Yeah, Right…

So the courts said it wasn’t discrimination that she was fired for supporting us.

Judge rules straight, cisgender principal not discriminated against after LGBTQ+ advocacy in school

A judge has ruled that a straight, cisgender principal in Minnesota was not discriminated against after she was removed from her position for LGBTQ+ advocacy at school. 

Pink News

October 1, 2024

On 25 September, a federal judge ruled that the principal would not be protected from alleged retaliation due to her advocacy of the queer community at her school, and is not protected under the First Amendment. 

The Thomas v. Marshall Pub Schs case saw the middle school principal Mary Kay Thomas alleging that she was discriminated against after she installed pride flags at her school, and launched a Gay-Straight Alliance. After backlash from her inclusivity, the school board and superintendent removed her from the role, with the installations at the school being allegedly carried out against the wishes of board members and the superintendent. 

Thomas argued that the board went against Title VII, Title IX, and the First Amendment as she was protecting marginalised groups at the school. However, U.S. District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz said that as Thomas described herself as a “straight, cisgender woman”, she is not afforded the same legal protections as those in the LGBTQ+ community.

She claimed that her First Amendment right to her speech and associate with others were violated,

Her First Amendment claim was also not applicable, as Thomas did not act as a private citizen in defence of LGBTQ+ rights, but rather as the school headteacher. Schiltz also ruled that it was not unlawful for the principal to be criticised due to her advocacy, as the backlash concerned her work duties, rather than independent speech.

Schiltz also ruled it was not retaliation as Thomas did not prove that she was removed from her position due to her advocacy initiatives specifically, rather than due to not following the orders of staff members and her superiors. 

Thomas’ claims were dismissed without prejudice, meaning she will remain employed with the school district in her new administrative role, which was reportedly created just for her.

I am not a lawyer but it seems to me that the judge got it wrong, does he mean that her civil rights goes out the door when you have a job? They are deciding if they want to appeal.

The Supreme Court is making it harder to sue for discrimination thanks to Trump far-right judges and there will be another judge who will probably retire in the next four years… do you want Trump to pick another judge.

A Party Built On Lies

It seems like every time you turn around Trump or Vance got caught in another lie! Beside the border situation, the climate, Springfield, and all the other lies Vance got caught lying about living in poverty.

J.D. Vance’s Stolen Valor: ‘He Puts on Poverty Like You Put on Makeup’
There’s a hollow core at the center of J.D. Vance’s origin story — his claim that he “grew up poor”
The Rolling Stone
By Tim Dickinson
September 30, 2024

After having his racist claims about Haitian immigrants challenged as lies, J.D. Vance made a shocking admission on live TV to CNN’s Dana Bash: He was happy “to create stories,” he said, in order to drive media attention to what he described as “the suffering of the American people.”

It was a remarkable confession of dishonesty from a politician. But it was even more shocking coming from Vance — a man who was catapulted into national prominence on the strength, and supposed credibility, of his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which purports to shine a spotlight on hidden American suffering. Was Vance also “creating stories” back in 2016 in his bestseller?

In light of Vance’s admission, a close re-reading of Hillbilly Elegy by Rolling Stone uncovers a hollow claim at the center of the book. Namely that J.D. Vance “grew up poor.”

Lies, lies, lies! Can you trust the Republican party?

Pink News reports,

Ahead of his debate with vice-presidential rival Tim Walz, Vance was speaking at an event in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, hosted by Lance Wallnau, a right-wing anti-LGBTQ+ evangelical preacher who has said vice-president Kamala Harris is summoning the “the spirit of Jezebel”, apparently meaning she is using witchcraft.

“First of all, the American education system used to be the envy of the world, rich or poor alike,” Vance said on Saturday (30 September). “We believe in this country that every person deserves a quality education.

“Well, now we’ve got American children who can’t add five plus five, but they can tell you that there are 87 different genders and I think both of those things are related.”

I would like to point out that Project 2025 want to strip funding for the U.S. Department of Education.

Every word out of Trump and Vance are nothing but lies.

They say that they will not have a national abortion ban… but they have introduced bills that ban!

In the race for Congress, some Republicans are trying a new approach to abortion
PBS News
By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press
September 19, 2024

In the most contested races for control of the U.S. House, many Republican candidates are speaking up about women’s rights to abortion access and reproductive care in new and surprising ways, a deliberate shift for a GOP blindsided by some political ramifications of the post-Roe v. Wade era.

