President and Interim Executive Director of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Richard Grenell called out The Associated Press for allegedly lying about an event getting canceled. 
“The [AP] lied,” he shared in a tweet on Monday. “And &#8230; [The Advocate] has been forced to tell the truth. We didn’t cancel a single show at the Kennedy Center. We simply ask that shows don’t lose money and leave us with the bill,” he added, including the hashtag “CommonSense.”
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AP</a> lied. 
And the <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAdvocateMag?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheAdvocateMag</a> has been forced to tell the truth. 
We didn’t cancel a single show at the Kennedy Center. 
We simply ask that shows don’t lose money and leave us with the bill. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CommonSense?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CommonSense</a> <a href="https://t.co/AVkNK5CPJO">https://t.co/AVkNK5CPJO</a>
&mdash; Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1919447515578921405?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Per <a href="https://www.advocate.com/news/worldpride-venue-changes-explained">The Advocate</a>, Capital Pride Alliance canceled their event at The Kennedy Center voluntarily, which is different from the story published in AP.
The outlet noted that a display of panels including the display of an AIDS Memorial Quilt and a Drag Story Hour have been relocated to WorldPride Welcome Center in D.C.
Capital Pride Alliance Executive Director Ryan Bos told The Advocate that they changed venues because of the “inhospitable” environment at The Kennedy Center.
“We would not be allowed to have any official drag programming,” Bos said. “That defeats the purpose of Pride — in terms of creating a welcoming and safe environment for anybody to feel comfortable being their true, authentic self, which is what Pride’s about.”
Bos continued, saying, “If someone doesn’t feel comfortable being their true, authentic self, then that’s not the venue or space where we want to have an event.”
In response to the accusations, a rep from The Kennedy Center told The Daily Wire, “We would have worked with them on a program.”
Meanwhile, the AP story published April 25 said that “organizers and the Kennedy Center have canceled a week’s worth of events,” with some artists and producers allegedly telling the outlet that their Pride-related programs were dropped. So far, the outlet has not issued a statement or published a correction to the original piece.
The Kennedy Center has been in the news ever since President Trump took office and promised major reforms, including firing the entire board, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dolly-parton-show-heads-to-kennedy-center-as-they-usher-in-golden-age-of-the-arts">reported</a>.
“At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., GREAT AGAIN,” Trump wrote on social media in February. “Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP.”
The changes made by the new board led to full-scale meltdowns on the Left, including protests expressed through interpretive dancing. But their protests haven’t made much of a difference. The Kennedy Center just broke its all-time attendance record for a public event it hosted on March 29, welcoming 11,000 attendees, of whom 76% were there for the first time.

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Before it&#8217;s possible to discuss any policy position that&#8217;s supposedly &#8220;progressive,&#8221; the first step is always to escape the world of euphemisms and start talking, in explicit detail, about what&#8217;s actually happening. This might sound straightforward, but every single organ of the Left is committed to making sure you don&#8217;t do this. They would much rather you debate the abstract concept of &#8220;a woman&#8217;s right to choose,&#8221; for example, than discuss how children are dismembered and discarded like trash. They would also prefer that you use terms like &#8220;gender-affirming care,&#8221; instead of discussing chemical castration. And on and on. Euphemisms are one of the most potent tools these people have. They are everywhere, in every single debate on every issue. And in every case, they&#8217;re a gross misrepresentation of reality. They need to be neutralized immediately before any actual discussion can begin.
To that end, take <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/14/hungary-poised-to-adopt-constitutional-amendment-to-ban-lgbtq-gatherings">this headline</a> from the other day. It ran in The Guardian: 
<blockquote>Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ gatherings.</blockquote>
The Associated Press ran a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/hungary-pride-ban-amendment-orban-gay-rights-lgbtq-155ec12cbbde7cc6be0f96adb323de77">similar story</a>:
<blockquote>Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ public events, seen as a major blow to rights.</blockquote>
The article explains that Hungary&#8217;s parliament just overwhelmingly passed an amendment that will outlaw, &#8220;public events by LGBTQ+ communities.&#8221;
If you&#8217;re just skimming these headlines, this might seem like a surprising development. You might wonder: What are &#8220;public events by LGBTQ+ communities,&#8221; exactly? And what precisely is an &#8220;LGBTQ+ gathering?&#8221; If you take these headlines literally, then it sounds like the government of Hungary has just made it illegal for gay people to appear in public, for any reason. It&#8217;s a total crackdown on figure skating, musical theater and art exhibitions. Gay people can&#8217;t even get together and watch “Glee” reruns on the couch without getting hauled to prison. This is the current state of Hungary, if you believe The Guardian and the Associated Press.
In reality, of course, Hungary has not banned gay people from assembling in public. What they&#8217;ve banned are disturbing and morally objectionable public displays of sexual hedonism that can easily be observed by children. That includes Hungary&#8217;s annual pride parade. Pull up any footage of this parade that&#8217;s posted online, and you&#8217;ll quickly see exactly what I&#8217;m talking about. Here&#8217;s some of it, or at least the parts we can play. This is from Budapest several years back:
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And again, this is the most sanitized footage I could play. This is what the corporate press means when they say Hungary has banned &#8220;LGBTQ events&#8221; and &#8220;LBGTQ gatherings.&#8221; This is the truth behind the euphemism. They mean that Hungary has banned public indecency that everyone — including children — can see. In fact, in many cases, these public displays are explicitly directed at children. This is what &#8220;pride parades&#8221; always entail, as we&#8217;ve discussed dozens of times on this show.
If you actually look at the text of the amendment that just passed in Hungary — and again, it was an overwhelming vote in Hungary&#8217;s parliament, passing by a margin of 140 to 21 — then you&#8217;ll immediately understand why it passed. This is not simply an amendment about &#8220;pride parades&#8221; or &#8220;gay gatherings&#8221; or anything like that. It&#8217;s not, as the Associated Press claims, an amendment that constitutes a &#8220;major blow to rights.&#8221; In reality, it&#8217;s the exact opposite.
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This amendment, with very forceful and unapologetic language, affirms the right of everyone — and in particular children — to enjoy public spaces without being confronted by someone else’s sexual obsessions. As far as I know, this is the first major piece of legislation, and certainly the first constitutional amendment, to explicitly state that gay and trans activists are not, in fact, the only people on the planet with rights that deserve protection. Until relatively recently, that didn&#8217;t need to be spelled out.
