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It’s that time of year that some people forget about, until it happens: A young girl wearing a badge or tie appears at your door or in the grocery store sporting a cheerful smile and offering the treat you suddenly crave: Girl Scout Cookies. Yes, it is indeed Girl Scout Cookie season, but this year will look different as many scouts will be selling cookies online rather than knocking door-to-door. “Given the community unrest and the instability in our communities, many of our Girl Scouts are choosing not to sell cookies in person,” Girl Scouts River Valley chief experience officer...

The leader of a Girls Scout troop in New Jersey says she was removed from her position due to her social media posts that questioned the organization’s perceived shift towards LGBTQIA+ activism and its introduction of gender sexuality alliance clubs to scouts. Alexandra Bougher, who is also the Bergen County chapter chair of Moms for Liberty, said she was fired in a phone call Wednesday with two members of the council of the Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey. Moms for Liberty is a right-wing parents rights group that advocates against school curricula mentioning LGBTQ rights, race, and ethnicity. Bougher...

Pro-life activist and mother of a young daughter, Bevelyn Beatty Williams, announced on Tuesday that her stay of appeal request has been denied by the judge who sentenced her on charges of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act), and that she is to report to federal prison in Alabama on Thursday. She will be in prison for at least a month as her attorney appeals the decision. “I wanted to give you all an important update,” she wrote. “My legal team worked tirelessly to submit a stay of appeal so I could be home on...

A Texas Girl Scout troop was robbed while selling cookies in front of a Walmart earlier this month. Fort Worth police are searching for the suspect who swiped the bag containing the girls' earnings from February 11. Around 2 p.m., near the entrance of Walmart located at 9500 Clifford St., the suspect wearing a grey hoodie walked past the cookie stand, grabbed the bag containing approximately $450 and ran. Police are now asking for help finding the thief who they describe as a black man, 18-24 years old, wearing a grey hoodie and black beanie. 'We are talking about a...

Girl Scout cookie season is back — and so are the diet-obsessed moms who can’t help but make negative and potentially damaging comments, turning what’s supposed to be a deliciously fun learning experience for the girls into a festival of food shaming, one expert warns. Don’t be one of those people — toxic comments about food and diet could hurt your kid, said Oona Hanson, a parent coach and eating disorder specialist. Launched from humble beginningin 1917 as a way for troops to finance their activities, Girl Scout cookie season has increasingly come under fire for promoting unhealthy eating and...

Americans will be tossing their cookies once they learn about a nefarious plan by the Girl Scouts to indoctrinate troops with radical Marxist ideas about race.Patti Garibay, the founder of American Heritage Girls, exposed the plans during an interview on the Todd Starnes Show on Newsmax.She said the Girl Scouts are introducing a four-part, racial equity training series that will include lessons on internalized racism and white supremacy culture.

The Girl Scouts of the USA has announced a new direction that will see the organization push radical Marxist training programs for children. The Girl Scouts is set to offer a four-part Marxism-based “racial equity” training series to volunteers and parents. Part of the training will focus on “internalized racism” and “white supremacy culture.” The 111-year-old organization was originally created to serve America’s young women. However, the Girl Scouts now appears to have adopted far-left Critical Race Theory (CRT). CRT is the divisive Marxism-rooted ideology that has taken root in America’s schools and corporations. The four-part series is set to...

The Girl Scouts are discontinuing a popular cookie just a year after its debut sparked a frenzy. Raspberry Rally won’t be sold this upcoming cookie-sales season, which runs January to April 2024, Girl Scouts of the USA has announced. The Rallies was introduced last year as a “sister” cookie to the iconic Thin Mints, a crisp mint-flavored cookie encased in chocolate, but in the Raspberry Rally, the cookie was replaced with a bright pink berry-flavored one. It was dipped in the same chocolate coating as its sibling. The Rallies were the Girl Scouts’ first-ever cookie to be exclusively sold online,...

Girl Scouts now have a LGBT badge for girls to earn. From Daisy scouts to Senior Girl Scouts.

For decades, Girl Scouts has used cookie sales to raise funds and teach scouts about entrepreneurship. This year, thanks to the Raspberry Rally cookie, members got a painful lesson in what can happen when high demand meets limited supply. The much-hyped Rally, a raspberry-flavored spin on the Thin Mint, was always supposed to be a limited-edition cookie. But interest in it seemed to have taken Girl Scouts leadership by surprise — perhaps because of a new online-only ordering system. As demand surged, with some cookies even ending up on eBay, in some cases listed for about $40 per box, supply...

