This person uses faer/bunself pronouns because faer “really enjoys confusing people” with bunself’s gender identity pic.twitter.com/1cEaOX266B
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 17, 2022
Author: Blazingcatfur
Climate McCarthyism
A White House official asks tech companies to settle normative questions surrounding climate change.
President Biden has deputized White House climate-change advisor Gina McCarthy to snuff out reckless talk on global warming. McCarthy, speaking at a virtual event hosted June 9 by Axios, said it is time for social media companies to crack down on climate “disinformation” online.
‘I literally lost organs:’ Why detransitioned teens regret changing genders
“I was failed by the system. I literally lost organs.”
When Chloe was 12 years old, she decided she was transgender. At 13, she came out to her parents. That same year, she was put on puberty blockers and prescribed testosterone. At 15, she underwent a double mastectomy. Less than a year later, she realized she’d made a mistake — all by the time she was 16 years old.
I see a Nuremburg style tribunal in the future.
‘A shot went through my cheek’: the human cost of Ukraine’s defence
Oleksandr’s war lasted only a week. The 36-year-old, a Ukrainian electrician working in Gdansk, hurried back to join up after Russia invaded and was deployed on 10 May to guard a chest-high trench in Donbas against the odds.
“We were shelled constantly during the day. There was not 10 minutes without Russian shelling,” he said, describing a fearful human cost: “Every day one person was killed and another couple wounded. Big losses, really big losses.”
On the seventh day, 16 May, it was over. A Russian drone had hovered over Oleksandr’s position near Avdiivka and, armed with the location, the invaders hurled one shell, then another, closer, and finally a third, closer still.
Iran’s Nuclear Program: Where Is the Biden Administration’s Plan B?
The Biden administration’s nuclear negotiations to revive the nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) with Iran’s ruling mullahs are going nowhere, all while the administration does not seem to have a Plan B.
Bitcoin drops below $20,000 as crypto selloff quickens
LONDON (AP) — The price of bitcoin fell below $20,000 for the first time since late 2020 on Saturday, in a fresh sign that the selloff in cryptocurrencies is deepening.
Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency, fell below the psychologically important threshold, dropping as much as 9% to less than $19,000, according to CoinDesk.
The last time bitcoin was at this level was November 2020, when it was on its way up to its all-time high of nearly $69,000.
Bitcoin has now lost more than 70 percent of its value since reaching that peak.
Russia’s far-right divided on Ukraine war
Their views are popular but government repression and internal strife have stunted the influence of Russia’s far right — while some fight alongside Kremlin’s troops in Donbas others reject the war as fratricide.
A few dozen small groups make up Russia’s right-wing nationalist scene. They call themselves “Nationalist Movement,” “Conservative Russia,” or simply, “The Conservatives.” Some support President Vladimir Putin and are fighting alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, others reject the Kremlin outright.
A glimpse of just how splintered Russia’s right-wing scene is was evidenced by the varying positions they took in 2014 in reaction to the pro-European Maidan movement and the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.
Roe Fear Mongering: Salon Says Prisons will Overflow
Oh look, more lefty fear-mongering over the imminent demise of Roe v. Wade. Jessica Corbett sure knows how to whip panic into liberals in her June 17 Salon piece.
The recent draft leak has spurred a knee-jerk reaction from the pro-abortion crowd, with clinics supposedly expecting a massive inflow of patients seeking to murder their babies soon, according to an NPR interview Lisa Wayne, the executive director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Nolte: Disney‘s Big, Gay ‘Lightyear’ Is the Latest Woke Box Office Flop
Lightyear, the latest piece of child grooming media from the predators at the Walt Disney Co., is looking like a box office catastrophe, which is only a surprise to those who don’t live in the real world.
Gee, what do you think will happen when you add some high-profile homosexuality to a kiddie movie?
Feds pay contractors nearly $40 million to censor documents
The feds spent nearly $40 million in the last two years hiring outside contractors to censor documents that have been requested under the Access to Information Act, says Blacklock’s Reporter.
Records show a handful of companies were awarded millions in contracts to process paperwork.
“Each file is different based on the complexity and the volume of pages,” cabinet wrote in an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons.
h/t Mauser
Residents say China used health tracker to prevent freedom of movement
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Angry bank customers who traveled to a city in central China to retrieve their savings from troubled rural banks have been stopped by a health app on their cellphone.
Chinese residents are required to have the health app, which displays a code indicating their health status, including possible exposure to COVID-19. A green code is required to use public transportation and to enter locations such as offices, restaurants and malls. But some depositors at the banks in central Henan province said their codes were turned red to stop them.
The incident has started a national debate on how a tool designed for public health was appropriated by political forces to tamp down controversy.
The future is scary.
Surveillance footage shows moment unarmed black 13-year-old boy with his hands up is shot in the back by Chicago cops
Newly released surveillance footage shows the moment a 13-year old black teenager in Chicago was shot in the back by police when his hands were raised, prompting the family to file a lawsuit.
The teen, identified as A.G. by his family, is seen running into a gas station parking lot while pursued by police officers at about 10.30pm on May 18.
‘Nothing Will Be As It Used To Be’: Putin Defends Invasion Of Ukraine, Lashes Out At West In Combative Speech
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of colonial arrogance and said its sanctions “blitzkrieg” against his country has failed in his latest tirade against the United States and Europe.
Addressing the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 17 — a showcase event being held this year with almost no Western participation — Putin defended his country’s invasion of Ukraine, which many in the United States and Europe say is akin to the colonization wars of past centuries.
Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska on being Russia’s target No 2: ‘When you see their crimes, maybe they really are capable of anything’
In the early hours of 24 February, Olena Zelenska became aware of the sound of muffled booms somewhere in the distance. As she drifted towards wakefulness, she realised the sounds she was registering could not be fireworks. Her eyes snapped open; she discovered she was alone in the bed. She jumped up and hurried to the next room, where she found her husband, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, already dressed for work in a suit and tie.
“What’s going on?” she asked him.
“It’s started,” he told her.
#Ukraine: Ukrainian M777 155mm howitzers at work in Bohorodychne, #Donetsk Oblast – hitting two parked Russian BMP infantry fighting vehicles, destroying both. pic.twitter.com/hrWV0aKkxm
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) June 18, 2022
Over 53K Illegal Aliens Given DACA Despite Arrest Records Including for Murder, Rape, Kidnapping
Ten years ago, in 2012, former President Barack Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program via executive order that has allowed nearly 800,000 illegal aliens to evade arrest and deportation.
Standards for the Obama program were set so low that tens of thousands of illegal aliens with prior arrest records for crimes like murder, rape, and kidnapping were able to secure DACA status