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Romo was arrested on Thursday for alleged OWI in Wisconsin.

The new sheriff in town goes to work in earnest now training his New York Football Giants at Camp HARDbaugh.

Federal Court Rules For Woman Fired For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,

Kaiser Permanente wrongly fired an employee who declined to receive a COVID-19 vaccine because she gave proper notice to the company of her religious objection to COVID-19 vaccination, a federal appeals court has ruled.

A COVID-19 vaccination in Illinois on Sept. 9, 2022. Scott Olson/Getty Images

Mimi Weiss, who worked for Kaiser Permanente's The Permanente Medical Group for 20 years before being fired, "plausibly alleged that she provided notice of her religious conflict with the mandate in her initial request for a religious exemption," Circuit Judge Danielle Forrest wrote on July 24 for a unanimous panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Weiss was working fully remotely, or off-site, in August 2021 as a senior managerial consultant when Kaiser Permanente imposed a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Weiss, a Christian Jew, within weeks filed for a religious exemption, and Kaiser Permanente initially approved the request.

In September 2021, though, Kaiser Permanente said employees had submitted religious accommodation requests with identical language. Expressing concern that some of the requests were not legitimate, the company asked employees to file fresh requests using their own words. Officials then asked Weiss new questions, including, "What else besides the COVID-19 vaccine do you refuse to put in your body as a result of your religious belief?"

Weiss said she would not provide private information. Kaiser Permanente placed her on unpaid leave. Then it fired her for not complying with the mandate, prompting a lawsuit by Weiss.

A federal judge in 2024 ruled against her, concluding that Weiss had not provided Kaiser Permanente with sufficient notice of the conflict between receiving a vaccine and her beliefs.

The Ninth Circuit ruling overturns that decision, pointing to a previous opinion in which the appeals court said that to provide notice, an employee must only give "enough information about [her] religious needs to permit the employer to understand the existence of a conflict," and that requiring any more details "would permit an employer to delve into the religious practices of an employee in order to determine whether religion mandates the employee's adherence."

Applying that framework to the current case means that Weiss did give adequate notice, the panel said, because she identified herself as a Christian Jew, listed specific doctrines that she said barred her from receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, and outlined her belief that she should not "introduce foreign substances" into her "body temple" that would "change how [her] Creator designed it."

In a split 2-1 decision, the panel also said that Weiss has shown sufficient evidence to bring forth allegations that Kaiser Permanente violated her right to privacy.

Kaiser Permanente did not return a request for comment by publication time.

"I never imagined my faith would end up costing me my job," Weiss said in a statement.

"I wasn't asking Kaiser for special treatment, just the freedom to live according to my conscience. After 20 years of service, I didn't think that was too much to ask.

"I'm grateful the court recognized that religious employees should not have to give up their beliefs or their privacy to keep their jobs."

Tyler Durden Tue, 07/28/2026 - 20:05

The actress portrayed Kylie Owens, the oldest daughter of Sandra Bullock's character in the original 1998 movie.

The actress portrayed Kylie Owens, the oldest daughter of Sandra Bullock's character in the original 1998 movie.

"We’re going to fight the state of Wisconsin tooth and nail, and once again, they’ll have to pry me out of my taprooms before I stop selling beer to thirsty progressives who come to visit us."

Queens Defenders founder Lori Zeno — who admitted to embezzling more than $100,000 from the organization to fuel a lavish lifestyle — blamed her ex-con lover as she was sentenced to federal prison.

Assuming he continues along the same path as his rookie season, Schaefer would be well within his rights to ask for a number that blows away anything a defenseman has ever made.

Counterfeiting is popping like that old $2 bill. $500 billion lost yearly in nearly every manufacturing sector.

Aaron Donald retired from the NFL feeling complete, satisfied and burned out. More than two years later, Rams general manager Les Snead says the competitive edge Donald believed was gone has returned. During an appearance on Post Sport’s Schein Time, Snead said Donald is seriously considering rejoining Los Angeles and has developed a football itch...

The Federal Aviation Administration late on ​Tuesday issued a ground ‌stop for American Airlines flights due to an IT ​outage, according to ​a notice posted on the ⁠agency's website.

Iran fired multiple ballistic missiles at American bases across the Middle East on Tuesday evening, in what military officials are labeling a “surprise attack.”

Earlier this year, Gavin Newsom talked about a “break the glass” plan to protect Democrats if things didn’t go their way in the California election.

New York City FC added some potential firepower on Tuesday.

