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AOC takes on Lauren Boebert in must-see takedown
Let’s talk about the definition of boyfriend….
Gay couple says they may move from Florida after DeSantis’ move
A five year old was told often enough that his family was wrong and that the HAD to have a mommy, by adults, that he started to lie saying his mom died. Is this the correct message to send to little kids, your loving two dads are so wrong you need to start lying to fit in? These two men who have a five year old son are now faced with having to move out of Florida. They are lucky if they can afford to do so, even though it shouldn’t be this way. The state of Florida has been taking over by Republican thugs on a religious culture war to incite their base to attack anyone different than them. Including a five year old. Sick. But the Republican party and their gang of thugs will do this everywhere they can get away with it, and they will do it in places they were not in before to show they can. As I posted earlier. We need to understand what is happening in the US right now, we are losing the country to a gang of thugs. Hugs
THERE IS NO CC AND WITH CNN The CC is useless anyway. Please try to listen anyway. It is about a five year old boy being told his family is not real enough for the haters. Hugs
Jordan Letschert and Robby Price are teaching their son Kellan how to talk about their family. But recent anti-LGBTQ legislation has led them to reconsider if this is a good place to raise him.
Hate Crime Investigation Launched After Proud Boys Storm And Scream Abuse At Drag Queen Story Hour
The violence by these right wing groups is getting worse. It started with hate preachers, and now is a normal tool of intimation and fear caused by gang thugs who are the brownshirts of the Republican party. We know how deep these groups were in the insurrection. I have a fear that this is what is going to be the normal for the right to any they disagree with. I also want to point out as I have before how traumatized these little kids must have been. These were little kids. As has happened before at other libraries and bookstores these little kids are being terrified by these angry men coming and screaming, yelling, angry, making threats and saying bad things. Yet these gang thugs claim there are there to protect the children, the very kids they are scaring to death. We had better take this seriously because this is a prelude to what will be happening at any event that displease the right, as we seen with school board meetings during Covid. Right now red states are passing bills to have their armed, yes in some cases armed, supporters as poll workers to challenge voters of color or those they know are democrats. This is not democracy. History has shown us what happens if this is not stopped. Hugs
San Francisco’s CBS News affiliate reports:
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a group of men who disrupted a drag queen storytelling event at the San Lorenzo Library Saturday with homophobic slurs.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said the incident occurred Saturday afternoon at around 1:30 p.m. at the San Lorenzo Library located on Paseo Grande.
Authorities said a group of men entered the library its “Drag Queen Story Time” event and made “homophobic and transphobic remarks against a member of the LGTBQ+ community who was hosting the event.”
From the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office:
When deputies arrived they learned a LGBTQ community member was hosting a reading event at the library called, “Drag Queen Story Hour.” Present at the event were children, parents and other community members.
A group of men entered the library and disrupted the reading event. The men were described as members of the Proud Boys organization, known to be a right wing hate group with anti-LGBTQ affiliations.
The men began to shout homophobic and transphobic slurs at the event organizer. The men were described as extremely aggressive with a threatening violent demeanor causing people to fear for their safety.
Deputies responded to the scene and were able to de-escalate the situation. An active hate crime investigation is underway as is an investigation into the annoying and harassing of children.
ACSO will dedicate all resources to ensure the safety of members of our LGBTQ community. We will make sure any future events at the library are safe against hate speech and threats of violence.
As we celebrate Pride Month, we will be swift in our response to any incidents where there are threats to harm members of this community.
Image above via Google Street View. The Proud Boys may have been alerted to the event thanks to a tweet from the anti-LGBTQ account, LibsOfTikTok.
Judas Peckerwood • an hour ago
The Brownshirts are officially on the march.
JoeMyGodMod • an hour ago
LibsOfTikTok is going to get somebody killed.
Franciscan JoeMyGod • 31 minutes ago
They also apparently object to the fact that the library’s activities are, gasp, funded by local property taxes. Presumably most people who pay property taxes have no particular problem with this activity or we would hear more from them. Question: what is the “libs” in this handle supposed to mean?
Yves R. Mektin Ragnar_Lothbrok • an hour ago
Oh, and remember “Bosom Buddies,” which started the careers of Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari? There’s no way that show would be on the air nowadays.
