Black Health and Social Services Hub to open in Brampton - "A new 16,000 square-foot health and social services facility for Black, African and Caribbean communities in Peel Region is expected to soon open its doors to the public. The Black Health and Social Services (BHSS) Hub, located at 19 Rutherford Rd. S. in Brampton, held an open house recently... The Hub, inspired by the Safe Centre of Peel — which provides holistic support to adults, youth and children affected by abuse and violence — is designed to provide integrated and holistic care under one roof for Black, African and Caribbean communities including primary care, mental health support, and addiction services... The project is supported by $25 million in provincial funding from the Ministry of Health, allocated over three years. Officials confirmed that all services at the hub will be free and do not require health-care coverage, such as an OHIP card or the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP)... While the Brampton building awaits its final permits, the BHSS Hub continues to operate through satellite locations. This allows services to remain active at existing partner sites, including the LAMP Community Health Centre in east Mississauga and CMHA offices. A mobile health unit also travels throughout the region to provide care in underserved areas."
Left wingers love racial segregation. Of course, if you criticise racial segregation, you're racist
Sabrina Carpenter sorry for Coachella reaction to Arabic chant - "Sabrina Carpenter is apologizing over a controversial crowd interaction during her Coachella set. The "Please Please Please" singer, 26, said on X she is sorry for her reaction to hearing a zaghrouta, an Arabic call of celebration, in the crowd while performing on April 10 at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. "My apologies i didn't see this person with my eyes and couldn't hear clearly. my reaction was pure confusion, sarcasm and not ill intended. could have handled it better! now i know what a Zaghrouta is!" Carpenter wrote on April 11, adding, "I welcome all cheers and yodels from here on out." Video footage circulated on social media showing the Grammy-winning pop star expressing confusion and displeasure after hearing a zaghrouta, which she mistook for a yodel, in the audience while on stage at Coachella. "Is that what you're doing? I don't like it," she said. A fan could be heard yelling back, "It's my culture," to which the singer quipped, "That's your culture, is yodeling?" The person in the crowd could then be heard shouting, "It's a call of celebration," leading Carpenter to joke, "Is this Burning Man? What's going on? This is weird."... Some fans on social media expressed outrage over Carpenter's reaction, including one user who called her comments "so insensitive and islamophobic" and added, "I am very disappointed in her.""
Sabrina Carpenter grovels, apologizes for reaction to Arabic zaghrouta chant at Coachella : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "If white people would see Arabs the way Arabs want to be seen, i.e. as other white people, then complaining about an interrupting Arab's zaghrouta would carry the same baggage as complaining about an interrupting Swiss's yodel. An apology is owed here, and it's not to the shrieking ululator."
Sabrina Carpenter grovels, apologizes for reaction to Arabic zaghrouta chant at Coachella : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "Who gives a shit what they think. You went to watch a show not fucking be in one."
AltAzn on X - "The Sabrina Carpenter incident reminded me of this Atlantic article originally titled “Why do White People Love Quiet?”. The author was shocked that when she went to an Ivy League school her classmates expected her not to blast music at 2 in the morning. Instead of internalizing this is how normal people act she made it racial."
Daniel Friedman on X - "One of the most infuriating trends of the woke era people are already forgetting is how professional media would write articles claiming a noncriminal (and sometimes also criminal) but obnoxious, antisocial and disruptive behavior that is correlated with a minority group is good, actually, and the reason you have a problem with it is that you are a racist, or at least ensconced in unexamined privilege. These behaviors included: Playing loud music in public places through boomboxes or bluetooth speakers, "Showtime" dancers who perform unsolicited and dangerous dance routines in crowded subway cars and then aggressively demand money from all the passengers as compensation for the dancing nobody wanted, unlicensed street vendors selling unsanitary food and "teen takeovers" or "flash mobs." Also, Gawker once wrote a piece defending mugging. I hope we have finally reached a point where we can all agree that laws and norms are good and that all these things are bad and annoying."
