BBC gets CRUSHED over woke article claiming new fingernail trend is white supremacist 'erasure'
The woke intelligentsia has identified yet another seemingly innocuous instrument of white supremacist oppression that literally emanates from your fingertips.
A bizarre article published by the BBC claims that a trending practice in which women's nails are left unpainted is actually a racist plot against minorities.
'When I do get a manicure now, it’s no polish. Why? Because I’m old and tired. Not because I joined the KKK.'
The article cites Kristina Rodulfo, a beauty journalist, who links the bare-nail trend to racism.
"That trend really promotes blankness and this kind of sameness and erasure of culture and identity that is so important to black and brown communities," she said.
"They are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate white supremacist standards of beauty," Rodulfo added.
The article goes on to enumerate far less extremist reasons for the trend.
"It's just really chic. And I love less is more, I love minimalism ... less consumerism and just self-care things that you could probably do at home," said one woman who chose the unpolished look.
Critics latched onto the white supremacist comment to mock the BBC and the author.
"This is the most absurd story ever and it demeans the BBC to be reporting as 'news' that going without nail varnish is (apparently) classist and racist," said arts writer Alexandra Wilson.
"I got manicures for short to mid length red nails, every two weeks for decades. Decades!" responded one woman. "I simply got tired of doing it. And that is why I have bare nails. When I do get a manicure now, it’s no polish. Why? Because I’m old and tired. Not because I joined the KKK."
"So if you actually can't keep a manicure bc you spend your days doing laundry and dishes, or can't afford one, or are too busy working and taking care of kids to do your own, you are a white supremacist. Yes, that totally makes sense," said another sarcastically.
"I cant believe my bare nails are a political statement. I dont get em done because I dont want to sit in a badly ventilated chop shop full of carcinogens every 4 weeks risking blood and skin infections due to poor hygiene," replied another critic.
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"According to BBC breathing is racist, eating is racist, sleeping is racist, not polishing your nails is racist," read another response.
The national broadcaster is reportedly in financial straits and has been forced to cut shows, lay off workers, and threaten cutting off services.
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Democrats ERUPT after Trump shuts down LGBTQ+ policy from Biden
The Trump administration has shut down an extension of special protections for certain LGBTQ+ members imposed under former President Joe Biden, and Democrats are imploding.
In 2024, Biden included sexual orientation and gender identity under the categories that would be protected under Title IX in the policies at the Department of Education.
'Trump is once again attacking the civil rights protections that help make our country great.'
According to the Department of Education, "The Biden administration’s Office for Civil Rights pushed schools across the country to illegally allow males to intrude into women’s sports and intimate facilities, and it investigated school staff for using incorrect pronouns or failing to ask students to declare a preferred gender.
The Trump administration has now ended those policies and "returned to enforcing the first Trump administration’s 2020 Title IX rule," the Education Department press release said.
"Thanks to today’s action, the published Title IX regulations faithfully reflect[] court orders and congressional intent — reducing confusion for parents, students, and educational institutions," said a statement from Linda McMahon, the secretary of education.
The Human Rights Campaign issued a statement implying that the change would result in more sexual violence in schools.
"The Trump administration is erasing protections for LGBTQ+ kids and survivors of sexual assault in school settings without an opportunity for public comment," the organization said. "Trump’s Department of Education has abandoned its duty to protect students from sex discrimination and sexual violence in schools."
Others pounced on the announcement to attack the president.
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We’re officially restoring Title IX’s original promise under the Trump Administration’s 2020 rule—bringing back clear, commonsense protections. Girls’ sports are for girls, and boys’ sports are for boys. pic.twitter.com/VX2FUn8ZUp
— Secretary Linda McMahon (@EDSecMcMahon) September 28, 2026
"Every day, this administration continues to target LGBTQIA+ kids," said Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington. "It’s incredibly harmful and does the exact opposite of what our shared goal should be: protecting kids. The LGBTQIA+ community and all our students deserve better."
"While the administration is unlawfully eroding protections for trans students under the guise of ‘protecting women and girls,’ they are systematically weakening the very laws that keep students safe and schools accountable," responded National Women’s Law Center director Shiwali Patel in a statement to Politico.
"Trump is once again attacking the civil rights protections that help make our country great. Illinois will remain a safe state for ALL students to pursue their dreams," replied Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D).
