Newly declassified intelligence has confirmed that Donald Trump tweeted out a classified photo from a spy satellite while he was serving as President. The intelligence community at the time of the tweet was absolutely floored that the President would do this, as it risked exposing our capabilities and operations. Farron Cousins explains what this new information means.
But the right wing media and the maga crowd are horrified over Hillary’s emails. The right loves to claim that trump never mishandled security or confidential information, but we know he was so loss with it he told the Russian ambassador and spy chief about highly classified spys / information shortly after becomeing president. Hugs
This is what the right wing / republicans in office want to do here. They are already doing it in schools by banning any positive mention of the LGBTQI+ while they continue to spew lies and misinformation. They are already doing this by trying to ban drag queens or making them a sexual orientated business. Hugs
Russian parliament passes law banning ‘LGBT propaganda’ among adults
People take part in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community rally “VIII St.Petersburg Pride” in St. Petersburg, Russia August 12, 2017. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/File Photo
MOSCOW, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Russia’s parliament approved on Thursday a bill that widens a prohibition of “LGBT propaganda” and restricts the “demonstration” of LGBT behaviour, making any expression of an LGBT lifestyle almost impossible.
Under the new law, which still needs the approval of the upper house of parliament and President Vladimir Putin, any action or information that is considered an attempt to promote homosexuality – whether in public, online, or in films, books or advertising – could incur a heavy fine.
Previously, the law had outlawed only promotion of LGBT lifestyles aimed at children. The new bill also bans the “demonstration” of LGBT behaviour to children.
Lawmakers say they are defending traditional values of the “Russian world” against a liberal West they say is determined to destroy them – an argument also increasingly being used by officials as one of the justifications for Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine.
Authorities have already used the existing law to stop gay pride marches and detain gay rights activists. Rights groups say the new law is intended to drive so-called “non-traditional” LGBT lifestyles practised by lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people out of public life altogether.
‘HYBRID WARFARE’
“LGBT today is an element of hybrid warfare and in this hybrid warfare we must protect our values, our society and our children,” Alexander Khinstein, one of the bill’s architects, said last month.
Legal experts said the vagueness of the bill’s language gives room for law enforcers to interpret them as broadly as they wish, leaving members of the LGBT community in a state of even greater uncertainty.
Kseniya Mikhailova of the LGBT support group Vykhod (“Coming Out”) said adults-only gay bars or clubs would probably still be allowed to function, although perhaps not to advertise, but that same-sex kissing in public might be taken as an infraction.
And she said same-sex couples would begin to fear that their children might be taken from them on the grounds that they were having an LGBT lifestyle demonstrated to them.
The law stipulates fines of up to 400,000 roubles ($6,600) for individuals and up to 5 million roubles ($82,100) for legal entities. Foreigners could face 15 days of arrest and subsequent expulsion.
Mikhailova said the original ban nine years ago on LGBT “propaganda” towards minors had triggered a wave of attacks on the LGBT community, and that it could now expect a “tsunami” because the amendment in effect “says the state is not against violence towards LGBT people”.
Political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann said the law aimed to prohibit anything that showed LGBT relations or inclinations to be “socially acceptable” or “equal to so-called traditional family relations or sexual relations”.
“People – authors, publishers, just people – will think twice before even mentioning anything related to LGBT,” she said in an interview from Cologne, Germany.
Schulmann said the bill was also a “huge win” for the communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, which had already “assumed the powers of a political police” and now had the authority and responsibility to monitor all kinds of information in search of LGBT propaganda.
The video-sharing app TikTok was fined 3 million roubles last month for promoting “videos with LGBT themes”, while Russia’s media regulator asked publishing houses to look at withdrawing all books containing “LGBT propaganda” from sale.
After the Colorado Springs attack, LGBTQ people are furious at the rhetoric targeting them
Colorado Springs locals and national activists said rising anti-LGBTQ rhetoric made the shooting at Club Q feel horribly predictable.
Notice Russia is not attacking military targets. This is terrorism, it is targeting civilians and infrastructure needed to survive to get what they cannot achieve fighting the Ukraine army. They want to make the people so scared and desperate that they will just give in and give Russia what it wants. This is about a bully making the victim suffer. My gods how can the world just let this continue when we can stop it. Think of what it is like in the US snow belt when the power goes out? This is what is going to happen in Ukraine all over the country. Think about when there is no running water. That is what is happening in Ukraine due to Russia. Russia is losing the war, so they want to make the Ukrainian people so miserable and frightened that they will negotiate giving Russia parts of their country. We have the tech to stop this, we have the tools. We need to move in and stop these missiles. But even more we have tied Ukraine’s hands, we have given weapons and support only as long as they don’t attack inside Russia. Yet Russia can attack inside Ukraine. So Ukraine cannot fight back, cannot make Russia suffer as Russia is doing to Ukraine. It means that while Russia gets to do anything it wants to hurt Ukrainians we are preventing Ukraine from hurting Russia back. Damn one sided if you ask me. Hugs
Russia launched 70 missiles at Ukraine in its latest “large-scale attack on crucial infrastructure facilities,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces said on Telegram. Fifty-one of the 70 missiles were intercepted, as well as five attack drones, the military’s statement read.
The official booking photo of Anderson Lee Aldrich was released by the Colorado Springs Police Department on Wednesday afternoon. The newly released photo shows Aldrich with multiple marks from the beating he took after being subdued by two patrons of the club.
