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Megan Rapinoe is back, taking shots at women's sports advocates and once again insisting the differences between male and female athletes shouldn't matter in women's sports. Speaking on her "Why Are You Like This?" podcast — a question sports fans have been asking about her for years — the former USWNT star went after Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham and OutKick's own Riley Gaines after the two posed for a photo following the Fever's game against the Minnesota Lynx. Rapinoe supports allowing biological males to compete in women's sports, yet frames women who object, and even athletes who simply stand...

Among the organizations helping drive the demonstrations was the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which Fox News Digital has previously identified as a key organizer of nationwide protest movements within the broader activist ecosystem surrounding organizations funded by Marxist tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai. Earlier this year, a Fox News Digital investigation documented roughly $285 million flowing from Singham into a global network of nonprofits, activist organizations and media operations. Another prominent organizer is Freedom Inc., a Madison-based activist nonprofit that advocates abolishing police, defunding law enforcement and broad criminal justice reforms. IRS filings reviewed by...

A taxpayer-funded Southern California nonprofit that provides domestic violence shelters and homelessness services paid its longtime CEO more than $1.6 million over two years, including hundreds of thousands of dollars for decades of unused vacation time, according to multiple media reports. Carol Adelkoff, CEO of the Los Angeles-based 1736 Family Crisis Center, received $907,923 in total compensation in 2023 and another $742,181 in 2024, according to the Los Angeles Times. ... Her base salary has remained around $405,000 in recent years, she said, while roughly $824,000 in vacation time was paid out over 2023 and 2024. The 1736 Family Crisis...

For the global warming alarmists that don't understand the climate will always evolve due to shifts in the density of our planets core (ref. Declination history), wait until they find out what the Chinese did (LMAO)! The declination speed has increased since the Chinese built the 3 Gorges Dam creating a 312 Trillion Lbs. localized weight density on the surface of the planet. Don't know why no scientific journals are addressing this. I don't think eliminating plastic straws is going to fix this. LMAO. I'm sick of Chinese exports! Just saying...

As Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass oversees the number of rebuilding permits awarded to transgender people and drag performers, other, less critical decisions are falling through the cracks. Rats. Los Angeles has a rat problem. Not a rat problem like all big cities. Los Angeles rats are of a particular variety. In addition to some of them being the size of cats and chewing on everything in sight, the rats are literally flea-bitten. And the fleas that chew on the rats carry the medieval disease typhus. It's just a hop, skip, and a jump from a rat for the typhus-bearing...

You've Gotten a Glimpse Into the Future of Mamdani's Commie Groceries. “Teenage grocery store shelf stockers have taken to carrying tasers in their pockets in case they have to defend themselves from customers at the Sun Fresh Linwood at 31st Street and Prospect Avenue in East Kansas City.” So reporte the Kansas City Star in September 2024. What makes the article interesting is that Star editors had championed the idea of a city-run grocery store. To their credit, they ate their crow in public, crow being about the only thing left to eat. Much has been made about the possibility—since...

The Government Accountability Office found Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency inflated the $110 billion it said it saved the federal government...The GAO report was requested in June last year by Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).

A federal appeals court has ruled that Maine may exclude Christian schools from public funding if they refuse to comply with the state’s gender- and sexuality-related nondiscrimination laws, Catholic World Report reports. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on July 2 denied an injunction sought by St. Dominic Academy in the Diocese of Portland, which had objected to requirements that it facilitate student “gender transitions” and compel staff to use opposite-sex pronouns. A similar suit by Bangor’s Crosspoint Church, which runs a K–12 Christian school, was partly combined into the ruling. The court held that “combatting sexual-orientation...

Born during the Roman Empire's consolidation, Titus Flavius Domitianus was the youngest son of Emperor Vespasian and brother to Titus. As The People Profiles explores, their career included notable military campaigns and a dramatic rise to power during the turbulent Year of the Four Emperors. Emperor Domitian - Rome's Tragic Tyrant Documentary | 55:45 The People Profiles | 1.66M subscribers | 185,137 views | April 10, 2024

I'm a cardiologist. For my entire career I've told patients arterial stiffness can only be slowed, never undone. I may have been wrong — and I'm glad. Something recent was framed as a skincare story. It isn't. For the first time, scientists erased a form of damage considered permanent since the 1980s — in a human artery. Sugar reacts with proteins the way heat browns bread, leaving CML (Nε-carboxymethyllysine), the most abundant advanced glycation end-product. It welds onto collagen and elastin in arteries, skin, and the eye lens. Arteries stiffen. CML binds RAGE (receptor for advanced glycation end-products), fueling chronic...

