Notices by William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social), page 6

"Israel’s current actions, I believe, make me less safe as a Jewish person, rather than more. But I also feel Israel’s actions, not only here but also over time, in a different way – as an assault on my Jewish identity. ...

Israel suffered an unspeakably horrifying terrorist attack, by a criminal group dedicated to its destruction."

#Israel #Hamas #Palestinians #Gaza #Holocaust
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Jason Stanley begins this important essay by stating that he speaks as someone whose life has been defined by the genocide of Jewish people. He lost multiple relatives in the Holocaust. Then he states,

"To me, with my background, that is just what it means to be Jewish – to empathize with the innocent victims of mass killing, no matter their identity."

#Israel #Hamas #Palestinians #Gaza #Holocaust
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/11/my-life-has-been-defined-by-genocide-of-jewish-people-i-look-on-gaza-with-concern

As Judd Legum reports, the superintendent of the Charlotte County, Florida, public school system, Mark Vianello, has ordered schools in the district to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries. This ban is not directed to books considered to have sexual material — it's a ban of any book that has a character who is LGBTQ.

#Florida #BookBans #LGBTQ #homophobia #transphobia #Republicans #education

https://popular.info/p/florida-school-district-orders-librarians

"f you regularly follow debates about public policy, especially those involving wealthy tech bros, it’s obvious that there’s a strong correlation among the three Cs: climate denial, Covid vaccine denial and cryptocurrency cultism."

~ Paul Krugman

#ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #Covid #vaccines #crypto #TechBros #libertarianism #science #disinformation

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/opinion/columnists/covid-climate-cryptocurrency-plutocrats.html

The percentage of US churchgoers who think there should be more LGBTQ people in religious leadership roles:

1 in 5 (21%).

72% of US churchgoers do NOT want more LGBTQ people in religious leadership roles, according to PRRI findings.

Clicking the link below will lead you to a graphic showing the breakdown of particular Christian groups vis-a-vis this matter.

#churches #LGBTQ #homophobia

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu1xPK7rxqg/

"The horror of the 91-year-old reclusive billionaire Barre Seid—his name rhymes with 'parricide'—bequeathing $1.6 billion of his vast fortune to radical Catholic forced birth activist and Supreme Court fixer Leonard Leo did not hit home for me until this week, when I read Nina Burleigh’s article in the New Republic."

~ Greg Olear

#LeonardLeo #BarreSeid #DarkMoney #FederalistSociety #SupremeCourt #corruption #abortion #democracy

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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/the-dark-seid