Here&#8217;s the National Review&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hungary-approves-constitutional-amendment-banning-public-lgbt-events/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">summary</a> of the amendment:
<blockquote>The amendment forbids LGBT pride parades that conservative lawmakers argued threatened the well-being of children. One of its provisions specifically declares that children’s rights to moral, physical, and intellectual development supersede the right to peaceful assembly and almost every other right, except the right to life. Hungarian authorities are also allowed to use facial recognition software to identify and potentially fine demonstrators at the newly prohibited pride parades if they are held in defiance of the law.</blockquote>
Yes, this amendment — which codifies a law passed by the parliament a few weeks ago — states that a child has a right to be protected physically, morally, and spiritually, and that this right supersedes the right of gay people to celebrate their sexuality in the town square. That&#8217;s exactly the right way to frame this situation. It&#8217;s certainly the honest way to frame it.
Virtually all of our cultural and political debates, regardless of the particular topic, ultimately come down to a battle of competing rights and interests. That&#8217;s not how you normally see policy debates framed, but it&#8217;s the truth. Even something as simple as a speed limit involves weighing various rights and interests. On the one hand, you have people&#8217;s reasonable interest in traveling to their destination quickly. On the other hand, you have people&#8217;s reasonable interest in not being killed in a high-speed car accident. These two interests are obviously in tension. If we wanted absolute safety on the highway, we&#8217;d set the speed limit to 5 miles per hour. But we don&#8217;t do that, because we&#8217;ve decided that other interests are more important. Every functioning society has to weigh competing interests like this, in every single area of policy.
The only way to sort through this mess is to come to some kind of understanding about which rights are most fundamental. With this amendment, Hungary has decided that, apart from the right to life, the most fundamental right is a child&#8217;s &#8220;right to protection and care for their adequate physical, mental and moral development.&#8221; You can agree or disagree with this philosophical claim — and of course I strongly agree with it. But regardless of your particular stance on the issue, you can&#8217;t deny that, at the very least, they are dealing with these questions in a clear and coherent way.
The opponents of the amendment, on the other hand, are not responding coherently. Instead, they&#8217;re reacting in exactly the kind of hysterical manner you would expect. They&#8217;re lying about the content of the amendment, as we just discussed. They&#8217;re also setting off smoke bombs in Hungary&#8217;s parliament and blocking the entrance to government buildings. Watch:
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This is the response you expect from people who know they have no actual argument. They&#8217;ll blockade buildings. They&#8217;ll spread propaganda that has no basis in reality. They&#8217;ll detonate smoke bombs in parliament. But the one thing they won&#8217;t do — because they can&#8217;t do it — is rationally explain why you&#8217;re wrong, and they&#8217;re right. In this case, these LGBT activists simply cannot articulate any reason to oppose this amendment. And there are a couple of reasons for that. One of the reasons, of course, is that these so-called &#8220;pride parades&#8221; are indefensible, morally and practically. Every sane person knows that they should be banned from public streets. Anyone who&#8217;s ever seen footage of one of these parades understands this.
But the more fundamental issue is that, even if the pride parades weren&#8217;t bizarre, explicit, and objectionable, these activists would still have a problem. Put simply, the Leftist conception of human rights gives no real basis for objecting to this constitutional amendment. These people believe that rights are social constructs, codified by the government. They generally reject the idea that rights come from God. After all, it&#8217;s hard to make the case that the right to abort a baby created by God somehow comes from God. But if rights are social constructs, then society can abolish a right just as easily as it creates it. And that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s happened here. Hungary, through its democratically elected government, has decided that the absolute right to gay pride displays no longer exists in their culture. As a result, it makes no sense for the Leftist to object.
They can&#8217;t say that the rights of LGBT people are being infringed in Hungary. How could they? The right doesn&#8217;t exist anymore. There is no authority higher than society and government (according to them), and those authorities have spoken on the matter. That&#8217;s all there is to it.
In other words, gay activists are melting down in Hungary right now because they&#8217;re realizing, if only subconsciously, that their ideology can be erased just as quickly as it took hold. As it turns out, a fiction that&#8217;s maintained by a patchwork of laws and government policy can also be eliminated by law and government policy. And it&#8217;s not just the so-called LGBT community in Hungary that&#8217;s coming to this realization. In this country, as we&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtFCCDy__os" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a>, &#8220;pride parades&#8221; are also facing serious problems, mainly because the major sponsors are pulling out and people are losing interest. They&#8217;re going door-to-door in San Francisco right now to cover a multimillion-dollar funding shortfall for their pride events this summer. In every respect, these people are now weak and desperate.
If there were ever a moment to implement a Hungary-style ban on &#8220;pride parades&#8221; in this country, now is that time. Yes, activists in this country would inevitably act out, just like they&#8217;re doing in Hungary. But there are some things that are a lot more important than the feelings of screeching Left-wing protesters. One of them is the right of children to grow and develop and have their innocence protected. Hungary is now finally enforcing that right. For the benefit of every child in this country, we should do the same.

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We&#8217;ve seen the collapse of a lot of supposedly &#8220;grassroots&#8221; movements ever since Donald Trump took office. BLM, as we&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDiA10y1ZJc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a>, has literally been dismantled on the streets of Washington, D.C. — as in, the mayor removed the BLM graffiti from the road and tore up &#8220;BLM Plaza.&#8221; No one even pretended to care about that, even though just a few years ago, it would&#8217;ve been considered blasphemy against George Floyd. But in 2025, there was no rioting. There wasn&#8217;t even really a protest.
And of course the Women&#8217;s March is also completely demoralized and gutted. When Trump was inaugurated back in 2017, half a million protesters reportedly participated in the so-called &#8220;Women&#8217;s March&#8221; in downtown Washington D.C. They claimed it was the biggest single-day protest in the history of this country. But for Trump&#8217;s second inauguration earlier this year, only a few thousand people <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5258481/trump-protest-peoples-march-womens-march-inauguration-presidency-policies-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated</a> in the so-called &#8220;People&#8217;s March,&#8221; even though the &#8220;People&#8217;s March&#8221; was supposed to be more inclusive. They expanded their branding from &#8220;women&#8221; to &#8220;people,&#8221; and yet they still lost about 99% of their manpower — or I should probably say people power.
It&#8217;s enough to make you wonder how many of these movements were ever really &#8220;grassroots&#8221; in the first place. To what extent were they relying on funding that&#8217;s no longer there? And where did that funding come from? These are questions that are worth asking, especially because we&#8217;re seeing this phenomenon happen more and more often. As Donald Trump kills federal funding for various NGOs and nonprofits, and as major corporations decide to scale back their activism, some of the Left&#8217;s biggest protest movements are falling apart. They&#8217;re proving to be unsustainable. It&#8217;s almost as if they were never actually that popular in the first place.
