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A Disney executive has vowed to drastically increase inclusivity in its productions, promising that at least 50 percent of its characters will be LGBTQ or racial minorities by the end of the year. Karey Burke, president of Disney’s General Entertainment Content, said the company must do more to make its content more inclusive in a company-wide Zoom call Monday that was later posted to Twitter. “I’m here as a mother of two queer children, actually,” Burke said on the call. “One transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader.” Burke said she supports featuring “many, many” characters...

CNN finally admitted on Wednesday that Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” is authentic 532 days after the initial story broke on October 24, 2020 — notably calling it “Russian disinformation” and “made up” at the time. “There are a lot of issues that the Justice Department are looking into, including, of course, this laptop – on the right-wing – has featured a lot of stories about Hunter Biden,” CNN’s Evan Perez acknowledged. “We know the FBI has possession of it and that they believe it is his laptop.”

ALBANY, N.Y. (WENY) – The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision will end parole supervision for 8-thousand parolees at the end of this week. This is under a good faith measure of the ‘Less is More’ legislation signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul last fall to improve justice and safety in city jails. Also, it ensures that DOCCS focuses its resources on helping people complete community supervision. “When the Governor signed Less Is More into law she transformed the parole system in New York State. In the spirit of the law, DOCCS staff immediately went to...

Nearby stars appearing red in a sky survey image. (SDSS) From billions of light-years across the vast gulf of space-time, from the very dawn of the Universe, astronomers have detected the light of a single star. Its discoverers have nicknamed it Earendel, from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning "morning star"; to date, it is the most distant object of its kind ever detected, dating to just 900 million years after the Big Bang. Because Earendel's light has traveled so far to reach us, its properties are difficult to discern, but follow-up observations have already been approved for the James Webb Space...

A Pennsylvania man fatally shot a father of four as he tried to unload his gun while stopped at a red light, police said. Lloyd Amarsingh, 28, has been charged with third-degree murder in the Friday morning shooting that he claims was accidental, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Amarsingh, of Darby, told detectives he pulled out his gun and tried to unload it while stopped at an intersection in Upper Darby, but the weapon went off accidentally as he tried to remove a live round from the chamber, according to an affidavit of probable cause for his arrest. The weapon fired...

Boris Johnson today praised the bravery of a South Wales Tory who became the UK's first openly transgender MP and also revealed he was the victim of rape and a £50,000 blackmail plot. Jamie Wallis, 37, who represents Bridgend, revealed he 'wants to be' trans and is 'not ok' after someone tried to extort cash from him in return for silence about his secret. His blackmailer was jailed for two years and nine months in 2021, he said. He also explained his conviction for crashing his Mercedes and fleeing the scene last September was as a result of suffering from...

How far down does the slippery slope go? A newly proposed bill in the California State Legislature could expand the ghastly practice of abortion to include infanticide – the killing of a newborn child – for several weeks, months, or even years after a child is born.

Panama City Beach, FL – Over 160 people were arrested and at least 75 illegal guns were seized by police after a mob of violent criminals descended on the popular beachside community of Panama City Beach over the weekend, according to police. Traffic was gridlocked and multiple businesses closed up shop over the weekend as the riotous group tore through the town, WBMM reported. A frenzy of social media posts from concerned residents and visitors soon followed, to include complaints of people jumping on cars and causing chaos in local businesses. Pedestrians struggled to get down the sidewalks due to...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - After filing for bankruptcy, the now-defunct Black News Channel is unable to pay some of its employees their earned wages, said a spokesperson. The channel, which was based in Tallahassee but broadcast nationwide, touted 24/7 programming dedicated to covering minority communities. It had been operating for roughly two years when on Friday its President and CEO Princell Hair announced to employees in an email that the company would be immediately ceasing live operations and filing for bankruptcy. Employees did not receive their scheduled paychecks that day. BNC spokesperson Tim Buckman told WCTV that payroll deposits that...

[H/T Jayster]The show host asks Ricardo Bosso to speak about the Ukraine. The transcription of Bosso's response is posted below the video.https://files.catbox.moe/j3szjn.mp4Transcript Begins:Ricardo Bosso: Sure. Again, I’ve mentioned this a couple of times so forgive me if you’ve heard this before but it’s important and a lot of people haven’t heard it.What’s going on in the Ukraine. First of all, it’s a massive distraction. They’re trying to distract you away from what’s really going on in everybody’s home country.Now the Ukraine, this is not what you think it is, let’s get technical first. The Ukraine is not a sovereign state....

