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Following the adoption of legislation letting inmates identify their sex and choose where to be housed, risky sexual behavior has become rampant in California women’s penitentiaries, according to an inmate activist. At the California Institution for Women in Chino, for example, HIV positive transgender “women” are having sex with biological women, said Amber Jackson, an inmate there. “What kind of human being would intentionally cause harm by placing a number HIV-infected, anatomically male prisoners among the female prisoners?” Jackson asked. In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill, authored by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), requiring California to house inmates...

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul demanded an investigation on Friday into the National Security Agency after Fox News host Tucker Carlson accused the government body of spying on his show and unmasking his email correspondence. On Wednesday, the popular TV personality claimed the NSA illegally leaked private messages to members of the media after a report from Axios said Carlson contacted the Kremlin to arrange an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Late last month, Carlson initially alleged the NSA was spying on his program in an attempt to remove his show from on-air broadcasting. "I write to you to demand...

Voters in battleground districts are overwhelmingly concerned about inflation and the rising cost of living, according to a recent poll commissioned by the American Action Network to show to the House Republican leadership this week. Eighty-eight percent of the respondents said they are worried about the rising cost of living, and 53 percent had said they were extremely or very worried. When asked about the rising inflation, 86 percent of the respondents said they were worried, and about half (50 percent) of the respondents said they were extremely or very worried.

Attorney and legal scholar John Eastman joined Steve Bannon on The War Room on Monday morning. Steve and John Eastman discussed Arizona Senate President Karen Fann’s OAN interview over the weekend. Fann suggested that the Arizona Senate does not have the authority to replace the electors in the state of Arizona. Eastmen told Steve Bannon: “We can point to Section 2 of Title 3 of the United States Code that says when a state has had an election and has failed to make a choice on the day that was prescribed by law, meaning the choice that was made, the...

Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Friday his deputies will not actively enforce the mandate, saying requiring vaccinated people to wear masks “is not backed by science and contradicts the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.” Solis said that the LA County mask rule is “not punishment, it’s prevention.” But some vaccinated residents said it felt like they were being penalized despite doing the right thing. “It feels like the the burden of the unvaccinated is being placed on the vaccinated,” Glendale resident Justin Sevakis told ABC7. “It’s like there are people that don’t have common sense and so therefore...

The US government is reportedly investing millions of dollars to breed more monkeys in the name of biomedical research after a shortage of the animals worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the scientific journal Nature, demand for the non-human primates in the US has skyrocketed as the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued grants to study HIV/AIDS and the coronavirus necessitated the animals’ use in vaccine testing last year. The publication reported Thursday that the NIH had invested around $29 million over the past two years in primate housing and care in addition to other “infrastructure improvements” at...

The American Academy of Pediatrics said Monday everyone older than 2 should wear masks in schools this fall, vaccinated or not Research consistently shows opening schools in person doesn't generally increase community COVID transmission when masks and other protocol are employed, AAP says, and the emergence of more contagious variants, some of which are linked to more severe outcomes, poses a particular threat to people who aren't vaccinated. Sonja O’Leary, chair of the AAP Council on School Health, said in a statement. “The pandemic has taken a heartbreaking toll on children, and it’s not just their education that has suffered...

Those who minimize the Civil War (based on a racialist agenda denying America's arc toward freedom) are trumpeting its significance to magnify election disputes.It was always a mistake to treat the ravings of a man who once told African Americans that Mitt Romney would “put y’all back in chains” as having credibility on racial issues or history. When then-Vice President Joe Biden uttered that hyperbolic lie during a 2012 campaign speech, that sort of calumny against Republicans seemed to embarrass even partisan Democrats.Republicans skewered his claim that a GOP stand on financial regulatory policy was the harbinger of the return...

Alameda County Superior Court officials on Friday announced they are reinstating a mandatory mask requirement for anyone entering a county court facility, regardless of their vaccination status. The public health officials said the recommendation, which stopped short of a mandate in all indoor public spaces throughout the counties, is meant to help protect unvaccinated residents who are much more likely to contract the virus and be hospitalized.

Op-Ed: "Francis Has Unleashed a War: It Will End With the Full Triumph of Tradition." Roberto de Mattei)Traditionis custodes: a war on the brink of the abyssRoberto de MatteiCorrispondenza RomanaJuly 19, 2021 The intent of Pope Francis’s motu proprio Traditionis custodes, of July 16, 2021, is to repress any expression of fidelity to the traditional liturgy, but the result will be to spark a war that will inevitably end with the triumph of the Tradition of the Church. When, on April 3,1969, Paul VI promulgated the Novus Ordo Missae (NOM), his basic idea was that within a few years the...