Maybe the most extraordinary example of this phenomenon is the current state of &#8220;Pride Month,&#8221; which is set to take place in June. When we released my film &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>&#8221; back in 2022, Pride Month had the backing of pretty much every Fortune 500 company on the planet. The organizers of various &#8220;pride parades&#8221; were flush with cash. They were setting the dominant narrative — one that valorized hedonism, narcissism, perversion, and child abuse. It was never explained exactly why these people needed lavish parades all over the country, for weeks on end, in order to celebrate their sexual interests. We were just supposed to accept it, as a kind of quasi-religious ritual. Indeed, many people did accept it.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1560-the-matt-walsh-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h3>
But just three years later, it&#8217;s clear that whatever power these people once had, they don&#8217;t have it anymore. We are now gearing up for the most muted, small-scale pride month that we&#8217;ve seen in a very long time. The organizers of some of the largest &#8220;pride parades&#8221; in the country are currently scrambling to raise money because their major corporate sponsors have stopped writing checks. That includes sponsors who have been involved with these San Francisco &#8220;pride&#8221; events going back for more than a decade. That has, of course, led to a funding shortfall that, at the moment, is threatening to derail San Francisco&#8217;s pride month, which is probably the largest in the country. Yes, it turns out that they need millions of dollars to prance naked in the streets and demonstrate their sexual preferences to as many children as possible. Watch:
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When they say that they ended their relationship with Meta because Meta doesn&#8217;t do &#8220;fact-checking anymore,&#8221; they really mean that Meta has stopped banning people for stating basic biological facts. And when they say that Meta has given up on DEI, they mean that Meta will stop discriminating against applicants on the basis of their race or gender. Those policy changes were apparently a red line for the organization running the San Francisco Pride Parade, which is somehow classified as a nonprofit.
But in context, it looks a lot like a &#8220;you can&#8217;t fire me, I quit&#8221; situation. It seems like Meta dropped the pride parade, and not the other way around, given that a bunch of other major sponsors have bailed on the event as well. As you heard, the list of sponsors who have given up on San Francisco&#8217;s pride month include Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, the wine company La Crema, and Diageo, which makes Smirnoff and Guinness. So the makers of Bud Light have apparently realized that sponsoring degeneracy is not, in fact, good business. All it took was one of the most successful conservative boycotts in a generation to make them come around. Now, a bunch of other alcoholic beverage makers, including some of Anheuser-Busch&#8217;s rivals, are pre-emptively making the same decision.
As a result, the organizers now say they&#8217;re going to &#8220;knock on every door&#8221; in San Francisco as part of a desperate, last-minute bid for cash. In another interview, the organizer of this Pride event in San Francisco offers some more insight into how dire the situation has become. And in this conversation, it becomes more clear that Meta indeed made the decision to stop funding these people, not the other way around. Watch:
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If you can get past the depravity, these people are actually kind of entertaining to watch. This person is trying to demonstrate that the Pride parade is really grassroots and anti-corporate. This is their way of sticking it to Meta and also Google apparently, which seems to be dropping the event as well. Accordingly, we learn that the corporations are placed at the back of the parade, and the nonprofits are at the front. You might think, &#8220;Hey, that actually sounds somewhat principled for an anti-capitalist, revolutionary-style pride parade with the theme of &#8220;resistance,&#8221;&#8221; which is what they&#8217;re going with this year. It&#8217;s just like the French Revolution — except, instead of killing the elites, they put their floats in the back. Other than that, it&#8217;s basically the same thing.
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But then we&#8217;re informed that there&#8217;s a big asterisk to this highly principled revolutionary, anti-capitalist stance — which is that corporations that pay a very large amount of money can still buy their way to the front of the line. In other words, in the same breath that these activists claim that they care more about their mission than the money, they admit that they&#8217;re willing to make an exception if a mega-corporation — ideally a Big Pharma giant — can come up with the right amount of cash. Then they can do whatever they want.
Read between the lines, and it&#8217;s obvious that this nonprofit is running a pretty transparent grift. This is a shakedown operation, essentially. That&#8217;s exactly what you&#8217;d expect when a bunch of highly immoral people get together and plan an event, of course. And that&#8217;s exactly what you get with the organizers of the San Francisco Pride Month. At various points in different interviews, this organizer essentially admits that this whole operation is a shakedown. Watch:
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It&#8217;s like watching an unkempt, delusional, homeless ex-mobster shaking down the local businesses for protection money. They&#8217;re threatening companies like Meta and Google and Comcast, as if these people have any leverage whatsoever. They&#8217;re still acting like we&#8217;re back in 2020, and most Americans haven&#8217;t yet become completely fed up with the insanity that so-called &#8220;pride parades&#8221; represent. 
But people are fed up with it, because the &#8220;gay pride movement,&#8221; such as it is, has totally backfired. The best thing the LGBT activists could have done — if they really wanted their lifestyle choices to be normalized and accepted — is act normal. All they had to do was keep their clothes on and just behave like regular people. Instead they put on leather bondage gear and danced in the street in front of children. (And in some cases, they did a lot more than just dance). They pushed for the tolerance of increasingly deranged lifestyles and sexual behaviors. They demanded more and more &#8220;tolerance&#8221; until the tolerance well ran dry. At this rate, it&#8217;s only a matter of time until we follow in Hungary&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/amuse/status/1902069167437832376" target="_blank" rel="noopener">footsteps</a>, and ban pride parades where children could be present. We are witnessing the death of the &#8220;pride movement,&#8221; including pride parades and pride month.
At the moment, various far-Left publications appear to be realizing this. They&#8217;re melting down in response. 
From <a href="https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/18/san-francisco-pride-dei/?utm_content=1742314339&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pink News</a>: 
<blockquote>San Francisco publication SFist has called out companies including Comcast, Anheuser-Busch and British multinational alcoholic drinks company, Diageo, for pulling support for the event, calling the decision to back away &#8216;shameful fair-weather-friend behaviour in a time of frightening fascist action.&#8217;</blockquote>
So now they&#8217;re lashing out in hysterics, because they realize the money&#8217;s not coming back. Every normal person who sees them react like this can tell, immediately, how unhinged and unstable they are.
It was always destined to end this way. The LGBT movement, at its core, is a Marxist movement that despises western civilization and everything it was built on — namely Christianity. That&#8217;s why, at the school board meeting we discussed yesterday in Illinois, one of the trans activists railed against the so-called &#8220;white god.&#8221; That&#8217;s why they show up, in large numbers, to demand that young girls undress in front of male students. The more you let these people speak, the more overt and obvious their perversion and their anti-Christian animus becomes.
Put simply, they just couldn’t quit while they were ahead. Even when they had every major corporation and the entire federal government on their side, it wasn&#8217;t enough. Their never-ending drive to push further and further and get more and more extreme is, of course, what makes them so dangerous. But it’s also what makes them beatable. And it&#8217;s why, like BLM and the Women&#8217;s March and so many other supposedly &#8220;grassroots&#8221; movements on the Left, they are failing. 
