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June 11, 2024
Content Warning: The Underbelly of "Free Palestine" Protests #2
NOTE: I'm posting these to illustrate the sorts of people -- globally -- that American pro-Hamas protestors are aligning themselves with.
This one is homophobic, as well as being otherwise unhinged. I think it speaks for itself...
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As mentioned in the first installment of this series, I am not linking to original sources because they are cesspools.
THIS IS MILD. I'm choosing screenshots that I hope are appropriate for DU.
June 8, 2024
Read more: https://www.ksl.com/article/51037256/stunning-photos-show-catastrophic-failure-of-wyomings-teton-pass
CRAZY!!! That's one helluva big hole to fill and steamroll.
Stunning photos show 'catastrophic failure' of Wyoming's Teton Pass
JACKSON, Wyoming — A roadway along Teton Pass, just west of Jackson, has disintegrated and washed down the mountain side Saturday, after separate incidents closed the route twice over the last two days.
Wyoming Department of Transportation shared the section has "catastrophically failed, and a long-term closure is expected."
Officials way they were working to construct a detour around the damage, "but the landslide continued to move, taking out the whole road."
This is the same area where workers put a temporary patch on the road, after a large crack appeared across both lanes of travel, dropping 8 inches in some places, according to a press release. The geology department was said to be investigating the cause and monitoring the area, but that section of road was opened later Thursday.
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Wyoming Department of Transportation shared the section has "catastrophically failed, and a long-term closure is expected."
Officials way they were working to construct a detour around the damage, "but the landslide continued to move, taking out the whole road."
This is the same area where workers put a temporary patch on the road, after a large crack appeared across both lanes of travel, dropping 8 inches in some places, according to a press release. The geology department was said to be investigating the cause and monitoring the area, but that section of road was opened later Thursday.
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Read more: https://www.ksl.com/article/51037256/stunning-photos-show-catastrophic-failure-of-wyomings-teton-pass
CRAZY!!! That's one helluva big hole to fill and steamroll.
June 8, 2024
Welcome to a new series of cross-posts from the Fediverse/Mastodon, from people working to expose the rabid Islamist antisemitic and pro-terrorist sentiments promulgated by "Free Palestine" and pro-Houthi protesters worldwide, as well as on sites like The Website Formerly Known as Twitter. Many of these posts will not be from Hamas' Western foot-soldiers and "college kids", but from actual extremists in the Middle East.
I feel it's important to expose exactly who it is that American "leftist" "college kids" are aligning themselves with.
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NOTE:
I feel this series is important, here, because DU has sensible moderation, so this type of full-throttled antisemitism dies on the vine. If DUers aren't slogging through the cesspool, they'll never know how bad things really are elsewhere on the Internet -- or in the world.
I used to do this type of "Right-wing Watch" myself, slogging through cesspools like Stormfront using Tor Browser in order to expose the truth of what happens in the underbelly of the Internet. Now the underbelly has gone mainstream on Musk's shitty website, and that makes it EVEN MORE IMPORTANT to expose it, and the people making these disgusting comments.
That said, I no longer have the stomach to do the slogging, myself. There is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH WORSE than what I will be cross-posting here. I won't cross-post any of that, only select items that specific, reliable sloggers surface, and which expose the disgusting mentality of terrorist sympathizers. If I wouldn't boost the post on the Fediverse, I won't post it here.
Technically, note that most Fediverse/Mastodon links do not render as embedded posts, here. When possible I will use that method. I will never directly link to the original hateful post, but only to screenshots.
Final note and a request: If DUers think this is an inappropriate use of DU, please let me know, rather than alerting. If this is going to get me banned from the site, then I'll stop.
Content Warning: The Underbelly of "Free Palestine" Protests #1
NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!Welcome to a new series of cross-posts from the Fediverse/Mastodon, from people working to expose the rabid Islamist antisemitic and pro-terrorist sentiments promulgated by "Free Palestine" and pro-Houthi protesters worldwide, as well as on sites like The Website Formerly Known as Twitter. Many of these posts will not be from Hamas' Western foot-soldiers and "college kids", but from actual extremists in the Middle East.
I feel it's important to expose exactly who it is that American "leftist" "college kids" are aligning themselves with.
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NOTE:
I feel this series is important, here, because DU has sensible moderation, so this type of full-throttled antisemitism dies on the vine. If DUers aren't slogging through the cesspool, they'll never know how bad things really are elsewhere on the Internet -- or in the world.
I used to do this type of "Right-wing Watch" myself, slogging through cesspools like Stormfront using Tor Browser in order to expose the truth of what happens in the underbelly of the Internet. Now the underbelly has gone mainstream on Musk's shitty website, and that makes it EVEN MORE IMPORTANT to expose it, and the people making these disgusting comments.
That said, I no longer have the stomach to do the slogging, myself. There is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH WORSE than what I will be cross-posting here. I won't cross-post any of that, only select items that specific, reliable sloggers surface, and which expose the disgusting mentality of terrorist sympathizers. If I wouldn't boost the post on the Fediverse, I won't post it here.