Boston's Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox and one of the oldest baseball parks in the country, will become the first carbon neutral Major League Baseball facility, the team said on Wednesday. The Red Sox, in partnership with climate finance company Aspiration, will use a portion of ticket proceeds to purchase carbon offsets. Fans will not pay a surcharge, the team said.

Disney parks are axing gendered language such as "boys and girls" in their park greetings to promote gender inclusivity, according to video of a company executive. "We’ve provided training for all of our cast members in relationship to that. So now they know it's ‘Hello, everyone,’ or ‘Hello, friends,'" Disney's diversity and inclusion manager Vivian Ware was heard saying in a video conference call recorded by City Journal's Christopher Rufo. Parkgoers will no longer hear "ladies and gentlemen" and "boys and girls" in park greetings, according to the video.

The president of BlackRock investment firm has said that an 'entitled generation' of Americans will face the shock of goods shortages for the first time in their lives as supply chain disruptions continue to spur high inflation. 'For the first time, this generation is going to go into a store and not be able to get what they want,' BlackRock co-founder Rob Kapito said at an energy conference in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg. 'And we have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice,' added the 65-year-old Kapito, who has an estimated net worth of...

The incident occurred during a House Progressive Caucus press conference regarding the situation with Iran. In addition to laughing, Omar (D-MN) can be seen joking around with fellow progressive congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). This all took place as Jackson Lee was providing the public with a respectful and solemn update on the history of casualties in the area. "We left four thousand plus – maybe even forty-four hundred dead and over sixty thousand who came back injured in some form, and the war never ended,” Jackson Lee said as Omar failed to contain her laughter.

And there it is….. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a public broadcast urging the allied western nations to quickly adopt “green energy” policies which he says will undermine the influence of Russia in Europe. If you’ve been following events, this demand is yet another big puzzle piece coming together. {Go Deep 1, Go Deep 2, and Go Deep 3) The Recount has the video HERE. I cannot locate the shareable video on any other tech platform, which, given the importance, is not surprising. I doubt any govt in the western world wants to have the dots connected. In the video...

BREAKING: FBI Cyber Chief can't find Hunter Biden's laptop.

ABC’s prime-time drama A Million Little Things has already well established itself as a vehicle for pushing liberal lectures onto viewers. But the show's latest episode, “Fresh Start,” was like a woke trifecta, hitting on three favorite leftist topics - race, homosexuality, and abortion. And for the second time, the show put in a plug for abortion giant Planned Parenthood just because they can. The racial storyline was one we can all agree on this time, unlike in the past, as a main character reflects on a painful memory of being the butt of a cruel, racist prank that school...

Back in the day, just about everything that used a battery had a hatch or a hutch that you could open to pull it out and replace it if need be. Whether it was a radio, a cordless phone, or a cellphone, it was a cinch to swap out a battery. These days, many devices hide their batteries, deep beneath tamper-proof stickers and warnings that state there are “no user serviceable components inside.” The EU wants to change all that, though, and has voted to mandate that everything from cellphones to e-bikes must have easily replaceable batteries, with the legislation...

Fifty-five powerful and influential House Democrats are reportedly financially stiffing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), failing to pay the dues they owe because of the likelihood that Republicans will retake the chamber. Top Democrats leaders are unhappy and worried because many of their valuable caucus members are not paying their dues to the party committee, according to Punchbowl News. Rules dictate that each member is responsible for dumping a certain amount of cash into the committee’s coffers to be used by the top brass as a part of a national strategy to defeat Republicans. The amount of cash members...

Preston Cooper, a researcher at The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity studying the economics of higher education, recently published a wide-ranging analysis of almost 14,000 U.S. graduate degree programs. In his investigation―which used a similar methodology to a related study he conducted on the value of undergraduate degrees―Cooper calculated the return on investment (ROI) for graduate programs across the country, determining which degrees pack the best payoff and which ones are likely to yield negative financial returns. So, how do North Carolina’s schools stack up? While Cooper found that more than forty percent of master’s degrees have a negative...