Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was slammed after video showed her dancing in the street in Chicago’s Lunar New Year parade Sunday.
Crime has soared in Chicago in 2023; overall crime in January is 61% higher than it was in January 2022.
“Since @chicagosmayor &#8216;s term began, Chicago has suffered 2,278 homicides and over 9,000 shot,” the Chicago Contrarian noted. “Since January 1, the city has endured 41 homicides and 194 shot.  Yet here Lightfoot is blissfully dancing and asking voters to return her to office.  Lightfoot is detached from reality.”
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Since <a href="https://twitter.com/chicagosmayor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chicagosmayor</a>&#39;s term began, Chicago has suffered 2,278 homicides and over 9,000 shot.
Since January 1, the city has endured 41 homicides and 194 shot.
Yet here Lightfoot is blissfully dancing and asking voters to return her to office.
Lightfoot is detached from reality. <a href="https://t.co/uEbL5R9s1m">pic.twitter.com/uEbL5R9s1m</a>
&mdash; Chicago Contrarian (@ChicagoContrar1) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChicagoContrar1/status/1619719840171962372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“This is Lori Lightfoot dancing on the graves of the 2,278 homicide victims who have died since she took office,” another critic stated.
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This is Lori Lightfoot dancing on the graves of the 2,278 homicide victims who have died since she took office:<a href="https://t.co/tDKLGUFYMR">pic.twitter.com/tDKLGUFYMR</a>
&mdash; James Bradley (@JamesBradleyCA) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesBradleyCA/status/1620068577033490433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is filmed DANCING in streets, even as murders soar. Because once your party has learned how to steal elections, you no longer worry whether or not your voters like you. She doesn’t have to pretend to care any more,” a third critic charged.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is filmed DANCING in streets, even as murders soar. Because once your party has learned how to steal elections, you no longer worry whether or not your voters like you. She doesn’t have to pretend to care any more. <a href="https://t.co/tyZKqB2m1e">https://t.co/tyZKqB2m1e</a>
&mdash; Bart Marcois (@bmarcois) <a href="https://twitter.com/bmarcois/status/1620035253405376512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The vacancy rate on the Magnificent Mile, Chicago’s most famous shopping district, has risen to nearly 30%; Famed stores such as Banana Republic, Gap, Macy&#8217;s, Old Navy, Timberland and Uniqlo have left the area. In  2016, the vacancy rate rested at a paltry 3.6%.
Lightfoot is running for re-election, but she faces a list of eight other candidates, making it likely that no one will reach the 50% threshold needed to win. That means the winner is likely to be decided in an April 4 runoff between the top two candidates.
Lightfoot took office in 2019; in 2021 homicides reached a 25-year high.
In October, Lightfoot, who during her tenure has had Chicago cops <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/chicago-cops-turn-backs-on-mayor-after-female-cop-killed/">turn their backs</a> on her, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lori-lightfoots-private-text-during-george-floyd-riots-the-city-is-up-for-grabs">texted</a> “this city is up for grabs” when riots broke out after the death of George Floyd, and <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/i-have-the-biggest-d-in-chicago-chicago-mayor-lightfoot-accused-of-raging-against-officials-who-wanted-to-display-columbus-statue-report/">boasted</a>, “I have the biggest d*** in Chicago” when she attacked a former Chicago Park District official who made a deal with an Italian American group to allow a Christopher Columbus statue to be used in a parade, and decided she was worthy of a 5% raise in salary.
Lightfoot said she endorsed a plan that would tie her salary, as well as those of the mayor, city clerk and treasurer, to inflation. The pay raise would be capped at 5% and could take effect in 2024.
“To be clear, the ordinance that was introduced today would put the mayor, the city treasurer and the clerk in line with (aldermen) regarding a cost-of-living increase,” Lightfoot <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-mayor-pay-city-salary-20221026-qb2nm4jh2jhczmx46b5viq47fi-story.html">stated</a>. “It’s not a salary increase.”

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‘Dancing On The Graves Of The 2,278 Homicide Victims’: Lightfoot Blasted For Dancing While Chicago Fails

