But it is the gay and trans people that are the sexual perverts? Seems to me if we have to ban straight men from being on airplanes because they are unable to control themselves around women and in public.
Antonio Sherrodd McGarity tried to claim he didn’t do anything wrong and in fact “thought it was kind of kinky,” court documents allege.
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A man on a Southwest Airlines flight from Seattle to Phoenix is facing federal charges for pulling down his pants and masturbating at least four times in front of a female passenger, beginning shortly after takeoff, according to a criminal complaint first obtained by The Daily Beast.
Antonio Sherrodd McGarity was arrested by officers from the Phoenix Police Department when Southwest flight 3814 landed at Sky Harbor International Airport on Saturday, the complaint states. However, McGarity told cops that he didn’t do anything wrong and in fact “thought it was kind of kinky,” it says.
The incident started early on in the three-hour flight, when McGarity commenced his indelicate behavior, the filing alleges.
“McGarity was seated in seat 11F and the female witness was seated in seat 11E,” the complaint states. “Shortly after taking off, and while the aircraft was in the air, McGarity exposed his penis by pulling down his pants and shorts and began masturbating.”
When the female seated next to him noticed the lewd behavior, she began taking pictures of McGarity. When he fell asleep after masturbating for roughly an hour, the female passenger told a crew member about what she had witnessed and was allowed to move to another seat.
U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
The complaint states that when the Southwest Airlines flight landed, Phoenix Police officers interviewed the woman, who reiterated she had seen McGarity masturbating “on four separate occasions, using both his left and right hands.”
McGarity was also interviewed by FBI agents, who allegedly admitted to his in-flight behavior.
“McGarity advised he asked the female witness if she minded if he masturbates,” the complaint states. “According to McGarity, the female witness put her hands in the air and said, ‘it really doesn’t matter.’”
McGarity thought the response was “kind of kinky” and believed the female was comfortable with him masturbating, the complaint adds.
In a statement to The Daily Beast, a Southwest spokesperson said McGarity had been slapped with a lifetime ban.
“On April 2, we received reports of inappropriate Customer behavior on flight 3814 from SEA to PHX. The situation was reported to Crewmembers while inflight, and the Captain contacted law enforcement to meet the aircraft upon arrival,” the airline said. “We immediately placed the passenger on our No-Fly List, resulting in a lifetime ban from traveling on Southwest.”
It was not immediately clear if McGarity had retained a lawyer.
A former Trump administration official now running for Congress in New Hampshire voted twice during the 2016 primary election season, potentially violating federal voting law and leaving him at odds with the Republican Party’s intense focus on “election integrity.”
Matt Mowers, a leading Republican primary candidate looking to unseat Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, cast an absentee ballot in New Hampshire’s 2016 presidential primary, voting records show. At the time, Mowers served as the director of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s presidential campaign.
Four months later, after Christie’s bid fizzled, Mowers cast another ballot in New Jersey’s Republican presidential primary, using his parents’ address to re-register in his home state, documents The Associated Press obtained through a public records request show.
Read the full article. Mowers also ran for the US House in 2020, losing to Pappas by five points. Below is his Bridgegate testimony.
NEW: Matt Mowers, a Trump WH official now running for Congress in New Hampshire, voted twice during the 2016 primary season, potentially violating voting law and leaving him at odds with the GOP’s intense focus on “election integrity.” w/ @hramer https://t.co/b8iWZ14dh5
In Congress, I will always stand strong with our law enforcement community – not use our police as a political punching bag like Chris Pappas. #NHPolitics#NH01https://t.co/dXiuSZpSSE
2022 Watch: @NikkiHaley -in New Hampshire-on why she's backing @mowers in the crowded #GOP primary in #NH01 -a key swing congressional district- "I just don’t want someone who can win. I want someone who when they win, they’re going to prove they deserve to be there" #NHPoliticspic.twitter.com/JtbyD8RwGv
Get excited! We are headed to New Hampshire in support of @Mowers on Monday. We are fighting to renew the strength of America. Hope you will join us! 🇺🇸 #LiveFreeOrDiehttps://t.co/FvlRVRoKnR
Stopped by Sacred Heart Church in Laconia this afternoon for Ash Wednesday. Wishing a prayerful and peaceful Lenten season to all who celebrate. #NHPolitics#NH01pic.twitter.com/qWeAPnP6PC
Republican 1st Congressional District candidate Matt Mowers is facing questions about his voting record after documents show he voted in the 2016 presidential primary in New Hampshire and New Jersey. Mowers said his two votes were perfectly legal.
