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    • RE: Jury instructions conclude in Trump's NYC criminal trial, here's what the jury was told

      "He said that there is no need to agree on what occurred. They can disagree on what the crime was among the three choices. Thus, this means that they could split 4-4-4, and he will still treat them as unanimous."

      This has already been widely debunked.

      posted in Politics & Debate
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    • RE: Idaho Drag Performer Wins $1.1 Million in Defamation Suit Against Blogger

      Why don't you do a thread on the ones that have been shown to have done creepy shit involving kids?

      Which raises a good question. With all the supposed infractions occurring in this regard, why Ms. Bushnell's need to make one up out of thin air? She only did herself (and her wallet) a disservice by repeating lies.

      Are you sure this particular case hadn't been mentioned here somewhere? I find it hard to believe that this story would have rocketed around the conservative blogosphere and not been repeated here.

      posted in Politics & Debate
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    • Idaho Drag Performer Wins $1.1 Million in Defamation Suit Against Blogger

      A drag performer in Idaho won more than $1.1 million in damages in a defamation lawsuit against a blogger who falsely claimed that he had exposed himself to a crowd that included children at an event two years ago.

      On Friday May 24th, 2024, the jury unanimously decided that the blogger, Summer Bushnell, had defamed the artist, Eric Posey, when she claimed in videos and comments online that Posey exposed his genitalia while dancing onstage during a pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, even though he had not. It awarded Posey $926,000 in compensatory damages for defamation and another $250,000 in punitive damages.

      Posey, who performed under the name Mona Liza Million, agreed to participate in the Coeur d’Alene event on June 11, 2022. That event, called Pride in the Park, prompted national news media coverage after 31 members of a white nationalist group called Patriot Front were arrested nearby.

      Summer Bushnell, who runs a website called The Bushnell Report, posted a video about the arrests in June 2022. In it, she claimed that Posey had “flashed his genitalia to minors and people in the crowd.” She later posted another video, of Posey dancing onstage, that was edited to blur his pelvic area, suggesting it was censoring nudity. But law enforcement officials later concluded that the unedited videos showed that Posey was clothed and did not expose himself.

      In September 2022, shortly after Posey filed his lawsuit, Bushnell told a reporter at The Idaho Statesman that she had not attended the pride event herself but had received footage of the performance from someone she declined to identify.

      • NYTimes coverage
      posted in Politics & Debate
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    • RE: Countries Fail to Agree on Contentious W.H.O. Pandemic Treaty

      @blablarg18 I knew you'd love this story, which is why I posted it. 😊

      posted in Politics & Debate
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    • Countries Fail to Agree on Contentious W.H.O. Pandemic Treaty

      Countries around the globe have failed to reach consensus on the terms of a treaty that would unify the world in a strategy against the inevitable next pandemic. The deliberations, which were scheduled to be a central item at the weeklong meeting of the World Health Assembly beginning Monday in Geneva, aimed to correct the inequities in access to vaccines and treatments between wealthier nations and poorer ones that became glaringly apparent during the Covid pandemic.

      Contrary to rhetoric from some politicians in the United States and Britain, it would not enable the W.H.O. to dictate national policies on masking, or use armed troops to enforce lockdowns and vaccine mandates. In the United States, Republican senators have demanded that the Biden administration reject the treaty because it would “potentially weaken U.S. sovereignty.”

      Although much of the urgency around Covid has faded since the treaty negotiations began two years ago, public health experts are still acutely aware of the pandemic potential of emerging pathogens. Negotiators had hoped to adopt the treaty next week. But canceled meetings and fractious debates — sometimes over a single word — stalled agreement on key sections, including equitable access to vaccines. W.H.O. plans to begin a new round of negotiations in May 2026.

      • NYTimes coverage
      posted in Politics & Debate
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    • Bill to Combat Antisemitism on Campuses Prompts Backlash From the Right

      A bipartisan push in Congress to enact a law cracking down on anti-Semitic speech on college campuses has prompted a backlash from far-right lawmakers and activists who argue that it would make the assertion that Jews killed Jesus illegal, punishing Christians for “believing the Gospel.”

      Republican leaders have sought to capitalize on the recent campus unrest. But in trying to use the issue as a political cudgel against the left, Republicans have also called attention to a rift on the right.

