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Instructor complained about ‘extensive examples of transphobia’ A class instructor reported an Oregon State University student to the bias response team after he argued there are only two sexes in a final course project. The incident report, obtained by The College Fix through a public records request, reveals that an instructor (or teaching assistant) flagged the male undergraduate student for holding views critical of gender theory. The incident was among 20 bias reports filed at Oregon State at the start of the Fall 2025 semester. While specific details, dates, and course titles were heavily redacted by university public records office...

Live updates from Donald Trump's election rally in Salina, Kansas Jason Alatidd Bryan Richardson Evert Nelson Topeka Capital-Journal Updated Nov. 1, 2026, 1:45 p.m. CT President Donald Trump is returning to Kansas for a second rally ahead of the midterm elections. Trump is scheduled to take the stage at Salina Regional Airport at 7 p.m. Sunday, following a program of other speakers starting around 5:30 p.m. The Salina rally on Nov. 1 comes after Trump rallied in Park City on Oct. 19, and after Vice President JD Vance rallied in Topeka on Oct. 26 and Olathe on Sept. 14. A...

A Bad Look for the Vatican - On the Blocking of Saint Peter’s to Traditional Pilgrims - by Bishop Marian Eleganti A Bad Look for the VaticanThis year's ban on the traditionally minded "Ad Petri Sedem" pilgrims entering Saint Peter's Basilica on October 24, 2026 borders on hostility toward Catholics who are loyal to the Pope and orthodox in their faith. It has nothing to do with concern for unity in the Church or with operational difficulties in organizing liturgical celebrations in Saint Peter's.The rites that exist in the Catholic Church, in their peaceful coexistence with the Novus Ordo, demonstrate...

An email address that James Talarico’s attorneys confirmed belonged to and was at one time used by the Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate appears in a database search result associated with the adult dating website Fling.com’s 2011 data breach. A Fling.com account was created with Talarico’s email address just before Talarico began teaching sixth graders.The result lists the username “mohawk787” and an account creation timestamp of December 26, 2010, at 20:56:49. The profile’s interests field lists “FETISH,” “GROUPSEX,” “SEXUAL RELATIONS,” “ONLINE FLIRTING,” and “OTHER.”Townhall shared the information described in this article with the Talarico campaign and requested comment Friday morning,...

Canadian pro-family activist Bill Whatcott is now in the US – held in an ICE prison facility!Fled Canada after phony "hate speech" conviction to seek US political asylum with “help” from US immigration lawyers.An unbelievable story of dishonesty and incompetence that got him in this situation.Also: Canada is seeking extradition of Bill!October 27, 2026text Bill Whatcott is currently being held in the Northwest ICE Detention Center in Tacoma, WA.This story is so absurd and disturbing that we almost don’t know where to start.Over the years, Canadian pro-family Christian activist Bill Whatcott has been the target of a breathtaking amount of...

College Republicans at the University of Utah were attacked by a male who claims to be a woman yesterday while tabling an event and asking a poll question about gender. The student, identified as "Amber Grace," now faces assault and property damage charges. "Do you believe that we should have the right to freedom of speech?" one of the College Republicans asks. "No," laughs Mr. Grace. "I think Republicans should be shot in the street, personally." "So you're advocating for straight up violence toward people you disagree with?" the student asks. Then Mr. Grace appears to lunge forward and attack...

The FDA will newly exclude from donating blood some straight people who engage in anal sex, despite 30 years of evidence that including them has not posed a risk of HIV getting into the blood supply. ________________________________________

A batch of mailers sent to Texas households ahead of the November midterm elections may be connected to an Illinois printing company whose owner and his son have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Trump-aligned groups and Republican committees, CBS News reports.The flyers, which appeared to come from a transgender advocacy organization, have been linked to Three Z Printing, an Illinois company. U.S. Postal Service records show the company holds the bulk-mail permit used to send the flyers to more than 1 million Texas addresses.According to the United States Postal Service, the company — dubbed Three Z Printing —...

For those of us who have spent our lives trying to dismantle this endlessly destructive paradigm of patriarchy, it has become increasingly clear in recent months that something more terrifying is afoot. The wheels are off the cart. We are in the midst of a chaotic, demented acceleration of the most violent and cruel aspects of this system which has evolved into what I am calling Psychopatriarchy. Psychopatriarchy is a reaction, a backlash against the progress we have made on all fronts: women’s rights, civil rights, immigrant rights, workers rights, trans rights etc. It has birthed an authoritarian fascist reality,...

A Nashville judge temporarily blocked Tennessee health officials from requiring immigration status checks of HIV-positive individuals enrolled in a healthcare safety-net program. Chancellor I’Ashea L. Myles issued the temporary restraining order late Wednesday. The order prevents the Tennessee Department of Health from moving forward with a demand that organizations revise their contracts to include immigration status verification as a condition of serving patients in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program. The order extends to a companion program known as HOPWA, or Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS. Myles set a Nov. 4 hearing in the case.

