After several days of telling the media that Target's stores were under threat from people who objected to their pride display and satanic merchandise to celebrate transgender ideology, an email that detailed a bomb threat was sent to media outlets. The terrorist then listed five different targets in Ohio and Pennsylvania and then continued, "We will continue to bomb your targets until you stop cowering and bring back your LGBT merchandise we will not be erased we won't go quietly." read more
Clear majorities of Americans support restrictions affecting transgender children, a Washington Post-KFF poll finds, offering political jet fuel for Republicans in statehouses and Congress who are pushing measures restricting curriculum, sports participation and medical care. Most Americans don't believe it's even possible to be a gender that differs from that assigned at birth. A 57 percent majority of adults said a person's gender is determined from the start, with 43 percent saying it can differ. read more
The spread of Covid-19 is no longer a global public health emergency, the World Health Organization declared on Friday. "For more than a year, the pandemic has been on a downward trend with population immunity increasing from vaccination and infection, mortality decreasing, and the pressure on health systems easing," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva. read more
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and Kentucky Representative James Comer on Wednesday issued a subpoena with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seeking an unclassified record called an FD-1023 form that they say allegedly details an arrangement involving an exchange of money for policy decisions. "The information provided by a whistleblower raises concerns that then-Vice President Biden allegedly engaged in a bribery scheme with a foreign national," Comer said in a statement announcing the subpoena. "The American people need to know if President Biden sold out the United States of America to make money for himself. Senator Grassley and I will seek the truth to ensure accountability for the American people." read more
Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has died, according to his longtime publicist Victoria Lord via CBC. He was 84. read more
Snoofy, this post was more so for Tres who was babbling on in his post how these threats were being orchestrated by right wingers and then I mentioned in his post that Target was keeping rather mum about who was actually doing the threatening. This was simply a post to confirm what I said and show him that he was incorrect in his claims.