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3 Arrested After Antifa Clashes With Parents at California School Board Meeting
- By Valletta
Following the Glendale school board’s decision to incorporate LGBTQ+ “Pride” festivals and celebrations into June school days, dozens of parents pulled students from classrooms—with some elementary schools seeing only 40% of students show up for class on June 2.
Additional documents revealed that Glendale staff have attempted to incorporate LGBTQ+ materials and ideology into other curriculum. One assistant principal even told staff to teach children that every person is, by default, “queer” and “socialist.”
www.dailysignal.com
It's going to get a lot worse as long as the hard left rules our country.
Additional documents revealed that Glendale staff have attempted to incorporate LGBTQ+ materials and ideology into other curriculum. One assistant principal even told staff to teach children that every person is, by default, “queer” and “socialist.”
3 Arrested After Antifa Clashes With Armenian Parents at California School Board Meeting
Glendale, California, police made at least one arrest as fights broke out over LGBTQ+ policies and scandals at a school board meeting.
Anti-christ ?
- By timothyu
This will go over good with the reptile human crowd who think there are lizard people
ca.sports.yahoo.com
Scientists discover first ‘virgin birth’ in a crocodile
The lone female produced an egg that contained a fully formed foetus.
Ron Johnson was right! Security footage confirms Capitol door opened on January 6 allowing 300 to enter building.
- By Valletta
- Current News & Events (Articles Required)
- 11 Replies
A door on the West side of the U.S. Capitol was left open and mostly unguarded for key moments during the Jan. 6 riot, allowing more than 300 people to enter the building unimpeded even as officers fought valiantly to keep protesters out of other sections of the official home of Congress, according to police security footage obtained by Just the News.
The footage -- which confirms concerns first raised by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., two years ago -- shows an episode in a narrow hallway in the middle of the Capitol that began around 2:30p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021 right after the first breaches were reported elsewhere in the landmark building.
justthenews.com
The footage -- which confirms concerns first raised by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., two years ago -- shows an episode in a narrow hallway in the middle of the Capitol that began around 2:30p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021 right after the first breaches were reported elsewhere in the landmark building.
J6 Unmasked: Security footage confirms Capitol door opened, allowing 300 to enter building freely
Capitol Police officers eventually made their way to the Upper West Terrace doors but didn't block the entrance as more rioters flowed into the building
justthenews.com
Pence Attacks Trump in 2024 White House Challenge Speech
- American Politics
- 21 Replies
*8 JUNE 2023
Pence attacks Trump as he challenges his ex-boss in 2024 White House race
June 7 (Reuters) - Former Vice President Mike Pence, who loyally served Donald Trump for four years, on Wednesday blasted his former boss for the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol as he launched his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Pence issued his most forceful condemnation to date of Trump's role in the attack of Jan. 6, 2021, when the then-president's supporters stormed the U.S. Congress to try to stop lawmakers from certifying Democrat Joe Biden's election victory.
"I believe that anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States, and anyone who asked someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again," Pence said in a speech in Iowa, which kicks off the Republican nominating contest next year.
It was an extraordinary attack by Pence, not only because he has mostly shied away from attacking Trump directly until now, but also because the Jan. 6 attack is rarely mentioned by other Republican presidential hopefuls.
Pence said Trump's actions on that day "endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol."
Pence said on Wednesday he had no constitutional authority to meddle with the election results and that Trump had been "wrong." In Twitter posts on Jan. 6, Trump accused Pence of cowardice.
"The American people deserve to know that on that day, President Trump also demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution. Now voters will be faced with the same choice. I chose the Constitution and I always will," he said.
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Pence attacks Trump as he challenges his ex-boss in 2024 White House race | Reuters
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Millions in US under air quality alerts as Canada wildfires rage
- By ThatRobGuy
- News & Current Events (Articles Required)
- 18 Replies
Live updates: US air quality polluted by Canadian wildfire smoke
More than 75 million people across the Northeast, Midwest and mid-Atlantic in the US are under air quality alerts as wildfire smoke originating from Canada shrouds major US cities. Follow here for the latest.
- Around 75 million people across the Midwest, Northeast and Southeast parts of the US are under air quality alerts as wildfire smoke originating from Canada shrouds major US cities.
- The smoke has been widespread and alerts include cities such as New York, Boston, Washington, DC, Charlotte, Detroit and Indianapolis.
- The dangerous conditions will linger, according to forecasts. By Thursday morning, Delaware, Maryland, northern Virginia and the nation’s capital could see some of the worst air quality. You can track the air quality here.
