Month: July 2022

Lie as litmus test: Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake calls it ‘disqualifying’ for rival not to declare 2020 election ‘stolen’

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/01/politics/fact-check-kari-lake-stolen-election-disqualifying-karrin-taylor-robson/

This is what the Republican party is.   The people running for office representing that party can not understand reality.   They cannot separate fact from fiction and are desperate to please a failed businessman mob boss pretender. Worse is one person said they wouldn’t have certified the election result despite the voters clearly picking Biden over tRump.    Scary.   Hugs

A leading Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, Kari Lake, continues to put lies about the 2020 presidential election at the center of her campaign — this week calling it “disqualifying” and “sickening” for a rival candidate not to say that the election was stolen, though it wasn’t stolen.

Lake’s strong performance in the Republican primary so far means that an aggressively dishonest promoter of conspiracy theories about the 2020 election could potentially have a prominent role in the 2024 presidential election in a key swing state.
 
Lake said at a televised Republican debate on Wednesday that she would not have certified Joe Biden’s victory in Arizona, which was certified by term-limited Republican Gov. Doug Ducey as required by law. Lake, who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, falsely said of Biden: “He lost the election, and he shouldn’t be in the White House.”
 
The Arizona governor’s certification of presidential results “traditionally has been, and should be, uneventful,” Joshua Sellers, an expert on election law and an Arizona State University associate professor of law, said in an email on Friday — a necessary but “perfunctory” act confirming the result of the state’s popular vote. Sellers said “it would be deeply disruptive for a Governor to impede certification based solely on her own views or disappointment about a presidential election result.”
 
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the state’s top elections official, is the overwhelming favorite in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Arizona has elected a Republican governor in three straight elections dating back to 2010. Biden’s 2020 victory in the state was the first for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1996.
 

A barrage of false election claims from Lake

Lake, a former news anchor at a local Fox station, repeatedly and falsely claimed at the Wednesday debate that the 2020 election was “stolen” and “corrupt.”
 
As supposed proof, Lake cited a “forensic audit.” A shambolic Republican-initiated partisan review, described by supporters as an audit but marred by problems, confirmed that Biden beat Trump in Arizona’s most populous county.
 
Lake also defended a right-wing film about the 2020 election that is filled with holes of logic and evidence, even after the debate moderator noted that Trump-appointed former Attorney General William Barr had scoffed at the film. And Lake falsely said that 34,000 Arizona ballots “were counted two, three and four times,” though this simply did not happen. (It wasn’t clear if Lake was referring to a long-circulating false claim about duplicate images of ballot envelopes, which have an entirely benign explanation, or talking about something else.)
 
Lake asked the three other candidates on stage to raise their hands if they agreed that the election was corrupt and stolen. When her top competitor, developer Karrin Taylor Robson, was the only one not to do so — Robson said she wouldn’t participate in Lake’s “stunt” — Lake’s Twitter account called Robson’s refusal “disqualifying.” Lake’s account posted video of the exchange again on Friday, this time calling Robson’s refusal “sickening.”
 
In other words, one leading candidate for a major office is bashing another leading candidate for declining to join her in championing a lie.
 
Lake’s campaign declined to make a substantive comment for this article. When asked for supporting information about Lake’s false claim that ballots were counted up to four times, an adviser replied only by mocking CNN.
 

Robson wouldn’t say whether she would have certified the 2020 election

Robson appears to have gained ground with party voters, narrowing Lake’s lead in recent polls. Robson got a boost this week when the third-place candidate, former congressman Matt Salmon, dropped out and endorsed her.
 
Unlike Lake, who said at the debate that the 2020 election is “the number-one issue” today, Robson has not made the 2020 election a top point of emphasis in this one. And Robson has not gone nearly as far as Lake in disparaging the 2020 election.
 
Robson, though, has also disputed its legitimacy. She said at the debate: “I believe our election was absolutely not fair.”
 
Robson cited supposed media suppression of news damaging to Biden and supposed anti-conservative bias by “big tech,” “liberal judges” having permitted the imposition of new policies shortly before the election (which was held during the Covid-19 pandemic), and Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg having donated a total of hundreds of millions of dollars to local elections offices around the country.
 
