Senator Warns of Dangers Posed by Trump’s NASA Nominee
Senator Patty Murray of Washington says Rep. Jim Bridenstine is not the person to take us into the future. Read her letter to the Senate’s Science Committee below.
www.advocate.com/politics/2017/10/26/senator-warns-dangers-posed-trumps-nasa-nominee
Alt-Right Trump Diehard and Former Milo Yiannopoulos Intern Stabs Father to Death for Calling Him a Nazi
Lane Davis aka Seattle4Truth (YouTube)
A prolific online troll and former intern of Milo Yiannopoulos has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly stabbing his father to death in his Washington home. According to audio of the incident obtained by the Daily Beast, 33-year-old Lane Davis set upon his father after the latter called him a Nazi. “He’s chasing us around…
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Vulnerable People Should Not Have To Rely On Strangers’ Care In An AirBnB
Hospitals are, ironically, one of those places within whose boundaries we can feel a certain amount of safety. Despite usually being there at a time of great vulnerability and uncertainty, we can mostly surrender to being looked after. Even when we hear that the NHS is falling apart and short of money, we still feel like a child in its nursery, that we are intrinsically nurtured in those walls. That if we have the misfortune to need to stay there, there is always someone looking out for us. We can surrender to the experts – they will notice if we need care, and will perhaps see us start to fall, even before we do, and will be there to catch us. At a scary time when it is only visiting hours that allows us the comfort of a loved one (if we are lucky enough to have one), then the building, the people, and the trust that we are being cared for is both a reassurance and an aid to recovery. We can try to relax and allow our healing to take place.
There are many alarming elements to the news of the CareRooms pilot, but to suddenly hear that it is considered perfectly fine to complete your recovery in a stranger’s spare room seems to be making much of the country wonder whether the NHS as an organisation understands just how key a person’s emotional safety is to healing.
The fact that the announcement of the CareRooms scheme has affected the feelings of so many today says a lot about our collective psyche of the meaning of NHS care. We know there are drops in the service and gaps in the provision, stemming from policy, funding, skills, personnel and politics, but there has continued to be a general feeling that the ethos of the NHS is to at least try to be there for you – from your first GP appointment to discuss a symptom until you are discharged from their care. To suddenly feel like potentially the NHS is going to release you before you are ready, and not even to your own familiar home with its comforts, but to that of a total stranger, who you have never met, in a house in which you are unfamiliar, can have an huge impact on your recovery.
Someone who is old, vulnerable or weary from illness and has no family to be released to can at least feel safe and amongst professional “friends” if they stay in hospital until they are able to go to their own home. To be released into an uncertain place, with strange people, who have no professional ability for physical care, or to notice changes, will have an adverse impact on the recovery of so many of them. It is now well accepted that one’s emotional wellbeing has an impact on the healing process, and to have to worry about asking a stranger for help at a time when they are at their most vulnerable physically is bound to have an impact on many patients’ mental wellbeing. To be placed in an environment that is unfamiliar, and in a place that belongs to someone else, can be both embarrassing and cause insecurity. I know that I would feel so very uncomfortable and anxious to be in a stranger’s house at the best of times, and I am someone who has the support of family, friends and the ability to keep my wits about me. To be a vulnerable and lonely person who has no one to ask for reassurance or care other than a stranger doesn’t bear thinking about.
Living near a rural town where there is a hard battle being fought to keep our 12 bed cottage hospital open, it is so hard to understand why such a scheme as CareRooms is being considered. The extra comfort and safety that would be felt by a lonely patient recuperating in a hospital facility, however low tech, rather than in a random stranger’s house, is obvious to see. To close such a facility down, while trying to recreate a very poor version of it elsewhere, seems to make no sense.
Most of us can see where this one small step could potentially lead, and the thought that when we are old or alone we could perhaps be left to recuperate without physical or emotional care, in a stranger’s spare bed, affects not only the trust we place in our NHS when we are ill, but as a whole organisation moving forward. To see the patient as a person, an individual, a soul, who requires respect, kindness and consideration as well as treatment and physical care should surely be a non-negotiable part of its mission.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/deborah-moran/vulnerable-people-should-_b_18387226.html
With Trump and Sessions, We’ll Only Get Equality Through the States
For now, forget about a federal law banning LGBT discrimination — its state legislatures where we have to fight and win.
www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/10/26/trump-and-sessions-well-only-get-equality-through-states
Teen Character to Realize He’s Gay in Groundbreaking Storyline on Top Disney Channel Show ‘Andi Mack’
Disney Channel’s “Andi Mack” stars Sofia Wylie as Buffy Driscoll, Joshua Rush as Cyrus Goodman, Peyton Elizabeth Lee as Andi Mack, and Asher Angel as Jonah Beck. (Disney Channel/Photographer)
The Disney Channel is about to make network history as one of its teen characters on the show Andi Mack begins to realize that he is gay.
Andi Mack, which is about to begin its second season on Friday, follows the tale of 13-year-old Andi Mack (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) as she comes of age alongside her trio of best friends, which includes Cyrus Goodman (Joshua Rush). Jonah Beck (Asher Angel) is Andi’s longtime crush, but her best friend Cyrus will soon begin realizing that he also has feelings for Jonah. When he confides this to their other best friend Buffy (Sofia Wylie), he finds an understanding and supportive friend that the network hopes will serve as a role model for both kids and adults. Throughout the rest of the season, Cyrus grapples with his continued journey of self-discovery alongside his friends Buffy and Andi, as well as how to tell his new girlfriend and more.
The coming-of-age series, starring Peyton Elizabeth Lee as the 13-year-old title character, premiered in March, becoming the top series of the year among girls (median age is 10) and #1 in its time period among all children ages six-14. It holds the top series spot on Disney Channel VOD, Disney Channel’s DisneyNOW app and on Disney Channel UK.
