In an article about South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem banning biological boys and men from competing in women’s sports, CNN news reporter Devan Cole claims that the executive orders signed by Noem refer to “biological sex,” which he claims is a “disputed term.”
Tom Hanks’s son criticized for using ‘racist’ font on merchandise collection
Chet Hanks, son of the Hollywood actor Tom Hanks, has been criticized for using a “racist” font on his new collection of merchandise which is also controversially called White Boy Summer.
His black and white range of clothes, which include hoodies, T-shirts, shorts, tank tops, leggings, caps and bike shorts, has been called out online for its use of a Gothic-style font that is close to the one used by white nationalists. It’s also similar to the Fraktur fonts, which were used in Nazi Germany most prominently on the cover of Hitler’s Mein Kampf book.
Here’s what we know about the reported federal investigation into Matt Gaetz
Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz said he is being investigated for alleged criminal sexual activity with a minor and claims a former Department of Justice official is behind a $25 million plot to extort him and his family.
The 38-year-old congressman is being eyed as part of a broader investigation into Joel Greenberg, a political ally who was indicted in 2020 on charges including sex trafficking of a minor and financially supporting people in exchange for sex, at least one of whom was an underage girl, the New York Times reported.
“I was not a target but a subject of an investigation regarding sexual conduct with women,” Gaetz said.
Here’s The Trump Interview Facebook Banned – Lara Trump Interviews President Donald J Trump
Facebook and Instagram have banned all sharing of President Trump (or his surrogates that speak on his behalf) from their platform. Here is the interview that precipitated their action.
‘It’s everywhere’: Parents group fights left-wing indoctrination in schools
A group of parents alarmed by what they see as left-wing indoctrination sweeping through K-12 schools on Tuesday announced a new online clearinghouse of information designed to help families navigate what’s happening in their children’s classrooms.
Nicole Neily, president of the group, Parents Defending Education, said parents are hungry for information to fight back against a curriculum that increasingly promotes racial and social justice ideology.
New video shows George Floyd acting peculiar in store before death
George Floyd “appeared to be high” when he handed over a counterfeit $20 bill in a Minneapolis convenience store, a clerk testified Wednesday — as never-before-seen surveillance footage shows him acting peculiar moments before his fatal confrontation with police.
The newly-released video from May 25, aired Wednesday during the murder trial of ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, shows an animated Floyd inside the Cup Foods store with two companions, dancing and acting boisterous.
Ontario government moves to activate 4-week, provincewide COVID-19 ’emergency brake’
The Ontario government is moving to activate an “emergency brake” for four weeks across the entire province in response to rising COVID-19 cases and strained capacity at intensive care units, multiple sources tell Global News.
While the move came after an hours-long meeting of the Ontario cabinet on Wednesday, several health-care professionals in the province have pleaded for government intervention in recent weeks.
‘Medical battery’: Ontario threatened with lawsuit over four month delay for COVID booster shot
Two Ontario seniors are threatening to take Canada’s pandemic authorities to court over the country’s unprecedented decision to prescribe four-month gaps between doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
The pair provided written consent for their first dose in early March, when official Ontario guidelines said that the vaccine comprised “2 doses given 21 days apart.”
Olympia, Washington, is a microcosm of the problems created by the emptying of mental hospitals.
The Invisible Asylum
The story of American deinstitutionalization has become familiar. In a long arc—from President Kennedy’s Community Mental Health Act of 1963 to the present—federal and state governments dismantled mental asylums and released the psychiatrically disturbed into the world. Though there were sometimes brutal abuses in the state mental hospitals of the early twentieth century, the closure of the asylums did not put an end to mental illness. If anything, with the proliferation on the streets of psychosis-inducing drugs such as methamphetamine, the United States has more cases of serious mental illness than ever before—and less capacity to treat and manage them.
Stop blaming everything on ‘white supremacy’
The Atlanta and Boulder shootings were swiftly pinned on racism. The reality was very different.
Recently, two terrible crimes occurred which had either almost or entirely nothing to do with racism. The mainstream mass media reaction to both was telling and troubling.
First, on 16 March 2021, 21-year-old Robert Long opened fire inside three Atlanta-area massage parlours – Young’s Asian Massage, Gold Massage Spa, and Aromatherapy Spa – with a semi-automatic nine-millimetre handgun. Long killed eight people, six of them Asian-American, and wounded another.
Steven Crowder claims voter fraud on YouTube, gets restricted & demonetized, in the latest blow from Big Tech
BlazeTV host Steven Crowder has had his YouTube channel restricted after posting a video that reportedly challenged the legitimacy of the recent US presidential vote, and after also being restricted by Twitter.
YouTube banned conservative commenter Steven Crowder from uploading videos for a week and demonetized his account by suspending his main channel from the YouTube Partner Program. This means that Crowder is no longer able to run ads and profit from them.
28 Day Lockdown?
#BREAKING The @fordnation cabinet is considering these options: either the whole province will go into a 28 day “shutdown” or specific regions like Toronto & Peel will. No word on schools yet, but boards across the province are preparing for remote learning. Developing. #onpoli
— Toronto Sun (@TheTorontoSun) March 31, 2021
China’s Threat to Free Speech in Europe
China has imposed sanctions on more than two dozen European and British lawmakers, academics and think tanks. The move comes after the European Union and the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on Chinese officials for human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region.
China contends that its sanctions are tit for tat — morally equivalent retaliation — in response to those imposed by Western countries. This is false. The European sanctions are for crimes against humanity, whereas the Chinese sanctions seek to silence European critics of the Chinese Communist Party.
The current standoff is, in essence, about the future of free speech in Europe.
‘Fake’ Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
‘Fake’ accounts claiming to be Amazon workers have been praising their working conditions on Twitter.
Votes are currently being counted in Alabama to decide whether Amazon warehouse workers will form a union.
But last night, a series of anti-union tweets were sent from accounts claiming to be staff.
Twitter has now suspended many of the accounts, and Amazon has confirmed at least one is fake.