Category: Religion / Religious / Theocracy

Some clips from The Majority Report. A personal note. And grateful thanks.

Hi Everyone.   Sorry for no posts except from my phone and later from my tablet which I have to carry a backup power supply and cord with me now to doctors appointments as my old pad has a battery life of less than 10 minutes.  A new Ipad is not a priority for our money right now even the cheapest one.  Ron needs heart surgery, Ron needs cataract surgery, I need both new glasses and cataract surgery, and the van still has an oil leak.  Plus Kamyk has basicly given up and slipped into depression.  He had an apartment open up that he needed first/ last / and security for which came to $900 a month.  It was government-subsidized housing.  But because he is in long term care now the nursing home took all his SSI, leaving him with no money.  Plus he no longer gets physcial therapy so he is slowly losing the ability to walk again.  His sister started a go fund me but he forbade her to tell me about it.  He felt we had all done too much for him and did not want me or you people to think he was trying to milk us or be greedy. 

In a way I am glad he did not tell me until it was too late because I worry that as he can’t walk well, doesn’t drive, and did not know how long it will take to get his SSI back, that he wouldn’t be able to care for himself and so would be homeless in two months.  The nursing home he is in is really nice compared to the last one which was abusing him emotionally, physically, and even sexually because the nurses decided he needed Jesus in his life and he rejected that being forced on him.  So they were going to abuse him until he relented and came to their Jesus.  This one gives him his medications on time, changes his ostomy bag or helps him do it, and they have been nice / kind to him.  I understand his frustrations having to share a room with another person and basicly having no privacy but… the US government / wealthy don’t care about people in a land where profit is king.  

I got up at 4:20 to feed the cat who when he thinks he needs food howls to get one of us up.  I decided to stay up and watch the recorded news that I did not get to watch yesterday.  I was not well at all yesterday, highly stressed which has been the situation for a while.  My doctors were clear and Ron reminded me that my body breaks down under stress, and I am to be under as little stress as possible.  That is not possible and has not been for a while.   When I woke yesterday it was already much later than normal for me.  Ron said he could tell I was having a bad night, I was highly agitated.  I had gotten up at 2 am with a huge contracture, a “cramp” in the large side muscle in the upper part of the leg.  I managed to get out of bed but couldn’t straighten out my leg.  I spent 30 minutes moving around the bed holding on to the dresser and the end of the bed, leaning over to put weight on the leg, then removing it.  Eventally I got it to touch the floor and hold some weight so I limped to my office and got a cane, then went to the bathroom which was a critical need by then.  Ron never woke up and was upset I did not wake him.  Not much he could do that I did not know to do myself.

When I got up with Ron at 7 I still couldn’t move or use the leg which was being electrified from the knee down, I couldn’t bend the leg due to the muscle still hurting from the cramp.  I was swinging the leg forward and walking “peg legged” with a cane.  Ron realized something was wrong and had me take my blood pressure and pulse.  My blood pressure was extremely high.  My pulse was also far too high.  So high he asked me to take another dose of my blood pressure and heart rate medications. Ron had me sitting and checking it every ten minutes.  It was not coming down and the first news show I started watching made it worse.  So as I as them recorded I went back to bed until noon.

The reason for so much stress is Ron.  He had his new medication Saturday that opens the arteries so he was better Sunday, but all day friday and Saturday I had to watch him and deal with him.  He was exstrememly forgetful, unable to work his computer, he would sit in his recliner and fall asleep even during a conversation.  He has bad sleep apnea and so he has to have his CPAP machine anytime he goes to sleep.  But even in the bed he was forgetting to put it on until reminded.  I offered to move it out to his chair but he would promise not to fall asleep as he just wanted to watch a few things on TV, 2 minutes later he was asleep.  I would make him go to bed and I stay there until he had his CPAP on.  I don’t dare let him drive like this so I am doing all the driving and shopping now.  I am doing the dishes so he doesn’t exsert himself and the last time he washed the dishes he put everything away in the worng drawers not even realizing he was doing it.  So yesterday afternoon while he slept I did the dishes.  He cooked a porkloin last night so I have a bunch of dishes to do when I get home.  I did pick everything up and rinsed everything off / out so it should be easier than it could have been.  

