Disney debuts first-ever LGBTQ love song on 'High School Musical' TV show

Disney is featuring its first-ever LGBTQ love song on Friday's episode of "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series," EW reported.

The episode, which streams on Disney+, depicts Carlos (Frankie Rodriguez) singing a love song titled, "In a Heartbeat," to his boyfriend Seb (Joe Serafini), the outlet said.

EW said the "sweet ballad" is performed "when Carlos learns Seb feels insecure in their relationship."

What's more, the actors are a real-life couple, the outlet noted — and Rodriguez said he was excited to be part of Disney history.

"To be the first, it's kind of crazy!" Rodriguez told EW in a joint interview with Serafini. "I just love that we actually got to see them as a couple this year."

Rodriguez added to the outlet that their "onscreen kiss" was "so sweet."

Serafini noted to EW that he and Rodriguez "got to dance together, and I think the way that they designed it visually is just so gorgeous. And fun fact, the director of that episode, Joanna Kerns, is actually the person who directed our 'Homecoming' episode back in season 1 when Carlos and Seb first interacted with each other in a romantic setting. So it was really special to share that with her and go back to those Homecoming suits and that moment when they first set eyes on each other."

The outlet asked the pair how it feels "knowing that you are presenting this more inclusive picture of what a love story can look like more clearly for young audiences" — and Rodriquez was effusive.

"Oh my gosh, it feels amazing and obviously it's so needed," he told EW. "The fact that we get to be that representation that we definitely did not get to see growing up on a platform like Disney with a popular franchise, it means a lot. We definitely see the response, especially on social media of kids who have reached out and said, 'Your characters gave me confidence to be myself,' or 'Your characters gave me the confidence to come out.' Those are big, life-changing decisions, and so it's very special to be a part of someone's journey that way."

Serafini added to the outlet that "it's just so important to have people to look to, especially if you're in a situation or environment that's maybe less accepting, to see that, if I am feeling these feelings, other people are too and there's hope. There's someone to look towards. It's going to be okay, and hopefully, it will get better."

Here's a snippet of the song:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/disney-debuts-first-ever-lgbtq-love-song-on-high-school-musical-tv-show

Joe Biden Says Virus “Misinformation” on Social Media is “Killing People”

Joe Biden on Friday was asked if he had a message to platforms like Facebook while he was on the South Lawn of the White House about to board Marine One.

“What’s your message to platforms like Facebook?” a reporter asked Biden.

“They’re killing people,” Biden said. “I mean they’re really — look, the only pandemic we really have is among the unvaccinated and they’re killing people.”

Classic projection.

The US government actively suppressed information on affordable Covid treatments such as HQC and Ivermectin because they don’t make the pharmaceutical companies billions of dollars a year.

Thousands of people have died from the experimental Covid vaccines but that information is also being censored by the social media giants.

This is the new lie coming from the White House and the CDC (which is now an extension of the Biden Admin) in order to justify censoring Americans.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Friday sounded the alarm and warned of a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

Walensky’s warning comes as the Biden Administration sends goons door-to-door to harass unvaccinated Americans.

“There is a clear message that is coming through,” Walensky said during a Friday news briefing. “This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. We are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/joe-biden-says-virus-misinformation-social-media-killing-people-video/

Centreville Man Pleads Guilty to Coercion and Enticement of a Minor

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/centreville-man-pleads-guilty-coercion-and-enticement-minor

Pfizer Agrees to Pay $345 Million to Resolve EpiPen Pricing Lawsuit

Pfizer Inc has agreed to pay $345 million to resolve claims by consumers who claim they overpaid for EpiPens due to anticompetitive and unfair practices by the drugmaker and the company that markets the emergency allergy treatment, Mylan.

The proposed class action settlement was disclosed in a filing in federal court in Kansas City, Kansas. The deal, which requires a judge’s approval, would not resolve claims against Mylan, which is scheduled to face trial in January.

Paul Geller, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said they were “pleased that Pfizer resolved its part of this class-action lawsuit over the pricing of EpiPens.”

