As I keep saying this is a small very loud mostly religious driven minority using ever tool and lie they can to change perception of the LGBTQ+ to erase them from society to create the cis straight society they want to force on everyone.ย We must counter them by being as loud and forceful to not only refute their lies but also promote the joy of living freely as an inclusive society.ย Hugs
ย Close-Up of rainbow flag with crowd In background during LGBT Pride Parade. Getty Images.
Ohio lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have introduced several LGBTQ-related bills so far this General Assembly.
Republicans have put forth a drag ban bill, a piece of legislation that would make it harder for a student to use a different name or pronoun at school, and a bill requiring transgender political candidates to list their deadname, among others.ย
On the other side of the aisle, Democrats have introduced theย Ohio Fairness Act andย a bill that would ban conversion therapy.
Anย Ohio court partially overturnedย a ban on gender-affirming care for LGBTQ youth earlier this year, meaning doctors can still prescribe puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
Anti-LGBTQ bills
Ohio House Bill 249ย would ban drag performers from performing anywhere that is not a designated adult entertainment facility. State Reps. Angie King, R-Celina, and Josh Williams, R-Sylvania Twp., introduced the bill, which has had sponsor testimony.ย ย
This is aย re-introduction of a billย from the previous General Assembly that did not make it out of committee and faced much opposition.
Ohio House Bill 190ย would require parental permission for schools to use different pronouns or different names for students that donโt match up with the biological sex or birth name.ย
Williams and state Rep.ย Johnathan Newman, R-Troy, introduced the bill, which has had sponsor testimony.
Ohio House Bill 172ย would ban children 14 and older from receiving mental health services without parental consent. Newman also introduced this bill, which has had sponsor testimony.ย
Ohio House Bill 196ย would require political candidates to list their former names on candidacy petitions. This, however, would not apply to names that have been changed due to marriage. King and state Reps Rodney Creech, R-West Alexandria, introduced the bill, which has had sponsor testimony.ย
Ohio House Bill 262ย would designate the weeks from Motherโs Day to Fatherโs Day as Natural Family Month. Williams and state Rep. Beth Lear, R-Galena, introduced the bill, which has had sponsor and opponent testimony.ย
Pro-LGBTQ bills
Ohio Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio, D-Lakewood, has introduced a few bills that support LGBTQ people.ย Antonio is the only openly gay lawmaker in the Ohio General Assembly.ย
Ohio Senate Bill 70, also known as the Ohio Fairness Act, would expand anti-discrimination laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity.ย House Bill 136ย is a companion bill.ย
Antonio has introduced the Ohio Fairness Act in every General Assembly since she was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 2011 and this is the first time since 2018 the bill has no Republican support.
Ohio Senate Bill 71ย would ban any licensed health professionals from doing conversion therapy when providing mental health treatment to minors. Antonio and state Sen. Beth Liston, D-Dublin, introduced the bill.ย House Bill 300ย is a companion bill.ย
Ohio Senate Bill 211ย would designate the first full week of June as โLove Makes a Family Week.โ Antonio introduced this bill as well.ย
None of these bills have had any hearings so far this General Assembly.ย Ohio lawmakers are on summer break and will come back to the Statehouse this fall.ย
Mehdi moderates a panel with YouTube star Brian Tyler Cohen, LA city council member Nithya Raman, and podcaster Van Lathan, LIVE in Los Angeles!
Mehdi and Zeteo concluded our one-year anniversary tour last week, with a final stop in the city that has made headlines in recent days and weeks, after the Trump administration deployed the National Guard against protesters.
Yes, Los Angeles. Political commentator and YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen: โIf it was happening in another countryโฆ We would not hesitate for a single second to call it autocracy, authoritarianism, or a dictatorshipโ
In this special live recording, Mehdi sits down with Cohen, as well as LA City Council member Nithya Raman and โHigher Learningโ co-host Van Lathan for a conversation on President Donald Trumpโs targeting of LA protesters and immigrants, Democratsโ response, and the mediaโs handling of Trump 2.0.
