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• Halloween special sponsored by Twix has outraged conservatives howling like a banshee

Twix’s sponsorship of a Halloween-themed episode of Hulu’s “Bite Size Halloween” series is spawning outrage online from conservatives who are scared of the spot’s inclusive message. The video has mistakenly been confused as a commercial but is only a short clip from the episode.
(Bil Browning, LGBTQ Nation, US, October 29, 2021)

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Twix - Bite Size Halloween: The New Nanny (2021)

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• Sex Offenders: Fear vs. Fact on Halloween

Media fearmongering over “Registered Sex Offenders” in the community has become an annual Halloween tradition in the same way as razor blades and poison in candy.
( Derek W. Logue, The Crime Report, US, October 26, 2021)

• Virgin Islands: $400,000 Award from the U.S. Department of Justice in Support of SORNA

U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands has received a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice in support of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
(US Gov., ACSOL, US, October 25, 2021)

• Three starving children, 7, 10, and 15, are found locked inside Houston apartment next to the decomposing remains of their 9-year-old brother who had been dead for a YEAR

(Teleiophile mother and her boyfriend, found but not arrested, that left:) Three starving children, ages 7, 10, and 15, were found living alone in an apartment in deplorable conditions, along with the decomposing remains of their nine-year-old brother who police say had been dead for a year.
(Andrea Blanco, Daily Mail, US, October 25, 2021)

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Boyfriend, 31, of House of Horrors mother is charged with 'punching and kicking to death' eight-year-old boy whose body was left for a YEAR in squalid apartment with his three starving brothers: She is charged with neglect

A Houston man was arrested on Tuesday along with his girlfriend and charged with murder for allegedly beating the woman's eight-year-old son to death and leaving his corpse to decompose for a year in a home where the boy's three siblings were found starving after being abandoned for months.
(Daily Mail, US, October 27, 2021)

Siblings describe witnessing savage murder of their brother in Houston horror house

Chilling details were revealed in court Wednesday about the savage death of an 8-year-old Houston boy whose remains were found in the family’s apartment with his abandoned siblings.
(Kenneth Garger, NY Post, US, October 28, 2021)

• A School District Suspended Male & Nonbinary Students For Having Long Hair

Six boys and one nonbinary student ranging in age from 7 to 17 are mentioned in a suit filed in a federal district court this week against the Magnolia Independent School District, claiming the school’s dress and grooming codes “imposed immense and irreparable harm” and violate both the students’ civil rights as well as Title IX federal law which prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools.
(Donald Padgett, OUT News, US, October 22, 2021)

• Minneapolis schools are spying on queer students & outing them to teachers and parents

Since spring 2020, Minneapolis schools have been using an online surveillance application called Gaggle to spy on students’ online activity. The software flags LGBTQ-related terms and has already reported outed at least one LGBTQ student to their parents.
(LGBTQ Nation, US, October 16, 2021)

• Seattle school cancels Halloween parade over equity issues

A Seattle Public Schools elementary school has canceled its Halloween parade, saying the event has historically marginalized students of color who don’t celebrate the holiday.
(, US, October 15, 2021)