Anti-Trans Stance Gets Bari Weiss Canceled

The editor of a TERFy news site was going to moderate a panel about "Lifestyle Choices." WTF? Plus: Anheuser-Busch's CEO comments on the Dylan Mulvaney scandal. And: Ja Morant caught with another gun.

Here are your promised but delayed and abbreviated Bedtime Stories for Sunday night/Early Monday morning for the second week of May 2023!

First, a look back:

ON MAY 14, 1948: The State of Israel was established.

The United States launched the world’s first space station, Skylab, on this day in 1973.

• WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN THE 50 YEARS SINCE SKYLAB? In orbit, bath wipes are better than showers, and more: PopSci.com

Frank Sinatra died of a heart attack in Los Angeles on this day in 1998.

LAST WEEK ON WALL STREET: The Dow and S&P 500 both gave up ground, but tech stocks pressed higher, hoisting the Nasdaq to a third straight weekly advance and its best weekly finish since August, reports Investors.com

Now, a look ahead:

GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS: Retailers Walmart and Home Depot lead the list of earnings reports in the week to come, reports Investors.com

American Craft Beer Week begins on Monday.

Lumières! Caméra! Action! The 76th Cannes Film Festival starts Tuesday.

The U.S. Senate launched the Watergate Hearings 50 years ago Wednesday.

Thursday is International Museum Day!

President Biden attends the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan on Friday.

Saturday is Armed Forces Day.

NEXT — My Exclusive Report:

HEALTHCARE TRADE GROUP CANCELS ANTI-TRANS PUNDIT BARI WEISS AFTER BEING BOMBARDED WITH COMPLAINTS: Organizers of this week’s gathering of the nation’s physician assistants announced they canceled the appearance of Bari Weiss, the anti-transgender author and editor of The Free Press, after what they called “member concerns.” 

• The news from the American Academy of Physician Associates comes just days before more than 6,200 PAs will gather in Nashville for their 2023 conference. A panel titled, How Lifestyle Choices Impact Your Brain Health and Overall Wellness, will go on without Weiss as moderator. 

• “Lifestyle Choices”?!? Devon Ojeda, the senior national organizer for the National Center on Transgender Equality, and a former healthcare worker, told the Los Angeles Blade they’re going to have more discussions with the AAPA, and not just to thank them for removing Weiss as moderator. “We’re going to ask for more change than that because this wasn’t right in the first place,” said Ojeda. “This is not just a lifestyle, this is not a choice. We don’t ask to be trans. We are born trans and there’s nothing wrong with us. It was very, very gross to see it on the Internet.”

• MORE TOMORROW IN RISEUP AND READ MY FULL STORY IN THE LOS ANGELES BLADE

Other News to Know:

TURKEY ELECTION LIKELY HEADED FOR RUNOFF: CNN

MILITARY-BACKED PARTIES LOSING TO YOUTH-LED PARTIES IN THAILAND: Al Jazeera

END OF TITLE 42 HASN’T TRIGGERED MASSIVE MIGRANT INFLUX (SO FAR): CNN

BUFFALO REMEMBERS RACIST ATTACK, ONE YEAR LATER: Associated Press

MEET TWITTER’S NEW CEO, LINDA YACCARINO: The Street

ANHEUSER-BUSCH’S CEO ADDRESSES BUD LIGHT AND DYLAN MULVANEY: Bottom line, he’s not even a little concerned. It’s fine. FINE.

• "With respect to the current situation and the impact of Bud Light sales, it is too early to have a full view — Bud Light's volume decline... would represent around 1% of our overall global volumes for that period," CEO Michel Dimitrios Doukeris said on the company's earnings call. "With this perspective and in the context of our global business, we believe we have the experience, the resources and the partners to manage this,” he said.

• "We will need to continue to clarify the facts — that this was one camp, one influence on a post and not a campaign," Doukeris added. He also said even thought Bud Light sales volume in the U.S. declined over the first three weeks of April, the U.S. isn’t their biggest market and they make plenty more money overseas. In fact, by raising prices over the last quarter, Anheuser-Busch saw its profit jump nearly 14% year over year to $4.76 billion. So, no worries. For now. —The Street

JA MORANT SUSPENDED FOR ANOTHER VIDEO WITH ANOTHER GUN: ESPN

• ESPN’S MICHAEL WILBON REACTS, TELLING HIS SON: “You can’t have the shoe. I’m not buying that shoe. You’re not buying that shoe. Our money, as a family, is not going toward that.” —Sports Illustrated

Star Trek Corner:

PICARD SEASON 3 HITS TOP 10 STREAMING SHOWS FOR 2ND TIME! Screenrant

WHO STALKED ADMIRAL JANEWAY IN SEASON 3 OF PICARD? Screenrant

• HOW TO VIEW EVERY SEASON OF EVERY STAR TREK SERIES: Click here to subscribe to Paramount+

That’s all for today! I’ll be back tomorrow with more news to help you rise up and start your day. Until then… Good night and good luck!

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