Five deadly weapons Russia is accused of using in Ukraine
Russia has been accused of using everything from so-called vacuum bombs to chemical weapons as it fights to overtake Ukraine.
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FBI Conducted Potentially Millions of Searches of Americans’ Data Last Year, Report Says
Searches in national-security investigations came without warrants, could stoke privacy concerns in Congress
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She told her Christian college she was raped. Then she was banned from campus.
A new federal complaint says Visible Music College gave a student a choice: admit to breaking the school’s ban on premarital sex or be expelled.
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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/drunk-trump-supporter-almost-ran-gay-couple-called-slurs/
Evan Berryhill-Jewel was caught on video calling her gay neighbors slursPhoto: screenshotA Texas woman was caught on video calling a gay couple “fa***ts because she almost hit them with her car and parked badly.
“Republican all the way, baby!” Evan Berryhill-Jewel – who owns the Texas Angels Boutique in San Angelo – shouted while being recorded by Charles Grady and his partner, her neighbors, when she returned home one evening. Grady said that Berryhill-Jewel almost ran over him as he was taking out the trash.
Related: Furious woman pushes through protesters to tear down anti-LGBTQ sign in viral video
Grady confronted her and Berryhill-Jewel, who appeared to be drunk, got mad at him and started touching him aggressively, Grady said.
“You fucking faggots need to learn that equality is what I got,” Berryhill-Jewel said. “How are you any better than me?”
“I’m sorry not sorry that I’m not a f**king Joe Biden fan,” she said as her bizarre ranting continued. “How do y’all like the f**king pain.”
“I can’t hear you over your ear piercings, ewww,” she told Grady’s partner.
“Will we gross you out enough to move over a space?” he responded. She was parked in two parking spots at once.
“No, I’m not going move over,” she said. “I don’t give a f**k that y’all are fa***ts…. Y’all are f**king fa***ts. Sorry not sorry y’all are fa***ts.”
Grady said that police responded and they took at least one of the notes that Berryhill-Jewel posted to their door and their car with slurs, including the word “fa***t.”
He said that the full video was 14 minutes long and that police are reviewing it.
Tom Green County prosecutor Chris Taylor told The Advocate that he is aware of the incident.
“We take all such incidents very seriously,” he said.
Berryhill-Jewell posted an apology to Facebook where she blamed alcohol and said that she has gay friends. It was later deleted.
I would like to note she apologized on Facebook and deleted it but it seems she never apologized to the gay couple. Anyone not gay person with gay friends doesn’t go around calling gay couples’ faggot repeatedly.
Ralph RebandtPhoto: website screenshotRalph Rebandt, a Republican candidate for Michigan governor, says he wants the Bible to “be the basic textbook in schools.” It’s a position he came to regret in a recent interview with comedian Jason Selvig.
Selvig, part of the conservative-skewering comedy duo The Good Liars, got Rebandt to agree to ban books from schools that have porn pornographic imagery in them. Selvig then pointed out that the Bible has a story about two daughters who get their dad drunk and have sex with him — it’s in the Book of Genesis, chapter 9, verses 30 to 37.
Related: Comedians get Trumpers to agree to ban the Bible from schools by telling them what’s in it
This is where the interview went hilariously south for the Republican.
“You’re saying banned the Bible in school?” Selvig asked Rebandt.
“No, I’m not saying ban the Bible in school,” Rebandt replied.
“You’re saying anything that has a pornographic image should be banned,” Selvig reminded him. “And there are some images in the Bible about, you know, sex and incest and things like that. So it sounds like you’re saying we should ban the Bible.”
Rebandt answered, “What I am saying is that the Judeo Christian principles on which our country was founded need to be brought back into culture. And I can’t say it any more clearly than that.”
“If that means banning the Bible, so be it,” Selvig said, adding, “Protect the kids.”
“No, I—” Rebandt stammered as the interview ended.
Rebandt initially told Selvig, “I’m bringing God back into culture, because I’m convinced that if we don’t get God right in this next election, nothing will matter.”
But while U.S. conservatives nationwide are hot to ban “pornographic” books from schools, including ones that explore sexuality and LGBTQ identity, they seemingly don’t want that standard applied to their own holy book.
In the aforementioned Bible story, Lot and his two daughters live in a cave. One daughter says to her sister that since there are no men around to impregnate them, they should get their father drunk and have sex with him to “preserve our family line through our father.”
They then successfully get their father drunk two nights in a row, have sex with him and end up pregnant. The story claims that the father was so drunk that he was unaware of what happened both nights.
The Bible says all sorts of things that conservative activists say they don’t want in books in schools. It says to kill people in same-sex relationships, to kill women who have pre-marital sex, to smear animal feces on the faces of lazy priests, and that it’s okay to own and beat slaves.
Pregnancy From Rape Is ‘An Opportunity’ For Women, Says Republican Trying To Ban Abortion
Ohio state Rep. Jean Schmidt (R) defended her abortion ban recently, arguing that “just because you have emotional scars doesn’t give you the right to take a life.”
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Photo: ShutterstockThe massively influential Twitter account “Libs of TikTok” called the Trevor Project “a grooming organization.” The Trevor Project runs a crisis hotline for LGBTQ youth at risk of suicide.