We have seen &#8220;pride&#8221; in action. We have been subjected to nationwide celebrations of one of the seven deadly sins. And now, as was inevitable, we are seeing the fall.

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On Tuesday evening, <a href="https://www.penfield.edu/47280_2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school board members</a> representing Penfield Central School District in Rochester, New York, walked out on <a href="https://x.com/K_DeRosa_NY135/status/1889461199873446305" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a packed house of parents</a> who were upset about an inappropriate book on display at the elementary school library called &#8220;The Rainbow Parade,&#8221; authored by Emily Neilson.
The book in question is about a young girl attending a pride parade with her lesbian parents. The illustrations show men in sexual BDSM gear holding hands, drag queens, and naked people.
Instead of taking on comments from concerned parents, the board&#8217;s president called a motion to adjourn and ended the meeting abruptly. Kimberly DeRosa, who attended the meeting, told The Daily Wire that it ended after &#8220;more than an hour of presentations celebrating Black History Month and the superintendent detailing the process of submitting objections to books in the school.&#8221;
As noted by DeRosa, the board told parents that they should submit their complaints, which apparently negated their right to speak out at the meeting.
&#8220;We are here at our board meeting, conducting our business,&#8221; one board member told parents, who began booing. One parent responded, &#8220;It&#8217;s our board meeting,&#8221; and others yelled, &#8220;cowards!&#8221;
DeRosa, who is a Penfield taxpayer, concerned mother, and on the executive board of the Monroe County Federated Republican Women, told The Daily Wire that it was &#8220;a slap in the face to everyone there when the board members walked out before any public comments could be made.&#8221;
No board members returned, but prepared parents stayed back and voiced their outrage over &#8220;The Rainbow Parade,&#8221; which was brought home by a fifth grader and is available in the school library to students as young as kindergarten.
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BIG SCANDAL UNFOLDING in Penfield Central School District in New York:
A kindergartner reportedly came home with a book about attending an LGBTQ pride parade which included pictures of naked people and men in bondage fetish gear.
Parents showed up to demand an explanation and… <a href="https://t.co/ogLmPd0yIW">pic.twitter.com/ogLmPd0yIW</a>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1889762521701130349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Daily Wire has reached out to Penfield Central School District Superintendent Dr. Tasha Potter but has yet to receive a response. According to a district website, Potter, who was named superintendent in September 2024, previously served as Penfield&#8217;s &#8220;Assistant Superintendent for Equity &amp; Access,&#8221; and before that, as &#8220;Director of Diversity and Equity Planning for Monroe One BOCES.&#8221;
According to parents, &#8220;The Rainbow Parade&#8221; is not only in the elementary school library, but out on display, seemingly to attract the attention of students.
&#8220;The sidewalk outside is filled with people waiting for the parade to start,&#8221; the text of the book reads. &#8220;Everyone is wearing whatever makes them feel most like themselves. Even if that means wearing hardly anything at all.&#8221;
The illustration shows two men in BDSM harnesses holding hands, as well as other naked individuals.
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&#8220;The Rainbow Parade&#8221; also shows drag queens, one with a beard and another who interacts with the main character, a young girl with two mothers. The drag queen tells the girl, &#8220;Look at those moms! Honey, you have so much to be proud of. Y&#8217;all should join the parade!&#8221; Indeed, the two women and the hesitant child end up joining the parade.
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&#8220;Moving forward, we want to see all sexually-explicit material and dangerous ideology removed from schools,&#8221; DeRosa told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Our children deserve a quality education and healthy learning environment.&#8221;
&#8220;We, as a community, are more united than ever,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We were the majority for the first time here.&#8221;
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Have you EVER seen a school board meeting so packed? Penfield, NY 👊🏻 <a href="https://t.co/d507hsDvyv">pic.twitter.com/d507hsDvyv</a>
— Kimberly DeRosa (@K_DeRosa_NY135) <a href="https://twitter.com/K_DeRosa_NY135/status/1889461199873446305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
DeRosa added that parents &#8220;will vote for new school board members in May,&#8221; noting that candidates for those positions were in attendance at Tuesday&#8217;s meeting.
Parents who stayed behind to voice their concerns about the book also spoke out about other aspects of &#8220;woke&#8221; ideology seeping into the district. One father, for example, said that students are now identifying as cats, and when others in the school speak out about the disruption, they are the ones reprimanded.
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A father who spoke about his concerns at OUR meeting, after the Penfield School Board walked out on us last night.
The school board may not want to hear it, so let’s make sure EVERYONE hears what he has to say. <a href="https://t.co/YCsXmxUu48">pic.twitter.com/YCsXmxUu48</a>
— Kimberly DeRosa (@K_DeRosa_NY135) <a href="https://twitter.com/K_DeRosa_NY135/status/1889742011197993155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Target was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit from shareholders who accused the retailer of misleading them about the risks posed by its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative.
Shareholders <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/target-being-sued-defrauding-shareholders-144200399.html">filed</a> the suit on Friday, naming CEO Brian Cornell and the company&#8217;s board as defendants, according to a report by Quartz. The City of Riviera Beach Police Pension Fund in Florida claims it purchased Target stock at an inflated price between August 2022 and November 2024. The stock later tumbled after pushback against the retailer&#8217;s diversity efforts.
The lawsuit alleges that backlash to Target&#8217;s May 2023 Pride campaign hurt store traffic and placed employees at risk, reportedly contributing to a more than 21% stock drop in November. It also points to more substantial quarterly earnings from Walmart as evidence that the brand&#8217;s diversity initiatives continued to weigh on investor confidence.
In January, Target announced the end of its DEI goals and external reporting to DEI accountability organizations. According to an internal memo obtained by Quartz, it also discontinued a program emphasizing more products from black or minority-owned suppliers.
Chief community impact and equity officer Kiera Fernandez said the company&#8217;s decision was based on an &#8220;evolving external landscape&#8221; and &#8220;date, insights, and listening.&#8221;
Lawyers for the Florida-based pension fund allege their client was unaware the company was engaging in what they described as the &#8220;misuse of investor funds to serve political and social goals.&#8221;
Court documents detail how the plaintiffs claim they would not have purchased shares at specific prices had they known about what they interpret as looming financial hazards attached to these programs.
The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, contends that Target&#8217;s disclosures masked the extent of possible fallout from consumer pushback. Its claims focus on the concern that executives allegedly withheld risks from investors, which plaintiffs say ultimately contributed to a steep drop in value when the broader public reacted negatively.
The complaint requests damages for alleged losses and highlights what plaintiffs view as a breach of the company&#8217;s responsibility to operate in the best interests of its shareholders.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> was roasted on Sunday after the Department of Health and Human Services celebrated “Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day” in a social media post.
