Missouri Girl Scout leaders threatened legal action against a troop that made bracelets to raise funds for starving children in Gaza, provoking outrage and ridicule from the girls’ supporters and advocates for people trapped in the Palestinian territory by the latest humanitarian crisis....
Isn't it terrible how adults act. Threatening legal action against this troop for trying to do something to help. That's just sickening. Thank god there are people in the world who actually care about what's going on with the horrific genocide in the middle east.
In Utah, an athlete needed police protection after a Republican school board member falsely accused her of being transgender.
"Sports bans will hurt cisgender women" is just one of the many, many predictions the trans community made at the beginning of this moral panic.
Today on Assigned, I declared national We Told You So Day. From violence to attacks on cis women and gays and lesbians, the predictions have been chillingly accurate. #trans#LGBTQ#news
@e_urq I live in Utah and was once again ashamed of the behavior of this school board member (who has made many phobic slurs in her time). Utah is one of the few remaining states where bigotry and hate go not only unchecked, but are actively cultivated by the culture (oddly enough founded by people who themselves claimed to be escaping from religious persecution).
I still don't get what the fuck this trans phobia is all about. Of course I never understood homophobia either, it's all so based on ridiculous bigoted nonsense. But the idea that trans people who participate in sports somehow have an "unfair advantage" is not only incorrect, it is a glaring fallacy. It's all so utterly stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome to the world of modern society. Actually this war's been going on since I was a kid in the 60s, it's just gotten more vicious with newer weaponry and more ability to kill children and starve people out of their homeland. What a wonderful species we human beings are.
@StillIRise1963 Back in the 80s when I first came out, the world was still an incredibly immature hostile place toward LGBTQ people. And it still is. But even back then I was helping conduct gay marriages, though they weren't recognized by law. I attended so many weddings of LGBTQ people that I was doing one or two every weekend, at least.
My point is, the immoral bigots of the world can pass all the shitty laws they want to, it's up to you as a gay person to live your life the way you choose anyway. Even if it is breaking the law. The only thing that can change immorality and medieval ignorance is the light of truth and living the way you are wanting to live, no matter what the law says.
Fuck the people who make these laws anyway, if their own lives were any good they'd be helping others instead of trying to trample on everyone else's happiness. So just keep that in mind.
Imagine how much more costly it is to raise a child with genetic and other health disorders because the state won't let you abort the fetus once those abnormalities are detected.
There's an article in USA TODAY (in April 2nd edition I think) about how restrictive Texas abortion laws are forcing women to have babies born with Trisomy 18, a genetic disorder that forces the child to be born unable to breathe, having to be force fed through tubes and having to undergo major heart surgeries over and over again, not to mention all the medications they have to be given around the clock.
Most women in states where abortion is allowed choose not to have the child when they find out the baby has this condition. Unfortunately, it usually isn't detectable in a fetus until long after 12 weeks, and many states now ban abortion after six weeks' pregnancy.
I only wish that the horrors these self-righteous white turds are forcing on American women would visit them somehow, someday. And I think they will in the afterlife, for there can be no redemption for condemning babies to have to endure life as a series of unimaginably painful shocks and horrors.
I must the king (or queen) of time management because I don't work at all. It takes real skill to be able to be as lazy and unproductive as I am most days.
A Swiss air quality monitoring firm on Tuesday said its latest worldwide data reveals the need for more walkable cities and a swift transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels, as just 7 out of 134 countries were found to meet global standards for dangerous air pollution.
What's sad is, here in Utah our representatives are actively working against EPA emission standards and passing laws to restrict what the government can require from industries that produce greenhouse gases. Of course most of our legislature are shareholders in big oil and gas companies, so it's no surprise that for them, money always comes first no matter what.
First lady Jill Biden defended her son Hunter Biden against an onslaught of attacks from Republicans in an interview that aired Thursday, saying the barrage of allegations against him has been “cruel.”...
So would I. In fact I'd vote for a piece of cow dung before I'd vote repuglitard. At least the cow dung doesn't pretend not to be a stinking pile of shit.
Kudos to Hunter Biden for walking right into that bigoted meeting of small minded refucklitards and telling them off to their idiot small stupid dumb uneducated filthy perverse little faces. And not giving that fucking sick cunt, Margie Tyler Greenshit a chance to open her big ugly fat fucking mouth.
“I’ve been told that I need to stop this eclipse and I do not have the authority to do that. So yes, people are really concerned. But we’re just trying to prepare them.”
Having seen a solar eclipse back in 2017, I can say it was truly an spectacle. But I don't see traveling anywhere just to see another one - I mean it's interesting, but it lasts maybe two minutes and then it's over and back to normal. And I don't see spending all that money when you can get the best view of it watching news coverage on TV.
I don't have to (and I won't) respect anyone's religious beliefs if they believe their religious views give them the right to discriminate against and hurt others. And where is the respect for MY atheistic beliefs? They all act like I just am too stupid to see "the light," when in reality I believe what I believe with the same amount of fervor and certainty that they feel.
two verdicts from watching the boy and the heron:
watching it on a big screen makes me realise theres a separate art style for their backgrounds and their foregrounds, which gives it an effect similar to the old cinema way of making miniatures and compositing your actors over the top, its really cool
and
im gay
Yeah if anything condemns humanity, it's the way these assholes reacted to the simple requirement to wear a mask to keep from infecting others. Their total unwillingness to act in a responsible and mindful way, pretty much says all there is to about he basic evil nature of mankind and how most people aren't worth a pile of dog excrement - none of them will be or could ever be redeemed.
