“Transphobia is child abuse,” Alex Roque, who runs the Ali Forney Center for homeless LGBTQ youth in New York City, asserted on a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) webinar last fall. In less than three minutes, he cast a vision for completely transforming child protective systems nationwide. Family rejection of a child’s gender identity cannot be dismissed as a personal view, he argued. Non-affirmation must be treated as abuse. “If they were denying them food or denying them...

A North Carolina man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly threatening harm against FEMA employees responding to Hurricane Helene, according to the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office. William Jacob Parsons, 44, was arrested and charged with Going Armed to the Terror of the Public, a misdemeanor, Capt. Jamie Keever said in a news release issued Monday. “Parsons was armed with a handgun and a rifle,” Keever said. The sheriff’s office began investigating Saturday after...

Fox News Reporter Warns: "Palestinian Journalists Must Be Protected"

Fox News announced on Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to be interviewed by the network’s chief political anchor, Bret Baier. The interview will air Wednesday evening in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. The announcement comes as Harris visits Erie on Monday, a hotly contested county that could decide the all-important battleground state’s fate come November. The event marks the first time the current Democratic frontrunner has ever participated in a sit-down...

23andMe, a genetic-testing and ancestry-tracing company, collects the most personal kind of data from its customers: their DNA.  Now, after a data breach in late 2023 and a full board resignation, the company faces an uncertain future, and many customers believe the genetic information they once willingly handed over could be vulnerable. CEO Anne Wojcicki has also previously said she'd consider a potential takeover of the company, which has raised concerns among customers...

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In May, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a legislative package that included a ban on the sale of lab-grown meat, making Florida the only state in the US where cultivated meat cannot […]

On this day thirty years ago… R.E.M.’s “Monster” was #1 on the Billboard 200 (on first week sales of 344,000 copies). The band’s ninth studio album featured the song “What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?” – the first of five singles from the album. Drummer Bill Berry was eager to tour (for the first time since 1989) and insisted that the album “Rock.” “If we did another record like “Out Of Time” or “Automatic For The People” we’d be sitting on stools all night and swapping acoustic instruments, and that would be kind of boring,” Berry offered. The band agreed. “On past albums we had been exploring acoustic instruments, trying to use the piano and mandolin, and we did it about all we wanted to do it,” added bassist Mike Mills. “And you come back to the fact that playing loud electric-guitar music is about as fun as music can be.” ### The post A Day In Rock: October 15th, 1994 – R.E.M.’s “Monster” Rules appeared first on RockinTown.

from Revolver News: 2024 is shaping up to be one of the most bizarre elections we’ve ever seen. From Biden being ousted in a “soft coup” by his own party, to President Trump teaming up with RFK Jr. and Elon Musk, and Kamala Harris basically hijacking her precious “democracy” to try to steal the White […]

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