Beloved, This brief You Tube video by Greg is absolutely incredible! I had to share it! Be sure to check it out, share it, and follow Greg. O how the last days church needs to hear this! Rise up church of God in Spirit and Truth! Maranatha ☝️ Col. 1:18☝️

Tracing the rise of the Flavian dynasty, this documentary explores the political climate of a transforming Rome. It examines the military career of a future emperor during the tumultuous Jewish Revolt. Titus - The Good Emperor Documentary | 1:10:49 The People Profiles | 1.66M subscribers | 643,007 views | June 14, 2023

An online debate about the cost of food has erupted among GOP conservatives after Andrew Kolvet’s viral tweet regarding a college student’s complaint that “A burrito shouldn’t cost $20.” There was no shortage of feedback. Pundit Marc Thiessen encouraged students to economize like he did as a young person and to lean into prepaid cafeteria meals. This prompted an acidic reply from Vice President JD Vance, who posted on X, “If you’ve ever met (Thiessen) in person, it’s quite obvious the man has never missed a burrito.”

First of all, you should watch the entire episode of Fly Out Day with President Donald Trump. It was a very interesting 30-plus minutes. What Trump told us. Trump said GOP voters are “very angry” with congressional Republicans, and he declined to back Senate Majority Leader John Thune for another term as the top Senate Republican. Trump also said he thinks he could do business with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, an eye-opening remark for top House Republicans. During his appearance on Fly Out Day – one of our longest and newsiest episodes this season – Trump spoke expansively about...

Russia has attacked Ukraine with ballistic missiles and drones, killing at least 21 people, as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said interceptors "could have saved lives". Kyiv and the surrounding region experienced the deadliest strikes it had seen this year overnight, with 17 people reported dead. Attacks in Kharkiv and Donetsk also killed one and three people respectively. Ukraine, who has consistently urged allies for more US-made Patriot missile interceptors to defend against Russian ballistics, has not reported intercepting any of the missiles in the overnight attack. Zelensky added delays in receiving anti-ballistic systems from partners leads to "horrific casualties and...

James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian running for U.S. Senate from Texas, headlined an LGBTQ festival that featured "the absolute cutest & youngest of our drag performers," an 11-year-old boy "drag queen" who goes by the stage name Kween Kee Kee. Taylor PRIDE, a group in the town of Taylor, Texas, held the June 26, 2021, event to raise money to help "rural LGBTQ communities." The Pride Month festivities included a series of pro-LGBTQ speakers, live music, a "drag story hour," and adult drag performers such as Brianna Brinxx and the provocatively named Sedonya Face. Talarico and Kween Kee Kee, a...

Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) could quit his bid to stay in Congress “by the end of this week,” sources behind the scenes have predicted to Axios. The scandal-plagued Miller, 43, has been locked in a contentious, headline-making divorce rife with domestic abuse allegations from Emily Moreno, whose father is Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH). His backers insisted to Axios that Miller — who just plowed $1 million into his re-election bid — isn’t going anywhere precisely because he is innocent. “He’s really worried about what his daughter is going to think when she gets older,” one colleague told the outlet, while...

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have signed a joint defence agreement, saying an attack on one of them would be seen as an attack on all three. The pact was announced at a meeting between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the Saudi city of Mecca. The three countries have been looking to strengthen security ties as the war between the US and Iran has drawn in Saudi Arabia and disrupted maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial oil shipping channel, and the Red Sea. Saudi...

Tracing a journey from a minor equestrian family to the pinnacle of Roman power, this documentary explores the career of the future Emperor Vespasian. Follow the path through early military service in Britain and political challenges during the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Vespasian - The General Who Became Emperor Documentary | 1:06:04 The People Profiles | 1.66M subscribers | 275,077 views | April 21, 2023

Scientists from the Beijing Institute of Technology have revealed a colloidal quantum dot (CQD)-based infrared-to-visible upconverter that transforms the infrared spectrum into full color, allowing people to ‘see’ the infrared in the visible light spectrum. The research team behind the novel invention said their upconverter can be used in eyeglasses to improve human vision and for augmented reality (AR) applications. They also reported a successful implantation of an upconverter in mice, opening the possibility of an implantable photoreceptor to repair or improve vision in human eyes. Attempts to Convert Infrared to Full Color Face Limitations In a published study detailing...