Category: Health / Healthcare / Illness / Vaccines
Fox reporter tries to embarrass Biden. It backfires INSTANTLY
Parental control apps are outing kids to their parents & blocking them from LGBTQ resources
A recent study has found that 92% of parental control apps over-block websites, with the most commonly blocked content being those related to LGBTQ identities and sexual health.
The study, from Top10VPN, examined some of the most popular apps available on Google Play, as well as how they handle attempted access to certain websites popular in either the U.S. or U.K.
Some apps, it found, blocked kids from accessing LGBTQ resource websites like Stonewall, the Trevor Project, and It Gets Better, deeming them “adult content.”
What’s more, the study found that most of the apps notify parents when their kids attempt to access a blocked site, which could lead to dangerous situations in which kids are unknowingly outed to their families.
One app, Kaspersky Safekids, even blocked kids from using the search term “LGBTQ” on YouTube. Kaspersky Safekids also blocked searches of “homosexuality,” “safe sex,” “sexual abuse help,” “abortion,” “condom,” and “birth control pill.”
Despite blocking LGBTQ websites and search terms, some of the apps still permitted kids to access sites like OnlyFans, which actually does feature adult content, and allowed for search terms like “buy gun.”
And in only 10% of Top10VPN‘s tests, the parental control apps blocked websites known for the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories.
“The over-censorship of LGBTQ+ content is a well-documented feature of private tech companies’ attempts to filter ‘safe’ content, whether this is done by parental control apps or by platforms themselves,” said Siyang Wei, Policy Coordinator at the U.K.’s LGBT Foundation.
“This not only discriminates against LGBTQ+ content, but prevents young people from accessing information, services, and communities that could be vital to their wellbeing.”
Last year, anthropologist Mary L. Gray warned that artificial intelligence will “always fail LGBTQ people,” along with other marginalized groups. Gray said it will forever be up to human interference to ensure AI is not discriminatory.
“When AI whittles us down to one identity,” Gray said, “We can look at that and say no. I’m more than that.”
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The future of politics looks really bad
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One of the reasons that the roundup takes me so long each day is the distraction I get by arguing with the right wing cult members on the misleading right wing media cartoons. I have stopped replying to or addressing the cultist directly because they simply want to insult or deny reality. But as I look at the cartoon I go down and read the comments. The right wing misleading ones I create a comment, often researching the relevant subject. The replies to my efforts are mostly insulting reality denying crap. So I leave it there for those who read the cartoon comments. What I have found is I get a lot of up votes, a lot of likes by people who agree but have given up trying to fight the aggressive ignorance of the right. Scottie
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Let’s hope he turns out to be as great as Carter. History has shown Cater was a rather good president just not vicious enough to fight underhanded Republicans. Scottie
Not just Jewish life, it is part of the entire society getting more crude, rude, and violent. I figure you can thank the Republican right wing. Scottie
I have been with my husband for 32 years. We are still sexually active thankfully. The government wont let us donate blood no matter the need because we are active homosexuals. It is outright bigotry. Yes they have tried to fudge it here and there, one was saying it was OK if you are not sexually active while the same doesn’t apply to straight people. It is bigotry. Other countries have corrected this, the US has not. I am angry over this openly bigot policy so I wont ever donate again. Yes I used to donate as a young Army man but I quit when this became the policy. Scottie
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
I do not understand the right wing media’s attempts to paint Joe Biden as an authoritarian strong man dictator while also portraying him as a confused tottering old man. The fact is they just need to demonize and smear Biden so their followers will be enraged and vote for Republicans while they also are trying to discourage the left from voting. To this cartoon, how is Biden being a strongman over security? Maybe he is doing what they want with the border, which they claim he has thrown wide open? He can not get Manchin and Sinema to do as he says, how is he a dictator? Scottie
The right wing is terrified that people will realize how close the Republicans are to ending democracy. So they must convince people that Jan 6th was nothing and not one elected official had anything to do with it. The right is hoping to convince people that the only threat to the US is evil brown dark skinned people who practice a different religion than the good white Christians storming capitals and threatening everyone who has an opinion different than theirs. Scottie
It’s hardly a wreck. Country is in fine shape. Most people are better off than a year ago. The Qpublicans want their base to believe otherwise. The previous guy left the train wreck behind like most Republicans do on exiting office, leaving it to adults to clean up the mess.
