Muslim event at public waterpark in Texas canceled after Gov. Abbott threatens city funding

This was a private event held and paid for by the group for a set amount of time at the park.ย  It is a normal occurrence at parks like this.ย  If this had been a Christian church doing the event it would have caused no backlash and been accepted.ย  But because it was a Muslim sponcered event with mostly clothing of this sect of the Islamic faith that also encouraged the eating of foods not normally eaten by Christians it caused a backlash of Islamophobia.ย  Hate for people and customs different from the Christian religion practiced by white people is common in the nearly theocratic Texas.ย  Hugs

The park is available for rent at a cost of $5,000 an hour,ย Dallas Newsย reported.

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https://www.christianpost.com/news/muslim-waterpark-event-canceled-after-gov-abbott-threatens-city.html

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A private event at a Texas city-owned water park has been canceled following backlash and a direct threat by Gov. Greg Abbott to withhold more than $500,000 in state public safety funding.

A spokesperson for the City of Grand Prairie said Thursday the city canceled the DFW Epic Eid Celebration scheduled for June 1 at the Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark.

โ€œAfter further review and in the best interest of the City of Grand Prairie, the June 1 Eid event at Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark has been canceled,โ€ the spokesperson said.

The event at the city-owned waterpark was initially promoted with flyers describing it as โ€œMuslims onlyโ€ and included a modest dress code requiring burkinis for women, halal food, a private prayer room and rules encouraging attendees to maintain personal space and โ€œlower the gaze.โ€

After backlash on social media, organizers updated promotional materials to state that โ€œall are welcome,โ€ provided attendees follow the modest dress code.

Abbottโ€™s Public Safety Officeย shared a letterย with The Christian Post that had been sent to Grand Prairie Mayor Ron Jensen warning that the โ€œDFW Epic Eidโ€ event โ€œwas publicly and openly advertised as discriminating based on religionโ€ and therefore violated agreements between the city and the Public Safety Office.

The letter from Public Safety Office Executive Director Andrew Friedrichs said the event โ€œpurports to be public facing and discriminatory at the same timeโ€ and compared it to advertising for a โ€œWhites onlyโ€ event.

โ€œAll Muslims โ€” but only Muslims โ€” may attend,โ€ Friedrichs wrote. โ€œAn event at a city-owned pool that was publicly and indiscriminately advertised as โ€˜Whites onlyโ€™ would surely violate the Constitution.โ€

Event organizer Dr. Aminah Knight later updated the online flyer to clarify that the DFW Eid Celebration is a โ€œprivately organized and privately funded event held through a standard rental of Epic Waters, just like many other private gatherings hosted at the park.โ€

โ€œAt its core, this event is about creating a space where individuals and families, particularly those who value modest dress and a modest environment, can come together and enjoy a recreational setting comfortably,โ€ Knight wrote.

Knight added that anyone โ€œof a different faith who wants to celebrate the Eid holiday with us and adhere to the modest dress codeโ€ is welcome to attend.


A screenshot of an online flyer for a 2025 “Muslims only” event at the Epic Indoor Waterpark in Grand Prairie, Texas.
ย |ย Screenshot/Facebook

A Facebookย post shared by Knightย in May 2025 promoting last yearโ€™s event included aย flyerย calling it an โ€œexclusive Muslim-only eventโ€ and stating that the taxpayer-funded facility was โ€œclosed to the publicโ€ for โ€œMuslims only.โ€

It is unclear whether the City of Grand Prairie approved the flyer or its contents. The city did not respond to CP’s request for comment by Thursday afternoon.

While the 2026 event flyer listed Knight as the organizer, a video shared on social media by Muhammad Abdullah, listed as the director of Outreach & Youth at Al-Hedayah Academy in Fort Worth, claimed he organized the event.

In aย videoย posted Tuesday, Abdullah blamed โ€œIslamophobiaโ€ for the public response to the now-canceled event and said, โ€œBy the way, Iโ€™m organizing that with my wife.โ€

CP reached out to Al-Hedayah Academy, where Abdullah isย picturedย as a member of the mosqueโ€™s โ€œspiritual team,โ€ seeking clarification Thursday on whether the mosque was involved in organizing the event.

According to Knight, more than 600 people attended the event last year, and all โ€œlovers of modest fashion and those who are curious about Eid and what modesty at a waterpark can look likeโ€ are welcome to attend.

