The historic Smithfield meat market in London, known for its almost nine centuries of trading, is poised to close. The City of London Corporation announced that its council voted to cease operations at Smithfield and Billingsgate fish markets. They were previously slated for relocation to a £1 billion (~$1.3 billion) site in Dagenham. This plan was halted earlier this month, citing increased construction costs and inflation as key reasons.
The City of London Corporation emphasized it will provide financial support, potentially exceeding £300 million, to aid traders in relocating to new premises. The council will bring a bill to Parliament on Wednesday, seeking official release from managing the markets.
Originally, the relocation was part of a larger regeneration initiative announced in 2022, aimed at transforming the Smithfield site to include cultural and commercial entities like the London Museum. The Billingsgate location was set for conversion into a mixed-use housing area. The project was estimated to create 2,700 jobs in Barking and Dagenham, contributing approximately £14.5 billion (~$18.2 billion) to the Britisheconomy by 2049.
Public reaction was mixed, with some Londoners expressing disappointment, viewing the closure as threatening the city’s cultural heritage. Calls for reconsideration of the decision have already surfaced online.
The historic Smithfield meat market in London, known for its almost nine centuries of trading, is poised to close. The City of London Corporation announced that its council voted to cease operations at Smithfield and Billingsgate fish markets. They were previously slated for relocation to a £1 billion (~$1.3 billion) site in Dagenham. This plan was halted earlier this month, citing increased construction costs and inflation as key reasons.
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San Jose State University’s transgender women’s volleyball player, Blaire Fleming, will participate in the Mountain West Conference tournament following a federal court decision on Monday. The ruling was made by Judge Kato Crews of Colorado, appointed by President Joe Biden, who declined a request for injunctive relief in a lawsuit involving several collegiate volleyball players against the Mountain West Conference.
The plaintiffs, representing multiple conference schools, argued for an emergency delay, citing First Amendment and Title IX violations. They also sought to rescind forfeits, alter standings, and remove Fleming from the tournament. However, Crews deemed the request “not reasonable,” noting it could lead to confusion and disrupt the plans of participating teams, including San Jose State.
In support of Fleming, San Jose State maintained that all its student-athletes are eligible according to NCAA and conference regulations. “San José State University will continue to support its student-athletes and reject discrimination in all forms. All San José State University student-athletes are eligible to participate in their sports under NCAA and Mountain West Conference rules,” the university said in a statement, adding: “We are gratified that the Court rejected an eleventh-hour attempt to change those rules. Our team looks forward to competing in the Mountain West volleyball tournament this week.”
Despite missing seven matches due to forfeits, Fleming has been a formidable offensive player. He ranks third in the conference for average kills per serve, contributing to the Spartans’ third-best hitting percentage. Granted, Fleming is a biological male competing against biological females.
It’s one thing to hear about the male advantage in volleyball: higher jumps, harder spikes, faster serves.
But it’s another thing to see it. Watch as male SJSU player Blaire Fleming dominates this women’s game—with a team-best 24 kills—on Saturday, 11/16.
San Jose State University's transgender women's volleyball player, Blaire Fleming, will participate in the Mountain West Conference tournament following a federal court decision on Monday. The ruling was made by Judge Kato Crews of Colorado, appointed by President Joe Biden, who declined a request for injunctive relief in a lawsuit involving several collegiate volleyball players against the Mountain West Conference.
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Hollywood liberal Alec Baldwin—who recently stood trial for involuntary manslaughter for the shooting death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins—says his fellow Americans are “uninformed,” referencing those who backed President-elect Donald J. Trump during the 2024 race for the White House. The actor made the remarks during a press conference at the 42nd Torino Film Festival in Italy.
Baldwin, whose involuntary manslaughter trial came to an abrupt and stunning end by being dismissed over prosecutorial misconduct, argued that his fellow countrymen possess a limited knowledge of global issues such as climate change and the Ukraine conflict.
“There’s a hole, a vacuum… a gap in information for Americans,” Baldwin says in a clip shared on X (formerly Twitter). The actor continues: “Americans are very uninformed about reality, what’s really going on—climate change, Ukraine, you name it. The biggest topics in the world, Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information.”
Baldwin adds: “You know what’s going on from the news, but information in America is driven by money. It’s a business.”
The 66-year-old actor and Democratic Party activist goes on to contend that Hollywood fills the educational gap through its big-budget and independent films. Despite Baldwin’s assertion, box office revenue has decreased by about 22 percent over the past five years as Americans are increasingly turned off by the industry’s penchant for pushing far-left propaganda.
