Supreme Court Greenlights Tennessee’s Ban On Sex-Change Procedures For Kids

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The Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s law banning child sex change procedures on Wednesday.

In a 6-3 ruling, the court held that Tennessee’s law does not violate the Equal Protection clause.

“This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “The voices in these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are profound. The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements.”

“Having concluded it does not, we leave questions regarding its policy to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process,” Roberts continued.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.

“[The majority] also authorizes, without second thought, untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them,” Sotomayor wrote.

Sotomayor wrote that those searching for evidence of transgender discrimination “need look no further than the present,” referencing several policies implemented by the Trump administration.

“The Federal Government, for example, has started expelling transgender servicemembers from the military and threatening to withdraw funding from schools and nonprofits that espouse support for transgender individuals,” she wrote.

Tennessee passed its law, which restricts minors from receiving medical treatments intended to help them live as an identity “inconsistent” with their sex, in 2023. The Biden administration challenged the law as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) changed its position on the case in February but urged the Supreme Court to move forward with issuing a ruling.

Trump signed an executive order in January cutting federal funding for child sex changes, where he called the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) “junk science” and banned federal agencies from citing its guidance. The Biden administration relied on WPATH standards in its briefs filed before the court.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

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Katelynn Richardson

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A Few Very Recent Examples of Soviet Level Western Media Propaganda and Active Measures

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1. While RFK Jr struggles to get rid of the astonishing grip big pharma has on the entire set of regulatory bodies of the American medical system, Canada is insulting itself with narratives and dialectics on the issue.

Ottawa Citizen: Experts fear upheaval in the U.S. could fuel vaccine distrust in Canada

Health and immunization experts are reassuring Canadians that vaccine guidance is independent and based on scientific rigor in Canada after all 17 members of the committee that provides vaccine guidance in the United States were abruptly purged this week.

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U.S. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. dismissed all members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), long considered the gold standard of vaccine guidance. Kennedy said the move would restore trust in the medical establishment and vaccines.

In other words, although the US is trying to parse the actual beneficial medications and immunization products from a growing list of untested and often dangerous bunch of injections causing a mass health crisis in the US, Canadians should rest content that they should never feel a need to question the state, the medications, or the orders to take it.

Meanwhile, in Illinois:

Even if the mRNA shots were safe and effective, and even if these first thing after birth, taking a baby away for 10 hours and injecting it with whatever it is but claiming it’;s vitamin K, is, let’s say that calling it ultra-vires by the state is putting it too kindly. There is no excuse for a free nation to ever behave this way. At MOST the state should act as an advisory body suggesting to parents what their neonate might need. But this goes way past even the coercion we saw during Covid. This is taking the baby from the parents for something as trivial as a vitamin shot!

2. I believe this is what we use to define the word, “Dilemma”.

3. These are really very typical examples of contemporary Canadian media. This isn’t even rage bait or a call to action. This is the state of Canadian media as it is. And a large percentage of people believe it. Likely due to the boiling frog method by which it was done, or because people like to belong, or because people tend to elevate the state in their minds in much the same way they do entertainers who are well known. But for whatever reason, this is how a lot of people think. Enough that it makes trying to tell the truth about Iran or the Israeli-Iranian conflict as the evidence has presented itself for 30 years, very difficult.

Part of the difficulty is accepting the controlled opposition in places of tremendous influence. Like Tucker Carlson. And it pains me to say it as he was the only big-microphone during Covid who had people like Dr. Peter McCullough on and many other counter-narrative scientists concerning the vaxx and Covid narratives overall. But his opposition to any hostility towards Iran, who has been overtly fomenting genocidal and existential threats daily to Israel and equipping at least 2 major regional proxy armies, and having taken over at least 3 countries in the Middle East as puppet states. And then Tucker’s odd closeness with Alexander Dugin who may be the most capable of engineering divisiveness among the counter-revolutionaries in North America today, Tucker is worth close scrutiny at this point.

From 2021. What looks a lot like an active measure.

Tucker Carlson UFO Active Measure

Tucker, as did 60 Minutes and most legacy media also brought on ranking USAF officials to talk about aliens harassing US bases and non-US bases. This was indeed an active measure, and a narrative attack for a global scale problem which of course, requires a global solution. So while Tucker was seemingly opposing the effort to make the world submit to a global health crisis, crashing all individual and national sovereignty, he added several logs to the fire of a unified response to a non-existent alien invasion. Although that narrative did come in handy when the US was testing killer drones for Ukraine to use against Russia more recently. The US media was quite content to let the alien explanation fill in the void for the military drones buzzing around NJ high rises. An obvious dress-rehearsal for this:

Drones similar to ones over NJ hit Russian apartment buildings

4. actually you kinda have to admire the brazen nature of this propaganda. This is right up there with Chemical Ali, for those who remember the first Gulf War and the Iraqi propagandist who claimed the American army was no where near Baghdad and they were winning the war as US tanks drove up right behind him. Mind you, the Trans movement and a great deal of the entirety of the Western belief system is really pretty much operating on the same degree of, oh what the hell, The Orwell Scale.

