An 85-year-old Kansas City white man named Andrew Lester has been charged with shooting a 16-year-old black boy who knocked on his front door by mistake. The teenage victim, Ralph Yarl, was hospitalized with gunshot wounds, but is now recovering at home. Mr. Lester has been charged with assault in the first degree.
In other news, Marine Le Pen, the leader of Rassemblement National (National Rally) in France, expressed her disagreement with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on major issues. In particular, she took exception to Ms. Meloni’s support for the EU and NATO.
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The RBA has come under fire for its rapid rate rises, which according to a leading financial services firm were unnecessary and threaten to plunge the economy into a ‘consumer recession’.
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2 NY Residents Allegedly Ran Secret Chinese Police Station: ‘Significant National Security Matter’
The FBI and federal prosecutors announced Monday the arrests of two New York residents who allegedly ran an undisclosed Chinese government police station in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood.
Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping have each been charged with conspiring to act as agents of China’s government, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for that office, said China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) “has repeatedly and flagrantly violated our nation’s sovereignty, including by opening and operating a police station in the middle of New York City.”
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Adam Schiff Heckled at New York City Hearing: ‘You’Re a Scumbag’
Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) was heckled during the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on violent crime in New York City today.
An angry New Yorker dropped the hammer on Schiff while the congressman was reading his opening statement.
“This committee has used every means at its disposal to disrupt, interrupt, and interfere with Donald Trump’s prosecution,” Schiff said.
“Republicans would have you believe it is a mere coincidence that all of a sudden and out of the blue, the chairman Jordan decided that the state of NY is a wonderful place to do a hearing — not the chairman’s home state of Ohio, with its high rates of murder.”
Schiff didn’t get very far before he was brutally heckled by a man in the crowd, however.
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On Thursday, Alec Baldwin asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by the sister and parents of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed in a fatal shooting on the set of Baldwin’s low-budget movie Rust in Bonanza City, New Mexico on October 21, 2021, an incident for which the actor is facing involuntary manslaughter charges.
NBC News reports Baldwin said in the court filings, “The loss of a daughter and sister is undoubtedly painful in any circumstance. Yet Plaintiffs—who had been distanced from Halyna physically, financially, and emotionally for years before her death—have no viable cause of action against Defendants.”
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Alvin Bragg Protester Booted From House Judiciary Hearing: ‘You Are Utterly Disgraceful’
A New York man protesting against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was escorted out of a House Judiciary Committee field hearing called by Republicans in New York City on Monday.
The hearing in New York City called “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan” took aim at what Republicans described as Bragg’s “pro-crime,” “anti-victim” policies.
Bragg’s office, which is currently prosecuting Former President Donald Trump for allegedly falsifying business records, and other political allies have blasted the hearing as a political stunt.
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Bluesky Announces How Moderation Will Work on the Decentralized Platform
Bluesky Social, a decentralized alternative to Twitter, is now available on the App Store as a private beta, with an invite-only access.
The Bluesky project was started by former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey. It was funded by Twitter until 2021 after Dorsey stepped down as Twitter’s CEO.
Three months after resigning, Dorsey announced that Bluesky was “an independent organization,” with the mission of developing and driving “large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.”
The platform’s interface and functionality resemble Twitter. Users can follow others and be followed, repost content, and even upload images. Also, posts have a maximum of 256 characters.
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Pamela Price, the progressive prosecutor of Alameda County, California, near San Francisco, is facing protests and a call for her recall amid a storm of criticism for her response to a family whose toddler was murdered in a suspected gang shooting on a public highway.
An informal Change.org petition demanding her recall has garnered more than 14,000 signatures. It takes issue with a handful of other cases in which the new left-wing district attorney has allegedly gone soft on criminals.
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Chicago Police Encourage People to Enjoy What City ‘Has to Offer’ Day After ‘Teen Takeover’ Chaos
The Chicago Police Department responded to a downtown teen riot by encouraging visitors to “enjoy everything the city has to offer.”
“Everyone is welcome and encouraged to enjoy all that Chicago has to offer including the popular downtown area,” the department said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital on Sunday in the aftermath of a “Teen Takeover” promoted on social media that sent tourists running for cover.
The event saw hundreds of teens descend on downtown Chicago, where they vandalized cars and physically assaulted tourists.
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Connecticut Homeowner Steps in, Fights Off Four Car Thieves in His Driveway: Watch
A Connecticut man in Rocky Hill, a suburb of Hartford, turned the tables on a pack of crooks and fought off four would-be car thieves in his driveway.
The Rocky Hill Police said: “On Monday, April 10, 2023 at approximately 7:02 P.M., a robbery occurred on Valley View Drive. A previous news release was provided to media outlets and the public on April 11, 2023.
“The incident was recorded on the homeowner’s surveillance camera. The surveillance video is being released in an attempt to identify the suspects.
“The depiction of the video and its audio may be upsetting or disturbing to some viewers.
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Crime Killed a Quarter of a Million Black People
by Daniel Greenfield
Over the last decade, BLM, and assorted leftist and libertarian groups dismantled our criminal justice system. Police forces were defunded, pro-crime prosecutors refused to lock up criminals, federal and state prison systems released tens of thousands of them, and a wave of legislative decriminalization legalized everything from shoplifting, to drug dealing and mugging.
