American College of Pediatricians • www.ACPeds.org Gender Ideology Harms Children
The American College of Pediatricians urges healthcare professionals, educators and legislators to reject
all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the
opposite sex. Facts – not ideology – determine reality.
https://acpeds.org/assets/imported/9.14.17-Gender-Ideology-Harms-Children_updated-MC.pdf
fuck off with your F&G shit
Navy declares five sailors dead following helicopter crash
The Navy on Saturday declared five sailors deceased following a helicopter crash in the Pacific Ocean this week.
Search and rescue operations had been underway since the MH-60S Knighthawk crashed into the sea Tuesday afternoon, about 60 nautical miles from San Diego, while operating off the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln.
The Navy is withholding the names of the deceased sailors for 24 hours, pending next-of-kin notification, according to U.S. 3rd Fleet.
One crewmember was rescued a few hours after the helicopter went down on Tuesday.
Abraham Lincoln, littoral combat ship Cincinnati, as well as helicopter units and Coast Guard assets are now conducting recovery operations, according to 3rd Fleet.
The helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 8 and the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, was “operating on deck before crashing into the sea,” the command said Wednesday.
Officials have not yet released details explaining what the helicopter was doing before the accident.
Five sailors who were onboard Abraham Lincoln at the time of the crash also suffered injuries but are in stable condition, according to the command.
Two of those five were transported off the ship, while three had injuries that didn’t require evacuation, 3rd Fleet said Wednesday.
“We are deeply saddened by the loss of five Sailors and those injured following the MH-60S helicopter tragedy off the coast of Southern California,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said in a statement Saturday. “We stand alongside their families, loved ones, and shipmates who grieve.”
An investigation into the mishap is underway.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/09/04/navy-declares-five-sailors-dead-following-helicopter-crash/
Bette Midler: Sex strike needed to fight Texas anti-abortion law
Bette Midler says women everywhere should sing a new tune in the bedroom to protest new, strict anti-abortion laws like the one in Texas.
“I suggest that all women refuse to have sex with men until they are guaranteed the right to choose by Congress,” the famed actress and singer tweeted Thursday.
The idea, though, might not be original with Midler.
Nancy Sinatra told Midler on Twitter that, “My dad actually suggested that decades ago.”
One commenter told Midler, “Did you know you’re my Shero?”
Actress Rosanna Arquette, however, was not so upbeat about Midler’s not so modest proposal.
“but then again men with angry Guns and rape not being a much of a crime in Texas .watch this space,” [sic] she tweeted back to Midler.
The US Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Wednesday denying an emergency appeal filed by abortion providers in an attempt to block a Texas abortion bill that went into effect the same day.
Signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in May, the new law prohibits women from getting an abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, roughly around six weeks and before most women know they are pregnant.
The law lets private citizens sue anyone who assisted in terminating the pregnancy, including those who drive a woman to an abortion appointment.
https://nypost.com/2021/09/04/bette-midler-sex-strike-needed-to-fight-texas-anti-abortion-law/
NYTimes: D.C. Law Firm Inserted ‘Hundreds’ of Unvetted Afghans into U.S. Airlift
President Joe Biden’s Afghan evacuation was so chaotic that an immigration law firm in D.C. inserted hundreds of unidentified and unvetted Afghans from a regional Afghan city into the main processing center in Qatar, according to the New York Times.
The unidentified Afghans are now being held in Germany while officials try to identify them and learn about their past actions.
But the vetting may not matter. If the passengers fail the vetting, it is unclear if the United States can persuade another country to accept them. If the passengers cannot be sent to another home, such as Pakistan, U.S. officials may quietly let them move to the United States.
The New York Times reported September 3:
“Within hours of Mr. Biden’s speech on Aug. 31 at the White House marking the end of America’s two-decade war, a private charter plane from Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan’s fourth-largest city, arrived at the air base in Doha [in Quatar]— one of 10 way stations in eight countries — with no notice, carrying no American citizens but hundreds of Afghans. The manifest for the plane, apparently chartered by an ex-Marine’s law firm, offered “no clarity” about whether its passengers deserved special visas for helping American troops.
“There are multiple other ‘rogue’ flights that are seeking the same permissions” to land, emails from State Department officials sent that day said. “We have 300 people in Doha now who are basically stateless. Most have no papers.”
