When your business model's foundation is catering to mentally ill lunatics, don't be surprised when the most common sense changes evoke insane responses.
One day, probably in the very near future, there will be a hailstorm of studies done on the Covid pandemic era and the absolute hysteria that surrounded it. The virus was essentially a non-issue with an average infection fatality rate of 0.23%, meaning 99.8% of all people would easily survive. Yet, most of the world shut down vast areas of the economy and tried to force the global population to wear masks that were eventually proven to do absolutely nothing to stop the spread.
Perhaps the most interesting detail of all, though, is the political left's continued obsession with the lockdown period. Leftists treat the pandemic as their "golden era", the moment in history when they basked in pure authoritarianism, the moment when they had all the power. And like an addictive drug, they just can't seem to let the pandemic go.
The N95 mask in particular represents a symbol for progressives, a kind of uniform that they used to identify each other and show their fealty to the cult of Covid. Many deep blue areas of the country refused to stop wearing masks well into 2023 long after it was obvious that the virus was not a legitimate danger.
Even today, there are still wacky activists that continue to mask up regularly, because taking off the masks is the same as admitting they are wrong, and taking accountability is the last thing any leftist will ever voluntarily do. Now imagine there's a lesbian bar that placates such people as their primary customer base? Can you think of a more horrible place to get a drink?
Up until August 31st the Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue in Greenfield, MA had required patrons to wear KN-95 masks or better just to get in the door. The bar was also known for banning police and posting signs portraying people throwing Molotov Cocktails that said "Cops Are Not Welcome At Last Ditch".
Massachusetts lgbtq bar ‘Last Ditch’ announced they're BANNING police from their venue, called them "pigs" and shared images showing them throwing Molotov cocktails at police.
This is a call to violence against law enforcement. @fbi
Trans violence is an epidemic. pic.twitter.com/dwxcg3xYXW
The problem is that their ridiculous clinging to pandemic mandates destroyed their customer base and the business was failing. In response the lesbian bar finally announced that, on Saturday's only, the bar would become mask-optional while keeping the requirement on its other nights.
Instead of getting relief and applause for showing a pinch of common sense, the locals pulled out their torches and pitchforks in outrage and started making threats.
The Instagram announcement drew hundreds of responses, including accusations that the change excluded disabled and immunocompromised customers who had regarded Last Ditch as one of the few nightlife spaces built around their mentally deranged needs. In other words, the Last Ditch Bar had "betrayed" the cult by admitting masks are not necessary.
Critics called the decision ableist, eugenicist, and complicity in a “mass disabling event.” Some comments went further:
“People like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience...”
"Just say you’re being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with...”
“I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists...”
It's like taking a time machine back to 2020. The last remaining owner of the bar became emotional as she explained how she had ended up running the business on her own. "It was not my passion project," she said.
She told the group she had been living in her truck for six months while putting money into the business, working four jobs, and carrying responsibility for the $50,000 loan the founders had taken out to open Last Ditch. "I never really wanted this," she said. "I don't think I'm doing a very good job."
Some critics remained unmoved, including the bar's biggest critic, a trans "woman" who identifies as a lesbian and also a he/him.
UPDATE: One of the loudest critics of the Last Ditch COVID-Conscious Lesbian Bar is a male lesbian named Soe Noire 😭 pic.twitter.com/H5y0UwVnjG
— Zack Peter (@zackpeter) September 25, 2026But this is to be expected when dealing with progressive psychopaths. They want businesses to enable their emotional dysfunctions, but they don't want to spend any money keeping those businesses in operation. We have seen this trend in every venue that leftists invade, from movies to video games to marketing and corporate culture - They want every company to reflect their values but they are the worst customers imaginable when it comes to revenues.
The last Ditch Bar owes nearly $4000 in back rent and foot traffic has dried up; the business is likely to close in the near term. The owner says she hopes to convert Last Ditch into a "cooperative" so the financial responsibility does not rest so heavily on one person. However, this is how the business was already being run, and it was a disaster.
The lessons here are many. But first and foremost, incidents like this remind us of the horrors of life under progressive rule during the Biden years. The popular memory is short, it would be a catastrophe if the public were to forget.
Tyler Durden Sun, 09/27/2026 - 18:05Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times,
Around 157,000 children who crossed the border as unaccompanied minors have been found since the start of the Trump administration while many are still missing, White House border czar Tom Homan told The Epoch Times.
White House border czar Tom Homan after an interview with "American Thought Leaders" in Washington on Sept. 24, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesIn an interview with senior editor Jan Jekielek for "American Thought Leaders," airing on Sept. 26, he said that just under half a million children were "smuggled" into the United States during the Biden administration.
Homan said officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at the time were proud of the fact that children weren't in detention for long.
"They weren't [held] very long, but the problem is they released them quickly because the sponsors weren't properly vetted," he said, and with caretakers not responding to communications or check-ins, that caused the government to lose track of nearly 300,000 of the children.
Homan said that when President Donald Trump asked him to return to the federal government under his second administration, one of the top directives he was given was to address the problem of missing children.
"He asked me to do three things: secure the border, run deportation operations, and find these kids."
The border czar said he was much more optimistic about the first two directives than he was about finding the children, because his team would have to count on the digital footprint of the sponsors, based on information provided by the sponsors.
"We can find you, we can find me. We own homes, we own cars, we have credit cards. We can find us because we all have a digital footprint. Children don't," Homan said.
Some Democrats on Capitol Hill have objected to the treatment of unaccompanied minors after they've been located.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) condemned the current administration in June for plans to deport some of the children back to Mexico.
"You have been entrusted with the care and safety of the children placed within the [Office of Refugee Resettlement] network," Wyden said in a letter to the HHS. "Proceeding with this plan knowingly endangers their lives and violates your duty to these vulnerable children."
When officials began searching for the children, they learned that many of the sponsors had given the wrong information, such as home addresses that turned out to be supermarkets, parking lots, or churches. False names had been used for identification, and locating where the children actually were proved to be a massive undertaking.
Homan told The Epoch Times that of the roughly 157,000 children who have been found, more than 20 have died - some due to natural causes, and others from a drug overdose or as a result of violence.
The work isn't done, however, and he said he intends to find every one of the 140,000 still missing children, even those who have aged out of the system.
"Just because you're 18 and 19 doesn't mean they're not in forced labor or sex trafficking, so we're going to keep running down every one of these leads until we find them," the border czar said.
In 40 years of working at the border Homan has seen many victims of human trafficking, but one in particular broke his heart. He said he'll never forgot a 9-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted while making the journey to the United States years ago: "That little girl's never going to be the same again."
"Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime. You don't come across the border without approval and paying off the cartels," he said. "A lot of women and children are sexually assaulted making that journey."
Last month, HHS announced that the Trump administration had located more than 148,000 unaccompanied illegal immigrant children who had been missing after being released into the care of someone in the United States.
A statement from the Department of Homeland Security last November announced an initiative partnering with local law enforcement to conduct welfare checks on the lost children.
Homan told The Epoch Times that despite the monumental task of finding the still missing children, "We're not giving up."
"President Trump has promised that we're going to look at this until the last day of the administration, and the American people can have my word that we're going to do that."
Tyler Durden Sun, 09/27/2026 - 17:30