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Joe Biden's White House, through spokeswoman Jen Psaki, is threatening anyone who opposes his transgender promotions with the full power of the federal government through its Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services. According to Trending Politics she staked out a "take-no-prisoners" attitude regarding Biden administration demands that everyone adhere to its social-sexual agenda. "Across the country, as we've talked about a bit in here, Republican elected officials are engaging in disturbing, cynical trend of attacking vulnerable transgender kids for purely partisan political reasons," she claimed while promoting Biden's own partisan agenda. "Today, in Alabama, instead of focusing on...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has lost his ninth colonel in battle since launching his brutal invasion of Ukraine in February, as Moscow's losses continue to mount up. A funeral was held for Colonel Alexander Bespalov on Friday in the closed Russian city of Ozersk, according to a local announcement, which said he was killed 'during a special military operation in Ukraine' - a term used by Moscow to avoid saying 'war'. The statement said Bespalov was the commander of the 59th Guards Tank Regiment, and become the latest senior Russian military officer to be killed in the war that has...

A Chinese professor who works in the U.S. called on China to invade Taiwan with “our overwhelming troops and firepower” last week during a speech in Beijing. Professor Yi Li spoke to students at the Chaoyang District Party School in Beijing last Friday in which he praised the Russian military strategy in the ongoing invasion of Ukraine and suggested it serves as a model for how China can invade and “reunify” with Taiwan, according to his remarks shared on China’s WeChat social media platform. “We need to reunify with Taiwan province as soon as possible with our overwhelming troops and...

On April 8, 2024, the Great North American Solar Eclipse will cross the country, plunging a 124-mile-wide swath of land stretching from Mexico to Canada into night-like darkness. First, the crowds gather, spreading out picnic blankets, setting up lawn chairs and stringing up hammocks. There's a social, even jovial atmosphere until the sunlight begins to dim, and an unnerving shadow seeps across the entire landscape like a rising tide. The chatter quiets as eyes lift to the sky. And finally, it happens — the sun is consumed entirely by a pitch-black disk, nighttime arrives in the middle of the day,...

Jack Maxey, the former co-host on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, says he plans to release thousands of deleted files that have been recovered from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop. Maxey told the Daily Mail that his team recovered 80,000 images and videos and 450 gigabytes of “erased material,” including over 120,000 emails from the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at the Delaware computer repair shop in 2019. Maxey also revealed that he’s the source that has leaked copies of the hard drive to various media outlets. Maxey has left the United States, fearing reprisal from the Biden administration. He claims he...

Pinocchio puffed a cigar on Pleasure Island (1940). The Caterpillar blew hookah smoke in Alice’s face (1951). Fumes curled from Cruella de Vil’s cigarette holder (1961). By 1965, nearly 43% of American adults smoked — but by 2021, that had plummeted to just 12.5%. It wasn’t just grotesque pictures of diseased lungs or the surgeon general’s warning that changed minds: Lawsuits against big tobacco companies — spearheaded by state attorneys general — forced them to pay out more than $200 billion in damages. They agreed to change the way they market tobacco products, financed a $1.5 billion anti-smoking campaign, opened...

N is for Nonbinary and T is for Trans. Did you know that? If you were a Williamson Country, Tennessee, kindergartner and clicked on the book “The GayBCs” on the iPad given by your school for you to take home over the weekend, you would. You’d also know the B is for Bi. (You can shout it out loud/ “I like boys and girls/ and that makes me proud.”) C is—needless to say—for Coming Out and D is—what else—for Drag. I won’t bother you with the noxious doggerel accompanying those—you can probably make it up for yourself. And no, it’s...

An NBC News segment highlighting the “ghost gun” market in the U.S. has earned a response from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Activists have been claiming the network may have broken the very laws they were trying to expose as too lenient. The March 17 report covered so-called “ghost gun” kits that offer firearm parts which can be built into guns, which don’t have serial numbers. The controversial part of the segment came when NBC News reporter Vaughn Hillyard bought a “ghost gun” kit outside of his home state and then gave it to others to build...

Headwind—Dr. Robert W. Malone (Premiering April 9, 8:30 PM ET) Epoch Cinema Epoch Cinema Movies/Series/Documentaries Headwind, a novel and breathtakingly beautiful documentary series Episode 1: Dr. Robert Malone In the first episode of Headwind, exclusively broadcast by EpochTV, Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA gene transfer technology on which the new generation of COVID-19 vaccines is based, is interviewed by Jakobien Huisman at Finca Don Carmelo, a small homestead farm in Andalusia. Dr. Malone, being a farmer himself, feels clearly in his element in this rural setting, prompting him to be more personal than usual. His wife, Jill...

Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 12:00 EDT Join the RSBN team LIVE from Selma, NC for all day coverage as President Donald J. Trump holds a Save America Rally. President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, Delivers Remarks in support of Ted Budd, Candidate for U.S. Senate, and other endorsed candidates at on Saturday April 9, 2022, at 7:00PM EDT Venue: The Farm at 95 215 Batten Road Selma, NC 27576 Timeline of Events: 8:00AM – Parking and Line Opens 2:00PM – Doors Open and Entertainment Begins 4:00PM – Pre-program Speakers Deliver Remarks 7:00PM –...

Jennifer Rubin, a "pro-democracy opinion writer," cares more about Ukraine than anyone else living within the Acela corridor, a Washington Free Beacon analysis has determined. The Washington Post journalist's verified Twitter account lists her name as "Jennifer ‘I stand with Ukraine' Rubin," which suggests an extraordinary level of dedication to the Ukrainian people and their efforts to defend their country in the face of Russian aggression. The intensity of Rubin's passion for Ukraine is further evidenced by the double Ukrainian flag emoji that also appear on her verified Twitter account. This means that every time Rubin posts a tweet—whether it...

“Baptism and Growth in Communion”The Fifth Phase of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity (2008-2019) has now come to its official conclusion with the completion of the document Baptism and Growth in Communion.In a joint preamble, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) state that Baptism and Growth in Communion “includes important pneumatological impulses for ongoing theological and ecclesiological discussion. It makes a significant step in proposing a differentiating consensus on baptism.”At the same time, the preamble mentions still different views when it continues: Baptism and Growth in Communion “was studied and received...

769 young healthy athletes have collapsed while competing in the past year due to suffering from sudden and unexpected illnesses. Huge spikes in the number of athletes collapsing during games have been seen in sports around the world. An unusually high number of games have been halted due to players suddenly passing out, with many often seen gripping their chests in agony, unable to breathe due to sudden cardiac events. This staggering wave of heart issues is unprecedented among such healthy groups of people. Never before have we seen young, healthy, world-class athletes experiencing heart issues en masse like this....

{SNIP} The Russian invasion of Ukraine resulted from two immense strategic blunders, Robert Service says. The first came on Nov. 10, when the U.S. and Ukraine signed a Charter on Strategic Partnership, which asserted America’s support for Kyiv’s right to pursue membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The pact made it likelier than ever that Ukraine would eventually join NATO—an intolerable prospect for Vladimir Putin. “It was the last straw,” Mr. Service says. Preparations immediately began for Russia’s so-called special military operation in Ukraine. {SNIP}

A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

You can call me Marceline.” The 83-year-old alleged serial killer who was born Harvey Marcelin but now identifies as a lesbian named Marceline Harvey is quick-witted, flirtatious and sometimes terrifying when explaining her anger management issues — and her two identities — from behind a glass wall at Rikers Island.

Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins passed away Sunday morning after getting hit by a car in South Florida, his agent told ESPN.

Europe is not going to achieve a competitive energy transition with the current interventionist policies. Europe does not depend on Russian gas due to a coincidence, but because of a chain of mistaken policies: banning nuclear in Germany, prohibiting the development of domestic natural gas resources throughout the European Union, added to a massive and expensive renewable rollout without building a reliable backup. Solar and wind do not reduce dependency on Russian natural gas. They are necessary but volatile and intermittent. They need backup from nuclear, hydro, and natural gas for security of energy supply. Dependency on these backup sources...

9 April 2022Saturday of the 5th week of Lent Interior Of Toledo Cathedral, Spain Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingEzekiel 37:21-28 ©I will bring them home and make them one nationThe Lord says this: ‘I am going to take the sons of Israel from the nations where they have gone. I shall gather them together from everywhere and bring them home to their own soil. I shall make them into one nation in my own land and on the mountains of Israel, and one king is to be king of them all; they will no longer form two nations, nor...

Lockdown restrictions in China’s most populous city will soon be lifted in areas that go two weeks without reporting new cases of COVID-19, authorities confirmed Saturday. Large swaths of Shanghai have been under lockdown since March 28, and nearly all of its 26 million residents are confined at home, leading to complaints about shortages of food and other basic necessities.