Lightfoot Blasted For Dancing While Chicago Fails

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Hockey legend Bobby Hull, known as the Golden Jet because of his blonde hair and fast skating, has died, according to a statement from the NHL Alumni Association issued on Monday morning. He was 84 years old.
Hull is the all-time leading scorer for the Chicago Black Hawks, amassing more than 600 goals in his 15-year career, ESPN <a href="https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/35557785/hall-famer-bobby-hull-golden-jet-dies-age-84">reported</a>. He was a 12-time All-Star and two-time Hart Trophy winner.
&#8220;Bobby Hull will always be remembered as one of the greatest Black Hawks players of all time,&#8221; Chicago Blackhawks Chairman Rocky Wirtz said in a statement. &#8220;He was a beloved member of the Blackhawks family.&#8221;
&#8220;When I assumed leadership of the organization upon my father&#8217;s passing in 2007, one of my first priorities was to meet with Bobby to convince him to come back as an ambassador of the team,&#8221; Wirtz added. &#8220;His connection to our fans was special and irreplaceable. On behalf of the entire Wirtz family, I offer our deepest condolences on the loss of Bobby Hull, the Golden Jet. He will be missed.&#8221;
Hull&#8217;s NHL career, which began in 1957, included a Stanley Cup championship in 1961.
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The NHL Alumni Association is deeply saddened to learn that Bobby Hull has passed away at the age of 84. 
Bobby began his NHL career with the <a href="https://twitter.com/NHLBlackhawks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NHLBlackhawks</a> in 1957. He would go on to play 15 seasons with the team, one season with Winnipeg, and another with Hartford, amounting.. <a href="https://t.co/pOIioAgwd4">pic.twitter.com/pOIioAgwd4</a>
&mdash; NHL Alumni (@NHLAlumni) <a href="https://twitter.com/NHLAlumni/status/1620084539875033088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement that Hull was a &#8220;true superstar with a gregarious personality.&#8221;
&#8220;When Bobby Hull wound up to take a slapshot, fans throughout the NHL rose to their feet in anticipation and opposing goaltenders braced themselves,&#8221; Bettman said. &#8220;During his prime, there was no more prolific goal-scorer in all of hockey. &#8230; We send our deepest condolences to his son, fellow Hockey Hall of Famer Brett; the entire Hull family; and the countless fans around the hockey world who were fortunate enough to see him play or have since marveled at his exploits.&#8221;
Hull was named to the the League&#8217;s list of its top 100 players of all time in 2017 along with his son, fellow NHL hall of famer Brett Hull. They are the only father-son duo on the list.
&#8220;That was the coolest thing, to be a part of it with my dad was something special,&#8221; Brett Hull <a href="https://www.nhl.com/news/bobby-hull-dead-at-age-84/c-340587082">said</a> at the time.
Born on January 3, 1939, in Ontario, Canada, Hull was the fifth child in a family of 11, according to the NHL. He was a talented hockey player early on in life and caught the attention of a professional scout when he was only 11 years old. He started played in his first NHL game for the Black Hawks when he was only 18 years old.

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NHL Hall Of Famer Bobby Hull, The Golden Jet, Dead At 84

NHL Hall Of Famer Bobby Hull, The Golden Jet, Passes Away At 84

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Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/j-b-pritzker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.B. Pritzker</a> (D-IL) rejected the notion that <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/business" target="_blank" rel="noopener">businesses</a> are fleeing his state because of violent <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crime</a> and insisted that his efforts to improve public safety are working.
The official discussed the dismal condition of <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago</a> in an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox2NzknMeO4&amp;t=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with CNBC during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. When CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin mentioned that his outlet routinely hears from business leaders who want to flee the city, Pritzker dismissed the concerns.
“That’s not what we’re hearing. In fact, you saw that Kellogg moved to Chicago just recently, so just another example of corporate headquarters coming to Illinois,” he responded. “We’re doing a lot to attract businesses and retain businesses.”
Large businesses such as construction manufacturer Caterpillar and aerospace firm Boeing have nevertheless <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/enough-is-enough-business-owner-explains-why-he-finally-left-chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exited</a> Illinois in the past year. Investment firm Citadel likewise moved its headquarters from the Windy City to Miami, Florida, under the leadership of chief executive Ken Griffin, who was formerly the richest man in Illinois and one of the state’s most prolific philanthropists. The entrepreneur is also a prominent Republican campaign donor and unsuccessfully <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/billionaire-moved-to-florida-because-of-crime-in-chicago-now-hes-giving-100-million-to-elect-conservatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempted</a> to unseat Pritzker during the most recent midterm elections.
“We had one business that left, Citadel, because frankly they lost a political election trying to unseat me, wanted to get out, and made it an excuse that we have a high crime rate,” he added.
Griffin began purchasing property in the Sunshine State last year after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wealthiest-man-in-illinois-moves-his-business-from-chicago-to-miami-amid-feud-with-democratic-leadership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voicing concerns</a> about the lackluster business climate and rising violent crime. He indicated during a recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-former-wealthiest-man-reveals-the-breaking-points-that-prompted-his-move-to-florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> that a breaking point occurred for him after the violent assault of two separate colleagues: one was robbed after a person put “a gun to his head” during a coffee run, and another was attacked by “some random lunatic just trying to punch him in the head” while he was waiting for a car.
A source familiar with Citadel&#8217;s decision to leave Chicago confirmed with The Daily Wire that the move was unrelated to the election and was rather spurred by the company&#8217;s difficulty with attracting talent due to elevated crime rates.
Sorkin noted that McDonald&#8217;s CEO Chris Kempczinski represents another prominent executive who has voiced concerns about the effects of crime on business. Pritzker responded that “crime prevention dollars” and a recent assault weapons ban have started to decrease violence. “Crime is coming down gradually in the city and across the state. It’s going to take a little while,” he said. “These things don’t come down immediately. But it’s getting better.”
CNBC anchor Joe Kernen pressed the official on whether moves to eliminate cash bail are a factor behind higher crime rates. Pritzker replied that the policy “doesn’t mean you’re just letting the jail doors open” and doubled down after Sorkin noted that an employee of Goldman Sachs was recently killed on the subway in New York City by a criminal released under a similar policy.
“Violent criminals shouldn’t be let out on bail,” Pritzker continued. “But when you’ve got somebody who committed a nonviolent offense and frankly would be kept in jail for months because they just don’t have a few hundred dollars, that’s not a justice system. That’s injustice.”
Kernen noted that Illinois has also failed to prevent crime such as organized retail theft, under which dozens of individuals cooperate to overwhelm security and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/interest-groups-make-push-to-battle-organized-retail-crime-at-the-federal-level" target="_blank" rel="noopener">empty the shelves</a> of a store. “It’s the serious criminals that are committing the violent crimes,” Pritzker insisted. “It’s not people who are committing shoplifting who are going out and stabbing and killing people.”

