You may have already heard of Senator Tuberville’s fear mongering about violent furry pilots flying planes and manning the air traffic. Personally I don’t mind if the pilots and controlers are nude as long as they know their craft of flying the plane well. But as I already posted on this subject he is spouting lies and misinformation. He is simply trying to use fear to rile up the base because he is losing his race for governor of Alabama. Also what is that graphic he is using of a pregnant person? That is not a furry. Hugs
Category: Clothing
Halloween bigotry
I saw this first hand.
Back in 1996, Ron and I moved into a neighborhood being bought up by wealthy people. It was an older neighborhood being taken over by wealthy gays and others of money. Across the main 4 lane street from our neighborhood was a large migrant population of hard working poor brown people.
A group from that sort of wealthy people came to tell us that they did not want to give out candy to “those kids” and that the kids in our neighborohood would be having Halloween candy night a day early and asked we keep our lights off and take down our decorations before the other kids could come the next night.
Ron and I were appalled. We were new to the neighborhood, but we were not willing to do what as asked of us. So we did halloween candy night for both nights. While the first prehalloween night had few kids and they had fancy well bought costumes the next night was the joy.
Yes many more kids came the night of Halloween. They were dressed in hand made costumes. They were very polite and happy. They expressed joy over the treats they were given, unlike the kids from the night before. The kids made of our decorations and had fun. It was a longer night but so much more fun.
Ron and I paid a price for making “those kids” happy. We were excluded from neighborhood events; we no longer were invited to functions we had been invited to before. We were not even spoken to by the people who felt some kids did not deserve a fun night of getting a few candies because of their skin color. We really did not care.
Two years later we moved and bought a different home in just as wealthy an area but one much more accepting of people with different backgrounds and skin colors. Many of our much more wealthy neighbors had those backgrounds and skin colors. They accepted us even as we were in the smallest home and clearly did not have their money. The next halloween the streets were well lighted with decorations and every child was welcomed to the people’s doors. We were happy we moved. We lost a lot of equity in the house we had and moved from so quickly, but gained it in a much better class of neightboros. Hugs
The Majority Report clips about ICE
NBC News Crew BEATEN LIVE By Israeli Settlers
I have had this ready to post for several days. But due to how hard it is to watch and the way the settlers openly abuse the Palestinians with the Israeli government’s blatant permission I was not sure if the viewers wanted to see it. But we have to show how things are going and Israel is doing a genocide by trying to kill and drive the Palestinians from the West Bank and has decided to take all of Gaza now. The Palestinians that survive after the killing of so many of them and the milisous shooting of children for target practice, the killing of medical personnel, and the starving of the people along with now Israel cutting off all sources of water will be forcibly removed / deported. Any that refuse to leave will be killed. One of the Israeli ministers posted AI videos of Palestinians in a concentration camp that implied they were abused. This is what the entire program was for: to retake all of Gaza and the West Bank for Israel like they did all other Palestinian land so there could never be a two state solution and no Palestinians left in what Israel illegally calls their country. They are illegally taking over parts of Lebanon. Their goal has always been the greater Israeli. And the only reason they are getting away with these atrocities and horrors is because the US is protecting them from the retailation of those that Israel abuses and attacks. Biden was too blinded by the past and his age to force Israelis to stop and wouldn’t even cut off the largest 2,000 pound bombs dropped on tent cities. tRump’s military protected Israel rather than US military bases resulting in the deaths and injuries of US military personnel. Plus a large part of the US Congress is deeply in the pocket of the Israeli lobby called AIPAC. The corporate democrats are so beholden to the large sums of money that they are helping AIPAC try to destroy the campaigns of progressive and DSA democrats even if it means not gaining control of the Congress. Corporate Israel supporting Democrats would rather stay a minority party if it means keeping the huge sums of money given to Israel with no strings flowing. Hugs
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The Transphobic Conspiracy Theory
Horrified School District Pleads Police to Stop Using Electric Shock Torture Gloves on Students
https://futurism.com/science-energy/school-district-police-electric-shock-torture-gloves
“I can’t even imagine walking down the hallway and seeing a peer of mine being electrocuted in a place that is supposed to be a safe space for students.”Nikos Frazier/Omaha World-Herald via Getty Images
Police in Omaha, Nebraska are catching a ton of flak after revealing that they deployed electric shock gloves on two separate students during the 2025-2026 school year. One of the students was enrolled in a special education program.
