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PRESS RELEASES AND REPORTS HOW MANY UKRAINIANS HAVE CLOSE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS WHO WERE INJURED / KILLED BY THE RUSSIAN INVASION: RESULTS OF A TELEPHONE SURVEY CONDUCTED ON MAY 26 - JUNE 5, 2023 The press release was prepared by the Executive Director of KIIS Anton Hrushetskyi From May 26 to June 5, 2023, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) conducted its own all-Ukrainian public opinion survey "Omnibus". By the method of computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI) based on a random sample of mobile phone numbers (with random generation of phone numbers and subsequent statistical weighting), 2013 respondents living in...

In a perfect close to “pride month,” the Supreme Court ruled Friday that the alphabet people, or anyone else for that matter, cannot force you to affirm beliefs in violation of your own.According to the high court, laws like Colorado’s “Anti-Discrimination Act,” which LGBT activists have used to bully Christians into going against their faith, violate Americans’ First Amendment right to free speech.In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, the state of Colorado tried forcing graphic artist Lorie Smith to build a wedding website for a same-sex couple, an act which opposes her Christian belief that marriage is between one man...

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch issued a harsh rebuke of Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent in the case of a Christian web designer who the court ruled was not obligated to design websites for gay couples. "It is difficult to read the dissent and conclude we are looking at the same case," Gorsuch wrote in the 6-3 Supreme Court decision on Friday. That decision said web designer Lorie Smith was not legally required to design websites for gay marriages because doing so would violate her free speech rights and Christian beliefs, despite a Colorado law that bans discrimination based on sexual...

Justice Thomas wrote a nearly 60-page concurrence to express his horror at institutionalized racial discrimination in 21st-century America. Every Single Paragraph is Worth Reading. The Supreme Court’s Thursday decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College dealt an overdue blow to race-based college admissions, and some of the best punches were thrown by Justice Clarence Thomas in his concurrence. The court ruled that so-called “affirmative action” at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were in violation of the 14th Amendment and its application via the Civil Rights Act. Policies that discriminate based on race...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor falsely claimed in a new opinion for a major same-sex wedding case that the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was motivated by anti-gay prejudice. In a landmark 6-3 decision that pit the interests of LGBTQ non-discrimination against First Amendment freedom, the Supreme Court on Friday held that a Colorado graphic designer who wants to make wedding websites does not have to create them for same-sex marriages. The nation's highest court ruled in favor of artist Lorie Smith, who sued the state of Colorado over its anti-discrimination law that prohibited...

You have to hand it to New York. I mean under the aegis of pioneers like Kathy Hochul and Eric Adams, New York is on track to completely annihilate itself with the possible exception of some precincts upstate and maybe some areas closer to Pennsylvania. For the most part, New York and its largest city seemed to be engaged in the age-old classic game of “Stop Hitting Yourself.” But in this case, no one is forcing New York to punch itself in the face. It’s doing so of its own volition. And while I thank God every night that I...

A Shelbyville family said it’s a miracle their dog is alive after a police officer shot him multiple times. The sound of gunfire and the emotional aftermath was all caught on surveillance video at the family’s home. “He literally barked, and he was gunned down,” Chelsey Crawford recalled. In only a matter of seconds, what started as a night of celebration took a horrific turn. The family dog, 3-year-old Chapo, was shot four times, according to Crawford. “He took every bullet that that officer let out. He has every bullet inside of him still,” she said. WATCH: Shelbyville family left...

Fox News agreed to pay a $12 million settlement to former Tucker Carlson producer Abby Grossberg.Abby Grossberg filed lawsuits against the outlet in March after she left the company.Grossberg filed a lawsuit alleging the company’s legal team urged her to answer “I don’t know” to questions in the company’s lawsuit with Dominion voting machines.Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News shortly after Grossberg filed her lawsuits.Grossberg’s lawsuit was originally filed in the Delaware Superior Court where the Dominion case was settled for $787 million.The New York Times reported:Fox News has agreed to pay $12 million to Abby Grossberg, a former...

The Kiwi government has instituted a trendy new social engineering project for Equity™ that consists of denying healthcare to whites because of White Supremacy™ or whatever.Via the New Zealand Herald:Auckland surgeons are now required to consider a patient’s ethnicity alongside other factors when deciding who should get an operation first.Several surgeons say they are upset by the policy, which was introduced in Auckland in February and gave priority to Māori and Pacific Island patients – on the grounds that they have historically had unequal access to healthcare.Health officials stress that ethnicity is just one of five factors considered in deciding...

