A Danish <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arts">artist</a> is being asked to return money he was given to complete an art installation after he submitted two blank canvases as the finished project.
The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/denmark">Denmark</a> lent artist Jens Haaning 532,549 Dutch krone, equivalent to about $76,400, so he could recreate two earlier pieces that physically depicted the average income of a Danish citizen versus an Austrian citizen, per <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200192209/danish-artist-jens-haaning-blank-canvases-ordered-to-repay-loan-kunsten">NPR</a>. 
But rather than affixing the money to the canvases, Haaning pocketed the cash and turned in blank canvases he dubbed “Take the Money And Run.” 
The museum initially accepted the canvases and displayed them as part of its “Work It Out” show in 2021, expecting the artist to return the money afterward. But he refused, which resulted in a lengthy court battle.  
Haaning has now been ordered to return the money plus $11,000 in legal fees. The ruling deducted roughly $5,700 from the amount owed to reflect Haaning&#8217;s artist&#8217;s fee and viewing fee because the exhibit did proceed with his two blank canvases included.
Museum director Lasse Andersson, at first, was amused by the stunt. &#8220;Jens is known for his conceptual and activistic art with a humoristic touch. And he gave us that – but also a bit of a wake up call as everyone now wonders where did the money go,&#8221; he told <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artist-jens-haaning-take-the-money-and-run-ordered-return-cash-denmark/">CBS News</a> in 2021. 
But he also warned the artist that they did need the money back.
&#8220;We are not a wealthy museum,&#8221; Andersson told The Guardian in 2021. &#8220;We have to think carefully about how we spend our funds, and we don&#8217;t spend more than we can afford.&#8221;
The museum had extracted the funds from a building maintenance fund to give to Haaning. “I believe he will give it back to us. He is a well-regarded artist. But if we don’t get it back, we will have to file charges against the artist,” the director said at the time. Andersson said the museum’s contract with Haaning required him to return the money in January 2022, which he failed to do.
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According to Haaning&#8217;s press release in 2021, &#8220;the idea behind [it] was to show how salaries can be used to measure the value of work and to show national differences within the European Union.&#8221; The artist changed the title to &#8220;Take the Money and Run&#8221; as a means of addressing &#8220;artists&#8217; rights and their working conditions in order to establish more equitable norms within the art industry.&#8221;
“The work is that I have taken their money,” Haaning told the national Danish broadcaster DR in September 2021. “It’s not theft. It is breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work.”
“I encourage other people who have working conditions as miserable as mine to do the same. If they’re sitting in some sh**y job and not getting paid, and are actually being asked to pay money to go to work, then grab what you can and beat it,” he added.

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Danish Artist Ordered To Repay Museum $76K After Turning In Blank Canvases Called ‘Take The Money And Run’

Danish Artist Ordered To Repay Museum $76K After Turning In Blank Canvases Called 'Take The Money And Run'

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> sued the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/internal-revenue-service-irs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IRS</a> on Monday over alleged violations of his privacy when agents went to Congress with details of the agency’s investigation into Biden’s taxes.
Biden is under pressure from federal investigators and prosecutors and has adopted an adversarial stance since a plea deal fell apart in July. The first son’s approach to federal officials mirrors his stance toward Republicans accusing him of engaging in corrupt overseas business dealings.
Biden’s lawsuit targets the IRS, alleging that two whistleblowers who made claims of misconduct leaked sensitive information about his taxes to Congress. The lawsuit claims the leaks violated federal tax laws and Biden’s right to privacy, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/09/18/hunter-biden-lawsuit-irs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>.
Biden “has no fewer or lesser rights than any other American citizen, and no government agency or government agent has free reign to violate his rights simply because of who he is,” the lawsuit says.
IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler went to Congress to expose what they said was a double standard in the way the IRS and Department of Justice had handled the investigation into Biden’s tax affairs and purchase of a firearm. The whistleblowers said they were blocked from pursuing lines of questioning that had the potential of implicating Biden’s father, President Joe Biden. They also said Hunter was given favorable treatment, such as unnecessary warnings ahead of certain investigative actions.
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The lawsuit claims that the whistleblowers revealed certain information to Congress that could only be gained from viewing Hunter’s personal tax information.
“This assault on Mr. Biden’s rights involved the public disclosure of his confidential tax information during more than 20 nationally televised and non-congressionally sanctioned interviews and numerous public statements,” the lawsuit says, according to the Post.
The whistleblower made “detailed allegations regarding the specific tax years under investigation, the amounts of deductions, the nature of those deductions, and allegations of liability regarding specific tax years and the amount thereof, that could only be known to them based on a review of the physical tax returns themselves,” the lawsuit says.
A plea agreement Hunter’s legal team negotiated with Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, before Weiss was named special counsel, fell apart after the judge in the case began asking about the limits on immunity granted by a diversion agreement on a gun charge. The failed deal would have included Hunter pleading guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges.

