In an Oct. 25 interview with Joe Rogan on his podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” 2024 Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump claimed thousands of illegal ballots have been cast in Virginia. ? Donald Trump praising @GovernorVA before claiming that thousands of illegal ballots have been cast in Virginia. Trump: “So, we have a […]

It’s a paradox found all over the world: why is it so common for hospital food to be essentially bad for you? Tackling the problem head-on, Boston Medical Center—already one of the greenest hospitals in the nation—has opened two large rooftop gardens, giving patients and physicians alike access to fresh food while adding green space […] The post Boston Hospital Is Treating Food as Medicine with its Own Rooftop Garden appeared first on Good News Network.

Donald Trump currently holds a razor-thin 0.6% lead over Kamala Harris in the RealClearPolitics polling average for Pennsylvania. With this key swing state potentially deciding the outcome of the Electoral College, Democrats can only wonder how different the polls might look if Pennsylvania’s popular governor, Josh Shapiro—once considered a front-runner for Harris’ VP pick—were on the ticket instead of Tim Walz. One factor that pushed Walz to the top of Harris’ list, despite the strategic advantages of choosing a swing-state governor like Shapiro, stands out: Across the board, Walz has been more progressive on education issues. Last year, Shapiro angered fellow Democrats and teachers unions by working with state Republicans on a plan to enact a private school voucher system. Later, facing pressure from his own party, Shapiro reversed course and vetoed the proposal, leaving Republicans and school-choice advocates feeling betrayed. His reversal mollified some within his party, and dozens of unions publicly released statements of support—but others on the Left never quite forgave him. When Shapiro’s name was floated as a likely VP candidate, a coalition of progressive groups published an open letter to Harris. The letter attempted to link Shapiro’s voucher-friendly stance to The Heritage Foundation’s controversial Project 2025 and “respectfully” urged Harris not to choose him. Accordingly, some Democratic leaders worried that Shapiro’s past support for vouchers might erode support among a critical part of their base. Nikhil Goyal, a Democratic National Committee delegate from Vermont, said he would have “grave concerns” about Shapiro “when we have a great desire to win over educators and school staff and Americans who support public education.” In contrast, Walz boasts sterling credentials from the standpoint of anyone opposing school vouchers. Walz is the first former schoolteacher to appear on a major-party ticket in half a century. As governor of Minnesota, he strongly opposed school-choice initiatives like the one Shapiro had backed. When the state’s Democratic House speaker suggested a minor compromise with Republicans on vouchers, Walz’s response was unequivocal. “It was kind of ‘over my dead body,’” she recounted. Trump has vowed to enact “universal school choice” if given a second term, and he appointed outspoken voucher advocate Betsy DeVos as his education secretary during his first term. On the other hand, the Democratic Party platform released this summer included a strong statement against private school vouchers. Support for publicly funded school vouchers has become a third rail in Democratic politics. And Shapiro’s past flirtation with vouchers may well have cost him the VP slot. What’s more, in a year when college campuses erupted in pro-Palestinian protests over the Biden administration’s support for Israel in the Gaza war, Shapiro’s Jewish heritage and public efforts to hold university leaders accountable for antisemitic incidents on Pennsylvania campuses may have been seen as an additional electoral liability among young progressives who view Israel as an oppressor and the chief evildoer in the war in Gaza. Walz, by contrast, has been more outspoken in his support for pro-Palestinian protesters. While he condemned Hamas, he said he believes students are protesting on behalf of Palestinians “for all the right reasons.” As a former teacher, Walz would be poised to play a leading role in education policy if he and Harris win on Election Day. Republicans, accordingly, have drawn attention to Walz’s education record as governor, betting that the progressive policies that helped him win the VP race may not endear him to swing voters. Walz, for instance, signed a law preventing libraries from removing sexually explicit books from children’s shelves and mandated that public schools stock tampons in boys’ bathrooms—a policy that Sen. JD Vance has criticized on the campaign trail. Team Trump has also highlighted Walz’s support for critical race theory and his overhaul of the state’s social studies curriculum. In September, Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign supporters began posting a video on X featuring Brian Lozenski, a professor of multicultural education at Macalester College, whom Walz tapped to help write the state’s ethnic studies standards. In the video, Lozenski describes himself as a critical race theorist and explains his views: The first tenet of critical race theory is that the United States as constructed is irreversibly racist. So if the nation-state as constructed is irreversibly racist, then it must be done with, it must be overthrown … You can’t be a critical race theorist and be pro-U.S. OK, it is an anti-state theory that says, ‘The United States needs to be deconstructed, period.’ Right. Like that’s, you know, and so I think, I think it’s an interesting argument there. And that’s why I’m a critical race theorist. Katherine Kersten dug deeper into the curriculum standards Lozenski helped craft in her piece for The Wall Street Journal: “High school students are told to ‘develop an analysis of racial capitalism’ and ‘anti-Blackness,’” she wrote, “and are taught to see themselves as members of ‘racialized hierarchies’ based on ‘dominant European beauty standards.’” Lozenski is a founding organizer of Education for Liberation Minnesota, a group that Kersten notes has advocated for “defunding the police” and “abolishing the social order and building a new society.” If Walz is poised to take a leading role in education policy in a potential Harris administration, his record offers much for progressives to celebrate. Whether more moderate swing voters—those Harris and Walz need to win over in Pennsylvania—will be impressed by the kinds of ideas promoted by Walz’s appointee Lozenski is another matter. If Pennsylvania goes red on Nov. 5, Democrats will be left with many questions. Here’s one: What if the uncompromising brand of progressivism that helped Walz secure the VP nod over Shapiro is the very thing that gives Trump a second term? This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Could Tim Walz’s Progressive Education Policies Doom Harris? