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*The official* "It's a Clown World, after all." thread.

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I guess it's not clowny because they had the balls to do it and claim it works, but a sad state of affairs when it comes to this...

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A middle school says it removed bathroom mirrors after students were taking up to 9 breaks a day to film TikToks

A North Carolina middle school removed its bathroom mirrors after students made up to nine visits a day to film TikToks, according to a local report.
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"The middle school has also implemented a new "digital hall pass system" to help track the general whereabouts of students throughout the day.

"The pass allows students to check in and out when leaving class, so we know where students are at all times for safety and accountability," Atkins said."
 
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Ive been wallowing back and forth on if I should put it on or not. I just don't understand what the fuck the movie is supposed to be about.
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Apparently it is satire about feminism and why feminists are dumb :rasta:
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This.

It actually wasn't that bad, watched it at a relatives house over Thanksgiving, funny in a lot of parts. And Margot Robbie is hot.
 
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This guy is a democrat.

Jamie Dimon’s MAGA warning to Dems is right on target​

The J.P. Morgan Chase CEO had liberals clutching at their pearls when he copped to a simple but (in some circles) unutterable truth: Former President Donald Trump — or the GOP in general — was right about a lot.

“Just take a step back and be honest,” urged Dimon in a CNBC interview at the World Economic Forum confab: “He was kind of right about NATO, kind of right on immigration. He grew the economy quite well. Trade tax reform worked. He was right about some of China.”

Further pushing bleeding hearts into a-fib, Dimon warned liberals off their smuggest pastime: demonizing Trump supporters.

“The Democrats have done a good job with the deplorables, hugging their Bibles and their beer and their guns. I mean, really? Can we stop that stuff and actually grow up and treat other people respectfully and listen to them a little bit? And I do think the economy will affect — I think this negative talk about MAGA is going to hurt Biden’s election campaign.”
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City of Seattle agrees to huge settlement in BLM protesters' lawsuit​

Seattle, Washington - The City of Seattle has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a lawsuit from a group of Black Lives Matter demonstrators injured by police during the 2020 uprising in protest of George Floyd's murder.


Among the 50 plaintiffs were a woman who had a heart attack when she was struck in the chest by a Seattle Police Department (SPD) blast ball, a man who was hospitalized in a coma after his arrest, and a veteran who uses a cane and was "gassed and tackled because he didn't retreat fast enough," according to the attorneys.

Others included a teenager whose finger was partially blown off by a blast ball and "dozens of others who suffered permanent hearing loss, broken bones, concussion, wounds, bruising and emotional damage" at the hands of Seattle officers, the plaintiffs' lawyers said.

City Attorney Ann Davison said the settlement "was the best financial decision for the City considering risk, cost, and insurance."

"The case has been a significant drain on the time and resources of the City and would have continued to be so through an estimated three-month trial that was scheduled to begin in May," she said in a statement, noting the settlement involves no city admission of wrongdoing.

Davison said that in defending the lawsuit, her office reviewed hundreds of interactions between protesters and police, including more than 10,000 videos and more than a million pages of records.

The city had argued that protesters "assumed the risk" of being injured by police when they chose to exercise their First Amendment rights to peacefully protest, an argument rejected by Judge Sandra Widlan, according to court records. According to lead plaintiff's attorney Karen Kohler, the protesters "were engaged in a First Amendment speech and activity against the very police brutality which they were met with."

The Seattle Police Department has been sharply criticized for its violent and over-the-top response to the protests stemming from Floyd's May 2020 murder by Minneapolis police. SPD's protest response resulted in a federal judge finding officers had used excessive force and violated the free-speech rights of thousands of residents who legally gathered to demonstrate against Floyd's murder and institutional and police racism.

Seattle officers indiscriminately deployed tear gas, blast balls, and pepper spray into crowds of peaceful protesters. Officers were criticized for targeting the entire crowd, rather than people who were using the protests to damage or destroy property, including burning police cars.

A deep-dive Office of Inspector General review of SPD actions during the protests showed repeated, systemic breakdowns in department discipline and command structure, as well as a lack of accountability.

Kohler said evidence gathered by the plaintiffs showed police "dehumanized" protesters and responded with violence toward them at the "smallest provocation or suspicion." She said evidence showed police violated numerous policies and allowed officers to use weapons they were not trained to deploy.

Officers are required to fill out a form when they use force during an arrest, and Kohler said "hundreds" of these reports were "cut and pasted together months later and rubber stamped" by the department.

Kohler said the city also sought to compel the plaintiffs to attend involuntary psychiatric and medical examinations.

