Ca. 1900. "Château Frontenac & Dufferin Terrace, Quebec City." [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Photographic Company] Opened in 1893, now the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac Hotel.

Just when you thought Stonewall was on the way out. From the Telegraph: Staff at a top university say they feel coerced to subscribe to a Stonewall agenda by signing a pledge to oppose transphobia and demonstrate “allyship” by sharing their pronouns. Exeter University last week asked its academics to sign the “inclusive practitioners commitment”…

Excellent news: It has been cleared for publication that in a complex operation by the IDF, Shin Bet, and the Israel Police (Yamam), four Israeli hostages were rescued this morning (Saturday). The hostages, Noa Argamani (25), Almog Meir (21), Andrey Kozlov (27), and Shlomi Ziv (40), were kidnapped by Hamas to the Gaza Strip from…

The problem with Pride, pt. 74: San Francisco Pride denies Israel float, but okays Palestinian groups. Dennis Kavanagh noted the trans takeover. Now it's the Palestinian take-over. The common thread: homophobia.

Shutting down free speech if they don't agree with some of the speakers. It's all the rage. Pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Durham locked students inside a building after a cancellation of a debate titled “This house believes Palestinian leadership is the biggest barrier to peace,” according to the university, media and participant reports.…

An alarming step back prior to the Olympics. From the Telegraph: The International Olympic Committee have provoked fury among former female competitors by asking journalists attending this summer’s Paris Games not to use terms such as “born male” or “biologically male” to describe transgender athletes, arguing that they were “dehumanising” and constituted “problematic language”. Factual…

brilliant achievement Fossil boycotters and all those self righteous saboteur " writers" who signed up to their blackmail https://t.co/Fz4w9yiPG0 — Simon Schama (@simon_schama) June 7, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js "We've fucked up SO bad, and now we're scared we're going to get beaten up when everyone realises how much damage our whiny posturing has done for no…

More from the Daily NK on the crackdown on "impure videos" from South Korea, with reports of inspectors breaking down doors to check what people are watching: Crackdowns and inspections targeting the consumption or distribution of foreign content, including South Korean movies and dramas, have suddenly intensified in North Hamgyong Province after a period of…

It's the Greens again. The real raving loony party. Green Party general election candidates have shared “antisemitic” slurs and conspiracy theories, backed pro-Palestinian protests at Auschwitz and justified the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel. On Thursday night party officials were examining a dossier featuring nearly 20 candidates who have shared offensive material online. Among…

Learning about Zionism’s long genocidal war on Palestinians, in Portland: Jewish leaders and concerned parents in Portland, Oregon are accusing the local teachers’ union of indoctrinating students with anti-Israel messages and engaging in one-sided, pro-Palestinian activism as the war in Gaza continues to rage. Last week, the Portland Association of Teachers held a pro-Palestinian advocacy…