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Far-left activists confront drag queen story hour protestors

drag queen Aida H. Dee Sab Samuel
A small group protesting a Drag Queen Story Hour event for children at the Jubilee Library in Brighton, England on Thursday was confronted by a large group of far-left activists.

The Post Millennial editor-at-large and journalist Andy Ngo shared a clip from the protest clash, with the Drag Queen Story Hour supporters chanting, "Nazi scum off our streets!" Ngo added that The City Council came out in support of the event, citing "diversity" as a reason.


Comment: Protesting for the right to groom children.

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Elon Musk says he will buy Twitter on one condition: The social media platform must provide proof its accounts are real

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Billionaire Elon Musk would go through with the deal to buy Twitter if the social media platform demonstrates how it checks the authenticity of user accounts, Musk wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

Responding to a comment by another user, Musk said the deal to buy Twitter "should proceed on original terms" if the platform shares with him their method for sampling accounts to determine they are genuine.

"If Twitter simply provides their method of sampling 100 accounts and how they're confirmed to be real, the deal should proceed on original terms.

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New study claiming there's no 'social contagion' among trans-identified youth roundly refuted

Jack Turban
A new, error-riddled paper in the journal Pediatrics claiming that "social contagion" is not a factor in the dramatic rise in trans-identifying youth has been debunked by experts.

When the study emerged, left-wing media lauded its dubious conclusion as absolute truth, with the NBC News headline, "'Social contagion' isn't causing more youths to be transgender, study finds."

Jack Turban, a proponent of "gender affirming care" who perpetuates the affirm-or-suicide myth, is the study's lead author. Turban, a trans activist and psychiatry fellow at UCSF, has a history of designing poor experiments and using bad methodology to draw erroneous conclusions from data.

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Attention

US government issues monkeypox 'safe sex' guide

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© AFP / Getty Images / Kevin DietschPatrons dance at a nightclub in Washington, DC.
The state health body offered tips on how to avoid contracting monkeypox.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued guidelines for 'safer sex' amid the spread of the monkeypox virus, urging romantic partners to take steps to reduce exposure to the rare illness.

Published on Friday and entitled 'Safer Sex, Social Gatherings, and Monkeypox', the CDC document advises partners to watch out for "any new or unexplained rash or lesion" on various body parts, one distinct symptom of the monkeypox virus.

Comment: So basically, if you have any sense of sexual morality, you're probably safe from catching monkeypox through sex. That this is such a difficult issue for some says a lot about the current state of society.


And a California lawmaker shared a sex guide that said if you have bumps but aren't sure if it's monkeypox, hide it and go out anyway!


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German electricity prices hit record high as heatwave curbs power generation

germany temperature 2022
National forecaster Deutscher Wetterdienst predicted a heatwave would persist through mid-August. Weather models show max temperatures will jump to mid-July levels of nearly 95 degrees Fahrenheit by Aug. 14, then slide to the low/mid 70s shortly after.

A confluence of factors is pushing German electricity prices to new records. First are the rising costs of imported nuclear power from France and Switzerland. Utilities in both countries report nuclear generation output has been reduced in recent weeks for various reasons, some of which are related to the heat (read: here). Domestically, Germany's Uniper SE, the country's largest utility, warned lower river Rhine levels made it more challenging to receive coal shipments via barges to fuel coal-fired power plants.

Comment: Europe has already threatened that its 'solution' to this crisis is not to overturn the failing sanctions, but instead to enforce rolling blackouts on certain regions across Europe, as well as offering 'heat islands' for those freezing in their houses. One can only imagine what solutions will be offered when the inevitable food shortages begin to bite; bug burgers for all?


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Firearm companies say packages shipped with UPS being damaged, disappearing: Reports

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A number of firearm companies have seen their shipments with UPS become damaged or go missing while on route to customers, while others have allegedly had their corporate accounts canceled by the parcel service, according to a report by Bearing Arms, a pro-Second Amendment news site.

