Lesbian Bar in Massachusetts Sparks Outrage From Patrons by Easing Mask Mandate… in 2026
September 23, 2026
Screencap of YouTube video.
Anyone who tells you that the ‘Woke’ era is over, does not know what they are saying.
In the city of Greenfield, in central Massachusetts, a lesbian bar is causing outrage from their patrons by easing mask-wearing mandates. In 2026.
This bar not only requires customers to wear masks, they require N95 masks, at all times. The bar is struggling financially, so the owner decided to make one night a week, Saturday night, mask optional.
Unhinged and angry customers are now accusing the bar of trying to kill people.
The August 31 Instagram post from Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, a lesbian bar in Greenfield, was upbeat, teasing a new DJ lineup and a volunteer meetup. But partway down the rainbow-hued post labeled “UPDATES!” was a sentence that would splinter the queer community in this small Pioneer Valley city and beyond.
“It is with love we inform our immunocompromised disabled divas we will be opening Saturday nights as mask optional,” wrote Last Ditch.
Previously, patrons were required to wear a well-fitted KN-95 mask “or better” at all times.
The new policy was not received with love.
“Just say you’re being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with,” wrote one commenter.
“people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience,” posted another.
“I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists [sic],” wrote a third.
When the bar apologized for the new mask policy on social media, the apology was attacked for not catering to the visually impaired:
Instead of defusing the situation, the apology seemed to make things worse. The bar had erred: it posted an Instagram card without providing alt-text for the visually impaired. This set off a fresh round of accusations of ableism.
“This is not an accessible post,” wrote one user. “It indicates the lack of care or interest in Disability intersectionality.”
People on Twitter/X are marveling at the insanity of this story.
Every person in this article would be put in a mental asylum in the 1950s
Everything starts making a bit more sense when you realize that there’s a sizable contingent of the political Left that functionally lives on an entirely different planet from the rest of us https://t.co/CmHHPmQfnp
NEW: Disgraced Mogul Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison in NYC Court
September 23, 2026
Weinstein has manifested his fear of dying in prison
The long NYC effort to get Weinstein to pay for his alleged crimes comes to an end.
The convoluted legal drama involving the NYC trials of Harvey Weinstein has finally ended as he is sentenced to 15 years in prison after 2 retrials that ended in hung juries.
BREAKING: Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2006 sex crime in New York after his original conviction was overturned. https://t.co/ouBNEnjLuu
Quick explanation: the disgraced Hollywood mogul was convicted in California in 2022 for three sex crimes, committed in 2013, against an unidentified Italian model and actress: forcible rape, Forcible oral copulation, and sexual penetration by a foreign object.
For the crimes in this California trial, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison, a conviction that he is serving now, although he is to be resentenced in the future.
But in New York, things have been even more complex.
His original 2020 NYC conviction was overturned by New York’s highest court in 2024 due to improper admission of testimony from uncharged accusers.
So, Weinstein had a 2025 retrial, in which prosecutors charged him with crimes against three women: the 2025 jury convicted him of one criminal sexual act count (involving Mimi Haley), acquitted him on another (involving Kaja Sokola), but was deadlocked on the Jessica Mann rape charge — leading to a mistrial.
Weinstein had a second retrial on the Jessica Mann charge in 2026, and a mistrial was declared again.
Jessica Mann
Prosecutors declined to try him again, in part because Jessica Mann refused to testify for a third time and face a grueling cross-examination.
So, now, all that’s left if for the decaying mogul to be sentenced for his conviction for a criminal sexual act count involving Mimi Haley from the 2025 retrial.
Harvey Weinstein returns to a New York City courtroom for sentencing in the sexual assault case involving Miriam Haley. Both Haley and Weinstein are expected to address the court. https://t.co/X4NRVn40ba
“Decrepit Harvey Weinstein will finally learn his fate in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday — as the disgraced Hollywood mogul faces up to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting a former TV production worker. Weinstein, 74, was convicted in June 2025 of first-degree criminal sex act for attacking former ‘Project Runway’ production assistant Miriam ‘Mimi’ Haley inside his SoHo apartment in 2006.
[…] The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is arguing that Weinstein should be locked up for 20 years on the conviction, citing the ‘significant harms’ the ex-Miramax boss caused to Haley. The once powerful producer’s long-delayed sentencing comes nearly a decade after an avalanche of sexual misconduct allegations ended his career and kick-started the #MeToo movement.
[…] Haley testified in two of Weinstein’s trials where she emotionally detailed how she was brutally raped by him inside his apartment. ‘I was trying to get him off of me. I was trying to push him away from me. I was trying to get him to stop kissing me and grabbing me’, Haley told jurors at Weinstein’s retrial in 2025. ‘The unthinkable was happening … I didn’t know when it was ending’.”
