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Issues of equality and acceptance of transgender and nonbinary people — along with challenges to their rights — have become a major topic in the headlines. These issues can involve words and ideas and identities that are new to some. That's why we've put together a glossary of terms relating to gender identity. Our goal is to help people communicate accurately and respectfully with one another.

“Sometimes with my roommates home, I'll, like, turn the water on because I'm like, I don't want them to think I'm, like, disgusting.”“Did you wash your hands when you were little?” asked Alex Bennett, cohost of Mean Girl, a Barstool Sports podcast about sex, relationships, and adulthood, during an episode released last week. “I’m sure I did because I was forced … but then I made the conscious decision to stop washing my hands I think when I was in college,” replied Jordyn Woodruff, cohost of the podcast. In fact, she said that between the hours of 10 a.m. and...

That wheel woke up and chose violence. Even came back to hit em one more time. Seriously tho, what are the chances? Just unbelievable. I'll never feel safe driving down the highway again.

A Pennsylvania lawmaker on Tuesday issued what free speech advocates are calling a veiled threat to withhold funding from the University of Pittsburgh over the school's decision to allow several conservative speakers on campus. During an appropriations hearing on university funding, Pennsylvania state representative La'Tasha Mayes (D.) demanded that Pitt disinvite Cabot Phillips, Riley Gaines, and Michael Knowles from upcoming campus events. All three speakers have a history of "targeting transgender students," Mayes claimed—especially Knowles, whom she accused of saying that "transgender people should be eradicated."

It was worse than a catfight. A New Jersey woman’s fight against eviction ended in a deadly blaze Wednesday when she intentionally started a fire in the home she shared with dozens of cats and refused to vacate. The woman and dozens of cats died in the massive fire, which broke out shortly after 11 a.m. in Roosevelt, authorities said. State police had served the unidentified woman an eviction notice but she refused to leave and threatened to blow up the house.

VIDEOIn an extreme case of the pot calling the kettle black, Hillary Clinton claimed that Vladimir Putin has "mental problems."

Years ago I explained that the New York Times, a propaganda outlet of the left, would soon begin arguing that conservatives belong in gulags. People called me hyperbolic. They rarely do anymore, as HR departments and DEI centers act as re-education camps. Creating hatred in this manner is, according to experts who study mass atrocities, pre-genocidal.

cant say ive ever seen a SOTU rebuttal do such damage...they are BOILING!!!!!///she hit the target..

The College of Medicine at Texas A&M University removed prominently placed photos of white male alumni to show its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, it stated in a recent survey. The institution completed the survey for the Association of American Medical Colleges last year, which the organization used for its Diversity, Inclusion, Culture and Equity Inventory, according to the Washington Examiner, which reviewed the documents and reported on them Monday.

VIDEOCanada now seems to be going the way of the old Soviet Union by declaring that anybody who questions the government and its policies is probably mentally unbalanced and is need of psychiatric care. We see this currently happening with Jordan Peterson whose opinions have been declared to be dangerous and is in need of re-education. However, as you can see this declaration of needing a mind adjustment by liberals also applies to other areas as well. In this video we can clearly see who the truly CRAZY people in Canada really are. Apparently it is now the lunatics who...

The Chinese government propaganda newspaper Global Times on Thursday compared the ongoing procedure to select a speaker of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, accusing the “electoralization” of choosing party leadership of causing chaos. The lower chamber of Congress has spent the week without a leader; Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), presumed to be the next speaker after Republicans secured control of the House via November’s midterm elections, lost six consecutive votes as a result of a group of about 20 Republicans refusing to support him. The House is expected to reconvene...

A gruesome fight at the last stop of a light rail train in Oregon left a 78-year-old man seriously injured, with his ear chewed off and his skull exposed. The fight happened just before 2:30 a.m. Tuesday and ended with the arrest of a 25-year-old man who recently moved to Portland from Georgia... When law enforcement arrived, the suspect, later identified through fingerprints as Koryn Kraemer, was still on top of the man and still attacking, officials said. Detectives determined the man had not been stabbed but did have his ear chewed off “and part of his face.” Emergency responders...

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Can we talk about wokeness? If she were alive today, woke culture would make Joan Rivers “crazy,” her daughter Melissa says. “If we would be looking at the news together, I know she would turn to me … and say, ‘Can you believe this s–t?'” Rivers, 54, host of the podcast “Group Text,” told The Post. “We’ve become absolutely ridiculous as a society,” she said. “If everybody took all this collective angst and energy and put it towards a good cause, it would make such a huge difference.” The late comic was woke in her own right —making sure her...

A 22-year-old woman in Florida is accused of intentionally using her car over the weekend to hit into another vehicle that she knew was occupied by young children before pinning a man to a fence and fleeing the scene. Sasha Keeshawn Lemons was taken into custody on Saturday and charged with five counts of aggravated battery on a person using a deadly weapon as well as one count each of child neglect and leaving the scene of a hit-and-run, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show. According to arrest reports from the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office and the Sanford Police Department,...

Exhausted and overwhelmed, Gretchen Miller felt the frustration of the past three years rise up within her. On a whim the 54-year-old from Sydney posted a message to her local community Facebook group. “Does anyone else feel like screaming?” she asked. The responses poured in. “I want to scream because of climate change and economic inequality,” one woman wrote. “Because of real estate agents and landlords,” said another. “My fiancé decided he didn’t love me anymore,” read one reply. Miller said she received more than 100 messages in the first hour. From that callout, the Shout Sisters group was formed....

Following years of increasingly controversial scandals, Kanye West finally appears to be facing the consequences of his actions to a level like never before as Adidas officially cut ties on their $1.5 billion partnership with the rapper - ending a lengthy list of big name brands to have severed all links to the scandal-ridden rapper. After shocking the world with a series of outbursts on social media in which he made anti-Semitic comments as well as derisive remarks against other celebrities, the 45-year-old musician - who first revealed his bipolar disorder diagnosis in 2018 - has also seen his lucrative...

Reporter Elad Aliahu asks question John Fetterman chasing an unarmed black man with a shotgun, leading to a Fetterman supporter losing his mind "Another Unhinged braindead communist Democrat who can't even have a normal conversation or debate."

Outgoing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that for people to think he is political is “completely crazy.” Anchor Jon Karl said, “Fauci became the subject of bizarre conspiracy theories and received countless death threats as he was vilified by the right. So what’s the biggest misconception about you?” Fauci said, “You know, I don’t know, Jon. I think the misconception is I was misleading people. You know, to say that I, who have been adviser to seven presidents and have never ever veered one way or the other...

Barbra Streisand is using her voice to aid Ukraine in its war against Russia, saying she shares a strong connection with the country through her familial roots. The “People” singer connected with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday in a Zoom call to offer her support, according to the Ukrainian government’s fundraising platform, UNITED24. The 80-year-old Academy Award winner’s paternal grandparents emigrated to the United States from Ukraine. Given her family’s “Ukrainian roots,” Streisand said she felt “especially moved” by the country’s fight against Russia’s invasion, which began in February. “The capability and courage of the Ukrainian people is an...