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Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for a second time
- By JosephZ
- News & Current Events (Articles Required)
- 1083 Replies
Update: Trump has been indicted on 7 counts. He is set to be arraigned in federal court in Miami on Tuesday at 3 p.m. ET. Thread title has been changed to reflect this..
The Department of Justice is preparing to ask a Washington, DC grand jury to indict former president Donald Trump for violating the Espionage Act and for obstruction of justice as soon as Thursday, adding further weight to the legal baggage facing Mr Trump as he campaigns for his party’s nomination in next year’s presidential election.
The Independent has learned that prosecutors are ready to ask grand jurors to approve an indictment against Mr Trump for violating a portion of the US criminal code known as Section 793, which prohibits “gathering, transmitting or losing” any “information respecting the national defence”.
The use of Section 793, which does not make reference to classified information, is understood to be a strategic decision by prosecutors that has been made to short-circuit Mr Trump’s ability to claim that he used his authority as president to declassify documents he removed from the White House and kept at his Palm Beach, Florida property long after his term expired on 20 January 2021.
That section of US criminal law is written in a way that could encompass Mr Trump’s conduct even if he was authorised to possess the information as president because it states that anyone who “lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document ...relating to the national defence,” and “willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it” can be punished by as many as ten years in prison.
www.independent.co.uk
The Department of Justice is preparing to ask a Washington, DC grand jury to indict former president Donald Trump for violating the Espionage Act and for obstruction of justice as soon as Thursday, adding further weight to the legal baggage facing Mr Trump as he campaigns for his party’s nomination in next year’s presidential election.
The Independent has learned that prosecutors are ready to ask grand jurors to approve an indictment against Mr Trump for violating a portion of the US criminal code known as Section 793, which prohibits “gathering, transmitting or losing” any “information respecting the national defence”.
The use of Section 793, which does not make reference to classified information, is understood to be a strategic decision by prosecutors that has been made to short-circuit Mr Trump’s ability to claim that he used his authority as president to declassify documents he removed from the White House and kept at his Palm Beach, Florida property long after his term expired on 20 January 2021.
That section of US criminal law is written in a way that could encompass Mr Trump’s conduct even if he was authorised to possess the information as president because it states that anyone who “lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document ...relating to the national defence,” and “willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it” can be punished by as many as ten years in prison.
Prosecutors seeking Trump indictment on obstruction and Espionage Act charges
The Independent has learned that prosecutors are prepared to ask grand jurors to vote on charges as early as Thursday
www.independent.co.uk
Betelgeuse brightens about 50%
- By Halbhh
- Physical & Life Sciences
- 8 Replies
While varied views (see another near the end of this post) suggests it's not clear what stage in its evolution of burning increasingly heavier elements Betelgeuse is currently in, it might be later in the carbon burning stage is one idea modeled in one new paper "The evolutionary stage of Betelgeuse inferred from its pulsation periods" (* see abstract below) , and then (if the model is right) could be late in that stage, leading to some speculation.
(* -- from the paper: "Betelgeuse is a well known bright red supergiant that shows semi-regular variations with four approximate periods of 2200, 420, 230, and 185 days. While the longest period was customarily regarded as LSP (long secondary period) of unknown origin, we identify the ~2200-d period as the radial fundamental mode, and the three shorter periods as the radial first, second, and third overtones. From a nonadiabatic pulsation analysis including the pulsation/convection coupling, we have found that these radial pulsation modes are all excited in the envelope of a model in a late stage of the core-carbon burning. Models with similar pulsation property have masses around 11M_\odot (19M_\odot at ZAMS) with luminosities (log L/L_\odot =5.27~5.28) and effective temperatures (log T_{eff}\approx 3.53) that are consistent with the range of the observational determinations. We also find that a synthetic light curve obtained by adding the fundamental and the first-overtone mode qualitatively agrees with the light curve of Betelgeuse up to the Great Dimming. We conclude that Betelgeuse is in the late stage of core carbon burning, and a good candidate for the next Galactic supernova.")
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From Phys.org:
...the red supergiant star has brightened by almost 50%, and that has the speculation ramping up again.
Betelgeuse will explode as a supernova. On that, there is universal agreement. But the question of when is less certain. ...
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...In their paper, the authors say that Betelgeuse could be the Milky Way's next supernova, regardless of which of their outcomes might prove to be true. "We conclude that Betelgeuse is in the late stage of core carbon burning, and a good candidate for the next galactic supernova," they write.
phys.org
If Betelgeuse being around late in the carbon burning phase (or even near the end of such) were so, it would be pretty interesting.