Republicans ripped into the agency for the post, saying that President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration could not come soon enough. Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-pledged-to-stop-dei-and-fire-woke-bureaucrats-heres-how-he-can-do-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has promised</a> to bring sweeping reform to the federal government and eliminate politically motivated bureaucrats. 
“Today on Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day, everyone deserves to feel seen, respected and supported—no matter who they love,” the HHS posted on X. “Create a world where everyone feels proud to be themselves!”
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Today on Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day, everyone deserves to feel seen, respected and supported—no matter who they love. Create a world where everyone feels proud to be themselves! 🌈<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PansexualPrideDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PansexualPrideDay</a> <a href="https://t.co/4sZjulnJjs">pic.twitter.com/4sZjulnJjs</a>
— HHS.gov (@HHSGov) <a href="https://twitter.com/HHSGov/status/1865803532537930120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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People who identify as &#8220;pansexual&#8221; or &#8220;panromantic&#8221; can be attracted to men, women, and those who identify as transgender or &#8220;nonbinary.&#8221;
The post quickly drew criticism from conservatives, including GOP politicians and key Trump allies. 
“Sanity is returning to HHS in 43 days,” Stephen Miller, who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/best-in-class-trump-picks-stephen-miller-for-top-policy-position" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slated</a> to be Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, said in response to the post. 
“This entire Administration is nothing but activists&#8230;not public servants. January 20 can&#8217;t get here soon enough,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) posted. 
“Glad this type of bulls*** will end on Jan 20! Can’t come soon enough,” responded incoming Senator-elect Jim Banks (R-IN). 
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“Switch this to &#8216;Lower Healthcare Costs Day&#8217; &amp; we’d be making progress,” wrote tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Trump has tasked Ramaswamy to work with Elon Musk to find ways to cut down on government waste and inefficiency through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 
“Classic government tactic: blow ‘woke smoke’ to trick progressives into forgetting how much their own policies are screwing over all Americans (including even them). [HHS] should be focused on improving health outcomes &amp; reducing cost, not promoting ‘Panromantic Pride Day,’” Ramaswamy added. 
“I can’t wait until President Trump is back in office,” Americans Principles Project Director Terry Schilling said. 
Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS during his administration. Kennedy has promised to focus on combating chronic health issues, obesity, and restoring trust in the department.

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There&#8217;s been a lot of very negative coverage of diversity, equity and inclusion lately. Some of you may know that, as I&#8217;ve mentioned once or twice, I recently put together a movie on the topic: “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/am-i-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Am I Racist?</a>” Streaming on Daily Wire right now. I’ve also done a lot of shows about DEI and for good reason. In fact, a DEI candidate is on the ballot for president of the United States. We are on the cusp of either doubling down on this disastrous ideology, or possibly eradicating it entirely.
All that being said, I&#8217;d be lying if I said that, deep down, I don&#8217;t have a soft spot for certain DEI policies that the Biden-Harris administration has implemented. You see, as a certified DEI expert myself, I&#8217;m trained to recognize that not all DEI programs are equal. Some of them are just straight-up racist, sure. Virtually all of them are counterproductive. But I&#8217;m capable of identifying, based on my extensive training, some DEI policies that are really diamonds in the rough. Some of them transcend politics and stand as monuments to the unfettered ingenuity of the Biden-Harris administration. The more you think about these policies, the more you come around to the idea that maybe, just maybe, DEI is worth keeping around in some form — if only because, in many cases, these policies are hilarious. Or at least, mildly amusing.
In that spirit — and because we could all use a breather going into what may be the most heated and contested presidential election since the Civil War — I&#8217;m going to rank my favorite DEI policies from the Biden-Harris administration. The group &#8220;Do No Harm&#8221; assembled a gigantic database of all the zillions of ways the administration has implemented DEI, and I&#8217;ve whittled that database down to my personal top 10 list. I&#8217;m posting that list on X, but for the purposes of this article I&#8217;ll whittle that list down even further.
We&#8217;ll start with this one, which is probably the best. With very little fanfare, under the administration&#8217;s &#8220;equity&#8221; mandate, The TSA deployed new &#8220;advanced imaging technology&#8221; to, &#8220;reduce the instances of enhanced screening for trans persons.&#8221; According to the TSA, &#8220;this update eliminated the need for TSA officers to determine a passenger&#8217;s gender prior to Advanced Imaging screening.&#8221; This is a program that taxpayers spent millions of dollars to implement. But how does it work exactly? How, precisely, is imaging technology resulting in less false flags for self-identified &#8220;trans people&#8221;?
Here&#8217;s one news report I found on this topic. We&#8217;ll see if they can shed some light on the situation:
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So before the DEI update over at TSA, the body scanner required that agents select a gender for the traveler. This is one of those things that I guess they didn&#8217;t want to elaborate on during a local news broadcast, but it&#8217;s pretty clear what&#8217;s going on here. If the machine detects that a woman has a strange object in a region of the body where a woman shouldn&#8217;t have any object at all, then the machine would sound an alarm, and the TSA agent would have to do a pat-down. But if the machine detects that object on a man&#8217;s body, it&#8217;s a little less suspicious.
Anyone with a child&#8217;s understanding of biology can figure out that this makes a lot of sense. It&#8217;s not exactly a foolproof system, but it does make it a little harder for women to smuggle contraband through a body scanner.
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But the TSA, under the Biden-Harris administration, has made the technology more &#8220;accurate,&#8221; supposedly. How did that do that? According to the TSA, last summer they introduced a &#8220;gender-neutral algorithm&#8221; to the body scanners. In other words, presumably they&#8217;ve stopped looking for mismatches between someone&#8217;s gender and any objects that may be attached to their bodies in strange places. As a result, they say that the number of &#8220;false positives&#8221; has gone down by 50%.
The TSA brags about that statistic on their website quite a bit — even though it doesn&#8217;t really tell us anything at all. You can reduce the number of &#8220;false positives&#8221; by 100% if you just unplug the body scanner and stop using it entirely. The more useful statistic — if we&#8217;re being frank here — would be knowing whether anyone was able to sneak a weapon through the body scanner because the machine thought it was male genitalia instead of, say, a gun or a knife. But the TSA doesn&#8217;t have those statistics because, of course, there&#8217;s no way to track objects that they missed completely. We&#8217;ll just have to find out the hard way, I guess. Hopefully ISIS doesn&#8217;t employ any gender-neutral terrorists.
That brings me to another monumental DEI achievement under the Biden-Harris administration. This one comes to us from the Department of Energy, which recently became notorious for employing its own gender-neutral menace. You might have heard that the Department of Energy&#8217;s esteemed nuclear waste disposal expert, Sam Brinton, turned out to be an expert in stealing women&#8217;s luggage from airport baggage claims. That whole episode led to a lot of bad press, which is too bad because it distracted everyone from the Department of Energy&#8217;s historic achievement in the field of DEI. Fortunately, as a certified DEI professional, I&#8217;m here to rectify that oversight.
