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With its vision of autonomous young people in touch with their innermost desires, gender identity negates all we know about growing up. Kay S. Hymowitz The Transgender Children’s Crusade With its vision of autonomous young people in touch with their innermost desires, gender identity negates all we know about growing up. / From the Magazine / The Social Order Spring 2023 / Share If you’re unfamiliar with Jazz Jennings, you’re missing one of the paradigmatic characters of early-twenty-first-century America. Jazz—this isn’t her birth name, for reasons that will become clear—was a boy born to a southern Florida couple in 2000....

The Dragons' striker has been hitting the back pages all season but his explicit take on politics saw him hit the news headlines as wellWrexham AFC talisman Paul Mullin has spoken about the backlash following his custom-made boots being made public earlier in the season. The Dragons star posted a picture of his new footwear emblazoned with an anti-Conservative Party slogan back in October and the news hit the headlines across the UK. Mullin has been one of manager Phil Parkinson's top performers this season as Wrexham secured their place back in the Football League by clinching the National...

But maybe don't drink it.In the mid-1930s, British beermaker Greene King brewed and bottled a special ale to commemorate the coronation of King Edward VIII. The only problem? That king was never crowned. In 1936, Edward surrendered his chance to wear the crown, abdicating the throne only 325 days into his unofficial reign so that he could marry American socialite Wallis Simpson. His coronation — which had been scheduled for May 1937 — was called off, his younger brother George VI became king, and all 2,000 bottles of that Coronation Ale were put into storage. Remarkably, that beer stash wasn’t...

A TikToker user is sparking debate after they posted an “unethical life hack” about what to do when someone is reclining their seat in front of you on a plane. SNIP “When you are on a flight and the person in front of you reclines their seat all the way and leaves you no room,” they advised. “Turn on the air-con above you on full blast and point it at the top of their head.”

P.K. Subban appears to be in hot water after including Lizzo in his commentary Tuesday during the NHL playoffs, with some accusing the former defenseman of taking a shot at the singer’s weight. When discussing Game 1 of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Florida Panthers’ second-round series, Subban — who retired from professional hockey in September — spoke about what Toronto can do to bounce back following their 4-2 loss to Florida. “Maybe they need to pack a Lizzo-sized lunch,” Subban said during the ESPN broadcast. “They weren’t prepared in my opinion.”

Let's get 'er done! Thank you all very much! God bless.

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...