Richard Fierro, 45, has been hailed as a hero after he says he reacted on instinct to help subdue the suspect.
Fierro said he smelled the acrid tang in the air, saw the muzzle flash of a firearm being discharged, and dove for cover, taking his closest buddy with him. When he saw his chance to tackle the shooter, he took it. Bystander Thomas James also helped subdue the shooter.
The Colorado shooter’s dad on finding out his son murdered people: “They started telling me about the incident, a shooting… And then I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I got scared, ‘Shit, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew… I am a conservative Republican.” (@CBS8) pic.twitter.com/7Zw4vpLtjE
The Colorado shooter’s dad: “I praised him for violent behavior really early. I told him it works… You’ll get immediate results.”
He then went on to praise the Colorado shooter’s grandpa, a MAGA Republican politician named Randy Voepel who supported the January 6 insurrection. pic.twitter.com/LAxevQwKDF
The Colorado shooter’s dad on finding out his son murdered people: “They started telling me about the incident, a shooting… And then I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I got scared, ‘Shit, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew… I am a conservative Republican.” (@CBS8) pic.twitter.com/7Zw4vpLtjE
I recommend reading the linked article. I did and it has some good information. But the idea of the shooter being non-binary is nonsense. I normally allow people to state their gender and their sexuality, but in this case all evidence of this person’s past including all their writings and social media shows he hated LGBTQI+. His family was maga, his grandfather ultra maga. Sorry this is another case of trolling. The defence wants to mute the hate claim so they claim he was a member of the community so how could it be a hate crime. But he really never was part of the community was he. Did he march in support, write in support of the community on social media, did he fly pride or trans flags? No he instead spewed hate and vitriol on the community. I read a story once where a person killed their parents, and then asked the court for mercy because they were an orphan. It really doesn’t matter if he was non-binary. He killed 5 people who shouldn’t have died that he had no right to pronounce death to, he injured so many more that now have high medical bills they are struggling to pay that he is not paying for. It doesn’t matter if he is non-binary what matters is what he did and what it cost others. That said a lot of complaints and issue in the LGBTQI+ community is that the media is agreeing to use the lawyers claim of they / them pronouns. Stop it now, the complainers are wrong. Yes it is a scam, an attempt to avoid the hate charges that increase the penalties. It doesn’t matter that the media honors how he wants to be identified. It is important that the media and the authorities honor those requests, those different gender identifications. How often do we as the LGBTQI+ community get rightfully angry over police not honoring the gender identity of suspects or prisoners? We legitimately do. We can point out it is a dodge and an attempt to avoid punishment for what he did, but we can still honor the request. it doesn’t change what he did. Hugs
A recent neighbor of Club Q shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich said he spent hours talking to the FBI on Tuesday morning. He told investigators the suspect made several hateful comments toward the LGBTQ community. “Just expressed he didn’t like the LGBTQ community,” said Xavier Kraus, who lived across the hallway from Aldrich. “And pretty sure at one point he expressed he hated the LGBTQ community, he hated gays.”
“This is not the type of person I would take around my gay friends,” he said. Kraus said he and Aldrich became close friends last year. They bonded over tech and video games. According to Kraus, Aldrich and their mom moved into the apartment building in August 2021, which was shortly after deputies in El Paso County arrested Aldrich on multiple felonies.
According to a just-aired report on CNN, Kraus says Aldrich never mentioned being nonbinary in their times together.
In the video below, Aldrich’s biological father, a former porn actor, claims that Aldrich’s mother told him in 2016 that Aldrich had committed suicide. As CNN has extensively documented, Aldrich’s mother has had a hosts of arrests related to arson and substance abuse.
The cynicism of Anderson Aldrich’s legal team to toss the “non-binary” label out there for sympathy is, legally-speaking, every bit as ugly as the crime itself because it mocks the dead and everything they stood for.
The father has a history of drug abuse including methamphetamine. His porn name is Dick Delaware. He isn’t bad looking for a straight dude in porn, he has a big cock. You can see him on Pornhub.com.
How offensive and over whelming Christian privilege. This woman is a right wing die hard LGBTQI+ hater and so wants to change the conversation from the damage done to the victims bodies and to the fact that hate ended their life. Yes these people died because of the hate spewed by people like her, herself at various times, and the party she represents. Their lives on earth ended due to the hate rhetoric she spews. But she doesn’t want you to think about that, she wants you to worry about their souls, something not proven to exist nor can be proven to be in jepoardy even though she hopes they will be. I would like to think that if a real deity exists they would judge a person on far more than the gender they love and what they do with those gender parts with consenting adults. Hugs
“The five people who were killed in the nightclub that night, there is no evidence at all that they were Christians.
“And so assuming they have not accepted the truth of the gospel of Christ and affirmed Jesus Christ as the lord of their life, they are now reaping the consequences of having eternal damnation. And that is far, far greater.
“We should be having that conversation instead of just the tragedy of what happened to the body, we need to be talking about what happened to the soul and the fact that they are now in eternal separation from our lord and savior Jesus Christ.” – Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis.
You don’t have to be an activist or have any strong opinions on LGBTQ+ issues to be appalled by this. You just need to be a human being capable of seeing other human beings as having an intrinsic value. https://t.co/wsTzGay9Nf
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