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James O’Keefe tried to interview a former transgender teacher in New Jersey named Austin McCaffey, also known as Lavender. He was recently fired from a Roselle Park, New Jersey school district for posting videos of him pretending to eat babies and having sex with mannequins. He also posted violent songs. Lavender claims he was fired for being transgender, although nothing about “Lavender” looks like he’s trying to be a woman. Outside groups are coming in to defend him because he’s transgender, claiming the school administrators are anti-trans. I hope the police are investigating him for potential crimes. SNIP VIDEO AT...

WASHINGTON — Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez issued a scathing rebuke of Sen. Rand Paul's move to block more than 60 State Department nominees as Paul seeks information from the Biden administration about Covid-19's origins. The statement, first obtained by NBC News, does not specifically mention Paul, R-Ky., by name, but calls the "blatant refusal by one member" to advance nominees "unacceptable." Paul has blocked State Department nominees in an effort to "access COVID-19 documents being held by various government agencies that are under the jurisdiction of the foreign relations committee," a Paul spokesperson previously told NBC. The spokesperson...

Gov't cites extreme fire risk, 'tinder-dry' forests and a lack of capability to fight more firesThe N.W.T. government took the extraordinary step Thursday of issuing a fire ban for almost the entire South Slave region, a measure the territory has never before used. The ban is needed to protect against "continued extreme fire danger and extraordinary weather conditions to protect communities and protect wildfire fighting resources by limiting avoidable person-caused fires," a news release reads. On Wednesday, the N.W.T. Métis Nation posted to Facebook a letter it received from the territory's forest supervisor, informing them the restriction would be coming....

Well, democrats didn't see that coming. Each democrat on the House panel opened with their faux effort at "The you for your service" just before launching into either an attempt smear or demean the agents or mount the horse of distraction and ride like the wind. The IRS agents were bulletproof with integrity and Ziegler had a showstopper up his sleeve. Not only is he a democrat, he's gay! And maybe even Jewish! Yet even that still didn't stop the execrable Jamie Raskin from attempting to dismiss Ziegler's efforts. Raskin has taken on the Adam Schiff role of being the...

Research found a connection between gut microbiota and distal symmetric polyneuropathy. The team finds a potential causal role of the gut microbiota in distal symmetric polyneuropathy symptoms. Distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DSPN) is a common, progressive and debilitating neuropathy complication closely associated with diabetes. While more than half of all patients with diabetes will develop diagnosable DSPN, no effective treatments are available. The gut microbiota has been implicated in maintaining glucose homeostasis and affecting the nervous system through the gut-brain and neuroimmune-endocrine axes. Previous studies have demonstrated the impact of gut microbiota on neurodegenerative disorders in the central nervous system. Significant...

Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds The chatbot gave wildly different answers to the same math problem, with one version of ChatGPT even refusing to show how it came to its conclusion.

Hugh Hewitt interviewed Governor Ron DeSantis earlier today with a focus on race and national security issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyVYPhL1N_c

A massive, $2 billion “Americana-themed” amusement park is opening in 2026 — and it's thousands of miles from the typical theme park hubs. The American Heartland Theme Park and Resort will include an amusement park comparable in size to Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Florida or Disneyland in California — but it won’t be in either state. Instead, the park and resort are planned to be built on a 1,000 acre property in the heart of northeast Oklahoma, just off Route 66. The 125-acre theme park was designed by a team including more than 20 former Disney Parks builders and...

Disgraced former Democratic New York congressman-turned-self-proclaimed “big boy” Anthony Weiner lost his freaking mind when asked Thursday about rumors that the Clinton family has a “body count.” Patrick Bet-David put the question to Weiner, referencing a popular conspiracy theory that former President Bill Clinton and his wife, twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, have had people killed. “How is it that the reputation that follows [the Clintons] is people close to them die?” the host asked in a clip shared from the show. For whatever reason, Weiner seemed to take serious offense to the question. He immediately tried to turn the...

