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  • Authorities arrest trans Antifa militant for attacking federal police officers with a knife outside Portland ICE facility: FBI affidavit

    06/26/2025 9:02:16 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 71 replies
    the post millennial ^ | Katie Daviscourt
    On Tuesday, June 24, federal authorities apprehended an armed subject who advanced on officers with a large knife outside the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. Julie Mikela Winters, 47, born Christopher Hudson, has been charged with felony attempted assault of a federal officer, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. The incident occurred during the ongoing Antifa occupation at the ICE facility located at 4310 SW Macadam Avenue, which has been under siege by black-clad militants for more than two consecutive weeks. According to an FBI affidavit, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers observed Winters attempting to ignite...
  • Supreme Court rules in favor of Maryland parents who want to pull kids from classes with LGBTQ-themed books

    06/27/2025 12:57:34 PM PDT · by Libloather · 30 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/27/25 | Samuel Chamberlain, Ryan King
    The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a group of Maryland parents who sued a school board over its refusal to allow elementary school children to be taken out of classes with LGBTQ-themed storybooks. In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines Friday, the justices overturned a lower court ruling that found the parents needed to show that their kids were being coerced to act differently than their religious beliefs. The high court concluded that the parents “have shown that they are entitled to a preliminary injunction” because they “are likely to succeed in their challenge to the Board’s policies. “The...
  • Supreme Court Requires Schools to Allow Opting Out From L.G.B.T.Q. Stories

    06/27/2025 9:10:06 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 48 replies
    The New York Times ^ | June 27, 2025, 10:57 a.m. ET | By Adam Liptak
    Maryland parents have a religious right to withdraw their children from classes on days that storybooks with gay and transgender themes are discussed, the court ruled.Public schools in Maryland must allow parents with religious objections to withdraw their children from classes in which storybooks with L.G.B.T.Q. themes are discussed, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s liberal members in dissent. The case extended a winning streak for claims of religious freedom at the court, gains that have often come at the expense of other values, notably gay rights. The case concerned a...
  • Zohran Mamdani wants to spend $65M on trans medical treatment — including for minors — if elected NYC mayor

    06/27/2025 3:13:09 AM PDT · by SaveFerris · 43 replies
    The New York Post ^ | Published June 23, 2025 Updated June 23, 2025, 1:02 p.m. ET | By David Propper and Craig McCarthy
    Mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani wants to spend $65 million in taxpayer funds on transgender treatment — including for minors — if he’s elected to lead New York City. The Queens assemblyman, who is locked in a close race with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, says on his campaign website that the money would be funneled to public providers to help transgender New Yorkers. About $57 million would be allotted for public hospitals, community clinics, federally qualified health centers and nonprofits with another $8 million for more expanded services, the website states. Mamdani defended the spending plan as...
  • Ten Years In, Same-Sex Marriage Is Part of American Life. But It’s Still Under Attack.

    06/26/2025 11:20:43 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 78 replies
    The New York Times ^ | June 26, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET | Adam Nagourney and Jeremy W. Peters
    On the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationally, supporters say they are secure but also wary and watchful.Could same-sex marriage be next?Gay Americans and their allies have much to celebrate on Thursday, the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Same-sex marriage has, by almost every indication, become ingrained in everyday American life. Since the decision, there have been 591,000 same-sex marriages, and today, nearly two-thirds of Americans approve of the policy. Same-sex couples are staples in contemporary movies and television shows, and reside, often with their...
  • Doctor Who actor David Tennant wears trans rights T-shirt by Canadian designer: 'You will have to go through me'

    06/24/2025 12:16:08 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 51 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 6/24/25 | Elianna Lev
    Stevie Brocksom is still floored after actor David Tennant, best known for his work in the Doctor Who series, wore one of the trans-positive T-shirts they sent him on a whim. The photo has led to a massive spike in sales of the London, Ont., designer's activist T-shirts which help fund a scholarship for transgender students in Ontario. Brocksom and their graphic designer sell a series of T-shirts with trans-positive messaging on their website, "Stevie Safe Spaces." The T-shirts, which are available in sizes S up to 6XL, have slogans on them like “you can’t erase us,” "protect trans kids"...
  • During Pride Month Public Libraries Become Centers for Queer Resistance