LA Councilmember Nithya Raman: โThere is an incredible amount of fear right now,โ Raman tells Mehdi. โTheyโre [ICE] showing up at workplaces. Theyโre showing on street corners. Theyโre showing up taking street vendors who are selling outside of a Home Depotโฆ
They showed up outside of an elder care facility in Santa Monica and took workers from there. I mean these are kidnappings.โ Mehdi asks Lathan, who frequently appears on CNN, about whether he believes the media is meeting the moment right now when it comes to covering Trumpโs second term.
Van Lathan: โThe legacy media right now is made to serve a commercial break โIโm mad on the left,โ โIโm on the right,โ โI am the host, you two stop fighting! Weโll be right back,โ โProctor & Gamble.โโ Did you like this video? It was published on zeteo.com several days ago.
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The minority groups trying to push hate on the LGBTQ+ are well funded by billionaires like J.K. Rowling and the Christian church.ย They are using every media they can to turn young people against the LGBTQ+ using the most misinformation they can generate.ย And as much as they want / demand society return to their fantasied Christian 1950s pro white cis straight only country it was not true then and can’t be true now.ย Their goal is the total erasure of the LGBTQ+ย and also any rights for those gained in the civil rights act.ย Below is a quote from the article.ย Hugs.ย
“I’m almost 40 and have seen so much progress like equal marriage,” Kelly says. “But something is changing. Hatred towards people like me is becoming mainstream again.”
Demonstrators participate in an event called “Show the flag: For queer visibility in the Bundestag!” in front of the Reichstag building that houses Germany’s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin, on July 8. The conservative president of the Bundestag said the rainbow flag would no longer be raised on top of the parliament building during Pride month, which in Germany runs from June 28 until July 27.
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The tree-lined neighborhood near Nollendorfplatz square in central Berlinย is as gay today as it was a century ago.
It’s whereย Christopher Isherwoodย wrote novels chronicling the rise of the Nazis amid the city’s rich queer nightlife that inspired the musicalย Cabaret.
Every summer, the neighborhood throws its own smaller-scale LGBTQ+ Pride event separate from the city’s main annual parade taking place this weekend.
It’s just one of more than 200 Pride events taking place in Germany this year. But with far-right extremist groups staging anti-Pride protests, many Pride attendees fear for their safety.
Sipping on a cocktail as the street party gets underway, 62-year-old Georg Schmidt says he’s relieved that this event is a relaxed affair. He says he attended aย different local pride paradeย last month across town in the district of Marzahn and the mood there was tense.
“There was a massive police presence to shield us from anti-Pride protests. We only felt safe because the police kept us apart,” Schmidt says.
Revelers march down the Leipziger Strasse street during a Pride parade in Berlin, July 23, 2022.
Markus Schreiber/AP
Sabine Volk, a researcher at the Institute for Research on Far Right Extremism at the University of Tรผbingen,ย says these groups attract young men who promote what they call traditional family values โ a kind of pride that has little to do with rainbow flags.
“The key slogan is that the German flag and Germany itself is already colorful enough,” Volk says. “And the overall message is that queer life does not have a place in Germany.”
President of German Parliament Bundestag Julia Klรถckner speaks to the media on July 8 in Berlin.
Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images
Speaking on public broadcaster ARD, Merz signaled his support for the rule at Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, with the words, “the Bundestag is not a circus tent” โ a remark to whichย many have taken umbrage.
Merz backs his colleague’s argument that the lower house must maintain neutrality and cannot support events with a political agenda.
Nyke Slawik speaks during a parliamentary debate on queer hate crime in the Bundestag. Photo: Carsten Koall/dpa (Photo by Carsten Koall/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Carsten Koall/picture alliance via Getty Images
Opposition Green Party lawmaker Nyke Slawik criticized the move. “Declaring the rainbow a political symbol is highly problematic” stressing that “queer people are not an ideology; they are people!” Slawikย told public broadcaster ZDF.
