Nurse Beaten by Patient Denied Request for Unpaid Time Off and Fired

This is what happens when we let money influence politicians. I don't blame the sick patient.


Nurse Beaten Unconscious in Iowa
State law limits unions ability to bargain safety; putting public employees at risk
[link:https://ucommblog.com/section/state-politics/nurse-beaten-unconscious-iowa|

Iowa’s decision to weaken collective bargaining for state employees is putting state employees at risk. This claim was made by the AFSCME Council 61 after a nurse was beaten unconscious at a state mental health facility.

The nurse, Tina Suckow who was attacked by the patient, was put in the hospital for weeks and required surgery. Although the attack happened in October, she is still recovering. After she was unable to come to work due to her injuries and the state denied her request for time off without pay, Suckow was fired.

According to AFSCME, a 2017 state law limits the ability of government employee unions to negotiate resolutions on issues other than salary, including safety matters. The law also resulted in changes in employee grievance procedures. The union believes that this change prevented them from being able to fairly represent Suckow.

“Any reasonable human being should have concern because if it’s OK for the state of Iowa to treat workers this way, then Casey’s can do it, Ruan can do it, any employer in the state of Iowa can do it,” said Danny Homan, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Iowa Council 61.

The union also has said that since the law took effect, terminations and forced resignations have tripled. They also warn that hospitals are becoming understaffed putting both workers and patients at risk.

The law, which was passed in 2017 with the help of big money groups backed by the Koch Brothers, was recently upheld in a 4-3 decision by the Iowa Supreme Court.

Gillette's Trans teen's first shave ad- Cue the faux outrage

Gillette Ad Features Black Trans Teen Shaving for the First Time


With Pride season soon upon us, we’ll soon be inundated with rainbow apparel and items from brands falling over themselves to remind us all how inclusive and woke they all are.

Every once in a while, however, a brand gives us something genuinely heartwarming and good.


In the latest ad from Gillette, posted to the brand’s Facebook on Thursday, Samson Bonkeabantu Brown, a trans teen from Canada, is shaving for the first time with his dad nearby.

Take a look at the ad—and the joy on Brown’s face—and try to keep it together.

[link:https://www.theroot.com/gillette-ad-features-black-trans-teen-shaving-for-the-f-1835028856|

So when we take back the White House, Random question

Yes I am putting positive energy out there that we will take back the White House.

Here is a random question for you guys that tend to think so as well

What is Faux Noise, going to be talking about?

Just wondering? Are they going to go back to "They are going to take away your guns", to boost the fledgling NRA?

What do you think their Schtick is going to be? There will be no Trump to defend.

But then again, I'm sure they will find new conspiracy theories for the New Democratic President.

" I'm still a trump fan"

I just saw a segment on Craig Melvin about a Trump fan disappointed with her tax return which was half of what it used to be. She acknowledged that she felt Trump misled people about tax cuts helping the middle class. She said she believes "he doesn't want to show his taxes because he doesn't pay taxes while we are paying everything" . This is a woman with kidney disease who is on dialysis awaiting a kidney transplant but still said she was a Trump fan.

I am so confused. I am confused by these type of Trump fans. As a person of color, I can only conclude. You are a racist. You like his racist ideologies. If he is not making your life better economically what are you fan of? He lacks moral leadership, so I doubt that's it. He's a joke on the international stage.

I am especially confused by this person who has kidney disease, a pre-existing condition and Trump trying to tear down the ACA. I am befuddled about what she is a fan of?

Jess Hilarious issues apology for her rant/profiling of Sikh passengers

Apparently not only is she is an Instagram comedian, she is on a show on Fox - I'm sure Fox was not pleased. with her antics. The circumstances of what happened on the plane are still not clear. In her apology she says she did not tell the airline she felt threatened and she did not get the men removed from the flight.


'Bear With Me, I'm Still Learning': Jess Hilarious Apologizes to Sikh and Muslim Community For Racial Profiling


“I’m not sure if these particular individuals that were on the plane are aware of my actions by now, but either way, I would love to apologize personally to them first for my insensitive and ignorant behavior,” Jess noted. “Yet, I would still like to apologize to all of you who were aware and offended by my actions.”

Jess reiterated that she didn’t get the Sikh men kicked off the plane; neither did she directly express her concerns to any airport or flight officials, leading to their removal.

“I refuse to teach, spread or be an advocate for hatred—I just want to make people laugh,” she said.

[link:https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/bear-with-me-im-still-learning-jess-hilarious-apologi-1833401279|

Why So Many Latinos Are Converting to Islam

I hope I am posting in the right place. But I thought it was more than a religious discussion. Its related to Trump and his wall and Xenophobia.

Why So Many Latinos Are Converting to Islam
Latinos are one of the fastest growing groups within Islam in America. VICE's Lee Adams travels to Houston Texas, the home of America's first Islam in Spanish center, to investigate what’s behind this phenomenon and how America’s current political climate might be related.

[link:https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/minority-reports-why-latinos-are-converting-to-islam/5b7f19dabe40774cbe72f892?ref=vice|

Don't doubt what you saw with your own eyes

Two days ago, video was posted online that pretty much everyone who saw immediately recognized for what it was—footage of white teens taunting and harassing a Native American elder named Nathan Phillips on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. What was happening was clear and unmistakable, not just resonant but immediately recognizable as iconic. If you wanted to compress the history of relations between the powerful and the powerless in America, or the dynamics of the current moment, into a single image, you couldn’t do much better than to present a white teen in a MAGA hat, surrounded by a screaming horde of his peers, smirking into the face of an old Native American man.

Perhaps—probably—because what had happened was so undeniable, it was immediately denied. Right-wing trolls not only immediately proposed that the visibly aggressive teens, who were draped in the symbols of white nationalism and misogyny, were in fact the aggressed upon, but began a campaign of brutal online harassment against anyone—especially journalists and especially female journalists—who accurately described what they had seen, or reacted to it on the terms it deserved. In all it was an enactment of the culture-war tactics pioneered by Gamergate and used by Donald Trump to ascend to the pinnacle of global power: While random MAGA chuds and Pepes doxxed and threatened people online in an attempt to silence them and intimidate others, respectable types urged caution, proposing that if you were thoughtful enough you would perhaps realize that you hadn’t in fact seen what you had just seen, or that if you had, maybe it wasn’t that bad at all. Straight news reporters like the Wall Street Journal’s Byron Tau turned the subtext into text, asking whomst among us hasn’t participated in a racially-charged frenzy of barely-restrained violence that they wish hadn’t been become an instantly iconic representation of what America has been historically and what it is now:

Spike Lee Directs The Killers Protest Song - Land of The Free -