An academic who resigned from a Virginia university after saying it wasn’t necessarily immoral for adults to be sexually attracted to kids has been hired by a Johns Hopkins University center aimed at preventing child sexual abuse.
WTF?
wtf
‘Anger that I haven’t seen before’: Singh harassment incident puts renewed spotlight on politicians’ security
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s recent encounter with protesters at an Ontario election campaign stop, where he was verbally harassed, is casting a renewed spotlight on politicians’ security, with Singh telling CTV News that he’s witnessing a level of anger he hasn’t seen before.
“What I’m noticing is true is that there is more of a polarization and an aggression and an anger that I haven’t seen before,” he said while visiting a pro-choice counter protest to the March for Life demonstrations on Parliament Hill on Thursday.
Singh received a barrage of insults earlier in the week as he exited a rally for Ontario NDP candidate Jen Deck, who’s running in the Peterborough – Kawartha riding.
Politicians verbally assaulted in Public! Why it’s an insurrection! Jail the peasantry!
Reap what you sow commie.
Calling men ‘bald’ at work now considered sexual harassment in the UK
Insulting a man for being bald in the workplace amounts to sex harassment in the UK, a panel of balding judges have ruled, according to a report Thursday.
Hair loss is far more common among men than women, so using the term is “inherently related to sex” — and equivalent to commenting on the size of a woman’s breasts, the employment tribunal said, according to the UK Telegraph.
Nigerian student beaten, burned to death over ‘blasphemous’ text messages
KANO, Nigeria, May 12 (Reuters) – A female Nigerian student was beaten to death and set on fire by fellow students who accused her of posting “blasphemous” statements in a student Whatsapp group, two witnesses said.
The school, located in Nigeria’s northwesternmost state of Sokoto, was immediately closed down following the attack. Nigeria is divided into a largely Christian south and mostly Muslim north. Incidents such as this are very rare.
Illegal migrants first to get ‘pallets’ of hard-to-find baby formula
The nationwide shortage of baby formula that has sent mothers desperately rushing from store to store has evaded one lucky group: illegal immigrants detained by Border Patrol.
According to videos posted by a Florida lawmaker, the Biden administration has been shipping “pallets” of baby formula to migrant holding facilities.
Nina Jankowicz says verified Twitter users should ‘edit’ others’ tweets
The “disinformation expert” tapped by President Biden to head a new US agency division that critics have likened to an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth” says that “verified” Twitter users should be able to edit other users’ tweets if they believe they are misleading.
I Criticized BLM. Then I Was Fired.
The data about police shootings just didn’t add up, but no one at Thomson Reuters wanted to hear it.
Until recently, I was a director of data science at Thomson Reuters, one of the biggest news organizations in the world. It was my job, among other things, to sift through reams of numbers and figure out what they meant.
About a year ago, I stumbled on a really big story. It was about black Americans being gunned down across the country and the ways in which we report on that violence. We had been talking nonstop about race and police brutality, and I thought: This is a story that could save lives. This is a story that has to be told.
But when I shared the story with my coworkers, my boss chastised me, telling me expressing this opinion could limit my ability to take on leadership roles within the company. Then I was maligned by my colleagues. And then I was fired.
This is the story Reuters didn’t want to tell.
WTF?
Teacher claims she has 3 students who identify as trans only while in her classroom (because she had a pronoun mug) and she doesn’t tell parents or anyone else. pic.twitter.com/xfKkwzrdrJ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 12, 2022
Followers of QAnon ‘Queen of Canada’ face mounting problems after being convinced utilities are free
After being persuaded to disregard bill payments by a Filipino QAnon influencer who told her followers that she is the Queen of Canada, believers are now facing thousands of dollars’ worth of bills and utility outages.
Romana Didulo rose to popularity over the last two years after several QAnon influencers “confirmed” that she had sovereign power over Canada, growing over 70,000 followers on the instant messaging platform Telegram.
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‘People say they want me arrested’: the owners putting their pets on vegan diets
The vegan pet food industry is now worth billions. But can plant-based meals really meet a dog or cat’s nutritional needs?
Father Terry Martin, a Catholic priest in West Sussex, became a vegan almost three years ago. The transition was fairly abrupt: he was alone eating a roast dinner with his dog Pepe on his knees (“I know,” he says. “Terrible.”) when he was struck by the realisation that the animal he was eating had been “just as sentient as the one sitting on my lap”.
I don’t know about arrested but horsewhipped certainly.
WTF?
COMPILATION: TikTokers discuss the ethics of bringing babies into this world because of climate change. pic.twitter.com/MGfI8aDdZ3
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 11, 2022
Writer’s essay on why she plagiarized in her debut novel about a young black woman is pulled after it’s found she COPIED that too
A writer’s essay explaining why she plagiarized parts of what would have been her debut novel has been deleted after it was revealed she copied that as well.
Jumi Bello’s book The Leaving was scheduled to come out on July 12 and had appeared on several ‘most anticipated’ lists, according to Publisher’s Market, when its publisher Riverhead Books suddenly scrapped it in December.
The 30-year-old has now revealed the reason the book was abruptly canceled when it was in its final stages was because she admitted to the New York City-based publishing company she had plagiarized parts of the novel.
They really do want your children.
Amazon pulls sexually explicit childrenswear from its Canadian site following complaint
Amazon has pulled from its e-commerce website several children’s clothing items displaying a sexually explicit message, following a CBC News investigation.
The items, sold by third-party sellers, included a dress, T-shirt, summer hat and hoodies boldly displaying the message “I love c–k,” using a heart emoji. Sometimes a rooster emoji replaced the word, “c–k,” which is another word for a rooster and slang for a male appendage.
