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The battle over transgender athletes’ participation in youth sports came to California on Tuesday as state lawmakers rejected two bills aimed at keeping trans kids and teens off sports teams consistent with their gender identity. Lawmakers voted to block a bill that would have required the California Interscholastic Federation, the governing body for high school sports, to adopt rules banning students whose sex was assigned male at birth from participating on a girls school sports team.

'This is really quite clearly a pattern,' said GOP state Rep. Rachel Henderson. Democrats in Maine are pushing a bill that would require all public schools to provide tampons in boys' bathrooms starting in middle school, a move that comes as state leaders continue to face backlash over their stance on transgender athletes competing in women's sports. LD 155, introduced by state Rep. Kristen Cloutier, D-Lewiston, seeks to "require" all public schools in the state that serve grades 6–12 to make tampons and sanitary pads available in all student bathrooms, including those designated specifically for males.

Stricter rules for selling knives online and tougher penalties for those who break them will make a difference, the sister of a teenager killed with a ninja sword has said. The new measures announced by the government will be known as Ronan's Law - after 16-year-old Ronan Kanda who was murdered close to his home three years ago after being stabbed in the back and chest in a case of mistaken identity. "On the day of my brother's murder, his murderer had no problem with collecting the knives from the local post office," Nikita Kanda told Radio 4's Today programme,...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is blaming the raging California wildfires on climate change. “80,000 people told to evacuate. Blazes 0% contained. Eight months since the area has seen rain. The scale of damage and loss is unimaginable,” the senator began before blaming the devastation not on poor fire management but on climate change. “Climate change is real, not ‘a hoax,'” he said, demanding President-elect Donald Trump to “treat this like the existential crisis it is.”

CNN commentator and former Obama advisor Van Jones admitted during a recent podcast appearance that President Trump is “smarter” than “all of his critics” and that he made the entire Democrat party and Democrat media complex “look like idiots.” These remarks came during an interview posted to political commentator Chris Cillizza’s YouTube channel on Friday. Cillizza agreed with Jones’ assessment that “we look like idiots,” commenting, “You’re totally right.” Jones’ revelation is in response to Trump defying all attempts to steal the 2024 election with a sweeping victory on November 5, winning every swing state, 312 electoral votes, the national...

The desperation of Ukrainian and NATO authorities is full blown and on display in the Kursk region and the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant. If you’re reading the legacy media, they cheering and celebrating the “smashing” Ukrainian victory and the utter embarrassment of Vladimir Putin. Only one teeny, tiny problem — it is bullshit.Yes, this portion of Russia’s border was lightly defended, but when the attack came Russia countered immediately and has killed more than 50% of the invaders. Along with a body count in excess of 1300 Ukrainian and foreign mercenaries, Russia destroyed most of the tanks and armored personnel...

This morning the Defendants in The 134 PAC's voter intimidation lawsuit in Fort Worth, added Jane Nelson, the Texas Secretary of State, as a Cross-Defendant. These local activists, sued Secretary Nelson to keep Kamala Harris and Nicole Shanahan off the Presidential ballot in Texas because, they claim, neither of them are "natural born citizens" and therefore cannot appear on any state's ballot for the Presidential election. If Secretary Nelson does not remove them from the ballot, they also seek Secretary Nelson's removal from office, criminal prosecution and damages.

I told you all @RonDeSantis had advance Knowledge of the FBI raid on Mar a Lago! It came out today in newly unsealed court documents that the FBI authorized “deadly force” to be used against President Trump and his family during the raid on his home in August 2022! Essentially, this means @RonDeSantis had advance knowledge of a possible assassination attempt of President Trump by the Biden regime and FBI! Sick. Totally disqualifying!!!!

2023 MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS of the Biden-Harris Administration

Powerful explosions in Kiev... US politics the New York Court of Appeals ordering a congressional district redraw in that state... Hungary enacting a law to protect national sovereignty from foreign interference. The legislation creating an agency to detect foreign efforts against Hungary's sovereignty... In the UN General Assembly 153 nations voting in favor of a resolution calling for a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza... In Poland the new "Center-Left" government winning a vote of confidence... A US base in Syria at the Al Omar oil field attacked with missiles... In Washington Joe Biden meeting visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky... A slew...

Vladimir Putin guzzled champagne as he blamed Ukraine for Russia's military strikes while admitting the Kremlin has struck key civilian infrastructure. "There's a lot of noise about our strikes on the energy infrastructure of a neighbouring country. Yes, we do that. But who started it?" the Russian president said at an awards ceremony. Russian President Vladimir Putin put on a grotesquely grand dinner for senior Kremlin members to award Gold Star medals to Heroes of Russia on the eve of Heroes of the Fatherland Day in Moscow. -snip- Also in attendance was Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Head of Chechnya, Ramzan...

