No, we just dont think kids should be sujected to this. I dont have a problem with LGBT, but that is unprofessional and does not belong in the classroom.
An appointee to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new oversight board in control of Disney’s special tax district called homosexuality “evil” last year and shared a baseless conspiracy theory that tap water could be making more people gay.
On Monday, the Republican governor appointed Ron Peri, an Orlando-based former pastor and the CEO of The Gathering – a Christian ministry focused on outreach to men – as one of five people who will now oversee the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the government body that has given Disney unique powers in Central Florida for more than half a century.
DeSantis signed a bill in February that allowed him to replace the district’s existing board – mostly people with ties to Disney – with a five-member body that he hand-picked. The move to remove power from Disney comes nearly a year after the company spoke out against a Florida bill – which DeSantis later signed into law – to restrict certain classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
What’s upsetting is this teacher is evil and should have never been hired. We have a shortage in teachers and people like this slip in through the back door. Disgusting.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
White House condemns push to block abortion pills after Walgreens decision
The day after Walgreens announced it would no longer sell abortion pills by mail in 20 conservative-led states, the White House on Friday called it “dangerous and unacceptable” for Republicans to target pharmacies for offering them.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did not explicitly weigh in on Walgreens’s move, but more broadly pushed back on the effort among Republican attorneys general to threaten consequences for the distribution of FDA-approved abortion medication.
“Elected officials targeting pharmacies and their ability to provide women with safe, effective and FDA-approved medication is dangerous and just unacceptable,” Jean-Pierre said.
“This is all part of a continued effort by anti-abortion extremists who want to use this arcane law to impose a backdoor ban on abortion,” she continued. “The administration will continue to stand by the FDA’s expert judgment in approving and regulating medications. And in the face of barriers to access and concerns about safety of patients, healthcare providers and pharmacists, we will continue to support access to this critical medication within the limits of the law.”
Walgreens, the country’s second-largest pharmacy chain, announced late Thursday that it will not provide abortion pills in several states after roughly two dozen Republican attorneys general wrote to the company last month threatening legal action if the pharmacy continued to distribute the medication.
The GOP attorneys general argued that federal law prohibits anyone from using the mail to send or receive any drug that will “be used or applied for producing abortion,” referring to the Comstock Act of 1873.
The Justice Department issued a legal opinion earlier this year stating that mailing abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol does not violate the Comstock Act. The department said the U.S. Postal Service is legally allowed to deliver prescription abortion drugs even in states that have curtailed access to abortion.
Among the states affected are Iowa, Alaska, Arkansas, Alabama, South Dakota, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas. Most of those states already have restrictive abortion laws on the books.
The Walgreens decision is the latest development in an ongoing fight over access to abortion that has been reshaped in the wake of last summer’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Several GOP-led states have sought to further restrict abortion access in the time since, while the Biden administration has issued executive orders and legal opinions seeking to protect women’s access to abortion pills and their ability to travel across state lines for the procedure.
And I just switched to Walgreens when Tricare (veterans health insurance) ended its contract with Kroger Pharmacies. With the military going with express scripts as the primary option and Walgreens as a local option. There are other locals I can deal with, but I won't support a company that does this and kneels to fascist GOPers. So, Walgreens is on my personal boycot list.
I’m pretty sure when the cops don’t show up to stop a drag show in Tennessee some night, a person or persons filled with hate will show up armed with ARs
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
One of my COPD scripts is just over $400 on GoodRx or $34 with my insurance. Tell me what you would do. There are other local pharmacies I can use; my point was that I just moved to them and they did something objectionable like this.
It’s cases like this that make my blood boil. There’s a poster on this board that brushed off as nothing the anguish my family has experienced because of similar hardship. There is no humanity in those that think that families should suffer. That the born can suffer a life of hell, a fate far worse than death, because they were brought into this world. Oh but the precious cell clumps. They have a right to suffer. They have a right to bring pain and suffering to families. Screw antiabortionists.
Donald Trump's Weird J6 'Song' With Capitol Rioters Strikes A Sour Note "Justice For All" — featuring the former president and the J6 Prison Choir — is listed in the “devotional & spiritual” section on Apple Music.
By Lee Moran Mar 3, 2023, 06:04 AM EST
A new song released Friday features Donald Trump and a group of jailed Jan. 6 rioters ― and it’s struck a sour note with critics. “Justice For All” is reportedly raising funds to support the families of Trump supporters locked up on charges related to the violence on Jan. 6, 2021. In the track, Trump recites the Pledge of Allegiance. The twice-impeached former president’s words are cut with the national anthem sung by around 20 Washington jail inmates who call themselves the J6 Prison Choir. They chant “USA” as the track ends.
Trump recorded his part several weeks ago at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, reported Forbes. The inmates recorded their singing on a jailhouse phone. On Apple Music, the song is listed in the “devotional & spiritual” section. It’s also available to stream on Spotify. On YouTube, Trump is credited as the composer of the track.
As much as I’m curious to hear the trainwreck of a song, I’m not going to touch it. Every listen just adds to its ‘popularity’. Enough clicks and it’ll generate income for these losers. No way I want to be a part of that.
