A coffee shop in Philadelphia known for its LGBTQ brand identity closed its doors after employees revolted against the owners and demanded that they “redistribute” the company.
Mina’s World, located in the neighborhood of West Philadelphia, was characterized by Bon Appetitas a business that doubled as a “hangout spot for people of marginalized identities.” Sonam Parikh, who ran the company alongside partner and co-owner Kate Egghart, told the outlet that Mina’s World was the city’s first coffee shop owned and operated by queer, trans people of color (“QTPOC”). The pair had named the company after their cat.
Parikh blasted other coffee shops for neglecting to “protect their Black and trans employees” and allow customers to enjoy coffee in a space that was not “whitewashed.” However, as chronicled by the Philadelphia Inquirerand Libs of TikTok, Parikh and Egghart are now facing similar allegations.
Let’s get one thing straight: The Left doesn’t care about women with unplanned pregnancies. They only care about murdering babies and keeping Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer-funded grift going. You know how we know? Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Eichmann) is trying to shut down crisis pregnancy centers that have helped untold millions of women — and saved the lives of more than 800,000 babies, just since 2016 — by providing prenatal care and ultrasounds, parenting classes, counseling, diapers, other baby supplies including formula and furniture, and access to social services. But that’s not good enough for Liz Warren because those centers refuse to shed innocent blood.
On Wednesday Warren said, “Here in Massachusetts, these so-called crisis pregnancy centers outnumber genuine abortion clinics three to one.”
She accused crisis pregnancy centers of tricking women into visiting the clinics thinking they’ll be able to get an abortion and then pulling a bait-and-switch in order to harm them. “That needs to stop. We need to put a stop to that in Massachusetts right now,” she declared.
Dobbs has caused the left to drop the mask; or as Steve wrote earlier today linking to Paula’s article, “From Pro-Choice to Pro-Abortion to Anti-Birth.”
As a result of my “studies,” I knew that one of the strangest things about Georgia is its bizarre stone monument known as the “Georgia Guidestones.” Erected in rural Georgia in 1980, the Stonehenge-like configuration bears strange, cryptic messages, in multiple languages, about living in harmony with nature at a sustainable population and entering an “Age of Reason.” The identity of the builders is unknown, save for the name “Robert C. Christian,” who purportedly worked on behalf of a “small group of loyal Americans” to put the thing up. It’s an extremely mysterious structure (which is also an astronomical calendar); allegedly, it offers a kind of plan for rebuilding humanity after a future cataclysm. More-wild theories than that exist about the thing. And it has attracted its share of detractors over the years, being denounced both in Georgia and elsewhere as some kind of demonic conduit or as a keystone in various conspiracies, such as that old chestnut, the “New World Order.”
Well, all of the above description should be in the past tense, because the Georgia Guidestones are no more, as Diana Glebova reported for us. After an explosion destroyed part of the structure, the state government took down the rest, “for safety reasons.” Culprits are still being sought, but it seems likely that the structure’s controversial reputation (it has been vandalized before over the years) and place in conspiracy-theorist lore sufficed to ensure its destruction.
While property damage is never right, the timing of its destruction does bring things full circle — erected at the tail-end of the Carter era, and demolished almost a year and a half into his feckless successor.
Still, my favorite part of the back and forth occurred when [Ben Smith, formerly of BuzzFeed and the New York Times] once again tried to goad Carlson over the issue of race. The response was both hilarious and on point.
Carlson hits the nail on the head. If you are a conservative in America, your ire is most likely pointed at affluent, white liberals (related: We Need to Talk About White, Liberal Wine Moms) who believe they are the saviors of minorities and push radical left-wing policies with no care for the unintended consequences. It’s not black people that Carlson is worried about. It’s certainly not Hispanics, many of whom are trending Republican these days. Rather, it’s people like Smith who pose the most present ideological danger to the nation, and last I checked, he’s white.
The bottom line is that Carlson is not going to bend the knee to left-wing lunatics who think that crying “white supremacist” is the peak of intellectualism. Smith can continue to gnash his teeth over eight-second Media Matters clips, but Carlson’s influence goes so far beyond that of his critics. He’s winning and they aren’t. That drives them insane.
Exit quote: Carlson tells Smith, “This is why you are considered, correctly, a propagandist and not a journalist. I just explained in detail, with total sincerity, what I believe, you ignored it, and invoked mass shooters.”
Jerry Harris, former Biden campaign surrogate and star of the Netflix documentary Cheer, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for sex crimes involving minors. The disgraced cheerleader pleaded guilty in February to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in a bathroom at a cheer competition and paying another underaged child to send him sexually explicit photos and videos on Snapchat.
Prior to his arrest in September 2020, Harris was one of several celebrity influencers the Biden campaign embraced in an effort to “win back the internet.” In June 2020, Biden appeared with Harris on Instagram Live to discuss “some really important issues facing our country right now, in particular young adults and the black community.” The video, which received more than 300,000 views on the social media platform, was deleted shortly after federal agents raided the influencer’s Illinois home in September. Harris was arrested days later.