Robson did not answer directly when asked if she would have certified Arizona’s 2020 results as governor, saying she “was not privy” to the information Ducey had at the time. She was the only candidate at the debate to unequivocally say she would accept the outcome of this primary.
 
Hobbs campaign manager Nicole DeMont criticized both Lake and Robson for spending time complaining about the 2020 election even though “Arizonans are tired of being made fun of on late-night TV.”
 
“The Trump-endorsed frontrunner Kari Lake has been the biggest proponent of the Big Lie from day one, but now Karrin Taylor Robson is also peddling those conspiracy theories in an effort to catch up in the polls,” DeMont said in an email. She said Hobbs is committed to fighting for policies “Arizonans actually care about” on issues like schools, water and affordability.
 
QAnon Arizona Gov Candidate: It’s “Disqualifying And Sickening” To Say That The 2020 Election Wasn’t Stolen

Lake’s campaign events have featured prominent QAnon nutbags, militia members, and other extremists. She is a former news anchor for Phoenix’s Fox affiliate.

Darreth • 2 hours ago

The GQP can only operate out of the Big Lie now. Once they win back the House this Nov (due to how the MSM is going to frame their meme about it) the GQP will be in 100% retribution mode for the next two years. Their framing/messaging about Hunter Biden will be endless and the MSM will have no choice but to cover their endless framing/messaging about it. Because the MSM will be covering it endlessly, the 2024 election will be a referendum on how Joe is so corrupt and compromised due to his son that the only way out of this ‘mess’ is to vote for conspiracy theorists.

I still don’t get that Dems are aware of how propaganda works.

David Snyder • 2 hours ago

The MAGAs will continue to lurch deeper, and deeper into crazy Candyland in their attempt to hold onto their crackpot base, as more moderate Republicans begin to put distance between themselves and Trump.

As Ohio restricts abortions, 10-year-old girl travels to Indiana for procedure

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/07/01/ohio-girl-10-among-patients-going-indiana-abortion/7788415001/

So it begins.   Females are the only ones required to let another use the resources of their body against their will.    For at least nine months in half the country women will lose all rights to control their own body, including what they wish to eat or drink because of the effect it may have on a fetus.    Hugs

On Monday three days after the Supreme Court issued its groundbreaking decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist, took a call from a colleague, a child abuse doctor in Ohio.

Hours after the Supreme Court action, the Buckeye state had outlawed any abortion after six weeks. Now this doctor had a 10-year-old patient in the office who was six weeks and three days pregnant.

Could Bernard help?

Indiana lawmakers are poised to further restrict or ban abortion in mere weeks. The Indiana General Assembly will convene in a special session July 25 when it will discuss restrictio ns to abortion policy along with inflation relief.

Ohio abortion update:Ohio Supreme Court rejects attempt to immediately block six-week abortion ban

Abortion ban election impact:After Roe v Wade overturned, Ohio Democrats shift message to abortion, GOP to economy

But for now, the procedure still is legal in Indiana. And so the girl soon was on her way to Indiana to Bernard’s care.

Indiana abortion laws unchanged, but effect still felt across state

While Indiana law did not change last week when the Supreme Court issued its groundbreaking Dobbs decision, abortion providers here have felt an effect, experiencing a dramatic increase in the number of patients coming to their clinics from neighboring states with more restrictive policies.

Since Friday, the abortion clinics where Dr. Katie McHugh, an independent obstetrician-gynecologists works have seen “an insane amount of requests” from pregnant people in Kentucky and Ohio, where it is far more difficult to get an abortion. 

A ban on abortions after six weeks took effect on last week in Ohio. Last Friday the two abortion providers in Kentucky shut their doors after that state’s trigger law banning abortions went into effect.

Indiana soon could have similar restrictions.

That pains doctors like Bernard.

“It’s hard to imagine that in just a few short weeks we will have no ability to provide that care,” Bernard said.

What to know about abortion in Ohio: Who can be charged? What about ectopic pregnancy?

