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May 7, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
War

WATCH: Demonstrators Block Elites from Met Gala.

Mass arrests took place as demonstrators staged a sizable protest blocks away from the high-profile Met Gala on Monday, on New York’s Upper East Side. Roughly the same number of police officers assigned to protect the gala were also dispatched to manage and control the protest.

The demonstration, which featured chants of “Rafah!” and “Gaza!”, raised tensions. However, police officers and metal barriers ensured disturbance at the high-profile event was minimized. “The NYPD won’t let them anywhere near the celebrities,” a protestor at nearby Hunter College told the press. Historically, there’s often a protest outside the Met Gala. But they get destroyed.”

While part of the crowd admitted intentions of interrupting the gala, others seemingly found themselves there unintentionally.

Last year, the gala raked in $22 million from brands and sponsors buying ticketing rights. This year’s lead corporate sponsor was TikTok, which faces a U.S. ban — after the November election — if Chinese parent company ByteDance does not divest from it. Joe Biden-supporting political action committees have spent substantial sums of money to win over influencers on TikTok and similar apps, despite Biden having signed the legislation that could ban it.

The theme for the Met Gala this year was J.G. Ballard’s The Garden of Time. Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of The National Pulse, observed that it was, perhaps unintentionally, “the perfect choice” for 2024, given the gala’s proximity to Columbia University and New York’s struggles with migrants.

“The Met Gala, taking place close to the heaving and swearing hordes in New York, offers poetic irony… a living play about the destructiveness of mass migration and cultural relativism, slap bang in the middle of Manhattan.”

Read Raheem Kassam’s thoughts on the Met Gala in full here. 

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Mass arrests took place as demonstrators staged a sizable protest blocks away from the high-profile Met Gala on Monday, on New York’s Upper East Side. Roughly the same number of police officers assigned to protect the gala were also dispatched to manage and control the protest. show more
May 6, 2024
Ed Kozak
Culture
News

The New York Times Wants You to EAT the Cicadas.

The New York Times is using this year’s surfacing of a trillion cicadas to indoctrinate its readership into the joy of eating bugs. In an article entitled “A Trillion Cicadas, They’re What’s for Dinner,” the publication does its best to make eating insects seem appealing and inevitable.

The piece begins with a profile of chef Joseph Yoon, who owns a business called Brooklyn Bugs, and his menu. “For his ramp and cicada kimchi, he leaves the insects whole and intact in their crackling shells so they’re slowly permeated with a spicy fermenting juice, and serves it with a wobble of soft tofu and warm rice,” the Times writes, using descriptive language designed to evoke a meal that normal people might actually want to eat.

Although the Times concedes that “eating insects is often sensationalized, trivialized or framed as a source of cheap protein for an end-of-the-world scenario,” it is eager to remind us that “for about two billion people who regularly eat insects around the world, it’s one of our oldest and most ordinary foods.” Like seafood? Then you should love the bugs, says the Times.

“In fact, cicadas are so closely related to lobster that the Food and Drug Administration has issued reminders to avoid them if you have a shellfish allergy. ‘They’re both arthropods,’ said Tad Yankoski, an entomologist at the Missouri Botanical Garden. ‘But only one’s a luxury, why is that?'”

Critics have long contended that a key part of the so-called “Great Reset” planned by the international globalist elite is to force Westerners to abandon traditional food sources in favor of things like insects and artificial, lab-grown meat. Last year, Tyson Foods announced it was partnering with Dutch company Protix to build a new facility to produce bugs en masse for the American market.

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The New York Times is using this year's surfacing of a trillion cicadas to indoctrinate its readership into the joy of eating bugs. In an article entitled "A Trillion Cicadas, They’re What’s for Dinner," the publication does its best to make eating insects seem appealing and inevitable. show more
May 5, 2024
Culture

Trans Runner Wins 3 Women’s Competitions, Would’ve Placed Last Against Men’s Times.

Transgender student “Sadie” Schreiner led a college team to victory in three races during Saturday’s Liberty League Championship Meet. Schreiner, who represents the Rochester Institute of Technology, claimed first place in both the 400-meter and 200-meter races, breaking school records in the women’s category.

As an anchor, Schreiner ran the fastest anchor leg, contributing to the team’s win in the 4×400 relay race. Born a man, Schreiner’s 100-meter sprint record ranks 20th among boys in high school but would have been the fastest for girls.