This is a very real paragraph from the &#8220;Equity Action Plan&#8221; at the Department of Energy. I hope you&#8217;re sitting down <a href="https://www.energy.gov/justice/articles/doe-equity-action-plan-and-2023-update-2022-plan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for this</a>: 
<blockquote>In Fiscal Year 2023, DOE sponsored &#8230; the Lesbians Who Tech conference. &#8230; DOE also work[ed] in close partnership with its Energy PRIDE Employee Resource Group for Pride Month, including raising the Progress Pride Flag for the third year in a row with the Energy Secretary.</blockquote>
I&#8217;ll read that last part again. The Department of Energy raised the Progress Pride Flag three years in a row, with the Energy Secretary in attendance. They didn&#8217;t just raise the flag for one year. They didn&#8217;t just raise the flag for two years. They did it three whole years. In a row.
This is something that a bureaucrat — paid by your tax dollars — wrote down in a government document as a major achievement for equity. And then they published this document online, to brag to the whole world. Just to make sure I wasn&#8217;t missing anything, I pulled up a video of what this Progress Pride &#8220;flag raising&#8221; ceremony looked like. Here&#8217;s some of that riveting footage:
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It&#8217;s just monumental stuff. So first of all, the Department of Energy lady says that &#8220;PRIDE&#8221; stands for &#8220;promoting respect, inclusion, diversity and equity.&#8221; That&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve ever heard that, but she just says it as fact.
So I looked it up. It turns out that this is a disputed acronym. Most people say that PRIDE is not an acronym at all. It just means &#8220;pride,&#8221; as in, one of the seven deadly sins. But for their part, the University of San Francisco&#8217;s LGBTQ center <a href="https://lgbtq.ucsf.edu/pride-values#:~:text=Originally%20adopted%20by%20UCSF%20Medical,%2C%20Integrity%2C%20Diversity%20and%20Excellence." target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> that PRIDE stands for &#8220;professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity, and excellence.&#8221; So there are some differences there. Three of the five words are different. And of course when you think of gay pride parades with men walking around in leather bondage gear in front of children, the first word that comes to mind to describe the scene is: professionalism. Also respect and integrity. 
There&#8217;s also the folks over at Robins Air Force Base, who have weighed in on this topic, albeit in a very different context. They <a href="https://www.robins.af.mil/News/Commentaries/Display/Article/2067288/pride-revealed-a-commanders-commentary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> on their website that PRIDE really stands for &#8220;People, Readiness, Innovation, Drive, and Excellence.&#8221;
So already, this is all very confusing. And then it gets more confusing when the Department of Energy lady says this: &#8220;Pride is for everyone, whether you are a member of the community or an ally.&#8221; In other words, Pride is for everyone, except all of the people who think Pride is dumb, evil, divisive, and a complete waste of taxpayer money. So Pride isn&#8217;t really for everyone at all, I guess. But she&#8217;ll say that anyway, because it sounds nice.
Speaking of pride, NASA was particularly proud under the Biden-Harris administration to launch something called &#8220;Mission Equity.&#8221; No, &#8220;Mission Equity&#8221; doesn&#8217;t refer to a trip to Mars, or catching a rocket booster mid-air so that they can reuse it later. You&#8217;re thinking too small. After all, who needs reusable rocket boosters when you have NASA&#8217;s &#8220;LGBTQI+ Gender Equity Forum,&#8221; which connects nonbinary, trans and queer folx with government procurement experts? I mean, if you give any sane person the choice between those two achievements, they&#8217;re obviously going to go with the gender equity forum.
But that&#8217;s not even my favorite part of what NASA accomplished in the DEI department over the last four years. They also put together what, in my humble opinion as a DEI expert, is maybe the single creepiest DEI town hall that&#8217;s ever been put together by a government agency. One after another, the entire agency — including the director — delivered some mindless lines about Joe Biden&#8217;s executive order on equity, and how important it is. And then they announced the launch of Mission Equity. Watch:
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This would be a creepy and depressing town hall if it was, say, the local teachers&#8217; union doing it. But this is NASA we&#8217;re talking about here, which makes it even harder to watch. NASA used to do great things, like land a man on the moon. And they did all of those great things without DEI. And now they&#8217;re all pretending that DEI was somehow the key to their success all along. Meanwhile, as NASA holds meetings like this — where they all act like lobotomized DEI activists — SpaceX is actually accomplishing things.
There are a bunch of other examples of this rot that Do No Harm has collected. The Forest Service spent $1 billion on “environmental justice,&#8221; which is a term that no one can define. The N.E.A. spent more than $6 million to make the art world more “equitable&#8221; because, as we all know, the art world is a haven for those dreaded MAGA Republicans. The Department of Commerce allocated $70 million exclusively for “women-owned small businesses,” which is why a lot of men now list their wives as the “owner” of their company. That&#8217;s a really big improvement, I guess. We&#8217;ve incentivized fraud at a massive scale.
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Meanwhile, over at the CIA, they took a break from overthrowing foreign governments so that they could sponsor robotics camps for &#8220;middle school students from underserved communities.&#8221; And the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which regulates commercial vehicles, held the first-ever meeting of the &#8220;Women of Trucking Advisory Board.&#8221; That makes sense, because if there&#8217;s one thing we desperately need as a country, it&#8217;s more women spending weeks away from their families while they drive 30-ton trucks all over the country.
Of course, cataloging all of the DEI programs that the Biden-Harris administration has implemented is nearly impossible. There&#8217;s just too many of them. But having looked at the database from &#8220;Do No Harm,&#8221; those are some of my favorites. They&#8217;re the DEI &#8220;achievements&#8221; that reveal how backwards and incompetent our government has become over the past four years. And if nothing else, they&#8217;re one last incentive to vote if you haven&#8217;t already.
All of this is reversible. We just have to fire the people who implemented these policies on Tuesday. And then, after we&#8217;re done laughing at these imbeciles, we can tell the next crop of government employees to get back to work.

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Multiple large corporations are pumping the brakes on their ultra-woke diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives as Americans are sending them a strong message: they want quality products over political stunts. 
It’s good to see that some companies are finally recognizing the disastrous effect of their downright discriminatory practices. 
As first revealed by conservative activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pure-lunacy-robby-starbuck-on-exposing-dei-in-corporate-america">Robby Starbuck</a> on X, Ford, Harley-Davidson, Lowe’s, Tractor Supply, Molson Coors, and Jack Daniel’s distiller Brown-Forman have all recently pulled back on DEI and LGBT hiring initiatives. Some of these companies announced changes after Starbuck emailed corporate offices, asking about their woke policies. 
