Facebook served warrant and forced to turn over chat messages between mother and daughter in Nebraska abortion case. So much for the right to privacy when it comes to pregnant people, am I right? Make no mistake, the “Party of Freedom” only wants freedom for white cisgender christian men with wealth. The modern conservative right is nothing but grotesque, power hungry, cowards who are afraid of everyone and everything that doesn’t believe and look exactly like they do. They make laws to oppress everyone while protecting themselves, which is exactly what Dobbs v Jackson is about – protecting white men in the workforce because these mediocre assholes can’t succeed without a boot on someone’s neck.
the marked difference between a progressive and a conservative
Grace Christian School in Valrico, FL has asked all LBGTQ students to leave immediately. This is probably not what Jesus would do. pic.twitter.com/qBg5k7WVGb
The moon is in the North Pole, where the day lasts 24 hours and the moon appears in only 30 seconds completely and blocks the sun for only 5 seconds and then disappears, a breathtaking view. pic.twitter.com/kJjkEzAeaq
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After the Justice Department (DoJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued and acted on a search warrant at former Republican President Donald Trump’s Florida home and paid membership resort Mar-a-Lago, much has been written about what the federal law enforcement agency was looking for and what Trump might have done.
But perhaps the DoJ just isn’t using the right approach with Trump. California Kindergarten teacher Arielle Fodor—Mrs.Frazzled on TikTok—may have cracked the code.
Speak to Trump about the FBI raid like he was a 5-year-old.
The video went viral, racking up over 845k views on TikTok alone before jumping to other social media platforms.
When John Bolton says on Newsmax that we are safer under Biden then we would have been under Trump, the host loses his mind and they have an epic battle. I know people hate Bolton, but this is fantastic – he debunks every fake narrative they created about his foreign policy. pic.twitter.com/GdSr6pcfdv
Conservatives get offended when "obscene language" is used, like when Beto O'Rourke dropped an F bomb on a heckler while he discussed the Uvalde shooting.
Let’s be clear about what he is doing. Everything that has our hair standing on end are trial balloons and if he can get away with them uncontested he will do the exact and worse if allowed in WH. He is #45 on steroids
Just replace the word “woke” with “black people/women/immigrants/LGBT people/Jews” and you can hear what DeSantis is actually saying. This guy needs to be defeated in November. pic.twitter.com/tYPDmqPCGE
The villages are a republican maga stronghold. They tend to have more retirement money than most maga thugs, but they are just as rabid, vocal, and feel even more entitled than the lower income magas. DeathSantis holds rallies and events there and made sure that they had the first shot for the Covid vaccines he supported for wealthy republicans but publicly tried to deny for lower incomes. Remember that a black woman in Texas voted with a provisional ballot because she was told she was able to vote but was unsure. Her ballot was not counted. She got sentenced to 5 years in prison even after the court was shown she received a letter telling her she had her right to vote returned. But there is no such thing as white privilege is there. Hugs
A third resident of The Villages has admitted to voting twice during the 2020 election, court records show.
Joan Halstead, 73, entered a pretrial intervention program Wednesday that will allow her to avoid potential prison time if she successfully completes court-ordered requirements such as performing community service and attending a civics class.
Halstead acknowledged her guilt as part of her agreement with prosecutors. Two other residents of The Villages accused of voting twice, Charles Barnes and Jay Ketcik, signed similar pretrial intervention contracts earlier this year.
