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The Myth of the Racist, Transphobic Toddlers

Are British schools experiencing an epidemic of racism? Are classrooms filled with little budding neo-Nazis? Are four-year-olds unleashing a regime of bigoted terror upon their non-white classmates?

Not quite. Although, this is what the statistics would have you believe. According to official figures, the number of children being sent home from school for racism has more than doubled in the last three years. In 2021, there were 7,400 suspensions for racist behaviour. In 2024, there were over 15,000. Nearly 2,500 of those cases took place within primary schools, where children are no older than 11. Some reports even involve pupils from reception, where children are aged just four or five.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Grievance Mongers, WTF?

Despite boycott, Canadians poured record $50B into US securities at height of trade war

Canadians might be boycotting American products over the trade war and avoiding travel to the US — but their investment portfolios are snapping up red, white and blue stocks at an “unprecedented rate.”

They poured an eye-popping $50 billion into US securities at the height of the 2025 trade war — the most since at least 1990.

“Canadian investors have opted to load up on US financial assets since President Trump was sworn in,” Warren Lovely, managing director of National Bank Financial in Toronto, wrote in a recent report, noting the pace has been “unprecedented.”

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

Post Media Is Down

UPDATE: The frontpages for the NatPo and Toronto Sun load but clicking a story link will result in a timeout.

Post Media owners of the NatPo , The Sun Chain, Ottawa Citizen etc are all down and have been for several hours now. If not a technical glitch that’s gotta be one hell of an attack.

This is what you get after a site fails to load.

What this means is the link you click in a post will not load if it a Post Media story.

Thanks for your patience.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Turkish trans drag queens among foreign ‘talent’ handed British visas

Britain has welcomed Turkish transgender drag queens on special visas for “global talent”, The Telegraph can reveal.

The “Global Talent visa” permits recipients to stay in the UK for five years along with their dependents, and is intended to bring the very best creatives to the country.

Applicants must have their claimed artist merit endorsed by the Arts Council before visas are ultimately signed off by the Home Office.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Man sues grocery store after he tried to steal car, was ‘punched, kicked and hit’ by staffers

A chronic thief who was beaten up after he was caught trying to steal a car outside an inner-city grocery store is suing staff, arguing he was left with life-altering injuries.

“The amount of force used against him was far in excess of what was necessary to execute a citizen’s arrest or detain him pending the arrival of law enforcement personnel,” 36-year-old Michael Prince alleged in a statement of claim filed earlier this month by his lawyer in the Manitoba Court of King’s Bench.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Cracker Barrel founder, 93, gives damning verdict on $7M-a-year CEO as she breaks cover after rebrand fiasco

Probably never ate at a Cracker Barrel.

Cracker Barrel’s co-founder has delivered a scathing critique of the restaurant chain’s CEO after a botched rebranding.

Tommy Lowe, 93, accused Julie Felss Masino of failing to grasp what Cracker Barrel stands for, pointing to her previous stint at Taco Bell.

‘They’re trying to modernize to be like the competition. Cracker Barrel doesn’t have any competition,’ Low, who co-founded Cracker Barrel with the late Dan Evins in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1969, told WTVF.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Stupid Stuff Andrew Coyne Says: Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite – critics of the President remain at large, the courts are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and 2028 elections have not yet been determined – but the pieces are being put in place at astonishing speed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?