Late last month, Lowe’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lowes-cuts-ties-with-leftist-activist-group-scales-back-dei-initiatives">told</a> its employees that it would no longer fund LGBT “Pride” events or participate in the corporate equality index, which is run by the leftist Human Rights Council (HRC). In a memo, Lowe’s cited the Supreme Court ruling affirmative action admission practices at universities unconstitutional. 
“Like many other companies, in July 2023 after the Supreme Court’s decision in the Harvard/UNC cases, we began reviewing our diversity and inclusion programs to ensure that they are lawful and aligned with our commitment to include everyone in the incredible opportunities at Lowe’s and ensure that no one is excluded,” the company wrote.
Harley-Davidson similarly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harley-davidson-becomes-latest-company-to-back-away-from-dei-policies">said</a> last month, “It is critical to our business that we hire and retain the best talent and that all employees feel welcome. That said, we have not operated a DEI function since April 2024, and we do not have a DEI function today. We do not have hiring quotas and we no longer have supplier diversity goals.”
Ford also <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/ford-coors-gay-rights-index-dei-04c4ff94?mod=hp_lead_pos1">announced</a> that it would no longer send workplace data to the HRC, which pushes companies to hire more LGBT-identifying people. The political activists over at the HRC are, of course, beside themselves. How could these companies dare defy the Left’s agenda? Well, as has been true throughout the history of capitalism, money talks. 
Non-woke is winning in the free market, and Jeremy’s Razors has been proving that for years now. Of course, other companies are now ditching the DEI and LGBT nonsense, but don’t forget that Jeremy’s was brave enough to stand up against the wokeness. And we’re going to keep standing up. So use your dollars wisely, and know the companies you buy from.
At <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/">Jeremy’s Razors</a>, we have never and will never make hiring pledges to leftist activist groups. And people are taking notice of how the sales of non-woke companies such as Jeremy’s Razors are skyrocketing.
In the past few months, Jeremy’s Razors has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeremys-razors-dominates-amazon-on-first-day-becomes-1-bestseller">dominated</a> the marketplace. In May, Jeremy’s Razors became the #1 bestselling razor on Amazon and then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeremys-razors-is-now-on-amazon-prime">hit the online shelves</a> of Walmart.com in August. Last month, the company also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeremys-ships-1-millionth-order-as-consumer-demand-for-non-woke-products-continues">shipped</a> its one-millionth order, hitting the incredible milestone after two years of successful product launches and two viral commercials.
And now is a great time to <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/bestsellers/products/precision-5-trial-kit-2?selling_plan=3820880085">take advantage</a> of the quality products from Jeremy’s Razors with a 20% discount.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jojo-siwa">JoJo Siwa</a> berated the crowd at a New York City Pride concert over the weekend when some of the attendees started heckling her.
The 21-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">recording artist</a> was <a href="https://x.com/CL0SEASTRXNGERS/status/1807242749516644563">captured on video</a> stopping her set to curse at the culprits. “Who the living f*** just booed me? Where the f*** did that come from? Which one of you? Which one of you?&#8221; Siwa yelled. She then took a handmade sign from fans in the audience before addressing the people booing again.
&#8220;Respectfully, f*** you!&#8221; she said. 
Shortly after her tirade, Siwa grabbed a bouquet of flowers thrown on the stage and said, “Aww, this is sweet.” She plucked a flower from the bundle, placed it into her shorts, and made a lewd gesture by grabbing her crotch and sticking out her tongue.
&#8220;F*** the booers, somebody just chucked a bra at me!&#8221; the former “Dance Moms” reality star said.
The scene was captured on video and circulated on X. The person posting wrote across the video, “I cannot stop thinking about the 3 little girls in karma face paint and their mom who went up to the barricade right before she went on and what conversations might be going on right now.”
The video caption said, “JoJo Siwa, they could NEVER make me like you.”
For most of her career, Siwa has been a role model for young children. Recently, she has been experimenting with darker, more dramatic looks and music. In April, she turned heads at the 2024 iHeartRadio Video Music Awards for arriving in a revealing mesh outfit and black face paint.
“This is my ‘KARMA,’ black beast look,” Siwa said during a red carpet interview with <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1398587/jojo-siwa-pushes-back-on-criticism-of-her-adult-era-while-debuting-dramatic-all-black-look">E! News</a>, referring to her newly released single. “It’s got some rips in it, but you’d never know.”
When asked how she’s responding to backlash for her new, more provocative look, Siwa said, “People are afraid of things they don’t know. Things can be scary for people. New things can be very, very scary.”
The singer also defended herself by saying “respected” artists, including Lil Nas X and Meghan Trainor, liked her new look.

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An internal memo from the 24 Hour Fitness Center labels <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/black-lives-matter">Black Lives Matter</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pride">Pride</a> Symbols “freedom of expression” has drawn backlash over concerns the gym would be limiting display of the American flag. 
In the letter obtained by <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1800516615970365573/photo/1">Libs Of TikTok</a>, it informs employees that the fitness company is committed to “creating a more inclusive environment” before it details what is and is not allowed.
The memo said it encourages employees to “bring their full selves to work everyday” and then lists that “team members” can wear apparel that shows their “solidarity and support” for the following movements.
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">“Black Lives Matter/BLM words.”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">“‘Pride’ and or pride rainbow logo.”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">“Juneteenth logo, symbol or date on Juneteenth (June 19).”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">“[US] Flag or United States logo” on federal holidays like Memorial Day, Flag Day, July 4th, Veterans Day, Patriots Day, etc.”</li>
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The leaked memo details come as Americans are being inundated all month long by corporate America from LGBTQ activists about embracing Pride.
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HOLY SHLIT. Internal memo from 24 hour fitness <a href="https://twitter.com/24hourfitness?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@24hourfitness</a> advises that BLM and pride symbols are always approved forms of “freedom of expression” but the American Flag and US logos are only allowed to be worn on Holidays.
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In a statement to Newsweek, 24 Hour Fitness said that it would encourage all employees to wear American flag pins any day of the year.
&#8220;Currently and historically, 24 Hour Fitness&#8217; policy regarding staff expression has allowed and encouraged wearing symbols like American flag pins any day of the year, including prominent national holidays like Memorial Day, Flag Day, July 4th, and Veterans Day,&#8221; a spokesman <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/24-hour-fitness-american-flag-boycott-conservatives-1911978#:~:text=However%2C%20in%20a%20statement%20to,holidays%20like%20Memorial%20Day%2C%20Flag" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Newsweek.
Last year, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/target">Target</a> faced a massive backlash when it put its June “Pride” merchandise like “tuck-friendly” female swimsuits front and center in the store.  This year the retail store has decided it will tamp back the LGBTQ push after it faced boycotts and sinking sales. 
