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Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney said in an interview published Tuesday that more brands should partner with trans influencers even after the Bud Light debacle, which led to a boycott and declining sales. “I am one of — if not the — most privileged trans people in this country right now; I don’t want people to look at me and say, ‘Oh, yep, the community’s alright,’” the activist said during an interview with Them, expressing interest in getting other transgender people into the spotlight. Rather than acknowledging any negative impact on the Bud Light brand, Mulvaney said companies should all be...

Bud Light sales plunged in May, toppling the beer brand from its longtime perch as the nation's best-selling brew. Parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI) sold $297 million worth of Bud Light for the four weeks ending May 28 — a 23% drop from the same time period the year before, according to consumer behavior data analytics firm Circana. Modelo Especial ranked No.1 in May, with $333 million in sales — a 15% increase from 2022. Modelo Especial is a pilsner-style lager that began nearly 100 years ago in Mexico. Constellation Brands bought Modelo from ABI in 2013. Since then, Constellation...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump's leading rival for the 2024 GOP nomination, said the decision to charge the former president demonstrated political bias in the Biden Justice Department and it's "weaponization" of its police powers. Trump was indicted Thursday on federal charges involving conspiracy, obstruction, and taking classified documents. "The weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society," Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stated Thursday. "We have for years witnessed an uneven application of the law depending upon political affiliation. Why so zealous in pursuing Trump yet so passive about Hillary or Hunter?" DeSantis said...

Julian Assange has lost his appeal against extradition to the US on espionage charges. The judgment was handed down privately on Monday at the High Court. WikiLeaks founder Assange, 51, launched the appeal last June after then-Home Secretary Priti Patel signed an order authorizing his removal. Yesterday his wife Stella said that he will appeal the decision. It will be Assange's last chance to overturn the ruling before his options in the UK courts are exhausted. The Freedom of the Press Foundation said it was 'highly disappointed by the UK High Court's rejection of Julian Assange's appeal of his extradition...

Special Counsel Jack Smith officially indicted former President Donald Trump on Thursday for his retention of presidential documents following his departure from the White House. The Attorney General Merrick Garland appointee was hard-pressed to cook up charges but somehow still confirmed Americans’ widely held suspicions that this is just a continuation of the deep state’s ploy to get Trump, which started with the Russia collusion hoax in 2016. “Today’s act of open legal ‘warfare’ by the highly politicized and partisan Department of Injustice, has taken things to a new level, and set a dangerous precedent,” the Trump campaign said in...

Today is indeed a dark day for the United States of America. It is unconscionable for a President to indict the leading candidate opposing him. Joe Biden kept classified documents for decades. I, and every American who believes in the rule of law, stand with President Trump against this grave injustice. House Republicans will hold this brazen weaponization of power accountable.

A liberal TikToker is going viral after complaining the only masculine and chivalrous men she can find are conservative. A self-professed 'liberal', her posts often prove polarizing, and regularly show a pining for progressive men. Her most recent exploit - posted to 35,200 followers this past Thursday - was little different, but did serve as a slight deviation from the rest of her online oeuvre. In the video, she questioned why she cannot find a left-leaning man who's 'willing to play the more traditional masculine role in the relationship' 'As a liberal woman, it is really hard to find a...

A trove of photos from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop that were published on a new website last week includes a litany of never-before-seen images depicting the first son’s former hard-partying ways — and family life. The nearly 10,000-image catalog includes a perverse mix of family photographs and naked snapshots of himself in hotel rooms surrounded by drug paraphernalia and scantily clad women. Several pictures capture the nude 53-year-old Hunter alongside a tattooed woman in bedazzled mesh lingerie. Another shows him apparently naked behind a hotel desk with two mystery women — one who’s undressed and another lying in bed —...

THREAD: Now that the charade is over and we know Trump will be indicted federally, if the polls do not radically change, the Republican Party has a serious problem and will likely end up fractured. Let's take something Chris Christie said to use as an explainer. When asked what he would do to win over "Trump voters", he responded with contempt that he rejected the term because "he doesn't own them [voters]." No, he doesn't. But only the political and ruling class doesn't understand that his connection to these voters is not about ownership. To explain, let's break down "Trump...

It is a tight contest over which U.S. regulatory agency is most captured by industry. But leading the pack is surely the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Many of us in the past believed the main problem with the agency was the costs it imposed on industry. The situation turns out to be more complicated. Whatever its past, it’s become an industry-dominated vending machine for drug approvals enacted with a very expensive rubber stamp.The ordeal of the COVID vaccine proved it. So long as the check cleared, the FDA was ready with committee-based approvals for which no one in particular...