Since the involuntary manslaughter trial and dismissal, Baldwin had stepped back from public appearances for a period. However, the leftist actor has recently begun promoting new film projects and even appeared on a recent episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, performing a less-than-convincing impression of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Alec Baldwin thinks Americans are “uninformed” about “what’s really going on” in the world and says the film industry is helping to plug the gap.
“There’s a hole, a vacuum… a gap in information for Americans,” the actor said at the Turin Film Festival on Monday. “Americans are… pic.twitter.com/lVBD6UO4pi
Hollywood liberal Alec Baldwin—who recently stood trial for involuntary manslaughter for the shooting death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins—says his fellow Americans are "uninformed," referencing those who backed President-elect Donald J. Trump during the 2024 race for the White House. The actor made the remarks during a press conference at the 42nd Torino Film Festival in Italy.
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Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) has introduced new legislation aimed at restricting access to women’s facilities on federal property. The Protecting Women’s Private Spaces Act seeks to ban individuals from using single-sex facilities that do not align with their biological sex.
Rep. Mace’s proposal follows a similar resolution she introduced earlier this week. That legislation focuses on prohibiting men who identify as women from using women’s restrooms and other facilities on Capitol Hill and follows the election of Congress’s first transgender member, Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), formerly Tim McBride.
“I’m going to do everything I can to protect women and girls here on the Hill, but also across the nation,” Mace said of her bill. “This is a question that needs to be answered. Do women have rights or not? Are we going to allow these men to bully us into submission? And I say, no, no more. I’m done with this,” she continued, adding: “There’s no amount of bullying and threats on my life that they’ve made this week that’s going to stop me from this.”
Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has instituted a rule requiring those using single-sex facilities in the House office buildings and the Capitol—including bathrooms and locker rooms, only access those that are aligned with their biological sex.
THREATS AGAINST MACE.
Earlier this week, The National Pulse reported that transgender influencer ‘Venus Andromeda’ threatened to kill Mace after she announced her bill to ban biological men from women’s restrooms on Capitol Hill.
“Congresswoman Nancy Mace, I hope that one day I do find you in that women’s bathroom and I grab your ratty-looking f***king hair and drag your face down to the floor while I repeatedly bash it in until the blood’s everywhere and you’re dead,” he raged in a video posted to social media.
This threat went out to Congresswoman Nancy Mace:
“He says he’s going to 🚨Grab my ratty looking f*****g hair 🚨Drag my face to the floor 🚨Repeatedly bash my head until blood everywhere 🚨And kill me”
Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) has introduced new legislation aimed at restricting access to women's facilities on federal property. The Protecting Women’s Private Spaces Act seeks to ban individuals from using single-sex facilities that do not align with their biological sex.
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An ongoing legal fight in Washington State over whether men are allowed into a women’s nude spa has produced a new, politically correct term for biological males. “People who are not vaginally presenting” was used by an attorney to describe individuals with biological male genitalia—rather than simply recognizing them as a ‘male’ or ‘man.’
Currently before the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the case Olympus Spa v. Armstrongstems from a ruling by the Washington State Human Rights Commission, which found that Haven Wilvich, a man, was unlawfully barred from entering the traditional Korean spa. The spa owners implemented a “female-only policy” as patrons are allowed to enter the spa in the nude, though they did make an accommodation for post-operative transgender ‘females.’ Olympus Spa argues that the rule is “essential for the safety, legal protection, and well-being of our customers.”
The Ninth Circuit appears split on whether Olympus Spa has the right to bar men from its establishment, with one of the appellate judges likening the policy to a ‘whites-only’ policy. “If you have a law that says ‘white applicants only,’ this is ‘biological women entrance only.’ It seems to me they’re quite parallel there,” Judge M. Margaret McKeown argued during a hearing on Monday. “And you can’t have ‘white people only’ come into my restaurant, and then you say, ‘Well, no, we have a religious, spiritual nature to our restaurant, and when you get there, we serve you special food.’ This seems quite different.”
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people who are not vaginally presenting
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Finally men have a new moniker. We’ve been called ‘uterus havers’ and ‘birthing bodies’ so I guess it’s men’s turn now?
