#boy-scouts — Public Fediverse posts

Donald Trump has announced his intention to rename the Boy Scouts of America ‘Trump Youth’ after a number of tremendously well-received rallies.
Taking a break from tweeting and watching Fox News, President Trump used his Truth Social account to explain how delighted the crowds were with his views on fake media, the Epstein files, and a party that he may or may not have attended back in the 1980’s.
https://archive.ph/ER8hf #satire #Trump #BoyScouts

Ah, the Boy Scouts—a beacon of #neglect wrapped in a new brand name! 🔥🔥 Apparently, the organization thinks a bit of #rebranding magic will solve decades of negligence. 🤦‍♂️ But fear not, they've got a meeting in Dallas where they’ll surely fix everything with some #PowerPoint slides and corporate jargon. 🎩✨
https://www.untendedfire.org/2026/05/09/scoutings-real-crisis-is-not-marketing-it-is-decades-of-neglect/ #BoyScouts #CorporateJargon #DallasMeeting #HackerNews #ngated

Campaign Against Camping!

Have I ever been camping?

Have I ever been camping?!!

You’re rootin’ tootin’, I’ve been camping. I’ll tell you – I’ve spent some of the most miserable days and nights of my life under canvas.

I’m cool with the notion of getting back to nature. I did, after all, spend eighteen years of my working life outdoors, in just about every kind of weather imaginable, when I was working with animals. That part doesn’t faze me at all. It wasn’t pleasant at times, for sure, but I knew come six o’ clock in the evening, I could head home for a hot bath, something nice to eat, and watch my favourite television programme.

That didn’t happen on any camping expedition I was on, that’s for sure.

You see, I was in the Boy Scouts. In the late 1960s and early ’70s. Camping was seen then as ‘character building.’ And I think that’s what turned me into the bitter and twisted wee character I am today.

The idea was we went on organised camps with the Troop Leaders to learn all sorts of useful skills.

Aye right! I’m not sure exactly how may tent pegs I’ve subsequently had to whittle from a damp log found in the woods, but I’m guessing if I were to count them, they’d come to less than a finger on one hand.

Map-reading? There’s another. Just jump in a taxi for goodness sake. Erecting a tent. Why? I’m never likely to go camping ever, ever again.

It was pointless. Why not just take us away for the weekend to a nice hotel in a distant city where we could all sneak out, meet up with the local Girl Guide unit , and blag a few illicit beers. That would have more of a practical life experience.

But no – not only were our parents so happy to pack us off for random weekends with the Scout Leaders, so they could … well … they were also happy to let us go without the adult supervision. And so off we’d go, maybe six of us from our own patrol; off to show the Leaders what great Scouts we were. Off to live under canvas for a weekend at the arse-end of the Earth.

One time, our ever-so-inexperienced band of idiots pitched our tent at the foot of a wooded slope. With a river about fifty yards away.

And it rained. Big, Scottish rain. Scottish rain is like rain the world over. Only more miserable!

At two o’clock in the morning, with our sleeping bags already soaked, we had go out in the dark, with some crappy wee torch thing (the wick in the lanterns we’d brought were too damp to ignite) and dig a bloody big, deep trench around the tent and divert the cascading water away.

Over the next two days, we replaced the rainwater in our clothes with smoke from the campfire which we eventually managed to restart.

And we couldn’t just break camp and head home, because we were in the middle of bleedin’ nowhere, and weren’t due to be picked up until the Monday afternoon.

And see all this palaver about digging latrines or using the bushes in the woods like a bear does??!! Whaaat?!

That was the last time I went camping.

(Oh no, wait. My wife and I did stay overnight in one of these plush Arabian tent things in Goa, India, a couple of years ago. And I got bitten on the chest by a huge spider that I witnessed escaping from under the bedsheet. The bite left a dirty great welt that I had to bombard with antiseptic creams for a week.)

And caravanning is no better! I’ll post my ‘Caravan Holiday Hell‘ tale, taken from my book ‘A Space Hopper Killed My Hamster‘ in a day or two. Once I’ve gotten over the trauma of re-living my Camping experiences.

SO THAT’S IT – CAMPING MUST BE BANNED! I’M STARTING A CAMPAIGN. HERE AND NOW! ARE YOU WITGH ME, BROTHERS & SISTERS? ADD YOUR NAME IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW, AND TOGETHER WE WILL CANVASS AGAINST CANVAS!

Eagle Scout project brings hammock garden to Lost River Cave https://www.allforgardening.com/1670767/eagle-scout-project-brings-hammock-garden-to-lost-river-cave/ #BowlingGreen #BoyScouts #EagleScoutProject #garden #HammockGarden #LostRiverCave

@vees #boyscouts have decided racism is important them. Too bad they don't care about their scouts or their future

#TheGremlinZoo #Pentagon #BoyScouts #TransgenderYouth

From AP News.com: Transgender youths are targeted in Scouting America changes pushed by the Pentagon

https://apnews.com/article/scouting-america-pentagon-military-boy-scouts-14a5fc1521fcd1e51103638f6f504214

I'm looking for some old Boy Scouts from Dayton or Fairborn, OH, from the early to mid-60s who know the rest of this 👇👇👇
#boyscouts #scouting #daytonohio #fairbornohio

https://youtube.com/shorts/3rBsxb_JvuQ?feature=share

@Nonilex #SCOTUS aligns with the #GOP on the #BoyScouts of #America settlement over #SexualAbuse. 🤔

Note: G.O.P. now stands for Guardians Of #Pedophiles.