The pro-crime policymaking that eliminated public safety and cost over 3,000 lives in 2020 alone was done under the guise of fighting racism. Statistics which showed that black people were more likely to be arrested, imprisoned or shot during criminal encounters with police were used to spread conspiracy theories falsely accusing the criminal justice system of systemic racism.
What all of these racist conspiracy theories popularized by politicians, the media, and the entertainment industry ignored was that black people were also far more likely to be crime victims. Even as the BLM riots got underway, black people in surveys were strongly opposed to police defunding. The opposition was so vehement that Democrats not only abandoned the issue, but claimed that they had always been opposed to it and ran against their own position.
Despite years of false claims portraying black people as victims of a biased criminal justice system whose police forces are descended from “slave catchers” who repress minorities at the behest of white suburbanites, surveys of black people continue to tell a very different story…
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A New York City Democrat councilman has just flipped on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to blow the whistle on the George Soros-funded anti-Trump prosecutor.
Councilman Robert Holden will testify at Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) House Judiciary Committee hearing regarding Bragg’s get-Trump case.
Bragg is accused of ignoring the soaring violent crime in his district while he focuses on his politically motivated case against President Donald Trump.
Holden, who has served as the representative for the 30th district since 2018, is prepared to testify that the crime rate in New York City has increased “because of Bragg.”
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Four Democratic legislators, including Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Washington Representative Pramila Jayapal have asked Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department to investigate Warner Bros Discovery for limiting “consumer and worker choice,” including the cancellation of Batgirl.
Texas Representative Joaquin Castro and Rhode Island Representative David Cicilline joined Warren and Jayapal in writing the letter, which was addressed to Garland and Jonathan Kanter, the DOJ’s antitrust chief, and read that the four “respectfully urge the Justice Department to investigate the state of competition in affected labor and consumer markets” of the Warner Bros and Discovery+ merger as it “appears to have enabled Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to adopt potentially anticompetitive practices that reduce consumer choice and harm workers in affected labor markets.”
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Doctor Sued for Forcing Healthy Teens to Get Vaxxed
A doctor has been hit with a lawsuit over allegations the Washington, D.C. physician forcibly vaccinated two teenagers for Covid.
The mother of the teens, NaToya McNeil, is suing the doctor, accusing her of forcing them to take the shots by locking them in a room and not allowing them to leave until they cooperated.
The case was highlighted by investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson and published by Vaccination Reaction.
The report explains the case that has been filed against Dr. Janine Rethy of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
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Eighty-Five-Year-Old White Man Charged in Shooting of Black Teenager in Kansas City
An 85-year-old white man has been charged in the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a black teenager who was shot in the head after he approached the wrong home when trying to pick up his younger siblings in Kansas City, Missouri.
Andrew Lester has been charged with assault in the first degree. The charge is a felony and carries a possible punishment of life in prison, according to the New York Times. Lester was also charged with armed criminal action — that charge carries a punishment of up to 15 years in prison.
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Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Democratic City’s Natural Gas Ban Backed by Biden Admin
A federal appeals court ruled unanimously Monday that a natural gas ban proposed by the City of Berkeley, California, would illegally circumvent federal law.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that Berkeley’s natural gas piping ban, which the city’s government passed in 2019 as part of its climate agenda, violated the federal Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) of 1975. By banning gas pipes in new building construction, the city effectively violated the EPCA which prevents local regulations from impacting the energy use of natural gas appliances.
“Instead of directly banning those appliances in new buildings, Berkeley took a more circuitous route to the same result,” Judge Patrick Bumatay wrote in the opinion of the court Monday. “It enacted a building code that prohibits natural gas piping into those buildings, rendering the gas appliances useless.”
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Feds Charge 40 Chinese Police Officials for Repression Efforts Against U.S. Residents
The Department of Justice on Monday announced that it had charged more than 40 individuals, many of whom are members of the Chinese national police, in connection with transnational repression schemes to stifle the activities of Chinese citizens abroad.
Two criminal complaints included charges against 44 defendants, 40 of whom are part of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) while another two are officials in the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). The defendants allegedly partook in efforts to target Chinese individuals with political viewpoints of which the communist regime does not approve.
The first complaint targets 34 MPS officials, detailing their alleged use of fake digital personas to harass Chinese opponents of the communist regime. The operators of these fake accounts also made videos and wrote articles critical of U.S. policy on China and of Chinese dissidents.
The second complaint charges 10 individuals, six of whom are MPS officials. Two more are the CAC officials while the third is an China-based employee of a U.S. telecommunications company and the tenth is believed to reside in Indonesia. They face charges of conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and unlawful conspiracy to transfer means of identification.
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Former Intelligence Chief to Say a Lab Leak is the ‘Only Explanation’ for COVID
EXCLUSIVE: Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe says the “only explanation” and “plausible assessment” for the COVID-19 global pandemic is a leak from a Chinese Communist Party-controlled lab, citing U.S. intelligence and “numerous, diverse and unassailable” sources for the information.
Fox News exclusively obtained Ratcliffe’s prepared testimony ahead of his appearance before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
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Gaetz Introduces Resolution to Force Biden, Defense Department to Disclose U.S. Troops in Ukraine
GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz introduced a resolution Monday to require President Biden to give the House all documents about military assistance to Ukraine and direct Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to disclose the number of U.S. service members deployed to Ukraine without congressional approval.