      Marjorie Taylor Greene said she opposed the bill because “it could convict Christians of antisemitism for believing the Gospel that says Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews.” Matt Gaetz called the legislation a “ridiculous hate speech bill," and argued that “the Gospel itself would meet the definition of antisemitism under the terms of the bill."

      In 1965, the Catholic Church said that Jews could not be held collectively accountable for Jesus' crucifixion. In 2011 Pope Benedict XVI said that there was no basis in the scripture for that same belief. In 2019 Trump signed an executive order that relied on the same definition that appears in this most-recent House bill. Still, that didn't stop right-wing lawmakers and activists from erupting over the issue after the legislation passed the House on May 2nd in a vote of 320-91. Of the 91 "no" votes, 70 were Democrats and 21 were Republicans.

      “Did the House of Representatives just make parts of the Bible illegal?” Charlie Kirk asked on social media. “Yes, the New Testament” replied Tucker Carlson.

      • NYTimes coverage
      posted in Politics & Debate
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    • Secrets, Lies and Payoffs Laid Bare in Week 1 of Trump Trial Testimony

      Donald Trump fought mightily before and after he was elected president to keep secret the embarrassing details of his private life, but often failed despite having a fat checkbook and a well-connected tabloid editor in his pocket, according to the first week of evidence at his trial. Over four days of testimony this week, former National Enquirer executive David Pecker told the jury just how deeply involved Trump’s team was in using the supermarket tabloid to fuel his 2016 presidential campaign. Prosecutors tried to show that Trump was acutely aware of the machinations being made on his behalf by the tabloid executive and Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer. After Pecker’s testimony concluded Friday, jurors heard from Trump’s longtime assistant and Cohen’s former banker.

      Evidence shows Cohen paid $130,000 in hush money to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election to buy her silence about an alleged sexual encounter she had with Trump years earlier. For years, Pecker told the jury, he and his friend Trump — then a reality TV star — had a mutually beneficial relationship that involved information-sharing in the celebrity world. When Trump decided to run for president, that relationship kicked into overdrive, as the supermarket gossip sheet published glowing stories about the brash tycoon, and ran many other stories pummeling his political rivals. Yet the first week of trial testimony showed the arrangement was far from foolproof. Just four days before the 2016 election, the Wall Street Journal revealed that the Enquirer had secretly paid a Playboy model, Karen McDougal, for the rights to her story about an affair with Trump. The Enquirer then refused to publish the story, a practice known as “catch and kill.”

      After the Journal wrote about the arrangement, Trump called Pecker, furious. “How could this happen? I thought you had this under control,” Trump said, according to Pecker. “He was very agitated.” At the time, Pecker’s company publicly denied buying McDougal’s story to keep her quiet. After being granted immunity from prosecution, however, he testified that was precisely what he’d done. Cohen promised him he would be reimbursed for paying McDougal, Pecker said, but his lawyers warned him later that such compensation was potentially a crime — and said he may have already broken campaign finance law by paying McDougal. And so, Pecker testified, he balked at paying again when a lawyer for Daniels came forward to sell her story of a sexual tryst with Trump.

      “I am not purchasing this story. I am not going to be involved with a porn star, and I am not a bank,” Pecker said he told Cohen. Trump ultimately instructed Cohen to pay Daniels $130,000 for her silence, according to evidence from this case. Prosecutors alleged that these payments were categorized as a legal fee, rather than a campaign expense, to keep them from public disclosure forms. Trump’s defense team has argued that most of what the prosecutors are showing the jury is not criminal conduct, saying that if any crime was committed, it was by Cohen, not Trump. But evidence they elicited from Pecker shows Trump was still trying to keep those secrets after he won the election.

      • Washington Post coverage
      posted in Politics & Debate
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    • Fact-Checking Trump's First-Day Hush Money Trial Claims

      A quick assessment of several claims Trump made after the conclusion of the first day of testimony in his hush money trial, in the order in which he made them:
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      “This is a case where you pay a lawyer, he’s a lawyer, and they call it a legal expense. That’s the exact term they use, legal expenses, in the books. And another thing that wasn’t even said was, we never even deducted it as a tax deduction.”

      • Legal fees are often tax deductible. The fact that the Trump Organization did not take a tax deduction for the hush money payments is a possible red flag that these payments were handled improperly. Trump generally has taken as many tax deductions as possible. For instance, the Donald J. Trump Foundation — which Trump shut down after allegations he used it for his personal and political benefit — recorded a $7 foundation gift to the Boy Scouts. That matched the amount required to enroll a boy in the Scouts the year his son Donald Trump Jr. was 11.