Putin got confused about the age of the child of a deputy mayor during a discussion at the Kremlin, sparking social media comments about the state of the Russian president's health. Unproven rumors have persisted about Putin's condition since the start of his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. These have included that the Russian president has cancer, Parkinson's disease, and even dementia. The Kremlin has insisted Putin is in good health. However, adding to the speculation was footage from Wednesday's meeting of the group "Russia—the Land of Opportunities," a non-profit set up in 2018 to help citizens develop business ideas. The...

The word strongholds is found once in the New Testament, used metaphorically by Paul in a description of the Christian’s spiritual battle: “Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses [strongholds]” (2 Corinthians 10:3-4, NASB). This passage reveals the following facts about our warfare: 1) Our battle is not planned according to the way this world fights; earthly stratagems are not our concern. 2) Our weapons are not physical, for our warfare is spiritual in...

This is a good summary of the now-ended "Grain Deal" whereby Ukraine was allowed to ship their grain to other countries, via the port at Odessa. In it, The Duran analysts go into the details of why the deal didn't work out, and the strategy that Russia employed so as to make sure that the West didn't get tempted to 'heat things up' with the deal now concluding. Video is about 30 minutes, but, as usual loaded with facts.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday defended Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blockade on hundreds of military promotions in opposition to the Defense Department’s abortion policy. During an interview on "The Hugh Hewitt Show," DeSantis was asked whether the Alabama Republican should stop holding up military nominees over a new Pentagon policy that covers travel expenses for service members who need to go out of state to have an abortion. "No, I don’t... They are funding abortion tourism, which is not an appropriate thing for the military to be doing," DeSantis said. "So I think our Republicans in the Congress should just...

U.S. — In an attempt to avoid further injury and traumatic incidents involving Caucasians eating food that's far too spicy for them, the scientists behind the Scoville Scale have announced they are releasing a separate spiciness scale for white people. "We had to do something to save all those white folks," said Dr. Glenn Jacobs, lead researcher on the Scoville team. "We've been inundated with reports of white people suffering severe injuries while attempting to impress other people by ingesting foods that rank near the top of the scale. This new scale will likely save countless lives." The Scoville Scale,...

"Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name." "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. "He that hath an ear, let him hear...

Lawmakers said they had "an argument" with a commanding officer at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida as they pushed for answers about UFOs. [...] "They refused to answer questions posed by whistleblowers, avoiding the concerns of Americans and acknowledging that the possible threat UAPs poses to our national security as well as public safety is extremely unnecessary." During the recent trip to Eglin Air Force Base, Luna said she, Burchett and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., were blocked by the Pentagon and Air Force from seeing information and pictures, from reading testimony from pilots who saw potential UFOs and from...

Treatment for locally advanced cutaneous squamous cell cancers (laCSCC) remains poorly defined. Most laCSCC tumors express high levels of epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR). Cetuximab has activity in other EGFR expressing cancers and enhances the effectiveness of radiotherapy. In this new study, researchers conducted a retrospective review of institutional data and identified 18 patients with laCSCC treated with cetuximab induction and concurrent radiotherapy. "We performed a retrospectively review of treatment outcome and toxicity in our patients who received concurrent cetuximab and radiotherapy to show an additional potentially effective treatment option for patients with laCSCC," say the researchers. The loading dose...

Last March, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that as a result of significant Western support, the Ukrainian military’s spring offensive had “a very good chance for success.” Former Chief of the British General Staff, General Richard Dannatt, went so far as to suggest that Ukraine’s offensive would be so successful that Putin “may be swept out of the Kremlin” as a result. Combat reality, however, has now swept away those optimistic claims and exposed the harsh truth: Ukraine is unlikely to militarily evict Russia out of its territory, no matter how many men they feed into battle.

Texas’ abortion restrictions – some of the strictest in the country – may be fueling a sudden spike in infant mortality as women are forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term. Some 2,200 infants died in Texas in 2022 – an increase of 227 deaths, or 11.5%, over the previous year, according to preliminary infant mortality data from the Texas Department of State Health Services that CNN obtained through a public records request. Infant deaths caused by severe genetic and birth defects rose by 21.6%. That spike reversed a nearly decade-long decline. Between 2014 and 2021, infant deaths had fallen...

Who took this picture?/Caption this. 😁