Seriously though, once you accept a false axiom into your system you end up in crazy town fairly quickly. pic.twitter.com/oZlRKvoTVn
An ongoing legal fight in Washington State over whether men are allowed into a women's nude spa has produced a new, politically correct term for biological males. "People who are not vaginally presenting" was used by an attorney to describe individuals with biological male genitalia—rather than simply recognizing them as a 'male' or 'man.'
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Liberals are fleeing Elon Musk’s X following the election victory of President-elect Donald J. Trump and seeking asylum on a decentralized network. Social media platform Bluesky’s user base has grown from over nine million in September to more than 14.6 million as of Tuesday, with a significant increase over the weekend as salty liberals left X.
The transition among users propelled Bluesky to briefly become the second most popular iPhone app in the U.S. App Store on Monday, a rise from 27th place after the elections. The app is currently ranked third, following Meta’s Threads and ChatGPT.
According to data from app intelligence firm Appfigures, Bluesky’s downloads in the U.S. have increased by 933 percent year-to-date, while X’s downloads rose by 48 percent.
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber claims higher engagement levels on the platform than on X. Liberals have been moving to Bluesky for at least a year, with a 2023 Wired article noting that liberals can censor terms and moderate the platform on their own for their account.
Other liberal Twitter clones include Meta’s Threads, which highly censors speech, and Mastodon, which was embroiled in a major Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) controversy last year.
Liberal ideology remains hegemonic on many major social media platforms, such as Reddit and Facebook.
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Liberals are fleeing Elon Musk's X following the election victory of President-elect Donald J. Trump and seeking asylum on a decentralized network. Social media platform Bluesky's user base has grown from over nine million in September to more than 14.6 million as of Tuesday, with a significant increase over the weekend as salty liberals left X.
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Aerospace giant Boeing has decided to disband its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) department, according to a report by anti-DEI activist Christopher Rufo. Rufo announced the development last Thursday on X (formerly Twitter), suggesting that internal pressures might have influenced the new CEO’s decision to shut down the department. Rufo had previously criticized Boeing’s DEI strategy, arguing that it was diminishing competence within the company.
Bloomberg News confirmed the restructuring, noting that staff from the DEI office will merge with another human resources team focusing on talent and employee experience. Sara Liang Bowen, the Boeing vice president responsible for the former DEI department, left the company in conjunction with departmental changes.
Boeing has seen a slew of scandals in recent years relating to the safety of their aircraft. The Boeing 737 Max has seen several crashes, including two that occurred within months of each other in Indonesia and Ethiopia, killing a total of 346 people.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) identified a serious fault in 292 Boeing 777 aircraft earlier this year, noting that the faults could lead the planes’s engines to explode in mid-air flight.
Sam Salehpour, a Boeing engineer, warned the United States Senate in April that it was only a matter of time before a majoraviation disaster occurred as aircraft were not being constructed to proper requirements.
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Aerospace giant Boeing has decided to disband its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) department, according to a report by anti-DEI activist Christopher Rufo. Rufo announced the development last Thursday on X (formerly Twitter), suggesting that internal pressures might have influenced the new CEO’s decision to shut down the department. Rufo had previously criticized Boeing's DEI strategy, arguing that it was diminishing competence within the company.
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Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia has discreetly removed the bookQueer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker from their libraries following criticism from parents over its sexually explicit content. Parental outcry centered on the book’s graphic depiction of, in some cases, extreme sex acts, prompting questions regarding its suitability for young students.
Stacy Langton, a parent at Fairfax High School, expressed surprise at the quiet removal of the book. She noted that the action may influence upcoming elections, referencing President Donald J. Trump only narrowing trailing Vice President Kamala Harris in the state.
Virginia has been a focal point in discussions about parental influence in educational content since the 2021 gubernatorial race. Republican Glenn Youngkin‘s victory over former Governor Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) was partly attributed to debates over parental rights, with McAuliffe’s remarks about parental involvement in school decisions stirring controversy.
Langton, who has been vocal in school board meetings, criticized Queer: A Graphic History for its depiction of sexual practices deemed inappropriate for school libraries. She also raised concerns about another book, Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe, for similar reasons.
According to Noël Klimenko from the school district’s Instructional Services Department, the decision to remove Barker’s book was due to outdated terminology rather than a formal challenge. FCPS libraries opted for resources offering more current perspectives on LGBTQ+ history.
Previously, FCPS temporarily removed Gender Queer and Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison but reinstated them after committee reviews. Despite the committees’ conclusions that these books did not constitute pornography, Langton plans to renew her challenge to Gender Queer.
