To hear the media tell it, the world hates J.K. Rowling. Ever since she stated her opinion on radical Left-wing gender theory, which happened to be different from the other members of the ruling class’s political party, Rowling has become a target of their vitriol. The best-selling “Harry Potter” author wasn’t like other celebrities who dabbled in dissent, however. Instead of backing down from her stance on trans acceptance, she doubled down. “If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth,” Rowling shared in a tweet in 2020. “The idea that women like me, who’ve been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they’re vulnerable in the same way as women—i.e., to male violence—‘hate’ trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences—is a nonsense.” The idea that women like me, who’ve been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they’re vulnerable in the same way as women – ie, to male violence – ‘hate’ trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences – is a nonsense. — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 6, 2020 That stance has been impactful for both fans who agree and disagree with her. Several prominent stars from the “Harry Potter” films spoke out against the woman behind the stories that made them internationally known.  In 2020, Daniel Radcliffe, who played the titular star, wrote an essay for The Trevor Project and apologized for “the pain” Rowling’s comments may have caused transgender identifying individuals, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “Transgender women are women,” the actor wrote in the essay. “Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional healthcare associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo [Rowling] or [me].” Actress Emma Watson (who played Hermione in the movies) also shared her thoughts on X. “Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are,” she wrote. “I want my trans followers to know that I and so many other people around the world see you, respect you and love you for who you are.” The media has been setting off attacks against Rowling ever since. They disparaged her and claimed fans were abandoning her, and the beloved “Harry Potter” series, in droves. “Harry Potter Magic Fades When Creator Tweets,” an NPR article declared. “Harry Potter and the Author Who Failed Us,” a Vox story echoed.  No doubt the “first billion-dollar author” has received backlash online and beyond. But according to a new report, 90 actresses refused to participate in a play allegedly criticizing her, so Rowling must not be as hated as everyone claims she is. ? A play that criticises JK Rowling’s views on gender is struggling to cast women with 90 actresses so far rejecting parts. Read more here ⬇️https://t.co/Iwmz1gaH4h pic.twitter.com/9MyPhj5ZZm — The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 13, 2024 The play in question is called “TERF” and it’s scheduled to run at the Sir Ian McKellen Theatre in Edinburgh from August 2 through August 25. The acronym “TERF” is used as a derogatory term and stands for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist.” Since making the series of tweets, Rowling has become the most well-known of the accused TERFs.  “This project has met some kind of resistance every step of the way, though I’ve been generally surprised by how difficult it has been for us to recruit the female cast in particular,” creative producer Barry Church-Woods told the Telegraph of the play, according to a previous report from The Daily Wire. “I think it’s fair to say that a few things are coming into play in casting,” he continued. A description of the production says, “Jo led a blessed life. Literary phenomenon. Cultural icon. And beloved. Completely beloved … until everything went to hell in a broombasket. Now, Jo’s surrogate children – Daniel, Rupert, and Emma – have had enough. It’s time for an intervention.” TERF’s creative producer and founder of live arts company We Are Civil Disobedience Barry Church-Woods told PinkNews, “It’s been very tricky casting this show, I think first in part because they’re actually quite iconic roles to take on, but definitely because there’s been a very vocal misinformed backlash to the project since we announced it early 2024.” “Rowling has also become such a beacon for the issue that we’re dealing daily with the enraged ‘anti-woke’ armies of Breitbart and Fox News. It’s a lot of noise to come up against, and I imagine is quite daunting for anyone who is reading the vitriolic backlash right now,” he added. “I think there may also be a couple of other factors affecting the casting of the roles,” Church-Woods said.  Another idea posited for the lack of interest involves a “Harry Potter” television show that is rumored to be in production, which the stars’ talent agents could have their sights on. Being involved in the play could ruin their chances to be cast, the outlet noted. The self-identified “queer” screenwriter Joshua Kaplan previously said the project isn’t a direct attack on Rowling. He claimed the play’s focus “is on relationships and how Rowling’s opinions have evolved” but is not “interrogating the substance of her opinions.” “I hope the audience will walk out not with a message but a question. I want people to walk out saying, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t have put that on Twitter the other day,’” he said. Church-Woods agreed that the play isn’t meant to be a negative statement on Rowling. “It’s ironic that the reporting of this project so far has focused on how the show is critical of Rowling,” he told PinkNews. “Yet we’ve never actually said it is. No-one has read the script yet apart from us and our legal team, and yet still they all hold strong opinions about it.” Whether the questions raised in the play are explicitly or implicitly directed at Rowling’s stance on the trans agenda is irrelevant. The fact remains that if 90 stars looking for work aren’t interested in taking on the play, there’s a good chance that Rowling isn’t the villain she’s been portrayed as, despite the mainstream media desperately trying to convince us all otherwise.