While the trials and retrials have been going on, Weinstein has been incarcerated at Rikers Island, battling health concerns while serving his conviction and awaiting his LA resentence.
UPDATE: Weinstein sentenced to 15 years in prison.
“Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday morning for a criminal sexual assault conviction from 2025.
Weinstein, 74, was found guilty of committing a sexual act against former Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haley at his Manhattan apartment in 2006.
Haley and Weinstein both spoke in a court in Lower Manhattan during Wednesday’s sentencing. Haley talked about the devastating impact the assault and subsequent trial has had on her life. Weinstein, for his part, expressed remorse for what happened to Haley, and offered an apology to people he has hurt. He went on to say he was innocent.”
OH GOODY: Chris Christie is Reportedly Considering Another Run for President in 2028
September 23, 2026
Chris Christie predicts Republicans are headed for a “monumental defeat” in the 2026 midterm elections during an appearance on Hasan Minhaj’s podcast.
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is apparently considering another run for president in 2028. Why?
Christie was considered to be something of a firebrand Republican back in the early days of his governorship, mainly because he did not back down from the liberal media. Now he is a part of it, serving as a contributor at ABC News.
Who exactly does he think would vote for him for president? It makes no sense.
Christie mulls 2028 White House run amid bleak midterm outlook
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Tuesday said he’s considering a third presidential run in 2028 as the Republican Party faces a bleak midterm outlook.
Christie, a onetime Trump ally who ran against him for the GOP nomination in 2024, questioned whether the party will decide it needs to change its approach or “the dominant wing” of the party, “if we do a lot of losing six weeks from today.”
“So, am I looking at it? Look, anybody who comes up here, anybody who comes up here and has ever run for president and not one and told you they’re not looking at it again is lying. …,” he said at the Granite State Summit on Responsible Gaming, per footage shared by WMUR 9’s Adam Sexton.
He added, “Once you go through the thought process of convincing yourself that you can be president, and then the next step that you should be president, that doesn’t leave your brain.”
“So, the way I look at this is, if I’m going to go back home to my wife and say, ‘I know you may not believe this, but third time is the charm,’ like, I better have a real theory,” the former governor continued. “And what she has said to me is, ‘Chris, I want to see the path.’”
Newsflash for Christie: There is no path.
The Republican Party has changed, the country has changed, the electorate has changed.
It is impossible to see Christie even making it through a Republican presidential primary at this point. What is he thinking?
Far-Left Philly Teacher Who Called Herself ‘Black and Palestinian’ Begs Her Comrades for Mercy as The Surprising Truth About Her Background is Revealed (VIDEO)
September 23, 2026
Hannah Gann speaks out as her lies about her background come undone. Credit; Hannah Gann Instagram screenshot
A Philadelphia woman is being compared to the infamous former NAACP President Rachel Dolezal after her cover as a Palestinian and black woman was blown up by other woke activists.
The New York Post reported on Wednesday that Hannah Gann, a Philadelphia teacher, was forced to admit that she invented her identity as a Palestinian after her comrades grew suspicious of her background and confronted her over it.
“I lied about my identity and have been lying for years. I have no Palestinian or Tunisian heritage,” Gann wrote on Instagram.
“I am a white woman of significant privilege and wealth. Anyone who supported me was manipulated and should not be judged as a result of their support for me,” she added.
In a subsequent video, Gann continued groveling to her comrades and revealed more about how deep her lies ran.
“I hid the truth or outright lied about my background to everyone in my life,” she stated.
Gann additionally claimed she “allowed half-truths and obfuscations to grow into outright lies” because she “genuinely wanted to commit to the work I was doing.”
The New York Post reported that Gann, who works as a 10th-grade teacher at the Workshop School, also said that she had stolen “resources from CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) and other movement orgs. I am so sorry for all the harm I have caused.”
The New York Post also revealed perhaps the most shocking thing about Gann’s background: not only is she a well-off white woman, but she’s also Jewish.
A staunch figure in left-wing activist circles in Philly, Gann portrayed herself as a mixed-race woman with black and Palestinian heritage. In reality, she is white and Israeli.
Much of her family still lives in Israel.
Gann was once so outspoken against the Jewish state that she was called “Philadelphia’s Leading Antisemite” on a mobile billboard parked outside the school where she worked. This raised more than a few eyebrows from those who knew her.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that one of Gann’s former classmates at the University of Pennsylvania revealed that she used to call herself “a white Jewish woman with family in the occupied West Bank.”
