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10-Year-Old Drag Queen To Perform At “Family Friendly” All Ages Pride Event

The left’s obsession with exploiting children for sexual fantasies comes to Portland (of course), as yet another drag kid is trotted out to strut his stuff. 10-year-old ‘Sparkle Lynn More’ is one of the guest performers at an all ages, family friendly pride event Friday evening. While most of these drag kid events tend to take place in front of adult audiences, this one is targeted at young children, and it will also feature adult performers. It takes place at the not-at-all-suspiciously-named Friendly House.

But this isn’t Sparkle More’s first foray into performing in drag. He recently appeared at a fundraiser for the ACLU. which featured a man marrying a boyfriend made out of boxed wine boxes. Sparkle also appeared in drag on stage as part of a play by Martha Wainwright.

Evidently one of Sparkle’s co-performers is a drag clown kid?

Here are a few highlights from his instagram page, @lovesparklemore, which feature him with several adult drag performers and fellow drag kid, Queen Lactatia:

Last fall, ‘Sparkle Lynn More’ and his mother, Michelle Porter, sat down with someone named Svetlana Trantastic for an extended interview. Porter says that Sparkle was inspired by watching Drag Race on TV and they went to an all ages drag show at Darcelle’s, and soon started putting on his own performances and making friends with people in the Portland drag community. Porter says “It’s far more dangerous to not support him” and says it’d be damaging to sway Sparkle away from the drag life. Ironically, Porter says of her critics “You let a boy put a dress on, and immediately people want to sexualize it. That’s where our society’s brain goes, when really, there’s nothing sexual about a 10 year old in a dress.”

The video also features Sparkle prancing around in a small pool while wearing a mermaid outfit, with Svetlana lounging in a hammock.

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Climate Oops: National Park Begins Subtle Removal Of “Gone By 2020” Signs After Glaciers Just Keep Not Being Gone

Whoops. Via RedState: The climate change lobby has been assuring us for years – decades, really – that we are all on the brink of certain death because of global warming or cooling or climate change or whatever the term du jour is at the time. In the ’80s actor Ted Danson campaigned against global […]

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U of Alabama Rips Biggest Donor’s Name Off Building After He Attacks Pro-Life Law

I’m an Arkansas fan because of my childhood roots and that means I don’t typically cheer for the University of Alabama, but the most recent move by the Crimson Tide has me standing and applauding. The University of Alabama recently slammed the “return to sender” stamp down on a $26.5 million donation from Hugh F.…

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Parents Start Petition Over New Transgender Policy In Their Public School System, But Website Then Shuts Them Down

Questioning the newly imposed social order not permitted. Via Daily Caller: Virginia parents concerned about the implementation of a new transgender policy in their public school system gathered more than a hundred signatures within hours of posting a petition to delay the policy online, but it was quickly shut down by the host website. “The […]

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Breaking: Judge Rules Google Must Face Hiring Discrimination Lawsuit Against Conservatives – Suit Moves to Discovery Phase!

In January 2018 James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired from the tech giant filed a class action lawsuit against Google in a Santa Clara Superior Court in Northern California.

Damore previously sent out a ten-page viewpoint diversity essay that made its rounds online which ultimately led to his firing in early August of 2017.

Demore claims Google discriminates against white males with conservative political views.

On Friday a California court ruled that Google must the firing discrimination lawsuit against conservatives.

Harmeet Dhillon thanked James Damore for his courage in filing suit against the radical far left corporation.

The Verge reported:

Google will have to face a California lawsuit accusing the company of bias against conservative job candidates as part of a legal challenge first brought against the company by James Damore, author of the infamous 2017 “Google memo.”

Damore exited the lawsuit last year and entered arbitration with the company. But the suit, which argues Google’s hiring practices are biased against white and Asian people, conservatives, and men, will move ahead after surviving a dismissal motion from the company. In a statement, the law firm representing the plaintiffs said the suit will now move into the discovery phase.

The plaintiffs in the case are seeking class certification to represent others they believe have been discriminated against, a decision the court will make at a later date.

In legal filings, Google has disputed that conservatives are an identifiable class under the law. In a decision, the judge on the case said the court “indeed has doubts” about the viability of the idea, but it is, for the time being, letting the case move ahead. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the ruling.

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ROLL TIDE: Alabama’s Top Donor Calls For Boycott Against State, University Over Abortion. Alabama Gives His Money Back, Takes His Name Off Building.

Hugh Culverhouse Jr. — the University of Alabama’s largest donor — has called for boycotts against the state and against the University of Alabama over its new abortion law that protects unborn babies.
The University of Alabama responded on Friday by returning a $21.5 million gift that it received from Culverhouse, who had allegedly tried to interfere in the operations of the law school. The school also removed his name from the law school.

