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If we want to win the culture war it AIN’T gonna be pretty. And make no mistake, this is WAR. A war on our kids, a war on women, a war on our communities, and to Matt Walsh’s point, ‘going woke and going broke’ clearly isn’t enough to get corporations to pay attention. Otherwise, they wouldn’t pick an obvious man playing an insulting caricature of women to represent their products. Walsh wrote a fairly brutal thread and actually called out conservatives: The Left has taken away all of the neutral cultural ground. This is why brands like Bud Light and...

Suddenly Dylan Mulvaney, the fellow who would once have been known as a “flamboyant” homosexual and is in today’s society known as a “trans woman,” is everywhere. He’s advertising Bud Light. He’s also currently the pitchman for Ole Henrikson, Urban Decay, Ulta Beauty, Charlotte Tilbury, and Mac cosmetics; the Plaza Hotel; Tampax; Crest toothpaste; fashion designers and suppliers Kate Spade, Aritzia and Mugler; the dating app Ok Cupid; Svedka Vodka; Walmart; and the designer clothing rental firm Rent the Runway. That list will likely be even longer by the time you read this. And Mulvaney has just become Nike Women’s...

Nike has sparked fury after trans social media star Dylan Mulvaney posted a series of paid sponsorships for the sports company's women's clothing line. Mulvaney, 26, posted videos and photos on her Instagram page Tuesday in which she modeled a pair of Nike leggings and a sports bra, and tagged Nike Women while linking to the products' pages. Men and women alike took to Twitter to voice their anger that Mulvaney - who was born a male but identifies as female - was being given coveted sponsorships for the prominent brands women's line. The postings noted that they were paid...

Earlier this week Jazz Shaw wrote about an unusual request made by Nike directly to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler. Nike’s store in Northeast Portland has been closed for months because of ongoing retail theft and the company wrote to ask if it could either pay to hire additional cops to patrol the area or pay off duty cops to do so. Today, Mayor Wheeler said no.Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has asked Nike to reopen its shuttered community store in Northeast Portland “on a limited basis,” even though he says the city can’t meet the company’s request to detail off-duty police...

On February 9, Nike sent a letter to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and city officials asking for more police at their MLK Community Store, which has been closed for months because of ongoing retail theft, with the shoe brand even proposing to pay law enforcement directly if it would bring them the protection they were requesting. According to KGW8, Nike proposed two options. The company was open to creating an "intergovernmental agreement" with the city of Portland to directly fund full-time police officers who would be selected to police the store. A second option would be to pay off-duty Portland...

Adidas could be forced to burn Yeezy sneakers worth around half-a-billion dollars after rapper and fashion designer Kanye West's anti-Semitic outbursts. The sportswear brand is struggling over what to do with its massive stockpile of the shoes, which retail for between $200 and $600 Analysts now say Adidas, which has already said the debacle hit revenues by $1.3bn, could be forced to burn the stock - because it risks a PR nightmare if they are still sold at a discount. The company's decision to drop West capped the rapper's fall from grace after a pattern of increasingly erratic behavior and...

Nike announced on Friday that it has suspended its relationship with the Nets star in the wake of his promotion of an anti-Semitic film and book on social media. The company also said it will no longer launch the latest iteration of Irving’s shoe, the Kyrie 8. “At Nike, we believe there is no place for hate speech and we condemn any form of antisemitism,” Nike said in a statement. “To that end, we’ve made the decision to suspend our relationship with Kyrie Irving effective immediately. “We are deeply saddened and disappointed by the situation and its impact on everyone.”

MSNBC’s Morning Joe responded on Friday to Brooklyn Nets player Kyrie Irving’s apology for promoting an antisemitic film, condemning the NBA and Nike for their continued relationships with the point guard. Both Nike and the NBA “believe in social justice, just not for Jews,” said host Joe Scarborough of the situation. Irving tweeted last week in support of the documentary “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” which peddles conspiracy theories about Jews and uses antisemitic tropes and language. The basketball star and self-styled independent thinker posted an apology on Thursday following backlash over the tweet, saying that he agrees...

Oregon's richest man said he would do whatever he could to end Democrats' 40-year hold on the state and prevent its nominee Tina Kotek winning the race to be the next governor. Last week, Phil Knight, the billionaire co-founder of Nike, donated $1 million to Republican candidate Christine Drazan after bankrolling the campaign of an independent who has turned the election into a toss-up. Analysts said his two-horse strategy suggested Knight was intent on keeping the Democrat out of the governor's mansion. A swath of the electorate in this liberal state has turned on the outgoing Democratic governor, blaming her...

Nike co-founder Phil Knight has donated $1 million to elect Republican Oregon gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan in an increasingly tight race against Democrat Tina Kotek. Knight’s donation to Drazan’s campaign comes after he donated $3.75 million to Independent candidate Betsy Johnson, signaling his strong dislike for Tina Kotek. Republican strategist Rebecca Tweed told KGW Knight’s donation said the two donations are not meant as an endorsement of either candidate but rather an attack against the Democrat candidate. “It’s not really $1 million toward Drazan or $3.75 (million) towards Betsy. It’s $4.75 (million) against Tina Kotek,” Tweed told the outlet. “Each...