Republicans applauded the return to former policies.
"The Biden Administration’s rewrite of Title IX did immeasurable harm to women and girls by replacing biological sex with gender identity," replied Republican Rep. Mark Harris of North Carolina.
"Biological males do not belong in women’s locker rooms, on women’s teams, or competing in women’s sports. This action restores common sense and makes clear that schools must protect the safety, privacy, and opportunities of female students."
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Democrat gives nonresponse when forced to face uncomfortable truth about his party's lack of support
A possible 2028 presidential contender has been forced to respond to a poll showing how few Americans believe Democrats actually care about them.
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona was being interviewed on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday when host Martha Raddatz pressed him about a poll saying only 34% of Americans believe Democrats care about people like them.
Kelly tried to distract from the unpopularity of the Democratic Party by criticizing the president.
"What does that tell you, what do you do about it if people just aren't feeling it from the Democrats, if you're sort of a default or people stay away from the race?" Raddatz asked.
"Well, I'll tell you what I'm doing about it. I've been traveling across the country basically nonstop for the last six months," said Kelly.
He went on to list the states he's been visiting, including New Hampshire and South Carolina, and added that he'd been to a Navajo parade in Arizona.
"Just talking to people and trying to understand their challenges in their homes, in their schools, in their communities," he added. "We have to deliver, there's no question about that."
After refusing to answer the question, Kelly pivoted to attacking President Donald Trump over the conflict in Iran.
The nonresponse fit into an earlier exchange from the same show where Kelly tried to distract from the unpopularity of the Democratic Party by criticizing the president.
Video of Kelly's nonresponse was posted to social media by the official account of the Republican National Committee.
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While Kelly's trips to the Navajo parade may not ease Democrats' polling woes, the president's popularity has also taken a dive owing to high gas prices and the conflict in Iran.
Democrats are hoping to seize control of at least the U.S. House of Representatives in order to thwart Trump's legislative goals for the latter part of his second term.
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Democrats don't just want to take your firearms. They want your kids' BB guns too.
Democratic lawmakers and officials around the country are so desperate to disarm law-abiding Americans, they are now going after some toy guns.
With the backing of the March for Our Lives Foundation and the eponymous gun-grabber activist group of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), Democratic Rep. Kevin Mullin (Calif.) introduced legislation last week targeting certain air guns.
'They are literally coming for your Red Ryder.'
Federal law currently defines the term "firearm" as "(A) any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; (B) the frame or receiver of any such weapon; (C) any firearm muffler or firearm silencer; or (D) any destructive device."
Whereas a firearm utilizes burning gunpowder to launch projectiles, air guns — as the name suggests — use compressed gas to send projectiles down the barrel.
Although air guns are categorically not firearms, Mullin's bill would classify them as such if they launch .177 pellets, .22 caliber pellets, and .25 caliber pellets at an initial velocity of at least 800 feet, 500 feet, and 450 feet per second, respectively. Any air gun firing a metallic pellet above .25 caliber would also be designated as a firearm.
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If enacted, this bill would require that air gun purchasers undergo a background check.
The legislation would also require that the attorney general "publish ... guidance to assist manufacturers of lethal air guns in becoming federal firearms licensees, including assistance with the application process and on compliance with requirements for licensees, including serialization and record keeping requirements" within a year of enactment.
Mullin said that he introduced his so-called "Garrett's Law" after Garrett Edwards — a constituent who, though barred from possessing a firearm, committed suicide using an air gun.
Ann Edwards said in a statement that her deceased son experienced "late onset psychosis" and was "able to access a lethal airgun through Amazon."
'The attempted Australia-ification of the US continues.'
Since one mentally compromised constituent abused his freedom, Mullin evidently wants to restrict that freedom for all Americans.
"If a weapon is powerful enough to kill, it should be subject to the same commonsense safety standards as any other gun," stated Mullin. "It makes no sense that someone prohibited by law from purchasing a firearm can still walk into a store or go online and legally obtain an airgun capable of killing. This bill closes that gap and, hopefully, helps prevent another family from facing this kind of unimaginable loss."
"Lethal weapons should be treated like lethal weapons," said March for Our Lives Foundation co-founder Jaclyn Corin.
Daisy, the over-century-old American company behind the famous Red Ryder lever-action BB gun, noted on X that Mullin's bill would impact toy air guns like the Daisy 880.