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Almost three-quarters of voters say they believe medals awarded to biological men who beat females in sports should be given instead to the women who lost. Female athletes worldwide have lost nearly 900 medals to transgender-identifying rivals competing against them in women’s sporting categories, according to a United Nations report released last week. Fully 72% of voters say those medals should be awarded to the biological women who would have won them otherwise, and 68% say women’s sports records set by biological males should be thrown out so that women’s sports records are restored to biological women.  This is according to a poll released Thursday from Napolitan News Service, which surveyed 1,000 registered voters from Oct. 28-29. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. The new U.N. study demonstrates that, across 29 sports, over 600 female athletes have lost to male competitors who identify as women. “The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, when competing against males,” the report says. In America, the issue of biological males playing in girls and women’s sports is “moving the needle in some key Senate races and possibly having an impact on the presidential race,” said Scott Rasmussen, president of RMG Research, which conducted the poll on behalf of Napolitan News Service. “Some Senate campaigns are running hard on that issue, gaining some traction,” Rasmussen told The Daily Signal. “And one of the reasons it’s effective is [that] to most people, it’s idiotic to let boys play in girls sports. It’s common sense.” Biological males competing in girls or women’s sports is expected to be a “sleeper” issue in the Nov. 5 election across the nation.  For instance, a debate moderator asked Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, about an ad from his opponent in Texas’ Senate race, Republican incumbent Ted Cruz, that accuses Allred of refusing “to protect the integrity of women’s and girls sports.” In response, Allred denied what his voting record shows. He said Cruz’s attack ad was “a desperate, last-second attempt … to distract you because he can’t defend his own record.” “Ted Cruz was running a lot of ads,” Rasmussen said of the incumbent senator’s ads directed at Allred. “His challenger felt he had to respond. And when he did, [he] kind of tried to sound like he was agreeing with Ted Cruz. The progressives attacked him.” An ad targeting Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, argues that Brown is “too liberal for Ohio” because he voted “to let transgender biological men participate in women’s sports.” Brown’s reelection campaign cut an ad in response saying that it’s a “total lie” to suggest that Brown had voted to allow transgender athletes to participate in girls sports. The ad also reminded voters that Ohio already banned biological males from playing girls sports, garnering Brown criticism from LGBTQ groups. “You want to protect women, and you want to protect women’s sports, but some of the progressive Democrats have a hard time letting go of that issue,” Rasmussen said, “and so it’s something that is shaking up the race again, perhaps just on the margins.” The post Most Americans Say Women Deserve Medals Lost to ‘Transgender’ Athletes Who Are Biological Males appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) marching band, The Panther Marching Band, has a cute and ‘Golden’ member stealing the show – Winnie the Golden Retriever, a service dog to a UNI sophomore. In an interview with KCRG, Winnie’s hooman and UNI sophomore Gabi Riessen said, “I’m part of the marching band, so that means she is, too.” Winnie, a Golden Retriever, is Riessen’s service dog. In a UNI article, Riessen revealed her relationship with Winnie and how she ended up in the marching band with Winnie. Riessen is a transfer majoring in elementary education from Denison, Iowa. From her previous school, she was “met with obstacles” to participate in band and theater because she has a service dog. In the article, Riessen reveals that she chose to transfer to UNI because two of her friends attended the school. And because she hopes to get the full college experience, with Winnie by her side, at UNI. “One of my best friends, Ren — she’s on the color guard team, and she told me about how much she loved it and how amazing Director Justin Mertz is,” said Riessen. “So she gave me his email, and I reached out to him to see if being in the band with my dog could even be a possibility, and we met and talked about it. I think he’s more excited to have a dog in the band than I am.” Today, Winnie is part of the Panther Marching Band. She marches with Riessen and stays by her side in the frontline. Riessen even reveals, “Honestly, I think she’s a better marcher than me. She’s just really good at adapting to any situation I put her in.” Also reveals that Winnie loves the attention she gets as a marching band member. Riessen reveals, “There’s so many people watching her, and she eats it up.” However, before being a Panther Marching Band member, Winnie is, first and foremost, a service dog to Reissen. As a service dog, Winnie helps Riessen manage her postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) – a chronic disorder that causes problem in a person’s autonomic nervous system. Riessen explains POTS in simple terms saying, “For me, it means that I pass out randomly without warning. Like my heart rate just fluctuates more than most people.” Winnie is trained to pick up on changes in Riessen that indicates a fainting spell. She will then alert Riessen of an upcoming fainting spell, allowing the UNI sophomore to get to a safe spot to avoid hurting herself. She will then lie beside Riessen and protect her. Riessen said Winnie provides her with a “sense of normalcy”. “Winnie has made it where I can be like a normal person again,” said Riessen. “I can do band, because she’ll let me know if I’m okay, and I can go to my classes. Before her, we didn’t know if college was going to be an option.” And while service dogs cannot be pet during their “work hours”, Winnie is different. Riessen reveals that she does not mind when people pet Winnie, giving back the sense of normalcy that the pooch has been providing her. “If we’re not doing anything, I’ll let them pet her because she deserves to be a dog and to have fun because I would hate for her to just be so structured that she misses out on that,” she said.

