Coming out as a member of the LGBTQ community can be difficult for a multitude of reasons with one of the biggest concerns being rejection. This can make the stakes to coming out to family members feel extremely high, especially if you're very close to them. The last thing people want to do is disappoint people they love, especially when that disappointment is inextricably tied to their existence as a person.It's no wonder people don't always come out to everyone right away but sometimes others make the decision for us by sharing private information with people we weren't ready to share it with yet. That's exactly what happened to a woman that goes by Jenna Tea on social media. Jenna is a trans woman who had not revealed that information to her 89-year-old grandmother so when someone took it upon themselves to share the news, she decided to talk with her grandmother herself.What transpired was an interaction so beautiful that it's causing some people on the internet to break out in tears. Thankfully, Jenna thought to record the interaction to keep for her own memories. She explains to Upworthy, "Someone in my family actually told her that I was trans and this conversation we had was the first time we ever talked about it, she was saying such sweet things and I remember thinking to myself that I wanted to remember this moment forever so I took my phone out and just started recording, she has macular degeneration so she couldn’t see that I was recording and it made for one of the most authentic wholesome moments of my life."The audio recording is playing in the background of the video Jenna uploaded to her social media account. Pictures and videos of Jenna as a child and ones with her grandmother pre-transition in drag flash on the screen as her grandma's sweet words play. "You have to do what makes you happy. It's something we have to adjust to and sometimes it's hard for other people but they're not living your life, you are. It's kind of their problem to readjust so the best thing is to put it out there and deal with it and it is what it is," Jenna's grandmother can be heard saying. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jenna Tea (@thejennatea)Being supportive isn't new for the grandmother, Jenna shares with Upworthy, "she has always been extremely welcoming and accepting of me and everyone around her. I am also a drag queen and doing drag was the way I found my trans identity! She has been to a few of my shows and she absolutely loves them and so I knew that she wouldn’t have reacted in a bad way, however I wasn’t expecting HOW accepting she would be. Out of everybody in my family she has taken it the best and it truly amazes me. I am so lucky to have the support I do in my family and the world is lucky she is in it!"Putting together the video was extremely emotional for Jenna, she shares in her caption that she sobbed the entire time, which translated to making strangers on the internet cry. Courtesy of Jenna Tea"I AM IN TEARS THIS MORNING SEEING THIS — THIS IS SO LOVELY," someone writes."I made it to 9am before I got emotional over someone on the internet," another person cries."This made me sob. I have a five year old child who has internal struggles that I saw in myself at a young age. I have a deep knowing and I love them so much. We have days where they ask me if we can pretend they’re a girl and we do!! I just wanna play with them and love them forever. I’m so happy you experienced this love in your life, everyone deserves it. You made my day, thank you," one mom shares.The support Jenna is receiving in the comments is another heartwarming layer to her story. Grandmas can seem like magic when we're little kids but watching their love and support grow as you learn who you are can be priceless.

Running a mile has long been viewed as a barometer of fitness, particularly in American schools. For decades, students had to a run the mile as part of the annual Presidential Physical Fitness Test, and some schools still incorporate how long it takes a student to run a mile into their P.E. grade.For kids who are natural runners or who play sports that involve a lot of running, jogging a mile isn't that difficult. For those who aren't and don't, it can feel like torture. Struggling to run a mile, especially when it's being used as a measure of your fitness, can make you feel like like an out-of-shape failure. That is, until you find out that the obviously in-shape Olympic track star Gabby Thomas also struggles to run a full mile. In an interview talking about her training, Thomas explained that she only runs a mile once a year and it's tough for her."The furthest I will run is one mile," Thomas shared in an interview on the TODAY Show. "We do a mile in the fall. It's a gut check. So we do it to tap into your mental side—can you finish a mile? And I know it's funny because for you guys, you're like, 'Oh, a mile.' No, it's really difficult for us." @todayshow Gabby Thomas may be one of the fastest women in the world, but she doesn't run more than a mile! The 3x Olympic gold medalist shared why training is different for sprinters. ? #TODAYShow @todayshow Gabby Thomas may be one of the fastest women in the world, but she doesn't run more than a mile! The 3x Olympic gold medalist shared why training is different for sprinters. ? #TODAYShow Let's let that sink in. This woman is a professional runner. She ran her way to three gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Not only does Gabby Thomas only run a full mile once a year, but it's literally a physical and mental test for her to do it.She's also not alone. Usain Bolt's agent shared that the famous Jamaican who has held the "fastest man alive" title for 15 years has never run a mile all at once. Arguably the most famous track star of a generation, and he's never run a mile? Incredible. Does this put a whole new spin on the middle school shame some of us felt at not being able to run the whole mile, or what? Like maybe running a mile is not a great way to evaluate fitness for everyone? Maybe it's possible to be in peak physical condition and still struggle to run a mile? Not that most of us are in Gabby Thomas's shape either, of course, but the point stands that there are many different ways to be fit. Sprinting is basically HIIT (high-intensity interval training) exercise—exerting fully for short bursts rather than keeping your exertion at a moderate level for a longer period of time—which has become all the rage in the fitness world. The idea that someone should be able to run steadily for any specific distance in a certain amount of time is an awfully narrow box to put people into. In fact, I'd argue that running a mile is as arbitrary as expecting someone to be able to bend over and put your hands flat on the ground or be able to dunk a basketball or other feats that some people can naturally do easily while others can't. Yes, most people can train to run a mile, but why do that if it's not something you actually want to do and when there are so many other ways to be fit? Our bodies are not the same, the ways we use our bodies are not the same, and using any specific ability to evaluate of physically healthy someone is will always miss the mark for many. Imagine how many kids who had a hard time running the mile in school told themselves they just weren't runners or weren't athletic? How many internalized the message that their bodies weren't capable when they might have been quick sprinters or agile tennis players or powerful shot putters or good dancers? The point of physical fitness is to move your body, and there are so many ways to do that that don't involve running a mile or more. If even Olympic medalist runners struggle to run a mile, it can't be that important. Take that, middle school gym class.

