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California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) vetoed a bill Friday night that would have mandated courts factor in whether parents affirm their child’s transgender identity or “gender expression” in custody cases. Newsom claimed affirmation was already part of existing family law and warned by singling out one characteristic the legislature could be setting a precedent that would be used by others to “diminish the civil rights of vulnerable communities.” Newsom is thought by many in politics to be laying the groundwork for a presidential campaign in 2028 or 2024 should Joe Biden not be able to run again. The California Assembly...

Gov. Andy Beshear's (D-KY) latest campaign ad attacked Republican candidate Daniel Cameron for opposing rape and incest exceptions to Kentucky's abortion bans seven weeks before the 2023 gubernatorial election. Beshear released a TV ad Wednesday featuring a young woman who is a survivor of sexual assault, stating she was raped by her stepfather at 12 years old after years of sexual abuse. The woman criticizes Cameron’s abortion stance, claiming he wouldn't give women and girls any options.

Either former president Donald Trump’s standing in early 2024 polls is inflated, or we are headed for a sizable realignment in how non-White voters cast their ballots. Multiple polls in recent weeks have shown Trump performing historically well among Black and Hispanic voters in head-to-head matchups with President Biden, helping put him neck-and-neck with Biden in a way he rarely was during their 2020 matchup. Across five high-quality polls that have broken out non-White voters in the past month, Trump is averaging 20 percent of Black voters and 42 percent of Hispanic voters.

In the middle of a never-ending war with Russia, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has asked Serbian Satanist Marina Abramovic to become an “Ambassador” for the war-torn country as reported by the UK Telegraph. Despite what Western propaganda has been saying since the February 2022 outbreak of the war, Ukraine is clearly losing the war against Russia. The “Spring Offensive” by Ukraine against Russia this past spring failed. Ukraine’s three-month-long ‘counteroffensive’ against Russia this past summer, also failed. It met this failure by demanding critics ‘shut up’ about its failure. The military effort has become so strained, the United States has...

This week, a 2-year-old girl in Michigan wandered away from her residence, accompanied by the family's two dogs. After several hours of intense search efforts, she was eventually found in the serene depths of the woods, peacefully asleep with one of the pooches serving as her pillow. The child's disappearance sent shockwaves through the community, prompting an exhaustive search effort involving authorities and concerned neighbors.

Investigators with the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry’s Forestry Enforcement Division have determined that many of the large wildfires burning throughout Louisiana in recent weeks are the result of arson. LDAF investigators, Louisiana State Fire Marshal deputies, and various parish sheriff’s office detectives continue to actively investigate the matter. Investigators urge anyone with information in the Tiger Island, La. 113 and Lions Camp Road fires to call the LDAF 24-hour hotline at 1-855-452-5323 or the LFA at 318-443-2558. Callers may remain anonymous. The Louisiana Forestry Association is a statewide, private, non-profit association made up of landowners, foresters, employees of...

Social media videos, chats lead police to 2nd suspect, documents say LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained reveal how Las Vegas police tracked down two teenagers accused of intentionally hitting and killing a bicyclist and recording it on video. Both Jesus Ayala, 18; and Jzamir Keys, 16, are accused of killing Andreas “Andy” Probst, 64, a retired California police chief. Probst was riding a bicycle in a marked lane on Aug. 14 near Tenaya Way and Centennial Parkway in the northwest Las Vegas valley when Ayala intentionally crashed into him, documents said. The now-viral video...

Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) lack of traction in the Republican primary is undermining his support and sway in Florida politics as his White House bid is widely anticipated to “end in failure,” according to a report.Politico reported on DeSantis’s influence problem in the Sunshine State on Friday, citing interviews with dozens involved in the state’s politics: Interviews with nearly two dozen lobbyists, political consultants and lawmakers revealed that DeSantis’ struggles as a presidential candidate have already eroded his influence in Florida. There is a widespread expectation that his candidacy will end in failure. His standing at home may depend on...

Hunter Schafer is a trans model, actor, and LQBT activist who is mostly known for playing the role of Jules in the teen series Euphoria (read my full article about this toxic show here). As you probably noticed, the entertainment industry is doing everything in its power to embed trans celebrities in popular culture. Therefore, Schafer regularly gets featured in magazines such as the last issue of AnOther. Of course, everything about it is highly symbolic.The cover of the magazine features a blatant one-eye sign, indicating that everything else inside of it will be elite-sponsored propaganda. And, boy, is it...

Former President Donald Trump holds a 33-point lead in Iowa for the presidential nomination, a recent Trafalgar Group survey found.The survey asked likely Iowa caucusgoers, “If the 2024 Republican Caucus were tomorrow, who would you most likely support for President?”Overall, nearly half, 49 percent, chose Trump as their candidate of choice. That reflects a seven-point bump from the last survey.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis comes in a distance second, 33 points behind, with 16 percent support in the GOP field— his status remaining virtually unchanged since the August survey.Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley came in third, with eight percent support,...