For now, Indiana abortion providers have been fielding more calls from neighboring states. Typically about five to eight patients a day might hail from out of state, said McHugh, who works at multiple clinics in central and southern Indiana. Now, the clinics are seeing about 20 such patients a day.

Kentucky patients have been coming to Indiana in higher numbers since earlier this spring when more restrictive laws took effect there, McHugh said.

Indianapolis abortion clinics seeing surge in patients from Ohio, Kentucky

A similar dynamic is at play at Women’s Med, a medical center that performs abortions in Indianapolis that has a sister center in Dayton, Ohio. In the past week, they have doubled the number of patients they treat for a complete procedure, accepting many referrals from their Ohio counterpart.

More than 100 patients in Dayton had to be scheduled at the Indianapolis facility, a representative for Women’s Med, wrote in an email to IndyStar.

Women and pregnant people are “crying, distraught, desperate, thankful and appreciative,” the representative wrote. 

The two centers are working together to route patients to Indianapolis for a termination after a pre-op appointment in Dayton. In recent months, they have also had people from southern states, like Texas, come north for a procedure.

Many patients, particularly from Ohio and Kentucky, are seeking care through Women’s Med while also making multiple appointments in other states so if one state closes down, they will still have some options, the representative wrote.

The center is advising pregnant people with a positive pregnancy test to book an appointment even though prior to the Supreme Court ruling they asked people to wait until their six-week mark to do so.  

For years people have traversed state lines for abortions, particularly if a clinic across the border is closer to their home than the nearest in-state facility. 

In 2021, 465, or about 5.5% of the more than 8,400 abortions performed, were done on out-of-state residents, according to the Indiana Department of Health’s most recent terminated pregnancy report. More than half, 264, lived in Kentucky and 40 in Ohio.

Midwestern residents can also travel to Illinois, where abortion is likely to remain legal even in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling but for many Indiana is closer and until the lawmakers pass any measure to the contrary, abortion will be legal here.

Still, it remains murky what the future holds.

Thursday a lower court ruled that abortions could resume, at least for now, in Kentucky. On Wednesday abortion clinics in Ohio filed suit, saying that state’s new ban was unconstitutional.

In Indiana lawmakers have declined to provide specifics of what measures any abortion legislation considered here might contain.

For now, then, abortion providers are doing their best to accommodate all Hoosier patients as well those from neighboring states.

“We are doing the best we can to increase availability and access as long as we can, knowing that this will be a temporary time frame that we can offer that assistance,” McHugh said.

 

https://www.dispatch.com/videos/news/2022/05/14/abortion-rights-rally/9777136002/
10 Year-Old Rape Victim Denied Abortion In Ohio

Elagabalus • 2 hours ago

Real life consequences do not concern this Supreme Court. They care only about maintaining the purity of their Catholic doctrine, people be damned.

tomcor Ecce Homo • an hour ago

Well some have lied under oath, others have cited obscure medieval judicial philosophy, and another has a wife who worked diligently to overthrow a peaceful transfer of power probably with his help…and it seems for the six rogues the Constitution be damned…yes, I’d say they’re corrupt.

Tomcat Elagabalus • an hour ago

Lets not lay this ALL on catholic doctrine, we lived years with catholic doctrine and allowed abortions. It was after protestants, mainly southern baptist got involved in controlling our government that we arrived here.

Ecce Homo Tomcat • 35 minutes ago • edited

But those two clown groups ride in the very same car, drunk with power, the pedal to the fucking metal, driving backwards into traffic on a one-way freeway. What can’t happen?

JackFknTwist • an hour ago

When Ireland banned abortion we had these same issues.
They led to repeal of the ban and a referendum allowing abortion.
A ban on abortion throws up all kinds of problems and issues.
A ban on abortion is just a doctrinaire piece of religious bullshit by zealots.

Randy Left Brooklyn • 2 hours ago

See? If Indiana doesn’t outlaw abortion, pretty soon all of the 10 year-olds will be showing up for abortions there from everywhere. Why not teach the little sluts to take advantage of the opportunities that life hands them? /s

DevilDog Randy Left Brooklyn • an hour ago • edited

Furthermore, according to various Republicans:
– If she really didn’t want the sex, then her body would have shut down the pregnancy.
– Was she dressed in a provocative manner?
– She should view the pregnancy as a blessing and as God’s will.
– And the latest: if she goes through with the abortion, she is a murderer and should be put to death.

