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Tim Scott bearding up?
Some 
think so
Gladd profile: https://glaad.org/gap/tim-scott
once suggested that he was an inkwell https://www.mediaite.com/weird/reporter-asks-tim-scott-if-hes-a-virgin
Will this come up at the next debate? Will he come out? I dont know how to set up a betting thread, butt I 
if knew how
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A 26-year-old taxi driver from the Middle East was reported for raping a 14-year-old girl in Sweden -- then he was found hanged in a nature reserve. Now the girl, her boyfriend and three of his brothers are suspected of the very painful murder, which according to the prosecutor had the character of "an execution," Friatider reported.
The events began in February this year when the then 15-year-old girl reported that the taxi driver had r*ped her when she was 14.
On March 26, a taxi was found abandoned, covered in snow and with the taximeter running in a parking lot at the Hjälstaviken nature reserve in Enköping municipality north of Stockholm.
On April 1, the taxi driver was found -- hanging from a tree 500 meters from the car.
The police quickly turned their attention to the now accused young people. All the young people deny the crime except for the girl, who admits that she lured the man to the place -- but only so that he would be beaten.
According to the indictment, the girl lured the taxi driver to the scene of the murder on March 24 and kept him there until the four boys arrived.
The boys had previously bought rope, masking and clothes that were used as aids in the murder, which took place by strangulation and hanging.
According to the indictment, the approach involved a painful death for the taxi driver and the murder had, according to the prosecutor, "the character of an execution".
The day before the murder, the police have found plans to take revenge on the taxi driver in a chat where the girl mentioned that the boyfriend's brothers would meet the male feminist.
"They are going to meet my male feminist. THIHIHI", the girl writes, among other things, in internal messages.
The night before the murder, the girl sent a message to the taxi driver asking him to get vodka and arranged to meet him at the desolate place.
According to the indictment, he was hanged the same day in the solitary nature reserve by the five young people.
After the murder, the girl took a picture of her boyfriend while he was celebrating with a flatbread roll. Later, she sent a message to an acquaintance that her male feminist was dead.
All the defendants deny wrongdoing, but the evidence includes cell phone cell phone lines and DNA traces.
DNA from both the taxi driver and one of the brothers was found on a jacket.
The girl is now 16 years old, as is her boyfriend. Two of his brothers are 17 years old and one is 18 years old.
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A new report from Sanjana Friedman at Pirate Wires documents a phenomenon that’s been a source of discussion among the extremely online for a little while, and has now made it into the open. “Transmaxxing” is a subculture of young men who embrace trans identities not because they believe they were ‘born in the wrong body’ but simply because they can, and because they think it’ll make their lives better.
It’s a phenomenon that reveals more nakedly than ever before the true face of the cyborg era: a culture caught between increasingly powerful technology, and the collapse of any coherent narrative about how best to use it for the good into a general sense that all narratives are interchangeable.
As Friedman tells it, the transmaxxers are strikingly post-ideological about their self-remodelling, at least compared to the official trans narrative, which draws heavily from 20th-century civil rights discourse. In this view, ‘gender identity’ is immutable and trans people are just ‘born that way’.
Many transmaxxers, though, modify themselves just because they want to (examples are shown on this 73-page ‘transmaxxing’ manifesto). Some report making up stories of gender dysphoria for medical professionals, while others then self-induce gender dysphoria by watching ‘sissy hypno’ — a type of video in which hypnotic (and sometimes also pornographic) stimuli are combined with messages encouraging the male viewer to embrace feminine looks or behaviour. The post-ideological feel of the phenomenon is underlined further by how often such individuals shift from embracing the ‘incel’ ideologies associated with the Right, to ‘trans’ identities associated with the Left.
For the most part, the contest between trans activists and their feminist opponents has been conducted on the field of ‘gender’: what it is, whether it has discrete categories, how (or whether) it relates to physiology and so on. A smaller handful of writers have drawn attention to the transhumanist implications of claiming a right to remodel one’s physical body based on an unfalsifiable inner feeling.