Gross. White nationalists should be called what they are, bigots made of dog excrement. Their ancestors would not just be totally ashamed of them, but would actively disown them in every possible way. They are not what represents America and it's ideals, but the exact opposite; they represent horror, hate, subtraction, and misery.
I think the reason they behave like they do is because their own personal lives are so miserable. It's no surprise they have bad relationships and can't get along with reasonable people.
Anyway I wish there was a separate, walled-off island where they could all go and shoot at each other indiscriminately and hang each other from trees over stupid minor differences. If that's what they want, the live in utter hell, then that's exactly what they so richly deserve to have.
A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea....
Well it's sort of like Mohammed - I'm sure that a person with that name DID exist around that time at some point. And maybe they were a teacher and a self-proclaimed "speaker for god." But so was Charles Manson and David Koresh and Jim Jones and Joseph Smith and many other horrible cult leaders.
There never has been any "god" in the way we mean it, so there could never actually be such a thing as the son of God, nor any need for one. If we were smart as a species, we'd see why it's more important to support human beings than go around believing in religious nut jobbery.
Donald Trump has repeatedly shown that he can reasonably be described as evil. Yet, white “Christian” evangelicals are among his most loyal, stalwart, and enthusiastic supporters. Moreover, when his behavior and character are evaluated relative to the Christian mythological framework, Trump is actually much closer to being...
Many times I've explained to people that trump actually IS the anti-christ as described in the bible; hugely appealing to the gullible and the corrupt, able to build armies of immoral and indecent sycophants, proclaiming to be the "messiah of God." All of these and more point to his actually being the actual anti-christ in every possible way.
But hey, go ahead and re-elect him to office and watch how your own fortunes burn to a cinder as a result. It's the very people that are mentally ill enough to re-elect him that will the first to dragged into eternal hell by him.
Well I'm sure it wasn't Israel's fault, he probably got in the way of their bullets. Of course killing humans at Easter is what the Jewish state is best at, so we should shove our easter eggs up our butt and thank jesus for this wonderful world of bloodshed and murder that israel helps make happen.
I gotta agree with cartoon Bernie on this one. Here in Utah the three big concerns of our upcoming legislative session are: how to ban more transgender people from public restrooms, how to prosecute women who may have had an abortion at anytime in the past, and how to ensure colleges and universities can no longer encourage diversity, equity, or inclusion under criminal penalty. I'm not joking, those are the main focuses of the upcoming session.
Never mind that homelessness is out of control, housing prices are through the roof, drug addiction is at an all time high, and the great Salt lake is now nothing but a mud puddle that will dry up in five years' time.
More important to score political points with your witless white-ass cronies and mormon shit heads.
The only true grave threats to human dignity are the sickness of religious nutjobbery and instituionalized bigotry, which is what the Vatican (a shitty place if ever there was one) is espousing with this horrid document. The right to abortion, the right to surrogacy and to have access to whatever gender one wishes, these are moral imperatives that drive our species forward toward dignity - only a total shithead idiot would ever think otherwise under any circumstances.
Girl Scouts were told to stop bracelet-making fundraiser for kids in Gaza. Now they can't keep up (apnews.com)
Missouri Girl Scout leaders threatened legal action against a troop that made bracelets to raise funds for starving children in Gaza, provoking outrage and ridicule from the girls’ supporters and advocates for people trapped in the Palestinian territory by the latest humanitarian crisis....
‘We are dying slowly:’ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza (edition.cnn.com)
Over 80 Percent Of Texas Women Don't Know How Bad Their State's Abortion Laws Are | They thought there would be exceptions. There aren't. (www.wonkette.com)
I'm so good at time management that I hardly work at all (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Only 7 Countries Meet WHO's Air Quality Guidelines as Fossil Fuels Worsen Pollution (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
A Swiss air quality monitoring firm on Tuesday said its latest worldwide data reveals the need for more walkable cities and a swift transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels, as just 7 out of 134 countries were found to meet global standards for dangerous air pollution.
Jill Biden: ‘What they are doing to Hunter is cruel’ (thehill.com)
First lady Jill Biden defended her son Hunter Biden against an onslaught of attacks from Republicans in an interview that aired Thursday, saying the barrage of allegations against him has been “cruel.”...
Residents Beg Michigan Mayor to Stop Solar Eclipse - He Scientifically Can't (rivergrandrapids.com)
“I’ve been told that I need to stop this eclipse and I do not have the authority to do that. So yes, people are really concerned. But we’re just trying to prepare them.”
No we don't (midwest.social)
"Why I'm no longer a White Nationalist." Neoreactionary blogger goes to live in Red America just like he always dreamed. What followed will shock you! (web.archive.org)
“Walt Bismarck,” a neoreactionary/alt-right blogger, decided to live by his beliefs and move from the liberal hellhole of Arizona to the midwest:...
A Filipino villager is nailed to a cross for the 35th time on Good Friday to pray for world peace (apnews.com)
A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea....
The "martyrdom" of Donald J. Trump. "It’s all slapstick comedy: Posing as a Christ-like figure is so outlandish and absurd" (www.salon.com)
Donald Trump has repeatedly shown that he can reasonably be described as evil. Yet, white “Christian” evangelicals are among his most loyal, stalwart, and enthusiastic supporters. Moreover, when his behavior and character are evaluated relative to the Christian mythological framework, Trump is actually much closer to being...
Palestinian teen shot dead during Israeli West Bank raid, Wafa news agency reports (www.reuters.com)
Israeli forces shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian boy during a raid in the occupied West Bank...
Spongejob Wetpants (lemmy.world)
How much for cuddles? (lemm.ee)
unironically. yes. demand your government work for you. (slrpnk.net)
The Vatican says surrogacy and gender theory are 'grave threats' to human dignity (text.npr.org)