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Military solutions are now fully in place,locked and loaded,should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!

7:29 AM - 11 Aug 2017

Chelsea Manning Changed the Course of History. Now She’s Focusing on Herself

One hot, humid early-summer evening in New York, a hired car slows on Bleecker Street, and a young woman inside prepares for her first party out in years. She is wearing a midnight-colored semiformal dress by Altuzarra and Everlane ankle boots with heels. Her hair is trimmed into a pixie cut; her makeup softens, but won’t hide, a dust of freckles. “I don’t know if I’ll know anybody,” she fretted earlier, but she seems to have quelled what nerves remain. She is accompanied by a couple of men who surround her like guards. For the first time in a long time, that’s a welcome thing.

Chelsea Manning—graceful, blue-eyed, trans—smiles and prepares herself. Since her release from the Fort Leavenworth prison, on May 17, Manning has been living in New York, with a low profile. Tonight she will make her social debut in her own skin. From February to April 2010, while living as Bradley, an Army intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq, Manning sent three-quarters of a million classified or sensitive documents to WikiLeaks. The breach’s breadth was startling, as were its contents, ranging from the so-called Collateral Murder video, showing a U.S. helicopter killing a group of Baghdad pedestrians that included children and press, to hundreds of thousands of “Cablegate” documents, disclosing 44 years of State Department messaging. When Manning’s role became clear, she turned into a polarizing figure—celebrated as a whistle-blower by some, condemned as a traitor by others. In August 2013, after pleading guilty to ten charges and being found guilty of 20, she was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The day after the sentencing, Manning came out publicly as trans.

Tonight, a summer Monday, is a different kind of coming-out. To honor the occasion, she has picked an event with a celebratory turn: the after-party for the Lambda Literary Awards, which each year honor books by members of the LGBTQ community. The evening is glamorous; the guest list is varied. Here Manning will reintroduce herself to a community in which she seeks acceptance for more than her heavy past.

The car stops in front of Le Poisson Rouge, a Washington Square art space. “I’m not sure how to do this,” Chase Strangio, an ACLU lawyer, murmurs in the front seat. A gregarious young man with a trim Clark Gable mustache, Strangio has emerged as one of the nation’s leading trans-rights lawyers, helping represent Gavin Grimm, the trans student in Virginia who challenged his exclusion from the boys’ bathroom at his high school, and successfully advocating for Manning’s hormone therapy in prison. With Manning now out in the world, however, he faces a new challenge: remaining alert to unwelcome attention.

http://www.vogue.com/article/chelsea-manning-vogue-interview-september-issue-2017?zr_manning

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee targeted both Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a tweet on Thursday.

"@POTUS has dispatched Maxine Waters to NOKO [North Korea] to talk to Lil Kim. After 1/2 hour with her he will drink whatever he gave to his 1/2 brother," Huckabee tweeted.

https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/895636327991062528

There's no dream that's too grand. Well, at least that's probably what this pony told itself when it decided to join the Tour de Pologne — a week-long cycling race that's currently under way.

Cyclists riding through the course yesterday morning might have found themselves riding against an ambitious little pony. It weaved through bikes and took some speedy turns. At one point, it nearly stumbled, but it made a great recovery and kept on beating its hooves against the pavement.

The pony was running a pretty good race until a cyclist guided it off the road to safety.

https://twitter.com/CyclingHubTV/status/893131235513556992
http://mashable.com/2017/08/04/pony-cycling-race/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#I0kT1EhMWPq9