Category: BlueSky / Social Media
Naked Man Calmly Flees LA Car Accident [VIDEO]
The New York Post reports:
A driver involved in a car accident in Los Angeles gave rubberneckers something to gawk at when he got out of his vehicle naked at the scene, video shows. The two-vehicle crash occurred shortly before 12:30 p.m. Thursday, police said.
A bystander’s footage shows a naked man then exiting the blue truck via the passenger door. He does not appear to be injured and is holding some clothing in one hand. The man, who has not been identified, calmly walks up the street and drops the clothing.
Read the full article.
Liberal Redneck – Liz Cheney and the New GOP
A Children’s Hospital Providing Gender-Affirming Care is Being Targeted with Death Threats. Guess Who’s Behind It.
Back in June, Harvard Law clinical instructor and trans activist Alejandra Caraballo tweeted about the troll account Libs of TikTok harassing a Nebraska children’s hospital for providing access to information about gender-affirming care at a Pride event.
Now, the account has taken on a bigger target: Boston Children’s Hospital.
As Caraballo has pointed out, Libs of TikTok has been publicly harassing the hospital on Twitter for the past week due to its policy of providing gender-affirming care to trans teens and adults. Now, employees and providers at BCH have been receiving death threats and harassment.
The Libs of TikTok account claims, like so many other right-wing propaganda accounts, that providing access to gender-affirming care for minors is tantamount to child abuse and “grooming.” The truth is much less sensational: the hospital provides care to children and adults who are seeking transition-related care. Libs of TikTok, however, seems to believe that because the Wayback Machine shows a time when BCH didn’t specify a specific age cutoff for gender-affirming surgeries, the hospital is responsible for encouraging teens to seek medical care without their parents’ knowledge or approval.
Which, even if it were true, wouldn’t actually be a bad thing, especially if your parents are rampant transphobes.
But there’s a bigger question to be asked in the midst of all this: why is Libs of TikTok still allowed to be active on Twitter? Once again, Alejandra Caraballo has the answer:
With or without the Musk drama, it’s pretty interesting to see accounts like Libs of TikTok flourish on Twitter while other accounts end up banned for “hate speech” when they are, in fact, trying to counteract hate speech.
Meanwhile, in France, Libs of TikTok has already been banned thanks to laws in place that prevent bigots and white nationalists from being platformed:
What would it be like to live in a world where bigots aren’t platformed? Sadly, here in the U.S., we wouldn’t know anything about that!
Let’s talk about Graham and the Trump case in Georgia….
Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for saying teachers are “monsters” turning kids transgender
Again let me go over the facts for those that have the mistaken idea that this is happening. Boys know their gender and their sexual orientation in their preteen middle school years clearly. Teen boys know their gender and sexual orientation, ever hear the phrase “girl crazy” and teen boys trying desperately to get a girl to have sex with them. Their hormones are on over drive. Now also remember kids are desperate to fit into the majority, and the majority are straight cis kids. Trans, gay, and lesbian are really the minority. One that is frequently the victim of bullying, malicious or vicious attacks by the bigot straight cis kids. Yes more tolerance in some schools / places were happening but it is not roses and sunshine to be a kids who is different from others. It is not fun to be the odd one out. Why do you think it is so important for schools to push a message of tolerance and acceptance, to have supportive groups like the gay / straight alliances. But in many red states that is all gone now.
Now take that situation and tell a boy that he must dress as a girl, live as a girl, go by a girl’s name, wear his hair as a girl, act as a girl does, use female pronouns all the time. Not just for a day but a whole school year. Tell him he will have to struggle to get to the bathroom and will often be screamed at by adults or other kids when in public if he uses a public women’s toilet. Tell him that he will be forced to change his clothes in a separate bathroom that may be a long way from the locker rooms or in the coach’s office, then dressed as a girl do girls’ PE. That boy will freak. He will beg you not to make him. I bet they would beg for extra schoolwork instead or be willing to work after school doing your yard work for free. Anything but making them live a girl. So this idea that it a fad or lark, or kids are doing it for fun makes no sense. Hugs
Marjorie Taylor GreenePhoto: ScreenshotRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is getting mocked online for suggesting that teachers are lying to boys to turn them into transgender women.
“Parents raise your boys to be men and protect them from teachers who try to deceive them to become women,” Greene wrote. “Guard your children from such monsters in these evil days.”
Her post doesn’t seem to be a reference to any specific story, since this isn’t something that happens in the real world. Several of her supporters responded with stories about teachers using their transgender students’ pronouns, which is not what Greene was discussing.
Greene’s critics, on the other hand, mocked her for her latest conspiracy theory.
