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(The Center Square) – A southern state that banned medical gender transition for children is funding a network of doctors and therapists who promote some of those same controversial treatments, an investigation by The Center Square found. A nonprofit called Charlotte Transgender Healthcare Group openly touts puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as treatment options for minors. And through 2027, it's receiving $1.28 million from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, records and interviews show. North Carolina state law strictly forbids body-altering gender treatments on children younger than 18, including puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries. Health and Human...

What recent reports, investigations and scandals reveal about a problem Britain refuses to confront. Charity Commission building.Here’s a story unfolding in Britain that deserves a lot more attention. Over the weekend, The Daily Telegraph broke the news that the FBI in America believe that one of the largest Muslim charities in Britain, the Al-Khair foundation, has been used to bankroll the banned Islamist terrorist group Hamas. The FBI claims the Foundation, which is a partner of the UN refugee agency, has been used as a front to send money to Hamas under the guise of ‘humanitarian aid’. Last week, its...

SpaceX is closing in on 130,000 acres of Louisiana coastline. A second mega Starbase, so large that today's Starbase would fit into it more than nine hundred times. And that's only half of the expansion story, because in a letter to the federal government on Friday, SpaceX asked to open up the ocean itself. Yes. The Starship oil rigs are back. Meanwhile, at the pad that just launched Flight 13, our flyover caught something nobody expected: scaffolding deep inside the flame trench. We dug into what's happening down there, and the answer comes with a clock attached, because the paperwork...

Tuesday’s CNN This Morning played a clip of the radical DSA candidate, the favorite to win Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, supposedly walking back her insanely radical positions. In the clip, she offers this defense of her past calls to defund the police, abolish the U.S. Senate, and cancel Thanksgiving: “I learned then you have some hot takes, sometimes bad takes, on Twitter, and I let my feelings out into the world.” Francesca, Francesca! You let your feelings out? Do you realize you just admitted the crazy stuff is actually how you feel? Host Audie Cornish did her best to cushion...

U.S. — The Democratic Party announced on Tuesday that U.S. citizens were not allowed to remember all those things the party said and did just a few years ago. Eyeing a return to national power, several potential Democratic presidential nominees called on the nation to forget all those things they said about, for example, refusing medical care to the unvaccinated in hopes that they die a slow and painful death. "You are only allowed to believe what we tell you now, not what we told you then," explained presidential hopeful Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "All that stuff about how people gathering to...

Arc of Justice—the California-based charity established by Code Pink cofounder Medea Benjamin to dole out millions to Code Pink and other far left activist groups—was recently ordered by the state's attorney general to cease all operations after failing to file taxes for three consecutive years and account for more than $51 million in assets that still remain a mystery, according to documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Since California first revoked the foundation's charitable registration 18 months ago and ordered it to provide a full accounting of $51,445,599 in outstanding assets it held as of 2023, "no public document...

A phenomenon known as Black Fatigue is growing among many Americans who are tired of the rude and anti-social behavior in parts of black culture, and the unspoken privilege it creates. Among all the viral memes and online trends one sees while scrolling through social media, one term has been coming up more regularly: “black fatigue.” The term has been around since 2015, and appears to have originated from a board on a site that has become the Twilight Zone of the internet (a site that is “both shadow and substance, of things and ideas”), 4Chan. As with many post-modern...

Oh say can you see…no fireworks or football? Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s (D) past views on iconic aspects of American life might make some voters take note. The progressive candidate, who narrowly won his Aug. 4 primary over Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) to face Republican Mike Rogers in November, was caught hating on ultra-American things like fireworks, the Second Amendment and even — gasp! — football in old YouTube videos. The clips, some of which have since been deleted, were reported by CNN’s K-File. In one now-deleted July 2024 video, El-Sayed, 41, says, “Fireworks suck!” and pleads with viewers...

A federal appeals court cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport thousands of illegal aliens. A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Tuesday lifted a lower court order striking down the administration's deportation directives, which instruct officers to consider expedited removal for certain migrants who came to the US under the Biden-error.

Shi Zhengli is recruiting researchers for “pathogen discovery/coronavirus” and “cross-species infection risk” work. NIH-backed scientists continued collaborating with her after COVID, including on research using materials she supplied from her new Chinese laboratory. Shi Zhengli, the Chinese virologist whose years of bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology made her one of the most scrutinized scientists in the world after COVID-19, did not disappear. She moved on to another powerful Chinese state laboratory, where she is now helping train a new generation of coronavirus researchers. Chinese-language records reviewed for this report show Shi is currently affiliated with Guangzhou...

