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From Burns v. State, decided today by the Florida Court of Appeal, in an opinion by Judge Ed Artau, joined by Judges Cory Ciklin and Burton Conner: That a person's home is his or her "castle" is one of the most basic tenets of our jurisprudence. However, for Richard Burns …, charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for openly carrying and loading his firearm in the yard of his own home, the "castle" our law entitled him to protect was relegated to a defenseless dungeon. We conclude that the trial court erred in denying his motion for immunity...

The suspect, identified as Sai Varshith Kandula, made threatening statements about the White House at the scene of Monday night's incident, a law enforcement official told NBC News. A Nazi flag was seized by authorities at the scene. May 23, 2023, 2:55 AM EDT / Updated May 23, 2023, 9:04 AM EDT The driver of a truck that crashed into security barriers near the White House on Monday night has been identified as a 19-year-old from Missouri who was arrested on multiple charges, including threatening to kill or harm a president, vice president or family member, officials said. The driver...

California high schooler says she's been called a 'white supremacist,' 'bigot' and 'transphobe' following her passionate speech A California high school student who torched her school district over a transgender bathroom policy is speaking out on the backlash following her heated speech, saying she has garnered more "hate" than gratitude for her passionate stand. Former Martin Luther King High School student Megan Simpkins detailed the reaction she has received from her community after slamming the school for "affirming the mental confusion" of trans students at the expense of their female counterparts. "Surprisingly, a lot of people at my school have...

An overflow crowd attended the April 25th school board meeting, necessitating the opening of a remote viewing room. The meeting was an emotional rollercoaster, with moments of civic pride as attendees learned of generous community donations, contrasted with calls for the resignation of Superintendent John Stratton over a March incident at Fox Chapel Middle School. In that incident, a transgender teacher experiencing a mental crisis during school hours made statements that were perceived by some as threats against students. The teacher was removed and returned to the classroom in a matter of days, all without specific notification to parents. The...

This is sick! Trans Activist Threatens All Women This is truly sickening! This trans activist decided to threaten all women. If they tell him not to use female-only bathrooms as it'll be 'The last mistake they will ever make'. Then he incites more violence with a 'call to arms'. (Video is 17 minutes long)

The transgender culture war sure has taken off since those ornery conservatives, snubbed by Obergefell, grabbed hold of the issue and thrust it into the spotlight and down the throats of Americans everywhere — so say the media.It wasn’t a misprint, a Babylon Bee joke, or one of Sonny Hostin’s brainless musings. This claim came from none other than paper-of-record The New York Times, which attempted to make the case that after conservatives lost the same-sex marriage fight at the Supreme Court in 2015, “the religious right went searching for an issue that would re-energize supporters and donors,” and found...

A Budweiser factory in Los Angeles was reported to be targeted by bomb threats this week in the wake of the Dylan Mulvaney controversy. A spokesperson for Anheuser-Busch confirmed Friday that, in fact, multiple additional facilities across the country had also faced threats, though the exact number and locations are unknown. The LAPD announced that officers responded to a Thursday call at around 9 a.m. local time regarding the brewer's facility in the Van Nuys section of Los Angeles. A bomb squad unit was also dispatched. 'There was a search that was conducted in the premise of the building but...

A transgender activist engaged in a furious and aggressive confrontation with members of Turning Point USA on the campus of the University of Washington on Wednesday. The transgender activist is heard saying on video, "Yeah, no, you just support the genocide of trans kids and anyone who supported that." A member of TPUSA calmly responds, "No. That is such an assumption." The LGBTQ activist – who was not identified – claims that the TPUSA member is lying. Pointing to the conservative pamphlets with the faces of the Founding Fathers on the Turning Point USA table, the transgender activist asserts, "Such...

Rep. Matt Gaetz said this week that he received a death threat following remarks he made about the school shooting last month in Nashville, and argued that leftists are driving their own side to violence with end-times rhetoric. Speaking on Monday on his podcast “Firebrand,” the Fort Walton Beach Republican said, “Innocent people are forced to share a country with dangerous people,” and that violence is a natural consequence when Democrats repeatedly tell their followers that “Republicans are evil, and racist and fascist, and must be stopped at all costs.”

For decades, progressives have been aggressively informing us that they are devout fans of “diversity” and “multiculturalism.” These words have taken on an almost totemic significance, with “diversity is our strength” becoming a mantra for Canadian lefties. I have my quibbles with these buzz-words—diversity is a description, not a value—but I have often found myself wishing, over the past few years, that those who brandish these terms actually believed in them. What we have found as the LGBT movement achieved cultural dominance is that for progressives, “diversity” is where people look different, but think the same. Thus, Western nations (primarily...

