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Fascism

Boston Children’s Hospital has warned employees about mounting threats and is coordinating with law enforcement after far-right activists on social media began targeting the hospital with false claims about its treatment of young transgender people.

It’s the most recent in a series of attempts to target hospitals for their work with trans youth, adding to an ongoing wave of anti-LGBTQ sentiment that has hit libraries, schools and even a trans-inclusive Los Angeles spa.

The public relations office of Boston Children’s Hospital sent an email to employees with guidance on how to respond to harassment and threats earlier this week, citing an “increase of threatening and aggressive” phone calls and emails sent to the hospital commenting on treatment of transgender patients.” The email was confirmed to NBC News by a current employee.

Boston Children’s Hospital first became the target of activists in recent weeks, when well-followed social media accounts such as LibsofTikTok, which has often promoted “groomer” discourse that falsely linked LGBTQ teachers and parents to pedophilia, began to make a variety of false claims. One allegation said that the hospital offered gender-affirming hysterectomies to children under 18 years old.

Conservative influencers with millions of followers pushed similar false talking points and fanned the flames further. David J Harris, a podcaster and supplement seller, and single-issue activists including Chris Elston, who goes by “Billboard Chris” for the anti-trans statements he wears on sandwich boards, are among the right-wing social media stars who have spread the allegations online.

Last week, fact-checking organizations debunked the claims from right-wing accounts, but many of the same accounts continued to spread the false allegations this week.

But wait... it gets worse!

“Long past time to start executing these ‘doctors,’” a member of a pro-Trump message board formerly known as TheDonald, wrote under a copy of a video featuring a doctor from the hospital. This message board is the same one whose members last week doxed and made violent threats against the judge who signed the search warrant that allowed the FBI to search the home of former President Donald Trump.

Erie Canal

Fairport, NY on a dinner cruise on the canal. Excellent time.

Not sure what the light spots are- bird, bug, bat, Betazoid recon drone?

Handpicked

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Do you think the people who made it were trying to boost Mr Gibbs? Do you think this was intended to help his stature among any group?

Harry Potter  Gen Z Edition

Chapter One

THE BOY WHO WASN'T UNALIVED

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, liked flexing that they were very basic, thank u. Tbh they were the last people you'd think would be sus, because they were all fax no printer.

Mr. Dursley was adulting at a firm called Grunnings, which made drills.

He was a dummy thiccc (w/ three Cs) man with hardly any neck, although he had an absolute unit of a mustache. Mrs. Dursley was a total Karen with zero chill and had hella neck, which came in very useful when she was stalking her neighbours and not minding her own.

The Dursleys had a future incel of a son named Dudley who they thought was the main character. The Dursleys were mostly thriving, but they also had lowkey tea which didn't pass the vibe check and their greatest fear was to get called out and cancelled. They were girlbossing too close to the sun and didn't think their clout could bounce back if their fam, the Potters, were revealed. Milf Lily Potter was Mrs. Dursley's sis, but Mrs. D had gone ghost; irl (no cap) Mrs. D fronted she didn't have a sis, because Lil and her deadbeat mans were straight up cringe. If the neighbors ever peeped the Potters, it'd be a big yikes. Lowkey the Dursleys knew the Potters had their own crotch goblin, too, but they'd never peeped. This bb was fr a solid reason 2 keep the in-laws yote; they didn't want Dudley mixing with a gross being like that.

When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray (fight me) Tuesday our lore opens, the cloudy overlay didnt vibe like strange and mysterious things would be happening all over the country. Mr. Dursley hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for work, and Mrs. Dursley spilled the tea as she was tryna put a screaming Dudley into his heckin high chair.

None of them noticed a chonky, tawny owl flutter past the window.

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Oldies

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1554093165442998272

I was just a weeun then, so stuff like this kindof freaked me out:

And it wasn't always because they were so stylized, ...

... but because it was when I first learned that the world of music...

... was far far bigger and far far weirder than I'd known.

There was stuff my parents didn't know about!

Stuff my friends didn't know about!

Of course I was only ten, so of course everything was bigger than I thought.

And I'd figure that other stuff out eventually.

But this realization was the one that felt most dramatic.

And it's pretty much all thanks to MTV.

Choose Your Opponents Wisely

The reprehensible Matt Gaetz body-shamed Olivia Julianna a few days ago. So she did what any self-respecting 19 year old political strategist for a youth-run abortion rights organization would do. She took the fight to twitter.

And she has raised over $800,000 in three days.

https://twitter.com/0liviajulianna/status/1552756322151587842

She's sending Gaetz a bouquet of flowers for each $100K raised.

#ThanksMattGaetz !

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An hour later, now over $900K
https://twitter.com/0liviajulianna/status/1552772346158714882

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$1,500,000 right now.