Owned by the city of Grand Prairie near the Dallas and Tarrant County border, Epic Waters โ€” which has no ties to the planned Muslim-centric development formerly known as โ€œEPIC Cityโ€ โ€” is an 80,000-square-foot waterpark with a retractable roof and the longest indoor lazy river in North Texas, according to its website.

Epic Waters opened in 2017 after voters approved a 0.25% sales tax, according to city documents. The park is available for rent at a cost of $5,000 an hour,ย Dallas Newsย reported.

 

Mehdi CHALLENGES Graham Platner on His Tattoo and More

In this interview Graham Platner responds to his detractors accusations against him.ย  He discusses the tattoo and the Jewish times report that says he had talked about it while working at a bar during the time frame he was not working there.ย  So there is not any credible evidence that he knew what the tattoo was.ย  As he said why would he have danced with it in full display to his extended Jewish family?ย  ย He makes sense.ย  He understands that people may not like him because he is not polished as a politician.ย  He also says he stumbles verbally and struggles to correct and improve himself.ย  ย  It was a hard hitting interview and Platner came off as very reasonable.ย  Hugs

Now, in this must-watch interview, Mehdi Hasan speaks to Platner not just about his vision for a progressive โ€œpolitical revolutionโ€ in Washington DC but also about some of his controversies, including his social media and his tattoo that resembled a Nazi symbol.

Pete Hegsethโ€™s Far-Right Pastor: โ€œImmodestly Dressed Women Are Sluts Who Just Give It Away To Every Slobโ€

Pete Hegseth’s Far-Right Pastor: “Immodestly Dressed Women Are Sluts Who Just Give It Away To Every Slob”

 

Theย Times of Londonย reports:

A week before the US went to war with Iran, Pete Hegseth, the war secretary, invited the head of his church to lead prayers at the Pentagon. From his pulpit in Idaho, Doug Wilson, a 72-year-old ultraconservative pastor, preaches that homosexuality is a sin, women who dress immodestly are โ€œslutsโ€, and Charles Darwinโ€™s theory of evolution is the โ€œsilliest thing in the worldโ€.

Despite Hegsethโ€™s evangelising, Wilson says the Trump administration is far from morally pure. He says the president is โ€œnot someone I would call a godly Christian manโ€, and disagrees with Trumpโ€™s appointment of a gay man, Scott Bessent, as his Treasury secretary because homosexuality is not just a sin, it is โ€œa bad oneโ€.

Of all his gripes, however, Wilson is most indignant about the 1960s sexual revolution, a moral catastrophe that he condemns frequently in his blog posts, sermons and books. He thinks women should dress modestly. But what is modest dress? โ€œNot what theyโ€™re doing now,โ€ he says. โ€œI could pick on yoga pants.โ€ He continues: โ€œMen know what they think of hookers, which is not very much. When youโ€™re just giving it away to every slob on the bus who wants to look, youโ€™re degrading the currency.โ€

Does that mean Wilson and his followers sympathise with the dress codes enforced by Shia clerics in Iran? โ€œNo, because wrapping them up in a bedsheet is another way of degrading them. It is possible to be modest and attractive โ€” attractive withoutย attracting. Bundling them up the way really conservative Muslims do is a different kind of degradation. Like youโ€™re not a person. But for a woman to dress like a slut is a different kind of degradation. Both kinds of degradation play off of each other.โ€

Read theย full article. Itโ€™s quite the deep dive.

Wilson appeared here last month when he called for criminalizing homosexuality and outlawing all LGBTQ events.

In March, Wilson declared that under his Christian nationalist theocracy, all non-Protestant public events โ€“ such a Catholic parades that venerate the Virgin Mary โ€“ would be banned.

Also in March, a separate pastor at Hegsethโ€™s church prayed for God to kill Senate candidate James Talarico.

Pete Hegsethโ€™s pastor: โ€˜Women who dress immodestly are slutsโ€™

The Times and Sunday Times (@thetimes.com) 2026-05-05T11:45:51.187Z

 

 

Vatican criticizes conversion therapy, features gay Catholic testimony in ‘historic’ report

https://religionnews.com/2026/05/05/vatican-criticizes-conversion-therapy-features-gay-catholic-testimony-in-unexpected-report/

Advocates for LGBTQ+ Catholics expressed surprise to see the Vatican publishing the testimonies of married gay men.
Vatican criticizes conversion therapy, features gay Catholic testimony in โ€˜historicโ€™ report
Some of the hundreds of LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families who joined a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome, celebrating a new level of acceptance in the Catholic Church and crediting Pope Francis for the change, walk through the Holy Door of St. Peterโ€™s Basilica at the Vatican, Sept. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

FL Man Arrested On Felony Hate Crime Charges For Brutally โ€œBeating The Gay Out Ofโ€ Five-Year-Old Boy

FL Man Arrested On Felony Hate Crime Charges For Brutally “Beating The Gay Out Of” Five-Year-Old Boy

West Palm Beachโ€™s CBS affiliateย reports:

A Florida man is facing life felony charges after allegedly brutally assaulting a defenseless 5-year-old boy in an act of hate-fueled child abuse. โ€œThis was a brutal and hateful attack on a defenseless child. There is absolutely no excuse for it. We will make sure justice is served and these children get the safety and support they deserve,โ€ Sheriff Grady Judd said.

The Polk County Sheriffโ€™s Office said that on Sunday, May 3, 33-year-old Andre Brown Jr. from Davenport was arrested for child abuse. According to officials, this charge has been categorized as a life felony because it is considered a hate crime.

During interviews with the children in Browns care, it was revealed that Brown had been physically abusive toward a 5-year-old boy, specifically targeting him because he was โ€œmad at him for being gay.โ€ Brown reportedly told deputies that he abused the child because of his sexual orientation, claiming he would โ€œbeat the gay out of him if possible.โ€

Theย Orlando Sentinelย reports:

The boy told authorities he was afraid of Brown and did not want to talk much about what happened. He had the worst injuries of the three: marks and bruising on his legs, arms, back, and stomach; a fracture to his right wrist; and a contusion to his forehead. He had marks all over his body consistent with being hit by a belt, the sheriffโ€™s office said.

When deputies attempted to remove Brown from the scene, he pulled away, became loud and began yelling slurs, the sheriffโ€™s office said. He continued yelling and pulling away once placed in handcuffs, according to the release, and also was charged with resisting arrest.

Brown has a lengthy criminal history, including domestic battery strangulation, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, kidnapping with intent to commit a felony, home invasion robbery with a firearm and battery on a law enforcement officer, the release said.

Heโ€™s being held without bond.

 

 

From “The White Pages”

Endless shrimp is a force that gives us meaning

The brands heard that you were lonely and would like to propose a solution

Garrett Bucks

Red Lobster wants your attention. You can tell, because their current ads deploy not one but two separate announcers. Thereโ€™s the expository guy. Heโ€™s a little pushy but at least he sticks to the facts. And then thereโ€™s the loud guy. Heโ€™s got a deep voice. He sounds like heโ€™s broadcasting live from the submerged city of Atlantis. He says it with feeling, and also reverb.

โ€œBecause youโ€™ve been askingโ€ฆ a lotโ€ฆ and we made it happen.โ€

So claims the not-from-Atlantis announcer. But whatโ€™s he talking about? We have been asking for many things. To be able to afford homes, for example, or not to have war crimes committed in our names, or to have our planet still exist twenty years from now.

Oh, this is about shrimp. Endless shrimp. Itโ€™s back, or so Iโ€™m told, in multiple forms. Every time the less pushy guy shares one of the currently available shrimp offerings, his partner pipes up with a complementary point straight from the bottom of the sea.

โ€œWaltโ€™s favorite shrimp.โ€

โ€œ ENDLESS!โ€

โ€œGarlic shrimp scampiโ€

โ€œENDLESSโ€

โ€œShrimp linguini alfredoโ€

โ€œENDLESS?โ€

โ€œAnd all new marry me shrimpโ€

โ€œALL ENDLESS!โ€

The duo isnโ€™t wrong. Endless shrimp is back. While the previous iteration didnโ€™t technically bankrupt the chain (the real culprit was private equity and real estate chicanery) it was, by all accounts, an absolute mess. American consumers, who rightfully identified that they were getting ripped off in every facet of their lives, leapt at the opportunity to get one over at least one big business.