What, me worry? Randy Left Brooklyn • an hour ago

Yeah, those 10 year old girls need to stop seducing their grandfathers! (snark–I am so pissed off about this that I can hardly type.)

Houndentenor • 2 hours ago

We’re going to get a barrage of these stories. Doctors are going to be unwilling to risk their licenses and/or jail time to assist.

Houndentenor cfa • an hour ago

2016 shattered whatever hope I had in my fellow citizens. I think they’ll think “well isn’t that awful” and then go on doing whatever they were doing before. Maybe it will wake up enough to swing an election, but probably not more than just that.

Ecce Homo • an hour ago • edited

Southeast Portico of the Jefferson Memorial:

“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as a civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”
Thomas Jefferson

What, me worry? • an hour ago

Sadly there will be a lot more of these cases, and little girls and young women will DIE. This is what republicans live for–other people’s suffering.

Ohio state representative says she would consider banning birth control following abortion outlaw

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/07/ohio-state-representative-says-she-would-consider-banning-birth-control-following-abortion-outlaw.html

State Rep. Jean Schmidt, a Clermont County Republican, speaks during a session of the Ohio House of Representatives. (Ohio House of Representatives)

State Rep. Jean Schmidt, a Clermont County Republican, speaks during a session of the Ohio House of Representatives. (Ohio House of Representatives)

 State Rep. Jean Schmidt, a Clermont County Republican, said during a radio interview this week that she would entertain a debate about outlawing birth control in the wake of the United States Supreme Court overturning constitutional protections for abortion.

 

Schmidt made the comments during a Wednesday interview with 700WLW’s Bill Cunningham in which she also said companies that provide travel expenses for employees to get abortion care could face legal consequences. Schmidt is the sponsor of a bill in the state legislature that would eliminate abortion from the time of conception, effectively outlawing it in the state.

 
 

“When we get back into session, we’ll probably have one or two more hearings on it and then it will go before our body and the Senate for a concurrent vote,” Schmidt said. “I do believe we have the votes in both chambers, and we have the full support of the governor on this bill.”

 
 

Schmidt, who previously called a pregnancy caused by rape an “opportunity” for women, said there would be no carveout for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.

 
 

“You know, rape and incest is an ugly, ugly, ugly act of violence and that woman is truly harmed and scarred. Those wounds will never go away,” she said. “We need to make sure she has all of the love and help and support. But to end the pregnancy of the child is not going to erase the wounds or those scars. That child still has the right to life.”

 
 

Opponents of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that legalized abortion nationwide, have argued that the same legal principles could be applied to outlaw things like birth control and same-sex marriage, which are not specifically outlined in federal law or the constitution.

 
 

When asked about banning birth control, Schmidt said she would consider it.

 
 

“That’s another issue for another day and I’m going to have to listen to both sides of the debate,” she said. “Right now, what I’m concerned about right now is the life of the child and the fact that we have the opportunity in Ohio to protect it from its conception until its natural death.”

 
 

She gave a similar non-committal response to a question about same-sex marriage, saying it was “another decision for another day.”

 
 

Schmidt also said companies that operate in Ohio that have pledged to provide travel expenses for women who seek abortion care to do so in another state may run afoul of the full abortion ban Republicans plan on passing this fall.

 
 

“If those companies want to do that, they better make sure they are complying with the laws of the states that allow them to do that,” Schmidt said. “Because in House Bill 598, it says anybody that promotes an abortion will be under the issues of criminal activity. They might have a problem with sending somebody outside the state with a paycheck in hand, because that would be, in some legal eyes, promoting abortion.

Ohio GOP State Rep Wants To Outlaw Contraception

Read the full article.

According to Schmidt, rape is an opportunity because “that baby might grow up to cure cancer.

Schmidt appeared on JMG in April when she introduced Ohio’s version of a “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Her first appearance on JMG came in 2009 when as a member of the US House she whispered to a notorious racist anti-Obama birther, “I believe you.”

