One of those videos is the currently ongoing The Majority Report. But I find I can’t deal with it all right now. I am melting down. My endoscopy, the upper GI came back with very bad news after the procedure, and they sent out three biopsies. I am struggling with bad news on my cateract surgery as the closest place I want to have it done after they couldnt do it locally was to do it in Naples as I live in North Fort Myers but they contacted me and they are debating forcing me to go to Miami at a much higher cost both finiancailly and time wise. I am just worn out. I am looking at every comment and saving it to reply to. I am trying to get enough posts ahead so that if I go down for a few days the posts won’t stop. This afternoon I have been in a lot more pain than normal in my back so I have had to take more medication which is also something that is causing my gastroparisis to be worse. I have the results of the endoscopy exam to share including the bad spots they found and a lot more but I have been too tired to scan the report and save it, then post it. I have struggled to get my eating issues under control and will soon do the posting on the exam and the findings. At the same time this is going on Ron can’t devote as much time as he wants to me as his sister is here and wants him to get both her homes here ready including for sale of the small one while accompanying her to her appointments while I need him to accompany me to some of mine as I have gotten that “bad”. I am sure everything will work out but I have days when I am so tired I struggle to function and like today I was doing ok until I simply became over whelmed due to pain and couldn’t stand the news I was listening to which made me feel outraged and also helpless. I have so much more I want to post but I just can’t. So I hope everyone is well. I am simply shutting down and listening to music until I soon go to bed. Loves and hugs. Scottie
Category: Bigotry
News I want to share. 10-15-2026
Trump Targets Democrat Ilhan Omar
ICE & The NYPD’s Relationship
Live-streamed on October 9, 2026. Darializa Avila Chevalier, Democratic Socialist running to represent NY-13 Congressional District joins to discuss the aftermath of ICE shooting in her future district.
Demons are transgender?
Hate group sues school district for not notifying Christian dad about lessons on anti-bullying
These religious people feel that stopping them or their kids from bullying and harassing including hurting LGBTQIA+ kids is denying them their Christian rights. How very Christian of them. Not really what Jesus taught is it? What is with the right demanding to be able to attack even violently kids and adults that don’t agree with them, that don’t live as they do? What happened to live and let live? What drives these people to demand everyone live by their views of what should be, to live by their church doctrines, to live a straight cis life no matter how the person effective feels or is not a member of their church? Why is hate and forcing people to live according to the religious persons rules their go to moves instead of compasion and trying to be understanding? Remember how Jesus dealt with the woman accused of being a prostitute who did not live according to the sexual demands of the doctrines of those in charge? He did not shame or condemn her and stopped those accusing her from harassing or hurting her. A Christian in my opinion should live by the ideals of Jesus the Christ rather than the bigotry of the rest of the bible. Hugs
Daniel Villarreal (he/him)September 21, 2026, 4:00 pm EDTAn anti-LGBTQ+ Christian Nationalist hate group representing a Christian father filed a lawsuit on September 8 against a Washington state school district for allegedly denying the father’s request to opt his elementary school-aged son out of lessons on LGBTQ+ issues. The school said the lesson the father’s upset about was actually a lesson against bullying.
Konstantin Averkiev, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), alleges that the Lake Washington School District didn’t notify him when his son was taught lessons on sexuality and gender in his fourth- and fifth-grade classes, even though Averkiev reportedly asked his son’s teacher to notify him about any such lessons. The father said that the lessons go against his sincerely held religious beliefs.
“The year went on and dad got no notice of anything until his son came home in June and was talking about a lesson on gender change surgeries,” ADF attorney Kate Anderson said, according to Nisqually Valley News.
Anderson said that Averkiev spoke with his son’s teacher, who said that the father should’ve been notified about the classes. However, school officials allegedly told Averkiev that he couldn’t opt his son out of any LGBTQ+-related lessons, except for state-mandated sex education classes.
The ADF’s lawsuit alleges that the district violated Averkiev’s First Amendment rights to freedom of religion and his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process.
In a statement, Shannon Parthemer, executive director of communications for the school district, said that the lessons the father objected to “focused on empathy, inclusion, bullying prevention, and school belonging.”
“Students examined school-climate data, considered the effects of biased remarks and bullying, and reflected on actions that can help all students, including LGBTQ+ students, feel safer and more connected at school,” Parthemer’s statement said.
“Lake Washington School District affirms the rights of parents and students. We support parents’ authority under Washington state law to opt their children out of sexual health curriculum and surveys, and we remain committed to ensuring that every student can learn in a safe and welcoming environment,” her statement concluded.
The statement didn’t mention the lawsuit’s details or its connection to the Supreme Court’s 2025 ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor, which said schools must allow religious parents to opt their students out of classes containing LGBTQ+ content.
ADF, which has been certified as an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, has successfully represented numerous anti-LGBTQ+ cases at the Supreme Court, with the court’s conservative majority consistently voting in its favor.
