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California lawmakers may reverse a 2016 bill that prohibits state-funded travel to 26 states with laws California says discriminate against LGBT people.
Democratic state Sen. Toni Atkins is spearheading the initiative. She wants to reverse the boycott over “unintended economic consequences,” and she said the ban has “unintentionally isolated the LGBTQ community.”
Ahahahahahaha. Turns out banning your state citizens from travelling to 26 states isn't so good for business. Who would have thought?
Atkins proposed repealing the law and replacing it with a bill to promote LGBT outreach in these states. The San Diego senator, who is gay, said most of the $583,000 designated for the campaign would be privately funded.
So they are just going to spend their own money to put up gay shit in red states? Why does this need to be a bill?
In April, a city ordinance in San Francisco similar to A.B. 1887 boycotting purportedly anti-LGBT states was repealed after seven years. The city’s plan to economically strain conservative states was ineffective, and a report found that the policy was increasing the city's expenses and administrative responsibilities. Officials agreed the policy did not produce the outcome they intended.
Amazing. Even the cities were doing it.
A.B. 1887 has also proven to be problematic for many Black scholars in California, as the law is preventing them from collaborating with peer professionals who study in the South, where much of their research is grounded. To Black historians and scholars involved in academic dialogue surrounding Black American history, the majority of the South has been declared off-limits. Black educators and historians have no access to university funding for their research.
Hahahahaha. Of course it hurt blacks the most, because Democrats designed it.
And now, for the ULTIMATE example of leftist arrogance and ignorance:
Sen. Atkins has come to the conclusion that the status quo isn’t working. “I thought, it’s now or never. How long do you sustain something like that?”
I think having this guy as a representative is truly one of the saddest things about this awful period in history.
The total lack of professionalism and intelligence goes to show how fucked our society is.
I have a feeling if someone did it to the Energy Secretary and she couldn't get a charging spot it would be illegal within 48 hours.
DO NOT USE AMAZON FOR YOUR PROJECTS.
I can't believe people keep giving away their IP to Amazon while they act like this.
This shit is actually pretty funny.
Granholm drove from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Memphis, Tennessee, in an attempt to draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars, according to a report by NPR.
The U.S. Secretary of Energy even made passionate town hall stops along the way, advocating for reshaping Americans’ lives by transitioning from gas-powered vehicles to electric.
Granholm knew she might run into charging issues while on this road trip, but “probably didn’t expect anyone to call the cops,” reported NPR, whose reporter road along with her on the trip. The incident occurred when staffers attempted to reserve a charging spot for Granholm’s EV in advance of her arrival.
“One of the station’s four chargers was broken, and others were occupied. So an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy,” NPR reported.
So she had people running around setting things up for her to make her look good to this NPR reporter who was already going to write a puff piece blowing smoke up her ass...how'd that go?
This did not go over well, and a family that was blocked by the gasoline-powered car from using the charger called the police. Interestingly, the sheriff’s office couldn’t do anything about it, as it is not illegal in Georgia for a gas-powered vehicle to claim a charging location.
That shit is hilarious.
Another issue the energy secretary ran into was despite “painstakingly” mapping out the trip ahead of time to be sure there would be enough chargers, her team had to stop at hotels with slower “Level 2” plugs for overnight charging, and then pause at superfast chargers between cities.
Another problem was the fact that the chargers are simply not fast enough. In addition to that, the chargers are not reliable enough, the report added.
“Of course, having a superfast charger doesn’t do you any good if the dang thing doesn’t work,” NPR reported.
Damn if NPR refuses to sugarcoat it this may be one of the saddest PR stunts we've seen.
This bitch left her office for 4 days to do this? What a fucking waste of time and money.
“Like all Duval County residents, I was horrified to see that the FBI raided the office of the Duval County Teachers Union. According to media reports, the FBI, in conjunction with the IRS, has an ongoing investigation involving alleged ‘misappropriation of union funds,’” said Black.
“What is even more troubling is the silence from union leadership since this raid. To restore the trust of taxpayers and dues paying teachers, the Duval County Teachers Union must immediately release a complete accounting for how all union funds are being spent, come clean about what specifically this investigation entails and make public all pertinent documents pertaining to the FBI and IRS investigation,” he added.
We're going to see a lot more FBI / IRS attacks coming soon.
Governor Ron DeSantis stated he had “no insight” into the federal operation and emphasized that it was beyond the state’s control.
Boy did he fuck himself up badly. What a cunt.
There was a story attributing the split to the couple’s “very different lifestyles,” with a “source with direct knowledge” telling TMZ: “She likes to party, he likes to stay at home.”
