Bikers and Indians thats a new twist

https://www.theblaze.com/news/sioux-nation-native-americans-use-checkpoints-to-block-bikers-from-going-to-sturgis

Native American members of the Sioux Nation have erected checkpoints in South Dakota that have prevented bikers from traveling to Sturgis, an annual motorcycle rally held in western South Dakota that attracts hundreds of thousands of bikers.

A Native American spokesperson confirmed over the weekend that bikers wishing to reach Sturgis would not be permitted to cross through Cheyenne River Sioux checkpoints, the Guardian reported.

A duty officer for the Cheyenne River Sioux told the Guardian on Saturday that only commercial and emergency vehicles will be let through the checkpoints onto reservation land.

A number of bikers had tried to enter but had been turned back, they said. Other reservations in the region, including the Oglala Sioux, were also turning away bikers that had attempted routes to Sturgis that pass through sovereign land.

Tribe spokesman Remi Bald Eagle told the Rapid City Journal the checkpoints are part of the tribe's coronavirus prevention plan.

However, state and federal officials have declared the checkpoints illegal. But that hasn't stopped the Cheyenne River Sioux from operating the checkpoints on the perimeter of their reservation; they have even sued the federal government to prevent federal officials from shutting down their checkpoints.

Despite the concerns of the tribe, Gov. Kristi Noem has given her approval for the motorcycle rally to go on

Who pissed off the gays

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/08/rightwing-launches-disgusting-attack-pedophile-gay-lawmaker-equality-legislation/

the law only applies to penetrative vaginal sex, not anal or oral or other sexual contact. This means that judges don’t have the same discretion for cases involving same-sex sexual encounters.

California Rep. Scott Wiener (D) introduced legislation that would give judges that discretion, making the law for straight people and LGBTQ people equal.

But rightwing blogs have been using the bill as an example of part of the QAnon conspiracy, which is the idea that there are people in the “deep state” – government officials, Democratic politicians, and also liberal Hollywood stars – who are trying to end Donald Trump’s presidency because he is working to defeat an international child sex trafficking ring. The conspiracy was started by an anonymous commenter on various online forums who went by “Q” and claimed to be a government official dropping cryptic hints about the conspiracy.

The conspiracy theory relies on numerous false claims – like that former Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) hired the Salvadoran M-13 gang to kill Democratic staffer Seth Rich, that Donald Trump only pretended to collude with Russia so that he could better investigate Democrats secretly, and that drinking bleach is a cure for coronavirus – but it has been promoted by comedian Roseanne Barr and Donald Trump’s son Eric.

Even Donald Trump himself has retweeted messages from QAnon accounts at least 90 times, according to Media Matters.

Websites that promote QAnon are presenting a distorted picture of Wiener’s bill, including saying that it would legalize 22-year-olds raping 12-year-olds (the bill does not apply when the victim is under 14) and that it would protect pedophiles when all it does is give judges discretion over part of the punishment in some statutory rape cases, the same discretion they have in cases involving sex between people of different sexes.

14 and up okay ?