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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy announced Wednesday that popular host Ben Mintz was fired from the company after saying a racial slur while reading rap lyrics on a live stream earlier this week. Portnoy said the decision was made by Barstool’s parent company, Penn Entertainment, despite protestations from himself, Barstool CEO Erika Nardini, and longtime talent Dan Katz that Mintz — rapping the song “1st of Tha Month” by Bone Thugz-N-Harmony — had made an honest mistake. “This morning, I made an unforgivable mistake slipping on air while reading a song lyric,” Mintz tweeted Monday morning after reading the slur...

Top medical schools in the state are now transitioning toddlers and training future primary care doctors on how to engage in the experimental treatment. Duke Medicine opened its Gender Clinic in 2015 to offer a wide variety of services under one roof. The clinic treats children as young as two for gender dysphoria. Dr. Deanna Adkins, a transgender activist who runs the clinic, said this about her toddler trans patients in an interview with the Charlotte Observer in 2016: “They are not old enough to consciously just choose to do that. … It is not a choice in any of...

Being a civil rights activist, advocate, and leader/founder of pro-freedom groups brings with it a certain amount of baggage. Trying to promote liberty in general – never mind the Second Amendment – on a national level, while being based in Washington state, can’t be easy. Our good friend Alan Gottlieb over at the Second Amendment Foundation knows this all too well, and has recently been left with no other recourse but to sue over alleged harassment. A recent announcement on the lawsuit against Washington’s Attorney General talks about two plus years worth of discriminatory practices, costing Gottlieb et.al. a pile...

Hate to burst your bubble SF, but the winter weather might be here to stay. After two weeks of glorious sunshine and balmy temperatures, the city recorded 0.91 inches of rain over a 24-hour period, Monday into Tuesday. And our neighbors up in Tahoe saw spring snow Tuesday afternoon, heavy enough that the National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory. Spring has sprung, no? A man looks out over floodwaters in Watsonville on March 11, 2023. | Nic Coury/AP Photo To put these figures in perspective, the average rainfall for the entire month of May is only 0.54 inches....

Pro-trans activist delivers blood curdling scream at San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting 'I just want you to feel our pain,' the activist told the board members A San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting descended into chaos after a pro-trans activist began screaming in an effort to protest the death of Banko Brown, a Black member of the transgender community who was shot and killed after allegedly trying to steal from a local Walgreens

He was supposed to perform religious rites for the deceased but instead was caught on video arguing with the grieving family. A video clip posted by Facebook user Chu Pi Ka on April 29 showed the monk, dressed in a grey robe, yelling at another person in dialect: "What's the problem? It's your wife, right? Why can't she help?" As the monk got more aggressive, a man tried to hold him back. Another person in the video also urged them not to fight. "Gangster monk, fight and throw fist and chair at the deceased family before ritual [sic]. Woman also...

According to those who relish the Cloward-Piven strategy, things are proceeding swimmingly.…”As long as the decisionmakers continue doing the things that are creating the crisis, the crisis will continue.”

JUST IN: Ukraine confirms shot down drone over Kyiv was not a Russian drone but their own Ukrainian TB2 drone. “On May 4, around 20:00 in the Kyiv region, during a scheduled flight, the Bayraktar TB2 UAV lost control.” “Since the uncontrolled presence of UAVs in the sky of the capital could lead to undesirable consequences, it was decided to use mobile calculations...”

It’s good that New York’s progressive elected officials and transit advocates are outraged by Jordan Neely’s killing on a Manhattan subway train Monday. Neely’s life mattered — and so did the lives of the 27 other people violently killed on the subway since March 2020. Where was the progressive outrage then? It might have prevented the latest death. Monday afternoon, Neely, 30, was menacing people on an F train in Lower Manhattan, according to witnesses, when another passenger put him in a chokehold.

Fox News is getting destroyed.

This is a short comedy skit (2:27) from Key & Peele about Political Correctness run amok. It is absolutely hilarious and spot-on. You've got a gay guy, a woman, and a black dude objecting to EVERYTHING the speaker is saying no matter how innocuous his comment.

