J.K. Rowling Received Backlash for Saying This About a ‘Trans’ Person

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This week, best-selling author J.K. Rowling was accused of “bullying” after she called a so-called “transgender” soccer manager a “straight, white, middle-aged bloke” on social media. Rowling’s statement came after a new law was enacted in Scotland that makes “misgendering” someone a crime.

“When I was young all the football managers were straight, white, middle-aged blokes, so it’s fantastic to see how much things have changed,” Rowling wrote on X on Saturday with a photo of Lucy Clark, the world’s first “openly transgender football manager,” according to Daily Mail.

Daily Mail shared that Rowling received backlash for “comparing” Clark to a “straight, white, middle-aged bloke.”

“I didn’t compare him to one. He IS one,” Rowling doubled-down.

(Read more from “J.K. Rowling Received Backlash for Saying This About a ‘Trans’ Person” HERE)

White House Insists on a ‘Political’ Solution to Deal with Hamas Terrorists

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As with most other sane policies, the Biden administration has entirely — for a while now — thrown the conventional wisdom about “don’t negotiate with terrorists” out the window.

Proving its inexplicable desire to legitimize Iran-backed Hamas and hand swaths of the region over to violent terrorist group “a” or more violent terrorist group “b,” Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan insisted on Monday there must be a “political” solution to end the war sparked by Hamas on October 7.

That massacre, of course, saw Hamas and other Iran-backed terrorists invade Israel by land and air, massacre the most Jews in any single day since the Holocaust, and return to Gaza with bloodied hostages to whom the terrorists did unspeakable evils. Still, the Biden administration thinks diplomacy can achieve a peaceful resolution to the vile wickedness of Hamas and its aim to annihilate Israel.

Despite the lunacy of such a proposal, Sullivan again reiterated Biden’s belief that a “two-state solution” is the “political” answer to the current war. In fact, he said it’s the “only way” to ensure Israel’s security.

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Donald Trump Starts 4th Week of Trial: ‘I Should Be out Campaigning … Election Interference’

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Former President Donald Trump decried election interference as he arrived at a Manhattan courthouse on Monday to begin the fourth week of his criminal trial.

The numerous indictments against Trump are meant to politically sabotage his reelection campaign, Trump believes, buoyed by reports of multiple meetings between the Biden administration and Trump prosecutors.

“I should be out campaigning now instead of sitting in a very cold courthouse all day long,” Trump told reporters outside the courtroom. “This is a Biden prosecution. It’s election interference at a level that nobody in this country has ever seen before.”

“This all comes from in the White House,” Trump said.

The establishment media recently acknowledged that opponents waging lawfare against Trump are failing to prevent him from completing the greatest political comeback in history. What first appeared to be a “wall of legal obstacles” preventing Trump from mounting the greatest comeback in political history now appears to be “little more than a series of speed bumps,” Politico’s Senior Legal Affairs Reporter Josh Gerstein recently wrote. (Read more from “Donald Trump Starts 4th Week of Trial: ‘I Should Be out Campaigning … Election Interference’” HERE)

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Report Exposes Continued Labor Abuses by Major Chinese Fashion Giant

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Public Eye, a Swiss-based human rights advocacy group, has issued a scathing rebuke against Chinese fashion giant Shein, alleging the company’s involvement in labor abuses despite promises of improvement.

In a follow-up report released on Sunday, Public Eye reiterated its concerns over Shein’s labor practices, stating that “illegal working hours and piecework wages remain a typical feature” for workers associated with the company. The report also highlighted suspicions surrounding Shein’s opaque finances and the disappearance of its founder from the public eye.

Shein, known for its ultra-fast fashion model offering a vast online inventory of clothing at remarkably low prices, has faced mounting scrutiny over its supply chain practices. The company’s business model relies on exploiting cheap labor and materials, including textiles potentially harvested by forced labor.

Public Eye’s investigation included interviews with textile workers employed by Shein and its suppliers in China. Despite Shein’s code of conduct limiting work hours to 60 per week, workers reported enduring grueling 75-hour work weeks, often with inadequate compensation.

