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USA Today bows to the woke mob: Deletes the word 'male' from op-ed about trans athletes... and apologizes for using 'hurtful language


RT
Thu, 27 May 2021 17:02 UTC
Mack Beggs transgender wrestler
© Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP
Friday, Feb. 16, 2018 , Euless Trinity's Mack Beggs, top, wrestles Lewisville's Elyse Nelson in the second round of the 110-pound girls division during the 6A Region II wrestling meet at Allen High School in Allen, Texas, Beggs, a senior from Euless Trinity High School near Dallas is transgender and in the process of transitioning from female to male.
USA Today has been accused of capitulating to the woke mob after it edited out the word 'male' from an op-ed arguing against allowing transgender people to compete in women's sports, reportedly without the author's consent.

The outlet published a piece last week penned by Chelsea Mitchell, one of four female high-school athletes who filed an unsuccessful lawsuit last year challenging Connecticut's decision to allow biological males to compete in girls' athletics.

The champion runner wrote that she was deprived of multiple titles and awards because she had been forced to compete against athletes with "an enormous physical advantage: a male body."

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Too late for these female athletes, but it appears that commons sense is beginning to reassert itself, at least at the state level. Not so much internationally.

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14 killed in Guinea-Bissau road accident


Al Jazeera
Mon, 24 May 2021 15:45 UTC
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Speeding transport truck lost control and crashed into homes, killing 13 villagers and the driver.

Fourteen people have died in southern Guinea-Bissau after a cargo truck crashed into village homes, according to police.

The driver was speeding around a bend when he lost control and careered into the small village of Cambesse, 180km (120 miles) south of the capital Bissau.

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More than 150 people are feared dead after a boat capsized in Nigeria

Azmi Haroun
Yahoo! News
Wed, 26 May 2021 13:16 UTC
The Niger River in Nigeria.
© Ute Grabowsky / Getty Images
The Niger River in Nigeria.
A boat carrying close to 200 people capsized in Kebbi, northern Nigeria, on Wednesday, killing many people on board.

The boat was en route from neighboring Niger, along the Niger River, according to Reuters.

"Their locally made wooden boat capsized mid-water," a spokesman for Kebbi's governor told Reuters. "Bodies are still being recovered. We can't ascertain the number for now."

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Firefighting helicopter crashes in Florida — all four aboard feared dead

Kenneth Garger
New York Post
Tue, 25 May 2021 13:10 UTC
The scene of the helicopter crash that kill four during a training exercise.

The scene of the helicopter crash that kill four during a training exercise.
A firefighting helicopter crashed during a training exercise in Florida on Tuesday — and all four people aboard are feared dead, authorities said.

The chopper went down in a marsh near Leesburg International Airport in Lake County at about 4 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Rescue crews confirmed one death and have so far not been able to locate any survivors.

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Conservative Black intellectuals battle 1619 Project, 'race-grievance onslaught'

Valerie Richardson
The Washington Times
Thu, 27 May 2021 10:31 UTC
robert l woodson sr
© BARBARA L. SALISBURY
"Young people that may have eyes and ears closed to advice have hearts open to example," said Robert L. Woodson, Sr., president of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise. His center created the Violence-Free Zone Initiative, a mentoring program that has been shown to reduce violence in schools and achieve peace in the community.
The backlash against what Robert L. Woodson calls the "race-grievance industry" is surging, and leading the revolt are right-tilting Black intellectuals like himself.

On the heels of 1776 Unites, the Woodson Center's response to the 1619 Project, Mr. Woodson has a surprise bestseller on his hands with "Red, White and Black: Rescuing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers," a collection of essays by prominent Black thought leaders and scholars.

Published by Emancipation Books, the book hit No. 1 on Amazon in categories including Social Sciences, African American Studies, and New Releases shortly after its May 18 debut, thanks to what Mr. Woodson called a yearning for "a counter-narrative that celebrates America's founding.