Schreiner contended that being genetically male does not offer a default advantage.

Six states are suing Joe Biden’s Department of Education over Title IX amendments intended to offer more protection to men competing as women. Students who opted out of competing with transgender athletes have been suspended.

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Transgender student "Sadie" Schreiner led a college team to victory in three races during Saturday's Liberty League Championship Meet. Schreiner, who represents the Rochester Institute of Technology, claimed first place in both the 400-meter and 200-meter races, breaking school records in the women's category. show more
May 4, 2024
Culture
News

Loony Left Media: Animals Should Be Considered ‘Legal Persons.’

The left-wing media is now arguing that animals should be considered legal persons and that the “violence” of so-called “ecocide” should be a punishable offense in international law and civil and criminal codes. Writing in the far-left magazine The New Republic, Lydia Millet argues that the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United offers the legal precedent to enact such laws.

“Both domestically and internationally, species and ecosystems need to be endowed with legal standing to give local and native stewards the tools to save them from the depredations of industry in the short term and sustain them over the long,” writes Millet. “Accountability for the violence of what some call ‘ecocide’ should be embedded in international law and civil and criminal codes.”

“Luckily, bestowing legal standing on extra-human parties isn’t a fanciful idea,” she writes. “The U.S. Supreme Court did exactly that in the 2010 case known as Citizens United, when it declared that corporations were legal persons—a decision that hobbled American democracy but also set a neat precedent for extending legal personhood to nonhuman entities. And corporations are clearly more abstract and disembodied than animals.”

A GLOBAL MOVEMENT? 

Millet also points to the fact that other nations have begun classifying nature and animals as legal persons.

“In New Zealand, a river and a rainforest have been awarded personhood; the people of Ecuador, in 2008, voted to modify their Constitution to recognize the right of nature to exist and flourish; in the United States, the Yurok tribe gave personhood to the Klamath River under tribal law in 2019; and in 2010 Pittsburgh became the first major city to recognize the rights of nature. Those rights have also been enacted into law or invoked by courts in Bolivia, Panama, and India.”

What Millet fails to address is the inevitable implications of declaring animals and natural geographic features legal persons that could have catastrophic effects on human society. Were such blanket measures enacted, hunting, fishing, and farming as we know it might all become illegal. Indeed, current efforts by the Biden regime to “protect” the environment using already available means are predicted to impact energy costs dramatically and will have dire consequences for Americans’ standard of living.

Observers may also note the inherent irony of The New Republic, which appears to publish at least one article per day in favor of the “right” to abortion, arguing that animals are entitled to legal personhood protections while actual baby persons are not.

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The left-wing media is now arguing that animals should be considered legal persons and that the "violence" of so-called "ecocide" should be a punishable offense in international law and civil and criminal codes. Writing in the far-left magazine The New Republic, Lydia Millet argues that the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United offers the legal precedent to enact such laws. show more
April 30, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
Media

WATCH: Seinfeld Lashes Out at ‘Extreme Left, PC Crap.’

Stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld told the New Yorker Radio Hour that the “extreme left” and political correctness are killing comedy, with too many outside committees and other groups weighing in on comic scripts.

“Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it, they need it so badly,” Seinfeld said. He argued, however, that the public is not getting the comedy they need.

“It used to be you would go home at the end of the day. Most people would go, ‘Oh, Cheers is on.’ ‘Oh, M*A*S*H is on.’ ‘Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on.’ ‘All in the Family is on.’ You just expected, ‘There’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.’ Well, guess what? Where is it? Where is it?” Seinfeld demanded.

“This is the result of the extreme Left, PC crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people. Now they’re going to see stand-up comics because we are not policed by anyone. The audience polices us. We know when we’re off-track, we know instantly, and we adjust to it instantly. But when you write a script, and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups, ‘Here’s our thought about this joke,’ well, that’s the end of your comedy,” he explained.

Seinfeld, whose eponymous sit-com was among the highest-rated shows of all time, has said his upcoming Unfrosted movie will feature a “very funny January 6 parody.”

He also featured in the final season of Seinfeld co-creator Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, with a storyline based around leftist talking points against Georgia election integrity laws.

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Stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld told the New Yorker Radio Hour that the "extreme left" and political correctness are killing comedy, with too many outside committees and other groups weighing in on comic scripts. show more
April 23, 2024
Raheem J. Kassam
Culture

Jerry Seinfeld’s New Pop Tart Movie Contains a ‘Very Funny January 6 Parody.’