Kohler cited other incidents, including an elaborate hoax perpetrated by the department to scare protesters into thinking armed members of the Proud Boys extremist group were in the area. In another protest at the headquarters of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, officers played music through speakers while they broke up the crowd.

Kohler said the city hired as an expert University of Liverpool Professor Clifford Stott, who's considered among the world's foremost crowd policing experts. Stott reportedly concluded that, particularly during the early days of the Seattle protests, he had not seen the level of violent aggression by police against unarmed protesters "in any democratic state."

Longtime Seattle civil rights attorney Lem Howell, who was hired as an expert by the plaintiffs, concluded the city responded with the "tactics and weapons of war" against a citizenry that was protesting what he called Seattle's "long history of racially discriminatory policing."

The settlement comes on the heels of the city's $2.9 million settlement last year of a lawsuit filed by business owners on Capitol Hill who claimed the city's handling of the protests – including the formation of a police-free Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone – damaged their businesses.
 

Lawmakers must recognize the transgender-suicide lie — and protect children​


It’s the lie that convinced a thousand parents — and, increasingly, politicians across America.

As a psychologist specializing in child-behavioral issues, I frequently talk with parents misled into believing their child will commit suicide unless allowed to transition genders.

Suicide fears have led medical professionals to threaten to call Child Protective Services if parents don’t affirm their child’s chosen gender identity.

Governors and lawmakers have given in to the same fear.

The mere mention of suicide stops them from enacting laws that protect children from undergoing unproven and experimental medical procedures.

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed such a bill, saying it could lead children to kill themselves.

The Legislature overrode his veto Wednesday.

Good thing, too.

Those who use the threat of suicide to encourage children to go down a transgender path either don’t understand the research or are being deliberately manipulative.

Worse, they may be encouraging the very suicide they want to prevent.

It’s obvious why suicide is front and center here.

It horrifies every decent person, especially the suicide of a child.

Parents have likely heard some variation of “Better a live son than a dead daughter,” and for years, activists and their allies have flogged reports that large percentages of children who identify as transgender are suicidal — more than 50%, according to the Trevor Project.


Trans man who had mastectomy discovered to be 5 months pregnant, making rare ‘seahorse dad’
President Biden has repeated this statistic, and as states have banned medical treatments for trans-identified minors, it has been aired more than ever to prevent reforms.

But this narrative is false.

Biased researchers typically reach their conclusions based on nonrandom, online self-report surveys — not exactly a scientific approach.

What’s more, they conflate suicidal thoughts such as “I wish I was never born” — something many angst-filled adolescents feel — and suicidal behavior, which is categorically different and fortunately far rarer.

And using such low-quality statistics to claim medical procedures will lower suicide is another logical leap, not borne out by evidence.

Any “researcher” who fails to make these distinctions is spreading dangerous misinformation, misleading therapists, parents and politicians on an important aspect of child mental health.

We need to look elsewhere for a more truthful picture.

When Oxford University researcher Michael Biggs examined the scandal-ridden, soon-to-be-shuttered Gender Identity Development Service at the United Kingdom’s Tavistock clinic, he observed four suicides in 11 years among 15,000 adolescent patients.

That’s a tragedy, yet it reflects an annual suicide rate of 13 per 100,000, which is only slightly higher than the US suicide rate of 11 per 100,000 among all 10- to 24-year-olds.

And there’s more.

Of the four individuals who committed suicide, two were on Tavistock’s waiting list while the other two were receiving the medical interventions that were supposed to save them.

This fact casts doubt on the “transition or die” trope, indicating other factors may be at work.

While activists typically pin the blame on society’s ostensible hostility to transgenderism, evidence shows gender-questioning children often have psychiatric comorbidities, such as anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder, along with neurological or developmental disorders, such as autism.

These factors likely contribute to assertions of gender dysphoria as well as suicidality.

Treating these conditions and mitigating suicide risk must be medical professionals’ — and parents’ — top priority, not rushing children to hormones or surgeries after just a single visit.

The falsehoods about child suicide are bad enough, misleading parents and policymakers; perversely, they may also encourage suicide.

Activists and media outlets frequently hold up gender-questioning children who commit suicide as courageous heroes because of their struggle, suggesting a similar fate awaits others whose chosen gender isn’t affirmed and medicalized.

Yet suicidologists warn against attributing suicide to a single factor, which can actually lead to increased suicidality in individuals who relate to the factor.

In online transgender communities, children often receive coaching on using the faulty suicide statistics to persuade their parents to support a transition.

