Far-left Wisconsin gubernatorial contender Francesca Hong appeared to double down on resurfaced comments demanding that Thanksgiving be abolished, declining to walk back the post when confronted about it on national television.
"Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621," Hong wrote on X in a post she later deleted, according to Fox News.
"If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed indigenous folx [sic] and women, so be it," she added.
On Monday, Hong appeared on CNN's "The Source with Kaitlan Collins," where the Democratic socialist was pressed about her controversial comments.
"Do you still believe that Thanksgiving should be canceled?" Collins asked.
Rather than answer directly, Hong clumsily pivoted to her resume.
CNN: “Do you still believe Thanksgiving should be canceled?”
Francesca Hong: “I'm a chef, one of the first meals I made for the community was a Thanksgiving meal. But Thanksgiving is also an incredibly painful time for many people in our communities.” pic.twitter.com/R4PVClfGu2
"I'm a chef, and one of the first meals that I made that was for the community when I was 16 [years old] was a Thanksgiving meal," Hong said. "I always think my hospitality background in owning a restaurant for seven, eight years, that bringing folks around the table to share conversation and build community is always a good thing."
"But Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities," Hong continued. "And so I think there, I wanted to make sure that people understood that there are multiple views, but views can evolve."
"And the position that I'm running for right now, and I think my background as a chef will actually help me become a better governor that's able to bring more people to the table," she added.
The refusal to back down comes as Hong sits atop the Democrat primary field. A Marquette University Law School Poll conducted July 22 to 27 surveyed 407 Democrat primary voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 6.6%.
Hong led the field with 38%, followed by Mandela Barnes, who has since dropped out of the race, at 16%, David Crowley at 7%, and Joel Brennan and Kelda Roys at 2% apiece, with 34% of voters still undecided. When undecided voters who lean toward a candidate are counted, Hong climbs to 46%, Barnes to 21% and Crowley to 11%.
Oh and she also hates white people.
Anti-white Frannie Frowner also said she was also relieved her son looked more like his white father than her pic.twitter.com/fsWgwwooTk
— Wuhan Fourth Turning Swan (@TheWuhanClan) August 3, 2026 Tyler Durden Tue, 08/04/2026 - 22:10Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times,
A federal appeals court says Florida’s ban on children attending sexualized drag shows is constitutional. On Tuesday, the court overturned a lower court’s decision that had blocked the state’s law.
Hamburger Mary’s, a bar and restaurant chain that holds drag shows and previously held what it called “family friendly” performances for children on Sundays, sued the state over the ban. The chain claimed its law was unconstitutional, but judges on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed in an 8–5 ruling.
Judge Andrew Brasher, writing on behalf of the majority opinion, said, “We are convinced the district court erred” for two reasons.
“First, the district court lacked authority to impose a universal injunction that prevented the enforcement of the Act,” Brasher said.
“Second, Hamburger Mary’s was not entitled to even a more limited preliminary injunction to prevent the enforcement of the Act because its claims do not have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits.”
Lawyers for Hamburger Mary’s did not respond to a request for comment.
The restaurant claimed Florida’s 2023 Protection of Children Act violated the First Amendment’s protection of free speech.
The law would make it a misdemeanor for businesses to knowingly allow a child to an “adult live performance” that “depicts or simulates nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or specific sexual activities.”
The act further identified prohibited adult live performances as those that “predominantly appeal to a prurient, shameful, or morbid interest” and “taken as a whole, [are] without serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for the age of the child present.”
Businesses in violation of the Protection of Children Act could face suspension or loss of license as well as a $5,000 fine for a first offense and a $10,000 fine for each subsequent offense.
A district court previously sided with Hamburger Mary’s, granting a preliminary injunction that blocked enforcement of the law and applied it to all venues in the state.
Gov. Ron DeSantis petitioned for the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the injunction, but the justices refused.
“This shouldn’t even be controversial, yet our law protecting kids required us to fend off lawsuits and win a case before a divided appellate court,” DeSantis wrote in a post on X after the appeals court’s Tuesday ruling.