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has declared that the film business is no longer the commanding force it once was in our society and culture. In an interview with GQ magazine to discuss his new Pop-Tart movie, “Unfrosted,” Seinfeld expressed admiration for the unwavering dedication of his colleagues but noted a crisis permeating the industry.

Asked what he thinks has replaced film, Seinfeld responds: “Depression? Malaise? I would say confusion. Disorientation replaced the movie business. Everyone I know in show business, every day, is going, What’s going on? How do you do this? What are we supposed to do now?”

Another pull from the interview mentions a “very funny January 6 parody,” which interviewer Brett Martin calls “a little surprising, given how apolitical [Seinfeld has] been.” The scene isn’t in the trailer (below), but will doubtless do the rounds when the movie is released in early May.

But the 69-year-old stand-up and sitcom actor refused to get drawn on the question, instead pivoting to October 7 and antisemitism in America: “Well, I’m Jewish. And you grow up learning about antisemitism, but it’s kind of in a book. It never crossed my mind that people would look at me as anything other than, ‘I like this comedian. I don’t like this comedian.’ I think most Jews of my generation never thought about antisemitism. It was from history books. And then it was something different. It was something different.”

“Unfrosted,” a comedy based on the development of the Pop-Tart and the intensifying rivalry between Kellogg’s and Post during the early ’60s, features Seinfeld alongside Melissa McCarthy. Amy Schumer plays the head of Post. Seinfeld is credited with writing the script, marking his most significant film project since his role in the 2007 animated comedy Bee Movie, where he was a writer, producer, and lead voice.

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Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has declared that the film business is no longer the commanding force it once was in our society and culture. In an interview with GQ magazine to discuss his new Pop-Tart movie, "Unfrosted," Seinfeld expressed admiration for the unwavering dedication of his colleagues but noted a crisis permeating the industry. show more

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Given how huge a Seinfeld fan I am (I even watched the entire show backwards, once, to get a different perspective on the character arcs), I sure hope this doesn’t suck, and that the January 6th reference isn’t cringe as all hell (it probably will be)
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April 22, 2024
Ed Kozak
Culture
Education

Biden’s Title IX Changes Mandate Transgender Pronouns in Schools.

Last week, the Biden government announced its latest Title IX regulations, which deliver protections for gender identity, without explicitly mentioning “transgender” terminology. These rules, set to take effect on August 1, will mean all public schools risk legal and fiscal consequences if non-compliant. While not stating so outright, the regulations are viewed as enabling transgender students access to restrooms and changing rooms of their choice and would force schools to use students’ ‘preferred pronouns.’ Biden regime officials appeared to confirm these concerns in a press call with LGBTQ activists.

“These regulations make it crystal clear that no one should have to abandon their educational aspirations due to discrimination, whether it’s based on pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other sex-based factors,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said.

‘A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT WOULD BE RECOGNIZED.’

Addressing a direct question about pronoun use, another Biden official confirmed that schools could be penalized for refusing to use transgender pronouns.

“The way that we would analyze that question is to assess whether a student is experiencing a sex-based hostile environment,” the official said. “[I]f the facts meet those standards, which is if, under the totality of the circumstances, sex-based conduct that is subjectively and objectively offensive to a student and to a person in the school community and it rises to the level that it limits or denies access to education, then a hostile environment would be recognized and we would evaluate whether the school had taken sufficient steps to remedy that hostile environment.”

Critics contend these regulations infringe on First Amendment rights by mantheydating recognition of gender identity and could prove to be an issue for the Biden government in court. “There are First Amendment problems with this regulation that the agency repeatedly dismisses without addressing. This will be a problem for the Biden admin in litigation,” wrote lawyer and child advocate Julie Hamill on X (formerly Twitter).

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Last week, the Biden government announced its latest Title IX regulations, which deliver protections for gender identity, without explicitly mentioning "transgender" terminology. These rules, set to take effect on August 1, will mean all public schools risk legal and fiscal consequences if non-compliant. While not stating so outright, the regulations are viewed as enabling transgender students access to restrooms and changing rooms of their choice and would force schools to use students' 'preferred pronouns.' Biden regime officials appeared to confirm these concerns in a press call with LGBTQ activists. show more

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baldwin
April 22, 2024
Culture

WATCH: Alec Baldwin Appears to Assault Woman Who Asks ‘Why Did You Kill That Lady!?’