This vision sees medicine not as a restorative practice intended to return us to a shared understanding of ‘normal’, but as a potentially limitless method of upgrading ‘normal’ according to personal desire and preference. This has been openly advocated for some time as well by some trans activists, such as pharma entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt. But the debate has so far stayed largely within the pre-cyborg moral frame of equality, justice and rights.
Yet as Friedman notes, what’s striking in the transmaxxers is the way they’re cheerfully abandoning the civil-rights narrative, in favour of an open, wholesale embrace of the transhumanist outlook. Many transmaxxers report that the interventions have significantly improved their lives; why, such individuals might ask, does anyone need a ‘born in the wrong body’ story to justify something that works on its own terms?
And it’s here that we catch a glimpse of the real face of the cyborg era: an emerging cultural paradigm in which technology is the ideology. The opinions someone endorses while down an internet rabbit hole matter less than the cumulative psychological impact of spending all day every day in that rabbit hole: a condition of radical body dissociation and (increasingly measurably) real-world social isolation.
Once self is thus dissociated from body, there’s no obvious reason not to treat that ‘meat suit’ as an instrument to be optimised, whether via hormones, surgery or other interventions, in pursuit of greater happiness — and again the story matters less than the fact you’re simply doing it because you can.
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A Wisconsin prisoner who was strip searched by a transgender male guard says the search unlawfully violated his Muslim faith, and a federal court has ruled it shouldn't happen again.
The search of Rufus West took place in 2016 at Green Bay Correctional Institution. West sued after he was denied exemptions from such future searches, and was threatened with discipline if he continued to complain. A federal district judge dismissed the lawsuit, finding West hadn't shown a substantial burden to his free exercise of religion. Even if he had, the search was legal as the least restrictive way to further a compelling governmental interest, the judge found.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently reversed, and granted relief to West.
Writing for a three-judge panel, Chief Judge Diane Sykes found West is entitled to judgment under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, and can pursue his second claim under the Fourth Amendment.
"There's no dispute (Rufus's) objection to cross-s*x strip searches is both religious in nature and sincere," Sykes wrote. "The prison has substantially burdened his religious exercise by requiring him to either submit to cross-s*x strip searches in violation of his faith or face discipline."
Accommodating West's religion would not discriminate against the transgender guard, the decision found.
The decision also renews West's claim that the search violated his rights under the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches.
West, 51, was convicted in 1995 in Milwaukee of armed robbery and being a felon with a gun. He is due for release in 2024. He has filed numerous lawsuits on his own, and after this one was dismissed, the 7th Circuit found a Chicago lawyer to represent West on appeal.
In prison, strip searches are conducted for several reasons including when an inmate leaves or enters the prison, before certain movements within the prison, before and after visits with people from outside the prison, or during lockdowns.
Prison officials argued that in more than 20 years of incarceration, West was only subjected to a strip search involving a transgender male guard once, and it was unlikely to happen again. That is not a substantial burden on his free exercise of religion, prison officials said.
Sykes noted the burden exists even if it is uncertain if and when West may be subjected to a strip search by a transgender guard.
The prison also argued that since any strip search violates West's religious belief that only his wife may see him naked, the one occasion involving the transgender guard wasn't that big a deal.
The court said that argument seems to punish West for his willingness to compromise; he knows he can't avoid all strip searches in prison. But to West, being seen by someone biologically female subjects him to worse religious consequence.
"Knowingly violating the nudity prohibition will condemn him in the afterlife, with greater condemnation resulting from cross-s*x violations of the taboo," Sykes wrote.
"West's understanding of the Islamic faith draws the line at cross-s*x strip searches, and 'it is not for us to say that the line he drew was an unreasonable one,'" Sykes wrote.
RLUIPA bars prisons from substantially burdening an inmate's religious exercise unless doing so is the least restrictive means to further a compelling governmental interest. The 7th Circuit decision says West should be exempted from searches by female or transgender guards.