Hope Gov DeSantis Gets His Election Integrity Unit Over To The Villages: 3rd resident of The Villages admits to voting twice in the 2020 election https://t.co/KvNxx5IUpP
VILLAGES VOTER FRAUD: A third resident of the highly-conservative retirement community has admitted to voting twice during the 2020 election, court records show. https://t.co/AzsKBFvuqU
Fake candidates funded by FPL to hurt Democratic candidates, Trump supporters from The Villages in Florida casting multiple ballots — @GovRonDeSantis should investigate THIS, not make it more difficult to vote & promote election disinformation.https://t.co/Lnx4IWqQTu
There is a reason that anti-trans people like Tildeb ignore the accepted US mainstream medical best practices that support supportive trans care and instead use misinformation from the UK is the UK has a lot of highly influential vocal maga type trans haters that have managed to force the government to change polices and have attacked trans health issues in court. They use misinformation, right wing media pushed lies, debunked science, and incorrect / incomplete fake studies. This article lays out the full information. I found this paragraph especally informatiove as I have heard these very things put in the comments of my posts. Hugs
The report found many actors “share a zerosum conception of rights” even though many seem to have “very different” or “even radically opposing” political agendas in many respects. This conception included the predominant belief “for one community’s rights to be respected and protected, another community must be excluded from rights protections”.
Right-wing figures are the “most influential group” mobilising the anti-trans movement, even without factoring in their “tremendous power to set the media agenda”. (Belinda Jiao/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty)
Right-wing figures are among the “most influential” groups pushing anti-trans agendas in the UK media, according to an eye-opening report.
The report, published by Global Action for Trans Equality (GATE), mapped how the anti-trans movement is mobilising the UK.
GATE said the report, part of the advocacy organisation’s broader mapping project, focused on the UK as one of the “global hotspots” where anti-trans movements have “enjoyed increased efficacy in the past few years”.
The project mapped 368 anti-trans and linked actors in the UK and internationally, including figures in the right-leaning media, UK religious right, US religious and neo-conservative right, trans-exclusionary feminists/LGB actors, and the alt/far-right.
These people were linked to campaigning groups, individuals, publishers, media organisations, commentators, authors, publications, political parties and groups, social media platforms and more.
The report analysed the 1,036 relationships between these figures and how they interacted with each other. Their relationships could be through activities such as employment, campaigning, interviews and panels, or co-authorship and collaborating in legal funds.
The report found anti-trans movements in the UK have become “significantly larger, more visible and more effective” since 2015/2016 to the present day. GATE said the organisation saw a “dramatic increase in anti-trans content and activity in UK media and politics” starting in 2015.
A report by Global Action for Trans Equality highlighted how the UK is one of the “global hotspots” where anti-trans sentiment has grown in recent years. (Belinda Jiao/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty)
It found there is an “important driving role played by right-wing groups” and that the actors in these groups “interlink with much of the UK media, commentariat, wider political class and traditional conservative groups”. They were also linked with “parts of the left-leaning media and political class”.
GATE saw there had been a “marked rise in anti-gender mobilisations” that coincided with efforts by trans and broader LGBTQ+ campaigners pushing for legal and policy reform. Notably, this included efforts to “prioritise advocacy around legal gender recognition” from 2015.
At the same time, GATE saw there was “rising influence and activities” within the right/media on trans rights and related issues in the UK.
People in these groups constituted a “large coalition of the right/media” that is the “most influential” block in the mapping of how the anti-trans movement has mobilised across the UK.
“This group is closely enmeshed with (and also constituted by) key conservative and centrist media, and a smaller range of left-wing media,” the report said. “[This group] is the most populous group on the map and has the highest density of social relations.”
The report continued: “They are by far the most influential group, even without factoring in their tremendous power to set the media agenda, reach audiences, and influence policy and legal change. Indeed, many of these actors actually are media, government, and wider policy-makers (eg key UK think tanks, NGOs, and foundations linked to policymaking).
“The vast majority of these actors were not producing content about trans issues prior to 2015.”
The report found many actors “share a zerosum conception of rights” even though many seem to have “very different” or “even radically opposing” political agendas in many respects. This conception included the predominant belief “for one community’s rights to be respected and protected, another community must be excluded from rights protections”.
The report found anti-trans mobilisations directly target the trans community and others, sending them into “often bruising battles”. (Getty/Hollie Adams)
GATE found all groups in the mapping were “generally, anti-intersectional” and “critical of younger social movements”. The report concluded many actors believe they are “true victims” of an “excessively liberal new status quo”.
