In the Trump administration’s ongoing attempt to make transgender people disappear, they’ve removed the “T” from LGBT on the Stonewall National Monument webpage. How incredibly ironic (and stupid) is that? Do they think we’ll forget who started the resistance to the police raid? Do they think they can tell the history of Stonewall without mentioning the “T”?
Martha P. Johnson is, at least apocryphally, credited with throwing the first brick (or rock, or bottle, or whatever it might have been), as police raided the Stonewall Inn in 1969.
The National Park Service, is of course, bending to the Executive Order that Orange Idiot signed recently. I don’t know how they’re going to be able to tell the story of Stonewall without mentioning transgender activists who led the fight. In moments of cynicism, I suspect they’ll figure out some way to credit the resistance to some obscure white guy, a bit like a recent movie tried to do. (whatever happened to that movie? I think it might have clunked it’s way down to the basement of forgotten films rather quickly.)
From the National Park Service’s Stonewall opening page:
“By the time of Stonewall…we had 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. A year later…1500.”
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement.
Check out our video series about the history of the Stonewall uprising, the LGB rights movement and Stonewall NM today!
Last updated: February 13, 2025
(bolding and italics added by me)
From another part of the Stonewall page on the National Park Service’s site I ran across the following:
(Someone missed some banned language and letters here.)
Stonewall National Monument
Read the President’s Proclamation delcaring (SIC) Stonewall National Monument
The Stonewall Inn, a bar located in Greenwich Village, New York City, was the scene of an uprising against police repression that led to a key turning point in the struggle for the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans. In a pattern of harassment of LGBT establishments, the New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn in the early hours of Saturday, June 28, 1969. The reaction of the bar’s patrons and neighborhood residents that assembled in the street was not typical of these kinds of raids. Instead of dispersing, the crowd became increasingly angry and began chanting and throwing objects as the police arrested the bar’s employees and patrons. Reinforcements were called in by the police, and for several hours they tried to clear the streets while the crowd fought back. The initial raid and the riot that ensued led to six days of demonstrations and conflicts with law enforcement outside the bar, in nearby Christopher Park, and along neighboring streets. At its peak, the crowds included several thousand people.
The events of Stonewall, as the uprising is most commonly referred to, marked a major change in the struggle for “homophile rights” in the U.S., with lesbian women, gay men, bisexual and transgender people beginning to vocally and assertively demand their civil rights. Stonewall is regarded by many as the single most important catalyst for the dramatic expansion of the LGBT civil rights movement. The riots inspired LGBT people throughout the country to organize and within two years of Stonewall, LGBT rights groups had been started in nearly every major city in the U.S. Stonewall was, as historian Lillian Faderman wrote, “the shot heard round the world…crucial because it sounded the rally for the movement.”
Today, the site of the uprisings in Greenwich Village is recognized as a National Historic Landmark (NHL) by the National Park Service and is considered significant under NHL Criterion 1 because of its association with events that outstandingly represent the struggle for civil rights in America. This NHL includes the bar, Christopher Park, and the streets where the events of June 28-July 3, 1969, occurred. The Stonewall Inn is located at 51-53 Christopher Street, New York City, New York and is open to the public.
The link to the President’s Proclamation, however, leads to this page:
Now, I don’t think Trump himself is all that worked up about transgender people. It’s his minions, especially Elon Musk, who are driving this. Musk has misgendered and dead-named his trans child, so I suspect much of this erasing is coming from his personal hatred of transgenderism. He’s not a person used to not getting his way, and he’s striking out and hurting whoever he can. And he doesn’t care who gets hurt.
Oh, BTW, don’t let NPS know they missed some of the forbidden words on this page. Let us hope they’re there because someone at NPS’s IT office knows the Orange Idiot’s minions wouldn’t think to look past the splash page. shhhhhh
Oh that Trump administration…
I’m on Devin Nunes’ email list, and boy, is it a roller coaster ride!
