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The CEO of woke tampon brand August has been criticized online for repeatedly using the word 'menstruators' instead of 'women' throughout an interview about period stigma. During a CBS Mornings conversation with Gayle King on Thursday, 25-year-old Nadya Okamoto said she wanted her brand to be 'period positive' and 'proudly gender-inclusive' amid what she described as 'an age of transphobia'. Clips of the interview shared online triggered an angry response from people on Twitter, who were quick to call Okamoto 'a clown' - while some women said they would not stand for being called 'menstruators'. Okamoto's choice of words comes...

Karla Torres dedicated 120 hours of her life and used 14 rolls-worth of duct tape to construct a one-of-a-kind prom dress as part of a nationwide contest. Karla is in the finals of Duck brand’s annual Stuck at Prom contest, which challenges high school students to transform the utility do-it-all tape into lavish and unbelievable fashion pieces as either a prom dress or tuxedo.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

R&B singer and actor Jill Scott blasted America by changing the words of the National Anthem into claiming it is an oppressor state during a live performance on stage. Jill Scott was performing on the second day of the Essence Festival on the perceived systemic racism in America, saying the country is "not the land of the free."

Unilever, the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, lost billions in market cap after the ice cream brand celebrated July 4th with an unpatriotic tweet about American history. Unilever’s share price went from $52.32 per share to $51.37 per share, erasing an estimated $2.5 billion in market cap as social media users called for a boycott, according to Google finance data. The packaged goods conglomerate saw its market cap drop from roughly $133 billion to $131 billion because its share price. Ben & Jerry’s marked July 4th by tweeting that “the US exists on stolen Indigenous land.” It also included...

A link to a 60 minutes expose on the CIA integration of the top nazi scientists after ww2

The Squad celebrated July Fourth by condemning the country they represent. “This July 4th, we must remember that we stand on stolen land toiled by enslaved Africans and recommit ourselves to the fight for freedom, equality, & justice so that these ideals are accessible to everyone, not just a privileged few,” tweeted Rep. Jamaal Bowman. “We are not free until everyone is truly free.” “The Declaration of Independence was written by enslavers and didn’t recognize Black people as human,” declared Rep. Cori Bush on Twitter. “Today is a great day to demand Reparations Now.” The tweet signed off with a...

Conflicting charges from the US and Russia about what's going on in the skies over Syria... A letter from Twitter threatening a lawsuit against competitor Meta over the newly launched "Threads" social media app... Authorities in Tunisia forcibly removing migrants from the port city of Sfax... Tonight in Israel the opponents of judicial reform protesting outside the homes of government ministers and blocking roads... An Israeli soldier killed in a terrorist attack in Samaria today... Dutch authorities arresting a man and his wife from Central Asia on terrorism charges... Pushing for Sweden to be accepted into NATO membership Secretary General...

On this date in 1961, Edwin Bush was hanged at Pentonville Prison. On March 3 of that same year, he’d stabbed to death an assistant at a Loondon antiques shop just off Charing Cross, using a pair of antique daggers from the shop’s own stock. (The scene of this long-ago crime is presently a bookstore.) Although a small-time criminal, Bush was an important milestone in the evolution of the panopticon. Poor Elsie May Batten had been attacked early in the morning, and nobody witnessed the crime. The killer/robber (he stole a sword that he later sold for 15 quid —...

A Bay Area woman sued her husband’s employer after she became infected with COVID-19. The California Supreme Court found that giving her workers’ comp could set a precedent that would imperil the system.

Tommy Sotomayor lets loose and goes after everyone/every topic. How the rest of the world does not put up with the homosexual agenda. Religious groups forcing themselves on Americans. The BT-1000 and her lawyers. and more! Warning raw language. video is 2 hours long.

Two hours after pressing the launch button on Wednesday on Threads, Instagram’s new app for real-time, public conversations, Mark Zuckerberg posted that more than two million people had downloaded his latest creation. That was just the beginning. Another two hours later, five million people had downloaded Threads. By the time Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, went to bed on Wednesday night, the number of downloads had soared to 10 million. When he woke on Thursday morning, the app had been downloaded more than 30 million times, he said. In less than a day, Threads — which is aimed...

<p>Michael Brian Protzman, the leader of a QAnon-centric group who brought hundreds of followers to Dallas to await the supposed resurrections of long-dead President John F. Kennedy and his son — tearing countless families apart in the process — died following a crash last month, according to authorities in Minnesota.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has decided to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine and is expected to announce on Friday that the Pentagon will send thousands as part of a new military aid package worth up to $800 million for the war effort against Russia, according to people familiar with the decision. The decision comes despite widespread concerns that the controversial bombs can cause civilian casualties. The Pentagon will provide munitions that have a reduced “dud rate,” meaning there will be far fewer unexploded rounds that can result in unintended civilian deaths. U.S. officials said Thursday they expect the...

Charlie Kirk interview with Richard Baris on current state of the presidential elections. Baris thinks desantis campaign one of the worse one's he's ever seen. Charlie thinks upwards of $1 billion will be spent on the primary. Both agree most candidates are running for their own reasons, and that was not to win and beat the democrats.

Republican Tim Burchett believes there is no question the objects in the skies are not of this Earth and have abilities to fly underwater and never leave behind heat trails. Burchett - who is on the House Oversight Committee overseeing UFO hearings - has been shown classified footage not yet released to the public. The congressman told the Event Horizon podcast this week that 'we've been dealing [with government coverups] since 1947, probably since about 1897 in what was the Aurora Texas 'UFO crash.' He continued to explain that if these otherworldly beings have technology unlike anything we know on...

0ver 300 Muslim children were kept off school for three days last week in a protest about “age-inappropriate sex education teaching” in a Manchester primary. Parents withdrew their kids from Birchfields Primary School in Fallowfield, Manchester, last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday over concerns about LGBTQ and other sexual content being taught in lessons. 5Pillars understands that a huge proportion of parents have lost trust in the school leadership because of what they perceive to be a lack of consultation. Some parents even told us that they have been prevented from organising meetings with venues cancelling at the last minute under...

Juan-Carlos Cruz revealed that his close relationship with Pope Francis involves regular calls and face-to-face visits.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) –– A homosexual papal confidant has reiterated claims that Pope Francis removed all Vatican officials involved in issuing the 2021 document banning same-sex “blessings” in retaliation for the document. Speaking at the 2023 pro-LGBT Outreach conference, run by prominent LGBT advocate Father James Martin SJ, Juan-Carlos Cruz revealed Francis’ reaction to the 2021 Vatican ban on same-sex “blessings.” Cruz is an openly homosexual man appointed by Francis to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in 2021, and who has since...

President proposed cancelling a day off on 7 January, as well as moving the dates of Statehood Day and Defenders Day, which coincide with Orthodox holidays, by 13 days.On 28 June 2023, Volodymyr Zelensky registered Bill 9431, which envisages cancelling the celebration of Christmas on 7 January in Ukraine, as well as postponing the dates of Statehood Day and Defenders’ Day, which coincide with the Orthodox holidays of the Baptism of Rus' and the Intercession of the Virgin Mary. The explanatory note says that "the purpose of the bill is to reject the Russian legacy of imposing Christmas on 7...

Rapid economic development in Asia has seen a corresponding decline in vocations in many developing countries Church leaders have called for collective actions to address issues including economic development, changes in family structure, technological and ideological impact, poverty, and migration that contributes to a decline in priestly and religious vocation in Asia. "In the last decades of the last century, vocations increased in Asia, but with the new century, the trend changed," said Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, president of the Federation of the Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC). Bo spoke about challenges the church is facing across the world, particularly in...