Weekend on Twitter: Concerns about homelessness, trans issues, the 2024 presidential race, and more

/ June 19, 2023
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WHAT DO THEY TWEET?: Vermonters continue to have high anxiety about increasing homelessness in the state as a federal hotel voucher program is coming to a close.

In a weekend of posts on Twitter, users continued to express concerns about homelessness, trans rights, the 2024 election, detransitioner Walt Heyer in Vergennes, Becca Balint and more.

Homelessness

Jeremy Rathbun of Middlebury shared his recently published commentary on homelessness.

The gist of his commentary is that policymakers failed to have the foresight to see that “as many as 200 to 300 children will be made homeless by the end of the voucher program,” according to Rathbun’s research.

In a post by Gyandevi, she says that “no cause” evictions are contributing to increased homelessness.

“Paco #D4L” wrote that the federal hotel-voucher program from the COVID-19 shutdown era enabled too many people to take advantage of its resources and has caused them to develop dependency rather than economic independence.

https://twitter.com/pacoccino/status/1670113473391362048

The 2024 presidential race

Paco #D4L also retweeted about the latest developments in the race for the White House in 2024. One poll gathering some media buzz is showing that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has the best favorable and unfavorable ratings among three leading candidates.

Detransitioner coming to Vermont

Walt Heyer who is the author of “A Transgender’s Faith and Paper Genders: Pulling the Mask Off the Transgender Phenomenon” is going to be speaking at Vergennes High School this Tuesday evening. Not all of the online buzz is enthusiastic.

Heather R. Benjamin, the “Fund director advancing SRHRJ, gender justice & queer liberation. Immunocompromised & disabled” according to the profile, posts about an upcoming event involving a detransitioner coming to speak at a Vermont high school to speak.

In follow-up tweets, Benjamin targets a group called Parents Rights in Education, which apparently is behind the event featuring the detransitioner. The organization has put on numerous events in the state offering public speakers to talk about concerns regarding political advocacy now routinely showing up in public school curricula.

Christopher Aaron-Felker, the head of the GOP for Burlington, spoke about the event in support of Heyer.

https://twitter.com/C_Hurl802/status/1670375190339940353

Becca Balint in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., had one of her commentaries published recently. In it she argues that she is in Washington, D.C., as a “bridge builder and a peacemaker” — but not all Twitter users agree.

Among the comments to the post, one unimpressed Vermonter posts about her apparent support for controversial transgender procedures on the youth.

https://twitter.com/SMHD2020/status/1670069902214938629

Another post by Rowdy Yates suggests that her alleged associations with the FTX scandal are still haunting her reputation.

Is Biden getting too old?

“Your Cambridge MA” posted a sarcastic tweet referring to the fact that the president has frequently had stumbles at public events. This comes after a new poll has been released by DailyMail.com indicating that 71% of all Americans think that the president to too old to continue to be president.

Pride Month

Rep. William Notte, D-Rutland City, posted about his support for the latest pride parade to take place in his city.

Governor allows publicly funded school lunches for all

Rep. Kate McCann, D-Montpelier, posted about how the governor recently let a bill for publicly funded school lunches for all income brackets in all public schools in Vermont.

A Lesson in Civics

The Essex GOP posted some writings by the economist Thomas Sowell who frequently offers thorough critiques of liberal economic policies such as rent control or minimum wage policies. In this post, he explains the difference between what “equity” means as it relates to the better-known term “equality.”

Michael Bielawski is a reporter for True North. Send him news tips at bielawski82@yahoo.com and follow him on Twitter @TrueNorthMikeB.

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2 thoughts on “Weekend on Twitter: Concerns about homelessness, trans issues, the 2024 presidential race, and more”

  1. There is no trans hate on Vermont. The progressive party refuses to address the real issue in good faith. The issue is putting minor children on hormone blockers and evasive medical procedures without parental consent.

  2. Terence McKenna: Culture is not your friend. Culture is for other peoples’ convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well-treated by culture.” […] But the culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects. It creates consumer mania. It preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.”

    The man was absolutely 100% spot on and social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, TikTok) are collectively exhibit “A” as displayed in this article.

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