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‘That’s Not What We’re Hearing’: Illinois Governor Denies Businesses Are Fleeing Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker Denies Businesses Are Fleeing Chicago

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The Chicago Field Museum bought a bronze age sword from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hungary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hungarian</a> National Museum in the 1930s thinking it was a replica. Now, nearly 100 years later, an archeologist for the Hungarian museum says there must have been an error at some point, the Field Museum <a href="https://www.facebook.com/fieldmuseum/posts/pfbid03r6s7z591Pp7qf6uYRndu2CgMQPk7LMgvZrGtTTkdA8u1CSGNR2udX7KXSPzznR2l?__cft__[0]=AZW00ZWYW1Mp4QKI2yQHSyo-1Ut1usoI9CcX7r5tqG4runtXmoZlTMyFY4mSFTkMPcjgwMrBl3I8JQeMtKNCzGFBpFQySwVCD8bWKtHDVzwAjXSTZgxWynNO_vH-66GDIR7TZaBCU6rLOTlfcTYTZ04KbSTBSe05gINC8DQpw329_DL1OAk7Ortz6V7rPX--2BQ&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Tuesday.
The 3-foot-long “replica” sword is actually 3,000 years old. It was initially discovered at the bottom of the Danube River, the second-longest river in Europe, in the 1930s in Budapest, Hungary. The Hungarian archeologist uncovered the truth behind the sword last summer during a visit to the Chicago museum.
&#8220;So I pull it out and he said after half a minute, this isn&#8217;t a replica, this is a real sword,” Bill Parkinson, the Chicago Field Museum curator of anthropology, <a href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/3500-year-old-bronze-age-sword-discovered-chicago-field-museum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;This is a real 3,000-year-old sword that was thrown into the Danube River at the end of the Bronze Age. And usually it goes the other way. It&#8217;s seldom that you&#8217;ve got something in your collection that said in the collection records for 100 years, ‘this is a replica,’ that you find out that no, it&#8217;s actually the real deal.&#8221;
“I think there was a clerical error when it got here,” Parkinson <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2023/1/17/23559126/field-museum-first-kings-of-europe-exhibit-sword" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>. “Someone just wrote it down wrong.”
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It was found more than 100 yrs ago in the Danube River in Budapest, stored at the <a href="https://twitter.com/FieldMuseum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FieldMuseum</a> ever since. It was labeled a &quot;replica&quot; but it turned out to be a real 3500 yr old Bronze Age sword. Coming up today <a href="https://twitter.com/WBBMNewsradio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WBBMNewsradio</a>, the story behind the museum&#39;s newest display.⚔️ <a href="https://t.co/UBuOUjLRda">pic.twitter.com/UBuOUjLRda</a>
&mdash; Lisa Fielding (@Lisa_Fielding) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lisa_Fielding/status/1615429804601270279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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To confirm that the sword was actually from the Bronze Age, researchers compared the chemical makeup of the museum’s artifact with known swords from the Bronze Age using an X-Ray fluorescent detector, according to <a href="https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/bronze-age-sword-at-field-museum-dates-back-3-500-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WBBM NewsRadio</a>. The testing showed that the comparison produced nearly identical makeups of bronze, tin, and copper.
During the Bronze Age, which lasted from <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/bronze-age" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approximately</a> 3300 BC to 1200 BC, throwing swords into rivers was commonplace as a way to celebrate treaties, <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2023/1/17/23559126/field-museum-first-kings-of-europe-exhibit-sword" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parkinson says</a>. This tradition helps explain why swords from the Bronze Age are often found at the bottoms of rivers. Metal weapons and tools were first used in the Bronze Age, replacing stone, according to <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/bronze-age" target="_blank" rel="noopener">History.com</a>.
The discovery was made while preparing for the museum&#8217;s upcoming exhibit called &#8220;The First Kings Of Europe.&#8221; The sword is now on display in the Field Museum’s Stanley Hall and will be included in the new exhibit, according to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/field-museum-sword-is-real/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS</a>.
“Starting their journey 8,000 years ago during the Neolithic Period and ending 2,500 years ago in the world of Iron Age kings, visitors will encounter archaeological finds that have never been shown in North America,” the museum <a href="https://www.fieldmuseum.org/traveling-exhibitions/first-kings-europe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> of the exhibit. It will also include weapons, tools, and jewelry to “tell the story of how individuals gained power and influence by amassing wealth and controlling trade, technology, rituals, and warfare.”

They Thought Their Bronze Age Sword Was A Replica. It’s The Real Deal.

They Thought Their Bronze Age Sword Was A Replica. It's The Real Deal.

