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The Biden administration has been accused of peddling 'woke madness' after a top U.S. government watchdog banned the use of gendered language in the workplace. Leaked internal memos obtained by DailyMail.com show the Government Accountability Office forbids employees from using male and female terms. The agency, whose role is to scrutinize administration spending, issued the bizarre diktat in October 2022 at the behest of its so-called 'chief diversity management officer.'

Kohl's has become the latest retailer to receive backlash for catering to the 'woke crowd' after shoppers slammed their LGBTQ+ apparel for infants. The onesies with the LGBTQ+ pride flag on them, specifically tailored to June, which is known internationally as Pride Month, have even sparked calls for a store boycott. One Twitter account put it succinctly: 'Looks like another company needing Bud-lighting!'

Ethan Schmidt, a right-wing anti-LGBTQ+ activist who once threatened to "hunt" down gay people and was once filmed destroying a Pride collection at a Target store, has gone viral after screenshots of Schmidt's alleged activity on a gay dating app surfaced on social media. Twitter users shared what appeared to be sexually-explicit conversations the Arizona-based extremist had with a man on Grindr. … Previously, Schmidt threatened to "hunt" LGBTQ rights supporters in a video posted to Twitter and, in a different video, harassed Target employees about the company's pride-themed campaign for Pride Month.

America’s Sweetheart from the silent movie era, Mary Pickford, died, aged 87, on this day, 44 years ago, in 1979. “If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you.” she is renowned to have said, “And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” On set, Pickford’s habit was to hang a bucket and ask everyone working to put some money for other film workers who were not...

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg called on Kosovo to tone down tensions with Serbia on Sunday, two days after clashes between Kosovan police and protesters who are opposed to Albanian mayors taking office in ethnic Serbian areas. Stoltenberg, the transatlantic military alliance's Norwegian secretary-general, said he had spoken to European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell about Kosovo and that Pristina and Belgrade must engage in the EU-led dialog. "Pristina must de-escalate & not take unilateral, destabilizing steps," Stoltenberg said in a tweet. Serbs, who form the majority of the population in Kosovo's northern region, do not accept its 2008 declaration...

Early Monday explosions in Kiev... In Syria tonight explosions reported in the Damascus area... Russian authorities says that Ukraine tried to attack the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plans with a drone... Israel's President Issac Herzog will visit Iran's northern neighbor Azerbaijan on Tuesday... The Sultan of Oman visiting Iran... With food prices up 19 percent so far this year in the UK talk of price controls on basic food like bread and milk... French Prime Minister Attacks Left And Right Seeking To Promote "Centrist" Governance Links National Rally To Marshal Petain... Tensions in Jerusalem today at devout Jews objected to "Christian...

The owner of a party bus company, Rikers Island prison guards and an Amazon worker are just some of the eclectic bunch who have formed a community of 'working homeless' people living out of RVs in the Astoria section of Queens, New York. Similar communities have formed across the US from New England to California where people have chosen a nomadic lifestyle amid a national cost of living crisis. Rising costs across all sectors have caused pain for Americans in every state, particularly those living in rural areas, over the past 12 months. Rental prices continue have risen eight percent...

Join together with Fellow FREEPERS to Pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.'I Urge, then, First of All, that Requests, Prayers, Intercession and Thanksgiving be Made for Everyone: for Kings and All those in Authority that we May Live Peaceful and Quiet Lives in All Godliness and Holiness.' 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum Threads Labeled [Prayer] are Closed to Debate of Any Kind.Isaiah 40:11He Tends His Flock like a Shepherd:He Gathers the Lambs in His Arms, and Carries them Close to His Heart.

Target has lost more than $10billion in market capitalization in the span of 10 days - as it continues to face backlash for Pride-themed merchandise. Prior to the controversy - which stems over a LGBTQ-geared clothing campaign that touts 'tuck-friendly' bathing suits and pro-trans T-shirts for kids - Target shares were trading at $160.96, giving the retailer a market valuation of roughly $74.3billion. By the time The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) closed Friday, the blue-chip stock was trading at $138.93 - marking a market valuation of 64,2billion, and loss of $10.1billion. The sum, moreover, stands as the superstore's lowest...

Twilight star Rachelle Lefevre hit back at the hateful comments she received online after revealing she can no longer take her non-binary seven-year-old to Target after it moved its Pride collection to the back of stores. Lefevre, 44, - who played Victoria in the franchise's second movie, New Moon - first took to her Instagram to call out the retail store as she appeared to choke back tears as she thought about how it would affect her seven-year-old child. She then posted a follow-up video telling her critics that she knows 'how much pain you have to be in to...