Daniel Friedman on X - "A blast from the woke past: In 2014, Gawker put "white lady" Clara Vondrich on blast for doing "All the things not to do when you capture your own child mugger." Vondrich was standing outside a restaurant in Williamsburg when a teenager grabbed her phone out of her hand and took off. She chased after him and tackled him, but not before he handed the phone off to another kid who got away. So, she took a few photos with the thief she caught and then handed the thief off to the cops, who charged him with grand larceny. Then she told the New York Post she was able to catch the thief despite the fact that she had to chase him down in wedge heels because he was so fat and slow. Gawker did not like any of this. They objected to her chasing him, objected to the photos, objected to her involving the police, objected to her talking to the Post and calling the kid fat, and concluded: "If you are nonviolently mugged by a child, continue to let him run along with his friends. The world will be a better place.""
Kane 謝凱堯 on X - "The @sfbike, which claims to be pro-biking, urges you to not call the police on people who steal your bike bc they might face consequences for crime."
Lindy West Rebrands Polyamorous Marital Turmoil as Progressivism - WSJ - "Lindy West is the voice of a certain kind of millennial feminism. She made her name at Jezebel, an online feminist magazine, and went on to write columns for the Guardian and the New York Times. She writes mostly about herself, particularly her experiences of being “fat,” a word she reclaims in defiance of societal “fatphobia.”... Now in her 40s, Ms. West has done everything that the progressive political project told her to. She still refuses to lose weight, rejecting her doctor’s offer of GLP-1 medication, despite the suffering caused by her obesity. She stamps on any sign of conservative thinking, in herself and others. She’s made activism her identity and refuses to engage with people outside her political subculture. She even avoids spending time with her extended family because they have “unknown politics.” It isn’t that they actually disagree with her, it’s that they might. Ms. West’s previous memoir included a Pacific Northwest version of a fairytale ending, with our heroine marrying Ahamefule J. Oluo, a musician and artist who nowadays identifies as nonbinary. “My wedding was perfect,” ran the headline to Ms. West’s Guardian column in 2015, “and I was fat as hell the whole time.” In “Adult Braces,” we learn that the reality of this relationship wasn’t perfect. Ms. West and Mr. Oluo were at odds from the outset, particularly on his insistence that he be permitted to sleep around—or to use the vocabulary of their subculture, be “a polyamorous person.” Their marriage has been accompanied by a lot of crying, panic attacks and endless therapy. Ms. West is desperate to defend her husband, as well as the girlfriend they now share, the creative producer Roya Amirsoleymani. After Ms. West acceded to Mr. Oluo’s demand for nonmonogamy, the “throuple” now live together in a rural cabin belonging to Ms. West’s family. She writes of retreating to the guest bedroom during frequent bouts of depression and being subjected to the sound of her husband and Ms. Amirsoleymani having sex in an adjacent room. Ms. West reports that she wrote this memoir to provide financial support to her “family,” three able-bodied adults in their 40s who seem to spend most of the working week emotionally terrorizing each other. The book so far seems to be enjoying commercial success, but the public response has been overwhelmingly negative. Most reviewers have concluded that Mr. Oluo is a bad dude, a conclusion reinforced by his recent email to Scaachi Koul, a journalist who wrote a sympathetic profile of his wife in Slate. Angered by a perceived slight against his own status as an artist, Mr. Oluo unleashed a foul-mouthed diatribe, accusing Ms. Koul of being “bitter” and “untalented.” It seems that Ms. West’s literary representation of her husband left out a lot of his nastiness. How does a funny, intelligent, affable woman end up in such a mess? “Adult Braces” provides us with some clues. We read of a life in which Ms. West constantly tacks toward the most progressive possible choice, regardless of whether it is the right choice for her. Ms. West’s book brings the nature of progressivism into sharp focus. The ideology emerged in the 1960s as an explicit rejection of the ideas of the political mainstream. Progressivism is not for anything. Rather, it is against a whole lot of things—Judeo-Christianity, monogamous marriage, the nuclear family, capitalism, gender norms, racial stereotypes and more. Whatever the white American patriarch of the 1950s supported, progressivism opposes. It’s an exercise in patricide. In the 1960s, counterculturists popularized the idea of “The Man,” a patriarchal authority figure against whom one should rebel. When you start from the assumption that “The Man” is always wrong, your political project produces all sorts of strange ideas, as in the case of Ms. West. If “The Man” says that slimness is healthy and beautiful, then it’s good to be fat. If he says that traditional gender roles are best, then it’s good to be nonbinary or transgender. If he says that you should have a job and a nice suburban home, then it’s good to live in a cabin in the woods and be poor. And if “The Man” says that monogamy is the only proper relationship model, it’s good to be polyamorous. When Ms. West’s husband—who is half Nigerian—tells her that monogamy is “at its root, a system of ownership,” Ms. West is so consumed by white guilt that she forces herself to accept that Mr. Oluo’s desire to have sex with other women is some kind of expression of racial justice. Since “The Man” is always wrong, poor Lindy West must embrace whatever “The Man” rejects. It’s possible to be a centrist on these questions. You can concede that 1950s America got some things wrong and also recognize that structuring your life around the rejection of some imagined political “other” is a terrible idea. Lindy West has given everything she has to her ideology. Anyone who has read her book can tell that the problem is not “The Man,” but one man in particular."