Is this the secret Hollywood way of saying 'she is cheating on him by banging lots of other guys'?
I keep seeing this pop up as a defense for women who are divorcing.
https://twitter.com/noway4u_sir/status/1700796996443832570
Is this all there is? I just found it but I'm not sure if that is just an edited version.
Eric Neil Bowen, who now goes by “Vivian Shemansky,” 44, had a massive temper tantrum when the 17-year-old girl parked near his tent in a parking lot on August 27.
During his fit, Bowen threw a stick at the girl, identified only as Jade.
Homeless violent tranny.
Jade left the area and returned about 10 minutes later to find every window and light on the car smashed and the inside filled with human feces.
Bowen has been charged with felony first-degree criminal mischief, felony unauthorized use of a vehicle, second-degree criminal mischief and second-degree disorderly conduct. He was released the same day on “monitored pretrial release.”
Monitored pretrial release in Portland means they call them once a week and ask them to stay still. I believe over 98% of people on 'monitored pretrial release' don't show up for their court appearances in Portland.
“There’s no accountability for people that are breaking the law. It’s putting our community and the home we grew up in in jeopardy,” Thomasson said. “We should be able to feel safe in the city we grew up in.”
Yep.
When contacted by the Post Millennial to find out if Bowen was jailed with men or women, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said “we don’t have that information.”
Hmmm, I wonder.
Not only destroyed but GREATLY expanded it.
At the beginning they had two streets, when he left whatever he was in turned global. Suddenly they had access to a huge area, not just Pleasantville.
Did Pleasantville expand and take over other worlds? Was it always that large? Did he create a constantly growing entity and abandon his sister inside of it? He not only destroyed it he caused it to grow at an insane rate.
they leave without having to deal with the consequences of their actions.
Don't forget that when he returns home without his sister and the cops begin asking questions about where she went he's the prime suspect.
His excuse will be "she's trapped in a TV show we got magically transported to." He'll spend the rest of his life in jail or a mental hospital.
Yeah the 'Dad' gets screwed. Years of a sexless marriage and suddenly not only is she banging the local soda fountain guy but she never even gives him a chance.
Her first thought isn't "hey now that I know about sex I should tell my husband" she just runs around looking for anyone else.
All he wanted was dinner on the table when he got home from work.
A 25 year old Child Actor probably has the mental competency of a ten year old.
I can't figure out Ashton Kutcher. He seems to be against child trafficking but refuses to turn in his Hollywood buddies. He got groomed by Demi Moore for a while which is never a good thing.
Maybe he's a good dude or maybe he is a total fraud.
“Anaemia is not equally distributed by ‘race,’” the Lancet asserted, and rich and poor soils “are a metaphor for structural racism, which results in differential access to the goods, services, and opportunities of society by ‘race.’”
The “disparity in iron deficiency anaemia by place and ‘race’ is a biological indicator of the differential access to goods, services, and opportunities,” it declared, and differential access “to a healthy diet, education, and a clean environment are compounded by differential exposure to infections, poverty, and stress, and differential access to health care, particularly for heavy menstrual bleeding.”
Due to “the patriarchal taboo surrounding menstruation,” it argues, “many women do not receive effective care for heavy menstrual bleeding.”
Curiously for a medical journal, the article spends little time delving into the real biological and genetic factors behind different rates of anemia among blacks and whites.
The American Journal of Epidemiology, for example, found in 2009 that anemia was 3.3 times more common in blacks than whites, even “after adjusting for demographic variables, socioeconomic factors, and comorbid conditions.”
Moreover, sickle cell anemia (SCA), a genetic condition that affects red blood cells, can affect anyone but black people are at a higher genetic risk for the disease, which has nothing to do with “structural racism” or any other sociological construct.
Undeterred in its crusade to pin anemia on racism, the Lancet alleges that differences in anemia between black and white populations “have conventionally and mistakenly been understood in medicine as inherent biological differences between ‘races.’”
“The failure to recognise the racism underpinning differences in anaemia by ‘race’ manifests as a stubborn intergenerational disadvantage that demands our urgent attention,” it concludes.
Doctors. The least trustworthy professionals on the planet.
And no, the sample size wasn't small.
42 samples overall:
Fentanyl – 19 out of 42 positive (45%)
Meth – 42 out of 42 positive (100%)
Cocaine – 7 out of 13 positive (54%)
Isn't public transit in open air drug dens wonderful?
R&B singer Akon may have been born in the United States, but he wants to go back to his roots — which, to him, means constructing a city in his family’s ancestral home of Senegal, which he describes as a “real-life Wakanda.”