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Mexican election candidate SHOT DEAD shortly after going LIVE on Facebook to ask locals to join her at rally


RT
Wed, 26 May 2021 11:38 UTC
Alma Barragan
© (L) Facebook / Alma Barragan; (R) Getty Images / Caspar Benson
'Neighbors of La Manguita, El Ombligo and Pico de Pájaro! We are on Pedro Guzmán street with Circuito Moroleón, here I am waiting for you to talk to you about my proposals and to spend some time with you.'
A local elections candidate in Mexico has been gunned down in the middle of a campaign event and just after going live on Facebook, becoming the latest victim in a string of murders of politicians ahead of the June vote.

Electoral candidate Alma Barragán was shot to death on Tuesday afternoon in the Mexican town of Moroleón in the central state of Guanajuato as she was taking part in a campaign event. According to local media, a group of armed men arrived at the spot where Barragán was holding a rally and opened fire. Two others have been reported injured.

Shortly before the attack Barragán had gone live on her Facebook page telling the audience where she was and inviting local residents to join her: "Hello, how are you? I am here in La Manguita with Pedro Guzmán. If you want to accompany me, come and listen to my proposals and socialize. Thank you very much, I am waiting for you here."

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Five arrested after shooting of Sasha Johnson in Peckham


The Guardian
Wed, 26 May 2021 14:04 UTC
sasha johnson
© PA Video/PA
The activist Sasha Johnson was shot in south London on Sunday.
Four men and a 17-year-old boy in custody on suspicion of attempted murder.

Five people have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in relation to the shooting of the activist Sasha Johnson in Peckham, south London, on Sunday.

The Met police said officers based in Southwark and Lambeth stopped a 17-year-old on Tuesday and arrested him on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon and possession with intent to supply class A drugs.

Comment: While many on the left are stating that Johnson was targeted for her activism, as more evidence continues to emerge it looks more and more like she was the victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time; collateral damage in a crime that may have been completely incidental to her. It's a tragedy, and rather unfortunate that some of questionable morality are trying to capitalize on it.

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Jeffrey Epstein's alleged co-conspirators are set to turn against Ghislaine Maxwell and testify in her trial later this year

Daniel Bates
Daily Mail
Thu, 27 May 2021 01:58 UTC
Sarah Kellen Ghislaine Maxwell

Sarah Kellen, 40, who is accused of having a rolodex of women she would call up for massages at Epstein's mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, is set to testify against Ghislaine Maxwell. She's pictured with Maxwell in 2005.
Some of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged co-conspirators are set to testify against Ghislaine Maxwell in her trial later this year, court documents suggest.

Prosecutors said in a filing that the material for the trial includes 'any co-conspirator statements', a major sign that one of Epstein's inner circle has turned state's witness.

Prosecutors said that nine weeks before the trial, which is set to begin in November, they would turn over to the defense 'the identity of any unindicted co-conspirator' they plan to call to give evidence.

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Cult

Couple charged with murder of kids in strange doomsday case


My Northwest
Tue, 25 May 2021 17:16 UTC
Lori Vallow Daybell
© John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP, Pool, File
In this March 6, 2020, file photo, Lori Vallow Daybell, left, glances at the camera during her hearing, in Rexburg, Idaho. In an indictment, Monday, May 24, 2021, Daybell, the mother of two children who were found dead in Idaho, in 2020, and her new husband were charged with murder in a case involving doomsday religious beliefs.
The mother of two kids who were found dead last year in Idaho and her new husband have been charged with murder in a grim case involving bizarre doomsday religious beliefs and two other suspicious deaths.

Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell were each indicted by a grand jury Monday on charges of conspiracy, murder and grand theft in connection with the deaths of Lori Daybell's two youngest children, 7-year-old Joshua "JJ" Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan.

Chad Daybell was also charged with one count of murder and insurance fraud in connection with the death of his late wife, Tammy Daybell, just weeks before his marriage to the co-defendant.

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'If you're a cis man do you need a plaid shirt?': NYC rolls out bizarre gender identity training video for employees


RT
Wed, 26 May 2021 14:06 UTC
gender training video
© YouTube / NYC Human Rights
All New York City employees are now required to sit through a remarkably predictable video explaining the creative nuances of gender identity, as part of mandated sexual harassment training.

The instructional footage is part of an online sexual harassment prevention training module created by the NYC Commission on Human Rights. All city employees are required by law to take the instructional course.

Private businesses in the Big Apple must also make their employees undergo similar training, although they are not required to use the materials offered by the city. The training must be completed once a year.

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