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Paloma Faith, a singer and actress in shows like Pennyworth and Dangerous Liaisons, watched The Little Mermaid over the weekend and is calling out the storyline. “As a mother of girls I don’t want my kids to think it’s ok to give up your entire voice and your powers to love a man,” Faith shared in a now-deleted Instagram post that Metro caught. “Wtf is this sh*t. Not what I want to be teaching next gen women at all.” The premise of The Little Mermaid revolves around a mermaid that wishes to live on land. After falling for Prince Eric,...

Inmate voting, noncitizen voting, and even mandatory voting have been among the initiatives pushed in Democrat-led jurisdictions this year to expand their voting base. “The Left wants to normalize voter classes that nobody took seriously a generation ago—criminals, foreigners—to help them win elections,” J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election integrity group, told The Daily Signal. As I noted in my book “The Myth of Voter Suppression,” Democrats long have sought to change election laws to gain a political advantage. The nation’s capital, the District of Columbia, adopted noncitizen voting this year for local elections...

Some masking and testing precautions are back in place at the State Capitol Building as positive COVID-19 cases escalate. According to Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney, there had been several positive COVID-19 tests in the State Senate over the past few days. The measures have been put in place to "ensure the Senate continues to operate effectively," said Looney. Looney did not say if the COVID-19 cases were among legislators, staffers or visitors. Going forward, all visitors and guests must mask up in the common areas on the third floor of the State Capitol and in the Senate Gallery....

VIDEOThis is not meant to be a criticism of comedian Tyler Fischer since I am a big fan of his stuff. However, he should have skipped trying to a parody of the recent North Face commercial. Why? Because it is IMPOSSIBLE to parody since it is so over the top that any attempt to parody it falls flat in comparison. The best material for parody is taking absurd situations in which someone attempts to be serious. A great example was the ad for Viagra that Bob Dole did in 1998. Somehow there is something inherently HILARIOUS about a prominent Republican...

Paleontologists are busy this Memorial Day weekend trying to find a tooth in Santa Cruz County that dates back to the Ice Ages. An unknown beach-goer picked up a giant mastodon tooth that first surfaced on an Aptos beach Friday. Now scientists are hoping that the scientifically significant tooth will be returned to the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History where it can be studied and displayed for the public as a piece of ancient history. US Census breakdown: The largest racial group in each Bay Area county The 1-foot-long tooth was originally spotted by a beach-goer strolling through the...

Researchers from Aarhus University, in collaboration with Stockholm University and the United States Geological Survey, analyzed samples from the previously inaccessible region north of Greenland...They showed that the sea ice in this region melted away during summer months around 10,000 years ago...During this time period, summer temperatures in the Arctic were higher than today...This was caused by natural climate variability [not] human-induced warming...

Mere hours following the conclusion of the regular legislative session, Gov. Greg Abbott announced the start of a special legislative session on property tax relief and border security. “Many critical items remain that must be passed. Several special sessions will be required. To ensure that each priority receives the time and attention it deserves to pass into law, only a few will be added each session,” said Abbott, indicating that multiple special sessions will be required. Special Session #1 agenda items include: PROPERTY TAXES: Legislation to cut property-tax rates solely by reducing the school district maximum compressed tax rate in...

Mansfield, Texas — A Mansfield teacher, Thomas Boykin, has been fired from his position at Linda Jobe Middle School in the Mansfield Independent School District (MISD) following a disturbing domestic incident that unfolded on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. The incident involved an alleged assault on Boykin’s wife, Amy Boykin, who serves as an Assistant Principal within the Mansfield ISD, followed by the shooting of his 13-year-old son and 21-year-old stepdaughter. The incident, which occurred at their residence on Arabian Court, has sent shockwaves through the community. Upon receiving a shooting call, the Mansfield Police Department swiftly responded to the scene....

One in six retirees is now thinking about unretiring due to Bidenflation, which one analyst says “may be here to stay.” Well, if Biden wins re-election, it will certainly be here to stay. Patrice Onawunka laments in the far-left USA Today that the “financial insecurity” caused by inflation, which itself was caused by “reckless federal spending” may become permanent.

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Sam Ponder, who is also known as Samantha Ponder, is a well-known American sportscaster and host of Sunday NFL Countdown on ESPN. She has found herself embroiled in a heated debate surrounding women's sports. With her extensive experience as a reporter and host, Ponder has made significant contributions to ESPN, including her roles in ESPN college football and as a basketball sideline reporter. However, Ponder's recent involvement in the discussion surrounding transgender athletes has sparked controversy. Defending young women who felt they were unfairly displaced from their sports rosters to make room for transgender women, Ponder took to Twitter to...

Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that women were “watching” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) because of his anti-woke agenda. On Fox News, DeSantis said, “Because everyone knows if I’m the nominee, I will beat Biden, serve two terms, and I will be able to destroy leftism in this country and leave woke ideology on the dustbin of history.” Co-host Joy Behar said, “Yale University will take anybody these days? He went to Yale. He will destroy leftism. Really? That’s a lot of people in the country. And he will get rid of wokism? You know what,...

ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that white female Republicans “fall in line” to “protect the patriarchy.” Hostin said, “I have a similar theory. it’s born out when you look at the studies, read books like a book that came out a long time ago about she owned property as well, meaning white women owned slaves as well. I think that women, white women in particular, want to protect this patriarchy here, because it’s to their benefit. They want to make sure their husbands do well. They want to make sure their sons...

20 mil (lots of dead soldiers) vs 144 mil. simple math

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“Liberalism was never about freedom, but nurtured a profound desire to change humanity above all other aspects. This rendered it a willing ally of tyrants promising to do the dirty work of such a project.” — John Waters on Substack An anxious silence falls over the land this Memorial Day as we discern increasingly that those we put in charge of this shape-shifting thing called the public interest are running out of trips to lay on the people. Something grotesque is revealing itself: a bankruptcy not just of money but of national purpose, meaning, and legitimacy. You realize this day,...

> Feds and MSM laying groundwork for potential power blackouts Several recent mainstream media reports reveal potential predictive programming being used to get the public ready for alleged right-wing or Russian attacks on the power grid. CBS Mornings covered a recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report warning far-right activists could be targeting the U.S. power grid as a way to disrupt the country and the government’s ability to operate. Despite first claiming the attacks would be done by “right-wing” extremists, the actual DHS paper states individuals “adhering to a range of ideologies will likely continue to plot and encourage...

A controversial abortionist who spent years killing babies and has been accused of using his own sperm to inseminate women has died in a plane crash. Morris Wortman was a prominent abortionist in the Rochester, New York area for a couple decades in the 80s and 90s. He killed countless babies during that time and feuded with pro-life advocates on a national level. More recently, according to local news reports, “Wortman has been accused by number of people of using his own sperm to inseminate women who came to him in the 1980s for fertility treatment — a practice often...

A woman was arrested and charged with DUI and reckless driving after ploughing down a busy beach in Florida, narrowly missing children and families in the water.

Read Mark Twain’s ‘Joan of Arc’ — It Will Surprise You and Make You Want to Become a Saint“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation and got none.” —Mark TwainMark Twain’s Joan of Arc is perhaps the finest novel ever to have been written by an American. It’s a book with the power to change the lives...