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The leftist mayor of Chicago, jumping on the bandwagon a little late, is blaming automakers for car theft in Chicago, filing suit against Hyundai and Kia and accusing them of fostering a &#8220;steep rise&#8221; in crime.
Last week, United States District Judge James V. Selna, ruling in a class action suit brought against Kia and Hyundai that accused them of failing to equip certain models with an engine immobilizer, denied the parties’ request for <a href="https://www.classaction.org/blog/from-talks-to-checks-the-stages-of-a-class-action-settlement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">preliminary approval</a> of a $145 million settlement reached only days before. He directed the parties to change the agreement to “fashion a matrix for reimbursement that aligns with each Class Member&#8217;s vehicle’s estimated value, rather than taking an average of all vehicles and reducing it by 40%.” He told the parties involved to demonstrate how the technology works, its pitfalls and possible solutions.
Now Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city are filing suit against Kia and Hyundai, claiming they did not include &#8220;industry-standard engine immobilizers&#8221; in some of their cars, prompting a &#8220;steep rise&#8221; in crime.
“The impact of car theft on Chicago residents can be deeply destabilizing, particularly for low- to middle-income workers who have fewer options for getting to work and taking care of their families,” Johnson declared. “The failure of Kia and Hyundai to install basic auto-theft prevention technology in these models is sheer negligence, and as a result, a citywide and nationwide crime spree around automobile theft has been unfolding right before our eyes.”
&#8220;Because these vehicles are entry-level models, Kia’s and Hyundai’s failure to include engine immobilizers disproportionately impacts low-income Chicago residents. Moreover, offenders have used stolen Kia and Hyundai vehicles to commit other crimes, including reckless driving, armed robbery, and murder,&#8221; Johnson’s office added.
“In 2023, thefts of Kia and Hyundai cars compromise over half of all Chicago car thefts in 2023,” Fox News <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-sues-automakers-car-theft-crisis-gets-worse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
A spokesperson for Hyundai stated, &#8220;Hyundai is committed to the comprehensive actions we are undertaking to assist customers and communities affected by the persistent theft of certain vehicles not equipped with push-button ignitions and engine immobilizers.  Our dealers across the country are maximizing the number of anti-theft software installations that can be performed on a daily basis, contributing to steadily increasing completion rates, which we report to NHTSA weekly.&#8221;

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Leftist Chicago Mayor Blames Automakers For Rise In Car Theft, Files Lawsuit

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Government officials in Maui are blaming mismanagement by the utility company for the devastating fires that ripped through the island earlier this month, killing at least 115 people. 
Maui County filed a lawsuit against the Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) Thursday, alleging that “intentional and malicious” mismanagement of power lines led to the blaze that eventually turned much of the town of Lahaina to ash, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/us/hawaii-lahaina-fire-lawsuit.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
“Defendants knew of the extreme fire danger that the high wind gusts posed to their overhead electrical infrastructure, particularly during red flag conditions,” the lawsuit said.
Hawaiian Electric <a href="https://apnews.com/article/maui-hawaii-wildfires-electric-utility-c3513c2f8e451df6dab2e59a6c2f670d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to the lawsuit, saying it is “very disappointed that Maui County chose this litigious path while the investigation is still unfolding.” 
The utility company, which serves around 95% of Hawaiians, faced criticism for allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hawaii-utility-pursued-green-energy-goals-while-fire-mitigation-projects-were-delayed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pursuing</a> green energy projects while delaying fire mitigation efforts. Financial disclosures and reports show the company worried about the state of its electrical grid, and specifically the risk of wildfires, but devoted resources to building out the utility’s green energy network with limited action to mitigate fire risk, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/wildfire-risk-maui-hawaiian-electric-7beed21e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
Strong winds propelled by a hurricane 500 miles off the coast of Maui downed around 30 power poles on the island, sparking numerous fires. Video <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-footage-shows-downed-power-lines-possibly-caused-maui-wildfires" target="_blank" rel="noopener">footage</a> captured the day before residents in Lahaina faced the flames showed the moment a downed power line sparked a blaze in the woods. The lawsuit alleges HECO failed “to power down their electrical equipment despite a National Weather Service Red Flag Warning on August 7th.” 
The lawsuit also <a href="https://www.kuow.org/stories/maui-county-sues-hawaiian-electric-company-for-damages-from-disastrous-fires" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that HECO never created a &#8220;Public Safety Power Shutoff&#8221; plan that is “common in the Western United States.” President and CEO Shelee Kimura said earlier this week that the utility did not pursue a shutoff plan because it would be controversial. HECO also faces lawsuits from homeowners and shareholders who believe the utility was negligent, but this lawsuit marks the first time the local government has directly blamed the utility for the destruction caused by the fire, the Times reported. The fires are estimated to have cost Maui County $5.5 billion in damages. 
Government officials are also facing scrutiny for their actions during and after the fire, which was the deadliest in modern American history. Maui Emergency Management Agency Chief Herman Andaya chose not to use the island’s emergency sirens to alert residents to the deadly fire, saying the emergency sirens are usually used for tsunami warnings, which tell Hawaiians to seek higher ground, but that would’ve been toward the fire. Andaya then resigned one day after explaining his decision, citing “health reasons.” 
Another government agency, the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management, was accused of delaying a request for more water to fight the fire because it first had to consult with local farmers. The agency was formerly led by a “water equity advocate,” who was reassigned to a different division following the fires.
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When residents attempted to flee Lahaina as the fire spread, witnesses <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maui-fire-survivors-say-authorities-blocked-only-paved-road-out-of-lahaina-as-town-burned-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the only paved road out of the town was blocked by local authorities. 
Witnesses who survived the blaze said that traffic quickly backed up as residents attempted to flee to the south, but the road was blocked as a crew worked on downed power lines. One family ignored the barricade and swerved past the cones placed in the road, making it safely to another town nearly an hour later. 
“Nobody realized how little time we really had,” said Nate Baird, who drove his wife and two young sons out of Lahaina. “Like even us being from the heart of the fire, we did not comprehend. Like we literally had minutes and one wrong turn. We would all be dead right now.”
Maui Police Chief John Pelletier denied that residents were prevented from fleeing Lahaina.
Tim Pearce contributed to this report.

