For some reason the YouTube algerithum wants to send me more and more child abuse stuff. I went to the bedroom to take my testosterone shot while listening to YouTube on earbuds. Suddenly, as I had my pants down and was about to inject myself YouTube decided to play child abuse songs. I was not in a position to change the channel, so I stopped the feed until I finished my task. But it left my mind open and memories and stuff started cascading into my mind. I was in criss for 30 minutes until I pulled myself out of the cycle as I heard the vortex coming for me. If I let the vortex take me it takes hours or days of effort to drag myself out of it. Luckily I was able to respond / deal with it all, spent 30 minutes crying in the bedroom before coming out so Ron wouldn’t know. He suspected something but did not pry, only saying he loved me. I am so tired of this cycle. There has to be a better way, a way with out all these triggers. All these things that remind me of the past. Any way I am OK, I have to be. Hugs
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State Supreme Court says dad can stop mom from bringing child to “harmful” anti-LGBTQ+ church
Daniel Villarreal (he/him)September 2, 2026, 6:00 pm EDTThe Maine Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Tuesday that a father can prevent his daughter’s mother from taking the child to an anti-LGBTQ+ church in Maine. The mother was represented by the Christian nationalist legal group the Liberty Counsel, which drew national attention to the parents’ custody battle by portraying the child’s dad as anti-Christian.
The case involves Matthew Bradeen and Emily Bickford – two parents who never married and separated as a couple over a decade ago – and their 12-year-old daughter Ava. In 2021, Bickford began taking Ava to Calvary Chapel. When he started noticing changes in Ava’s behavior, he asked a court to change his and Bickford’s custody agreement to give him greater control over Ava’s religious upbringing, Friendly Atheist reported.
Bradeen said that Bickford took Ava to a church service during the week and two services held on Sundays. He said the church began teaching Ava about the end of the world in the Book of Revelation, demons, suffering in Hell, and the reign of Antichrist, which reportedly made his daughter start experiencing “fear and anxiety” and panic attacks, and compelled her to try to convert Bradeen so that he wouldn’t go to Hell.
During Sunday services, Bradeen said Ava listened to testimonials from people who claimed that Jesus had saved them from “sexual and physical trauma, gay and lesbian relationships, and infidelity.” She also brought home work study pages about demons, adultery, and sexual impropriety. Bradeen reportedly never told Ava that he thought her mother and the church were “wrong,” but rather explained to her that people believe in different things and that he personally disagreed with the church’s teachings.
Bickford reportedly told Bradeen one day that she was taking Ava out of school to visit the state capitol, but in reality, the purpose of the trip was to attend an anti-abortion protest. She also sent the child to a church-sponsored overnight retreat without Bradeen’s knowledge and had planned to have her baptized without his knowledge as well. Their child custody agreement required Bickford to discuss these issues as part of their shared rights regarding religious education and upbringing.
During court child custody hearings, Dr. Janja Lalich, an expert on cult-like organizations, observed that the church’s sermons are “filled with hateful rhetoric,” including “homophobia, disdain of science, and hatred of public schools.” Lalich never called the church a “cult” but said that its “charismatic” leader positioned himself as a supreme authority with a connection to God that should never be questioned.
“The organization is based on fear – fear of the outside world and its risks – breeding paranoia, anxiety, and separation from the outside world,” a 2024 court document said of Lalich’s characterization of the church. Lalich also said that Ava’s attendance at the church was seemingly involuntary and that a child of her age would likely seek to conform to church teachings to gain parental and adult approval.
During one church service that Ava attended, Pastor Travis Carey spoke about the custody battle between Bickford and Bradeen and claimed that Bradeen had hired a private detective to “find dirt” on the church. The speech characterized Bickford and the church as being on the side of “good” and Bradeen as being on the side of “evil”; the pastor referred to Bradeen and the government as an “enemy” who seeks to “crush,” “quench,” and “strangle” the church and Ava’s faith.
Bradeen also said that Bickford opposed recommendations from the child’s doctor that she receive flu and COVID vaccines and also opposed Ava taking an antibiotic to treat pneumonia, though the mother later agreed to let her take an alternate antibiotic for the illness.
Bickford also reportedly opposed Ava getting any counseling or mental health treatment for her increasing anxiety, viewing both as “hoaxes” and believing that prayer alone should address her fears.
In 2024, a Maine District Court ruled in Bradeen’s favor, stating that the church’s influence psychologically harmed the child and giving the father sole responsibility for the child’s religious upbringing. However, the anti-LGBTQ+ Christian nationalist legal group, Liberty Counsel, appealed the decision to the state Supreme Court, saying that the district court decision violated Bickford’s First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to freedom of religion and due process.
In its fundraising emails about the case, Liberty Counsel falsely claimed that the district court’s ruling forbade Ava from “attending any church or Christian event — even Christmas or Easter,” from discussing faith with her mother, and from being exposed to the Bible or any “religious philosophy.” The court’s ruling said none of those things and, in fact, said those issues can remain subject to the joint agreement of both parents.
At the Maine Supreme Court last November, Liberty Counsel argued that the case involves one simple question: “Does a district court have the authority to prohibit a parent from taking her child to Church?” When asked by the court justices what sorts of church activities he would deem too potentially harmful to children, Liberty Counsel founder and chairman Mat Staver pointed out that children in other cases have been allowed to attend churches with snake-handling and child marriage.
The justices based their ruling not on the church’s teachings but rather on the harm inflicted on the child.
“Far from ‘declar[ing] that the Christian religion is psychologically harmful,’ the court’s finding reflected simply that it is harmful for a child to hear negative and frightening messages about one parent from the other parent or the other parent’s authority figures,” the justices wrote in their decision.
Liberty Counsel has said it will appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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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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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.”
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