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Aida Shakarami: Iran morality police arrests dead protester’s sister, mother says
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68849736
Roger and I were talking about the fundamentalist trying desperately to change the US into a theocracy like in Iran or Saudi Arabia. The way they are demanding their interpretation of a book written over time 2,500 years ago. They don’t care that the majority wants a democracy and that a large portion of the public including other Christians don’t support their view of what god wants. They don’t want rights for women, they don’t want rights for the LGBTQ+, they do not want to accept anything that shows the weaknesses of their holy book including medical science. The article below Roger sent me. This is what the fundamentlist Christians want to create in the US. Hugs. Scottie
By David Gritten,BBC NewsSocial media
Aida Shakarami (R) is the sister of Nika Shakarami (L), who became a symbol of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests The elder sister of Nika Shakarami, a 16-year-old girl who was killed during the 2022 anti-government protests in Iran, has been arrested for allegedly not covering her hair, her family says.
Aida Shakarami, 22, was accused of “not adhering to compulsory hijab” by morality police in Tehran on Wednesday, her mother Nasrin wrote on Instagram.
“She remains in custody,” she added.
The police have not commented, but it comes after they launched a crackdown on breaches of the Islamic dress code.
Tehran’s police chief said on Saturday the new initiative would “confront social taboo-breaking over hijab and chastity and those who seek to expressly contravene hijab rules” – a reference to the many women and girls who have defiantly stopped covering their hair in public.
In another development on Thursday, video posted on social media appeared to show a young Iranian woman having a seizure after she was confronted by morality police in Tehran.
An eyewitness told BBC Persian that officers violently confiscated the woman’s mobile phone and purse because she was not wearing a headscarf.
Nika Shakarami became a symbol of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protest movement that shook the Islamic Republic two years ago.
The protests erupted in response to the death in custody on 16 September 2022 of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by morality police in the capital for allegedly wearing her hijab “improperly”.
Authorities denied that Mahsa Amini was mistreated, but the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran said in a report last month that she “was subjected to physical violence that led to her death”.
On 20 September 2022, Nika was filmed at a protest in Tehran setting fire to her headscarf, while other protesters chanted “death to the dictator” – a reference to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
She disappeared that evening after telling a friend that she was being chased by police. Her family eventually found her body at a mortuary 10 days later.
They alleged that she died from blows to the head and rejected claims from officials that she had killed herself.
Nika Shakarami disappeared after she was filmed burning a headscarf at a protest in Tehran on 20 September 2022 Authorities portrayed the protests as foreign-backed “riots” and tried to suppress them with force.
They have not released an official death toll, but the UN’s fact-finding mission said credible figures suggested that as many as 551 protesters were killed by security forces, most of them by gunfire. The government says 75 security personnel were killed.
More than 20,000 other protesters were reportedly detained, including many journalists and celebrities.
Nine young men have been executed in connection with the protests following what UN investigators found were summary proceedings that relied on confessions extracted under torture and ill-treatment. Dozens more have reportedly been sentenced to death or charged with capital offenses.
The protests have now largely subsided, but there is still widespread discontent at the clerical establishment and, in particular, the hijab laws.
In September, Iran’s parliament passed a controversial “Hijab and Chastity” bill that would impose severe punishments on women and girls for violations of the dress code, including up to 10 years in prison and flogging. It must still be approved by the Guardian Council before it becomes law.
The UN’s fact-finding mission said the “violent repression of peaceful protests and pervasive institutional discrimination against women and girls” had led to serious human rights violations that amounted to crimes against humanity.
Trump? MAGA? Supreme Court?? Make It Make Sense!!! | Christopher Titus | Armageddon Update
Aileen Cannon Responds to Claims She Did Not Disclose ‘Luxury’ Trips
Story by Sean O’DriscollJudge Aileen Cannon. Cannon has faced criticisms over her handling of former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case.© United States District Court for the Southern District of FloridaAileen Cannon, the judge overseeing Donald Trump‘s classified documents case, has said she declared two “luxury” resort trips to Montana that were mentioned in a National Public Radio investigation.
“Cannon, herself a Trump appointee, attended two seminars at a luxury resort in Montana, but the privately funded seminar disclosures for both events were not posted online until NPR began making inquiries,” NPR’s online investigation states.
