Inside: Wash. State school skips Veterans Day; Disney launches pronoun pins for employees
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11/17/2023
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The National Center on Sexual Exploitation is calling on the U.S. Justice Department to continue investigating Pornhub's parent company after it reached a deal with prosecutors following a 30-month probe into its alleged ties to a now-shuttered pornography website's sex trafficking scheme. NCOSE told CP that the plea agreement "cannot be accepted at face value as representing reality." Read more.
Disney World has launched a pronoun pin initiative, enabling some employees to add their self-declared pronouns to their official name pins. Disney has continued to come under fire for its growing embrace of LGBT ideology and "woke" content. Read more.
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Benjamin Rush Elementary in Redmond, Wash., nixed Veterans Day in favor of a peace and tolerance assembly. Jerry Newcombe calls out the school's disrespectful actions, writing, "The sacrifices of so many people, living and dead, that we might be free as a nation could easily be in vain if we continue down this path." Read more.
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