It’s almost been one year and Republicans have managed to blame Biden for things that happened long before he was President. Rand Paul all edged in questioning Fauci that all 800,000 American COVID deaths occurred during Biden’s presidency. He’s been blamed for all the unemployment that occurred from mid-2019 on. He’s was handed a shit show by the last administration and has handled as well as could be expected. Scottie
Talk about one of these things not like the others. The other were protesting and promoting things that would help others not just themselves. Djokovic is just a selfish egocentric jerk who was caught caring only about himself and possibly actively harming others. Huge difference! Scottie
Would be great if the cartoonist would look into the situation before throwing out a cartoon. The money is going to independent credited assistance agencies that deal directly with the people. Not the Taliban government but the starving people. Also the right has used the starving people as an attack against the Biden administration leaving Afghanistan, now when the same Biden administration tries to help those starving people they are attacked again for that. Seems it has nothing to do with Afghanistan but the goal is to attack Biden. Scottie
I see, calling out racism is dividing the country because the racist don’t like being called out? Tough shit. A large part of the population is people of color. Whites are soon going to be a minority if they are not already. Look bigots hate being called out, they want to shit on those they hate with joy and be proud of it. Look DeathSantis in Florida is asking for a law that makes it illegal to teach anything that makes white kids uncomfortable in school. But black kids are already uncomfortable, they are living in the racism whites deny. Scottie
Very short sighted. While the right likes to pretend that Covid is not a problem so far just in the US nearly 900,000 have died from it in two years. In two years. That is a huge death toll. Omicron might not have the same death stats, but the long term damage to lungs and other organs is the same. Covid is not just get it and get better virus, it has long term health issues. That is the truth that people ignore at their own peril. Scottie
Dr Fauci has extensive education in the medical fields related to viruses and their spread in society. He has 36 years of public service using his knowledge to advice and protect the US population from viruses and diseases. Most of his critics do not have anywhere near his education level to even begin to understand what he can read and evaluate yet they think they are his equal in knowledge. It is silly to think that watching Fox News or reading Breitbart makes you qualified to dispute or even disagree with Dr. Fauci’s assessment. It is like saying you watched a YouTube video on changing a tire so you can do open heart surgery. Scottie
As we prepare to face the twin disasters of record-low unemployment and all-but-record-high job growth, the right trembles in fear. President Biden has made sure vaccines are available for everyone in the USA. Mask mandates have been made difficult to impossible by Republican political hack judges on the Supreme Court. Deathsantis in Florida and other Governors in ‘Red’ states have all but guaranteed the death of many of their constituents. It’s deplorable that the Republicans do everything they can do to encourage their voters not to wear masks and get vaccinated, then have the audacity to blame Biden for the decisions they made? Pathetic.
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: There is a better way, other countries have shown us but our elected officials are already too bought to allow us to have it
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Billionaires stole your surplus labor value. They are not simply going to give it back.
Conservatives are full of shame. Rather than deal/process the shame, they convert it to hate.
They punch down, they drag others to feel better about themselves.
The hate is so much a part of their white identity, they must negate all black humanity [and black excllence] to perpetuate their insecurities and bigotries.
Learn about their past? No way. Negate it.
Also Republicans: we are the victims of racism.
Republicans have perfected performative politics and grandstanding. Anything to avoid change. Anything to insulate whiteness.
They know what they are. They know how to be silent in the face of injustice.
Rather than take refuge behind the 1st Amendment and claim that the riot was not a part of the protest, Ginni is defending the riot.
We are country under the abuse of capitalism.
Some of us want out of the relationship, while others can’t quit their codependency with capitalism’s racism, misogyny, and greed.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
While I agree that some of us on the lower economic rungs need more government assistance, this cartoonist is one of the very far right wing that hammers Biden for any spending to help people. So I have to ask why is the cartoonist trying to have it both ways, and the answer is just to have something to attack Biden with. It doesn’t matter that it doesn’t match the other attacks on Biden, for the right wing the point is the attack. Scottie
This cartoon shows how little the right cares about truth or reality. Everything mentioned here is incorrect and a lie. Not that the right wing cult followers care. The puppy attack was proven false, the NIH did not pay for the part of the study with the puppies heads in flea tanks. In fact the NIH tried hard to get that part of the study illuminated, backing out of the study when they were ignored. He never lied to congress. The people accusing him of that are not qualified to make that charge. Oh yes they claim they are, just as Hannity and Tucker claim they are qualified to assess Covid treatments and vaccines, but they are not. Scientists have reviewed the charges and the studies involved and they say it is not a gain of function advance the US part paid for. Some one else may have done it, but the US did not pay for it as Rand Paul charges so he can fund raise off it. The right wing media has ginned up outrage and attacks Dr. Fauci because they can not attack the science and protective measures he presents and advocates for. If you can not attack the message, they want to kill the messenger. Scottie
Great gravy the right wing would love that. They are struggling to attack Biden on real issues. Oh well they plan to steal the future elections anyway, and claim any election they lost were stolen from them. In Florida the Republican lost and the Democrat won by a nearly 80% margin, yet the Republican refused to concede, and started claiming the election was rigged and stolen. The Republican play book is to call any election they lose stolen and illegitimate. For them and their members only Republicans can be elected fairly, only when they win is the election legitimate. That is not democracy. Scottie
As we prepare to face the twin disasters of record-low unemployment and all-but-record-high job growth, Al Goldwyn trembles in fear.