The upper chamber adjourned until Sept. 14 without passing the Safeguard America Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a cryptocurrency bill or a third reconciliation package. A group of Republicans supported cancelling recess to pass the SAVE America Act, though they did not force a formal vote on canceling the adjournment.

The Naked Communist by W. Cleon SkousenI have spent the last several months working intensively on completing the dictation of an audiobook that is available as a free down on the reputable site Librivox.org, which is partnered with Gutenberg.org, a global repository for books that are not covered under international copyright laws (whether those books were printed before copyright law as we know it existed, or if a sufficient time has passed, and the copyright has expired.) This important and relevant work may be downloaded at this link: LINK TO: “The Naked Communist” It was first published in 1958 by...

A Syrian court has sentenced ousted president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after convicting him of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the country's civil war. BBC reports that Assad fled Syria for Moscow with his family in December 2024 after his regime was overthrown, bringing an end to his family's more than five-decade rule over the country. He has remained in Russia since then, and it is unclear whether Syria's new authorities will be able to secure his extradition. The death sentence marks the latest legal action against Assad by Syria's new leadership. An arrest warrant...

Earlier I posted about Kroger short-weighing a package of chicken I bought. Jimmy Wrigg has a number of videos about Walmart short weighing beef and chicken. Well, he's back and the prepackage bacon 1lb packages are a much as 2.5oz short of the required 16oz target. Evidently, the FDA allows a 1oz variation, but that should be randomly distributed if it's truly and error, with some packages with more that 16oz and some within 1oz less. Jimmy has yet to find one that's over by an ounce. Solution: weigh the package before you buy it.

You might ask what the problem is, since the United States celebrates freedom of religion. The problem with Islam is that it not only promotes a religion, but also its followers often support political Islam and its spread worldwide, particularly sharia law. Despite our concerns, most states have not been able to figure out how to legally ban the construction of these Islamic Centers:

SpaceX is trying to bring a Starship upper stage back to shore for post-flight inspection, but it's not going so well. It’s been more than two weeks since SpaceX’s Starship splashed down in the Indian Ocean following a largely successful thirteenth flight test. As of Friday, the recovery team was still working to bring the upper stage, known as “Ship,” back to shore, but in a post on X, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said it was “not looking good.” It’s unclear if the team made any headway over the weekend. If SpaceX chooses to abandon Ship (no pun intended), it...

During Henry’s Kissinger’s famous “Year of Europe” speech in 1973, the then Assistant for National Security affairs observed that, “our values, our goals, and our basic interests are most closely identified with those of Europe.” Indeed, while perhaps Kissinger’s remarks were accurate when taken in the context of Soviet repression and a shared continental commitment to containing the threat, the transatlantic consensus he described has since frayed. Have some East Asian countries moved to take Europe’s place as free speech protectors? Last September, five armed British police officers stood in London’s Heathrow airport, waiting for the arrival of Graham Linehan’s...

Another Wyoming woman is leading the herd in the world-famous Mongol Derby. Lindsay Woods of Jackson is one of the 43 riders participating in the Mongol Derby 2026, a 620-mile horse race in Inner Mongolia. As of Monday, she’s made her move and is poised to win it all. Woods promoted herself as "a washed-up Pony Clubber now cowgirlmaxxing in Wyoming" on the Mongol Derby website. She put a positive spin on her prospects, saying that if she does get "lawndarted" by a semi-feral Mongolian horse, "she might at least get a nose job out of it." “I came to...

President Donald Trump leapt to the defense of FIFA chief Gianni Infantino on Monday, as the head of world soccer’s governing body faces pressure to resign following a failed attempt to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors. Trump wrote in a Truth Social post late on Monday that FIFA would be “making a terrible mistake” if member associations move to replace Infantino. Should he depart, Trump said that the tournament “will never be as successful or profitable again!” Infantino was the driving force behind FIFA’s most recent commercialization push, which culminated in the largest, most profitable World...

A debate between Yoseph Haddad and anti-Israel activists turned physical after a Groyper YouTuber allegedly attacked him in a studio and parking lot. Yitz Goldberg. Published: Aug 11, 2026, 8:01 AM (GMT+3) What was supposed to be a debate between pro- and anti-Israel views turned physical when Arab-Israeli advocacy activist Yoseph Haddad was allegedly attacked by his antisemitic opponent. Haddad had arrived at the studio in the US to partake in a debate against a group of anti-Israel activists, with the person debating him constantly changing. At one point, Groyper YouTuber Dennis Feitosa, known as "Def Noodles," sat down to...