      "Michael Cohen is a lawyer, represented a lot of people over the years. I’m not the only one, and he wasn’t very good in a lot of ways in terms of misrepresentation.”

      • Trump now knocks his former attorney, Michael Cohen, who is expected to testify that he arranged the hush money payments at Trump’s behest, as not “very good.” That raises the question of why Cohen ended up working for Trump for 12 years, including 10 as vice president of the Trump Organization and then as Trump’s personal attorney after Trump was elected president.

      “He [Cohen] got in trouble for things that had nothing to do with me.”

      • This is false. Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges, including two — “causing an unlawful corporate contribution” and “making an excessive campaign contribution” — that directly relate to the hush money case now being litigated in Manhattan criminal court. The charges laid out how “Individual-1” (Trump) began a presidential campaign in 2016 and how Cohen worked with the National Enquirer to squelch potentially damaging stories about alleged affairs with adult-film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. His payoffs were reimbursed by the Trump Organization.

      “The other thing is: If this were such a great case, why didn’t the Southern District [of New York] bring it, who looked at it and turned it down?”

      • In his memoir, “Holding the Line,” Berman says the case ended under pressure from Attorney General William P. Barr. The office, with Cohen’s cooperation in hand, began to investigate whether others should be charged in the hush money case. After Barr became attorney general in 2019, he ordered a review of the Cohen case, suggesting that the campaign finance charges be reversed — even though Cohen had pleaded guilty six months before. Specifically, he asked the Office of Legal Counsel to review whether there was a legal basis for the campaign finance changes. That froze any further investigation: “Not a single investigative step could be taken, not a single document in our possession could be reviewed until the issue was resolved,” Berman wrote, saying Barr’s intervention so long after a guilty plea was “highly unusual, if not unprecedented.” Barr eventually was convinced not to seek dismissal of the Cohen charges. But no additional charges were brought.

      “Very importantly, why didn’t the Federal Elections [Commission] do anything? Federal Elections took a total pass on it. They said essentially nothing was done wrong or they would have done something about it. They’re tough. … Actually, if you read their letter, they couldn’t even believe it. They were incredulous.”

      • This is false. The Federal Election Commission staff, in a December 2020 report by the general counsel, said it had found “reason to believe” violations of campaign finance law were made “knowingly and willfully” by the Trump campaign. The report said that Cohen’s $130,000 payment to Daniels was far in excess of the legal limit for individual contributions of $2,700. “The available information indicates that Michael Cohen paid Stephanie Clifford [Daniels’s real name] $130,000 at the direction of 2016 presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, with Trump’s express promise of repayment, for the purpose of influencing the 2016 election,” the report said. The FEC by law is made up of six commissioners split evenly between Republicans and Democrats. In 2021, the FEC on a party-line vote of 2-2 dropped the case; there was one vacancy and one Republican recusal. Democrats wanted to pursue the case, but Republicans said the public record was complete, given Cohen’s punishment.
      posted in Politics & Debate
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    • RE: The Circus Trump Wanted Outside His Trial Hasn’t Arrived

      @raphjd The Carter Center is already planning elections observations for Arizona and Michigan in 2024.

      posted in Politics & Debate
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    • RE: The Circus Trump Wanted Outside His Trial Hasn’t Arrived

      @blablarg18 The "absent circus" is referring to the lack of Trump supporters.

      A paper that's been in continual operations since 1851 (NYTIMES) versus one started in 2017 by Sayed Ali Taghva (the Post Millennial). There's a comparison worth being made there??

      I'm glad you don't pump gas my friend, because you'd make a very questionable weigh scale.

      posted in Politics & Debate
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    • The Circus Trump Wanted Outside His Trial Hasn’t Arrived

      Donald J. Trump was evidently not happy with what he saw out the window of his chauffeured S.U.V. as he rode through Lower Manhattan on Monday morning for the beginning of opening arguments in his first criminal trial. The scene that confronted him as he approached the dingy courthouse at 100 Centre Street was underwhelming. Across the street, at Collect Pond Park, the designated site for protesters during the trial, only a handful of Trump supporters had gathered, and the number would not grow much throughout the morning.

