Texas Paul reacts to the scene outside the Capitol the night of the primetime January 6 hearing in which January 6 conspiracy theorists attacked DC Police Officer Michael Fanone, who helped protect the Capitol on that infamous day. Texas Paul exposes the roots of these conspiracy movements and why these extremists feel more emboldened than ever.
Meidas contributor and Navy veteran Ken Harbaugh grew up around guns. He is a supporter of the Second Amendment and respects responsible gun ownership. Yet, Harbaugh is sickened by the Second Amendment extremists who have perverted our Constitution and turned our country into an active war zone. In this video, he passionate rebukes the right wing lies that are making our nation less safe.
This is their goal. To shut them down. They don’t care they get arrested; they use it as a badge of honor. This is domestic terrorism. This is their way of taking the LGBTQ+ / Drag queen story hours out of the community and public view. God damn it this has to stop. This is religious terrorism. It ignores the majority that like and approve of these events for their kids. But what place will they hold them in when those places know this will happen or worse these haters will storm the event and the police will not protect them. Is this a land of the free or a fucken theocracy of the rabid right. Where is this great right of freedom the right wing haters want to claim all of us have? Hugs
The business has been experiencing harassment and threats
LAKE IN THE HILLS, Ill. (WLS) — A man has been arrested after UpRising Bakery was vandalized and its family-friendly drag show, set for Saturday, was canceled, Lake in the Hills police said.
At the northwest suburban bakery’s owner said she canceled the event after someone broke the business’ windows and spray-painted slurs on its walls overnight Saturday.
An Algonquin police sergeant saw the suspect flee on foot, authorities said. Joseph I. Collins, 24, was taken into custody at about 12:05 a.m.
Collins’ bond was set at $10,000 and he remains in custody, police said.
The bakery had been experiencing a flurry of online and in-person backlash against the business hosting it.
Since announcing the drag show for all ages, UpRising Bakery and Cafe owner Corinna Sac said she received numerous threats.
“One morning I came in and there was a bag of feces outside. There was a letter taped to the door that said pedophiles work here,” Sac said, recounting just some of the hateful incidents of the past few weeks.
“Someone came in, did a perimeter walk around our cafe, commented on how disgusting and dirty it was, and then spit on our case,” she said recounting another incident.
The baker and mother of two was shocked by the hostility toward her and her business in person and online after she posted about a drag show event she planned to host there this weekend.
“To take a really fun time, like a drag show, and then make it more family-friendly to involve everyone and anyone,” she said.
Now, the Lake in the Hills Police became involved, investigating the threats and working closely with Sac amid potential protests from anti-LGBTQ+ groups this weekend.
“The department will be taking a zero-tolerance approach for those individuals who choose to attend with plans to engage in acts of violence or criminal activity,” police said.
“If this is the hill that we die on, I’m gonna die loud and proud because we’ve always fought and said equality for everyone,” Sac said.
When she still planned for the show to go on, Sac said any accusation of targeting children is completely false.
“We were not targeting kids. We were opening it up to families who felt like (the drag show) was OK for their kids,” she said.
While she said she’s lost customers, Sac is gaining new ones, like Carol White.
“I have a grandson who just came out as trans. He’s 18, and I support him and I support this business. We are gonna be regulars at this restaurant,” White said.
“I just felt so right in my soul, like, standing up to all the online stuff and not letting it bring us down,” Sac said.
Sac has been in regular contact with Lake in the Hills Police. They’ve even added new cameras at the front and back of the property after the in-person harassment. They are also patrolling the property once an hour.
In addition to the groups named below, I’m betting @LibsOfTikTok had a hand in this.
The Drag Brunch at Night at Uprising had been cancelled. The bakery was broken into and vandalized last night. Maybe Awake IL or Proud Boys have some information since they were protesting the event. @FBIChicagopic.twitter.com/ChbLt93V8s
Shannon is using her Moms for Liberty account to suggest that Antifa is behind the attack on Uprising Bakery. Her M4L account also does not deny being part of the threats. pic.twitter.com/BCUoH6mBm3
An Alsip man has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly vandalizing UpRising Bakery and Cafe in Lake in the Hills, causing the owner to cancel a controversial drag show that was planned Saturday evening. https://t.co/ugRjHwNmoL
— Lake & McHenry County Scanner (@LMCScanner) July 23, 2022
All lgbt and lgbt-friendly businesses need to install cams. They aren’t that expensive any more, and these kinds of attacks are going to become more and more common.
A move certain to stoke further talk of Newsom’s larger ambitions.