According to a report in AfroTech on Friday, the proposed city in the troubled West African nation of Senegal — which Akon says can be built for the low, low investment price of $6 billion — is intended “to be a safe space for Black Americans and others facing racial injustices.”
AfroTech? I couldn't make up a more hilarious name.
In March of 2022, one of Akon’s former business partners sued him, noting that an investigation commissioned by the plaintiff and conducted by retired federal Special Agent Scot Thomasson found that the city, which was meant to run on blockchain and cryptocurrency technology, contained “many of the trademark characteristics (known as ‘red flags’) of fraudulent business ventures such as Ponzi schemes and pyramid schemes,” according to the New York Post.
“Africa is in a position where if African Americans take position now, every single African American would be a millionaire without even thinking twice because there’s nothing that’s not needed over there,” Akon said in a recent podcast interview.
Hahahahahahahaa.
The singer, AfroTech reported, “went on to emphasize his perspective that it’s Black people who are the driving force behind America’s revenue today across all sectors such as sports, entertainment, fashion, and medicine.”
“I mean, you name it. We’re leading in every single sector,” he said.
“Just imagine if we all just decided to just take all our bags, withdrew all our money and go to Africa. Where would America be today? It would collapse overnight.”
I think you misread it.
The co-worker, Kevin Novinger, claimed the act never happened, and prosecutors declined to press charges.
They did not press charges, they investigated and found no proof.
EDIT: Oh I see that the county determined he was lying. You are right, but the psychologist later determined she was lying.
A Multnomah County probation officer has filed suit against her employer, the county’s Department of Community Justice, alleging gender discrimination and retaliation.
This actually is an astonishing story when you break it down.
According to the complaint, filed in federal court Aug. 28, the officer, Holly Fischer, was “treated like a perpetrator” after accusing a co-worker, her boyfriend at the time, of sodomizing her without her consent on St. Patrick’s Day 2017. The co-worker, Kevin Novinger, claimed the act never happened, and prosecutors declined to press charges.
WW reported the allegation last year after the county concluded Novinger was lying about what happened that night (“The Odd Squad,” WW, Aug. 10, 2022).
So she lies about a co-worker and boyfriend (don't fuck your co-workers people) and the county later determines the co-worker lied despite the prosecutors believing the opposite.
Fischer’s lawsuit alleges what happened next. She says she was forced to take a demotion in 2019 after making two errors during firearms training. The county subsequently forwarded “ninety pages of email communications and allegations of misconduct” to a psychologist, who ruled her unfit for service.
TWO ERRORS? During FIREARMS TRAINING? How the FUCK is she not fired after ONE?
Holy shit can you imagine working with someone who failed firearm training TWICE and still kept their job?
I guess they realized they couldn't fire her because she's a woman so the county decided to use a third party, in this case a psychologist.
But wait!
The ruling was overturned after another psychologist found the emails “were consistent with an individual processing a traumatic event” and that the first doctor had assumed the assault didn’t occur. Fischer returned to her job as a probation officer in December 2021, although she continues to be the subject of “negative gossip” and “unfounded oral reprimands,” according to the complaint.
Can't even fire her for that. Not in Portland.
The Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries has already dismissed multiple complaints by Fischer regarding her treatment by the county. The county did not respond to a request for comment prior to publication.
What an absolutely pathetic country we live in.
Expand that to In-Bev product if you want to make a difference, you may unwittingly switch to another offering. They are big.
They move at the "Speed Of Science" don't you remember?
What are you kidding I can't wait for my boxers to inform the FBI that I'm at a gun range!
The Intercept reports that in a move that has both intrigued tech enthusiasts and alarmed privacy advocates, the U.S. federal government has invested $22 million in the development of SMART ePANTS, which stands for “Smart Electrically Powered and Networked Textile Systems.” Managed by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the intelligence counterpart to the more widely-known Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), this initiative aims to create wearable technology that can record audio, video, and geolocation data. The garments under development include everyday clothing items such as shirts, pants, socks, and underwear, all designed to be washable for everyday use.
“A lot of the IARPA and DARPA programs are like throwing spaghetti against the refrigerator,” said Annie Jacobsen, author of a book about DARPA. “It may or may not stick.”
Oh boy isn't it fun how our money is spent?
This isn't related to your issue however if you rent from a building with a property management company GET OUT.
NEVER and I mean NEVER rent from a property management company.
This is literally all a distraction. Stop helping them deviate from their issues by throwing shiny bullshit into your face.