Back when Endless Shrimp was a permanent feature, shrimp hoarders would occupy tables for hours at a time, not leaving until they beat the house. The real victim of this behavior was, of course, the chainโ€™s underpaid servers (if you walk into a restaurant with โ€œme against these suckersโ€ mindset, youโ€™re less likely to view your waiter as a fellow victim of capitalism and youโ€™re definitely not going to tip well). For the C-Suite, though, the larger concern wasnโ€™t the dignity of their employees. It was a jumbo-sized hole in their bottom line.

Itโ€™s like The Boss once sang. Endless shrimp dies baby, thatโ€™s a fact. But maybe the endless shrimp that dies, some days comes back. Put your make-up on, do your hair up pretty, and meet me tonight at the only Red Lobster still open in your city.

Iโ€™m not all that interested in the relative success or failure of chain restaurant promotions, but I do care about the various ways corporations try to win our affection (meaningful cultural signifiers, or so Iโ€™d argue). And contra the two announcer voices, the most interesting thing about Red Lobsterโ€™s promotion isnโ€™t the shellfish, either of the Waltโ€™s Favorite or Marry Me varieties. Itโ€™s whatโ€™s whispered rather than shouted.

You see, the biggest difference between the current iteration of Endless Shrimp and its unprofitable predecessor is that now Red Lobster wants you to know that you (the shrimp-loving consumer) and they (the company) are in this together.

If you want the full story, I highly recommend this piece by Luke Winkie in Slate, but hereโ€™s the truncated version. There are varieties of shrimp on the Red Lobster menu that arenโ€™t officially part of the promotion. Theyโ€™re on the menu, but excluded from the benevolent blanket of endlessness. But if a customer were to ask for unlimited quantities of a non-official item (for example, Crispy Dragon Shrimp, a food item that Iโ€™m assured contains no actual dragon), the server is to welcome them into a cool secret. Their official, handbook-mandated line? โ€œThese items arenโ€™t on the menu for this promotion, but I would be happy to make an exception for you.โ€

Itโ€™s like they say, โ€œthe exception is the rule.โ€ Except literally, and by mandate. Servers are required by corporate policy to act like you and they are cheating the system, in hopes that when you remember the night you rode the dragon (shrimp), you remember it not as a conspiracy-of-one, but a sneaky secret between you and your best friend (Red Lobster restaurants, a subsidiary of the Thai Union Seafood Company).

This is not a new psychological trick. Itโ€™s a classic low stakes confidence game. The most effective way to a mark is to convince them that they are, in fact, in on the con themselves. Itโ€™s the same move that car salesmen use when they leave the room to โ€œtalk to their managerโ€ before returning with a report that โ€œhe didnโ€™t want me to give you this deal, butโ€ฆโ€

Itโ€™s still striking, though, to see the strategy laid out in grandiose internal strategy documents. A beleaguered but iconic American brand name, flailing for its survival, hedges its survival on two bets. First, that you are tired, angry and aware that youโ€™re on the wrong side of a rigged game (correct). And second, that, by offering you a facsimile of camaraderie and a very real pile of seafood, that they can win your loyalty (huh).

โ€œ[This is] about more than just shrimp,โ€ the document proclaims. An absolute work of art, that sentence.

โ€œ[Itโ€™s] about creating an experience that says, โ€˜We listen to you.โ€

โ€œWhen guests see Endless Shrimp back on the menu, they feel heard and valued.โ€

I have never addressed a sit-down chainโ€™s internal strategy document, but Iโ€™m sure I speak for all of us when I say, tears in my eyes: Red Lobster, thank you. THIS is what democracy looks like.

As Eli Zeger argued in his 2020 essay about companies that talk like snarky teens on social media, this particular iteration of the โ€œbrand as friendโ€ canard is the product of the marriage of late stage capitalism (and its reliance on the selling of โ€œideasโ€ rather than goods and services) and the post-Citizen United codification of corporate personhood. Red Lobster isnโ€™t a restaruant anymore. Itโ€™s your rule-breaking, shrimp loving, newly empathetic pal. It sees you. In fact, it is the only one who see you. It gets that youโ€™re broke, but more so that youโ€™re alone. Itโ€™s no longer offering you cheap shrimp (the price tag for the promotion has risen markedly since its last iteration). Itโ€™s promising you something more importantโ€“ belonging, connection, a port in the storm of alienation and precarity weโ€™re all weathering.

Red Lobsterโ€™s friendship?