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Meet the Companies Helping to Trans Kids and Hide It from Parents

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It’s been a while since Americans could actually sit back and enjoy June. Now, instead of bumping into rainbows in every aisle and choking on the colored logos of every conceivable brand, there’s some freedom from the suffocating fumes of Pride Month. In these last two years, the march to pull companies back to neutral has outperformed everyone’s expectations. But in this process of rolling back decades of corporate wokeism, one thing is clear: this isn’t over. No matter how much success conservatives have, not everyone will go quietly. When it comes to LGBT activism, some businesses are playing for keeps.

While most of this week’s coverage seems to be about who isn’t joining the parade, there’s a proud contingent of CEOs who have no intentions of backing off their radicalism. To those who would shrug and say, “It’s just a few splashy logos. What’s the big deal?” the reality is much more sinister. This isn’t about slapping a few Progress flags outside headquarters or queering the Sesame Street puppets. It’s about financing a dangerous enterprise to keep children in bondage and parents in the dark.

The corporate darling of this year’s celebration, The Trevor Group, isn’t just another rah-rah LGBT crusader. Billed as a youth suicide prevention organization, one look under the hood shows that this group is anything but uncontroversial. And yet, sponsors are lining up to finance the group — to the tune of millions of dollars. The heavy-hitters, who are giving upwards of six-figure donations, are mostly familiar names: Macy’s, Petco, Abercrombie & Fitch, Pure Vida, Guess Watches, Kohl’s, Lululemon, MAC Cosmetics, and a collection of lesser-known brands.

A lot of these businesses will ring a bell, simply because they’ve been stubbornly clinging to their LGBT alliances through months of nationwide backlash (along with headstrong lefties at Levi’s, Converse, and Nike). Interestingly, the brands that are listed as year-round Trevor Project partners also happen to rank the highest on the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Corporate Equality Index. With a few exceptions, almost every company that submitted their information to HRC earned a perfect score — meaning they’re completely on board with transgender insurance coverage and benefits, gender-neutral restrooms and dress codes, and preferred pronoun usage, as well as LGBTQ hiring quotas, non-discrimination standards, sensitivity trainings, recruitment efforts, community outreach, philanthropic support, and lobbying on local, state, and federal issues. In other words, the hardest of the hard core:

  • $1 million: Abercrombie (100%), Lululemon, Macy’s (100%)
  • $500,000: AT&T (100%), Deloitte (100%)
  • $250,000: Coca-Cola (100%), GenDigital (100%), Gilead (100%), Harry’s, Hot Topic Foundation, Jingle Jam, Sephora (100%), MAC Cosmetics, Procter & Gamble, Rare Beauty, The Game Company
  • $100,000: David Yurman, Delta Airlines, Delta Dental, Dolce Vita, FedEx (85%), Forever 21, H&M, Humble Bundle, Kate Spade, Kohl’s (100%), Lemonade, Makeship, Maybelline, National Education Association (NEA), Native, NFL, OPI, Pair of Thieves, Petco (95%), Saks Fifth Avenue, United Airlines (100%), Wells Fargo (100%), Williams-Sonoma (90%), XBox

And while The Trevor Project claims to be harmlessly dedicated to “advocacy, education, and crisis support for LGBTQ+ young people,” it’s the nature of that advocacy and education that should disturb Americans. For starters, this is a group that, just three years ago, was exposed for stealthily grooming children online. A suspicious mom, whose daughter struggled with gender dysphoria, logged onto the organization’s TrevorSpace chat room to see what kind of advice she was getting — and was horrified at the graphic and disturbing nature of the site.

She sent the screenshots to National Review, a “Pandora’s box” of “sexually perverse content, aggressive gender re-assignment referrals, adults encouraging minors to hide their transitions from their parents, and many troubled kids in need of psychological counseling. Like most moms, she said she’d turned to The Trevor Project in “desperation.” “‘I thought my child was going to kill herself,’” she admitted. “In TrevorSpace,” NRO explains, “she got a bird’s-eye view of the progressive non-profit giant that is claiming to save young lives but is really driving them further into existential rabbit holes, depravity, and potential danger.”

At one point, “Rachel then dove into an abyss of concerning sexual conversation. Some transgender-identifying adults confessed in detail their [fantasies and deviances].” In some cases, “users under 18 spoke with adult users about their sexual preferences, including BDSM, polyamory, and others.”

Equally as disturbing, The Trevor Project has its hooks in countless K-12 classrooms across the country with its so-called “resources for educators and school officials, including the Is Your School LGBTQ-Affirming? checklist and Creating Safer Spaces in Schools for LGBTQ Young People, which can help determine whether a school is adequately supporting LGBTQ+ students.” The website “also offers several educational guides for adults working with LGBTQ+ young people, including the Guide to Being an Ally to Transgender and Nonbinary Youth, How to Support Bisexual Youth, and Preventing Suicide.”

