org — World Bank's open data

30. data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey's official statistics database

31. archive.org — Archive of millions of books, films, and software

32. gutenberg.org — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired

33. openlibrary.org — Record of every book in the world

34. loc.gov — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive

35. europeana.eu — Europe's cultural heritage archive

36. dp.la — America's digital library collection

37. artsandculture.google.com — Tour museums from home

38. rijksmuseum.nl — Download artworks in high resolution

39. wikiart.org — Archive of 250,000 artworks

40. publicdomainreview.org — Forgotten visual treasures of history

41. openculture.com — Free archive of culture and education

42. metmuseum.org — Met Museum's open collection

43. musicmap.info — Family tree of music genres

44. radiooooo.com — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era

45. listen.hatnote.com — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio

46. wikipedia.org — Random knowledge well

47. timeanddate.com — Time, sunrises, and sky events

48. sciencedaily.com — Live stream of science news

49. arxiv.org — Free preprints of scientific papers

50. observablehq.com — Visualize data with live code

Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