North Dakota parents have blasted a school district for keeping parents in the dark about their kids' gender identities - despite a new law banning the practice earlier this month. Enraged parents took to the floor at a board meeting on May 23 and accused the Fargo Public Schools district of 'facilitating secret-keeping.' School district superintendent Dr. Rupak Gandhi recently said that the district won't comply with the new state law requiring teachers to not withhold information from parents regarding how a child's pronouns. Instead, Dr Gandhi believes that the district should instead advocate for students who identify as transgender....

At least five Targets in multiple states received bomb threats Friday over company executives pulling the Pride collection section because of mounting boycotts, leading to multiple stores being evacuated as police and the FBI searched for explosive devices. "Target is full of [redacted] cowards who turned their back on the LGBT community and decided to cater to homophobic right wing, redneck, bigots, who protested and vandalized their store," reads a threatening email sent to several Target locations in Ohio and one in Pennsylvania, Cleveland 19 News reports. "We won't stand idly by as the far right continues to hunt us...

Is this it for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton? It sure looks like he is on his way out. He received an overwhelming vote of no-confidence Saturday in the Republican-led state House of Representatives. This led to an immediate suspension. Now the vote moves to the state Senate. Will that conservative body vote the same way an overwhelming majority of their colleagues in the House voted?Even casual observers of Texas politics should not be surprised at these developments. It’s been coming for a while. Paxton came into office as attorney general in 2015 under a cloud. He was indicted on...

On Saturday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced that an agreement had been reached with the White House after stalled negotiations and uncompromising sticking points threatened the United States to go into default by June 5. McCarthy declared victory, calling the deal “worthy of the American people” and highlighting policy objectives that Republicans secured including, “historic reductions in spending…no new taxes, no new government programs.”Then, a backlash ensued. The House Freedom Caucus tweeted on Saturday, calling the agreement “Unacceptable.”Read More:Freedom Caucus Says McCarthy Got Rolled on the Debt Ceiling and the Evidence Indicates They Are RightMSNBC Throws the Goalposts Into...

I have to give it to Speaker McCarthy.Since his election as Speaker of the House back in January, which took 15 ballots to achieve, he has been doing a bit of a Houdini act. BREAKING: 15th Vote Finally Decides Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the HouseHe has kept the GOP caucus together during the debt limit armageddon, which the Biden White House had not expected to happen but which put pressure on them to cancel part of Biden’s latest foreign policy adventure. That forced the president to come home early, preventing any more embarrassing gaffes internationally which is actually a...

Included in the 99-page deal to lift the debt ceiling is the approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a pipeline that would carry fuel from West Virginia to Virginia and has become a pet project of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). Manchin, who would face reelection next year in ruby-red West Virginia if he decides to run, touted the inclusion of the pipeline as something he helped to secure. “I am proud to have fought for this critical project and to have secured the bipartisan support necessary to get it across the finish line,” he said in a written statement.

Update from Ukraine | Wagner moves out | The military map Update https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9M11UkkJZI ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 458 – Summary Jerome – May 27, 2023. https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-458-summary/ 5-28-2023- Ukraine is forming a new mechanized brigade of the Ground Forces. https://militaryland.net/news/new-mechanized-brigade-is-being-formed/ Ukrainian Army is being expanded by a new brigade, 44th Mechanized Brigade. The unit is currently at the stage of formation. As photos on social media suggest, it’s one of the Polish-trained Ukrainian brigades.The brigade received military number A4723 and at least one battalion is equipped with Polish-donated BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles. The unit has been...

Podcasting proggie, Emma Vigeland, took on the ‘TERFs’ of Twitter by stating what she considers to be a simple truth: ‘trans girls and trans women are girls and women, so they get to participate in girls’ and women’s sports’. Uh, no. It’s amazing how brazen these folks are. There’s a sizeable segment of the population who now see it as truth that a person can feel they are a thing they’re not, and that earns that person a membership right in whatever groups they imagine themselves to be in. What if we all woke up tomorrow feeling like NFL football...

Homebrewers will soon be able to time travel with their taste buds and brew beer similar to what the Philistines in Goliath’s hometown of Gath drank. An interdisciplinary team of researchers, archaeologists and brewmasters in Israel first isolated 5,000-year-old yeast in 2019, as published in the peer-reviewed mBio journal in 2019. But now, the fruits of that discovery are about to become available for hobby brewers and sourdough aficionados everywhere, when the first batch of commercially available ancient yeast ships in December. Pre-orders are open now. “We want to create an opportunity for every person to connect with this story,...

Farmers and ranchers in the United States and across the world are under assault. Globalists are targeting their efficient practices, their land, and their way of life. But this war goes beyond ag producers — it is a war on food, and thereby a war on you. In this episode of The New American TV, we expose the globalists’ assault on food and talk to John Birch Society CEO Bill Hahn about what we need to do to win. In the second half of the show, The New American magazine senior editor Veronika Kyrylenko interviews attorney Tom Renz, who...