I do love Christmas music.  Here are some of my favorites.
Friday, December 23, 2022.  Another US service member dies in Iraq, 
those so eager to smear LGBTQ+ members with lies of being 'groomers' are
 the same people who won't vote to actually protect childen, The Twitter
 Dumps, and more.
Last week, the House Oversight and Reform Committee, chaired 
by US House Rep Carolyn Maloney, held a hearing entitled "The Rise of 
Anti-LGBTQI+ Extremism and Violence in the United States."  The hearing 
was held due to the rise in violence aimed at the LGBTQ+ community which
 includes last month's Club Q shooting.  
The shooting left five people dead:
- Daniel Davis Aston, 28
- Kelly Loving, 40
- Ashley Paugh, 35
- Derrick Rump, 38
- Raymond Green Vance, 22
The shooting also left twenty-five people injured.
For hearing coverage, see yesterday's "
Iraq snapshot,"  Wednesday's "
Iraq snapshot," Monday's "
Iraq snapshot," THIRD's "
Editorial: Words and silences have consequences," "
Those fake ass 'religious' litigants (Ava and C.I.)" and "
BROS (Ava and C.I.),"  Thursday's "
Iraq snapshot" and Friday's "
Iraq snapshot," Ruth's "
Allies are needed (House Oversight Committee)," Kat's "
Respect for Marriage Act is only step one, more needed," "
Cori Bush speaks some truth in Committee hearing," Trina's "
LGBTQ youth need a safe nation (Dr. Jessie Pocock)," Mike's "
Texas, come claim your idiot (House Oversight Committee)," Stan's "
Shontel Brown, Chris Wallace, Wonder Woman" and Rebecca's "
glenn greenwald wants to be the biggest bitch there is ."  
"Grooming."  As we've had to point out (such as 
here)
 and "pedophile" are being applied to members of the LGBTQ! community. 
It's a lie and it's always been a lie.  Anita Bryant used the lie to 
scare the nation in the seventies -- may she rot in hell (and take Glenn
 Greenwald with her).
These are intentional lies that are told  by homophobic people with the intent to stoke hatred towards the LGBTQ+ community.
For
 those who don't know, pedophiles are people who pursue children (those 
under the age of consent) for sex.  That would be people like Scott 
Ritter, the former United Nations employee who is now and forever a 
registered sex offender who served time in prison for attempting to have
 sex with girls.  Pedophiles do exist.  It is inaccurate to portray them
 as gay people or as transgendered people  Most are, like Scott Ritter, 
straight people who are married.  That's the reality when you look at 
the figures.  
"Grooming." 
 This is supposed to refer to those adults who are interested in having 
sex with underage people (children) and so they 'groom' them -- they 
ease into it slowly, they make them think they're friends, they then 
attempt to abuse that trust by leading the person into a sexual affair. 
 You could look at US House Rep Lauren Boebert's convicted husband as a 
groomer -- you could say that's why he was exposing himself in that bowling alley  to those women.
	,
 since it was taken over by self-described “free-speech absolutist” Elon
 Musk, has seen a dramatic rise in the use of the anti-gay slur 
“groomer” among a cluster of high-profile anti-LGBTQ accounts, according
 to a new report.
	According to a study by Media Matters and GLAAD released Tuesday,
 nine prominent anti-LGBTQ accounts had an over 1,200% increase in 
Twitter users’ retweets of the accounts’ tweets with the “groomer” slur 
in the one-month period after Musk’s Oct. 27 takeover compared with the month prior. 
	The accounts also showed an increase of more than 1,100% in mentions of
 the right-wing media accounts in tweets with the slur. The accounts 
analyzed in the study are: Tim Pool, Jack Posobiec, Jake Shield, Gays 
Against Groomers, Blaire White, Allie Beth Stuckey, Andy Ngo, Seth 
Dillon and Mike Cernovich. In addition, the Libs of TikTok account saw 
more than a 600% increase in its mentions with “groomer” language, going
 from nearly 2,000 to nearly 14,000 over the same timeframe.   
From last week's hearing:
US House Rep Katie 
Porter: I wanted to start with Ms. Robinson, if I could.  Your 
organization recently released a report analyzing the five hundred most 
viewed, most influential Tweets that identified LGBTQ people as so 
called "groomers."  The groomer narrative is an age old lie to position 
LGBTQ+ people as a threat to kids and what it does is to deny them 
access to public spaces and it stokes fear and it even stokes violence. 