A $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery factory in De Soto, Kansas, will help satisfy the Biden administration’s efforts to get everyone into an EV. It also will help extend the life of a coal-fired power plant. Resource Adequacy Panasonic broke ground on the facility last year. The Japanese company was slated to receive $6.8 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act, which has been pouring billions into electric vehicles and battery factories as part of its effort to transition America away from fossil fuels. The Kansas City Star reports that the factory will require between 200 and 250 megawatts of...

[H/T AMorePerfectUnion]ransomnote: The actual advisory from the World Council for Health appears below the 5 introductory charts.This week the World Council for Health (WCH) issued an official caution against all vaccines on the childhood vaccination schedule. I’ve re-published the statement below in case you missed it. The following images have been taken from WCH General Assembly Meeting #101 in which Prof. Brian Hooker presented the latest research: A Common-sense Approach to Childhood Vaccines is Now NeededBy World Council for Health September 5, 2023The number of vaccines given to babies and children has increased dramatically without the necessary due diligence by...

Former President Donald Trump holds a 47-point lead in the Republican presidential primary race for his largest cushion since Emerson College Polling began tracking in June 2022.Trump received 59% support, a 9-point increase from August, in the September Emerson College Polling national survey."The Trump voter remains resilient, and despite a dip in August's post-debate poll, Trump has now expanded his lead and has improved his position from before the first debate," said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis received 12%, the only other GOP candidate in double figures.Trump and DeSantis were followed by businessman Vivek...

23 September 2023 Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), Priest on Saturday of week 24 in Ordinary Time The altar of Padre Pio's church in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Timothy 6:13-16 ©I put to you the duty of doing all that you have been toldBefore God the source of all life and before Christ, who spoke up as a witness for the truth in front of Pontius Pilate, I put to you the duty of doing all that you...

It’s not the first time that U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez has determined that California’s ban on “large capacity” magazines violates the Second Amendment, but hopefully this time the decision will stick. Benitez issued his first ruling before the Bruen decision was released last year, but the Ninth pulled its typical move and overruled him in an en banc review, sending the case to the Supreme Court. After Bruen, the Supreme Court granted cert and remanded the case back to the Ninth Circuit with instructions to reconsider in light of the text, history, and tradition test it laid out, but...

KGO I-Team investigative reporter Dan Noyes has covered plenty of crime stories, but Sunday night, became the victim of crime himself. In a video Noyes just posted to his Facebook and Twitter accounts Wednesday morning, we see freshly rattled Noyes describing that he was assaulted in an encounter with a group of teens, one of whom tried to steal his bike. And while Noyes has a badly bruised and possibly injured arm from the encounter, he did stymie the would-be bike thief by threatening, “You're about to be on Channel 7.”Update: Noyes tells SFist that he did indeed suffer a...

A Fairfield father says that a federally funded health clinic operating within Lawrence High School provided his minor daughter with a baggy of prescription anti-depressants without his knowledge or consent. When the girl’s father, Eric Sack, discovered the baggy of pills over the weekend, his daughter told him that it was provided to her by the Bulldog Health Center, a School Based Health Center (SBHC) at Lawrence High School. Sack saw the the pills as an infringement on his parental rights, but he was also concerned that the school’s clinic sent unlabeled drugs with no child-resistant container into his home,...

A San Francisco news reporter claimed he was attacked by teenagers, who tried to steal his bicycle last weekend but escaped the robbery when he told them they were going to be on the news. Dan Noyes, an award-winning investigative reporter for ABC7 Bay Area, was riding his bicycle in the Presidio National Park site, near the Golden Gate Bridge, when he encountered the massive group. “I’m coming home and I see a group of probably 15 young teens, young teens probably couldn’t drive yet, a lot on bicycles,” Noyes said in a video posted to his social media accounts...

There is "extreme attrition and high turnover" in the Russian military, even among its senior ranks, the UK Ministry Defence said in an intelligence update on Saturday. The department pointed to the high turnover of commanders of the Russian 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment, one of Russia's most prestigious airborne regiments. Colonel Vasily Popov, the regiment's commander, died during battle on September 14, making him the third person to lead the regiment since the war began in February 2022. He had replaced his predecessor, Colonel Pyotr Popov, just weeks prior, after the colonel resigned, possibly in protest against the Russian...

ransomnote: I'd previously posted a thread about a lawsuit prior to Covid 'vaccines' which compared unvaxxed population to vaxxed population and demonstrated that people are far healthier (fewer chronic illnesses) if not vaccinated per standard CDC guidelines.Greg Glaser, attorney - The Control Group survey, reports and litigation: https://informedconsentdefense.org/4/10/2021, 2:01:46 PM · informedconsentdefense.org ^ | April 8, 2021 | Greg Glaserransomnote: The increase in chronic illnesses with increased vaccination wasn't always the case. Based on the data in the following chart taken from the prior thread, the vaccine program degraded starting in 1993 - 1994. Prior to that time, there wasn't...