Such actions break the cardinal rule of suicide discussion: Never dwell on suicide or lionize the deceased because doing so can inspire others to take their lives.

That’s especially true since evidence suggests suicide can be socially contagious.

The lies about suicide are a gross disservice to children, parents and society.

Struggling children are being pushed toward lifetime involvement with the medical system in lieu of the true mental-health care they need.

The best way to protect children is to pass common-sense laws grounded in facts, not misleading scare tactics.

Elliot Kaminetzky, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, founder of Serenity Parent Consulting and the Center for Child Behavioral Health and a visiting fellow at Do No Harm.
 
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City of Seattle agrees to huge settlement in BLM protesters' lawsuit​

Seattle, Washington - The City of Seattle has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a lawsuit from a group of Black Lives Matter demonstrators injured by police during the 2020 uprising in protest of George Floyd's murder.


Among the 50 plaintiffs were a woman who had a heart attack when she was struck in the chest by a Seattle Police Department (SPD) blast ball, a man who was hospitalized in a coma after his arrest, and a veteran who uses a cane and was "gassed and tackled because he didn't retreat fast enough," according to the attorneys.

Others included a teenager whose finger was partially blown off by a blast ball and "dozens of others who suffered permanent hearing loss, broken bones, concussion, wounds, bruising and emotional damage" at the hands of Seattle officers, the plaintiffs' lawyers said.

City Attorney Ann Davison said the settlement "was the best financial decision for the City considering risk, cost, and insurance."

"The case has been a significant drain on the time and resources of the City and would have continued to be so through an estimated three-month trial that was scheduled to begin in May," she said in a statement, noting the settlement involves no city admission of wrongdoing.

Davison said that in defending the lawsuit, her office reviewed hundreds of interactions between protesters and police, including more than 10,000 videos and more than a million pages of records.

The city had argued that protesters "assumed the risk" of being injured by police when they chose to exercise their First Amendment rights to peacefully protest, an argument rejected by Judge Sandra Widlan, according to court records. According to lead plaintiff's attorney Karen Kohler, the protesters "were engaged in a First Amendment speech and activity against the very police brutality which they were met with."

The Seattle Police Department has been sharply criticized for its violent and over-the-top response to the protests stemming from Floyd's May 2020 murder by Minneapolis police. SPD's protest response resulted in a federal judge finding officers had used excessive force and violated the free-speech rights of thousands of residents who legally gathered to demonstrate against Floyd's murder and institutional and police racism.

Seattle officers indiscriminately deployed tear gas, blast balls, and pepper spray into crowds of peaceful protesters. Officers were criticized for targeting the entire crowd, rather than people who were using the protests to damage or destroy property, including burning police cars.

A deep-dive Office of Inspector General review of SPD actions during the protests showed repeated, systemic breakdowns in department discipline and command structure, as well as a lack of accountability.

Kohler said evidence gathered by the plaintiffs showed police "dehumanized" protesters and responded with violence toward them at the "smallest provocation or suspicion." She said evidence showed police violated numerous policies and allowed officers to use weapons they were not trained to deploy.

Officers are required to fill out a form when they use force during an arrest, and Kohler said "hundreds" of these reports were "cut and pasted together months later and rubber stamped" by the department.

Kohler said the city also sought to compel the plaintiffs to attend involuntary psychiatric and medical examinations.

Kohler cited other incidents, including an elaborate hoax perpetrated by the department to scare protesters into thinking armed members of the Proud Boys extremist group were in the area. In another protest at the headquarters of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, officers played music through speakers while they broke up the crowd.

Kohler said the city hired as an expert University of Liverpool Professor Clifford Stott, who's considered among the world's foremost crowd policing experts. Stott reportedly concluded that, particularly during the early days of the Seattle protests, he had not seen the level of violent aggression by police against unarmed protesters "in any democratic state."

Longtime Seattle civil rights attorney Lem Howell, who was hired as an expert by the plaintiffs, concluded the city responded with the "tactics and weapons of war" against a citizenry that was protesting what he called Seattle's "long history of racially discriminatory policing."

The settlement comes on the heels of the city's $2.9 million settlement last year of a lawsuit filed by business owners on Capitol Hill who claimed the city's handling of the protests – including the formation of a police-free Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone – damaged their businesses.
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businesses who were victimized get $2.9. Victimizers get $10m...

Am I reading that correctly???
 
taxpayers paying the liberal politics...