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On Sunday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said his company’s ChatGPT competitor, Bard, developed “emergent properties,” a phenomenon when advanced artificial intelligence (AI) programs exhibit learned skills for which they were not purposefully programmed, and Pichai said the AI’s behavior was something he did not “fully understand.”
In a 60 Minutes interview, Pichai said that Bard learned how to translate Bengali without a programmer teaching it the language and “There is an aspect of this which we call, all of us in the field call it as a ‘black box.’ You know, you don’t fully understand. And you can’t quite tell why it said this, or why it got wrong. We have some ideas, and our ability to understand this gets better over time. But that’s where the state of the art is.’
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Greenwald: The Government is Abusing Secrecy Powers
Journalist Glenn Greenwald charged Sunday that the latest intelligence leaks have shown that “The U.S. government abuses its secrecy powers. They essentially label every document ‘classified information’.”
“The government always claims that people are endangered when their secrets get out, that’s not this case,” the journalist told Fox News host Howard Kurtz.
Greenwald noted that when he was working on the Snowden files, there were banal documents about vacations and parking credentials for government employees that were all classified.
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He Said it, Then This Happened
Another weekend of chaos in Chicago after the city’s new Mayor-elect said black people should not be subject to “state-sponsored policing”.
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Homeowner Shoots, Injures Black Teen Who Went to Wrong House
Authorities in Kansas City, Missouri, say the investigation into the shooting by a homeowner of a Black teenager who went to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers includes questions about whether race played a role
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The investigation into the shooting by a homeowner of Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager who went to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers, includes questions about whether race played a role, authorities in Kansas City, Missouri, said.
Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson said Monday that his office is working with police to quickly review the case and determine if the homeowner should be charged. Details on Yarl’s condition, other than that he is stable, have not been released.
“We understand how frustrating this has been, but we can assure the public that the system is working,” Thompson said in a news release. “As with any serious case submitted to our office, we will approach this case in an objective and impartial manner.”…
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Huge Mob Ransacks California Gas Station; Police ‘Outnumbered’: Video
A video recorded a mob of California youth breaking into a gas station convenience store and then stealing what police say were thousands of dollars of products.
The incident happened early Sunday morning in Compton, California, after a large group of people blocked an intersection as part of a street takeover, with video footage showing cars drifting in circles and screeching around 2:30 a.m., according to KLTA.
“It’s unbelievable, unreal. I’ve never seen anything like that happen here,” Greg Johnson, a Compton resident and customer of the ARCO station that was looted, told ABC7 in reaction to the ransacking
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Illinois State Senator Defends Chicago Teens’ Rioting, Looting: ‘It’s a Mass Protest’
An Illinois state senator defended the Chicago “Teen Takeover” that unfolded Saturday night and left multiple boys shot, claiming it was simply “a mass protest against poverty and segregation.”
Robert Peters, who represents parts of Chicago, responded to the chaotic scene that saw hundreds of local youth smashing car windows, jumping on surrounding vehicles, and firing guns in the streets.
Rather than condemn the chaos that left tourists running in fear, Peters suggested it was a “mass protest.”
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Judge Rejects Mistrial in Proud Boys Case, Says He Saw No Evidence of Government Misconduct
A federal judge handling a trial involving members of the Proud Boys group who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Riot has rejected calls for a mistrial amid allegations of government misconduct.
Defendant Dominic Pezzola had sought either a mistrial or the dismissal of charges against him, making allegations of evidence tampering and the withholding of exculpatory evidence, among other claims. Pezzola referenced footage that Fox News host Tucker Carlson had aired on the network showing the QAnon Shaman, one of the most prominent participants in the event, being peacefully escorted within the chamber.
In his ruling, Judge Timothy Kelly determined that the defendant had not been denied access to exculpatory evidence.
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LA Business Owner Closes Stores After 12th Break-in: ‘Can’t Do it Anymore’
Los Angeles-based business owner Evette Ingram’s beauty business survived and even thrived during the COVID pandemic, but it can no longer survive the local crime.
Ingram made the decision to close up shop after a series of break-ins across multiple locations wreaked havoc on her mental and physical health as well as her livelihood.
“It’s taken a toll on my health, and I can’t do it anymore,” she told “Fox & Friends First” Monday.
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Legal Group Vows to Hold Colleges Accountable for Violating Students’ Free Speech Rights
A legal group vows to hold universities accountable for implementing student conduct policies they believe are infringing on student’s free speech rights.
After suing Texas State University for violating student’s First and Fourteenth Amendment rights last week, Speech First Executive Director Cherise Trump spoke with Fox New Digital about holding universities accountable in the court of law for “bad” harassment policies that are targeting students.
“As surprised as we are that this type of these types of issues are happening in Texas, we sued the University of Houston last year on a similar harassment policy,” Trump said.
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Man Accused of Fatally Shooting New York Woman Who Went to the Wrong Address
WASHINGTON CO., N.Y. (WTEN) — A woman was fatally shot Saturday night after a homeowner allegedly opened fire on her and her friends, who mistakenly drove to the wrong address in upstate New York, authorities said.
According to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis and her friends mistakenly found themselves at the wrong home in the town of Hebron, located roughly 55 miles north of Albany along the Vermont border.
