Hey white women? Beyonce’s album is not for you. pic.twitter.com/wCzAldyiDG
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 30, 2024
WTF?
wtf
Rutgers gender study professor tells seminar that it’s ‘homophobic and violent’ to flag how badly LGBT people are treated in Gaza
A Rutgers University professor told a seminar discussing the Israel-Hamas conflict that it is ‘violent’ and ‘homophobic’ to raise the issue of how LGBT people are treated in Gaza.
Maya Mikdashi, associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at New Jersey’s State University, told students earlier this month that she has been approached by people at pro-Palestine protests who tell her that she would be treated horribly by Hamas.
‘So I’ve been at protests where I’m then told “don’t you know what Hamas would do to you, if you were in Palestine”,’ she said.
Carbon price is a ‘tough political battle,’ Eco-Nutter says ahead of huge theft of citizen’s money
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the carbon price remains a “tough political battle” as the controversial decision to keep raising the price is set to kick in on Monday.
Guilbeault told The West Block host Mercedes Stephenson that the increase does more financial good than harm for average Canadians, and is necessary to solve climate change.
“We have a plan that is balanced, that is asking big polluters to do more — way more — than Canadians, but Canadians also have a contribution. We all have a role to play,” he said.
WTF?
An Oregon man narrowly escaped death when a runaway saw blade whipped through a parking lot and lodged into a building.
Shane Reimche was entering a in Eugene on March 28 when the concrete saw broke loose from a nearby construction site.pic.twitter.com/q0RGbTsINK
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 31, 2024
‘Equity-Based Algebra’ Is as Bad as You Imagine It to Be
California’s Math Framework (CMF) has been adopted in most of the state’s 950 school districts. And the one person most responsible for writing and pushing the framework, Jo Boaler, has been the target of a 100-page anonymous complaint that she misrepresented dozens of citations that underpin her research.
WTF?
NEW – German public broadcaster ARD delivered a bizarre dance performance this year at a televised Good Friday service.pic.twitter.com/X8BNFwuw6V
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 30, 2024
h/t Hermes
Swastikas ‘need to be taken in context’, Met officer tells Jewish woman
Anti-Semitism campaigners have reacted with anger after a Metropolitan Police officer was filmed telling a Jewish woman that swastikas displayed during a pro-Palestinian march in London needed to be “taken in context”.
Footage uploaded to social media shows a Jewish woman complaining to an officer about placards bearing Nazi symbols being carried by anti-Israeli demonstrators.
WH Doubles Down After Declaring Easter‘Transgender Day of Visibility’
White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre has doubled down after President Joe Biden declared Easter Sunday “Transgender Day of Visibility.”
Jean-Pierre’s statement on X Saturday followed overwhelming backlash to Biden’s animated affirmation of the controversial holiday as the same day as the holiest Christian holiday.
Secret police report exposes Canada’s devastating economy
A new secret report by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police warns that the Canadian economy is expected to be “bleak” for the next several years under Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The report claims that living standards will continue to “decline” for “younger generations.”
While a significant portion of the report, which is labeled “Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for Canada,” is redacted, the report forecasts economic woes for Canada for at least the next five years.
The Americans now regard Canada as the other “Loony Bin Next Door.”
Report at link below.
rcmp-whole-of-government-five-year-trends-for-canada-compressed
Pope Francis …
Pope Francis on Israel's assault on Gaza: "This is not war. This is terrorism."
The Assembly of Italian Rabbis have since criticized the Pope and "problematic statements" by the members of the Church. pic.twitter.com/Xwh8yLXYr3
— Hassan Ghani (@hassan_ghani) November 24, 2023
WTF?
This is simple to resolve and for me would be reflected with absence of a tip. Consider @ 15% that would be ~ $13 less in their pockets. I will mark Tofino off my list as a place to vacation. https://t.co/EyZxs8OiXA
— Lt. (Retired LAPD) Frank Columbo 🇮🇱 🇮🇱🇮🇱 (@jsam10983741) March 31, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
WTF?
Meanwhile in New York the NYPD are back to getting tough on the pro-Pal protesters. Anyone on the street gets arrested. One such arrest leads to an heavy Amazon box being thrown at a cop. Such ‘peaceful’ protests. pic.twitter.com/oh4tqBRrik
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) March 30, 2024
Meanwhile in Torontostan … Police set a roadblock limit to the Paliie’s march
@TorontoPolice doing what they do best. Attack peaceful protesters. Shame on TPS. #toronto #TPS pic.twitter.com/uztBfKxZy2
— Zara . زهرا (@Zara9lives) March 31, 2024
Shame on TPS "Toronto Police" , the protest was super peaceful like the past 6 months, yet with no reason or even warning they trapped the protesters and started arresting people. This will just make us more strong and powerful#StopTheGenocide #toronto #tps #freepalestine pic.twitter.com/5AakQBcHud
— Tarek Ghriri-طارق غريري (@TarekGhriri) March 31, 2024
Police cruiser with sirens blaring unexpectedly drives down closed section of Parliament Street in front of 51 Division.
The cruiser narrowly avoided protesters praying on the blocked off road— they were kneeling, at the time. Some personal belongings were run over.
The crowd… pic.twitter.com/xyKcrL3Rbt
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) March 31, 2024
Excellent Ratio.
Today, the @TorontoPolice brazenly accelerated through a blocked roadway in front of 51 Division, disregarding the sanctity of a space where Muslims were gathered in prayer, their vehicle accelerating close to over twenty Muslims bowed down in prayer. Amidst this, personal… pic.twitter.com/pNoLgpVos4
— binish ahmed PhD (abd) 🍉 (@binishahmed) March 31, 2024
Joly risks Hamas vote with assault on individual
Video shows confrontation with Melanie Joly over Palestinian refugees
A video circulating on social media platforms this weekend showed Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly in a tense confrontation with a man on the street in Montreal over the Israel-Hamas war.
The man who filmed the video implored Joly to “lift the cap on the number of Palestinian refugees” that Canada should welcome while she was walking on Laurier Street in the Mile End neighbourhood on Friday.
Foreign minister @melaniejoly loosing her cool when questioned about Gaza translated into English pic.twitter.com/twXi8H9e4a
— Yves Engler (@EnglerYves) March 30, 2024
What Is Causing the Squatting Surge?
Dear Weekend Jolter,
Who’s up for a round of armchair sociology?
Say the world is struck by a calamity unprecedented in the modern age, and, in response, good citizens are instructed to work from home if possible and keep their children home from school; college grads are allowed to pause student-loan payments; and landlords are told not to evict tenants for falling behind on rent.
Pensioner who’s survived being crucified 35 times says it’s time to hang up the nails
A man has who had been nailed to a cross 35 times to mark Good Friday has said he is too old to keep being crucified.
Ruben Enaje, a 63-year-old carpenter and sign painter, has registered for the real-life crucifixion’s in a village north of Manila, in the Philippines, for the last 35 years.