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Kevin McCullough contributor to TownHall.com: The number is jaw-dropping. In the fiscal year for the U.S. government that ended in November 2021, the FBI conducted more than 278,000 warrantless searches on U.S. citizens. The information was unsealed in a FISA court ruling this past week. So on average, during just that one year, the FBI was carrying out as many as 762 warrantless searches per day. That’s 32 improper searches per hour. That breaks down to a new warrantless search every 2 minutes. These numbers do not include proper searches that used warrants and carried out the usual function of the bureau. It also does not include the 3,400,000 times the FBI searched citizens’ data without warrants. That’s 9,315 per day, 388 per hour, and 6.5 per minute.

David B. McGarry contributor to Daily Caller: . . . effective this month, the Biden administration will financially penalize mortgage borrowers with good credit to subsidize those without it. The administration hopes the move will encourage more low-income Americans to purchase homes. However, this sort of government intervention will disrupt critical workings of the market machine. It is also deeply unfair to those home buyers who, through hard work and thrift, have earned their good credit. And the last time the government incentivized credit-risky people to buy homes, the country experienced the subprime mortgage crisis.

Kurt Schlichter contributor to TownHall.com: No, the GOP’s decision in 2024 is solely over the identity of the general who will take command. Will it be the cold, calculating, ruthlessly effective RDS, or the unstoppable juggernaut – well, except for ridiculous tangents to call Rosie O’Donnell “Horseface” –that is Donald Trump? Both will rain down destruction upon our enemies – Ron the precision Hellfire and Don the massive MOAB.

Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: The FBI did not weaponize itself. The weaponization of the institution was done by people; the same people that John Durham did not indict for weaponizing it. The same applies to the DHS, ODNI, DOJ, DOJ-NSD and SSCI. These institutions did not weaponize themselves; they were weaponized by the people within them. This is the core reality behind the missing part of the John Durham report, no proposed change in policy or institutional systems. Why? Because the policies and systems are not the issue; it was the intent of the people within it – those who weaponized it. Here’s the kicker. Those people are still in place – that’s why the weaponization continues.

Roger Kimball contributor to American Greatness: Suppose a document drops in the wilderness and no one is around to hear it. Does it make a sound? I submit that John Durham just tested this Bishop Berkeleyesque query. The special counsel spent four years beavering away in the forests of the deep state and what did he produce? Three hundred pages telling us what, for the most part, we already knew and with the result that exactly nothing, apart from a little hand wringing, will happen.

Clarice Feldman contributor to American Thinker: Durham’s operation, however, was not without its flaws. Hired as a prosecutor, he prosecuted only one member of the cabal. He never even subpoenaed key figures like Comey, McCabe, and Strzok. (I suspect because he knows the courts and jurors in the District of Columbia operate as another branch of the Democratic party — recall that the Ken Starr team announced they believed Hillary Clinton had committed perjury but declined to indict her because they believed no D.C. jury would convict her.) Former attorney general William Barr praised the report, saying that Durham was not charged to prosecute the wrongdoers, only to investigate and find the truth, which he did.

Larry Sand president of the California Teachers Empowerment Network: “So instead of learning factual American history—the good and the bad—students are now at the mercy of far-left advocates pushing a radical racial and sexual agenda. Unless the education establishment reverses course in a hurry, parents, already responsible for feeding, clothing, and housing their children, will need to educate them as well.”

Drew Holman reporter for Washington Free Beacon: No human being is illegal, Democratic politicians said. All migrants are welcome, they declared. Then Joe Biden became president, and border crossings spiked to record highs. Now, many of those same Democrats are declaring they can’t possibly accept any more migrants. In some cases, they’re embracing the same Republican-favored responses they recently decried as racist and cruel.

Rep. Nick LaLota representing Long Island: We must continue to be a nation of rules and laws. Contrary to that, New York city officials have bragged for years that they were a sanctuary city, that rules and laws did not apply to people who are in this country illegally. If you’re in the five boroughs, that is the policy choice that officials of New York City consciously made and bragged about for years.

Revolver.news: If you’re in the mood to back a “All American” beer brand this summer that hasn’t aligned with the trans or LGBTQ flag, your options might just narrow down to Pabst or Yuengling.

Revolver.news: Over the past few weeks we’ve watched as two major beer companies and one gun manufacturer turned into an estrogen-soaked mess, thanks to female-led marketing teams who work off of hysterical emotions instead of rationale business sense.

