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California State Senator Scott Wiener – yes, that is his name and yes, of course, he is a Democrat – kicked off a ‘Transgender Week of Visibility’ on Monday by declaring there is an ongoing war against trans people. Shortly thereafter, Nashville police chief John Drake confirmed that the suspect in an elementary school shooting earlier in the day that killed three 9-year-old children and three adults identifies “as transgender.” Audrey Hale, a former student at The Covenant School, a private Presbyterian school, opened fire early Monday morning and killed six people before being fatally shot by police. Authorities identified...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A man wielding a large knife killed two Portuguese women and wounded several other people at an Ismaili Muslim center in Lisbon on Tuesday, authorities said. Police said they were investigating the stabbings as a possible terror act. Portuguese authorities described the man as a refugee from Afghanistan who was receiving help from the Ismaili Community. Local Afghan community representatives said the suspect was known to have psychological problems after his wife died while their family was at a refugee camp in Greece.

The families of crime victims in the Oakland, California, area are calling for the ousting of George Soros-funded District Attorney Pamela Price following the newly-elected prosecutor's failed bid to slash a sentence in a triple murder case. Two veteran prosecutors recently announced they are quitting the Alameda County District Attorney's office, citing concerns surrounding Price's radical polices and impact on victims. Brenda Grisham, whose teenage son Christopher LaVell was gunned down outside the family home on New Year's Eve 2010, is pushing forward to help other crime victims as they seek justice.

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas pleaded ignorance Tuesday about the existence of logs recording who has visited President Biden’s Delaware homes — stunning lawmakers who have sought the information for months. Mayorkas, whose department includes the Secret Service, made his astounding “I don’t know” claim when Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) pressed him about a persistent lack of information following congressional requests. “I don’t know whether the Secret Service maintains visitor logs of the president’s residence,” the DHS chief said. “But if they do and those have been requested, we will comply with the law.” Biden regularly spends his...

A man was stabbed to death in broad daylight at a Starbucks in Vancouver, Canada, reportedly in front of his wife and kids, according to Global News. The victim, Paul Stanley Schmidt, 37, was reportedly at the coffee shop with his wife and daughter, according to his mother, when he was attacked by the suspect, 32-year-old Inderdeep Singh Gosal – an “India-origin national” (not Hindu), who was arrested at the scene and later charged with second-degree murder. The attack took place at the corner of Granville and West Pender streets, around 5:40 p.m., after a “brief altercation,” according to...

A UK man who is the owner of a scary-looking dog is speaking out about caring for the giant canine and how people often mistake the pooch for a predator. Jamal Miah, who lives in London, adopted the Central Asian Shepherd dog back in 2020. The dog now stands at six feet tall on his hind legs and weighs a jaw-dropping 187 pounds.

Nashville police on Tuesday released footage showing officers firing multiple bullets at the suspected attacker in Monday's school shooting minutes after storming into the private Christian grade school with rifles and conducting a room-by-room search. The six minutes of footage, taken from body-worn cameras from two of the responding officers, showed police clearing one classroom after another on the first floor before venturing up the stairs to the second floor. Shots can be heard seconds before the suspect comes into view and drops to the floor after apparently being shot. One officer fires additional rounds into the assailant, who appears...

Former Vice President Mike Pence has been ordered to appear before a grand jury weighing efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to reports from multiple outlets on Tuesday, after a top federal judge ruled that executive privilege could not entirely shield him from answering questions. The sealed order rejected former President Trump’s claims of executive privilege in special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6, 2021, investigation, a sign that D.C. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg may align with his predecessor in pushing Trump-era officials to cooperate with the probe.

long-lost lake in California may reappear after heavy rains in the state. Tulare Lake, a freshwater dry lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley, dried up about 80 years ago. It shrank when the land was developed for agriculture and rivers were diverted elsewhere. It became farmland in the middle of the 20th century. It has flooded occasionally since then, but this year is looking to be the wettest yet. California has been hit by severe storms in recent days, as well as throughout much of winter. Forecasters have estimated there will be 4 inches of rain and 4 feet...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Republicans needed to show courage and pass gun laws. Jean-Pierre said, “We have had a president who has acted on this. I know you were asking me about executive action. What else can we do? This president has taken more executive actions on gun violence safety than any president before him, and he has done that in two years. Just earlier this month, we took another executive action.”