“I voted in total compliance with the law,” he said. “I voted here in New Hampshire in the presidential primary when I was living in Manchester, and in a totally separate election — totally separate election — while living where I was working in the New York area, because remember, I was working out of Trump Tower,” Mowers said.
Under New Hampshire’s law prohibiting double voting, if the election in New Hampshire and the election in another state are held on different dates and a person legitimately moves their domicile between the two states, they are in the clear. So, the federal law would be more in question in this case.
Read the full article. As you’ll see in the second clip, Mowers’ opponents are calling for him to drop out.
In an interview with @MikeCherryWMUR, @mowers indicates he voted a 2nd time in the 2016 presidential primaries to help then-candidate Donald Trump: "…if you remember, there was a time when the establishment was trying to deny him the nomination…" #NH01#NHPolitics#WMURpic.twitter.com/4gieoVYcc2
Republican officials are so determined to transform voter fraud from a flimsy pretense for suppressing votes to an actual phenomenon, they keep committing it themselves.https://t.co/cTAQSQn98N
If they are not of straight White Anglo Saxon Protestant stock, or something similar, Republicans are terrified of them. I thought the only news story recently was that the far right was annoyed beyond belief that Disney was “normalizing LGTBQ” and recognizing that there are more families than the typical white family with a father, mother, and two children. Nobody, including Disney is afraid of or disdainful of traditional families. Accepting non-traditional families and treating them with respect TAKES NOTHING away from traditional families!!!! The fear is only coming from the ones who want want to go back to the days when all they saw was people who looked like, sounded like and worshiped just like them — with everyone else hidden in the shadows.
The Oklahoma House gave final legislative approval on Tuesday to a bill that would make performing an abortion a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
With little discussion and no debate, the Republican-controlled House voted 70-14 to send the bill to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who has previously said he’d sign any anti-abortion bill that comes to his desk.
The Oklahoma bill, which passed the Senate last year, makes an exception only for an abortion performed to save the life of the mother, said GOP state Rep. Jim Olsen, of Roland, who sponsored the bill. Under the bill, a person convicted of performing an abortion would face up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
Stitt, who contracted COVID in July 2020, announced a statewide day of fasting and prayer against COVID in December 2020.
On his inauguration day in January 2019, he declared that the primary mission of his administration would be to “bring people to Jesus.”
In April 2021, he signed into law a bill that legalizes running over protesters. Which is what Jesus would want.
Oklahoma House gave 70-14 approval to bill that would make performing an abortion a felony. Bill passed with little discussion and no debate. Passage comes as a "Bans Off Oklahoma" rally is being held at the Capitol in support of abortion rights. https://t.co/tzT2HTGfvi
The Oklahoma House gave final legislative approval on Tuesday to a bill that would make performing an abortion a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
With little discussion and no debate, the Republican-controlled House voted 70-14 to send the bill to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who has previously said he’d sign any anti-abortion bill that comes to his desk.
The bill is one of several anti-abortion measures still alive in Oklahoma’s Legislature this year, part of a trend of GOP-led states passing aggressive anti-abortion legislation as the conservative U.S. Supreme Court is considering ratcheting back abortion rights that have been in place for nearly 50 years.
The Oklahoma bill, which passed the Senate last year, makes an exception only for an abortion performed to save the life of the mother, said GOP state Rep. Jim Olsen, of Roland, who sponsored the bill. Under the bill, a person convicted of performing an abortion would face up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
“The penalties are for the doctor, not for the woman,” Olsen said.
Similar anti-abortion bills approved by the Oklahoma Legislature in recent years have been stopped by the courts as unconstitutional.
