Texas Karen calls cops over gay graphic novel

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/texas-karen-calls-cops-gay-graphic-novel/

I am other people have been saying since the start of the anti-LGBTQ+ stuff in schools this was about making the LGBTQ+ and every mention of us go away just like in Russia / China / Islamic countries. These people think that by doing this we LGBTQ+ people will disappear also. If not, they will ban us also again like in Russia / China /Islamic countries. One person feels entitled to ban everyone from reading this book. This entitlement and hate is driven by the top republican elected officials in the state. While this story is from Texas it is happening in Florida and other red states. These people will come after others not like them, the jews, Muslims, or other sects of Christianity when they get rid of the LGBTQ+. Think how much hate and privilege has been given to these haters in just a few years. I could list the reasons the republicans are pushing this hate and why the base is loving it but I have covered it many times before. Hugs

She’d already filed complaints about the book with the school district, but wasn’t satisfied with the outcome. She wanted to speak to a manager.

By Greg OwenTuesday, August 23, 2022

A police officer in Katy, Texas recently removed a copy of Mike Curato’s Flamer, a gay YA graphic novel, from a high school library shelf in the small town near Houston.

And then he put it back.

The school district kerfuffle was instigated by a local book-banning Karen, who remains anonymous.

The woman claimed the coming-of-age story, with a publisher’s recommended reading age of 14+ or with adult guidance, was “pornographic” and “harmful” to minors.

According to a Katy Independent School District police report, the one-woman dust-up started July 21 when she arrived at police headquarters (Texas school districts maintain their own police forces).

She complained that Katy ISD was violating Texas penal code 43.24, which “prohibits the sale, distribution or display of harmful material to minors,” because the book was available in high school libraries.

The woman said she’d already filed complaints about the book with the school district, but wasn’t satisfied with the outcome.

She wanted to speak to a manager.

Curato’s Flamer is a semi-autobiographical story about a boy navigating friendship and bullying at summer camp. It won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature and made Texas’ own 2021 Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List of the Texas Library Association, among many other accolades.

The book had already been reviewed by a school district committee in March, and deemed appropriate for high-schoolers.

According to the police report, the woman said her complaint originated at Jordan High School in Katy, but the book was also in other high schools, so she wanted to “extend the grievance” to the entire district.

“Per Governor Abbott and the TEA, the book ‘Flamer’ should have been removed from KISD library shelves but it still remains,” the woman said in a follow-up email to police. “The KISD Police Report will be sent to the Texas Rangers office.”

According to Maria Corrales DiPetta, general manager of media relations for the district, that’s when a Katy ISD officer “checked out” the book as part of the investigation.

The school’s principal “explained that when ‘Flamer’ was initially complained on [sic], it was pulled from school library shelves, reviewed, permanently removed from junior high libraries, and then returned to high school libraries upon being deemed appropriate for high school,” the police report states.

A district deputy superintendent provided documents from the review process.

Katy ISD police deemed the Karen’s claim “unsubstantiated”.

“The book has gone through multiple review processes by the district, including one with a committee made up of librarians, parents, and teachers, and deemed appropriate for high school libraries,” the report reads. “The complainant also still has the opportunity to take her complaint before the KISD board.” Again.

A Houston Chronicle analysis found that in Katy ISD, 104 books were reviewed and 43 were removed or partially removed since 2018, making it one of the most restrictive school districts in the state.

Documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago were among government’s most classified, letter shows

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/23/national-archives-letter-trump-security-00053250

In the letter, posted on a Trump-aligned journalist’s website, the National Archives pushed back on Trump’s privilege claims.

A person walks past the United States National Archives building on Oct. 26, 2017, in Washington. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images

By KYLE CHENEY

08/23/2022 01:09 AM EDT

The National Archives found more than 700 pages of classified material — including “special access program materials,” some of the most highly classified secrets in government — in 15 boxes recovered from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in January, according to correspondence between the National Archivist and his legal team.

The May 10 letter — posted late Monday on the website of John Solomon, a conservative journalist and one of Trump’s authorized liaisons to the National Archives to review papers from his presidency — showed that NARA and federal investigators had grown increasingly alarmed about potential damage to national security caused by the warehousing of these documents at Mar-a-Lago, as well as by Trump’s resistance to sharing them with the FBI.