GLOBALISM (GREAT RESET) & TRANSHUMANISM (AI HUMANS 2.0) ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED

Hoft: Great Reset Architect Yuval Harari Discusses AI’s Potential Impact on QAnon and Q Posts at the Frontiers Forum Event (VIDEO)

World Economic Forum advisor Yuval Noah Harari took the stage at the Frontiers Forum in late April to share his insights on a wide range of topics, from AI tools to controversial QAnon and Q posts. During his speech in Montreux, Switzerland, Yuval Noah Harari offered insightful reflections and speculations on “AI and the future of humanity.” Harari used the controversial QAnon to explore the potential consequences of new AI tools capable of mass-producing “political manifestos, fake news stories, and even holy scriptures for emerging cults.” Harari described QAnon as a cult in his speech, where its followers interpreted anonymous online texts known as “Q drops” as sacred scriptures. “In recent years, the politically influential QAnon cult has formed around anonymous online texts known as ‘Q drops,’” said Harari.

TYRANNY IN THE NAME OF CLIMATE DOOM MYTH: GLOBALIST POLITICIANS & BIG BUSINESS ACCUMULATE MORE POWER & CONTROL

Demastri: New Biden Admin Mandate Will Raise Costs On Mobile Homeowners For ‘Zero’ Climate Benefit, Experts Say

The Biden administration’s upcoming rules requiring stricter energy efficiency standards for mobile homes will raise costs for low-income homebuyers while failing to meaningfully limit emissions, industry experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) rules — set to go into effect May 31, one year after they were finalized — update insulation and sealing requirements among other efficiency standards for mobile homes, formally known as manufactured homes, which the agency estimates could save the average consumer between $177 to $475 per year on utilities while boosting average manufactured home prices by $4,100 to $4,500. The rule will have an “adverse” impact on low-income homebuyers via increased prices — the median household income for manufactured homeowners is $35,000, according to the Manufactured Housing Institute — but will likely have a “negligible” effect on carbon emissions, Jonathan Lesser of the Manhattan Institute told the DCNF.

FAUCI LIED. PEOPLE DIED.

War Room: Naomi Wolf: “Everyone in the lipid nanoparticle space has known since 2017 they destroy fertility”

The smoking gun behind the Covid mandated injections. The big question: Was destroying the fertility of America’s women intentional? [Note: Depopulation is one of the agenda items for the globalist cabal.]

Start the video at the 9 minute mark for the answer: https://rumble.com/v2os5jm-naomi-wolf-everyone-in-the-lipid-nanoparticle-space-has-known-since-2017-th.html

Start the second video at the 1:56 minute mark: https://rumble.com/v2os77h-dr.-naomi-wolf-the-takeaway-is-no-one-can-claim-they-didnt-know.html

CORRUPT & DANGEROUS U.S. INTELLIGENCE & ADMINISTRATIVE STATE APPARATUS

Feldman: A Cabal of Sociopaths

If we learned anything this week, we’ve learned that the continued life of this Constitutional Republic is in grave danger from the cabal of sociopaths in critical positions of power, and that it is because scaremongers and a supine press and judiciary have permitted enactment of dangerous legislation and illegal conduct to go on and on unpunished. Worse, the perpetrators are being richly rewarded for their violation of law and public trust. FISA Friday the FISC (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ) released a report that was written and kept under seal since last year. It found that: The FBI continued to abuse a powerful digital surveillance tool even after the Bureau promised reforms following its Trump-era abuses, according to a newly-unsealed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court document. The FBI misused . . . […] The FBI had earlier promised to fix the problems. It clearly did not. The Act which the FBI has continually violated comes up for reauthorization in the next congressional session and should be allowed to expire. In another context — the COVID-19 responses of the government and judiciary — Justice Neil Gorsuch makes a compelling case on how fearmongering has led to great intrusions on civil liberties:

The FISA is another example, in my opinion. Mark Wauck makes a strong case that in the absence of jailing FBI violators or repealing the Act we should just refuse to reauthorize it.

U.S. SUPREME COURT

Deese: Supreme Court gives IRS green light to seek bank records without notice

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Internal Revenue Service doesn’t have to notify bank account holders before requesting their records if efforts are geared toward collecting someone else’s delinquent taxes. The IRS is given broad authority under tax code Section 7609(c)(2)(D), which exempts the agency from giving notice when a summons is issued to help collect a tax assessment “against the person with respect to whose liability the summons is issued,” according to the unanimous high court. The decision was authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, his first opinion out of the 25 decisions released so far this year. “For as long as Americans have had to pay taxes, at least some have tried to avoid them. And for as long as Americans have avoided taxes, the Internal Revenue Service and its predecessors have tried to collect them. As an old joke goes: ‘I believe we should all pay taxes with a smile. I tried, but they wanted cash,'” Roberts wrote.

DECLARED 2024 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY CANDIDATES

Sundance: President Trump Ad, “Stand With Me’…

President Donald J Trump releases the latest 1-minute viral ad, highlighting trips to Fort Myers, Florida, and Manchester, New Hampshire. {Direct Rumble Link} […] The person with the greatest opportunity to defeat the schemes of the corrupt political elite, is the person you see in the mirror every day when you brush your teeth. There are more of us, than them – united we cannot be defeated.

