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It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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Right in the opening they throw it out. "America is almost half minorities!" then lots of showing the pride flag next to the US flag.

Interesting that this is on the TV commercial rotation.
 
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Arizona Autism Charter Schools wins $1 million national prize​

Dec 20, 2022, 4:35 AM
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PHOENIX — Arizona Autism Charter Schools announced Monday it won a $1 million national prize for being America’s most innovative and effective educational organization.

The Yass Prize, considered prestigious and education’s largest award, grants the education provider whose program provides effective and lasting educational experience with a clear path to success, according to a press release.

Nearly 2,700 organizations from 28 states, including public schools, education technology companies and micro-schools, applied for the 2022 prize.

“We are so honored to receive the $1 million Yass prize among many high-quality and inspirational programs from across the nation,” AZACS Founder and CEO Diana Diaz-Harrison said in the release.

“This funding will allow us to expand our reach and help more children on the autism spectrum across Arizona and the United States.”

The school offers a fully accredited online service and is a Title 1.

More than half of its students identify as Hispanic and nearly 76% of students qualify for free and reduce-priced lunch.

Diaz-Harrison founded AZACS after she had her son as a way to provide effective and transformative education.

“As an Autism mom, I don’t want my kid to be seen as disabled. I want him to be seen as a doer, intelligent and productive,” she said.

“These charter schools we are starting across America will help our children be neuro-diverse, be who they are and be fulfilled, productive citizens.”

AZACS has been around the Phoenix-area for over ten years, with three campuses across the Valley.

“This grant is definitely about highlighting schools that are providing choice for families, and I would encourage this holiday season that families really are thoughtful and research what could be an alternative school if your current school is not working out ,” Diaz-Harrison told KTAR News 92.3 FM.

“Our state is a leader in providing choice for families and that is something that I don’t take for granted because it’s not the case in many other states,” she added.

KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Griselda Zetino contributed to this story.

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Arizona Autism Charter Schools wins $1 million national prize​

Dec 20, 2022, 4:35 AM
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BY SUELEN RIVERA
KTAR.com

PHOENIX — Arizona Autism Charter Schools announced Monday it won a $1 million national prize for being America’s most innovative and effective educational organization.

The Yass Prize, considered prestigious and education’s largest award, grants the education provider whose program provides effective and lasting educational experience with a clear path to success, according to a press release.

Nearly 2,700 organizations from 28 states, including public schools, education technology companies and micro-schools, applied for the 2022 prize.

“We are so honored to receive the $1 million Yass prize among many high-quality and inspirational programs from across the nation,” AZACS Founder and CEO Diana Diaz-Harrison said in the release.

“This funding will allow us to expand our reach and help more children on the autism spectrum across Arizona and the United States.”

The school offers a fully accredited online service and is a Title 1.

More than half of its students identify as Hispanic and nearly 76% of students qualify for free and reduce-priced lunch.

Diaz-Harrison founded AZACS after she had her son as a way to provide effective and transformative education.

“As an Autism mom, I don’t want my kid to be seen as disabled. I want him to be seen as a doer, intelligent and productive,” she said.

“These charter schools we are starting across America will help our children be neuro-diverse, be who they are and be fulfilled, productive citizens.”

AZACS has been around the Phoenix-area for over ten years, with three campuses across the Valley.

“This grant is definitely about highlighting schools that are providing choice for families, and I would encourage this holiday season that families really are thoughtful and research what could be an alternative school if your current school is not working out ,” Diaz-Harrison told KTAR News 92.3 FM.

“Our state is a leader in providing choice for families and that is something that I don’t take for granted because it’s not the case in many other states,” she added.

KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Griselda Zetino contributed to this story.

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This is legitimately sweet and heartwarming. Well done, Arizona.
 
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We already got the right cheering on Russia. Who’s gonna be the next country to be cheered on in the name of “punching woke in the teeth”? And how long before it’s an enemy of the USA?