      Mr. Trump has portrayed his legal jeopardy as a threat to America itself, and he has suggested that the country would not put up with it. But the streets around the courthouse on Monday were chaos-free — well-patrolled and relatively quiet. As his motorcade made its way to the courthouse, the few Trump supporters gathered in the park were outnumbered by Trump detractors, who waved signs about his alleged liaison with a porn star. Mr. Trump had tried to gin up something noisier. Shortly after 7 a.m., he posted on his social media website that “America Loving Protesters should be allowed to protest at the front steps of Courthouses” and he followed this lament with a call for his supporters to “GO OUT AND PEACEFULLY PROTEST. RALLY BEHIND MAGA. SAVE OUR COUNTRY!”

      The narrow criminal courthouse steps in Lower Manhattan are not routinely open for protest — and particularly not when a former president of the United States is inside, guarded by a phalanx of Secret Service agents who have worked with local officials on security measures. Asked to comment on Mr. Trump’s frustrations about the lack of protest activity, a spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, tried to connect it to the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, and President Biden and insisted people were being prevented from being in Lower Manhattan because of the barricades. Later in the morning, Mr. Trump sought to cast the poor turnout as more evidence of a plot against him. In a post at 8:50 a.m., he implied that would-be MAGA protesters were being discriminated against for political reasons. “Unlike at Columbia University where the Radical Left Palestinian Protesters sat on the Front Lawn, practically took over the School, and screamed, ‘Death to the Jews, Death to Israel, Death to America,’ and nothing happened to them, Lower Manhattan surrounding the Courthouse, where I am heading now, is completely CLOSED DOWN,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social. “SO UNFAIR!!!”

      The area was not, in fact, completely closed down. The courthouse has remained open to the public, including spectators who want to attend the trial, pool cameras in the hallway — and even the sidewalk in front of the courthouse has remained open to pedestrian traffic. Twenty minutes later, Mr. Trump compared the courthouse to “an armed camp.” Mr. Trump had made no secret of the fact that he wanted a circus to accompany his trial. He had told advisers he wanted as much media as possible to cover his daily jeremiads against the prosecutors and judge who — he claims without evidence — are conspiring against him at the direction of Mr. Biden himself. Mr. Trump publicly encouraged protests and several allies, including the New York Young Republican Club, tried to round up a crowd.

      The demonstrations have so far been spotty at best.

      • 'No Circus' - NYTimes
      posted in Politics & Debate
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    • Suspect in Death of 2 Kansas Women was Cimarron County GOP Chair

      The case of two mothers who vanished in the Oklahoma Panhandle took a turn last week when four people were charged with the murder and kidnapping of Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley. One of the suspects, Tifany Adams, is the paternal grandmother of Butler's children. Adams was in a custody battle with Butler for those children, according to court documents. Adams has ties to the Oklahoma Republican Party and was elected last year as the chair for the Cimarron County GOP. State Sen. Nathan Dahm, who is the chairman of the Oklahoma GOP, confirmed the suspect's position. Investigators believe that the disappearance of the two came as the result of a custody battle.

      The Child Custody Battle
      Veronica Butler's custody battle for her two children started in February 2019 with many hearings and court appearances. The court documents state motions were filed on March 18 and March 20, asking for Butler to have extended visitation. A hearing was scheduled for April 17, and the affidavit says Butler's attorney told OSBI that "Butler was likely to receive unsupervised visitation with her children at that hearing." Even though Adams' son had legal custody of the two children, she allegedly refused to let him have his children at times.

      The affidavit states that law enforcement had responded to a call where Adams allegedly refused to give her grandchildren to her son and that an officer reportedly told him that "he believed the children were better off in Adams' care." The affidavit states that throughout the child custody case, recordings were obtained where Adams' son "discussed death threats by Adams and Adams' boyfriend, Tad Cullum." The two children were in Adams' custody when Butler and Kelley disappeared, and investigators confirmed that their father was in an Oklahoma City rehabilitation facility.

      The Disappearance
      On March 30, the Texas County Sheriff's Office requested the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation's help with the suspicious disappearance of Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley after their vehicle was found abandoned near Highway 95 and Road L south of Elkhart, Kansas. The court documents say the two were traveling to Oklahoma from Hugoton, Kansas. The person the court ordered to supervise the visit wasn't available on March 30, so Butler contacted Kelley to help, according to the court documents. The affidavit states that Butler told family members that she was going to pick up her children at 10 a.m. on March 30 at Four Corners, which is at the intersection of Highway 95 and US 64 West in Texas County.

