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  • Lawsuit Filed After School Forces Fifth Graders To Recruit Kindergarteners Into Gender Ideology

    10/31/2024 6:59:20 AM PDT · by Jan_Sobieski · 28 replies
    Harbinger’s Daily ^ | 10/30/2024 | Decision Magazine
    Two Christian families have filed a lawsuit against two teachers, a principal and the Encinitas Union School Board in California for requiring their fifth-grade sons to participate in classroom instruction aimed at kindergarteners on the topic of gender ideology.Having already encountered gender ideology material back in May as part of the fifth-grade health class program at La Costa Heights Elementary School, both families were notified in advance of the lesson and were able to opt their children out. However, when almost identical instruction was incorporated into the “Kinderbuddy” program—a mentorship program intended to foster healthy relationships between fifth-graders and kindergartners—no...
  • Baby Cages: The Forgotten Re-Education Program of the Nazi Youth | FULL DOCUMENTARY

    10/30/2024 1:47:27 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 12 replies
    Slice Full Doc ^ | 9/10/24 | Marie Bosch
    In 1945, Hitler continued to deny the apparent defeat that awaited him. In a final insane attempt to turn the tide of the war and make up for the lack of soldiers old enough to go into battle, he recruited massively from among the Hitler Youth, enlisting children as young as 12 years old. These little soldiers were sent to fight battles that they had no hope of winning. Nonetheless, as a rule, they fought zealously. As the Allied troops advanced, they were shocked to discover that there were also children among the countless German prisoners. Around 10 000 of...
  • The U.K.’s Educational Culture War - A newly elected Labour government is sparing no effort to stamp out wrongthink.

    10/29/2024 5:36:06 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 6 replies
    City Journal ^ | 28 Oct, 2024 | Joanna Williams
    For the first time in more than a decade, a school year has started in the U.K. with a Labour Party government running the country. With little money in the national coffers and few concrete proposals for economic growth, reforming the people rather than improving the nation seems to be the party’s goal. Labour’s starting point: the classroom. Take teeth, for instance. Shocking new statistics show that fewer than half of British children have seen a dentist in the past year. With private care prohibitively expensive for many parents and NHS provision so rare that large areas of the U.K....
  • Kamala Harris Wins Nickelodeon’s ‘Kids Pick the President’ Poll With 52% of Votes, Trump Grabs 48%

    10/28/2024 4:12:54 PM PDT · by millenial4freedom · 36 replies
    The Wrap ^ | 10/28/2024 | Kayla Cobb
    The kids in America have spoken, and they’ve chosen Kamala Harris as the winner of the 2024 presidential election. Nickelodeon’s seasonal “Kids Pick the President” poll ended with the Democratic nominee securing 52% of the vote compared to Republican nominee Donald Trump’s 48%.
  • Teenagers Publish Trigonometric Proof Of Pythagoras’ Theorem Once Considered Impossible

    10/28/2024 1:19:57 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 48 replies
    IFL Science ^ | October 28, 2024 | Stephen Luntz
    Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson have added four further novel proofs of the theorem that had also not been published before, and left clues for another five. Teen mathematicians Ne’Kiya Jackson (left) and Calcea Johnson (right) who have done what mathematics texts said was impossible, finding a non-circular trigonometric proof of Pythagoras Theorem. Image Credit: Calcea Johnson High school students Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson did something in 2023 that most mathematicians had thought impossible: They discovered a way to prove Pythagoras' theorem using trigonometry that did not depend on circular reasoning. Now, they have published their work in a...
  • Democrats Scream In Fury After Spotting Child That Made It Out Of The Womb Alive

    10/28/2024 9:17:08 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 31 replies
    The Bee ^ | October 27, 2024 | Staff
    HOUSTON, TX — Democrats outside of the Kamala Harris rally began screaming in blind rage after spotting a child who somehow managed to make it out of the womb alive. "Boo! Die! Die!" cried the Democrats, appalled by the sight of a little child in a stroller. "How did this little parasite escape the forceps and skull crusher? Hiss!!" According to eyewitnesses, the young child was sitting in her stroller quietly, prompting the Democrats present to begin foaming at the mouth. "It's just sickening to see a little child that is alive," said rally attendee Sharon Marks. "It fills my...
  • Who's running the country? Kamala certainly isn't and Joe's in full-blown dementua. Well?