The property owner, 65-year-old Kevin Monahan, allegedly opened fire on the group’s vehicle without any provocation.
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Man Claiming Self-Defense Arrested in Fatal Shooting of Girlfriend in Orange County, Deputies Say
Richard Raciak, 48, accused of shooting Allison Sheehan in back
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A man claiming self-defense was arrested on Sunday when his girlfriend died after being shot in the back, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Richard Raciak, 48, was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder.
Deputies responded to the 2800 block of Smithfield Drive around 12:39 a.m. When they arrived, they found 46-year-old Allison Sheehan, who was shot and injured. She was taken to the hospital where she later died, according to sheriff’s officials.
According to an arrest affidavit, Sheehan was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the master bedroom of the home. The suspect’s father told deputies he received a text from Raciak, who said, “Allison was attacking me I had to fire shots,” the affidavit shows. In a couple of other texts, Raciak said the shooting was in “self-defense” and he sent a photo of the woman’s body.
Raciak complained of dehydration to the deputies and was taken to the hospital, where law enforcement later interviewed him.
The suspect told deputies he and Sheehan had been together for eight years and had thrown a birthday party for their child on Saturday when he claims she consumed alcohol and began arguing with him later that night, according to the affidavit.
Raciak told deputies his girlfriend “came at” him and she was going to “claw” his “eyes out.” He said she pushed him into a dresser in the room and he then grabbed a gun, saying he wanted to “put her down” and tried to shoot her in the leg so she would “chill.”
According to the affidavit, Raciak told deputies he shot her four times and admitted he shot her when she was turned away from him.
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Man Charged in Shooting of Black Kansas City Teen Who Went to the Wrong House
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — Charges have been filed against a Kansas City, Missouri man accused of shooting a Black teenager who went to the wrong house earlier this month.
Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson announced late Monday afternoon that Andrew D. Lester, 85, is facing charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action. The announcement came just hours after Kansas City police submitted the case to prosecutors.
Lester, who is white, is accused of shooting 16-year-old Ralph Yarl last Thursday night after the teen accidentally went to the wrong house to pick up his siblings.
According to Kansas City police, Ralph was picking up his younger siblings at a home on N.E. 115th Terrace when he mistakenly went to Lester’s house on N.E. 115th Street.
He didn’t have a phone with him and went to the wrong block, his aunt, Faith Spoonmore, wrote on a GoFundMe page set up to help pay medical bills. Spoonmore wrote that Yarl pulled into the driveway and rang the doorbell.
Lester allegedly came to the door and shot the teenager in the head before shooting him again, The Associated Press reports.
Lester was taken into custody after Thursday’s shooting but was released the next day following consulation with the prosecutor’s office, Police Chief Stacey Graves said Sunday.
In an interview with police, Lester said he had just gone to bed when he heard the doorbell ring. He explained that he grabbed his .32 Smith and Wesson 1888 revolver before answering the door, which consisted of an interior main door and exterior glass storm door, both of which were locked, according to court documents.
Lester told authorities that when he opened the interior door, he saw a Black man pulling on the exterior storm door handle. He believed someone was attempting to break into the house and shot twice within a few seconds of opening the door, court documents say.
According to Yarl, Lester told him “don’t come around here,” after the shooting. As court documents explained, Yarl described going to multiple homes asking for help. Police arrived shortly after and found Yarl had gunshot wounds to his forehead and arm.
Family confirmed with Nexstar’s WDAF that Ralph has been discharged from the hospital and is recovering at home.
Following the charging announcement, Mayor Quinton Lucas released a statement saying “I am relieved to see this first step towards justice for Ralph Yarl with today’s felony charges. Now we must remain engaged through trial.”
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Only 327 Suspected Shoplifters Account for 6,000 Arrests for Theft in Alvin Bragg’s New York City
In New York City, shoplifting has reached record highs with over 63,000 incidents reported to police in 2022, and roughly one third of the arrests in those crimes were recidivistic as the same 327 criminals continue to steal from shops.
According to the Daily Mail, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said, “Numbers such as these illustrate how impactful recidivism really is. It is disheartening to the affected businesses. It is inefficient. It is counterproductive to public safety and frankly, it is a perpetual carousel of police resources.”
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Outdoor Retailer REI Closing Sole Portland Store Amid Rampant Theft
In an email to its members on Monday REI Co-op announced it will be closing its store in Portland’s Pearl District. The outdoor retail chain cited “crime and theft” as the reason.
In an emailed announcement they said that the store “had its highest number of break-ins and thefts in two decades, despite actions to provide extra security.”
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Parler Shuts Down as Its Future is Reconsidered
Free speech-friendly platform Parler has been shut down by its new owner Starboard Media, pending a reassessment.
In a press release announcing the decision, Starboard Media praised Parler’s CEO for leading the company to new markets, including cloud services. The company said that, although it was shutting down Parler, it would continue to serve censored communities.
“Parler’s large user base and additional strategic assets represent an enormous opportunity for Starboard to continue to build aggressively in our media and publishing business. The team at Parler has built an exceptional audience and we look forward to integrating that audience across all of our existing platforms,” said Starboard’s CEO Ryan Coyne.
The press release stated: “No reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business anymore.”
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Pelosi Settles Lawsuit Over ‘Invasive and Harassing’ Texts, Pays Illinois Man $7,500
Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) campaign was caught violating federal law and was forced to settle with an Illinois man who sued her.
