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Jessamyn Stanley is a yoga instructor and “body activist.” Jessamyn is making headlines for some reason after blaming white supremacy for polluting yoga. Seriously. This happened. PEOPLE reported: Jessamyn Stanley needs you to know what yoga is really about – and it’s not the poses. In her new book Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance, the yoga instructor and body activist shares reflective personal essays that touch upon everything from racism to the cultural appropriation of American yoga, from consumerism to cannabis. And while the timing couldn’t be better considering the current cultural climate, the idea for the book came to...

It is election season in King County and several seats on the King County Council are up for grabs. This year, riding on the energy that was felt during last year’s election cycle, Black women continue to be at the forefront of politics across the nation and in the State of Washington. Saudia J. Abdullah, Lydia Assefa-Dawson, Shukri Olow and Ubax Gardheere are four Black women looking to bring new and empowering energy to politics in the Pacific Northwest, as all four a vying for seats on the King County Council. Now let’s talk about Ubax Gardheere! This is what...

Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors will deliver the commencement speech at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Luskin School of Public Affairs virtual graduation ceremony on Friday, the school announced. The UCLA commencement announcement published June 1 put Cullors’ name in the release’s title above other commencement speakers such as Democratic California Rep. Ted Lieu. Cullors has described herself as a “trained Marxist,” despite making enough money to amass millions in real estate. The university made no mention of activities such as funneling BLM funds towards the father of her only child that ultimately seem to have...

Lawyers and accountants prepared ‘proffer’ to federal authorities, scrambled to devise narrative on unpaid taxes in emails that undercut president’s longtime claim his son did nothing wrong. ================================================================================ As the 2016 election kicked into full gear, Hunter Biden’s inner circle feared an impending federal criminal indictment of his long-time business partner might expose the then-vice president’s son to legal jeopardy because he had avoided paying taxes on income from the Ukrainian gas firm Burisma Holdings, according to emails on an abandoned laptop seized by the FBI. The emails capture the real-time communications of Hunter Biden with defense lawyers and a...

This is a fantastic in depth look into Covid and how Ron DeSantis handled it, including the backlash he faced on a daily basis.... I lost my father back in 1993, but my mother died in 2020, I fully admit she did not die from Covid, but she was isolated from me and my bother and she could not handle it and eventually gave up, she live in Alabama but she went from March of 2020 to May 2020 without seeing a family member and went downhill really fast and died... The way this country handled Covid is maybe the...

State Department, CDC update advisory as COVID-19 situation improves but remains widespread south of the border... The U.S. government has lowered its travel warning to Mexico, going from a Level 4 “do not go” to a Level 3 “reconsider travel.” The changes are reflected on updates issued on June 7 and June 8 by the State Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The changes reflect an improving but still widespread COVID-19 situation in Mexico. Air travelers returning to the United States must show a COVID-19 negative test taken less than three days prior to their flight, even if...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it has dismantled a Trump-era government office to help victims of crimes committed by immigrants, a move that symbolizes President Joe Biden’s rejection of former President Donald Trump’s repeated efforts to link immigrants to crime. Trump created the Victim Of Immigration Crime Engagement Office, known by its acronym VOICE, by executive order during his first week in office in January 2017. VOICE will be replaced by The Victims Engagement and Services Line, which will combine longstanding existing services, such as methods for people to report abuse and mistreatment in immigration detention...

The Associated Press won two Pulitzer Prizes in photography Friday for its coverage of the racial injustice protests and the coronavirus’s toll on the elderly, while The New York Times won the public service award for its in-depth, but accessible reporting on the pandemic. The honors were among a series awarded for coverage of the pandemic and protests in 2020. The Star Tribune of Minneapolis won the breaking news prize for its reporting following the killing of George Floyd, while Darnella Frazier — the teenager who filmed Floyd’s killing — received a special citation. Frazier’s award was intended to highlight...

Catholics submit ‘dubium’ to Vatican asking if Church in Germany is in schismThree Catholics have submitted a “dubium” to the Vatican asking if the Church in Germany is in schism.The trio from the Diocese of Essen formally requested a ruling from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, reported CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner.A dubium, from the Latin word meaning “doubt,” is a question addressed to the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation that can be answered with a “yes” or “no.” The congregation replies with a “Responsum ad dubium,” as it did in March when asked whether the Church has...

