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The doll was expected to be available at Mattel's online shop and at Target stores starting Monday for a suggested retail price of $11.87.Mattel Inc. is introducing an autistic Barbie on Monday as the newest member of its line intended to celebrate diversity, joining a collection that already includes Barbies with Down syndrome, a blind Barbie, a Barbie and a Ken with vitiligo, and other models the toymaker added to make its fashion dolls more inclusive. Mattel said it developed the autistic doll over more than 18 months in partnership with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, a nonprofit organization that...

Mattel is expanding its push for inclusion with the launch of its first autistic Barbie, developed in partnership with autism advocates to reflect how some people on the spectrum experience the world. Mattel spent more than 18 months developing the autistic Barbie in partnership with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), a nonprofit that works to advance the rights and media representation of autistic people. The aim, the company said, was to design a doll that reflects some of the ways autistic individuals experience and navigate the world around them. The doll includes articulated elbows and wrists to allow for...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is setting the record straight after NBC News attempted to once again smear ICE as the agency continues its work enforcing our immigration laws. Earlier today, NBC News reported that ICE used a five-year-old autistic girl as "bait" to capture her illegal immigrant father. ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family. https://t.co/bJrhpL1xeI— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 23, 2025Here's more:Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her...

Transsexualization isn’t the only horror inflicted on children with autism. In the Netherlands, the most vulnerable of the vulnerable are also subject to euthanasia: As Yuan Yi Zhu noted in Unherd, in 2024, the Netherlands reported 219 cases of euthanasia for “psychological suffering,” as opposed to only two cases in 2010. “Of the 219, 30 were for patients aged 18-39,” Zhu noted. “An unspecified number of minors were also euthanized.” The number was unspecified, but there are a few specifics. One boy between the ages of 16 and 18 was euthanized for autism. “The psychiatrists decided that his condition was...

Disturbing footage shows a terrified autistic 19-year-old desperately asking cops to listen to him before he hit his head repeatedly and died in custody. Isaiah Trammell, was taunted, belittled and threatened by nine guards as he begged for his medication at the Montgomery County Jail in Ohio in March, 2023. In surveillance videos obtained by The Columbus Dispatch, officers are seen telling the autistic man he was 'ridiculous,' 'embarrassing' and 'acting like an a**.' Trammell was strapped into a restraint chair twice and threatened a third time if he did not calm down. Unable to calm himself, Trammell proceeded to...

An autistic Florida teen who knocked a school staffer unconscious for threatening to take away his Nintendo Switch has filed a lawsuit against the district, accusing them of failing to meet his needs. Brendan Depa, 18, was just 17 when he was caught on video pummeling a teacher's aide, Joan Naydich, at Matanzas High School after she requested another teacher take away his gaming console. Depa was arrested and charged as an adult with aggravated battery on a school employee, a first-degree felony carrying a potential sentence of 30 years behind bars.

Horrifying footage shows a ten-year-old autistic boy being beaten by his teaching aide, who allegedly abused at least three children for months, leaving them with bruises and marks. Kiarra Jones, 29, has been charged with third-degree assault on an at-risk person last week and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on May 3. In the video provided by Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC Attorneys at Law, the firm representing three families, Jones can be seen repeatedly punching the child, who has severe autism and no verbal ability, while they sat together on the school bus. Heartbroken parents of children at the Joshua...

An autistic boy was shot dead by police in California after he ran towards them with a bladed gardening tool, according to officials. Harrowing bodycam footage shows the moment Ryan Gainer, 15, runs out of his Apple Valley in San Bernardino county on Saturday and towards the deputies. A deputy is heard saying, 'Hey get back! Get back or you're gonna get shot,' before opening fire. Police showed up at his home after receiving a 911 call reporting the teen was assaulting family members and damaging property, as reported by KTLA. According to an official report, Gainer charged at the...

In his first interview since dropping out of the presidential race, DeSantis told Blaze TV’s Steve Deace that the blame is on Iowa caucusgoers who rallied behind front-runner Donald Trump even though many didn’t like him. “They did not want to see Trump nominated again, but they had basically been told that it was inevitable, that it was over,” DeSantis told Deace on Tuesday. DeSantis, who lost to Trump in the Iowa caucuses earlier this month, added that those voters were “checked out” and had “just totally dropped out of the process.” The Florida governor told Deace he’d consider running...

Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY), a surrogate for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that former President Donald Trump’s multiple indictments would “ripen into convictions.” Massie said, “You know, the main thing I hear from people back home is there mad that nobody’s held accountable in Washington DC. I think we need to hold Trump accountable. snip The lawsuit itself is ridiculous, but the underlying facts aren’t disputed, and I think people are going to kind of recoil from that when all that stuff starts coming out this summer. And the polls that show...