Chaya Raichik, who runs Libs of TikTok, became one of the most influential conservative activists this past year as she posted videos of LGBTQ people and called them “groomers.” Raichik is arguably the individual most responsible for the current Groomer Panic, referring to many perfectly normal interactions involving LGBTQ people as pedophilia.
Related: Massively influential & anti-LGBTQ influencer behind “Libs of TikTok” was unmasked
But this past week she got more attention from mainstream media when the Washington Post unveiled her identity, something that was common knowledge in parts of the right as she had been interviewed on Fox News and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) office cited her work as influential on the state’s Don’t Say Gay law.
As a result of the media attention, she started deleting her more embarrassing tweets.
In one of the deleted tweets, she wrote, “The Trevor Project is a grooming organization.” She was replying to a Trevor Project tweet that said, “There are safe and anonymous ways to reach out for support.”
“Grooming” is a set of manipulative behaviors sexual predators use to gain access to potential victims, to coerce them to agree to the abuse, and to reduce the risk of getting caught, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. The process usually involves training the victims to keep secrets from adults they trust and desensitizing them to sexual discussions and touching.
According to the Deleted Tweets Archive, Raichik deleted 2,795 tweets this week since the Washington Post published its article about her activism. It’s unclear exactly why she deleted just these tweets – she has published over 6,000 and they’re all fairly offensive – but the Trevor Project one was among them.
Raichik’s account has been temporarily suspended in the past because it violated Twitter’s rules against harassment. Teachers have received death threats after Raichik highlighted them on her account. Raichik herself has bragged that her account has helped several teachers get fired.
“[Libs of TikTok] is playing on fears and misunderstandings of who trans people are, while amping up extreme rhetoric and normalizing portraying queer people as inherently dangerous to children,” the ACLU’s Gillian Branstetter said. “It’s hard to stoke moral panic without main characters, and the role Libs of TikTok is playing is finding those characters.”
The Trevor Project says that over 1.8 million LGBTQ young people seriously consider suicide each year in the U.S.
I did the math and as I said I stink at math. I got over 600+ thousand kids who try to kill themselves. Not think about it but try to do it. . The Trevor project here in this article say that 1.8 seriously think about doing it. So the number that try to kill themselves could rise fast in the current hateful ant-LGBTQ+ attitude being projected in radical right media.
As I recently posted there are 2.64+ million LGBTQ+ kids. One in 4 try to end their lives, some more than once. That is not think about it, 1 in 4 try to actually die. The Trevor Project estimates that at least one LGBTQ youth between the ages of 13–24 attempts suicide every 45 seconds in the U.S. Now math is not my strong suit and last time I got the numbers wrong so let me try dividing the number of kids (2,647,755) divided by 4 = 661,938.75. So 661+ thousand LGBTQ+ kids try to kill themselves. A year! Is that enough? Well not according to the radical right / Republicans. Again remember the entire goal of the rights attack on the LGBTQ+ is to make being one more unacceptable than many think it is now. The goal of the right is to deny acceptance of LGBTQ+ people and kids. The guy who wrote Florida’s don’t say gay bill admitted he couldn’t stand that kids coming out were treated decently in school, that they were not bullied and ostracized. They want LGBTQ+ kids to suffer, and if more die I guess that doesn’t matter to the forced birth misnamed pro-birth crowd. For people that think this is a one off and will go away after the midterms I have four more states in my open news tabs trying to implement these anti-LGBTQ+ laws. One legislator wants to have public book burning to destroy LGBTQ+ positive books in a Christian celebration of gods morals. The right is still waging war for the right to discriminate on serving LGBTQ+ people, waging war on same sex marriage, and same sex adoption, so this is another front in the war.
Photo: ShutterstockConservatives have spent the last couple months calling everyone who disagrees with them a pedophile, and now they’re setting their sights on the Trevor Project, an organization that runs a hotline and other resources to fight LGBTQ youth suicide.
Colin Wright, an editor of the anti-LGBTQ website Quillette, shared a comic from the Trevor Project that explained how teens could erase browser history and escape the site quickly so that they could get help even if they are worried about being outed to their parents.
Wright didn’t seem able to understand how something like this could help young people and instead said that the point of the feature is to “keep parents in the dark.”
Others on the right equated the Trevor Project with pedophilia, implying that an organization reaching out to LGBTQ teens in crisis is the same as a child sex abuser having sexually charged conversations with minors, as if any conversation involving LGBTQ identities is inherently pornographic.
“Why is the Trevor Project encouraging children to keep secrets from their parents?” the far-right organization Moms for Liberty responded to Wright’s tweet.
“Leftwing activists are predatory groomers,” conservative pundit Lauren Chen tweeted. “If you sit around designing and promoting ways to get in touch with kids so you can discuss sexuality and keep it from their parents, you are a groomer.”
“They’re trying to break your children,” said conservative podcaster Jesse Kelly.
The anti-LGBTQ account Libs of TikTok called the Trevor Project a “grooming organization” in a now-deleted tweet.
James Lindsay, the professor who is best known for getting a fake academic paper published in 2017, claimed that it’s “only a matter of time until solid evidence of serious wrongdoing emerges regarding the Trevor Project.”
As many people pointed out, having an “escape” feature is fairly standard for crisis hotlines and web services since the people who turn to crisis hotlines often don’t have support from the people around them.
The CC is good on this one, I checked it as I watched it.
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