No live today, guys. Dealing with a little bit of a bug.
I’m also probably going to change up the schedule, moving forward.
I’ll post the new plan shortly. Hope everyone has a good weekend
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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
Musk and The Free Press are very confused about this issue. Musk is spreading baseless lies. There was no cover up by British authorities. But Bari Weiss is calling this "The biggest cover up in British history". She is a very, very bad journalist.
Allow the BBC to explain:
UK authorities were slow to respond to the grooming gang scandals due to a combination of institutional failures, fears of being accused of racism, and a lack of prioritization for the vulnerable victims involved. Many of the perpetrators were of South Asian descent, and authorities, including police and social services, were hesitant to investigate or act decisively out of concern that doing so might be seen as targeting minority communities or inciting racial tensions. This reluctance was com…
Where did you read this?
"Reports and investigations highlighting the abuse were ignored or suppressed, as seen in the Rotherham scandal, where officials reportedly destroyed evidence and discouraged whistleblowers to protect the reputation of their institutions."
That is some extraordinarily high quality propaganda by a right-wing publication that is clearly operating out of an agenda. It gives one the sense that the UK officials did nothing in response to these crimes. It does so by quoting anonymous police officers. It completely ignores all the significant efforts by authorities to do something about the problem.
That story was published yesterday. How do you square that reporting with the fact of this report by a major task force from April of 2023? Does it really look like the authorities did nothing?
The first three paragraphs of that report:
In the last 12 months the crack team of expert investigators and analysts has helped police forces arrest over 550 suspects, identify and protect over 4,000 victims, and build up robust cases to get justice for these appalling crimes.
Established by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in April 2023, the Grooming Gangs Taskforce of specialist officers has worked with all 43 police forces in England and Wales to support child sexual exploitation and grooming investigations.
Led by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and supported by the National Crime Agency, the taskforce is a full time, operational police unit funded by the Home Office to improve how the police investigate grooming gangs and identify and protect children from abuse. It is staffed by experienced and qualified officers and data analysts who have long-term, practical on-the-ground experience of undertaking investigations into grooming gangs.
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