NAACP advises against visiting Florida over ‘hostile’ DeSantis polices, gov slams move as ‘stunt’

The NAACP issued a travel advisory discouraging tourists from visiting Florida to protest Gov. Ron DeSantis’ policies, which the civil rights group claim are “hostile to black Americans” — just days before he’s expected to announce his candidacy for president.

“On a seeming quest to silence African-American voices, the Governor and the State of Florida have shown that African Americans are not welcome in the State of Florida,” the stunning travel advisory released Saturday said.

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The Satanic Temple: Think you know about Satanists? Maybe you don’t

This may be the world’s largest ever gathering of Satanists – and it’s about to begin at a Marriott hotel in downtown Boston.

In a candle-lit room set aside for Satanic ceremonies, a neon sign welcomes you to The Little Black Chapel. A raised altar stands at one end, a white pentagram on the floor in front of it.

The ritual being performed here is an “unbaptism”, in which participants symbolically reject religious rites performed when they were children.

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Colby Cosh: The radical character of Canada’s assisted death regime

The Post’s national treasure, Tristin Hopper, filed a story earlier this week on a new Research Co. poll about Canadians’ attitudes toward legalized assisted suicide, an industry in which we are now in the vanguard of the world. Hopper’s piece emphasized surprisingly high levels of support for providing medical assistance with suicide to people whose problems might be described as primarily social.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants to Call Up Hunter Biden’s Foreign Prostitutes to Testify Before Congress

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The House Oversight Committee is currently discussing potential witnesses connected to Hunter Biden’s corrupt international affairs.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) now believes that the House should call up Hunter’s alleged foreign prostitutes to see if they present a national security issue.

h/t Mauser

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Nebraska state trooper is assaulted and six people arrested after pro-trans and pro-abortion protesters interrupt debate and throw ‘used tampons’ onto the house floor

Six people were arrested after protests broke out at the Nebraska State Capitol building when lawmakers passed a bill that banned abortions after 12 weeks.

Those opposing the controversial ‘Let Them Grow Act’ interrupted the debate on Friday to shout and throw what appeared to be bloody tampons onto the floor.

Authorities confirmed that a state trooper was assaulted during the incident after a woman punched him in the chest when he prevented her from pushing past him.

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Tampa man demands $3M for every black resident and claims they only care about getting their money not ‘nonsense like police violence’

A Tampa man has demanded the city hands out $3million in reparations to each Black resident – just days after Squad members pushed for a federal payment of $14trillion.

The unidentified man said that black people ‘don’t care about nonsense like police violence and homelessness’ during a Tampa City Council meeting on Thursday.

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Indigenous advocate says pause of Canada Day fireworks in Calgary was requested last year

The City of Calgary’s decision to refrain from holding a large fireworks display this Canada Day — in part because of cultural sensitivities — is two years too late, according to one Indigenous advocate.

On Thursday the city said it would forgo the usual July 1 fireworks display and instead have an enhanced pyrotechnic show on the main stage at Fort Calgary during the evening’s final act.

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h/t Mauser

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Hyundai and Kia settle lawsuit worth $200m over rampant vehicle theft

Hyundai and Kia have agreed to settle a consumer class-action lawsuit worth $200m over rampant thefts of the vehicles because of a TikTok trend.

In February, the Korean automakers said they would offer software upgrades to 8.3m US vehicles to help curb a stark increase in thefts using a method popularized on TikTok and other social media channels.

The TikTok trend started spreading in 2021, challenging users to steal 2010 to 2021 model year Kia and Hyundai cars using a USB cable. Cities across the US saw thefts of the vehicles spike. By fall 2022, Los Angeles officials said there was an 85% increase in thefts of Kia and Hyundai vehicles compared to the previous year.

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UK: “Adults under 40 are much more likely than older people to call themselves atheists, but also to say that they believe in hell” according to World Values Study

Hell, yes: younger Britons more likely to believe in damnation, study finds

You may think the idea of hellfire belongs to an age when people’s lives were shaped by the threat of eternal damnation.

Wrong, it seems: generation Z and millennials in the UK are significantly more likely to believe in hell than baby boomers, according to a new study by the Policy Institute at King’s College London.

Younger people are also more likely to believe in life after death than older generations, despite being less religious generally.

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