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Comatose Anti-Vax Man Flown To Texas Hospital After Minnesota Hospital Decided To Pull The Plug
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports:
Scott Quiner, 55, of Buffalo, was flown from the Twin Cities to Texas over the weekend, an attorney representing the family said. Scott Quiner’s case drew widespread attention last week after Mercy Hospital said it would disconnect the ventilator on Thursday. Quiner, who was unvaccinated, had been in the hospital’s ICU since Nov. 6 with critically low oxygen levels and had shown little signs of improvement since his arrival.
Quiner’s wife, Anne, went to Anoka County court seeking an emergency restraining order to prevent Mercy from disconnecting the ventilator. Without a judge’s decision, “my husband will die,” Anne wrote in her petition seeking the court’s action. A GoFundMe has pulled in more than $28,600 as of Monday morning. A second fundraiser on the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo was seeking to raise $100,000. As of Monday, the effort had brought in $41,000.
Read the full article.
As you can see below, among those riling up the rubes in this case is anti-vax extremist and QAnon leader Stew Peters. That’s Peters in the first clip below.
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: people on disability are not causing your problems, the wealthy pushing their tax burdens on to you are your problem
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Culture wars are the oxygen of capitalists.
The root of our problems is corporate greed.
The most common comorbidity is poverty.
We need the language to deconstruct late stage capitalism. You can’t change what you can’t describe or understand.
https://twitter.com/crgulla/status/1482072525676892171?s=20
1000%. Republican rhetoric is useless. They will say/do anything to give themselves power.
Spare us the “bipartisan” hand-wringing.
Republicans are the party of theft. They all know voter suppression and gerrymandering are about stealing elections. They know the audits were about stealing elections. They know slowing the Post Office was about stealing elections.
The complicity and gaslighting, vis a vis, ‘stop the steal’, represent manifest diseased GOP morals/ethics.
Law and order is a white supremacist construct.
Notice it includes the wrong Douglass and the correct one is spelled with only on S. Scottie
https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1481323276462968834?s=20
‘Knowing you are the problem, then blaming others’ is the conservative mission statement.
The malfeasance is manifest.
Coming soon. But what people forget is that those cases some are going to get really sick from Covid, they are going to incur large medical bills, and a lot of them will die. Is that the future the anti-vax groups want? Just a roll of the dice if you go bankrupt or die? How many deaths will be enough when nearly 900,000 are not? Scottie
*in order to protect our strong men- we must drink pee and show our indoctrination*
We should not be shrugging off long-term risks.
It’s a cult.
This tracks.
Aggressively wrong
The double standards are everywhere.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
History has shown that left to their desires the states will infringe on rights granted by the federal constitution. Yes the constitution is the founding document that provides the structure the US is built on. When rights that should be enjoyed by all are with held or restricted to some, the federal government must act to restore them. Plus some elections are federal elections and so should be standard across all states as with other interstate laws. Again that is provided for in the constitution. If you take out the right wing media attempts to stir up their base’s emotions you can see that this is something that has happened before and should happen again. The federal government is doing its job to address a problem across state lines and to ensure equal protection under the 14th amendment. Scottie
Have these people seen Biden’s 36 years in government service? He is a center right leaning politician who has more than once advocated cutting social security payment, assistance to the poor, being tough on crime, in favor of keeping cannabis illegal, and refusing to eliminate student debt even though some of these things helps the economy immensely. Biden is no lefty, no progressive, but he is a corporate democrat. Biden is beholden to the wealthy corporations and is willing to do mostly as they wish as they wish. The reason Biden has been pushing for policies that the right wing media call progressive is they help both the country and the wealthy / big businesses. But the right has to be against anything that Biden is for so they create a false scare tactic against even stuff they supported just a few years ago, such as voting rights reform. History and truth are pesky things the right wing media is trying to avoid. Scottie
According to 2019 FBI data, seven out of ten states with the highest per-capita rates of violent crime voted Republican in the 2020 election. In contrast, seven out of ten states with the lowest rates voted Democrat. However, the District of Columbia had the highest rate despite voting blue. Mississippi has the highest murder rate, I hear it is a deep red state. Facts matter. The cartoon is just an attempt to play on fear and keep outrage going in the right wing base. Scottie
https://repustar.com/fact-briefs/do-red-states-rank-higher-in-violent-crime-rates-than-blue-states
CRT is simply a dog whistle for the right so I will ignore its use here. MLK’s words are as appropriate for today as they were back when he issued them. What is discouraging is the US has regressed on the gains in civil rights that King fought for. The US has not only stopped moving forward to eliminate pervasive racism but again has one political wing actively trying to promote it. He was right about the lack of support and work needed by moderate white people to change the discriminatory nature of the country. Scottie
Youngkin is dividing Virginia by pushing the false idea that CRT is being taught in its schools. Goodwyn prefers the old Texas schoolbooks which told that the slaves were happy being told what to do. White people afraid of facing the truth will be the downfall of this country. Not a joke. A Virginia Republican legislator introduced a bill requiring public schools to teach students about the Lincoln – Douglass debates. Frederick Douglass.