Two furious parents are suing a Michigan public school district for using male pronouns for their eighth-grade autistic daughter without their knowledge. Dan and Jennifer Mead filed a lawsuit against the Rockford Public School District on Monday after discovering the school had been referring to their child using 'he/him' pronouns last year. The lawsuit alleges the school violated the parents' First and 14th Amendment rights by using a masculine name and pronouns for their child, as reported by NewsNation. According to court documents, the school complied with its policy by using the student's chosen name and pronouns. The Meads withdrew...

A teenage boy accused of punching and kicking his teaching assistant in a row over a Nintendo Switch has appeared in court and charged as an adult - after being arrested for battery three times in 2019. Brendan Depa, now 18 but who was 17 at the time of the alleged beating was led shackled into court in Florida wearing an orange jumpsuit on Monday to face charges of aggravated battery - a felony. He allegedly attacked teaching assistant Joan Naydich, 57, at Matanzas High School on February 21. The savage assault was caught on school surveillance cameras. The 6'6"...

A Florida teacher who was beaten senseless by a 270 pound student has refused to support a lighter sentence for the teen. High school teacher Joan Naydich was violently attacked by Brendan Depa, then 17, in February after she told him to stop playing on his Nintendo Switch. The autistic teen was seen on video punching and kicking the educator in the back and head until she lay on the ground unconscious. Eventually the 6-foot-6 teen, now 18, was pulled away and restrained by other staff. Naydich, was taken to a local hospital and treated after the assault. Depa, reportedly...

Bodycam footage shows the moments Florida police handcuffed a 9-year-old at Stenstrom Elementary School in February. Oviedo police detained the fourth-grade student for 13 minutes after he wouldn’t stop throwing an aggressive tantrum in the school’s mail room. The child’s family is now suing the city and the school resource officers involved in handcuffing their son. The Law&Crime Network’s Elizabeth Millner breaks it down. VIDEO ONLY ON LINK

There aren’t a lot of 19-year-olds who give up their birthdays to go to Congress and plead for kids’ lives. But Chloe Cole isn’t your average teenager. The face of the detransitioner movement has come into her own by walking a painful path she prays no one else follows. Now, after years of suffering, self-doubt, and irreversible surgery, Chloe is a living warning to parents that the scars of trying to be someone else never fully heal.

A Ron DeSantis administration would begin with a bureaucratic bloodbath, the Florida governor vowed – using language that had some potential supporters feeling queasy. We’re going to have all these deep state people. You know, we’re going to start slitting throats on Day One,' he said. That came after a pledge about cracking down on Mexican drug cartels. 'At the border, they’re going to be shot stone, cold dead,' he said, according to New Hampshire's NPR affiliate .

For $1, New Hampshire voters were invited to drink beer with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday in Concord. But barely more than two dozen people showed up at the New Hampshire Home Builders Association, which slashed the ticket price for the general public from $50 late in the week in order to build the crowd. And there were signs that the campaign’s focus on retail politics — on showing that DeSantis can connect with people outside his bubble — eluded the candidate at times. A 15-year-old at the Oskaloosa coffee shop asked about military service restrictions on people with...

Toddlers and severely autistic children can communicate their “trans” identity by rejecting barrettes and drawing “queer” pictures. Yep. You go with that. After all, in order to keep the money flowing into the “Gender-affirming” medical establishment one has to mutilate as many kids as possible. Those “teets” need to be “yeeted,” after all. There’s good money in those children’s bodies

Nashville Police have this morning released bodycam footage from yesterday's school shooting which left six people dead, including three nine-year-old children. The footage shows heroic police officer Rex Englebert taking shooter Audrey Hale out within five minutes of arriving at the school, and 14 minutes after the first 911 call came in. Hale was standing in front of a large window on a second floor atrium of The Covenant School by the time police entered the building. When they arrived at the scene, a woman standing outside the school directed the officers on where to go. A panicked male staff...

Transgender Nashville school shooter with 'high-functioning autism,' Audrey Hale, 28, has been seen talking about her 'growth as an artist' as police reveal she'd drawn a cartoon-like massacre manifesto detailing her twisted plan. Hale shot and killed three nine-year-old students and three staff members at The Covenant School in Green Hills on Monday in what police are calling a 'targeted attack.' Eerie footage of Hale's college graduation and a short interview of the art school's senior portfolio show reveal the deranged killer portraying a seemingly happy persona as she talked about her 'growth as an artist.' The 28-year-old was seen...