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Despite growing backlash against the “pride” movement in 2023, there has been a noticeable increase in allegedly religious groups showing public support for homosexuality, transgenderism, and other aspects of the LGBTQ agenda. According to NPR, the rise in ostensibly religious groups’ support for pride is due to a nationwide initiative called Faith for Pride, run by the far-left group Interfaith Alliance. The group consists of multiple religions and denominations, including Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others. “We are not going to let this happen to our LGBTQ siblings,” said Baptist minister Paul Raushenbush, president of the Interfaith Alliance. “Not on...

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The Truth About ‘Puberty Blockers’ The FDA hasn’t approved them for gender dysphoria, and their effects are serious and permanent.

Jamie Hammonds said city policies have pushed homeless into areas where the public can’t see them An Austin, Texas, resident is raising awareness of the city’s homeless problem and its unseen impact on greenbelt areas. Jamie Hammonds, an investigative filmmaker who runs the organization Documenting Austin’s Streets and Homeless, or DASH, shared videos Wednesday on Twitter, showing a homeless encampment in the Violet Crown Trail after roughly a year of neglect. “It’s destroyed. It will never be the same,” Hammonds tweeted. A real-estate agent concurred, saying the “environmental damage from these camps is immense.”

(LifeSiteNews) — Catholics have erected billboards across Florida reminding Americans that June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The initiative was started by a Catholic couple who gathered donations from fellow Catholics to rent three billboards in Florida that read, “June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Christ is King.” “It seems most people have forgotten what the month of June is truly dedicated to for the last few centuries, and this is just meant as a reminder for those who may have forgotten,” Ruby Galatolo wrote on Facebook. The billboards are located on highways across...

Now the Biden regime is willing to let you freeze to death to continue their radical “climate change” agenda. The Regime will soon finalize new regulations severely restricting what furnaces you can buy for your home in the future and make new purchases more expensive. The rules were originally proposed back in June 2022 by the Department of Energy (DOE). Here are the full details of the regulations courtesy of Fox News, which first broke the story. The rules could finalized at any point over the next several weeks. Under the proposed regulations, DOE would require furnaces to achieve an...

On Saturday, Michael Horwitz was arrested after fatally stabbing his father, Dr. Abbey Horwitz, at their home in Virginia Beach. The 34-year-old, who identifies as a transgender woman and goes by the name Norah, has been charged with second-degree murder and stabbing in the commission of a felony. According to the Virginia Beach Police Department, officers were called to the 1300 block of Wren Place just before 9 am Saturday. When they arrived, they discovered Dr. Horwitz, 68, suffering from "multiple stab wounds." First responders performed emergency medical treatment, but to no avail. He was pronounced dead at 9:13 am....

The poor air quality in places like New York due to the ongoing Canadian wildfires has forced the cancelation of top Broadway musicals like Hamilton and the Hollywood writers strike. The haze and smog have created a thick blanket over the New York City area and caused several Broadway and Off Broadway productions to shut down just days before the Tony Awards. Both Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton and the Lincoln Center’s revival of Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot have both been canceled due to poor air quality.

The video shows that the man desperately shouted 'Papa, Papa' as the predator closely hunted him in the water, circling him before launching the attack. The man can be seen desperately trying to swim towards the shore, but appears to be attacked by the shark while still in deeper waters. His body is seen spinning in the water, and his legs raise above the surface - as horrified onlookers scream and shout for the man to swim. 'Swim away, swim away! Quick! A shark!' people can be heard shouting. The splashing in the water stops, and the man's head returns...

Jamie Foxx’s rep shut down a conspiracy theory that the COVID-19 vaccine caused the actor’s mysterious medical emergency. Gossip columnist A.J. Benza made the unsubstantiated claim while appearing on coronavirus skeptic Dr. Drew Pinsky’s “Ask Dr. Drew” podcast last Saturday, saying he heard Foxx had developed a blood clot after receiving the jab and subsequently suffered a stroke. However, a publicist for the “Ray” star told NBC News Wednesday that Benza’s allegations were “completely inaccurate.”