I have a doctor’s appointment this morning and I have to go with Ron as you can see to his new heart surgeon on Wednesday morning, which I have to look up and see where he is.  I am tired people.  I went to bed at 5 yesterday but kept getting up to check on Ron as he was in his recliner and I wanted to make sure he was not sleeping.  Care of the cat has totally fallen to me now.  I asked him if he could clean the cat litter box before he came to bed.  He assured me he would so I went to bed.  And he did not do it as he forgot.  I did it when I woke up.  Randy is sick after just having surgery, his parents are both sick / ill.  Ron is teetering with the same thing that killed his brother-in-law.  And I am worried and scared.  

When I get the dishes done today I will try to get to the wonderful comments and reply to somethings Ali posted which I appreciate.  Ali has really stepped up and is posting more to give everyone something on the blog to read and engage in.  I can’t say how much I am grateful for that.  Got to go.  Hugs

 

 

The Majority Report clips about AIPAC and Israel’s genocide in Gaza along with other places. And other clips dealing with the ignorant right

 

 

The Majority Report clips on tRump’s illegal war.

 

Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. Adults Think Homosexuality Is “Morally Unacceptable”

https://www.them.us/story/nearly-4-in-10-us-adults-think-homosexuality-is-morally-unacceptable

The U.S. placed ninth among 25 countries surveyed.
By Samantha Riedel

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Thirty-nine percent of U.S. adults still believe homosexuality is “morally unacceptable,” according to a new report from the Pew Research Center published last week.

Pew researchers surveyed a representative sample of 3,605 adults in the U.S. last March, as part of a study about moral attitudes in 25 different countries, according to the report. Respondents were asked whether they believed certain behaviors — including homosexuality — were morally acceptable, unacceptable, or not a moral issue. (In U.S. surveys, the word “unacceptable” was changed to “wrong.”)

Within the U.S. sample, 39% viewed being gay as morally wrong. That placed the U.S. ninth among all countries surveyed by rate of anti-gay sentiment, between Israel (47%) and Hungary (34%). There was a slight net shift upward compared to Pew research from 2013, which found 37% of adults in the U.S. believed homosexuality was immoral.

Researchers did find significant differences in opinion between demographics, however. Sixty-two percent of U.S. women said it was acceptable or not a moral issue to be gay, compared to 56% of men. Disapproval also skewed older, with 43% of U.S. adults 40 years old or older saying homosexuality was unacceptable, compared to 33% of those aged 18-39. People with lower levels of formal education were also more likely to disapprove of all the behaviors surveyed, which included getting an abortion, gambling, and watching pornography.

The largest gaps in acceptance appeared to be based on religiosity. Fifty-eight percent of U.S. adults who said they pray daily disapproved of being gay, compared to just 24% of those who said they pray less often or not at all. That was especially true for Christians, who were “often among the most likely to consider each of the nine behaviors to be morally unacceptable,” researchers noted. In Nigeria, one of several African nations where U.S. evangelical groups have heavily influenced anti-gay laws and public opinion over the past two decades, 96% of respondents said being gay was immoral. (The most gay-accepting countries of the 25 surveyed were Germany and Sweden, where only 5% said homosexuality was unacceptable.)

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The Pew questions specifically asked respondents for their views on homosexuality, rather than the broader LGBTQ+ umbrella, and did not ask about transgender people. A Pew survey of LGBTQ+ adults in the U.S. last year found that most believed attitudes toward gay, lesbian, and bisexual people were becoming more positive, but that acceptance of trans people had declined.