Fox News: Republicans need to ‘show up’ for all Americans: Vivek Ramaswamy

Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy shares highlights from his visit to the south side of Chicago and explains his America-first campaign message.

Watch the 8:46 minute interview: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6327974972112

Schlichter: The GOP’s Festival of Losers

We’ve talked about Nikki Haley before. Remember her? She’s still running for vice president, er, president. I spoke to about 150 conservative women in Washington state the other night and mentioned her. Her support was zero. Nada. Nil. Yet now the aforementioned Pillsbury Doughcandidate and a few other no-hopers are joining her in spending tens of millions to top out at 3%. The obvious reaction to the bizarre idea that Chris Christie will soon enter the 2024 GOP primaries and then win the general election – “Fat chance! – is accurate on every level. The rotund Republican has zero support among the base, having missed his window a decade ago and having gone on to become one of those Republicans whose primary function is to trash other Republicans – a chubby chimp dancing for dimes as the MSNBC organ grinders play. Why is he running? Delusion? Narcissism? Greed? Who knows? Who cares? […] This race is about winning and only about winning. And that’s why Christie, Pence, and Scott won’t really be in the race even after they get into it. It’s Ron or Don, and I’m voting for whichever one wins the nomination. I just hope he can pull it off in November.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) Explains Why He Endorsed Trump

Watch the 2:21 minute interview: https://www.air.tv/watch?v=TP2bkmDaQ-a8IHWJFZvD0w

THE FIGHT FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY

(Mistake?) Williams: Deja blue: Printer’s flub makes every Nassau County voter a Democrat

An upstate printer has once again screwed up downstate election materials, this time by mailing registration cards to Nassau County’s nearly 1 million voters — identifying them all as Democrats. “It’s a terrible error. People are upset. People are angry. There is a lot of confusion,” GOP County Executive Bruce Blakeman seethed at a Tuesday press conference. Democrats make up about 40 percent of the county’s 972,000 voters, according to state Board of Election records from February. […] This week’s flub by the Rochester-based Phoenix Graphics comes two years after the company messed up absentee ballots for 100,000 Brooklynites shortly before the 2020 election, prompting outrage from voters concerned about whether their votes would count. The mistake extended into Nassau County as well, where nearly 800 people also received botched ballots.

ARIZONA 2022 ELECTION UPDATE

Neff: Voting Rights Act Violations May Have Caused Rejection Of 2022 Arizona Ballots

The same day an attorney was in a federal courtroom challenging an Arizona law about cancellation of voter registrations, attorneys for Abe Hamadeh told a Mohave County judge they have records showing hundreds of Arizona voters had ballots rejected in 2022 due to questionable voter registration cancellations.

The voter registration dispute heard May 16 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Phoenix involves Senate Bill 1260. It was signed into law last year and in part revised Arizona Revised Statute 16-165 to add a mandate for when a voter’s registration must be cancelled if it appears the voter has moved to a new county within Arizona. [Note: Abe Hamadeh was the Republican candidate for state AG.]

REPUBLICAN U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY

Fox News Sunday: Congress may use ‘power of the purse’ to ‘limit’ how FBI, DOJ spend money: Rep. Jim Jordan

Watch the 8:02 minute interview: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6327972998112

Bannister: House Cmte.: “There Is No Such Thing as Debt ‘Forgiveness;’” Joint Resolution to Block ‘Biden’s Student Loan Scam’ Advances

On Thursday, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced a joint resolution (H.J. Res. 45) to block a Biden Administration rule forcing taxpayers to pick up the tab for billions of dollars of student loans. H.J. Res. 45 is now scheduled to be considered by the House Rules Committee on Monday, May 22. If passed by both the House and Senate, the joint resolution would overturn President Biden’s Debt Relief Plan and prevent any further extension of the pause on federal student loan repayment. Introduced by Rep. Bob Good (R-VA.) in the House, and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA.) on the Senate side, the joint resolution would overturn President Biden’s Debt Relief Plan and prevent any further extension of the pause on federal student loan repayment. As the Committee’s report explains, the resolution seeks to save taxpayers more than three hundred billion dollars:

DEMOCRAT U.S. SENATE MAJORITY

Sundance: “And To The Republic, For Which It Stands”…

This is not a photoshop. This is the United States Senate in 2023, as they intentionally present themselves publicly to the American people.

See the photo: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/19/and-to-the-republic-for-which-it-stands/

Ross: Joe Manchin Says He’s a Climate Moderate. He Just Voted To Confirm Radical Energy Nominee Who Wants To Kill the Coal Industry.

Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) has ramped up criticisms of his party’s radical climate proposals as he prepares for a tough reelection battle in 2024. But the West Virginia Democrat voted to advance a Biden nominee who wants to eradicate the coal industry, mandate that corporations become “carbon neutral” by 2025, and has urged activists to “name and shame” energy companies. Manchin, the chairman of the Senate Energy and National Resources Committee, voted this week to confirm David Crane as undersecretary for infrastructure at the Department of Energy. Crane, a former director at the state-owned Saudi Electricity Company, wants to eradicate the coal industry, mandate that major corporations become “carbon neutral” by 2025, and urged activists to “name and shame” companies that fail to fall in line.

The Center Square Staff: New legislation would drastically cut power of federal labor board

Critics say the agency, which aims to help private sector workers, has become highly politicized, doing the bidding of labor unions that are working with the Democratic party as small businesses pay the price. U.S. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., introduced the “Small Businesses Before Bureaucrats Act” this week. In 1958, Congress set standards for which businesses the NLRB had jurisdiction over, which includes any retail business with annual revenue topping $500,000 and non-retail businesses with annual revenue over $50,000. Because of inflation, more and more small businesses have been caught by the dated figures, which originally only applied to much larger businesses.

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

War Room: Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life | Author Brandon Weichert

Watch the 10:34 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v2owf0e-biohacked-chinas-race-to-control-life-author-brandon-weichert-joins-the-war.html

AP: China Tells Tech Manufacturers: Stop Using US-Made Micron Chips

Stepping up a feud with Washington over technology and security, China’s government Sunday told users of computer equipment deemed sensitive to stop buying products from the biggest U.S. memory chipmaker, Micron Technology Inc. Micron products have unspecified “serious network security risks” that pose hazards to China’s information infrastructure and affect national security, the Cyberspace Administration of China said on its website. Its six-sentence statement gave no details. “Operators of critical information infrastructure in China should stop purchasing products from Micron Co.,” the agency said. The United States, Europe and Japan are reducing Chinese access to advanced chipmaking and other technology they say might be used in weapons at a time when President Xi Jinping’s government has threatened to attack Taiwan and is increasingly assertive toward Japan and other neighbors. Chinese officials have warned of unspecified consequences but appear to be struggling to find ways to retaliate without hurting China’s smartphone producers and other industries and efforts to develop its own processor chip suppliers.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE U.S. MILITARY

Fleetwood: Air Force To Navy On Drag Queens: Hold My Bud Light

In the latest attempt to “rainbow” the U.S. military, the Department of the Air Force has authorized its bases to hold celebrations “in honor of Pride Month.” The announcement came days after the Navy got busted for using a drag queen to recruit new sailors into service. On May 3, the department issued a memo reaffirming the branch’s recognition of June as “Pride Month.” The memo also includes a provision that “empower[s]” Air Force installation commanders to “plan and conduct” so-called “appropriate activities” on bases to commemorate “rainbow” month.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY

War Room: Raheem Kassam Explains How Ukraine’s Fall Destroys the Elites’ Corrupt Client State

Watch the 12:49 minute interview: https://rumble.com/v2ow87m-raheem-kassam-explains-how-ukraines-fall-destroys-the-elites-corrupt-client.html

Sundance: World War Reddit Continues – Zelensky Flies to Visit G7 Assembly in Japan

In yet another exhibition of the strangest war ever, Ukraine President Zelensky flies to Japan to meet G7 leaders and help retain public support for the NATO vs Russia proxy war and regional conflict. The globalist leaders are going to do what they want, regardless of the opinions of the citizens they claim to represent. There is a potential for World War III. It is also entirely possible the WWIII fighting will not be between nation states. A more likely WWIII will be a physical battle between the autocratic rulers of western nation states and the citizens who have had enough of their manipulative nonsense.

Sen. Josh Hawley urges US to ‘switch course’ on Chinese foreign policy in favor of American dominance

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., joined ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ to discuss China’s growing global diplomacy under the Biden administration and his take on the far-left pushing gender ideology on children.

Watch the 7:50 minute interview: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6327974646112

Goodman: Biden’s State Department Is Putting Brazilian Trans Activists in English Classes

The Biden administration plans to teach more than two dozen “trans activists” in Brazil how to speak English as part of its partnership with a radical advocacy group that claims “every cis person is transphobic.” The State Department program is in coordination with Brazilian transgender activist group ANTRA and Georgetown University. The organizers have “selected 26 trans community activists from across Brazil” to participate in the “14-week-basic English course,” the U.S. embassy in Brazil announced on Monday. According to the U.S. embassy, the “goal of the course is to provide the participants with English-language skills to communicate and advocate for their community” and to “increase their chances of entering the job market.”