Newsom has urged national Democrats to be more assertive as the U.S. Supreme Court has erased abortion rights and issued other sweeping rulings. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken out Texas newspaper ads assailing Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in a move certain to spur more chatter about Newsom’s potential presidential ambitions.
Newsom went after Abbott on his home turf weeks after doing the same with Florida television spots excoriating Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The moves intensified Newsom’s longstanding tactic of using red-state foils to extol California’s progressive agenda and amplified talk about Democrats eyeing White House runs as the party frets about President Joe Biden’s sinking poll numbers.
The full-page Texas newspaper advertisements — which ran in the El Paso Times, Houston Chronicle and Austin American-Statesman — edit a quote from Abbott about “the right to life” being lost to “abortions,” inserting the word “gun violence” instead — a direct rebuke to Abbott’s record on two highly charged issues.
Elevating the contrast, Newsom revealed the advertisements on the same morning he planned to sign legislation that allows Californians to sue illegal gun manufacturers. The bill is directly modeled on a Texas bill allowing people to sue abortion providers, and Newsom has framed it as a direct legal challenge to the conservative Supreme Court that allowed the Texas law to stand.
While Newsom has steadfastly denied he has any intention to seek the presidency in 2024, the Florida and Texas spots have allowed him to leap into the national conversation for a negligible cost. Newsom has urged national Democrats to be more assertive as the U.S. Supreme Court has erased abortion rights and issued other sweeping rulings.
The Texas spots cost about $30,000 — a tiny fraction of the more than $20 million Newsom has on hand for a reelection that’s all but assured. As with the Florida spot, Newsom gave an exclusive look at the Texas ads to a national publication in an effort to generate broad coverage.
Biden has been adamant that he will seek another term. But should Biden decide to step aside, Newsom’s path to the White House would likely be obstructed by Vice President Kamala Harris, a fellow Californian who shares a Bay Area base with Newsom.
Newsom spent last week meeting with White House officials and senators in Washington, D.C., where he lambasted Texas and Florida in a speech accepting an education award. He is set to mingle with other governors in Los Angeles on Friday evening for a Democratic Governors Association fundraiser.
Michigan Republican Tudor Dixon has said that instances of rape and incest are ‘perfect examples’ of why the United States is in need of a ban on abortions. Cenk Uygur and Jessica Burbank discuss on The Young Turks.
“Tudor Dixon, a leading Republican candidate for governor of Michigan, confirmed in a recent interview that her opposition to abortion rights extends even to a minor who is raped by a family member.
On an episode of Charlie LeDuff’s talk show, “The No BS Newshour,” that aired Friday, LeDuff pressed Dixon, a conservative commentator and former steel industry executive, on whether her support for a strict abortion ban would apply to the most extreme cases.
By way of example, LeDuff proposed the hypothetical case of a 14-year-old girl who becomes pregnant after her uncle rapes her.
“Yeah, perfect example,” Dixon interjected.
“You’re saying carry that?” LeDuff asked, finishing his question.
Dixon replied that she would expect that girl to carry the baby to term and that she only supports allowing an abortion when a mother’s life is in danger.
“I know people who are the product ― a life is a life for me. That’s how it is,” Dixon concluded.”
The House passed legislation on Thursday which would codify Americans’ right to contraception on the national level, in preparation for the Supreme Court to make it their next target. Cenk Uygur and Jessica Burbank discuss on The Young Turks.
“The House voted 228-195 largely along party lines Thursday to pass legislation to codify the right to contraception nationwide, seeking to protect it from potential Supreme Court intervention.
The Right To Contraception Act, sponsored by Rep. Kathy Manning, D-N.C., would establish a right in federal law for individuals to obtain and use contraceptives. It would also affirm a right for health care providers to provide contraceptives and allow the Justice Department and entities harmed by contraception restrictions to seek enforcement of the right in court.
Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., said the United States is facing “a perilous time, where an extremist Supreme Court and the GOP are rolling back our rights.””
Georgia’s abortion law is taking a step further as they officially recognize fetuses and embryos as people, potentially giving these unborn fetuses greater legal protections than the women carrying them. Cenk Uygur, Jayar Jackson, and Jessica Burbank discuss on The Young Turks.
“Georgia isn’t just the latest state to ban abortion in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s overturn last month. It’s also the latest state to advance one of the anti-abortion movement’s greatest goals: to legally redefine embryos and fetuses as people, granting them rights and protections that may even outstrip those given to pregnant people.
On Wednesday, hours after a federal appeals court paved the way for Georgia to ban most abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy later this summer, the court stepped in yet again and let Georgia’s abortion ban take effect imminently. Abortion access is now gone across almost all of the South and is rapidly disappearing in the Midwest.”
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