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Samantha Riedel is a writer and editor whose work on transgender culture and politics has previously appeared in VICE, Bitch Magazine, and The Establishment. She lives in Massachusetts, where she is presently at work on her first manuscript. … Read More

DOGE Bro’s Humiliating Deposition Is MUST SEE

This is very interesting.  The doge guy is under oath so can’t lie.  But he realizes he is going to have to admit to be antisemectic.  He works for a nazi and it is well known a lot of the doge people were Nazis themselves.  He suddenly realizes he will have to say it was the Jews people who were discriminating during the Holocaust.  First he tries to say it is DEI due to focusing on women which is gender so the grant had to be slashed.  But then he says women were discriminating against the males.  Finially when the lawyer asks how, he just gives up and admits it was the jewish people / Jewish women.  He probably thinks women discriminate against men because he can’t get a girl to date him or have sex he doesn’t have to pay for.  I think Brandon who is the black gentleman on the far right of the screen has the best and correct take on why the doge man / kid simply did not want to or couldn’t honestly answer the question. Hugs

 

Hate and how to respond

I need to apologize for the lack of posts the last three days.  I have been spending a lot of time with Ron and I have been cooking three meals a day and doing the dishes and laundry which has left little time for posting.   Then late last night Ron realized how much he had been taking of my time and so today he wanted to leave me alone.  But then I did something I had not done for a month or more, I went to the abuse survivor site.   And one post led to the next and eventually to eventally 40 open tabs of fellow abuse survivors discussions of what they went through.  When Ron got back at 3:30 he noticed I was very upset.  He kept asking why until I told him.  Then he was angry.  He wanted to go in and close the entire window of open tabs.  He joked of taking my computer away from me like a teenager who went to the wrong websites.  I had to explain it to him.  I can’t talk to anyone about my childhood  / young adult abuse.  I don’t have anyone to share the memories with other than the blog and I feel horrible when I do that even though it helps me because I can’t help but think I am hurting people I care about like it hurts Ron when I share my memories with him.  But on that site, on the male survivor website are people who went through what I did, and they understand, they can hear me, and I can hear them with out it harming us, except that it becomes a loop I struggle to break out of.  I want to read every post and give a reply because I was there as they were, I am suffering as they are, and I can understand their pain and anger as they can mine.  It is a place to share my memories with people and not feel I am damaging them because they are already hurt.  Ron struggled to understand that and I told him.  “You did not know my abusers like I did.  But by the time you met them I had moved out of their home and they had moved on to their own homes and families.  I reminded him my abusive hellspawn sister who threw parties offering me as a party flavor to any teen who wanted me male or female required her own son to sleep in her bedroom from his preteen years until he left the house as an adult”. I know she made me please her, did she do the same to him?  I was paralyzed to help him.  At the time ron did not know of my abuse but he felt something was wrong.  It was well known in the “family” and no one thought it wrong.   I suspect my oldest male hellspawn did the same to his two young daughters.  I reminded Ron how my adoptive mother kept trying to kiss me on the lips when she was in the park model we owned.   He looked stricken and walked away, I think he had not connected the dots of that and how I had to try to avoid that.    Anyway I have deleted the window those tabs were in and I am going to reply to a few comments do the few dishes, and then try to do a cartoons / memes / news roundup hopefully for tomorrow.  Hugs

A bunch of The Majority Report Clips on different subjects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hundreds of US women charged with pregnancy-related crimes since fall of Roe

Sorry this article is so old.  I have dozens more older than this in open tabs with the hope of one day being able to get what I think is important news out to those who may have missed it at the time.  Here is the southern states patriarchy punishing women for not bringing forth a well formed offspring of a male who bred them.   That is the way this reads to me.  The woman means nothing, just the fetus, zygote, the failed issue of a man must be the fault of a woman.   Think of this being promoted as prolife while they are willing to torture live females for a few cells in the human body that act parasitic.   Remember no man is required to give any part of his body to another even his own dying child.  Tht is the law.  But a woman, a female is required to give her body over entirely and all actions of her life entirely to that male inserted parasitic entity that will drain her life force and can cause life long medical problems.  It tells you exactly how these male law makers and their Christian supports see women.  Hugs

 article is more than 5 months old

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/30/pregnancy-us-women-crimes-study#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20report%20by%20Pregnancy%20Justice%2C,cases%2C%20law%20enforcement%20charged%20women%20with%20homicide

Hundreds of US women charged with pregnancy-related crimes since fall of Roe

Study finds prosecutors targeting low-income women mainly in US south – and figure likely to be an undercount
a person holds a sign that reads 'keep abortion legal'Abortion rights supporters protest outside the supreme court in Washington in June last year. Photograph: Aashish Kiphayet/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

In the first two years after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, prosecutors in 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, new research released on Tuesday found.

