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A Democrat furry is running to represent Michigan’s 7th district in the US House of Representatives. 36-year-old Samuel Smeltzer, who calls himself "Elyon Badger," has made numerous controversial statements on social media and has celebrated the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Smeltzer is an LGBTQ activist, small business owner, and Michigan Army National Guard veteran, according to his campaign webpage. He is running on a platform that includes universal healthcare, legalizing marijuana, building a high-speed railway system, and free public college and trade school. On Bluesky, Smeltzer has advocated for rounding up "every single red hat wearing...

Where progressives have control, they impose upside-down world. Instead of throwing sociopaths in jail, police are investigated for challenging them. From Tucker, Georgia: A transgender woman said a DeKalb County Police officer accosted her after [he] used the women’s restroom at Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library. The media aggressively sides with the transgressing deviant, as indicated from the start by the use of factually incorrect pronouns. If only media moonbats were alone. The police department has opened an Internal Affairs investigation into the incident, according to a police spokesperson. That is, the cop is under investigation for asking a weirdo what...

Given their thoroughly documented proclivity toward violence, when mentally ill moonbats ram their transgenderism down other people’s throats, there is an implicit threat. Sometimes the threat is more explicit — even among schoolteachers. WSET reports from Danville, Virginia: A George Washington High School teacher has been placed on leave after [he] reposted a photo on [his] Instagram story. The photo shows a silhouette of a man with a rainbow gun pointed at the back of his head, with the caption “put the pronouns back in the email”. Speaking of pronouns, the media once again lies to our faces by using...

The sort of moonbats who killed Charlie Kirk pay tribute to his memory in their own way: A bloody fight broke out near the University of California, Berkeley, on Monday afternoon, ahead of a Turning Point USA event on campus. While details are still unclear, TPUSA did not come looking for a physical altercation. Others apparently did. The event, which featured Dr. Frank Turek and Rob Schneider, marked the end of the “This Is The Turning Point” tour. It also marked the 2-month anniversary of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Many demonstrators wore keffiyehs and carried signs with left-wing messages....

Pharmaceutical companies likely would prefer advertisements for their newest wonder drugs to leave out mention of possible side effects, but the public has a right to know and that’s why television commercials expose viewers to long lists of things that can go awry, everything from “may cause pain at the injection site” to “may lead to thoughts of suicide” to “can cause death.” In that same spirit of informed consent, women should have the right to know what can happen to them after abortion. But in what can only be interpreted as a conspiracy of silence, lawmakers, media, and the...

As previously reported, Tish Hyman says she was kicked out of a Gold’s Gym after confronting a biological male who entered the women’s locker room while she was naked. Hyman, who identifies as a lesbian and outspoken advocate for women’s spaces, detailed the horrifying encounter on Facebook, where she described being naked and vulnerable when she turned around to find a man, dressed in “boy clothes” and lip gloss, staring at her. “This person told me he was a woman and demanded that I leave the women’s locker room. He said, “Straight women like dick, and they’re probably looking at...

Former New Hampshire state Rep. Stacie-Marie Laughton, once touted as the nation’s first openly “transgender” elected lawmaker, has pleaded guilty to federal child sex abuse charges. According to ABC affiliate WMUR-TV, Laughton, a 41-year-old male, entered the plea this month in a Boston federal courtroom to charges that included sexual exploitation of children. Prosecutors said Laughton conspired with his former girlfriend, Lindsay Groves, to exploit children at Creative Minds, a daycare center in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, where Groves worked. Groves admitted last month that in 2022, she photographed nude children under the age of five and sent at least four images...

Florida’s attorney general has launched a sweeping lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, accusing the nation’s largest abortion company of deceptive advertising that downplays the severe risks of chemical abortion pills. The lawsuit could potentially cost the pro-abortion organization up to $350 million in penalties. The 37-page complaint, filed last week under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, targets Planned Parenthood’s claims that the abortion drug mifepristone is “safer than Tylenol.” State officials allege the assertions are not only false but have endangered women’s lives and fueled billions in profits for the group, with a staggering 500% profit margin on...

Several years ago, I traveled to Amsterdam as part of the National Right to Life delegation for a multi-issue pro-family conference. The event brought together representatives from dozens of countries and organizations working in maternal health, children’s welfare, family policy, and religious freedom. Over the course of four days, the conference addressed a spectrum of bioethical concerns: euthanasia, adoption, trafficking, and the global expansion of abortion access under the guise of reproductive health. Our delegation included Dr. Wanda Franz, then president of National Right to Life, and her husband, Dr. Gunter Franz, as well as Olivia Gans. We installed NRLC’s...

