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March 5, 2024
William Upton
Culture
World

France Removes Christian Cross From 2024 Olympic Promotional Art.

The Christian cross adorning some of Paris’s most recognizable buildings has been removed from the official poster promoting the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games, which are being held in the French capital. Designed by the Parisian illustrator Ugo Gattoni, the surrealist poster features the Dôme des Invalides sans the cross, which sits atop its spire.

Gattoni’s poster was unveiled on Monday and displayed in Paris’s historic Musée d’Orsay. The design is actually two illustrations, one for the Olympic Games and another for the Paralympics, which can be combined into a single surrealist image of the city.

Paris 2024 poster

“It’s a new, key moment in the Paris 2024 story,” said Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet at the unveiling of the poster before continuing: “We’ve tried to be different and imagine posters that look like us, posters that go beyond a mere logo.”

Once considered “the eldest daughter of the Church,” the French nation became increasingly secular following the French Revolution in the 18th century. Subsequent governments in France have, at times, engaged in aggressive — and even violent — anti-Christian actions. The current French Republic, led by President Emmanuel Macron, has seen several ancient churches demolished — including one dating to the 12th Century, which was torn down last year. Over the last several years, incidents of vandalism and arson have destroyed many medieval Christian churches around the country.

Christians have not been alone in being persecuted for their religion in France. Following Hamas’s barbaric October 7 terrorist attack against Israel, Jewish neighborhoods around France saw upticks in anti-semitic attacks.

This week, France became the first country in the world to enshrine the murder of unborn babies into its constitution.

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The Christian cross adorning some of Paris’s most recognizable buildings has been removed from the official poster promoting the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games, which are being held in the French capital. Designed by the Parisian illustrator Ugo Gattoni, the surrealist poster features the Dôme des Invalides sans the cross, which sits atop its spire. show more
March 5, 2024
Culture

Doritos Hires Transgender Pedo as Brand Ambassador.

International snack brand Doritos hired a transgender pedophile who seeks “the destruction and annihilation of the traditional family” as a brand ambassador.

Doritos Spain recently named transgender woman ‘Samantha Hudson,’ formerly Iván González Ranedo, as its brand ambassador. Ranedo has a history of pedophilic social media posts.

In one post on X (formerly Twitter), Ranedo said, “I want to do thuggish things [to] a 12-year-old girl,” and posted an example of an “extreme” sexual crime against a minor, according to reports. In another post, Ranedo wrote: “In the middle of the street in Mallorca in panties and screaming that I’m a nymphomaniac in front of a super beautiful 8-year-old girl.”

In addition to his pedophilic remarks, a clip of Ranedo surfaced in which he says he stands for “the destruction and the annihilation of the traditional family.”

Doritos, produced by Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, has yet to comment on the matter. Many users online are calling for a boycott of the company’s products in response to its decision to hire Ranedo.

Observers have compared Doritos’ move to an extreme version of the Bud Light-Dylan Mulvaney controversy. Bud Light sparked outrage and a widespread boycott after announcing the transgender Mulvaney, who is not a pedophile, as a brand ambassador.

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International snack brand Doritos hired a transgender pedophile who seeks “the destruction and annihilation of the traditional family” as a brand ambassador. show more
March 4, 2024
WakeUpRight
Culture

Bud Light Fumbles Its Super Bowl Hail Mary.

Despite the brand’s multi-million dollar Super Bowl ad blitz, Bud Light continues to fumble.

Back up: The Bud Light boycott began last year in response to a marketing campaign featuring transgender TikToker Dylan Mulvaney.

The details: To win back consumers, Bud Light launched a massive Super Bowl ad campaign featuring Hall of Fame QB Peyton Manning, singer Post Malone, and comedian Shane Gillis.

  • Bud Light ran 2 minutes and 30 seconds of ads during the big game, estimated to cost $35 million.
  • The brand even got an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, who asked supporters to give the beer a “second chance.”
The numbers: According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Bud Light didn’t move the needle. In the two weeks ending on February 17, Bud Light’s sales volume was still down 30.1 percent compared to last year. The skid bled into Budweiser sales, which were down 17.1%
  • During Super Bowl week, Bud Light came in second in overall sales (7.3 percent) to the new king of U.S. beer, Modelo (8.7 percent).
Big picture: Despite the multi-million dollar effort, Bud Light has only won back 1.2 percent of its lost market share. And in total, the boycott cost Anheuser-Busch $1.4 billion in 2023.
This article is adapted from the free ‘Wake Up Right’ newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.
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March 3, 2024
Culture
Education

University of Florida Lays Off All DEI Staff.