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

The Right Scoop: EMBARRASSING: Joe Biden rambles on unintelligibly for like 40 seconds while in Japan

I don’t know who is worse, John Fetterman or Joe Biden. Today, the latter rambled on for around 40 seconds while in Japan and I’m still not sure if he ever had a point to make:

Watch the 41 second Biden video: https://therightscoop.com/embarrassing-joe-biden-rambles-on-unintelligibly-for-like-40-seconds-while-in-japan/

Chaitin: Biden And McCarthy Set To Meet After ‘Productive’ Chat On Debt Ceiling

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) are expected to meet on Monday to get debt ceiling negotiations back on track. McCarthy said the plan for another round of face-to-face talks between the leaders emerged from a “productive” conversation by phone as Biden flew back to the United States from Japan on Sunday. “I think we can solve some of these problems if he understands what we’re looking at,” the speaker told reporters on Capitol Hill, according to the Associated Press. “But I’ve been very clear to him from the very beginning. We have to spend less money than we spent last year.”

Green: Let’s Call Them What They Are: Communists

All the other labels — liberal, progressive, leftist, Democrat — muddle what they really are.[…] If the state creates enough criminal statutes — more than any human can memorize — it can find anyone guilty of something. Prosecutorial discretion is then used to target dissidents and protect friends and allies. A criminal who firebombs a pregnancy center is ignored, while a man who protests at an abortion facility is prosecuted. Is America transitioning to communism?

Oppression of personal freedom — check
Distortion of information — check
Government control of distribution — check
Selective prosecution of opposition — check
Government control of production — coming soon to a farm or factory near you

THE DEMOCRAT LED WAR AGAINST WOMEN

Sedgwick: A Pronoun of Her Own

Men seem to be fighting women’s corner more aggressively than women are. Men are better at everything quantifiable. They are stronger, faster, and IQ tests skew toward the tails for men. We women will never match men in sports, though we are sometimes equal in exceptional intellect. Nobody wonders why we segregate men and women in basketball and tennis, but why is there a separate women’s chess champion? Culture generally acknowledges that female bodies and minds have something qualitatively different to offer humanity. We can do one thing of which men are not capable—give birth to and nurse babies. And we are better at something illusive and immeasurable, at being women. We turn heads and we inspire artists and run households, even if we often give our husbands credit for that. […] Men can’t become women; the fact that we are dealing with imposters is painfully obvious. What men can do is redefine the acceptable cultural representations of women and declare that they are better suited to fill our positions. Save for childbearing, everything that we do in a society, from playing violin to mid-level management, can be done by a man. Men can step in and pick off the best. American women, evidently, are not very good at resisting the takeover. Evolutionary psychology determinists argue to please the powers that be and comply with what’s socially acceptable. In this historical moment, the feminist leadership threw their lot with rag-tag left wing political influencers, willingly placing themselves in a subordinate position.

Men are harder to manipulate, which is why, for instance, the Bud Light commercials starring one-note female impersonator Dylan Mulvaney backfired.

THE DANGEROUS & CORRUPT DEMOCRAT PARTY MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

LaChance: Pregnant Nurse Hunted By Internet Mob After False Accusations Of Theft and Racism Will Sue, Lawyer Says

The nurse at the center of a controversial video that went viral this week has lawyered up and is apparently already pursuing legal action. Who can blame her? She was just trying to get home, and now her life is ruined because the internet mob came for her. […] Sarah Jane Comrie got into an argument last week with a few young black men, who claimed she was stealing a rental bike they paid for. Video of the incident quickly circulated on social media, generating millions of views and prompting Bellevue Hospital to place her on leave pending investigation. Her attorney Justin Marino said he later obtained a receipt, which was provided to multiple outlets, proving Comrie paid for the bike…

Former Marine Daniel Penny gives first interview since Jordan Neely’s chokehold death, explains why he’s not a white supremacist

Last week, Penny was charged with second-degree manslaughter in connection with the chokehold death of Neely on a New York City subway car on May 1. Witnesses say Neely was acting erratic and aggressive to other subway riders. Neely’s reported criminal record includes 42 prior arrests between 2013 and 2021, including four for assault. At the time of his death, he had an active warrant for felony assault in connection with a physical altercation in 2021. During Neely’s funeral on Friday, Rev. Al Sharpton said, “When they choked Jordan, they put their arms around all of us.” […] The Boston Globe accused Republicans of “financing white vigilantism.”

Solomon: Trump social media firm sues Washington Post for defamation, seeks $3.78 billion in damages

The lawsuit by Trump Media and Technology Group, which owns the Truth Social platform, was filed Saturday night in Florida state court in Sarasota County and accuses one of America’s most storied newspapers of publishing a story of libel and slander that the suit claims poses an “existential threat” to the social media company.

DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: SEVER THE PARENT-CHILD BOND

Meads: ‘These Are Our Kids, They Belong To All Of Us’: Three Times The Left Trampled On Parental Authority This Past Week Alone

Have you noticed that Democrats and the Left at large are increasingly brazen in their attempt to trample on all parental rights and authority? This past week alone, we saw three examples of this encroachment from the executive branch all the way down to a Florida teacher. For example, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made the bold claim last Saturday night that states which have banned sex-denial surgery and other gender-rejection care require an all-hands-on-deck response. […] Jean-Pierre continued, “I’ve met a lot of parents of trans kids in the past couple of months who have told me these devastating stories, whether they’re in Texas or Oklahoma or wherever they are, saying how they now have to seriously consider leaving their state to protect their child. That’s something that we have to call out and continue to be very clear about. These are kids. These are our kids. They belong to all of us.“ (emphasis added) The response to that is very simple: Kick rocks.

Blood: Judge blocks policy requiring parental notification if kids’ well-being affected by gender transitioning, sexuality

A New Jersey Superior Court temporarily blocked a school policy requiring staff to notify parents about circumstances impacting their child’s physical or mental well-being if sexuality, gender expression, and gender transitioning is involved, News 12 New Jersey reported “The Hanover Township Board of Education believes that parents need to be fully informed of all material issues that could impact their children so that they – as parents – can provide the proper care and support for their children,” HTBOE said in a statement Wednesday. […] New Jersey’s Gov. Murphy (D) is vehemently opposed to the school board’s parental notification policy. He has framed the bill as forcing teachers to “out” LGBTQ+ students to their parents. Further, he says it jeopardizes students’ well-being and mental health and violates their rights. […] The temporary prohibition stopping the policy’s implementation will remain in effect until May 30 when the court will hear arguments from both sides, News 12 New Jersey reported.

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: LEFTIST INDOCTRINATION, CHILD MULTILATION, CHILD SACRIFICE, CHILD SEXUALIZATION = CHILD ABUSE

Sullivan: The Queers Versus The Homosexuals

We are in a new era. And the erasure of gay men and lesbians is intensifying. Do you remember the homosexual? […] It was the most speedily successful civil rights story in memory. Its case for equality was simple and clear: including us in existing institutions needn’t change anything in heterosexual life. “Live and let live” in equality and dignity was the idea. And the most powerful force behind this success was the emergence of so many ordinary gays and lesbians — of all races, religions, backgrounds, classes, and politics — who told their own story. America discovered what I had discovered the first time I went into a gay bar: these people were not the stereotypes I was told about. They were not some strange, alien tribe. They were just like every other human, part of our families and communities; and we cared about each other. What would happen if and when we won the battle was always an open question. The question of transgender rights — associated with but very different from gay rights — remained unresolved. But in the new climate of acceptance, transgender people also became increasingly visible and accepted, and they too won a stunning victory in the Supreme Court. The Bostock decision in June 2020 gave those who identified as the opposite sex full civil rights protection. Yes, there were still skirmishes over cakes. But with equal rights, and growing toleration, it seemed as if we’d achieved a settlement that would allow us all — straight, gay, and trans — a chance to get on with our lives in freedom. And now? Back in culture war hell. […] Then the queers upped the ante and did something we gays never did: they targeted children. If they could get into kids’ minds, bodies and souls from the very beginning of their lives, they could abolish the sex binary from the ground up. And so they got a pliant, woke educational establishment to re-program children from the very start, telling toddlers that any single one of them could be living in the wrong body, before they could even spell.

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY MARXIST PLAYBOOK: PROMOTE & GLORIFY GENDER DYSPHORIA A MENTAL ILLNESS

(Pushing back) Stauffer: HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE TO TRANS-OBSESSED STATE LEGISLATORS – REPORT

A group of boys at Lakeridge High School in Lake Oswego, Oregon, showed state lawmakers exactly what they thought of HB 3294, the “Menstrual Dignity Act,” legislation that passed in 2021. […] Personally, I applaud the boys’ handiwork. They were sending a very clear message to the trans-obsessed culture that has infected America’s ruling class over the past few years. The sane among us saluted the boys’ action and their responses dominated the comments section. […] Why are we catering to the 0.7% of people who identify as transgender at the expense of the 99.3% who do not? And why are we celebrating gender dysphoria as a courageous lifestyle choice rather than the mental disorder that it is? This nonsense needs to stop. Sorry, liberals — and I know this will break your hearts — but real boys don’t menstruate and thus, have no need for tampon dispensers in their bathrooms.

Le Mahieu: Target Slammed After Offering Female Swimsuits That Have ‘Extra Crotch Coverage,’ Are ‘Tuck-Friendly’

The swimsuits in question are part of Target’s Pride collection and are described as having been “thoughtfully fit on multiple body types and gender expressions.” The swimsuits sparked backlash on social media, with several people saying that they would never shop at Target again. In addition to the female swimwear designed to accommodate male genitalia, the Target Pride collection includes small shirts with phrases like “Just Be You And Feel The Love,” Pride-themed onesies, as well as rainbow-colored leggings, tutu skirts, and jumpers. […] “What [Target] is doing is far worse than anything Bud Light did. They are selling chest binders & ‘tuck-friendly’ bathing suits for children. Target is calling our bluff. But just like any other company, they need our business. We did it with Bud Light. Now it’s Target’s turn,” a tweet from the Matt Walsh show said.

