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Giving his response. Author Jordan Peterson opened up after Olivia Wilde claimed that Chris Pine’s character in Don’t Worry Darling was inspired by him — and that he was a “hero” for the “incel” community.  “We based [Chris Pine’s] character on this insane man, Jordan Peterson, who is this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community. You know the incels?” Wilde, 38, said during an interview with Interview Magazine that was published on September 1. “They’re basically disenfranchised, mostly white men, who believe they are entitled to sex from women.” The Booksmart director went on to further claim that an “incel”…

A Michigan man was charged with shooting and wounding an 84-year-old pro-life woman who was canvassing door-to-door against a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee abortion access for women in the state.Richard Harvey, 74, was charged Friday with felonious assault and reckless discharge of a firearm causing injury.Michigan State Police investigated the September 20 shooting at Harvey’s home in Odessa Township, and recommended the prosecutor’s office charge him, Ionia County Prosecutor Kyle Butler said in a statement.The woman, Joan Jacobson, told investigators she was urging a woman at the home to vote against Proposal 3 in November’s election when she…

The concept of “sittervising” — allowing children to play among themselves, without direct parental intervention — is beneficial to both the child and the parent, according to several parenting experts.The term “sittervising” was popularized in an Aug. 10, 2022, blog post by Seattle-based mom Susie Allison, entitled, “Why you’ll find me sittervising.” Yet people have been using it on TikTok and other social media platforms since at least early 2021, an internet search for the term reveals.”Sittervising means to supervise children from a seated position,” wrote Susie Allison on Busy Toddler, her personal blog.POLICE WARN PARENTS ABOUT ‘SCHOOL PHOTO’ TREND…

A day marking a historical defeat may seem like an odd point to declare the resurgence of Catalonia’s independence movement. Not for activist Imma Caboti.She believes the fact people are still campaigning to split from the rest of Spain shows the strength of support for independence. Five years ago, on 1 October 2017, 92% of voters backed splitting from the rest of Spain in a referendum Madrid deemed illegal. But after the Catalan parliament declared independence, the Spanish government imposed direct rule, sacked its leaders and dissolved the parliament.Today, support for independence remains strong, according to people like Caboti. Waving their distinctive red, yellow…

A Democratic Texas mayor on Friday said she did not believe migrants who cross the border and find themselves transported north to various locations across the U.S. are being “lied to.”Mayor pro-tem of Eagle Pass, Texas, Yolanda Ramon told Fox News that she thinks migrants who cross into the U.S. appreciate the ride further inland. “I can tell you one thing, they’re not being lied to. You run into them at the gas station, they’ll tell you I just want to go somewhere. I just want to go further up north,” she said. “They don’t even know where they’re at sometimes,” she…

The world now has stunning new photos of this week’s asteroid strike, the first planetary defense test of its kind.NASA on Thursday released pictures of the dramatic event taken by the Hubble and Webb space telescopes.A few hours later, SpaceX joined NASA in announcing that they’re studying the feasibility of sending a private mission to Hubble, potentially led by a billionaire, to raise the aging telescope’s orbit and extend its life.NASA HUBBLE TELESCOPE HITS NEW MILESTONE IN MYSTERY OF UNIVERSE’S EXPANSION RATE Telescopes on all seven continents watched as NASA’s Dart spacecraft slammed Monday into the harmless space rock, 7 million…

Elina Konavalyuk and her family had a relaxed if not indifferent attitude towards Russia before all this.  Some family members had even felt a bit nostalgic for the USSR over the years.  But no more. Not after living under attack by Russian soldiers who occupied the Kherson region of Ukraine early in the war, sleeping months, frightened, in a basement and Konavalyuk, her mother and grandparents finally making a dangerous escape from their homeland.   “It was a fight for survival,” she said about living under Russian occupation last winter, something she had never imagined could happen to her or anyone she…

The PGA Tour has filed a countersuit in response to LIV Golf’s antitrust lawsuit, claiming that the rival Saudi-backed circuit has encouraged its members “to breach their Tour agreements” and “free ride off of the Tour’s investment in the development of professional golf.”The countersuit was filed in a federal court in northern California on Wednesday in response to the amended lawsuit, which now includes LIV Golf and just three of the original 11 plaintiffs that first filed the lawsuit back in August.  “Indeed, a key component of LIV’s strategy has been to intentionally induce Tour members to breach their Tour…

A man was fatally stabbed in the neck while riding the subway in Brooklyn on Friday night, police said. The 43-year-old victim was aboard a southbound L train when he got into a dispute with another man near the Atlantic Avenue subway station around 8:50 p.m., the NYPD said. During the altercation, the suspect knifed the victim in the neck and body, cops said. The victim was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.WAYNE CARRINGTON The perpetrator fled in an unknown direction. It was unclear what sparked the fight that led to the stabbing. The victim was…

ATLANTA — Can baseball’s No. 1 prospect play his way from the minors to the Mets’ playoff roster in the final week of the season?  “Yes, obviously,” Francisco Alvarez said in Spanish before his major league debut.  The confident Friday call-up will not have much time, especially because Max Fried, whom he faced Friday, might have been the last opposing lefty starter the Mets see in the regular season.  Called upon because of his powerful righty bat after the Mets placed Darin Ruf on the IL with a neck strain, Alvarez, the hyped, 20-year-old catcher of the future, went 0-for-4…