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Indigenous legend says Lake Victoria is a magical place, inhabited by powerful spiritual beings. Both feared and revered in pre-colonial Uganda, these demi-gods would commune with trans and pangender shamans, who are said to embody the divine masculine and feminine energies of the lake.

shared by the group shows.The Alien star was sitting in a chair onstage when the pair inched their way toward center stage and into the spotlight and fired off a confetti cannon.“We’ll have to stop the show, ladies and gentlemen, sorry,” a voice offstage calls out.The audience then let out a fury of boos as a stagehand came out and told Weaver to exit the stage before walking over to the disruptive protesters.“Get off!” someone can be heard yelling from the crowd.The stagehand appears to convince the pair to remove themselves, and audience members briefly cheer as they are escorted off stage.Just Stop Oil eco-idiots storm stage as film star Sigourney Weaver performs pic.twitter.com/1gVxMgxX1KThe protesters — Hayley Walsh, a mother of three, and Richard Weir, a mechanical engineer — disrupted the show because they were “demanding the UK government phase out fossil fuel burning by 2030,” a statement released by Just Stop Oil revealed.“The pair could be seen holding a sign which read ‘Over 1.5 Degrees is a Global Shipwreck’, referring to the recent announcement that 2024 was the first full year over the 1.5-degree safe limit for global temperature rise. World Leaders stated they would aim to keep the world below 1.5 degrees of warming at the Paris Agreement in 2015,” the activist group shared.Walsh, 42, said she decided to participate in the protest because “1.5 degrees is a global shipwreck we can’t ignore.”“I am scared for my children, I can’t sleepwalk them into a future of food shortages, life-threatening storms and wars for resources.

in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. When asked whether the “Happy” singer would lend his music to either party, Williams said he stays out of it. “I don’t do politics,” the singer/songwriter, record producer, and nonprofit founder said in the interview, published last Wednesday.

When he interviewed people for his man-on-the-street segments, Fox News personality Jesse Watters typically only got to talk to them for 10 minutes at most. Now that he’s a primetime host, he has even less time to get into it with interview subjects. That fact inspired his new book “Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe” (Broadside Books, Tuesday).“I wasn’t getting close to the core: Why do people believe things? How did they end up with their worldviews? What gave them these radical ideas?” he writes.“I set out looking to interview out-of-the-mainstream Americans. Not debate them, just listen to their life stories. I’d listen for two hours, three hours, sometimes four. What I found was that their maverick ideology was rooted in personal struggle. I’d always assumed someone’s political belief system was based upon the books they’d read or the media they’d consumed. Not entirely. A big factor in a person’s policy preference or political identity? Formative experiences in their youth.”He writes that “many of the characters I interviewed for this project had experienced drugs and alcohol early” and “almost all of them had disastrous parents.”The resulting book is divided into 22 chapters, each focusing on a extreme leftist and looking at not just what they believe but how they came to believe it. Have a look at three in this excerpt: THE OPEN BORDERS PROFESSORJoe Carens, a political science professor at The University of Toronto, is described as “one of the world’s leading political philosophers on the issue” of immigration.

21st birthday in New York City.Phoebe is the youngest daughter of tech mogul Bill Gates and his ex-wife Melinda Gates, and she isn’t shying away from the spotlight.The Stanford student currently has over 300,000 followers on Instagram, 70,000 on TikTok and she shares with her followers her love of fashion, feminism and selfies.She’s already made it clear she’s keen to carve out her own path.“OK, I’m my parents’ daughter, that gives me immense privilege, but it’s not what I’m defined by,” she expressed to WWD.For her milestone birthday, she was spotted in a mini pink dress, nude heels and her hair was pulled back into a ponytail.She looked like the third Jenner sister as she stepped out with both her famous parents, with her dad even taking to Instagram to pay tribute to his youngest child and share some sweet snaps of her growing up.“You’ll always be my little girl, but watching you do big things has never surprised me. I’m so proud of you,” the billionaire wrote.A quick scan of Phoebe’s social media gives you a significant glimpse into the world of what it is like to be a modern-day heiress.Her Instagram looks just like any other young girls except there’s a whiff of wealth that is impossible to relate to.Her feed is filled with the usual stuff you’d expect.

