Just kidding, that's fake.
Fake but accurate.
Jack Phillips, the Colorado baker, is being sued yet again, this time over his refusal to make a "transgender" cake, whatever that is.
Can the Supreme Court finally put an end to this decade-long persecution by mentally-ill perverts?
The Colorado Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit against a Christian baker who refused to make a cake celebrating a gender transition, one of three such cases from the state that have pitted LGBTQ+ civil rights against First Amendment rights.
Two cases have centered on baker Jack Phillips, who in 2012 refused to bake a cake for a gay couple's wedding. Phillips partially prevailed before the U.S. Supreme Court in that case in 2018.
Phillips was later sued by Autumn Scardina, a transgender woman, after Phillips and his suburban Denver bakery refused to make a pink cake with blue frosting for her birthday that also celebrated her gender transition.
Scardina, an attorney, said [he] brought the lawsuit to "challenge the veracity" of Phillips' statements that he would serve LGBTQ+ customers.
That doesn't even make sense. He already won the right to refuse to make cakes with messages he didn't agree with. So this aggressive toxic male demanded he make a "trans birthday cake," supposedly to see if he'd really "serve LGBTQ customers."
Well, then you should have ordered a normal cake. That would have tested him.
This just tests whether or not he still has the right, which he won at no small cost in terms of money and anguish, to refuse to make cakes with messages that go against his religion.
Why is this even being allowed?
A court can declare a serial litigant to be "vexatious" and require him to get all lawsuits he wants to file approved by a judge before filing them. Obviously, the vicious Colorado court system refuses to do this for Jack Phillips and his mentally-ill persecutor.
ABC "News:" Bud Light is still being "hammered" by boycott as workers and bottlers complain about the foreign company's management.
Bud Light boycott still hammers local distributors 1 year later: 'Very upsetting'
"Sales cratered and sat there," an industry analyst said.
When conservative activists set aflame boxes of Bud Light and urged a boycott in response to an endorsement from a trans influencer last spring, they sent sales of the beer plummeting in a rare success in the long history of consumer movements.
Even more improbably, the backlash continues to hammer Bud Light and strain independent local wholesalers more than a year later, according to third-party sales data shared with ABC News as well as interviews with six Anheuser-Busch wholesalers.
Most of the wholesalers, small- and medium-sized businesses that draw a significant portion of their revenue from Bud Light, said they remain weakened by the decline in sales and uncertain about when, if ever, the brand will fully recover.
The owner of an Anheuser-Busch wholesaler in the Northeast, whose child is trans, told ABC News they have taken a 30% pay cut to make up for the losses and are considering retirement.
"It was really hurtful personally," the owner said. "I'm trying to understand what my kid is going through and then this happens."
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Another executive at a wholesaler in the Mid-Atlantic said they have spent sleepless nights devising ways to shed costs without laying off employees; and a top official at a distributor in the Southeast said they expect sales of Bud Light will remain down for at least two more years.
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"Once a consumer drops off a product -- where there is a readily available and similarly priced substitute -- a habit has formed and it's difficult to shake that habit," the executive said. "We have to give them a reason to come back."
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"Given the history of boycotts and its history of ineffectiveness, it is really surprising that this one has had the staying power that it has," Schweitzer told ABC News.
"In this moment, we're so politicized," Schweitzer added. "The weather is political, the employment rate is political and now beer is political."
Who made these things political?
BTW, ABC "News" lied in that story to, get this, protect Dylan Mulvaney. It claimed that Dylan Mulvaney showed off his bespoke Bud Light can, featuring his rat-like male face, to celebrate his "365 Days of Womanhood."
Of course, the little creep was not claiming to celebrate 365 Days of Womanhood; this adult man was claiming to celebrate 365 Days of Girlhood.
But the public might find that a little creepy, so ABC "News" rewrote the historical record to make it seem a little less weird.
The largest pilot's union has its eyes on the important problems facing aviation.
No, not airplanes dropping out of the skies or pilots being hired based on (checks notes) melanin count and sex organs.
The Air Line Pilots Association doesn't rock with minor concerns like that.
The world's largest airline pilot union, Air Line Pilots Association, Int'l (ALPA), has urged the aviation community to stop using terms considered offensive to women and LGBTQ individuals, such as "cockpit."
Representing over 70,000 pilots globally, ALPA collaborates with a United Nations agency on its policies. Their 2021 diversity, equity, and inclusion language guide lists several terms and phrases to avoid, particularly "masculine generalizations," to promote inclusion and equity.
The guide emphasizes that "inclusive language in communications is essential to our union's solidarity and collective strength and is an important factor in maintaining flight safety."
The guide suggests replacing "cockpit" with "flight deck," citing that the former term has been used derogatorily to exclude women. It also advises against using terms like "manpower," recommending "people/human power" instead, and discourages addressing groups as "guys" due to its non-inclusive nature.
ALPA also recommends avoiding "mother/father" and "husband/wife" to respect diverse family structures and same-sex couples.
Linguist Ben Zimmer noted in a Wall Street Journal article that "cockpit" originated from 16th-century cockfighting, evolving to describe tense environments and later the area on British warships for treating the wounded.
Former FAA safety team representative Kyle Bailey told Fox News Digital that diversity has little to do with safe travel, emphasizing that flight experience and training are paramount. He noted that piloting remains predominantly male, with few young girls aspiring to be pilots.
Ex-Googler: Google refuses to implement a "Scenic route" feature in its Mapsfunction, because they don't want to stigmatize urban blight as non-scenic.