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How Convenient. Newly Released FBI Docs Reveal ‘Property’ Related to Hillary Clinton’s Use of Private Server ‘Missing’

The FBI on Friday released more documents related to its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private server thanks to a FOIA lawsuit by Judicial Watch.

The FBI once again ‘lost property’ related to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

“The SA’s (Special Agents) looked through all case materials in the CI-13 file and workbox area, however, they were not able to locate this item,” the FBI doc read. “As such, WFO (Washington Field Office) considers the item missing and will enclose this document into 1A20 as a placeholder until the missing item is located.”

Was the ‘lost receipt for property’ related to Hillary Clinton’s BlackBerrys and iPads?

Recall, last month the FBI ‘lost notes’ from an August 2015 meeting with the Intelligence Community Inspector General about Hillary Clinton’s private server, according to new FBI docs released.

According to the FBI docs related to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private server, Special Agents (SAs) have been gathering and copying materials in response to a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit and stumbled across some ‘missing notes.’

How convenient.

A February 2019 email from a Special Agent reveals that a CD containing material and notes from an August 2015 meeting with the ICIG was damaged, therefore the information is considered “missing.”

“On or about February 6, 2019, SAs [redacted] opened [redacted] CYBER-1A27, which contained a CD with a crack on it (a damaged CD). SA attempted to copy the damaged CD at the WFO [Washington Field Office] Computer Analysis Response Team (CART) self-service area, but was not able to do so.” the email read.

Since the CD was cracked, FBI IT specialists indicated it was unlikely the CD could be copied.

The notes from this meeting are also missing.

So the FBI has revealed that a CD containing material about their meeting with the ICIG is damaged and the notes about the meeting are also missing — and now ‘property’ (maybe Hillary’s BlackBerrys) are missing.

The FBI is supposed to be our premiere law enforcement agency. Let that sink in.

The FBI released part 32 of 33 last month and part 33 of 33 on Friday. Click here to read part 33 of 33 from the FBI Vault.

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University of Alabama renames law school, returns $21.5 million donation after donor calls for it to be boycotted over abortion law

They couldn’t wait to get cracking on it, either. Dude:

Out of curiosity, I googled the law school. The name has already been scrubbed from the website.

They have my admiration. Political principle is hard enough to stick to when there’s not an eight-figure payday on the table. Imagine how hard it is when there is. The number in the headline actually undersells U of A’s sacrifice here, in fact: The $21.5 million was part of a larger $26.5 million pledge that’ll now go unfulfilled. And it came from the school’s single largest donor, Hugh Culverhouse Jr., which means the university has likely lost a substantial future donor stream as well.

The tiff appears — I stress, appears — to stem from Culverhouse’s call last week for a boycott of the state and its institutions, including the law school that bore his name, over its new abortion law. “I don’t want anybody to go to that law school, especially women, until the state gets its act together,” he said on May 29, adding “When you say sweet home Alabama, you can kiss my ass. There isn’t anything sweet about it until this absolute abomination is done with.” The wrinkle is that at no point has the university itself claimed that the abortion law or his boycott call is the source of its dispute with him. They insist that it’s due to him meddling with its operations. “Donors may not dictate University administration,” said U of A in a statement also published on May 29. They’ve been vague on what Culverhouse did to meddle, but he admitted to the AP that he told administrators his donation should be used to admit more students and award more scholarships — although he says he thought that dispute had been resolved.

Either way, we’re in a strange situation this afternoon in which the university has made an exceedingly dramatic financial gesture to demonstrate that it doesn’t want Culverhouse’s patronage any longer while … refusing to say why, specifically. It’s Culverhouse, not U of A, who claims this is about abortion, abortion, and nothing but abortion. He whined in a statement about the school somehow trying to “silence” him by refunding his money:

“I expected this response from UA. I will not allow my family’s name to be associated with an educational system that advocates a state law which discriminates against women, disregards established Federal law and violates our Constitution. I want to make clear that I never demanded that $21.5 million be refunded and wonder if the University is attempting to silence my opinions by their quick response. I will not be silenced. Once again, I call on students to protest and reconsider their educational options in Alabama. I also appeal to out-of-state and international businesses to consider the consequences of conducting business in a state that discriminates against women and defies constitutional law. These boycotts and acts of resistance should remain in effect until the State of Alabama reverses the illegal anti-abortion statute.”

He was more colorful in an interview with the AP:

After the trustees’ vote, the younger Culverhouse said that he and father had donated to the university over the years in part to rid Alabama of a certain stereotype: “We are the land of the backward, we are hicks, we lack the sophistication to see two sides to an argument.”