Technically, note that most Fediverse/Mastodon links do not render as embedded posts, here. When possible I will use that method. I will never directly link to the original hateful post, but only to screenshots.
Final note and a request: If DUers think this is an inappropriate use of DU, please let me know, rather than alerting. If this is going to get me banned from the site, then I'll stop.
June 5, 2024
Passed an old man wearing a MAGA hat on the sidewalk...
I waited until I was right next to him, then said, clearly and confidently, "Fuck Trump."
And kept walking, without looking back.
A moment's pause, then "Fuck you!" from behind me.
"No, fuck you!" back to him.
The End.
(Yes, it felt good. No, I don't give a fuck.)
June 2, 2024
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Read more: https://buckscountybeacon.com/2024/05/uncovering-the-cover-up-how-republican-pennridge-school-board-directors-secretly-banned-books/
Uncovering the Cover-up: How Republican Pennridge School Board Directors Secretly Banned Books
This serves as a warning to parents in school districts across the country with far-right/Moms for Liberty-aligned partisans on their boards about what they’re capable of.
by Darren Laustsen | May 28, 2024
Pennridge School District engaged in a massive two-year cover-up of a secret book-banning campaign initiated by two sitting Republican school board directors hellbent on unilaterally purging books without any due process, community input, oversight, or accountability.
According to a sworn Attestation from new Superintendent Angelo Berrios, Ricki Chaikin and Jordan Blomgren ordered school staff to remove books from the library that they had unilaterally deemed were inappropriate. More so, during legal battles over a Right-to-Know request, Pennridge’s law firm, Eckert Seamans, fought to circumvent the state’s Open Records laws and conceal book removals from the public. The scheme involved illegally-doctored public records, the concealment of book removals under fake student accounts, and the eventual disposal of targeted books under the false pretense of librarian “weeding.”
That this is a book banning cover-up is not my opinion, it’s a fact.
The local Court of Common Pleas actually ruled that Pennridge School District “acted in bad faith” in response to my Right-To-Know request. Judge Jordan Yeager concluded that the district “effectuated a cover-up of faculty, administrators, and other non-students’ removal of books from Pennridge High School’s library shelves.”
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Read more: https://buckscountybeacon.com/2024/05/uncovering-the-cover-up-how-republican-pennridge-school-board-directors-secretly-banned-books/
June 1, 2024
Getting 403 errors when trying to reply to a reply
Thought I'd point it out and try starting a new discussion here to see if I'm getting the same error on this form.
May 31, 2024
Donating $34 to Biden monthly LOL
I used DU's ActBlue portal pinned to General Discussion forum, and now I'm donating $1/month to Joe... one for every felony count the felon was convicted for!
May 22, 2024
First, let’s truly understand how bad this epidemic is in the United States. Despite widespread condemnation and international treaties against it, child marriage continues in the United States unabated. As reported in numerous outlets including the Washington Post and The Independent:
At least 207,468 minors married in the US between 2000 and 2015, according to data compiled by Unchained At Last, a group campaigning to abolish child marriage, and investigative documentary series Frontline. The true figure is likely to be much higher because 10 states provided no or incomplete statistics.
The youngest wedded were three 10-year-old girls in Tennessee who married men aged 24, 25 and 31 in 2001. The youngest groom was an 11-year-old who married a 27-year-old woman in the same state in 2006. Children as young as 12 were granted marriage licences in Alaska, Louisiana and South Carolina, while 11 other states allowed 13-year-olds to wed. More than 1,000 children aged 14 or under were granted marriage licences.
And the problem persists. Unchained At Last conducted another study in 2021 and found more than 300,000 documented cases of child marriage, as reported by Rolling Stone ...
Read more: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/america-has-a-child-marriage-epidemicand
America has a child marriage epidemic--and it's even worse than you think
With more than 300,000 documented child marriages since 2000, Republicans are fighting to keep it that way
Qasim Rashid
May 15, 2024
First, let’s truly understand how bad this epidemic is in the United States. Despite widespread condemnation and international treaties against it, child marriage continues in the United States unabated. As reported in numerous outlets including the Washington Post and The Independent:
At least 207,468 minors married in the US between 2000 and 2015, according to data compiled by Unchained At Last, a group campaigning to abolish child marriage, and investigative documentary series Frontline. The true figure is likely to be much higher because 10 states provided no or incomplete statistics.
The youngest wedded were three 10-year-old girls in Tennessee who married men aged 24, 25 and 31 in 2001. The youngest groom was an 11-year-old who married a 27-year-old woman in the same state in 2006. Children as young as 12 were granted marriage licences in Alaska, Louisiana and South Carolina, while 11 other states allowed 13-year-olds to wed. More than 1,000 children aged 14 or under were granted marriage licences.
And the problem persists. Unchained At Last conducted another study in 2021 and found more than 300,000 documented cases of child marriage, as reported by Rolling Stone ...
Read more: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/america-has-a-child-marriage-epidemicand
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