Here's why. These are roughly how long each phase of heavier and heavier element fusion burning lasts:
Less and less energy is produced per nuclear reaction in the nucleosynthesis of these high mass elements. So each burning phase lasts a shorter and shorter amount of time:
For a 15 Msun star:
Silicon burning makes iron, and iron won't burn to make more massive elements. It is the most stable nucleus. No more nuclear energy is available to the star. Now what?
http://burro.case.edu/Academics/Astr221/LifeCycle/highmassburn.html
But I also when looking found a possible contraindication to Betelgeuse being near to area of late carbon burning phase:
... For example, another Milky Way red giant known as VY CMa, located 3,900 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Canis, is thought to be much closer to the moment of its death than Betelgeuse. But unlike the brightening Betelgeuse, that star has been consistently dimming over the past 100 years.
"A hundred years ago, VY CMa used to be visible to the naked eye," said Montargès. "But it has expelled so much material that we can now only see it in infrared. This expelling of material is what we expect to see when the star nears the supernova explosion. VY CMa has already removed about 60% of its original mass, while Betelgeuse still has 95% of its initial material."
The astronomer added that, according to historical records, Betelgeuse used to be described as a yellow star up until 2,000 years ago, when poets began describing it as red. That, Montargès thinks, might indicate that Betelgeuse is only in the earliest stages of its life as a red giant. ...
www.space.com
And especially that last seems meaningful: if it really was yellow only 2,000 years ago, then to me that seems more significant to suggest we could be earlier in the red giant process.
So, I don't think it's very likely then that we are right at the verge -- that is, the end of carbon and the shortish 200 days or so of oxygen burning.
But on the other hand, if the claimed observation of it being yellow 2,000 years ago are somehow distorted (like being under different atmospheric conditions?), then that contraindication would be out, and then it seem to me more of a dice roll again, though of course the entirety of the red giant phase is quite long compared to human civilization (a factor of a ~ thousand times longer) and so the yearly odds of being right at the end are tiny).
(* -- from the paper: "Betelgeuse is a well known bright red supergiant that shows semi-regular variations with four approximate periods of 2200, 420, 230, and 185 days. While the longest period was customarily regarded as LSP (long secondary period) of unknown origin, we identify the ~2200-d period as the radial fundamental mode, and the three shorter periods as the radial first, second, and third overtones. From a nonadiabatic pulsation analysis including the pulsation/convection coupling, we have found that these radial pulsation modes are all excited in the envelope of a model in a late stage of the core-carbon burning. Models with similar pulsation property have masses around 11M_\odot (19M_\odot at ZAMS) with luminosities (log L/L_\odot =5.27~5.28) and effective temperatures (log T_{eff}\approx 3.53) that are consistent with the range of the observational determinations. We also find that a synthetic light curve obtained by adding the fundamental and the first-overtone mode qualitatively agrees with the light curve of Betelgeuse up to the Great Dimming. We conclude that Betelgeuse is in the late stage of core carbon burning, and a good candidate for the next Galactic supernova.")
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From Phys.org:
...the red supergiant star has brightened by almost 50%, and that has the speculation ramping up again.
Betelgeuse will explode as a supernova. On that, there is universal agreement. But the question of when is less certain. ...
...
...In their paper, the authors say that Betelgeuse could be the Milky Way's next supernova, regardless of which of their outcomes might prove to be true. "We conclude that Betelgeuse is in the late stage of core carbon burning, and a good candidate for the next galactic supernova," they write.
Betelgeuse is almost 50% brighter than normal. What's going on?
Whenever something happens with Betelgeuse, speculations about it exploding as a supernova proliferate. It would be cool if it did. We're far enough away to suffer no consequences, so it's fun to imagine the sky lighting up like that for months.
If Betelgeuse being around late in the carbon burning phase (or even near the end of such) were so, it would be pretty interesting.
Here's why. These are roughly how long each phase of heavier and heavier element fusion burning lasts:
Less and less energy is produced per nuclear reaction in the nucleosynthesis of these high mass elements. So each burning phase lasts a shorter and shorter amount of time:
For a 15 Msun star:
| Reaction | Timescale |
| Hydrogen burning | 10 million years |
| Helium burning | 1 million years |
| Carbon burning | 300 years |
| Oxygen burning | 200 days |
| Silicon burning | 2 days |
http://burro.case.edu/Academics/Astr221/LifeCycle/highmassburn.html
But I also when looking found a possible contraindication to Betelgeuse being near to area of late carbon burning phase:
... For example, another Milky Way red giant known as VY CMa, located 3,900 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Canis, is thought to be much closer to the moment of its death than Betelgeuse. But unlike the brightening Betelgeuse, that star has been consistently dimming over the past 100 years.
