Far-right and extremist voices have launched a significant attack against the LGBTQ+ community in 2021-2022, demonizing people via repeated false claims that LGBTQ+ people are “pedophiles” who are “grooming” children in order to abuse them. This false and malicious narrative has been weaponized to label the LGBTQ+ community as “groomers” and has fueled a slew of hostile legislation and policies aimed at erasing the discussion of LGBTQ+ related issues in schools, removing LGBTQ+ books from schools and public libraries and, especially, to ostracize, defame and harass transgender people.
Thursday, April 6, 2023
LGBT grooming conspiracy theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_grooming_conspiracy_theory
Since the early 2020s, members of the far-right and a growing number of mainstream conservatives, mostly in the United States, have falsely accused LGBT people, as well as their allies and progressives in general, of systematically using LGBT-positive education and campaigns for LGBT rights as a method of child grooming. These accusations and conspiracy theories are characterized by experts as baseless, homophobic and transphobic, and as examples of moral panic.
Republican congressman falsely claims Democratic congresswoman said pedophilia isn’t a crime
On Thursday afternoon, Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas accused Democratic Rep. Katie Porter of California of having said that “pedophilia isn’t a crime.”
But Porter did not say that. Jackson, like some conservative Twitter personalities, was wrongly describing Porter’s remarks.
Biggest Bombshells From New Clarence Thomas Report
https://www.newsweek.com/biggest-bombshell-new-clarence-thomas-report-1793063
According to the report, Thomas and his wife took trips paid for by Crow almost on a yearly basis for over two decades. The report states interviews and documents detailed Thomas traveled on Crow's yacht, as well as his jet. Thomas vacationed with Crow to the Bohemian Grove retreat, a campground in California where powerful individuals are known to gather. Thomas has also traveled to a private resort in the Adirondacks owned by Crow, the report said.
Many of the trips reported by ProPublica were not disclosed by Thomas, which may be an ethics violation. According to ProPublica, a law requires Supreme Court Justices and members of Congress to financially disclose certain gifts they receive, and Thomas did not disclose the trips he took on Crow's yacht or his jet.
Hang On, Clarence Thomas Said He Likes to Hang Out in “Walmart Parking Lots”?
The sleuths over at ProPublica have a big old story out Thursday about Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas and his apparently extensive history of taking fully paid-for luxury vacations with a billionaire Republican donor named Harlan Crow. The story quotes experts who say Thomas appears to have broken the law by failing to disclose the numerous free trips he has taken on Crow’s private jet and yacht.
Pentagon turns over Afghanistan withdrawal reviews to Congress
“While it was always the president’s intent to end that war, it is also undeniable that decisions made and the lack of planning done by the previous administration significantly limited options available to him,” Kirby said.
The outline blamed the Trump administration at length for their lack of preparation going into the withdrawal and for what Biden inherited when he came into office, pointing to drawdowns of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and the former president’s consideration of hosting Taliban leaders for negotiations around the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Trump's Felony Indictment Was Way Worse Than He or the GOP Imagined | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-felony-indictment-was-way-worse-he-gop-imagined-opinion-1792776
In other words, rumors of a Trump surge are not just greatly exaggerated; they're based on political smoke that is likely to quickly drift away.
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
IS HOLOCAUST EDUCATION MAKING ANTI-SEMITISM WORSE?
These people talked about bosses and colleagues who repeatedly ridiculed them with anti-Semitic “jokes,” friends who turned on them when they mentioned a son’s bar mitzvah or a trip to Israel, romantic partners who openly mocked their traditions, classmates who defaced their dorm rooms and pilloried them online, teachers and neighbors who parroted conspiratorial lies. I was surprised to learn how many people were getting pennies thrown at them in 21st-century America, an anti-Semitic taunt that I thought had died around 1952. These casual stories sickened me in their volume and their similarity, a catalog of small degradations. At a time when many people in other minority groups have become bold in publicizing the tiniest of slights, these American Jews instead expressed deep shame in sharing these stories with me, feeling that they had no right to complain. After all, as many of them told me, it wasn’t the Holocaust.
As Karaites undergo a resurgence, why is their Passover different from all others?
On Passover, many Karaites drink beer, which is strongly prohibited in Orthodox Judaism because it interprets the fermentation of barley as the equivalent of leavened bread, which the Torah bans on the holiday. On this issue and others, Karaites stick to the letter of the Torah, which says nothing about drinking beer. They also eat pasta, arguing it is as unleavened as matzah.
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Majority of Americans approve of Trump indictment
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/03/politics/cnn-poll-trump-indictment/index.html
Sixty percent of Americans approve of the indictment of former President Donald Trump, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS following the news that a New York grand jury voted to charge him in connection with hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. About three-quarters of Americans say politics played at least some role in the decision to indict Trump, including 52% who said it played a major role.
Monday, April 3, 2023
Kuzari
Kuzari (01:08). The human mind cannot believe that God has intercourse with man, except by a miracle which changes the nature of things. He then recognizes that to do so He alone is capable who created them from nought. It must also have taken place in the presence of great multitudes, who saw it distinctly, and did not learn it from reports and traditions. Even then they must examine the matter carefully and repeatedly, so that no suspicion of imagination or magic can enter their minds. Then it is possible that the mind may grasp this extraordinary matter, that the Creator of this world and the next, of the heavens and lights, should hold intercourse with this contemptible piece of clay, I mean man, speak to him, and fulfill his wishes and desires.
Trump ‘extremely angry,’ family ‘rattled’ following indictment
https://news.yahoo.com/haberman-trump-extremely-angry-family-200152449.html
Former President Trump and his team were caught off guard by the indictment of the former president that was announced last week, leaving him “extremely angry” and his family “rattled,” according to New York Times reporter and longtime Trump scribe Maggie Haberman.
Malka Leifer, former ultra-Orthodox Jewish principal, found guilty of indecent assault and rape
Jurors convicted her of 18 offences relating to offending against Erlich and Sapper. She was acquitted of nine charges, including the five that related to Meyer and several charges involving Erlich.
Leifer, who sat with her head tilted watching the jury, did not react as the verdicts were read.
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