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Female prisoners in Scottish jails have told how transgender inmates serving sentences alongside them switched back to their male birth gender after being released.
The disclosure — in a study published in the British Journal of Criminology — has raised fresh concerns about self-identification of gender posing a risk to women’s safety as first minister Nicola Sturgeon prepares to press ahead with gender recognition legislation this year.
In recent years, Michael has come to regard the United States, the nation of which he has been a citizen all his life, as an abusive parent.
“I can acknowledge my past association with that person while at the same time wanting to keep future association to a minimum,” he said.
Michael – the name is false as he requested anonymity to avoid being inundated with hate mail – found his disaffection with his native country reach crunch point in 2020. The chaotic end of the Donald Trump era combined with the inequities exposed by the Covid pandemic made him despair of being an American.
Twitter permanently suspended the personal account of Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over repeated violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, the company confirmed early Sunday.
… When reached for comment, Twitter confirmed Greene’s account was suspended, and the company said she committed “repeated” violations of its policy on COVID-19 misinformation.
A South Korean has crossed the heavily fortified border in a rare defection to North Korea, South Korea’s military has said.
Years of repression and poverty in North Korea have led more than 30,000 people to flee to the South in the decades since Korean war hostilities ended with an armistice, but crossings in the other direction are extremely rare.
The military joint chiefs of staff (JCS) said it carried out a search operation after detecting the person on the eastern side of the demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas on Saturday evening.
Rogue elements within the US military might stage a coup attempt in the US after the upcoming 2024 presidential election, US Army Maj. Gen (ret) Paul Eaton has warned.
“The real question is, does everybody understand who the duly elected president is? If that is not a clear cut understanding, that can infect the rank and file or at any level in the US military,” Eaton told NPR.
Everyday foods such as coffee, meat and spices could become luxury items due to global climate impacts and changing tastes.
Ordering lobster in a restaurant or serving it at a party is considered the height of gastronomic sophistication.
But that hasn’t always been the case – lobster has worked its way up from humble beginnings to become a gourmet delicacy.
In the 18th Century, lobster was considered a highly undesirable food that wealthy families steered clear of. The crustacean was so abundant along the east coast of the US that it was used as fertiliser and served in prisons. Kentucky politician John Rowan quipped: “Lobster shells about a house are looked upon as signs of poverty and degradation.”
Shortages mean we’ll have to eat bugs right? Gee that seems awfully convenient.
News Years was rough for some pic.twitter.com/qc29UY8MEi
— Steve Inman (@SteveInmanUIC) January 1, 2022
The American Flag makes her feel unsafe pic.twitter.com/u6yVx72imK
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 31, 2021
On Nov. 8, Old Dominion sociology and criminology professor Allyn Walker gave an interview in which he asserted the need to destigmatize pedophiles by redefining them as “minor-attracted persons” (MAPs). Walker stated, “We have a tendency to want to categorize people with these attractions as evil or morally corrupt,” and that when people “hear the term ‘pedophile,’ they automatically assume that it means a sex offender, and that isn’t true.”
Shortly after this interview, students at Old Dominion protested over the professor’s attempt to obfuscate the nature of sexual predators. Although the university furloughed Walker, the professor continued to defend his stance while attacking his critics as hostile to academic freedom and misguided by “rightwing media.”
A business owner in Salem, Oregon, painted a mural honoring the American flag and the Marines who raised it at Iwo Jima. Most observers considered it a beautiful memorial and an attractive use of an otherwise nondescript wall. The owner of the business commissioned a local artist to create the tasteful and fetching display of patriotism.
Here are excerpts from the Maxwell case transcript of testimony by Carolyn, who was brought to Jeffrey Epstein when she was 14-years-old. She was told she could make lots of money by giving an older man a massage. She was then driven to Epstein’s mansion and taken upstairs to his massage room. The older person who brough her there then “took off her clothes and she asked me if I would be comfortable taking off mine.” They then both massaged Epstein’s back until Epstein turned over. Then the older woman “got on top of him” and they began “having sex” in front of the 14-year-old girl. Both Carolyn and the woman who had sex in front of her, were then paid in cash. That was how Carolyn was groomed into beginning a several years sexual relationship with Epstein that ended when she was 18.
The next time you hanker for a hunk of food, how about saving the Earth?
You can do just that by biting into bugs.
And if you happen to live across the pond, you’ve got the endorsement of officials.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday suggested Republicans are upset they cannot date her and should admit it.
“If Republicans are mad they can’t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend’s feet. Ya creepy weirdos,” she wrote in a social media post…
CNN host Anderson Cooper awkwardly tried to shut down his co-host’s drunken rant about New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio during the network’s New Year’s Eve coverage.
After Cooper and fellow CNN New Year’s Eve Live co-host Andy Cohen downed shots – presumably with tequila – on live television, Cohen unloaded on the Democratic mayor as Cooper repeatedly tried to get him to stop.
Andy goes off on de Blasio pic.twitter.com/IornnsuG36
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 1, 2022
