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At this Texas school, every student is a teen mother

Lincoln High – Planting the seed to go to college.

At the end of a year in which motherhood has been at the centre of impassioned debate in the US, a school in Texas for teenage mothers shows how young lives are being supported – and reshaped.

It was early 2021, and Helen had been eating more than usual.

The soon-to-be 15-year-old couldn’t explain why her appetite had seemed to grow so much.

“Is this normal?” she asked her older sister. It could be, her sister suggested.

But Helen had also been moody and would easily find herself picking fights with family and friends. Then her period was late.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

Video shows local opening fire on looter in Buffalo blizzard

A Buffalo looter made off with nothing but his life after a man took up arms to defend his neighborhood.

The ransacker had tried to break into one of the Pine Hill storefronts on Bailey Avenue when the civil soldier chased the would-be thief away, according to shocking video posted on Twitter Monday.

The clips show a group of people, some carrying brooms and sticks, running through the Skys the Limit Hair & Beauty parking lot after the looter.

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Abandoned U.S. military equipment now turning up on eBay

Amazing what you can buy on eBay these days.

Sure, you can buy a crockpot, a designer bag, a wristwatch, a car part, or some dried guascas for some cold-weather Colombian ajiaco, which I was looking up the other day.

But you can also buy a HIIDE or SEEK II military scanner which comes with complimentary database full of thousands of iris scans and fingerprints of U.S. service members, U.S. collaborators, and al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists dating from the Afghanistan War. Apparently, such devices were among the $7.1 billion’s worth of abandoned equipment in Afghanistan in Joe Biden’s disastrous military pullout last year. And now they’re turning up for sale on eBay.

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UK Government’s anti-terror scheme backed organisations that went on to promote extreme Islamist ideas

Taxpayers’ money has been handed to groups promoting Islamist extremism, a landmark review of the Government’s flagship Prevent programme has found.

Key figures in organisations funded by Prevent are alleged to have supported the Taliban, defended militant Islamist groups banned in the UK and hosted hate preachers, according to a leaked draft of the report seen by The Telegraph.

The review by William Shawcross, a former head of the Charity Commission, is expected to say that the “unacceptable” cases undermined Prevent’s ability to “effectively undertake counter-radicalisation” work.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK, WTF?

Cops believe ‘someone has info’ on slayings of University of Idaho students

Amid criticism for not finding a suspect in the brutal slaying of four University of Idaho students more than six weeks after the murders, the Moscow Police Department said Tuesday they believe someone is withholding information.

The department said in an update that detectives believe that person may have a crucial detail “that adds context to what occurred on the night of the murders.”

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Elon Musk claims ex-Twitter employees ran ‘Fauci Fan Club’ Slack channel

New Twitter boss Elon Musk revealed that former employees of the social media company managed a fawning Slack channel titled “Fauci Fan Club” — a reference to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert.

Musk tweeted the claim in a thread that was highly critical of Fauci, who was accused by the mogul of lying about so-called “gain-of-function” research that some suggest may have played a role in the spread of the coronavirus.

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‘Names have to be named’ in 2003 World Juniors sexual assault allegations, activist says

Six months after Halifax police opened an investigation into an alleged group sexual assault after the 2003 World Juniors hockey tournament in Halifax, a victims’ rights activist says well-paid current and retired NHL players are being protected — and she wants that to stop.

“I think that names have to be named,” said Judy Haiven, a retired professor, social activist and founder of Equity Watch, a non-profit organization set up to fight discrimination.

“Those young men who were in the 2003 juniors, most of them, probably all but one that I know of, went on to play in the NHL.”

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Catholic policeman wins £44,000 harassment case over anti-Pope mug

A Catholic firearms officer has won almost £44,000 in a religious harassment case after “f*** the Pope” was written on his work coffee mug.

Paul McCue, a police sergeant, discovered the message on the underside of his Celtic Football Club mug and was so upset that he had to go home from work.

The officer had previously been “harassed” by colleagues writing comments about the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary group, an employment tribunal in Glasgow was told.

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‘Celebrate diversity’ party ended in horror when drunk guest hurled racist abuse and slapped a female security guard so hard she went deaf

A drunk man who hurled vile racist abuse and slapped a female security guard at a party celebrating ethnic diversity has avoided jail.

Intoxicated Barry Danes, 34, struck Bethany Stone with such force that she lost her hearing for two months.

A court heard that the 6’3″ man then hurled racist abuse at revellers celebrating a ‘people of colour’ event at around 2.40am on February 25, as he stood outside Alberry’s bar in Canterbury, Kent.

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University issues trigger warning of ‘racism’ for Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe beats up Trudeau for dressing in Blackface

Sir Walter Scott has been dragged into a racism row as his most famous novel is given trigger warnings which the author’s descendants have branded “cowardly”.

The Scottish writer became one of Britain’s most popular for his historical fiction, including the often-adapted epic Ivanhoe, which has now been deemed potentially “disturbing” by academics at the University of Warwick.

Scott’s work has been branded “offensive” in its treatment of racial minorities, but this has provoked a furious response from one of the author’s descendants, who has branded such criticism a “cowardly” response to “political fashion”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", WTF?