Peter • 15 hours ago

You know who else might have created the cure for cancer? Yes, those shot to death in mass shootings, stupid c*nt.

I swear they are trying to out moron each other.

What, me worry? Peter • 14 hours ago

And that is such a stupid argument. That fetus could also be the next Hitler.

Librarykid What, me worry? • 43 minutes ago

There are statistics that show that violent crime dropped15 to 20 years after abortions became legal because there were fewer unwanted children born to women who could not take care of them.

This witch needs to find a gingerbread house in a forest.

BeccaM • 14 hours ago • edited

Call these fascist motherfuckers what they really are here: Forced pregnancy advocates.

Do they care about girl’s or women’s health? No. Do they care whether the pregnant person is healthy, safe, and has the necessities of life? No. Do they give a fuck at all about the risks of both pregnancy and the birth process itself? No. Do they care at all about the mother and child after the birth? No. Will they provide any help whatsoever? No. Do they care when it’s a 10-12yo girl whose life is about to be ruined and could very well be lost because she was raped and made pregnant? No. Do they care when it’s an ectopic or fatally defective pregnancy that, if left untreated will almost certainly kill the woman? No. Do they care at all that thousands of girls and women will now be murdered every year by husbands, boyfriends, or even rapists who don’t want to be fathers? No. Do they care at all that the majority of abortions are actually received by women who are already mothers and just know they’re not in a position to have more children and/or could lose their lives with more pregnancies? No.

Is the goal to turn girls and women permanently into second-class citizens in America, impoverished and dependent, with no choices or real freedom to choose how their lives will go? Absolutely.

David Gervais BeccaM • 14 hours ago

As usual, the woman who wants to keep women barefoot, pregnant, uneducated, unemployable, impoverished, under the subjugation of men has a job, has self determination, is not subject to control by men, can make her own health decisions, She is the perfect example of “I’ve got mine, screw the rest of you.”. In other words, another Republican’t Qunt.

gyges BeccaM • 12 hours ago

They do not care about women’s lives. Partial miscarriages are to be retained even when the amniotic membrane is ruptured. As long as there is cardiac activity, the fetus cannot be expelled by induced labor or D&C. Only after the mother shows signs of sepsis can these procedures happen even though there’s never gonna be a normal birth. And the mother has to get a septic pregnancy before anyone will do anything even though sepsis is inevitable and live birth impossible.

And the people making the laws know NOTHING. There are laws that require attempting to reimplant an ectopic pregnancy even though such a thing is impossible. “Ectopic” means embyronic membranes have already developed and attached outside the uterus. The embryo is beyond the stage when it can make membranes. It cannot be turned back in time to make new membranes or any kind of normal placenta. it’s already reaching out to make an abnormal placenta that will never happen. This is what creates the symptoms of ectopic pregnancy. An embryo is trying to do it’s thing where the thing is impossible. It cannot redo the thing

SophieCT gyges • 2 hours ago

It’s evil and primitive that people who know nothing about women’s physiology are writing laws governing women’s physiology.
I just read about a 10 year-old in Ohio who missed their Sicko Imposed deadline. A raped child, FFS. She was brought to Indiana to take care of it, but Indiana isn’t going to be an option for long. The point is, it never should even have come to this.

Houndentenor BeccaM • 12 hours ago

Are they going to double pay so families can live on one income? A lot of women work who’d rather be home at least until their children are a little older but they can’t afford it. (Some have a relative who can provide child care so they don’t have to pay for that.) I’m in favor of choice but it’s bullshit to talk about choice when people don’t have the means to access all options.

JCF BeccaM • 13 hours ago

But I can’t believe they’d really do (force) this on their own daughters and granddaughters. Forced birth (maternal mortality, a plus!) is “For The %^%#% Others. THEM!”

David Gervais JCF • 13 hours ago

Forced birth for ‘those people’. For wealthy, connected Republican’ts, nothing will change for their daughters and granddaughters.

The objective is to create more poor people to be the underclass that serves them and makes them even richer.

The Reich Wing has been degrading civil society to benefit themselves for at least 70 years.

