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Recently I have been suffering, the news is dark and I am again having … triggers of my past. At times when I sleep I am struggling with dreams about my abusers. Not about the abuse so much but just with them in the dreams threatening me. Thankfully after disclosing my full abuse to Ron I could talk to him. He has two solutions. First he thinks the news about the resurgence of tRump is part of the problem because tRump was like my adoptive father, only my adoptive father was far more hands on violent. So Ron wants me to take a couple of days, and ignore the news that day. Instead we have Netflix, HBO, and Amazon Prime Video and he wants me that day to watch videos and not look at any news or even the blog. I think he is correct. The other day I watched 20 minutes of a Picard show on Prime and was so happy, then crashed and went to bed. I am thinking Sunday is the best day to do this. Why. I normally set Sunday morning aside to watch on air broadcasts of the Sunday news shows. But for a long while it has become clear they cater to the republicans and attack the democrats, and the coverage after the debate was so stupid I did not even watch it. All Biden bad, but no mention of the failing tRump.
The question. Days of mental health. Oh had a great visit with my new doctor, when I told him of my abuse he totally understood. Took great pains to explain ever touch and when I flinched stepped back and asked if I needed him to stop. I like him.
So what days and how many should I forget news, forget the blog, and watch fun stuff? I want one, Ron suggests two. Yes he and I tried the after 7 no news or blog … but that did not work when I started getting up at two or three in the morning and going to bed before 7 pm. I have a thing about the ever coming in posts from other people I like, I feel driven to read them, I like them. So I think Sunday. Ron would prefer two days one during the week … But that is the most busy news times. Anyway, I told him I would ask you guys. Yes it seems silly now that I think about it, why ask people online what days I should take off, … but that is the blogging life, right? The truth is the news is depressing, I have a history of abuse that can lead to bad thoughts and so to depression. Ron has seen a decline in me that he wants to stop. He knows I will not stop watching news, but he knows I love movies and Star Trek shows. His solution is one or two days a week … only fun stuff, no blogging or news reading. What do you guys think? Sunday was the first time in weeks I got everything cleared before going to bed, so Instead maybe Saturday. I know if I take a day off or two, I will miss stuff, might lose stuff. But it might be OK. Also I agreed with Ron that we could start going out to eat something that we have not done since 2020. OK I am beating a dead horse here because I don’t want to admit he might be correct. I guess on the other computer I might put … oh heck, more YouTube as I am way behind. So many videos, so little time I can sit in this chair. Hugs. Scottie
Trump’s Second Term: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Damn important post. Thank you TG at Mock Paper Scissors
Let’s talk about the GOP, IVF, and the playbook….
Let’s talk about Trump’s claims about Biden….
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VIRAL VIDEO: Moms For Liberty Leader Has Screaming Meltdown Over Group Of Drag Queens In Hawaii Hotel
Talk of self entitled importance. By my dogs that love gravy you have to watch the videos. This woman is so over the top that if she was doing this to any other group it would have been thought an SNL skit. If she had been acting like this to black people, Hindus, or Muslims, no one would have accepted it. Sh was screaming in peoples faces and demanding their names. She is a total stranger acting as if she has some type of authority over other paying guests. If she had done that to me she sure wouldn’t have liked my reaction. Scottie wouldn’t have been so nice as the drag queens. The drag queens were guests of the hotel filming there and they got treated horribly by this woman. Yet she claims to be the victim. She went after them, she got in their faces not once but several times filming them, insulting them, accusing them of wanting to chop her son’s penis off. The hotel staff did try to stop her but acted like they were afraid of her or to get too forceful with her and she just went around them or ignored them. Then she continued her lecture and screed to the police when they were escorting her off the hotel grounds. She continued her triad and even accused one of the police officers of being a trans woman, she called the woman a man. She was an attention seeker and did not care who she hurt to get her fix of attention. And her X posts are full of lies and myths about trans people, including something she claimed at the hotel. She said that after sexual reassignment and I think she meant transitioning also, that suicides go way up. In fact studies have proven they decrease greatly after transitioning or having gender affirming medical care. But again facts mean nothing to these haters. Hugs. Scottie
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The Sacramento Bee reports:
UC Davis published a statement Tuesday about “offensive comments” made by employee Beth Bourne while she was on a family vacation in Hawaii.