"A hundred years ago, VY CMa used to be visible to the naked eye," said Montargès. "But it has expelled so much material that we can now only see it in infrared. This expelling of material is what we expect to see when the star nears the supernova explosion. VY CMa has already removed about 60% of its original mass, while Betelgeuse still has 95% of its initial material."
The astronomer added that, according to historical records, Betelgeuse used to be described as a yellow star up until 2,000 years ago, when poets began describing it as red. That, Montargès thinks, might indicate that Betelgeuse is only in the earliest stages of its life as a red giant. ...
Odd supergiant star Betelgeuse is brightening up. Is it about to go supernova?
'When it happens, the star will become as bright as the full moon, except that it will be concentrated in a single point.'
And especially that last seems meaningful: if it really was yellow only 2,000 years ago, then to me that seems more significant to suggest we could be earlier in the red giant process.
So, I don't think it's very likely then that we are right at the verge -- that is, the end of carbon and the shortish 200 days or so of oxygen burning.
But on the other hand, if the claimed observation of it being yellow 2,000 years ago are somehow distorted (like being under different atmospheric conditions?), then that contraindication would be out, and then it seem to me more of a dice roll again, though of course the entirety of the red giant phase is quite long compared to human civilization (a factor of a ~ thousand times longer) and so the yearly odds of being right at the end are tiny).
Award-winning gay teacher suspended for calling transgender ideology ‘anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-human’...
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
- 5 Replies
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A gay fifth grade teacher in Glendale, California, was placed on leave after complaining at a school board meeting that his school promotes transgenderism.
Ray Shelton, a 25-year veteran teacher, spoke at a recent meeting of the school board for the Glendale Unified School District wearing a T-shirt that read “Make Biology Great Again.”
Shelton, who teaches at Mark Keppel Elementary School, has been named the Glendale school district’s “Teacher of the Year” twice and earlier this year won the PTA’s Golden Oak Award.
In an exclusive interview, Shelton, who is gay, told The Daily Signal that his intent in speaking at the Glendale school board’s April 18 meeting was to speak what he called “basic, commonsense truths.”
Shelton told the board:
Two plus two equals four. The world is not flat. Boys have penises; girls have vaginas. Gender is binary and cannot be changed. Biology is not bigotry. Heterosexuality is not hate. Gender confusion and gender delusion are deep psychological disorders. No caring professional or loving parent would ever support the chemical poisoning or surgical mutilation of a child’s genitalia.
Transgender ideology is anti-gay, it is anti-woman, and it is anti-human. It wants to take away women’s sports, women’s rights, women’s achievements—it is misogyny writ large.
And I can also say this as a gay man, the gay people …
At this point, someone muted Shelton’s microphone and a board member informed the teacher that his time was up.
Applause broke out from the audience.
Continued below.
www.dailysignal.com
Ray Shelton, a 25-year veteran teacher, spoke at a recent meeting of the school board for the Glendale Unified School District wearing a T-shirt that read “Make Biology Great Again.”
Shelton, who teaches at Mark Keppel Elementary School, has been named the Glendale school district’s “Teacher of the Year” twice and earlier this year won the PTA’s Golden Oak Award.
In an exclusive interview, Shelton, who is gay, told The Daily Signal that his intent in speaking at the Glendale school board’s April 18 meeting was to speak what he called “basic, commonsense truths.”
Shelton told the board:
Two plus two equals four. The world is not flat. Boys have penises; girls have vaginas. Gender is binary and cannot be changed. Biology is not bigotry. Heterosexuality is not hate. Gender confusion and gender delusion are deep psychological disorders. No caring professional or loving parent would ever support the chemical poisoning or surgical mutilation of a child’s genitalia.
Transgender ideology is anti-gay, it is anti-woman, and it is anti-human. It wants to take away women’s sports, women’s rights, women’s achievements—it is misogyny writ large.
And I can also say this as a gay man, the gay people …
At this point, someone muted Shelton’s microphone and a board member informed the teacher that his time was up.
Applause broke out from the audience.
Continued below.
Award-Winning Teacher Suspended for Disagreeing With Transgenderism
Veteran teacher Ray Shelton was accused of being a "Nazi" and using "hate speech" for speaking out against transgenderism by GUSD staff.