De Blasio-era ‘whiteout’ case will cost city millions —but Blas won’t pay​


Four white former female DOE administrators filed the $90 million lawsuit, claiming Carranza demoted and sidelined them in favor of people of color and charging that the chancellor’s crusade against “toxic” whiteness created a culture of “Us vs. Them.”

They assert that their replacements got picked with just “a tap on the shoulder,” without the positions being advertised and others interviewed.

One had a GED, while the white woman he replaced had a Harvard degree.
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nahmus said:
taxpayers paying the liberal politics...

De Blasio-era ‘whiteout’ case will cost city millions —but Blas won’t pay​




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Toxic whiteness = self-respect, accountability and determination.

What do all of the most successful countries in the world share? Toxic whiteness.

Thanks be to da goot lawd for dem toxic whiteys!
 
Is Hunter Biden next?

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Former Trump adviser Navarro gets four months for contempt of Congress​


WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro was sentenced on Thursday to four months in prison for contempt of Congress, with a judge scolding him for defying a subpoena in an investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack and telling him, "You are not a victim."
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MoMA hires non-binary 'Woke Kindergarten' activist who calls Israel a 'made-up place' to give children's workshop on MLK and climate change: Previously​


  • Akiea Gross, a non-binary abolitionist, was hired by the Museum of Modern Art to host a children's workshop on MLK
  • The museum's MLK Family Day event included activities such as building model structures and packaging hygiene kits for homeless people
  • Woke Kindergarten previously made headlines for an audiobook that said they do not feel safe around police and claiming kids can use 'tree' as a pronoun
New York City's Museum of Modern Art hired non-binary Woke Kindergarten activist - who refers to Israel as a 'made-up place' - to lead a workshop about Martin Luther King and climate change.

Woke Kindergarten is a pedagogy that is pro-black, queer and transgender liberation created by abolitionist early educator Akiea 'Ki' Gross, who uses they/them pronouns. They have previously made headlines for an audiobook that said children can use 'tree' as a pronoun.

Gross was hired by MoMA to host a workshop about Martin Luther King Jr's relationship to climate justice on Saturday as part of their MLK Family Day.

The event was recommended for families with children aged six and up, and included activities such as building a model of a structure to improve your community and packaging hygiene kits for unhoused neighbors.

Its description of the event said: 'At MoMA, we celebrate creativity, openness, tolerance, and generosity. We aim to be an inclusive place—both onsite and online—where diverse cultural, artistic, social, and political positions are welcome'.

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MoMA hires non-binary 'Woke Kindergarten' activist who calls Israel a 'made-up place' to give children's workshop on MLK and climate change: Previously said kids could use the pronoun 'tree'© Provided by Daily Mail

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The event was recommended for families with kids ages six and up and included activities such as building a model of a structure to improve your community and packaging hygiene kits for unhoused neighbors© Provided by Daily Mail

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On an Instagram post, Woke Kindergarten called Israel a 'made up place'© Provided by Daily Mail
'We have a zero-tolerance policy for individuals who engage in verbal or physical harassment, discriminatory or threatening behavior, or hate speech, or who otherwise interfere with the experience of others. The Museum will refuse or revoke program entrance/participation to individuals who violate these policies,' it added.


Gross, who uses the Instagram account Woke Kindergarten, posts words for the day that are meant to teach the 'language of the resistance.'

In a post defining the word ceasefire they said: 'One place that people are demanding a permanent ceasefire for is in Palestine because they are being occupied, or controlled, by a made up place called Israel that has settlers called Zionist who are harming and killing the Palestinian people who have always live on the land.'

Protestors have been calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war since Israel launched a response to the deadly Hamas terror attack on October 7 that killed over 1,200 people.

Gross and Woke Kindergarten previously hit headlines when a school district in Virginia posted - and then deleted - information on their website telling students to listen to an audiobook by Gross suggesting they should not feel safe around police.


Among recommended readings, writing goals and school standards on Fairfax Community Public Schools' (FCPS) website, they listed Woke Kindergarten's audiobook Safe as a summer resource for second graders ahead of the 2021-2022 school year.

A video of the audiobook started with Gross's narration saying 'we all deserve to feel safe.'

Towards the end of the video they said: 'I feel safe when there are no police.'

Parents who let their youngsters listen to Safe were then automatically shown other videos by Gross after Safe ended, thanks to the sites autoplay feature which begins playing other related videos.

The next clip was a video from the series titled Woke Read Aloud: They, She, He Easy As ABC. 'There are so many different pronouns,' they read.

'This kid Diego likes to be called tree,' Gross added.

A recent poll found a double-digit drop in support for schools that require people to use a student's preferred pronouns in just two years.


