Sunday, October 9, 2022

And another day of sounding alarms, going all in, leaked audio, ‘a time bomb,’ the far-right targeting doctors of trans youth, telemedicine, strippers voting to unionize, porn use and relationship satisfaction, and a micronation in NV comes to a close:

“No one hates Americans like the GOP hates Americans. — Anonymous 

“President Trump and I lost an election in 2020 because of a rigged election. When my coalition of secretary of state candidates get elected, we're gonna fix the whole country and president trump is going to be president again.” — Jim Marchant, NV Secretary of State MAGA Republican nominee

“It is not political to arrest Donald Trump. It is political not to arrest Donald Trump.” -- Jason Overstreet

Deaths

US: 1,087,880

World: 6,561,013

Cases

US: 98,555,072

World: 626,671,750

Nevada Democrats sound alarm as election denier leads secretary of state race. Jim Marchant, the election-denying Republican nominee for secretary of state in Nevada, has so far been outspent and out campaigned by his Democratic opponent. But as the first counties in the state begin to mail out ballots to voters, he has consistently polled ahead of Democrat Cisco Aguilar. -- In all secretary of state races, vote Blue. Republicans are telling us what they plan to do if they gain power. They must be prevented from doing so.

Republicans Are Going All In to Convince You Crime Is Out of Control. They Don’t Have Any Proof. What makes the current election season different from the others is that, unfortunately, as politicians spend heavily to fearmonger about crime, it’s now harder than ever for voters to fact-check their claims—because the most recent crime data collected by the federal government is abysmally incomplete...“In general, the political discussions usually aren’t paying too close attention to what the data actually says.”

MTG goes full-on Nazi. Make sure you and everyone you know are paying attention.

“It’s mind boggling that we live in an America where millions of people support someone [Trump] hell bent on destroying our institutions and democracy. Our only hope is to vote deep blue.” — Ken Olin

In leaked audio, LA City Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo, and Kevin de León discuss redistricting, are extremely racist. “Fuck that guy… he’s with the Blacks” -- And there’s so much more bad shit from these horrible people. Listen to the audio. It’s on the page. Racism is perpetrated at the highest levels of government.

‘A time bomb’: Anger rising in a hot spot of Iran protests. Led largely by women and youth, they have evolved from spontaneous mass gatherings in central areas to scattered demonstrations in residential areas, schools and universities as activists try to evade an increasingly brutal crackdown.

The latest challenge for Iran’s government? School girls joining protests. As demonstrations convulse the country in the wake of the death in morality police custody of Mahsa Amini, videos on social media reviewed by NBC News show girls in schoolyards and classrooms in Iran standing up to traditional symbols of authority…The Iranian authorities are faced with a dilemma, he said. “It’s a conundrum. It’s very difficult for them to go after 13 to 18-year-olds with lethal force, especially when a majority of them are girls.”

Doctors providing trans care are increasingly being targeted by far-right harassment campaigns on the internet. Before doctors, many of these same conservative online influencers and media figures targeted teachers and librarians, branding them as pedophiles or “groomers” over books, drag shows and Pride events, disrupting the goings-on at schools and libraries across the country. The campaign has increasingly begun targeting individual doctors like Gast. It is a shift that has some health care advocates concerned about similarities to the anti-abortion rhetoric that spurred violence against abortion providers and clinics starting in the 1970s and continuing through recent years.

Telemedicine was made easy during COVID-19. Not any more. That complicates follow-up treatments for some cancer patients. It also can affect other types of care, including mental health therapy and routine doctor check-ins...“If you are under a doctor’s care, and you are in the U.S., it doesn’t make any sense to have geographic restrictions for telemedicine.”

North Hollywood strippers set to vote on joining a union. Strippers at the Star Garden topless dive bar in North Hollywood will soon receive ballots to hold an election for collective bargaining, which may result in the first stripper union in the US in more than a decade.

The world may have a new supercontinent within 200 million to 300 million years as the Pacific Ocean shrinks and closes. “Over the past two billion years, Earth’s continents have collided together to form a supercontinent every 600 million years, known as the supercontinent cycle. This means that the current continents are due to come together again in a couple of hundred of million years’ time.”

Meet President Baugh — the self-proclaimed 'dictator' of a micronation in Nevada you've probably never heard of.

Is There a Link Between Porn Use and Relationship Satisfaction? Actually, No. Importantly, the link between porn use and relationship satisfaction did not depend upon whether the user was a man or a woman, or whether the relationship was same-sex or mixed-sex. While no link emerged between porn use and relationship satisfaction, the researchers did document other associations. For example, on days women used porn (compared to days they didn’t), they were more likely to have partnered sex, regardless of whether they were in a same-sex or mixed-sex relationship. The same was true for men partnered with other men. However, for men partnered with women, they were actually less likely to have partnered sex on days they used porn. Likewise, on days women used porn, both they and their partners reported greater desire for partnered sex. By contrast, on days men used porn, it was unrelated to their own desire for partnered sex, but it was related to their partner reporting lower desire...The fact that no association emerged doesn’t necessarily mean that porn never affects relationship satisfaction, though. Porn might be positive for some, negative for others, and inconsequential for yet others; however, all of these effects might wash each other out if we’re only focused on the overall or average impact.

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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.