Courage is a habit: Nebraska Senator Machaela Cavanaugh Unhinged Transgender Chanting

Nebraska Senator Machaela Cavanaugh (D) repeatedly shouted: “Transgender people belong here, we need trans people, we love trans people.” because she opposes bills that protect children from undergoing irreversible Transgender drugs, chemical sterilization, and mutilating Transgender surgeries such as double mastectomies and castration.

Watch the 1:47 minute unhinged Democrat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwgguPg3qt4

MacDonald: Target Under Fire for Selling Clothing Made By Creepy Satanic Transgender Designer That Promotes Drugs and Violence

Target was already facing calls for a boycott over “tuck-friendly” bathing suits and chest binders for “transgender” children, and now it has been revealed that they are selling clothing items from a creepy satanic transgender designer that promotes drugs and violence. The brand in question, Abprallen, was created by a biological woman who identifies as a man and uses the name “Erik Callen.” […] Target credits the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network for helping place these items on their shelves. “GLSEN leads the movement in creating affirming, accessible and anti-racist spaces for LGBTQIA+ students,” Target’s descriptions on the Abprallen items reads. “We are proud of 10+ years of collaboration with GLSEN and continue to support their mission.” […] As if the items stocked by Target weren’t odd enough, looking at the Abprallen Instagram page shocked and disgusted many conservatives who had begun looking into the company’s partnership with the retail giant. […] The Blaze notes that other designs include “Join My Gay Cult,” “Transitioning Saves lives,” “Heteronormativity is a Plague,” “Binding Doesn’t Make You Less of a Man,” and “Trans Witches for Abortion.”

One shirt reads “Satan respects pronouns.”

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Purnell: Lawlessness Is Not ‘Racial Justice’ — It Has Nothing To Do With Race At All

A courageous man, along with his fellow passengers, restrained a mentally disturbed vagrant who was allegedly threatening to kill commuters on a New York City subway. A few weeks later, in the same town, a pregnant hospital worker checked out a Citi Bike to get home from her 12-hour shift and was surrounded by a group of men who falsely accused her of stealing the bike from them, physically harassed her, and then smeared her name on social media. There is a concerted effort from powerful people in the media, on the internet, and in district attorney’s offices, to paint both incidents, not as a conflict between law-abiding citizens and their aggressors, but as representative of a racial struggle that they accuse everyone in the country of being a part of. But these two events are not stories about their participants’ race. A thoughtful person who hears the details of each case could see that, from the facts we know, each was a struggle between the helpless and the lawless; in one case, there was someone to intervene on the innocents’ behalf, and in the other, there was none. […] One of the many tragic repercussions of the way these stories have been paraded around by the race-baiting media and provocateurs such as Al Sharpton is that it tricks people into believing their internal sensibilities about right and wrong are something racial that must be rooted out.

Wilburn: Cocaine Dealer Let Out of Prison Early by President Barack Obama Likely to Head Back After Allegedly Shooting a Woman in Chicago

A convicted cocaine dealer, who was released from prison by former President Barack Obama in 2015, is back behind bars on attempted murder charges after he allegedly shot a woman, RadarOnline.com has learned. […] The former President cut his sentence short in 2015 after the convicted felon served 22 years behind bars. Still, eight years later, Mills faces another potential life sentence after an expressway shooting early on Sunday morning. A victim, who has yet to be identified, was shot in the suburbs of Chicago and is not expected to survive.

Sacca: Chicago suburb forced to cancel armed forces carnival after flash mob of 400 teens causes chaos, video shows brawls and kids clashing with cops

The Village of Tinley Park in Illinois announced that the final day of the Armed Forces Weekend Carnival scheduled for Sunday had been canceled “due to safety concerns stemming from a flash mob incident at Saturday’s event.” “Police said a group of about 400 teenagers who were responding to a call on social media to form a flash mob gathered at the carnival Saturday evening and began running through the parking lot and fighting with each other in an attempt to cause chaos and disrupt the event,” Tinley Park government officials said in a statement. […] Videos from Saturday’s armed forces carnival show teens brawling and clashing with cops.

Read more/Watch the short videos: https://www.theblaze.com/news/chicago-suburb-flash-mob-armed-forces-carnival

Fred T.: BRUTAL beating, kicking and robbery of WOMAN in NYC caught on camera, and WHERE are Ben Crump and friends?