โ€œEndlessโ€

Or thatโ€™s the idea at least. Apparently, the promotion hasnโ€™t been as lucrative as the company had hoped, at least so far. Itโ€™s not 2016 anymore. Weโ€™re seeking something more these days. Bread and roses? Perhaps, but definitely not just shrimp.

But Red Lobster isnโ€™t alone, in surveying a landscape of mass alienation (economic, relational, spiritual) and seeing a business opportunity. Advertising agencies are publishing unironic blogs chillingly titled โ€œthe loneliness crisis: how brands can step up?โ€ Silicon Valleyโ€™s greatest minds heard that you wanted community and responded with sycophantic AI chatbots. Apparently, our tech overlordsโ€™ understanding of human relationships is a robot who agrees with you all the time, including when you muse about harming yourself. Even the outright scammers get it. Gone are the days of far flung princes offering you a financial windfall. As you may have experienced personally, the hot new con isโ€ฆ pretending to be an acquaintance and inviting you to a party.

This is a step beyond the classic commodification funnel, as documented in nineties leftist classics like No Logo and The Conquest of Cool. The brands are no longer promising a great deal, or even hipness. Whatโ€™s on offer now is the dream of a welcoming community, one deep enough to solve for the isolation that the companies themselves helped create.

Thatโ€™s very depressing, of course, both the reminder that our economy has always been built on the exploitation of vulnerability, and the reality that thereโ€™s just so much more vulnerability to be exploited at this particular moment.

But thereโ€™s another truth, not a counterpoint, but a complement. How fortunate, for those of us who actually want to connect with other human beings, rather than just make a quick buck off of them. We already have what every corporation in the world wishes they hadโ€“ the fact that, when we offer a space by our side, to either a stranger or a friend, we actually mean it. Weโ€™re not trying to trick you into springing for a Main Deck Margarita Flight to go along with your shrimp. Weโ€™re not trying to mine your data or add you to a marketing funnel or load you up with debt and junk. We just think this world would be more navigable together rather than apart.

And as an organizing opportunity? From union drives to neighbor-to-neighbor activism to the precious few political campaigns that care more about building community than personal brand building? My goodness. Why do you keep hearing about neighborism these days, and not just from true believers like me? Because more people are admitting every day how hungry they are for connection, and then taking the risk of making an offering.

The terrible news right now is that the hucksters are going to keep selling us a flim flam simulacra of belonging. Yes, the consultants, but also (I fear) the politicians. I strongly suspect the 2028 Democratic primary to feature a million text messages about โ€œneighborsโ€ and โ€œcommunityโ€ penned by a well-heeled K-Street consultants. But the good news is that we arenโ€™t that dumb. We know the brands arenโ€™t our friends. Weโ€™ve lived through the great social media con together. We know what the lie looks like, and now weโ€™d much prefer the deeply imperfect, thoroughly messy alternative.

Theyโ€™ll offer us endless shrimp. And weโ€™ll say no thank you. Weโ€™d prefer each other, please. Even if thatโ€™s not on the secret menu. (snip-end notes, the Boss, and general other stuff on the page)

This Week’s “Lay Lines”

https://www.gocomics.com/lay-lines

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 5-6-2026

Sorry this is not as long as I normally do.ย  Ron found me sleeping at my desk an d only gave me a few minutes to finish before he forced me to bed physically.ย  ย Hugs


 

Hereโ€™s a last strip from my new book Dating Tips for Trans and Queer Weirdos!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The house below was once owned by Scott Bessent the current Secretary of Treasury under tRump.ย  I would love to own a home like this or at least be able to afford one like it.ย  ย It is a famous home called the Pink House.ย  Hugs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


These are fake The first three were posted by tRump but the left is the one that has to turn down the rhetoric.

This is the real Obama bowing picture.

 

And this guy posted 86 46 during Bidens term and the post is still up.ย  But Comey is on trial for threatening the cult leader and not Posobiec who did the same to Biden.

 

And this one is real.ย  tRump suluted an enemy general from North Korea.