In a purported 2017 message to a Chinese businessman, Hunter Biden allegedly threatened retaliation from his father, who was then a former vice president. An attorney for Hunter Biden says purported screenshots of a text message from Hunter Biden to a potential Chinese business partner where he refers to Joe Biden — a message that has been the subject of intense scrutiny following statements made by an IRS whistleblower — are “not real and contain myriad of issues.” Abbe Lowell, who is one of Hunter Biden’s attorneys, made the statement in a letter to Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., chairman of...

Joe Biden reacts to the news that the Supreme Court ruled against his Student Loan Cancelation.

Jim Edmonds has MLB Twitter outraged. The St. Louis Cardinals legend, 53, is getting dragged online after discussing how some professional sports teams changed their names – as many consider the previous monikers racist and insensitive – with some voicing for Edmonds to “do better!” Edmonds, a color commentator for the Cardinals on Bally Sports Midwest, named the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins as examples during Thursday night’s game between St. Louis and Houston. “I actually got quite a few messages on social media about some of the teams and then, you know it’s really funny when people reach out...

In Canada “misgendering” an individual is considered a hate crime ever since the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code were amended in 2017 to include “gender identity” and “gender expression” as protected classes. In 2019, a father in British Columbia was found guilty of “family violence” for not referring to his daughter by her preferred pronouns.We can’t write this off as Canadian craziness anymore. A recently passed bill in Michigan, HB 4474, seeks to make it a felony to “intimidate” someone by using the “wrong pronouns,” also known as “misgendering.”According to the bill, “‘Intimidate’ means a willful course...

Texas Christian University is offering a course on the "Queer Art of Drag," where students will be taught about "drag performance as an outlet for social critique, pedagogy, and queer worldmaking." The course will be taught by Nino Testa, whose preferred pronouns are he/him when going by his name, but when wearing a dress and wig as the drag persona "Maria von Clapp" are she/her. "The gender binary is enforced through compulsory norms, harassment, and violence in service of a white-cis-heteropatriarchy," the syllabus for the spring 2023 course says, adding that "theatricalizing gender" can expand "the possible queer worlds that...

The University of Cincinnati has reprimanded a faculty member at the center of a TikTok controversy related to gender, free speech and trans rights. The reprimand directs adjunct instructor Melanie Nipper to complete training about UC’s free speech policy and submit her syllabi for the coming school year to her department head. “Please note that this is to be considered a formal reprimand for your actions,” the June 14 document obtained by The Enquirer reads. “A copy of this letter will be placed in your permanent records.” In May, Nipper gave student Olivia Krolczyk 0/20 points for part of a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Leftists are devastated this morning after the Supreme Court passed down a new ruling that will ban robbing those who didn't attend college to pay for the expensive and useless degrees of those who did. "If the useless poor can't pay for my $300,000 Diversity and Belonging Doctorate degree, what good are they?" said Dr. Mikayla Barnes, a local Starbucks shift manager. "What am I supposed to do now? Work more? I'm ruined!" Sources say this tragic ruling will adversely affect the lives of thousands of feminists who will no longer be able to afford blue hair...

There has been an increasing recognition among both medical and psychological professionals, as well as the public media, of a concerning trend for child and adolescent users of audiovisual-based, algorithmic social media platforms (e.g., TikTok) to present with or claim functional psychiatric impairment that is inconsistent with or distinct from classic psychiatric nosology. In this short communication, we provide a detailed historical overview of this transdiagnostic phenomenon and suggest a conceptual model to organize thinking and research examining it. We then discuss the implications of our suggested model for accurate assessment, diagnosis, and medical-psychiatric treatment..... given extant evidence suggesting that...

IRVINE, CA — Jubilant revelry broke out yesterday following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against colleges using Affirmative Action policies in their admissions, with Asian American families celebrating by cutting loose with a five-minute study break. "We're really letting it all hang out today!" said Stephen Chen. "An unprecedented court ruling calls for an unprecedented celebration. We've never let the kids have a break from their studies — especially not an entire five minutes!" The ruling from the nation's highest court prevents colleges and universities from discriminating against applicants based on race or ethnicity, leading many to believe highly qualified...

In any relationship, a few key things need to be maintained for it to continue functioning smoothly. However, sometimes people unknowingly do something that can ruin their relationship. This article will discuss the nine most common ways to ruin a relationship. Keep in mind that these are just general ways. None of these are insurmountable, but they require some effort to overcome. So if you’re worried about your relationship status, read on and see if any of these sound familiar. Contents 1 Blaming Your Partner For All Of Your Problems 2 Not Communicating With Your Partner Can Ruin A Relationship...

Joyless leftists, as they are prone to do, got all triggered when Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders' kids used chalk to draw a cross surrounded by colorful stained glass-like shapes on the driveway at the governor's mansion this week. Gov. Sanders had shared a photo of her kids and their artwork to social media, which naturally upset the usual suspects.