“Clerk of court Angela Noble told NPR in an email that the absence of the disclosures was due to technical issues and that ‘Any omissions to the website are completely inadvertent,” it adds.
Cannon is overseeing the case, in which former president Donald Trump is accused of illegally retaining classified documents, hoarding them at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and obstructing attempts by federal officials to retrieve them.
Trump, the presumptive Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential election, has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. He has denied any wrongdoing in the case and has said the documents he retained were personal.
Cannon’s office told Newsweek that the two trips are likely listed on the U.S government’s federal judge disclosure website. The court clerk stated in an email to Newsweek that “there are two trips listed for Judge Cannon. These are likely the trips you are referring to. You can find them here” with a link to the U.S government’s website.
The links show that the seminars were funded by the George Mason University Foundation.
Cannon attended the seminars, known as the Sage Lodge Colloquium, from September 26, 2021 to October 2, 2021 and from September 25, 2022 to October 1, 2022, according to the federal judge disclosure website. In August, 2023 Newsweek reported on her disclosure of both of these Montana trips.
Newsweek sought email comment from NPR on Thursday.
Federal judges must declare any free trips on their disclosure documents.
NPR’s allegations about Cannon are part of a larger investigation into undeclared free trips taken by federal judges.
The investigation, released on NPR’s website on Wednesday, claims that “dozens of federal judges failed to fully disclose free luxury travel to judicial conferences around the world, as required by internal judiciary rules and federal ethics law.”
“As a result, the public remained in the dark about potential conflicts of interest for some of the United States’ top legal officials,” it adds.
NPR alleges that “federal judges — occasionally with family members or even their dog in tow — traveled to luxury resorts in locations as far-flung as London; Palm Beach, Fla.; Bar Harbor, Maine; and the outskirts of Yellowstone National Park for week-long seminars. The judges received free rooms, free meals and free money toward travel expenses, together worth a few thousand dollars.”
It claims that some federal judges heard from a group that uses “lawsuits in federal court to change environmental policy, as well as from corporate CEOs in the oil and pharmaceutical industries.”
It comes after intense criticism of some Supreme Court judges for undeclared foreign trips.
In December 2023, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced that it issued subpoenas to Leonard Leo, a conservative activist, and the billionaire Harlan Crow, compelling them to appear before the committee to answer questions about their relationship with Justice Clarence Thomas.
The subpoenas were the latest steps in the committee’s inquiry into the Supreme Court justices. The committee’s Republican minority, which supports Thomas, walked out of the committee hearing in protest.
Thomas is facing an investigation for allegedly accepting lavish vacations from Crow—including a $500,000 trip to Indonesia in 2019—getting money from another donor to buy a recreational vehicle and other ethics violations.
In December, Crow’s spokesman said in a statement to Newsweek that Crow had done all he could to cooperate with the committee, despite concerns about his constitutional rights. The statement also said that issuing Crow a subpoena was a headline-grabbing exercise.
Judge Cannon CAUGHT Taking Gifts and NOT DISCLOSING
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It looks like Eileen Cannon is following in the footsteps of Clarence Thomas by taking lavish vacations on Republican donors dimes and not reporting them.
NPR has uncovered multiple trips she took to Montana that she failed to disclose on her mandatory Federal disclosure forms. Apparently donors to the George Mason School of law paid for these trips so judge Cannon could meditate under the beautiful Montana sky. Right as if…
Of course, as soon as NPR asked her for a comment, the trips magically showed up on her disclosure form. She says this was just a mistake by the website. Again as if.…
I am not sure how this will play into Trump’s Mar-A-Lago document case. I am not a lawyer but it seems to me that it is time for Jack Smith to take this and other examples to the 11th circuit court of appeals and ask for her to be removed from the case. But again I’m not a lawyer so I don’t know what effect this has in that case other than it sure seems like a conflict of interest to have a conservative political group funding trips for a judge who is overseeing a case against a leading conservative politician.
You can hear more about this incident on the Midas Touch Network video below.
Exactly what is needed to be heard and what the republicans are terrified of.
What The Fuck is Going on with the News Media?