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Maui County Sues Hawaiian Electric, Alleges ‘Intentional And Malicious’ Mismanagement Led To Fires

Maui County Sues Hawaiian Electric, Alleges 'Intentional And Malicious' Mismanagement Led To Fires

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Six <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> college professors are suing the state over diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) requirements they say force them to take the government&#8217;s view on “politically charged” topics. 
The professors, from three Fresno-area community colleges, are being represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), which filed the lawsuit in federal court last week. The professors say the requirements are unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. 
“I’m a professor of chemistry. How am I supposed to incorporate DEI into my classroom instruction?” <a href="https://www.thefire.org/news/lawsuit-fire-sues-stop-california-forcing-professors-teach-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Reedley College professor Bill Blanken. “What’s the ‘anti-racist’ perspective on the atomic mass of boron?”
The lawsuit <a href="https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/palsgaard-v-christian-verified-complaint" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that Blanken does not believe that DEIA principles should be incorporated into his chemistry classes, saying he believes that it would be &#8220;pedagogically unsound and disruptive&#8221; to do so. 
The other professors involved in the suit include James Druley, David Richardson, Linda de Morales, and Loren Palsgaard of Madera Community College; and Michael Stannard of Clovis Community College. They are suing California Community Colleges Chancellor Sonya Christian, the State Board of Governors, and State Center Community College. 
The professors are concerned that they will face disciplinary action or termination if they don’t align with California community college <a href="https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Vision-for-Success/diversity-equity-inclusion">DEIA requirements</a>.
Under the guidelines, professors must develop “knowledge of the intersectionality of social identities and the multiple axes of oppression that people from different racial, ethnic, and other minoritized groups face.&#8221; Professors are also directed to teach using a “collectivism perspective” and “social justice lens,” according to the lawsuit. 
“These regulations are a totalitarian triple-whammy,” said FIRE attorney Daniel Ortner. “The government is forcing professors to teach and preach a politicized viewpoint they do not share, imposing incomprehensible guidelines, and threatening to punish professors when they cross an arbitrary, indiscernible line.”
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The <a href="https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/palsgaard-v-christian-diea-glossary-terms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">glossary</a> of DEIA terms put out by California shows that the guidelines are meant to implement certain ideological beliefs, according to FIRE.
“Persons are either anti-racist or racist. Persons that say they are ‘not a racist’ are in denial of the inequities and racial problems that exist,” the definition of ant-racist reads. 
The glossary also claims that the concept of “merit” is embedded in “whiteness.” 
“Merit protects White privilege under the guise of standards (i.e., the use of standardized tests that are biased against racial minorities) and as highlighted by anti-affirmative action forces. Merit implies that White people are deemed better qualified and more worthy but are denied opportunities due to race-conscious policies,” the glossary says.

Hand writing the word racism on blackboard. Stop hate. Against prejudice and violence. Lecture about discrimination in school.