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Marines told to stop using ‘sir,’ ‘ma’am’ to avoid ‘misgendering’ superiors

The Marines might ban recruits from respectfully addressing senior members as “sir” or “ma’am” to avoid “misgendering” and offending them.
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Marines may ban 'sir' and 'ma'am' to avoid 'misgendering'

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No more “Yes, sir!”

The US Marines may ban recruits from respectfully addressing senior members as “sir” or “ma’am” to avoid “misgendering” and offending them.

The woke recommendation was made in a new $2 million report commissioned by the Corps from the University of Pittsburgh.

The exhaustive, 738-page study that the Marines first commissioned in 2020 said traditional ways of addressing superiors were holding back gender integration.

“Employing gender-neutral identifiers eliminates the possibility of misgendering drill instructors, which can unintentionally offend or cause discord,” the study said.

“By teaching recruits to use gender-neutral identifiers for their drill instructors, Services underscore the importance of respecting authoritative figures regardless of gender.”

The two-year study by the University of Pittsburgh’s Warrior Human Performance Research Center also said that “the Army, Navy, and Coast Guard effectively de-emphasize gender in an integrated environment.”

“Instead of saying ‘ma’am’ or ‘sir,’ recruits in these Services refer to their drill instructors using their ranks or roles followed by their last names,” it said.

“Gendered identifiers prime recruits to think about or visually search for a drill instructor’s gender first, before their rank or role.”

Col. Howard Hall, chief of staff for Marine Corps Training and Education Command, told the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services this month that the radical shift was being considered by leadership — albeit with some pushback, the Marine Corps Times said.

The proposal is one of a half-dozen recommendations the Marines’ entry-level training advisory council is considering, the report said. It’s not clear when the service will decide which ones to pursue.

Hall warned the December meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services that it would not be “a quick fix.”

“That’s going to take some effort,” Hall told the committee of the switch to gender-neutral identifiers, according to the military outlet.

“We want to avoid any quick-fix solutions that introduce perturbations down the line.”

Hall later told the outlet that “it’s not something we would change overnight.”


“We’ve got a history of ‘sir, ma’am, sir, ma’am.’ If we change something at the root level, how do we make the corresponding change at the Fleet Marine Force? So it’s not ours to implement alone,” he said.

News of the possible change was quickly ripped online as “making a joke of our military,” with one commentator claiming: “Any real Marine would not let this happen!”

“Just another reason why I got out of the Marine Corps,” one former member wrote, saying: “We are WARFIGHTERS, not politicians.”

Podcaster Craig Chamberlain, meanwhile, quipped: “If captured by the enemy, at least we know our troops will be prepared to use the right pronouns.”


Others, however, suggested it was not as big an overhaul as it first appears.

“As a former Marine, it was always yes or no drill instructor. Ma’am or Sir was only for addressing an officer,” one person wrote, with others saying only recruits would ever use the terms.

The commissioned study highlighted a number of areas where the service still comes across as being a male-dominated operation, including sexist behavior and jokes and training material focusing on men, often using male pronouns even for positions held by females.

Women became a permanent part of the regular Marine Corps in 1948, but still only account for 4.3% of officers and 5.1% percent of those enlisted for active duty, according to the Marine Corps University.
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There's a shooting who happened in Paris near a kurdish center.

Three people were killed and three others wounded, one critically, in a shooting in Paris on Friday, according to the city's prosecutor, Laure Beccuau.

The motive for the shooting was not immediately clear, but a 69-year-old suspect from France was taken into custody, according to the prosecutor. The suspect was also wounded.

One man and two women were killed, according to authorities. All three who suffered injuries are men.

An investigation has been opened into murder and aggravated violence charges.
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We already got the right cheering on Russia. Who’s gonna be the next country to be cheered on in the name of “punching woke in the teeth”? And how long before it’s an enemy of the USA?
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So apparently the Marines are such absolute pussies that "misgendering" them is enough to defeat them. All an enemy soldier has to do is call them "sir" and they'll have a heart attacking while shrieking "IT'S MAAAAAAAAAAAM!"
 
