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Mike Pence spent most of his life and his political career selling America a very curated version of himself. Mike sold us this deeply Christian, socially conservative, old-school persona, a man who believed in traditional marriage, traditional views on sex, and two genders. Long after Pence was gone from Team Trump, he was still describing the trans movement as this “radical gender ideology. He openly opposed trans military service, he backed restrictions on gender-transition procedures for minors, and he insisted over and over that there are only two genders. This was Mike Pence’s persona, and nothing could shake it. Until...

Davis was responsible for launching artists like Whitney Houston, Barry Manilow and Alicia Keys to superstardom.Clive Davis, the legendary music executive who shepherded the careers of such stars as Whitney Houston, Barry Manilow and Alicia Keys, died on Monday (June 22) at his home in New York from age-related illness. He was 94. Davis rose to prominence while serving as president of Columbia Records from 1967 to 1973, before founding his own label, Arista, where he signed Manilow and stars including Aretha Franklin, Patti Smith and Dionne Warwick, among many others. In 2000, he founded J Records, which was responsible...

[Catholic Caucus] Letters from 22 women documenting Rupnik’s abuse add to allegationsOne former sister said the superior of the community had ‘forced’ the women to write letters to Fr. Marko Rupnik describing their relationship with him and what he had done to them as well as forgiving him.Previously undisclosed letters from 22 women alleging abuse by Father Marko Rupnik are part of the record of the ongoing canonical criminal trial of the disgraced priest.In the letters, “22 women described alleged spiritual, psychological and sexual abuse by Father Rupnik while he was their spiritual director,” OSV News reported Thursday. The letters...

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...

[Catholic Caucus] Lawyer for Rupnik’s alleged abuse victims decries ‘total secrecy’ of trialA lawyer representing five accusers of disgraced Fr. Marko Rupnik said that the women have ‘not been summoned’ and don’t even know the names of the judges in the trial.A lawyer representing five of the women who have accused Father Marko Ivan Rupnik of physical and psychological abuse has decried the proceedings of his trial for neglecting the “minimum” needed for “justice.”Reports emerged earlier this month from MessainLatino and AdVaticanum that Rupnik was acquitted in his Vatican canonical criminal trial of all charges of “violence” related to his...

Alleged abuser priest and Pope Francis favorite Fr. Rupnik cleared by Vatican court: ReportsA five-judge panel reportedly cleared disgraced Fr. Marko Rupnik of all charges of ‘violence’ related to alleged sexual abuse.Disgraced former Jesuit Fr. Marko Ivan RupnikFather Marko Ivan Rupnik has apparently been acquitted in his Vatican canonical criminal trial of all charges of “violence” related to his alleged sexual abuse, per reports from two Italian news outlets. While the ruling remains unconfirmed by the Vatican, MessainLatino and AdVaticanum reported on July 20 that a five-judge panel has acquitted disgraced former Jesuit cleric and favorite of Pope Francis of...

Massie apparently told West at the time that he had sex with Lauren Boebert shortly after his wife passed away. After Boebert had reportedly spent the weekend campaigning for Thomas Massie. [cut] Massie bragged about his sexual relations with Boebert while Ms. West was dating Massie and that Massie's district director, Christopher McCane, would allegedly 'manage' the women Massie dated... According to Cynthia West, Thomas Massie used a burner phone to communicate with the woman he had dated after the death of his wife. As per West, Massie even named the phone a 'boner phone." West further claimed that he...

Michael continues to soar at the box office. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, the music biopic charts the meteoric rise of pop star Michael Jackson, with Jaafar Jackson taking on the titular role. Michael has been a big hit at the box office since its release on April 24, bringing in an opening weekend of $97.2 million domestically and over $217 million worldwide. Per Deadline, Michael passed $600 million worldwide at the box office this past Tuesday, with a global total now standing at over $604 million. This total comprises $353.8 million internationally and $250 million from North America. The film...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A United States Secret Service employee has been arrested in Florida for allegedly exposing himself.John Andrew Spillman, 33, was taken into custody Monday morning and booked into the Miami-Dade jail on a charge of indecent exposure.According to WSVN, in a statement, the Chief of the Secret Service emphasized that Spillman's actions are "unacceptable" and go against the professionalism and integrity expected from their personnel.

Pervy ex-congressman Eric Swalwell sent nude photos and videos of himself masturbating through Snapchat — all while he was married — as lurid details of his alleged creepy conduct continue to spill out. Swalwell, who was once crowned the “Snapchat King of Congress,” regularly slid into women’s DMs and shared unsolicited nudes with several — exchanges that initially seemed innocent but quickly veered into explicit territory. Swalwell’s attempted sexual conquests even included a 19-year-old waitress in Los Angeles who was “stunned” to receive a LinkedIn message from the powerful Democratic lawmakers, according to CNN. Another young congressional staffer said Swalwell...

