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JUST IN: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker goes mute after Rep. Brandon Gill stumps him on his previous tweet about men in women's bathrooms. Gill: Do you think men should be allowed in women's restrooms? Pritzker: I'm not sure why this has come to this issue. Gill: You tweeted: 'As a protest against President Trump, everyone should use the other gender's bathroom today.' Have you ever used the women's restroom? Pritzker: Not that I can recall. Gill: So you just wanted everybody else to do it, but you didn't? Pritzker: ...

In case you were wondering what the Wisconsin Democratic Party is focused on these days — it's not inflation, the border crisis, or crumbling roads. Nope. Their latest priority is scrubbing the word "mother" from state law. This week, Democrats introduced the Marriage and Family Equality Act — a warm, fuzzy name for a bill that replaces "mother" with terms like "pregnant person." Apparently, acknowledging basic biology is now considered hAtE speech. Sorry, moms. It gets worse. Similarly, Governor Tony Evers' Senate Bill 45 doesn't just tweak a few terms — it replaces "mother" with "inseminated person" across 1,917 pages...

Section 1 of the bill creates the "Kelly Loving Act". Section 2 provides that, when making child custody decisions and determining the best interests of a child for purposes of parenting time, a court shall consider deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual's gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control. A court shall consider reports of coercive control when determining the allocation of parental responsibilities in accordance with the best interests of the child. Section 3 prohibits a Colorado court from applying or giving any force or effect to another state's law that authorizes a...

Governor Janet Mills (D-ME) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that President Donald Trump is not the law and his administration’s actions were “not rational” while discussing their transgender athletes dispute. Mills said, “Very unexpectedly the president called on me to answer a question that was unrelated to the topic at hand. I’ve been to the White House and talked to President Trump before, President Biden, President Obama, several presidents, always been a good conversation, exchange of ideas. This was different, very different, and when he said, ‘I am the law,’ basically, ‘we are the law,’ my jaw dropped, and...

President Trump on Saturday demanded a “full-throated” apology from Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) before his administration can settle its dispute with the state for defying his executive order banning transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports. The University of Maine System (UMS) backed down earlier this week and promised to follow the executive order on transgender competition, but Trump suggested the dispute over federal funding won’t be resolved until Mills’ mea culpa. “While the State of Maine has apologized for their Governor’s strong, but totally incorrect, statement about men playing in women’s sports while at the White House House...

At the height of the pandemic when COVID-19 was taking a heavier toll on Black people, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law that required hospitals and labs in New Jersey to collect more detailed demographic information on its patients. Four years later, the law has taken a surprising turn. Hospitals are handing out forms asking pregnant and post-partum mothers the gender identity and sexual orientation of their babies, according to a patient in South Jersey. “What sex was your baby assigned at birth?” “Which of the following best describes your baby? Lesbian or gay; straight or heterosexual, bisexual, questioning/unsure, prefer...

All of Maine’s federal judges recuse themselves from Rep. Laurel Libby’s lawsuit against House speaker None of the judges gave any reasoning for the recusals and the Republican state lawmaker's case will now be considered by a judge in Rhode Island. All of Maine’s active federal judges have recused themselves from a Republican state lawmaker’s lawsuit against the Speaker of the House. Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, and six of her constituents filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Bangor on Tuesday in response to Libby’s party-line censure by the Legislature last month. Democrats argued Libby crossed a line by...

This morning, Donald Trump presided over a meeting of governors, one of whom was Maine’s Janet Mills. When she effectively announced that she was refusing to comply with his mandate regarding men in women’s sports, Trump told her the harsh truth: He holds the checkbook. It was an epic confrontation and also a Rorschach test because leftists are celebrating Mills’s stance, while conservatives (and probably most Americans) are supporting Trump. Up until this morning, Gov. Mills was a complete nonentity to most Americans. Outside of Maine, nobody had heard of her—and she probably wouldn’t have won in the first place...

