Target Loses $10B in 10 Days After Boycott Calls Over LGBTQ-Friendly Kids Clothing

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Target has lost $10 billion in market valuation over the last 10 days as the popular retailer continues to face backlash over its Pride-themed clothing line for children.

A week ago Wednesday, Target enjoyed its stock value at $160.96 a share, but following the calls to boycott the Minneapolis-based retailer over its “PRIDE” collection, the value plummeted and closed Friday at $138.93 a share.

The nearly 14% drop in value for the blue chip stock roughly translates to a $10.1 billion loss in valuation to just $64.2 billion for Target, which has nearly 2,000 stores nationwide.

The plummet stands as the retailer’s lowest stock price in nearly three years. The last time the company saw a drop nearly this big came in 2022 after the stocks equalized following an unprecedented surge during the COVID pandemic.

Target, which has been caught in the middle of America’s culture wars over gender, moved its Pride section in some Southern stores away from the front last week after it said displays were knocked over by protesters, who also confronted workers. (Read more from “Target Loses $10B in 10 Days After Boycott Calls Over LGBTQ-Friendly Kids Clothing” HERE)

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Top Progressive Slams Debt Ceiling Bill as ‘Absolutely Terrible’

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) denounced the provisional debt ceiling deal struck between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Joe Biden, describing it as, “absolutely terrible policy.”

The Progressive Caucus Chair appeared on CNN to express her opposition to the tentative debt ceiling compromise.

Particularly, Jayapal took issue with the inclusion of some work requirements for SNAP benefits, which she said would affect poor people. Though she said that she hadn’t yet read the full text of the bill and isn’t able to determine if the work requirements are a deal-breaker, she criticized Republicans’ handling of negotiations.

“First of all, let me say, terrible policy,” Jayapal said. “Absolutely terrible policy; does not reduce spending, actually, by some estimates, creates a burden on administrative spending that is actually worse for, you know, for the overall cost of a program like that. Number two, it is about people who are hungry, people who just need a little bit of temporary assistance…and we are one of the only countries in the world, if not the only country in the world, that is an industrialized country that puts any requirements on people who just want food. So very bad policy; does not save money and, by the way, does not work.” (Read more from “Top Progressive Slams Debt Ceiling Bill as ‘Absolutely Terrible'” HERE)

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EU Furious After Elon Musk Pulls Twitter Out of Online Censorship Programme

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Senior EU officials were furious on Friday after Twitter owner Elon Musk pulled the platform out of the bloc’s online censorship project.

Elon Musk has pulled Twitter out of the EU’s “Code of Practice”, a pro-censorship project aimed at countering so-called “disinformation” online, prompting fury from those in Brussels.

It comes after months of mixed messages from the billionaire, who had publicly stated that he wanted to support free speech on the platform while repeatedly insisting that he would support the European Union in its pro-censorship crusade.

According to a report by POLITICO, it appears that the Big Tech entrepreneur may be prioritising his freedom of speech committment over pleasing EU overlords, with the publication detailing rumours that Musk was pulling Twitter out of the voluntary anti-disinformation project.

This was later confirmed by EU Internal Market Commissar Thierry Breton, who wrote on Twitter that the platform had indeed left the project.

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Poll: Most Republicans Say Trump Has Better Chance Than DeSantis to Win 2024 General Election

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Most Republicans believe former President Donald Trump has a better chance of winning the 2024 general election than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), a recent survey from The Economist/YouGov found.

The survey, taken May 20-23, 2023, prior to DeSantis formally announcing his 2024 presidential bid, asked respondents, “Which of these two Republicans do you think has the best chance of winning the 2024 general election for president?” The choices were either Trump or DeSantis.

Overall, a plurality, 40 percent, said Trump has the best chance of the two to win the general election in 2024.

Twenty-eight percent said the same for DeSantis, and nearly one-third, 32 percent, said they remain unsure. (Read more from “Poll: Most Republicans Say Trump Has Better Chance Than DeSantis to Win 2024 General Election” HERE)

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Biden Gives Update on Debt Ceiling Agreement

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President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that a debt ceiling bipartisan agreement with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) has taken the “threat of catastrophic default off the table.”

The two finalized the deal and is expected to go to the House Wednesday evening. However, the agreement still needs approval from both chambers of Congress.

“[The deal] represents a compromise, which means no one got everything they wanted. But that’s the responsibility of governing,” Biden said. “The agreement prevents the worst possible crisis and default for the first time in our nation’s history.”

The agreement comes just days before the U.S. would have faced its first-ever default. (Read more from “Biden Gives Update on Debt Ceiling Agreement” HERE)

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Parents Outraged After School Will Keep Kid’s Preferred Gender Identities Under Wraps

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North Dakota parents fumed at a school board after discovering it has kept students’ preferred gender identities under wraps.