California College Professors Sue Over State DEI Requirements

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In the final seconds of the 2009 film &#8220;The Blind Side,&#8221; Leigh Anne Tuohy, played by Sandra Bullock, reflects on the murder of a 21-year-old black athlete in a local housing project. The young man had dropped out of school, fallen in with the wrong crowd, and died in a gang-related shooting. &#8220;That could have been my son Michael,&#8221; Leigh Anne says right before the credits roll. &#8220;I suppose I have God to thank for that.&#8221;
A decade later, it&#8217;s hard to imagine a film from a major studio ending that way. The film began with Leigh Anne Tuohy seeing a homeless teenager named Michael Oher walking down the street in the cold. She and her husband Sean decided to take care of him. Finally, after years of sacrifice, Oher goes to college and eventually goes on to become a successful NFL player.
In 2009, when audiences weren&#8217;t lobotomized by procedurally generated Marvel slop, that plotline resonated. &#8220;The Blind Side&#8221; made over $300 million on a relatively small budget. Sandra Bullock won an Oscar, although as she herself admitted during filming, her acting wasn&#8217;t even that good. Leigh Anne Tuohy used the film&#8217;s success to help children find foster homes on social media. Outside of a few whiny articles on NPR or The Daily Beast, people loved the movie.
In the years that followed the film&#8217;s release, though, the tone changed. As Barack Obama set race relations in this country backward by 50 years, academics — the source of most bad ideas and cynicism in the world — for some reason began obsessing over &#8220;The Blind Side.&#8221; They kept writing about it years after everyone else had moved on. In 2015, for example, a Clemson professor wrote this article in the journal &#8220;Studies in Popular Culture.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the title: &#8220;Racial Discourse in &#8216;The Blind Side&#8217;: The Economics and Ideology Behind the White Savior Format.&#8221;
That same year, a University of New Mexico professor authored a piece entitled &#8220;The White Cinematic Lens: Decoding the Racial Messages in The Blind Side.&#8221; 
As the years progressed, so did the Left&#8217;s obsession with &#8220;The Blind Side.&#8221; Their fixation continued after the Obama years. In 2019, a professor at Texas State University somehow attempted to connect Donald Trump with &#8220;The Blind Side,&#8221; with a piece entitled &#8220;Colorblind Racism, The Trump Effect, and The Blind Side.&#8221; If you want to lose 50 IQ points, you can read the abstract online.
That same year, in 2019, the popular YouTube channel &#8220;Be Kind Rewind&#8221; released this video, explaining that the movie has a &#8220;white savior problem&#8221;:
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Got it? The film should have been about all the people who didn&#8217;t house or educate or care about Michael Oher. It should have been about the kids who played basketball with him. Why? Because they&#8217;re black, and the family that took care of Michael Oher is white. That&#8217;s the level of analysis.
All of these articles and videos — and plenty more examples I could have used — demonstrate that &#8220;The Blind Side&#8221; triggered a deep, underlying pathology that tortures the supposedly intellectual Left. They simply cannot tolerate the film&#8217;s message. To this day, they cannot get over it. And they definitely can&#8217;t allow any other major studio to make a film like it.
In the past few days, predictably, this effort has entered a new, somehow even more demented and tragic stage. Michael Oher filed a legal complaint against the Tuohys. The media is promoting it relentlessly. They could not be more thrilled by this development. Watch:
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The crux of the legal complaint is that the Tuohys tricked Michael Oher into thinking he was adopted when, in fact, the Tuohys simply had a conservatorship over him, allowing them to take most of his money. So, they&#8217;re not good-hearted white people helping out a black kid. They&#8217;re evil white supremacist thieves. That&#8217;s the idea.
Before we get into the actual complaint, a couple of points. First of all, that report you just saw implies that the Tuohys defrauded Oher because they wanted money. What they don&#8217;t mention is that the Tuohys are extraordinarily wealthy. In fact, they&#8217;re far wealthier than Oher has ever been, even after his NFL career. But we&#8217;re expected to believe that this family — which is worth well over $200 million — schemed to rip off Michael Oher.
Is that plausible? Right away, it doesn&#8217;t pass the smell test, as I said a few days ago. It sounds a lot like a washed-up athlete who burned through the cash he made in the league, and now he&#8217;s looking for a payday and some relevance. And indeed, Oher&#8217;s claim is especially suspicious, since according to the Tuohys, Oher has been shaking them down for $15 million for a long time now. Allegedly, he filed this lawsuit only after trying to get the quick cash from a family he knows is rich, and which still loves him.
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But there are more problems with this complaint, beyond the ones I just mentioned. For this accusation to make sense, the Tuohys would have had to see this homeless teenager walking on the side of the road, and say to themselves, this kid is going to make us rich. His grades are terrible. No college program is interested in him. His father abandoned him. His mother is a drug addict. But he&#8217;s going to make us a lot of money some day. And then there&#8217;s going to be a movie about him, and we&#8217;ll get royalties from that. And through all this, as they raise him and send him to college, Oher is blissfully unaware of this scheme — for more than a decade. And then it hits him.
Quoting from Oher&#8217;s legal complaint:
<blockquote>“The lie of Michael’s adoption is one upon which Co-Conservators Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy have enriched themselves at the expense of their Ward, the undersigned Michael Oher. Michael Oher discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023, when he learned that the Conservatorship to which he consented on the basis that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, in fact provided him no familiar relationship with the Tuohys.”</blockquote>
So, the claim is that Michael Oher realized only in February of 2023 that he hadn&#8217;t been legally adopted. It took him until this year to figure that out. Is that possible?
Corporate media is certainly buying it, with no skepticism whatsoever. NBC wrote up the allegations without applying any form of scrutiny. MSNBC wants you to know that this is all your fault.
<blockquote>&#8220;Oher&#8217;s lawsuit is an indictment of movie audiences that over and over again lap up stories about white people saving some downtrodden Black person.”</blockquote>
You might listen to that quote from the MSNBC article and wonder what universe MSNBC is living in. Because in this universe movies about white people saving black people are extremely rare. And at this point basically non-existent.
For its part, The Guardian brought out the big guns. They report that, &#8220;The Blind Side’s white savior tale was always built on shaky ground.&#8221; According to the piece:
<blockquote>&#8220;The movie version of The Blind Side has come to represent a low point for the white savior trope – the unlikely story of the rich white lady who turns a downtrodden Black teen hulk into an improbable Sunday pro. Jeffery Montez de Oca, the founding director of the Center for Critical Study of Sport at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, took aim at the film’s framing of adoption as &#8216;a signifying act of whiteness that obscures the social relations of domination that not only make charity possible, but also creates an urban underclass in need of charity.&#8217; In her seminal tome White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo excoriates the film as &#8216;fundamentally and insidiously anti-Black.'&#8221;</blockquote>
What all these stories have in common is that they don&#8217;t interrogate the claims in Oher&#8217;s lawsuit at all. The media is so giddy that &#8220;The Blind Side&#8221; is under attack that they don&#8217;t care to do any actual journalism. They just trot out the usual fake experts to call it racist, as they&#8217;ve been doing for a decade.
Inside Edition even got in touch with the actor who portrays Michael Oher in the film, to ask him whether Sandra Bullock should surrender her Oscar. A question so stupid that the actor should respond by laughing hysterically, but that’s not exactly what happens:
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Notice the snark at the end. The movie grossed over $300 million, the anchor notes, implying that the Tuohys somehow received all of that money, or even a significant amount of it. In reality, they received less than 3% of the proceeds, which is nothing compared to the $200 million they sold their company for. This is the level of &#8220;reporting&#8221; we&#8217;re seeing on this, with one exception.
Over at The Blaze, Jason Whitlock decided not to simply rewrite Oher&#8217;s complaint to push a narrative. He wrote some fantastic articles on this topic you should read, and he motivated me to personally go and read some of the many pieces of documented evidence contradicting Michael Oher&#8217;s claims. These are pieces of evidence that every major media outlet is ignoring.
For example, Here&#8217;s what Oher wrote in his memoir in 2012:
<blockquote>&#8220;Since I was already over the age of eighteen and considered an adult by the state of Tennessee, Sean and Leigh Anne would be named as my &#8216;legal conservators.&#8217; They explained to me that it means pretty much the exact same thing as &#8216;adoptive parents,&#8217; but that the laws were just written in a way that took my age into account. Honestly, I didn&#8217;t care what it was called &#8230; My mother was going to be at the hearing to agree that she supported the decision to have the Tuohys listed as my next of kin and legal conservators.&#8221;</blockquote>
That was more than a decade ago. Michael Oher, an adult in his mid-20s at the time of that memoir&#8217;s publication, clearly acknowledges the distinction between being adopted and being a legal conservator. He admits that he was NOT adopted. He uses the term &#8220;conservators&#8221; several times in the book. But we&#8217;re told to believe that more than ten years later, he finally decided to look into it and realized he had been tricked. We’re supposed to believe that he just realized some truth that he himself had already publicly acknowledged in a book he published over ten years ago.
So how was Michael Oher supposedly not aware of any of this? Did he not read his own memoir? Did he not watch the movie &#8220;The Blind Side&#8221;? There&#8217;s a scene in the film where Leigh Anne establishes legal guardianship over Michael Oher. There&#8217;s no scene where she says that she&#8217;s legally adopting him. Why is that?