FOX is threatening to sue Tucker Carlson for breach of contract over his new show on Twitter. Tucker on Twitter launched its first episode this week and it generated huge viewership numbers. The truth is that Tucker has the ability to attract a much larger audience on social media than he did on television for FNC, even though his show was the cable new network’s highest rated show. His fans are loyal and they will follow him wherever he goes. FNC must have known that when they decided to make him a scapegoat for the settlement with Dominion Voting Systems,...

🔥WATCH: @KariLake joins @SebGorka on @Newsmax to discuss the political persecution of President Trump following his indictment by Biden's corrupt DOJ pic.twitter.com/5x6vgrqIr2— Kari Lake (@KariLake) June 8, 2023

The first 1,000 feet of floating barrier, consisting of large rotating buoys strung tightly together on thick steel cable, will be rolled out on a highly trafficked stretch of the Rio Grande between Piedras Negras, Mexico, and Eagle Pass, Texas, where a rising torrent of immigrant family groups have been crossing to turn themselves in since the end of Title 42 pandemic instant expulsions May 12, the sources said. Immigrants would have difficulty crossing over the buoys because they would rotate backward toward immigrants attempting to climb over them.

As we await the Supreme Court decision that could bring an end to affirmative action, Pew Research has published the results of a poll showing that fully half of US adults disapprove of it.Half of U.S. adults say they disapprove of selective colleges and universities taking prospective students’ racial and ethnic backgrounds into account when making admissions decisions. Fewer (33%) approve of colleges considering race and ethnicity to increase diversity at the schools, while 16% are not sure.With the court nearing the end of its term and decisions in two related cases involving the private Harvard College and the public...

I’ll first repeat the question in the headline: Are the results of a recent Gallup survey showing the biggest swing to social conservatism in nearly a decade shocking, inevitable, or somewhere in the middle?Whatever one calls it, it’s a major development — particularly with the 2024 election looming ever closer.Before we dig into the details of the survey, let’s revisit a football field metaphor I’ve long used to illustrate the U.S. political landscape. The largest portion of the field — say, between the 30-yard lines, for illustrative purposes — is comprised of decent, reasonable people, regardless of political affiliation. The...

It was the bombshell media story of the year when Fox News unceremoniously fired top-rated host Tucker Carlson in April. Making that Monday morning even nuttier was the fact that CNN’s Don Lemon was also shown the door after annoying virtually everyone—staff, executives, co-hosts, and even every woman over 40.Lemon’s firing was predictable, but Tucker’s came as a surprise, and speculation has abounded since on what caused the abrupt termination: was it part of the Dominion settlement? Was it related to a harassment suit (since dropped) by a former booker for the show? Was it because Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert...

Since allegedly getting elected president, Joe Biden has gotten his ancient behind kicked by the Taliban, by Kevin McCarthy, and by a random USAF sandbag to name just a few of the groups, individuals, and inanimate objects that have bested the worst president since Jimmy Carter. This guy is not well. Some might call him senile. Some might call him dumb. Some might call him a corrupt pervert. And some might call that list a good start. He mumbles that he’s running, but it is not assured that Biden will be on the ballot in November 2024. There is precedent...

Canada’s healthcare system isn’t free. It comes at a high cost — the cost of human lives.Medically assisted murder is the wages of Canada’s socialist healthcare system.In 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party passed a euthanasia bill (Bill C-14) called medical assistance in dying (MAID). It legalized the murder of adults with terminal illnesses or disabilities by so-called healthcare professionals.The following year in 2017, the Canadian Medical Association Journal published a report saying:“Medical assistance in dying could reduce annual health care spending across Canada by between $34.7 million and $138.8 million … Health care costs increase substantially among patients...

Just before midnight on April 30, skywatchers across several western states saw a bright fireball streak through the sky. A police officer working in part of the Las Vegas valley caught a glimpse of the colorful fireball on his body cam. At nearly the same time, a doorbell camera in the area recorded a strange noise and what sounded like a crash. One family living in a ranch-style home had a closer view of the object. Two brothers and their father were working on a vehicle in their yard when they saw a sparkly object. As it came crashing down,...

With unidentified flying objects (UFOs) increasingly making headlines, intrigue over the topic only seems to be growing, with one apologist noting this phenomenon is even invading some Christians' beliefs. Jason Jimenez, who leads Stand Strong Ministries and hosts the "Challenging Conversations Podcast," recently broke down some facts he wants Christians who entertain UFOs and aliens to understand. "If you look at the belief that many people have had through the centuries, even if you go back as far ... as ancient Greeks, they believed and they even worshiped this idea of extraterrestrials among them," Jimenez said on his show. "And...