[H/T ymani cricket]Attorneys have filed three lawsuits against hospitals for forcing the use of Remdesivir and respirators to treat people for Covid-19, oftentimes against the wishes of the patients and their families. They claim that doctors, hospitals, and even states were given ample incentive by the federal government to use the ineffective and dangerous protocols instead of treatments that were more effective but less profitable.It was a blockbuster interview all the way through, but there was one comment in particular that should chill Americans to the bone. As the attorneys claim in their lawsuits, the unvaxxed were primarily targeted.

[…]According to Wayne, his podiatrist sees about 80 patients a week. That’s more than enough for strong statistical significance over 20 months (over 5,000 patients) especially with such a large effect size. 95% are vaccinated.Wayne reports that the podiatrist sees unprecedented rates of injury and death since the vaccines rolled out. He estimates that 80% of his vaccinated elderly are worse off and there is no significant change for his unvaccinated patients.This isn’t “bad luck” because the p-values are too small to be just “bad luck.” I used Julia’s HypothesisTests library to calculate it and the chance of this happening...

Christina Bobb, an attorney who has supported Donald Trump's legal challenge to overturn the 2020 election, has suggested a scenario in which the former president could be reinstated after the midterm elections in November. Bobb told the conservative news outlet the Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) what she thought could happen in states in which there was "evidence that Joe Biden cheated" in the election Trump and his allies have continuously claimed was fraudulent. "They could withdraw their electors, or they could actually decide to award Trump electors, although I would anticipate they will probably just withdraw the electors," she...

During portions of an interview with ABC News released on Friday, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm argued that the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is “doing its job.” Because the point of the release “is to stabilize the global market” for oil and warned that gas prices will increase over the summer and gas prices will be “rough” “from now through the end of the year, really.” Granholm stated, “The point of this — it’s doing its job. Because it is to stabilize the global market. I mean, we happen to have the largest tool of any country...

A partial list of articles in the peer-reviewed literature documenting adverse reactions after the vaccine. There are close to 500 articles here.Steve KirschMay 27 Note:I didn’t compile this. Someone else did, but I don’t know who did because they didn’t put their name on the Word file presumably because they wanted to remain anonymous.Neuro:General Neuro side effects: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ane.13451?fbclid=IwAR1CemFwLUpsMK19GMZa_xPF775Q4B0IiksbrziKUpIrRXhYR5cDQFFfVAQSmall fiber neuropathy: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mus.27251...2 cases of Parsonage Turner Syndrome following Moderna and Pfizer: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34402669/Trigeminal Neuralgia and cervical radiculitis after Pfizer: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34155020/Neuralgic amyotrophy following mRNA vaccination: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34347105/Amyotrophic neuralgia secondary to AstraZeneca: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34330677/36yoM with transverse myelitis following AstraZeneca: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33787891/Acute Myelitis following AstraZeneca: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34392078/67yoF with transverse...

The designers of this pandemic anticipated a pushback by the public and that major embarrassing questions would be asked. To prevent this, the controllers fed the media a number of tactics, one of the most commonly used was and is the “fact check” scam.By Russell L. Blaylock, 22 April 2022With each confrontation with carefully documented evidence, the media “fact-checkers” countered with the charge of “misinformation”, and an unfounded “conspiracy theory” charge that was, in their lexicon, “debunked”. Never were we told who the fact-checkers were or the source of their “debunking” information—we were just to believe the “fact-checkers”. A recent...

“I contend that all the main narrative points about the coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 are lies. Furthermore, all the “measures” imposed on the population are also lies. In what follows, I support these claims scientifically, mostly by reference to peer-reviewed journal articles. In 2019, World Health Organisation (WHO) scientists reviewed the evidence for the utility of all non-pharmaceutical interventions, concluding that they are all without effect. Given the foregoing, it is no longer possible to view the last two years as well-intentioned errors.” – Dr. Mike YeadonBy Dr. Mike Yeadon, 10 April 2022THE NARRATIVE POINT 1SARS-CoV-2 has such a high lethality...

The Department of the Navy this week released its strategy for how it will deal with climate change and proceed toward the government’s goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. “Climate change is one of the most destabilizing forces of our time, exacerbating other national security concerns and posing serious readiness challenges,” Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said in the introduction to the 32-page report. “Our naval and amphibious forces are in the crosshairs of the climate crisis and this strategy provides the framework to empower us to meaningfully reduce the threat of climate change.” Setting the department on...

As waves of new coronavirus variants circulate the globe, one thing has become clear: human immunity against the virus fades over time....But some of the nuances around why and how immunity against Covid-19 fades remain a mystery. The steepest drops in immunity – which come about four to five months after vaccination and up to eight months after infection, but can vary – are against Covid-19 symptoms, getting infected and getting sick. Protection against severe outcomes, hospitalization and death remains much higher for a longer period of time, but even this decays to some degree, especially for the elderly and...