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Kohl's faces shopper uproar after becoming latest retailer to market LGBTQ clothing to children: 'Disgusting'

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© Kohl's website/screenshotThe Kohl's website displays various clothing items for newborns and infants.
Shoppers are criticizing Kohl's after the department store became the latest major retailer to sell LGBTQ clothing for infants and young kids.

Various social media accounts posted a plethora of Pride Month merchandise, including a "Baby Sonoma Community Pride Bodysuit set" designed for 3-month, 6-month and 9-month-old kids. The outfit depicts what appears to be a lesbian couple with a dog and three children, including a young boy in a wheelchair. One of the adults in the drawing carries a progressive pride flag.

Other merchandise includes a "Love Is Love" banner, towels, bibs, candles, shorts, and pillows.

People

Divisive societal collectivism is a primary driver of total control over the people

Divisive Societal Collectivism
"But we must realize that even this tendency to restrict the exploitation of class privileges is a fairly common ingredient of totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is not simply amoral. It is the morality of the closed society — of the group, or of the tribe; it is not individual selfishness, but it is collective selfishness."

~ Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato
The might of the State relies exclusively on the destruction of the individual, and participation, acceptance, allowance, and support of State as god, by the collective members of 'society,' who have succumbed to the State's efforts to divide them into a multitude of groups at odds with every other group. The focus of this purposeful mass antagonism is to build differing aggressive personalities in order to set the stage for unrestrained division and chaos. This intentional distractive methodology pits one against another, in the age old strategy of divide and conquer. It has worked against the people and their freedom for most all of history, but has taken on new meaning in this immoral, consumption-based, irresponsible, apathetic, and postmodern culture, now consumed by a cold technological existence.

Pirates

Dropped charges for 'white supremacist' who drove U-Haul into WH barricade raises eyebrows

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Critics are crying foul over the decision by Washington, D.C. prosecutors to drop nearly all of the charges originally faced by the man who allegedly rammed into White House security barriers earlier this week.

As previously reported, on Monday evening a man in a U-Haul replete with a Nazi flag crashed into a White House barricade. This man was later identified as Sai Varshith Kandula, a nonwhite, noncitizen 19-year-old from Chesterfield, Missouri.

Following the altercation, he was arrested and "charged with threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on a president, vice president or family member, as well as assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, trespassing and destruction of federal property," according to the New York Post.

But then something extraordinary happened — prosecutors dropped every single charge, leaving Kandula with nothing but "a single count of depredation of property of the United States in excess of $1,000," the Post notes.

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"We have a captive audience": Boston University to require students to take social justice writing courses

Boston University
Boston University recently made a new announcement that has rekindled concerns over the rising orthodoxy in our institutions of higher education. The University issued new guidelines for its mandatory writing program that will require all students to write papers with a "social justice emphasis" as a condition for graduation. The key faculty organizers celebrated the new policy and the hiring of non-white instructors as guaranteeing social justice results by making students a "captive audience" with no choice in the matter.

Student will now have to choose among such choices as "Linguistic Justice...Who Cares?: Domestic Labor and the Commodification of Care," "Asians Are People of Color: Exploring the Controversy and Identity Politics," "Deconstructing Narratives: Stories of Race and Racism in American Cultural Memory" and "Writing Environmental Justice."

Gwen Kordonowy, the Writing Program's associate director, said that the problem in the past was that students had a choice and some did not want to be forced into writing for social justice issues. Instructors and classes could be avoided. Now, they have solved the problem by removing all choice.

Brick Wall

Biden State Dept will not publicly commit to helping American writer Gonzalo Lira who was arrested in Ukraine over speech violations

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A United States citizen has been arrested in Ukraine for allegedly expressing strong criticism against the government's war with Russia and the Biden administration said on Monday that they will not comment on the matter.

Gonzalo Lira, a writer and YouTuber who has been an outspoken critic of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, was arrested earlier this month for publicly justifying Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to a press release from Ukrainian Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Becker News reports.

"The security service gathered an evidence base on a foreign blogger who publicly justified the armed aggression of the RF [Russian Federation] and spread fakes about the war in Ukraine," the SBU claimed. "The figure is a citizen of one of the Latin American countries, but has lived in Kharkiv for several years."

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Broom

Fox 'got all their sh*t out of there': Fox News dismantles Tucker Carlson's studio following Twitter show announcement

Tucker Carlson
© Jason Koerner/Getty ImagesTucker Carlson, 2022 FOX Nation Patriot Awards.
Tucker Carlson's Woodstock, Maine recording studio, where the former Fox host broadcast his show during the summer, was reportedly left in shambles by Fox News personnel right as he was poised to bring his content to Twitter, according to a Wednesday report.

According to The Daily Mail, the studio, a converted barn, must now be largely rebuilt. Patrick Feeney, the man managing the project for Carlson, told reporters, "Fox came in last week and got all their sh*t out of there."

"They took the set and everything, all the equipment, the chairs, the desk, the fake walls," he added.

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NPC

13-year old girl dies from 'chroming,' latest alarming social media trend

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© A Current AffairEsra Haynes fell victim to "chroming."
Esra Haynes' parents called for less toxic deodorants and CPR lessons in schools.

The family of a 13-year-old Australian girl who died from "chroming" has urged action to prevent similar deaths from occurring.