Genius, Pure Genius. Trump Does Photo Op in Trump-Branded Garbage Truck

This is the first time that a protoplanetary disk has been observed around a brown dwarf.

How bird poop paved the way for American expansionism throughout the centuries.

If you're looking for a gaming keyboard deal that not only offers a great price, but a stylish product too, the Logitech G715 is the perfect keyboard for you. This stunning white wireless keyboard has subtle RGB backlighting, plus it also comes with a palm rest designed to look like a cloud. The Logitech G715 specs list shares many features in common with the best wireless gaming keyboards around, thanks to its mechanical GX Brown tactile switches and expansive media controls. Better still, the G715 is also incredibly stylish, being part of Logitech's Aurora collection alongside the G735 headset and G705 mouse. Continue reading Save a massive $84 on this cute wireless Logitech gaming keyboard MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Logitech G Pro Superlight 2, Logitech G Pro X TKL Lightspeed review, Best gaming mouse

The Forever Winter is a game I’ve had very keen eyes on for a while. Its grimdark future forces you to scrape by in a way that makes games like Rust and Valheim feel like a walk in the park. Likewise, its tense, high-stakes extraction format makes it clear you're a small fry, demanding much more caution than shooters such as Escape From Tarkov where you can typically rely on your aim to save you. In a new update, developer The Fun Dog introduces another map to explore and a threatening presence with mysterious allegiances. Continue reading Horror survival shooter The Forever Winter has a haunting new map to explore MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best horror games, Best co-op games, Best survival games