Youngkin banned the teaching of Critical Race Theory (although it is not being taught). Youngkin did not ban the teaching of Replacement Theory. Make of it what you will.
Teachers now have to fear if they say anything critical about; slavery, Jim Crow, lynching they will be fired. If Little Johnny goes home and says Mr Jones said in history class that slaves were considered subhuman and often flogged and his Great, Great,Great, Great Grandfather got rich off their labor-Mr Jones is teaching CRT and should be fired. Protecting our children from an imaginary CRT agenda, killing our children by lifting mask mandates during a lethal pandemic. Not the least bit divisive. Next we’ll have bodycams on teachers to prevent the spread of seditious knowledge. Scottie
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Drowning in swamp of lies: Acosta on Trump and his allies
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Owning The Lib’s Equals Victory!
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Owning The Libs Equals Victory!
No surprise that Lisa Benson, in her typically uneducated ignorance of economic context, wants to focus on the single factor of inflation — the TEMPORARY imbalance of supply with regard to consumer demand — caused by Trump’s devastation of our trade policy, tariff policy, infrastructure neglect and mishandling of the pandemic instead of the long-range booming consumer confidence, strong wage growth, plummeting unemployment, the most jobs created in the first year of a new president EVER in history, investment and capital markets finishing the year at record highs and a strong economic outlook due to infrastructure gains.
The only flaw in Democratic economic policy is their failure to communicate the current strength of the economy and the fast pace of recovery that results in inflation as recovery and demand outpace supply.
But then, unlike conservatives, we don’t have our own 100% wholly-owned captive media like Faux “News,” NoiseMax or OAN, and even the supposedly “mainstream” media, while it does strive towards a standard of journalistic balance, is 100% owned — every single major media outlet, whether broadcast, cable or print — by very wealthy billionaires and corporations representing the special interests of the wealthiest elites who want to hang onto their economic power.
Price gouging and profit taking are a large cause of the current inflation. Businesses are trying to make more money as they do at the cost of the people suffering. This is win win for large or wealthy businesses. While small businesses are going under more money for the large ones. They get more money, more power, more help from the governments, the only ones getting less are the people. Scottie
Businesses created the model that is the biggest contributor to this problem so they could make more profit. In the old days where product and service meant more than profit manufacturers would have a supply of what they needed to make a product readily stored for use. The makers of a item would stock the items parts in a warehouse. the ones that make the parts would have a supply of their needs, all up and down the chain. But in worshiping the god of more profit they got rid of the warehouses and extra inventory, instead going to a system of timed deliveries. Works great if the deliveries are on time no delays. But when there is a problem then the entire system shuts down. Locally the grocery story nearest me me had empty shelves in some spots. While other stores of their same company had those products with full shelves. I checked. Turned out the problem was a hold up in the shipments directed to their store and they had no back of the store storage to hold any amount of supply in. That equaled empty shelves but more profit because when they built the store they did not need to add the cost of the storage area, nor the costs to maintain it, fill it, use it, so on. The cult leader may be tRump but the long time god is profit at all costs.
The American People are all in favor of Biden’s agenda but the rich business owners are not.
Misleading right wing media! Plus notice they want her to wear really short skirts like the Fox News demanded of their female hosts. Scottie
https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1481323276462968834?s=20
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
“The clogged polling locations in metro Atlanta reflect an underlying pattern: the number of places to vote has shrunk statewide, with little recourse. Although the reduction in polling places has taken place across racial lines, it has primarily caused long lines in nonwhite neighborhoods where voter registration has surged and more residents cast ballots in person on Election Day.”
For Republicans that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Why so much skepticism and/or opposition to the most fundamental right in our democracy — the Right to Vote!
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I love banjo music! Scottie
Scottie's Playtime 
President Biden has made sure vaccines are available for everyone in the USA. Mask mandates have been made difficult to impossible by Republican political hack judges on the Supreme Court. Deathsantis in Florida and other Governors in ‘Red’ states have all but guaranteed the death of many of their constituents. It’s deplorable that the Republicans do everything they can do to encourage their voters not to wear masks and get vaccinated, then have the audacity to blame Biden for the decisions they made? Pathetic. tRump murdered nearly 700,000 Americans through his incompetent handling of the pandemic. A pandemic he worsened. Biden has deal with a majority of Americans who wear masks and get vaccinated AND the idiot tRumpanzees (who are the ones dying in the hospitals). Scottie