 Ms. Robinson, according to its own hateful content policy does Twitter 
allow posts calling LGBTQ people "groomers"?
Kelley
 Robinson: No, I mean Twitter along with FACEBOOK and many others have 
community guidelines.  It's about holding users accountable and 
acknowledging that when we use phrases and words like "groomers" and 
"pedophiles" to describe people, individuals in our community that are 
mothers, that are fathers, that are teachers, that are doctors,  it is 
dangerous.  And it's got one purpose -- it's to dehumanize us and make 
us feel like we're not a part of this American society and it has real 
life consequences.  So we are calling on social media companies to 
uphold their community standards.  And we're also calling on any 
American that's seeing this play out to hold ourselves and our community
 members accountable.  We wouldn't accept this in our families, we 
wouldn't accept this in our schools.  There's no reason to accept it 
online. 
US 
House Rep Katie Porter: So I think you're absolutely right and it's not 
just this allegation of groomer and pedophile, it's alleging that a 
person is criminal somehow and engaged in criminal acts merely because 
of their identity, their sexual orientation, their gender identity.  So 
this is clearly prohibited under Twitter's content yet you found 
hundreds of these posts on the platform.  Your team filed complaints 
about these posts, correct?
Kelley Robinson: Yes.
US House Rep Katie Porter: And how often did Twitter act to take down these posts which violated its own content policy?
Kelley Robinson: Very rarely.  
US
 House Rep Katie Porter: So from our calculation, it looks like about 
99% of your complaints.  They basically acted on one or two of the 100+ 
complaints you filed. Instead of taking them down, Twitter elevated 
them.  Allowing them to reach an approximate 72 million users.  This is 
not just about what happens online.  What happens online translates into
 real harm in people's lives.  Ms. Popcock, you provide services to a 
community that experienced the devastating LGBTQ attack.  Can you 
provide some examples of the link between speech online and the attacks 
against providers like you.  
Jesse
 Pocock: We know really, I mean, online threats, in addition to creating
 an atmosphere of bullying for young people, it also creates an 
atmosphere of delegitimizing our real professional trained work at 
INSIDE OUT YOUTH services.  And it is just so critically important that 
we can continue doing the work that we do.  But I want to tell just one 
quick story because it's beautiful.  We have an online community center 
and it is moderated by peer advisors and when asked how many issues of 
like fighting or contention do you deal with on the disport server our 
young people tell us "Well, it doesn't happen very often."  So I'm here 
to tell you that our young people have figured out how to moderate 
platforms in positive, productive ways?  Twitter, FACEBOOK, everybody 
else can figure it out too.  
US
 House Rep Katie Porter: Absolutely.  Ms. Robinson, your report notes 
that these radicalizing posts, these 'groomer' posts, these other posts 
that attack LGBTQ communities are related to acts in the real world -- 
what happens online is often reflective of what happens in the real 
world.  After Governor DeSantis of Florida passed his so-called "Don't 
Say Gay" bill, what trends did you observe online with regard to 
'grooming' related discourse.  
Kelley
 Robinson: Unfortunately, we saw a 400% increase on Twitter of this sort
 of hateful language.  Particularly calling our community members 
groomers and pedophiles.  And we know that rather or not the bills move 
into effect, the lasting impact of that online bullying of defining our 
communities in that way, it sticks -- especially with our kids. 
US
 House Rep Katie Porter: My time has expired but I just want to say I'm 
proud today, I'm proud to stand with the gay community and I'm proud 
that you're all here as part of our country and giving us testimony.  I 
yield back, Madam Chair. 
For
 the past year, we’ve been subjected to an endless, escalating 
right-wing fearmongering campaign presenting LGBTQ adults as innate 
child sexual predators, or “groomers,” and any children in their 
vicinity as victims. People are literally throwing molotov cocktails into establishments that host drag events, under the guise of protecting children. The now-feuding Reps.
 Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) have been 
the most front-facing proponents of this rhetoric (even though Boebert’s
 husband was jailed for exposing himself to teens in a bowling alley a few years ago).
 
Yet, on Wednesday, Greene and Boebart joined 26 other House Republicans to
 vote against the bipartisan Respect for Child Survivors Act, which 
overwhelmingly passed out of the House anyway and will address how the 
FBI has historically mishandled child sexual abuse cases.
 The bill will create specific teams within the FBI to support child 
victims and investigate child sexual abuse, trafficking, and child abuse
 content. Neither Greene nor Boebert have publicly offered explanations 
for their votes, and frankly, they don’t have to—the gross hypocrisy of 
constantly lying that LGBTQ people pose a threat to children, all while 
declining to protect children from actual sexual predation, speaks for itself.