“I work every day from 8:00 in the morning to 10:30 at night and take one day off each month. I can’t afford any more days off because it costs too much,” shared one worker interviewed by Public Eye.

Wages for textile workers were reported to be modest, ranging from 6,000 to 10,000 yuan per month (approximately $830 to $1,380 USD). The report also highlighted instances of undocumented and unpaid work, with workers coerced into correcting mistakes on their own time under threat of fines.

Furthermore, Public Eye raised concerns about safety standards in Shein factories, noting a prevalence of smoking in environments filled with flammable textiles and chemicals. There were also indications of potential child labor practices.

Despite Shein’s efforts to address criticism, including commissioning an audit on supplier factory wages, Public Eye dismissed these measures as inadequate and criticized the audit for downplaying the severity of labor abuses.

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Democrat-Run State About to Get Hit with 50 Cent per Gallon Gas Tax

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In today’s edition of Getting What You Vote For, the dummies in California are about to get hit with a 50 cent per gallon gas tax.

Remember, California voters have handed the Democrat party full power over the former Golden State. Democrats run everything from the governorship on down. Democrats not only hold majorities in the state legislature, they hold veto-proof majorities. In other words…

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According to Triple-A, the average cost of a gallon of gas in California today is $5.29. That’s nearly $1.70 more than the national average. In some parts of California, gas costs $6.32 per gallon. The lowest cost for a gallon of gas in that Democrat-run shithole is $5.02. . .

Fox Business reports:

In September, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the state’s primary environmental regulator, reported gas prices will rise next year by about 50 cents a gallon and every year thereafter to aid in clean air efforts. The price increase does not include the existing gas tax in the state.

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The report foresees gasoline price increases due to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard reforms that were created in 2007, likely rising by 47 cents next year and 52 cents by 2026. Diesel prices could climb by 59 cents this year and 66 cents in two years. Long-term projections suggest gasoline could surge by $1.15 and diesel by $1.50 per gallon from 2031 to 2046, with jet fuel increasing by $1.21.

(Read more from “Democrat-Run State About to Get Hit with 50 Cent per Gallon Gas Tax” HERE)

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Report: Police Make High-Profile Arrests in Alleged Sex Sting Bust

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An employee of the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) and a Board Of Trustees member for the University of Central Florida (UCF) were allegedly among the four people arrested in a sex sting bust Thursday, court documents say.

Leroy Green, a juvenile intervention specialist with the SCSO, was found at a local park after allegedly contacting undercover agents through a hookup app, court documents read, according to Wesh2 News.

The 35-year-old was arrested at the park wearing a “Youth Services” t-shirt from the sheriff’s department, according to agents, the outlet reported.

Harold Mills, 53, a member of the UCF board of trustees, was arrested at a different park after allegedly contacting agents through the same hookup app, court documents say, Wesh2 reported. Mills allegedly met up with an agent and allegedly asked for oral sex, the outlet reported, citing an arrest report.

Mills and Green are both facing charges for indecent exposure and prostitution, the outlet noted. (Read more from “Report: Police Make High-Profile Arrests in Alleged Sex Sting Bust” HERE)

Troubled Judge Facing 8 Felony Gun Charges Indicted Again After Alleged Drive-by Shooting at Brother-In-Law’s House

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. . .A sitting Oklahoma judge already facing multiple felony gun charges in Texas has now been indicted for allegedly riddling his brother-in-law’s home with bullets in a drive-by shooting in his home state, authorities said.

Garfield County Associate Judge Brian Lovell, 59, was charged with fresh felony counts of discharging of a firearm into a dwelling and use of a vehicle to facilitate the discharge of a firearm last week in connection with the Feb. 12, 2023 gunplay in the town of Bison, Okla., the Enid News & Eagle reported.

Two days after the alleged shooting outside brother-in-law Kenneth Markes’ home, Lovell claimed that the gun had been stolen from his vehicle, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said in a press release this week. . .

The controversial jurist also faces eight felony counts in Texas for allegedly using the same Glock 23 .40-caliber gun in a similar incident in Austin on Sept. 11 of last year.

