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If your daughter is planning to join the Army, she might find more hanging out in the shower than expected.As reported by Breitbart beneath the banner of “exclusive,” the branch’s training includes updated instructions for bathing. And the rules are plenty far from what veterans would find familiar.Official guidance — purportedly delivered via scenarios labeled “vignettes” — prescribes proper responses to issues concerning transgenderism.Vignette Nine deals with mandated urine specimens: What if an “observer” is uncomfortable having to watch a soldier — who has “not [had] sex reassignment surgery” — pee into a cup?Comfort-minded measures are on the table:Commanders may...

Do you know what a woman is? If so, you’re a ways ahead of the Church of England.During this month’s General Synod, Senior Bishop Rt Rev Robert Innes was asked by lay member Adam Kendry to clear any confusion:“What is the Church of England’s definition of a woman?”It turns out church officials were previously making mere assumptions. And the question isn’t any longer so simple.Courtesy of The Telegraph, the bishop’s written response:“There is no official definition, which reflects the fact that until fairly recently definitions of this kind were thought to be self-evident, as reflected in the marriage liturgy.”He called...

Betsy DeVos, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Education under former President Donald Trump, has called for the abolishment of the Department of Education. Speaking at the “Moms for Liberty” summit, DeVos said the federal government should be removed from education, leaving it to state and local governments. “I personally think the Department of Education should not exist,” said DeVos, prompting a loud standing ovation from members of the audience, according to Florida Phoenix. Though DeVos acknowledged the good that teachers serve, including those in attendance at the summit, she blasted teachers unions as a “K-12 cartel.” The summit...

A transgender prisoner who got two fellow inmates pregnant at New Jersey's only women's prison has been moved to a men's prison where she is being held in a vulnerable unit. Demi Minor, who is serving a 30-year sentence for stabbing her former foster father to death, was moved from the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility to the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in June. Minor, 27, complains that she was misgendered and abused by guards during the transfer and was even placed on suicide watch after she tried to hang herself while she was being transferred to GSCF. In a...

It appears that when it comes to incarcerating transgender people, the prison system in New Jersey isn’t very woke after all. Prison officials in New Jersey tried their best to ignore reality by placing a transgender woman in a prison with real females. It didn’t work out so well. After two real females were impregnated by the transgender woman, New Jersey prison officials woke up and decided to move the trans female to a facility more suited to zir anatomical, er, gifts: a male prison. Twitchy asks, “How could something like this happen? We knew men could give birth, but...

The latest beneficiaries of the Biden regime’s two-tier legal system are the pro-abortion fanatics who have attacked over 50 pro-life centers since May 8, shortly after the draft Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked. While Biden’s handlers are doing everything they can to circumvent the Court’s decision and keep sacrifices to Moloch going everywhere, Old Joe’s desperately corrupt and politicized Justice Department has not managed to arrest a single person in connection with these attacks. What a surprise. On May 15, the Women’s March declared: “Our Summer of Rage is officially beginning. We’re prepared to rage for...

The GOP may be doing well in the polls, but when it comes to fundraising, Republican Senate candidates are lagging. Why is that important? Fundraising says a lot about a candidate’s organization and the enthusiasm and commitment of his supporters. It’s also a rough indicator of how a candidate is faring in the race. With less than four months to go before election day, several incumbent Democratic candidates are running rings around their Republican opponents on the fundraising circuit and threatening to bury some challengers under a mountain of cash. From Axios:It’s as if big GOP donors either don’t realize...

If something big hit the fan right now, would Biden be up for it? I assume he's either back or on his way back from the Middle East and he's probably unconscious. I remember Trump doing random press conferences on the WH lawn on any given day at any given time, day or night, seven days a week. The press seems to just take the weekend off now and not cover any news on Biden, presumably because he's out of it. The question remains, is Biden up for it if something serious goes down after hours?

Went to the local change(Coinstar) machine yesterday, and the machine, had on its screen a message, that it could not take anymore coins, because it was full. Well today, went to the local superstore, and the coin machine had the same message.

