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As reported by American Wire, Valentine Hills Elementary music teacher Kourtney Ryan, who is "presumably a woman," posted a video online recounting a shocking conversation Ryan had with young students and another teacher.
"The students asked the other teacher if I'm a boy or a girl, and the teacher was like, 'Does it matter?'" Ryan began.

The perpetrators were directly involved in the planning of the terror attack and the arming of the ISIS militants
The report details that the Judiciary Chief of Fars Province, Kazem Moussavi, found the two main suspects guilty of corruption, armed rebellion and acting against national security.
Moussavi also stated that the men were directly involved in the planning of the terror attack and the arming of the ISIS militants who carried it out, according to Press TV.
"Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st," Musk tweeted.
"Our 'algorithm' is overly complex & not fully understood internally. People will discover many silly things , but we'll patch issues as soon as they're found! We're developing a simplified approach to serve more compelling tweets, but it's still a work in progress. That'll also be open source. Providing code transparency will be incredibly embarrassing at first, but it should lead to rapid improvement in recommendation quality. Most importantly, we hope to earn your trust," he added.
Nearly 200 American banks face similar risks to those that led to the implosion and bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), according to a paper posted this week to the Social Science Research Network. SVB, a major US lender focused on the tech and startup sectors, was shut down by regulators last week after massive deposit outflows.
In the study, four economists from prominent US universities estimated how much market value the assets held by US banks have lost due to recent interest rate hikes.
"From March 07, 2022, to March 6, 2023, the federal funds rate rose sharply from 0.08% to 4.57%, and this increase was accompanied by quantitative tightening. As a result, long-dated assets similar to those held on bank balance sheets experienced significant value declines during the same period," they wrote.
Comment:
- Silicon Valley Bank crisis: The liquidity crunch we predicted has now begun and the FED is largely to blame
- "Expect mass layoffs..." - The real-world impact of SVB's failure
- Federal Reserve announces emergency lending to ALL US banks in attempt to stem contagion from collapse of SVB, Signature Bank
- Accidental banking system failure? Don't you believe it.
- Making common, golden sense of the next senseless bank crisis
Taking to Telegram on Friday, Kadyrov insisted that merely issuing a "formal condemnation of the Ukrainian vermin's action that recently burned pages from the Holy Koran" would not be enough.
"I announce a reward of five million rubles [$64950] for eliminating this scum," he wrote, adding that the bounty would be twice as high should the desecrator be captured alive.
But she never thought her 13-year-old would be asked to play a "seducing hooker" in a bizarre classroom game.
"I picked my daughter and her best friend up from school and my daughter said 'We played this game at school, Mom, and you're going to be upset,'" Gruber told The Post Saturday from her home in San Antonio.
"When she told me about kids getting up in class and posing as hookers, I almost crashed the car."
The September incident was so disturbing, Gruber said, she pulled her daughter from the school and demanded an apology from administrators.
Gruber, 45, a Latina from Puerto Rico, found out the game was called "Bear-Hooker-Hunter" and went online, discovering it is an adult drinking game version of rock-paper-scissors.
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu "has put forward for state awards the pilots of the Su-27 aircraft who prevented the US MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle from violating" the restricted flight zone established by Moscow amid the Ukraine conflict, the ministry's statement read. It added that the borders of the area in question had been made known to all users of international airspace.
The ministry, however, did not provide any personal information about the pilots, nor did it reveal what awards they might receive.
On Tuesday, the Pentagon claimed that two Russian jets dumped fuel on a MQ-9 Reaper drone, with one later colliding with the aircraft and damaging its propeller, while accusing Moscow of "unsafe and unprofessional" actions.
The Russian Defense Ministry, however, dismissed this accusation, saying that the Su-27s never came in contact with the Reaper, nor did it fire a weapon. It explained that the US drone was flying with its transponders turned off, violated the restricted area, and crashed after "going into uncontrolled flight" as a result of "sharp maneuvers."
Comment: This was clearly a provocation by the US to see what Russia would do.

TikTok is among the most frequently downloaded social media apps worldwide, as well as in the United States — specifically among young users.
TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat are purposefully designed to be addictive platforms that have "carefully cultivated" a mental health crisis among U.S. students, a Silicon Valley school board alleged in a lawsuit.
The San Mateo County superintendent and school board also alleges in the lawsuit filed Monday that the tech companies were involved in activities such as negligence, racketeering, public nuisance and violation of unfair competition law. A Seattle school district filed a similar lawsuit against the same three companies in January.
"Powerful corporations who wield unmatched, highly concentrated technology in pursuit of profit are knowingly creating this unprecedented mental health crisis," the lawsuit states. "YouTube, Snap, TikTok and their related companies have carefully cultivated the crisis, which is a feature — not a bug — of their social media products."
Comment: One wonders why Meta was not included in the suit.
- Researcher finds social media use in teenagers linked to spikes in anxiety, depression and mental imbalance
- Instagram and Snapchat rate the worst for youngsters' mental health
- New study finds frequent social media use linked to depression
- Facebook confirms Instagram made girls with body issues feel worse - but denies it is harming teens in other ways
- Algorithms expose harmful content: 30 families blame social media firms for their roles in children's suicides

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem all signed the joint statement against Biden's ESG program.
Governors in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming formed the alliance Thursday in what they described as an effort to ensure American retirement funds are not used for "woke" investments.
"Yet again, President Biden put his political agenda above the wellbeing and individual freedoms of hardworking Americans," the Republican governors wrote. "We as freedom loving states can work together and leverage our state pension funds to force change in how major asset managers invest the money of hardworking Americans, ensuring corporations are focused on maximizing shareholder value, rather than the proliferation of woke ideology."
Comment:
- State of Florida removes $2B from BlackRock in anti-ESG divestment: "Using our cash to fund BlackRock's social-engineering project isn't something Florida ever signed up for"
- Elon Musk slams corporatist moralism of ESG pushed by World Economic Forum
- Get woke, go broke: BlackRock stock downgraded over risk from ESG investing
- 'The mask is off ESG,' says leading professor of finance calling, it's a 'scam'
- The World Economic Forum's global governance 'E.S.G.' agenda: The threat to liberty you haven't heard of
The chain, which is increasingly a go-to grocery destination for cash strapped shoppers, has roughly 8,000 Dollar Tree stores across the United States and Canada. Its spokesperson said it does not anticipate being able to bring eggs back into its stores for sale until later this fall.
Egg prices hit record highs of close to an average of $5 a dozen in January, according to economic data, due to a global outbreak of the avian flu. In consumer pricing data released by the government Tuesday, egg prices fell 6.7% in February.
Comment:
- UK egg shortage caused by supermarkets refusing to pay production price, farmers warn shortages will worsen
- Top US egg farm destroyed in massive fire, supermarkets were already suffering shortages
- Rising beast system wants every man, woman and child to be a ward of the state, completely dependent on them for food, water, energy, security, shelter
'Please don't get a chicken': New Zealand egg shortage sparks scramble for poultry
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