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15 Children Killed in Israel’s Latest Attacks on Gaza
Read more HERE: https://www.commondreams.org/news/202…
“Dozens of people were killed and hundreds more were wounded during Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip over the weekend, Palestinian officials said as Israel and the militant resistance group Palestinian Islamic Jihad declared a truce late Sunday night.
“It’s outrageous that the Biden administration gave Israel ‘full-throated support’ for its murderous ‘preemptive’ assault on Palestinians in Gaza.”
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said Sunday that so far 44 people, including at least 15 children and four women, died during the 66-hour Israeli onslaught—officialy called Operation Breaking Dawn—in which militants also reportedly fired at least hundreds of rockets at Israel, resulting in three light injuries. The ministry said that 360 other Palestinians were wounded during the attacks, which ended with the 11:30 pm truce.
“Let those numbers sink in,” tweeted Marwa Fatafta, a Berlin-based Palestinian writer, researcher, and senior policy analyst at the digital rights group Access Now.”
Right-Wing Bigots Send Swat Team To Trans Twitch Streamer Keffals Home
Read more HERE: https://www.polygon.com/23298726/keff…
“The Twitch streamer Keffals, real name Clara Sorrenti, known for her political commentary and advocacy for the trans community, was swatted and arrested in her home Aug. 5 after malicious actors sent a false email threatening others in her name.
Keffals on Tuesday posted a video describing the incident and said that she was awakened at gunpoint by London, Ontario police after an internet troll impersonated her and sent threatening messages to every member of the London city council. The false email, which Keffals said police showed her during her interrogation, said Keffals had killed her mother and planned to go to city hall with an illegal firearm to harm others.”*
VA Gov: Teachers Should Out LGBTQ Kids To Parents
Dogs that love gravy these people really are clueless on the subject. Don’t they every ask themselves why the kids are not coming out to mom and dad already? The kids live with them. They get a feel for how they would react. Kids are still being kicked out of homes or forced into conversion therapy to force / torture them to act straight. The governor says that parents need to be at the forefront of these decisions. Got news for you there is no choice to be made as to if your gay, lesbian, or trans. It is something you are born with. Yes kids know at a very young age what orientation and gender they are. It cannot be changed. As soon as a kid realizes there are stuff for girls and other stuff for boys they understand gender and which one they are. As soon as a kids realizes that some people are attracted to each other, that there are boyfriends and girlfriends they understand attraction / orientation. The only choice is to help the child accept and be happy with who they really are or scare and intimidate them into a miserable life of hiding who they are. That is what these republican leaders want, what the religious leaders want. They want the LGBTQ+ to go away, to hide, to not be seen or heard. Why does the rainbow flag trigger them so much, it is a sign that the LGBTQ+ are here and we exist. Damn it, the dangers of this are clear and being ignored. Now wonder red states want unqualified untrained teachers that will follow the authoritarian state line. They want the increase in kids committing suicide. Why do they deny proven science? Hugs
“With regards to informing parents with most important decisions about their children, I think everybody knows where I stand, parents matter.
“Parents should be at the forefront of all of these discussions. And I firmly believe that teachers and schools have an obligation to make sure that parents are well informed about what’s happening in their kids’ lives.
“And one of the things we learned last year during the campaign is that parents were tired of being pushed to the background in their child’s education.” – Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
And when child abuse and abandonment skyrocket, what will be his excuse?
Tim 🇺🇦 Ed Michigan • 12 hours ago
Same as it is now.
Parents right.
Children aren’t people to GQP, they’re possessions.
crewman Ed Michigan • 11 hours ago
No problem. They’ll just clamp down on reporting, a la DeSantis during the Covid pandemic.
Uncle Mark eats the rainbow Snarkaholic • 9 hours ago
He’ll blame the kids, schools, media, internet for making the kids LGBTQ in the first place.
If kids felt they could talk to their parents, teacher and schools wouldnt be asked for help.
So the kids can be murdered, tortured or abused by their parents?
Oedipal bastard.
bovsklo Karl Dubhe IV • 11 hours ago
That’s what would have happened in my house. I needed that deniability until I was out of there.
Posthumously bovsklo • 9 hours ago
I admit to the same.
What, me worry? • 11 hours ago • edited
My father would have beaten the crap out of me and possibly kicked me out. As it was, he was pressuring me about being homosexual. I didn’t even know. I just knew that I was different. I left “home” when I was not quite 16. That was in 1967. It saddens me to see things are going right back to those bad old days. All of the progress of the last 50 years, gone in a split second.
Atman, Schopenhauer’s Poodle • 11 hours ago
When I came out in my early twenties, my mother cried and said, “I was ready for this when you were in high school, but I figured when you didn’t, you weren’t.” And I thought, “Yeah, I know you were ‘ready’ then, which is exactly why I didn’t.” I had to wait until she had no control over my life or I would’ve ended up at some Christian “conversion” camp. I’ll just take the regular pain life throws at people, please and thank you.
Simply put, they want to cause harm. They want kids to be afraid to come out.