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So apparently the Marines are such absolute pussies that "misgendering" them is enough to defeat them. All an enemy soldier has to do is call them "sir" and they'll have a heart attacking while shrieking "IT'S MAAAAAAAAAAAM!"
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Now I ask how long it'll be before this wole shit makes someone so angry and disgusted they go turncoat over it. Real Benedict Arnold shit.
 
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Currently, this is a breaking news story as it was just reported an hour ago, but Megan Thee Stallion’s victim card status is not going revoked anytime soon:

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Jury finds Canadian rapper Tory Lanez guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion

Daystar Peterson, the Canadian rapper known as Tory Lanez, was found guilty by a Los Angeles jury on Friday of shooting fellow artist Megan Thee Stallion in both of her feet after an argument in 2020, prosecutors said.The jury found Lanez, 30, guilty of three felony counts: carrying a loaded and...
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Daystar Peterson, the Canadian rapper known as Tory Lanez, was found guilty by a Los Angeles jury on Friday of shooting fellow artist Megan Thee Stallion in both of her feet after an argument in 2020, prosecutors said.

The jury found Lanez, 30, guilty of three felony counts: carrying a loaded and unregistered firearm in a vehicle; assault with a semiautomatic handgun; and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. Lanez faces over 20 years in prison.

A lawyer for Megan Thee Stallion said after the verdict: "The jury got it right. I am thankful there is justice for Meg."

Grammy-winning rapper Megan Thee Stallion, 27, had earlier testified she had been shot in the feet after leaving a pool party.

Sentencing was scheduled for Jan. 27, the New York Times reported. Megan Thee Stallion was not present in court on Friday. Lanez, who had been free on bail during the trial following a period of house arrest, was immediately taken into custody, the newspaper said.

Jurors reached a verdict on Friday after hours of deliberation across two days after a trial of about two weeks.
 
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Leftists are the new fun police, part whatever.

‘Stanford Hates Fun’: Students Revolt After Tree Mascot Suspension
The mascot unfurled a banner calling Stanford dull, drawing support from students who say campus rules stifle social life

For nearly 50 years, students at Stanford University have risen to the challenge of playing the Tree, the popular, unofficial school mascot.

In its long, storied history, the Tree, which dons a towering leafy costume, has been sidelined for public drunkenness and ejected from a basketball game for rowdiness. The mascot has survived kidnapping and imprisonment by students from rival schools.

During the Oct. 22 homecoming weekend football game, the 44th Stanford Tree got axed.

At halftime of a televised game between Stanford and Arizona State University, Stanford’s human sapling walked onto the field. With help from Sparky the Sun Devil, the ASU mascot, the Tree unfurled a 40-foot banner that said “Stanford Hates Fun.”

A reporter covering college football tweeted the play-by-play: “#ASU up 14-6 at the half.” Looks like the tree is “making some sort of statement at halftime here…at least that appears to be what they’re doing.”

The Tree’s stunt was indeed a statement, stemming from discord at the highly selective school, which some students say has become a snooze. A recent headline in the Stanford Daily News student paper says: “Inside ‘Stanford’s War on Fun’: Tensions mount over University’s handling of social life.”

Stanford has acknowledged the students’ complaints about their doldrums with a new FAQ list on the school’s website. “Does Stanford hate fun?” it begins. “Of course not!”

Jordan Zeitz, 21, is a Stanford junior who was serving as the Tree and held the banner. Days later, says the management science and engineering major, he was suspended from Tree duty by the executive committee that runs the band. The band oversees the Tree mascot.

“They told me self-expression goes hand in hand with self-awareness,” Mr. Zeitz says. He was stumped. “I told them that doesn’t make sense.”