And this one is real also.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

โ€œThe more likely prospect, they say, is that he becomes an independent who caucuses with the GOP, or simply casts his vote to ensure Thune remains majority leader. Ensuring control of the Senate could be especially critical should there be a Supreme Court vacancy http://www.politico.com/news/magazin…

Randy Fair (@southerngayteacher.bsky.social) 2026-05-04T14:20:49.652Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

81 percent of young Americans say economic conditions are bad or terrible: Survey #TheHill

#TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2026-05-04T19:51:39.000Z

 

 

 

 

 

NYC reports fewest murders ever through April, violent crime declines in Bronx gothamist.com/news/nyc-rep…

Gothamist (@gothamist.com) 2026-05-04T15:53:49.333419Z

 

In many states, election-denying candidates are running to control voting http://www.npr.org/2026/05/04/n…

Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) 2026-05-04T15:08:27.517Z

NEW: A Republican U.S. Senate candidate said he's recruiting off-duty police officers to serve as poll watchers in Detroit for the 2026 midterms โ€” and suggested they could flash their badges at voters.Intimidating voters is illegal. Interfering with someone's right to vote is a federal crime.

Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) 2026-05-04T15:48:35.403313056Z

 

๐ŸšจBREAKING: Florida voters and pro-voting group Equal Ground Education Fund filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the GOPโ€™s new congressional gerrymander, urging a court to block the map for violating the state constitutionโ€™s ban on partisan gerrymandering. http://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/…

Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2026-05-04T18:40:56.248Z

 

 

New: A Probe of Trump Foes Upends Justice Department Hub in MiamiDeep dive from Chris Strohm and Michael Smith –>buff.ly/ApWT31g

Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) 2026-05-05T16:47:20.073Z

 

 

 

Both headlines are from today.

Adam Isacson (@adamisacson.com) 2026-05-04T21:27:03.352Z

 

Mamdani condemns ICE action at Bushwick hospital, says NYPD didnโ€™t coordinate gothamist.com/news/mamdani…

Gothamist (@gothamist.com) 2026-05-04T17:18:52.774838Z

 

Judge mulls contempt over DHSโ€™ โ€˜patently falseโ€™ allegation in deportation caseThe Trump administration attacked a judge for releasing an accused murderer, but it withheld existence of the foreign warrant.www.politico.com/news/2026/05…

Lauren Ashley Davis (@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social) 2026-05-04T21:35:32.535Z

 

You see this press release from DHS about a federal judge? The agency pushed it out 5 days ago. Today, a DOJ attorney admitted to the judge that it โ€œsimply was not true.โ€(Itโ€™s also still online at DHS dot gov as of 540 pm Monday)1/

Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) 2026-05-04T21:43:02.441Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) โ€” US military says Iran has launched missiles, drones and small boats at ships the US is protecting in Strait of Hormuz.

Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2026-05-04T16:35:18.324Z

 

BREAKING: UAE says three missiles from Iran intercepted. MS NOW's David Rohde has the latest.

MS NOW (@ms.now) 2026-05-04T15:43:14.006Z

Trump describes Iran war horrors in Oval Office full of kids: โ€˜Right between the eyesโ€™

The Independent (@the-independent.com) 2026-05-05T16:42:02.720027Z

* SOUTH KOREA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY: FIRE AND EXPLOSION HAPPENED ON A KOREAN VESSEL IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ* SOUTH KOREA FOREIGN MINISTRY: CHECKING CAUSE OF FIRE AND DETAILS ON DAMAGE AT THE KOREAN VESSEL* SOUTH KOREA FOREIGN MINISTRY: TO CLOSELY COMMUNICATE WITH RELEVANT COUNTRIES@reuters.com

Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2026-05-04T14:11:52.060Z

 

President Donald Trump threatened Iran, saying it will be 'blown off the face of the Earth' if it doesn't stop attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Express US (@the-express.com) 2026-05-04T19:05:50.273Z

 

 

 

 

 

More Than 150 Wind Projects Stall as Pentagon Delays ReviewsThe delays, which companies say have worsened significantly in recent weeks, are the latest step in the Trump administrationโ€™s efforts to block wind power.www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/c…

James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social) 2026-05-05T01:15:37.587Z

 

 

 

 

A Few More Videos; Short, Sweet, Pertinent








DOJ Targets IL Schools For Teaching LGBTQ โ€œIdeologyโ€

On the last post I made about this I was going to write a long intro.ย  ย However when I read the comments every point I would have made is made in the comments in far fewer words than I would have done.ย  So if you wish to see opinions on what the government is doing to follow Russia and wipe the LGBTQ+ from society in the name of protecting children / straight people / cis people / and religious privilege to discriminate then please read the comments.ย  ย Hugs

DOJ Targets IL Schools For Teaching LGBTQ “Ideology”