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Updated: 3:19 PM PDT June 1, 2021 Facebook Twitter PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) on Tuesday reported 177 new COVID-19 cases in the state and three new deaths due to the virus. Oregon’s death toll is now 2,674 people. -snip- Deaths OHA released the following information about the three new deaths reported Tuesday: Oregon’s 2,672nd COVID-19 death is a 59-year-old man from Lane County who tested positive on May 21 and died on May 28 at his residence. He had underlying conditions. Oregon’s 2,673rd COVID-19 death is a 75-year-old man from Douglas County who tested positive on...

President Joe Biden touted his administration’s pro-LGBTQ policies Monday and vowed more action to continue “the historic progress made towards LGBTQ+ equality” since he took office. The White House released a fact sheet Monday highlighting dozens of initiatives the Biden administration has undertaken to advance the LGBT movement, including rescinding former President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military. The administration has also announced that U.S. embassies across the globe are allowed to fly rainbow pride flags on the same pole as the American flag.(snip) Biden followed up the White House statement with an official presidential proclamation...

Fr. Martin Cites Boris Johnson’s Catholic Wedding to Push Same-Sex BlessingsCV NEWS FEED // Rev. James Martin, SJ, cited British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s wedding in the Catholic Church to suggest “same-sex couples” should receive the same “mercy and compassion.”Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds, with whom he has a child, at the Westminster Cathedral over the weekend.The Catholic Cathedral told media that the couple are both “parishioners” there, leading to speculation that Johnson, who was baptized Catholic but confirmed in the Church of England, has returned to the Catholic Church.Johnson and Symonds’ son was recently baptized Catholic.“#BorisJohnson, a twice-divorced...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Cases and Deaths COLLAPSED dramatically low over the holiday weekend - if this is not a reporting anomaly, the disease has collapsed profoundly) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 366,317,045 (21,144,200 J&J) Administered: 296,404,240 (10,858,664 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 168,489,729 Fully Vaccinated: 135,867,425

HELLO & thanks for stopping by this here comment section! I felt compelled to clarify that not having a "career" is not the same as not having a job -- I completely understand that the vast majority of people do not have the freedom or ability to survive without work under capitalism. It is precisely because we have to spend so much time working that I advocate for a shift in the way we conceptualize of our identities, self-worth, validation away from labor.

The Walt Disney Co. has been hit with a lawsuit from one of its own executives who alleges the company discriminated against him on the basis of sexual orientation. The complaint comes as Disney is rolling out Pride Month-themed content across its media platforms, including the kid-oriented Disney+ streaming service. In a ten-page complaint filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Joel Hopkins claims he was denied promotion after his superiors learned about his sexual orientation. He alleges he was also put on a “dead-end career track” and that his compensation “is less than other individuals who are also department...

Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row will soon feature a men’s homeless shelter smack-bang in the middle of it despite a three-year offensive to halt its creation by members of the city’s elite, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled. Residents of the city’s priciest street fought tooth and nail to halt Mayor de Blasio’s $60.8 million plan to open a 150-bed men’s shelter in the closed Park Savoy Hotel at 158 W. 58th St., arguing the location would be a dangerous “firetrap” and that crime would inevitably ensue on the ritzy block.(snip) The now defunct Park Savoy Hotel will house a...

The sales volume of ‘Made in China’ BeiDou chips has exceeded 100 million and related products have been exported to more than 120 countries and regions, according to China’s official report, which also said BeiDou’s role in countering U.S. rival GPS, as well as its significance for China’s national defense strategy, is “beyond description.”

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a statement to endorse Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for reelection, praising the governor for his policies on the U.S. southern border, the Second Amendment, and election integrity. “Greg Abbott is a fighter and a Great Governor for the incredible people of Texas,” the former president said in a statement circulated by his Save America political action committee. “No Governor has done more to secure the Border and keep our communities safe than Governor Abbott. Greg is a staunch defender of the Second Amendment and has made Texas a Second Amendment Sanctuary State.”