These records included 700 pages of classified material, according to the letter, sent by National Archivist Debra Wall to Trump’s attorney, Evan Corcoran, and it doesn’t include records recovered by the Justice Department and FBI during a June meeting and the Aug. 11 search of the Mar-a-Lago premises.

Wall’s letter describes earlier correspondence in which Trump’s team objected to disclosing the contents of the 15 boxes to the FBI.

“As you are no doubt aware, NARA had ongoing communications with the former President’s representatives throughout 2021 about what appeared to be missing Presidential records, which resulted in the transfer of 15 boxes of records to NARA in January 2022,” Wall wrote. “In its initial review of materials within those boxes, NARA identified items marked as classified national security information, up to the level of Top Secret and including Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Program materials.”

NARA aides did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter, and Corcoran could not immediately be reached.

The correspondence shows that even though NARA retrieved the 15 boxes in January, Justice Department and FBI investigators didn’t see their contents until May, after extended negotiations with Trump’s representatives. The letter also shows that in the interim, DOJ asked President Joe Biden to authorize NARA to provide the records to investigators despite an effort by Trump to claim executive privilege over the records. Wall indicated she had rejected Trump’s claim because of the significance of the documents to national security.

“NARA informed the Department of Justice about that discovery, which prompted the Department to ask the President to request that NARA provide the FBI with access to the boxes at issue so that the FBI and others in the Intelligence Community could examine them,” Wall wrote.

Biden, according to Wall, then delegated the privilege decision to her, in consultation with the Justice Department.

Wall noted that typical restrictions on access to presidential records carve out an exception for incumbent administrations. And she described an April 29 letter from DOJ’s National Security Division describing their pursuit of these documents: “There are important national security interests in the FBI and others in the Intelligence Community getting access to these materials.”

“Access to the materials is not only necessary for purposes of our ongoing criminal investigation, but the Executive Branch must also conduct an assessment of the potential damage resulting from the apparent manner in which these materials were stored and transported and take any necessary remedial steps,” according to the DOJ letter. “Accordingly, we are seeking immediate access to these materials so as to facilitate the necessary assessments that need to be conducted within the Executive Branch.”

Wall indicated that Archives had notified Trump on April 12 of the FBI’s “urgency” to review the documents but delayed transmitting them at the behest of Trump’s team.

“It has now been four weeks since we first informed you of our intent to provide the FBI access to the boxes so that it and others in the Intelligence Community can conduct their reviews,” Wall wrote. “ Notwithstanding the urgency conveyed by the Department of Justice and the reasonable extension afforded to the former President, your April 29 letter asks for additional time for you to review the materials in the boxes ‘in order to ascertain whether any specific document is subject to privilege,’ and then to consult with the former President “so that he may personally make any decision to assert a claim of constitutionally based privilege.’”

Wall said she consulted with the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel and had decided not honor that request.

“The question in this case is not a close one,” she wrote.

“The Executive Branch here is seeking access to records belonging to, and in the custody of, the Federal Government itself, not only in order to investigate whether those records were handled in an unlawful manner but also, as the National Security Division explained, to ‘conduct an assessment of the potential damage resulting from the apparent manner in which these materials were stored and transported and take any necessary remedial steps.’”

Texas Paul REACTS to Louisiana forcing woman to carry a fetus WITHOUT A SKULL to Term

Super important to watch! This video puts the abortion cost to women in perspective and shows the arrogance of the no abortion crowd. now something I want to say not addressed in this video or any other I have seen. What no one who is talking about this is addressing is the economics of it. This woman and her husband must pay all the hospital costs for delivering a baby that won’t live. That cannot live. The equivalent of being forced to pay for a car that cannot ever run, then dispose of it at your own expense. Then because the baby was born, they must hold some funeral or burial ceremony right? Cannot just toss it in the toxic waste bin, so someone must bear all those costs. Then think of the damn emotional toll. Remember this woman and her husband wanted to have this child, they were trying to have a healthy kid. If it was me I wouldn’t ever try again after this. Tie the tubes and snip the testis. Hugs

A Louisiana hospital is refusing a women’s request to abort a fetus without a skull. This is the latest horrific consequence of the draconian laws passed by Republicans in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Texas Paul reacts.