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Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Az) has introduced the Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act, HR 8158. Ansari called it "part of my Healthy, Equity, Rights (HER) package. It covers pregnancy terminations, menstrual pain, miscarriages, menopause symptoms, endometriosis, IUD insertions, vasectomies, fertility treatments and biopsies. My bill has 28 co-sponsors." Ansari said "pain related to periods, in particular, is something that I have dealt with for many, many years. Women's pain, whether from periods, from endometriosis, from the number of reproductive healthcare issues that exist, is severely underfunded and under-researched and therefore we don't have many solutions." Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich), a co-sponsor of...

Scott Pelley, a veteran of 37 years at CBS, denounced Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss for "interfering with my freedom to report the news the way I see fit. Her demand that I include both sides of contentious issues broke faith with the essential DNA of the '60 Minutes' program. For decades we were routinely allowed to determine what we reported rather than be compelled to give any attention to ideas or information we thought was out-of-line with our version of the truth." "For my candor, I got fired by '60 Minutes' executive producer Nick Bilton," Pelley complained. "I have to say...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) weighed in on the murder conviction of Karmelo Anthony for stabbing Austin Metcalf to death at a high school track meet in April 2025, calling it "just another episode in the 400-year history of racial injustice in this country. Whites have enslaved Blacks since the 1600s. They chained us, whipped us, and lynched us. Now, one teen-aged boy trying to defend himself is being sent to prison for decades. It's just not fair." "I try to envision what I would do if I were in Karmelo's place," the Congresswoman speculated. "If some 300 lb football player...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) efforts to audit the recent balloting in Los Angeles and California prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to warn "all of the actions employed in counting the ballots of the recent elections for Mayor of Los Angeles and Governor of California are authorized by law. Things that the DOJ regards as 'suspicious' like the extraordinary differences between the ratios of ballots for various candidates counted early versus those counted later is perfectly normal for California." "Further, I just signed a law--Senate Bill 73--that makes questioning the declared outcome of an election a crime punishable by...

While most Democrats are okay with Graham Platner as Maine's next US Senator, potential colleague Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa) has his doubts. This past weekend he expressed his doubts on Fox News' "Saturday in America" show, offering to "ditch my hoody and shorts and wear a suit everyday in the Senate if Platner can prove he didn't send photos of his penis to underage females." Platner called Fetterman's proposed bet "fundamentally unfair. There are millions of females that have seen photos of my penis. How am I supposed to know how old each one of them is? I think the...

The Honest Elections Project Action released poll results indicating that 86% of Ohio's voters think voter IDs should be required to cast a ballot at the polls. The breakdown by Party showed that 99% of Republicans, 90% of Independents and 69% of Democrats favor this requirement. The Ohio State Senate voted 22-9 to send a constitutional amendment ballot question to voters. If the state House also approves, this amendment will appear on the November ballot. Over seventy percent of poll respondents say they will vote for this amendment. The two leading candidates for the Ohio US Senate seat disagree on...

This week, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard released "evidence showing how Dr. Anthony Fauci, as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, provided millions in US taxpayer funds to support research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and how he worked with the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions, the virus' lab-leak origins, and his role in directing this dangerous research that caused widespread harm and killed millions of people." "After years of lies, censorship, and cover ups, the American people deserve truth, and accountability," Gabbard said....

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) chided Jerry Seinfeld for rejecting repeated demands that he say "Free Palestine" in the post-game celebration of the New York Knicks winning the NBA championship. Instead, he said "Palestine doesn't exist." "Anyone who won't support a free Palestine is a horrific human being," the Congresswoman asserted. "As a Jew, Seinfield should be especially sympathetic to others who are being subjected to the same kind of treatment the Jews endured during the Holocaust." Seinfeld defended himself, saying "the people that Ms. Omar is purporting to champion are not being sent to death camps for extermination by Nazis....

Sen. Adam Schiff (D–Calif) wants "federal money for subsidies for movies to be made in Hollywood. For over 100 years movies made in Hollywood have entertained the world. Lately, though, more and more movies are being made in other states and countries where costs are lower. It's not fair. I've drafted legislation that will help offset the higher California costs by providing more federal support for this historically vital industry." "Critics say the high cost of making movies in California is our own fault," Schiff observed. "They say that corruption and incompetent government are self-inflicted wounds. Well, Spencer Pratt said...

This week the Los Angeles City Council voted 10-5 to place an election reform proposition on the November ballot. Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez explained "most members of the Council are tired of the nonstop harassment over voter ID we're getting from Republicans at the local and national level. I mean, the insistence that voting ought to be confined to citizens is simply unfair. Everyone who resides in the City should have a say in who governs them. This includes individuals who have no mailing address. Why should the homeless and poorest inhabitants of our City be denied a voice?" The Councilman...