Explanation: Bright elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is home to the supermassive black hole captured in 2017 by planet Earth's Event Horizon Telescope in the first ever image of a black hole. Giant of the Virgo galaxy cluster about 55 million light-years away, M87 is the large galaxy rendered in blue hues in this infrared image from the Spitzer Space telescope. Though M87 appears mostly featureless and cloud-like, the Spitzer image does record details of relativistic jets blasting from the galaxy's central region. Shown in the inset at top right, the jets themselves span thousands of light-years. The brighter jet...

[Catholic Caucus]Bishop Fellay Consecrates Biggest PiusX Church And Francis Had a QuestionBishop Bernard Fellay consecrated the Immaculata Church in St Marys, Kansas, on May 3.With over 1,500 seats, it will be the largest Catholic church in Kansas and the largest PiusX church in the world. It is 40 metres high and over 6,000 square metres.The style is an approximation of a Roman basilica, somehow neo-Victorian. During the homily (below), Bishop Fellay mentioned that Curia Archbishop Guido Pozzo once approached him and said: “Francis asked me: Where do they have so much money from?”Fellay replied, “All the buildings that we buy,...

A Phoenix woman was found dead along a hiking trail — and police believe foul play may have been involved and have released a video of a person of interest spotted running near the scene. Lauren Heike, 29, was found on Saturday at around 10:30 a.m. along the trail on 6500 East Libby Street near her home, nearly 24 hours after she went out, police said. Phoenix officers originally received a call about an injured person spotted on the trail, but it was confirmed to be Heike’s body, which appeared to have suffered “trauma.” Phoenix Homicide Lt. James Hester told...

An Oakland man was seething with anger and frustration over cars racing by his house when he began firing an assault rifle at passing motorists, according to investigators. One woman who drove by his house, 21-year-old Marie Villa Bedford, was fatally shot Saturday, prosecutors said. “Marie Villa Bedford was just driving by. Her murder is heartbreaking and absolutely unacceptable,” Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said. The District Attorney’s Office filed murder charges Tuesday against the accused killer, Bernard Tracie Jimmerson. Jimmerson, 39, told Oakland police that he was “frustrated by the noise of cars racing up and down his...

I hate to say this, I really do, but Bud Light parent company AB Inbev is going to be just fine, even after this whole fake woman fiasco. I also hate saying that even the Conservative side has #fakenews, and the constant pounding of Bud Light by Conservative media outlets is kind of outrageous, and only serves to further rile us up. Here's the truth: I've been watching the AB Inbev stock since this whole thing started. As of March 31, the stock was sitting at $66, slightly under the 52 week high, $20 above the 52 week low. Since...

Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell yesterday said that the U.S. banking system is "sound and resilient." The big picture: It was akin to a sports team owner giving the coach a vote of confidence. If you're compelled to say it, things really aren't going well. Driving the news: PacWest reportedly is exploring strategic options, including a possible sale, acknowledging "discussions are ongoing" with "several potential partners and investors." Shares in the Los Angeles-based lender were down 71% on the year as of yesterday's market close, and got further routed at today's open. Phoenix-based Western Alliance also is seeking help, per...

Emerson College will provide menstrual products in all its bathrooms – including men's and gender-neutral restrooms – in response to lobbying from a campus group that, in its own words, fights "for inclusivity, menstrual equality, and the de-stigmatization of menstruation and periods." A Change.org petition started by the group Emerson Flows in April 2022 called for the change to take place before presenting the approximately 400 signatures the push had amassed to Vice President of Student Life Jim Hoppe. "We are Emerson Flows, an advocacy and education based organization dedicated to fighting for inclusivity, menstrual equality, and the de-stigmatization of...

This month, a 10th Circuit Court judge sentenced a Farmington woman who pleaded guilty to killing two pedestrians while driving drunk last April to 14 years in prison, reports Yahoo. After killing them, she laughed, sang, played dumb, and never asked about the victims. “Our system is based on punishment and rehabilitation,” said Judge Tim Cusack on Thursday as he sentenced Stephanie Melgoza, 24, on two counts of aggravated DUI and two counts of aggravated reckless driving. “I have to balance those two. What is the appropriate punishment in order to deter other people, and what is the rehabilitative quality...