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A headline in New York magazine laments, “Bud Light, Target, and a New Era of Corporate Caution.” A new era of corporate caution? Don’t threaten me with a good time. Imagine a beer company that just wanted to make good beer and sell it to you. Imagine if that company wanted to sell beer to everyone but didn’t feel that its job was to make you more accepting of transgender individuals, any more than it felt its job was to warn you about the national debt or teach you the value of standardized testing in public schools or warn you...

It’s a given that the Rainbow Mafia is trying to take over every aspect of our culture, and recent headlines are littered with examples of what happens when cultural figures and everyday citizens go up against the LGBTMOB. And now two Major League Baseball pitchers have demonstrated what happens when you go against the Pride Gang — with varying degrees of success. First, there’s Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Kershaw is one of the most talented starting pitchers in the National League and a player whom both fans and the media adore. He and his wife are committed,...

39-year-old Marlon Scott Kautz of Atlanta, 30-year-old Savannah Patterson of Savannah, and 42-year-old Adele Maclean of Atlanta were arrested and charged with money laundering and charity fraud. On Tuesday, three people connected to the violent takeover of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center’s future site were arrested and charged with money laundering and charity fraud. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced that alongside the Atlanta Police Department, the three were arrested in connection with an ongoing investigation into the criminal acts undertaken at the site. . . . Kautz, Patterson and Maclean all work for the nonprofit the Atlanta Solidarity...

It causes symptoms similar to the flu and COVID-19 and according to numbers from the CDC this little-known respiratory virus has spiked during the spring. It's also led to hospitalizations among many of the most vulnerable, like young children and seniors.

BREAKING: House overwhelmingly passes Biden-McCarthy debt limit deal 314-117 On to the Senate

Your mind isn’t playing tricks on you — the pandemic may have affected your memory. According to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, COVID-19 lockdowns caused people to lose track of time. Scottish researchers found people made errors when trying to remember events from 2021, findings that are consistent with memory lapses experienced by people who have served jail time. “Remembering when past events occurred becomes more difficult as more time passes,” study co-author Arash Sahraie told SWNS. “In addition, people’s activities and emotions can influence their perception of the passage of time.”

Target’s stock has lost a whopping $13.8 billion over the past two weeks, hitting its lowest levels in nearly three years as the “cheap chic” discount retailer continues to face backlash over LGBTQ-friendly kids clothing. Shares of the embattled chain sank 2.2% at $130.93 on Wednesday after dropping for eight straight sessions — the stock’s longest losing streak since November 2018 — giving the company a market capitalization of $60.4 billion. That’s off 19% from two weeks earlier on May 18, when the stock was trading at $160.96 on the eve of the crisis. It’s also the lowest levels Target...

The White House on Wednesday announced the latest in a series of aid packages for Ukraine that includes up to $300 million worth of air defense systems, ammunition and other defense equipment. The security assistance package represents the 39th drawdown of equipment from the Department of Defense inventories, the Pentagon said. The package includes Patriot air defense batteries, Stinger anti-aircraft systems, tank ammunition and a list of other equipment, according to the Pentagon. In total, the U.S. has committed more than $38.3 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration, including more than $37.6 billion...

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec Milley had a SECRET plan to INVADE Iran and Trump shut him down thepostmillennial.com Classified documents discussed by Trump on leaked audio reveal Mark Milley had plan to attack Iran:... 7:48 PM · May 31, 2023

Trump adviser Stephen Miller on Friday lamented the devastating cost the 2024 Republican primary race will have on the party while Democrats are prepared for the general election. Miller told FOX News host Jesse Watters that Republicans need to rally around Trump, the man that the deep state wants to imprison and finish this. "The real tragedy here, I think a lot of people watching will agree with me on this is that we're going to burn hundreds and millions of dollars here in a primary that we need to be spending, ballot harvesting," Miller said. "In other words, the...

Quantaurius Simmons and Andres Brisco arrived with two other people at the fast food restaurant on Saturday and ordered a hot dog with a side of jalapeno poppers at around 7:30 p.m., according to Tulsa police. Instead, however, the group received a hot dog with jalapenos on it, triggering an argument between them and the Sonic employees. A manager stepped in to try and quell the situation, but Simmons allegedly exited the black Altima and tried to enter a closed-off section of the restaurant. When the manager tried to stop him, police said Simmons dragged the man outside and began...

