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Why are teachers striking over slavery?

California’s unions prioritise progressivism over fair pay

In 2019, my children’s teachers went on strike for higher pay, and I supported it, which was a bit of a surprise. I’d always thought public-sector unions a mockery of the idea of organised labour — not workers bargaining for a larger share of the value they create, but bureaucrats extracting rents from taxpayers, via politicians. On top of this, I’d trained to be an English teacher. I saw up close the pathetic scholarship and inane doctrines that inform teacher education in American universities. To me, unionised teachers were a convergence of these two unhealthy forces.

With luck it all crumbles into the sea.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", California, Education K-12, WTF?

The truth about transgender surgery… in numbers: Just 16% of gender dysphoria patients go through with the operation, but up to half suffer life-threatening complications

Only a small number of people with gender dysphoria have surgery to align their bodies with their desired sex — but the rate of complications is high.

One of the largest surveys of trans adults earlier this year indicated that one in six (16 percent) go under the knife to alter their physical appearance.

But research suggests that up to half of trans men and women suffer post-op issues or pain so severe they need medical attention or additional surgery months later.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny, WTF?

San Francisco: Billionaire criticised over anti-drug posters

A Welsh billionaire has been criticised over a “misguided” poster campaign aimed at heavier enforcement of laws against drug users and dealers on the streets of San Francisco.

Michael Moritz is a funder of Together SF, whose poster campaign called for an end to open-air drug markets and more city-sponsored recovery programmes.

The posters were graffitied and some have labelled the campaign “misguided”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise", WTF?

Canada to ‘significantly’ enhance military presence in Indo-Pacific region, Anand says

Defence Minister Anita Anand says Canada is committed to the support of a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific, and is reinforcing its military presence in the region.

Speaking in Singapore at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual intergovernmental security conference, Anand announced Saturday that Canada will significantly enhance its military presence in the Indo-Pacific through Operation Horizon.

Anand said the new operation will replace the Indo-Pacific portion of Canada’s existing Operation Projection.

It sounds like a meager effort to regain favour with allies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Walgreens debuts new ‘anti-theft’ store with just two aisles where customers can shop for themselves – the rest is locked up

A Chicago branch of Walgreens has been redesigned with just two aisles where customers may shop for themselves, the rest must be done via a kiosk.

The new ‘anti-theft’ store at at 2 East Roosevelt in downtown Chicago will trust shoppers to pick up ‘essentials’ for themselves in the two free aisles, but everything else must be ordered and picked up via a counter.

The store, which took weeks to construct, opened to mixed reviews on Tuesday.

Anyone remember Consumer’s Distributing or the old LCBO where everything was brought out from the back?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The Capitol Police allegedly declare The Star-Spangled Banner a ‘protest’ song

With permission from and sponsorship by several South Carolina congressmen, the Rushingbrook Children’s Choir, which is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, traveled to D.C. and assembled to perform The Star-Spangled Banner in the United States Capitol. Instead, the Capitol Police shut them down because (allegedly) they claim our national anthem is an illegal protest song. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) needs to bring these partisan pistol-carriers to heel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Tragedy Strikes a Boat Full of Spies, and Conspiracy Theories Mount

The black clouds appeared quickly, sneaking up on sun-seeking revelers on the lake in northern Italy, interrupting early-evening aperitivi and lakefront strolls. A weather warning issued earlier in the day had not foreseen the violence of the storm that burst over the lake, with winds so extreme they sank a boat, killing four of its 23 passengers.

As news stories go, the incident on Lake Maggiore on Sunday was a freak tragedy that would usually have attracted fleeting attention.

But in subsequent days, the story took off in the Italian media when it emerged that 21 people on the boat were spies, or former spies — including 13 from the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, and eight Italian ones. Official explanations that they had been celebrating a birthday did little to quell a speculative frenzy about their activities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Tin Pot Tyrant Trudeau has nerve to hector Poland about democratic backsliding

Trudeau raises Poland’s democratic backsliding as prime minister visits Toronto

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he raised concerns about reports that LGBTQ rights and democracy are under threat in Poland during a Friday visit with its prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, in Toronto.

The visit comes amid unprecedented economic and military collaboration between the two countries.

“I certainly raised concerns that we have around some of the reports coming out of Poland around LGBTQ rights, around democracy, and we had a frank conversation, as must be the case,” Trudeau told reporters Friday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Justin Trudeau - Pissant, Justin Trudeau Air Head, Poland, WTF?

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Another Confederate monument bites the dust

Reconciliation statue at Arlington National Cemetery set to be destroyed

In the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement sparked in 2020 by the murder of George Floyd, Congress required the Department of Defense to create a commission to evaluate the ways the military continued to honor the Confederacy.

The duties of the “naming commission” were to assess the “cost of renaming or removing names, symbols, displays, monuments or paraphernalia that commemorate the Confederate States of America or any person who served voluntarily with the Confederate States of America.”

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Peak Virtue Signalling", "Peak Woke", USA, WTF?