Boy, do I get emails! I’ve managed to end up on just about every candidate’s begging list, and it seems to be getting worse every day.
In the latest round of the saga of poor Carrie Prejean, a sex tape of the former Miss California USA has been introduced into the plot. As you’ll recall, Miss Prejean became a darling of the right wing after coming in second in the Miss USA contest. Her response to a question on same-sex marriage, not noted for it’s intelligence or delivery, even if a dearly held belief of Miss Prejean’s, became instant fodder for the judge who asked the question, on-line gossip 
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
Is The Truth Out There?
March 27, 2026
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I’ve never been a conspiracy nut, honest.
I don’t believe in Bigfoot (we’d have found a body by now, if there was a population large enough to sustain a species – accidents befall even the most careful of us), alien visitation (too far, and there’s almost no science supporting the idea that FTL is possible), any of the popular – or momentarily in-the-news – ideas, like baby sacrifices going on in pizza parlor basements, or secret cabals running the world.
So, not a conspiracy nut.
But…
One has to wonder how the United States has so quickly fallen. It hardly seems like this is something we would deliberately do to ourselves, but it seems we have. We’ve gutted important government agencies, stopped aid to needy people around the world, broke alliances that had served us well since World War II, and disrupted the very fabric of our nation. Republicans in Congress have ceded their authorities and powers to the President, and the Democrats can’t seem to get their act together to present a unified resistance.
If I were an adversary of the United States, I would know one basic thing as truth. Nobody on the planet can seriously challenge the United States military, if the U.S. decided to stage an all-out response to attack. Military force is not an option.
However…
Americans are terribly myopic. The business world only sees as far as the next quarterly report. Politicians only see to the next election. People who are educated and study world affairs are ignored, most of the time. The general public is too focused on social media (now). Those who have been and are still watching television are enamored of “reality” TV, watching instigated drama in groups of people staged to be either physically attractive, or sufficiently sinister. News programming is increasingly dropping facts and analysis for ratings and clicks. Nobody is really “minding the store” that is the United States.
So how would a theoretical adversary on the United States overthrow them, destroy their leadership in the world, fracture alliances, and generally make them pariah in the world’s eyes, all without firing a single missile or bullet?
Now, this requires some long term planning, which at the very least, China has demonstrated they are willing to do. Russia keeps shooting itself in the foot, but it, too, has a longer outlook than does the United States.
Get compromising information on people who might end up in office. The most determined to attain power will probably have something in their closet they don’t want exposed to the light of day. If not, a honey-pot trap often works. Infiltrate other organizations, businesses, and universities. Feed disinformation to the internet and legacy news media. Be relentless with all of it. Convince people that “they, those people over there, the brown ones, the liberal ones, the media, the ‘others’ “, are the real enemies of the state.
Then along comes Donald J. Trump. They’ve already got all the kompromat they could possibly have over him (Epstein files? Pee tapes?), and they understand his narcissism and greed. Promise him money, threaten him with what they know, and he eats out of their hands. Feed his supporters with constant refrains of “only he can save us”, “only he can fix it”, “it’s the liberals fault”, “it’s the illegals fault”, “things will get better if you elect him”. Lie to them, but do it in a way that strokes their egos. Make them feel like they’re smart, they know what’s going on, their dire straights are not their fault, but the work of “them”. Elect Trump President.
So they did. What did we get?
He and his supporters in Congress and the Courts are systematically tearing down the framework of the United States, and putting long-time alliances that have kept the peace in Europe since 1945 in the position of no longer being able to trust the USA. Taking Greenland? Cuba? Venezuela? The Trump regime is creating chaos around the world. In the middle of it all, Trump is raking in the money faster than any one can count it. The rich oil states are shoveling money at him.
That, and more, might be what someone would do to undermine and diminish the United States, without firing a shot.
But that’s just conspiracy talk, right?
Right?
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