Left wing ideology is basically childish contrarianism
NATIONAL HATE SERVICE? - "One frontline medical worker from his northeast London constituency who asked not to be named said some paramedics working in Jewish areas were openly antisemitic: “There’s one guy who works out of a station who says he hates Jews. “He was reported by a colleague who felt so uncomfortable working with him that she moved to a different station. He was given a promotion... an Equality, Diversity Inclusion (EDI) manager had told her that Jews were white and not an ethnicity. In two long training sessions she had sat through on EDI and how to take special care of minority patients, she said Jews had not been mentioned once. The frontline worker said she had been investigated for her “Zionist beliefs”, including for Instagram posts celebrating Jewish festivals. A black friend who spoke up for her was smeared as a “coconut”, while a supportive Muslim woman was branded a “disgrace to her religion”. Recalling the mental health toll she suffered, she said she had received calls at 3am from other Jewish NHS staff who were struggling to stay in jobs they loved because of the hate from colleagues. “There are very few people in our Jewish network who haven’t experienced antisemitism. I go into work every morning thinking, ‘What is going to be next?’” Another constituent of Streeting, an NHS hospital doctor who also asked not to be named, said: “I am too frightened for any of my colleagues to know that I am Jewish.” She recalled early in her career a senior doctor had asked her about Judaism and said Jews ruled the world. She later tried to hide her identity and had to endure antisemitic comments in the workplace in silence. She said: “I feel like an alien. There is this consistent antisemitism.” The doctor said she had contemplated emigrating because of the hostility she had endured. Streeting revealed Jewish patients had told him they were afraid to ask for kosher food in hospital out of concern over how they might be treated once identity was known. Addressing the failure of the authorities to deal with antisemitic NHS staff, he said: “I believe medical regulators have been failing in their duty towards staff and patients.”"
In the Northwest, Polyamory Finds Something New: Legal Protection - The New York Times - "A wave of recent local ordinances in large liberal bastions like Portland, Ore., but also smaller communities like Astoria, Ore., which has a population of 10,181, would confer the beginning of legal protections to polyamorous relationships. The goal, pushed by a group based in California, is to establish legally protected family structures for groups of adults who are romantically or otherwise tied together under one roof. “Right now, we’re just talking about a basic level of protection, having certain mechanisms in place so that if I’m discriminated against in employment or housing because of the way I choose to structure my home life, I have redress,” said Jessa Davis, a transgender activist and organizer in Seattle who lives in a nonromantic family structure with three other transgender women and two toddlers. “It’s about the law catching up to where we are culturally.” National Democrats might be trying to move the political conversation away from divisive social policies that helped cost them the White House in 2024, but proponents of the polyamory changes say Mr. Trump and his supporters have forced them to act. Adding protections for “nontraditional” households is a response to efforts to roll back rights for groups that already enjoy legal protections... Advocates of expanded nondiscrimination laws say they’re also hoping to recognize the increasing number of Pacific Northwesterners who are choosing less traditional family structures. Those numbers are difficult to track, but supporters of expanded nondiscrimination policies point to a 2016 study from the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy in which researchers estimated that one in five unmarried Americans had been in a consensually nonmonogamous relationship at some point. Conservative activists say officials in the Northwest are using the language of nondiscrimination to foster broader cultural changes that have already run afoul of U.S. law, such as polygamy... “This is not a controversial policy stance here,” Mr. Vanderpool said of the nondiscrimination language. “What I’m hearing isn’t pushback but more like ‘Yes, and?’ As in, ‘Yes, and what are you going to do about all the other problems with discrimination and inequity we need to solve?”... At a hearing last week, they heard from more than 40 people supporting the addition of broader nondiscrimination laws that would include nontraditional family structures, including several speakers in polyamorous relationships who said clearer legal protections would help them feel more open when going about the day to day business of looking for jobs, renting homes, signing their children up for school or just engaging in small talk... The initial draft of Portland’s policy did not include specific language explaining what city leaders meant by “family or relationship structure." At a meeting Wednesday, more progressive councilors successfully pushed to add a detailed list that included “consensually nonmonogamous relationships.”... Proponents of more protection for polyamorous families already succeeded in passing versions in the liberal strongholds of Cambridge and Somerville, Mass., and Oakland and Berkeley, Calif., before turning toward the Northwest. They’re hoping Seattle city leaders will add polyamory and other nontraditional family structures to city policy this year... “We can have a conversation about the bigger legislative agenda,” Ms. Davis said, “once people can come out of the closet.”"
