Day: August 2, 2023

Popular coffee brand outrages consumers with image of post-op trans man: ‘Glorification of breast mutilation’

8:00 am August 2, 2023

Backlash has begun against the popular British coffee brand Costa after consumers spotted the company using a graphic of a transgender man bearing scars from a “top surgery.” Several online users and coffee drinkers were surprised to see a photo of a Costa Express Van showcasing a colorful image of a transgender person with scars […]

If Republicans want to impeach Biden, it’s these three ways or nothing

8:00 am August 2, 2023

Republicans need to roll forward with impeaching Joe Biden, but slowly. Caution is essential because: Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is talking about starting an impeachment inquiry, and no wonder. The Speaker of the House is responding to mounting evidence that the president’s son Hunter Biden sold access to his father when the latter was vice […]

12th-grade boys becoming more conservative as girls trend overwhelmingly liberal, survey finds

7:00 am August 2, 2023

High school boys are trending more conservative than in previous years, while girls of the same age are now moving overwhelmingly in the opposite direction, according to a study by the University of Michigan. Twelfth-grade boys are nearly twice as likely to call themselves conservative, versus liberal, with the gap steadily growing in recent years. […]

California politicians have message for Taylor Swift, Eras Tour amid new strikes

6:21 am August 2, 2023

Several California politicians are urging Taylor Swift not to perform concerts in Los Angeles as a way to stand in solidarity with striking hotel workers. Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and dozens of state and local politicians signed an open letter urging Swift to postpone her concerts in the city, saying the region’s hotels stand to […]

Bipartisan bill would allow people who consumed marijuana to gain federal employment

6:12 am August 2, 2023

Recreational cannabis has been legalized in more than 20 states and Washington, D.C., and there is now a bipartisan effort on Capitol Hill to change a law that limits federal hiring by automatically disqualifying candidates who admit to having used cannabis. The proposed bill introduced by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., has already received bipartisan support, […]