Steve in NOLA BensNewLogin • 9 hours ago
If a child is going to a teacher for help about this, that means they don’t trust their parents not to be horrible, even violent. If schools start outing children who had good reason to keep their secret, then a significant number of them are going to kill themselves rather than face their parents’ wrath. This guy is trying to kill our children.
So gay kids stuck in fucking christian cults won’t have any safe haven, anywhere. That’s what these fucking assholes want.
Twenty five effing years after Ellen came out. 24 since Will and Grace and Matthew Shepard, 53 since Stonewall, 19 since Lawrence v Texas, 7 since Obergefell. These cruel shits in sweater vests will never stop, so neither can we.
“I think everybody knows where I stand, parents matter.”
Repeat after me, motherfucker: Best. Interests. Of. The. Child!!! 🤬
Texas Church Performs Christian Version Of “Hamilton,” Adds Anti-Gay Commentary And Hamilton Gets “Saved”
NBC News reports:
A Texas church has come under fire for a Christian-themed — and allegedly unauthorized — rendition of the acclaimed Broadway musical “Hamilton” that appeared to conclude with a sermon by a church pastor comparing being gay to being addicted to alcohol or drugs.
The two-hour performance, which was produced and livestreamed Friday by The Door Christian Fellowship Ministries in McAllen and RGV Productions, included several biblical references not originally included in the Tony Award-winning musical.
On Stage Blog reports:
The church also decided to add and change text throughout the show. For instance, they added a scene where Hamilton is “saved” right before “It’s Quiet Uptown. At the conclusion of the show, a pastor delivers a sermon that includes anti-LGBTQ messaging.
The pastor states, “Maybe you struggle with alcohol, with drugs, with homosexuality, maybe you struggle with other things in life, your finances, whatever, God can help you tonight. He wants to forgive you for your sins.”
another_steve • 12 minutes ago
The hate knows no limits. That’s where we are today in America — both in the Republican Party and in the religious right.
The challenge for decent Americans is “how to put the barbarians out of business, out of power.”
J.C another_steve • 7 minutes ago
“Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”
Imagine wearing this in front of all bigots.
liondon#traitor-ex-president • 12 minutes ago
Stealing for Jesus?
another_steve liondon#traitor-ex-president • 7 minutes ago
The fundamentalist lunatics have the ultimate “get out of jail” card. Their god forgives any abomination, any crime, they commit — as long as they do it in “Jesus’s name.”
Fundamentalist religion (make or model, irrelevant) is the biggest scam in the history of Planet Earth, to date.
Like a pesky legal “Cease and Desist” order is going to stop them from entertaining their congregation, after all this is the new Christofacist Theocracy they’re trying to build.
Randy sent me some tweets
https://secondnexus.com/addison-gardner-wv-abortion-speech
A 12-year-old girl left people applauding after addressing the West Virginia state legislature about its restrictive and dangerous abortion law proposed in the state.
The girl’s speech occurred at a public hearing about the law, House Bill 302 which bans abortion in all but the most extreme exceptions and criminalizes the procedure for doctors.
Each speaker at the hearing was given 45 seconds to speak.
12-year-old Addison Gardner made every single one of hers count.
The bill provides a total ban on abortion in all but cases of rape and incest but not for the life of the pregnant person, and also allows criminal prosecution of doctors who provide the procedure.
Gardner gave an impassioned plea to the legislature for a more reasonable abortion rights law.
She asked lawmakers:
“If a man decides that I’m an object, and does unspeakable, tragic things to me, am I, a child, supposed to carry and birth another child?”
“Am I to put my body through the physical trauma of pregnancy?”
“Am I to suffer the mental implications, a child who had no say in what was being done with my body?”
The bill, which has passed the West Virginia House of Delegates, does provide exceptions for some, but not all, cases of rape and incest. But the requirements are so stiff they will make access impossible for most people.
In order to obtain an abortion in the case of rape and incest, the victim will have to have reported the crime to law enforcement, which is often impossible for victims for myriad reasons, especially for those who are minors.
The pregnant person will also have to have a medical professional confirm the fetus was under 14 weeks and all other rules of the bill were followed—a requirement easily thwarted by anti-abortion doctors who can simply lie and refuse to sign off on the procedure.
Ash Orr, a transgender activist from the state’s Appalachian region who spoke about having been raped at the ages of 9 and 10, pointed out the cruelty of these policies.
They said:
“I want you to explain to me why it would have been OK for me as a child to have carried my rapist’s child.”
“Explain it to me like I’m one of the children that y’all are willing to traumatize.”
Gardner went on to underline the hypocrisy inherent to this approach to abortion access by West Virginia Republicans.
“Some here say they are pro-life. What about my life? Does my life not matter to you?”
On Twitter, people applauded Gardner for speaking out and were outraged by the bill.
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1555199662390493184?s=20&t=g3EW6zaYalDIpR32YBvUQA
https://twitter.com/LebrunDon/status/1556039075387191296?s=20&t=Lr3o7QtARRVB7Ge29tcfEQ
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