Slawik argues they are people increasingly in need of protection. Germany’s federal police report an almostย tenfold increaseย in reported queerphobic hate crimes since 2010 and they believe the majority of cases go unreported.
The issue is not divided by party political lines; criticism of Merz’s choice of words has come from within his own party. Sรถnke Siegmann, the chair of the Christian Democrats’ LGBTQ+ Association, says some within his party are still catching up on terminology.
“If you say queer in my party, most people take a deep breath and say: ‘Oh, that’s a left-wing term,’ ” Siegmann observes. He says he has spoken with Merz since he made his “circus tent” comments.
“We explained to him what queer really means and two days later when asked in Parliament about LBGTQ+ hate crimes and what his government will do about them, Merz actually used the term queer,” Siegmann says.
Back inย the Nollendorfplatz area, rainbow flags fly every month of the year. But local resident Chris Kelly says the mood here is not as “live and let live” as it once was. He recently opened a boutique that sells high-end garments made from industrial strength rubber. He says business is good and he has a broad customer base, but it was almost impossible trying to find premises for the boutique.
“We found plenty of suitable spaces to rent and our finances are solid, but a lot of landlords rejected us, saying they didn’t want people like us,” Kelly remembers. “Real estate agents had warned us, but I was flabbergasted to encounter such prejudice in Berlin’s queerest, gayest neighborhood.”
Kelly’s store is located just down the street from Romeo and Romeo, a gay bar whoseย owner was attackedย last month. Kelly says he too gets more verbal abuse than he used to and he hears again and again of attacks on members of the LGBTQ+ community.
“I’m almost 40 and have seen so much progress like equal marriage,” Kelly says. “But something is changing. Hatred towards people like me is becoming mainstream again.”
Kelly points out that a few doors down in the other direction is where the legendary nightclub Eldorado stood until the Nazis closed it down in 1933, eventually sending its queer clientele to concentration camps.
A commuter walks down the steps of Berlin’s Bundestag subway station, decorated with rainbow colors, the symbol of the LGBTQ+ community, on July 24.
John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images
As preparations for Berlin’s main Pride parade get underway, the city police say they’ve received a permit request for aย counterdemonstrationย protesting “against Pride terror and identity disorders.”
In reaction to the Bundestag president’s decision not to fly the rainbow flag on top of parliament this year, Berlin’s transport authority has decorated its Bundestag subway station stopย in rainbow colors, writing onย Instagram: “Soย ourย Bundestag is ready for Pride.”
Kelly urges people to attend Pride and stand up to a new generation of the far-right. He has no desire to sayย Goodbye to Berlinย and the neighborhood around Nollendorfplatz, as Isherwood was forced to do.
USAID's scrutiny of 150 Gaza aid incidents uncovers zero evidence of Hamas's widespread theft, starkly contradicting the Trump administration's unevidenced accusations that justify throttling supplies amid starvation alerts. #Gaza
Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the #Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July. The crisis remains entirely preventable. Deliberate blocking and delay of large-scale food, health, and humanitarian aid has cost many lives.Statement from WHO.www.who.int/news/item/27…
La poblaciรณn del sur de #Gaza es de 18.000 seres humanos por km2.La de Madrid, la ciudad mรกs poblada del Estado Espaรฑol, es de 5.418 por km2.Ahora, imaginen al pueblo madrileรฑo siendo sometido a bombardeos diarios y el bloqueo absoluto de agua, alimentos y medicinaswww.haaretz.com/israel-news/…
Doctors Without Borders joins more than 100 organizations to sounding the alarm that lifesaving aid must enter #Gaza.www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-as…
#Gaza: Joanne Perry, a Canadian Doctors Without Borders physician works in Al-Helou hospital, where newborn babies are fighting for their lives and medical teams lack essential equipment to keep them alive.Read about her experience: ow.ly/alrK50WuWt3
On Monday, WHOโs staff residence in Deir al-Balah, #Gaza, was hit by projectiles and damaged by fire while our personnel and their families were inside.Male colleagues were detained, stripped to their underwear, handcuffed & blindfolded.๐ Hear what happened on the ground. #NotATarget
โIt is horrific โ even for those whose mission is to serve others,โ says UNRWA Sam Rose to CNN. โOur staff are collapsing in offices, fainting from hunger and thirst.โAid workers in #Gaza, meant to care for others, now struggle to stay alive themselves. This crisis is entirely preventable.