Patriot Chris Kelly from New York was arrested in the southern district of New York on January 20, 2021.His first appearance in court was on February 9, 2021 by video teleconference.FBI investigators said Chris entered the US Capitol during the Jan. 6 protests.Federal prosecutors charged him with Obstruction of an Official Proceeding; Aiding and Abetting; Unlawful Entry to Restricted Building or Grounds; Violent Entry and Disorderly Conduct.NBC News reported: On Tuesday the federal prosecutors dropped charges against Chris Kelly after more than four months.The FBI lied and said Kelly entered the US Capitol. They took over four months to drop...

Joe Biden absurdly claimed that “white supremacy” is a bigger terrorism threat to the homeland than ISIS or al Qaeda. Biden was in Tulsa commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and announcing new efforts to combat “white supremacy” and help minority-owned businesses.

There was a time when the Covid pandemic seemed to confirm so many of our assumptions. It cast down the people we regarded as villains. It raised up those we thought were heroes. It prospered people who could shift easily to working from home even as it problematized the lives of those Trump voters living in the old economy.Like all plagues, Covid often felt like the hand of God on earth, scourging the people for their sins against higher learning and visibly sorting the righteous from the unmasked wicked. “Respect science,” admonished our yard signs. And lo!, Covid came and...

President Joe Biden’s administration will reportedly cancel several oil and gas leases granted in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in the last weeks of the Trump administration — days after defending similar leases on Alaska’s North Slope. The decision was reported by the Washington Post on Tuesday, and would mark an attempt to reverse one of President Donald Trump’s historic achievements: the opening of ANWR’s coastal plain in his tax cut legislation in December 2017.

In this interview with The New American magazine Senior Editor Alex Newman, the internationally renowned Dr. Peter McCullough–the doctor with the most citations in the National Library of Medicine on these topics–warned that the COVID shot was already causing thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of hospitalizations that have been recorded. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, he warned. In normal circumstances, 50 deaths reported to VAERS would result in a drug being taken off market immediately. In the case of the COVID shots, thousands have already been reported, and yet the mass vaccination programs continue to...

The nation’s biggest tech corporations joined forces with the United States Chamber of Commerce and the outsourcing industry to keep foreign visa-holders in American jobs even as about 16.4 million Americans remain jobless. Executives with Google, Amazon, Apple, IBM, HP, the Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, the Microsoft Corporation, Twitter, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us, Michael Bloomberg’s New American Economy, and other corporations have filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit to ask a federal court to keep more than 90,000 foreign visa-holders in the U.S. workforce. The lawsuit was first filed in 2015 by Save Jobs USA, a...

Church authorities said that “all necessary steps were taken, in both church and civil law,” ahead of twice-divorced British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s wedding at a Catholic cathedral in London on Saturday. Johnson married Carrie Symonds, the mother of his one-year-old son Wilfred, in a small ceremony at Westminster Cathedral on May 29. A Westminster Cathedral spokesperson told the Sunday Times newspaper: “The bride and groom are both parishioners of the Westminster Cathedral parish and baptized Catholic.” “All necessary steps were taken, in both church and civil law, and all formalities completed before the wedding. We wish them every happiness.”...

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Homosexual acts are considered grave sins by the Catholic Church, whose center is the Vatican. It has also taught for millennia that pride is the worst of the seven deadly sins.VATICAN CITY, June 1, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The United States Embassy to the Holy See is flying a colorful flag this month, but it’s not Old Glory. Today the U.S. Embassy to the Vatican announced over Twitter that it is celebrating “Pride Month” by exhibiting the bright rainbow stripes of the gay liberation movement. Tweeting a photo of the flag hanging from the balcony of its building in Rome, an...

Explanation: What are those streaks across Orion? They are reflections of sunlight from numerous Earth-orbiting satellites. Appearing by eye as a series of successive points floating across a twilight sky, the increasing number of communications satellites, including SpaceX Starlink satellites, are causing concern among many astronomers. On the positive side, Starlink and similar constellations make the post-sunset sky more dynamic, satellite-based global communications faster, and help provide digital services to currently underserved rural areas. On the negative side, though, these low Earth-orbit satellites make some deep astronomical imaging programs more difficult, in particular observing programs that need images taken just...