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The Biden Administration is enacting new Title IX rules to stretch the definition of sexual discrimination to include gender identity. This change is intended to prevent schools and colleges from prohibiting biological men from competing in women’s sports.The proposed change would mean that no educational institution that receives federal funding would be able to implement policies that ban transgender students from participating in sports teams that align with their chosen identity.The White House issued a press release explaining the proposed change:“The proposed rule would establish that policies violate Title IX when they categorically ban transgender students from participating on sports...

The Tennessee House of Representatives has voted to expel two young black Democrat members of the state legislature, a week after they joined a protest against gun laws, bringing a bullhorn onto the House floor amid a noisy demonstration. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, both 27, were joined in their protest on March 31 by Gloria Johnson, 60, a veteran member of the legislature, who is white. Jones and Pearson were voted out of the House on Thursday: Johnson was not. Asked why she avoided expulsion, Johnson - the only white person among the three - said it 'might have...

nough. Nike’s decision to hire trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney to advertise sports bras for women is an insult to biological women everywhere — and especially biological female athletes, who are fighting for their own hard-won space at elite and professional levels. Before going any further, let’s be clear: of course, everyone should have the right to identify and live however they choose. The trans community has made incredible strides in just the last few years. And that’s a good thing. Having said that, I’m sure I’ll be labelled a TERF — a trans-exclusionary radical feminist. And that very slur, which...

JTA — While the United States swung its door shut to most refugees during World War II, a young American in France saved thousands, including some of the 20th century’s defining artists and thinkers — such as Marc Chagall and Hannah Arendt — from the Nazis. The rescue mission of Varian Fry, which went largely unrecognized during his life, is the subject of Netflix’s new drama “Transatlantic,” launching Friday from “Unorthodox” creator Anna Winger. Starring Cory Michael Smith as Fry, the seven-episode “Transatlantic” aims to recreate his operation in Marseille after the Nazis defeated France and before the United States...

U.S. public-health agencies jumped to an unwarranted conclusion in 2020 that Chinese scientists had done nothing deliberate or accidental to cause the Covid pandemic. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases continued to defend engagement with China on pathogen research even as other parts of the U.S. government identified serious biosecurity risks from collaboration with Chinese labs. All government research agencies have different cultures. U.S. public-health agencies have historically been rooted in “open science”—the view that scientific collaborations should be encouraged globally, and that geopolitics shouldn’t constrain cooperation between well-meaning researchers....

A Delta Air Lines pilot was sleeping in the targeted room where the botched training exercise took place The FBI and other federal agents burst into the wrong Boston hotel room Tuesday night during a training exercise, startling the guest inside who had no idea what was going on as he was handcuffed. The incident occurred on the 15th floor of the Revere Hotel as agents were conducting a mock investigation. FBI agents were assisting the U.S. Department of Defense in a training exercise inside the hotel to simulate a situation that DOD personnel might encounter in a deployed environment....

Former secretary of state under President Trump Mike Pompeo fired back at claims from the Biden administration that Trump constrained the conditions of the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan, during which 13 American soldiers died in a suicide bombing while protecting the Kabul airport, and untold numbers of Americans and Afghans eligible for evacuation were stranded. [cut] Mike Pompeo, who also served as CIA director under Trump, said he wasn't surprised by Kirby's tact, saying President Biden and members of his administration routinely blame anyone but themselves for their own multiple failures. "I am outraged by the fact that the 13...

The 13-year-old son of a controversial Florida whistleblower was arrested this week on charges that he made “terrorist” threats on the Internet. Rebekah Jones, a state employee who used her access to Department of Health data to challenge the governor’s COVID numbers, resulting in the loss of her job, posted on Twitter Thursday that her son was arrested by sheriff’s deputies after sharing Internet memes in a private chat with school friends. One, according to Jones, was a photo of an overweight man, apparently sleeping, with a caption likening him to a police officer responding to a school shooting. Jones...

Tesla employees shared customers’ private videos that were captured by the vehicles’ built-in cameras, including “scenes of intimacy,” “sexual wellness items” and a clip of a driver who approached his sedan while completely naked, according to a report. Nine former Tesla employees at the electric car maker’s Bay Area offices told Reuters that the sensitive video clips, one of which was said to have been taken from the private vehicle of CEO Elon Musk, were shared in an internal messaging system between 2019 and 2022. One former employee recalled seeing “embarrassing objects,” such as “certain pieces of laundry, certain sexual...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 3h These Morons in the White House, who are systematically destroying our Country, headed up by the biggest Moron of them all, Hopeless Joe Biden, have a new disinformation game they are playing - Blame “TRUMP” for their grossly incompetent SURRENDER in Afghanistan. I watched this disaster unfold just like everyone else. I saw them take out the Military FIRST, GIVE $85 Billion of military equipment, allow killing of our soldiers, and leave Americans behind. Biden is responsible, no one else!