And here it comes as predicted. Now they're coming after gay marriage.
Eight Iowa state GOP lawmakers propose constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage
Eight Republicans in the Iowa state House have proposed an amendment to their state’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage, arguing that the state should only recognize marriages between one man and one woman.
“In accordance with the laws of nature and nature’s God, the state of Iowa recognizes the definition of marriage to be the solemnized union between one human biological male and one human biological female,” reads the joint resolution introduced Tuesday.
Same-sex couples in Iowa are not in immediate jeopardy of losing their right to marry, however, as both passing and enacting the resolution are multistep processes that will take several years to complete.
The resolution to amend the state constitution, if adopted, would not be actionable until 2025, when the next slate of state lawmakers are inaugurated. At that time, if the resolution is passed a second time, the measure will head to the electorate for ratification.
While the adoption of such an amendment is not unconstitutional — multiple states have constitutional amendments or statutes that ban same-sex marriage still on the books — the amendment would not be enforceable under the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
However, in June 2022, the fate of that landmark ruling was upended by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who in a concurring opinion to overturn federal abortion protections suggested additional decisions, including Obergefell, should be revisited.
But even if Obergefell were to fall, same-sex couples are still guaranteed certain protections under the Respect for Marriage Act, which safeguards the rights of same-sex and interracial couples to marry. President Biden signed the historic legislation into law late last year.
In the case of Iowa, if Obergefell were overturned and Tuesday’s joint resolution adopted, same-sex couples would still be able to have their marriages recognized by the state as legally valid, just as long as those unions were performed in states where neither statute nor constitutional amendment bars same-sex partners from marrying.
Iowa House Democrats on Tuesday vowed to defeat the GOP-backed proposal, which they will have to do by Thursday to prevent the measure from coming up for a vote in the state House.
“No, @IowaGOP, we will not be going back to the days when committed, loving same-sex couples don’t have the same right to marriage equality as everyone else,” state Rep. Sami Scheetz (D) wrote on Twitter. “This kind of disgusting hatred and backwards thinking has no place in Iowa. And I’ll fight it every single day.”
Democratic state Rep. Adam Zabner on Tuesday said that the state, which in 2009 became the third to legalize same-sex marriage, should be focused on moving forward, “not backwards.”
A petition against the measure organized Tuesday by Iowa House Democrats has collected more than 27,000 signatures.
In a separate move on Tuesday, eight Iowa Republicans — six of whom also proposed the joint resolution — filed another bill, HF 508, which would allow state residents to deny same-sex marriages on religious grounds. The bill would also rule certain elements of the Respect for Marriage Act “null and void” in Iowa.
“The state of Iowa also recognizes the deep historical and religious roots that uniformly defined and understood marriage to be the union between one male and female,” the bill says. “Therefore, no resident of Iowa shall be compelled, coerced, or forced to recognize any same-sex unions or ceremonies as marriage, notwithstanding any laws to the contrary that may exist in other states, and no legal action, criminal or civil, shall be taken against citizens in Iowa for refusal or failure to recognize or participate in same-sex unions or ceremonies.”
In a Twitter post on Friday, Iowa state Sen. Liz Bennett (D), one of three openly LGBTQ lawmakers in the legislature, said the introduction of both measures amounted to “an outright attack on the entire LGBT community.”
Iowa state Rep. Austin Harris, the legislature’s only LGBTQ Republican, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Iowa is one of less than a dozen states to have an openly LGBTQ Republican serving in the state legislature.
In an email to NBC News, bill sponsor Rep. Brad Sherman, a Republican who also sponsored the joint resolution to ban same-sex marriage by way of the state constitution, argued that the measure “does not seek to tell same-sex couples what to believe.”
“If they want to call their relationship a marriage, they are free to do so; that is freedom,” Sherman said. “But, by the same token, people who do not define same-sex unions as marriage must not be forced to do so.”
All they know how to do is hate Pit. What do you expect? Do you expect the MAGA World to change overnight? I don't, not when you have so many guys on here all acting like Mini-MGTs. If anything, I expect them to get worse. And now you have Trump releasing a fascist homage to the traitors of J6 and inspiring even more fascism. We all know Trumpian GOPers lap that crap up like mothers milk. Some of them will be by later to call us libtards, watch and see.
Why do these cuckoo republicans hate LBGTQ, Blacks, Latinos, native Americans and Asians?
Ronald DeSantis Is Leading Florida to Freedom, One Ban at a Time
AP African American Studies—No, All AP Courses? DeSantis has sought to ban AP African American Studies, claiming that the course lacked "educational value" because among the curriculum's 100-plus units, a few focused on queer theory or the prison abolition movement. (State officials have also claimed the course is historically inaccurate and violates a state law on how race issues are taught in schools.) This prompted the College Board to change the curriculum, though they've denied it was in response to political pressure, and DeSantis is now floating a general ban on AP courses. He's also pushing the study of Western Civilization, as if that's in short supply in American schools and universities.