      Butler and Kelley left Hugoton and arrived at the intersection, which is about 5 miles north of Four Corners, at around 9:40 a.m. on March 30. Butler planned on taking her daughter to a birthday party, but the court documents state that they did not arrive. Her family started looking for her, found her vehicle abandoned just west of Highway 95 and Road L and contacted law enforcement at 12:09 p.m. on March 30.

      The Abandoned Car
      Texas County Sheriff Matt Boley said on April 15 that deputies responded after learning that the two women's car was found and that Butler and Kelley were missing. "When they arrived on scene, they found some things that just weren't adding up," Boley said during a news conference. "So, we established a crime scene and then notified the OSBI to have them come and assist us with this and actually take the lead on the case." Authorities said they discovered evidence of foul play, with the court documents adding that "evidence of severe injury" was found.

      According to the affidavit, law enforcement found blood at the scene, and Butler's glasses were found near a broken hammer not far from the vehicle. They also found a pistol magazine inside Kelley's purse, but the affidavit says a pistol wasn't found. "We can say the evidence that was discovered inside of that abandoned vehicle and around it were able to help our investigators determine that there was foul play involved and then led to the progression of this investigation," Hunter McKee, with the OSBI, said on April 15. "What was in the vehicle around it, we cannot discuss."

      Tifany Adams' Story
      During the investigation, Adams told OSBI that her son and grandchildren stayed the night at someone else's house on March 29 and that she planned to pick them up the next morning before Butler's visitation. According to the court documents, Adams said she called Butler at 9 a.m. on March 30 to confirm the meeting. Butler, however, reportedly told her that "something came up and she was not going to make it." Butler's phone records confirmed that the call happened, but the affidavit states that Butler was in the process of picking up Kelley in Hugoton at the time of the call. Adams also told investigators that she was home when Butler and Kelley went missing and that she picked up her two grandchildren before noon.

      The Search of Tifany Adams' Phone
      The court documents say OSBI agents obtained a search warrant for Adams' cellphone on April 1. While searching the phone, among the things they found included "web searches for taser pain level, gun shops, prepaid cellular phones and how to get someone out of their house." Agents searched local gun shops, discovering that Adams bought five stun guns at a store in Guymon on March 23. They also discovered that Adams purchased three pre-paid cellphones from a Guymon Walmart on Feb. 13.

      The Pre-Paid Cellphones
      OSBI agents identified the numbers associated with the three pre-paid cellphones that the affidavit says Adams bought. The affidavit states that all three phones were in the area where Butler's car was found, as well as Butler's and Kelley's last known location. Investigators also learned that the cellphones were powered on and accessed the cellular network for the first time at or near Cullum's home at different times before March 30. The court documents also say the phones were tracked to the Twomblys' home. Between 10:16 a.m. and 10:35 a.m. on March 30, investigators determined that two of the phones were in a pasture below a dam where "fresh dirt work" was found.

      According to the affidavit," concrete was moved from an area about 150-200 yards below the dam, and there was a hole that had been dug and filled back in before being covered in hay. The hole was about 8.5 miles away from Butler's and Kelley's last known location, and OSBI said in the affidavit that it was "well within the 34 minutes between the time of Butler/Kelley's phones stopped transmission and (the pre-paid phones arrived) at the dam." All of the pre-paid phones stopped transmitting on the morning of March 30 at locations near the Twomblys' residence and the property by the dam.