 Exactly.
US
 Senator Chris Coons' office issued a statement from his office, and the
 offices of Senators Amy Klobuchar, John Cornyn and Lindsey Graham 
explaining the bill -- the bill the hypocrites voted against -- and the 
bill's history:
      
        
          WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Chris 
Coons (D-Del.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Amy 
Klobuchar (D-Minn.) released the following statements after the Respect 
for Child Survivors Act, a bill developed in response to the FBI’s 
mishandling of the Larry Nassar investigation, passed the House. The 
bill, now headed to the President’s desk, would improve the treatment of
 FBI child victim witnesses by requiring trauma-informed experts to be a
 part of any interview of a victim who reports child abuse or 
trafficking to the FBI.
“We have a duty to ensure that survivors and witnesses to sexual 
assault are heard and respected, especially when they come forward to 
law enforcement to report abuse,” said Senator Coons. “Unfortunately,
 mishandled or repeated interviews can too often retraumatize survivors.
 The bipartisan, bicameral Respect for Child Survivors Act will reduce 
poorly conducted interviews during investigations of child abuse and 
sexual exploitation by requiring the FBI to use multidisciplinary teams 
of trained professionals. I’m proud to see this head to the President’s 
desk for signature, and I hope it will protect survivors and encourage 
more to come forward.”
“The FBI has a sworn obligation to protect victims who report child 
abuse, and that extends to agents’ interviews with vulnerable child 
witnesses,” said Senator Cornyn. “This
 legislation requires the FBI to include trauma-informed experts in 
interviews with victims to ensure they are not retraumatized during the 
interview process, and I urge President Biden to swiftly sign it into 
law.”
“I applaud Senator Cornyn’s leadership on this issue to correct an 
egregious wrong committed by certain FBI agents regarding their 
treatment of victims of sexual abuse,” said Senator Graham. “Requiring
 the FBI to use appropriate, tried-and-true methods to interview child 
victims will help ensure the FBI’s failure in the Nassar case doesn’t 
happen again. Our legislation makes it clear that we expect better.”
“As we work to support survivors of child sexual abuse and 
trafficking, we need to provide law enforcement with the training and 
skills they need to investigate these crimes and help victims,” said Senator Klobuchar. “Our
 bipartisan legislation will ensure law enforcement officers can partner
 with child advocacy centers to use the most effective techniques when 
conducting these critical investigations.”
 
Background:
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Inspector 
General’s Report on the FBI’s Handling of the Larry Nassar investigation
 last year, retired gymnast and survivor McKayla Maroney shared striking
 testimony of how she was treated by the FBI personnel who interviewed 
her. This legislation was formulated with input from child welfare 
groups to address the mistreatment of child witnesses like those 
described during that hearing.
Under this legislation, victims would be interviewed by those with 
the expertise to appropriately address and treat their trauma. This bill
 would require the FBI to use multidisciplinary teams when investigating
 child sexual abuse cases, child sexual abuse material cases, and child 
trafficking cases, including in situations where the interviewed victim 
is no longer a child. These multidisciplinary teams would be composed of
 appropriate investigative personnel, mental health professionals, 
medical personnel, family advocacy case workers, child advocacy center 
personnel, and prosecutors. Members of these teams have expertise in 
their field, can provide trauma-informed care, and are required to stay 
current on industry training.
The use of multidisciplinary teams would prevent the retraumatizing 
of victims, and the information-sharing and case review provisions would
 ensure accountability so cases are not dropped or forgotten in the 
future. Investigations would be reviewed by a multidisciplinary team at 
regularly scheduled times to share information about case progress, 
address any investigative or prosecutorial barriers, and ensure victims 
receive support and needed treatment. This bill would also provide a 
dedicated source of funding for Children’s Advocacy Centers, which 
coordinate the investigation, treatment, and prosecution of child abuse 
cases.
This legislation is supported by the Rape, Abuse, & Incest 
National Network, the National District Attorneys Association, Army of 
Survivors, and the National Children’s Alliance.
###
   
However, 28 Republicans voted against the bill.
Those Republicans include Reps. Lauren Boebert (CO), Marjorie Taylor 
Greene (GA), Louie Gohmert (TX), Paul Gosar (AZ), and Rick Crawford 
(AR). All of these Republicans have opposed the expansion of LGBTQ+ 
civil rights and many have accused the LGBTQ+ community of sexualizing 
or “grooming” kids.
