Schools cannot ban ‘merely offensive’ speech on gender identity, appeals court rules
The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a preliminary injunction Monday against an Iowa school district policy that threatens suspension and expulsion for “intentional and/or persistent refusal … to respect” a peer’s gender identity, finding it’s likely too vague to survive legal scrutiny.
“A school district cannot avoid the strictures of the First Amendment simply by defining certain speech as ‘bullying’ or ‘harassment'” as did the Linn-Mar Community School District, the three-judge panel ruled in a case that drew friend-of-the-court briefs by dozens of conservative and religious groups and 18 Republican-led states in favor of the plaintiffs.
A similar group of court watchers is asking the Boston-based 1st Circuit – which oversees Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island – to also overturn a lower court’s ruling that students do not have the right to assert the existence of the sexual binary while on school grounds.
America’s border war has begun: eyewitness report on Texas invasion of a Mexican cartel island crawling with gang members and ringed with sniper nests… and it’s all happening INSIDE the US
In the early dawn’s orange glow, a Texas Rangers commander briefs a heavily armed invasion force.
They’re preparing to seize a remote, 170-acre Mexican cartel-controlled island in the middle of the Rio Grande River overlooked by sniper nests and potentially booby-trapped.
Some of the dozens of assembled men shift from one foot to another or reposition their M-4 rifles as they listen to their commanders’ instructions.
‘Keep a close eye on those structures up there that have height advantage on us,’ he warns.
‘In case we do get engaged and someone is shot’ medical evacuation plans are in place and there are blood bags if the wounded need a transfusion, he assures them.
Any questions?
This may seem like a scene from a far-flung warzone.
But it’s just a glimpse of the hot war on America’s southern border – a direct consequence of an out-of-control crisis that has resulted in nearly five million illegal migrants entering the United States since President Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021.
Trans, Inc: genital mutilation is not just a fad. It’s a full-blown industry
Is this Alexander the Great’s escort? Tomb of a courtesan who may have accompanied the Macedonian king is discovered after 2,300 years
The tomb of a courtesan who seduced the elite ‘during Alexander the Great’s campaigns’ has been discovered after 2,300 years.
Found south of Jerusalem, Israel, it contained the cremated remains of a young woman, and a rare box mirror that looks ‘as if it was made yesterday’.
Experts say she was a hetaira – a high-class escort from ancient Greece, who offered elite clients not only sex, but also companionship and intellectual stimulation.
And she may have plied her trade accompanying the armies of Alexander the Great, or those who warred for his vast empire after the conqueror’s demise.
The discovery, which is detailed in a new study, is thought to be the first hetairai tomb ever found.
Whoa! That’s a YES. Speaker of the House — DJT ‘willing to help out’
He is a political joy! President Trump as Speaker would rock this country like nothing else! Have read that anyone indicted on felony charges cannot be Speaker. Maybe there is a workaround since the charges against him are themselves treasonous interference in an election. ABN
Swiss Writer Sentenced to 60 Days in Jail for Calling Journalist a ‘Fat Lesbian’
LGBTQ+ groups hailed the 60-day jail sentence a court in Switzerland gave to a writer and commentator for deriding a journalist as a “fat lesbian” and other critical remarks.
The Lausanne court sentenced French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, for the crimes of defamation, discrimination and incitement to hatred on Monday. He was ordered to pay legal fees and fines totaling thousands of Swiss francs (dollars) in addition to the time behind bars.
Soral lashed out at Catherine Macherel, a journalist for Swiss newspapers Tribune de Geneve and 24 Heures, in a Facebook video two years ago. He called her a “fat lesbian” and said Macherel’s work as a “queer activist” meant she was “unhinged,” according to Swiss public broadcaster RTS.
“This court decision is an important moment for justice and rights of LGBTQI people in Switzerland,” said Murial Waeger, co-director of the lesbian activist group LOS, in a statement. “The conviction of Alain Soral is a strong signal that homophobic hatred cannot be tolerated in our society.”
In an email Tuesday to The Associated Press, Pascal Junod, a lawyer for Soral, mockingly blasted the conviction for a “crime of opinion” and said the case aimed to probe whether a person had “sinned against the dogmas of single thought.” Soral will appeal to Swiss federal court and “if necessary” to the European Court of Human Rights, the lawyer wrote.