Looking directly into the camera for ads, or penning personal op-eds in local newspapers, the Republicans are trying to distance themselves from some of the more aggressive anti-abortion ideas coming from their party and its allies. Instead the Republican candidates are working quickly to spell out their own views separate from a GOP that for decades has worked to put restrictions on reproductive care.

The new strategy is both sanctioned and promoted by the House Republicans’ campaign arm, an acknowledgement of the GOP’s failure to grasp the political power of women’s reproductive care as an issue that would mobilize voters.

“The Republicans have always known they’re actually on the wrong side of this issue,” said Ilyse Hogue, former president of the group previously known as NARAL Pro-Choice America, who is now a senior fellow at New America, a think tank in Washington. She said the party’s shift “wouldn’t surprise me.”

Do you trust them?

The White House wrote...

The Republican Study Committee budget:

•     Supports eliminating reproductive freedom for all women in every state and puts IVF treatment squarely on the chopping block through House Republicans’ support for the Life at Conception Act.
•     Endorses banning mifepristone – an FDA-approved, safe and effective medication that has been on the market for more than 20 years.
•     Supports rolling back policies that help ensure our Nation’s veterans have access to abortion care when their health or lives are at risk or in cases of rape or incest.
•     Guts funding for contraception—which is supported by the vast majority of Americans on both sides of the aisle—for low-income and uninsured women. This would further erode access to essential health care, from cancer screening to primary care, at a time when state abortion bans have already forced health clinics that provide contraception and other critical health services to close.

Then when the Republican realized that they shoot themselves in the foot… all of sudden, crickets. The RNC got word out… no talking about abortion! Sh...

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Another lie...

Trump visits hurricane-ravaged Georgia and makes false claims about Biden

The ex-president said Brian Kemp, the state governor, was trying to reach the president who was ‘sleeping’, in vain

Guardian

By George Chidi

September 30, 2024

Donald Trump spoke in front of a furniture store gutted by Hurricane Helene in Valdosta, Georgia, on Monday, claiming falsely that Georgia’s governor had not been able to reach Joe Biden.

Upon landing in Valdosta, Trump claimed to reporters the president had been “sleeping” and that Brian Kemp, the governor, had been “calling the president and hasn’t been able to get him”. He repeated the false claim when speaking in front of the store.

Kemp refuted the allegation earlier in the day. He said he had been playing phone tag with vice-president Kamala Harris, but also said: “The president just called me yesterday afternoon and he just said: ‘Hey, what do you need?’ … He offered that if there’s other things we need, just to call him directly, which, I appreciate that.”

[...]

When a pool reporter on Monday evening questioned Biden on the former president’s comments, Biden angrily interjected before the question was finished.

“He’s lying and the governor told him he was lying. The governor told him he’s lying. I’ve spoken to the governor, spent time with him, and he told him he’s lying. I don’t know why he does it … that’s simply not true, and it’s irresponsible.”

How can you trust this guy, he and his sidekick are chronic liars, every time they open their mouths another lie comes out.

I'm voting for the person with integrity, honesty, and compassion... Harris/Walz.

 

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Update: 2PM

 

A campaign video was doctored to make it sound like VP Harris is drunk...

Video of Harris slurring words in Helene warning is edited | Fact check
USA Today

By Andre Byik

September 30, 204

The claim: Video shows Kamala Harris slurred words in Helene remarks

A Sept. 27 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows Vice President Kamala Harris delivering a warning about Hurricane Helene and speaking in an unusually slow manner.

Animated icons of alcoholic drinks are overlaid on the video, which is a repost of a TikTok video and includes on-screen text that reads, "Kammy's 'on the case' of Hurricane Helene."

The post's caption reads, "She slurring. Omg!"

The post was shared more than 90 times in three days.

 

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 This isn't the first time video of Harris has been altered in this way. USA TODAY debunked a similar video that falsely claimed Harris slurred her words while intoxicated during a Sept. 20 speech in Atlanta.

The dirty tricksters are in full swing, they are worried so they retreat to lying.

I don't know if this was a party ad, or a PAC ad, or the work of an individual, but it shows the type of junk that the conservatives are putting out.