The misplaced performative outrage of the left over a pregnant nurse asking for help caused an enormous media earthquake, but the absolutely brutal assault of a woman in New York by a mob of men who beat and kicked her relentlessly while she was on the ground as they were ROBBING her?

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BOOK RECOMMENDATION: WHEN RACE TRUMPS MERIT: HOW THE PURSUIT OF EQUITY SCARIFICES EXCELLENCE, DESTROYS BEAUTY, AND THREATENS LIVES BY HEATHER MAC DONALD

Coulter: No Biggie, Just the End of Civilisation

Whatever you had planned to do for the rest of the day, please drop it and read this right now: Heather Mac Donald’s new book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives. It seems that in the hysteria that followed George Floyd’s death in 2020, we agreed to destroy all of Western civilization — law, music, art, education, policing, science and medicine — to make up for black people not doing well on standardized tests. Mac Donald cites not hundreds but thousands of institutions that have flung aside standards in order to more fully dedicate themselves to the sole, driving purpose of our nation: boosting black people’s self-esteem. To consider just one arena, I don’t think you’re going to like the medical care you’ll be getting under the new regime. Just like in the wildly successful Soviet Union, science must be subordinated to politics, specifically “racial justice.”

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY. OPINION

Chastain: Seattle Official Berates Board Member for Calling Out Nominee’s Pedophilia, Describing ‘Bad Experience’ With Him

Shanee Colston, the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCHRA) Continuum of Care (CoC) co-chair, refuses to resign after she defended the nomination of a homeless pedophile to the board. Colston even went off on one member who claimed she had a bad experience with him: Fellow board member Kristina Sawyckyj, who shared in a 2016 interview that she was a Navy veteran and a survivor of a rape that occurred while serving, objected to Crowfoot’s nomination and revealed that she had a “bad experience” with him specifically in the past.

Safdar & Glazer: Jeffrey Epstein Appeared to Threaten Bill Gates Over Microsoft Co-Founder’s Affair With Russian Bridge Player

Jeffrey Epstein discovered that Bill Gates had an affair with a Russian bridge player and later appeared to use his knowledge to threaten one of the world’s richest men, according to people familiar with the matter. The Microsoft co-founder met the woman around 2010, when she was in her 20s. Epstein met her in 2013 and later paid for her to attend software coding school. In 2017, Epstein emailed Gates and asked to be reimbursed for the cost of the course, according to the people familiar with the matter.

Dixon-Hamilton: Report: Fox News Lays Off Entire Investigative Unit After $787.5 Million Dominion Settlement

Fox News laid off its entire investigative unit of reporters one month after the cable news company settled with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million, Rolling Stone reported. […] “The rank and file journalists are getting let go meanwhile upper management are sitting pretty while they are the execs responsible for the Dominion debacle,” the Fox employee said. “We are the sacrificial lambs.” […] However, a source within Fox News told Breitbart News the layoffs have “nothing to do with Dominion,” and just three employees in the seven-person investigative unit were laid off. The remaining four employees were offered different positions within the company and reassigned prior to the layoffs, the source added.

Rodgers: Miller Lite’s Chief Of Marketing Has Spent Years Flopping From One Liberal Cause To Another

Sofia Colucci, the chief marketing officer of Molson Coors Beverage, which owns Miller Lite, has a past of supporting liberal causes such as gun control, protests for George Floyd, illegal immigration and the COVID-19 vaccine, social media posts reviewed by the Daily Caller found. […] Colucci has deleted many of the posts, however, the Caller took screenshots of her posts before they were deleted.

Cost: Woman weighed like baggage before flight: ‘Never been so embarrassed’

A traveler has shared the mortifying moment that a fellow passenger was forced to step on a baggage scale before takeoff after confusion over her weight. A clip detailing the humiliating measure was originally posted in March, but has amassed 1.6 million views on TikTok as viewers speculate whether the airline was discriminating against plus-size travelers. “The whole airport trying to mind their own business as a woman is asked to step on the baggage scale because she claimed she was 130lbs,” the TikTok user @lilwessel wrote in the caption. She added, “It’s a tiny plane so they needed our weight to take off for safety reasons.”

Morik: Ninth horse dies at Churchill Downs in span of less than a month

From April 27 to the Kentucky Derby on May 6, seven horses died from either injuries or collapsing on the track. Two of those horses died in the undercard of the Derby, and another one, Wild on Ice, was supposed to run in the race that was won by Mage.

INTERNATIONAL

Eastman: Climate Protestors Pollute Rome’s Iconic Trevi Fountain

This time, they are taking the form of climate crisis zealots intent on destroying icons of Western Civilization. The target of their most recent protest is Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain. Seven young activists protesting against climate change climbed into the Trevi Fountain in Rome on Sunday and poured diluted charcoal into the water to turn it black.

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