Yesterday when I said:

Kate Middleton's head crudely Photoshopped onto a body-double.

Look at the fuzzy blending of her hair into the child's sleeve and how the two children's arms conveniently form a perfect area for disguising Prince William's shoddy cut and paste job.

Don't believe what they want you to believe.

https://rdrama.net/h/toomanyxchromosomes/post/252310/kate-middleton-confirmed-dead/6086906#context

I wasn't just pretending to be an r-slur. I was giving my professional assessment as a forensic image analyst. And only one person upmarseyed me.

And now international news agencies are removing the image because they, too, have clocked that it's fake.

Kate Middleton Coma Conspiracy IS BACK!

!nooticers did you nootice this yesterday?

The mod Motherboard spoke to said that the subreddit was brigaded—a form of online trolling against a person or community where members of another community flood their target with harassment—after troll site rdrama caught wind of the AI art debate happening on /r/Art, at least partially because of the virality of Moran’s tweets, and because a YouTuber with a large following posted a video about the situation that’s gathered nearly 365,000 views.

!britbongs Please list the things you're actually allowed to say in your Land of Hope and Glory these days. It will be easier than listing the things you aren't.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11388915/Elon-Musks-mass-Twitter-layoffs-begin.html

Russian propaganda is dispersing the fact that Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi @CinC_AFU has a swastika on his bracelet.

Well, a control shot for propaganda. We lower the quality on the bracelet a little and it appears...

This is not a swastika, but a Valkyrie. pic.twitter.com/vqytkKE6sP

— ТРУХА⚡️English (@TpyxaNews) October 9, 2022

Commander in chief

The Ukrainian-born winner of this year's Miss Japan beauty pageant and the contest's organizers say she has renounced her title after a magazine published an article about her affair with a married man.

Karolina Shiino was crowned Miss Japan on Jan. 22, setting off renewed public debate over what it means to be Japanese in a country where homogeneity and conformity are still valued.

In a message posted on Instagram on Monday, Shiino said that after the article came out, she offered to give up her crown and resign from her modeling agency. She said her offers were accepted.

The Associated Press could not immediately reach Shiino for comment.

The Weekly Bunshun magazine reported last week that Shiino had been in a relationship with a doctor who is married. Initially, she appeared to confirm the relationship but said she did not know he was married.

Later, she said her earlier explanation “was not true” and that she was aware of his married status and that he had a family. She apologized and said she was in a state of shock and fear over the report and panicked, which is why she was not able to tell the truth.

“I'm very sorry for causing the tremendous trouble and for acting as if betraying everyone who has supported me,” she said on Instagram.

!chuds typical ukkkraine moment

It's hard to believe that until recently, there were still laws on the books that made it illegal to be gay. Our legal system may no longer explicitly prohibit same-s*x relationships, but we have found new ways to criminalize queer kids. We label them as s*x offenders.

Across the country, children are put on s*x-offense registries for behaviors that range from "playing doctor" to streaking to having consensual s*x with peers a few years apart in age. The statistics are scary: out of 800,000 people on registries, one out of four -- more than 200,000 -- are under the age of 18. A child as young as 8 years old can be labeled as a "deviant." Additionally, initial investigations show a disproportionate number of these youth are queer.

To be clear, kids do commit serious harm. Regardless of the behavior, though, two decades of research have shown that registration does not reduce recidivism or prevent harm in the first place. And the LGBTQ disparity isn't a reflection of justice -- or public safety. It's an indication of the implicit and explicit bias woven throughout the legal and welfare systems and all the more reason to make eliminating the practice of registering youth a priority.

A report, called "Give the Kid a Break -- But Only if He's Straight," found that LGBTQ young people are given harsher punishments than their straight, gender-conforming counterparts. In the study, participants suggested disciplinary consequences for an older teenager having s*x with a 14-year-old. A 16-year-old straight culprit was much less likely to end up on the registry than a gay 16-year-old.

Queer and gender-nonconforming youth are also more likely to get kicked out of their homes, run away, or be funneled into the child welfare system. Once in the welfare system, their lives are more closely watched and normative behavior that might have elicited a talking to from parents ends up reported to authorities. Nicole Pittman's human rights report, "Raised on the Registry," found that 90 percent of the 500 youth on the registry she interviewed were in the child welfare system at the time of their arrest.

Even the laws themselves can be blatantly discriminatory. In the 2003 case Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court struck down state bans on same-s*x sodomy; however, Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion included this single negating phrase: "[the] present case does not involve minors, which this comment will refer to as "the minor exception.'" Kennedy was referring to adult-on-minor sexual conduct, but states have used it as a loophole. Texas law, for example, considers sexual contact with a minor under the age of 17 a felony, unless both participants are under 18, no more than three years apart, and they are of different sexes.

Once young people are on the registry, the trauma grows. Children are ostracized, socially isolated, and often physically banished from their homes and communities by child safety zones. Their life becomes a struggle for employment, and they must regularly check in with law enforcement; if they fail to report even a minor change in their lives, they can be sent to prison with a felony. LGBTQ youth in prison can also be both the targets of sexual abuse and homophobia. One out of five youth on the registry have attempted suicide. Queer youth already have high rates of suicide, so this adds to the risk.

The laws created to protect our children from harm have potential to be very harmful, potentially fatal, and definitely life-altering. Registering youth is contrary to public safety and a costly burden to law enforcement, but it is our LGBTQ youth who are paying the high prices. While they have shown great resilience and courage, this debt is not theirs to pay. As a society, we need to redress this miscalculation and eliminate youth registration laws.

TOM WAHL is chairman of the Liberty Education Forum and NICOLE PITTMAN is vice president of Impact Justice.