The Queen music catalog is soon to be acquired by Sony Music for an astronomical sum, according to recent reports. Two sources told Variety that the sale worth a rumored $1.27 billion is in the works. Per Hits Daily Double, the original outlet that broke the story, the only revenue not included in the deal is live performances by two of the band’s founding members, who tour with singer Adam Lambert. The outlet noted that another interested buyer tapped out when the figure reached $900 million. This acquisition includes a plethora of money-making songs, which is what attracted such high sales figures. Internationally recognized classics, including “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Another One Bites the Dust,” and “Radio Ga Ga” are all part of the deal. The hit Queen singles “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions” are frequently played at sporting events. Queen is a British rock band founded in 1970. The founding members included Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals). John Deacon (bass) joined the group later. The band is one of the best-selling music artists in the world. Queen received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. Each band member composed at least one hit single, leading to all four members being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003. Variety noted that Disney owns Queen’s recorded-music rights for the U.S. and Canada, which the company bought in the early 2000s. Disney would keep those rights, but some of the band members’ hefty royalties being paid out by Disney would now go to Sony, as would the group’s distribution deal and rights outside those two countries. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The acquisition would also include name and likeness rights, paving the way for musicals and other potentially lucrative future projects. For example, the 2018 biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” about Mercury’s life pulled in more than $900 million against a $52 million production budget.  Sony is notoriously quiet about their big acquisitions, which, in the past, included Bruce Springsteen’s publishing and recorded-music rights and Bob Dylan’s recorded-music rights, the outlet noted. Neither of those deals were ever officially confirmed but have been suspected for years. 

The White House’s order for federal agencies to install thousands of signs along the nation’s highways praising Joe Biden has one Republican senator pressing the administration for more information on what she says is “public financing for the president’s own campaign.” The Executive Office of the President’s Office of Management and Budget wrote in February 2023 that “Federal awarding agencies are strongly encouraged” to make it a requirement of each grant that the recipient, such as a local government, put up signs based on the “Official Investing in American Emblem Style Guide,” which prescribes signs that say “Project Funded By President Joe Biden’s [Insert Name of Law].” “The Administration believes that clear and prominent signage on projects is one of several ways to inform taxpayers about how Federal funds from these laws are being spent and advance the goals of accountability and transparency of Federal spending,” it said. The signs credit Biden for acts passed by Congress, and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) says they amount to using taxpayer money for campaign signs before the November election. She wrote in a Thursday letter to the Office of Management and Budget that it’s absurd to pay for campaign signs with taxpayer money. “Political campaign signs are not infrastructure. They do nothing to improve our roads or bridges and it’s obvious their real intent is only to pave the way for Biden’s re-election,” she wrote to OMB Director Shalanda D. Young. She said that even though OMB justifies the signs as “transparency,” they are not in compliance with laws requiring agencies to disclose how much taxpayer money was spent when discussing a project. Complying with that law could have the opposite of the effect Biden hopes for, she wrote. The administration’s order was a more detailed version of one originally sent out in August 2022, a few months before the midterm elections. Agencies have complied. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency’s website specifies that “for construction projects funded in whole or in part by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law or Inflation Reduction Act through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, recipients must place a sign at construction sites that display the Investing in America emblem and identify the project as a ‘project funded by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’ or ‘project funded by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.’” Biden has been accused of using taxpayer dollars to buy political favor, such as sending emails to college graduates, signed by Biden, telling them that their student loans were forgiven, that his “administration has delivered on that promise,” and asking them to “share your story about what this relief means to you.” But the language on the signs is even more audacious because, unlike the likely unconstitutional executive action Biden took to forgive