Patrick Collins, CEO of The Gun Food, an ammunition supply company, told the news outlet that many packages his business had shipped via UPS had mysteriously vanished in transit. Specifically, Collins alleged that out of 18,000 rounds of ammunition that he's shipped, only around a third — roughly 6,000 — were actually delivered.

Collins said he was allegedly told by UPS that he was likely not packaging the shipments properly and that the company also noted an uptick in his recent claims regarding packages that are not being successfully delivered.
"They're not even making it. And I don't know what they are doing in the facilities if they are purposefully damaging them. However, they are not making it to the customer."

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Report: NYC Mayor Eric Adams requests photos of city job applicants to ensure diversity

NY Mayor
© Shawn Inglima/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service/Getty ImagesNew York City Mayor Eric Adams
New York City's Democrat Mayor Eric Adams is reportedly requesting photos of city job applicants, as he wants to ensure that new members of the workforce are diverse — a move that seems to show the value of race and ethnicity over qualifications.

According to a report from Politico, most of the individuals — past and current city officials — the outlet spoke to are unsettled by the mayor's request, although it seems the mayor's office is presenting the request as a way Adams can simply "begin to recognize folks [sic] faces."

"Flagging that the Mayor would love all agencies upper leadership in this type of style," an April 19 email from an Adams staffer reads. "Clarifying also that the avatars in the attached should be actual photos as the Mayor likes to begin to recognize folks [sic] faces."

However, many remain skeptical and view the request as a way for Adams to prioritize racial and ethnic diversity. One former employee suggested everyone knew what the request was really about at its core.

"It was the first thing everybody said: 'We're going to start counting complexions now,'" the individual said.

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Cracker Barrel faces blowback after adding Impossible Sausage to menu

Cracker Barrel
© Deb Linsey/The Washington PostThe Cracker Barrel in Sterling, VA
The Cracker Barrel is a place where you can feast on meatloaf, with three "country" sides and a buttermilk biscuit, while seated next to a stone hearth or with an oil lamp silently flickering on your table. It's a place where you can, after your meal, buy a glass angel, a peacock fountain or cow-hide pillow in the attached gift store. It's the kind of place that presents itself as America's front porch, a rural refuge far from the cultural strife of our cities.

Cracker Barrel's country tranquility was apparently shattered on Monday, when the chain announced on Facebook that customers could customize their breakfast plate with a plant-based protein as a replacement for their traditional bacon or smoked sausage. Cracker Barrel wrote in its post:
"Discover new meat frontiers. Experience the out of this world flavor of Impossible™ Sausage Made From Plants next time you Build Your Own Breakfast."
The blowback was immediate and intense. Comments, hundreds and hundreds of them, were split along ideological, generational and political lines.

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Deadly blaze engulfs 'Amazon of Russia' warehouse near Moscow, deemed "suspected arson"

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© oopstop.comOzon Warehouse Fire
A huge out of control fire is ripping through a large warehouse of a popular Russian retailer near Moscow on Wednesday. Reported in Reuters:
"At least one person was killed and 13 injured when a huge fire broke out at a warehouse north west of Moscow owned by e-commerce firm Ozon on Wednesday, RIA quoted the emergency services as saying. Dozens of firefighters battled to douse the fire using helicopters and 100 tonnes of water as a large plume of dark smoke billowed from the roof of the bright blue warehouse."

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UC Berkeley halts plans for new student housing after protestors assault construction crews with rocks, bottles

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© UnknownUC Berkeley police confront protesters
UC Berkeley recently began clearing an area of land known as "People's Park" for the development of new student housing. On Wednesday, plans for that housing ground to a halt following violent protests by far-left rioters. According to far-left advocacy group Defend People's Park, the area where new student housing is being developed was occupied by a number of homeless people.

The group wrote in a June 9 Facebook post:
"UC Berkeley is now saying that 'camping' in the park is illegal. This means that no one living there and no tent or structure has the right to privacy - meaning cops or cleaners can throw away anything without any recourse whatsoever."
The park, which is owned by the school, was cleared on Tuesday and surrounded by fencing.