Reduxx has learned that a trans-identified male and “radical queer activist” residing in Seattle, Washington, has been publicly advocating for pedophilic relationships with children while also organizing “in-person events for anyone under the queer rainbow.” ...

The Gateway Pundit reported that Mark Holodnak, a local Realtor and the Legislative District 12 Democratic Party Treasurer in Arizona, came under fire after he was seen chasing young women and screaming obscenities after they took a photo with ICE agents in Arizona. Holodnak was caught on camera with a group of leftists harassing the girls after they reportedly took a photo with agents at Zipps Sports Grill, a popular Valley restaurant chain, that has come under investigation for federal law violations likely related to immigration. Fifteen locations have been shut down since Monday, and anti-ICE protesters have shown up...

BREAKING: A US Appeals Court just found probable cause to CHARGE Don Lemon for the Minnesota church storming. Even though the court is dragging its feet on forcing the warrant signature, Assistant AG Dhillon says: "Stay tuned." The evidence is all there. LOCK HIM UP! 🇺🇸

Demand for sex workers in Davos skyrocketed during this year’s World Economic Forum — including one client who allegedly shelled out a whopping $114,000 for four days with five women. The apparent work hard, party harder attitude of the global elite was apparent in the voracious appetite for escorts in the Swiss town, where global leaders, big tech CEOs and moneyed magnates sent requests for sex workers surging, according to the Swiss dating and erotic services platform Titt4Tat. Requests for erotic services soared to 79 — or a staggering 4,000% — on Jan. 19, the opening day of the World...

Prosecutors announced they will be seeking the death penalty for a Pennsylvania man accused of raping and killing his 2-year-old son in August. The McKean County District Attorney’s Office announced the filing on Monday against 33-year-old Tyler Prescott of Bradford, citing four reasons that support the commonwealth’s first execution this century. That sentence, however, would hinge on Prescott being convicted of first-degree murder, which is the only crime that can be punished by death according to PA law, but also comes with an alternative sentence of life in prison. McKean County DA Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer said the Commonwealth will list the...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Fernández’s Vatican post has caused unnecessary scandal and disunityThe theological eruption caused by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández in early November was entirely predictable and serves to highlight the current sorry state of the office he leads.It has long appeared to be a practice in Rome that a cleric does not necessarily need to have a natural ability for the role he is brought to the Vatican for. The case of disgraced Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta is a high-profile example. When Zanchetta resigned his see in 2017 in disgrace over the revelations of homosexual predation on seminarians, Pope Francis...

[Catholic Caucus] Rediscovered book by Cardinal Fernández features graphic erotic passages on ‘spirituality and sensuality’A 1998 book by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández featuring provocative, sexually-charged themes has resurfaced, likely adding further scrutiny to the already embattled prefect of the Vatican’s doctrine office.Titled “Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality,” the 26-year-old work includes graphic descriptions of human sexual relations and discussion of what the Argentinian theologian describes as “mystical orgasm.”The nearly 100-page-long book also depicts in detail an imaginary erotic encounter with Jesus Christ on the shores of Galilee, which Fernández said was based on a spiritual experience disclosed to him by...

A lesbian substitute teacher was fired on her first day over a TikTok she filmed where she appeared to leer at a young schoolgirl. Miata Borders, 24, was axed from her position as a sub teacher at Lake Cormorant High School in Mississippi, after sharing a TikToks of her work day on October 17. In the offending video Borders - sporting an enormous diamond crucifix necklace - filmed a group of children practicing for the school band while walking down a corridor. As the camera lingered on one girl wearing red Crocs while holding pom poms, Borders said: 'Yeah they...

Spencer Tracy was in relationships with Anna Kashfi (1956), Gene Tierney (1952), Hedy Lamarr (1941 - 1942), Ingrid Bergman (1941), Paulette Goddard (1940), Katharine Hepburn (1940 - 1967), Judy Garland (1939), Joan Crawford (1938), Myrna Loy (1935 - 1936), Loretta Young (1933 - 1934), Pat Paterson (1933), Claire Luce (1930), Joan Bennett (1930), Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland.

The elderly man who lied about shooting Charlie Kirk just moments after the conservative activist's assassination was caught with child pornography on his phone, authorities said. George Zinn, a 71-year-old Utah resident, was initially suspected of being the shooter after he was caught on video being taken into custody moments after Kirk, 31, was shot in the neck at an event at Utah Valley University last week. He was soon cleared of being the suspected shooter and confessed to causing a distraction to keep law enforcement away from the shooter, now alleged to be 22-year-old Tyler Robinson. Following his arrest,...