Our short film, Lucifer's Gala, a "cinema verite" look at the 50th anniversary of the Church of Satan, is an official selection at the New York Movie Awards.
View it here!
https://t.co/tHdPI61hoO
I was legit excited to see this, because I like the concept of Supergirl being a sloppy drunk, but then I saw a trailer. This film is basically gonna be a rehash of John Wick.
Many of these “libertarians” are willing to give the government the benefit of the doubt when it comes to ICE. Not the people being detained and later dumped onto the streets of a city they’ve never been in. Not people being shot. Not those wrongfully deported nor the racially profiled. Not the individuals whose Fourth Amendment rights have been violated. The government.
If that's you, you're probably a blue cheese-scented, reheated tuna at work, Facebook-comment-section weirdo, who loses arguments with stop signs.
Integrity did not prevail today.
Administrative Law Judge William Courtney ruled in favor of a position that has been consistently deemed unconstititonal. The first amendment is clear on political speech. Our freedom of speech has been violated.
Having out of state circulators, paid or volunteer, is common practice in New Jersey and throughout the country by Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens and Independents alike. There is an entire industry built around this one task of achieving ballot access. Circulators are the ones holding the clipboard and witnessing the signatures. Those who sign still have to be registered voters in the district.
I hope Secretary of State Dale Caldwell will reject the judgment recommendation as he did with CD12 candidate Sue Altman's challenge, two months ago for the same reason. I encourage everyone to contact the Department of State 609-292-6260 | [email protected] and tag @DaleCaldwell on social media with your opinions.
My petition was not otherwise fraudulent, misleading or invalid. Hundreds of registered voters in District 7 signed my nominating petition. Those voters are now disenfranchised.
The Republican State Committee has not challenged candidates in previous years who have had out a state circulators, why now? They see me as a threat. Tom Kean Jr. has been missing from congress for over three months. They are afraid to compete with a candidate who is not beholdent to corporations, lobbys, or billionaires. They are afraid to compete will someone who will fight to end war, end state surveillance and who will actually show up to her job.
You see, this is not about election integrity. This is not about what's right for the voters. It's about eliminating competition. They hate competition.
The Libertarian Party is the third largest political party in the country and deserves to have permanent ballot access in New Jersey. For too long, third parties have been systemically disempowered. Enough is enough. It's time for third parties to put our ideological differences aside and come together on this. I cannot do this without you.
Do you want political change? Do you want your future to look different? Then it starts with ballot access. It starts here.
I'm not giving up.
Be well. Be free.
From now until June 21, every time you watch our new music video for "In Music City," it raises 1 cent for Cauliflower Alley Club. Anybody up for helping us make it a rad amount for wrestlers in need? #aew#roh#caulifloweralleyclub#cultofcornette#tna
Late to the party on this:
I have Epidermolysis Bullosa. Very painful. Very genetic. Every one of the 4 fetuses I had aborted would have been born with this crippling disease.
Never let anyone guilt you into bringing a sick child into the world.
This week, my wife and I made the very difficult decision to terminate the pregnancy due to Trisomy 21.
The choice was not made lightly. We really appreciate all of the personal stories that you guys shared with us, especially the unconditional support we received from fans with no matter what we decided.
I know some of you may be very disappointed to hear this news. We are devastated. This has been extremely traumatic for both of us, especially Ashley.
She underwent the procedure earlier this week and is on the mend. Thankfully, everything went smoothly, but emotionally we are drained.
Trisomy 21, also known as Down Syndrome, is caused by an extra chromosome. It is caused by an error in cell division, like a glitch. The odds of a baby having it is 1 in 1000.
When I first confronted this news, I was shocked but optimistic. If they’re a little slow intellectually, then we’ll make it work. I signed on to be a parent, come what may…but I just didn’t fully understand what Down Syndrome entailed.
Once we made it public, it became clear that MOST people don’t know what Down Syndrome entails (and no, it’s not the same as Autism):
50% of babies with DS have heart defects. 75% will have hearing challenges. Over 50% will have vision problems. Impaired immune function, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, delayed physical development, poor muscle tone, structural issues with face, decreased lifespan, etc…Sadly, the list is long, feel free to look it up…Down Syndome isn’t a “blessing”, it is objectively shitty from a health perspective.
I didn’t realize just how rough it is for the child, let alone the family…more often than not, they would be fully dependent on others for the rest of their life.
The miscarriage risk is also close to 50%, which made matters worse…they may never see the light of day and it puts Ashley further at risk.