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MoMA hires non-binary 'Woke Kindergarten' activist who calls Israel a 'made-up place' to give children's workshop on MLK and climate change: Previously said kids could use the pronoun 'tree'© Provided by Daily Mail

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Woke Kindergarten have previously made headlines when a school district in Virginia posted - and then deleted - information on their website telling students to listen to an audiobook by Gross suggesting they should not feel safe around police© Provided by Daily Mail
MoMA hires non-binary 'Woke Kindergarten' activist who calls Israel a 'made-up place' to give children's workshop on MLK and climate change: Previously said kids could use the pronoun 'tree'© Provided by Daily Mail
A survey of 1,000 US adults by the religious liberties group Becket late last year showed a rapid shift in attitudes.
 
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Woman avoids jail for fatally stabbing man over 100 times during cannabis psychosis



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A California woman who fatally stabbed a man she was dating more than 100 times while in a “cannabis-induced” psychosis has avoided jail.

Bryn Spejcher, 32, was sentenced to two years of probation on Tuesday and must carry out 100 hours of community service that focuses on raising awareness of the effects of marijuana-induced psychosis, according to the Ventura County Star.

During the Tuesday sentencing, Spejcher and her loved ones reportedly sobbed in relief while the family members of the victim, Chad O’Melia, were left in shock and anger.

“He just gave everyone in the state of California who smokes marijuana a licence to kill someone,” the victim’s father, Sean O’Melia, said of the judge after the verdict, according to the outlet.

Spejcher was convicted in December of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of 26-year-old Mr O’Melia in 2018, whom she had only been dating for several weeks before his death.

The judge gave her probation and a suspended four-year prison sentence, which she could still face if she violates her probation.

The Ventura County Superior Court judge, David Worley, said that his decision was based on Spejcher having a psychotic episode, according to experts, by taking bong hits of marijuana, the Ventura County Starsaid.


“From that point forward, she had no control over her actions,” Mr Worley said.

The pair were taking hits from a bong together at Mr O’Melia’s Thousand Oaks apartment on 27 May 2018 when “Spejcher had an adverse reaction to the marijuana and suffered from what experts call cannabis-induced psychotic disorder,” according to a press release from the Ventura County district attorney from December.

During the psychotic episode, she proceeded to stab O’Melia multiple times and also stabbed herself, the release said.

The victim’s father Sean O’Melia (right), said the judge has given marijuana users a ‘licence to kill’ (KTLA5)© Provided by The Independent
In the early hours of 28 May 2018, law enforcement arrived at the house to find Mr O’Melia covered in a pool of blood and the suspect screaming in hysterics, holding a knife, which she then plunged into her own neck, prompting officers to use a Taser and a baton to disarm her.

A long serrated bread knife was removed from her hands, and the victim was pronounced dead by paramedics, the release said.

Spejcher’s lawyers reportedly tried to claim she was “involuntarily intoxicated” after pressure from Mr O’Melia, but the jurors rejected the defence’s argument, the local outlet wrote.

During the sentencing, Spejcher addressed Mr O’Melia’s family. “My actions have ripped your family apart,” she said, according to the Ventura County Star. “I am broken and aching inside. I hurt that you never see Chad again.”

The local outlet reported that the day before the hearing, loved ones of O’Melia came together in front of the county government centre carrying signs such as “108 Stab Wounds Is A Serious Crime” and “Judge Worley, Do The Right Thing.”

While Mr O’Melia’s family and friends were reportedly hoping for prison time in the sentence, Spejcher’s attorney, Michael Goldstein, believed the judge’s sentence was fair.

“Today, Ventura Superior Court judge did the right thing and imposed a sentence that was fair and accurately reflected,” Mr Goldstein said, reports the Los Angeles Times.

“It was clear that she had no control of her faculties and never intended to cause any harm. All of the medical experts agreed, including the expert called by the district attorney’s office.”
 
That’s purday fawkn awesome!
A case of the weed crazies, who‘da thunk it.
either a case of enhanced product or just another retard that fergot they ate bath salts.
 
Ted said:
That’s purday fawkn awesome!
A case of the weed crazies, who‘da thunk it.
either a case of enhanced product or just another retard that fergot they ate bath salts.
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“It was clear that she had no control of her faculties and never intended to cause any harm. All of the medical experts agreed, including the expert called by the district attorney’s office.”


Wtf? Replace weed with booze and now it’s cool to drink and drive because you didn’t mean to harm anyone?
Just gotta find the right “experts”
 
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