Weird. We were told this would never happen after gay marriage got rammed through. The "myth" of the slippery slope strikes again!
‘Decolonizing Medicine’ class at UMD prompts concerns about politicizing health care - "Physicians are raising concerns over new course offerings at the University of Maryland that incorporate identity politics into various public health and medical programs at the public institution. “Decolonizing Medicine: Steps to Actionable Change” is a one-credit undergraduate public health course, first taught in the spring of 2025 and offered again this semester. Designed for students studying medicine, public health, or health policy, it covers how “colonial legacies” impact “global health systems” and the “concept of ‘the White body'” as the standard in medical training, according to the university registrar’s catalog. The “student-facilitated discussion-based” course also is open for registration for the current spring semester as a two-credit elective. However, outside medical educators and field experts raised concerns about the impact of these identity politics-based courses. The College Fix spoke recently with Dr. Jane Orient, executive director at the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. “The title of the course as well as the description reflects the ideological view of oppressors (white colonialists) versus the oppressed (people of color), a fundamental anti-white racist view,” Orient said. “The statement that modern medicine has been shaped by ‘colonialism’ makes no sense to me … Modern medicine was shaped by scientific advances.” Orient also expressed her concerns over the politicization of medical education and deviating from high standards of empirical data and hard science. “The purpose of medicine, according to the late Donald Seldin, is to relieve pain, reduce disability, and postpone death. It is not about social reform,” Orient said to The Fix. “Framing medicine through Marxist concepts of oppression is destructive of the art and science of medicine,” Orient added. “Doctors are not called to judge their patients’ worth or to engage in cultural revolution.” Dr. Kurt Miceli, medical director at Do No Harm, a nonprofit that works against the politicization of medicine, raised similar concerns. “Framing medicine primarily through an identity‑based lens can lead future doctors to see patients through ideological categories rather than as individuals with specific clinical needs,” Miceli told The Fix in a recent interview. He added that ideological framing is counterproductive in medical and public health education, because it removes the focus from the “rigorous biological knowledge” and “scientific depth and clinical practice time students need to become safe, competent clinicians.” These ideologies do not “advance students’ ability to understand disease or deliver good quality care” but rather bring “division into the clinical setting,” he said. According to the course syllabus, assignments include weekly discussion posts, papers, projects, and an ethnographic research study that aligns with “decolonizing” modern medicine. Some of the lecture topics of the course include: medicine as “a tool of empire” and “colonial surveillance,” the “colonial erasure of indigenous healing practices,” and “racialized” and LGBTQ+ healthcare in “post-colonial contexts.” While not a core program requirement, the course is offered along with other public health and medicine electives, such as “HLTH424 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Health.”... Dr. Orient with the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons told The Fix that the ideological division of identity politics in public health education undermines the essential equality of patient-centered medical care. “The Hippocratic ethic holds that doctors should do their best for each patient and not harm any of them,” Orient said. “Identity politics implies that some are to get less than your best to achieve some sort of social goal or to right hypothetical past harms.” Dr. Miceli with Do Not Harm told The Fix that the ideological education risks reducing clinical rigor, adding that “a focus on social critique to the point of political indoctrination bears a significant cost, particularly when it becomes a vehicle for a political agenda.” “It must never be allowed to overshadow or replace the scientific foundation clinicians rely on to deliver effective patient care in an objective, compassionate manner,” Miceli said. “Medical education should center on rigorous, evidence‑based training that prepares future clinicians to practice medicine rooted in science, not ideology.”"
