Canadian Doctor Shot By IDF Describes Gaza’s Devastated Medical System | Dr Tarek Loubani | TMR

Please watch this video.   It is so important to understand just what Israel is doing to hospitals, medical providers, and how they just don’t see any Palestinian or their supporters as humans, as people.  To the Israelis, they are all something to be wiped out, to be terrorized to nonexistence.  Hugs.  Scottie

Emma speaks with Dr. Tarek Loubani, associate professor at the University of Western Ontario and leader of the Glia Project, to discuss what is happening on the ground now that hospitals in Gaza are mostly non-operational.

Doctor’s Gaza Experience Brings MSNBC’s Joy Reid To Tears

Let’s talk about Oklahoma vaguely….

What Beau is referring to is an N.B or transgender teen who was brutally assaulted in a girls’ bathroom.    Notice that the attacks on trans and non-binary people in bathrooms got much worse at the urging of right wing hate preachers / politicians.  Notice it is the rhetoric is always that trans people will hurt your daughters, but the facts show that is wrong.  It is the trans people being hurt by cis people.  For needing to use a toilet.   I did not post the quote but in the first article it mentions Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, is facing intense scrutiny over his ties to Chaya Raichik, the figure behind the far-right Libs of TikTok hate account, and for their outspoken stance against transgender rights.   Hugs.  Scottie

The grandmother, Sue Benedict, told The Independent that her child had been the subject of months of intensifying bullying that began earlier in 2023 after Oklahoma’s Republican-led government banned transgender students from using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity.Benedict told their grandmother that they and another trans student had fought the other students in the bathroom, according to the Independent. The teen told her they’d hit their head on the floor.  “Nex did not see themselves as male or female,” Sue Benedict said. “Nex saw themselves right down the middle. I was still learning about it, Nex was teaching me that.”  https://news.yahoo.com/oklahoma-transgender-student-dies-allegedly-125629309.html

Nex Dagny Benedict killed Oklahoma non binary student beaten classmates bathroom Owasso High School
Nex Dagny Benedict killed Oklahoma non binary student beaten classmates bathroom Owasso High School
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What is nonbinary?

A nonbinary person experiences their gender identity and/or gender expression outside of the binary categories of “man” and “woman.” Other words may be used by nonbinary people to describe their gender more specifically, including agender, bigender, demigender and pangender.

Some nonbinary people call themselves transgender and consider themselves part of the transgender community, while others do not.

“Nonbinary is an umbrella term that encompasses many different ways to understand one’s gender,” according to GLAAD.

What is transgender?

Transgender describes a person whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

A person can be transgender without having gone through a transition — the process in which a person brings their gender expression and/or their body into alignment with their gender identity. A transition can include a social transition, legal transition and medical transition.

What is cisgender?

Cisgender refers to a person who is not transgender, and whose gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/02/20/what-is-nonbinary-transgender-cisgender-gender-term-etiquette/72669303007/

 

Dr. Thaer Ahmad, emergency room physician and assistant program director of the Advocate Christ Emergency Medicine Residency Program, discusses his recent experience volunteering at the Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.

Total Chaos: What A Palestinian American Doctor Saw In Gaza

Thaer Ahmad then walks through his assessment of the already shaky state of the healthcare system in pre-October 7th Gaza, as well as his relationship to the healthcare system, as a first-generation Palestinian-American doctor, before tackling the extensive effort it took to get into Gaza as a healthcare worker. Next, Dr. Ahmad explores the extreme changes in quality of life in Southern Gaza from his previous experiences providing healthcare, parsing through the impact of mass displacement into Rafah alongside the dwindling number of functioning hospitals in the region creating a system of severely overworked, underfunded, and under-resourced healthcare workers.
Dr. Ahmad explores the extreme changes in quality of life in Southern Gaza from his previous experiences providing healthcare, parsing through the impact of mass displacement into Rafah alongside the dwindling number of functioning hospitals in the region creating a system of severely overworked, underfunded, and under-resourced healthcare workers. After looking at the impact of the mass starvation and water scarcity on health, Thaer explores the constant siege on hospitals, even in the south of Gaza, and the clear goal of extending the ethnic cleansing until Gaza is gone, also expanding on the massive impact of the violent occupation on children in Gaza.