Poland has emerged as one Ukraine’s most ardent supporters during Russia’s invasion despite historical grievances between the neighboring nations that stir up bad feelings to this day. “There are still open wounds in the memory of many people,” Duda said, an obvious reference to the massacres of some 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists during the 1940s. Poland considers the killings genocide. The difficult past in Poland-Ukraine relations goes back even further than that. In a part of Europe where entire nations have disappeared from maps for generations before returning from the ashes of collapsed empires, sometimes at the expense of...

The Trump campaign is urging Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s donors to switch lanes concerning whom they are backing in the 2024 Republican primary race, pointing to a memo featuring polling from John McLaughlin, which concludes that former President Donald Trump is gaining “strong majority support from Republican primary voters against any opponent” and leading President Joe Biden.In other words, per the memo, Trump stands as the best shot of taking down Democrats in 2024.The three-page memo, obtained by Politico, was reportedly sent to DeSantis donors and offers a peek into the state of the race.It featured results of a survey...

“I’m not gonna make this about the victim at all,” she said. “We’re focusing on this defendant.” Nothing “can lead me to conclude that he is a flight risk,” and “I believe he greatly benefits from some sort of programming.” Ah, “programming”! That’s surely enough to keep the public safe from a man who lost control sufficiently to kill a kid. This is a judge with contempt for the victim’s survivors, and for the public. Her only concern is for the perp — hoping he can “benefit” from therapy or other “programming.”

An influential member of the tech industry has died after a horrific stabbing in San Francisco, California. Around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, San Francisco police responded to a call about an attack on Main Street in SoMa, an entertainment and financial district on the city's east side. When officers arrived, they found a man "suffering from apparent stab wounds." The man was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he later died from his injuries. The victim was later identified as tech titan Bob Lee, known on social media as Crazy Bob. He was just 43 years old. According to SFPD,...

A smiling Bill Gates and his ex-wife Melinda have shared the first photos of their baby granddaughter - a month after she was born. Billionaire Gates - who split from his ex-wife in 2021 after 27 years of marriage - wrote 'I can't wait to watch you discover the world' next to a shot of him cradling the newborn who was wearing a pink babygrow. Melinda, 58, also uploaded a photo of her with the baby - which appeared to be taken on a separate occasion - as she said 'there is nothing like holding your first grandchild.' Daughter Jennifer,...

Britain's equalities minister is mulling a change to the law that would only allow women access to some same-sex spaces and sporting arenas on the basis of so-called "biological" grounds. Kemi Badenoch has been told that defining someone's sex as "biological" could provide "greater legal clarity" on issues such as who accesses women-only hospital wards, and who can participate in certain sporting events. But it would also be "more ambiguous or potentially disadvantageous" in areas such as equal pay and sex discrimination. The advice came in a letter from Kishwer Falkner, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)....

Just one week after a transgender mass shooter killed six people at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, another male-to-female transgender person had a mass shooting plot foiled by police in Colorado Springs. (FROM)100 Percent Fed Up – The shooter, 19-year-old William Whitworth, laid out extensive plans to plant bombs at and shoot students at Timberview Middle School in Colorado Springs. Still, Deputies found a manifesto that outlined support for political figures and idolized other mass shooters. Specific details of the manifesto have not yet been released to the public. Whitworth has been charged with two counts of attempted first-degree...

The smearing of the inconvenient justice continues.ProPublica often practices what you might call Potemkin journalism — dressing up non-stories with neutral-sounding reporting verbiage and lots of graphs and pictures that at first glance make them seem important, but in actuality tell us very little.One of the best examples of the practice can be found in today’s smearing of Clarence Thomas, favorite hobbyhorse of leftists since 1991. In it we learn that the Supreme Court justice has a super-rich friend. And that super-rich friend, GOP donor Harlan Crow, invites Thomas on “luxury” vacations from time to time at his “private resort,”...

Another HUGE ENDORSEMENT for President Trump. President Trump is the LEADER of the Republican Party and SOON he will be BACK in the White House. We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!! https://t.co/nf14KAXiIh— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) April 6, 2023I am honored to endorse President Donald J. Trump for President in 2024, and I ask my fellow Americans to join me today.Read my entire statement here: https://t.co/OAsUwWuoUk pic.twitter.com/DwyTZ804mO— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) April 6, 2023

A trans-identified male who goes by Lilly, though his given name is William Whitworth, was arrested and charged after a police investigation in Colorado Springs revealed that the 19-year-old was responsible for "threats involving schools in Colorado Springs Academy District 20." Whitworth faces charges of attempted murder after allegedly making threats against schools in Colorado Springs, Colo., according to local news. The Elbert County Sheriff's Office charged Whitworth with two counts of a criminal attempt to commit murder in the first degree, criminal mischief, menacing, and interference with staff, faculty or students of educational institutions. Whitworth is an alum of...