It’s cookie season again, so here are two major reasons why the organization deserves to be snubbed, not patronized. It’s springtime, and that means budding flora, fresh morning air, and those cute little girls in their Brownie vests selling my favorite cookie of all time, the Thin Mint. (It’s rather obscene how many of those discs I’ve consumed over the years.) But, for the third year in a row, I’ll be politely declining the sales pitches and instead, handing the chaperone a homemade flyer with big bold letters across the top that read: “Did You Know? The abortion industry is...

"Taking this step means we are creating more inclusive spaces where racialized girls in Canada can feel welcome and proud to belong in Girl Guides. With this change, we hope even more girls will see Guiding as a space where they can just be themselves..."

The Girl Scouts of America can't bring themselves to recognize the accomplishments of one very successful woman, SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Apparently, only Democrat, pro-choice, and/or non Trump-appointed judges are GSA material these days. In an ironic twist, the Girl Scouts have pulled a Twitter post congratulating Amy Coney Barrett on her Supreme Court Confirmation which occurred on October 26. Even though Barrett is a woman who has reached the summit of the legal field, all while raising a family of seven kids, her political affiliation seemed to cancel her tremendous successes in the eyes of the nation’s seminal...

Megyn Kelly has pulled her kids from their woke private school. As reported by the New York Post, the host said she yanked her two young boys from their Upper West Side private school. The reason: Allegedly, a letter there recently made its rounds charging white people with “reveling in state-sanctioned depravity.” Furthermore, purportedly, it compared white children to “killer cops.” Per the Post, Megyn’s a member of the school’s “diversity group” in which the letter was circulated. On new podcast The Megyn Kelly Show, she indicated a previously permissive attitude toward the school’s Leftward lean: “After years of resisting...

Megyn Kelly slammed the Girl Scouts of America for succumbing to pressure and deleting a tweet celebrating the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The organization, which presumably seeks to empower girls and celebrate the achievements of powerful women they can aspire to be, caved to critics and lawmakers. The original post was captioned: “Congratulations Amy Coney Barrett on becoming the 5th woman appointed to the Supreme Court since its inception in 1789.” The tweet showed each of the five women. Certainly a cause worthy of celebration, no doubt.

The Girl Scouts of America on Wednesday congratulated Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on her appointment, but deleted the social media posts after sweeping criticism. The Scouts’ Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts featured an image of Barrett and the first four women justices to serve on the nation’s highest court. That includes Sandra Day O’Connor, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose death last month paved the way for President Donald Trump to nominate Barrett. “Congratulations Amy Coney Barrett on becoming the 5th woman appointed to the Supreme Court since its inception in 1789,” the group tweeted...

The Girl Scouts of America deleted a tweet Wednesday congratulating newly sworn-in Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett after the post triggered apparent backlash on social media. The post read, “Congratulations Amy Coney Barrett on becoming the 5th woman appointed to the Supreme Court since its inception in 1789.” It featured a photo of other female justices, including the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose seat Barrett filled, and Sonia Sotomayor. After deleting the post, Girl Scouts tweeted, “Earlier today, we shared a post highlighting the five women who have been appointed to the Supreme Court. It was quickly viewed as...

What are the alternatives to the Girl Scouts? Which programs offer your daughter the same experience of joining a troop, earning merit badges, growing as a leader, and performing community service as scouts outside of Girl Scouts? Conversely, which programs give your daughter a place to socialize with her peers or further her faith outside of Sunday School? This article provides a synopsis of several Girl Scout alternatives, listed in alphabetical order, as well as information on each.

What are the alternatives to the Girl Scouts? Which programs offer your daughter the same experience of joining a troop, earning merit badges, growing as a leader, and performing community service as scouts outside of Girl Scouts? Conversely, which programs give your daughter a place to socialize with her peers or further her faith outside of Sunday School? This article provides a synopsis of several Girl Scout alternatives, listed in alphabetical order, as well as information on each.

The coronavirus pandemic has drastically upended life across America, included a time-honored spring tradition — Girl Scout cookie season.