My understanding is ‘queer’ activism is political and ideological and has little or nothing to do with sexuality or gender identification per se. If he is being charged with insulting her for calling her a lesbian it is the law that is insulting lesbians because it says calling someone a lesbian is an insult. If the person is fat, it’s not an insult and if she is not fat it’s not an insult either; it’s just a bad description. Again, it is the law that is insulting fat people. Would he go to jail if he called her a bitch or said her mom wears combat boots to church? I hate these stupid freaking laws designed to ‘protect’ some designated groups. The left uses morality that only they are allowed to define to stifle the rights of individuals. ABN
Denis Rancourt and Peter McCullough PhD on the covid pandemic
‘Unequivocal’ evidence of huge post-vax mortality increase in children and young adults
Calls for verbal abuse of children by adults to be formally recognized as form of child maltreatment
Co-author, Professor Peter Fonagy (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences), said: “This systematic review is timely and of significant clinical value. Preventing the maltreatment of children is the most effective way we can reduce the prevalence of child mental health problems. A sharp focus on childhood verbal abuse by adults around them by the new charity Words Matter, and this review will help make significant change, and support and direct our efforts to identify and respond to this risk in an effective and timely manner.”
This is right up my alley in that it concerns the use of language in interpersonal relations. In the abstract, it would be very good to reduce the ‘verbal abuse’ of children and no one would object to that abstract ideal. I am concerned, though, that this will end up being yet another excuse, bloated with government grants and payola, to intrude on the the private lives of children and families. A better plan, in my view, would be to teach the Words Matter people FIML and then get them to figure out a way to teach everyone in the world how to do FIML. Note that Prof Fonagy is on the advisory board of Words Matter, and also that childhood mental health has done nothing but decline the more governments and charities interfere in children’s upbringing. Their list of Trustees reads like a front for a psyop with boondoggle side-benefits. Their Find Help page takes you straight to more charities and groups with well-paid executives. This looks like just another leg on the giant parasitic organism feeding on Western societies. In today’s world, skepticism is justified. I am strongly in favor of the excellent use of language in every environment but am wary of anyone who uses language to intrude, control, self-aggrandize, or solve problems that people of that type have only made worse. ‘Hate speech’, ‘gender-affirming care’, ‘equality of outcome’, ‘Black Lives Matter’, and now ‘Words Matter’. It’s all of a piece and nothing good has come from any of it. ABN
UPDATE: I hope readers of this site understand that only FIML or a practice very much like it will fix the extremely serious problems all people face whenever they use language. And that includes self-talking as well as interpersonal speech with children and others. No one should expect a charity or government policy to improve interpersonal language based on theoretical and often ideological psychological assumptions, most of which have little or no grounding in reality. To optimize your use of language to the fullest, only you can do it with the help of an honest partner through FIML practice. There is no other way. Children can and should be taught FIML in the home. It will provide them with a beautiful intellectual and spiritual tool that will enrich their lives in every activity. ABN
Portland, Maine City Council Passes Ordinance to Decriminalize Psychedelics
The council of Maine’s most populated city voted 6–3 in favor of the resolution, which would apply to the possession of DMT, mescaline, psilocybin/psilocyn (magic mushrooms) and ibogaine.
“[The] use of psychedelic plants and fungi should be deprioritized by our criminal justice system in order to facilitate access to people who need this for a public health benefit”, said Councilor Anna Trevorrow prior to the council’s vote.
Similar to what Seattle did with marijuana back in 2003, the ordinance would make the possession of psychedelics the lowest enforcement priority, directly police to focus instead on all other potential crimes and infractions
“Portland departments, agencies, boards, commissions, officers or employees of the city should avoid using city funds or resources to assist in the investigation, criminal prosecution or the imposition of criminal penalties”, states the ordinance.
The passage of the ordinance is another example of the growing trend towards a reformation of psychedelic laws. Both Oregon and Colorado have legalized psychedelics, and the California Legislature recently passed a bill to do the same.
Matt Gaetz on fire
FENBENDAZOLE and CANCER
FENBENDAZOLE and CANCER – at least 12 Anti-Cancer mechanisms of action. Not approved by FDA. Cheap. Safe. Kills aggressive cancers. Why no Clinical Trials?
I review 9 research papers proving anti-cancer effects of Fenbendazole.
Benzimidazole drugs (including Fenbendazole) have widely been used as anti-helminth agents in both human and/or livestock since the 1960s
Due to their low cost and high efficacy, benzimidazole anthelmintics have been used throughout the world
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