Franciscan Bruno • 7 hours ago

Practically speaking, a Supreme Court decision outlawing contaception would be thwarted by 75 percent of the populace. It would have no more weight than the words of the retrogressive American archbishops.

Houndentenor Bruno • 13 hours ago

I don’t think overturning Griswold (sending it back to the states) would have that much impact on access to most forms of birth control. We should be more concerned that they overturn Griswold and rule that Americans have no expectation of privacy or any right to it.

Archbishop: COVID Is Fake, It’s Time For A Revolution

Archbishop: COVID Is Fake, It’s Time For A Revolution

People wonder why so many religious people were so willingly misinformed.   Now we have a good idea why.   The stupidity is a the highest levels of these religions.  There was a time when the Catholic church was proud of their scientific knowledge.  That time seems to have passes.  Hugs

Far-right Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has done an interview with Steve Bannon’s War Room website and it’s a doozy. An excerpt:

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is nothing but a seasonal flu that could have been cured with existing treatments and effective prevention based on strengthening immune defenses. The prohibition of treatment, the discrediting of the effectiveness of drugs that have been in use for decades and the imposition of an experimental gene treatment that has been demonstrated not only to be ineffective but also harmful and often fatal – all this confirms for us that the pandemic has been planned and managed with the purpose of creating the greatest damage possible.

This is a fact that has been established and confirmed by the official data, despite the systematic falsification of that same data. In short, we are governed by a high command of usurers and speculators, from Bill Gates who invests in large farms right on the eve of the food emergency or in vaccines just before the outbreak of the pandemic, to George Soros, who speculates on the fluctuations of currencies and government bonds and along with Hunter Biden finances a bio-laboratory in Ukraine.

Disobedience sins by falling short, not wanting to submit to a good order of a legitimate authority; servility on the other hand sins by excess, submitting to unfair orders or orders given by an illegitimate authority. The good citizen should know how to disobey civil authority, and the good Catholic how to do the same with ecclesiastical authority, disobeying whenever the authority demands obedience to an iniquitous order.

Vigano goes on to attack the usual far-right targets such as the World Economic Forum, NATO, the Davos Forum, the European Union, etc.

He also approvingly cites the racist “Great Reset” claim about immigrants diluting the populations of white-majority countries.

Vigano last appeared on JMG when he denounced the West for opposing Putin’s attack on the “Nazis” in Ukraine.

In May 2021, he appeared here when he claimed that COVID vaccines are designed to “contact-trace” humans with a “quantum link of pulsed frequencies.”

Before that, we heard from him when he accused the Vatican of being in the clutches of a “gay lobby” that seeks to create a “global dictatorship” within the church.

Vigano, you may recall, was shitcanned as Vatican envoy to the United States in 2016 after he sprung anti-gay Kentucky clerk Kim Davis on Pope Francis for a photo op during a visit to Washington DC.

Vigano and the Liberty Counsel, who helped engineer the stunt, laughably claimed that the Pope had requested an audience with Davis.

His Wikipedia entry goes on for several thousand words about his long history of batshittery.

 

Sister_Bertrille • a day ago • edited

When I want medical information, I go right to a religion that treats mental illness and epilepsy with exorcisms.

Call me Ishmael Sister_Bertrille • a day ago

No one ever got into an ambulance and said, “Take me to church!”.

zhera • a day ago

But he’s still an arch-bishop. What does it take to get the boot from the Vatican? Stealing from the church?

Joe in NM • a day ago

This is a fact that has been established and confirmed by the official data

….

They ALWAYS say shit like this. So authoritative. Can’t back it up, but it sounds good to the rubes.

Proud Boys Attack California Drag Show

Proud Boys Attack California Drag Show [VIDEO]

And it happened again.   It is now clear that these groups are searching for drag events, which are totally legal and then attacking them shutting the down.   And again the police stood by and let it happen.   Thanks Republicans, the party of law and order, for returning the US to a time when marginalized groups can be targeted and harmed.   Hugs

Sacramento’s NBC News affiliate reports:

A drag show at a Woodland bar celebrating the end of Pride month was disrupted Thursday night after a group showed up yelling homophobic slurs and threatening safety.