Pelosi paid $7,500 to a Bolingbrook resident named Jorge Rojas.
Rojas accused the former House speaker of violating federal robocalling laws.
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Proton Launches Private Calendar Sharing
Proton Calendar, the encrypted calendar from Proton, now has new features to increase productivity while still maintaining Proton’s commitment to privacy.
The main purpose of calendars is planning. However, calendars carry a lot of personal information, including someone’s movements, their interests, and even relationships. As such, ensuring that information remains private is crucial.
Still, it is important for calendars to efficiently integrate with the products people use in their day-to-day lives.
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Seattle Public Schools Hit With Federal Civil Rights Complaint for Racial Segregation
Seattle Public Schools could find itself mired in a federal civil rights investigation for separating students by race in multiple programs, a month after it hastily removed racial eligibility criteria from a “potluck” that implicitly excluded whites and Jews.
The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism filed a complaint Tuesday with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights against the district’s Pathfinder K-8 School after a year of unheeded warnings that its practices violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
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Soros-Funded DA Pamela Price Calls for Rally to Condemn ‘Anti-Price’ News Outlet That Criticized Her
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price is scheduled to speak at a rally against her media critics, according to a flyer of the event.
Local ABC7 News reporter Dan Noyes shared a flyer from Price’s campaign that titled at the top, “Rally in support of DA Price” with Price being listed as a featured speaker.
“ALCO DA Pam Price still refuses my request for an interview, and she and her staff have never disputed a single fact in my reports — because they are absolutely accurate,” Noyes tweeted. “So what does she do? Call a rally for her supporters to come out against ABC7. Wonder who will attend.”
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The Best is Yet to Come: Republicans Gained Supermajorities in 3 States in Recent Weeks.
The Democrats have suffered major reverses in North Carolina, Louisiana, and Wisconsin, with Republican legislators gaining supermajorities in all three states.
With the state legislatures now firmly in the hands of the GOP, the power of Democrat governors in the three states may be in peril.
In Louisiana, the Republicans — still very much considered the ‘party of Trump’ — enjoy supermajorities in both the House and Senate of the state legislature as a result of its longest-serving lawmaker, Rep. Francis Thompson, switching parties, meaning Governor John Bel Edwards can no longer veto bills banning biological males from girls’ sports in schools or lifting restrictions on concealed carry, for example.
In Wisconsin, the Republicans enjoy a Senate supermajority as a result of Dan Knodl’s defeat of a Democrat lawyer for an open seat. Being two seats shy of a supermajority in the House, the GOP cannot completely overrule Governor Tony Evers — though they can impeach him and other officials.
North Carolina is the site of the Republicans’ latest significant gain, with the GOP enjoying a House supermajority as a result of Rep. Jeremy LaCombe defecting from the Democrats on April 10th.
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The RESTRICT Act Will Usher in a New Era of Censorship Under the Guise of “National Security”
45 days after 9/11, the United States government passed the PATRIOT Act — a chilling law that used the guise of “national security” to greatly expand the federal government’s secret surveillance powers.
Almost 23 years later, another far-reaching bill, the “Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act,” better known by its acronym, the RESTRICT Act, is using the same national security talking point to justify further federal government encroachment on Americans’ rights.
Although the bill doesn’t mention TikTok, its authors, Democratic Senator Mark Warner and Republican Senator John Thune, have framed it as “the best way to counter the TikTok threat.”
However, the impact of the bill extends far beyond TikTok and gives the US government sweeping powers to ban a wide range of apps and services.
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Recent editorials from the Washington Post changed the publication’s “Defund the Police” perspective with calls for increased police presence in the D.C. area.
On Friday, the paper’s Editorial Board published a piece arguing “Why police officers need to be in D.C. schools.”
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CBC Rage Quits Twitter After Elon Musk Accurately Labels Them Government-Funded Media
CBC/Radio-Canada has decided to pause its use of Twitter following the labeling of its main account as “government-funded media” by the social media platform.
The decision comes after Twitter applied the same tag to National Public Radio.
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Czechia: Anti-Govt Protesters Rally in Prague Against Inflation, Support for Ukraine
Thousands rallied again in the Czech capital on Sunday to protest high inflation and the government’s support of the war in Ukraine.
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‘Euthanasia’ for Terminally Ill Children to be Legalised in the Netherlands
It will soon be legal to Euthanise, also known as ‘assisted suicide’ or ‘murder’ depending on perspective, children with certain terminal illnesses in the Netherlands.
Authorities in the Netherlands are to make changes to the country’s euthanasia laws in order to allow parents to end the life of their terminally ill children.
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France: 13 Arrested as Anti-Macron Activists Set Off Explosive Outside Marseille Police Station
At least thirteen anti-Macron activists were arrested on Monday afternoon in Marseille after an explosion was set off outside the doors of a local police station in which one officer was injured.
Thirteen people were arrested on Monday following an explosion that was set off outside a police department building in the 6th arrondissement of Marseille.
According to a report from French broadcaster BFMTV, a van pulled up outside of the police station in the early afternoon and dropped off a package containing explosive material as well as gas meters, a possible reference to the soaring cost of energy in the country. One police officer was said to be “slightly injured” in the blast.