Bambino🇺🇦🌻 Ragnar_Lothbrok • an hour ago
Daniel rotter Ragnar_Lothbrok • an hour ago
You never see this in other areas. For example, you don’t see gun control groups invade gun shows where parents take their kids.
BlindBill Daniel rotter • an hour ago
Or … stand outside of churches warning kids to keep away from the youth pastor, priest, or any church affiliated man around ..
DeSantis now wants any parent who takes a child to a drag show to be investigated by DCF, charged with child abuse, and have their parental rights taken away.
Dead kids splattered in a classroom doesn’t seem to garner the same freak out as fun time with drag queens
KarenAtFOH Ragnar_Lothbrok • an hour ago
Welcome to trans hate spillover. It will get worse before it gets better.
The Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers, among other neo-fascist groups, have been a big problem for quite a while now, and it’s only getting worse, rapidly.
Canada has wisely designated the Three Percenters and the Proud Boys, at least, as “organizations designated as terrorists.” We have not been so wise in the US.
DaddyRay • an hour ago • edited
They have put a target on our Drag Queen community, a community rich in our history of being on the fight for the rest of us.
Ah the big brave “proud Boys are threatened by little kids and a Drag queen Are your dicks really that small??/
“Investigating?” What exactly needs to be “investigated?” The Proud(ly Idiotic) Boys clearly engaged in trespassing and disturbing the peace. Why aren’t they being arrested?
Bob’s Your Uncle – BYU • an hour ago
I think literacy is a noble goal and should be a community effort. We need some of those Drag Queens to go into the teaching profession and teach numeracy too.
Kudos to all the Drag Queens who volunteer to further the effort of educating children. The Proud Boys only teach hatred, violence and idiocy. I see no purpose in being a Proud Boy, except to promote narcissistic Nihilism.
Jesus or the “they’re coming to replace us”… You can’t have both
I enjoy listening to this person talk on different subjects, because he is a person who uses reason and thinks things through without just relying on tropes or rote. This short talk is on the topic of the great replacement idea that Tucker loves so much and immigration. He talks about how it influences people to do horrible things to others. Hugs
Lauren Boebert Prays For President Biden’s Death
Is this the idea of what prayer should be? Is this the meaning of being a Christian? I know that some decent good people are Christians or believe the Christian faith, how do they feel about this hijacking of their religion into a tool of complete hate and used to harm others. As for lifelong faith the fact is Biden has shown his dedication to his faith all his life, and Boebert has only used her professed faith as an attack tool. When Muslims are accused of a crime the US media demand that the other Muslims stand up and denounce the bad ones. Will Christians do that with members of their own religion? Hugs
Newsweek reports:
A video of Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert saying she prays that President Joe Biden’s days are few has gone viral on social media.
Speaking on Saturday at the Charis Christian Center Family Camp Meeting in Colorado, where she was a guest speaker, the Republican politician referred to bible verse Psalms 109:8 as she spoke about the 79-year-old Biden, much to the delight of the crowd.
“I do want you to know that I pray for our president,” Boebert said. “Psalm 109:8 says, ‘May his days be few and another take his office.’ Loud cheers can then be heard from the crowd and Boebert takes a pause and smiles before saying “Hallelujah”.
Read the full article.
Longtime JMG readers will recall that Psalm 109, known as an “imprecatory prayer,” was regularly used by Christians against President Obama.
The Christian site Got Questions notes that such prayers are meant to “invoke evil upon or curse one’s enemies.”
Psalm 109 reads, in part:
Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
Gustav2 David Snyder • 39 minutes ago • edited
Should we burn the witch? /s
And to think some people wonder why so many people are leaving churches in droves.
Nice “family” group ya got there. And these fucks are worried about drag queens corrupting children?
Gustav2 • 41 minutes ago • edited
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”
Matthew 7:12
They are pushing violence more every day. They WILL kill some of us before the Election, make no mistake.
It is funny that nobody ever asks her about her POLICY positions. She is only interested in media attention.
jeffg166 KoryMarbles • 30 minutes ago
Being a media whore is what passes for policy today.