ADF’s recent religious rights victories at the Court include the following:
- Mahmoud v. Taylor, a 2025 decision that ruled that schools must allow religious parents to opt their students out of classes containing LGBTQ+ content.
- 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, a 2023 decision that ruled that Colorado can’t enforce its anti-discrimination law against a Christian web designer.
- Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, a 2022 decision that ruled that the school district violated a football coach’s First Amendment rights by preventing him from praying on the field after games.
- Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a 2022 decision that ruled that pregnant individuals have no constitutional right to receive an abortion. The ruling has endangered the lives of pregnant people seeking reproductive healthcare.
- Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a 2018 decision that Colorado’s commission didn’t act with the required religious neutrality when evaluating a baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding.
- Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a 2014 decision that religious corporations don’t have to follow a federal law requiring them to provide contraception coverage to employees.
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News I want to share. 10-14-2026
Kidnapped And Mislabeled (feat. Samantha Michaels, Isabela Dias)
I love the Daily Beans news podcast with Alison Gill. I listen to the show on my phone while doing my morning shower routine. The show is full of news and some times really interesting interviews. Like the one I will cue up. ICE has been taking kids from their parents and then calling them “unacompanied minors” so that they are easier to deport. Remember these kids are not given lawyers or assistance during their hearings and I posted how a 2 year old baby had to go through her deportation hearing with no one to assist her. It has become a farce and as Alison says a genocide to wipe out all brown and black people possible, including the kids before they can become citizens with more rights or have children who are citizens. Horrific what the country has become under white supremacist Stephen Miller and clue less bigoted racist tRump. Hugs
Today, Kimberly Guilfoyle is out, according to the new White House press secretary who stumbled embarrassingly through her first appearance at the podium; the Supreme Court will take up a case to decide whether DOGE is subject to the Freedom of Information Act; DHS is separating migrant children from their parents then labeling them unaccompanied minors; Judge Reyes has extended her order blocking Trump from making any changes to the D.C. municipal Golf Course; the Talarico campaign actually provided timestamped video surveillance tapes to the New York Times to prove that he was never in Ohio; Anthropic says AI could replicate itself in home devices within months; a judge blasts Elon Musk for lying about a FEMA employee paying for luxury hotel rooms for migrants in New York City; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
The entire show. Below is just the interview.
Just the interview cued up.
Some The Majority Report Clips on different subjects.
What do you think about this preacher at Trump’s Dallas rally?
I am not a believer in religions I prefer science but I am hopeful that a person or persons who are melded into Jesus did exist. I do believe in the basic message he taught as I understand it. Love everyone, do not throw stones because you are not blameless in your own life, be decent, honest, caring, kind, and treat everyone with respect. That is not to say let all the bad people run all over you and those you love. But it is saying how to deal with everyone in your daily life, especially if you are in a position that they are trying to do something for you. Treat everyone nice and try to be understanding.
Roger paid me the greatest compliment the other day. He knows my history, he knows I joined the SDA church to save my life and left due to their bigotry toward people being gay. I was lost and unable to deal with what came next but it was the only way for me to move forward with out reveling my truth leaving me open to hate from the very people I had depended on to save me. I am paraphrasing what he said but he implied I walk a more Jesus accepted life with all my problems and that in his words God is with me. I would love that to be true. I have nothing against Jesus; I just abhor how his followers mangile his message and distort his directives. I reject the ones that corrupt his message to do the very hurtful things he did not endorse. But the Jesus that cares and is not judmental, that is worried about the inside rather than outside looks, the Jesus that doesn’t care who you have sex with or love as long as you treat them with love as he treated mankind with love. The Jesus that accepts you as trans, gay, and different as he made you according to the bible. That Jesus I would love as a friend.
Sadly when I was a desperate older teen struggling to stay alive and unabused most of that Jesus I found but not just that one, their was the hateful ones as well. The teachers and most of the other kids at the boarding church school were really grand. I had a couple of teachers and staff that used our private times to use my body but hey I was already used to that and it felt to me like a small price to pay for not being daily raped or often beaten. I had fellow students and friends that wanted to explore our sexuality and I really wanted to with them. Hell the things they wanted to experience and know about I had lived since I was 3 yrs old. But I was terrified if the wrong people in the administration found out I would be expelled and sent back to my abusers while still a minor. I was scared into silence. The Jesus I found in the book they kept telling me to read was not wimpy but he gave me strength when I was just months out of being daily abused.
I am not saying that the bible is true nor am I saying I believe in the supernatureal. In fact I used to deny the suppernatueral even though I often in the past used and felt comfortable with it. I became a person that felt if science did not show it to be true how could we claim that? Then I had an understanding. For science to describe or detail something we have to advance science to the point that we can understand that thing. So that we can measure and understand that thing. So many things we humans did not know or understand so they did not exist until the science got to the point that we could discover them. I expect there will be a lot more of that if the scientific cmmunity is allowed to keep existing. Hugs