Fargo Public Schools publicly announced that they would defy Republican Gov. Doug Burgum’s law that bans such actions in the classroom.

“We will not openly out any student because of one law if we know that that’s going to cause harm to that child,” Fargo Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Rupak Gandhi said.

The school district, among other schools in the country, has indicated they will allow minors to decide on which gender they, fueling the Left’s radical agenda.

The bill, signed into law this month, bans school boards from instilling policies that require the use of a student’s preferred pronouns, barring schools and teachers from “withhold[ing] or conceal[ing] information about a student’s transgender status from the student’s parent or legal guardian.” (Read more from “Parents Outraged After School Will Keep Kid’s Preferred Gender Identities Under Wraps” HERE)

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Four-Month-Old Girl Dies After Staying at Migrant Hotel

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A 4-month-old girl of an illegal immigrant family died Thursday after authorities found her unconscious at a midtown Manhattan hotel being used to house migrants.

The New York City Police Department responded to the Stewart Hotel around 7:30 a.m. and discovered the infant was not breathing, according to a report.

She was the daughter of immigrants from Ecuador and was quickly taken to a nearby hospital, where she was declared dead.

The death showed no signs of mistreatment, and foul play is not suspected, authorities said.

An official autopsy has been ordered for Friday, the report noted. (Read more from “Four-Month-Old Girl Dies After Staying at Migrant Hotel” HERE)

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You Thought General Milley Was Woke? Check Out This Extremist Tapped by Biden to Lead the US Military

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If you thought the right-wingers hated Gen. Mark Milley and his support for “wokeism” policies, wait until they get a load of U.S. Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown, who is now President Joe Biden’s pick to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Brown is a full-throated leader of diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, programs in the military. And he’s no shrinking violet. Early in the summer of 2020, as nationwide protests and riots boiled over George Floyd’s murder, Brown posted a video message that was unusually personal for a member of the Joint Chiefs, explaining how he felt and how the military’s path to diversity has been and will continue to be a long one. . .

“In 2020, Brown launched investigations into potential biases in the service’s promotion process and made changes to make it more equitable. The following year, he opened the Air Force’s first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion office,” reports Defense One’s Audrey Decker.

Brown, like all of the service chiefs, has been asked and answered about DEI policies extensively. He supports them and denies that they are a cause of recruiting struggles or retention of current troops. (Read more from “You Thought General Milley Was Woke? Check Out This Extremist Tapped by Biden to Lead the US Military” HERE)

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Joe Biden Falsely Claims to Have Four Granddaughters, Ignoring Hunter’s Illegitimate Child

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President Joe Biden falsely stated he has four granddaughters on Friday, leaving off his fifth, 4-year-old Navy Joan Roberts, the illegitimate daughter of Hunter Biden.

The president has repeatedly failed and refused to recognize Navy Joan as part of the Biden family, despite a court-ordered paternity test proving Hunter to be the child’s father in 2019. The latest lapse happened during comments the president made while hosting the 2023 Louisiana State University women’s national championship basketball team at the White House.

“The way in which women’s sports has come along is just incredible. And it’s not just in sports, it’s across the board in every single thing,” Biden said. “It’s really neat to see since I’ve got four granddaughters.”

Biden did not name his grandchildren on this occasion, but he has in the past left Navy Joan out of the Biden family lineup. During a “take your child to work day” event at the White House in April, Biden claimed and named six grandchildren, leaving off Navy Joan.

“The best part of it all, I have six grandchildren, and I’m crazy about them. I speak to them every single day,” Biden said. “Not a joke,” he added before going on to name six, never mentioning his 4-year-old grandchild living in Arkansas. (Read more from “Joe Biden Falsely Claims to Have Four Granddaughters, Ignoring Hunter’s Illegitimate Child” HERE)

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DeSantis Rips ‘Bizarre’ Trump Claim That Cuomo Handled COVID Better as Gov

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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fired back at former President Donald Trump Friday after he argued that disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo handled the COVID-19 pandemic better than the Sunshine State did.

DeSantis, who launched his 2024 presidential campaign earlier this week, called the 76-year-old Trump’s claim in a video posted to Truth Social – “very bizarre.”

Trump had accused DeSantis of being “average” compared to other GOP governors before suggesting Cuomo did a better job than DeSantis on COVID-19 policy.

“How about the fact that he had the third most deaths of any state having to do with the China virus or COVID? Even Cuomo did better, he was number four,” Trump claimed.

DeSantis rebuked his rival’s comments during an appearance on the “Ben Shapiro Show.” (Read more from “DeSantis Rips ‘Bizarre’ Trump Claim That Cuomo Handled COVID Better as Gov” HERE)

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