In less than five years, we’ve had four people who identify as transsexual committing a mass shooting. In November of 2018, Snochia Moseley, a man who identified as a woman, wounded three and killed three after opening fire at his place of employment in Aberdeen, Maryland. In May of 2019, a Colorado woman who identified as male shot up a school, killing one and wounding eight. In November of 2022, a Colorado man who shot up a gay nightclub, killing five and wounding 18, was identified as transsexual. On Monday, 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a woman who identified as a...

Now for a personal insight, one based on direct, long-term experiences: I have worked with many Eastern Europeans. I have worked closely with Russians, Ukrainians, Slovenians, Serbians and Estonians. I generally did not care for them because it seemed to me that 1) Everything was considered a financial transaction to them; everything was for sale - it was only a matter of price. 2) There seemed to be something missing from their souls/consciences. Perhaps 80 years of communism hollowed their collective consciousness.

Trans Day of Vengeance Tiktok screenshot A group of transgender activists is planning a “Day of Vengeance” in Washington, D.C., for March 31-April 2 while raising money for firearms training this week, according to its online materials. The Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN) said on Twitter that “The time is now, enough is enough,” and uploaded posters to TikTok that said, “We want more than visibility. Trans Day of Vengeance. Stop trans genocide. Save the date: April 1st – 11:00 AM / March 31st – TBA.” The self-professed Virginia chapter of the group said on Twitter that it would host...

Last November, a deranged man in Colorado Springs opened fire in an LGBTQ nightclub called Club Q killing five and injuring several others. “Anderson Aldrich is non-binary. They use they/them pronouns, and for the purposes of all formal filings, will be addressed as Mx. Aldrich,” a footnote in a court filing read. Another school shooting took place at STEM School Highlands Ranch, a charter school situated in Douglas County, Colorado, United States, in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch, on May 7, 2019 killing one and injuring at least eight others. Two teenagers, identified as students Alec McKinney, who identified...

By a vote of 213-208, the US House of Representatives passed the Parents' Bill of Rights. Rep. Julia Letlow (R-La), sponsor of the bill, enumerated "the five pillars of my bill are (1) the right to know what's being taught in schools and to see reading material; (2) the right to be heard; (3) the right to see school budgets and spending; (4) the right to protect their child's privacy; and (5) the right to be updated on any violent activity at school." Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) denounced the bill, calling it "fascism of the worst sort. This is...

NEW YORK — Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified Monday before the grand jury examining Donald Trump’s alleged role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to a news report and related photograph. A POLITICO reporter viewed a photograph of Pecker and his attorney exiting the courthouse Monday afternoon after The New York Times wrote about the testimony. A spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Pecker’s attorney, Elkan Abramowitz, also didn’t immediately comment. Monday was the first time in a week that the grand jury heard evidence in...

A group of gay and trans people gather regularly in the woods of New Hampshire to practice shooting. They want to be ready to defend themselves from hate groups. EYDER PERALTA, HOST: Mass shootings targeting LGBTQ spaces and a rise in anti-trans rhetoric have inspired some queer people to take up arms. New Hampshire Public Radio's Todd Bookman joined the monthly gathering of a gun group that sees firearms as key to their own self-defense. And as you might imagine, the story does include the sound of gunfire. TODD BOOKMAN, BYLINE: On a recent Sunday morning, the parking lot of...

On April 4, eligible voters in Wisconsin get another chance to go to the polls and decide the state’s future. Is it the “most important election of our lives”? Of course it is because they’re all important. In this important one, we’ll choose our next Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, weigh in on a couple referendums and decide the outcome of local races. If you want to see exactly what’s on your ballot, you can do that here. You can also find some general information about why the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is so consequential in this fact sheet from the...

A growing number of Americans say that acceptance of transgenderism has gone 'too far' and half reject using gender-neutral pronouns, a new poll has revealed. The poll - released just one week before transgender Audrey Hale shot and killed six people at a Nashville school - was conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago, with funding from the Wall Street Journal. They surveyed 1,019 people between March 1 and 13, 2023, from across the political spectrum. When asked if US society has gone too far with accepting people who are transgender, 43 percent of people voted yes - compared...

Thank goodness Biden and Friends are addressing the dire and PERILOUS global warming phenomenon that looms over us like a death cloud, just waiting to kill us all within – what is it now? – five years? Ten years? I know it changes every time we don’t inconveniently die. Video at link