“What have you done Alabama? You have effectively put a 12-gauge in your mouth and pulled the trigger,” Culverhouse said. “You have reinforced that horrible stereotype that my father and I have tried so hard to eliminate.”

Why won’t the school acknowledge that they’re punishing him for the boycott call, at least? Obviously they’re not opposed to taking money from someone who’s pro-choice. Culverhouse’s views can’t have been a secret when he made that $26.5 million pledge. The university was probably understandably peeved that he was giving them bad press by encouraging students to boycott despite the fact that they had nothing to do with the new abortion law’s passage, so they told him to hit the bricks. Culverhouse is eager to tie this dispute to abortion politics, I assume, because it makes him a sort of pro-choice martyr among his likeminded friends. But why is the school so reluctant to admit its motives?

Is it, as one expert told the AP, because it fears the dispute “could pressure more politically liberal donors to cut off support to the university”? Rejecting Culverhouse’s money over the boycott call might lead other pro-choice donors to withhold they money in a sort of sympathy strike. As painful as it was for U of A to part with $26.5 million, it could get worse if they’re viewed as hostile to abortion supporters. There may be some sort of legal issue too if the school is seen as picking sides in an abortion debate given that U of A is a state actor and operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, although I’ll leave it to legal eagles to hash that out, if so. Presumably it’s not actionable discrimination for a state institution to decline to accept a gift from you because of your political viewpoint. Imagine that — a First Amendment right to make the state take your money.

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Google discrimination lawsuit originally filed by James Damore will proceed to discovery

James Damore was fired by Google back in August 2017 after he wrote a memo suggesting the predominance of male engineers at the company was partly the result of innate differences between men and women rather than discrimination. In January of 2018, Damore filed a lawsuit alleging the company discriminated against whites, males, and conservatives. Today a judge denied Google’s third attempt to have the lawsuit dismissed. From the San Jose Mercury News:

The ruling by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Brian Walsh means the case, which Damore exited late last year in favor of arbitration, can move forward into the discovery phase…

The court denied three different Google motions to dismiss the lawsuit. Now the plaintiffs can request access to internal Google documents to try to support their allegations, which also include some people being “denied employment because of their actual and perceived conservative political activities and affiliations, and their status as actual or perceived Asian or Caucasian male job applicants,” according to the lawsuit.

As mentioned above, Damore exited the lawsuit but two other men are still pursuing it with the same attorneys. The Hollywood Reporter describes the backstory of the current lawsuit:

Damore, along with ex-Googler David Gudeman, in January 2018 filed a class action lawsuit against the tech giant. They claim the company is an ideological echo chamber and it “singled out, mistreated and systematically punished and terminated” employees who disagreed with the majority view about “diversity,” “bias sensitivity” and “social justice.”

They later amended their complaint to add as plaintiffs two men who were rejected for jobs at Google, Stephen McPherson and Michael Burns, and another employee who ultimately voluntarily dismissed his claims…

Damore and Gudeman in November agreed to arbitrate their claims against Google, which left in open court only the claims from McPherson and Burns that they were passed over for jobs because Google unlawfully prioritizes hiring women and certain minorities to the detriment of male, white and Asian applicants and discriminates against politically conservative applicants.

In his ruling today, Judge Walsh did suggest that he “has doubts regarding the viability of the putative Political Subclass.” However, he’s willing to allow the plaintiffs to at least make the case for it after they’ve had a chance at discovery. Harmeet Dhillon, the lawyer representing McPherson and Burns released a statement:

At the hearing, the court denied Google’s motions for judgment on the pleadings, to strike, and its demurrer. Now the case moves into the discovery phase, allowing the plaintiffs’ attorneys to seek access to Google’s internal documents, as well as other potential evidence to support their allegations, in anticipation of a motion for class certification.

Will there actually be documents to support discriminatory hiring decisions? To be clear, I don’t have much doubt that the company’s culture actively discourages conservatives males, but the nature of any culture is that the rules (usually) aren’t written down for outsiders to examine. Instead, they are absorbed from social cues and through private conversations. I suspect that’s how things work at Google, but who knows. Maybe the progressive monoculture is so arrogant that people have actually written memos expressing their biases. It will certainly be interesting to see what the discovery process turns up.

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TRUMP BREAKS MEXICO: New Deal Reached, Mexico To Take Action Against Illegal Immigration Into U.S.

President Donald Trump announced late on Friday that the United States has reached a new agreement with Mexico in which Mexico is going to take "strong measures" to end the flow of illegal immigration into the United States and will thus avoid being hit with massive tariffs by the Trump administration.

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