The sentence is a blow to the Democratic Party, which has a long history of associating with sexual deviants. Last month, for example, Democratic donor Ghislaine Maxwell received a 20-year sentence for abusing and trafficking underage girls at the behest of Jeffrey Epstein, the scofflaw pedophile who “committed suicide” in 2019. Maxwell was a longtime friend of former president Bill Clinton, who gifted her a signed copy of his post-White House memoir and made numerous trips aboard Epstein’s private jet, nicknamed the “Lolita Express.” In 2010, Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding to failed hedge-fund manager Marc Mezvinsky.
Indeed, throughout it all, Boris — a politician with more élan than any prime minister since Margaret Thatcher — remained popular with the public. He was especially popular, I think, with the American public.
And why not? In the sea of squishy gray on gray that is the political establishment, Boris stood out as a vibrant, technicolor force of nature. He was probably better educated and more amusing than any PM since Churchill. It somehow seems appropriate that Macaulay made his famous comment in the context of a review of a book about Lord Byron. The scolds didn’t like Byron either.
On most of the big issues, I was at one with Boris. The biggest of the big issues, in my view, was Brexit. I do not think that partial recovery of British sovereignty would have happened absent his support. As the Tories huddle to discover a character sufficiently lackluster and housebroken to replace Boris, the greatest danger will be capitulating to the many Remainers who populate the party and would like nothing better than to return Britain to the jurisdiction of Brussels and rule by a Davos-inspired unaccountable elite. I’d like to see someone like Dan Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg, or (speaking of colorful characters) Nigel Farage replace Boris, but I suspect that the Humphrey Applebys of the world will step in and assure that the job goes to someone joyless as well as mediocre.
Speaking of Nigel Farage, that ardent Brexiteer told Fox News that Boris was elected as a conservative but governed as a liberal. Alas, that is largely true. Boris’s craven subservience to the “Green agenda” of the climate change fanatics and eco-nuts betrayed the country and help sow economic chaos. Deep down, I suspect, Boris must have known that (in the words of the commentator Robert Bryce) what the world needs now is cheap, abundant energy, period, full stop, end of discussion. In short, fossil fuels are mankind’s friend. The unpleasant irony is that their exploitation has made the world so rich that we have to put up with busybodies skirling about the dangers of climate change as they jet hither and yon to enjoy the fruits of a fossil-fuel-supported economy.
So what’s next for Boris? Could it be a return to appearing as a guest star on Top Gear?
Or perhaps back to writing sports car reviews for the British edition of GQ magazine, which Car and Driver deemed, “imitation Jeremy Clarkson at best?”
That might be difficult for a man who late last year, “spelt out the revolt against modernity that lies at the heart of climate-change alarmism when he used his speech at COP to complain about the invention of the steam engine. That contraption, which gave rise to the Industrial Revolution itself, was a ‘doomsday device’ that started the clock ticking on the eco-calamity we currently face, he madly said. And this is a PM who claims to stand up for British history and British greatness.”
DEEP DIVE ON THAT ROLLING STONE SUPREME COURT AGITPROP: Timing is everything in a lot of endeavors, including when a “journalist” manipulates the sequence of events to suit a Lefty narrative.
HERITAGE SUES DHS FOR BABEL X USE DATA: Odds are if you post on social media or use a smart phone, somebody in the federal government knows all about you. The Heritage Foundation filed an FOIA and is now in federal court asking a judge to order the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to stop the stall and cough up the documents the public has the right to see.
WITHOUT REMORSE: How Will Democrats Ditch Biden? “In more than 40 years of watching politics professionally and just for sport, I’ve never seen anything quite like the Left’s burgeoning ‘Ditch Biden’ movement.”
The ordinance drafts cover the five following restrictions:
Banning the sale of firearms to anyone under the age of 21
Requiring a waiting period of 10 days to sell or purchase a firearm
Prohibiting the carrying of firearms in sensitive public places
Banning the sale of assault rifles along with large magazines and trigger activators
Regulating the possession of unfinished gun frames and guns without serial numbers, sometimes referred to as ghost guns
Tuesdays’ approvals now open up the opportunity for a second reading where the community can get involved, questions can be asked, and tweaks can be proposed before a formal vote takes place.
Pennsylvania lieutenant governor John Fetterman (D.) took a taxpayer-funded security detail on a family vacation to the Jersey Shore while publicly advocating strict coronavirus lockdowns.
Pennsylvania state police spent $3,500 for overtime, food, and lodging during Fetterman’s trip to Ocean City, N.J., from June 24-27, 2020, according to records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Fetterman, the Democratic Senate nominee for Pennsylvania, made the trip amid a surge of cases in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department of Health warned at the time against nonessential travel. New Jersey’s governor threatened to crack down on Jersey Shore revelers because of a spike in cases there two days before Fetterman’s junket.
Fetterman has aggressively pushed lockdowns, masking, and other measures to fight the pandemic.
Fetterman requires taxpayer-paid vacations during a pandemic lockdown because he’s working so hard on the taxpayer’s behalf. Also, maybe a nice little dacha in the woods.
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