New Trump Ad Praises Campus Counterprotesters
Seriously people are proud of acting this way? Really? If a child acted like this the parents would discipline or correct them, yet adults think college kids and tRump supporters think the thuggish racist behavior is great. tRump loves it. It is his style. Berate, ridicule, insult, demean others is what tRump thinks is intellectual reasoning and discussion. What has this country devolved into? I thought we grew out of this childish shit a long time ago. Hugs. Scottie
Here’s a reminder about the scene at Ole Miss:
There were hundreds of counter-protesters, in contrast to the few dozen pro-Palestine protesters. The scene evoked memories of the resistance to the civil rights struggle in the US south six decades earlier.
The counter-protesters included individuals waving American flags and Trump flags. At one point, they sang the American national anthem, drowning out the pro-Palestine group’s chants.
There were no arrests, but the actions of the counter-protesters – who shouted “Fuck Joe Biden”, “Who’s your daddy?”, “USA”, “Hit the showers”, “Your nose is huge”, and included a white man making monkey noises at a Black woman – have been widely condemned on social media.
Read the full article. Below is Trump’s new ad.
I believe that his full name is James Pearson Staples.
Here’s a better pic posted by Lakota man
His parents must be SO PROUD
oh wait. Maybe they are
I would like to think that his behavior is just a bit of bad judgment he will grow out of, but I seriously doubt it. Not in Mississippi. He has so very, very few good examples to look to.
I’d say it’s majorly bad judgment, but agree with your prognosis. It’s too late to scour the racism out of him
I’ll bet there is a high likelihood that he has ancestors who were in a mob that lynched someone.
Good people on both sides…
These white boy frats have been raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars via GiveSendGo over the past few days. There are all kinds of right-wing companies that want employees like this.
It’s almost as if Republicans were the party of drunk, pasty white rapey fratbros.
We’ve met these shitheads before (click to enlarge):
Some things never change. 😠
EXPLAINED: Why TERF-In-Chief JK Rowling Is Celebrating Trans-Care Review Findings | Erin Reed | TMR
This interview points out some of the flaws in the Cass Report, and how Cass herself was a known anti-trans person who had worked with DeathSantis and his administration. Talk about asking the fox about the hen house security. The people who wanted a badly done report on trans care / trans kids choose a known anti-trans person to do it. Erin Reed is a trans person who is very well versed in trans issues. The video is not long, about 14.19 minutes long but very informative if you know someone who is an anti-trans hater who often says well look at the UK and those places they are stopping care, or someone who likes to refer to the Cass report. Hugs. Scottie
Journalist Erin Reed, author of the Erin In The Morning newsletter on SubStack, discusses the recent gender identity review by the National Health Services (NHS) in the United Kingdom.
Erin Reed and Emma then jump right into the background for the UK’s recent Cass Report on transgender care, stepping back to briefly cover the rise of transphobic activism in the UK at the end of the 2010s, and the major policy impacts it had despite fringe following, including the NHS-sponsored ‘independent’ and ‘unbiased’ review by Hillary Cass. After giving some background on the evidently not-so-unbiased Cass herself, Reed parses through the clear failure of the report itself to live up to these supposed standards, actively excluding both trans voices and experts on trans care from the report, relying on outdated and fraudulent statistics (compiled by notorious homophobes nonetheless), and repeatedly requiring absurdly high standards for trans care – standards not met by the vast majority of both adult and pediatric care – while rarely substantiating any of the claims about the supposed dangers.
Is It ANTISEMITISM To Criticize Israel?
UCLA’s Finest Faces Down The Pig Army
You want to know the truth of the media bias and what is the true violence at these don’t do a genocide protests. Watch the entirety of this video. It is delivered in a nonsense style and the only loud parts are the violent police shooting round after round of tear gas, flash bangs, and rubber bullets which can be lethal at the students. The videos shown show how violent and gleeful the police thugs were to use their weapons of force. This was one of the best breakdowns of the campus police raids I have seen. The first 5 minutes might not grab you, but please watch past it. Get to the meat of the video. It will change your minds on a lot of the media coverage. Vaush spends a lot of time quietly going over the ridicules things the report has to say like look they have chairs, why would you have metal chairs at a protest if not to harm others … maybe in a day’s long protest people might want to sit down? The reporter asks about how did the things the protesters have get there because they won’t fit in their pockets? Really, a large group of people planing a large scale protest wouldn’t know how to arrange to bring in stuff together to make it easier for them? How corporate media do these reports now have to be these days? Please watch the video if not in full, if not at least half way to understand the disinformation being spread by the media. Hugs. Scottie
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