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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyer Chase Strangio appeared to employ a new term for an adult human female Tuesday. The trans rights activist — who is also a transgender man — appeared on the left-wing digital news show “Democracy Now!” to slam President Donald Trump’s executive order on sex and gender. Strangio complained to show host Amy Goodman that Trump “is targeting trans people by focusing on retrenching this notion of a fixed gender binary at the time of conception.” While making the case, Strangio referred to biological women as “non-transgender women.” […] After refusing to call biological women...

One of the country’s most infamous late-term abortionists is retiring after 50 years. Warren Hern will step down from his position at the helm of Boulder Abortion Clinic, which he founded — though the facility will remain open to continue ending the lives of preborn human beings. Ms. Magazine reported that Hern’s official retirement date is today, January 22, 2025, exactly 50 years to the day that he opened his facility in Boulder, Colorado. He said that his facility will continue to provide “the safest, most compassionate and highest quality outpatient abortion services available anywhere.” Notably, January 22, 1973 was...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Diocese of Washington, said Wednesday that she will continue to pray for President Donald Trump, hours after he lashed out at her over a sermon.“I don’t consider him an enemy,” Budde told The Associated Press.“I believe we can disagree respectfully and put our ideas out there and continue to stand for the convictions we’ve been given without resorting to violence of speech.”Budde made a direct appeal to Trump during a post-Inauguration prayer service he attended on Tuesday, asking him to show mercy to members of the LGBTQ+ community...

President Donald Trump gave full pardons to former Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers convicted in connection to the death of Karon Hylton-Brown, 20, who was fatally struck while being chased by one of the officers in 2020. Trump, on Wednesday night, announced full and unconditional pardons for former officer Terence Sutton and Andrew Zabavsky, who was a lieutenant for the metropolitan police. “I HEREBY DESIGNATE, direct, and empower, the Pardon Attorney, as my representative, to sign a grant of clemency to the person named herein. The Pardon Attorney shall declare that her action is the act of the...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to...

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary on Wednesday, Jan. 22. The couple tied the knot in 2005 at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, then celebrated with a reception at Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. The nuptials were attended by 350 guests. Their New York-based wedding planner, Preston Bailey, recently told Women's Wear Daily that one of the most ironic guests was his 2016 Democratic presidential opponent Hillary Clinton. Her husband, Bill Clinton, was also in attendance. Bailey — who also orchestrated Ivanka Trump's 2009 wedding to Jared Kushner, as well as Eric...

President Donald Trump has had a busy couple of days back in the White House, and he isn’t slowing down. On the campaign trail, he promised he would get the Russia/Ukraine conflict resolved. And I have no doubt we’re closer to this war ending than we ever were when Biden was president. The Washington Post reported that two days after his reelection, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke for about 20 minutes. During the call, Trump urged Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine and highlighted the U.S.’s strong military presence in Europe. Putin also shifted his public rhetoric...

The United States should send its peacekeepers to Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, in an interview with Bloomberg. Zelensky said that any effective peacekeeping forces deployed on the Ukraine, should include American troops, the newspaper notes. According to him, his European allies do not have enough soldiers to become a realistic deterrent for President Vladimir Putin and any other decision risks leading to a split within the NATO alliance. "This cannot happen without the United States. Even if some European friends think it can be, no, it can't be. No one will...

President Donald Trump pardoning two Metropolitan Washington DC police officers convicted in the death... A new wildfire in northern Los Angeles County forcing thousands to evacuate... A deadly train accident killing 13 people in India... Saudi Arabia's defacto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaking with President Donald Trump promising more investment and trade... President Donald Trump sending 1,500 US troops to the southern border... Trump designating the Ansar Allah Movement of Yemen commonly called "The Houthis" as a terrorist... The British Defense Minister dramatizing the presence of a Russian surveillance ship... The inflation surge in Russia continues... In Nashville...

Some people have thought that Trump’s talk about the Panama Canal was just talk. They were wrong. Newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio is already planning his first international trip – to Panama. Why do you suppose he is going there? Could it be because the new Trump administration is serious about the United States retaking control of the canal? It sure looks that way. Politico reported: Rubio is heading to Panama Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to visit Panama — the country whose canal President Donald Trump has suggested he’d seize — as early as next...

CNN’s Jim Acosta may no longer be able to showboat during White House press briefings, but this is not stopping him from getting humiliated on national TV. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) appeared as a guest on Acosta’s eponymous show CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta Wednesday to discuss the J6 pardons issued by President Trump on Monday. Unsurprisingly, Acosta was in a foul mood as he sought to force Burchett into condemning Trump for freeing over 1,500 political prisoners held hostage by the Biden regime. “I just want to ask you if any of these people who were released from prison,...

They're going to try to memory-hole this, but we can't forget that the Left put America through a reign of terror after 2020. This is some of what they did to me and my family, in an attempt to shut me up: When I was in Seattle, they put up posters around my neighborhood with insane lies about me and my home address, instructing activists to show up at my door. Later, they sent letters to a few hundred of my neighbors, claiming I was a Nazi white supremacist. Death threats, references to my family, the whole deal. A few...

Demi Lovato shared a heartfelt message of support to the non-binary and transgender community on Tuesday - after being forced to clarify why she went back to using she/her pronouns again. Taking to her Instagram stories, the singer, 32, quipped: 'If you are trans or non-binary like me, please know that I see you, I feel you, I am with you, you are validated, you are loved and you are not alone. 'No one can take away our identities and no one can tell us who we are or aren't. We will get thru this. I love you.' Demi, who...

President Trump credits the popular social media app TikTok for earning a greater percentage of the youth vote than previous campaigns. President Donald Trump gave his first Oval Office interview on Wednesday addressing a wide range of problems facing the United States, but assuring the nation that they are "all solvable." “They’re all solvable problems … with time, effort, money — unfortunately — but they’re all solvable," President Trump said in the interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. He also reiterated his belief that this election was the most consequential in history. “We can get our country back,” he...

Executive decree says US government must be 'vigilant' in issuing visas and ensure recipients support 'do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists.' By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff. 21 January 2025. Trump order appears to target some foreigners participating in anti-Israel protests. An anti-Israel protester appears to be wearing a Hamas headband and carrying an approximation of the terror group's flag at a rally in New York City on May 18, 2024. (John Lamparski / AFP) An executive order signed by US President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to target, among others, foreign nationals who participated in...

Dr Anthony Fauci was given a pre-emptive pardon by outgoing President Biden on Monday - likely due to fears he could be charged with perjury by Trump's DOJ. The former White House advisor has long been accused of misleading Congress under oath about funding risky virus research in Wuhan before the Covid pandemic. While Fauci had not been charged with a crime, there were growing calls among Republicans - including Elon Musk - to charge the 84-year-old with perjury, which carries a prison sentence of at least five years. In a May 2021 Senate hearing on the origins of Covid,...

A left-wing dark money group is bankrolling a “war room” to oppose environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation for Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary. The same organization supported his presidential campaign.Last week, Axios reported that the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which is allowed to receive unlimited contributions from anonymous donors, “plays both sides on RFK Jr.”“During the campaign, a super PAC it funded, Retire Career Politicians, tried to boost RFK, with ads claiming he ‘isn’t afraid to tell the truth about vaccines,’” Axios reported. “More recently, the Sixteen Thirty Fund is accepting donations on behalf of a new ‘Stop...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a large-scale raid in Boston, targeting criminal aliens, including MS-13 gang members, murder suspects, and a Haitian gang member with 18 prior convictions. The operation led to the arrest of over 300 individuals. In an exclusive report from Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melugin, ICE Boston executed a targeted operation against egregious criminal aliens, resulting in eight high-profile arrests. The operation resulted in eight arrests, including multiple members of the notorious MS-13 gang, suspects wanted on Interpol Red Notices for murder and rape, and a volatile Haitian gang member with an alarming record...

SNIPRecent credible polling shows that his prior widespread popularity has been smashed as a war-weary public grows less trusting of his leadership and more suspicious regarding rampant corruption in Ukraine. In a large survey taken by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, 52 percent of Ukrainians say they "trust" Zelensky now, down from the 77 percent who trusted him in 2023. The percentage saying they "do not trust" Zelensky has almost doubled over that same time period. Not surprisingly, Zelensky's support is weakest in the eastern and southern parts of the country, where most of the warfighting has unfolded.SNIPBut the...

President Donald Trump's sweeping executive orders have drawn comparisons to Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint aimed at reshaping the federal government under a Republican administration. Newsweek examines the similarities. Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via email. Why It Matters Project 2025, a 900-page document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, set out plans to expand executive authority, replace civil servants with ideologically aligned appointees, limit abortion rights and impose much tougher restrictions on immigration. Democrats have painted the initiative as a road map for Trump's second term in an attempt to portray him as ideologically extreme. Trump...