Researchers in Japan have created a concrete replacement out of food scraps — and the new compound can be both edible and sweet-smelling... His earlier research resulted in a technique for combining recycled concrete powder and wood waste to form an improved material through heat pressing. That sparked interest in using other waste products. “A similar approach can be applied to not only wood, but also to vegetables and fruit, and that is what we did,” he said... “It is said that one-third of food is wasted in the whole world.”

I use the Bing engine to avoid using Google. It's far less offensive than Google but it still is stricken with Wokeness too. The=y have history tidbits and this is what they have for today: "Captain James Cook makes an accidental discovery English explorer Captain James Cook's ship runs aground off the coast of Australia, in the world's largest coral reef system. The Great Barrier Reef was already well-known to the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples." Really? did the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples explored and map the the reef? Did they produce charts or any...

Ivan Nickolas Vetecnik, 15, was found dead on May 26. Days later, his aunt told KUTV that the identity of the suspect in police custody had the victim's family in shock, though the suspect was not named at the time. Thursday court documents reveal that Rowdy Lee Aguilar, 17, will face charges for aggravated murder, obstruction of justice, and desecration of a human body for the killing.Police originally responded to a call of the discovery of a body and found the victim dismembered. They also said the residence, where the suspect lived, had a strong smell of cleaning agents... The...

Physicists have achieved a phenomenon known as subradiance, in which atoms linger in an excited state, in a dense cloud of atoms... Atoms gain energy by absorbing photons (light particles) that cause their electrons to jump from the lowest-energy "ground" state to higher-energy excited states. Once they're in an excited state, atoms spontaneously emit a photon and fall back to the ground state. But this isn't always the case. If many atoms are packed together and separated by a shorter distance than the wavelength of the emitted photon, the light they emit will cancel itself out, and the atoms will...

MIDTOWN – A Houston mom said she was disturbed by what she saw outside of her Midtown home around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday. “I looked out the window and noticed the man had pulled his pants down and was clearly having sex with someone,” said Ari, who didn’t want to show her face or use her last name. Ari said she has two small children at home, a 2-year-old and an 11-month-old. “I was scared and worried. And you know, as a mother, and just as really sort of anybody who would be sitting in their home would be disturbed...

Gratitude where gratitude is due: My family’s story with the Society of St. Pius XSo many souls today are not being tended well by their shepherds. So many sheep out there are lost in the wilderness and no one is present to look for them.Father Steven Reuter on Holy Thursday 2020 June 9, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Sometimes things happen in life that we receive with much gratitude, but we may never make it a point of stressing them. And then comes an occasion which prompts us to do some act of gratitude that was long overdue.This is how it is...

A number of staff members had been affected and the hotel has been closed for deep cleaning following discussions with Public Health England (PHE).A spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson has also confirmed Ms Merkel would still be attending the summit.

The top two Senate Democrats on Friday called for multiple investigations into the Department of Justice's (DOJ) decisions in 2017 and 2018 to issue subpoenas seeking metadata records of House Intelligence Committee members as the Trump administration pursued leak investigations. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (Ill.) also called for two of former President Trump’s attorneys general, William Barr and Jeff Sessions, to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

For weeks, prominent California Democrats have talked openly about accelerating the timeline for the Gov. Gavin Newsom recall election, hoping to schedule the contest before the governor could face more political trouble in the fall. On Thursday, the Democratic supermajority in the Legislature followed through on providing the governor a more favorable election date. In a statement, Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon announced that the state — not the counties — will foot the $215 million costs of the recall, and that the Legislature will bypass the cost analysis California Republicans were not happy....

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department under former President Donald Trump seized data from the accounts of at least two members of the House Intelligence Committee in 2018 as part of an aggressive crackdown on leaks related to the Russia investigation and other national security matters, according to a committee official and two people familiar with the investigation. Prosecutors from Trump’s Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for the data, according to the people, who were granted anonymity to discuss the secret seizures first reported by The New York Times. The records of at least twelve people connected to the intelligence panel...

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today announced that it filed a District of Columbia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the DC government for police and medical examiner records concerning the U.S. Capitol Police shooting death of Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, including the police and medical examiner investigations (Judicial Watch v. The District of Columbia> (No. 2021 CA 001710 B)).The lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia after the District of Columbia failed to respond to an April 8, 2021, FOIA request submitted to the Metropolitan Police Department...