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IronLionZion

IronLionZion's Journal
IronLionZion's Journal
October 1, 2016

Barack Obama's presidency: A handful of the best photos by Pete Souza

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-05/obama-photographer-pete-souzas-best-pictures/7570382

White House photographer Pete Souza is estimated to have taken over two million pictures of US President Barack Obama during his time in office. As the President's tenure approaches its end, take a look back at some of the most striking images Souza has shot over the past eight years.















September 29, 2016

Ohio voter's reaction to presidential debate

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Watch at 2:00
September 16, 2016

Grandmother files $5M suit after Florida jail puts her in an all-male cell

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2016/09/15/woman-files-5m-suit-after-jail-reassigns-her-gender-to-male-puts-her-in-all/



When Fiordaliza Pichardo, an attorney and city councilwoman from Bonao in the Dominican Republic, was detained at the Miami International Airport en route to see the birth of her first grandson on an old New York warrant, she never imagined she would end up in a Miami jail for 10 hours surrounded by at least 40 male inmates.

On Thursday Pichardo’s attorneys filed a federal lawsuit against the Miami-Dade Corrections Department seeking $5 million in damages and an effort to repair her reputation.

Despite the fact that Pichardo, 50, has been married to her husband for 32 years, has three children, and is also a grandmother, a nurse employed by Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Department, examined her and determined that she exhibited “non-traditional male characteristics and male reproductive organs,” and placed Pichardo in an all-male jail cell.

According to the suit, as a correctional officer was placing her in the cell, he said to her in Spanish, “Suerte si te veo viva manaña.” (You’ll be lucky if I see you alive tomorrow.”)



Not sure what “non-traditional male characteristics and male reproductive organs,” means. But come on. This is really shitty.

People are the worst.

September 7, 2016

Washington Post poll puts Texas and Mississippi as tossups

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/50-state-poll/

along with Georgia, North Carolina, and Arizona.

Let's do this!

Make America Liberal Again!

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About IronLionZion

If an H-1b has an American accent, they are probably not an H-1b. It's race, not citizenship. Americans are more diverse than you think. Millions of US citizens don't look the way you might expect. This fact is very important and will help us win elections.
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