The owner of Mojo’s Lounge and Bar had canceled the event earlier in the evening due to safety concerns. Threats toward the venue and performers scheduled to be at the event had been circulating on social media for several weeks after details were picked up by a hateful group on social media, according to the owner.

As the group yelled hateful language, patrons waited as police surrounded the bar.  At some point, someone deployed pepper spray. Thursday night investigators are still working to figure out where it came from.

Read the full article. No arrests were made.

 

Brian Green • 19 hours ago

In 1981 I was in a gay bar in a small red-neck California town- shouldn’t have been there as I was underage – but there I was. A group of straight guys came into the bar
and started to stir up shit. Me being pretty much a kid, I was terrified.

Then something happened that has stayed with me ever since. We followed in the footsteps of our elders at Stonewall and fought back. There really was nothing left to do but that…. those assholes got chased out of the bar and many blocks down the street , getting beat with fists and pool cue sticks.

I don’t like to have to say it, but I think it’s time we as a community go back to when we were willing to physically fight if need be. Having come so far, it’s horrible to have to take so many steps back, but that’s the reality of today.

I’m not prescient, but you don’t need to be to realize things are about to get a lot worse again before they get better.

Archipelagos Brian Green • 18 hours ago

“I’m not prescient, but you don’t need to be to realize things are about to get a lot worse again before they get better.”

I agree. The Proud Boys are just the loudest but there are many, many more groups just like them. And every time a Republican politician spouts anti-LGBT+ rhetoric they get emboldened. Everything that Proud Boy said was taken straight from the GOP’s rising ‘stars’ of politicians.

If QMaga gets into power, groups like The Proud Boys will only get stronger. And if nothing is done about it they will, eventually, be given official political legitimacy. Queer folk are criminalized and hunted down across the Middle East, Russia, Poland, in countries across Africa and elsewhere.

Do not think for a second it can’t happen in the US.

David Gervais Just a guy • 18 hours ago

I don’t know your age, however you might not be old enough to remember the advance and decline of progress over the course of the last century. There are definitely objective indicators that we are entering a period when civil society is under attack, not just for us but also the other usual targets.

Timbo David Gervais • 16 hours ago

There was a major advance of gay acceptance in Germany just prior to the Nazi rise.

David Gervais Timbo • 15 hours ago

You’re right. Almost exactly 100 years ago and again in the 1980s there was dramatic improvement in personal freedoms. We are now at the next stage where bigotry becomes more prevalent.

The Reich Wing in US, UK, CAN, FRANCE is following the same script as the last time Fascism reared up. The parallels with the Nazis (and others) is very clear. Then, as now, one of the first targets was LGBT culture and people while amplifying existing religious intolerance.

This time we have the advantage of knowing the history of Fascism and can oppose it, if we remain aware.

Ecce Homo Just a guy • 18 hours ago • edited

Wake up. We must not ever again give way to their efforts to marginalize us.

WaveMotionGum Just a guy • 17 hours ago

Proud Boys was launched in 2016 and has only gotten more brazen with their violent confrontations. They are modern day brown shirts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Octoberfurst Eric • 18 hours ago

Well they aren’t unarmed black men so the cops won’t do anything. But even I was surprised at how gentle the police were with those scumbags. They didn’t try to grab them or anything. It was just “Hey stay away from that door” without moving in to stop him from banging on it. Face it, the cops love the Proud Boys.

Atman, Schopenhauer’s Poodle April Smith • 19 hours ago

And why isn’t the FBI arresting arresting them? This is clearly domestic terrorism.

TedD Atman, Schopenhauer’s Poodle • 19 hours ago

Because the US doesn’t have federal laws against domestic terrorism, despite domestic terrorism being the main terrorism here in the States.

Randy Atman, Schopenhauer’s Poodle • 19 hours ago

Because the proud boys are off-duty & former cops.

WaveMotionGum April Smith • 18 hours ago

Modern day brown shirts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Buford • 20 hours ago

…after a group showed up yelling homophobic slurs and threatening safety.

You know… to protect the kids from bad influences.

Grimes Buford • 20 hours ago

This! Let’s tell obscenities and threaten violence because that’ll make kids agree with us!

