Shani Louk attended a peace festival in Israel

That was her transgression

And because of this, Hamas terrorists r**ed her, beat her, murdered her, and desecrated her by parading her body around to be displayed to chats of "allahhu akbar"

"god is greatest"

Brazil Just Made an Important Ruling Concerning Homophobia https://remezcla.com/culture/brazil-ruling-homophobia-prison-fined/

...The Supreme Federal Court met this week to make an important decision, specifically on homophobic hate speech. In a 9-1 ruling, the judges decided that homophobia is a crime in Brazil. Homophobic hate speech is now an equally punishable offense as racist hate speech. People found guilty of hate speech can be fined and face two to five years in prison...

You should be angry at how easy it is to buy a Supreme Court Justice

You should be angrier at how cheap it is:

$267,230

Meet Clarence Thomas’ RV.

A Prevost Le Mirage XL Marathon paid for by Anthony Welters—A man who made his fortune preventing you from getting health care.

From Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel

"revealed the Florida Department of Education has hired a new political operative who’s working with the book-censoring Moms for Liberty — and won’t say how many of your tax dollars the state is paying him or even why.

"But emails obtained by the Florida Freedom to Read Project — which is leading the fight against classroom book-banning and censorship — showed that Stoops seemed to be working as a state liaison to right-wing crusaders."

https://dianeravitch.net/2023/08/05/scott-maxwell-florida-digs-in-deeper-on-the-good-side-of-slavery/

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I'm shocked

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-primarily-crime-fighters-according-data-2022-11-02/

> A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives.

Florida schools remove books by John Milton and Toni Morrison and restrict Shakespeare under DeSantis rules | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/florida-book-ban-shakespeare-milton-b2370169.html?link_id=2&can_id=a015b47b756933b2bb5bed9bbd811a8b&source=email-hate-group-wins-275-school-board-seats&email_referrer=email_1984409&email_subject=shakespeare-isnt-safe-from-desantis

Overwhelmingly, the book ban attempts singled out works by and about people of colour and LGBT+ people, PEN found. At least 30 per cent of the impacted titles are books about race, racism, or feature characters of colour, and more than a quarter of all titles include LGBT+ characters or themes.

Some California law enforcement agencies are sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states.

EFF link:
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/civil-liberties-groups-demand-california-police-stop-sharing-drivers-location-data