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Marine Le Pen, the parliamentary leader of France’s National Rally party, rejects claims that she and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni are of the same political stripe, and instead argues they are fundamentally very different politicians. In interviews with German newspaper Die Welt and Italy’s La Repubblica, Le Pen says Meloni is too moderate, supports NATO, and is not a Euroskeptic politician.
“I remain Euroskeptic, convinced that France must leave the integrated command of NATO, and I am against the delivery of offensive weapons to Ukraine,” said Le Pen told. She also stated: “I remain Euroskeptic, and every day that passes, I become even more Euroskeptic.”
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The German Reserve Force Isn’t Fit for Purpose
The reserve wing of the German Army only truly exists on paper, as its troops are not properly equipped and have not received adequate training, the head of the German Reserve Soldiers’ Association has claimed.
In an interview with the German newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung, retired Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Sensburg, a former CDU member of parliament, said he believes the reserves are badly managed and significantly underfunded.
“It’s really a force that exists largely on paper,” said the retired lieutenant colonel.
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UK College of Policing Continues to Threaten Free Speech
The College of Policing, a UK taxpayer-funded organization that advises police forces in England and Wales, has been accused of watering down Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s free speech charter.
Last month, the Home Office published its first Non-Crime Hate Incidents (NCHIs) code of practice. Braverman had previously expressed concerns that police were “wrongly getting involved in lawful debate in this country.”
Between 2014 and 2019, about 120,000 people had NCHIs recorded against them, including minors.
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UK Lawmakers and Their Families Targeted in Communist Chinese Intimidation Campaign
British parliamentarians who have been critical of Communist China have claimed that they and their families have been targeted by the regime in Beijing as a part of an intimidation campaign.
A group of Tory MPs have revealed that they and their families have been subject to harassment, intimidation, and tracking by Xi Jinping’s apparatchiks over their criticisms of the Chinese state’s genocidal actions against ethnic minorities in occupied regions such as Tibet and Xinjiang and the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in the former British colony of Hong Kong.
Speaking to The Telegraph newspaper, one unnamed Conservative claimed that her child’s application to a university was put in jeopardy after the school received pressure from Chinese donors, who threatened to pull their funding should the MP’s child be admitted.
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UK: ‘Just Stop Oil’ Protester Cancels World Snooker Championship After Pouring Orange Dye on Table
A “Just Stop Oil” protester leaped onto the famous green baize and turned it orange after dumping an orange powder on it during the world snooker championship in Sheffield, England on Monday.
The Crucible Theatre was packed for the snooker championship yet play had to be suspended after the two protesters bombarded the famous arena after the tournament began.
Robert Milkins and Joe Perry were playing their match when a male protester, 30, jumped into the scene and leapt on the table, moving all the snooker balls as he poured an orange powder on it. Half of the baize was covered in orange, while the other half remained green.
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— as trainer blames protesters for his horse’s death after fall on Saturday
Animal Rising has vowed to unleash a summer of chaos after the eco-group disrupted the Grand National during which a racehorse died after falling at the first fence.
The animal rights activists said the demonstrations seen at Aintree on Saturday, which saw 118 people arrested, were ‘just the beginning’ and ‘it’s all up from here’, leading to fears that the Epsom Derby and Ascot could be targeted next.
The group, formerly known as Animal Rebellion, has pledged to start a ‘national conversation’ around animal welfare concerns, after three horses died as a result of sustaining injuries at Aintree over the weekend.
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Watch: Dirt Bike Gangs Tear Through Shopping Malls in France
Gangs of ‘youths’ riding motorcycles and ATVs have been terrorizing shoppers and diners at malls in France lately, according to reports.
Videos showing dirt bikers tearing through busy shopping centers have sparked outrage and concern amid an epidemic of dangerous “urban rodeos” unfolding constantly across France.
Recently, riders filmed themselves racing two-wheelers through an indoor mall in Grenoble, a city in the department of Isère, CNews reports.
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Aid Group Decries Escalation of Anti-Christian Violence in Holy Land
The pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has denounced a sharp rise in anti-Christian incidents in the Holy Land.
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More than 300 poisoning incidents have occurred at schools around Iran, which critics argue could not happen without Tehran’s acknowledgment or approval.
“These attacks are most probably designed to punish and scare the Iranian people for the widespread protests that erupted in September 2022 after the murder of Mahsa Amini,” Saeed Ghasseminejad, senior Iran and financial economics adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), told Fox News Digital.
The FDD, a Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan think tank, tracked attacks across Iran and counted 328 chemical attacks as of April 14, sourcing information from local reports and videos posted on Twitter. Most reports included the number of victims, ranging from a dozen to almost 100 in some cases.
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G7: Western Nations Announce Nuclear Power Alliance to ‘Displace Putin’ From Energy Market
The United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and France have announced a nuclear power alliance “aimed at displacing Putin” from the international market, following meetings of the G7 in Sapporo, Japan on Sunday.
The five nuclear power-producing nations of the Group of Seven (G7) economic forum — formerly the G8 prior to Russia being expelled following the invasion of Crimea in 2014 — have vowed to leverage their respective resources in order to “undermine Russia’s grip on supply chains” on the international energy market, the UK government announced in a statement.
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Leaked Document Shows American Smart Bombs Are Failing in Ukraine
American-made smart bombs are failing in Ukraine, based on successful Russian electronic jamming measures, according to a Pentagon document connected to alleged leaker Jack Teixeira.