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A biology paper misrepresented data used to support its claim that the field of evolutionary biology discriminates against disabled people, a Daily Wire analysis has found. 
The paper, &#8220;Discussions of the &#8216;Not So Fit&#8217;: How Ableism Limits Diverse Thought and Investigative Potential in Evolutionary Biology,&#8221; <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/720003">published</a> in American Naturalist last year, accused the field of evolutionary biology of &#8220;ableism.&#8221; To demonstrate this, the authors manipulated statistics to give the illusion that the field of evolutionary biology is particularly discriminatory against disabled people by inappropriately comparing rates of disability within evolutionary biology to society generally. 
The paper argues that concepts like &#8220;fitness&#8221; and &#8220;natural selection&#8221; —  foundational to the field of evolutionary biology, which studies the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time — are &#8220;harmful&#8221; and have been &#8220;weaponized against marginalized communities in the modern day.&#8221; And the authors&#8217; thesis is that evolutionary biology’s use of purportedly “ableist” terms and concepts discourages disabled people from studying the field, and is therefore more discriminatory of the disabled than other areas of study. But instead of sampling from other academic disciplines, the authors claim that &#8220;the proportion of disabled evolutionary biologists is far below the population average.&#8221; 
The authors compared a National Center for Science and Engineering Studies (NCSES) statistic that found 8.1% of disabled doctorate recipients in the life sciences with a CDC statistic that found <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/infographic-disability-impacts-all.html">26%</a> of the US population was disabled. But upon closer inspection, this <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/pdfs/mm6732a3-H.pdf">26%</a> CDC statistic was determined through <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/dhds/data-guide/status-and-types.html">self-reporting</a>, based on a six-question set, and included participants 65 and over who have considerably higher rates of age-related disabilities.
A more representative sample would have been to compare evolutionary biology with other academic fields of study. In fact, the same NCSES <a href="https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf22300/data-tables#group1">data set</a> (Table 28) used by the authors included the comparable data of other disciplines and revealed there was little difference between the number of disabled doctorate degree recipients in the life sciences (8.1%) with psychology/social sciences (9.8%), education (8.9%), math/computer science (7.2%), and humanities/arts (11.1%). 
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In addition, the authors cited another <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/evo.14168">study</a> by Rushworth et al comparing the 10.8% disability rate in evolution societies to the 26% CDC statistic, but did not mention that the Rushworth study itself acknowledged a &#8220;more conservative national estimate&#8221; of 12.8% from a more recent US Census.
Evolutionary biology is an intellectually challenging undertaking that often requires a field component to research, so one might expect to find fewer people with cognitive or mobility disabilities pursuing it, but the data shows there is very little disparity between it and other academic fields of study. 
The publication&#8217;s former editor-in-chief, Dan Bolnick, <a href="https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/12/29/a-once-respected-biology-journal-indicts-evolutionary-biology-for-ableism/">said</a> that this particular paper was a &#8220;special issue&#8221; that &#8220;invited papers at the intersection of humanities and sciences,&#8221; and that it was reviewed by a &#8220;special team&#8221; that included humanities researchers that did not comprise their &#8220;usual board.&#8221;  
<a href="https://twitter.com/Evolutionistrue">Jerry Coyne</a>, a prolific evolutionary biologist and author of the bestselling book, “Why Evolution Is True,” hosts a website by the same name where he recently <a href="https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/12/29/a-once-respected-biology-journal-indicts-evolutionary-biology-for-ableism/">reviewed</a> the paper. 
&#8220;First, it’s one of the more ludicrous examples of science policing I’ve seen,&#8221; opined Coyne, who said he supports accommodations for disabled people to have the same opportunities as others. &#8220;Second, it shows how the American Society of Naturalists, which publishes the journal, has gone down the same woke road as the other ecology and evolution societies.&#8221;
The paper makes several suggestions to rectify evolutionary biology&#8217;s ableist past, which mostly include changes to terminology they deem offensive and providing a chart with alternative language that should be used.
&#8220;According to the authors, the field is rife with words like &#8216;mutant/wild type,&#8217; &#8216;fitness optimum,&#8217; &#8216;mutations&#8217; (we should say &#8216;base pair change&#8217;), and &#8216;optimization,'&#8221; said Coyne. &#8220;The paper ends with a demand — not a request — that we purge evolutionary biology of ableist language.&#8221;
Perhaps most concerning is their call for an overhaul of foundational concepts in evolutionary biology, such as &#8220;fitness.&#8221; Within the context of evolutionary biology, fitness refers to measures of reproductive success, not the condition of an individual organism being physically fit.
&#8220;The authors’ discussion is muddled because they use &#8216;fitness&#8217; as equivalent to &#8216;able-bodied,&#8217; implying that &#8216;lower fitness&#8217; is somehow a slur on the disabled,&#8221; said Coyne. &#8220;In our field, the term was not used to denigrate the disabled, but simply to express the relative number of copies of a given gene variant in the next generation compared to alternative variants of the same gene.&#8221; 
&#8220;The authors also disparage the use of the term &#8216;survival of the fittest&#8217; because, they argue, it not only disparages handicapped people, but has led to social darwinism, a philosophy embraced by capitalists,&#8221; he added.
In addition to ableism, the authors accuse the field of evolutionary biology of eugenics, racism, white supremacy, colonialism, and capitalism. The paper also is peppered with humanities terms like &#8220;unconscious bias&#8221; and &#8220;lived experience,&#8221; and in the acknowledgments section the authors apologized for representing &#8220;white settlers’ perspectives on these issues.&#8221;
&#8220;American Naturalist would be better off if it stuck to its original mission — presenting good science — and stayed away from politics, ideology, and social engineering,&#8221; said Coyne.
The world-famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins shared Coyne’s sentiments regarding the formerly prestigious publication on Twitter. 
&#8220;American Naturalist used to be a great journal,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1608907894497607681?s=20&amp;t=gv4OiBM4UXEFf8NunygHJw">tweeted</a> Dawkins, with a link to Coyne&#8217;s review. &#8220;Very sad. How could they sink so low?&#8221;
Elon Musk took the opportunity to <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1608919969953349634?s=20&amp;t=PTxM1S27w8AEqoDNHa9STA">chime in</a>, &#8220;The woke mind virus is penetrating the firewalls of some of the world’s smartest meat computers at a prodigious rate!&#8221;
The lead author of the paper, Haley Branch, a botany student at the University of British Columbia, <a href="https://twitter.com/HaleyABranch/status/1613683909526712325?s=20&amp;t=o20hPSS-HwTDV5nsbAWI4Q">responded</a> to the criticism on Thursday.
&#8220;I did not expect the onslaught of disrespectful messages,&#8221; said Branch. &#8220;We did not expect the main takeaway to be language policing.&#8221;
Branch, who hopes her research can further &#8220;<a href="https://www.ubyssey.ca/features/our-campus-Haley-Branch/">climate justice</a>,&#8221; revealed in a 2020 social media <a href="https://twitter.com/HaleyABranch/status/1334674976406818818?s=20&amp;t=rNHT1MyZULXKpSFcTFdV7g">post</a> that she didn&#8217;t think of herself or &#8220;identify&#8221; as disabled until &#8220;very recently.&#8221; In fact, she used to be a ballet dancer and practiced 30 hours a week, that is, until she discovered she had Ehler-Danlos syndrome, a connective tissue abnormality that causes flexible joints. In 2020, she formed a <a href="https://www.ubyssey.ca/news/disabled-graduate-student-association/">support group</a> for disabled graduate students and aspires to make academia more &#8220;equitable&#8221; for them.
&#8220;It took until #diagnosis for me to identify, but that was because of lack of allies, support, and ableism,&#8221; said Branch. &#8220;I&#8217;m sad that medical #ableism prevented me from finding my community earlier.&#8221;