Former Ohio House speaker convicted in $60M bribery scheme
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former state House Speaker Larry Householder and former Ohio Republican Party Chair Matt Borges were convicted Thursday in a $60 million bribery scheme that federal prosecutors have called the largest corruption case in state history.
A jury in Cincinnati found the two guilty of conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise involving bribery and money laundering, after about 9 1/2 half hours of deliberations over two days.
U.S. Attorney Kenneth Parker said the government’s prosecution team showed that “Householder sold the Statehouse, and thus he ultimately betrayed the people of the great state of Ohio he was elected to serve.” He called Borges “a willing co-conspirator.”
“Through its verdict today, the jury reaffirmed that the illegal acts committed by both men will not be tolerated and that they should be held accountable,” Parker said.
Attorneys for Householder and Borges did not immediately respond to messages left by The Associated Press on Thursday.
Prosecutors alleged that Householder orchestrated a scheme secretly funded by Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. to secure his power in the Legislature, elect his allies — and then to pass and defend a $1 billion nuclear power plant bailout benefiting the electric utility. They alleged that Borges, then a lobbyist, sought to bribe an operative for inside information on the referendum to overturn the bailout.
Householder, 63, had been one of Ohio’s most powerful politicians — and twice elected speaker — until the Republican-controlled House ousted him after his indictment from his leadership post, and then in a bipartisan vote, and with Householder vigorously objecting, from the chamber. It was the first such expulsion in 150 years.
He took the stand in his own defense, contradicting FBI testimony and denying that he attended swanky Washington dinners where prosecutors allege he and executives of FirstEnergy hatched the elaborate scheme in 2017.
Borges, 50, did not testify at trial but has insisted that he’s innocent. Both men face up to 20 years in prison.
The verdict comes two-and-a-half years after Householder, Borges and three others were arrested in what prosecutors have called the largest corruption case in Ohio history.
Over the past seven weeks, jurors at the trial were presented with firsthand accounts of the alleged scheme, as well as reams of financial documents, emails, texts and wire-tap audio.
The prosecution called two of the people arrested — Juan Cespedes and Jeff Longstreth, who pleaded guilty — to testify about political contributions that they said are not ordinary, but bribes intended to secure passage of the bailout bill, known as House Bill 6.
Householder’s attorneys described his activities as nothing more than hardball politics.
Jurors also heard taped phone calls in which Householder and another co-defendant, the late Statehouse superlobbyist Neil Clark, plotted a nasty attack ad — and, in expletive-laced fashion, contemplated revenge against lawmakers who had crossed Householder.
Householder testified that he never retaliated against those who voted counter to his wishes or who donated to his rivals.
Under a deal to avoid prosecution, FirstEnergy admitted using a network of dark money groups to fund the scheme and even bribing the state’s top utility regulator, Sam Randazzo.
Randazzo resigned as chair of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio after an FBI search of his home, but he has not been charged and denies wrongdoing.
Six Oath Keeper associates convicted on Jan. 6 charges
A Washington, D.C., jury on Tuesday found six associates of the far-right group Oath Keeper guilty on charges connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Four of the associates — Sandra Parker, of Morrow, Ohio; Laura Steele, of Thomasville, N.C.; William Isaacs, of Kissimmee, Fla., and Connie Meggs, of Dunnellon, Fla. — were found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, which can carry a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, and other felony charges.
Two others — Michael Greene, of Indianapolis and Bennie Parker, the husband of Sandra Parker — were acquitted on some charges — but the jury is still deliberating on another outstanding felony charge for each.
All six associates were convicted of a misdemeanor related to entering the restricted grounds of the Capitol.
The new convictions are the latest in a number against Oath Keeper associates in connection with the Jan. 6 attacks as the Justice Department goes after those who participated in breaching the Capitol grounds and building.
Last year, Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, was found guilty of seditious conspiracy, a rare charge that carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. The six defendants in this latest case didn’t get hit with a seditious conspiracy charge, but were accused of working with other Oath Keepers who were, according to CNN.
The Justice Department reports that roughly 1,000 people have been arrested for crimes related to Capitol breach, and that investigations are still ongoing.
Has ANYONE charged for the 6th been found innocent? I don't remember any of them being found innocent. I think that should tell you right now what's coming for Trump. And if it doesn't, then GOPers should be furious that the j6 common people went to jail, but their leaders and coordinators got off scot-free.
In some cases there were charges they were found not guilty of. So in that regard yes. With a quick search I did find at least one that was found not guilty on all charges but there are probably others....
Matthew Martin becomes first January 6 defendant to be found not guilty on all charges
I had no idea that girls having their periods was woke. What will they think of next?
You need to understand the twisted mind of the great replacement theory. If they don't know about periods, or can't have abortions, those white women will start having babies to help offset the influx of all those illegal immigrants, now if there was only some way that they could make it apply to white girls only.....
Welcome back, Joe, we missed you!…. That did not age well.
I had 6 older sisters, 11 grandchildern that are girls, and I hope that it was not 6th grade for their sake.
It was a long time ago, in a state far far away. I remember the classroom, and it was my 6th grade one. I did not attend the film and talk. I don't know if there was anything earlier.
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