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Last year saw a flurry of LGBTQ-inclusive Christmas movies from Lifetime, Hallmark and other networks and streaming services. The tradition continues in 2021, with films starring RuPaul, Michael Urie, Jonathan Bennet and more — plus appearances by gay favorites like Jennifer Coolidge. Plan your holiday season binge-watching sessions accordingly with these upcoming movies and specials. 'Christmas at the Ranch' Dec. 1 , Tello Films 'Single All the Way' Dec. 2, Netflix 'The Bitch Who Stole Christmas' Dec. 2, VH1 'The Great British Baking Show: Holidays' Dec. 3, Netflix 'The Jenkins Family Christmas' Dec. 4, BET+ 'With Love' Dec. 17, Amazon...

A Los Angeles County woman and her four young grandchildren — including an infant — were found shot to death inside their home Sunday night. The children’s mother made the grisly discovery in the city of Lancaster shortly after 10:30 p.m., with the kids’ father later turning himself in to police, Fox affiliate KTTV reported Monday. Germarcus David, 29, is being held on $2 million bail after being hit with multiple homicide charges by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the outlet reported. Deputies answering a “rescue responding” call at the home found the grandmother suffering from gunshot wounds to...

“The totalitarian path we are unquestionably on has never ended well.” – MP George Robert Christensen Queensland MP George Robert Christensen has called on citizens to rise up against coronavirus lockdown measures and vaccination mandates. He compared governments promulgating such measures to totalitarian regimes responsible for the most horrific atrocities. On Wednesday, Christensen said in parliament that Australian State Premiers are “drunk on power” and “trying to out tyrant each other”. He also noted that non-vaccinated Australians are increasingly “demonized, ostracized, and socially eradicated.” The MP explained that totalitarian regimes responsible for the most heinous atrocities of the Twentieth Century:...

René Dorer considers the government’s coercive and divisive “vaccination strategy a violation of the Nuremberg Code.” Instead of most Church leaders supporting their flock during the coronavirus pandemic, they have aligned themselves with the government and big pharma narratives. However, there is resistance against compulsory “vaccinations” and blindly following the government within the Church. One who does not conform is Franciscan brother René Dorer. In an open letter to Bishop Manfred Scheuer, Dorer expressed his outrage at the Church’s silence and their support of many governments’ “unconstitutional and non-evidence-based” lockdowns, mandates, and compulsory “gene therapy drugs.” Furthermore, he slammed leaders...

Gov. Tom Wolf highlights maternal health while UPMC Magee-Women's Hospital's long history of horrific experimentation on sometimes live aborted babies goes uninvestigated.Last Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services announced it is joining with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Magee-Women’s Hospital (Magee) to showcase efforts by Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration to improve maternal health services. In doing so, the governor is ignoring serious ethical and legal questions regarding the state’s largest hospital abortion provider’s role in fetal experimentation.I left UPMC in April after reading about a taxpayer-funded study published last year in which the scalps of second-trimester babies obtained...

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Joe Biden made sure to remind Americans that Big Government is meeting the “needs” of the public, and that his administration is in full control over the food supply. Pretending that the economy is in a state of recovery, the Biden administration ignores the growing problems of rapid inflation and food rationing. Reading from his weekly propaganda script, Joe Biden touted that grocery stores were “well-stocked with turkey” and “everything else” that Americans “need.” He made the announcement at the same time Publix announced a long list of food item shortages across 1,280 stores. “For all...

Newly-released texts from CNN host Chris Cuomo reveal his friend arranged for Alec Baldwin to post a video in support of his brother Andrew and that he used his media connections to find out about accusers. The text exchanges - released by the New York Attorney General's office Monday - contradict Chris Cuomo's claims that he did not closely advise the disgraced former governor about a dozen sexual harassment allegations leveled against him. In one message, Cuomo said 'his friend' asked actor Alec Baldwin to post commentary online, referencing Baldwin's 14-minute Instagram rant earlier this year where he hit out...

This country has a long history of racist violence against Black churches by white vigilantes. It is not only important to situate our responses in our values, but also within that historical context and current reality. Below, find a series of questions to think through before contacting the police in situations of vandalism. We hope they are useful in a time when fear, anxiety, urgency, and anger can make it harder to make safe and responsible decisions. For more in-depth resources on resolving a wider variety of issues without police involvement, you can read this community-compiled online guide What to...

A New Jersey woman shared video of a bear abiding by her polite request and closing the front door of her home. Susan Kehoe, of Vernon, posted a video to YouTube showing her opening her front door to reveal a bear on the stoop. "Mr. Bear, will you please close my door?" Kehoe asks the bruin. Kehoe asks the bear a few more times to close the door, and the animal grabs the knob in its mouth and closes the door part of the way. Kehoe continues to make the request until the bear completely closes the door. "This bear...