Protesters in Tel Aviv took to the streets carrying flour bags and pictures of malnourished children from Gaza, calling for the end of the war on Gaza and the hunger.#protest #TelAviv #Gaza #hunger #IsraelGazawar #Israel
#Israel in kulttuuriperintรถministeri Amichai Elijahu sanoo, ettei "mikรครคn kansakunta ruoki vihollisiaan" ja vรคittรครค, etteivรคt "brititkรครคn ruokkineet natseja".Sen lisรคksi, ettรค hรคn on vรครคrรคssรค, kielenkรคyttรถ viittaa kansanmurhan aikomukseen.Miksikรถ, ja miksi hรคn on vรครคrรคssรค? 1/6#Gaza #kansanmurha
"We dropped to the ground, then crawled through the rain of bullets.""The tanks fired, the soldiers fired, the planes fired, the warships fired.""The flour was stained with blood, but it was the only thing I could get."#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide
Neoliberal centre right pro-zionist politics is less popular than the pedophile concentration camp party.Probably because in the face of fascism all they offer is fundraising emails and more support for Israel or the military instead of healthcare, affordable rent, free university, trains or food
A family member whose loved one is detained in the Everglades detention camp told me he has been there for 22 days. Contrary to DeSantisโ assertion that people are given the option to self-deport, this person hasnโt even seen an immigration official at all since being detained.
#Immigration #migrants #TomHomanIt doesn't seem fair to me that only some industries will get the benefit of migrant workers? I'm also concerned about the control farmers etc will have over these workers. http://www.latintimes.com/border-czar-…
Welker to Lindsey Graham as he pushes baseless conspiracy theories in an effort to gin up a scandal about Obama: "Are you trying to rewrite history to distract from the Epstein matter, senator?"
And there you have it. If the Trump admin determines that evidence against a specific person is not โcredibleโ they will bury that part from whatever they end up releasing.
A 79 year old convicted felon and serial child rapist who pancakes his face with powdered Cheetos and swirls his hair into cotton candy has Pied Pipered an entire political party into protecting #GrodyOldPedophiles while burning down the Constitution.Call your reps202-224-3121#EpsteinFiles
Do you know how rare it is for a woman to be a child sexual predator? Ghislaine is exceptionally evil, groomed young vulnerable girls and got them to trust her all to provide Epstein with sexually deviant opportunities. 20 years isnโt enough time. She should rot in prison #EpsteinFiles
Ghislaine Maxwell quietly met with Trump's DOJ. Let that sink in. A known trafficker with direct ties to Epstein and powerful elites met privately with a Justice Department led by Trump and Pam Bondi. No transcript. No oversight. No transparency.#EpsteinFiles #DOJCoverup #AccountabilityNow
Stephen Flynn, the Scottish National Party MP for Aberdeen South, said he couldnโt meet with Trump today because he was busy washing his hair.This is Stephen Flynn.
#USDemocracy #Epstein #EpsteinFiles๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Scottish protesters greeted Donald Trump. One sign said: 12 years is not "on the younger side" it is a child!
Tireless work for womenโs rights?๐All Rowling does is spew tweet misinformation, anti-trans propaganda, threaten lawsuits like a cartoon villain, fund campaigns that hurt trans folks & block people who confront her with facts.Thatโs not activism, itโs a tantrum with a billionaireโs budget.๐โโ๏ธ
Republicans are the best example of this, they can't reasonably argue solely on economic grounds anymore so they go conspiracy-minded. But Dems do the same. Crowing about respectability and human rights while throwing trans people under the bus and funding genocide. It's like a Tex Avery cartoon.
