Originally a comment by tigger_the_wing on Just dissolve that sucker.

I suspect that the reasons that they formed a ‘church’ were tax avoidance and lack of oversight; the latter enabled them to avoid prosecution for years, despite numerous complaints, injuries and deaths.

Because of the abuse of autistic children, there were a lot of campaigns from autistic advocates over the years; but the wheels of justice were clamped until governments finally made it illegal to administer the specific ingredients to children.

The ‘church’ had got away with it by handing out the ingredients and then giving unrecorded spoken instructions to the ‘congregation’ which, when followed, turned the MMS into a powerful industrial bleach.

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It’s interesting that one way to poison people for $$$ is to tell them you’re a church. God and poison in one easy visit, hurrah!

A Florida man and three sons who used a business masquerading as a church to sell more than $1 million of a deadly bleach solution that they claimed was a “miracle” cure for Covid-19 and other diseases were each sentenced on Friday to several years in prison, federal prosecutors in Miami said.

Mark Grenon, 66, of Bradenton, Fla., and one of his sons, Joseph Grenon, 36, were sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to defraud the government, while the two other sons, Jonathan Grenon, 37, and Jordan Grenon, 29, were sentenced to

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Good to know Musk is careful with information at least.

As false information about the rapidly changing war between Gaza Strip militants and Israel proliferated on the social media platform X over the weekend, owner Elon Musk personally recommended that users follow accounts notorious for promoting lies.

“For following the war in real-time, @WarMonitors & @sentdefender are good,” Musk posted on the platform formerly called Twitter on Sunday morning to 150 million follower accounts. That post was viewed 11 million times in three hours, drawing thanks from those two accounts, before Musk deleted it.

Both were among the most important early spreaders of a false claim in May that there had been an explosion near the White House. The Dow

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Nobel Prize in economics goes to a woman. Guess what her field is.

This year’s Nobel economics prize has been awarded to Claudia Goldin, an American economic historian, for her work on women’s employment and pay.

Prof Goldin’s research uncovered key drivers behind the gender pay gap, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

By “gender pay gap” the BBC means the fact that women earn less than men. Funny that it’s so taken for granted they don’t feel a need to spell it out.

And then the punchline:

She is only the third woman to receive the prize, and the first to not share the award with male colleagues.

Gender prize gap innit.

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Grown-up news outlets shouldn’t be talking about manufactured babies this way:

This Is Going to Hurt author and ex-doctor Adam Kay is shattered, which is hardly surprising – he’s just been mopping up baby vomit and is clearly sleep-deprived.

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Kay and his husband, Games of Thrones producer James Farrell, share Ruby, aged 10 months, and Ziggy, six months, whom they had via surrogates.

They didn’t “have” anything. Two nameless women who obviously don’t matter did the having. Kay and his husband paid two women to carry and gestate and push out babies for them. It’s revolting to see an adult institution like the BBC prattle about babies that two men “had via surrogates.”… Read the rest

A music festival before dawn in a forest clearing near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel:

The music festival, known as Nova, was so loud that Cohen, who is thirty-one and lives in Tel Aviv, saw the rockets before he heard their sound. A handful of police officers soon arrived and broke up the party, shouting “Color Red”—code in Israel for incoming rocket fire.

As partygoers scrambled toward their cars or lay on the ground waiting for the barrage to pass, another kind of fire began. Cohen watched as four pickup trucks filled with armed militants and gunmen on motorcycles encircled the road leading out of the event venue, which was bottlenecked with cars attempting to flee the area. “They

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The Sydney Morning Herald last month:

Hatred against trans people and a “radical precedent” in anti-discrimination law would flow from a lesbian group being allowed to invite only biological females to its events, Victoria’s peak union body has warned.

It’s not hatred for lesbians to have lesbian-only events. Women are the only people who can be lesbians; men can never be lesbians. Men who call themselves lesbians remain men. It’s not “hatred” to understand that men can’t be lesbians.

An application by the recently formed Lesbian Action Group to lawfully exclude trans women from a “Lesbians Born Female” event has caused a heated rift, with equality and inclusion advocates squaring off against women’s rights groups.

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That’s nice. UN Women celebrates International Lesbian Day by shoving lesbians aside to celebrate men who call themselves lesbians. How solidaritious.

Remember, trans lesbians are lesbians too.

Let's uplift and honour EVERY expression of love and identity!

Happy International #LesbianDay! @free_equal pic.twitter.com/h0jTxhDoSI

— UN Women (@UN_Women) October 8, 2023

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Women speak.

https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/status/1710980763145863247 https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/status/1710989450719768837 https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker/status/1711027642437075271… Read the rest

Vice tells us

…we are recirculating this article by British poet, model and activist Kai Isaiah-Jamal about how allies can make the world a better place for trans people. 

But what if we have no ambition to “make the world a better place for trans people”? What if we’re not moved to single out that one particular (very small) set of people for extra concern and pampering? What if, on the contrary, we think they should stop making all these demands for extra special treatment?

Let’s cut the shit – there’s no positive way a cis person can dictate or speak on a life that you do not live and a world you do not have to navigate as

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This. This is what I keep talking about. Self self self – it’s a trap! Get out of it! There’s a big huge enormous world out there that’s not You: go out and explore it, and do what you can to improve it in some way. Look outward. Let your “personality” and your “identity” and your “true self” take care of themselves. No one is as interested in them as you are, so wriggle out of the trap and embrace the bigger world.