Kiké Hernández is back. Again. On Tuesday, the Dodgers activated the veteran utilityman from the injured list as scheduled, officially welcoming him back from an oblique strain that has sidelined him since May 26. After his return from offseason elbow surgery was cut short by an oblique strain, Kiké Hernández is healthy and back on...

Mister Softee of Southern California said that someone stole its Taylor Swift cardboard cutout from the company's Camarillo store in an Instagram post with video of the theft.

On the eve of the Las Vegas Raiders officially opening training camp, head coach Klint Kubiak addressed the media. He made it very clear who the Raiders’ starting quarterback will be at camp, with veteran Kirk Cousins getting the nod over rookie standout Fernando Mendoza. But that was not the only telling part of his...

GenderSpeak: Weaponizing Gender Against Sex

Authored by Wendy McElroy via Brownstone Institute,

When and why did the word "gender" displace the word "sex?" "Gender" refers to a person's socially constructed identity of being male, female, or some other category, while "sex" refers to physical characteristics of male or female, such as chromosomes. Gender is a matter of a person's self-perception; sex is a circumstance of birth.

When did sex get pushed to the curb by gender? In his book The Man Who Invented Gender, Terry Goldie claims that the sexologist John Money of Johns Hopkins Medical Center (Baltimore) first used the word "gender" in its modern meaning in 1955. Money pioneered the word to describe his famous John/Joan experiment that was conducted on a young boy named Bruce who'd lost his penis in an accident. To 'prove' Money's theory that sexual identity was learned and not biological, Bruce's parents raised him as a girl, complete with a surgically constructed vagina. The experiment failed. Bruce ultimately insisted on living as male, but he did not recover from the ordeal Money imposed on him, which he called torture. Bruce committed suicide in his 30s.

By then, however, Money had declared for decades that John/Joan was a complete success; discussions of "gender identity" abounded in '60s medical journals and academia. By the '70s and '80s, feminists brought the term to the streets, with "gender" describing a person's self-defined sociocultural identity and "sex" meaning biology. Then, the word wedged its way into government. In 1993, for instance, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) replaced "sex" with "gender" in its literature. In 2011, "sex" returned to the FDA to mean biology while "gender" meant "a person's self-representation." The term went global. Also in 1993, the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (DEVAW) vaguely defined this aggression as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women."

Genderspeak became the language of elites, social justice activists, and the government, while average people still spoke of "sex". But more than elitism lies behind the difference in words. By swapping in their own terms, elitists - especially professional feminists - grabbed the narrative on sexuality and politicized it to dismiss anyone who disagrees. Since the average male generally still uses biology to define his sexuality, he is an opponent; the average male is a living, breathing disagreement.

The ideology of gender faces an obstacle, however. If people can argue effectively against gender, then the narrative is difficult to manage. Those who dissent must be intimidated into silence or otherwise marginalized. The main strategy is to condemn dissenters as hate-filled. If some people cannot be silenced, then their words or opinions can become hate crimes punishable by law. George Orwell's novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four is about a dystopian society of social control, which is maintained largely through restricting language. Since words are the foundation of thought, this means people cannot form thoughts, let alone articulate them. The villain of Nineteen-Eighty-Four proclaims, "The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought." He concludes, "The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."

Men's health researcher James L. Nuzzo highlights an attempt to perfect the language. "In recent years, use of the phrase 'gender-based violence' (or 'gendered violence') in the titles and abstracts of papers indexed in PubMed has increased noticeably. Between 2019 and 2025, the phrase 'gender-based violence' (or 'gendered violence') appeared in the titles or abstracts of 2,784 articles indexed in PubMed." [Chart available here.]

A typical definition of gender-related violence or gendered violence is "any form of physical or non-physical violence or abuse against a person or group of people because of biased or harmful beliefs about gender. It can include things that happen online and that use digital technology." This definition is typical because it includes non-physical violence (discrimination) and abuse (words) that are motivated by non-specific "biased or harmful beliefs about gender." Nineteen-Eighty-Four would refer to such non-physical violence as "crimethink," with thought itself being an assault.

Just as "sex" is displaced by "gender," well-researched and comparatively clear terms such as "domestic violence" are displaced by less-defined ones such as "gender-related violence." This achieves several goals. For one thing, the confusing definition becomes elastic. Almost any word or act can be stretched to qualify as "gender-related violence," especially since virtually everything in the politicized feminist universe is gender-related.

But the most important purpose of swapping in the word "gender" is to introduce a subtle but powerful bias that controls the narrative; it creates Genderspeak.