Let’s talk about information consumption and an executive order….

Against the law to teach the truth about history

Thanks to Ten Bears for the link.   Hugs.  https://homelessonthehighdesert.com/2024/02/18/firstday-no-flight-fight/

Doonesbury Comic Strip for February 18, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/02/18

Evangelicals Sneak Film Crew Into Texas High School

Evangelical trump loving Jesus touting Christians who need to lie and sneak around the rules protecting children to get what they want.  Because protecting kids only matters when they can use to deny LGBTQIA people exist and that kids are born that way.  That it is OK to be LGBTQIA.  No when it comes to pushing their version of Jesus they believe the laws / rules don’t apply to them.   Every thing should be allowed them to push their Jesus on your kids, on all kids.  So they lie, cheat, pretend they are not doing what they are or that they just did not know the rules.  All in the name of Jesus.   Hugs.  Scottie.


 

Dallas’s ABC affiliate reports:

As they stood together near Keller ISD’s Central High School on Friday, a group of parents shared their anger and frustration. “I’m livid,” said Laney Hawes, a parent whose child attends Central HS. “Our rights and our kids rights have been violated.” Their anger stems from what the district confirmed happened last Friday, February 9.

Sandi Walker, a school board trustee brought an Evangelical-based film crew into the high school to conduct interviews with her. Multiple students and parents told WFAA children were filmed and interviewed by the production crew without their consent. Trustee Micah Young was also involved in the filming.

Evangelische Omroep (EO), a Netherlands-based Evangelical broadcast television network previously produced the documentary: ‘God, Jesus, Trump.’ Elliot Mullaney, a freshman at Central High School said he witnessed the filming take place during his lunch hour.

Read the full article. The tweets below tell a fuller story so give them a minute to fully load. According to the video report, the film crew took advantage of the school’s principal being absent that day.

 

Grooming for Jesus.

I think their version, at least in the US, is spelled “Jeebus”.

I have seen prisons that looked more welcoming

This was mine.

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All it’s missing is the razor wire topped chain link fences.

Could just as easily have let gunmen into the school. Heads need to roll and careers need to be ended.

Ugh, side doors, right?

or a kidnapping – I can see an abusive POS who lost custody of their kid trying this stunt now

it wont… some bullshit explanation will be given. Jesus thoughts and prayers and all that

You can tell the Evangelicals are lying (how surprising!) because if they had no intention filming staff and students, why even bring a film crew to the school?

What else would they be filming?

I hope that mom stays as pissed off as she is now until something gets done.

So much for school security.

“the calls were coming from inside the house” or something.

It’s amazing how readily “Christian” evangelists practice deceit and outright lying when it suits them. It’s almost like they aren’t really religious at all.

Christianity, like all religions, was based on deceit and lies – they call them “revelations” and “gospels” – and of course they’ve always lied and manipulated people to maintain their hold, once they were in control. So no change, business as usual.

 

Lewisville educator on leave after Libs of TikTok post shows him in dress for spirit day

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2024/02/16/lewisville-educator-on-leave-after-libs-of-tiktok-post-shows-him-in-dress-for-spirit-day