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August 19 marks the start of the first Anti-Democrat National Convention. Anyone who confuses this for the 48th quadrennial Democrat National Convention would be wrong. The Anti-Democrats killed that political party and stealthily replaced it with today’s junta, which disenfranchises voters, tramples constitutional rights, and crushes its opponents — not at the polls but via the judicial system. The confab in Chicago will culminate Thursday night when Vice President Kamala Harris accepts her party’s nomination as standard bearer. Unless you are Joe Biden, you earned the same exact number of votes for this exalted position as Kamala did: Zero. Biden has every right to feel embittered and enraged at what the Anti-Democrats perpetrated. They robbed him of the nomination, which he secured — by the rules. Biden won 56 of 57 primaries and caucuses. He lost only American Samoa. Biden scored 87 percent of the primary ballots and 98.9 percent of the convention delegates. Never mind! (Illustration courtesy of Jesse Singal, its creator, via Chat GPT)Biden bombed in his June 27 debate against Donald J. Trump. Early on, Biden bafflingly declared: “We finally beat Medicare!” And so began his political death of a thousand cuts. Fearing a Democrat bloodbath at the polls, party leaders and donors called for Biden to stand down. These voices grew louder and larger. Biden’s Anti-Democrat “friends” in Washington — reportedly House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and former President Obama — applied still unknown pressure on Biden. On July 21, he surrendered. (READ MORE from Deroy Murdoch: Just In: FBI Chapter of Hillary Clinton Fan Club Probes President Trump ) “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” Biden wrote in an open letter that day. “And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.” This bloodless coup d’etat removed Biden from the ticket. With his endorsement, Kamala popped in. The entire affair was like swapping batteries in a remote control. Biden loyalists were not amused. “I do think, you know, the president was pushed by public calls from elected officials for him to drop out, from donors calling him to drop out. And I think that was wrong,” Biden’s former White House chief of staff Ron Klain told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I think it was unfortunate, because I think that the president had won the nomination fair and square.” Biden aide Anita Dunn lamented on Politico’s August 10 Playbook Deep Dive podcast, “You had this decision that the Democratic Party made to ignore their primary voters.” She added: “We’re a party that likes to talk about voting and voting rights — and made a decision, some leaders did, that they wanted to go disenfranchise everyone who participated in the primaries.” Biden feels betrayed. And he should. And so should the 14,324,396 voters who showed up at the polls, stood up at the caucuses, completed their ballots, and selected Joseph Robinette Biden for four more years in the White House. This is what democracy looks like. “Who cares?” the Anti-Democrats replied. They ruthlessly slapped the faces of enough of their own voters to populate New York City, Los Angeles, and Houston. The party that worships “the right to choose” rebuffed their choice. As if this were the Soviet Union, Anti-Democrats scorned the popular will, ditched the primary electorate’s decision, and coronated their own favorite — the people be damned. This unprecedented development is a profoundly disturbing break with America’s political norms. But, then again, the Anti-Democrat Party’s boot heels have stomped on countless norms, as if they were cockroaches rather than Bald Eagle eggs. Anti-Democrats in the FBI leaned on Facebook, Google, and other tech giants to censor the New York Post’s exposé on Hunter Biden’s Laptop from Hell in October 2020. Before Elon Musk purchased Twitter and fired the Anti-Democrats who previously infested it, the social-media powerhouse crippled the Post’s Twitter account for 15 days, just before the election. Twitter users who tried to forward the laptop story could not. Those who persisted got cancelled. Mission accomplished! The laptop story got squelched, and Hunter’s father became president. Once elected, the Biden-Harris Administration embraced censorship as official government policy. White House staffers hounded social-media companies to block stories, often related to COVID vaccines and mask mandates, and to deplatform critics. Biden-Harris also launched the Disinformation Governance Board to patrol the Internet and torpedo news and opinion created by its detractors. After widespread public ridicule, the White House spiked the DGB. However, at least through December 2022, some 80 FBI agents still routinely pressed Twitter to censor stories that irked Anti-Democrats. Anti-Democrats in Colorado, Maine, and other states called Trump a threat to “our democracy.” (Never mind that America is not a democracy but, rather, a constitutional republic that chooses its representatives via democratic elections.) So, rather than simply run against him for president, they tried to yank him from their states’ GOP primary ballots. This finally ended when the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously swatted this venture like a giant mosquito. Anti-Democrats concocted lawfare to weaponize the justice system against Republicans. This included imprisoning Trump advisors Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, George Papadopoulos, Allen Weisselberg, Peter Navarro, and Steve Bannon on cooked-up charges, or at least for offenses that typically cost Democrats fines and suspended sentences, if that. General Michael Flynn and Roger Stone also would have been locked up, absent Trump’s pardon pen. The fact that these men are non-violent and lacked rap sheets made no difference. They worked for Trump. So, Anti-Democrat prosecutors and judges demanded that they go behind bars, where they could ponder their finances, largely devoured by legal bills. This is a lawfare feature, not a bug. Of course, the Anti-Democrats deployed lawfare against Trump himself. He faced bizarre, convoluted, and even unconstitutional civil and criminal accusations in courtrooms from Manhattan to Washington to Atlanta to Fort Pierce, Florida. Trump spent much of early 2024 off the campaign trail, staring at judges rather than voters. That was the whole idea. While Trump’s top-dollar attorneys have delayed or derailed most of these trials, Trump faces sentencing on September 18 before notorious New York Judge Juan Merchan, the black-robed hoodlum who converted his courtroom into a crime scene during Trump’s business-records case. Anti-Democrats hijacked COVID-19 to impose measures that they had coveted for years. These “one-time, temporary, emergency measures” stubbornly remain, like squatters who will not budge. These include months of early voting, which begin in North Carolina on September 6, the Thursday after Labor Day — four days before the first Trump-Harris debate. Disgusting. Anti-Democrat county clerks will blast mass-mail-in ballots to every name on the voter rolls. Election-integrity expert Jay Valentine of Fractal Computing LLC and Omega4America.com estimates that — unless Republicans get into gear and do something — 3.5 million of these ballots will hit gas stations, parking garages, vacant lots, and other illegal addresses where dead, relocated, and other phantom “voters” are registered. Left-wing ballot harvesters will work their black magic and throw a Trump victory into mortal danger. Meanwhile, millions of mail-in ballots that reach genuine voters will be filled on kitchen tables, in office conference rooms, and unionized lunch tables. True to their nature, the execrable Anti-Democrats have destroyed the sacred secret ballot. Anti-Democrats in suburban Maryland, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., suburban Maryland, and Vermont have passed laws to let foreign citizens vote in local elections, thus diluting the votes of American citizens. When 216 House Republicans voted unanimously on July 10 to require that only U.S. citizens cast ballots in federal elections, 198 House Anti-Democrats voted against the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. Only five voted with Republicans to preserve the franchise for actual Americans. After howling like hyenas about “Misinformation!” Anti-Democrats on the Harris-Walz campaign were caught red-handed creating Google ads in which they doctored the headlines of pro-Harris-Walz news articles to make them even more pro-Harris-Walz. As Axios reported, these included a July 29 Guardian piece headlined “Harris Campaign Centers Healthcare and Abortion Rights: ‘If She Wins, It’s Because of Dobbs.’ “Anti-Democrats changed that to “VP Harris Fights Abortion Bans — Harris Defends Repro Freedom.” An August 6 WDAY headline stated: “Walz Selected as Kamala Harris’ VP Pick for 2024 Election.” That became: “Harris Picks Tim Walz — 215,000 Families Win.” Insulting Biden Back to Biden himself: He will address the Anti-Democrat Convention tonight. With its limited ratings and lower prestige, Monday evening is the Kiddie Table of any political convention. This is yet another insult against the 46th President of the United States. (READ MORE from Deroy Murdoch: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kamala) A political party with any class would showcase the outgoing president on Thursday. He would introduce the new nominee. Imagine: Joe Biden handing the torch to Kamala Harris in prime time, on the week’s biggest night! Instead, Biden will spend tonight like a grandfather having his turkey and stuffing while seated with the grandkids and the barely loved, ginger-haired, second cousins. The Democrat Party, rich in history and traditions (albeit usually mega-misguided), would allow no such thing. But members of the new Anti-Democrat Party could not care less. Their twin obsessions are naked power and total control. They are the Gambino Crime Family, denuded of respect and Old-World charm. Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor. The post Treatment of Biden at Convention Exposes the Anti-Democrats appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research: When the Lie Becomes the Truth “The PCR is a process. It does not tell you that you are sick.”   –Dr. Kary Mullis, (feature image left ) Nobel Laureate and Inventor of the RT-PCR, passed away in August 2019,  a few months prior to the onslaught of the Covid […]

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