FEBRUARY 21, 2025 WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) sent a letter to the Maine Department of Education Commissioner Pender Makin announcing that OCR is initiating a directed investigation of the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) amid allegations that it continues to allow male athletes to compete in girls’ interscholastic athletics and that it has denied female athletes female-only intimate facilities, thereby violating federal antidiscrimination law. The letter also notifies MDOE that OCR is launching an investigation into Maine School Administrative District #51 (MSAD #51), after it was reported that Greely High School,...

Donald Trump engaged in a furious row with the Governor of Maine over transgender athletes during a fractious meeting at the White House. Democrat Janet Mills came face to face with the president at a session of the National Governors Association in the State Dining Room on Friday. While delivering a speech Trump mentioned his recent executive order banning transgender athletes from participating in girls and women's sports, and that he understood Maine was not complying.

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating the Maine Department of Education and a Maine school district for Title IX violations. “Maine would have you believe that it has no choice in how it treats women and girls in athletics — that is, that it must follow its state laws and allow male athletes to compete against women and girls,” acting assistant secretary for civil rights Craig Trainor said in a statement. “Let me be clear: If Maine wants to continue to receive federal funds from the Education Department, it has to follow Title IX,” he added....

Donald Trump engaged in a furious row with the Governor of Maine over transgender athletes during a fractious meeting at the White House. Democrat Janet Mills came face-to-face with the president at a session of the National Governors Association in the State Dining Room on Friday. Trump mentioned his recent executive order banning transgender athletes from participating in girls and women's sports, which prompted Mills to stand up and object. 'Are you not going to comply with that?' Trump asked of Mills. She responded: 'I'm complying with state and federal laws.' Trump said 'Well, we are the federal law' and...

Trump: Are you not gonna comply? Gov: I’ll comply with State & Federal law Trump: We are the Federal Law! Gov: See you in court Trump: I look forward to that!

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) supported a Democrat Senate bill that would replace the word “mother” with the word “inseminated person,” and replace the word “husband” with the word “spouse.” Dan O’Donnell, the host of the Dan O’Donnell Show shared an excerpt of Senate Bill 45, Section 3106, which also replaces the words “man” and “wife” for “person.” The bill, introduced on Friday, is about “state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature,” according to WSAU News. According to the Wisconsin State Legislature website, 2025 Senate Bill 45 was “Introduced by Joint Committee on Finance.”

TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and his minions are messing around with President Donald J. Trump, and soon, they could be finding out in the form of cuts to federal funding for education. Despite a recent executive order from President Trump aimed at barring transgender athletes from participating in school sports aligned with their gender identity, the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) has announced it will not alter its existing transgender athlete policy. The decision marks a significant act of defiance against the federal directive, setting the stage for a potential clash between state and...

"You better do it — because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't." Absolute bloodbath.

ontingent on political beliefs or withhold services based on them. In other words, there are not supposed to be loyalty oaths in this country. But California’s new law requiring foster parents to “affirm” the sexuality and gender identity of kids as a condition for caring for them is leading to a purge of Christian families from the foster care system, according to Christian groups and conservative leaders. The law, SB 407, was enacted in 2023 and sponsored by California State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) with this exact purpose in mind: to weed out Christian families from the foster system...

The administration of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), Vice President Kamala Harris’s choice for running mate, “made it a priority” to delete language in the Minnesota Human Rights Act intended to protect children from pedophiles, State Rep. Harry Niska (R) revealed during an interview on Breitbart News Daily. The Minnesota Human Rights Act is essentially a name for the state’s anti-discrimination statute, but Democrats in Walz’s administration “have really pushed the envelope in terms of gender ideology into our Human Rights Act.” “And that included deleting from the Human Rights Act some language that specifically made clear — this is...

Twitter thread with source material (ammendment and video of official meetings) about H. F. No. 1655.

The state of Minnesota will begin mandating that public schools provide menstrual products in boy’s bathrooms beginning on January 1. According to the Center of the American Experiment, the products it expects schools to carry include “pads, tampons, or other similar products used in connection with the menstrual cycle” and that such products to be available in all bathrooms “regularly” used by students. In order to pay for the proliferation of these products, the schools will receive $2 multiplied by the number of their students