I have first seen this on Joe My God.  But it is on other news sites.  This shows not only the bigotry and hate of these right wing hate groups, but how they use their influence to hurt and harm anyone they target, anyone they think doesn’t push their bigotry, hate, and regressive views.  It is terrifying because they know what they are doing, and they know the result.  They really want to push society to be regressive, to be 1950 along with wiping the people they hate from society, from public view.  And they are clearly willing to use violence and threats of great harm to accomplish this.   Total intolerance to other views than what they accept.  They are a very dangerous threat to democracy and the idea of live and let live, to the idea of tolerance and acceptance.  To them, they need to dictate, their way only, even as we have seen in Florida they do not practice what they demand as one of their leaders got caught enjoying having sex with others of the same sex and having relations out of marriage.  Things they claim should be stopped and not be allowed to be talked about in public or in books in schools.   As Joe mentions below, this woman and her group ignore the abuse of children by clergy to only attack public schools.  The goal is to inspire hate, abuse, threats, and also gain attention for herself.   All because of returning to a time when no one but straight cis mostly white people were allowed to be promoted in society and the rest were hidden along with vilified.   It literally is terrorism via the internet to get her supporter thugs to attack the targets she selects.  There are many more important comments at the Joe My God site, but I am far too tired to keep posting.    Hugs.  Scottie


Students have rallied behind the staff member after viral video from anti-LGBTQ account with vast following.

“It would be natural for our families to have questions about this situation, but because this is a personnel matter currently under review, there is no additional information the district can share,” principal Amy Boughton said in a campus-wide email.
Read the full article. Chaya Raichik and her army of cultists are harassing the school district superintendent and the school’s principal.

As most of you know, in 2022 and 2023, I tagged Raichik in literally hundreds of news items about pedophile pastors, priests, and Christian school officials.
She never once responded, but as you can see below, she spends a lot of time responding to others.

Of note, Spirit Day is an annual event launched in 2010 in response to a rash of student suicides related to anti-LGBTQ bullying.

 

People in Texas should be more concerned about Youth Pastors than men in dresses.

Mind, *pastors* USUALLY wear dresses – their uniform .

I love how that hag uses innuendo in attacking this poor teacher. “I heard he loved dressing in women’s clothing…” That is truly the digital lynch mob.

Ugh. Don’t these losers have ANY THING better to do? Get a real job lady, or a hobby. STOP harassing people!

This is her profitable grift.

She and her cult following need to be sued out of existence. This crazy uptight bitch needs to be destroyed.

Her father was a prominent Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in LA.

She’ s vile trash. Reminds me of an uglier version of Ben Shapiro in drag.

What a bunch of hateful MFers. Kids love it when teachers get involved in things like this.

My 3rd graders loved it when I dressed in a ballgown for spirit day, or as Glinda for Halloween.

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You look fabulous and so fun, Lefty! And indeed, kids understand and appreciate play, and adults who can gleefully partake in it, unless of course those poor kids have already been brainwashed and mentally abused into being righty little monsters.

Thanks! Fortunately I taught in a “woke” district, and the parents did not care if I was gay. They just wanted their children to learn and have some fun.

Still, good for you for showing those kiddos you can be a sane, responsible adult and still be fun…and gay. Man, what I’d have given to have a Lefty teacher when I was in 3rd grade!

I did have several students visit when they were juniors/seniors in high school. They were out and proud, and they cited me as one of the reasons they felt comfortable living their authentic lives. Got a bit misty eyed…

You’re a good man, sir. And those are some lucky kids.

 

Ditto- Just like this guy

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This is how to Uncle

Transvestites do it for sexual gratification. Teachers do it to entertain and encourage their students. Those without empathy can’t separate the two.

Looks like those kids are not bothered at all.

I spent my years 6-8ish living in Plano. It was a bucolic place back then. Small, largely underdeveloped, easy. I have no idea what the politix were, cuz 6 years old. All I know is my best friend, Tommy, and I could leave on our bikes at 8 am (with peanut butter and bacon sammiches in our backpacks) and not come home until dinner and no one worried or had any reason to do so. Damn, how things have changed in (cough) 48 years.

 

New Testament Love and Old Testament Standards

There seems to be some drags and delays when playing the video.   I have tried it on two different computers and it happens at that same time marks, so I think it is in the original.   But the message is worth posting.   I think basically most religious people of the modern time are moving from the crime / punishment style of believing or a punishing god, and much more to a welcoming and kinder loving god.   Time will tell which side wins in the god civil war.   Hugs.  Scottie

Let’s talk about the X-men changing….