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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the removal of Harvey Milk's name from a Navy replenishment ship, and the move stirred up the inevitable controversy. It was intended to, just as the original naming of the ship was meant to be a poke in the eye of opponents of DEI. The choice to name the ship after Milk was meant to send a signal that the Navy was honoring Harvey Milk for being a gay rights icon, and the choice to remove it was meant to tell people that Trump's Navy doesn't honor people for how they deploy their...

Since he was sworn in four months ago after an airtight confirmation vote, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has continued to be at the center of controversy. We have seen Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app on an unsecure personal phone to discuss sensitive military operations, his firing of three senior aides, and a Pentagon chock-full of internal turmoil. ince he was sworn in four months ago after an airtight confirmation vote, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has continued to be at the center of controversy. We have seen Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app on an unsecure personal phone...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to take the rare step of renaming a ship, one that bears the name of a gay rights icon, documents and sources show. Military.com reviewed a memorandum from the Office of the Secretary of the Navy -- the official who holds the power to name Navy ships -- that showed the sea service had come up with rollout plans for the renaming of the oiler ship USNS Harvey Milk. A defense official confirmed that the Navy was making preparations to strip the ship of its name but noted that Navy Secretary John...

Football star Tim Tebow appeared this week on "The Shawn Ryan Show" to discuss his work fighting child exploitation and advocating for the "Renewed Hope Act," which would give DHS more funding and authority to pursue sex criminals. [video at link] TIM TEBOW: Specifically, our heart is to get to as many and leverage anything and everything we can so that they can get out of this evil. As I mentioned earlier, you think so much is done by all these groups and gangs, and yes, that does take place in a lot of areas. But man, it’s overwhelming when...

Senator James Lankford (R-OK) said Tuesday on CNN’s “The Arena” that someone being deported for illegally being in the United States should get due process “before they’re removed from the country.” Host Kasie Hunt said, “President Trump sat down for an extensive interview with Kristen Welker at ‘Meet the Press’ over the weekend. She asked him whether he would uphold the Constitution in providing due process to people who are deported and his answer was not yes. Are you confident that President Trump will uphold the Constitution?” Lankford said, “I am. I think his answer was, I’ve got good attorneys...

A suspected terrorist who allegedly planned to kill Lady Gaga fans in a sickening attack on her record-breaking Brazil concert was deported from the US only last month, Brazilian authorities have revealed. Luis da Silva, 44, wanted to livestream the execution of children and set up bombs close to the stage during Gaga’s performance to 2.5 million fans on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, investigators said. “He said that the singer was a Satanist and that he was going to perform a Satanist ritual too, killing a child during the show,” Rio de Janeiro Civil Police secretary,...

The allegations against the Buffalo Public Schools had a certain degree of credibility from the moment the Unsubscribe Podcast video airing them went live on YouTube. That credibility came from Buffalo Police Department SVU Detective Richard Hy, who is known on social media as AngryCops. Having followed him for quite a while, I saw these allegations and took them seriously. Far too few did, though none in the podcast's or Hy's communities. I wrote about it. I talked to Hy about it. What I saw was someone who wanted to see change. Unfortunately, both the schools and the media seem...

B4U-ACT is part of a growing movement to legitimize sexual attraction to children. An alarming new movement insists that sexual attraction to minors is not a psychiatric disorder to be managed but an identity to be affirmed. Leading this effort is B4U-ACT, a Maryland-based organization founded in 2003 to support pedophiles, or as they call them, “Minor-Attracted Persons” (MAPs). From May 2 through May 4, 2025, the group will host a conference in Ohio to train mental-health providers in “affirmative MAP therapy,” which seeks to help clients accept their “age of attraction” as an intrinsic and valid part of their...

A VIGILANTE PHENOMENON has been playing out on the open web for almost a decade: Content creators in the U.S. pose as minors on dating apps and websites, then target the people who message them. Many of these vigilantes, commonly known as pedophile hunters, were inspired by “To Catch a Predator,” a popular television series that ran until 2007. The “hunters” have copied the show’s format, exposing their targets on social media.