A family in Florida drove into a major problem after buying a used electric vehicle: the replacement battery for their dead car wound up costing more than the used car was purchased for A family in Florida drove into a major problem after buying a used electric vehicle: the replacement battery for their dead car wound up costing more than the used car was purchased for She told the news outlet that the car stopped running after taking it to a repair shop, and the family eventually found out that the car's battery would need to be replaced. The problem?...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (KABC) -- Police in Florida are searching for a woman they say stole tens of thousands of dollars in valuables from a man she met at a bar during a night out. According to the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, the incident happened last month. Police say the woman stole two of the man's designer watches - including a Rolex watch and a Brietling watch - his iPhone, wallet, and $1,000 in cash while she was inside his home. The victim and the suspect reportedly came back to his home at around 1:30 a.m. after a night out.

Newly released footage from inside Robb Elementary School during the mass shooting shows more dysfunction and failure by first responders as cops stand around waiting for instructions and Police Chief Pete Arredondo pleads with the shooter to stop. The newly released bodycam footage from May 24, first reported by CNN, shows a stunning lack of urgency among officers as an active shooter ultimately killed 19 children and two teachers. Uvalde Schools Police Chief Pete Arredondo can be heard politely asking the gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, to surrender minutes after the cops hear a burst of gunfire from inside classrooms 111...

At least three people are dead after a gunman began firing inside the Greenwood Park Mall in Indiana Sunday evening, police said. Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison said during a press conference the gunman was also dead and another two victims were injured and being treated. Their conditions were not known. The shooter was stopped after a Good Samaritan armed with a handgun fired at the suspect, Ison said. That person is cooperating fully, Ison said. “We believe at this time, investigators are still questioning the individual involved, but it appears that a Good Samaritan who was armed observed the...

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser appeared on CBS’ "Face the Nation" on Sunday to discuss the persistent homelessness problem plaguing her city. Host Margaret Brennen brought up a Washington Post report that suggested homeless shelters are now being filled with illegal immigrants being bused in from Texas and Arizona. Bowser admitted that it’s a "significant issue" and called on the federal government to get more involved as she fears illegal immigrants are being "tricked" into traveling to her city.

by Joshua Ford | 24News33-year-old suspect Joseph A. Ortega was shot around midnight by a 93-year-old southern California homeowner named Joe Teague.Teague fired his shotgun once, hitting one of the suspects. Ortega was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and later died.Teague is not facing any charges.Speaking to the local news outlet KNBC, Teague said a group of people consisting of “ladies and men” had “kicked the door open.”“The big guy, he came at me,” Teague explained, adding that the rest of the group “started throwing objects that [were] in the house at me.”“When they broke in, they...

Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the window to control the spread of the monkeypox virus in the United States may be closed. Partial transcript as follows: MARGARET: Give us a sense of the scale of this because the CDC numbers are out. They say they’re only eight women within that. No children. You’re saying this is a pandemic? That’s not a word the administration is using yet, what level of emergency are we at? GOTTLIEB: Yeah look, and I think they’re going to be reluctant to...

Astronomers at MIT—and universities in Canada and the US—have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy that appears to be flashing with surprising regularity. The signal is classified as a fast radio burst, or FRB — an intensely strong burst of radio waves of unknown astrophysical origin, that typically lasts for a few milliseconds at most. However, this new signal persists for up to three seconds, about 1,000 times longer than the average FRB. Within this window, the team detected bursts of radio waves that repeat every 0.2 seconds in a clear periodic pattern, similar to...

* Four people were killed and three others were injured in a shooting at the Greenwood Park Mall, just outside of Indianapolis on Sunday * The shooter is among the dead * According to Greenwood's police chief, the gunman was taken down by a Good Samaritan who witnessed the shooting * The gunman was armed with a rifle and had multiple magazines of ammoA gunman armed with a rifle and multiple magazines of ammo killed three people and injured others before being killed by a good guy with a gun. In total, four people were killed, including the gunman, and...

Conservative attorney George Conway, who is now a fierce critic of former President Donald Trump, predicts that Trump will run for president again and says Ron DeSantis may be the only candidate that can beat him one-on-one.

The hardest part of living through a time of wrenching change is that nobody particularly bothers to inform you that the times have changed and that nothing will be the same again. Certainly not the talking heads on TV, who are often the last to know. You have to figure it out for yourself if you can. But I am here to help. It all has to do with energy. Not with technology—that’s incidental; not with military superiority—that’s fleeting and largely imaginary; certainly not with any sort of political or cultural self-righteousness—that’s delusional. There is no substitute for energy. If...