Pfizer, which did not admit wrongdoing, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The EpiPen is a handheld device that treats life-threatening allergic reactions by automatically injecting a dose of epinephrine.

The litigation followed a public outcry in 2016 after Mylan, which owns the rights to market and distribute the devices, raised the price of a pair of EpiPens to $600, from $100 in 2008, putting it in the center of an ongoing U.S. debate over the high cost of medicines.

The lawsuit accused Mylan and Pfizer, which manufactured the EpiPen for Mylan, of engaging in anticompetitive conduct that allowed them to maintain a monopoly over the market for the devices and their profitable revenues.

The settlement came after U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree last month dismissed much of but not all of the claims against Mylan.

The remaining antitrust claims concern a patent settlement the plaintiffs say delayed the launch of a generic epinephrine auto-injector. Mylan has said it “firmly believes that Mylan’s conduct was lawful and pro-competitive.”

Mylan in 2017 agreed to pay $465 million to resolve U.S. Justice Department claims it overcharged the government for the EpiPen.

https://www.ntd.com/pfizer-agrees-to-pay-345-million-to-resolve-epipen-pricing-lawsuit_644334.html

Some 114,000 Western German Households Without Power After Floods

FRANKFURT—Heavy floods in western Germany had left 114,000 households without power on Friday, said a spokesperson for Westnetz, the country’s biggest power distribution grid company.

The death toll rose to more than 80 on Friday in what is Germany’s worst mass loss of life in years as further flooding was feared in western Germany as a breach at another dam loomed.

“All available employees are on site and are working under high pressure to restore supplies,” the Westnetz spokesperson said in response to an enquiry.

The company, part of the E.ON group, operates a grid that spans large parts of the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, but not the cities of Cologne, Wuppertal, and Duesseldorf. It supplies around 7.5 million with power, gas, water, and heat.

Days of constant rain in the area have caused river levels to rise sharply and softened the ground, and further flooding is feared.

Entire communities lie in ruins after river water swept through towns and villages.

Westnetz said that power substations and transformers were switched off when flooded.

Some are now hard to reach for testing, cleaning, and repair work because many roads are still flooded or damaged.

Some installations which suffered major damage can be temporarily replaced by switching to alternative supply sites, or to emergency generators.

https://www.ntd.com/some-114000-western-german-households-without-power-after-floods_644276.html

McEnany: ‘My mouth dropped open’ when Psaki said this

New Zealand's prime minister positions her government as the Ministry of Truth

I saw a movie once, I can’t remember what it was called, not a very good one, but the conceit in the movie was someone who could see the future, but only a few minutes into the future. Not days or weeks or even years. And before the great adventure in the movie happened, he was wasting away his days in a casino as an entertainer, and during his breaks he played blackjack, because his magical powers allowed him see into the future just enough to know what the dealer’s cards would be.

So seeing into the future a few minutes was still pretty useful.

So let me show you a video that will show you a future so close it might already be here now. It’s from New Zealand; it stars the prime minister of New Zealand, a woman who is named Jacinda Ardern. She got her training as the president of the International Socialist Youth, I kid you not. Training in New York and London, and then going back to New Zealand to make that country a little bit of an experiment in socialism and globalism.

It won’t shock you to know that the former president of socialist international youth is a big fan of Communist China. It might shock you too know that her party is funded by Chinese Communists, and that her government has been accused of leaking Five Eyes security secrets to China — Five Eyes is the name given to the superfriends of allies — Canada, the U.K., U.S., Australia and New Zealand, the five closest allies.

Here’s a story in the Daily Mail just a couple of months ago; let me read the first part:

China's communist regime celebrates Jacinda Ardern's attempts to drift away from Five Eyes intelligence network - as Beijing heaps praise on the 'cooperative' New Zealand leader

• Communist Party mouthpiece heaps praise on New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern

• The Kiwi leader's government has publicly voiced concerns about Five Eyes

• China has been locked in a diplomatic spat with Australia over the past year

• New Zealand is only Five Eyes nation to not condemn Hong Kong crackdown

Yeah. So that’s New Zealand. The harshest gun control in the free world. The harshest censorship rules in the free world. Both of which Justin Trudeau is only too happy to follow. And, it won’t surprise you to hear, the harshest lockdowns in the world. Yes, Canada has the longest, especially in Toronto. But New Zealands are the most insane; they have a zero-COVID approach, which means a single case — someone has a cough, not even in a hospital — and they lock the whole place down.