The University of Florida (UF) announced that it is dissolving its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, firing all relevant staff on Friday. The news was circulated via email, informing the UF community that anyone associated with DEI duties would be dismissed.

University officials stated it had closed its “Office of the Chief Diversity Officer, eliminated DEI positions and administrative appointments, and halted DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors” to comply with a Florida Board of Governors regulation banning DEI expenditures at Florida’s public universities.

In a significant shift of resources, UF plans to reroute the roughly fifty million dollars previously earmarked for DEI expenses, which incorporated both salaries and outlays. The email stated that the funds would be “reallocated into a faculty recruitment fund to be ministered by the Office of the Provost.”

The Florida Board of Governors passed regulation 9.016, which bans DEI spending after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 266 in May 2023. The bill “prohibits a university or university direct-sport organization from expending state or federal funds, regardless of source, to promote, support, or maintain any programs or campus activities that… Advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, or promote or engage in political or social activism, as defined by rules of the State Board of Education and regulations of the Board of Governors.”

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The University of Florida (UF) announced that it is dissolving its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, firing all relevant staff on Friday. The news was circulated via email, informing the UF community that anyone associated with DEI duties would be dismissed. show more
February 29, 2024
Culture
Politics

Ohio Senator Hires Black Guy To Say N-Word For His Audiobook.

Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown hired a black man to say “the n-word” for his latest audiobook.

Titled Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America, the audiobook version is “co-narrated” by Leon Nixon, a black man best known for narrating several erotic books such as Hood Boyz Fall In Love Too 3 and Nobody Can Love You Like Them Roughnecks Do 2.

The new book dedicates each chapter to a different senator who has previously occupied Brown’s desk. The book contains racially charged quotes containing the “n-word” from the likes of Theodore Bilbo, Lee Atwater, former Vice President Al Gore, and former KKK member and Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, all of which are narrated by Nixon.

Prior to narrating Desk 88, Nixon lent his voice to an audiobook narrating the events of January 6th.

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Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown hired a black man to say "the n-word" for his latest audiobook. show more
February 29, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture

Trans ‘Woman’ Jailed for Murdering Man Months After Putting Cat in Blender.

A transgender “woman” who previously put a cat in a blender has been sentenced to a minimum of 24 years in a men’s prison for murdering a Spanish engineer in a random, unprovoked attack in Oxford, England.

Scarlet Blake, a Chinese migrant who previously went by Alice Wang and was born Fangze Wang, smashed a vodka bottle over the head of BMW engineer Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, on the banks of the River Cherwell.

Prosecutors say Blake gained “sexual gratification from the thought of violence and the thought of death.” He was inspired to carry out the murder by the Netflix series Don’t F**k with Cats, which chronicles the story of a Canadian killer who tortured kittens and eventually murdered a Chinese student.

Blake himself killed a neighbor’s cat and put it in a blender on livestream only months before murdering Carreno.

Blake was as tall as his victim and significantly heavier than him. Despite being described as a “she” by the BBC, Daily Mail, and other British news outlets, he will serve his term in a men’s prison, according to the Ministry of Justice.

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A transgender "woman" who previously put a cat in a blender has been sentenced to a minimum of 24 years in a men's prison for murdering a Spanish engineer in a random, unprovoked attack in Oxford, England. show more
ken paxton
February 28, 2024
Culture

Texas AG Ken Paxton Sues Pornhub for Rejecting Age Verification Requirements.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched a lawsuit against Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub. The lawsuit, filed in Travis County District Court, accuses the company of failing to uphold state-level age verification laws on its platform and associated sites. In addition to seeking substantial damages under a law that was initially deemed unconstitutional, the case also cites Aylo for failing to display health warnings regarding sexual materials, a requirement under Texas law HB 1181.

The legal action comes amid a broader push for stricter age verification on adult content sites in Texas and across the United States. Texas law HB 1181 necessitates that adult content sites either develop their own methods or use a third-party service to collect information, such as a government-issued ID, to prevent minors from accessing explicit content. Aylo, formerly known as MindGeek, reportedly added health warnings related to sexual materials last year, though the company is also accused of not maintaining this practice.