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The [U.S.] official said refugees on the flight from Mazar-i-Sharif were taken to Ramstein Air Base in Germany to determine whether they should be allowed to come to the United States.
The New York Times report said the flight was engineered by Eric Montalvo, the founder of a D.C. law firm, the Federal Practice Group. The firm’s lawyers work for foreign clients and immigration seekers.
The firm’s website describes Montalvo:
Mr. Eric S. Montalvo, a founding partner of the firm, has earned an international reputation as an aggressive, thorough and respected trial attorney familiar with the overwhelming nature of complex litigation and associated media strategies. Mr. Montalvo currently maintains a Top Secret/SCI security clearance. Mr. Montalvo has been recognized as a national leader in military law.
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Mr. Montalvo undertakes work in Afghanistan and abroad, navigating language and cultural barriers, interpreting complex international law and unprecedented issues, working directly with members of Congress, foreign embassies, foreign governmental ministries, Department of Justice attorneys …
Montalvo won a roughly $520,000 lawsuit filed by an Afghan construction company, the website reports:
Zuhmat Construction Group before the United States Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals Zuhmat Construction Group performed services for the US Government in Afghanistan, but Zuhmat was unable to successfully obtain payment for these services. Mr. Montalvo of The Federal Practice Group successfully appealed this non-payment with the ASBCA, obtaining full relief for the client.
A construction firm with a similar name, “Zuhmat Construction Company,” is also mentioned positively in a U.S. government report of Afghan spending.
Officials working for Biden have allowed more than 25,000 Afghans into the United States, some with minimal vetting or even no identification.
Few of the airlifted Afghans fought alongside U.S. forces during the war. But most have been described as “vulnerable” by officials who intend to send them to the United States via the little-known “parole” side door for emergencies. The term “vulnerable” is not a visa category in U.S. immigration law, in contrast to “refugee,” or “H-1B worker.”
Tens of thousands are undergoing some vetting at overseas bases, but U.S. officials have not said they have rejected any of the migrants.
Media reports say the Afghan migrants include polygamous marriages and child brides.
Biden’s pro-migration allies are asking for $8 billion to resettle at least 50,000 Afghans in the United States, regardless of the impact on Americans’ wages and housing costs.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/09/04/nytimes-d-c-law-firm-inserted-hundreds-of-unvetted-afghans-into-u-s-airlift/
Liberal commentator demands Biden 'deputize' doctors to perform abortions in Texas: 'Time to play hardball'
Liberal commentator Elie Mystal, whose expertise is legal issues, demanded Thursday that President Joe Biden "deputize" doctors to create a federal force of physicians who can perform abortions in defiance of a pro-life Texas law.
Abortion advocates have been expressing outrage this week after the Supreme Court declined to block a Texas law that outlaws abortions after roughly six weeks into pregnancy.
Mystal advocated on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" that Biden should use the power of the pen to unilaterally establish a federal force of doctors to skirt the Texas law and continue to perform abortions.
"We need to go and get women in Texas and protect their constitutionally protected medical rights. And the way you do that is that you deputize doctors," Mystal said. "You federalize doctors through an executive order an army of federal doctors who are going to go into Texas and protect the Constitution by consulting women about their privacy rights and medical history."
By establishing "an army of federal doctors," Mystal claimed doctors would then be protected by qualified immunity.
"[F]ederalizing the doctor force, that would protect those abortion providers from the Texas law, which, as we all said, it's a bounty system. Only private citizens can enforce it. Well, you know what federal officials are protected from private civil actions by qualified immunity? Which I don't like, but, you know what? It is time to play hardball, right? It is not go high time. This is go time," Mystal said.
Mystal, a Harvard Law School graduate, went on to say:
So you send in the doctors. They're protected with qualified immunity. And the way you get around the Hyde Amendment, which is this ridiculous rule that the government can't spend money on abortions because, apparently, poor people don't get the same health care and everything else, fine. But what you get around the Hyde Amendment is that you made abortions free, which, by the way, they probably should be already, and you privately fund the doctors who are doing this service in defense of the Constitution. Biden could do that law tonight and you could have the doctors on their way to Texas tomorrow. That's what he would do if he needed to go get some people off roofs from a flooding situation.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/elie-mystal-biden-federal-force-doctors