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Federal agents arrested a Portland mother who was playing the “Ghostbusters” theme song on her clarinet at a protest outside an ICE facility. Oriana Korol, 38, is a member of the Unpresidented Brass Band, which calls itself a “social action oriented, horn driven marching band,” and seeks to deescalate protest tensions. In a video of her arrest from Sunday, a federal agent can be seen violently dragging Korol to the ground, as two more agents come to his aid and her clarinet falls out of her hands. She has been in Clark County Jail in Vancouver, Washington, since, and is...

The legal defense to "save women's sports" scored a big win in its Supreme Court battle over transgender athletes this week. After an Idaho trans athlete tried to have the potential landmark SCOTUS case dropped, a federal judge struck down the attempt to dismiss it and ruled that the case should proceed. U.S. District Judge David Nye, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2017, rejected former Boise State trans athlete Lindsay Hecox's motion to dismiss the case. The trans athlete started the legal battle in 2020, but tried to have it dismissed in September after the Supreme Court agreed in...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) issued a Columbus Day statement alerting Americans that “we are all on stolen land” and accusing Republicans of attempting to “whitewash American history.” Instead of actually commemorating the federally-recognized Columbus Day — or saying nothing at all — the far-left “Squad” member took to social media to instead celebrate “Indigenous Peoples Day,” which is not a federal holiday. “Happy Indigenous People’s Day! We are all on stolen land,” Pressley wrote. “And while Republicans try to whitewash American history, we acknowledge our country’s role in inflicting trauma on our Indigenous neighbors.” “We’ll keep celebrating their contributions, centering...

Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., called Netflix "demonic" for targeting children with pro-transgender content, and he wants the streaming giant’s executives to explain their intentions on Capitol Hill. Burchett penned a letter to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky, last week expressing interest in calling Netflix executives to Capitol Hill after a viral clip of a children’s show called "Dead End: Paranormal Park" showed a character coming out as trans. The show aired in 2022 with only 20 episodes. "We need to get them for the committee and ask them what their intentions are with this and if, in fact,...

California will seal records of transgender adults who change their names and gender markers on official documents and limit data sharing with federal agencies after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a handful of bills shoring up protections for transgender and nonbinary people as the White House has targeted the community for attack.

Climate activists from "Futuro Vegetal" threw red paint on historic painting of Christopher Columbus at the Naval Museum of Madrid to stop global warming or something. The painting, by 19th-century artist José Garnelo, is titled "First Tribute To Christopher Columbus" and depicts the explorer landing in the Americas with a Christian cross. EuroNews reports the two liberal women were arrested. Police sources reported that both women were arrested for a crime against heritage after being detained by a museum worker until authorities arrived. Visitors were evicted during the intervention but hours later, the Navy announced on its social networks that...

A woman in a Transformers shirt stands outside Smith College, screaming at a group of middle-aged women holding a banner that reads, “Women are adult human females.” She flails, rages, and hurls profanity like holy water against demons, as though declaring reality itself were an act of hate. I don’t really want to put the video in here, as it is so full of foul language, so visit the link at your own risk. Source: Twitter – https://x.com/WDI_USA/status/1923776056349061189 There’s irony is that a “Transformer” is defending the delusion that you can transform what God has already defined. It’s almost poetic—sin...

CHICAGO - A WGN News creative services employee was accused of throwing an object at Border Patrol agents before being briefly detained on Friday. The incident occurred near Lincoln and Foster avenues in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on Chicago's North Side. Multiple videos of the incident were posted on social media. What we know: In the videos, the employee identifies herself as Debbie Brockman and mentions that she works for WGN. In a post on X, Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. Border Patrol, accused the WGN employee of "throwing an object at Border Patrol Agents conducting lawful duties." He...

Colorado’s law banning “conversion therapy” for children confounded the Supreme Court on Tuesday, with justices saying it seemed to shut down speech...Kaley Chiles, a licensed counselor, has challenged the law, saying it prevents her from bringing her Christian perspective to her work with families as their kids grapple with gender dysphoria or same-sex attraction.“Ms. Chiles is being silenced, and the kids and families that want her help are unable to access it,” said James Campbell, her lawyer.He said if Colorado prevails, counselors and therapists could turn into “mouthpieces of the government” and be muzzled on other issues such as abortion...

We need to talk about it openly Friends, I’d like to talk with you about a difficult subject. A significant number of you are disoriented by what Trump and his lapdogs are doing. Many are deeply anxious. Some of us are depressed. For years, medical experts have recommended that Americans be screened for “anxiety disorders.” But what many of us are feeling now is not a personal disorder. It’s a rational response to a nation that’s becoming ever more disordered. What we’re experiencing is not a sickness or individual distress. It’s a sensible reaction to a society becoming sicker and...

It appears that a disgraced, retired U.S. Army colonel who led a "pup play" fetish ring that included junior officers while on active duty has surfaced as a sponsor for incoming midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy. When we last encountered Colonel Brian T. Connelly, he was outed as the leader of a fetish group that you probably, and fortunately, did not know existed ...

The Supreme Court justice's wife and mother sat in the courtroom as Sophie Roske apologized to the family.WASHINGTON — A woman who pleaded guilty to attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh three years ago was sentenced Friday to more than eight years in prison.Sophie Roske, now 29, was arrested near Kavanaugh’s home in June 2022 and told officials at the time that she intended to kill the associate justice, then herself.She appeared in court on Friday for her sentencing in a yellow jail jumpsuit. Members of Kavanaugh’s family as well as Roske’s were at the sentencing.U.S. District Judge...

Traditional values. The crunchiest elements of my left-wing upbringing are back — except this time, on the right. The Make America Healthy Again movement, helmed by the science-avoidant Secretary for Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., purports to steer the country away from the ills of modern living toward a more natural way of being. I know this lifestyle well. Growing up in Boston’s then gentrifying Jamaica Plain in the 1990s, my family belonged to a community center where it was rumored that the Moosewood Cookbook brown glop served therein was occasionally spiked with the devil’s lettuce. Today’s...

The World Naked Bike Ride is planning an “emergency ride” in response to the National Guard’s deployment in Portland. The group posted on Instagram about an “Emergency World Naked Bike Ride” in the works. In the post, organizers say they’re getting ready to ride for another cause, responding to what they call the “militarization of our city.” The post says organizers are still working on the details, and it’s not clear exactly when the ride could take place. The World Naked Bike Ride typically happens every summer, where people bike in the buff to protest pollution from other forms of...

Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears quickly called on Jones to drop out of the race on Friday, linking him with his ‘running mate’ Spanberger.Virginia Democrat Attorney General candidate and former Del. Jay Jones fantasized in conversations with a former colleague about assassinating then-state House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican, and “wished” death upon Gilbert’s children, a new report revealed Friday.The news comes after Republican state House Del. Kim Taylor, who is running for reelection in Virginia, said she received a death threat last week after Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger told her supporters to “let your...

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