The concept of gender comes directly from the twin ideologies of Social Constructionism and Gender Feminism. Social Constructionism tells us that male and female are learned forms of behavior (gender) rather than biology (sex).

To this, Gender Feminism adds an ideological layer. Male and female are patriarchal learned behaviors; they are social concepts derived from white male capitalistic culture. Thus, approaching violence in a correctly gendered way means rejecting white male capitalism - the economic system that is said to vest power and wealth in the hands of white men at the expense of everyone else. To embrace gender is to reject white male culture and capitalism, with 'the free market' usually viewed as a synonym.

Genderspeak is similar to Orwell's Newspeak. Both are ambiguous speech that embeds ideology into the language so that every word perpetuates correcthink - officially approved thought. In Orwell's dystopian world, Newspeak serves the ideological goals of Ingsoc - an abbreviation for English Socialism. It gradually replaces Oldspeak and becomes pivotal in defining politics and culture.

Genderspeak has the same ideological goal. If you embed gender ideology into words, then you control how people think and how culture develops.

The process goes something like this:

• Embed new ideologically-driven language when possible. For example, substitute the term "gendered violence" for the more research-driven term "domestic violence."
• Eliminate "wrong" words. In Nineteen-Eighty-Four, salvageable literature was rewritten in Newspeak so that authors either disappeared or were reinterpreted to serve Ingsoc. Today, school texts are commonly reviewed to eliminate wrong words. 'Improper' ones like "Founding Fathers" are changed to proper ones like "Framers."
• Change the meaning of words. In Nineteen-Eighty-Four, the word "free" is used only in the simple form of 'my sweater is free of lint.' The concept of freedom does not exist. The current usage of "diversity" in Genderspeak is similar. It is a diversity that tolerates no deviation. Its conclusions are or can be mandated by law.
• Introduce doublethink. Doublethink is when someone accepts two contradictory ideas as being true. A modern example is students who attend "sensitivity training," which includes publicly ridiculing and humiliating whites and males because of their race and sex. This is sensitivity?
• Last of all, decry anyone who objects as a hater and oppressor; punish them.

Precise wording provides the incredible benefit of letting people know what they are talking about. It is time to reclaim the richness of precise English...verb by verb, adjective by adjective. Words should not be propaganda that blocks thought; disagreement is no crime. And sex is reality, while gender is not. The concept and the word "gender" should be abandoned by people who respect either accuracy or truth.

Tyler Durden Tue, 07/28/2026 - 19:15

SK Hynix Stock Dumps On Actual Earnings Miss; Pumps On Promise Of "Explosive" Demand

Update: The post-earnings conference call Q&A has prompted a rapid reversal in SK Hynix's fortunes... shocker!!

SK Hynix claims it continues to see “explosive” demand from customers and remains confident that AI-related demand will stay strong over the medium to long term.

While the timing of individual AI infrastructure projects may vary, the company says it sees no change in the overall demand trajectory.

Can't have the entire edifice of the Korean economy collapsing, can we!!

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Things are not going to be fun in South Korea tonight...

Good news first...

SK Hynix's net income surged a bigger-than-expected 1,242% (though admittedly on one-time investment gains) with the ginat chipmaker bragging that it won multiyear contracts with around 10 customers.

Ok, now the bad news...

SK Hynix’s quarterly profit rose a smaller-than expected 557%.

The key supplier of Nvidia reported operating profit of 60.5 trillion won ($42 billion) in the June quarter, well below analysts’ average projection for 64.2 trillion won.

Revenue came to 79.3 trillion won, significantly below the consensus 83.9 trillion won.

All further raising fears that the hyperbolic nature of the AI-driven boom that has suspended reality from the cyclical chipmakers, may be starting to decelerate...

“When you’re the dominant supplier of the high-bandwidth memory that powers Nvidia’s chips, the AI boom lands directly on your bottom line,” said Josh Gilbert, Etoro’s lead analyst for APAC and the Middle East.

“That means the market is unlikely to focus on the headline numbers alone. The bigger question is whether margins and guidance can justify its recent performance.”

Add to that the recent fears of rising competition from China and it is no surprise that SKHY (the US ADRs) is trading down 16% in the after-hours (before Korean trading has begun)...

Following yesterday's major drop in Kospi, we have three simple words..

Pray for Kospi

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 28, 2026

...and as goes SK Hynix, so goes the global AI demand narrative...

Tyler Durden Tue, 07/28/2026 - 19:10