The series, launching on Disney Channels around the world through mid-2018, was created by executive producer Minsky (Lizzie McGuire), and follows Andi as she comes to terms with news that Bex, the girl she thought was her older sister, is actually her mother.
With a realism not always evident on tween-focused programs, Andi Mack follows Andi, her family and her two best friends – Cyrus Goodman and Buffy Driscoll (Sofia Wylie) – as they navigate their lives.
Expect a freakout from One Million Moms in short order, and expect Disney not to budge.
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Cherin Kasper: Wie es sich anfühlt, an dem einen Morgen als Frau aufzuwachen und am anderen als Mann
Es gab auch Tage, an denen ich mich wohl mit mir fühlte – als Frau. Aber es gab eben auch die anderen Tage, an denen ich mich maskulin fühlte. Was war ich also?
Weiterlesen: Blogs, Non-Binary, Genderfluid, Körper, Depressionen, frauen_de, Homosexualität, Germany News
www.huffingtonpost.de/cherin-kasper/mann-frau-genderfluid-erlebnisbericht_b_18383684.html
36 Photos Connecting Dance and Antiquity
www.advocate.com/photography/2017/10/26/36-photos-connecting-dance-and-antiquity
Cruz Beckham’s Weight Lifting Video Sparks Concern, But All Is Not As It Seems
Victoria and David Beckham’s youngest son Cruz sparked concern from fans when he shared a video of himself lifting weights in the gym, but it’s not all it seems.
The 12-year-old posted a video of himself on a bench press with his brother, Brooklyn, and two friends on each side.
“No gains,” he captioned the video, shared on Wednesday 25 October.
Commenting on the photo, some were concerned that Cruz was too young to be in the gym, with one writing: “No way, too young for this, it’s not good.”
Another wrote: “At 12 years old this is not acceptable.”
However, others soon realised that the video was meant as a laugh.
Commenting on the video, one person wrote: “You’re all being silly – there’s two people on each side of him helping him lift it.”
Another wrote: “He’s doing it for a laugh, it’s obviously not serious. Calm down, it really is a bit of fun.”
And someone else wrote: “Look closely on the right, you can see the man is holding the bar and squatting as Cruz brings it down.
“It just appears as if he’s lifting it by himself.”
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/david-beckkham-cruz-lifting_uk_59f19e9fe4b0438859155694
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Jamie Harron Is Free But We Must Remain Outraged At The UAE’s Disdain For Human Rights
The UAE has gained notable attention across the UK media recently due to the bizarre case of Jamie Harron from Stirling, Scotland, who found himself facing three years in prison on charges of public indecency for touching another man’s hip whilst trying not to spill his drink when moving through a crowded bar in downtown Dubai.
It could have happened to any of us and maybe this is why readers are hungry for more details of this story.
Whilst it is good that Jamie Harron’s terrible ordeal in Dubai has received so much attention, it is important that the this case is not viewed in isolation of a much broader narrative of oppression and human rights abuses in the UAE.
Since the Arab Spring of 2011, repression has been rapidly stepped up by the Emirati authorities. Both Emiratis and non-Emiratis have been arbitrarily detained, forcefully disappeared, and in many cases tortured on the most frivolous of charges. In 2016 alone, around 300 people were detained in the UAE for comments posted on social media sites which allegedly criticised the ruling regime. In today’s UAE, prominent Emirati academics, human rights defenders, and lawyers currently languish in jail, often in unknown locations, on charges which violate freedom of speech.
However, the media has framed Jamie’s story as a ‘banged up abroad’ holiday maker nightmare rather than as an example of systematic state repression. Because of this, the tendency is to blame cultural differences rather than focus on a government that has disdain for human rights and international humanitarian law.
Over the last twelve months, ICFUAE (International Campaign for Freedom in the United Arab Emirates) have received evidence of an alarming increase in arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances. The most notable of these cases is that of Ahmed Mansoor, a prominent human rights activist who is currently being held in solitary confinement without access to a lawyer. This was an arrest triggered by Mansoor’s tireless efforts to highlight human rights abuses in the UAE. Worryingly, this has coincided with an increase in British diplomatic and trading activity with the UAE and, in the context of Brexit as trade with the UAE takes on a greater importance, the British government become less willing to speak out about human rights abuses.
Jamie Harron’s terrible ordeal should encourage the media to dig deeper and explore the human rights behaviour of the UAE authorities. If it does this, then some good may come of this episode. However, if the media chooses to frame it in cultural and racial terms then the outcome will be somewhat different. One only has to note the Islamophobic comments underneath some of the articles to see how quickly this can degenerate into racist and, often orientalist, stereotyping.
Harron arrived home on Wednesday to his family and yet Emirati prisoners remain in solitary confinement without representation, such as prominent economist Dr. Nasser bin Ghaith who is serving 10 years in prison for Twitter comments. It is in this context that Harron’s ordeal must be understood. For a short period he was exposed to that which is the reality for so many within the UAE. The fact that the British media have become so interested in this case and have so far failed to relate it to other internal cases suggests that as a society we have still not rid ourselves an Orientalist approach to the Arab world.
It is imperative that the UK media presents Jamie’s case within this wider climate of repression inside the Emirates. By not doing so, we reduce ourselves to viewing human rights violations in the UAE through a Eurocentric lens, which places the value of a European life as higher than that of an Arab. The case of Jamie Harron should not be understood through the lens of a cultural war, but rather within a wider context of repression and human rights abuses in which Emirati bloggers, human rights defenders, and political activists constitute the front line.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/joe-odell-/jamie-harron-united-arab-emirates_b_18383718.html
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