Gregory In Seattle • 40 minutes ago
And then these idiots wonder why Americans are becoming less religious: it is because of examples of Christian love that she and oh, so very many people are all too happy to promote.
Tempers flare as Lee County Republican Party members attempt school board takeover
This is the county I live in. As I said before Florida is a divided state, but the minority Republican party try to rule it by force of intimidation, gerrymandering, and voter suppression. The Republican party under DeathSantis is a gang of thugs. We are very much in a dangerous time in the US and it looks like the republican media arm of rabid right misinformation / misdirection will convince the people angry at gas prices and inflation that it is Biden’s fault. The truth is both inflation and price increases are worldwide, and a lot of the price increases is price gouging. Oil companies admit they love rolling in the profits. But notice that these elections are supposed to be non-partisan and focused on the needs of the students, but instead the republicans are trying to gain control to make it about election power. Hugs
LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Some members of the Lee County Republican Party openly admitted they’re trying to take over the Lee County School Board during the upcoming elections.
That’s despite the fact the races in Florida are non-partisan. If you’ve seen the school board meetings over the last two years you know they’ve been contentious and at times violent.
But that isn’t stopping Republicans from trying to control the school board.
Conservative Republican Political Consultant Terry Miller pointed out that there are seven members of the school board and only three are republican in a county where every partisan race is held by a Republican.
He admits he wants to overhaul the board.
“What I’m doing is bringing forward conservative leadership for a conservative community,” Miller said.
He didn’t deny he was helping wage a culture war campaign
“There are aspects of that in the culture war because of the things you see happening on the school board,” Miller responded.
He’s backing Conservatives like Dan Severson.
“I’m talking about gender grooming and talking about very sensitive issues that should be family based,” Severson was stressing LGBTQ issues.
Many LGBTQ students in Southwest Florida schools reported feeling under attack.
“Because they feel like victims now they have the ability to use that a leverage to get privileged treatment,” Severson responded.
Jason “Big Mamma” Jones said no one should be attacked or bullied in the school system no matter who they are.
Jones is Severson’s republican competitor known fondly as “Big Momma” on the radio.
“I’m endorsed by sheriff Carmine Marceno. I’m endorsed by the Hispanic vote and I’m endorsed by Mayor Devin Anderson of Fort Myers,” he noted.
Both of his endorsements are republicans which signifies a split in the party.
They’re trying to unseat incumbent Debbie Jordan who believes school board races should be non-partisan and the focus should always remain on the children and not politics.
“It is a non-partisan race but there are different ways of achieving things and for me it’s following the conservative mind set,” replied candidate Sam Fisher.
Fisher is another one of Miller’s candidates who is up against two other republicans.
Kathy Fanny is also running for school board and she stressed politics has no place in the school race and she wants party affiliation left out of it.
“The curriculum is not partisan and to make it so would under serve our school population,” Fanny said.
All of the openly republican candidates also said they support electing the next school superintendent.
That is an issue voters will decide in November.
White Supremacist Group’s Founder Among The 31 Arrested For Conspiracy To Riot At Idaho Pride Event
The Washington Post reports:
Police in Idaho arrested 31 people who had face coverings, white-supremacist insignia, shields and an “operations plan” to riot near an LGBTQ Pride event on Saturday afternoon. Police said they were affiliated with Patriot Front, a white-supremacist group whose founder was among those arrested.
Authorities received a tip about a “little army” loading into a U-Haul truck at a hotel Saturday afternoon, said Lee White, the police chief in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, a city of about 50,000 near the border with Washington. Local and state law enforcement pulled over the truck about 10 minutes later, White said at a news conference.
Many of those arrested were wearing logos representing Patriot Front, which rebranded after one of its members plowed his car into a crowd of people protesting a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens.
The Associated Press reports:
The men were standing inside the truck wearing khakis, navy blue shirts and beige hats with white balaclavas covering their faces when Coeur d’Alene police stopped the U-Haul and began arresting them on the side of the road.
“They came to riot downtown,” Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said at a news conference. All 31 were charged with conspiracy to riot, a misdemeanor, White said. The men were going through the booking process Saturday afternoon and are scheduled to be arraigned on Monday, he said.