      The GOP, 'God's Misfits', and the Alleged Murders
      On April 3, OSBI agents interviewed a relative of Cora and Cole Twombly who said they were "told by Cora that Adams, Cullum, Cora, and Cole were involved in the deaths of Butler and Kelley" and that Adams had provided burner phones. According to the affidavit, the relative described how in addition to being chair of the Cimarron County GOP, Adams, along with Cora and Cole Twombly and Cullum were "part of an anti-government group that had a religious affiliation" that the OSBI later learned was called "God's Misfits." They held regular meetings weekly at the Twomblys' home and another house. They reported that they were told on March 29 that Cora and Cole Twombly would not be home in the morning when she woke up and that the two were "going to be on a mission." When the relative woke up at 10 a.m. on March 30, Cora and Cole Twombly weren't home but returned around noon. The two allegedly took a blue and gray pickup truck, and after returning, the relative was told to clean the pickup's interior. The affidavit states that the relative asked Cora Twombly what had happened, and she told them that "things did not go as planned, but that they would not have to worry about her (Butler) again."
      The relative then reported that Cora Twombly told them that Cora and Cole Twombly "blocked the road to stop Butler and Kelley and diverted them to where Adams, Cullum and (another man) were." They then "asked about Kelley and why she had to die and was told by Cora that she wasn't innocent either, as she had supported Butler," according to the court documents. She then "asked Cora if their bodies were put in a well, and Cora replied, 'something like that.'" The affidavit states that the relative disclosed to investigators that there were other attempts to kill Butler in February of 2024 near Hugoton. Butler did not leave her house during the alleged attempt, which the court documents say was "consistent with the web search discovered on Adams' phone about how to get someone out of their house." "According to Cora, the plan was to throw an anvil through Butler's windshield while driving, making it look like an accident because anvils regularly fall off of work vehicles," the court documents say.

      The Arrests
      On April 13, law enforcement arrested Adams, Cullum, Cole Twombly and Cora Twombly in connection with Butler's and Kelley's disappearance. They were arrested without incident and booked into the Texas County Jail on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping and one count of first-degree conspiracy to commit murder. "This case was tragic," said Hunter McKee, with the OSBI. "We have two people who are dead and four people that committed an absolutely brutal crime." McKee said during the news conference on April 15 that the suspects were taken into custody at different locations without incident.

      Two Bodies Found
      OSBI officials announced on April 14 that two bodies were found in Texas County. They were taken to the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office, where the manner of death will be determined. On April 16, OSBI confirmed the bodies belonged to Butler and Kelley. "This case did not end in the way that we had hoped," OSBI Director Aungela Spurlock said on Monday. "It has certainly been a tragedy for everybody involved. Our condolences go out to the family."

      • KOCO-ABC Channel 5 news coverage
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    • RE: What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80,000 Fake Résumés to U.S. Jobs

      @blablarg18
      Thank you, that's much appreciated! 😋 🙋‍♂️🙋
      🤜🤛 (fist-bump)

      In looking at the study you mentioned, II like what I'm reading. I think that children benefit when studies like this are implemented. The best way to prevent people from embarking on a road they do not really want is to do as much as possible to ferret out those who are not serious about the journey.

      The study you mentioned describes in good detail the differences between two states: gender non-connectedness (which appears to be more transient) and gender dysphoria (which is more pronounced and long-term).

      "Gender non-contentedness has previously been associated with mental health problems (Potter et al., 2021) and clinical gender dysphoria has been reported to co-occur with diverse psychiatric problems, such as depression and anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and autism spectrum disorder (Bechard et al., 2017; Dhejne et al., 2016; Donaldson et al., 2018; Holt et al., 2016). This may potentially be due to minority stress, discrimination and/or bullying (Pellicane & Ciesla, 2022; Tankersley et al., 2021). Future research should use more extensive measures of gender non-contentedness and gender identity to further elucidate developmental patterns of these concepts in relation to adolescent well-being and mental health."

      I also appreciate the authors going out of their way to mention the limitations of their own study, in particular, one of the main questions they used to arrive at their conclusions:

      The main limitation of the current study is that we could not use a very fine-grained proxy for gender non-contentedness. Although the YSR and ASR are widely used instruments, the item “I wish to be of the opposite sex” is worded in a binary manner, thereby excluding any responses reflecting a non-binary gender identity. In addition, this single item, with only three response options, may not fully capture the broader concept of gender non-contentedness. In a previous study in youth, gender non-contentedness was assessed in a similar way, but with five instead of three response options; “never,” “rarely,” “sometimes,” “often,” or “always.” In that study, 9% of individuals answered one of the latter four, with 6% of them answering “rarely” (Potter et al., 2021). It can be speculated that a large percentage of individuals in our sample who answered to “sometimes” wish to be of the opposite sex, might have answered “rarely” if this answer option was provided. Therefore, our numbers may overestimate the prevalence of gender non-contentedness.