“I watched her sudden transformation after she returned to Philly from the Peace Corps [in Rwanda]. She was clearly making herself look darker using makeup and fake tan, and speaking using African American Vernacular English,” the classmate told the paper.
Here is more from the Post on how Gann’s huge lie got exposed for the world to see:
The race-faker was outed after a showdown with members of two local activist groups — the Racial Justice Organizing Committee and Philly Educators for Palestine.
“Members met with Hannah and questioned her about her background on Thursday, and after an hour of discussion, Hannah finally admitted she lied,” the groups told the Inquirer.
“We asked her to publicly acknowledge that she is a white woman of Jewish heritage and an Israeli settler family,” the organizations said, adding that they were “stunned, saddened, and angered by this betrayal.”
Advocating for individual rights and autonomy in medical decision-making, Americans for Health Freedom, sent an open letter on September 18, 2026, to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and President Donald Trump.
The signatories are publicly opposing the policies overseen by Secretary Kennedy and President Trump concerning the mRNA platform. This technology utilizes synthetic messenger RNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles to direct human cells to generate specific proteins aimed at preventing or treating diseases, a process that many leading medical experts consider dangerous and potentially lethal when introduced to the human body.
The letter explicitly states that “while the centerpiece of the MAHA and health freedom agenda has been removal of mRNA shots, [Kennedy and Trump] have failed to take decisive action on this front despite overwhelming credible evidence to the harm of this technology. Instead, [their] policies related to mRNA technology are neutered and self-defeating, putting pregnant women and children at risk, misleading parents and eroding their rights, and failing to help those harmed by vaccines.”
The Gateway Pundit spoke to Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, an Epidemiologist and Foundation Administrator at the McCullough Foundation. He explained the letter contends that the existing federal measures have not met the objectives of the health-freedom movement and demands the elimination of mRNA/gene-therapy-based vaccine technologies, the revocation of the COVID-19 PREP Act declaration, the repeal of the PREP Act, the cessation of pharmaceutical advertising directed at consumers, and reforms to tackle conflicts of interest and coercive healthcare incentives.
Hulscher stated that “the individuals who signed represent a coalition of 168 doctors, scientists, researchers, health-freedom advocates, and public personalities—together amassing more than 63 million followers on social media.”
He concurred with the letter’s assertions, stating that information from various reputable sources—such as more than 4,550 peer-reviewed articles, the Pfizer documents disclosed through Aaron Siri’s legal cases, the VAERS and V-safe databases, and data from international governments—indicates alarming rates of deaths and severe injuries linked to the mRNA vaccines, along with reproductive damage, which includes an estimated 400 percent rise in miscarriage rates.
The COVID-19 shot administered to military personnel utilized the mRNA technology. According to a report by The Gateway Pundit on Tuesday, the recent declaration from retired Army flight surgeon Lt. Col. Theresa Long reveals that she has direct knowledge of over 29 service member fatalities following the COVID-19 shot.
Lt. Col. Long is currently reviewing approximately 55,000 adverse event reports related to the shot, which include 2,544 accounts of death, raising concerns among many regarding the potential link to the mRNA shots.
“In light of these serious concerns and the collective voice of the signatories,” Hulscher argued, “it is evident that the call for a reassessment of mRNA vaccine technologies and related policies is not just a matter of individual rights, but a pressing public health issue.” For him, the overwhelming evidence of adverse effects associated with mRNA vaccine underscores the urgency for authorities to prioritize transparency and safety in medical interventions.
As the dialogue continues, he said, it is crucial that policymakers heed the warnings of the medical and scientific community, ensuring that the health and well-being of all citizens, particularly the most vulnerable, remain at the forefront of decision-making processes.
In Hulscher’s opinion, “This moment serves as a pivotal opportunity for reevaluation and reform, one that could ultimately reshape the landscape of healthcare autonomy and medical safety in America.”
Trump: UN Ignores Persecuted Christians, Demands US Open Borders, Enables Dictators
September 23, 2026
President Trump criticized the UN for tolerating the killing of Christians and allowing dictators to sit on its Human Rights Council while calling for the U.S. to open its borders.
Addressing the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 22, President Donald Trump accused the UN Human Rights Council of ignoring the persecution of Christians while criticizing U.S. immigration enforcement and restrictions on transgender procedures for minors.
“The craven hypocrites of the Human Rights Council have little to say about the persecution of Christians… or the crimes of the world’s most repressive regimes, yet they want America to open our borders to gangs and criminals from the world’s most dangerous places,” Trump said in his UN General Assembly address.
Departing from his prepared speech text, Trump added, “I mean, Christians are being persecuted all over the world. It’s not even believable — I never thought I’d say it, but it’s been happening for a long time.” On immigration, he said, “There is no human right to illegal immigration, but there is a right to remain a sovereign nation, and we want to remain a sovereign nation, and so should you.”