“In this and other cases, we can also see that anti-gender mobilisations directly attack target communities – sending marginalised communities into localised, often bruising battles, and away from a focus on broader drivers and conditions for change,” the research found.
It added: “Indeed, oftentimes, anti-gender frames invoke a fearful, austere, and limiting world in which, apparently, rights are in short supply, dangerous characters and coercive industries lurk in the shadows, and ‘our’ most basic freedoms are under attack on all sides.”
GATE concluded few people benefit from “this way of understanding politics, society, culture and economics”. As such, the organisation said it “amounts to a race to the bottom”, which “places a wide range of rights at risk”.
The mapping highlighted an incentive for trans and allied groups to look beyond the current “limiting line of sight” and the “negative focus and effects of backlash” to potential new alliances.
The report also said a need to develop campaigning approaches which can “de-centre, disrupt” and speak past the “core messages of anti-gender actors” – which rely “strongly on fear based messaging and anger-based mobilisation”.
“This could include alternative agenda (and role) setting and framing approaches, considering a focus on hope-based communications, material needs of trans communities, and the importance of collaboration and solidarity,” GATE said.
Trans and allied groups should address the fearmongering and disinformation through “supporting fact-checking resources, effective rebuttal and improved standards” among reporters.
I keep posting on this subject of school officials outing kids for a reason. First this is not being pushed by teachers but instead by administrators, district level people, and school boards. All people that do not have daily contact with the students / kids and don’t know which ones have rough home lives or parents who would react badly to the news. The ones pushing this are really acting on misinformation and bigotry. This is going to get kids hurt and harmed. Some parents will throw the young kids out of the house, force some of them to live like hermits with no friends or social support, force some into conversion therapy which is simply torture to force a person to act differently because sexual orientation and gender identity cannot be changed even by torture. Or get the kids killed either by making them a target or by suicide. Look just a few years ago there was a college student who killed himself because his roommate recorded him having sex with another man and the gay student was terrified his parents and others would find out he was gay. Simple fact is if a kid who lives with these parents / people don’t think it is safe for them to come out to them, they are in the best position to know. It is a matter of personal rights that people should only come out to live openly as they feel comfortable doing. This mandatory reporting of an out kids to parents also destroys the students trust of their teachers and also denies the student resources they need to understand themselves and their world. Remember these laws that are implemented by maga republican governors also remove any books with information or characters that are LGBTQ+. It is plunging the LGBTQ+ back into the black hole void of the 1950s. Hugs
One teacher told her students not to come out to her: “I don’t want to come home every night and know that I may have contributed to one of my students being harmed.”
A June 12, 2022 protest of Don’t Say Gay law in New York City.Photo: Shutterstock
The Sarasota County School district adopted a new policy in the wake of the Don’t Say Gay law that requires teachers to out students to their parents if they identify as LGBTQ and to seek parental permission to refer to transgender students with the correct name or pronouns.
The new policy says: “If a student tells us that (they) are gay/gender questioning/trans, etc parent must be notified.”
A screenshot of a flow chart that illustrates the process a student must follow to be referred to with the correct name and pronouns was leaked to WUSF. It shows that a teacher must contact administration if a student asks the teacher to refer to them with a certain name or pronouns.
The administration will then contact the student’s parents to get consent for referring to the student correctly. If the parents don’t give consent, staff must deadname and misgender the student. If they do give consent, they have to meet with school administration to develop and sign a “gender support plan.”
School board member Bridget Ziegler, who supports the policy change, compared outing LGBTQ kids to informing parents that their child has been suspended.
“What if a child was saying, ‘Hey, my parents are really strict, I’m afraid to tell them that I got a suspension.’ Why is it different? It’s not,” she told the Herald-Tribune.
One teacher said that the plan changes how she interacts with students.
“I have several kids that are transgender that have preferred names,” said Gail Foreman of Booker High School. “And you know, we had to tell them, if you want to use your preferred name, I have got to call guidance, and they’re going to get a hold of your parents, and then your parents are going to meet with guidance. So guys, don’t say anything to me, if you’re not out at home.”