‘All-time high’ number of Americans believe Democrats are ‘too liberal’, poll says - "Around 58 percent of voters thought the party had become too liberal in 2025, spiking from 48 percent in 2013. That number was even lower during former President Bill Clinton’s time in office, hovering at 42 per cent in 1996. “The Democrats are moving to the left, the far left is gaining power, and there could be some electoral repercussions because what we see right now is voters — the clear majority — say that they are too liberal,” Harry Enten, CNN’s senior data analyst, said. According to his findings, a third of the party now say that they see themselves as being in line with Mamdani and Sanders’s left-leaning views, with around three in five Democrats describing themselves as somewhat liberal or very liberal. According to Enten, the findings indicate a complete reversal of the Democratic Party’s base in 1999 and a painful splitting in the party’s demographic structure. “Back in 1999, 26% of Democrats self-identified as conservative,” he said. “Just 5% said that they were very liberal. It was a smidgen.”... the Democratic Party’s leftward shift could continue into the future, with younger members of the party holding increasingly left-wing views... “When we’re talking about 42% of Democrats under the age of 35 identifying as democratic socialists and a third of all Democrats… my goodness gracious.”"
Meme - leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ @LeilaniDowding: "He stole £250,000 from vulnerable elderly nursing home residents and this is how the BBC present it to you. https://x.com/BBCSussex/stat"
BBC Sussex: "Ben Howard who works at Brighton and Hove LGBT Switchboard says as a gay man he struggled to get support for his gambling addiction. Tap below to read more: 'Being gay made it harder to get gambling support!'"
Meme - Kosher @Koshercockney: "Holy shit! So fucking embarrassing for @susanabulhawa. Seems she filled out a form on her website and didn't even bother to press send before screenshotting it and pretending it was hate mail. So yeah seems she's been red-handed being a Hate Mail hoaxer"
susan abulhawa @s... : "l often get vile hate mail from zios, but there's a definite uptick of late, in both volume and threat level. Below is an example, but this person listed what appears to be a legitimate email address. I don't know if it's a real name either. But I'm putting it out there because people who send these kinds of threats should be pulled into the light, especially given the recent threats to @NerdeenKiswani's life."
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Listen Kunt. Jew haters d y e . We are coming for you to put you back 60 Feet Under Gaza you muslim monkey murderer. Susan i hope you are Eliminated by every means available. The Jews Reach Far Far exceeds your attempt to stop us. We will find you and we do not fail. Death to arab Murderers. Murdereing innocents 3000 YEARS. GET OFF THE LEVANT MY HOMELAND BITCH ...... TAKE YOUR MUZZIE ASS OUT OF USA AND ISRAEL OR WE WILL HELP YOU. YOU MAKE THREATS YOU THREATEN JEWS. WE HAVE GUNS NOW SUSAN THIS IS NOT GERMANY. YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
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Tech worker tried to sue her boss after claiming he didn't offer her champagne because she was Irish - "A glamorous £95,000-a-year tech worker who sued her boss for racism after he did not offer her champagne at an office party has been told by a judge she could have just helped herself. Laoise Foley, a pre-sales consultant at London digital firm Smart Impact Limited, told a tribunal that managing director Ahmed Eltohamy had deliberately skipped her when pouring drinks at a Christmas client event in November 2022 - because she was Irish. But Employment Judge Hodgson, ruling at Central London Employment Tribunal in December, disagreed... It was not the only extraordinary claim Ms Foley made about her 18 months at the firm. She told the tribunal that Mr Eltohamy had once 'jumped back as if pushed' and shouted 'bye' when she passed him in a corridor - implying, she said, that she was 'an aggressive Irishwoman who tried to push people out of the way'. The judge was equally dismissive, finding she had given 'inconsistent and confusing' evidence about when the incident had even taken place, and concluding that Mr Eltohamy had simply moved aside politely to let her pass. Ms Foley also claimed a colleague had harassed her by sending a WhatsApp message asking about a work document while she was on annual leave - a message the judge found fell 'well short' of harassment - and that being sent a viral video of a six-year-old Irish girl asking her mother to take her to the pub amounted to racial harassment. She had responded to that video at the time with a crying-laughing emoji and the words 'Pretty much!' and Judge Hodgson was unconvinced she had been offended... The tribunal heard that Ms Foley had become increasingly withdrawn during her time at the firm, refusing to carry out basic duties, and was handed her six-week notice in March 2024."