Evergreens Thought 
Extinct 
for 2Mil Years Discovered by Park Ranger–the Grove is the ‘Find of the Century'
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Neom: Saudi Arabia sentences tribesmen to death for resisting displacement
A Saudi court sentenced three members of the Howeitat, a tribe forcibly ejected to make way for the $500 bn Neom megacity, to death earlier this month for resisting displacement, a UK-based rights group has reported.
Shadli al-Huweiti is the brother of Abdul Rahim al-Howeiti, a 43-year-old Tabuk resident who was shot dead by Saudi special forces in April 2020 after protesting the government's eviction orders, including in videos he regularly posted to YouTube.
Neom: Yet-to-be-built Saudi resort chosen to host 2029 Asian Winter Games Read More » Two other Howeitat members - Abdulilah al-Howeiti and Abdullah Dukhail al-Howeiti - were given 50-year prison terms and 50-year travel bans in August for supporting their family's refusal to be evicted from their homes in the kingdom's Tabuk province.
They were given 34 years and 45 years respectively over tweets critical of the Saudi government.
Adel al-Saeed, vice president of the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights said in a series of tweets that the new death sentences reveal how the penalty is being used "in an unprecedented way to include all forms of objection to government decisions".
Middle East Eye has asked the Saudi government for comment.
I'm like a dog chasing waterfalls
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Residents of a small community in Vermont were blindsided last month by news that one official in their water department quietly lowered fluoride levels nearly four years ago, giving rise to worries about their children’s dental health and transparent government — and highlighting the enduring misinformation around water fluoridation.
Katie Mather, who lives in Richmond, a town of about 4,100 in northwestern Vermont, said at a water commission meeting this week that her dentist recently found her two kids’ first cavities. She acknowledged they eat a lot of sugar, but noted that her dentist recommended against supplemental fluoride because the town’s water should be doing the trick.
Her dentist “was operating and making professional recommendations based on state standards we all assumed were being met, which they were not,” Mather said. “It’s the fact that we didn’t have the opportunity to give our informed consent that gets to me.”
The addition of fluoride to public drinking water systems has been routine in communities across the United States since the 1940s and 1950s but still doesn’t sit well with some people, and many countries don’t fluoridate water for various reasons, including feasibility.
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California's new $20 minimum wage rule will exempt restaurants that sell bread, handing a lucrative break on wages to the Panera chain and one of Governor Gavin Newsom’s longtime allies https://t.co/fvC7QCfTla
— Bloomberg Markets (@markets) February 28, 2024
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JERUSALEM (AP) --- A liquor store has opened in Saudi Arabia for the first time in over 70 years, a diplomat reported Wednesday, a further socially liberalizing step in the once-ultraconservative kingdom that is home to the holiest sites in Islam.
While restricted to non-Muslim diplomats, the store in Riyadh comes as Saudi Arabia's assertive Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman aims to make the kingdom a tourism and business destination as part of ambitious plans to slowly wean its economy away from crude oil.
However, challenges remain both from the prince's international reputation after the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi as well as internally with the conservative Islamic mores that have governed its sandy expanses for decades.
The store sits next to a supermarket in Riyadh's Diplomatic Quarter, said the diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a socially sensitive topic in Saudi Arabia. The diplomat walked through the store Wednesday, describing it as similar to an upscale duty free shop at a major international airport.
The store stocks liquor, wine and only two types of beer for the time being, the diplomat said. Workers at the store asked customers for their diplomatic identifications and for them to place their mobile phones inside of pouches while inside. A mobile phone app allows purchases on an allotment system, the diplomat said.
Saudi officials did not respond to a request for comment regarding the store.
However, the opening of the store coincides with a story run by the English-language newspaper Arab News, owned by the state-aligned Saudi Research and Media Group, on new rules governing alcohol sales to diplomats in the kingdom.
It described the rules as meant "to curb the uncontrolled importing of these special goods and liquors within the diplomatic consignments." The rules took effect Monday, the newspaper reported.
For years, diplomats have been able to import liquor through a specialty service into the kingdom, for consumption on diplomatic grounds.