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s re-election campaign emailed some Chicago Public Schools teachers on Wednesday encouraging them to urge their students to volunteer to aid Lightfoot‘s re-election in return for class credit.
The email came from Megan Crane, a deputy campaign manager, and was received by teachers’ official work email accounts.
&#8220;Externs are expected to devote 12 hrs/wk to the campaign,” the email stated. “Students are eligible to earn class credit through our volunteer program.”
“We’re simply looking for enthusiastic, curious and hard-working young people eager to help Mayor Lightfoot win this spring,” the email, which was obtained by <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2023/01/11/lightfoot-campaign-asks-cps-teachers-encourage-students-help-her-win-reelection-return" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WTTW News</a>, added.
The initial information from the Lightfoot campaign given to WTTW by a spokesperson claimed the idea meant “to provide young people with the opportunity to engage with our campaign, learn more about the importance of civic engagement and participate in the most American of processes” and “done using publicly available contact information.”
But following WTTW’s revelation regarding the email, Lightfoot’s campaign stated it would “cease contact with CPS employees” out of an “abundance of caution,” followed by a third statement saying, “All [Lightfoot for Chicago] campaign staff have been reminded about the solid wall that must exist between campaign and official activities and that contacts with any city of Chicago, or other sister agency employees, including CPS employees, even through publicly available sources is off limits. Period.”
Colleen K. Connell, executive director of the ACLU of Illinois, <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2023/01/12/lightfoot-campaign-emails-cps-teachers-may-violate-federal-law-aclu-illinois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the email “inappropriately coercive and raises First Amendment concerns. The Supreme Court has made clear that government officials cannot use their office or power to coerce participation or to punish for lack of participation in political campaigns. &#8230; Because the mayor has the ultimate authority over the Chicago schools, teachers may feel coercion in this ask from the mayor’s campaign or fear negative consequences for lack of participation.”
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates called the email “unethical” and echoed the ACLU’s concern that teachers and students who refused to cooperate might be targeted. The teachers’ union has endorsed Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson for mayor.
After winning the election for mayor in 2019, Lightfoot <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2019/04/03/lightfoot-wins-chicago/AP%202019/AP%202019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasted</a>, “Together we can and will make Chicago a place where your zip code doesn&#8217;t determine your destiny. We can and we will break this city&#8217;s endless cycle of corruption and never again — never ever — allow politicians to profit from elected positions.”

