The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse

The U.S. Department of Justice will “immediately” stop enforcing a swathe of federal regulations protecting trans and intersex prisoners from rape and sexual assault, according to leaked documents.

In a memo obtained by the non-profit news outlet Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to “immediately pause” all “compliance determinations” for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to “disregard” them.

Those rules include requiring trans and intersex prisoners to be allowed separate showers, banning body searches purely for the purpose of finding out what genitals they have, and requiring prison staff to consider their safety when assigning them to male or female wings.

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    And the Project2025 agenda takes yet another step towards their dream goal of a theocratic dictatorship.

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      I keep hoping that the people will come to their senses at some point. But I suspect that this is just what America is. I’ve never in my lifetime been more ashamed to be an American.

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        Voting for a candidate that can’t win is worse than not voting. Third-parties actively harmed the process and used resources that could have been spent preventing this bullshit.

        We live in a 2-party system. If you aren’t happy with the Dems, make that displeasure known in the primaries, then vote against the fascists in the general election no matter what. It’s not that fucking complicated.

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        I’ll blame both. Tossing away a vote on a guaranteed loser candidate is the exact same as stepping aside and allowing fascism free rein.

        People vote 3rd party to be able to smugly claim they voted while pretending to not be part of what caused the issue.

        I’ll say it clearly so it’s easier understood:

        WHERE YOU ASSUMED YOU WERE BEING ASKED TO VOTE DEMOCRAT- YOU WERE BEING ASKED TO VOTE AGAINST FASCISM.

        I seriously don’t know how this was so difficult that over 4 million people couldn’t figure it out

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      I don’t agree with that strategy either, but she didn’t carry enough votes to have made the difference anyway…

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      According to the electoral college, every state either voted 100% for trump or harris. So no one voted for Jil Stein. And if you’re in a red state, NO ONE VOTED FOR HARRIS EITHER, and vice versa. Stop purposely being stupid of this fact.

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      Yeah, to al the assholes who decided not to vote for a progressive

      We could’ve had West abolish prisons

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        Fucking hilarious! Hey, real quick, what’s West been up to since November?

        Remember when we tried to tell you that he and all the rest of the party dividers would disappear post-election?

        Yeah. Maybe you’ll listen next time. That dude didn’t give a shit. He’s paid to split the vote and that’s what he does.

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            Yeah, the difference is, none of us that were voting for her ever claimed or believed that she was going to change the world-

            -instead, we just thought she’d play spoiler to the one person that would bring us fascism.

            Those 3rd party clowns were supposed to usher in a new world of perfection and bliss according to all the kids crying about things like…. “aBoLiSh pRiSoNs!” LMAO!

            -Instead, all they did was play spoiler to the one person that could have stopped fascism….

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    Seems like a feature of American prisons. Never see articles about European prisons having problems with rape.

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      now now it is illegal to say that if you’re talking about trump, but NOT illegal to say “with a mortar launcher” because that’s its own sentence; it’s an incomplete sentence that had absolutely nothing to do with what was said before that, so perfectly fine, perfectly legal.

      still illegal to wish death on trump (as president) though, but technically legal to say “we have a group that meets fridays under the brooklyn bridge, we sing sabrina carpenter karaokes after meetings, and the password is ‘sic semper tyrannis’”.

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      There is no hell - if we want them to ever face some kind of punishment for their actions, we’re gonna have to do it ourselves…

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    Since rape is the only way most of them can get laid, and they’re all about to go to prison within the next few years….

    This tracks.

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    someone should take one for the team and form an alternative socialist government of the united states as a micronation. seriously!