Keyword: tampon
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Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate 'Coach' Tim Walz was criticized for his display of unbridled enthusiasm during their latest rally in Las Vegas. The duo had held their fifth rally in five days in the swing state late Saturday night in hopes to win over undecided voters - and Walz was pumped! In a video circulating on X, the Minnesota Governor can be seen joyously clapping as the crowd goes wild and he walks around onstage from the podium. As the music blasts through the speakers, Walz overflows with exuberance in the short clip. He happily waves to the...
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A new report from NPR shows that Democrats have actually started to embrace the “Tampon Tim” nickname for Kamala Harris running mate Tim Walz despite its discomforting connotations. After Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Tim Walz (D) as her running mate in the 2024 election, Republicans immediately seized upon legislation he signed into law in his state that called for tampons to be placed in both girl and boy bathrooms in schools. Since boys do not menstruate, Republicans coined the nickname. As Breitbart News reported:
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"Like all regular people I grew up with in the heartland, JD studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and then wrote a best seller trashing that community," Walz said. "Come on —that's not what Middle America is!"
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A menstrual product dispenser was recently torn off the wall of a boys’ bathroom at Brookfield High School in Connecticut. In a statement, the Brookfield superintendent relayed the news but reiterated that the school would keep following the law, which states that such dispensers must be placed in certain areas, NBC Connecticut reported Thursday. The outlet said, “It’s all part of a new state law that goes into effect this fall. Local and regional boards of education shall provide free menstrual products in women’s restrooms, all-gender restrooms and in at least one men’s restroom for 3rd to 12th grade students.”...
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BEAVER, Pennsylvania -- If you were looking to purchase tampons here at the Beaver Super Market along Third Street, the city's Main Street business district, the manager says there has been a shortage for a while. When he does get them in, they are gone by midday. He is not alone. A visit to several larger chain grocery and pharmaceutical stores throughout Western Pennsylvania found almost all of them down to just a handful of boxes of tampons. Smaller local grocery stores often had none. It was slim pickings, even for the generic store brands. Instacart, the grocery delivery service,...
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a package of bills into law to try to make feminine hygiene products more accessible in Illinois, but some lawmakers have raised concerns about the cost and effectiveness of the measures. One measure, House Bill 641, requires all public universities and community colleges to provide free feminine hygiene products in campus bathrooms. “Approximately half our population experiences menstruation throughout a significant portion of their lifetimes,” said the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville. “This is a normal function of our biology and needs to be seen and treated as such.
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Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall were given the red carpet treatment in Communist Cuba on Monday night at a historic meeting with the President of the socialist state. Charles and Camilla have this week become the first British royals to visit post- revolutionary Cuba since 1959. On Monday night, Anthony Stokes, Britain’s ambassador to Cuba, justified the trip in the face of criticism: “We and the European Union have a very strong policy of engaging with the Cuban government, and we believe that is the right way - not only to talk about the more difficult issues, but...
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Well, well, well, it appears the hostless Oscars came to play. The 2019 ceremony just delivered what could be an Academy Awards first: An acceptance speech dedicated to none other than menstrual periods! Period. End of Sentence. just won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short. “I’m not crying because I’m on my period, or anything,” said director Rayka Zehtabchi. “I can’t believe a film about menstruation just won an Oscar,” she continued. Zehtabchi (who is 25!!) shared the stage with producer Melissa Berton and the rest of the Period team. Period tells the story of women in rural India fighting...
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I was just informed by an employee of the hotel that women protesters at the Trump International Hotel in NYC / Columbus Cirlce, took out their tampons and tied the to the brass railings in front of the hotel. The overnight staff had to remove them. Classless, disgusting, and just what you would expect from the Democrats.
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Tampons are now a genderless necessity, according to Brown University, who have announced that they will be providing tampons for both men’s and women’s bathrooms across the university this academic year. The tampons will be delivered to bathrooms by the university’s student president, Viet Nguyen, as well as 20 volunteers, with Nguyen claiming the initiative is a means of educating students that men menstruate as well as women. In an email to the student body, Nguyen said, “There’s been a lot of conversation about why pads and tampons are a necessity, not a luxury, but not a lot of action....
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Journalist Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC has made no fans in the pro-life movement, but her network has had enough of her, too. The Daily Caller reports that Harris-Perry grew very angry about her show being pre-empted by election coverage, resulting in her lashing out. She announced that her lack of airtime made her feel “worthless,” and led her to start boycotting her own show. This did not earn her much sympathy from the network. Reconciliation between Harris-Perry and the network is now impossible, and they are only discussing severance, according to the report. In regard to her treatment by MSNBC...
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A Christian group is calling on Prince Charles to take the title 'Defender of the Faith' when he is crowned king. The Evangelical Alliance, which represents Christians across the UK, will make the submission in its Faith and Nation report due to be launched tomorrow. The Prince has previously said he would like to be sworn as the 'Defender of Faith', taking into account the numerous religious groups represented in Great Britain. Charles will become Supreme Governor of the Church of England when he is crowned king. But the Evangelical Alliance, which represents over one million evangelical Christians in the...
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(From a mom): He told me how wonderful the care packages were and wanted me to tell everyone thank you. He said that one guy we’ll call “Marine X” did get a girl care package and everyone was giving him a hard time. My son said, "Marine X got some really nice smelling lotion and everyone really likes it, so everytime he goes to sleep they steal it from him." I told my son I was really sorry about the mistake, and if he wanted I would send Marine X another package. He told me not to worry about Marine...
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An NDP MP re-introduced a private members bill Monday that would save women hundreds of dollars in a lifetime on feminine hygiene products. Winnipeg MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis first introduced the bill last February, but it did not make it into law. In the House of Commons Monday, she said that charging GST on products used exclusively by women is "unfair and discriminatory. It targets women financially, solely because of our reproductive role. "It would be of particular value to lower-income women. I urge all members to support this initiative," Ms. Wasylycia-Leis said. The federal GST is charged on all feminine...
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