“This is a segregated event,” former Illinois state rep says. “If you're LGBTQIA++ and you're BIPOC, fine, you can come in. All others, it's closed to. I mean, that's pretty alarming.” ==================================================================== (The Center Square) - Aplanned race-restricted event at a public park in Geneva is raising questions about anti-discrimination policies, with former Illinois state representative and Breakthrough Ideas CEO Jeanne Ives urging local officials to examine whether such gatherings comply with the law after an LGBTQ organization postponed a bonfire advertised for "Black, Indigenous and people of color." The event, organized by Belong Fox Valley and described as a...

(2009) We now have the first member of Congress who has called on controversial "Safe Schools" Education Official Kevin Jennings to resign. ... --- Congressman Steve King issued the following statement today: “Kevin Jennings lacks the appropriate qualifications and ethical standards to serve in a presidential administration. Despite serving as the ‘safe schools’ czar, Jennings has demonstrated a willingness to look the other way on sexual abuse. His life’s work has been the promotion of homosexuality, even in elementary schools,.. --- The Family Research Council is out with more on Jennings: FRC has uncovered a series of op-eds that show...

Four families are demanding answers from Jeffco Public Schools after their daughters lost spots on the JV squad ... Four parents of Dakota Ridge High School athletes are demanding answers from Jeffco Public Schools in Colorado after they said a transgender player was allowed to participate on the girls’ junior varsity volleyball team while eight girls were cut from the roster. ... The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights said Jeffco Public Schools had 10 days to voluntarily resolve alleged Title IX violations or face enforcement action. .... Oct. 2, Department of Education Press Secretary Savannah Newhouse said, "Just...

An antibiotic morning-after pill has been shown to be effective for preventing STIs among gay men, but some doctors worry about antibiotic resistance. This story discusses STIs and their symptoms. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Research shows that a new morning-after pill for bacterial STIs is highly effective for gay men. A possible downside - it could lead to antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Note - this story mentions sexually transmitted infections and symptoms. KQED's April Dembosky reports from San Francisco. APRIL DEMBOSKY, BYLINE: Tyler Toler (ph) has had the trifecta of bacterial STIs - chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. TYLER TOLER: Itching, burning, leaking, not...

In "PrEP Deserts: Why HIV Prevention Still Misses Those at Risk," our experts turn to the forces behind PrEP underuse, from how people perceive their own risk to how far they must travel for care. Dr. Cocohoba introduces the concept of PrEP deserts and asks what drives underuse in Dr. Urbina's community. He calls it the million-dollar question. Gay men were the earliest adopters of PrEP, shaped by the history of the epidemic, but uptake has not spread to other groups. Dr. Urbina describes a disconnect between a person's actual risk and the risk they perceive. He argues that acquisition...

GOP sees transgender athletes in women’s sports, border security and socialism as keys to persuading voters that Democrats are too extreme Republicans across the most competitive House and Senate races have settled on a closing pitch ahead of Election Day: Democrats are too extreme to be given control of Congress. It is an effort, pressed in a flood of TV ads and in President Trump’s rally speeches, to urge voters who are angry about gas prices and broader economic conditions to redirect their frustration away from the party in power. To make their case, Republicans are calling renewed attention to...

HOW COULD THEY DO THIS?

I'm a retired mechanical engineer with over 40 years' professional experience focusing on research and technical expertise; and I'm now a mathematics teacher. I grew up Roman Catholic and conservative, and I never particularly cared for politics. I'm certainly not someone you'd look at and expect to be an advocate for transgender rights – which is why it's so important for me to speak out.

Catholic parish to host female Lutheran ‘pastor’ for pro-LGBT talk Catholic leaders call on Archbishop Jeffrey Grob to 'cancel the event' led by a pro-LGBT 'heretic' Lutheran 'minister.'Three Catholic organizations are calling on the Archbishop of Milwaukee to stop a parish event featuring a female Lutheran pastor who will discuss ways the parish can be more supportive of homosexuality and transgender ideology.“How can other faith traditions help us more fully welcome LGBTQ+ people in our Catholic community,” a Facebook post from St. Sebastian parish in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee asks.The parish “welcome” group will host “Rev. Rachel Young Binter, a...

It shouldn't have to come to this. Adults should protect girls' sports and make boys — even boys who say they're girls — compete against other boys. But adults in blue states like Washington refuse to act like adults, so the girls are forced to take a stand against these unfair practices. And a dozen of girls on a cross-country team in Camas, Washington, forfeited their race rather than compete against a boy.