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Anti-abortion centers find pregnant teens online, then save their data – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Meanwhile, the crisis pregnancy nonprofits are sharpening their digital skills, investing their donations and state funding into outreach on social media, targeting teens and young adults. The centers have poured money into advertising on search and social media products such as TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. And some of them have begun using these platforms to spread not merely marketing messages but also what physicians and other health care professionals say is harmful misinformation.

On Snapchat, for instance, the centers appear to have been using the app to gain exposure to teenagers and women in their early 20s, Snapchat’s core audience. When searching in California, each of the nine businesses listed on Snap Maps under “pregnancy tests” are anti-abortion clinics. That’s also true for all all but one of the 10 listed when searching for “pregnancy.” Eleven of the 24 locations listed under “abortion” on Snap Maps in the same location were anti-abortion clinics. Three offered the so-called abortion reversal pill, which is considered dangerous by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, due to risk of hemorrhaging.

Snapchat removed dozens of anti-abortion clinics from its Snap Map feature after Bloomberg News raised questions.

 

Source: Anti-abortion centers find pregnant teens online, then save their data – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Republican Congresswoman Mary Miller Says Roe Ruling Is “Historic Victory For White Life”

“President Trump, on behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America, I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday,” Miller stated. Her words were met with cheers and applause.

(An earlier “slip of speech” – “Those who condemned Miller’s “slip” remember last when she quoted Adolf Hitler during a “Moms for America” rally in Washington.

“Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future,’” Miller said during the event. The comment came two days after she was sworn in as a House member. She apologized after there were calls for her to resign from Democrats.”)

Source: Republican Congresswoman Mary Miller Says Roe Ruling Is “Historic Victory For White Life”

Federal Agents Seized Phone of John Eastman, Key Figure in Jan. 6 Plan – The New York Times (Me: :))

The filing, a motion to recover property from the government, said that F.B.I. agents in New Mexico, acting on behalf of the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General, stopped Mr. Eastman as he was leaving a restaurant last Wednesday and seized his iPhone. A copy of the warrant included as an exhibit in Mr. Eastman’s filing said that the phone would be taken to either the Justice Department or the inspector general’s forensic lab in Northern Virginia.

The seizure of Mr. Eastman’s phone is the latest evidence that the Justice Department is intensifying its sprawling criminal investigation into the various strands of Mr. Trump’s efforts to remain in power after he was defeated for re-election.

La vie en rosé

French vineyards

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Franța, 2021

Îmi place să pornesc în căutări fără o destinație precisă și, de această dată, inițiez un circuit dionisiac.

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În Franța, vizitarea unei podgorii, atunci când ai norocul să dai la vânzare chiar peste viticultor, se desfășoară ca un mic eveniment cultural, cu explicații dinamice care ating istorie, sociologie, etnografie, gastronomie.

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De obicei, conversația este ilustrată de câteva eșantioane după un ceremonial cu reguli fixe: un spumant, două albe, un rosé, patru roșii, toate acestea pentru cine nu șofează.

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În regiunile pe care le-am parcurs, degustările sunt gratuite, foarte rar condiționate de cumpărarea unei butelii.

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Am vizitat mai mulți producători unde se practică integral o viticultură ecologică și vă împărtășesc câteva opriri unde plăcerea vizitei a fost specială.

Conversația cea mai plăcută

Saladin, 2021

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Actriță ? Profesoară ? Cu o vervă cuceritoare trădând dezinvoltura celor obișnuiți să se adreseze unui auditoriu amplu, o doamnă la pensie trăită la Paris…

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Bruce’s Beach was stolen a century ago. It’s finally been returned. – ALISON BETHEL MCKENZIE June 27, 2022 — Just Sayin’

Bruce’s Beach once belonged to Willa and Charles Bruce, who purchased the parcel in 1912 and established a popular resort for Black families. Today, a plaque at the top of a hill informs visitors of the beach’s history.PHOTOGRAPH BY ALLEN J. SCHABEN, GETTY IMAGESThe historically Black beach in California is now only the second in…

Bruce’s Beach was stolen a century ago. It’s finally been returned. – ALISON BETHEL MCKENZIE June 27, 2022 — Just Sayin’

California to vote on adding abortion rights in state Constitution – Los Angeles Times

California voters will decide in November whether the state Constitution should explicitly protect a person’s right to an abortion and birth control.

On Monday, the Democratic-controlled Legislature gave final approval to a measure that would put the issue before the state’s voters, in the latest countermeasure aimed at the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade.

Senate Constitutional Amendment 10 by Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) would, if approved by voters, further codify the state’s already progressive reproductive rights, which grant anyone of reproductive age “the fundamental right to choose to bear a child or to choose and to obtain an abortion.” Currently, those rights in California are held up by case law and statutory laws, but Atkins said hostile attacks on abortion access convinced her those aren’t enough.

“We know from history that abortion bans don’t end abortion,” said Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood), a co-author of SCA 10. “They only outlaw safe abortions. We must preserve the fundamental reproductive rights of women here in California, because they are under attack elsewhere.”

 

Source: California to vote on adding abortion rights in state Constitution – Los Angeles Times

Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves

  • Switzerland imported 24.5 tonnes of gold in 2021, at least a fifth of which came from Brazilian Amazon states. Evidence indicates most of it is mined illegally on Indigenous lands. Illicit mining operations have resulted in major Amazon deforestation, widespread mercury poisoning and soaring violence.
  • With the Brazilian government of Jair Bolsonaro unresponsive to the escalating crisis, an independent delegation of Indigenous people along with others travelled to Switzerland in May to plead with major gold refiners to end the importation of illicit Brazilian gold.
  • This week, the refiners published a statement pledging to remove illegal gold mined within Brazilian Indigenous reserves from their supply chains. If the initiative is fully followed, experts say it could be a game changer that could undermine the, until now, lucrative illegal gold trade.
  • Canada, the world’s biggest importer of gold, has made no such agreement. 

Source: Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves