Given the soul-consuming rot of #whiteSupremacists, it's not at all surprising when police find additional horrific behavior by them. #Corruption has a tendency to spread, and not remain cloistered in one particular area. I think police should dig into the backgrounds of all these hateful scoundrels. I bet they'd reveal a smorgasbord of horrors.
PiS ownership of Polish state media is long over, but, apparently, some form of a right-wing grip on #Poland news scene still exists.
Today, the National Radio and Television Council (KRRiT) has fined TVN24 550,000 PLN (~$139,000) for "Franciszkańska 3" documentary, which tried to prove Saint Pope John Paul II helped cover #pedophilia while he was Archbishop of Kraków in 1950s.
Seats in KRRiT are assigned by politicians. Currently, 4 of its 5 members are PiS nominees.
Today I learned stuff I never wanted to know but I believe it should be shared. Maybe I'm naive and everyone already knows this.
For the first time in my life, I called the FBI to report something. On the advice of the Child Abuse Hotline, which was my first call, I also called Missing And Exploited Children and reported it there.
I received a follow notice this morning. Thankfully, I checked the profile. It had been there for a day, had 15 followers and was following 333 profiles.
@Mary625@SDF this is a full out #pedophilia instance - I've reported to CSIS in Canada. I suggest others report to their own country's #crime division on child sexual abuse.
Reports to that instance is useless as it is a full instance filled with #pedophiles who are saying pedophilia is natural.
Please block the entire instance & alert other big instances. This is a very dangerous instance. Pedophilia is a crime - worldwide. #ZeroTolerance for sex abuse of kids.
The U.S. House of Representatives has been without a Speaker for a week, and GOP lawmakers are anxious that there won’t be another any time soon. Rep. Steve Scalise (R.-La.) clinched the Republican nomination yesterday, but has been unable to sway enough holdouts to be elected on the floor, where he can only lose four GOP votes. “I don’t know who can get there,” Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) says.
Why are works of #fiction (books, comic, animation, film) depicting #rape or #pedophilia more offensive to more people and cause more calls to boycott or censorship than fiction depicting extreme #violence or #murder, when killing someone is universally regarded as worse than raping someone (morally worse) and criminal systems everywhere punish murderers more harshly than rapists (legally worse)?
Republicans have gone too far with their scapegoating & stigmatizing innocent children: GOP state legislatures are increasingly pushing forward with proposals that, in effect, would require schools to report to parents when a student shows certain signs of #LGBTQ+ self-identification. Trend: documented in a new report from PEN America -bills have “exploded in popularity -become part of a concerted nat. campaign. They, like other critics, dubs them “forced outing bills🚨. ”https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/24/forced-outing-lgbtq-rights-pen-america-transgender/
Thoughts on watching the Duggars exposé series "Shiny Happy People":
Why there's David Zaslav, now in the news as an éminence grise behind Chris Licht at CNN, as CNN tries rebranding itself as the alternative FOX. There's David Zaslav, in the thick of things as the Duggars vault to fame on the Discovery network, of which he's CEO.
What's that about, the Zaslav link to both of these stories?
I cannot forget: at the very same time that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their son Josh were making political hay by attacking LGBTQ people as a threat to children, Josh was downloading child pornography and had molested his own younger sisters -- and Jim Bob and Michelle knew and hid all of this.