Those without access in the past have purchased liquor from bootleggers or brewed their own inside their homes. However, the U.S. State Department warns that those arrested and convicted for consuming alcohol can face "long jail sentences, heavy fines, public floggings and deportation."
Drinking alcohol is considered haram, or forbidden, in Islam. Saudi Arabia remains one of the few nations in the world with a ban on alcohol, alongside its neighbor Kuwait and Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.
Saudi Arabia has banned alcohol since the early 1950s. Then-King Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabia's founding monarch, stopped its sale following a 1951 incident in which one of his sons, Prince Mishari, became intoxicated and used a shotgun to kill British vice consul Cyril Ousman in Jeddah.
Following Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution and a militant attack on the Grand Mosque at Mecca, Saudi Arabia's rulers soon further embraced Wahhabism, an ultraconservative Islamic doctrine born in the kingdom. Strict gender separation, a women's driving ban and other measures were put in place.
Under Prince Mohammed and his father, King Salman, the kingdom has opened movie theaters, allowed women to drive and hosted major music festivals. But political speech and dissent remains strictly criminalized, potentially at the penalty of death.
As Saudi Arabia prepares for a $500 billion futuristic city project called Neom, reports have circulated that alcohol could be served at a beach resort there.
Sensitivities, however, remain. After an official suggested that "alcohol was not off the table" at Neom in 2022, within days he soon no longer was working at the project.
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Original story
Burlington, Vermont, police have arrested a white man who is suspected of shooting three 20-year-old men of Palestinian descent on Saturday, police said.
The three men were in Burlington visiting the home of one of the victim's relatives for Thanksgiving, police said. They were on Prospect Street when an armed white man confronted them and, without speaking, allegedly discharged at least four rounds around 6:30 p.m.
Two of the victims were shot in the torso while the third man was shot in his lower extremities, police said. Two of the victims were in what police described as stable condition. The third victim "sustained much more serious injuries."
Two of the victims were wearing keffiyehs, scarfs that have come to symbolize Palestinian solidarity, officials said. Police said two of the victims are U.S. citizens and one is a legal resident.
Arrest
Someone claiming he's qanon
https://twitter.com/malcontentmentt/status/1729034555406082103
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His website link
https://twitter.com/malcontentmentt/status/1729042606968144086
Haven't dug into his history, going to bed just want to breaking news post
Anyone recognize the language/font he's using on FB and his website? Looks foreign
FBI Outs Themselves as Centrists 
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Stupidpolers react https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/11odlzy/african_delegation_screens_dailywires_what_is_a/?sort=controversial
An African delegation bucked the UN by screening The Daily Wire’s “What Is A Woman?” in honor of a women’s conference Friday, even after they were told the hit documentary did not align with the hosting commission’s values.
The Nigerian Mission to the UN screened the Matt Walsh film during an annual meeting for women’s rights, in defiance of the left-wing Commission on the Status of Women, New York. Delegates from multiple African countries were in attendance, including Uganda, Malawi, and Cameroon. A delegate from Suriname, in South America, also attended.
“The movie was very informative,” said Peace Regis Mutuuzo, Ugandan State Minister for Gender, Labor and Social Development. “The people whose gender has been arranged can never lead a happy life no matter how much they pretend because gender is biological and not ideological.”
The screening was held in collaboration with the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) and Family Watch International, two non-profits that have worked with the UN to further pro-family causes. In response to the event, Daily Wire host Matt Walsh said it was clear African nations do not want gender ideology imposed on them.
But gender ideology seems to be the direction the UN commission has been taking. According to guidelines, the Commission on the Status of Women, New York, says its participants must acknowledge the existence of transphobia, global north domination, and institutional oppression, and work to build an “anti-racist space.”
“An anti-racist space requires that all of us need to consider our positionality and work actively not to replicate white patriarchal structures including subjugating voices of Black women and women of color,” the commission guidelines read.
Because of the ban on the documentary, the Nigerian Mission had to screen it as a side event of the commission’s conference. The film appeared well-received by those who watched it.