Foreman said that she doesn’t want to have to out students at all to their parents because of potential child abuse and suicide.
“If they get ahold of the parent, the parent comes into school, we believe everything’s all hunky dory, and that kid goes home,” she explained. “And then we get a call that the kid’s committed suicide, that kid’s in the hospital because the parent beat the snot out of them. I don’t want to come home every night and know that I may have contributed to one of my students being harmed.”
Derek Reich teaches history at Sarasota High School and said that the district told him he’s not even allowed to call students by nicknames without parental permission.
“This last week, our school district told us that look, Jonathan, whose government name is Jonathan, if you want to call him anything else — like his friends call him John, his parents call him John. If you want to call him by his nickname, John, you have to get a permission slip for him to call any student that wants to be called by something other than their official name on their birth certificate,” he said.
“So there are so many minor things that teachers are concerned about. If I can’t call Jonathan ‘John,’ when everyone in his family does without getting a permission slip signed, that’s a really difficult place to be as a teacher,” Reich added.
The Don’t Say Gay law was passed earlier this year and bans discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in younger grades and requires such discussions to be “developmentally appropriate” in older grades. The law has been criticized for being vague – instead of defining those terms, it simply allows parents to sue school districts if they feel that the law has been violated.
The law also prohibits schools from withholding certain information from parents.
Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf has signed an executive order on Tuesday directing state agencies to ensure that no taxpayer money goes toward the harmful practice known as conversion therapy. The order represents a significant step toward protecting LGBTQ+ youth from the practice.
“Conversion therapy is a traumatic practice based on junk science that actively harms the people it supposedly seeks to treat,” Wolf said in a statement. “This discriminatory practice is widely rejected by medical and scientific professionals and has been proven to lead to worse mental health outcomes for LGBTQIA+ youth subjected to it. This is about keeping our children safe from bullying and extreme practices that harm them.”
Wolf’s orders do not constitute a full ban on conversion therapy, but rather ensures the state does not support the practice. Local politics blog Billy Penn pointed out that many towns and counties do, however, ban conversion therapy at the local level, meaning that whether or not the practice is legal depends on where in Pennsylvania you are located.
The order directs all state agencies to protect state residents from conversion therapy, also misleadingly called “reparative therapy,” and to make sure no state funds are used to provide or reimburse agencies for conversion therapy. Wolf also directed the state government to investigate any reports of conversion therapy being paid for by state dollars and encourages the Department of State to tell people how to report licensed professionals that cause harm to LGBTQ+ people through conversion therapy.
The move makes Pennsylvania the 26th state to either fully or partially ban conversion therapy, according to the Movement Advancement Project. Twenty states and Washington, D.C. completely ban the harmful practice. Other countries have weighed whether to ban reparative therapy, with Canada banning it nationwide in December and the U.K. failing to ban it in April. Congress introduced a bill to ban conversion therapy in 2021, but the bill went nowhere. Meanwhile, this has been a banner year for anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in state legislatures across the country, including Florida’s notorious “Don’t Say Gay” law, as well as bills banning gender-affirming therapy in Texas and Alabama.
According to a study earlier this year from LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization The Trevor Project, 13% of LGBTQ+ youth report being subjected to conversion therapy, with 83% of those who underwent the harmful process being under the age of 18.
“Conversion therapy is causing horrific consequences for the mental health and well-being of a generation of young LGBTQIA+ individuals,” Wolf said. “But there is something very simple that we can all do to help. We can stand up and tell LGBTQIA+ youth that we hear them and we accept them exactly as they are.”
Mathew Shurka, a conversion therapy survivor and co-founder of Born Perfect, an organization aimed at ending the practice nationwide, called Wolf’s action a “critical step” in protecting LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians. “LGBTQ kids and their families are targeted by so-called therapists causing lifelong harm,” Shurka said in a statement to NBC News. “This executive order demonstrates that our political offices have the power to protect our youth and it is their responsibility to do so.”
A June 12, 2022 protest of Don’t Say Gay law in New York City.Photo: Shutterstock
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