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At a Women’s History Month event held at the White House on March 26th, trump called himself the ‘fertilization president’: "We're gonna have tremendous goodies in the bag for women too. The women, between the fertilization and all the other things we're talking about, it's gonna be great. Fertilization. I'm still very proud of it, I don't care. I'll be known as the fertilization president and that's okay." 

Note from my Wordbook Dictionary: ‘Fertilizer as a euphemism for “manure” is from 1846.’

When did we become a country that disappears people… ▪️ Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Fulbright scholar from Turkey with a valid student visa, working on a PhD in child study and human development at Tufts University was ambushed and abducted off the street in Somerville, Massachusetts by masked men on Tuesday — apparently for co-writing an essay that objected to the killing of children.

“In dictatorships, they call this ‘a disappearance.’” (Senator Chris Murphy)▪️Our government wants to silence and deport Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful, permanent resident, Columbia University student, and vocal advocate for the human rights of the Palestinian people who calls on us to “stop enabling violence against Palestinians.” ▪️ Anas Baba reports from Gaza for NPR ▪️

The current administration ordered the removal of a long list of specific words — including the words “women” and “female” but not “men” or “male” — from public-facing websites and other materials and advised federal agency managers caution in using them or flagged grant proposals and contracts that used the words.

Let us try to help repair the part of the world that we can see and touch▪️stepping into Bowie Flight Suit mode with scissors, needle, thread…