    06/24/2025 1:15:05 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 69 replies
    Real Clear Investigatons ^ | June 24, 2025 | John Murawski
    This article contains graphic descriptions that may not be suitable for all readers. Parental discretion is advised.RALEIGH, N.C. – Like public libraries across the country, branches in North Carolina’s capital city turn rainbow-hued each June in celebration of Pride Month. Festive book displays featuring “queer-themed” titles written for all ages – from toddlers to teens and adults – are set out for the public as innocently as if the subject in question were cooking, gardening, or personal finance. The colorful Pride books set out by Wake County civil servants are not just a benign celebration of gay dignity, hugging couples,...
  • Transgender Treatments Distort the Purpose of Medicine

    06/24/2025 6:11:30 AM PDT · by karpov · 17 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | June 23, 2025 | Farr Curlin
    The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti, upholding Tennessee’s ban on medical gender interventions for children, reflects a split in the Justices’ views of medicine: Is it about restoring patients’ health or satisfying their wants? The court held last week that the Tennessee law permissibly distinguished between different medical uses of puberty blockers and hormones for children. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts explained that medical treatments are defined not only by the drug used but by the purpose for which it is prescribed. Administering testosterone to a boy with delayed puberty is categorically different from...
  • America’s Largest Medical Association Sides With Child Mutilation After SCOTUS Ruling

    06/21/2025 12:24:10 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 54 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | Jun 21, 2025 | Amanda Prestigiacomo
    The American Medical Association's new president Dr. Bobby Mukkamala said the ruling was "harmful government interference." The American Medical Association (AMA), the largest medical association in the United States, is coming out against the Supreme Courts ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, arguing that irreversible and damaging transgender procedures for minors are necessary treatments. “The American Medical Association is disappointed in today’s decision that opens the door to further intrusion into patient care and harmful government interference into the practice of medicine,” AMA President Dr. Bobby Mukkamala said in a statement after the ruling came down. The court ruled on...
  • Far-Left SPLC Advised Biden DOJ on Prosecuting “Hate Crimes” Against LGBTQs

    06/20/2025 8:43:50 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 8 replies
    The New American ^ | June 20, 2025 | Michael Tennant
    The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) advised prosecutors from former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) on “disturbing trends … within the anti-LGBTQ movement” at a 2023 “hate crimes symposium,” the Daily Signal reported Monday.Drawing on documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) via a Freedom of Information Act request, senior editor Tyler O’Neil informed readers of just one instance among many in which the Biden DOJ collaborated with the SPLC.The SPLC, which actually performed some valuable services early in its existence before becoming consumed with fighting “hate,” famously publishes a “hate map.” While genuine haters such as the...
  • How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost

    06/19/2025 1:02:34 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 30 replies
    The New York Times ^ | June 19, 2025 | Nicholas Confessore
    The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.One day last December, a clutch of dark-suited lawyers descended the steps of the Supreme Court to a hero’s welcome. The lawyers, from the American Civil Liberties Union, had that morning joined counterparts from the Biden administration in asking the court to block a Tennessee law that bars doctors from providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery to young people who feel that their bodies are the wrong sex. In the plaza outside the court, L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy groups had turned out hundreds of supporters, who hugged, cheered...
  • Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia

    06/18/2025 6:39:04 AM PDT · by fwdude · 50 replies
    Erin in the Morning ^ | Jun 11, 2025 | S. Baum
    A report on the largest survey ever of trans Americans’ health was released on Wednesday, June 11, and its findings reaffirmed what many academics, health care providers and trans people already know: gender-affirming care saves and improves lives, but transphobia often dissuades people from pursuing or continuing it when they need it most. Over 84,000 trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people aged 18 and up responded to the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey, spearheaded by Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE). Of respondents who had transitioned, 9% had gone back to living as their sex assigned at birth at some point in...
  • San Francisco Reaction To Supreme Court ban on child sexual mutilation Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for kids, a setback for transgender rights

    06/18/2025 12:58:16 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 31 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 18, 2025 | By MARK SHERMAN
    The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a jolting setback to transgender rights.
  • S.F.’s Pink Triangle, symbol of LGBTQ+ rights and Nazi persecution, is vandalized