“I wish this would be shown from the floor of the General Assembly,” said Funke Oladipo, deputy director for women and gender, Nigerian Ministry of Women’s Affairs.
The screening was important for delegates facing pressure to accept loaded gender terminology in UN negotiation documents, according to C-Fam Executive Vice President Lisa Correnti. These loaded terms, such as “gender,” carry different connotations in societies that have not been influenced by woke westerners.
“African countries have an opportunity to shield their children from harmful gender ideology, something we in the U.S. failed to do,” said Correnti. “But they will only be able to do it by blocking ambiguous terminology in negotiations, preventing UN agencies and western countries from including it in development and humanitarian assistance.”
“The documents they negotiate will determine how fast gender ideology makes its way to their countries through UN programs,” she said.
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Mounting evidence from hate speech experts and associates of Club Q shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich suggests that they have only identified as non-binary as a way to further victimize the LGBTQ+ community.
An expert in countering online hate has suggested that the community take Aldrich's non-binary identity in stride in order to avoid the division and distrust the suspected shooter may be trying to create.
The Tuesday after the November 19 shooting, Aldrich's lawyers said that their client is non-binary. "Anderson Aldrich is non-binary. They use they/them pronouns, and for the purposes of all formal filings, will be addressed as Mx. Aldrich," they wrote. Aldrich is facing 305 charges after allegedly killing five people and injuring at least 19 more
The following Monday, Aldrich's lawyer referred to Aldrich with he/him pronouns in court documents.
It also turned out that Aldrich's family and friends had referred to Aldrich the same way and no one who knew Aldrich before the shooting had ever mentioned Aldrich being anything other than a cisgender, heterosexual male.
Aldrich's father even said that his first worry when he heard that his child killed five people in an LGBTQ+ bar was that Aldrich might be "gay" and that he was relieved when he found out Aldrich wasn't.
Xavier Kraus, a former neighbor of Aldrich, said that Aldrich regularly used anti-LGBTQ+ slurs. Kraus said he believed Aldrich claimed to be non-binary as "a total troll on the community and a total troll on the system." He said Aldrich never mentioned being non-binary nor used they/them pronouns in his company when he lived next door to Aldrich from August 2021 to September 2022.
"I think it's an insult to those people that are actually going through personal struggles with their own sexuality and their own personal identity," Kraus told NBC News. He said Aldrich knows of their own guilt and is now "going to make it as much of a show and a mockery and just confusing for everybody involved."
Other experts on extremism and online hate have echoed Kraus' sentiments. Investigators have found that Aldrich regularly posted in online "free speech" forums that advocate for killing other civilians as a way to "cleanse" society. The culture of such sites encourages people to provoke others by making offensive comments or mocking them.
Jared Holt --- senior research manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a nonprofit that fights online extremism --- says he thinks "the suspect invoked nonbinary pronouns as a means to get one last insult in on the LGBT community."
Aldrich also has their own entry on Encyclopedia Dramatica, a self-described "troll archive" that styles itself as an extremist bigoted version of Wikipedia. The entry praised Aldrich, who has contributed to the site since 2015, and gave them a higher ranking on its mass shooter index because Aldrich "targeted f*gs."
Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic, said Aldrich laid a trap by claiming a non-binary identity.
If Aldrich's non-binary identity is sincere, it adds fuel to bigoted claims that non-binary and transgender people are dangerous and undercuts the narrative that the shooting was carried out by a straight, white, cisgender male who hated the LGBTQ community.
If Aldrich's non-binary identity is insincere, bigots could point to it as evidence that everyday people and the government shouldn't recognize how people self-identify, since some people could abuse the self-identities to try and avoid unfavorable social consequences.
"When a racist troll trolls a Black person, they're seeking to make them exit that space, feel unsafe and leave, and, therefore, voluntarily abrogate their right to...speak out freely and equally in communal spaces," Caraballo told the aforementioned news outlet. "In this instance, they're trying to make people say, 'Well, maybe we should rethink self-identification.' And I think it's absolutely crucial that we don't play the troll's game."
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