“These legislators have continued their relentless attacks on our freedoms,” said Emily Wales, interim president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes. “These restrictions are not about improving the safety of the work that we do. They are about shaming and stigmatizing people who need and deserve abortion access.”
Wales said Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinic in Oklahoma has seen an 800% increase in the number of women from Texas after that state passed the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the U.S. in decades.
The Texas law that took effect last year bans abortion once cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, without exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
Also Tuesday, the Oklahoma House adopted a resolution to recognize lives lost due to abortion and urge citizens to fly flags at half-staff on Jan. 22, the day the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in its landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.
This morning I was listening to a podcast doing an interview with an abortion provider from Texas. She was talking of serval patients she needed to get out of Texas immediately because their lives were in danger. In one case the fetus had died and was killing the woman but legally she couldn’t abort the fetus under Texas law. In another case that was non-life threatening but also tragic a woman had been raped about two months prior and just realized she was pregnant with the rapist issue. She wanted it out. She begged the doctor but by Texas law the doctor could only get her out of the state. Some states have even blocked that avenue by making leaving the state for abortion illegal. In these cases there was no exemption to these laws for the life of the woman. Listening to this doctor talk about the real life situations and the things that clearly made it about controlling women and not about pro-life and how even attempt to prevent pregnancy was being made illegal. The more I learn about these laws the scarier the situation becomes. And to be clear these heartbeat bills are based on a total fiction. There is no heart beat at 6 weeks because there is no heart at that stage of development. There is a clump of cells that will turn into a heart later in development, it is called a something pole and it has a small electrical charge. But it is not a heart and it is not beating.
A $300 million slice of Florida’s nearly $200 billion public pension portfolio is invested in Russian companies, even as the pariah nation faces mounting accusations of genocide and other war crimes in Ukraine.
Democrats want Florida to divest that tiny part of the fund, arguing the state’s leaders should act swiftly to dump Russian investments. Florida’s holdings include Russian oil producers, mining companies and the country’s largest bank, according to a review from late January.
In December, DeSantis and other Republican leaders ordered an audit of the state’s investments in China that could lead to divestment. In a news release, DeSantis said the “Communist Party of China is not a vehicle that we want to be entangled with.”
A $300M slice of #Florida’s nearly $200B public pension portfolio is invested in Russian companies, including oil producers, mining companies and the country’s largest bank. @GovRonDeSantis doesn't want to divest. https://t.co/f81rQEj63E via @SkylerSwisher
#Broward Commissioners pass resolution asking for a boycott of companies doing business in Russia and ask State of Florida to divest any investments in Russia. Also resolution calling, in part, for a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/PiiprE18yF
— Broward County Commission (@browardinfo) April 5, 2022
If your state pension fund is still invested in Russia, you're invested in war crimes, the murder of civilians, and genocide.
It looks like Mayor Adams succeeded in getting under the skin of Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over his new “Don’t Say Gay” law. The spokeswoman for DeSantis has tweeted more than a dozen times deriding Adams’ digital ad campaign urging Floridians to move to New York City “where you can say whatever you want.”
“If anyone is so opposed to @GovRonDeSantis defending parental rights that they leave for a crime-ridden dystopia, Florida will be better off without them,” Christina Pushaw tweeted in response to Adams. “Do the humanitarian thing, Mayor Adams! Pay for their flights and moving trucks to NYC!” Pushaw tweeted.
Yesterday Pushaw called for a Hungary-style nationwide referendum aginst LGBTQ rights.
DOZENS of people in Florida, of all orientations, oppose parental rights in education and support K-3 gender theory instruction.
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) April 4, 2022
If anyone is so opposed to @GovRonDeSantis defending parental rights that they leave for a crime-ridden dystopia, Florida will be better off without them. Countless NYers have moved here since the pandemic. I doubt many will leave due to our lack of K-3 gender theory instruction. pic.twitter.com/TUBGQ7O7QO
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) April 4, 2022
Groomer is a “slur” now, according to this Daily Beast journalist.
Hey Matt, please educate me: what’s the politically correct term for an adult who advocates for instructing young children about concepts like “pansexual” & “genderfluid” while keeping secrets from their parents? https://t.co/m4PL2Bjf5n
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) April 5, 2022
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