Apparently, accurately observing and assessing reality is only okay when someone is obviously lying about their age. If you notice that they’re lying about their biological sex though? You’re a fascist, bigot, racist, homophobe, Trump-supporter, Nazi… you name it. In perhaps one of the most absurd stories I’ve ever read (from where else but Oregon?), a local high school called the cops on “Madison,” a 15-year-old “girl” trying to enroll in classes—there was a problem though, and it wasn’t the fact that “Madison” was actually a bearded male, but that he was lying about his age!Oh, and “Madison” also appears...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Police shut down one of the largest paedophile networks in the world last month in an operation spanning 35 countries, the EU's law enforcement agency Europol said on Wednesday. Europol said 79 suspects had been arrested for sharing and distributing child sexual abuse material on a platform known as Kidflix. Some of those arrested are suspected of having abused children themselves, it said.

In a shocking display of moral depravity and twisted logic, a convicted pedophile from Michigan attempted to use bizarre and disturbing arguments to defend himself in court. The case highlights the dangers of allowing perverse ideologies to infiltrate our legal system and underscores the urgent need for a return to traditional values and common sense. Joseph Gobrick, a 45-year-old man from Michigan, was found guilty of possessing pornographic images of children on his computer. Instead of accepting the consequences of his actions, Gobrick resorted to a series of absurd and offensive defenses in an attempt to avoid punishment. During his...

Iceland’s minister for children has abruptly resigned after shockingly admitting she had a baby more than 30 years ago with a 16-year-old boy — who ended up coughing up child support.

Alina Habba, the Counselor to President Trump went on FXO and Friends this past week and warned the left what is coming out soon: “Transparency is coming… Now they are going to panic because they don’t want anyone to know who was on Epstein’s island, who was a pedo, and who is probably still sitting in DC.” Alina Habba was asked about the bombshell Epstein documents that Pam Bondi is vowing to release. What she had to say will send shivers down the spines of the leftist perverts. Alina Habba: Transparency. Transparency is coming. We had a lot of defiance,...

Scott Ritter put it across very succinctly and eloquently: America is in the midst of a REVOLUTION. Never have we seen or anticipated this happening and in such short term. Donald Trump is a revolutionary. He outperforms Obama for social change. Where he will take this revolution is anybody's guess.

Former Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller criticized the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for implementing policies that undermine border security, alleging that these policies have allowed child traffickers free rein under the Biden administration. Miller asserted that President Donald Trump now has the authority to take action against USAID’s funding decisions. “So he has plenary authority to carry out the foreign policy of the United States. Bureaucrats at USAID cannot interfere in the affairs of foreign countries to prop up regimes, thwart America’s interests, facilitate mass illegal immigration, or promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies that violate federal...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist was arrested in California Wednesday over allegations that he was in possession of child sexual abuse material. Darrin Lawrence Bell, 49, allegedly had over 130 videos of sexual abuse connected to an online account, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office said Thursday. Why It Matters Bell is a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist who "took on issues affecting disenfranchised communities, calling out lies, hypocrisy and fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration," according to the Pulitzer website. Among Bell's cartoons was a 2022 drawing entitled "The Groomer", which showed what looked like an elephant-like man facing...

VIDEOBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer thought he was being cute by appointing the TDS Lord Peter Mandelson and former Jeffrey Epstein client as ambassador to the USA. Perhaps Starmer in his tiny mind thought it was his way of a power play against President Trump. It would be a shame if this act of utter stupidity boomeranged on Starmer and ended up bringing down his Labour government.

President Biden pardoned two Chinese spies and the relative of a high-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party who was caught with tens of thousands of images of child pornography on his computer last month in a prisoner swap between the two countries that was made public Thursday when the three received clemencies. Yanjun Xu and Ji Chaoqun, who were both convicted of espionage, were granted clemency last month, along with Shanlin Jin, who was convicted of possession of more than 47,000 images of child pornography while a doctoral student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 2021. Five days...

Executive Grant of Clemency TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING: WHEREAS SHANLIN JIN, Reg. No. 27074-509, was convicted, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, on an indictment (Docket No. 4:21 -CR-00048- ALM-CAN(1)) charging violations of Section 2252A, Title 18, United States Code, for which a total sentence of 97 months' imprisonment, five years' supervised release, restitution of $30,500, forfeiture of specific property, and a $100 special assessment was imposed on July 14 and 19, 2022;and WHEREAS the said SHANLIN JIN has been confined continuously since his arrest on January 24, 2021...