The school district has not publicly commented on these developments. Langton insists that materials containing explicit content should not be in schools, citing federal obscenity laws.
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Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia has discreetly removed the book Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker from their libraries following criticism from parents over its sexually explicit content. Parental outcry centered on the book's graphic depiction of, in some cases, extreme sex acts, prompting questions regarding its suitability for young students.
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A joke about Puerto Rico made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at President Donald J. Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally has not affected Hispanic support for the America First leader in Pennsylvania. A poll conducted by Cygnal indicates no shift among Hispanicvoters in the state.
Brent Buchanan, a pollster with Cygnal, stated that Puerto Ricans—among the demographics least likely to support Republican candidates—are not expected to change their voting intentions due to Hinchcliffe’s comments. The data shows no alteration in overall Hispanic voter preferences since the event.
“The comments are less likely to sway Puerto Rican votes toward Trump and more likely to energize opposition,” Buchanan acknowledged. However, he stressed again that these voters were not likely Republican supporters to begin with.
Following the media frenzy around Hinchcliffe’s joke, Shadow Senator for Puerto Rico Zoraida Buxó endorsed Trump at a Pennsylvania rally.
Trump has seen a surge of support among Hispanics across the United States during the 2024 presidential campaign. Maria Hinojosa, a host on the publicly funded broadcaster NPR, bizarrely suggested that many Hispanics were supporting Trump because they “want to be white” last month.
Hinojosa also admitted that the Hispanic support for Trump over Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris could cost the current Vice President next week’s election.
Polling reveals that immigration could be a major factor in the surge in support for Trump. A survey released in June suggested that around two-thirds of Hispanics across America want to see illegal immigrants deported.
Under the Biden-Harris regime, millions of illegals have flooded into the country. President Trump has promised large-scale deportations if he is reelected.
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A joke about Puerto Rico made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at President Donald J. Trump's Madison Square Garden rally has not affected Hispanic support for the America First leader in Pennsylvania. A poll conducted by Cygnal indicates no shift among Hispanic voters in the state.
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A black nationalist and advisor to Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) has pulled in $20 million from nonprofit groups, the government, and grantmakers while promoting the re-segregation of public schools. Sharif El-Mekki, a member of the Iranian-aligned Black Panther Party, has made a name using his nonprofit group—the Center for Black Educator Development (CBED)—to push for an education policy where “all black students are taught by high-quality, same-race teachers.”
Additionally, El-Mekki says he envisions enacting requirements that “all teachers demonstrate high levels of expertise in anti-racist mindsets.” In 2022, he served on the Education and Workforce Advisory Committee, which was part of Gov. Shaprio‘s transition team.
TRAINING RADICAL EDUCATORS.
CBED has become one of the forefront groups in training educators across the U.S., focusing on “education activism.” In essence, the group pushes teachers to promote radical political agendas that advance the ideological aims of far-left activists and would-be left-wing revolutionaries. Founded by El-Mekki in 2019, CBED publishes a teaching manual entitled ‘The Anti-Racist Guide to Teacher Retention,’ co-developed with the Pennsylvania Department of Education under Gov. Shapiro.
The guide defines public education as “a political act” and instructs educators on how they “can upend white supremacy and a racist history of using education as an oppressive social force.” According to the CBED and Pennsylvania government publication, “Every lesson plan is a political document, and every classroom interaction a political statement.”
IRANIAN & CORPORATE TIES.
El-Mekki’s views on education appear to be highly influenced by his upbringing in a so-called “freedom school” run by the radical Black Panther organization. His mother, a Mulsim convert, later moved El-Mekki and the family to Iran so that they could be raised under the guidance of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The young El-Mekki was subsequently instructed in Iran‘s Islamic education system.
The CBED and El-Mekki—who has been praised by anti-white and anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan—currently have around $19.5 in assets, with even the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation having contributed $1.4 million to the group in 2020 and 2021. Other financial backers of CBED include NBC Universal, Nike, the Bezos Family Foundation, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Education.
A black nationalist and advisor to Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) has pulled in $20 million from nonprofit groups, the government, and grantmakers while promoting the re-segregation of public schools. Sharif El-Mekki, a member of the Iranian-aligned Black Panther Party, has made a name using his nonprofit group—the Center for Black Educator Development (CBED)—to push for an education policy where “all black students are taught by high-quality, same-race teachers.”
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