Trump has previously spoken out about the killing of Christians in Nigeria. On October 31, 2025, he wrote on Truth Social that “Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria” and announced that he was designating the country a Country of Particular Concern. The next day, he warned that the U.S. might intervene militarily and ordered the Pentagon to prepare for action. Open Doors’ 2026 World Watch List recorded 3,490 Christians killed for their faith in Nigeria out of 4,849 worldwide, more than 70 percent of the total.
In November, the U.S. Mission to the UN held an event on the violence. On December 25, U.S. forces struck ISIS militants in coordination with Nigerian authorities. U.S. personnel subsequently provided intelligence assistance and training. In May, a joint operation killed senior ISIS leaders, including Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, whom U.S. Africa Command identified as the group’s director of global operations. In July, AFRICOM commander Gen. Dagvin Anderson said the U.S. had withdrawn most troops deployed for the operation but continued intelligence support at Nigeria’s request. A U.S. Air Force C-17 delivered military equipment to the Nigerian Air Force in Lagos and Kainji in September under a foreign military sales agreement.
Congress also pressed Nigeria to protect Christian communities. In February 2026, members of the House Appropriations and Foreign Affairs committees recommended a bilateral agreement and implementation of provisions withholding funds from Nigeria’s government until it acted to stop the violence. In July, the House passed a State Department spending bill with an amendment by Rep. Greg Steube that would withhold all U.S. economic and security assistance until the secretary of state certified that Nigeria had taken effective steps to prevent and respond to violence and hold perpetrators accountable. The bill still had to pass the Senate.
Trump has repeatedly pressed European leaders to tighten their borders, linking mass migration to crime, including sexual assault. Arriving in Scotland in July 2025, he told reporters, “This immigration is killing Europe.” At the UN General Assembly that September, he warned European leaders that their countries were “going to hell.” At the NATO summit in Ankara in July 2026, he warned about immigration and energy policy: “If they’re not careful with those two things, you’re not going to have a Europe anymore.”
Spain became a focus after more than 70,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into its North African enclave of Ceuta on July 30 and 31. Ceuta’s chief prosecutor, Silvia Rojas, reported 23 sexual assaults since the crossings, nine involving children. A 29-year-old resident told CNN en Español, “Many women don’t want to, and can’t, go out alone.”
The State Department blamed Spain’s government for “deliberate efforts to enable and facilitate mass illegal migration into Europe.” Trump called the scenes an “invasion” and told Fox News, “Remember that picture. That’s going to be us in three years if the wrong side gets in.”
Trump has criticized the UN Human Rights Council for allowing dictatorships to hold seats on the body. At the 2017 General Assembly, he called it “a massive source of embarrassment to the United Nations” that governments with egregious human rights records sat on the council. The following June, after then-Ambassador Nikki Haley’s attempt to reform it failed, the United States withdrew. A White House fact sheet named Venezuela, Cuba, Burundi, China, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as council members with records of continual human rights abuses. At the 2018 General Assembly, Trump called the council “a grave embarrassment to this institution, shielding egregious human rights abusers while bashing America and its many friends.” On February 4, 2025, he signed Executive Order 14199, directing the U.S. to stop participating in the council and withhold its share of council funding through the UN regular budget. An accompanying fact sheet said Iran, China, and Cuba used the council to shield themselves from scrutiny despite their human rights records.
In Tuesday’s speech, Trump described U.S. action against Venezuela, where U.S. forces arrested Nicolás Maduro in Caracas on January 3. He cited an oil agreement signed in August with the government of interim leader Delcy Rodríguez, calling it “the largest oil deal in history.” Describing the Caracas operation, he said, “It was a war. To the victor belong the spoils.” He then warned, “The United States will no longer permit threats to America to gain a foothold anywhere in the Western Hemisphere — and if necessary, we will use our unmatched military might to secure the vital national interests of the United States.”
Turning to Cuba, Trump said its communist government faced “the biggest pressure they’ve ever been under” and predicted it would fall. “Communism will never be coming to America, but freedom will be coming to Cuba,” he said. On Iran, with which the U.S. and Israel have been at war since February 28, he presented a choice between a deal that would allow the country to rebuild and destroying the Islamic Republic, according to ABC News. The Cuban delegation and most of Iran’s delegation walked out during his remarks.
Trump also targeted other international bodies in the speech. According to UN News, he called on nations to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, which he described as full of evil people. He also criticized UNESCO, saying that UNESCO’s promotion of mass migration is destroying the cultural heritage the agency was created to protect.
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