It won’t work; it can’t work; you can never defeat viruses down to zero; it’s been a million year war between humans and viruses, and our immune system has generally won; you can’t take it down to zero and still have people be people — travel, meet, live.

Unless you’re a kooky Maoist.

But the thing about Maoism — about being funded by China, and praising China, and not condemning China, and generally being colonized by China — is that in the end, you have to adopt China’s brutal ways to shut down dissidents. Because not everyone in a country, even one as quirky and socialist as New Zealand, wants to live unfree. Some kiwis still love their legacy of freedom inherited from the U.K. and western civilization.

So what do you do about people who don’t listen? Who disagree? Well, you silence them. You censor them. And you set up a ministry of truth, as it’s called in Orwell’s book, 1984.

https://www.rebelnews.com/ezra_levant_show_july_15_2021

Soros Wants U.S. To Take Millions of ‘Climate Change’ Refugees

Will Joe Biden accept the findings of this report by a George Soros-funded group – Refugees International – and use it as an excuse to bring millions of “climate change refugees” into the United States?

For those who find this an incredible possibility, please read the report rather than take our word for it. Instead of cherry-picking a few quotes, we’re providing the link to the entire report to judge for yourself what’s being planned.

https://reclaimingamerica.net/soros-wants-u-s-to-take-millions-of-climate-change-refugees/

Chinese Communist Tech Attempts To Buy US Army Simulation Developer.

Tencent – a tech firm flagged as a “tool” of the Chinese Communist Party – is attempting to buy a German game developer used by Western countries to conduct military simulations.

The tech company, which counts former Obama campaign directors as lobbyists and Biden White House members as investors, is reportedly offering over $350 million for the company Crytek.

First revealed by the German newspaper Bild, the potential acquisition has led to “fear that the Chinese want to use the “CryEngine” developed by Crytek to produce war simulation programs for the Chinese army.”

“With these, China could rehearse the war against Taiwan and the West more realistically than ever before,” the report adds.

Such concerns are not misplaced, as the U.S. State Department has highlighted the tech firm’s close ties to the Chinese government, labeling it a “tool of Communist Party influence and control.”

As the State Department notes:

Significantly, the modern “China Model” is built upon a foundation of technology-facilitated surveillance and social control. These techniques for ruling China have been – and continue to be – in critical ways developed, built, and maintained on behalf of the Party-State by technology firms such as Huawei, Tencent, ZTE, Alibaba, and Baidu. As these companies export their products and services to the rest of the world, the security and human rights problems associated with this “China Model” are progressively exported with them.

“China could spy on how Germany, the US, and other countries simulate military conflicts Because both the US Army and the German Armed Forces use the CryEngine for their military simulations and training programs for their soldiers,” Bild adds.

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/tencent-to-buy-military-tech-simulator/

Trump Spokeswoman on AZ Audit Revelations: “A Crime Was Committed on Nov. 3rd – This Is a Fraud – Election Never Should Have been Certified”

Donald Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington joined Newsmax on Friday to discuss the explosive revelations announced at the Arizona Senate Audit hearing on Thursday.

Liz Harrngton: What I just heard described was a crime was committed on November 3rd and a cover-up has been happening ever since. They didn’t get the envelopes. They also have 74,000 ballots with no record that they were ever sent. This is an election that they claim was decided by 10,457 votes. Well, nearly 4,000 votes should be thrown out immediately because yesterday we learned that they voted even though they registered after October 15th which was against the court-ordered deadline. This is a fraud. We cannot allow it to continue… This election never should have been certified. It certainly shouldn’t have been called for Joe Biden on Election night.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/trump-spokeswoman-az-audit-revelations-crime-committed-nov-3rd-fraud-election-never-certified-video/