To be clear, I can&#8217;t say for sure who is right or wrong in this case, though I have my very strong suspicions. It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if all parties concerned are at least partially in the wrong to some extent. That’s usually how these kinds of conflicts go. And if the media wants to tell us that the Tuohys aren’t really “saviors,” I would certainly agree with that. There’s only one Savior, and his name isn’t Tuohy. But then again, the Tuohys never claimed to be saviors. They also never claimed to be saints or martyrs. They did a nice thing for a kid who needed help. That’s a fact. And that’s all. Does this conflict stem from the fact that although the Tuohys became Oher’s guardians and treated him like a son, they don’t intend to actually pass their fortune down to him because they want it to go to their actual kids? Is Michael Oher upset that he’s not now, today, as a 37-year-old man, reaping the financial benefits of being a blood relation to the Tuohys? These are purely speculations. But I think reasonable ones.
The key point is that the media&#8217;s complete lack of curiosity on all of these obvious red flags tells you everything you need to know about the Left&#8217;s perspective on race. A decade ago, only a handful of insufferable outlets complained about &#8220;The Blind Side.&#8221; Now all of academia and the major media outlets are doing it. They&#8217;re united to smear a family that helped save a young black teenager&#8217;s life, without any regard for facts or contrary evidence. After eight years of Barack Obama, and all those BLM riots and George Floyd funerals, we&#8217;ve arrived at this moral guidance: &#8220;Let the black teenager on the side of the road freeze to death. Don&#8217;t help him, or you&#8217;re a racist.&#8221;
At least now we have some clarity from the party of &#8220;Black Lives Matter,&#8221; and from the corporate media. Somehow a sports movie from 2009 has led them all to admit what they really think. Better to leave the black kid languishing in the gutter than reach out and help him. Better to look the other way than be a “white savior.” That’s the message coming in loud and clear. And I suspect that a lot of white people who have watched this Michael Oher saga play out, and who have seen everything that’s happened over the past decade or so, are going to take the message to heart and respond accordingly. The next Michael Oher, the next disadvantaged black kid who needs a helping hand, might not get it. He might end up suffering the fate that Oher likely would have suffered had the Tuohys not stepped in. That’s apparently what the Left wants. And now, tragically, they’ll get it.
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Washington Democratic Governor Jay Inslee was sued Wednesday by a nonprofit legal group seeking to stop the enforcement of a law allowing the state to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-to-allow-shelters-to-keep-runaway-children-from-parents-if-child-seeking-transgender-surgery-abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hide child sex-change surgeries</a> from parents.
American First Legal, led by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, filed the <a href="https://media.aflegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/16204634/Dkt-001-20230816-IPEC-Complaint.pdf?_ga=2.200886126.1589291635.1692274349-1434704885.1692274349" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> over Senate Bill 5599, which was recently signed into law by Inslee. The bill was pushed by leftist lawmakers as protection of trans-identifying youth and allows “host homes” to keep parents in the dark about their child’s sex-change procedure. <a href="https://twitter.com/America1stLegal/status/1691920533041103099" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to American First Legal, the legislation “creates a dangerous incentive for minors who disagree with their parents on ‘gender-affirming care’ to run away to a shelter or host home.”
“No state action more frighteningly illustrates the threat to our children than this law,” Miller <a href="https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-sues-washington-governor-to-block-state-sanctioned-kidnapping-bill-that-allows-state-to-hide-kids-seeking-gender-transition-from-parents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “This sick, authoritarian law essentially allows the state to kidnap children from their parents and hide their whereabouts to surgically and chemically mutilate them — and to formally deprive their parents of any legal ability to stop the medical disfigurement of their sons and daughters by gender extremists targeting their children.”
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Under the new <a href="https://legiscan.com/WA/text/SB5599/id/2785218" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a>, shelters or &#8220;host homes,&#8221; are not required to notify parents of a runaway child if the child claims to be fleeing parents who do not approve of a sex-change procedure or an abortion. Instead of reporting the runaway child to the parents, the host home is required to notify the Washington Department of Children, Youth, and Families.
The legislation also adds abortion as a “compelling reason” for licensed shelters and host homes not to notify parents if a runaway child is seeking such a procedure. The bill easily made it through the Democrat-controlled legislature, passing the Senate 29-20 and the House 57-39. It was sponsored by state Sen. Marko Liias, a Democrat who represents an area just north of Seattle and is co-chair of the LGBTQ caucus. 
“Every child – including our trans youth – deserves to be safe at home. In a perfect world, that is the case, but unfortunately, that is not the reality,” Liias said in a press release. “This legislation affirms our commitment to ensuring children have a safe and stable place to go when they are not welcome at home.” 
When he signed the bill, Inslee said the law is a “compassionate, developmentally appropriate, and reasoned approach to support these youth as they access gender-affirming treatment and reproductive health care services.”
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The suit also goes after Washington Attorney General Robert Furguson and the secretary of the Washington Department of Children, Youth, and Families, Ross Hunter. American First Legal argues that the new statute &#8220;deprives certain parents of their fundamental rights under the United States Constitution to direct the care and upbringing of their children.&#8221;
&#8220;America First Legal is proud to defend parental rights and stand up against the insidious &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; agenda, which promotes using experimental medical procedures and drugs on minor children – potentially altering their lives forever,&#8221; said Miller.
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A Virginia school board member is suing her fellow board members after she was censured for a Facebook post about the school district&#8217;s transgender bathroom practices.
Angela Allen, vice chairwoman of the Goochland County School Board in the Richmond area, filed a <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eecbc7b39d48008de082248/t/64da6d9673f193070b71e4d7/1692036502697/2023-8-14+Complaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> Monday against her school board colleagues in their personal capacities, accusing them of defamation and forming a civil conspiracy against her.
The controversy started back in January when Allen posted on Facebook about what she said were the school district&#8217;s practices around trans-identifying students and bathroom use.
“As a Goochland School Board member, effectively representing your interests is my duty. This week I learned that [Goochland County Public Schools] students are allowed to use restrooms different from their biological sex. Is this our community’s expectation?” Allen posted on the social media platform on January 26.
Allen&#8217;s Facebook post garnered attention within the community, and people started showing up at school board meetings to express their &#8220;dismay and disapproval&#8221; of the Goochland County school district allegedly letting students use the bathroom of the opposite sex, according to the lawsuit.
Then at a May school board meeting, the four other board members expressed their public disapproval of Allen and officially censured her, the first censure in Goochland School Board history, according to the lawsuit.
The censure resolution accused Allen of violating the school board&#8217;s ethics code, federal law, and the Constitution with her Facebook post, which it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh4FQS57fRI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> &#8220;inflammatory&#8221; and a &#8220;distorted characterization&#8221; of the district&#8217;s policies.
Allen is also “accountable for disrupting the integrity of the Board, encouraging violation of the law and blemishing the reputation of the board,” the censure resolution <a href="https://richmond.com/news/local/education/goochland-school-board-member-sues-colleagues/article_7ffe21a6-3ae4-11ee-bf8d-673b0b2be45a.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The lawsuit argues the Facebook post was “completely neutral.” The censure resolution made “false statements of fact about the character and reputation&#8221; of Allen, the lawsuit alleges.
The conservative law firm, the Founding Freedoms Law Center, represents Allen.
“The defendants made knowingly false statements against Ms. Allen to disparage her reputation all because she exposed a policy they apparently wanted to remain hidden from their constituents,” Allen’s attorney Josh Hetzler <a href="https://richmond.com/news/local/education/goochland-school-board-member-sues-colleagues/article_7ffe21a6-3ae4-11ee-bf8d-673b0b2be45a.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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“These board members must be held accountable for wrongfully attacking Ms. Allen and for harming her reputation,” Hetzler said.
“For me, this case is primarily about my reputation for integrity and about accountability for school board members who think that they can unfairly punish a fellow board member simply because I informed the citizens of what the schools were actually doing and then asked them what they thought about it,&#8221; Allen <a href="https://www.foundingfreedomslaw.org/news/goochlandcountylawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said.</a>
&#8220;In other words, they punished me for doing exactly what I was elected to do,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Ultimately, if they can get away with this without consequences, then this can happen to any school board member in any district, so I feel I have a responsibility to stand up to it.&#8221;
The lawsuit is requesting half a million dollars in compensatory damages plus $350,000 in punitive damages from the other board members.
School policies dealing with transgender bathroom use have become a hot-button issue for parents across the country in the last few years. Many have disapproved of policies allowing biological males to use the same bathrooms and locker rooms as girls.