"We want to help other children not fall into the silly trap of doing this silly thing. It's unquestionable that this will be our crusade," Paul Haynes, the girl's father, told Australian outlet the Herald Sun. "No matter how much you lead a horse to water, anyone can drag them away. It's not something she would have done on her own.

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Airplane

China takes on commercial airline market: C919 debut flight welcomed with water salute

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© Wang Yang/chinadaily.com.cnThe C919 passenger jet is welcomed with a conventional water salute at the Beijing Capital International Airport, May 28, 2023
Welcomed with a conventional water salute at the Beijing Capital International Airport, the C919, China's first self-developed narrow-body jet, successfully completed its maiden commercial flight by its global customer China Eastern Airlines on Sunday.

Some 130 passengers experienced the flight with MU 9191, which took off from the Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport at 10:32 am, and landed at the Beijing Capital International Airport at 12:31 pm after about two hours flying in the air.

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Windsock

Tide turning: New Jersey county votes unanimously against offshore wind development

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County official vows to not allow rushed wind development 'without a fight'

A county in New Jersey voted unanimously to oppose an offshore wind farm proposed for its coastline, citing the project's negative impacts on the environment, tourism industry and beach vistas.

In a 4-0 vote this week, the Cape May County, New Jersey, Board of Commissioners passed a resolution green-lighting reasonable use of all the county's resources to oppose the wind projects developed by Danish multinational energy company Orsted. The county is also considering legal options and appealed a state public utility permit it says would transfer "real property interests" from residents to Orsted.

"At first, the County of Cape May was interested in trying to work with Orsted to find a way forward, perhaps with some modifications to the project to reduce visual, environmental and economic impacts," Cape May County Board of Commissioners Director Len Desiderio said in a statement.

Comment: Good on the residents of Cape May County. They see wind power for the boondoggle it is.


Light Saber

The French show us how to deal with eco-zealots

Chris Packham BBC just stop oil
© Just Stop Oil/SWNSChris Packham, who is filming a Channel 4 documentary on nonviolent direct action, with Just Stop Oil protestors on the Strand in Central London
Outspoken BBC wildlife presenter Chris Packham joins Just Stop Oil 'slow march'

Just Stop Oil claimed a propaganda victory yesterday after the BBC's Chris Packham attended one of its 'slow march' demonstrations.

But as the wildlife presenter met activists holding up traffic in London, across the Channel the French were dealing with another eco protest in a manner very different from the British police's softly-softly approach.

Paris police used tear gas and baton charges to stop climate change demonstrators disrupting oil giant Total's annual general meeting.

Officers acted decisively when hundreds of mainly young protesters staged a sit-in outside the Salle Pleyel, a conference centre in central Paris. The protesters sat across access roads, locking arms and legs to form a human barricade in an attempt to prevent shareholders entering the meeting. One banner held up by the demonstrators read: 'The science is clear but Total is ignoring it.'

Comment: Aaand the predictable hypocrisy:
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© ReutersOscar winner Adam McKay (pictured with his wife), whose films include the Big Short and Don't Look Up, is one of a group of multi-millionaires behind the Climate Emergency Fund
A multi-millionaire Hollywood director who funds Just Stop Oil has a holiday home in Ireland - 5,000 miles from Los Angels - that he jets off to when he needs a break.

A Hollywood director helping to bankroll Just Stop Oil has been accused of hypocrisy over his lavish holiday home in Ireland - 5,000 miles from his Los Angeles base.

Oscar winner Adam McKay, whose films include The Big Short and Don't Look Up, is one of a group of multi-millionaires behind the Climate Emergency Fund.

The Beverly Hills-based fund raises cash from its mega rich supporters and distributes it to 'disruptive' activists, including handing almost £1million to help Just Stop Oil wreak havoc in the U.K.

Mr. McKay is a director of the fund and has donated over £3.2 million to it to support "recruitment and training" for groups including the British activists. In a webinar last year he pledged to help Just Stop Oil in any way possible and was even prepared to be arrested for their cause.

Despite his financial commitment to environmentalism the director, who owns a £6 million Los Angeles home, has described how he holidays in his eight-bedroom second home in rural Ireland.

A 2020 Architectural Digest interview with Mr McKay and his wife, fellow writer-director Shira Piven, described how "when the going gets tough" the couple "take refuge in their 12-acre getaway in the Celtic countryside".

Details of his holiday home emerged as Just Stop Oil zealots were last week branded "absolute morons" for permanently damaging a sustainable garden at the Chelsea Flower Show by hurling orange powder paint over it.

The group were also criticised for a series of go-slow marches in London this week which caused mayhem for commuters - and on one occasion led to a workman being handcuffed by police as he tried to move them.

The Climate Emergency Fund launched in 2019 after the three founders' multi-million-pound homes in the exclusive Californian ocean-front city of Malibu nearly burnt down in bush fires which they blamed on climate change.

These included Aileen Getty, the granddaughter of billionaire oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty, and Rory Kennedy who is the daughter of Senator Robert Kennedy.

The third founder, investor Trevor Neilson who is listed as owning a £2.1 million home in Malibu, said they wanted to support "disruptive activists" after becoming disillusioned by the slow approach of traditional environmental groups.
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