Nike is facing a wrongful death lawsuit, filed by a grieving mother, whose son was murdered during a violent incident over a pair of shoes. In the filing, the woman claims on August 11, 2021, her 26-year-old son was working at the store during a Nike shoe release event. At the time, a raffle was being held to determine who would get the new shoes, a pair of Nike "Dunk Low" sneakers. On that day, the mother says her son died at his workplace, "attempting to defend his girlfriend and coworker from a group of violent men at a Nike...

Nike has decided to fully exit Russia three months after suspending operations in the country due to its invasion of Ukraine, the sportswear giant announced Thursday. The company has no announced plans to exit China due to that country’s gross human rights abuses and organized use of slave labor in making Nike products. Nike initially suspended operations in Russia on March 3, a week after Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces to invade Ukraine in an attempt to take over the neighboring nation. However, Nike seems to have been motivated to leave the country entirely by the prospect of new criminal...

State Farm quickly distanced itself from a program that pushed books about gender fluidity on young children Monday after a new ad campaign slammed the insurance giant as "a creepy neighbor," but Consumers' Research thinks the insurance giant still has to "undo the damage" it caused. "Yesterday we launched our ad campaign calling out State Farm for donating books aimed at kindergartners on the topics of transgenderism and being non-binary… now they claim that they have ended their partnership with the GenderCool Project," Consumers' Research executive director Will Hild told Fox News Digital, calling the turn of events "an indication...

Although HBO comedian Bill Maher often spouts the left-wing agenda of Democrats, he rightfully slammed liberal celebrities who continue to bow to the demands of communist China. Maher singled out NBA star LeBron James and actor John Cena for “kowtowing” to the communist regime despite ongoing human rights abuses. China is accused of disturbing human rights abuse against its people, including forced labor, systematic torture, illegal imprisonment, religious freedom abuses, authoritarian surveillance, organ harvesting, and abusive psychiatric measures. As the Olympic games were held in China, Maher pointed out how Americans should be promoting democratic government. “In America, we’re supposed...

“Wokeness” has oozed into every facet of American society. From education to entertainment, Americans are regularly taught that equality of outcome trumps opportunity, whiteness is bad, and America itself is even worse. Even the C-suite has gone “woke,” reading the left-wing tea leaves on social media to score cheap political points. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink—a longtime fossil-fuel investor and supporter of the Chinese Communist Party—is now determined to end climate change through “the decarbonizing of the global economy.” According to WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar, his company’s black employees “wake up every day and have fear,” as “their children cringe with...

A resident of Moscow asked the Investigative Committee to check the American company Nike for racial discrimination against Russians. The complainant, named Yevgeny Smirnov, found it offensive to see the almost complete absence of white models on Nike’s Russian-language site.Almost all models representing the brand are either dark-skinned or representatives of the Mongoloid race. Caucasoids, who make up the vast majority of Russian citizens, are practically not reflected. The company did not answer on what principles the models are chosen, after which the Muscovite turned to the UK

France's parliament on Thursday denounced a "genocide" by China against its Uyghur Muslim population, in a resolution that risks straining ties between Paris and Beijing two weeks before the Winter Olympics. The non-binding resolution, adopted with 169 votes in favour and just one against, was proposed by the opposition Socialists in the lower house of parliament but also backed by President Emmanuel Macron's Republic on the Move (LREM) party. It reads that the National Assembly "officially recognises the violence perpetrated by the People's Republic of China against the Uyghurs as constituting crimes against humanity and genocide". It also calls on...

The House of Representatives late Wednesday passed legislation to ban all goods from China’s remote northwestern region of Xinjiang over concerns about forced labor.The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which passed the Democrat-led chamber by an overwhelming vote of 428-1, now heads to the Senate. It would need to pass the Senate and be signed by President Joe Biden to become law.Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was the only lawmaker who voted against the measure.The measure would create a “rebuttable presumption” that all goods from Xinjiang, where the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has set up a vast network of detention...

The German National Socialist Party, A.K.A. the Nazis, loved making things out of the leather made from the skin of their Jewish and Deplorable victims so it is a proud tradition of socialism/communism. Nike produces many of its sneakers in China and it would be unethical to just harvest the organs from the murder camp victims and just throw away the skin. Nike using the skin would be very "green" which, inthe minds of the typical Watermelon Marxist, trumps all other morality.

Several top Nike executives funneled more than $60,000 to the re-election campaign of Democratic Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden over the course of just 16 days in September. On Wednesday evening, Wyden blocked the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act which the House passed unanimously Tuesday and the Senate was expected to overwhelmingly approve. President Joe Biden vowed to sign the bill once passed by both chambers and work with Congress to “ensure global supply chains are free of forced labor,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement. Nike, a major benefactor of Wyden, was one of several corporations...