June 1, 2023, is Marilyn Monroe’s 97th birthday In some or many male hearts and dreams, she is very much alive. She was available. “What do I wear in bed?” she pretended to ask herself, “Why, Chanel No.5, of course.” The fantasy was so good that it became real. “If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.” Her reality sometimes went happily, but tragically too: these are believed to be her last words spoken to actor Peter Lawford: She was “tired and would not be coming” to dinner. “…… say goodbye to the president (Lawford’s brother-in-law), and...

Luke 1:39-56Friends, today’s Gospel tells of Mary’s visit to Elizabeth. I’ve always been fascinated by Mary’s “haste” in this story of the Visitation. Upon hearing the message of Gabriel concerning her own pregnancy and that of her cousin, Mary “traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah” to see Elizabeth.Why did she go with such speed and purpose? Because she had found her mission, her role in the theo-drama. We are dominated today by the ego-drama in all of its ramifications and implications. The ego-drama is the play that I’m writing, I’m producing, I’m directing, and...

On May 20, 2023, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin stated during his recent visit to the U.S.: "We have come to remind them that for Europeans, and for France, the primary risk is Sunni Islamist terrorism and that anti-terrorist collaboration between intelligence services is absolutely essential." This anodyne statement by Mr. Darmanin, whose maternal grandfather was an Algerian Muslim soldier in the French Army, has generated significant condemnation from various Islamist organizations, Islamists, and prominent figures, uniting criticism from Qatari-funded Islamists with those connected to the regime in Cairo. Their responses reflect deep concerns about...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Never Forget! Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, “Buffaloes,” 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division, conduct a memorial boot run, wreath laying ceremony, and range commemoration ceremony ahead of Memorial Day, May 25, 2023, at Camp Casey, South Korea. The battalion honored 22 fallen Soldiers from the Global War on Terrorism and added a 17th Infantry Regiment crest to the hillside in honor of Medal of Honor recipient, Sgt. Einar H. Ingman Jr. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jeff Beggs) Canteen Mission StatementShowing...

Update from Ukraine | Where is the Ukrainian Counterattack? Final Preparations Continue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulS4dIU2jsM ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 462 – Summary Jerome – May 31, 2023. https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-462-summary/ The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 31st May 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). 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...

Chubby North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un’s weight has ballooned to more than 300 pounds — and he pulls all-nighters in a “vicious cycle” of heavy boozing and smoking, according to spies from the South. Seoul’s National Intelligence Service gave an update Wednesday on “intensely” monitoring the health of the secretive leader, who came to power after his father, Kim Jong Il, died in 2011 from a heart attack. Despite reports in 2021 that he’d lost nearly 50 pounds on a health kick, Kim appears to have gained back all of it and more, the spies estimated, citing artificial intelligence...

“We’re just down to the technical changes that we’re having conversations about. So we don’t have the final version yet but it is something conceptually I do support,” Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters in New York City on Wednesday. People convicted of sex crimes are explicitly ineligible, according to the legislative language, which has no effect on media reports concerning past crimes. The proposal would allow certain employers like law enforcement agencies, courts, prosecutors, schools, and even Uber to access sealed records. The DMV and government officials could also view rap sheets when people respectively apply for driving-related jobs and...

Corporations that wrecked their images in woke marketing campaigns could pay a price for decisions that cost shareholders money. On Tuesday, America First Legal took to Twitter on a fishing expedition looking for disgruntled shareholders who have seen their investments flow down the drain faster than a barrel of Bud Light since the beer’s embrace of transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney led to a weeks-long boycott that shows no sign of stopping. “ATTENTION: Are you a shareholder of @Target @Kohls @abinbev, or other companies that are promoting transgender, LGBTQ and PRIDE products and diminishing shareholder value? We want to hear from...

Today, America First Legal (AFL) released its fourth tranche of emails received from the National Archives in response to AFL’s request and lawsuit for records from Joe Biden’s time as Vice President in the Obama Administration and Hunter Biden’s corrupt foreign business dealings. According to the National Archives, this tranche consists of “email messages from December 2009 through June 2010 that includes the company name ‘Rosemont Seneca.’” The National Archives initially proposed withholding “142 email messages in whole and 54 email messages in part” under the Presidential Records Act, but after Stuart Delery, Counsel to the President, and Robert Lenhard,...