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Hendriks, who saved 37 games with a 2.81 earned run average last season, a year after leading the American League with 38 saves, vowed to beat the disease. The type of cancer he has, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, has a 70% rate of survival beyond five years.
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“Hearing the word ‘Cancer’ came as a shock to my wife and I, as it does to millions of families each year,” <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CnLGoQlPN8C/?hl=en">Hendriks wrote</a> in the post. “However, I am resolved to embrace the fight and overcome this new challenge with the same determination I have used when facing other obstacles in my life.”
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Hendriks, 33, is a 12-year veteran of the big leagues and has played for five different teams. He is one of the team’s leaders and has long been active in community and charitable causes.
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“Our thoughts and reactions at this time are for Liam the person, not Liam the baseball player,” White Sox General Manager Rick Hahn said in a statement. “I know the entire Chicago White Sox organization, our staff, his teammates, and certainly White Sox fans, will rally in support of Liam and Kristi during the coming months.&#8221;
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“Knowing everyone involved, especially Liam, we are optimistic he will pitch again for the White Sox as soon as viable,” he added. “In the meantime, we all will do everything in our power to support our teammate and his family as they face this challenge, while also respecting their privacy.”
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“I am confident that I will make a full recovery and be back on the mound as soon as possible,” Hendriks wrote. “I know with the support of my wife, my family, my teammates and the Chicago White Sox organization, along with the treatment and care from my doctors, I will get through this.”
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colorado">Colorado</a> Gov. Jared Polis has agreed to stop busing migrants to New York City or Chicago following a letter from New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot demanding an end to the practice.
Polis agreed on Saturday to stop transporting them to those two locations.
&#8220;[T]he Governor had a very productive conversation with Mayor Adams and Mayor Lightfoot today where he shared that there are no more buses scheduled for migrants from Denver to Chicago at this time, and the final chartered transportation to New York City will be successfully completed tomorrow,&#8221; a statement from the Colorado governor&#8217;s office <a href="https://www.colorado.gov/governor/news/9376-update-colorados-efforts-help-migrants-reach-their-final-destination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read</a>.
&#8220;The state is partnering with the city of Denver and non-profits to continue assisting the city of Denver to continue to ensure this process is being conducted in a humane manner,&#8221; it added.
The change occurred after a letter from Adams and Lightfoot demanded that Polis end the state&#8217;s busing of migrants to their cities.
“It is apparent that the influx of asylum seekers has provoked consternation amongst states. Although we share the concerns of accommodating the flood of asylum seekers, overburdening other cities is not the solution. We respectfully demand that you cease and desist sending migrants to New York City and Chicago,&#8221; the <a href="https://news.wttw.com/sites/default/files/article/file-attachments/Chicago%20and%20NYC_Joint%20Letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Polis read.
The letter also addressed media statements by Polis that downplayed his state&#8217;s role in transporting migrants.
&#8220;We have seen your statements in the media that you are simply accommodating the wishes of migrants to come to cities like New York City and Chicago,&#8221; the letter added.
&#8220;Both our cities are working tirelessly to ensure that migrants are able to reach their desired destinations where they are reunited with loved ones.  However, you are sending migrants and families to New York City and Chicago that do not have any ties, family members or community networks to welcome them, and at a time where both cities are at maximum capacity in shelter space and available services,&#8221; the mayors wrote.
Polis previously addressed a report by Adams to explain why Colorado was busing some migrants to New York City. His office claimed that about 70% of the migrants arriving in Denver did not have Colorado as their final destination.
“No one should play politics with the lives of migrants who came here to escape oppression, and in Colorado, we are honoring our values of treating people with dignity and respect. We are simply carrying out our values of treating every human being with dignity and respect,&#8221; the Democratic governor <a href="https://www.colorado.gov/governor/news/9356-colorado-takes-action-assist-migrants-completing-their-journeys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement on Tuesday.
Chicago has received 3,854 migrants from other states while New York City has received approximately 36,400 over the last nine months, according to the letter from the two governors.
Both Texas and Arizona have bused migrants to sanctuary cities over the past year to respond to the border crisis. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s latest <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/operation-lone-star-takes-historic-action-throughout-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">update</a> stated that more than 16,000 migrants have been bused from his state, including over 4,900 migrants to New York City since August 5 and over 1,500 migrants to Chicago since August 31.

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Hundreds of teachers in the third-largest school district in the country reportedly <a href="https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/638582935-i-m-ready-to-f-right-now-i-m-not-gonna-be-gentle-either-oig-report-details-cps-teachers-sexual-grooming-assaults-of-their-students">sexually groomed, assaulted, and raped students</a> over a period of decades.
According to a <a href="https://cpsoig.org/uploads/3/5/5/6/35562484/cps_oig_fy_2022_annual_report.pdf">new report</a> from the Chicago School District’s Office of the Inspector General, over 600 “adult-on-student” misconduct allegations were filed with its office, and the office has substantiated more than half of them.
“At least 16 subsequent criminal charges have been filed against CPS-affiliated adults for sex-related crimes by prosecuting agencies,” the report states.
Among the cases involving criminal charges there were incidents like these:
A teacher allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted a 17-year-old student on three occasions. The report states that “when the student mentioned that she was going to disclose the sexual abuse, the teacher responded, ‘Please no&#8230;&#8230;’ and ‘we’re talking about my entire life here&#8230;&#8230;Please&#8230; I’m begging u&#8230;.’”
A former JROTC staff member allegedly had sex with a girl and sent her text messages including one boasting, “I’m ready to f*** right now &#8230; I’m not gonna be gentle either.”
“The investigation also revealed that when the JROTC staff member became aware that he might be under investigation, he threatened to kill the student and her family if she disclosed the sexual abuse,” the report added.
A high school physical education teacher allegedly exposed himself to one girl, prompting staff members who were alerted to make excuses for him, with one saying that the claim had to be false because the teacher had a daughter of his own. A 15-year-old classmate of the girl produced evidence that the teacher had sent her photos and videos of himself masturbating and engaging in other sexual acts, the OIG said.
A high school substitute teacher allegedly engaged in kisses, sexual hugs, and backrubs, asking one student to recruit another student for a “threesome.”
An elementary school teacher allegedly touched a CPS student sexually between 1996 and 1999, when the student was approximately 11 to 14 years old, and spent the night in the student’s bedroom having sex.
A teacher who “had frequent boundary-crossing interactions with students outside of school, including hosting students at his residence, going with students to movies and sporting events, having meals with students outside of school, and driving students in his vehicle,” the report added.
A CPS charter school administrator “took a high school junior to a Broadway musical in downtown Chicago,” then allegedly “touched the student’s leg with his own” during the show and then “slid his hand down inside of the front of the student’s pants and touched his genitals” on the way home.