“Grooming” is a term for attempting to sexually abuse children; 
conservatives have used it to describe any mention of LGBTQ+ identities 
in front of children as a way of associating pedophilia with LGBTQ+ 
people, harkening back to the old negative stereotype.
In June, Boebert accused queer-inclusive teachers of “grooming” kids with educational flashcards showing a pregnant man on one of the cards.
In November, Greene called a gay Californian state Democratic Senator Scott Wiener a “communist groomer” for calling “groomer” an “anti-LGBTQ hate word.”
Responding to Wiener’s tweet, Greene wrote, “Pass my Protect 
Children’s Innocence Act to stop communist groomers like this from using
 state government power to take children away from their parents to 
allow a for-profit medical industry to chop off these confused 
children’s genitals before they are even old enough to vote,” she said.
Her bill would ban gender-affirming health care for transgender 
minors at the federal level, which she has compared to pedophilia.
In October, Gohmert co-sponsored a bill called the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act”
 which would ban any entity that receives federal money from talking 
about sexual orientation or gender identity to children under the age of
 10.
The bill would go far beyond Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law defining 
“sexually-oriented material [as] … any topic involving gender identity, 
gender dysphoria, transgenderism, sexual orientation, or related 
topics.”
In 2016, Gosar suggested an amendment to bar transgender people from 
using public restrooms that align with their gender identity in U.S. 
governmental buildings. Transphobic politicians often say that such 
bills are necessary to prevent trans people from attacking women and 
children in public toilets, something that rarely ever occurs.
Crawford has consistently voted against LGBTQ+ civil rights.
It’s notable that these politicians, who have spent the year making 
so much noise about LGBTQ+ people supposedly “grooming” children, never 
speak as loudly against widespread child sex abuse in the Christian 
church, nor do they partner with organizations that actually oppose such
 abuse or child sex trafficking.
And they weren’t willing to even vote for a bill to address child sex abuse that got broad bipartisan support.
Turning to Iraq where a US Marine has died this week.  Late yesterday morning, the Defense Dept issued the following statement:
                The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.
Staff Sgt. Samuel D. Lecce, 32, of Jefferson, Tenn., died Dec. 19, 
2022, as the result of a non-combat related incident in Iraq.  This 
incident is under investigation.
Lecce was assigned to the 3rd Marine Raider Battalion, Marine Forces Special Operations Command, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
For more information regarding Staff Sgt. Samuel D. Lecce, media may 
contact Maj. Matthew Finnerty, MARSOC Communication Strategy and 
Operations Officer, at matthew.w.finnerty.mil@socom.mil.
 
Back
 to the US for The Twitter Dumps.  In an embarrassing piece labeled an 
"analysis," THE WASHINGTON POST insists that the Tweets offered in 
various dumps thus far about the FBI suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop
 story offers insinuations, not evidence.  
This from the paper that spent how many months -- yes, we're going back decades -- to nail down Watergate?  
There's
 not a lot for me to cover on this topic.  I've done it already.  Most 
recently when I filled in for Kat at her site with "
The Twitter Dumps" and here in the December 8th "
Iraq snapshot."
They can't say the same -- the outlets pooh-pahhing the Tweets.
For the past few weeks, journalists have been reporting on what they've found in the "Twitter Files"—thousands and thousands of documents they were given access to by Twitter's new owner and CEO, the billionaire Elon Musk. The revelations have been astonishing and deeply troubling, exposing solid evidence of collusion between top executives at the FBI and their cozy counterparts at Twitter.
FBI leadership and Twitter censors conferred constantly
 about how to shut down political speech based on its content, 
confirming the suspicions of, well, anyone who was paying attention. And
 it proves without a doubt that over the past few years, countless 
Americans have undergone a real violation of their First Amendment 
rights.
The First Amendment mandates that government can't 
abridge—meaning limit or censor—speech based on its content. Even if 
attempting to advance the noblest of causes, government actors must not 
collide with this constitutional guardrail. The Constitution simply 
isn't optional. Government officials must treasure it like gold and 
defend it like hearth and home.
This is the part in the play when some rowdy voice shouts from the cheap
 seats that "Twitter is a private corporation, it's not government." 
True enough, but the government can't enlist a private citizen or 
corporation to undertake what the Constitution precludes it from doing.
The U.S. Supreme Court settled that decades ago with what's known as the law of agency,
 which allows a "principal" to assign an agent to do something on the 
principal's behalf. It's a limited transfer of power. And what the 
government is forbidden from doing it is also forbidden from 
subcontracting to an agent. 