(File Photo, July 2016) Robby Steinhardt joined fellow Kansas band member Kerry Livgren for a fundraiser in Topeka's NOTO arts district.(WIBW) ============================================================================ TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - One of the founding members of the band Kansas has passed away. According to a post on Facebook, violinist/vocalist Robby Steinhardt died Saturday, July 17, 2021, at Tampa General Hospital. Steinhardt’s wife Cindy posted the following to her Facebook page: “Our final journey started May 13 when Robby was admitted into the hospital with acute pancreatitis. Later that night he went into acute septic shock and was placed on life support. Outlook was very...

Jerome Adams, former Surgeon General under former President Donald Trump, said the U.S. should prepare for “more mitigation” strategies “including masks” to counteract the slow pace of vaccinations. Adams warned of the delta variant on Sunday, and said it is crucial to “be honest” with people about its spread and the “consequences of stagnation in vaccinations.” “Health officials do all they can to protect us and preserve hospital capacity, but if we can’t get more vaccinated, their next best tool is masking,” he said, adding that people need to begin to prepare for further mitigation strategies, which includes masking up...

The biggest sources of sex stereotypes and strict gender roles are the trans movement and its allies, insisting girls who like 'boy' things must actually be boys.Sometimes transgender propaganda is too honest for its own good. For example, Loudoun Now, a weekly newspaper in Virginia’s Loudoun County, just ran a horrifying story encouraging gender dysphoria in children. The piece focuses on seven-year-old Sophia, now pretending to be a boy named Max, and her mother Emily (the unnamed father is almost entirely absent from the article). It was meant to boost transgender ideology in an area that has become a battleground...

Thirsty punters, spendthrift shoppers and jubilant clubbers toasted England’s “freedom day” easing of Covid restrictions on Monday, even as many others saw little to celebrate. The end to limits on social mixing came as a relief to the hospitality, retail and events industries after more than a year of meagre takings The government says a mass vaccination campaign justifies the move, but a resurgence in virus cases has prompted widespread concern among scientists both at home and abroad. Nightclubs had been shut since March 2020, and many reopened at the stroke of midnight. For those filling Bar Fibre in the...

A new study, Prevalence of syphilis among men who have sex with men: A global systematic review and meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020, released today highlights the unacceptably high global prevalence of syphilis among men who have sex with men and underscores the need to advance stalled progress toward eliminating syphilis as a public health threat by 2030. Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection (STI), is caused by the bacteria Treponema pallidum. The study led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK and published in The Lancet Global Health presents the first global syphilis prevalence estimate among...

NEW: Frito-Lay workers reveal that they’ve worked up to 5 months straight without a day off, and that multiple coworkers—driven to exhaustion—have died by suicide. Their strike in Topeka is gaining nationwide attention. Now Frito-Lay workers in other states are speaking out. pic.twitter.com/yppQ8iPn3n — More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) July 19, 2021 Forced overtime at Frito Lay. Full details here… https://www.wibw.com/2021/07/16/frito-lay-says-strike-unnecessarily-puts-employees-risk-hardships/

Los Angeles school teacher Glenn Laird has been a union stalwart for almost four decades. He served as a co-chair of his school's delegation to United Teachers Los Angeles and proudly wore union purple on the picket line. But Laird is now suing to leave UTLA and demanding a refund of the dues the union has collected since his resignation request. His turning point came in July 2020 when the union, the second largest teachers union in the country, joined liberal activists to demand that Los Angeles defund the police in response to Black Lives Matter demonstrations. “We have to...

Kurt Westergaard and I were successive winners of the Danish Free Press Society's Sappho Award. I was very flattered to find myself in his company, but couldn't honestly say I deserved to be. Kurt was one of the bravest men of our time - not because he was inclined to bravery, but simply because, when it was required, he met the challenge and never backed down. Sixteen years ago Flemming Rose of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten decided to conduct a thought experiment in public after an author casually revealed that he couldn't find any Danish artist willing to illustrate his...

As thousands of Cubans protest against the island’s communist regime, stringent gun control laws from Havana negatively impact their efforts. Whereas in the United States, it is common parlance to say the gun rights enumerated in the Second Amendment protect the all the other rights outlined in the Bill of Rights, in Cuba the people are not allowed any claim to a natural right to keep and bear arms. This creates a disadvantage as Cubans fight for freedom. The University of Syndey’s GunPolicy.org highlights the “restrictive” gun control measures in Cuba. Those controls include a ban on large swathes of...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) issued a sharp “hell no” to suggestions the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) should advise people to both get vaccinated and mask up amid the spread of the delta variant in the United States. “No. No. No. Hell NO,” the Texas senator said in response to a suggestion from Jerome Adams, former surgeon general under former President Donald Trump, who made waves over the weekend after stating that both he and Dr. Anthony Fauci “famously, prematurely, & wrongly advised against masks”: