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At Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood, days of controversy over a Pride event came to a head Friday morning when parents on both sides of the issue squared off. Supporters and opponents of a scheduled Pride Month assembly at the school took to the street outside the school, with city and school police stepping in to separate the dueling protests as the intensity ratcheted up between the sides.

A black woman on TikTok has gone viral for her controversial take on the Citi Bike incident that made headlines earlier this month. Over the weekend, TikTok user @BlkGirlTragic posted a video on the platform explaining her thoughts on the viral incident where a white hospital employee attempted to take a Citi Bike that was already reserved by a Black teenager, per Newsone. The Tiktoker said she believes the incident shows how “white women are one of the most dangerous groups in the United States and abroad." She also called out those defending the hospital employee's behavior, citing the alleged...

In a reversal of its election integrity policy, YouTube will leave up content that says fraud, errors or glitches occurred in the 2020 presidential election and other U.S. elections, the company confirmed to Axios Friday. Why it matters: YouTube established the policy in December 2020, after enough states had certified the 2020 election results. Now, the company said in a statement, leaving the policy in place may have the effect of "curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm." "Two years, tens of thousands of video removals, and one election cycle later, we recognized...

The collateral damage of net zero is now getting uncomfortably close to home. First Dutch farmers were threatened with compulsory purchases to satisfy EU emissions targets, fomenting a new revolt in the process. Now it’s Ireland’s turn, where the government is reportedly looking at plans to cull around 200,000 cows to meet its climate targets. The scheme would be a bit like voluntary redundancy, with farmers offered financial inducements to give up their cows. British beef and dairy farmers are now very jittery. It seems increasingly clear that there is an eco-modernist agenda to do away with conventional meat altogether....

A World War II veteran from Nebraska recently had an extra special 100th birthday party. All Alfred Zieg wanted for his birthday was a hamburger and a strawberry milkshake from his favorite fast-food chain, Runza. Runza said they learned of his request from an article in the Lincoln Journal Star. On Alfred's 100th birthday Wednesday, a Runza location in Lincoln made his request happen. The restaurant had a special table for Alfred with birthday balloons and decorations, plus a cake and a card. Runza shared an adorable video from Alfred's party on social media. "We are honored to have served...

Pinnacles National Park recorded its busiest April ever and busiest month since it became a national park. In April, the park saw 56,339 recreational visitors. That's the most recreational visits in a single month since Pinnacles was designated as a National Park in January 2013. Data on visits to Pinnacles, which date back to 1979, show only one month with more visitors than April 2023: May 2011. In May 2011, when Pinnacles was only a national monument, the park saw 59,878 visitors. Winter-spring is Pinnacle's busy season, mainly because of the cooler temperatures. In 2022, the park saw almost 10,000...

More good Pride Month news coming from the corporate world! Target is paying the price for pushing transgenderism on kids. JP Morgan just downgraded Target's stock as an ongoing boycott of Target has hurt the stores' bottom line, losing them TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars. According to CNBC, JP Morgan Chase is downgrading Target's stock because the conservative moms' boycott is actually working. JP Morgan Chase thinks Target may be in for turbulent times ahead. The bank downgraded the retail giant to neutral from overweight Thursday, with a $144 price target, down from $182. The firm's new forecast implies about...

Now, the committee appointed by the district to review the complaint and decide if the Bible is appropriate for students to access has made its determination: High schools in Davis will keep the religious text on the shelf. But it will be removed from elementary and middle schools for containing “vulgarity or violence.” That decision on the book challenge — which gained national attention when it was first reported on in March — will take effect immediately, said Davis School District spokesperson Christopher Williams in an email to The Salt Lake Tribune this week. He believes there are seven or...

An educator at El Dorado High School in Placentia, California was captured on video giving students explicit instructions during class on how to have pleasure during anal sex, and where to find sex toys that will stimulate the prostate gland. The video, posted to the Instagram account @edhscaughtlacking, shows the educator, sitting atop a desk in front of a classroom full of students, discussing why anal sex is pleasurable for gay men, with an enlarged image of a prostate gland behind her.

Senator Jim Tedisco (R,C-44th Senate District) today announced that the New York State Senate has passed his bipartisan Veterans Internship Program (V.I.P.) legislation to enable honorably discharged veterans to participate in the legislature’s annual paid legislative internship program that could help lead them to future employment. Tedisco’s V.I.P. legislation (S.291/A.1347) sets aside 10 percent of the current legislative internship program positions in the Senate and Assembly for veterans to see the inner workings of the representative democracy they put their lives on the line to defend. Veteran participants in the Veterans Internship Program would receive a stipend that’s equivalent to...

