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A California YMCA which was at the center of a locker room controversy has re-opened its doors after a $70,000 remodel. The new facilities at Cameron Family YMCA in Santee, San Diego County, come after multiple protests erupted when a teenager claimed she ran to hide in the showers after seeing the bare backside a transgender woman in the locker room. The month-long project included adding privacy stalls in both the women's and men's locker rooms to allow members to change behind closed doors. Rows of benches surrounded by raised walls and a door to allow people to change without...

One of the biggest perks of electric vehicles (EVs) is that they’re low-maintenance. They never need oil changes, and the electric motors and battery packs are relatively maintenance-free. However, the rubber keeping it on the road is one of the costliest maintenance items for an EV. EV tires can already be hard to find at an affordable price, but a low rubber supply this year has made that task even more difficult. Here’s everything you need to know about EV tires. Why Do EVs Need Special Tires? Electric vehicles are heavier than their gas-powered counterparts. An extreme example is the...

Carlson had for years been explicit — increasingly so — about his views of race and diversity in America...And then there was the replacement theory. Over and over, Carlson suggested that immigrants were being brought to the United States to shift the electorate to the left...This was a white-nationalist trope, now airing on the country's most-watched cable news channel in prime time.

[H/T Red Badger]Here is a high-level review of the manufacturing contracts between US DOD and Moderna. Moderna’s injection, mRNA-1273 is co-owned with the US Government, as the company has been funded by the defense research grants for years and also received intellectual property transfers from the US Government, in addition to preclinical and clinical research work conducted for Moderna by the NIH Vaccine Research Center. The NIH and Moderna each have a separate Investigational New Drug number for this product.Moderna entered 2 types of contracts with the US Government for Spikevax injection:“Vaccine” contract and amendments that specifies R&D projects that...

If your day is going wrong in a thousand little ways — whether you sent an email to the wrong person, your printer seems to be permanently offline, or your mail was all delivered to the wrong address — it's not you. It's Mercury. Today is the start of three weeks of mistakes, miscommunications, and minor mishaps, all courtesy of that little red planet. And while it can't do much about the planetary alignment, Wendy's is at least here to make your Mercury retrograde a little brighter with free food. Mercury will be in retrograde through Sunday, May 14, and...

Elvis Presley’s stepbrother revealed what the King thought of Kiss when the pair listened to Alive! together. The moment took place around 1975, soon after Billy Stanley had seen a Kiss show for the first time and bought the album, then played it in the basement of Graceland. “I got it cranked up, playing air guitar,” Stanley told Artists on Record in a new interview. “Elvis comes down [and asks] ‘What are you listening to?’ ‘It’s a band called Kiss.’ … And I showed him the album cover and he said, ‘Uh … OK.’ He sat down on the couch,...

[Catholic Caucus] Women religious voice gratitude for synod voting rightsROME – A leading umbrella group of women religious has thanked Pope Francis for his recent decision allowing women to have voting rights in his upcoming Synod of Bishops on Synodality, saying the move is a step toward helping the church be more inclusive.In a statement Wednesday, Sister Nadia Coppa, president of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG) said they welcomed the pope’s decision “with great joy and gratitude.”“This decision, promulgated by Pope Francis, to enlarge participation in the Synodal Assembly, is the outcome of our ongoing rich reflection, as...

SNIPLast week, NATO’s top commander, US Army General Christopher Cavoli stated that the Russian army operating in Ukraine is larger than when the Kremlin launched its special military operation and the Ukrainians “have to be better than the Russian force they will face” and decide when and where they will strike.SNIPHe said at one point in his written testimony, “Russian air, maritime, space, cyber, and strategic forces have not suffered significant degradation in the current war. Moreover, Russia will likely rebuild its future Army into a sizeable and more capable land force… Russia retains a vast stockpile of deployed and...

The European Commission in Brussels has backed a scheme by the globalist government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte in the Netherlands that would see thousands of farms shut down in order to comply with EU climate goals. On Tuesday, the governing arm of the European Union officially threw its support behind plans by the Dutch government to buy out thousands of farmers from their lands in order to meet the EU’s Natura 2000 scheme to protect certain environments. The plan, which would offer farmers 120 per cent of the value of their farm, could see some 3,000 so-called “peak” emitters...

A former press secretary for Jill Biden who resigned following her humiliating “breakfast taco” speech poked his head up from obscurity last weekend to take a shot at top DeSantis aide Christina Pushaw–and it didn’t end well for him. Michael Larosa resigned from the First Lady’s staff in 2022, two weeks after apologizing on her behalf for a speech in which she said Latinos were as “unique” as “the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio.” On Sunday, he tried to defend his old bosses from a report that the Biden family had disowned the four-year-old daughter of Hunter Biden, who...

An election software company based in Michigan sued an election integrity watchdog group and its leaders last year for defamation over claims it had conspired with the Chinese Communist Party and subverted American elections. After months of denial and litigation, the company has withdrawn it suit. Konnech is an election software company based in Michigan. It licenses election software utilized by various municipalities and counties across America. TheBlaze previously reported that Eugene Yu, the founder and CEO of Konnech, was arrested on Oct. 4 and charged on suspicion of data theft, having allegedly stored "critical information that [U.S. election] workers...

