News For Reasonable People

June 1 marks the first day of the LGBTQ community’s month long holiday where woke corporations add rainbows to all of its logos in effort to show how “inclusive” they are to the left. This also entails cities hosting Pride parades with crowds bigger than Times Square on New Year’s Eve.  Similar to last year, uniformed police officers will be banned from actively participating in the Pride parades....

Elon Musk has told Tesla employees to come back into their respective offices at least 40 hours a week or leave the company. Musk said in two separate emails that people must show up for at least 40 hours per week in a Tesla office. “If you don’t show up, we will assume you have resigned,” he said in one of the emails, first reported by Electrek and also obtained by CNBC. “Anyone who wishes to do...

Las Vegas chapels of love that use Elvis Presley’s likeness could find themselves becoming Heartbreak Hotels. The licensing company that controls the name and image of “The King” is ordering Sin City chapel operators to stop using Elvis in themed ceremonies, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Monday. Authentic Brands Group sent cease-and-desist letters in early May to multiple chapels, which...

The Black Lives Matters national group has a new executive to deal with its financial scandal: a woman who’s bungled her own finances. Cicley Gay, 44, a non-profit advisor and flack named chair of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation in April, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2005, 2013 and 2016, federal court records show. Her most recent filing, from August 2016, showed Gay had more tha...

The Seattle interim police chief and the mayor of Tacoma expressed concerns that their respective cities could see a violent summer as shootings and homicides continue to trend upward. Interim SPD chief Adrian Diaz said his concerns stem from the Memorial Day weekend-- a time that the city typically examines when looking ahead to the summer.  "We gauge our summer based on the Memorial Day wee...

More than two dozen businesses in the neighborhood around Northwest 23rd Avenue say they are being broken into and vandalized on a weekly basis.  “I never thought it would get to this,” said Walter Bowers, one of the owners of Thai Bloom Restaurant. He pointed to a window covered by boards that had just been broken into.  “You can still see broken glass,” he said. Graffiti covered the restaurant’s...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday announced the introduction of a bill that would place a national freeze on handgun ownership across Canada. "What this means is that it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in Canada," Trudeau said in a news conference. "In other words we're capping the market," he added. If passed, t...

The City of Seattle is once again enforcing the 72-hour parking rule that was partially put on pause during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Seattle Municipal Code prohibits a person from parking their vehicle on the same block of a city street for more than 72 consecutive hours. Enforcement of the 72-hour rule was paused during the COVID-19 pandemic due to public health guidelines beginning in March of 20...

An 81-year-old woman was carjacked while she was handing out meals to homeless people outside of a supermarket in southern California, cops said. Nina Steinman was handing out food to the hungry in the parking lot of a Stater Bros in Redlands on Monday, which she told KTLA she had been doing regularly since January. While handing out the last of her homemade meals around 3:30 p.m., 24-year-old Rob...

A North Carolina preschool used flash cards featuring LGBTQ themes to teach kids colors, including one card depicting a pregnant man. "Schools should only be using age-appropriate materials, and these flashcards clearly do not meet that standard for a pre-school classroom," Republican State Rep. Erin Paré said in a statement after being alerted to the cards by a constituent, according to...

Portland police say that two people were hospitalized after a reported shooting in the St. Johns area of North Portland late Friday afternoon — the second instance of gunfire in that area within the space of a single day, and one of 10 shootings throughout the city within that 24-hour period. A Portland Police Bureau (PPB) spokesman said that officers responded for reports of a shooting just befor...

The Washington State Patrol (WSP) said drivers are increasingly refusing to stop for troopers - and other law enforcement agencies also said this is becoming a common occurrence. The Northwest News Network reports that from January 1 to May 17 of this year, the agency logged 934 failure-to-yield incidents. While the patrol didn’t track this in the past, veteran troopers said there’s been a dramati...