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A man in Chicago was arrested Friday after he claimed to have a bomb in his bag at O&#8217;Hare International Airport.
Law enforcement officials arrested the man at Terminal 1 inside the airport. No explosives were located.
&#8220;A man was arrested in Terminal 1 at @fly2ohare after stating he had a bomb in his bag,&#8221; said Tom Ahern, Deputy Director, News Affairs &amp; Communications, Chicago Police. &#8220;No explosives were found by #ChicagoPolice Bomb &amp; Arson Detectives.&#8221;
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A man was arrested in Terminal 1 at <a href="https://twitter.com/fly2ohare?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@fly2ohare</a> after stating he had a bomb in his bag. No explosives were found by <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChicagoPolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChicagoPolice</a> Bomb &amp; Arson Detectives. <a href="https://twitter.com/ChicagoCAPS16?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChicagoCAPS16</a> <a href="https://t.co/vNvPLEqdHx">pic.twitter.com/vNvPLEqdHx</a>
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There were no other details available from the incident.
On Monday, a military plane carrying a National Guard general was forced to return to O&#8217;Hare International Airport after taking off because the plane struck a flock of birds.
&#8220;Out of an abundance of caution, the crew safely returned to the airport,&#8221; a spokesperson for the 89th Airlift Wing <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/national-guard-chief-military-plane-chicago-airport-birds">told</a> Fox News. &#8220;All members on board are safe and the incident is under investigation.&#8221;
Late last week, a flight from Envoy Air, flying for parent company American Airlines, was forced to return O&#8217;Hare International Airport shortly after takeoff because a pilot on board became <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/22/envoy-air-says-pilot-who-was-reported-incapacitated-during-flight-has-died.html">incapacitated</a> and later died.
“Despite heroic efforts by those on board and first responders on the ground, our colleague passed away at the hospital,” the company said in a statement. “We’re deeply saddened and are doing all we can to support his family and our colleagues at this time.”

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Chicago&#8217;s Democratic Mayor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/we-kill-the-batman-lori-lightfoot-mocked-for-bizarre-bribe-attempt-to-get-people-vaxxed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lori Lightfoot</a> voiced her outrage in the wake of Saturday night&#8217;s <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/at-least-5-dead-18-wounded-in-mass-shooting-at-colorado-gay-nightclub-white_check_mark-eyes-heavy_plus_sign/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shooting in Colorado Springs</a> — but then took a beating on Twitter when critics pointed out the fact that she presides over a city where shootings are an everyday thing.
Lightfoot began by sharing a tweet from the Associated Press announcing the breaking news: &#8220;Colorado Springs police say 5 people are dead and 18 injured in a Colorado nightclub shooting.&#8221;
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&#8220;I’m sick of this s***,&#8221; she added. &#8220;How many people need to be murdered? How many lives torn apart? Until it actually stops? We don’t have to live like this. And we don’t have to die like this.&#8221;
Critics immediately noticed the irony, calling Lightfoot out for the violent crime that is rampant in her city.
&#8220;Where is your outrage at the dozens of murders in your city every week? Gangs and criminals are running the place &#8230; not you,&#8221; ESPN reporter Jeannine Edwards <a href="https://twitter.com/jeanninee12/status/1594488804446015488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
&#8220;Next Top Model&#8221; winner (Season 1) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdrianneCurry/status/1594469571293216769" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>, &#8220;YOU and your party have ran Chicago for over 60 years! This is YOUR fault and no one elses.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure, but it seems like you might be in a position to do something about murders in Chicago,&#8221; radio host Dan O&#8217;Donnell <a href="https://twitter.com/DanODonnellShow/status/1594478936859164672" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a>.
&#8220;Local arsonist laments the number of fires in the US as her city burns,&#8221; @Reverend_Ducati commented.
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Local arsonist laments the number of fires in the US as her city burns: <a href="https://t.co/rOQaw3mF0E">https://t.co/rOQaw3mF0E</a>
&mdash; Rev. Ducati 🏁🏴‍☠️ (@Reverend_Ducati) <a href="https://twitter.com/Reverend_Ducati/status/1594515184621867008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;What’s the murder rate in Chi-Town and what are you doing about it?&#8221; Jeff Putnam added.
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What’s the murder rate in Chi-Town and what are you doing about it? <a href="https://t.co/Gz0Wy4E4VR">https://t.co/Gz0Wy4E4VR</a>
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Breitbart&#8217;s Alana Mastrangelo <a href="https://twitter.com/ARmastrangelo/status/1594500848113131520" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>, &#8220;As the mayor of Chicago, you should probably sit this one out.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a real tweet. From the the Mayor of Chicago,&#8221; @Brinkofill <a href="https://twitter.com/brinkofill/status/1594496977072316416" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. &#8220;The person in charge of a city known for its violent crime. And just in case she deletes, here is a screenshot …&#8221;
&#8220;More people than this were murdered this weekend in Chicago, I&#8217;ll bet. And that&#8217;s your fault,&#8221; actor Nick Searcy argued,&#8221; adding, &#8220;615 homicides in Chicago this year. Why aren’t you sick of that s***?&#8221;
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615 homicides in Chicago this year. Why aren’t you sick of that shit?
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St. Louis-based radio host Annie Frey <a href="https://twitter.com/anniefreyshow/status/1594485635771162624" target="_blank" rel="noopener">summed her feelings up</a> in just four words: &#8220;Start at home, Mayor.&#8221;
Lightfoot has said as recently as August that she believes her administration has been <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-crime-violence-mayor-lori-lightfoot-police/12096436/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doing a good job</a> of tackling crime in the city. &#8220;Our data-driven strategy recognizes that that&#8217;s where we need to put the lion&#8217;s share of our investments, our time, our education, our outreach,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The biggest challenge I think that we face is we&#8217;ve got to make sure that these young people put down the guns, and we&#8217;ve got to make more progress on carjackings.&#8221;
According to data from the Chicago Police Department, by July the city of Chicago had seen 7,400 guns taken off the streets and law enforcement had responded to about 1,000 carjackings.