Ancient Deer Tooth Pendant - The pierced deer tooth pendant. (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) A pendant made from a deer's tooth has turned out to be a veritable locket of genetic information left by an ancient woman who lived in Siberia some 20,000 years ago. Evolutionary anthropologists at the Max Planck Institute in Germany found a way to safely probe ancient artifacts for environmental DNA without destroying them, and applied it to a piece of jewelery found in the famous Denisova Cave in Russia in 2019. Other than the fragments of her chromosomes, no trace of the woman...

Chemical Elements in a Distant Gas Cloud This artist’s impression shows a distant gas cloud that contains different chemical elements, illustrated here with schematic representations of various atoms. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have detected three distant gas clouds whose chemical composition matches what we expect from the explosions of the first stars that appeared in the Universe. These early stars can be studied indirectly by analyzing the chemical elements they dispersed into the surrounding environment after they died in supernova explosions. The three distant gas clouds detected in this study are rich in carbon, oxygen, and magnesium, but...

Its tips and meal plans reveal everything wrong with internet nutrition.Content warning: This story discusses disordered eating and weight loss diets.ChatGPT stole yet another one of Google’s jobs. Since its launch last year, the AI-powered chatbot has been quietly shaping the way we search for advice on diet and nutrition. Kind of disturbingly, people are turning to ChatGPT for custom meal plans. On TikTok, one user says she asked the bot for seven days’ worth of “endometriosis-friendly” food ideas that could help balance her hormones and manage her complicated condition. The jury is out on whether diet has any impact...

Seifert: Francis' Monstrosities Destroy Faith And MoralsFrancis is destroying the foundations of faith and morals, writes Austrian philosopher Josef Seifert, who currently teaches at Munich University, in an Open Letter to the Cardinals sent on 2 May (English text below).Seifert does not understand how all the cardinals except the Dubia cardinals simply remain silent on the problem of Francis. Seifert's examples:- his assertion that God positively wills the diversity of religions (Abu Dhabi Declaration);- his support of homosex concubinates;- his denial of the existence of acts that are always and everywhere evil, e.g. adultery (Amoris Laetitia);- his false teaching on...

CLAIM The spike protein induced by COVID-19 vaccines is toxic and causes diseases and deaths; nattokinase can counter these effects VERDICT SOURCE: Peter McCullough, X22 Report, 22 Apr. 2023 DETAILS Incorrect: COVID-19 vaccines haven’t been shown to be toxic. “Detox” practices are unnecessary and their alleged effectiveness isn’t supported by scientific evidence. Factually inaccurate: Large-scale trials show that COVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the risk of negative pregnancy outcomes and instead reduce pregnancy complications due to COVID-19. Inadequate support: No evidence suggests a link between COVID-19 vaccines and a rise in deaths and medical conditions. Robust clinical trials showed no benefit...

In an exclusive interview with Brexit leader Nigel Farage on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump questioned if Joe Biden’s age was the reason for his “disrespectful” snub of the Coronation of King Charles III this week, joking that the 80-year-old Democrat will probably be “sleeping” during the historic occasion. Speaking to Nigel Farage on GB News from the prestigious Turnberry Golf course in Aberdeen, Scotland, which the Trump Organization purchased in 2014, the 45th President of the United States questioned the fitness of his successor, 80-year-old Democrat Joe Biden. When asked by his longtime political ally and personal friend if...

(KTLA) – The state of California is one step closer to paying reparations to Black residents whose ancestry goes back to the American slave trade. The California Reparations Task Force released estimates, as well as breakdowns of the methodology used to determine the amounts, on Monday ahead of a critical vote that will take place later this week. The possible payments reflect the work of economists who advised the task force and who were asked to estimate the total financial losses suffered by Black Californians impacted by slavery and institutional racism. As outlined by the San Francisco Chronicle, an eligible...

By Cole Waterman | Cole_Waterman@mlive.com JEROME TWP, MI — Despite a woman’s 911 call, police have confirmed there is not in fact a mythological creature roaming Midland County. About 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 1, a 40-year-old woman called 911 to say a Chupacabra and a capybara were inside and outside her apartment in the 1900 block of West Saginaw Road in Jerome Township, said Sheriff Myron Greene. “She’s reporting an animal out back. She believes possibly it could be a Chupacabra,” says a dispatcher in a Midland County Central Dispatch recording of the call. “What’s the animal?” an officer...

Explanation: Galaxies are fascinating. In galaxies, gravity alone holds together massive collections of stars, dust, interstellar gas, stellar remnants and dark matter. Pictured is NGC 5128, better known as Centaurus A. Cen A is the fifth brightest galaxy on the sky and is located at a distance of about 12 million light years from Earth. The warped shape of Cen A is the result of a merger between an elliptical and a spiral galaxy. Its active galactic nucleus harbors a supermassive black hole that is about 55 million times more massive than our Sun. This central black hole ejects a...