In New York City, gonorrhea rates have doubled over the last 10 years and syphilis cases are rising statewide. Mayor Zohran Mamdani boasted that "my predecessors were negligent in dealing with this crisis, but I have secured a cheap supply of chocolate condoms that we are distributing free-of-charge to those who need them." Apprised that the condoms are manufactured by a Malaysian company that has been accused of slavery, the Mayor pointed out "none of these slaves are my constituents. I am not responsible for their welfare. I am responsible for the welfare of New Yorkers and will not apologize...

This week in Mullin v. Doe, a 6-3 majority of the US Supreme Court ruled that the temporary protected status granted to immigrants from Haiti in 2010 could be discontinued by the Trump Administration. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito asserted that "a temporary status initiated by a previous administration can be terminated by a later administration if it determines that the conditions justifying the original decision have changed. In this case, the temporary protection was initiated due to an earthquake in Haiti." In her dissenting opinion, Justice Elena argued that "the original temporary protection order was put in...

In an effort to reduce fraud via mail-in ballots, President Trump has directed Postmaster General David Steiner to refuse to deliver mailed ballots in states that refuse to submit voter registration data to the federal government. During a Senate hearing testimony, Steiner pointed out that "a super-majority of registered voters want ballots to be cast only by US citizens. The only way to fulfill this mandate is to verify that every person who casts a ballot is a citizen. Folks who vote in-person can easily show a photo ID that verifies they are a person registered to vote. Folks who...

Alarmed by the recent murder of a transgender woman, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) has redeclared what he calls "a trans femicide state of emergency. Too many transgender Chicagoans don't feel safe in spaces where they should feel safe and welcome. This declaration renews a state of emergency first declared in 2024. It is shameful that I have to reiterate this, but the killing must stop." Critics question the Mayor's focus on such a small fraction of the city's homicides. In the last decade 14 transgenders have been murdered. During this same period more than 5,000 non-transgenders have been murdered....

Former President Obama has frequently and falsely asserted that his administration had no scandals. His recently opened eight-story Presidential Library took $850 million to build. Chicago's much more impressive 100-story Trump International Tower also took $850 million to build. As is normal for Democrats buying stuff, many of the contractors who worked on Obama's Library have not been paid. Obama pointed out that "we promised that building this structure would provide jobs and it did. It is not the fault of the Obama Foundation that the funds ran out before everyone could be paid. Considering the historic nature of my...

This week, a 6-3 majority of the US Supreme Court struck down President Trump's executive order attempting to restrict citizenship to persons legally residing in the country and a 5-4 majority ruled that the Constitution's 14th Amendment decrees that any person born here is a citizen. Chief Justice John Roberts asserted that "we are a nation of immigrants. No humans originated on any land in the western hemisphere. All humans arrived here from somewhere else on the planet. Historically, the US government encouraged immigration in order to populate a largely empty landscape. Anyone who could make the journey into the...

In another ruling, US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for a 5-4 majority, declared that "the writers of the Constitution purposely left the election rules flexible, knowing that there might be future instances in which additional votes would need to be found and counted to reverse an undesired outcome from the election day counts. Therefore there is no specified legal time limit on counting the ballots. Caches of ballots that were somehow overlooked within the five business day limit the Court has created, but subsequently found years later can still be counted. As a hypothetical, say a sufficient...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is setting up an automated process for parents to obtain Trump Accounts for their children. These Accounts can be established for newborns and children who have a valid Social Security number up until they reach the age of 18. A one-time $1,000 pilot program contribution from the Department of Treasury is available to children born between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028, who are US citizens with a valid Social Security number. So far, six million children have been enrolled in Trump Accounts. SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano explained "Social Security numbers are the backbone...

Massachusetts US District Judge Myong Joun struck down the Trump Administration's attempt to disallow public service workers from receiving debt relief for working with employers that are deemed to have a "substantial illegal purpose." The Judge said that "the Biden Administration classified student debtors working with organizations like USAID as eligible for debt forgiveness. Later evidence indicating that some of these employers were engaged in efforts to promote illegal immigration and terrorists cells cannot undo the promised debt relief. Trying to single out these activities for punitive action can be seen as an impermissible suppression of their right to freedom...

In Wisconsin, Teha Delaruelle, a transgender male and staffer for Wisconsin Democrat Congressional candidate Katrina DeVille, called for a "trans jihad where we kill our oppressors: the Republicans, bigots, and animals that make up MAGA. For decades, we've had to be the ones that walk down the streets with anxiety and fear, but no more. We're gonna do the reverse. We're gonna make it so that they walk down the streets with fear, anxiety, and worry, and we're not gonna make this, like, oh they gotta do this for like a week or something where they get really scared. No,...