Of the 412 cases tracked by Pregnancy Justice, the vast majority took place in the US south, targeted low-income women and involved allegations that women broke laws against child abuse, endangerment or neglect, according to the research, which was compiled by the reproductive justice group. About 300 prosecutions took place in Alabama and Oklahoma. In 16 cases, law enforcement charged women with homicide.

Because there is no national database of US arrest or court records, the group believes the tally is likely to be an undercount. In a report released in September 2024, Pregnancy Justice said it had recorded 210 pregnancy-related prosecutions in the first year after Roe fell – the highest number ever recorded at that time. Pregnancy Justice is now devoting more resources to unearthing records of pregnancy-related prosecutions, so the group can’t say for sure whether these prosecutions are on the rise post-Roe or whether they are simply tracking them more closely.

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Nearly 400 of the cases included in the new report involved allegations of substance use during pregnancy. In an example described to the Guardian, after one woman gave birth, the hospital tested her umbilical cords for drugs. When the test came back positive for marijuana, the woman was arrested for felony child neglect, even though she had a medical marijuana card.

The laws used in most of these prosecutions, Pregnancy Justice pointed out, are typically meant to protect children, not fetuses. By prosecuting pregnant women under them, the group says, states are cementing the legal doctrine of “fetal personhood”, which seeks to grant embryos and fetuses full legal rights and protections – sometimes at the cost of the rights of the woman carrying them. Alabama and Oklahoma are both hubs for the growing fetal personhood movement.

“That is the ultimate goal of the anti-abortion movement,” said Dana Sussman, the senior vice-president at Pregnancy Justice, which scoured court and police records to find the cases. “It wasn’t just to overturn Roe. It is to establish full personhood, full rights for embryos and fetuses.”

Sussman said a number of women have faced criminal consequences for taking substances that were legal or prescribed to them. For that reason, Donald Trump’s claim last week that pregnant women who take Tylenol may give their children autism, raised alarms. Scientific research does not support this claim.

“It’s a perfect storm of all of the things that we work on: stigmatizing pregnant people for not being perfect pregnant people, blaming them for their perceived failures, and relying on misinformation and junk science to create a panic when there shouldn’t be one or isn’t one – while also increasing surveillance in the police state to monitor and potentially criminalize people when they don’t meet these impossible ideals,” Sussman said.

Only 31 of the cases documented by Pregnancy Justice included a stillbirth or miscarriage, while almost 300 of the cases led to a live birth.

A woman whose case was included in the Pregnancy Justice report reportedly didn’t realize she was pregnant until she started to feel intense pain in her stomach. The woman, a new immigrant to the US, suspected that she had food poisoning and decided to drive herself to the hospital.

Before she could get in the car, however, the woman started to give birth. She ultimately delivered what police records listed as a stillbirth. Pregnancy Justice did not factcheck the cases in the report and could not say whether the fetus was past 20 weeks of pregnancy, after which the term stillbirth is used. After police found the remains, the woman was charged with abuse of a corpse.

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The report indicates there are far more cases of miscarriage criminalization than have made national headlines. In one widely covered case in late 2023, police charged an Ohio woman with felony abuse of a corpse after she miscarried into a toilet. In another, earlier this year, a Georgia woman who had been found bleeding and unconscious after a miscarriage faced one count of concealing the death of another person, and one count of throwing away or abandonment of a dead body. The charges against both women were ultimately dropped.

Nine cases discovered by Pregnancy Justice involved allegations that women had considered abortions, such as ordering abortion pills or looking for information about abortion online. Only one woman in those cases was charged with violating a criminal abortion ban, likely because it is legal in most states to “self-manage” one’s own abortion. US abortion bans tend to penalize providers and people who help abortion patients, not the patients themselves.

In 2025, lawmakers in at least 12 states – including Alabama and Oklahoma – introduced legislation that would treat fetuses as people, which would leave women who have abortions vulnerable to being charged with homicide. In several of those states, that charge would carry the death penalty.

“What our work has proven is that, unfortunately, anything is possible when it comes to policing pregnancy,” Sussman said.

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