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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.

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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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Satanic Temple Salem
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
April 16, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
Health

Supreme Court Allows Idaho to Suspend Child Sex Changes While Appeals Against State Ban Are Ongoing.

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that Idaho can enforce its ban on sex changes for minors while an appeal is pending. The court’s directive was issued in response to an emergency request from the Gem State.

Two teenage plaintiffs have challenged the law. The Supreme Court ruled they, specifically, are to be exempt from its implementation while their appeals are ongoing, but it can be enforced across the state more generally.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), representing the plaintiffs, described the ruling as an “awful result for transgender youth and their families across the state,” claiming it “allows the state to shut down the care that thousands of families rely on while sowing further confusion and disruption.”

The Idaho law outlaws mutilating surgeries and the administration of puberty blockers, hormones, and other medical therapies to minors.

The evidence such therapies are an effective treatment for “gender dysphoria” is extremely thin, however, with England among several jurisdictions that have now banned the routing prescription of puberty blockers to children.

Evidence is emerging that such treatments have dangerous and often irreversible side effects, however, and that most gender-confused children grow out of their delusions naturally.

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The United States Supreme Court has ruled that Idaho can enforce its ban on sex changes for minors while an appeal is pending. The court's directive was issued in response to an emergency request from the Gem State. show more
April 16, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
Health

Planned Parenthood Resists Probe Into Transing Kids.

Planned Parenthood in Missouri is stonewalling an investigation into its “treatment” of transgender kids, refusing to comply with a court order to release treatment records.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey won a court battle against Planned Parenthood, with St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer ruling the abortion provider cannot use Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations to avoid revealing whether it has subjected minors to transgender therapies.

Bailey described the judgment as significant for his investigation into transgender health clinics’ “treatment” of minors in Missouri. However, only the Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City has surrendered documents following legal victories over three clinics. Planned Parenthood Great Plains has appealed to maintain its document privacy, and Planned Parenthood St. Louis, which was ordered to release files, has yet to comply.

Bailey has expressed concerns over Planned Parenthood’s non-compliance and promised continued legal actions to protect children and bring clarity.

“It’s extremely questionable that Planned Parenthood is actively stonewalling our investigations,” he said. “I had to haul them into court in order to get a judge to force them to turn over the documents we’ve requested.”

Judge Stelzer ruled Bailey “is investigating possible dishonesty by [Planned Parenthood] in their medical and billing practices” and affirmed the AG’s “broad investigative powers when the consumer is in possible need of protection.”

Missouri banned the administration of puberty blockers, hormones, and other transgender medical interventions to children in August 2023.

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Planned Parenthood in Missouri is stonewalling an investigation into its "treatment" of transgender kids, refusing to comply with a court order to release treatment records. show more
Civil War 2024
April 15, 2024
Culture

DATA: Just 5% of ‘Civil War’ Moviegoers Identify As Conservative.

A24’s latest film, Civil War, debuted with an impressive $25.7M opening, largely supported by Democrat and Liberal moviegoers.

Data collected by Screen Engine/Comscore’s PostTrak revealed that 22 percent of the movie’s audience identified as Liberal and 19 percent identified as Democrats, with Republicans and conservatives representing a smaller demographic. Only six percent of audience members described themselves as Republicans or Evangelical Christians, respectively. Just five percent identified as politically conservative.

The film, which former screenwriter and resident Breitbart film critic John Nolte described as a “ridiculously dopey, anti-Trump snuff film,” depicts the eruption of civil war through the eyes of a photojournalist, played by Kirsten Dunst, after secessionist forces rebel against an authoritarian President who is serving an unconstitutional third term. The President, played by Nick Offerman, is a barely-concealed caricature of former President Donald Trump.

Large, left-leaning markets such as L.A., San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., were strongholds for the film. The film’s release date — just months before the November Presidential election — is widely seen as intentional. “Civil War‘s timing surely isn’t a coincidence, as it hits cinemas amid a contentious election year in which President Biden and former President Trump are once again the leading candidates for their respective parties and Trump seeks to return to the White House,” reported Hollywood Reporter.

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A24's latest film, Civil War, debuted with an impressive $25.7M opening, largely supported by Democrat and Liberal moviegoers. show more
Salman Rushdie
April 15, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture

State-Protected Atheist Author Salman Rushdie Says Trump’s 2nd Term Makes America ‘Unlivable,’ Threatens to Leave.

Salman Rushdie has said the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House is “unbearable,” and he “might” return to London, England, if it happens.

India-born Rushdie is best known as the author of The Satanic Verses, a 1988 novel that earned a fatwa from the late Grand Ayatollah of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, for allegedly blaspheming Islam. He has enjoyed state protection in both the United Kingdom and the United States, but Hadi Matar, an Islamist born in California to Lebanese migrants, managed to stab him during an appearance at the Chautauqua Institution in New York in 2022.

However, Trump’s possible reelection seems to be a more pressing concern for Rushdie. The author told the British press the prospect is “unbearable” and “unthinkable.”