It’s the xstain way.

Texas Educators Move To Redefine The Term ‘Slavery’

A group of Texas educators is proposing that the term “slavery” be redefined to mean “involuntary relocation” to the Texas Board of Education. Cenk Uygur, Jayar Jackson, and Caroline Johnson discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live

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“Public schools in Texas would describe slavery to second graders as “involuntary relocation” under new social studies standards proposed to the state’s education board.

A group of nine educators submitted the idea to the State Board of Education as part of Texas’ efforts to develop new social studies curriculum, according to the Texas Tribune. The once-a-decade process updates what children learn in the state’s nearly 8,900 public schools.

The board is considering curriculum changes one year after Texas passed a law to eliminate topics from schools that make students “feel discomfort.” Board member Aicha Davis, a Democrat who represents Dallas and Fort Worth, raised concerns during a June 15 meeting that the term wasn’t a fair representation of the slave trade.

The board sent the draft back for revision, urging the educator group to “carefully examine the language used to describe events.” “I can’t say what their intention was, but that’s not going to be acceptable,” Davis told The Texas Tribune on Thursday.” *

Texas Attorney General Supports Banning Sodomy Statewide

In an interview, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton voiced his support for the outlawing of sodomy in their state. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET.
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“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he’s willing to defend Texas’ law banning “sodomy” which was overturned by the landmark Lawrence v. Texas case if the Supreme Court rules that the states should be able to regulate issues such as sex, birth control, and same-sex marriage.

After the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health overturned the landmark Roe decision, ending the national right to an abortion, Paxton ordered his office closed for a holiday “as a memorial to the millions of lives lost due to abortion.”

Paxton is also a virulently anti-gay politician who provided the legal underpinning for Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order to investigate parents of transgender children for child abuse, and taken the city of Houston to court over benefits for same-sex couples.”*

Florida Now Attacking LGBT Teachers Following Don’t Say Gay Bill Passage

In Orange County, Florida, the school district has pushed restrictions on LGBT teachers, preventing them from displaying pictures of their spouses, wearing rainbow articles of clothing, or discussing their lifestyle with students. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.

Read more HERE: https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/st…

“WOW: Gay teachers in Orange County, Florida must remove all photos of their spouses from their classrooms following the passage of the Don’t Say Gay law. All rainbow items of clothing or other memorabilia are banned.”

NBC NEWS: 11 people are registered to vote at an old farm in Loving County, Texas. But the sheriff says no one lives there.

11 people are registered to vote at an old farm in Loving County, Texas. But the sheriff says no one lives there.
Eleven people are registered to vote at an old farm in Loving County, Texas. But the sheriff says no one lives there.

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NO ONE Is Safe From The Wrath Of Religious Republican Zealots

Fox News host Sean Hannity interviewed Michigan Rep. Tim Walberg regarding his state’s stance on abortion laws in the aftermath of the Supreme court overturning Roe v. Wade. While Hannity seemed absolutely certain that state would never ban the procedure even though Michigan imposed a trigger law in 1931 that banned abortions and curbed reproductive rights, exposing the right wing’s plan to ban abortion at the federal level.

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“SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Hey, congressman, they’re also lying to everybody —

TIM WALBERG (R-MI): Yeah.

HANNITY: — Because abortion is not illegal. It’s not going to be illegal in your state of Michigan. I’d bet my last dollar that’s not gonna be the case. Am I wrong?

WALBERG: No, it is illegal in the state right now. In 1931, Michigan passed one of the first anti-abortion laws. It says that there is no abortion —

HANNITY: So, they have to have a trigger provision, but wouldn’t you expect with Governor Whitmer and the legislature as it’s currently configured, what do you expect that the likelihood of them changing that is going to be pretty swift?

WALBERG: Well, they’re gonna take action and, in fact, our attorney general, our lawless attorney general like Merrick Garland, is saying she will not enforce the law if Roe v Wade goes away. That’s the challenge we have, but we’re gonna fight it in the legislature. We have a pro-life legislature in the House and the Senate in Michigan. They have to get through that legislature if they’re gonna do it constitutionally, and we will battle back. But again Sean, that’s where —”