As the host of “GUTFELD!” on Fox News, Greg Gutfeld keeps viewers laughing with his nightly monologues and sharp takes on current events. He’s clearly doing something right; averaging about 2.5. million viewers, the show is currently the most-watched late-night show in the United States.

Monet painting in Sweden this week, claiming they are ruining everyone’s days with the actions, even those who agree with them on the issue.Co-host Joy Behar ripped the recent climate stunt as “annoying,” while co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed, calling it “counterproductive” for climate activists.Whoopi Goldberg rebuked the protestors, declaring that vandalizing art is “not your job,” even if the earth is suffering. The points came up while the co-hosts were discussing “Eat, Pray, Love” author Elizabeth Gilbert postponing the publishing of her new book, “The Snow Forest,” due to Ukrainian critics slamming it for being set in Russia.Though the book has nothing to do with Ukraine’s current ordeal at the hands of its invaders and merely provided Russia as a setting for the work, Gilbert delayed the release indefinitely, citing the pain of the oppressed Ukrainian people.The ladies disagreed with Gilbert caving to critics and mounted a defense of not stifling art simply based on the politics of the day.They then applied that point to the recent string of climate activists attempting to vandalize great western art in galleries across Europe.Most recently, two female climate activists were arrested in Stockholm, Sweden for throwing a paint-like substance on the classic Claude Monet painting, “The Artist’s Garden At Giverny” at Sweden’s National Museum this week.The painting was covered with glass, but museum staff have reportedly been analyzing the piece to see if any damage occurred.The attempted act of vandalism is one of many similar climate change protests, aimed to shock bystanders into taking the threat of climate change more seriously.Though even the liberal ladies of “The View” insisted that these protests miss the

On Friday, June 2, the Capital Pride Alliance honored LGBTQ leaders and trailblazers at its annual Capital Pride Honors ceremony, marking the start of Pride in the nation’s capital.Receiving the “Paving the Way” award was Admiral Rachel Levine, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health at the U.S.

watts.The actress, activist and unabashed Aries, wrote herself an Instagram birthday card this year and gave a tender shout out to her Saturn return for the punishing lessons it provided. Watson’s emoji description for her Saturn return included volcanoes, parachutes, zombies, cannonballs and coffins, same sis, same. If we make it through the gauntlet of youth, we experience our Saturn return, the astrological equivalent of a rite of passage into adulthood, around the ages of 27 to 31.

who died in 2014 at age 94, wrote or co-wrote “If I Had a Hammer,” “Turn, Turn, Turn,” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” He is also credited with popularizing “We Shall Overcome,” an anthem of the civil rights movement.“He was not only a champion of traditional American music, he was also celebrated as a unifying power by promoting a variety of causes, such as civil rights, workers’ rights, social justice, the peace movement and protecting the environment,” said Tom Foti, the postal service’s product solutions vice president.While Seeger, a lifelong activist, was exiled from commercial airplay in the 1950s and 1960s after an appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee for his Communist affiliations, his career never slowed and he continued to record and tour.He won Grammy Awards, was inducted into both the Songwriters and Rock and Roll halls of fame, and earned both the National Medal of the Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors.He remained an activist late into his life — walking through the streets of Manhattan leading an Occupy Movement protest in 2011.Seeger joins a long list of musical performers to appear on a US postage stamp, including Elvis Presley, Thelonious Monk, Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra.The Seeger stamps are sold in panes of 16 resembling a vintage 45 rpm record sleeve, according to the postal service.

announced the release of his sixth studio album “Justice” on social media Friday, along with a lengthy dedication to all the “people feeling helpless” in the world in 2021.The “Anyone” singer somberly addressed fans in a Twitter thread.“In a time when there’s so much wrong with this broken planet we all crave healing and justice for humanity,” said Bieber, who married Hailey Baldwin in 2018. “In creating this album my goal is to make music that will provide comfort, to make songs that people can relate to and connect to so they feel less alone,” he posted.“Suffering, injustice and pain can leave people feeling helpless.