"Fact check: He threatened to shoot up his middle school and stab classmates who angered him," tweeted Christina Pushaw ************************************************************* On Thursday, the Miami Herald published a misleading claim about the recent arrest of the 13-year-old son of Rebekah Jones, the disgraced "whistleblower" who claimed the Florida Department of Health pressured her to manipulate Covid data to the benefit of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and the outlet said that the child was arrested over "memes" when he was arrested for threatening to shoot up his school, Holley Navarre Middle School. According to Yahoo News, the boy was arrested for "digital...

A militant transgender activist who has quickly become one of the most high-profile 'faces' of the radical movement is a former soldier, it has been claimed. Kayla Denker, who runs a YouTube site with videos dedicated to explaining Marxism and guns, posted a video of herself with an assault rifle after the Nashville school shooting. The Nashville attacker, Audrey Hale, 28, was described by police as transgender, and online appeared to reference herself as 'Aiden' - although the authorities are still referring to Hale as a woman. Hale's murder of three nine-year-olds and three staff members at a Christian school...

Tucker Carlson predicted the Nashville shooting last week.Not the where. Not the day. But he rightly pointed out that the constant rhetoric about a non-existent trans-genocide was ginning up panic and a growing violent “resistance” in the trans community. Beege wrote about the rage in the trans community right now, and as usual, she hit the nail on the head.It is pretty stunning how prescient he was.Last week, Tucker warned us about exactly what happened today: pic.twitter.com/yDetBzANYH— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 28, 2023It is striking how extreme the rhetoric has become, and how non-trans people on the Left have been...

The transgender movement pushed hostile and apocalyptic rhetoric leading up to the deadly shooting of a Christian school by a transgender person in Nashville, Tennessee. Before Audrey Hale, who identified as transgender, carried out a shooting on Nashville, Tennessee’s Covenant Christian Academy, the transgender movement embraced increasingly hostile rhetoric. A video of transgender activist Kayla Denker, who goes by “Pinko Scum,” shows him loading and racking an AR-15, with a caption that reads “while advocating for trans people to ‘arm ourselves’ is not any of a solution to the genocide we’re facing …if you transphobes do try to come for...

After Monday's mass shooting at the K-6 school at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville, trans activists are doubling down on calls for bloodshed, putting their support behind the murderous woman who took the lives of 6 people. This follows a rise in threats leading up to this week, which has been branded by activists as a "Trans Week of Visibility." This week of protests and violence is supposed to be capped by a "Trans Day of Vengeance" outside the Supreme Court on Saturday.

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs' notoriously progressive press secretary Josselyn Berry tweeted out a photo of a woman pointing two guns in response to what she considers to be "transphobia." This comes just one day after a trans school shooter gunned down three children and three adults at a Christian private school in Nashville. "Us when we see transphobes" the tweet read. The image appears to be in violation of Twitter's policy against violent threats which states: "You may not threaten to inflict physical harm on others, which includes (but is not limited to) threatening to kill, torture, sexually assault, or...

Deputy U.S. marshals assigned to guard Supreme Court justices last year were directed to try not to make arrests, according to documents a U.S. senator revealed Tuesday, contradicting Attorney General Merrick Garland’s assurances to Congress. Sen. Katie Britt, Alabama Republican, confronted Mr. Garland with the training package used for the marshals deployed to protect justices. It said arrests were “not” to be a priority. Mr. Garland told senators earlier this month that his prosecutors couldn’t bring cases unless the marshals made arrests, and the marshals on the scene didn’t think there was a reason to do that. ‌ Ms. Britt...

A radical trans activist group along with a D.C.-based Antifa group will be gathering on April 1 at the Supreme Court to protest for the transgender community at an event called “Trans Day of Vengeance.” Trans identifying female Noah Buchanan and non-binary activist Tsukuru Fors are leading their group Trans Radical Action Network to D.C. and promoting the event through social media. Antifa group, Our Rights DC, joins the trans group to “stop trans genocide.” In a TikTok video by Buchanan, she states the event is about bringing back the phrase, “we’re here; we’re queer, and we’re not going anywhere.”

Thursday the guided missile destroyer USS Milius sailed near some islands in the South China Sea that China claims as its own. Actually three different countries claim the Paracel Islands but China currently occupies them. Here’s a map showing the locations of some of the disputed islands in the South China Sea.Disputed islands in south china sea👉🏻The Paracel Islands are claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam.👉🏻The Spratly Islands are claimed by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei and Philippines.👉🏻The Scarborough Shoal is claimed by Philippines, China and Taiwan#UPSCPrelims2023pic.twitter.com/Cv9UKS6uGT— Geography & Current Affair Page (@GeographyCrux) March 23, 2023So when the USS Milius sailed...

Former President Donald Trump posted an all-caps rant Thursday morning on his social media network that referred to the American legal system as “the Gestapo” and groused, “Our country is being destroyed, as they tell us to be peaceful!” “Why won’t Bragg drop this case?” Trump, 76, lamented, referencing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his drive to indict the ex-president over a “hush money” payment made to former porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. “Everybody says there is no crime here. I did nothing wrong!” Trump continued in the post on Truth Social. “This is no...