One Minneapolis man has taken pains to record all reported carjackings since 2020 on an interactive map. Resident Steve Taylor created the map on Maps.co. It gives users the coordinates where each carjacking occurred, dates and times when they occurred, and even the distance between the locations of the previous and next carjackings. Red pins indicate carjackings in 2021, while yellow pins indicate carjackings in 2020. As of earlier this month, Taylor found that 492 carjackings have taken place in the city of Minneapolis since the beginning of 2021. That’s up around 40% from last year at this time, according...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A ski mountain is set to remove a derogatory term for Native American women from its name — two decades after state law eliminated the slur from names of communities and public landmarks. The leader of a group of investors that’s buying Big Squaw Mountain Resort in Greenville vowed to retire the name upon completion of the purchase, the Portland Press Herald reported. “It’s going to change. There is no doubt about that,” said Perry Williams, managing partner at Big Lake Development Co. “It’s about time,” Penobscot National Tribe Ambassador Maulian Dana said of the prospective...

I'm a voracious reader of Covid books but nothing could have prepared me for Scott Atlas’s A Plague Upon Our House, a full and mind-blowing account of the famed scientist’s personal experience with the Covid era and a luridly detailed account of his time at the White House. The book is hot fire, from page one to the last, and will permanently affect your view of not only this pandemic and the policy response but also the workings of public health in general. Atlas’s book has exposed a scandal for the ages. It is enormously valuable because it fully blows...

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday predicted that vaccines for the Chinese coronavirus will be available for babies and toddlers in the first quarter of 2022, adding, “Yeah, we do want to be vaccinating the children

Singapore and Malaysia want "more open borders" even if the new Omicron coronavirus variant disrupts plans to expand the vaccinated travel lane (VTL) between both countries, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Monday (Nov 29). Mr Lee and his Malaysian counterpart Ismail Sabri Yaakob were giving speeches at the Istana on the first day of the land and air VTL between Singapore and Malaysia. Mr Ismail Sabri is on his first official visit to Singapore. Mr Lee said the aim is to expand the land VTL to include general travellers from the middle of December, taking into account...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing a coronavirus vaccine mandate on thousands of health care workers in 10 states that had brought the first legal challenge against the requirement. The court order said that the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid had no clear authority from Congress to enact the vaccine mandate for providers participating in the two government health care programs for the elderly, disabled and poor. The preliminary injunction by St. Louis-based U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp applies to a coalition of suing states that includes Alaska,...

President Joe Biden on Monday urged Americans to get vaccinated or get their booster shots amid warnings about the spread of the Omicron variant – but insisted that the infectious new variant was not a cause for 'panic' and said no new restrictions were needed. 'We'll fight this variant with scientific and knowledgeable actions and speed, not chaos and confusion,' Biden said at the White House. But even amid the pressing nature of the new variant, Biden misstated the name of the variant. 'It's called the Omnicron,' he said, inserting an extra 'n' – an error his coronavirus advisor, Dr....

I watched a little of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial last week. There was little to no reporting on the gun-toting terrorists, rioters, looters and arsonists (Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and others) that showed up at Kenosha, WI, two days before Kyle arrived. There was little to no reporting about what some of these people had done to Kenosha in the past, and no law-breakers were being punished. The lies of fake reporters in the mainstream media were drowning out the truth (Kyle didn’t kill even one black person, Kyle is not a white supremacist that went to Kenosha to kill...

Lee Elder, who broke down racial barriers as the first Black golfer to play in the Masters and paved the way for Tiger Woods and others to follow, has died at the age of 87. The PGA Tour announced Elder’s death, which was first reported Monday by Debert Cook of African American Golfers Digest. No cause was given, but the tour confirmed Elder's death with his family. He had been in poor health and wore an oxygen tube beneath his nose when he appeared at the opening of the Masters in April. The tour said he died early Sunday in...

The country’s economic energy, powered by youth since the 1980s, is on the line as birth rates fall to record lows and its population is about to age the fastest in the world. The programme Insight explores whether the one-child family is as good as it gets for China.Zhang Rui and her husband, Qiang Zihe, are an anomaly among their friends in Beijing. The couple, in their late 30s, have two children and want to have a third. “We like children. We rather enjoy raising (them) and watching them grow,” said Zhang, 38. “Having siblings will give them more companionship....

It’s been a little over a week since a career criminal plowed his red Ford Escape SUV through barricades and into the crowd at the Waukesha Christmas Parade, killing six people and injuring dozens. The attack initially seemed like it would be the next major mainstream media storyline – but then Darrell Brooks Jr. was charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide and the press has largely lost interest. The tragedy hasn’t resulted in round-the-clock cable news discussion about Brooks’ troubled past or possible motives, and mainstream investigative reporters don’t appear to be searching for clues. "Left-leaning media outlets...