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Jilly_in_VA's JournalGOP Congresswoman Going After OnlyFans Doesn't Have a Clue
Back in 2017, Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO) orchestrated the passage of a pair of laws, known as FOSTA/SESTA, targeting sex workers. Now, she’s launching a new war on OnlyFans.
According to XBiz’s Gustavo Turner, Wagner recently accused the subscription-based platform of pushing illegal child porn videos and facilitating sex trafficking. “It is absolutely unconscionable,” she told Reuters in March. “These findings confirm what my office has known for years: Americans are being sexually exploited on OnlyFans. Congress and federal law enforcement must do more.”
I take it Wagner doesn’t subscribe or post on OnlyFans, but I do. And as one of the top earners on the platform, I know her accusations aren’t just far-fetched—they contradict the very nature of the website.
Anyone who has ever modeled on OnlyFans or purchased content from it knows the site’s strict age regulations. When you register as a model, you must upload your ID to prove you’re at least 18 years old and provide facial recognition, just like you would on an iPhone. If you then post a collaborative video, you must also submit identification and paperwork for your scene partner or tag them by their verified OnlyFans account. The site makes it difficult—if not impossible—to post the kind of vile, illegal child sexual material that Wagner claims OnlyFans supports.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-congresswoman-going-after-onlyfans-doesnt-have-a-clue?ref=home
Of course she doesn't, she's a RepubliKKKan, but they're obsessed with the idea that someone, somewhere, might be having sex, and, God forbid, even enjoying it!
DEI isn't the enemy. States like Alabama are afraid to own their history.
Sara PequeñoWhen you think of the Civil Rights Movement, you probably think about Alabama. The state is associated with the worst of the Jim Crow Era, but also the people who stood against it.
It’s a shame that Alabama’s legislators would rather not talk about these things. Last week, the Alabama Legislature passed SB129, a law that will keep diversity, equity and inclusion offices from college campuses and other public entities. The law, which goes into effect Oct. 1, is one of 11 anti-DEI bills across nine states that have been signed into law since the beginning of 2023.
“I refuse to allow a few bad actors on college campuses – or wherever else for that matter – to go under the acronym of DEI, using taxpayer funds, to push their liberal political movement,” Gov. Kay Ivey said.
Ivey’s assessment of DEI initiatives and “divisive concepts,” as the bill puts it, highlights exactly why diversity in education is important. Pretending otherwise is a disservice to everyone in Alabama. Come November, voters should remember that elections can have a real impact on the laws their states enact.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/03/30/alabama-dei-bill-republican-ignore-american-history/73098502007/
The truth hurts, doesn't it, Madam Governor?
A GOP lawmaker posted about 'illegal invaders' at the airport. They were basketball players.
A GOP lawmaker in Michigan tried to whip up anti-immigrant furor by claiming that buses at the Detroit airport were being “loaded up with illegal invaders” — when it was actually basketball players arriving for the NCAA Tournament.
In a post on X on Wednesday night, state Rep. Matt Maddock posted two photos taken at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, one with an airplane on the tarmac and the other showing a row of buses.
“Happening right now,” he wrote. “Three busses just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where they’re headed with their police escort?”
Maddock’s claim was quickly debunked by a Wayne County Airport Authority spokesperson, who told the Detroit Free Press that the buses, in fact, were for men’s basketball players in town for the NCAA Tournament. X users also added context to the lawmaker’s post, including tweets from a local reporter and the Gonzaga men’s basketball team, which landed in Detroit that evening.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/matt-maddock-gonzaga-basketball-detroit-airport-rcna145607
Need any further indicators that the GOFP ia absolutely bonkers?
Revealed: US professor was behind extremist site that spread conspiracies
Boise State University (BSU) professor and Claremont Institute scholar Scott Yenor was the hidden hand behind Action Idaho, a far-right online media platform that featured inflammatory rightwing commentary on politics in that state, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.
The documents, obtained through public records requests, also show that Yenor sought and received funding for the initiative from wealthy and influential donors like Claremont Institute board chair, Thomas D Klingenstein.