    10/27/2024 10:45:21 AM PDT · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 54 replies
    News | 27 October | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
    Who is running the United States? Seriously, WHO is in charge? Biden is in no way capable of shouldering Presidential responsibility and Kamala is campaigning (if that's what you call it) furiously. Apparently, Barack Obama through his former staff and/or Jill Biden in the White House are/is making most of the decisions. Neither one is elected. All of this is literally treason.
  • Pro-life group shut down at Texas high school, alleges discrimination

    10/26/2024 1:07:23 PM PDT · by Morgana · 15 replies
    Catholic Vote ^ | October 25, 2024 | Hannah Hiester
    CV NEWS FEED // A pro-life club formed at a public high school in San Antonio, Texas, is claiming that the school discriminated against it and shut it down for its views on abortion. Local outlet KENS5 reported that the club was a branch of Students for Life of America and was started in the fall by Diego Salinas, a senior at Sonia Sotomayor High School. “I started up an Instagram and that Instagram had the ‘Sotomayor Students for Life’ handle,” Salinas said, according to KENS5. “Once that Instagram [account] kind of got popular, kids started finding out about the...
  • Betting Odds - 2024 U.S. President -- Aggregate of 8 betting sites has Trump at 60.0 and Harris at 38.8

    10/25/2024 12:29:30 PM PDT · by dennisw · 15 replies
    Real Clear Poitics ^ | 10-25 | Real Clear Poitics
    Betting Odds - 2024 U.S. President -- Aggregate of 8 betting sites has Trump at 60.0 and Harris at 38.8 https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president
  • Explaining Tax Claims to a Kid (vanity)

    10/24/2024 2:57:39 PM PDT · by Bogle · 36 replies
    Out of the blue, my 10-year-old son told me he didn't like Trump because Trump was going to give tax cuts to billionaires, but he liked Kamala because she was going to help the people who aren't rich. He didn't get this from school--he got it from a constant barrage of commercials. I've had no problems explaining other leftist follies to him, but explaining taxes to a 10-year-old? Do any of you know how to approach taxes with a 10-year-old?
  • Record For Largest Known Prime Number Broken By Amateur Mathematician Using Free Software

    10/24/2024 12:36:35 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 19 replies
    IFL Science ^ | October 23, 2024 | James Felton
    It is the 52nd Mersenne prime to be found since they were first studied over 350 years ago. A spiral representing primes. Image credit: Bocskai Istvan/Shutterstock.com The largest prime number ever discovered has been found by an amateur mathematician using Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS). Prime numbers, as you likely learned in school, are numbers that can only be divided by one and themselves. There are an infinite number of them, with all numbers greater than 1 being either a prime number or a composite of primes. But having discovered a whole lot of them, new primes are now...
  • Who are Trump’s ‘enemies within’ America?

    10/24/2024 12:23:56 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 20 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 24 Oct, 2024 | Peter A. Olsson
    What does the former president mean when he uses this phrase, which has drive the left crazy? Richard Nixon was castigated for his list of enemies prior to the Watergate scandal during his presidency. Recently, and differently, Donald Trump, in his typically exaggerated and dramatic style, confidently condemned “enemies within” America. His liberal elite media critics have reflexively condemned him for fascist or reactionary rhetoric and tactics over the term “enemies.” What political “enemies within” might there actually be in America today? 1. Enemies among Political Bureaucrat “Public Servants”The Mueller investigation, the Russia Hoax perpetrators, the two failed impeachment processes...
  • Gun Owners Call For Common-Sense Democrat Control

    10/24/2024 7:56:11 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 6 replies
    The Bee ^ | October 24, 2024 | Staff
    U.S. — In response to yet another Democrat shooting someone, gun owners across the country have begun to call for common-sense Democrat control. "Look, we believe in the second amendment -- but keeping guns away from these idiots is just common sense," said local gun owner Stanley Hartfield. "How many people do Democrats have to shoot before we take action?" Gun owners across the nation were appalled at the photographs from the scene of the latest incident, lambasting the dangers of letting Democrats near guns. "It's like giving a big, very dumb baby a rifle," said Hartfield. "I take that...
  • New Battery Breakthrough Could Solve Renewable Energy’s Biggest Challenge

    10/24/2024 5:26:02 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 18 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | September 19, 2024 | Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science
    Columbia Engineers have developed a new, more powerful “fuel” for batteries—an electrolyte that is not only longer-lasting but also cheaper to produce. Renewable energy sources like wind and solar are essential for the future of our planet, but they face a major hurdle: they don’t consistently generate power when demand is high. To fully harness their potential, we need cost-effective and efficient energy storage solutions to ensure power availability when the wind is still or the sun isn’t shining. Columbia Engineering material scientists have been focused on developing new kinds of batteries to transform how we store renewable energy. In...
  • Dolton ‘Dictator’ Mayor Tiffany Henyard infers she’ll seek arrest of opponents during rambling Facebook live rant