New York City councilman Joe Borelli blasted the city's health department on Friday for describing "safe" drug use as "empowering." "Don't be ashamed you are using, be empowered that you are using safely," a poster on the New York City subway quotes as testimony for overdose prevention. The poster, published by the NYC Department of Health, gives tips on usi...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law a bill that requires students at public schools and public charter schools to use restrooms and locker rooms that match the sex listed on their birth certificates. The law specifically applies to students in pre-K through 12th grade at public and public charter schools in the state. Transgender students who decline to use the restroom required...

Jonathan Choe, a television journalist with more than two decades of experience, has been named to Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty as a senior fellow. Choe announced the appointment Monday on the Ari Hoffman Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI. Discovery Institute is a non-profit educational and research organization whose mission is to advance a culture of purpose, creativity, and inn...

A downtown Seattle art gallery owner said her business was targeted for the second time in less than two months as three men reportedly shot through the window three times and stole three carvings Sunday morning. Fossil & Stone had a mammoth tusk stolen from the gallery in early April. The gallery owner told KOMO News about the most recent theft, which they say occurred at 4:43 a.m. Police arr...

The San Francisco school district is dropping the word “chief” from all job titles out of respect for Native Americans, officials said. The San Francisco Unified Schools District spokesperson Gentle Blythe told the San Francisco Chronicle that the decision to stop using the term was made Wednesday. “While there are many opinions on the matter, our leadership team agreed that, given that Native Ame...

Two years into sustained calls for police reform across the country in response to the killing of George Floyd, residents pleaded with the Seattle City Council, which once committed to divesting from the city’s police department, to vote against spending over $1 million in police hiring incentives and recruitment efforts. “Tomorrow marks the second anniversary of the police killing of George Floyd...

Car theft victims want to know who is responsible for what they’re calling a “chop shop” operating in plain sight beneath Seattle’s First Avenue Bridge. According to King County property records, the parcels of land right next to the Duwamish River, overrun by trash and dozens of stripped cars, are jointly owned by both the state and the city of Seattle. Jamie Housen, spokesperson for Mayor Bruce...

Miranda Atnip lost her home during the coronavirus pandemic after her boyfriend moved out and she fell behind on bills. Living in a car, the 34-year-old worries every day about getting money for food, finding somewhere to shower, and saving up enough money for an apartment where her three children can live with her again. Now she has a new worry: Tennessee is about to become the first U.S. state t...

It’s called shopping cart jail – a fenced in dirt lot hidden among the trees in the City of Federal Way. The carts of all shapes and sizes were found abandoned by city workers on sidewalks, public parks, private and public property and deep in the woods where homeless encampments exist Its population fluctuates from a couple of dozens to hundreds. They are from Target, Ross, Safeway, Marshalls, T....

Washington Democratic congressional candidate Rebecca Parson has a bold idea to get Congress to pass housing legislation: have a million people break into empty houses. Parson, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is running to represent Washington's 6th Congressional District. In a video ad, she outlined what she and her followers can do if she wins. "Imagine I proposed a H...

Fed up and frustrated with the increase in stolen cars across the Puget Sound region, a West Seattle man is taking matters into his own hands. He’s using his drone to connect car theft victims to their stolen vehicles. Due to safety concerns, he wants to use only his first name, Tony. “I think people appreciate that someone is actually doing something to look, see and try to find their stolen prop...

Woodland Park was one of Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell’s top priorities since he took office. City workers have referred 89 homeless persons to shelters and removed the encampment from the park Harrell said in a press conference at Woodland Park that the city’s efforts to remove the Woodland Park encampment has resulted in 60 referrals to tiny house villages, 25 referrals to enhanced shelters and fo...

A Nevada man believes his homeowner’s association is violating his freedom of speech over an anti-Biden bumper sticker on his truck. The bumper sticker that reads “Let’s Go Brandon” is causing all the trouble for the man who is being told by his HOA that displaying the sticker on his truck is considered an offensive trader activity. Chris, who did not give his last name, lives in the Central Park...