      So it seems that the number of people "changing their minds" may be overblown, according to the study's own authors. But like they said, more research needs to be done. Avoiding regret is definitely something that should be at the forefront of any interactions taken long before treatment is even contemplated.😀

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    • RE: Exclusive — Hogg Wild: Filings Show Left-Wing Gen-Z PAC Blew More than $1M on Travel Expenses, Consultants, Spent Little on Candidates

      That's not even the worst of it. Remember Hoggs self-proclaimed Good Pillow venture from 3 years ago, which he announced in a bid to outdo Lindel's My Pillow, the one that went exactly nowhere except to raise calls of "grifter" from his other co-survivors? That Hogg is clearly out to pasture.

      But I wonder how much blame should the guy get. When he writes up a list of his life's achievements so far, spots 1-5 are already so gloomy

      • I'm no good at selling sleep accoutrements
      • I was raised in Florida
      • Someone tried to kill me
      • The only salary my PAC can afford to pay me is $40K/yr.
      • When my PAC ran out of candidates, I had to re-gift a lot of money to other PAC's that still had candidates, cuz sharing is caring I guess 😒

      Harvard felt so bad for the guy they admitted him w/ 1270 SAT score! Now that's what I call affirmative action!

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    • What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80,000 Fake Résumés to U.S. Jobs

      A group of economists recently performed an experiment on around 100 of the largest companies in the United States. They sent 80,000 résumés to 10,000 entry-level jobs from 2019 to 2021, applying for work using made-up résumés with equivalent qualifications but using different personal characteristics. Those characteristics included changing applicants’ names to suggest that they were white or Black — using names such as Latisha or Amy, Lamar or Adam.

      On average, employers contacted the presumed white applicants 9.5 percent more often than they did the presumed Black applicants. This practice varied significantly by firm and industry. One-fifth of the companies — many of them retailers or car dealers — were responsible for nearly half of the gap in callbacks to white and Black applicants. The results demonstrate how entrenched employment discrimination can be in many parts of the U.S. labor market.

      The experiment was the largest of its kind in the United States. Companies were given a letter grade indicating which of them were the least and most biased.

      😁 Companies that received an A

      Charter/Spectrum
      Dr. Pepper
      Kroger
      Avis-Budget
      Ryder System
      FedEx
      Waste Management
      Mondelez
      Sysco
      Hilton
      Kohl's

      🙂 Companies that received a B

      J.B. Hunt
      Lowe's
      XPO Logistics
      McLane Company
      AECOM
      Publix
      Sears
      Sherwin-Williams
      Lab Corp
      Target
      WestRock
      Geico
      Performance Food Group
      US Foods
      Dollar General
      Kindred Healthcare
      US Bank
      KFC
      Tyson Foods
      Ulta Beauty
      TJX
      United Health
      United Rentals
      Olive Garden
      Home Depot
      International Paper
      Starbucks
      Honeywell
      Hertz
      Universal Health
      Safeway
      Quest Diagnostics
      J.C.Penney
      Macy's
      LKO Auto
      Bed Bath & Beyond
      Nordstrom
      Cardinal Health
      Foot Locker
      Murphy USA
      Edward Jones
      Dillard's
      Walmart
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    • RE: "Bonus Hole"

      @raphjd Yes you are an atheist, but your family certainly isn't. That's what I meant by "conflicted nature". you do know what that word conflicted means don't you?

      Being raised by a family that hates you can do some serious damage to someone's psychology. People like your aunt, a woman you've called an "evil b@&+ch" because she said you were going to hell for being gay.

      But look at you now. You've come to perfectly emulate her special brand of hatred for those different from her. You're a monument to her intolerance. If she didn't already hate you for being a hellbound heathen, I'm sure she would be very proud.

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      @raphjd

      the freaks of society

      And there you have it people. The caring, thoughtful, respectful mindset of a person with feelings towards other people less fortunate than him. Someone so damaged by the conflicted nature of their religious upbringing, where they were told that they were less than human because of their sexuality. Now they live their days repeating the pattern..... inflicting their ideas of morality on everyone else, just as it was done to them so long ago.

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    • RE: "Bonus Hole"

      @raphjd (waiting for you to do a Google search)

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      @raphjd I'd like to hear what your definition of an intersex person is. go ahead and enlighten us

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    • RE: "Bonus Hole"

      @raphjd Do you even know what an intersex person is? how can you be expected to have conversations like this, when you have no idea what you're talking about.

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