“[H]e’ll be much worse this time. He’ll be unleashed. He’s a liar and a bully, and cares about nothing except himself,” Rushdie said.

He added that Trump’s return would make the U.S. “unlivable” and that he “might” return to London, where most of his family resides.

Britain’s exit from the European Union gives him pause, however. He believes “the damage done to England, not just economically but culturally, is so awful that’s mad too.”

It is not the first time Rushdie has attacked Trump and Brexit. In 2023, he suggested ‘Make America Great Again’ is an inappropriate slogan, asking: “What is the date to which we are looking backwards? Was it, for example, when there was slavery? Was it before women had the right to vote? Was it before the civil rights movement?” He also called Brexit a “catastrophe.”

Rushdie made no mention of returning to his native India as a possible alternative to living in America or Britain.

 

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Salman Rushdie has said the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House is "unbearable," and he "might" return to London, England, if it happens. show more
Catholic Church
April 13, 2024
Ed Kozak
Culture
Data
Religion

DATA: Majority of Self-Identifying Catholics Reject Core Teachings of Catholic Church.

A majority of Americans who identify as Catholic are not — rejecting many of the core teachings of the Catholic Church.

A recent survey by Pew found that 60 percent of self-described Catholics in the U.S. believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Thirty-nine percent said it should be legal in most cases, while nearly a full quarter — 22 percent — said abortion should be legal in all cases. Just 28 percent of Catholics in America said abortion should be illegal in all cases.

The report also found that a substantial proportion of U.S. so-called Catholics advocate for more progressive changes within the Church, including acceptance of contraception, married priests, female priests, and same-sex marriage recognition.

Eighty-three percent of respondents said they want the church to allow contraception, 69 percent said priests should be able to marry, 64 percent said women should be allowed to become priestesses, and more than half — 54 percent — believe the Church should recognize same-sex marriage.

The new survey and its findings come on the heels of Pope Francis’s decision in December 2023 to allow priests to bless individuals in same-sex relationships — however such blessings are not marriage and cannot take part during Church services. Last year, the Catholic Church, which has become increasingly liberal under the guidance of Pope Francis, decreed that transgendered individuals could be baptized.

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A majority of Americans who identify as Catholic are not — rejecting many of the core teachings of the Catholic Church. show more
Transgender Teacher
April 13, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
Education

Florida Judge Says School Must Allow Trans Teacher to Use Preferred Pronouns.

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued a temporary injunction this week, halting the enforcement of a Florida law barring transgender teachers from using pronouns that do not align with their biological sex in schools.

“Once again, the State of Florida has a First Amendment problem,” Judge Walker wrote in his injunction.

“Of late, it has happened so frequently, some might say you can set your clock by it,” he continued. “This time, the State of Florida declares that it has the absolute authority to redefine your identity if you choose to teach in a public school… the question before this Court is whether the First Amendment permits the State to dictate, without limitation, how public-school teachers refer to themselves when communicating to students. The answer is a thunderous ‘no.’”

Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, often characterized as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill by opponents, was challenged in December by two trans teachers and one “non-binary” teacher, but only one of them, “Katie” Wood, was awarded a temporary injunction by Judge Walker.

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Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued a temporary injunction this week, halting the enforcement of a Florida law barring transgender teachers from using pronouns that do not align with their biological sex in schools. show more
April 8, 2024
Culture
News

‘Most Challenged Book’ List Shows Parents Pushing Back Against LGBTQ+ Propaganda for Kids.

The American Library Association (ALA) list of the ten most challenged books of 2023 reveals the extent to which far-left extremists have promoted LGBTQ literature to children — and the extent to which parents are fighting back against those efforts.

The ALA noted a 65 percent increase in titles subject to removal or restriction efforts — marking the highest recorded number of challenged books in the organization’s history. Seven of the 10 most challenged books deal with LGBTQ topics, with the number one place held by Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, a graphic chronicling the author’s coming out as ‘nonbinary.’ Other targeted titles include George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue, Juno Dawson’s This Book Is Gay, Mike Curato’s Flamer, and Matthew Nolan’s Let’s Talk About It.

“Pressure groups in 2023 focused on public libraries in addition to targeting school libraries. The number of titles targeted for censorship at public libraries increased by 92% over the previous year, accounting for about 46% of all book challenges in 2023; school libraries saw an 11% increase over 2022 numbers,” the group said in an official press release.

In total, the ALA found 4,240 individual book titles under aim for removal from public libraries and schools, substantially exceeding the earlier peak of 2,571 in 2022.

The increase reflects efforts by parents’ groups and conservative lawmakers to protect children from exposure to sexually explicit and other inappropriate LGBTQ-themed material. Subjecting children to such material has real-world consequences and can cause lasting harm to children. A recent report revealed that the number of Americans identifying as LGBTQ+ doubled over 12 years. Meanwhile, a recent landmark study showed that most gender-confused kids grow out of it.

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The American Library Association (ALA) list of the ten most challenged books of 2023 reveals the extent to which far-left extremists have promoted LGBTQ literature to children — and the extent to which parents are fighting back against those efforts. show more