Saudi academic sentenced to 34 years in prison after expressing support for women’s rights
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/saudi-rights-activist-sentenced-34-year-imprisonment
*** Personal note not related to the post. I have another doctors visit this morning early (9:15) and then home to catch up on five days or more of comments. Since last Thursday I have been suffering through waves of nausea, upset stomach, and fuzzy head making it hard to concentrate. Like I had taken too much pain medication or something. Ron had one day of it, he vomited and slept the day and was pretty much over it in a day and 1/2. I have had it a lot longer and I have spent most of the days laying down. Today I feel much better. Yesterdays visit did not find a definitive cause. Most of my labs are better this time than the last blood draw. There is an issue with my thyroid, which is one thing to be addressed today. Also my kidneys are showing signs of stress, which is understandable. My weight is down. I found out yesterday that after years of looking for a good endocrinologist that understands my complex medical history I learned my doctor I will be seeing today is leaving the current practice to move to another facility quite a way from here. I cannot justify that much travel to keep him. So I start again. Hugs ****
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To the post. Does this sound familiar? Someone pushing for women to have rights and equality to men is attacked by the fundie religious government, fined, and imprisoned. This is what the Christian nationalist maga Taliban wants for the US. trump just held a money making (for him) golf tournament paid for by the Saudi government. The golfers for that tournament were paid a lot of money by the Saudi’s just to show up and play with more money if they won. All paid for by the Saudi government. What did they want from trump and the maga cult he owns? Hugs
Salma al-Shehab, a mother of two and a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds, was detained by Saudi authorities when visiting the kingdom for a holiday in early 2021.ShareFlipboardRedditWhatsAppTwitterFacebook
A Saudi academic and women’s rights activist was sentenced to 34 years in prison in what observers say is the longest such sentence given to a women’s rights defender in the kingdom.
Salma al-Shehab is a mother of two boys and a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds. She was detained in Saudi Arabia in January 2021 days before she was meant to return to the United Kingdom for tweets expressing solidarity with other women’s rights activists in the country, according to a press release by the Freedom Initiative, a Washington DC-based rights group.
Al-Shehab is a Shia Muslim, a minority in Saudi Arabia who have long faced discrimination in the hardline Sunni kingdom.
Most recently, she expressed her support for fellow women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul on social media, who was released from prison in February last year shortly after Al-Shehab was detained.
“Saudi Arabia has boasted to the world that they are improving women’s rights and creating legal reform, but there is no question with this abhorrent sentence that the situation is only getting worse,” said Dr Bethany Al-Haidari, the Saudi case manager at the Freedom Initiative.
“It is ironic that while Loujain’s release was celebrated, Salma remained behind bars on the ground that she called for that very release. It’s a pattern for Saudi authorities to ensure that women activists can’t celebrate or take credit for any of their hard-won victories,” she added.
Dozens of people have expressed their outrage at Al-Shehab’s sentence over social media.
“This is irrational, heartbreaking, and disastrous for the hundreds of women detained or to be detained in similar charges of supporting rights or freedom” tweeted Hala al-Dosari, a Saudi Arabian scholar and women’s rights activist.
“This is also reflective of an increased regime insecurity, both domestically and abroad,” she added in another tweet.
Other users pointed out the hypocrisy of major sports brands and personalities for receiving sponsorship from Saudi Arabia, downplaying the kingdom’s claims that it is becoming a freer place as a facade.
Yashar Ali of New York Magazine tweeted “Here’s your LIV golf tournament!” in reference to the Saudi-backed golf tournament meant to rival the PGA, while Hazel Southwell added that “the Saudi state can’t claim to be making any progress while doing this.”
Saudi Arabia has detained dozens of dissidents and activists for calling for basic rights in the kingdom, including the now-released Loujain al-Hathloul and Raif Badawi – a Saudi blogger and activist who was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 50 lashes a week for twenty weeks in 2014.
The New Arab has contacted the Saudi embassy in London for comment but has yet to receive a response.
“Religious Freedom” is Neither
Fox Host Wonders If Trump Sold State Secrets [VIDEO]
Fox Host Wonders If Trump Sold State Secrets [VIDEO]
“More questions are being raised this morning. Did former President Trump try to sell or share the highly classified material to the Russians or to the Saudis or others?
“Or were the documents innocently mishandled and stored because he thought he had a legal right to have them?
“And Russia’s state media already is claiming that Russian officials have seen the material. Empty boasts or has there been a leak that officials fear could pose a grave danger to the United States security?
“How would they get this if it’s under lock and key or was it? Because the Feds apparently told them back in June that you got to put all padlock on that on the storage room.
“We don’t know where this stuff was floating around.” – Fox News host Eric Shawn.
Excuse the source below, but watch the clip.
Dreaming Vertebrate • 3 hours ago
OT: Hillary Clinton still has a twitter account, …and her passport(s),
unlike Spanky! 😂
Galvestonian Rambie • 3 hours ago
Ask yourself the question: “Can he get any money for the
documents ? Then think about what the Orange twat would do — would he care that by selling them he’d be a traitor or would he rather be that much richer ? Evil traitor or Cash in the pocket ???
Fox is cutting TFG loose, they’re going to throw their adulation towards DeathSantis, you watch he’ll start appearing on all their ‘shows’ soon and they’ll start pushing his agendas.
Rambie BartmanLA • 3 hours ago
DeathSantis’ agenda is the same as Trumps. That’s why they like him, he’s more predictable than Trump and knows how to keep the quiet parts quiet.
Scottie's Playtime 