‘The FBI is attempting a coverup, and Democrats are doing their bidding by lying to the American people,’ Rep. James Comer told The Federalist. It’s not true. It wasn’t closed down,” William Barr told The Federalist on Tuesday in response to Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin’s claim that the former attorney general and his “handpicked prosecutor” had ended an investigation into a confidential human source’s allegation that Joe Biden had agreed to a $5 million bribe. “On the contrary,” Barr stressed, “it was sent to Delaware for further investigation.” Former Attorney General Barr went on the record with The Federalist following...

The Biden administration reports a 70 percent reduction in unlawful entries...The Biden administration has simply allowed illegal immigrants to enter at ports of entry using the CBP One app, so they appear "legal." The CBP One app was intended to allow legitimate travelers to schedule appointments at ports of entry [during Covid]...[Today] the app allows illegal immigrants to "essentially schedule their illegal immigration into the United States."

DC_Draino @DC_Draino Benedict Pence’s 1st campaign video is all about J6 & how he betrayed 74 million voters by certifying election fraud We know what truly happened in 2020 We know who fought against election fraud And we know who helped certify it Pence backstabbed us

A father forced his grossed-out young daughter to gut a fish he bought at the store to teach her a “life skill” — and he’s now asking strangers on the internet if it was wrong to do so after his wife grew angry at him. The 38-year-old dad of two girls, 13 and 10, posted in the popular Reddit group “Am I the A–hole” to ask that exact question after teaching his older daughter to debone and descale a fish against her will. Fair_Moose_4755 explained that he and his wife have been teaching their girls a variety of “life skills...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland denounces Fr. James Martin for juxtaposing Sacred Heart and ‘pride’ month'This blasphemy must stop,' the faithful bishop and defender of the faith said.Bishop Joseph Stickland of Tyler, Texas, called out dissident pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin for blasphemously claiming that celebrating “Pride Month” is compatible with devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to whom the month of June is traditionally dedicated in Catholic devotion.“This blasphemy must stop, God loves every person even the most sinful, but saying sinful acts are compatible with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ contradicts Christ’s call to go & sin...

On Thursday, a June 5th video resurfaced from the official “DeSantis War Room” Twitter account that uses fake AI-generated images showing President Trump “embracing” Dr. Fauci. The ad aims to attack Trump for not firing Dr. Fauci sooner, and they use the fake images to attempt to make their point.

Shaquille O’Neal took a break from NBA Finals coverage on Tuesday for a night out with a famous pal. The NBA Hall of Famer, 51, dined at the Beverly Hills Hotel this week with internet personality Brittany Renner, with the outing being described to TMZ as “nothing more than two friends catching up.” Renner, who shares a child with Charlotte Hornets forward PJ Washington, opted for a white dress and a bright purse while O’Neal sported light-wash jeans, a zip-up and sneakers.

Two years after the FBI allegedly pulled a mandatory "sexual orientation and gender identity" course amid negative reviews from employees, the bureau incentivized employees to attend its Pride Month event – featuring a White House official known for his pentagram tattoo and pentagram-shaped leather harness – by offering credit toward mandatory training.FBI whistleblower Steve Friend, who resigned from the bureau this year amid months of unpaid leave for a security clearance review he deemed retaliatory, posted a screenshot of a bureau-wide email dated June 1 that invited all FBI employees to attend the June 6 event, in person or virtually.It's...

DC_Draino @DC_Draino We keep hearing about the wooden gallows built on J6, but for some reason we have no video of anyone building it You’d think these people would be target #1 in the J6 dragnet, but it looks they’re getting the Ray Epps treatment

A central Oregon county scheduled an election to test support for becoming part of Idaho on Wednesday morning, less than 24 hours after final results from a May election in an eastern Oregon county showed a victory for supporters of the “Greater Idaho” movement. The razor-thin vote in Wallowa County means that 12 Oregon counties have voted to move toward a long-shot effort to redraw the state’s boundary with Idaho that would turn close to 400,000 Oregonians into Idahoans and give the Gem State control of almost two-thirds of Oregon’s land. The next to vote is Crook County, after the...