Police led the men, one by one, to the front of patrol cars, took off their masks and then brought them to a police van. The group’s manifesto calls for the formation of a white ethnostate in the United States, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.
Right wingers and Trump cultists are flooding social media with their usual claims that Patriot Front is a secret FBI operation to make them look bad.
Patriot Front first appeared on JMG in February 2020 when over 150 members chanted “reclaim America” as they marched through Washington DC.
We heard from them again last summer when they were chased back to their U-Haul by counter-protesters in downtown Philadelphia.
They marched again in Washington DC in December 2021 before crashing January 2022 anti-abortion rallies in Chicago and Washington DC.
JoeMyGodMod • an hour ago • edited
As a reminder, it was GOP Idaho state Rep. Heather Scott who first invited a local biker gang to protest the Pride event. The biker gang, in turn, contacted Patriot Front.
Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊 JoeMyGod • an hour ago • edited
She’s everything you could expect her to be, and more.
In 2015 Scott is reported to have cut wires which were part of the fire-suppression system in her office. Scott believed at the time that the wires were in fact listening devices planted to spy on her. The wire-cutting incident was witnessed by other Idaho House members.
In August 2017, Scott defended white nationalism on her Facebook page. She reportedly said, “The way the media has set this up, the mention of white nationalist, which is no more than a Caucasian who (sic) for the Constitution and making America great again, and confusing it with term, ‘white supremacist’ which is extreme racism. Therefore, if one is ‘guilty’ of being white, one is clearly racist.”
At the start of the 2017 legislative session, Scott reportedly made a remark to fellow state representative Judy Boyle, upon learning of her appointment to the state legislature’s agriculture committee. The reported comment was that female lawmakers obtain ranking committee appointments and other leadership positions only if they “spread their legs.” The alleged comment received widespread rebuke from other state lawmakers.
In the 2019 legislative session, Scott sponsored a bill that would have required Idaho’s Child Protective Services to mirandize parents before assessing them or their children. After passing the House, the bill was held in committee in the Senate.
In 2019, it was reported that Scott was a member of the Coalition of Western States (COWS), a group founded by Washington state representative Matt Shea that has been accused of involvement in domestic terrorism.
In 2020, she dismissed the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming the virus was trying to kill the U.S. Constitution and “The lying, Trump-hating media who continues to push global and socialist agendas has told us that there is an emergency.”
In February 2021 Scott had a Zoom meeting with constituents about gun rights, the 2021 United States Capitol attack, and free speech.
In April 2021 it was reported that Scott claimed the book To Kill a Mockingbird was an example of critical race theory in schools.
In 2021, Scott sought a copy of the police report accusing fellow state republican Aaron von Ehlinger of rape and asked the victim’s legal representative how a person who files a false police report alleging sexual assault could be charged with a crime.
JoeMyGodMod • an hour ago
A White supremacist, far-right fascist terrorist attack was averted here. How many won’t be caught in the future?
Pennsylvania Reps Plan To Intro “Don’t Say Gay” Bill
Harrisburg’s ABC News affiliate reports:
Two Pennsylvania lawmakers plan to introduce a bill “to address discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation in Pennsylvania schools.”
State Senators Scott Martin [photo] and Ryan Aument, both Republicans representing Lancaster County, say the bill would pertain to age-inappropriate conversations in elementary schools.
According to the senators, the proposal would prohibit classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation for pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students and require public schools to develop a policy for notifying parents when there is a change to a student’s services or monitoring.
Read the full article.
Martin and Augment claim their bill would exempt LGBTQ students from the parental notice requirement if it can be “reasonably demonstrated” that doing so would put them in danger of “abuse or abandonment.” Yeah.
Martin, who dropped his bid for governor in March, authored the state Senate bill against transgender student athletes. The bill, which passed this week, has zero chance of being signed by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.
Ragnar_Lothbrok • 13 hours ago
We like small Govt and freedom!
And We love telling people what to do.
Now DO IT or we will kill you!
You’re free to think and believe anything you want to. As long as it what we believe, too.
Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊 Paula • 12 hours ago
You’re free to raise your children any way you want, as long as it’s conservative and xian.
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