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Film financier TSG is suing Disney for allegedly withholding millions in profits by using “nearly every trick in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">Hollywood</a> accounting book.”
TSG has spent $3.3 billion on 140 projects at Fox, which was acquired by Disney in a $71.3 billion deal in 2019, per <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/08/disney-lawsuit-film-finance-partner-tsg-hollywood-accounting-fox-streaming-1235520089/">Deadline</a>. Some of these <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/movies">projects</a> include ”The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Deadpool,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” and “The Shape of Water.”
One of the major issues of the lawsuit involves distribution. These industry standards have shifted dramatically as streaming services became more popular, especially after COVID lockdowns.
“This windowing of film distribution is designed to maximize profits for the studios (and for stakeholders like TSG) by preventing one distribution revenue stream from cannibalizing another,” the lawsuit says. “When windows are collapsed on one another, however, the studio (and its investors) miss out on significant potential sources of revenue.”
The suit states that Disney “ordered” 20th Century Film Studio to renegotiate the output deal, therefore giving up “a significant portion of its guaranteed HBO license fees” in exchange for HBO allowing these films to stream on Disney+ and Hulu. They say this was a financial boon for Disney, the shareholders, and senior executives, but wound up costing TSG “millions.”
The company further alleged that this move caused a reduction in its cash flow, which prevented it from investing in future money-making projects, including “Avatar: The Way of Water.&#8221;
TSG claims that 20th ignored a standing agreement with FX Networks that calculated license fees tied to domestic box office performance, The Hollywood Reporter <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-tsg-lawsuit-accounting-1235566787/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. They further accused the studio of brokering “a secret side deal for a fraction of what the parties had previously agreed was fair value.”
TSG’s attorney John Berlinski used the phrase “Hollywood accounting” to describe how studios “cheat” investors, including his clients, out of profit money. The attorney also represented Scarlett Johansson when she sued Disney over her cut of the film “Black Widow.”
“Disney (and the executives running it) had and continue to have every incentive to do anything and everything they can, including manipulating distribution of the Qualifying Pictures and preventing TSG from liquidating its interests in certain tranches of Qualifying Pictures, to attempt to boost Disney’s share price at the expense of TSG and other profit participants,” Berlinski wrote in the complaint.
Auditors estimated that TSG’s earnings were reduced by at least $54.5 million from Electronic Sell-Through distribution, per <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-tsg-lawsuit-accounting-1235566787/">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. 
The suit also calls out Disney CEO Bob Iger specifically.
“Moreover, as Disney’s own CEO, Bob Iger, has admitted, his company pursued this strategy recklessly and with little forethought,” the document states. “For example, during Disney’s August 9, 2023 earnings call—in which Mr. Iger announced Disney+’s second subscription price increase in a year—Mr. Iger admitted with respect to Disney+, ‘We grew this business really fast, really before we even understood what our pricing strategy should be or could be.&#8217;”
Reps for Disney have not yet commented publicly on the lawsuit.
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A retired professional football player whose life story became the basis for the Oscar-winning movie “The Blind Side,” says the white, wealthy family who took him in never actually adopted him, as the film suggests.
Michael Oher, now 37, has filed a petition in Shelby County, Tennessee, probate court, alleging that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy never adopted him after bringing him into their home when he was a teenager, ESPN <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38190720/blind-side-subject-michael-oher-alleges-adoption-was-lie-family-took-all-film-proceeds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. In the 14-page petition, Oher alleges that less than three months after he turned 18 in 2004, the Tuohys tricked him into signing a document that made them his conservators – not his adopted parents – thereby giving them legal authority to make financial decisions in his name.
Oher also alleges that the Tuohys used their conservatorship to make millions for themselves and their two birth children from royalties collected from the book and movie. In his petition, he says he received no money for the story, which “would not have existed without him.&#8221; To this day, the Tuohys claim Oher as their adopted son and use that narrative to promote their foundation and Leigh Anne’s motivational books and speaking tours.
&#8220;The lie of Michael&#8217;s adoption is one upon which Co-Conservators Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy have enriched themselves at the expense of their Ward, the undersigned Michael Oher,&#8221; the former offensive tackle wrote in the petition. &#8220;Michael Oher discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023, when he learned that the Conservatorship to which he consented on the basis that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, in fact provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys.&#8221;
The Tuohys&#8217; attorney, Steve Farese, told ESPN that the family would file a legal response to Oher’s claims within weeks.
Sean Touhy <a href="https://dailymemphian.com/article/37925/sean-tuohy-responds-allegations-michael-oher-blind-side-money" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Daily Memphian that the family “didn’t make any money off the movie” but did make money from the book it was based on, written by Michael Lewis.
&#8220;We&#8217;re devastated,&#8221; Sean told the outlet. &#8220;It&#8217;s upsetting to think we would make money off any of our children. But we&#8217;re going to love Michael at 37 just like we loved him at 16.&#8221;
Oher is asking the Tennessee court to end the conservatorship and prohibit the Tuohys from continuing to use his name and likeness, as well as a full accounting of the money they earned from selling his story. He is requesting his share of the profits, as well as compensatory and punitive damages.
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&#8220;Since at least August of 2004, Conservators have allowed Michael, specifically, and the public, generally, to believe that Conservators adopted Michael and have used that untruth to gain financial advantages for themselves and the foundations which they own or which they exercise control,&#8221; the petition says, according to ESPN. &#8220;All monies made in said manner should in all conscience and equity be disgorged and paid over to the said ward, Michael Oher.&#8221;
Oher signed the conservatorship papers when he was still a senior in high school. He previously wrote in his best-selling memoir “I Beat the Odds” that the Tuohys had told him there really wasn’t a difference between adoption and conservatorship.
&#8220;They explained to me that it means pretty much the exact same thing as &#8216;adoptive parents,&#8217; but that the laws were just written in a way that took my age into account,&#8221; Oher wrote in 2011.
In reality, conservatorship didn’t make Oher a legal member of the Tuohy family, nor did it allow him to make his own financial decisions, even as an adult with no physical or psychological disabilities.
Oher alleges in the legal filing that the Tuohys and their two birth children were each paid $225,000 and 2.5% of the film’s “defined net proceeds,” which resulted in millions of dollars from a movie that grossed more than $300 million worldwide, according to IMDb.
The Tuohys previously wrote in their own 2010 book “In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving” that they received a flat fee for the story and didn’t receive any profits from the movie, and what money they did receive, they shared with Oher.
Oher says in his court petition that he never received any of this money.