    10/24/2024 2:03:14 AM PDT · by Libloather · 24 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/24/24 | David Propper
    Dolton “Dictator” Mayor Tiffany Henyard inferred she would seek the arrests of her opponents in a rambling social media rant as her fed-up landlord described dealing with the under-fire pol who is facing eviction. Henyard, of the Illinois suburb, went on a nearly 90-minute tirade in a Facebook live video Tuesday after a meeting of the Thornton Township, which she also leads, was canceled because not enough board members showed up. In the endless address, the scandal-ridden mayor defended herself against non-stop criticism over her handling of municipal business and finances while calling dissenting officials corrupt. “I will be seeking...
  • Democrats Explain Trump Was Going To Be Hitler During His First Term, But He Forgot

    10/23/2024 5:43:37 PM PDT · by McGruff · 16 replies
    The Babylon Bee ^ | Oct 23, 2024
    Democrats have warned that if elected a second time, Donald Trump will be an evil dictator just like Adolf Hitler. When asked why Trump didn't become Hitler during his first term, Democrats explained that he simply forgot. "Trump meant to be Hitler, but he forgot," explained Vice President Harris in a press conference at the White House. "Being Hitler just totally slipped his mind. Make no mistake, if Trump is elected again, he absolutely plans to turn into Hitler and probably will write himself a reminder this time." According to retired General John Kelly, former President Trump often talked about...
  • The Female Gladiators of Ancient Rome

    10/23/2024 1:29:29 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 19 replies
    Greek Reporter ^ | October 23, 2024 | Abdul Moeed
    In Ancient Rome, female fighters were known as “Gladiatrix” and were basically the equivalent of Roman male gladiators. However, instead of fighting other men, they fought other Gladiatrix or even wild animals. These battles took place during special events in arenas and festivals. It’s important to note that there are no Latin words from the Roman period that specifically referred to the Gladiatrix. The term “Gladiatrix” is more of a recent term used to describe these female fighters. There is limited historical evidence and documented accounts of their existence, according to Heritage Daily. To the ancient Romans, seeing women gladiators...
  • Happy Mole Day 2024! 🤓

    10/23/2024 3:52:23 AM PDT · by Ezekiel · 16 replies
    American Chemical Society, National Mole Day Foundation | October 23, 2024 | Miscellaneous
    Mole DayCelebrated annually on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m., Mole Day commemorates "Avogadro's Number": 6.02 x 1023. This number--called a mole--is a basic measuring unit in chemistry. Mole Day typically falls during National Chemistry Week.https://www.acs.org/education/students/highschool/chemistryclubs/mole-day.htmlNational Chemistry WeekIn 1986, George Pimentel, then ACS president, had an idea to better educate the public about the crucial role of chemistry in everyday life. ACS organized its first official National Chemistry Day on Nov. 6, 1987. By 1989, the ACS Board had approved National Chemistry Day, and it became an annual celebration, held every year in late October. In 1993, it...
  • Trans high school tennis coach resigns after 'meth-fueled porn' videos emerge

    10/22/2024 8:29:21 PM PDT · by Morgana · 61 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | October 22, 2024 | Rachel Bowman
    A transgender high school tennis coach in Pennsylvania has resigned after pornographic videos surfaced allegedly showing her smoking meth while having sex. Gettysburg Area High School tennis coach Sasha Yates left her position on September 30 citing 'ongoing health reasons,' according to the Gettysburg Times. However, school board member Michelle Smyers told Daily Wire she received disturbing videos of the coach the night before she resigned from her post. In one shocking video seen by the outlet, Yates allegedly appeared to be smoking meth from a pipe and asking a woman: 'Am I a good meth w***e?' Another disturbing video...
  • Watch: College Girls Admit Abortion is Driving Force in Voting for Kamala Harris

    10/22/2024 7:47:01 PM PDT · by Morgana · 41 replies
    Disntr ^ | October 21, 2024 | staff
    It’s disconcerting to think that so many young women would prioritize the “right” to murder their unborn children as the primary reason for supporting Kamala Harris. The fact that we’ve reached a point in this nation where children—innocent, defenseless lives—are nothing more than inconveniences that can be disposed of without a second thought speaks to the depth of the moral decay we are witnessing. When the culture treats unborn children as nothing more than a “choice,” it’s no surprise that this mentality spreads, especially among young people on college campuses. They’ve been indoctrinated to believe that the pursuit of personal...