loans, presidents do not make laws. Ernst suggested to OMB in the letter that the administration put up signs to highlight the embarrassments of Biden’s spending. “Why is there no billboard next to the seven electric vehicle charging stations built over the past two years boasting that they were bought by the Biden administration with $7.5 billion? Such a sign could proudly declare, ‘This billion dollar boondoggle brought to you President Biden!’” she wrote. “A similar sign should be posted alongside the route of the 1.3-mile San Francisco rail extension the Biden administration has committed at least $3.4 billion to build, which is only a fraction of the megaproject’s ballooning $8.3 billion price tag. This gravy train is on track to be one of the most expensive transit projects in the world. That certainly makes it qualify as a historical attraction deserving of a sign for public recognition,” Ernst added. Despite costing $1.2 trillion, the “infrastructure” law has accomplished so little that most Americans don’t even know it exists. The signs also could violate the Highway Beautification Act, which limits signage on federal highways, according to Ernst.  The senator asked OMB to disclose the cost of the signs and whether there “was a legal determination made as to whether these taxpayer-funded campaign advertisements and billboards misuse official government resources for political campaign purposes.” She also pressed the OMB to explain “what actions have been taken or are planned by OMB to enact the provisions of Public Law 118-47 requiring all projects funded by the White House and other agencies and departments with taxpayer dollars to disclose the cost.” Ernst has successfully inserted those provisions into federal law, and she wrote that “If you check Section 632 of Division B, Title VI of Public Law 118-47, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-47), you will notice the COST Act requirements” requiring OMB to “clearly state… the dollar amount of Federal funds for the project or program” when “issuing statements, press releases, [or] describing projects or programs.” Ernst said that massive federal spending has led to inflation that has wiped out any benefits of the stimulus package. “Highway construction costs are up nearly 70 percent since Biden became president. Because the dollar isn’t going nearly as far as it once did, the actual amount put towards transportation could be reduced as much as 40 percent over the next five years, according to the administration’s own estimates,” she said in a statement.

Los Angeles is known for many things, including having some of the worst traffic in the United States. That’s why Woody Harrelson tends to travel on his motorcycle — he finds it’s the fastest way to get somewhere. Well, that’s usually the case, anyway. While on his way to be a guest on the podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Woody Harrelson got into an accident. While crossing the road, Harrelson ran into a car, sending him over his handlebars and the hood of the stranger’s vehicle. Thankfully, the actor was wearing a helmet, leaving him fairly unscathed. He did, however, find that his wrist was a bit wounded. In another case of good luck, Harrelson had the perfect person with him to help: Ted Danson! Not only did the two of them work together on Cheers, but they’re also close friends in real life. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Team Coco (@teamcoco) Turns out, Harrelson and Danson had plans to be on O’Brien’s podcast together to promote their own podcast. Fittingly, it’s called Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (Sometimes). The actor’s injury wasn’t too bad, but by the time they arrived to the studio, the two of them paused to figure out what they could do about his wrist. “We’re in the bathroom and I was like, ‘You played a doctor right?'” Harrelson recalls asking, “and Ted said, ‘I also played a lawyer so we can sue the guy.'” Woody Harrelson’s Motorcycle Accident Leads to a Funny Story Although not a real doctor, Danson does manage to wrap up Harrelson’s wrist pretty well. Then, soon enough, they’re laughing about it on the podcast. They make lots of jokes, of course, but Danson admits he’s sad about what happened to his friend. You can watch part of their interview in the video below (Content Warning: Language) “I am sad,” Danson admits. “He could’ve been hurt badly. It does make me sad.” After spending years together on an iconic show, fans are delighted to see them reunite for this nostalgic podcast. Best of all, the actors feel the same way! Not only do these friends get to revisit some of the best years of their lives, but they also get to spend time together. “The best part about doing this podcast is that it’s given me an excuse to hang out with Ted,” Harrelson said when announcing the podcast. “Sure, we’ll talk with interesting guests, and sure we’ll share some laughs along the way, but the biggest win will be rekindling our romance, I mean friendship, after all this time. And I’m glad listeners will be able to join us for that.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Woody Harrelson Crashed His Motorcycle, Had Unexpected “Doctor” Patch Him Up appeared first on InspireMore.

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