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New York-based EcoHealth Alliance is being sued by the families of four people who contracted COVID and died, claiming the lab bears responsibility for the pandemic and their loved ones&#8217; deaths. 
The families allege that the health alliance, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-watchdog-slams-faucis-agency-and-ecohealth-over-deal-with-wuhan-lab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously received a U.S. grant</a> for bat virus research that partly funded studies at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is responsible for “either intentionally or accidentally” releasing COVID, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month at Manhattan Supreme Court. The families are suing for unspecified damages. 
“If we had known the source or origin of this virus and had not been misled that it was from a pangolin in a wet market, and rather we knew that it was a genetically manipulated virus, and that the scientists involved were concealing that from our clients, the outcome could have been very different,” Patricia Finn, a lawyer for the families, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/12/covid-victims-families-sue-nyc-based-ecohealth-over-virus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Post. 
The lawsuit alleges that EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak knew that the virus was being studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and that the organization knew it was “capable of causing a worldwide pandemic.”
“[The families of the deceased] are definitely in mourning, but moreover they’re enraged because the truth of what really happened appears to be coming forward,” Finn said. 
The suit was filed on behalf of deceased family members Mary Conroy, Emma D. Holley, Larry Carr, and Raul Osuna. 
Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance have come under increasing scrutiny over their ties to Wuhan, where several government agencies <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/28/fbi-director-christopher-wray-wuhan-lab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believe</a> that COVID likely escaped from a lab. He had been part of the World Health Organization-China team that dismissed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-investigation-concludes-covid-likely-originated-from-a-chinese-lab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lab leak</a> hypothesis as “extremely unlikely.”
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The alliance worked on coronavirus research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/science/bats-covid-lab-leak-nih.html">supported by millions of dollars in grants</a> from the National Institutes of Health. Last year the group denied claims by the NIH that it <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3154232/ecohealth-alliance-defends-us-funded-bat-coronavirus-research">failed to properly report its findings</a>.
Dr. Andrew Huff, a former vice president of the EcoHealth Alliance, believes that COVID was genetically engineered and leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He has pinned some of the blame on foreign groups working in China. 
“EcoHealth Alliance and foreign laboratories did not have the adequate control measures in place for ensuring proper biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management, ultimately resulting in the lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Huff wrote in a book published earlier this year.
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.