It's
 a strong column.  And, unless you're THE NEW YORK POST, you have no 
excuse to bury the story.  You already distorted the record in real time
 and it's now up to you to correct the record.  Please remember, it's 
not just that THE NEW YORK TIMES refused to investigate the computer, 
it's that 
they wrote a lengthy 'report' claiming that THE POST newsroom was in an uproar over the publication.
Many
 Post staff members questioned whether the paper had done enough to 
verify the authenticity of the hard drive’s contents, said five people 
with knowledge of the tabloid’s inner workings. Staff members also had 
concerns about the reliability of its sources and its timing, the people
 said.
Who
 were these unnamed people Katie Robertson referred to?  Unnamed 
anonymice who, please note, weren't even identified -- read closely -- 
as NY POST employees.  They're just "five people with knowledge."  And 
NYT expected you to believe them.  The paper that utilized Scoots Libby 
as a source, the home of Judith Miller, expected you to believe it 
because they said so.  Two supposed POST employees are cited elsewhere 
(not named) for the claim that a reporter for NY POST refused to have 
his byline on the story.  So if the "five people with knowledge" were 
five POST employees, I think Katie would have written it that way.  
 
In
 addition to Katie, VANITY FAIR's Charlotte Klein and Eric Lutz also 
trashed THE POST report.  No, they have not corrected the record.  No, 
they have not apologized.  No, they have not admitted that they were 
wrong.  And this is true across the US media landscape so there is no 
reason and no excuse for them not to be exploring and investigating this
 story.
There are many aspects to the story and many ways to come at it.
Dozens of former national security officials have gone to work for Facebook
 and Twitter after leaving government service, raising concerns about 
the influence of their onetime agencies over the social media giants. 
At Twitter alone,
 at least eight former FBI agents work at the company’s so-called 
“trust” and “security” divisions — including its product policy manager 
Greg Anderson, who previously worked on “psychological operations” at 
the National Security Council, The Post has learned. Another is Matthew 
Williams, the company’s co-lead of its Trust and Safety department who 
spent more that 15 years in intelligence with the agency.
The discovery of the DC-to-Silicon Valley pipeline comes amid an outcry over revelations that the FBI influenced Twitter to suppress The Post’s account over its reporting on Hunter Biden’s overseas business interests in October 2020 and has regularly demanded specific accounts and tweets be banned. 
Multiple releases of internal company documents since Dec. 2 show 
Twitter developed a close working relationship with the intelligence 
community, which frequently leaned on them to censor political speech.
I have a feeling I may have to come back to this snapshot before the day's over to add to it.
 
 
ADDED: 
Next time my gut tells me something, I'll try to listen. 
 Martha and Shirley report a lot of e-mails to the public account over 
The Twitter Dump section above.  Why, they all moan in lament, sounding 
like a chorus of Annie Lennoxes, do I get off for not covering it?
Because
 we have covered it.  We started covering the story -- Hunter Biden's 
laptop and the suppression of the story -- the day THE NEW YORK POST 
published their first article.  Check the archives.  We covered it ahead
 of the 2020 election.  I'm sure someone else had to -- had to -- have 
called out THE NEW YORK TIMES for taking the time to do an anonymice hit
 piece on THE POST and its newsroom while begging off investigating the 
actual laptop.  I'm sure they had to.  I didn't see anyone else but I'm 
sure that someone else had to have called it out.  We didn't drop the 
coverage after the 2020 election.  We have repeatedly covered it.
In
 the original section above, I linked to two previous things I had 
written this month -- one here, one at Kat's site.  In both, we note the
 FBI broke the law.  In the one I wrote here?  
I'm
 so far ahead of the crowd.  You're supposed to run with the pack.  
That's what corporate journalists do.  Never get too far out ahead.  
Better to be wrong than right if being right means you're out on the 
limb alone.  Sadly, that mentality is also evident in our so-called left
 (or even just Democratic Party) media.  
I'm not going to turn this site over to a daily call for Joe Biden's impeachment.  
But that is what this is calling for and the point I made in the Iraq snapshot earlier this month.
We have one of two options: Joe Biden asked the FBI to stop coverage of the laptop or Joe Biden didn't.