After the news broke, Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray pleaded with the city police department to stop using the electrocution gloves against students. Though Omaha police refer to the gloves as their “safest use-of-force option” for subduing suspects, they agreed not to deploy the devices in schools anymore, according to the Associated Press.
Still, questions remain as to how much the district knew about the devices before they were deployed. Though Ray says he only learned about the gloves last week, local station KETV reported that police had informed school administrators about the devices as far back as 2023.
The district’s request comes as outraged parents and students speak out against the extremely controversial devices, which are being procured by local and federal law enforcement agencies at an alarming clip.
“I can’t even imagine walking down the hallway and seeing a peer of mine being electrocuted in a place that is supposed to be a safe space for students,” Nora Wessel, a senior at Omaha Central High School, said at a recent school board meeting, per the AP. “Yet, this is now a very real possibility. These are adults we are supposed to be able to trust, but these weapons create a barrier for our students to turn to resource officers when needed.”
As recently as 2022, the company behind the devices — ominously named “Compliant Technologies” — marketed the shock gloves as a “weapon” in its publicity material. Within the past few years, they’ve shifted, calling them “conductive distraction and de-escalation” devices.
In practice, the shock gloves seem like little more than re-branded tasers, although they’re much more “discreet,” as Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer told Government Technology in a statement.
The devices might be inconspicuous, but that doesn’t automatically make them humane. Or, on a purely practical level, effective tools for solving crime, as experts argue.
Speaking to Mother Jones about the gloves, senior policy analyst at the Center for Victims of Torture Yumna Rizvi referred to the devices as “inherently abusive equipment that facilitates torture,” adding that they have “no legitimate law enforcement purpose.”
Watch Spider-Man punch a racist & anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA protestor in the face
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/watch-spider-man-punch-a-anti-lgbtq-protestor-in-the-face/
Daniel Villarreal (he/him)August 25, 2026, 11:30 am EDTJake Lang — a racist and anti-LGBTQ+ Republican former candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat who was jailed for allegedly assaulting Capitol Police officers during the January 6, 2021, riots — held a hate rally outside of City Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during which he held up a sign that said, “Jake Lang loves Black people but hates [n-words].” Before he left, a counterprotester dressed as Spider-Man punched him in the face, and the punch was clearly captured on video. Lang was arrested soon after.
Lang’s rally was reportedly in response to 37-year-old white woman Shiloh Hendrix being found guilty of disorderly conduct after calling an autistic 8-year-old Black boy the racial slur at a playground in the Minnesotan city of Rochester. Lang appeared at City Hall on Saturday around 11:50 am in the back of a truck, protected by guards and Minneapolis Police and followed by an additional SUV, Newsweek reported.
The rally devolved into violence as counterprotestors attacked Lang and his crew, forcing them to flee City Hall after barely being there for six minutes. Shortly after their escape, police arrested Lang and charged him with inciting a riot; police also impounded the truck and SUV that Lang brought to City Hall.
Police also arrested the man in the Spider-Man costume, later identified as William Nicholas Love, along with 10 others. A GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign for Love’s legal defense has nearly raised all of its $70,000 goal as of Tuesday morning. He has been charged with assault. Meanwhile, Lang remains in jail without bond.
Despite Lang’s racist display, last January, a Black transgender woman helped rescue him from an angry mob of 100 anti-racist counterprotestors in Minneapolis.
In that incident, Lang had promised to lead a march through the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood (which has Minneapolis’ highest concentration of Somali-American residents) before burning a Quran on the steps of City Hall. But he reportedly didn’t get to do either because the counter-protestors — who outnumbered the 10 attendees at Lang’s event — cornered him outside City Hall before attacking him and chasing him away.
The anti-racist counterprotestors threw objects and water balloons at Lang before a 30-year-old Black Minneapolis resident named Isaiah Blackwell helped Lang escape.
Trump pardoned Lang after he had served four years in prison for attacking a U.S. Capitol police officer during the January 6, 2021, riots.
During a Pride Month protest last June, in front of an audience of two people, Lang struggled to burn a rainbow flag.
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Political news I want to share. 8-30-2026