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‘I’m Sick Of This S**t’: Lori Lightfoot Rages Over Colorado Shooting, Gets Dragged Because She’s Mayor Of Chicago

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A Chicago-based AdTech company is requiring all of their employees to attend training sessions steeped in pseudoscience about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> ideology.
Basis Technologies, a software provider for marketers, sent an email out to all employees on October 31 mandating &#8220;diversity, equity and inclusion&#8221; training to become a &#8220;trans ally.&#8221; According to an email obtained by The Daily Wire from a whistleblower at the company, &#8220;attendance is required&#8221; for two training sessions in December.
&#8220;As one of the many steps in our journey of inclusion at Basis, we&#8217;re excited to announce our partnership with [PFLAG] to introduce &#8216;Becoming a Trans Ally and Going Beyond the Binary&#8217; training,&#8221; the email reads.
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The AdTech company partnered with Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), an &#8220;LGBTQ+&#8221;  organization that developed &#8220;a national outreach and education project&#8221; called Straight for Equality. The program includes lessons on &#8220;Becoming a Trans Ally and Going Beyond the Binary.&#8221;
The email states that the intent of the training is to educate employees on &#8220;what gender identity and expression mean, what people who are trans and nonbinary experience, why personal pronouns matter, or what role allies can play.&#8221;
According to the <a href="https://straightforequality.org/workplacematerials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">educational materials</a> found on the Straight for Equality website, participants will learn about the pseudoscientific concept of &#8220;gender identity.&#8221; While studies of the brain show <a href="https://twitter.com/NeuroSGS/status/1549324206437011458?s=20&amp;t=jNBXSdT5A6sdfLnWZU2bZA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evidence</a> of same-sex attraction, as well as <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180619/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">autogynephilia</a>, a paraphilic disorder in which a man becomes sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female, there is no scientific evidence to definitively support the existence of &#8220;gender identity&#8221; or gender dysphoria in the brain.
Nevertheless, <a href="https://straightforequality.org/sites/default/files/guide%20to%20being%20a%20straight%20ally%20fourth%20edition.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guidance</a> from Straight for Equality claims that &#8220;a lot of experts in the field believe that awareness of gender identity is experienced in infancy.&#8221; The materials include concepts like &#8220;assigned sex,&#8221; the idea that doctors arbitrarily dictate a person&#8217;s biological sex rather than observe and record it. Participants are encouraged to &#8220;accept that people have the right to define their gender, regardless of assigned sex.&#8221;
Participants will learn about &#8220;gender-creative,&#8221; &#8220;gender-colorful,&#8221; and &#8220;gender-expansive&#8221; people, as well as a &#8220;third sex&#8221; and &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; to denote &#8220;anyone who does not conform to the gender binaries.&#8221;
The education materials provide guides on how to use &#8220;gender-neutral pronouns (like &#8216;ze&#8217;, &#8216;hir&#8217;, and &#8216;they&#8217;)&#8221; or even &#8220;to use no pronouns at all.&#8221; An example for how to subvert the English language and avoid using pronouns altogether they offer is, &#8220;rather than saying &#8216;his office space&#8217; you’d say &#8216;Drew’s office space.’”
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As their source of purportedly authoritative information, Straight for Equality references the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), an organization <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-declaration-launches-opposition-to-leading-transgender-health-association" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denounced</a> internationally by medical and mental health professionals for its &#8220;adherence to ideological views unsupported by evidence, its exclusion of ethical concerns, and its mischaracterization of basic science.&#8221;
Basis Technologies was formerly called &#8220;Centro,&#8221; and two of its prominent investors include FTV Capital and the Neuberger Berman Group. According to the whistleblower, the tech company employs around 1,000 employees, which is corroborated by a GlassDoor <a href="https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Basis-Technologies-EI_IE301536.11,29.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entry</a>.

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