Bourne, the local chapter president for parents rights group Moms for Liberty, posted a video of herself confronting a group of drag queens who were filming a video at the hotel Bourne was staying in, the Alohilani Resort in Waikiki, on Sunday.
“We reject all manifestations of discrimination, including those based on gender and gender expression,” the university’s statement said. The video shows Bourne verbally accosting the people dressed in drag, including drag queen Marina Del Rey.
Newsweek reports:
In the video, Bourne took aim at the drag queens as she accused the hotel of failing to provide a safe environment for her son.
“I’m sorry, but this is—I paid to be a customer at a hotel where I thought you believed that women were real. That because you put on makeup, because you’re wearing high heels, because you have a Barbie outfit on, that you don’t think this is degrading? This is misogyny,” Bourne said addressing the drag queens.
She added, addressing a hotel representative: “If you give me back my money right now, I will leave the hotel, but I’m not going to have my children come down from the 30th floor and see what’s happening here.” According to Bourne’s X bio, she claims without evidence that “1/22 kids is trans” at UC Davis, adding that her views are “mine, not my employer.”
Yahoo News reports:
“This type of behavior is unacceptable,” Hawaii Democratic Governor Josh Green said in a statement Monday. “It is not aloha and we will not tolerate it from anyone.”
As the videos continued to garner views, social media users began tagging UC Davis, Bourne’s employer, demanding she be fired. Bourne works at the university’s Institute for Transportation Studies.
“I’m used to my colleagues thinking I’m a terrible person,” Bourne told The Bee in an April story about Bourne and her estranged trans child. The university said that Bourne’s comments “are protected by the First Amendment,” but that the school condemns them nonetheless.
Videos of the incident together have nearly ten million views at this writing. I encourage you to watch both of activist Tizzy Ent’s clips in full.
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TX Abortion Ban Linked To Spike In Newborn Deaths
NBC News reports:
A Texas law that banned abortions in early pregnancy is associated with a stark increase in infant and newborn deaths, a study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics found.
Lawmakers passed Texas Senate Bill 8, or SB8, in September 2021. The state law banned abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as five weeks. This effectively banned abortion in the state, which used to allow abortion up to 22 weeks of pregnancy.
The law did not include exemptions for congenital anomalies, including conditions that will cause a newborn to die soon after birth. Infant deaths in Texas rose by nearly 13% the year after SB8 was passed, from 1,985 in 2021 to 2,240 in 2022. During that same period, infant deaths rose by about 2% nationwide.
USA Today reports:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office did not dispute the study’s findings but defended the Republican-controlled state’s anti-abortion record. This effort included the 2021 heartbeat law “to save the innocent unborn, and now thousands of children have been given a chance at life,” Andrew Mahaleris, a spokesperson for Abbott, said in a statement to USA TODAY.
He said the governor has taken “significant action to protect the sanctity of life” and offered resources to expectant mothers “so they can choose life for their child.”
Anti-abortion advocates also didn’t contest the uptick in infant deaths cited in the study. Advocates for the heartbeat law and other legislation to restrict abortions say such bans protect life. They say terminating a fetus with a terminal illness is “choosing to kill that child intentionally.” However, the overwhelming majority of such abortions happen before the fetus is viable.
New: Infant deaths rose after Texas’ 2021 heartbeat law restricted abortions before the SCOTUS Dobbs decision two years ago, per a JAMA Pediatrics study published today out of @JohnsHopkinsSPH. Texas anti-abortion activists don’t dispute the findings. https://t.co/xeNpxrNk1n
— Eduardo Cuevas (@eduardomcuevas) June 24, 2024
It is not, and never has been, about “protecting human life.” As always, it is about controlling the bodies and lives of others.
Which is why they’re not going after men getting vasectomies.
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