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Pop singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/katy-perry">Katy Perry</a> and her husband, actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/orlando-bloom">Orlando Bloom</a>, are headed to court over a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/real-estate">property dispute</a> with a veteran who claims he was not in the right state of mind to sell them his Santa Barbara estate for $15 million.
A report obtained from <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12385301/Katy-Perry-Orlando-Bloom-caught-legal-battle-veteran-Carl-Westcott-sold-15million-Santa-Barbara-home-painkillers-following-surgery.html">Daily Mail</a> found that Carl Westcott, 83, said he signed sale documents in July 2020 when he was under the influence of painkillers after having back surgery. Westcott had also been battling Huntington’s disease since 2015, the documents state.
Westcott tried to back out of the sale days later when he said the influence of the painkillers wore off, but Perry and Bloom refused his request and threatened to sue if he did not go through with the sale.
The case will head to trial this month, the outlet noted.
Westcott claims he never listed the home for sale or enlisted the services of a real estate professional with the intention to sell. He said he purchased the 9,285 square-foot, eight-bedroom, 11-bathroom home in May 2020, just two months before selling it to Perry and Bloom. Westcott said he had intended to live there “for the rest of his life.”
Westcott had back surgery in July 2020 and three days later signed the paperwork after being presented with a written offer from Perry and Bloom for more money than he paid for the property in May.
“Upon discharge from the hospital, Mr. Westcott was prescribed at least two opiates in pill form that he was to continue taking for pain, which he took as prescribed several times each day,” the complaint says, per Daily Mail. 
“&#8217;The combination of his age, frailty from his back condition and recent surgery, and the opiates he was taking several times a day rendered Mr. Westcott of unsound mind.”
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The veteran’s lawyers argue he was “unable to understand the nature and probable consequences of his actions” due to being on pain medication. They say their client is “in the final years of his life and cannot sell his home.”
A representative for Perry and Bloom sent a letter following Westcott’s request to rescind the documents, saying he was legally obligated to complete the sale of the home.
Westcott will not attend the trial because he is mentally incapacitated and bedridden, leaving his family to fight the celebrity couple over who should be the rightful owners of the estate.
Perry has been involved in a high-profile property dispute before. In 2015, she fought two Roman Catholic nuns over the sale of a Los Angeles convent sold to the singer by Archbishop Jose Gomez. One of the nuns, Sister Holzman, 89, collapsed and died during a court appearance, prompting the other nun involved in the case to <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/06/08/nun-battling-katy-perry-says-singer-has-blood-on-her-hands/">state</a> that Perry “has blood on her hands.”

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