We spoke with doctors, friends, family and genetic counselors and learned that up to 90% of women terminate their pregnancy after learning the baby has Trisomy 21.
This was WAY higher than I expected, I thought it would be lower given that I hear so many say they kept or would keep the baby. I believe that’s because most terminations happen privately, it feels shameful. A lot of judgment being cast.
You never think you’d be in this type of situation until it happens to you and then things change.
To all of my fans who have weighed in on this topic who have Autism, Down Syndrome or any other conditions…we appreciate you. You matter a lot and we’re glad you’re here. I commend you and your families for having the strength and courage to push forward.
As for us, we made a difficult decision that we believe in the long-run will be beneficial for our family. Thankfully, we had a choice.
It will take a little time to move on, but we are excited to try again in the future and hopefully have a better outcome.
Love you guys & thank you for understanding. ❤️
“PORN, A LINK IN THE PROSTITUTION SYSTEM
FREEDOM AND EQUALITY ARE FOR EVERYONE OR FOR NO ONE
The prostitution system is a patriarchal organisation, the last bastion of a long history in which men’s desires have always taken precedence over those of women. Feminism is therefore abolitionist since it puts women’s desire and will back at the centre. As for abolitionism, it has never killed anyone, whereas the prostitute-killer system kills every day…
In the twenty-first century, the sex industry has become a sprawling market whose ramifications continue to grow with new technologies and the advent of globalised capitalism. It is a sector worth hundreds of billions of dollars per year and is based on the exploitation of human beings and their vulnerabilities (poverty, origins, migration, etc.).
Some people then try to make people believe that prostitution has always existed, that empowerment is possible, a form of emancipation. It is not very progressive to want to maintain a market of domination, violence and exploitation of the human person. It is more akin to sexual slavery.
PORNOGRAPHY AND PROSTITUTION ARE TWO COMMUNICATING VESSELS.
The sex industry, whether it’s strip clubs, erotic massage parlours, peep shows or escort agencies, is always the same. Pornographic images and films, which are increasingly accessible and even invasive, also participate in this prostitution system, because they have the same motives – see the report published in September 2023 by the [French] High Council for Equality between Women and Men or Nadia’s testimony.
New technologies are helping to trivialise the system and create a demand for vulnerable and increasingly younger women. Advertising is complicit, through its hypersexualisation. This trivialisation and pervasiveness contribute to the “sexualisation” of society and has a great impact on the sexual practices and self-esteem of young boys and girls. In porn, hundreds of thousands of women are brutalised and raped for the pleasure of the male audience, who then seek to reproduce the same acts in their own sexual relations.
PORN IS NOT CINEMA!
Pornographic films contain real, unsimulated, physical, sexual or verbal violence against women. Rape culture, misogyny, unsimulated acts obtained by money: this is filmed prostitution.
More than 2.3 million children in France watch videos on pornographic sites every month! Viewer numbers are up sharply. The edifying figures of Arcom show that 51% of 12-year-old boys consume porn, compared with 53% of men. An increase of 36% among minors since 2017.
Pornography has become the school of sexism, as Sylvie-Pierre Brossolette, the president of the High Council for Equality between Women and Men, pointed out: “This school of sexist violence that is pornography must stop.” By trivialising and eroticising sexual violence, it trains future generations in rape culture.
But rape is violence, it is a crime. As Gisèle Halimi has said, “On rape, we have made progress, but it is a visible violence. Whereas prostitution is dressed up as a choice. And this is what we must fight radically”. This porno-criminal violence must stop, women victims must be protected, illegal videos (90% of content) must be removed.
We must say no to the porn industry, which cultivates rape culture, but also sexism, racism, torture, and LGBT-phobias. Many prostituted women mention the influence of pornography on the increasingly specific, and increasingly degrading, dehumanising demands made of them by johns. Before making the choice to buy a sexual act, every man should remember that prostitution kills every day in the world.
Faced with this persistent trivialisation, we, the survivors of prostitution and porn, have been asking for two and a half years for phase 2 of the French 2016 Nordic Model law, and above all for a real substantial budget for its full and complete application, not forgetting the johns without whom there would be no prostitution.
LET’S BUILD A WORLD WITHOUT PORN, WITHOUT PROSTITUTION!”
To read more of this excellent article by Florence Jacquet, see the link in the next tweet.
POV: Watching Christians argue about if other Christians are Christians while remembering how long they’ve been accusing each other of being Satanists.