The company Aylo has faced mounting political and regulatory challenges, with state-level restrictions imposed in the US, including Louisiana and Texas, and outright bans in North Carolina and Montana. Globally, the European Union recently classed Pornhub as a “Very Large Online Platform,” requiring regulation under the Digital Services Act. Age verification for pornographic content in the UK is a continuing area of focus for the regulatory body Ofcom. Texas law HB 1181 imposes fines of $10,000 per day for violations, alongside a potential lump sum of up to $1.6 million, charges which could impact Pornhub’s future financial feasibility in the state. Aylo has declined to comment on the lawsuit.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched a lawsuit against Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub. The lawsuit, filed in Travis County District Court, accuses the company of failing to uphold state-level age verification laws on its platform and associated sites. In addition to seeking substantial damages under a law that was initially deemed unconstitutional, the case also cites Aylo for failing to display health warnings regarding sexual materials, a requirement under Texas law HB 1181. show more
February 28, 2024
Breaking
Culture

Curb Your Enthusiasm Star Dies at 76.

Renowned American comedian Richard Lewis has passed away at the age of 76. Lewis, best known for his unique stand-up comedy style and his self-portrayal on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, made contributions to the comedy scenes spanning several decades. He rose to fame in the 1970s alongside comics such as Andy Kaufman, Richard Belzer, and Elayne Boosler, distinguishing himself as a favorite on late-night TV shows, including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Lewis’s stage persona, characterized by his predilection for dark clothing and a humorously grim outlook on life, became iconic. His career was marked not only by his use of self-deprecating wit, but also by his candidness about personal struggles with addiction and mental health.

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Renowned American comedian Richard Lewis has passed away at the age of 76. Lewis, best known for his unique stand-up comedy style and his self-portrayal on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, made contributions to the comedy scenes spanning several decades. He rose to fame in the 1970s alongside comics such as Andy Kaufman, Richard Belzer, and Elayne Boosler, distinguishing himself as a favorite on late-night TV shows, including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. show more
February 28, 2024
Wake Up Right
Culture
Health

Doctors Help HIV-Positive Trans Dude ‘Breastfeed’ Infant.

A transgender biological man with HIV is “breastfeeding” his infant despite the risk of transmission, and Canadian doctors are helping him do it.

Back up: Murray Pearson, 52, who identifies as a woman and goes by the name Margie Fancypants on social media, began “transitioning” in 2022, including taking drugs to grow breasts that can lactate.

The horrifying details: Pearson began posting to a Reddit forum for transgenders several months ago, detailing his journey to “connect through feeding” his 9-month-only baby.
  • He explained that he was working with two endocrinologists who created a drug protocol to induce lactation artificially.
HIV positive: Pearson admitted that he is HIV positive and acknowledges that transmission to his infant via milk “IS possible if viral load becomes detectable.”
  • Viral load refers to the amount of HIV in the blood at a given time.
  • He says he plans to test his viral load monthly to mitigate the risk.

Time out… “Mitigate risk”? How about eliminating the risk of giving your infant HIV by not exposing them to the risk at all? This whole story is giving late stage Republic vibes.

One of Pearson’s doctors, Dr. Marina Klein, gave a comment to Reduxx, saying: “It’s important to emphasize that we do not recommend breastfeeding for people with HIV… [however] If, after informed discussion, a person expresses a wish to breastfeed they may choose to do so provided they are willing to follow a close protocol of viral monitoring.”

Pray for that baby.

This article is adapted from the free ‘Wake Up Right’ newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.

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February 28, 2024
Culture

Beloved Film ‘Mary Poppins’ Slapped With Age Rating in UK Due to ‘Discriminatory Language.’

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has raised the rating of Mary Poppins from U to PG because it “includes two uses of the discriminatory term ‘Hottentots,’” a BBFC spokesman said.

‘Hottentot’ is a historical South African term for the Khoekhoe, an indigenous group, that is now considered offensive. The character Admiral Boom uses the word in the film, in one instance referring to chimney sweeps whose faces are covered in soot.

“While ‘Mary Poppins’ has a historical context, the use of discriminatory language is not condemned, and ultimately exceeds our guidelines for acceptable language at U,” the BBFC spokesman said. “We therefore classified the film PG for discriminatory language.”

The spokesman continued: “We understand from our racism and discrimination research, and recent classification guidelines research, that a key concern for people, parents in particular, is the potential to expose children to discriminatory language or behavior which they may find distressing or repeat without realizing the potential offense.”

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The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has raised the rating of Mary Poppins from U to PG because it “includes two uses of the discriminatory term ‘Hottentots,’” a BBFC spokesman said. show more