Mr. Zietz, a Florida native, had gone to great lengths to prove he had the timber to become the Tree, an honor passed down by the former Tree. In April, he planted himself waist deep in soil on the school’s quad from dawn until dusk. It rained throughout the day and the stunt secured his selection. He spent weeks building the 10-foot-tall, 45-pound costume out of a backpack, aluminum poles and 70 hand-painted leaves.

The students on the band’s executive committee said in a statement to the Stanford Daily that they suspended the Tree because he used his platform to spread a message without going through the required channels. “This decision was completely unrelated to the content of his message and to the ‘war on fun,’ ” they said.

Other students stand with the Tree. Some band members protested by not showing up for the next game.

A petition entitled Reinstate the Stanford Tree calls the suspension “yet another sign of an administration hellbent on stamping out fun,” and has attracted nearly 1,000 signatures.

A staged photo of Mr. Zietz in tree regalia and splayed out on the sidewalk next to a liquor bottle and a giant cigarette ran on the cover of the student satirical magazine under the headline, “Tree Gets Axed” and “Found Trunk in Public.”

“I can’t walk across the quad without someone saying ‘Hey I agree with you,’ ” Mr. Zietz says.

A former Tree has stepped up to be mascot for the final games. “Heyo, previous Tree (#43) here,” the backup tweeted. “Don’t worry, I’ll be coming out of retirement until #44 returns in the winter.”

Stanford has a long reputation as an offbeat party school for high achievers. Campus traditions have included dashing naked through the library before finals, kissing strangers on the quad and bathing in school fountains.

During a televised football game in 1970 against Arkansas, band members dropped their pants. In 2016, the band was suspended for alcohol and other violations. It was later reinstated to good standing.

Rules governing the band tightened, reining in parties and playlists. Band nicknames go through an approval process. Yanal Qushair, the band’s former drum major—a position known as “the guardian of the funk”—quit. “They drained the spirit of the funk,” he says.

Administrators this year published a 13-page index of words to be avoided on the school’s websites. It suggested “ballsy” be replaced by “risk taker,” “you guys” by “everyone” and “Karen” by “a demanding or entitled White woman.” The language guidance has gone viral among conservatives on Twitter and in person, but on campus, rules around parties dominate the conversation.

Stanford began mandating students file an application two weeks ahead of a party including a list of attendees, along with sober monitors, students said.

The number of registered parties dwindled to 45 during the first four weeks of school this fall, down from 158 over the same period in 2019, according to the Stanford Daily.

One night this semester, Carl Schoeller, a 21-year-old mechanical engineering major, checked Fizz, the Stanford social app, to see what was happening over the weekend and it was basically empty. “It was kind of depressing,” he says.

After Mr. Zietz was suspended as the tree, Mr. Schoeller arrived at the next football game wearing a banner around him like a toga that said “Free the Tree.” Security officers made him take it off, he says. Yet he and his friends handed out about 400 T-shirts with the words “Stanford Hates Fun’ to students.

Mr. Zietz’s suspension is set to expire Friday contingent on his good behavior which includes not retaliating against those who suspended him. He’s not sure if speaking publicly will hurt his chances. “I’d rather quit than be silenced,” he says. “The Tree is fearless.”

Samuel Santos Jr., associate vice provost of inclusion, community and integrative learning within the Division of Student Affairs, says the school is working to address students’ concerns about Stanford’s social atmosphere.

The party-planning process will be streamlined and more administrators will be hired to help facilitate student social life.

“We want events to be fun, inclusive and safe and those things can happen,” Mr. Santos says. “They just require collaboration and honesty.”
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A US federal court ruled that the Marines Corps can't resist entry to Sikhs with a beard and a turban. The order comes as a relief to three Sikh recruits who can now join the elite fighting force for basic training.
 
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A US federal court ruled that the Marines Corps can't resist entry to Sikhs with a beard and a turban. The order comes as a relief to three Sikh recruits who can now join the elite fighting force for basic training.
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If there's a minority group we need in our military it's fucking Sikhs. Let 'em wear whatever the fuck they want.
 
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