Our society encourages us constantly to look inwards. Of course this is driving a mental health crisis! This is absolutely the last thing an anxious over-thinker (take it from me) needs. The answer is keeping busy and

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Narges Mohammadi:

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Iranian human rights activist and journalist Narges Mohammadi. The award citation said Mohammadi received the prize for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for promoting human rights and freedom for all.

The chairperson of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, made the announcement in Oslo. Reiss-Andersen began by quoting the slogan of Iranian human rights campaigners, in Farsi and English: “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi. Woman, Life, Freedom.”

Reiss-Andersen said that altogether the Iranian regime had arrested Mohammadi 13 times, convicted her five times and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. Mohammadi remains incarcerated in Iran’s notorious

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What a sloppy evidence-free piece in the Guardian:

Belgium’s deputy prime minister, who ranks as one of Europe’s most senior transgender politicians, has urged Rishi Sunak not to join “the real bullies” after remarks made by the British prime minister at the Conservative party conference this week.

Transgender what? The fool reporter never says.

The prime minister’s comments came as it was revealed that the number of hate crimes committed against transgender people last year in England and Wales had climbed to a record high, with the Home Office suggesting in its report that the 11% rise may have been prompted by comments by politicians and media.

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Man who pretends to be a woman wins service award. What’s his “service”? Pretending to be a woman, of course.

https://twitter.com/MeechSteph1/status/1708979919210852711

Humbled? I bet he’s not a bit humbled.

Congratulations to @MeechSteph1 who has been recognised for her exceptional contribution in relation to diversity – such an inspiration and icon #ALF2023 pic.twitter.com/Tm6GPKyFJz

— Georgette Eaton (@georgette_eaton) October 2, 2023

Diversity! So much diversity! Large white man who pretends to be a woman: what could be more diversity??!

https://twitter.com/NatAmbLGBTUK/status/1708960024439955913

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The NY Times:

Shortly after he left office, former President Donald J. Trump shared apparently classified information about American nuclear submarines with an Australian businessman during an evening of conversation at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The businessman, Anthony Pratt, a billionaire member of Mar-a-Lago who runs one of the world’s largest cardboard companies, went on to share the sensitive details about the submarines with several others, the people said. Mr. Trump’s disclosures, they said, potentially endangered the U.S. nuclear fleet.

Whose idea was it to put Elmer Fudd in charge of all this?

Federal prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, learned about Mr. Trump’s disclosures

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Hmmm tough question.

ways and *sometimes* in specific contexts, failing to do that *might* be considered bullying or harassment. You can call that ‘compulsion’ if you like but unless you are a yankbrained libertarian, is the idea of us having duties to each other all that remarkable? If myself & the

— Eoin Daly (@eoinmauricedaly) October 6, 2023

Social norms don’t quite oblige us to address each other in certain ways, I would say. Social norms give us a menu of ways to address each other, but they’re not really mandatory, apart from the military and on the job and so on.

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But you can’t.

Gymnastics Australia has unveiled a new set of guidelines for the inclusion of transgender and gender diverse people.

The changes will allow individuals to choose uniforms, changing and bathroom facilities and compete in competitions which they believe best align with their gender identity.

GA boss Alexandra Ash said it was an important step to ensure all participants and stakeholders feel safe and included in the sport.

But it isn’t. It can’t be. It’s the opposite. By ensuring that men can intrude on women’s sports, they’ve ensured that women will never feel safe in their own sport. By including men in sports for women, they’re excluding women.

“Our commitment to transgender and gender diverse people involved in

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Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Listy McListerson.

…which provides detailed bios of all those they consider to be disrupting the trans narrative.

If they’re looking for culprits guilty of “disrupting” the trans “narrative,” then they need look no further than trans activism itself, which is a disjointed hodgepodge of contradictory, unevidenced claims. For each and every claim of gender ideology, there is an equal and opposite claim that contradicts it. Find an appropriate pair of trans statements and most of the work is already done for you. It’s an extension of the principle that the best weapon you can use against trans activism is to quote trans activists.

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What’s complex about it? Men are not women. Simple.

In my opinion the gender debate is a really complex conundrum but on social media people mistake winning an argument for finding a solution. In reality the 1st step to finding a solution to a complex problem is to see both sides of the argument & that takes kindness & civility.

— Eddie Marsan (@eddiemarsan) October 5, 2023

It’s a particularly creepy brand of self-flattery, that – declaring that it’s a “really complex conundrum” when women defend their rights, and that it takes kindness and civility – like his, of course – to find “a solution.” Behold, I, a man of kindness and civility, declare women’s rights too complex to figure … Read the rest

Amy Sousa on a new blacklist:

Evan Urquhart, founder of Assigned Media, has recently published the “Trans Data Library,” a list of people and organizations she considers to be dissidents to trans orthodoxy. This database, which went live on Wednesday morning, has now been featured in the popular LGBTQ+ news source, The Advocate.

Ah yes, Evan Urquhart. She did a hit piece on me in Slate back in 2015, based on a dishonest manipulative “interview.”

Evan is a woman who claims the identity of a “transman,” and together with two men who claim to be “transwomen,” she started a fundraiser in order to create a propaganda campaign to silence reasonable dissent. They raised over $12,500 with

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