Activists split over whether reparations should go to Black immigrants

BOSTON — When this city announced earlier this year that it would consider giving reparations to its Black residents, it was heralded as another victory in a national movement to offer recompense for the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow segregation.

The city had played a key role in financing the slave trade and was the site of fierce resistance to integration. Now, advocates said, it was time to address the lingering damage.

But as the mayor started choosing members for the Boston task force, the city quickly became one of the chief battlegrounds of an adjacent fight playing out within the Black community: Should reparations programs be limited to people who trace their ancestry back to American slavery, or should they include Black immigrants who came to the country by choice?

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Mohammad Moiz Omar acknowledges his attack on Mississauga Mosque constitutes terrorist activity

A man who assaulted worshippers at a mosque in Mississauga, Ont., last year had been planning the attack for a year and was motivated by hatred of and a desire to intimidate Muslims, court documents show.

Mohammad Moiz Omar “intended to perpetrate a mass casualty event” when he entered the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre during early morning prayer on March 19, 2022 and sprayed bear spray toward congregants while swinging a hatchet, according to an agreed statement of facts read at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Brampton, Ont. Wednesday.

Omar, who was 24 years old at the time of the attack, pleaded guilty to three charges, according to one of his lawyers, Jacob Roth of Robichaud Criminal Lawyers. Those charges include administering a noxious substance with intent to endanger life or cause bodily harm, assault with a weapon, and mischief to religious property with motivation of bias, prejudice or hate based on religion.

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Pierre Poilievre makeover can’t hide the meanness says Heather Mallick

Pierre Poilievre wants to look like a hot, strapping man of the people. He won’t. It can’t be done. But the advisers of the federal Conservative Party leader demanded a makeover and events unfolded.

They got rid of his glasses — whether due to contacts or surgery we don’t know — and gave him T-shirts to wear under unstructured (stretchy, unlined) blazers, jeans, and summertime Tom Cruise-style aviators.

Now he looks like a man who forgot his glasses and had to assemble a vacation wardrobe after the airline lost his luggage.

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Pentagon confirms myocarditis cases in troops spiked after COVID vax rollout

Cases of myocarditis soared among U.S. service members in 2021 after the COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out, a top Pentagon official has confirmed.

There were 275 cases of myocarditis in 2021—a 151 percent spike from the annual average from 2016 to 2020, according to Gilbert Cisneros Jr., undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, who confirmed data revealed by a whistleblower earlier this year.

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New York City to Pay $13 Million to Far-Left Rioters

On Wednesday, New York City agreed to pay over $13 million to about 1,300 far-left rioters who clashed with police during the 2020 race riots.

As reported by ABC News, the settlement was filed in a Manhattan federal court and awaits final approval by a judge. If it is approved, it would become one of the largest payouts ever in a lawsuit regarding mass arrests. The lawsuit highlighted 18 different riots that took place in the summer of 2020 in response to the death of George Floyd, a black man who died of a fentanyl overdose while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Texas woman seeks $1M from doctors who put her on testosterone at age 17 and left her ‘nipples peeling off’ from botched trans op

A young Texas woman is suing the doctors who put her on testosterone at age 17 and botched her double breast removal the next year, saying they should have treated her for depression and anxiety instead.

Soren Aldaco, 21, says she was confused, autistic, depressed and anxious when doctors in Fort Worth and Austin encouraged her to become a boy, take cross-sex hormones and later have both breasts removed.

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Investigation into potential unmarked graves on First Nation turns outs to be potential nothingburger

Investigation into potential unmarked graves on First Nation comes up empty: RCMP

WINNIPEG – Mounties say after a yearlong investigation into potential unmarked graves detected in a western Manitoba First Nation, they have not found any evidence pointing to criminal activities.

Minegoziibe Anishinabe, also known as Pine Creek First Nation, requested the RCMP launch an investigation after it found 14 points of concern underneath the Catholic church in the community last year using ground-penetrating radar.

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Sexual Mutilation Fetishist Levine claims children under 13 CAN start to transition rather than go through the ‘wrong puberty’

Transgender Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine has claimed children can go through ‘the wrong puberty.’

Levine, 65, endorsed providing gender-affirming care to minors, arguing that the treatment options are ‘evidence-based.’

‘The treatment options for gender-affirming care for transgender youth really are evidence-based,’ Levine said.

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‘Cocaine Sharks’ may be feasting on bales of drugs off Florida’s coast

Thousands of sharks off Florida’s coast may have ingested bales of cocaine left in the water by drug smugglers attempting to get their product into the U.S.

Marine biologist Tom Hird wanted to examine whether the sharks have come into contact with the drug, which is the subject of a documentary that will premiere on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week called “Cocaine Sharks.”

h/t Mauser

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Female IT boss sues for sex discrimination after male colleagues had Nerf gun wars in office

A female IT boss on £90,000 a year sued for sex discrimination after complaining her male colleagues had Nerf gun wars in the office.

Sarah Longman described a “laddish” workplace culture where members of staff in the department she managed used the children’s toy blasters to fire foam pellets at each other.

Ms Longman, head of information systems, also complained that they threw rubber chickens at each other as part of a wider “sexist” environment where her team regularly took part in “childlike” and “immature” pranks.

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Climate Engineering to Fight Global Warming? What Could Go Wrong!

Two years ago, a documentary, “The Dimming: Exposing The Global Climate Engineering Cover-Up,” was released by Dane Wigington of Geoengineering Watch. The documentary claimed that climate engineering had been going on for decades, and there had been a massive cover-up.

In fact, Yahoo Finance reported in 2019 that “Bill Gates backs plan to tackle climate change by blocking out the sun.”

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