Lower courts, including the 3rd US Circuit Court Appeals, upheld the settlement agreement. The Lujan claimants appealed to #SCOTUS in October. SCOTUS in early 2024 rejected an emergency appeal from the same group of survivors.

Though SCOTUS did not explain its reasoning, the decision leaves in a place an appeals court decision that found that the way the #BoyScouts deal was structured largely #shielded it from review by appellate courts.

#law #rape #ChildSexCrimes #SexAbuse #pedophilia #BSA

Critics of such arrangements say courts are generally not authorized to block such lawsuits. Supporters say that without protections for third-party groups, major bankruptcy deals like the ones for #Purdue & the #BoyScouts would never take effect.

#SCOTUS #law #rape #ChildSexCrimes #SexAbuse #pedophilia #BSA

In the #BoyScouts case, some of the survivors want to be able to sue independent councils that ran local scouting programs & third-party organizations, such as churches & civic groups, that supported the programs. Those third-party groups contributed billions of dollars to a #settlement trust for survivors &, under the agreement, are #shielded from future #civil #lawsuits.

#SCOTUS #law #rape #ChildSexCrimes #SexAbuse #pedophilia #BSA

The group of survivors – 75 people out of >82k who filed claims against the #BoyScouts – argued that #SCOTUS should have reopened the settlement in light of its decision last year in a similar legal dispute in involving #PurduePharma, the maker of the #opioid pain mediciation #OxyContin. In that case, a 5-4 majority rejected a bankruptcy agreement that would have shielded the #Sackler family from future lawsuits even though it made its fortune running the company.

#law #rape #pedophilia #BSA

...whats supposed to be the end result of the #epsteinfiles? ...we already know the vile perpetrators will never face any real consequences due to their "high postions of power" and the friends who protect them...so will they just buy off the victims like the #boyscouts did and pretend 2.7bn forgives all evils and erases all trauma, and then we just collectively forget how many lives were destroyed by these nasty horrid monsters who just carry on living as if nothing happend, like they are now?

If Pete Hesgeth, who was never a Scout himself, thinks the BSA was better under the old leadership, saying the new leadership “attacks boy-friendly spaces,” maybe he should remember that the old leadership actively shielded pedophiles who targeted young boys.

#boyscouts #scouts #uspol

#Pentagon #BoyScouts

From NPR.org: Documents show Pentagon preparing to sever ties with Scouting

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/25/nx-s1-5615164/pentagon-scouting-hegseth-cut-ties

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/25/nx-s1-5615164/pentagon-scouting-hegseth-cut-ties

One of the weirder moves by #Hegesth.

Personally (as both a #peace activist and a scouting alum), I think #Scouting may be better off without the military support in the long-term, but the rationale given for this is just bizarre.

The part of this that does concern me is that this policy would also bar Scout troops from meeting on military bases, a real problem for young people living on overseas military bases with a military parent. It seems unjust to deprive these kids of the opportunities of Scouting, just because because of Hegseth's gender paranoia and insecurities.

#USmilitary #USA #BoyScouts #BSA #ScoutingUSA

Scouting America 'surprised and disappointed' after U.S. military threatens to cut ties

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/military-boy-scouts-partnership-ended

I created the hashtag channels #scouts and #jota on #MeshCore. Looking forward to meet you at the next #Jamboree Over The Air (JOTA) via #Lora!

Secret key for #scouts:
84f0b4bdd3a486031c8d4f387810b8cd

Secret key for #jota:
54a25feed3cbe56647474422c35e456a

#scouting #hamradio #pfadfinder #boyscouts #girlscouts #bipi #dpsg #vcp #bdp #royalrangers #scoutmovement #beprepared

If you loved the scouting experience or even if you didn't, I think you might still like this.

https://www.notzen.net/2025/11/not-even-not-zen-416-biomythography.html

#humor #religion #BoyScouts #adolescence #1975 #philosophy

The Boy Scouts' newest survival skills are surprising—and critical- Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/91421962/the-boy-scouts-newest-survival-skills-are-surprising-and-critical #AI #cybersecurity #BoyScouts #meritbadges #survivalskills

#geometry matters. You just need to know how to become #transverse for a while

I would #cold otherwise.
#space has so much more ways to get warm!

@FernandGueudet... I'll sleep in 2d in the meantime (under a dawn) until the diffusion happens but I promise the ways to get warm are infinite. I know it by theory (from you) and by experience (from #boyscouts, from here, and more).

57 I keep a copy of the Boy Scout pamphlet for the
Citizenship in the Nation Merit Badge ready to hand. It well
explains our nation’s system of checks and balances among the
three branches of our government.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

#Trump #treason #fascism #Constitution #Republicans #BoyScouts

“Law enforcement departments across the country have Explorer programs – overseen by Scouting America, formerly known as Boy Scouts of America – and they have a history of sexual abuse and misconduct, as the Marshall Project reported last year.” #LE ##ChildAbuse #BoyScouts ##Explorer
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/police-ride-alongs-programs-abuse

Sacramento held its 79th annual Japanese food and cultural bazaar https://www.diningandcooking.com/2224808/sacramento-held-its-79th-annual-japanese-food-and-cultural-bazaar/ #79thAnnual #79thAnnualJapaneseFood #ActivitiesForChildren #AnnualEvent #BoyScouts #BuddhistChurch #Child #CulturalBazaar #food #Game #GirlScouts #HomemadeSushi #JapaneseFoodAndCulturalBazaar #JapanesePastry #LiveMusic #Noodle #prize #Sacramento #TheBuddhistChurchOfSacramento #YouthBasketballTeam

Have you ever been snipe hunting?

#TylerChilders #TVAC #Southern #BoyScouts