The highly-classified document not only reviews use of effective Russian countermeasures to make the smart bombs ineffective, but also says that in some cases technical problems are resulting in failure to detonate.
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Russian Opposition Leader Jailed for 25 Years for ‘Treason’
MOSCOW (AP) — A top Kremlin foe was convicted Monday on charges of treason and denigrating the Russian military and sentenced him to 25 years in prison after a trial that marked the latest move in a relentless crackdown on the opposition amid the fighting in Ukraine.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr., a prominent opposition activist who twice survived poisonings he blamed on the Kremlin, has been behind bars since his arrest a year ago. He has rejected the charges against him as political and likened the judicial proceedings against him to the show trials during the rule of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
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Russia’s Lavrov Thanks Brazil for Efforts to Resolve Ukraine War
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday thanked Brazil for its efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine ahead of a visit with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose comments on the war have unnerved Washington.
Lavrov and Brazilian Foreign Relations Minister Mauro Vieira addressed journalists after a meeting in Brasilia, discussing plans to boost meat exports to Russia and secure fertilizer imports for Brazilian farmers.
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Since March 2022, the VKS has been unable to effectively operate in Ukrainian airspace, but military experts now warn that could change unless Ukraine can top up its air defence supplies.
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Ukraine Would Become Like Syria if We’re Allowed to Run Out of Air Defence Missiles, Kyiv Says
Ukraine wants more air defence missiles, their air force says, with a warning that if they lose control of the skies the country will be pounded into the ground by the Russians “just like they did in Syria”.
Building on the alleged revelations in the Pentagon Papers leak of the past fortnight that Ukraine was weeks away from running out of air defence missiles, a senior spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force has warned the “situation is very dangerous” and warned the air defence system failing would leave the nation’s armies, cities, and nuclear plants open to Russian air strikes.
Ukrainian air defences have performed well so far, but is predominantly made up of ex-Soviet stock launch systems and missiles, and the only place new missiles can be made is Russia. While some stocks exist in other European nations, and some of those have even been delivered to Ukraine, the Russian air defence systems are essentially finite.
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At least six people are dead and another 30 are missing after rebel gunmen attacked Indonesian troops searching for missing New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens (middle).
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China’s defence minister on Sunday met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, where he hailed a ‘new era’ of Russia-China ties.
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The ABC is not happy that Twitter has labelled their main news account as “government-funded media”, although some of the broadcaster’s critics suggested far more unflattering alternatives.
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SYDNEY (AP) — Two suspected Chinese spies gave a Sydney businessman envelopes of cash for information about subjects including a government deal with the United States and Britain to build a fleet of Australian nuclear-powered submarines, prosecutors told a court on Monday.
The businessman, Alexander Csergo, was refused bail when he appeared by video link from prison in Sydney’s Downing Center Local Court charged with one count of reckless foreign interference.
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— despite her saying she was ‘provoked’ — with a friend desperately trying to drag her into a cab
The video gives a bird-eye view of the rogue Senator’s actions as she screamed obscenities at a group of men outside Maxine’s Gentlemen’s Club in north Melbourne after 3am on Sunday.
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Hacker Speaks Out About How He Targets Aussies: ‘Australians Are the Most Stupidest Humans Alive’
A hacker has revealed how criminal gangs target corporations and individuals and says he feels no remorse for posting personal data and takes aim at Australians’ stupidity.
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The Victoria-registered 2015 silver Nissan Maxima sedan has Chinese police decals and text on the rear passenger door claims it is ‘Special Police’.
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Following the revelation that work on the airport line is to be halted Victorian Premier Dan Andrews is being haunted by tweet that promised he could fund both rail and hospitals.
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Sudan Hospitals Struggle With Casualties, Damage in Fighting
CAIRO (AP) — At the Khartoum Teaching Hospital, people wounded during street battles flowed into the wards. Supplies were running low, with doctors, nurses, patients and their relatives trapped inside for days as the Sudanese capital turned into a war zone.
Then early Monday, one of the wards was heavily damaged by shelling.
“We are running out of everything,” Dr. Amin Saad told The Associated Press. “We are working with the least possible capabilities. … We’re all exhausted, but there is a shortage of physicians.”
Not long afterward, the hospital shut down completely — with staff, patients and relatives stuck inside as clashes raged throughout the neighborhood. It was one of at least 12 hospitals shuttered in the capital area because they were damaged in fighting, were inaccessible because of clashes or had run out of fuel, according to the Doctors’ Syndicate.
Khartoum’s hospitals have been thrown into chaos by the explosion of violence between Sudan’s two top generals. People have been unable to leave their homes since Saturday as the two sides engaged in gun battles and bombarded each other with artillery and airstrikes. More than 180 people have been killed and over 1,800 wounded since the fighting erupted, U.N. envoy Volker Perthes said.
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Brazilian Judge Orders Police to Question Bolsonaro Over Post-Inauguration Riots
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered the federal police Friday to take testimony from former President Jair Bolsonaro as part of the investigation itno the Jan. 8 attacks on government buildings in the capital.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes gave the federal police 10 days to question the former president, acting on a request from the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters trashed the presidential palace, the Supreme Court and Congress one week into President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s third term in office.