The retailer <a href="https://apnews.com/article/target-lgbtq-pride-667ab2f6545645f5f86ca76394e531d6">told</a> the Associated Press that only a limited number of its stores would be carrying special LGBT-themed merchandise in June. The store said the merchandise would only be available in select markets, based on “guest insights and consumer research.”
Despite the pullback, the store said that it still maintained that it fully supported the LGBT movement. 
“Target is committed to supporting the LGBTQIA+ community during Pride Month and year-round,” Target said. “Most importantly, we want to create a welcoming and supportive environment for our LGBTQIA+ team members, which reflects our culture of care for the over 400,000 people who work at Target.”
Last year, merchandise that was part of the store’s Pride collection, like “extra crotch coverage” female swimsuits and Pride-themed onesies, spurred calls for boycotts of Target, leading to declining sales and stock prices. Its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-sales-sink-after-pride-backlash">sales plummeted</a> during the second quarter, after the backlash started, and fell for the first time in six years, falling 5.4% compared to the same period last year. Online sales fell nearly twice as much, 10.5%, Target said. 
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this piece.
This article has been updated to provide clarity about the memo and include comment from 24 Hours Fitness. 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/planet-fitness-stock-plunges-after-it-canceled-membership-of-woman-who-photographed-man-in-the-womens-locker-room" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Planet Fitness Stock Plunges After It Canceled Membership Of Woman Who Photographed ‘Man In The Women’s Locker Room’</a>

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As Pride Month continues, several people have been charged with allegedly defacing Pride flags painted on streets with tire marks, and some critics have even accused them of a hate crime.
In early February, a Florida man was <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/14/news/florida-man-dylan-brewer-arrested-for-vandalising-lgbtq-pride-mural/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> of deliberately doing multiple burnouts with his pickup truck in a Delray Beach intersection that was painted in rainbow colors.
The incident was caught on surveillance video, which police released. It shows a pickup truck with LED underbody lights and an American flag attached to the back, leaving tire marks on the intersection&#8217;s Pride paint while making a hard left after dark.
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WATCH: Police in Delray Beach, FL have arrested and charged Dylan Brewer, 19, for spinning his tires on a gay pride crosswalk.
Police said Brewer &#39;caused significant damage to the streetscape painting, which serves as a symbol of unity and inclusivity for the LGBTQ community.&#39; <a href="https://t.co/kNlJ7Du8KK">pic.twitter.com/kNlJ7Du8KK</a>
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Dylan Brewer, 19, surrendered to authorities after they searched for him for a week. He was charged with felony criminal mischief, damage to property over $1,000, and misdemeanor reckless driving. He was released on a $5,250 bond.
“Witnesses reported that Brewer was observed intentionally performing multiple burnouts with his vehicle over the LGBTQ pride crosswalk,” the Delray Beach Police Department said. “The reckless action caused significant damage to the streetscape painting, which serves as a symbol of unity and inclusivity for the LGBTQ community.”
The Palm Beach County Human Rights Council declared Brewer&#8217;s actions should be considered a hate crime.
Then earlier this month, three teenagers were arrested and charged with a felony for leaving scooter marks on the Pride flag painted on a street in Spokane. Prosecutors demanded a $15,000 bond for the teens.
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The three teenagers seen in this video have been charged with a felony for leaving scooter marks on the Pride flag painted on the street in Spokane, WA. Prosecutors are demanding a $15k bond for the teens. <a href="https://t.co/RPg1o5pabz">pic.twitter.com/RPg1o5pabz</a>
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Police used surveillance footage from the intersection to find the suspects.
The 19-year-old suspect was charged with malicious mischief with a hate crime bias. He was accused of shouting &#8220;f&#8211;k you f&#8212;-t&#8221; at a passerby.
&#8220;We see that you have done this thing,&#8221; one witness <a href="https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/arrests-wednesday-at-newly-painted-pride-crosswalk-mural/293-57722e04-0df0-4484-856e-fed3d7a37c23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;People don&#8217;t just go and do that without intention. You don&#8217;t destroy symbols without intention behind it.&#8221;
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Lime Scooters, which rents the scooters the teens were using, <a href="https://www.krem.com/article/news/local/arrests-wednesday-at-newly-painted-pride-crosswalk-mural/293-57722e04-0df0-4484-856e-fed3d7a37c23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it would be &#8220;taking immediate action against the perpetrators.&#8221;
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“All of us at Lime condemn these vile acts in no uncertain terms,&#8221; the company said in a statement, adding that it is &#8220;disturbing to see the hate taking place in Spokane.&#8221;
&#8220;We will not let the hateful few spoil the joy of Pride Month in Spokane, and are grateful for those working to make Spokane more welcoming for all,&#8221; Lime Scooters added.
The company also said it was &#8220;immediately instituting a no-ride zone around the mural to protect it from any future vandalism attempts,&#8221; which <a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/lime-enacts-no-go-zone-around-pride-crosswalk-in-washington-after-vandalism-electric-scooters-bikes-pride-month-mural-spokane-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">means</a> the scooters will shut down if driven over the street&#8217;s Pride paint.
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A local Spokane outlet also <a href="https://www.khq.com/news/pride-mural-seemingly-defaced-in-front-of-nonstop-local-crew/article_3e3a635a-245f-11ef-bd88-dbadc982f984.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that more youths left scooter skid marks on the street&#8217;s Pride display the next day. The youngsters also left skid marks on other parts of the street.
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A new Washington state law making it a hate crime to deface public installations with the intent of intimidating a protected group <a href="https://www.khq.com/news/lgbtq-mural-defaced-by-arsonist-repainted-ahead-of-spokane-pride-festival/article_14ff7384-22f9-11ef-b1b4-ffcbead507ed.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went</a> into effect on June 6.
In Bend, Oregon, several vehicles <a href="https://www.centraloregondaily.com/news/local/bend-pride-crosswalk-defaced-graffiti-burnouts/article_14722cb6-2206-11ef-bc97-4791d5921734.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> burned their tires out on a Pride crosswalk, which police said could be classified as speed racing, which is a traffic violation as well as potentially even reckless driving.
In St. Petersburg, Florida residents complained about tire marks on their Pride-themed intersection as well.
“I’m having a hard time believing that it’s not intentional,” <a href="https://patch.com/florida/stpete/recently-repainted-lgbtq-pride-street-mural-defaced-tire-marks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Rachel Covello, who organizes a local LGBT conference and called the police over the tire marks.
In some instances, streets painted in Pride flag colors have been vandalized directly with graffiti, arson, or more paint.
However, critics have argued that simply leaving tire marks or scooter skid marks on the street does not constitute a hate crime.

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Here’s Where People Have Been Charged For Vandalizing Pride Flag Displays With Tire Marks

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