He also attempted to hire a rising conservative writer, Pedro Gonzalez, to lead the initiative. Gonzalez was later embroiled in a controversy about antisemitic remarks he made in online chats in 2019 and 2020. They also show him tapping a network of expertise that overlaps both with the Claremont Institute and the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), a secretive fraternal Christian Nationalist organization the Guardian has reported on extensively.
Yenor has not publicly disclosed his involvement in Action Idaho, and it has only been fleetingly mentioned in previous reporting on Talking Points Memo. The revelations could raise further questions about the potential conflicts between Yenor’s professorial position at a public university and his political activism.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/29/boise-state-university-professor-scott-yenor-action-idaho
He should be fired, but given that it's Idaho (aka Mississippi North) he'll probably be given a medal
'Vaccine lettuce' bill passes TN Senate
A bill that would prohibit vaccines to be put on food has passed the Senate and will be sent to Governor Bill Lee for his signature.
On Thursday, the Tennessee Senate cast the final vote on HB1894, which would add a new definition to the word “drug” in Tennessee Code. HB1894 states drugs are also “food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material.”
The bill was brought in the legislature in response to concerns about scientists putting vaccines in the produce purchased at grocery stores, according to Republicans in the House.
Rep. Scott Cepicky (R-Culleoka) said people at the University of California Riverside (UCR) could “put a vaccine into a head of lettuce.” If they did that, Cepicky said, that would be fine, but the state of Tennessee would treat that vaccine-laden head of lettuce as a drug and not as a food item.
“You would have to get a prescription for that to make sure that we know how much of the lettuce you have to eat based off of your body type so we don’t under-vaccinate you, which leads to the possibility of the efficacy of the drug being compromised, or we overdose you based off how much lettuce is [eaten],” he said during a House committee meeting in February. “All this does is [say] we’re going to classify these types of food sources as pharmaceuticals, so if you want to consume them you would go to your doctor and get a prescription.”
https://www.wate.com/news/politics/tennessee-vaccine-lettuce-bill-heads-to-gov-bill-lees-desk/
RepubliKKKans have all gone around the bend....
Matt Schlapp's Accuser Was Paid to Drop Sexual Assault Suit
When conservative icon Matt Schlapp announced Tuesday that the sexual battery and defamation lawsuit against him had been dropped, he and his allies were quick to note that the ordeal ended without him or the American Conservative Union—the right-wing organization he runs—paying his accuser a single dollar.
But what Schlapp didn’t disclose was that the Republican operative who sued him was, in fact, paid to drop the lawsuit, according to two people with knowledge of the payout. It was just that the money came from ACU’s insurance company, these two people told The Daily Beast.
(Minutes before this article published, CNN ran a story also revealing that the lawsuit was dropped only after Schlapp’s accuser was paid $480,000 from ACU’s insurer—an amount one of the sources confirmed to The Daily Beast.)
While Schlapp’s financial victory lap on a technicality apparently drew the attention of his accuser, it wasn’t the only thing that may have been misleading.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-schlapps-accuser-was-paid-to-drop-sexual-assault-suit
Raise your hand if you're surprised.
3 Maryland middle-schoolers charged with antisemitic hate crime
Three students at a southern Maryland middle school have been charged with hate-crime violations in connection with acts that included Nazi salutes, the Calvert County state’s attorney said.
The students, all 13 years old, attend Plum Point Middle School in Calvert, according to a statement posted by the office of the prosecutor, Robert Harvey.
The statement said they have also been charged with harassment.
The students “displayed swastikas, made Nazi salutes, and directed offensive comments to a classmate because of the classmate’s religious beliefs,” the prosecutor’s statement said, quoting charging documents.
The students were charged as juveniles and were not named, the prosecutor’s office said. The offensive comments were not describedThe statement said they have also been charged with harassment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/25/maryland-students-charged-hate-crime/
"You've got to be carefully taught..."