A former Google Maps UX researcher has revealed the company's decision not to add a "scenic route" feature due to concerns over bias favoring high-income areas.
Key Details:
Researcher's Revelation: Kasey Klimes, a former Senior UX Researcher at Google, explained that introducing "scenic" options in Google Maps could bias the app towards wealthier areas, potentially harming lower-income communities.
Corporate Caution: Klimes deleted his X/Twitter thread discussing these insights and locked his account, leading to speculation about Google's involvement and concerns over the spread of sensitive information.
Competitive Landscape: As Google hesitates on new features over DEI concerns, Apple advances its Maps app with hiking-focused enhancements, including downloadable trails and offline navigation for U.S. National Parks.
So what you're saying is that you're protecting wealthy areas from unwanted outsiders, and jamming minority neighborhoods with traffic.
Nice.
Speaking of white supremacy and quiet neighborhoods, Via David Strom alerts us to an Atlantic queef of an article, which instructs us that wanting your neighborhood to be peaceful and quiet -- so that people can sleep at night and children can be well-rested for school and adults refreshed for productive work -- is white supremacy.
I remember, the summer before I left for college, lying close to my bedroom box fan, taking it all in. Thanks to a partial scholarship (and a ton of loans), I was on my way to an Ivy League college. I was counting down the days, eager to ditch the concrete sidewalks and my family's cramped railroad apartment and to start living life on my own terms, against a backdrop of lush, manicured lawns and stately architecture.
I didn't yet know that you don't live on an Ivy League campus. You reside on one. Living is loud and messy, but residing? Residing is quiet business.
I first arrived on campus for the minority-student orientation. The welcome event had the feel of a block party, Blahzay Blahzay blasting on a boom box. (It was the '90s.) We spent those first few nights convening in one another's rooms, gossiping and dancing until late. We were learning to find some comfort in this new place, and with one another.
Then the other students arrived--the white students. The first day of classes was marked by such gloriously WASPy pomp that it made my young, aspirational heart leap....
I just hadn't counted on everything that followed being so quiet. The hush crept up on me at first. I would be hanging out with my friends from orientation when one of our new roommates would start ostentatiously readying themselves for bed at a surprisingly early hour. Hints would be taken, eyes would be rolled, and we'd call it a night.
It's almost as if this Sinister White Sleep-Seeker wanted to achieve academically or something.
One day, when I accidentally sat down to study in the library's Absolutely Quiet Room, fellow students Shhh-ed me into shame for putting on my Discman. With rare exceptions--like Saturday nights during rush--silence blanketed the campus.
Oh, you went to the Absolutely Quiet Room and then played music out of the tinny speakers of your Discman so that everyone was forced to adapt to your lenient standards of Absolute Quite? Wow, that's like a hate crime.
Are you okay? Should I get you a cold compress?
I soon realized that silence was more than the absence of noise; it was an aesthetic to be revered. Yet it was an aesthetic at odds with who I was. Who a lot of us were.
Yes, I'm unfortunately well-acquainted with this aesthetic rolling down my street with speakers turned up to 11 at 3am on worknights.
Within a few weeks, the comfort that I and many of my fellow minority students had felt during those early cacophonous days had been eroded, one chastisement at a time. The passive-aggressive signals to wind our gatherings down were replaced by point-blank requests to make less noise, have less fun, do our living somewhere else, even though these rooms belonged to us, too. A boisterous conversation would lead to a classmate knocking on the door with a "Please quiet down." A laugh that went a bit too loud or long in a computer cluster would be met with an admonishment.
In those moments, I felt hot with shame and anger, yet unable to articulate why. It took me years to understand that, in demanding my friends and I quiet down, these students were implying that their comfort superseded our joy. And in acquiescing, I accepted that.
This video from Steve Inman shows vigilante justice in action. If you don't like law enforcement by trained cops with professional detachment, you're really not going to like the rough justice dished out by untrained amateurs who might have an emotional investment in pounding some criminals into the concrete.
Hilarious -- Donkey Kong Fu.
The UK trans extremist organization "Mermaids" -- whose trans-for-children operation was shut down by the authorities by the UK, I believe -- is now glorifying "cutting" by teenagers as a show of "resilience."
Below, the "scars across your chest" refers to the scars from a medically-unnecessary double radical masectomy; the "scars on your arms" refers to the practice of self-harm called "cutting," in which mentally-unwell teenagers cut into their flesh and create scars to alleviate depression, boredom, or feelings of self-hatred.
Evil.
Dennis Noel Kavanagh
@Jebadoo2
"The ones across your arms" can only sensibly be read as evidence of self harm.
This is as low as it gets from Mermaids. This is out in the open encouragement of self harming and making the link we always have between that and hating your own body, or at least using it as a locus for pain.
Mermaids are showing themselves to be nothing less than utterly dangerous to children. The fact they think this is acceptable to say tells you how lost they are and how much of a real danger they pose to children.
Frankly, I ask myself what more they have to do or say before they are recognised for the profoundly dangerous anti-child outfit that they are. This is plain evil. This is no better than a pro-anorexia website, but it's dressed up in gender and it's only autistic or normally lesbian youth affected so they get away with it.
This absolutely has to stop. This is not a healthy society so long as this gang of ghouls can predate on the misery of children and sell it back to them as emancipation.
Come on.
This is so obviously wrong.
They're not even attempting to hide this.
AWFLs continue AWFLing:
The pro-Hamas rally in Michigan was joined by a very special guest.