A profile published last month in the New York Times on disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who started her 11-year prison sentence Tuesday after defrauding investors with an ineffective blood-testing product, reportedly ignited an internal debate that paralleled one that occurred in the Twitter court of public opinion. According to a Vanity Fair report Wednesday, writers at the paper of record were questioned about the profile and how it came to be during a fraught all-hands meeting held the day that Holmes’ stint in federal prison started. In the profile, Times writer-at-large Amy Chozick seems sympathetic toward her subject to...

There will always be people who believe the NASA Moon landings were faked. Many feel that the conspiracy theory was fueled by recent events, including the Vietnam War and notably the Watergate scandal, which took place in a culture where people were beginning to loudly question the motives of their leaders. The greatest achievement of the conspiracy movement has been to raise the question: Regardless of whether they did or didn’t fake something, did they try? Such thoughts were on writer and director Peter Hyams’ mind as he watched TV coverage of Apollo 11’s historic lunar landing in 1969, just...

Philadelphia has banned masks on its Center City SEPTA public transportation system in the hope of curtailing gun violence incidents. CBS News reported an individual in a mask shot and killed a high school student on a SEPTA bus last week and on Memorial Day, another gunman in a mask shot a 19-year-old on a bus. The 19-year-old survived his injuries. SEPTA police chief Charles Lawson announced masks will no longer be allowed, saying, “Those face masks are prohibited on SEPTA property. You come on SEPTA property wearing your shiesty, you will be engaged by police. … You got two...

Governor DeSantis's wife took the stage to deliver a speech, presumably on a topic close to her heart — their three-year-old child. Admittedly, it was dull and she should fire her speechwriter. But hubby Ron should have at least pretended to care about what she was saying. Instead, the mean-spirited Presidential candidate failed to exhibit even a hint of interest. Rather than lending a supportive presence at the side of his wife, DeSantis looked as if he'd rather be anywhere else. Standing on the extreme side of the stage, his body language revealed boredom, annoyance, and a general disconnection from...

Rep. Andrew Clyde dropped a bombshell bit of information on the behind-the-scenes arm twisting from House Republican leadership on the debt ceiling fight, telling War Room host Steve Bannon that he was told by at least one unnamed member that his bill to stop the ATF’s new pistol brace rule from being enforced would be held in limbo unless he cast an assenting vote to the debt ceiling package crafted by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the Biden administration. Citizens for Renewing America BREAKING: @Rep_Clyde says Republican leadership threatened to BLOCK his repeal of the ATF’s unconstitutional "pistol brace" ban...

Texas’ 88th regular legislative session, sine die as of Memorial Day, will be remembered as the one that got Texas closer to looking like California and less like the leading pro-market and limited government Lone Star State. Instead of the desired “largest property tax cut in Texas history,” school choice, and spending restraint that would best let people prosper, legislators passed the largest increases in spending, corporate welfare, and safety nets in state history. Texas taxpayers can only hope that Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) just-called special session will help with property tax relief but there will need to be more...

US Embassy to the Holy See again flies LGBT flag for JuneThe move has caused a storm on social media, with users blasting the Biden administration for 'anti-bigotry' and 'blasphemy.'U.S. Embassy to the Holy See flying an LGBT flag, June 2023ROME (LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See has once again prominently displayed the LGBT “pride” flag on the exterior of the large building it occupies in central Rome, in direct defiance of Catholic teaching on LGBT issues.In a message issued on its social media platforms, the U.S. Embassy announced June 1 that for the month the nation...

Bryan Johnson's Project Blueprint is an initiative aimed at 'maximally slowing your pace of aging and reversing the aging that occurs'A tech mogul who’s spending millions in the pursuit of perpetual youth has received blood from his 17-year-old son in what the eccentric multimillionaire is describing as the world’s first multi-generational plasma swap. Bryan Johnson’s young-blood exchange took place in early April, as Bloomberg first reported, when the 45-year-old California entrepreneur, described as the most measured human on earth, arrived at a medical spa and wellness centre in Texas with his son, Talmage, and his own 70-year-old father, Richard. More...

Sometimes a story comes across the wire that’s so unbelievable, that I have to double-check the link to make sure it’s not a parody site. That happened on Thursday morning when a new report dropped detailing how Hunter Biden will defend himself against a possible gun charge brought by the DOJ. Hunter Biden is facing multiple charges related to alleged tax fraud and lying on a gun purchase form. A charging decision is expected to occur soon, though, the DOJ has continued to slow-walk the final decision for reasons that some suspect are political. The president’s troubled son swore under...

The Biden administration on Friday ordered a 20-year ban on new oil and gas drilling leases within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, according to multiple reports. The moratorium — which the Department of Interior initially began considering in November 2021 — is a long-sought goal of several local politicians, conservation groups and Native American tribes that want to preserve the centuries-old Pueblo ruins located there, although some tribes have opposed the ban for limiting future economic opportunities, according to E&E News. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, herself New Mexican and the nation’s first Native...