"Their goal is to eventually include all airguns," said the company. "If passed it will treat airguns guns producing 'high velocity' as firearms."
"It bears watching very closely," added the company.
Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R) blasted Mullin's legislative initiative, stating, "The gun control lobby targeting BB and pellet guns is fundamentally unserious."
"Putting dangerous criminals behind bars and keeping them there is the #1 way to reduce violent crime, but leftists have convinced themselves that law-abiding gun owners are villains," added Lee.
"If you want to know how far gun-grabbers will go, they are now trying to reclassify BB guns as 'firearms,'" tweeted Young Americans for Liberty. "They are literally coming for your Red Ryder."
The National Association for Gun Rights suggested that this kind of legislation was a long time in coming.
"The attempted Australia-ification of the US continues," said the association. "Giffords and David Hogg's former gun control group are backing a bill to regulate air guns the same as firearms. This isn't a shock. We've said for years they'll never stop at firearms."
"They constantly point to places like the UK, Germany, and Australia as the model we should follow. Places that regulate knives with a point and make you register airsoft guns with the government," added the association.
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New York Magazine gets TORCHED for putting Elliot Page on the cover of its debut 'men's style' issue
The editors of New York Magazine decided that the person best suited for its debut "men's style" issue is a transgender-identifying actor.
The magazine's photographer "kibitzed" with some of the "most stylish" men at the Russian and Turkish Baths in New York City, but many online were not impressed.
'The Spirit of the Age wants us to know it is mocking and scorning us.'
"When even 15-year-olds are 'hype' about Ralph and Armani’s got a brand-new designer — it feels like the right moment to dedicate an entire issue to the subject," read a post from the magazine on Monday.
While the other covers featured biological men, one cover was dedicated to Ellen Page, who now identifies as Elliot Page after undergoing transgender surgery.
Much of the response online expressed bewilderment at the choice.
"Where is the man here? I see a mentally ill, testosterone injected woman that had her breast surgically removed," said one account.
"Fueling Elliot Page's gender dysphoria is not helping her or others. She needs to abandon Hollywood before it destroys what's left of her. Or, y'all do it for them," said another critic.
"I feel like this is sabotage or something," said another user. "Everyone knows that most people are so sick of trans crap being centered and don't relate to it. And it's icky to a lot of normal people even. And her face looks like she is scared or like a prisoner. Not flattering."
"Way to just alienate more of the audience of men's style. This poor woman's body is destroyed because she's traumatized. Just sad," replied one detractor.
BlazeTV host Steve Deace responded to the discordant cover in comments to Blaze News.
"Publications like the New Yorker are not for us, but for the opposing culture that occupies this land mass along side of us," he said. "And putting Ellen Page on its 'men's styles' issue is a clear declaration of that, but also a declaration of war."
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"The Spirit of the Age wants us to know it is mocking and scorning us," Deace added. "Except it's really doing something much riskier — shaking its fist at an all-powerful God."
Page is best known for her female role in "Juno" and most recently in a male role in Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey."
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Mexican national accused of sexually assaulting woman on Mackinac Island
A Mexican national remains in custody in Northern Michigan after he was identified as the suspect in a sexual assault on Mackinac Island earlier this month.
Mackinac Island is a picturesque tourist destination located in Lake Huron between the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan. Some say going to Mackinac Island is almost like taking a "step back in time" with its breathtaking views, Victorian architecture, and strict prohibition of motor vehicles.
MIPD described Jaimez in the press release as 'a 30-year-old male from Mexico.'
According to a press release from the Mackinac Island Police Department, a woman was walking alone on Main Street, just east of Hoban Street, around 2:15 a.m. on September 16. At that point, a man forced her to the ground, sexually assaulted her, and then fled the scene on foot.
The woman was taken to the Mackinac Island Medical Center for treatment, the press release said.
Later that day, Carlos Adrian Fernandez De Lara Jaimez was identified as the suspect. Jaimez was arrested and booked into Mackinac County Jail in St. Ignace in the Upper Peninsula.
He is identified in his county booking photo as "Carlos Fernandez," though court records list Jaimez as his last name. A deputy confirmed to Blaze News that he remains in custody as of Monday afternoon.