First
 option?  He did so as a private citizen (former government official) in
 the midst of an election.  So, some would insist, it doesn't matter, he
 wasn't in the White House.  Actually, it does matter.  He was in the US
 Senate in the 70s, the 80s, the 90s and the 00s.  He knows the law, he 
knows the Constitution.  At the start of each Senate term, he took a 
sworn oath to uphold the Constitution.  And if he was involved there's 
also the fact that his actions allowed him to become president.  Those 
are high crimes.  So if he was part of this, yes, it impeachable -- it 
is a crime that led directly to his presidency.  
Second
 option?  He was not involved and, if any of his campaign staff were 
involved, he had no knowledge of what was taking place.
So he's in the clear, right?
Wrong. 
 And I've had this discussion with White House friends -- including when
 I took a break in dictating that day's snapshot (which is why it went 
up so late and is noted in the snapshot itself) to get some argument, 
any argument, that what was taking place was not an impeachable 
offense.  No one offered me a legally grounded argument.  That's the 
point of "Those fake ass 'religious' litigants (Ava and C.I.)," by the way -- the piece Ava and I did for THIRD.  You can't
 just claim a religious exemption.  Your religion has to offer one.  And
 you can't just say, "Oh, this isn't an impeachable offense," you have 
to make the argument as to why it's not.   
Joe
 is actually in trouble either way -- whether he knew or he didn't 
know.  If he didn't know, he now, in the last weeks, has seen enough to 
know there's something troubling and that the FBI has a shadow over it 
in the eyes of a number of Americans.  As the President of the United 
States, he is obligated to address such matters and to address the 
American people about how he is handling such matters.  He has made no 
comment at all.  (The White House spokesperson wrongly spoke out.  I 
knew that was wrong and noted it here.  I also noted it with friends in 
the administration -- and that if this goes poorly for Joe, the more she
 speaks on this topic, the worse it will be for him.  She is refusing to
 address the topic currently and that's the position she needs to stick 
with.  If Joe himself speaks on it, she can say "I refer you to what the
 President previously said . . ."  She needs to stay out of it for his 
sake and for her own sake.  And this was explained to her.) 
That falls under dereliction of duty.  
The
 FBI is a federal agency.  It is under the Dept of Justice.  That Dept 
is under the President.  He's not meeting his obligations, he's not 
fulfilling his assigned duties.
The
 minute the first Twitter Dump occurred, he was obligated to speak to 
it.  You could cut him a few days because the first dump was on a Friday
 and you could cut him some slack -- you don't have to -- and argue that
 the weekend wasn't the time to address it.  But Monday came and he said
 nothing.  And now you had the White House spokesperson sign her name to
 it, making it obvious that the White House was aware and was not 
addressing the issue.
It's dereliction of duty and it's an impeachable offense.
I take no joy in saying that.
And I don't like all the so-called left cowards that are hiding behind me.  
We
 have too much to cover without making this site a daily call for Joe 
Biden's impeachment.  I've made the call.  I have not retracted it and 
have no plan to retract it.  If something emerges from a Twitter Dump 
that changes that call, I would be required to cover it.  But having 
made the call for what is now needed -- action from the House of 
Representatives -- I'm not going to repeat myself.
The
 others on the Democratic Party side and left have pussy-footed and 
hedged.  They need to continue their coverage until it reaches the 
logical conclusion (call for impeachment).  The corporate media?  If 
you're an outlet other than THE NEW YORK POST or FOX NEWS, you've 
ignored this story since 2020 and, for the record to be corrected, you 
need to be covering it.
Again,
 I've taken our coverage out as far as it can go at this point.  If Joe 
Biden addresses it -- or a spokesperson -- then we have another reason 
to cover it.  If the House moves forward with an investigation or 
impeachment hearing, we have another reason.  Otherwise, we've said all 
that can be said here.  And we have other issues to cover including this
 one reported on by Mac Bullock (DAILY VOICE DELAWARE COUNTY) today: 
Philly
 cops were called to a home on the 1800 block of Brunner Street in the 
Tioga-Nicetown section of the city's north side at 4:15 p.m. on 
Wednesday, Dec. 14. for reports of an unresponsive person with an injury
 to the face. 
The
 individual, later identified as Jackson, was declared dead at the scene
 due to blunt force trauma, police said. The matter is being 
investigated as a homicide. 
On a GoFundMe page
There's
 a daily war against LGBTQ+ members.  We've always covered that, 
especially with regards to Iraq.  However, it took the release of BROS 
to show me just how much homophobia there was in this country.  The hate
 spewed at the film on YAHOO message boards and elsewhere was 
appalling.  And people keep talking about Twitter, for example.  What 
about YAHOO's obligations to follow its own community guidelines?  Or, 
for that matter, DEADLINE.
 
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