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64% of French Against Non-European Immigration, Women More in Favor of the Idea
When asked “if we should stop non-European immigration to France,” more than six out of 10 French people (64%) answer “yes,” according to a poll for CNEWS by Consumer Science & Analytics (CSA) published on Wednesday, April 12.
According to the same survey, 36% of respondents answered “no,” thus opposing this idea.
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Border Crossings Surge 23% in March, Nearing 200k
Migrant encounters at the U.S. border with Mexico surged 23% in March over February.
Combining migrant encounters between Ports of Entry and those noncitizens processed at Ports of Entry, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection tallied 191,900 arrivals in March. That figure stands considerably higher than the 156,138 tallied in February.
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Illegal Immigrants in NYC Not Vaccinated Against Polio, Tuberculosis: Health Commissioner
Approximately 50 percent of illegal immigrants coming into New York City are not vaccinated against the contagious and potentially deadly poliovirus.
The New York Post obtained an eight-page letter, dated April 11, that was sent to physicians and other healthcare providers by the city’s Health Commissioner, Ashwin Vasan, urging doctors to help prevent a public health emergency.
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More Than 5,000 Migrants Could Have Crossed the English Channel Already This Year…
— and dozens more made the journey today as smugglers take advantage of mild weather
More than 5,000 migrants could have crossed the English Channel already this year, with dozens more making the perilous journey today amid more favourable weather conditions.
Onlookers reported seeing three groups being intercepted as they attempted to cross the 21-mile Dover Straits in inflatable dinghies or other small boats this morning.
Border Force vessel Ranger escorted dozens of migrants, including at least three small children and a baby, into the port at Dover, Kent shortly before 11am.
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Another Piece of Inane Stupidity
They’re now re-naming entire land masses because they’re not woke enough.
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Country Music Star Brantley Gilbert Smashes Bud Light Can During Concert: ‘F*** That’
Country music star Brantley Gilbert interrupted his concert Saturday night to smash a can of Bud Light on the stage. (See Video Below) During his show at Indian Mountain ATV Park in Alabama, a fan threw a Bud Light can onto the stage for Gilbert.
The star took a long look at the beer before smashing it onto the stage yelling “F*ck that.” Another fan threw a different beer brand on stage. Gilbert quit drinking in 2011 but tossed that beer to his drummer saying, “You ain’t got a hair on your ass if you don’t shotgun that son of a b*tch.”
Budweiser is trying to contain the damage from the Mulvaney marketing stunt. They put out a new pro-America ad and the CEO finally gave a statement. Neither has worked as the backlash grows.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donates millions annually to a nongovernmental organization which claims that children are born sexual and should learn about “commercial sex work” under 10 years of age.
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) — a separate entity from the U.S. nonprofit — wields significant influence on global sex education. The NGO comprises 120 independent organizations in over 146 countries and has received — including its European network — over $80M from Gates. Other significant donors included the World Health Organization.
A toolkit released in 2017 showed an insight into how the NGO teaches sex education to children around the globe.
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Rice is Now Killing the Planet, Apparently
Now it is firmly ensconced among the climate change cult that eating meat is killing the planet and you must ‘eat ze bugs’, the same people have a new target, rice.
“Rice cannot be ignored.”
The Food and Agriculture Organization notes that “Rice is one of the most important staple foods in the world. Over 50 percent of the world population depends on rice for about 80 percent of its food requirements. About 95 percent of the global output of rice is produced and consumed in developing countries.”
What is this really about?
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Team DeSantis Mocks Bud Light in New Parody Video Supporting Women’s Sports
EXCLUSIVE: Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ team released a new video Monday mocking Bud Light over the brand’s recent partnership with transgender TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
The video, titled “Real Men of Women’s Sports,” parodies Bud Light’s “Real Men of Genius” campaign from the late 1990s and early 2000s, and is part of DeSantis’ larger “Freedom Heavy” marketing effort.
“Team DeSantis presents real men of women’s sports,” the voice in the video says, echoing the same style as Bud Light’s “Real Men of Genius” call and response script. The video includes clips of Lia Thomas and other transgender athletes competing in their respective sports.
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Transgender Teacher Removed From School After Threatening to Shoot Students
A transgender teacher has been removed from his school classroom by a Florida district after he allegedly threatened to shoot students.
Hernando School District (HSD) has confirmed that the teacher has now been removed.
District officials have refused to identify the Fox Chapel Middle School teacher.
However, Slay News has been able to independently identify the teacher as Ashlee Renczkowski, a biological male who claims to be transgender and uses “she/her” pronouns.
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to it, in the comments to:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2023/04/the-unthinkable-has-already-been-thought/
promised video on ‘nuclear war simulation’.
Must be seen as a deterrent
and/or in preparation, by all!
This is why women shouldn’t rule, they can’t get along with each other much less men.
I’m here behind all this mass of events, I forgot to write about one resonant case in Russia. A crowd of Tajiks stabbed a Russian schoolboy.
Interestingly, some of these young Tajiks studied at the police college in Chelyabinsk. But at the trial they needed an interpreter.
Here is what I managed to find in English. Full coverage of the event could not be found.
https://russia.postsen.com/local/199972/In-Chelyabinsk-two-more-suspects-were-detained-in-the-murder-of-a-17-year-old-schoolboy-%E2%80%93-April-13-2023.html