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Kari McCaw was flying with co-workers to attend a conference in Las Vegas last month when Southwest Airlines employees stopped her at the ticket counter. The agents’ message was clear — either buy a second seat for herself or don’t fly. McCaw is not alone in her experience. In January, Southwest’s popular “customer of size” …
Federal layoffs are hammering through Washington, and this is not some neutral belt-tightening. The government shutdown has become a weapon. It is not about budgets. It is about purging agencies of workers deemed politically inconvenient. Offices are emptying, programs are freezing, and the effects are already spilling into public life. People are losing paychecks. Families …
Senator Kennedy: "I think Elon Musk is a rockstar. The tofu crowd is mad, but when you trim fat, pigs squeal." pic.twitter.com/b6W1YqVmtl — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) March 17, 2025 69 𝕏 MINUTES UNCUT | ERIN’S TAKE: WHAT DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME IS SIMPLY UNBELIEVABLE "Imagine the world's richest man, Elon Musk, volunteering his time to essentially save …
The Democrat Party is a domestic terrorist organization masquerading as a political party paid off by foreign billionaires to bring down America from this inside pic.twitter.com/t4qSPQZeHd — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) December 23, 2024
The San Francisco Health Department hired a ‘fat positivity’ influencer to consult on “weight stigma and weight neutrality.” The new weight stigma czar, Virgie Tovar, is a self-described expert on “anti-weight-based discrimination.” Tovar, author of “You Have the Right to Remain Fat,” boasted about her new role as a consultant on “weight neutrality” on social …
Whoopi Goldberg strongly disagreed with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent criticism of weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro, defending both her own and others’ use of the medication on The View.
The US military is fighting a fitness crisis brought by a growing number of obese troops and ‘skinny fat’ recruits who can’t pass fitness tests. Obesity rates among service members surged during COVID and recruiters are also confronted by a growing number of would-be soldiers who are simply too large, too weak or both. Top …