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MIPD described Jaimez in the press release as "a 30-year-old male from Mexico." The county deputy could not confirm Jaimez's legal status but did note that surrendering his passport was one of the conditions of Jaimez's bond.
Jaimez has been charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct with personal injury, a felony. He was arraigned on September 18, when Judge Beth Gibson assessed him a $100,000 cash or surety bond, court records show.
Jaimez had a probable cause conference on Monday, though court records listed only "miscellaneous action" under the event description. He has a preliminary examination hearing scheduled for next Monday.
Jaimez's attorney and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment from Blaze News.
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Gay Atlantic writer whines to Bill Maher that LGBT extremism is blowing up support for homosexual 'marriage'
Popular support for homosexual "marriage" is plummeting — and liberals are beginning to panic.
James Kirchick, a gay liberal contributor to the Atlantic, suggested on Friday's episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher" that this waning popularity is in response to years of LGBT extremism.
'Gay men purchasing babies didn't help.'
A lesbian bar in Massachusetts recently made headlines after it became a target of local LGBT leftist hatred after operators announced on Aug. 31 that they were waiving the establishment's mask requirement just one night a week.
Maher highlighted the LGBT attacks on Greenfield's Last Ditch lesbian bar as yet another example of leftist intolerance. Kirchick said the story also illustrated the "growing divide between gay and lesbian people, and queer people."
"To be gay or lesbian is a sexual orientation. That's it," continued Kirchick. "To be 'queer' is to embrace a whole political orientation. There are straight people who identify as queer. It's about deconstructing gender, which is how you get in that [bar] story a lesbian who uses 'he/him' pronouns."
The Atlantic writer provided an example of the political and conformist nature of those in the "queer" camp, referencing California Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener's apparent excommunication over his lukewarm support for Israel.
When he tried to join the Trans March in June, Wiener — a radical homosexual activist who previously claimed that "the word groomer is categorically an anti-LGBTQ hate word," advanced a law that made California a sanctuary state for child sex-change mutilations, and advocated for exempting some adults who had sex with minors from automatically registering as sex offenders — was told, "You stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel," reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
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"There was a poll done two years ago, and it was a poll of the LGBT community — who identifies as what within the LGBT community," Kirchick told Maher. "About 15% identify as lesbians. About 21% identify as gay. Fifty-six percent identify as bisexual. ... 0.5% of LGBT people identify as queer."
Kirchick unironically asked, "Why are we allowing this 0.5% of the community to speak for all of us?"
"All this queer, trans extremism is having a real impact," he continued. "I mean, support for gay marriage has started going down."
According to a Gallup poll conducted in May, support for homosexual "marriage" is down six percentage points from the peak in 2022 and 2023.
The percentage of U.S. adults who said that same-sex "marriages" should be valid rose from 27% in 1996 to 71% in 2022, where it remained for another year. In 2024, however, the percentage dropped to 69%, and it has been declining in the years since.
The percentage of U.S. adults who say that gay or lesbian relations are morally acceptable has similarly begun to decline, dropping from 71% in 2022 to 62% this year.
The decline has largely been driven by changing attitudes among Republicans. Whereas 55% of Republicans said that they favored homosexual "marriage" in 2021 and 2022, the number is now 37%.
The liberal writer speculated that this decline in support is a "backlash to this queer extremism. And as a gay man, it's something I really worry about, frankly."
Katy Faust, founder and president of children's advocacy group Them Before Us, said in response to Kirchick's observation, "Queer definitely poisoned the well. But gay men purchasing babies didn't help."
Kirchick is hardly the only liberal concerned about declining support for homosexual "marriage."
Andrew Sullivan, an LGBT activist who has written for the New York Times, wrote in a July blog post, "On all questions gay and trans, the Dems are now entirely controlled by trans and 'queer' extremists."
Referencing the recent Gallup data, Sullivan added, "As someone who played a part in bringing those Republicans and moderates around to gay marriage, it’s distressing to see what the queer overreach has done — especially in red states."
Last month, Log Cabin Republicans dropped the "T" from its LGBT advocacy, recognizing the reputational damage that trans-radicals have done to the cause of their fellow non-straight activists.
Ross Hemminger, the president of the Log Cabin Republicans, argued that support for homosexual "marriage" is waning because many voters' "view of the gay community is based on today’s radical transgender activists with their unnecessary and discomfiting focus on America’s youth."
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