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A couple clips from The Majority Report on Schumer and Jeffries.
The Majority Report clips on ICE and the use of the military in US cities
Responding to claims about homosexuality & the Bible
“Lewdness” Arrests Up at NYC Penn Station Bathrooms, Police Likely Using Sniffies
https://www.them.us/story/nyc-penn-station-sniffies-arrests
20 people were reportedly arrested in a single day this month.
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Since June, Amtrak Police officers have arrested dozens of people for alleged “public lewdness” at New York City’s Penn Station, a sting operation that sent at least one person to an ICE detention facility — and which one university professor says was conducted, in part, through popular cruising apps like Sniffies.
The most important LGBTQ+ news and politics stories delivered straight to your inboxBy signing up, you agree to our user agreement (including class action waiver and arbitration provisions), and acknowledge our privacy policy.As reported by NYC news outlet The City on Wednesday, Amtrak Police arrested 23 people for public lewdness in June — LGBTQ+ Pride Month — after making only eight such arrests in the five months prior. “Lewdness” arrest numbers have remained high since then, according to the NYC-based Legal Aid Society, which told The City that 20 people were arrested for lewdness at Penn Station in a single day in September.
One of the people arrested in June was David, a 31-year-old gay man and healthcare worker who said he was arrested while trying to use a Penn Station urinal on his way home from visiting a friend. He was wearing a rainbow bracelet. David told The City that he was taken to a cell inside the station and handcuffed to a wall, at which point he heard one officer tell others “we got three more fag pervs.” The lewdness charge against him was eventually dropped, but David said he was “traumatized” by the experience.
Immigration attorney Danney Salvatierra also told The City that one of her clients, an asylum seeker from Mexico, was arrested by Amtrak Police while using the bathroom at Penn in July and immediately handed off to ICE agents. Salvatierra said the arrest documents did not contain a charge against her client, who spent over a month in a detention facility before being released by a judge.
Last week, City University of New York (CUNY) law professor Jared Trujillo posted a TikTok video warning others about sting operations in Penn Station bathrooms. Trujillo claims that police have been using Sniffies to lure potential cruisers to a bathroom near a police booth, then arrest them. The arrests come during a marked increase in visibility for Sniffies through print media like The New Yorker and New York Magazine, though Trujillo pointed out that the platform wasn’t the only way police have targeted travelers.
“There are other instances where officers will approach someone who’s at a urinal, the officer will touch himself or will just peer at the person, and if the person — who is there just trying to pee — responds in any way, that person is then arrested or at least charged with lewdness,” Trujillo said in his video. (In his comments to The City, David said he felt “watched” by a nearby man shortly before his arrest.) Trujillo further noted that such stings closely resemble tactics used in the past decade by Port Authority police, who settled a class action lawsuit over similar arrests in 2022, promising to end plainclothes bathroom patrols and step up sensitivity training.
“Police have long weaponized constitutionally dubious tactics to target men they perceive as gay. Officers sometimes expose or touch themselves, or leer at men, only to arrest the man — even when he has done nothing wrong,” Trujillo told Them in a statement Wednesday. “These arrests are about padding numbers, not public safety. They waste resources and inflict trauma, and the charges can carry devastating immigration and employment consequences. The Port Authority police engaged in the same conduct until Legal Aid sued and forced a settlement in 2022.”
Trujillo urged LGBTQ+ people to exercise caution when dealing with the police to reduce the chance of harm. “If you are arrested, invoke your right to remain silent and ask for an attorney,” he told Them. “Do not consent to police searching your phone.”
The arrests come during a marked increase in visibility for Sniffies through print media like The New Yorker and New York Magazine.
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Some clips from recent Majority Report that I enjoyed.
Republican Caught With Porn Hides Behind Charlie Kirk
I have read rumors about this guy for a long time. But I was always hopeful he played for the straight team because of how hateful he is. He is an all out racist. But they claim to have checked it out and it is true. There clearly is some excitement in Ryan’s pants.
He’s SO Bad At This…
I believe that Chuck Schumer cares far more for his big money donors and mythical Baileys than for the lower income people. I think he was good at the game in the 1990s. I think he relied heavily on Pelosi during tRump’s first term. If you don’t watch the video, know that the candidates running in red states to unseat the republicans in those seats don’t want Schumer to campaign with them in any way. In state after state, the new democratic candidates for Senate say they won’t vote for Schumer. The only one who may would be Mills in Maine because she has not declared yet and Schumer is pushing her hard to enter … in her upper 70s. Screw those young upstarts in their 40s and 50s, those wet behind the ears kids. let’s put a seasoned 77-year-old in the Senate for a six year term. It seems that Schumer’s plan for the midterms is to do nothing, take no position on anything that might upset anyone and hope that tRump is so bad people will be so sick of him that they vote for the democrats. It did not work that way in 2024 and it won’t in 2026. He went on Morning Joe, no young voter is watching Morning Joe. Only older voters and donors are. Sam points out Schumer could be saying to the public that tRump’s wealth has doubled in 8 months, has yours? He could be doing interviews saying what the FCC is doing is bad so if we win we are going to X and X. But Schumer won’t even bring up Epstein. I find all that Sam Seder says and shows of Schumer to be true, which heralds that we are in big trouble in the midterms. Hugs
Trump’s Cult And Christian America
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Scottie's Playtime 