North Carolina schools candidate who called for Obama's death put on the spot
The far-right Republican candidate running to oversee public schools in North Carolina decried “extreme agendas that threaten our children’s future”, after being confronted by reporters over tweets in which she called for the executions of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
“Don’t let extreme agendas threaten our children’s future,” Michele Morrow said on social media on Thursday, posting an address in which she said she was “facing the most radical extremist Democrats [that] have ever run for superintendent in the history of North Carolina”.
But Morrow, who is running for superintendent of public instruction, also had to respond to a CNN crew who confronted her about posts, unearthed by the same network, in which she advocated violence against leading Democrats.
Comments made by Morrow between 2019 and 2021 and reported by CNN included a May 2020 tweet in which Morrow said Obama should be the subject of “a Pay Per View of him in front of a firing squad”, adding: “I do not want to waste another dime on supporting his life. We could make some money back from televising his death.”
In December 2020, when Biden, as president-elect, said he would ask Americans to wear masks against Covid-19 for 100 days, Morrow – a nurse – wrote: “Never. We need to follow the constitution’s advice and KILL all TRAITORS!!!”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/21/north-carolina-gop-michele-morrow
"No, I never sid that, I only TWEETED it!" Yeah, no.
Judge appoints special master to oversee California federal women's prison after rampant abuse
A judge on Friday appointed a special master to oversee a troubled federal women’s prison in California known for rampant sexual abuse against inmates, marking the first time the federal Bureau of Prisons has been subject to such oversight.
The judge’s scathing order encompasses the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, located about 21 miles (34 kilometers) east of Oakland.
A 2021 Associated Press investigation that found a culture of abuse and cover-ups at the prison brought increased scrutiny from Congress and the federal Bureau of Prisons.
The order is part of a federal lawsuit filed in August by eight inmates and the advocacy group California Coalition for Women Prisoners. They allege that sexual abuse and exploitation has not stopped despite the prosecution of the former warden and several former officers.
The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on the special master appointment.
https://apnews.com/article/california-prison-sexual-abuse-special-master-42bb640f681d1d0a83b7b1892fd4a4c5
All of this kind of activity between guards etc,. and prisoners is illegal, and there is no scenario in which a prisoner can give consent.
Diaba Konat loves France. But a hijab ruling stops her playing there
The energy radiating from Diaba Konaté is palpable, even over our transatlantic Zoom chat. The wide-smiling college star has dreamed of playing basketball in the States ever since she was a young girl. She moved to the US from France in December 2018 on a full scholarship from Idaho State University, later transferring as a junior to the University of California, Irvine.
The 23-year-old point guard’s collegiate highlights include averaging 8.7 points, 2.9 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.2 steals per game as a junior, ranking among the top-30 in the nation with her free-throw percentage, and tying eighth in single-season school history with 63 steals. She also reached 1,000 points in her collegiate career after dropping a season-high 20 against UC Santa Barbara in February 2023.
Diaba’s journey began aged 11 when a teacher recognised her potential at school in Paris, and she soon joined the French youth team set-up, going on to win medals with the under-18 and under-23 teams. “France taught me basketball,” she tells me, her French accent delicately skimming her fluent English. You can sense deep affection and pride when she speaks of home, but there’s one major glitch – she is banned from playing in her own country simply because she wears a hijab.
The French Federation of Basketball (FFBB) prohibits the wearing of “any equipment with a religious or political connotation”, which discriminates against Muslim women in headgear. Secularism in France, or ‘laïcité’, has restricted those wearing religious attire from entering many official public institutions, including the sporting arena, in a continual drive to separate religion and state. With the Paris Games starting in July, the FFBB’s ruling has drawn fire from around the world, with critics saying that it goes against the spirit of the Olympics, and sports in general.
Diaba says she is “heartbroken” at the ban in France, which prevents her from playing in public arenas in her hijab. “It’s like a two people relationship. I want to step towards them, but they’re backing up. I love my home country, but I feel like America loves me more.”
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/15/diaba-konate-loves-france-but-a-hijab-ruling-stops-her-playing-there
I don't think (correct me if I'm wrong) that France prohibits nuns from wearing their habits. So this is stupid. Just stupid. Let the women play!
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