A three judge-panel for the 11th Circuit also sided with the restaurant in a 2–1 ruling last year, upholding the injunction. Writing for the majority in the three-judge panel’s decision in May 2025, Judge Robin Rosenbaum said the act “wields a shotgun when the First Amendment allows a scalpel at most.”
But the court granted a re-hearing en banc, meaning all the judges on the 11th Circuit could consider the district court’s injunction and the Florida law’s constitutionality, and issued its 8–5 ruling affirming the legislation.
“There is no doubt the Act is rational. We will not second-guess the Florida Legislature’s decision to regulate obscenity,” Brasher said in the majority opinion. “Preventing children from attending adult live performances obscene for them is rationally related to Florida’s interest in safeguarding the well-being of minors.”
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier praised the 11th Circuit’s decision, calling it a “huge victory.”
Judges writing in dissent of Tuesday’s decision gave sharp criticisms of the majority’s ruling, accusing the state of giving no assistance to businesses of what is age appropriate for a child.
Hamburger Mary’s, with no guidance, faces jail time, thousands of dollars in fines, and loss of its license if it guesses the standards of Florida’s law incorrectly, Rosenbaum said in dissent.
“As it turns out, chilling all drag performances when those under the age of eighteen are present appears to be the point,” she said. “In other words, Florida purposely created a mess-around-and-find-out statute to chill drag.”
Tyler Durden Tue, 08/04/2026 - 21:45The rise of physical AI is already underway, with humanoid robots entering factories, warehouses, and other industrial environments, and soon the modern battlefield.
Global shipments of humanoid robots are expected to accelerate in 2027, but the broader robotics revolution faces one critical chokepoint: access to the rare-earth magnets that power high-performance motors and actuators. China controls most of that supply chain.
Bernstein analyst Dien Wang told clients Monday that humanoid robots require an estimated 3.5 to 4 kilograms of rare-earth magnets per unit, compared with roughly 1 to 3 kilograms for an EV motor.
"A humanoid robot can consume more than twice as much magnetic material as an EV motor (Exhibit 3), highlighting the growing strategic importance of rare-earth magnets. Beyond well-known neodymium (Nd) and samarium (Sm), rare-earth elements such as dysprosium (Dy), terbium (Tb), and praseodymium (Pr) are also critical for magnetic performance (Exhibit 4, Exhibit 5). We therefore see the entire rare-earth magnet value chain as strategically important," Wang said.
Rare-earth magnets (NdFeB) are composed of multiple raw materials, including various rare-earth elements.
The magnets provide the torque density, compact size, and heat resistance needed for high-performance motors and robotic actuators.
Wang outlined that China's dominance in rare-earth magnets is troubling in an "increasingly multipolar world." He said there are only three conclusions to draw from this:
Rare-earth magnet value chain spans a series of technically demanding stages
China controls about 59% of global magnet rare-earth mining, 91% of refining and 94% of magnet manufacturing, according to the analyst.
The International Energy Agency expects China to retain more than half of mining and over 75% of refining through 2040, while recycling is unlikely to meaningfully reduce near-term supply risks.
Beijing has weaponized its dominance of rare earths as a geopolitical tool against the US. China imposed controls on seven medium and heavy rare-earth products in 2025, extended licensing requirements to some overseas transactions, and restricted exports to dozens of US, European, and Japanese companies.
Those 2025 measures caused an immediate, though temporary, collapse in Chinese magnet exports.
China/Asia Production of NdFeB magnets
Comparing with the US and Europe...
Here's how to profit across the entire magnet supply chain ex-China:
"As Physical AI emerges as a strategic battleground among leading nations, control of critical chokepoints could ultimately determine who gains the upper hand," Wang noted.
China may already hold a structural advantage in humanoid robot development, supported by its massive manufacturing ecosystem and dominance of the rare-earth supply chain. On Monday, Hugging Face's CEO told CNBC that China is winning the AI race and increasingly dominating open-source models. Taken together, these signals suggest the West's lead in AI might be eroding against China.
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Tyler Durden Tue, 08/04/2026 - 21:20