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'Hate has consequences,' the radical trans 'collective' said A radical transgender group said the transgender Nashville shooter felt "no other effective way to be seen" than killing six people at a private Presbyterian school. The Trans Resistance Network (TRN), a far-left transgender "collective," released an inflammatory statement on Monday in the wake of the Covenant School shooting by transgender woman Audrey Hale in Nashville that killed three 9-year-olds and three adults.

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This “gran” scheme didn’t get very far… Two Florida women dressed up as “grannies” in an attempt to get vaccinated against COVID-19, health officials said Thursday. Their wacky getup included “the bonnets, the gloves, the glasses — the whole thing,” said Dr. Raul Pino, the director of the Florida Department of Health in Orange County.

The model of peaceful protest that's largely held since the civil rights era is being challenged, with roiling violence in American cities from Charlottesville, Va., to Portland, Ore. The Grannies, who use humor to defuse tense situations, are among those trying to calm the streets. PORTLAND, ORE.—Amid the hubbub of Portland’s waterfront “Saturday Market,” song suddenly erupts from what looks like a Mayberry sewing circle, their raised fists punctuating the chorus: “It is a time to care, not to kill....” The singers’ dresses and hats are mismatched, their song a tad out of tune, but they are, Portlanders say, ever...

Profanity warning. These pro-abortion grandmas cuss a bit in their little song. But you've just got to see this. Hilarious. This is what the pro-abortion movement is down to - Raging grannies. Didn't Newsweek report that it was the pro-life movement that was getting too old? I guess they didn't see this video.Watch Video

NEW YORK (AFP) – Grandmother may know best, but for a group of feisty grannies leading US protests against the war in Afghanistan, the problem is that no one's listening. The Granny Peace Brigade is not just the most colorful anti-war group in the United States today -- it's one of the only ones. "It's pretty pathetic," said Joan Pleune, 70, one of seven grandmothers aged 65 to 90 who went to court Tuesday in New York to face disorderly conduct charges. "We've done all these symbolic actions. We get arrested here and there, but it's symbolic," grey-haired Pleune said....

  Chatting grannies are 'noisy nuisance'   'Anti-social' ... pensioner sits on a bench      By ANDY CRICK Published: Today     PENSIONERS have been told the benches they sit at to have a cup of tea and a chat will be removed — because their behaviour is anti-social. The group of seven, one of them aged 96, have been accused of “noise nuisance” and disturbing nearby residents. Bosses of flats they gather outside say they have had complaints for two years and may take their benches away. But the group, who meet daily for a gossip, are...

Jurors convicted an 81-year-old woman of felony battery Wednesday for hitting a police officer with her cane. Betty Chambers showed no reaction when the guilty verdict was announced, but outside the courtroom she used a newspaper to hide her face from cameras. "I'm sick of seeing my picture on TV! I've done nothing wrong!" she said. The verdict came one day after a judge dropped a charge of resisting law enforcement against Chambers, who claimed she acted in self-defense. Chambers could face six months to three years in prison when she is sentenced May 15 in St. Joseph Superior Court....

Nine arrested in protest of Iraq decision By Joe Killian Staff Writer The nine people arrested Thursday. (Nelson Kepley/News & Record) Nelson Kepley/News & Record The nine people arrested Thursday. (buy photo) GREENSBORO — Nine protesters were arrested Thursday during a demonstration downtown against President Bush's decision to increase troop levels in Iraq. One was taken to the ground with a Taser. The rally began at around 4:30 p.m. with chanting, signs and music from a local drum corps. Drivers in cars honked their support as they passed through Elm and Market streets. The crowd swelled from a few dozen...

SANTA FE— Dolled up in colorful prairie skirts, straw sun hats and protest pins, the members of the Albuquerque Raging Grannies were belting out an unabashed set of protest tunes during Santa Fe's recent Peace Day. To the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall," the grannies engage their Santa Fe audience in an impassioned sing-along. It's protest activism at its catchiest. "Glory, glory hallelujah. Greedy men'll no longer rule ya'. Lying media won't fool ya' and the truth will make us free!" The seniors are members of the Raging Grannies, a...

19 September 2005 EXCLUSIVE: GRAN STARVES TO DEATH Ivy, 79, abandoned by family, friends and social services By Robert Stansfield A GRAN starved to death because her council home had no letterbox so her pension could not be delivered. Penniless Ivy Allen, 79, had barely drunk or eaten in the last three months of her life. None of her 10 children, 30 grandkids, social services or pensions officials noticed she was dying at her home in Warrington, Cheshire. Grandson Anthony Bradbury, 24, said: "I can't forgive myself." _______________ TRAGIC Ivy Allen's pension was sent back each week after the council...

Tucson's Raging Grannies have been holding regular protests Elderly members of a US anti-war group called the "raging grannies of Tucson" are due in court following a protest at an Arizona military recruitment centre. They have been accused of trespassing after entering the centre earlier this month, saying they wanted to enlist. The group, mostly women in their 60s and 70s, said they wanted to go to Iraq so their grandchildren could come home. An army spokeswoman says the protesters were not serious about enlisting and were harassing recruiters. Nine people - five elderly activists and four journalists - are...

'Raging Grannies' Want to Enlist in Army TUCSON, Ariz. — They call themselves the "Tucson Raging Grannies (search)" and range in age from 65 to 81. And despite being decades older than the maximum age for recruits, they're upset because they can't enlist in the Army. Five members of the group are fighting trespassing charges after they were cited at a protest here last week at the military recruitment center. The group has protested on Wednesdays for the last three years outside the recruitment center. But on July 13, five grannies went inside to try to enlist and were cited....

Working on the premise that if adults do it, teenagers won't, a group of grandmothers has started wearing hooded tops and baseball caps.Mari Savage has enlisted friends in the seaside town of Margate, Kent, to adopt the "gangsta granny" look as they queue for their pensions at the post office. With stores and shopping centres around the country banning the hooded tops and caps in an attempt to reduce anti-social behaviour and crime, Mrs Savage decided to take the matters a step further with a campaign to make the garments "uncool". "If we wear these things, they won't want...

Lookout Playboy. A unlikely group of Bay State women are giving the men's magazine a run for its money after posing nearly naked for a calendar to benefit their town. Meet Miss August. She's 93.