In that case, Lovell is accused of driving near Matamoros and Santa Maria streets in his white SUV, during which he allegedly “discharged a firearm approximately five times,” the Eagle said. (Read more from “Troubled Judge Facing 8 Felony Gun Charges Indicted Again After Alleged Drive-by Shooting at Brother-In-Law’s House” HERE)

Bill Maher Dredges up 2018 Stormy Daniels Interview That Totally Undermines Her Trump Trial Testimony

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Comedian Bill Maher is seeing through the stormy weather surrounding former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan.

Maher dredged up an old interview porn star Stormy Daniels gave to him back in 2018 — which raises questions about the credibility of her testimony on the witness stand.

“She’s a bad witness,” Maher declared during Friday night’s episode of “Real Time,” after joking, “It’s Stormy or bust.”

The comic and political pundit played a clip from the 2018 interview in which Daniels was emphatic that her alleged July 2006 hanky-panky with Trump was consensual and not to be construed as part of the MeToo movement that was in full swing at the time.

“You say it’s not a MeToo case,” Maher pressed Daniels at the time. (Read more from “Bill Maher Dredges up 2018 Stormy Daniels Interview That Totally Undermines Her Trump Trial Testimony” HERE)

RFK Jr. Changes Stance on Abortion

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who indicated during an appearance on “The Sage Steele Show” that he supported allowing women to decide whether to have an abortion at any point during a pregnancy, has changed his position, announcing that he would now “allow” for abortion restrictions during the “the final months of pregnancy.” . . .

But now, Kennedy is changing his tune, indicating he “would allow” for some abortion restrictions.

“I support the emerging consensus that abortion should be unrestricted up until a certain point. I believe that point should be when the baby is viable outside the womb. Therefore I would allow appropriate restrictions on abortion in the final months of pregnancy, just as Roe v. Wade did,” he wrote in a post on X.

“What if the baby has some fatal condition that ensures it will survive just hours or days after birth in intense suffering? Can we, should we, legislate such painful decisions and take them away from the mother? Is a bureaucrat or judge better equipped than the baby’s own mother to decide? Cases like this are why I am leery of inserting the government into abortion. I had been assuming that virtually all late-term abortions were such cases, but I’ve learned that my assumption was wrong,” he wrote.

“Sometimes, women abort healthy, viable late-term fetuses. These cases of purely ‘elective’ late-term abortion are very upsetting. Once the baby is viable outside the womb, it should have rights and it deserves society’s protection,” he stated. (Read more from “RFK Jr. Changes Stance on Abortion” HERE)

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Biden’s America: Study Reveals Financial Struggles for Gen Z Compared to Millennials

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A recent study conducted by TransUnion, a consumer credit reporting agency, has shed light on the financial challenges facing Generation Z (Gen Z) compared to their Millennial counterparts.

The study surveyed 614 Gen Z adults aged between 22-24 and compared their financial situation to that of 623 Millennials who were in the same age group a decade ago. The findings indicate that Gen Z adults are grappling with lower incomes and higher debt-to-income ratios than Millennials did at a similar age.

According to the data, during the last half of 2013, Millennials had an adjusted income of $51,852 when adjusted for inflation. In comparison, Gen Z adults in 2023’s last quarter had an income of $45,493. Furthermore, Millennials had a debt-to-income (DTI) ratio of 11.76 percent during 2013’s last quarter, while Gen Z adults faced a higher DTI ratio of 16.05 percent in 2023.

After factoring in debt-to-income payments, Millennials’ income during 2013’s last quarter was $37,124 when adjusted for inflation. Conversely, Gen Z adults in 2023’s last quarter had an income of $40,200 after DTI payments.

The study also revealed disparities in credit card balances and auto loan balances between the two generations. Millennials had a credit card balance of $1,708 in 2013’s last quarter, adjusted for inflation, while Gen Z adults had a higher credit card balance of $2,834 in 2023’s last quarter. Similarly, Millennials had an average auto loan balance of $19,043 when adjusted for inflation in 2013’s last quarter, while Gen Z adults had a higher average auto loan balance of $21,767 in 2023’s last quarter.

The study comes amid a shifting political landscape, with recent polls indicating varying levels of support among younger voters for former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.