@BethRigby Chatter has been swirling for days about a challenge to Starmer. As per @patrickkmaguire, I was also told this week by PM allies that Starmer will fight any challenge to his leadership rather than stand aside as No 10 operation goes on the attack ahead of a difficult Budget. The argument being made by PM allies is that any challenge would precipitate a drawn-out leadership election process, will spook the markets, and only create more chaos and further damage Labour brand. Am told that the PM is determined to fight on and has no intention of giving way just...

A University of Toledo Medical Center surgery resident has been suspended from practicing medicine in Ohio after admitting to secretly obtaining and administering abortion drugs to a pregnant woman. The Ohio State Medical Board on November 5 issued an emergency suspension of Dr. Hassan-James Abbas’ medical license, finding “clear and convincing evidence” that his actions posed “an immediate danger” to the public. The board’s notice detailed Abbas’ alleged use of his estranged wife’s personal information to order the drugs and his subsequent forcible administration of them to his girlfriend, who had refused an abortion. The woman, who is seeking a...

The unidentified suspect approached a woman sitting on a bench at the UIC-Halstead CTA Blue Line stop in the city's Near West Side at around 11.14pm on Saturday. He then took a knife out of his backpack and stabbed the woman in the chest. The man then fled the scene northbound on South Morgan Street - but not before being caught on surveillance footage with the apparently bloody knife still in his right hand. Police described the suspect as an African American male who stands approximately six feet tall and weighs between 160 to 180 pounds

A tailored approach of vitamin D3 supplementation in patients who have suffered a heart attack significantly reduces their risk of a second heart attack, a new study finds. In a large, randomized clinical trial, researchers found that treating heart attack patients in a "target to treat" fashion, where patients' blood levels of vitamin D were monitored and vitamin D3 dosing adjusted to achieve optimal levels, cut their risk of a second heart attack in half. The study, called the TARGET-D trial, enrolled patients from April 2017 to May 2023 and included 630 patients who had a heart attack within a...

Warren Buffett bid farewell to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, announcing his retirement and reflecting on a lifetime of success, luck, and partnership with Charlie Munger. At 95, he praised Omaha’s influence, shared lessons on humility and perseverance, and expressed full confidence in Greg Abel to carry forward Berkshire’s enduring legacy.In a heartfelt farewell note to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders dated November 10, Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, announced that he will no longer pen his iconic annual letters or address the company’s annual meetings. The legendary investor, now 95, took a reflective look back at his journey, from his early days...

It's well known that exercise is good for your brain. For years, scientists have shown even a single session of heart-pumping activity can sharpen executive function—the mental skills we use to plan, focus attention, remember instructions and juggle tasks. But what happens when movement isn't an option? Matthew Heath and his team set out to determine if they could elicit the same exercise-induced brain response in a way that doesn't require movement. They studied a technique called intermittent hypoxia, a method that temporarily reduces the amount of oxygen a person breathes, then restores it to normal, repeating the cycle over...

John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, is running for Congress, launching a campaign to replace retiring Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler. The 32-year-old Democratic influencer announced his candidacy on his Instagram page, saying in part, "There is nowhere I’d rather be than in the arena fighting for my hometown. Over the next eight months, during the course of this campaign, I hope to meet as many of you as I can. If you see me on the street, please say hello. If I knock on your door, I hope we can have a conversation. Because politics should be personal. Thanks more...

Traces of a monumental building thought to be at least 5,000 years old have been discovered at the Kani Shaie archaeological site, which is located in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains in northern Iraq, according to a statement released by the University of Coimbra. Researchers from the University of Coimbra, the University of Algarve, the University of Cambridge, and the Slemani Antiquities and Heritage Directorate think that the building may have been used as a temple. They note that it was decorated with wall cones, which are typically found in monumental architecture in Uruk, an early Sumerian metropolis in...

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@RupertLowe10 I've just been attacked by both Polanski [Green Party] and Corbyn [Former Labour leader] over my calls to implement a hostile environment for illegal migrants - what a duo. @ZackPolanski says I should be 'absolutely condemned', calling it 'nasty' and 'cruel'. @jeremycorbyn says it's 'utterly repulsive'. Okay lads, if you say so. I am very much of the view that allowing hundreds of thousands of unvetted young men from cultures that actively hate women, and us, to roam our streets is absolutely mental. Do I think that placing unchecked Eritrean and Afghan men in communities all around the country...

Representative Eric Swalwell and his staff were silent when asked if the Congressman planned to comment on his endorsement of the first transgender-identifying woman to hold state office who was arrested in June for distributing child pornography. 39-year-old Stacie Laughton, who formerly went by his male name Bruce, was the first state transgender-identifying representative in the state of New Hampshire. Laughton was arrested and charged in June for soliciting pornographic images of children from his partner who was a daycare worker at the time. The former representative is facing one count of sexual exploitation of minors and aiding and abetting...