After over 21 months of Israelโs brutal assault on Gaza, the humanitarian crisis in the Strip has reached its worst point yet. 94% of Gazaโs hospitals have been destroyed or damaged. Dozens of children have died from malnutrition. And Israeli troops continue to kill scores of Palestinians as they try to receive food from the so-called โGaza Humanitarian Foundation.โ
In this second part of Zeteoโs live โUnshocked,โ Dr. Yasser Khan โ a Canadian ophthalmologist and plastic surgeon who has traveled twice to Gaza since October 7, 2023 โ describes to Mehdi and Naomi how Israelโs humanitarian assault on Gaza has turned injuries and disabilities in Gaza into, โa death sentence.โ
Dr. Yasser Khan: โIt was horrific, the most horrific things that I’ve ever seen.โ
In the interview, Dr. Khan shares the stories of his many patients, the vast majority of whom he says were women and children.
Dr. Khan also discusses how upon returning from Gaza, many of his colleagues in the medical field refused to believe such stories, with some even going out of their way to tell him that, โโheโs done nothing to be a hero.โโ
Dr. Khan explains how he came to the conclusion that what he was seeing in Gaza was indeed a genocide and why he takes so much inspiration from the people in Gaza. Mehdi, Naomi, and Dr. Khan also take questions from a live audience.
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Of course, Iโm just joking, but I might be starting something here. If MAGAts can believe in chemtrails (and they do), then they can believe President Barack Obama used Kenyan voodoo to give Trump cankles. They already believe in a lot of crazy shit.
The Trump administration claims that Obama committed treason by ordering an investigation into Russia collusion, but how is that treason? Who is it treasonous to, Trump? Is it treasonous to Russia? And how is ordering an investigation into an attack against our country treasonous? I think itโs more treasonous to ignore it or lie about it. It should be treasonous to take Putinโs side over Americaโs.
If Trump were president in World War II, and Russia had bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, he would have called it a โhoaxโ and โfake news.โ
Now, Trump is coming up with more bullshit to distract his zombies from the Epstein case. Heโs howling for prosecuting Beyonce and Oprah. Even if what he was howling about was true, a president (sic) is supposed to let the Justice Department do its job, and leave it alone. Here, Trump wants the DOJ to prosecute Beyoncรฉ and Oprah for supporting his political opponent.
MAGAts have been asking us, โHow is Trump fascist?โ Ordering the prosecution of your political opponents is just one example of fascism.
One final note: I do know that voodoo is not Kenyan. (snip)
Die, Die, UVA DEI, Die by Clay Jones
A board without diversity will hire the next UVA president Read on Substack
Abigail Spanberger will be Virginiaโs next governor. Governor Glenn Youngkin knows this and has probably known throughout his regime that not only was he limited to one term, but so was his party. Just as Trump left things horrible for Joe Biden to clean up in 2021, Youngkin is leaving a mess for the next governor. With help from the Trump regime, one of those messes is at UVA, the University of Virginia.
As you may remember, Trumpโs politicized Department of Justice, chock-full of goons, has forced out the president of UVA over DEI policies. They used his integrity against him, blackmailing him by withholding federal funds unless he resigned.
Now, UVAโs Board of Visitors will hire a new president. Unfortunately, the board is stocked entirely of right-wing fucknuts appointed by Glenn Youngkin, including former state Attorney General and member of the first Trump regime, Ken Cuccinelli. The board is nearly as White as the Trump cabinet. Even the two non-white members probably love them some mayonnaise sandwiches.
Trump has stripped funding for schools to implement his anti-DEI policies, which include shutting down student protests.ย Columbia Universityย recently agreed to pay a $200 million fine to protect its funding, but lost a huge chunk of its independence to the Trump regime. (snip-MORE, and it’s very good!)
These were the words used by the King Of Belgium recently and every day things are getting worse, as starvation starts to run rampant across the area. And all of this was man made. We cannot be silent about this.
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