    06/18/2025 7:43:02 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 22 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | June 18, 2025 | Rong-Gong Lin II
    San Francisco police have arrested a man accused of defacing the famed Pink Triangle, a symbol of LGBTQ+ rights that is installed annually during Pride Month on top of the city’s landmark Twin Peaks.
  • Children’s Hospital LA Will Shut Down Center for ‘Transyouth Health’ It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another

    06/17/2025 3:56:21 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 22 replies
    California Globe ^ | June 17, 2025 | By Evan Gahr
    In a total capitulation to the Trump Administration, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles announced last week that it is shutting down its notorious clinic that foisted sex change procedures on minors. The announcement marks an abrupt shift for the Children’s Hospital, which had earlier seemed inclined to fight the Trump Administration in court over its threat to cut off funding to any hospital that provides so-called gender affirming care for youths.
  • Clayton Kershaw wrote a scripture reference on his Dodgers' pride hat last night to remind folks what the rainbow really means

    06/15/2025 4:00:09 PM PDT · by AF_Blue · 36 replies
    Not the Bee ^ | 6/14/2025 | Hamilton Porter
    Man, how can you not love this from The Dodger's star Clayton Kershaw? Last night was "pride night" for the Dodgers and they and the Giants wore "pride" themed rainbow logos on their ballcaps for the game. But Clayton Kershaw decided that he wasn't just going to go along with it.
  • Former teacher accused of sexually assaulting and murdering the baby he was trying to adopt appears in court

    06/16/2025 1:41:35 PM PDT · by Morgana · 49 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | June 16, 2025 | Sam Lawly
    A former teacher accused of sexually assaulting and murdering the baby he was trying to adopt has appeared in court. Jamie Varley, 36, was in the process of adopting 13-month-old Preston Davey in 2023 along with co-accused John McGowan-Fazakerley, 31, who also appeared in the dock at Preston Crown Court on Monday. Members of the child's family sat yards away in the public gallery alongside police officers, one woman in tears as she looked over at the defendants. Varley is accused of murder, manslaughter, two counts of assault by penetration of a child, five counts of child cruelty, one count...
  • Boston Red Sox spark controversy after putting on pre-game drag show for Pride Day

    06/15/2025 4:02:48 PM PDT · by SaveFerris · 68 replies
    Daily Mail Online ^ | PUBLISHED: 21:19 EDT, 11 June 2025 | UPDATED: 21:26 EDT, 11 June 2025 | By ALEX RASKIN
    Fenway Park's annual Pride Night has been heavily criticized online in the days since a group of drag queens were welcomed on the field in Boston before the Red Sox hosted the Tampa Bay Rays. 'Gross' and 'disgusting' were just two of the judgements posted on X, where many others joined in the attack. 'Be more like the @Rangers,' another added, referring to the only Major League Baseball team without a Pride Month celebration. Several commenters questioned the logic behind MLB events aimed at including LBGTQ+ fans, arguing they're not really baseball's target audience. However, a 2021 survey by the...
  • X: Two Homosexual Teachers Rape and Murder Adopted Baby

    06/15/2025 3:37:06 PM PDT · by TigerClaws · 32 replies
    This was Preston Davey. A one-year-old from England. The baby boy had been placed in the care of two gay men who were in the proces of adopting him. Within months, the men raped Preston to death. The gay men, named Jamie Varley (a head teacher!) and John McGowan-Fazakerley, both worked with children and also face a list of other charges, including possession of CSAM. They will appear in court tomorrow. Rest in peace Preston. I hope one day you and the many victims of these horrific crimes will finally be enough to stop these cruel sacrifices on the altar...
  • High school teacher, 36, is accused of sexually assaulting and murdering 13-month-old boy he was in the process of adopting

    06/15/2025 1:46:55 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 44 replies
    Daily Express UK ^ | 06 13 2025 | OLIVIA CHRISTIE and SHANNON MCGUIGAN
    A 36-year-old has been accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a 13-month-old baby boy he was in the process of adopting. Jamie Varley of Lancashire has been charged with the murder of toddler, Preston Davey following his death in Blackpool on July 27, 2023. The one-year-old was brought unresponsive into Blackpool Victoria Hospital at around 7.15pm that evening but tragically died shortly after. Varley, who is a teacher, is also accused of multiple counts of assault, cruelty and indecent images all relating to the baby He was in the process of adopting Preston along with co-accused John McGowan-Fazakerley, 31, who...