Actor Alec Baldwin, who continues to be embroiled in legal hot water over the shooting of Rust movie cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, appeared to lash out physically against a woman who was harassing him in a coffee shop. The video was posted by the account “Crackhead Barney & Friends” with the caption: “White devil Alec Baldwin attacked me… While I was trying to get coffeee [sic].”

In the clip, it appears as though Baldwin himself is the one trying to get coffee, while being forced to endure the shrill demands from a woman.

“One time, one time Alec… come on, Alec. Just say ‘free Palestine’ one time, just one time and I’ll leave you alone,” she says, adding, “Fuck Israel, fuck Zionism,” before Baldwin moves towards her and smacks her phone with his left hand.

WATCH:

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Actor Alec Baldwin, who continues to be embroiled in legal hot water over the shooting of Rust movie cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, appeared to lash out physically against a woman who was harassing him in a coffee shop. The video was posted by the account "Crackhead Barney & Friends" with the caption: "White devil Alec Baldwin attacked me... While I was trying to get coffeee [sic]." show more

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Honestly, I’m not really sure I feel sorry for either of these people
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April 18, 2024
Crime
Culture

Man Arrested for Bombing Satanic Temple.

An Oklahoma resident, Sean Patrick Palmer, was arrested and charged Wednesday for an alleged pipe bomb attack against the Massachusetts headquarters of The Satanic Temple.

The 49-year-old is accused of using an explosive to damage the Salem-based building, which also operates as an art gallery. If convicted, Palmer could serve up to 20 years in prison and face a fine of $250,000.

Surveillance footage captured a man approaching the building around 4 AM on April 8, wearing a facial covering, tactical vest, and gloves. He ignited an improvised explosive device before fleeing. Authorities say the bomb partially detonated, causing minor fire damage. DNA was uncovered from a single hair on the partially detonated device.

A six-page note urging repentance was found in a nearby flowerbed. Palmer had allegedly made similar comments on social media. Investigators also noted a black Volvo, registered to Palmer, acting erratically in the vicinity before and after the incident. Records affirmed that Palmer had recently purchased PVC pipe, the suspected bomb material, from a home improvement store in Oklahoma.

In 2023, the Satanic Temple erected an idol of the demon Baphomet in the Iowa State Capitol. Christian veteran Michael Cassidy beheaded the idol, resulting in his arrest. He was charged with a hate crime because the vandalism was motivated by “the victim’s religion,” according to the prosecutors.

Corporate media outlet POLITICO described Satanists as “people of faith” like Jews or Episcopalians earlier the same year, while Cosmopolitan magazine promoted Satanic abortions.

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An Oklahoma resident, Sean Patrick Palmer, was arrested and charged Wednesday for an alleged pipe bomb attack against the Massachusetts headquarters of The Satanic Temple. show more
Smithsonian Institution
April 17, 2024
Culture

Smithsonian Eliminates Drag Shows Following Investigation.

The Smithsonian Institution has eliminated drag shows from its 2024 programming following an internal investigation. The investigation was reportedly sparked by a question from a Republican Congresswoman last year.

Responding to a question from Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-OK) on how drag events further the Smithsonian’s mission during a House Administration Committee hearing on December 12, 2023, Lonnie Bunch, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, suggested it may not be suitable to expose children to drag shows and pledged to look into the matter.

This reportedly sparked an internal “drag audit,” resulting in the elimination of drag performances from the Smithsonian’s 2024 calendar. Smithsonian staff members who wished to remain anonymous have interpreted this as an act of censorship by Bunch and his team.

The Smithsonian has yet to confirm Bunch’s stance on drag events or their inclusion in their future programming. The prospective cancellation of drag performances in June would be a first during Bunch’s five-year tenure as the Smithsonian’s secretary. The Smithsonian hosted at least eight drag performances during Bunch’s time in office, primarily in connection with New York City and Washington, D.C.’s Pride Week. The most recent was held on June 23, 2023, at the Diker Pavilion, a New York City facility of the National Museum of the American Indian.

One drag performer who was planning an event in collaboration with the Smithsonian before its abrupt cancellation was Wyn Wylie, a far-left, anti-white extremist who performs under the moniker ‘Pattie Gonia.’

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The Smithsonian Institution has eliminated drag shows from its 2024 programming following an internal investigation. The investigation was reportedly sparked by a question from a Republican Congresswoman last year. show more