“We’ve increased our efforts in public education,” the project’s website brags — and that’s exactly what parents should be afraid of. The group’s resources include a Model School Policy Booklet that it distributes to “ally” teachers, counselors, and volunteers across the country. Among other things, it urges educators to hide information about students’ sexual orientation or gender identity from parents:

  • “Information about a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity should be treated as confidential and not disclosed to parents, guardians, or third parties without the student’s permission. In the case of parents who have exhibited rejecting behaviors, great sensitivity needs to be taken in what information is communicated with parents.”
  • “While parents and guardians need to be informed and actively involved in decisions regarding the student’s welfare, the school mental health professional should ensure that the parents’ actions are in the best interest of the student (e.g., when a student is LGBTQ and living in an unaffirming household).”
  • “In the case of parents who have exhibited rejecting behaviors, great sensitivity needs to be taken in what information is communicated with parents. Additionally, when referring students to out-of-school resources, it is important to connect LGBTQ students with LGBTQ-affirming local health and mental health service providers. Affirming service providers are those that adhere to best practices guidelines regarding working with LGBTQ clients as specified by their professional association (e.g., apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/guidelines.aspx).”

These are the kind of anti-parent zealots Macy’s, Abercrombie, Petco, and others are donating your June dollars to. Sometimes it’s 10% of the purchase price. Other times it’s the change you round up. But whatever the amount, it’s fueling a team of ideologues intent on destroying America’s children — and keeping it a secret while they do.

Don’t get me wrong. This country should be jubilant about all it’s accomplished. Robby Starbuck and other activists who’ve been fighting this war before most people knew we were in one deserve medals. But the biggest mistake any of us can make is believing we’ve won. Because a single dollar in the wrong hands is a weapon. And the pain, thousands of parents and their young patients will tell you, lasts a lifetime.

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Suzanne Bowdey

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Dr. Fauci and China’s Killer Fungus

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Just when you thought you’d heard everything about corruption inside the National Institutes of Health under Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, this week federal prosecutors arraigned two Chinese nationals in Detroit for allegedly attempting to import a “killer fungus” into the United States.

Thirty-three year old Yunqing Jian, and her colleague, Zunyong Liu, 34, were charged with attempting to import a “potential agroterrorism” weapon into the United States that could wipe out our wheat, barley, maize, and rice crops.

It wasn’t the first time that Ms. Jian made such an attempt. Just by luck, an earlier effort last year to get a colleague in China to mail her similar products failed.

But the real kicker to this story were documents uncovered by Just the News showing that Jian and Liu worked in a University of Michigan research laboratory led by another pair of Chinese nationals. And worse, that their project to study “plant immunity” had received $7.6 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health during the Collins-Fauci era.

Just like the funding Fauci and Collins provided to the Wuhan lab that the FBI now believes engineered the COVID-19 virus, these modern-day Dr. Strangelove characters were once again backing research with apocalyptic consequences, all in an effort to prepare for apocalyptic events that without their funding would not occur.

So why would the Chinese Communist Party want to unleash a mass killer fungus into the agricultural heartland of America?

Perhaps for the same reason they have installed what federal prosecutors now call “undocumented communications channels” inside Chinese-made inverters sold to solar power customers.

The inverters are the units, usually installed inside a house with solar panels on the roof, that connect your energy-producing plant to the electric grid. They constantly communicate with the grid, in order to modulate how much electricity you take from the grid, or supply to it.

In Sweden, for example, these home power plants produce over 40.6 gigawatts of power daily, roughly 14% of what Sweden consumes.

Now just imagine that the Chinese Communist Party decided to use these inverters to conduct a cyberattack on the national electric grid. “Open a channel, Spock! — or rather, Jian” – and poof, in comes a virus.

The grid could go down before any of our power companies realized what was happening.

And now for the trifecta.

This week, Democrat governor Katie Hobbs of Arizona vetoed legislation, voted on by Democrats, that would have prohibited the Chinese government and Chinese government owned enterprises from buying or leasing land in the state.

At issue was an attempt by the Chinese government to lease buildings near the Luke Air Force in Glendale, Arizona. Hobbs claimed the bill “opens the door to arbitrary enforcement.”

This Democrat governor thinks protecting the Chinese government from “discrimination” is more important than protecting US national security.

This is the kind of misguided goody-two-shoes approach to national security that led to Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attacks.

Here are three separate cases in just one week. Does anyone really believe any longer that the Chinese Communist government wishes us well?

I discuss this, as well as Ukraine’s spectacular drone attack against Russia airfields, Putin’s response, and Donald Trump’s stepping back from the Russia-Ukraine negotiations, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

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‘Next’: Schumer Dodges Simple Question About Medicaid For Illegal Immigrants

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sidestepped a question about whether he supported states giving illegal migrants taxpayer-funded health insurance at a press conference Wednesday.

The House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act included a provision to penalize 14 states and the District of Columbia who enroll illegal immigrants in state health insurance programs by reducing their federal Medicaid funding for the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion population. The Daily Caller News Foundation asked Schumer about the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) preliminary projections that 1.4 million illegal immigrants would lose health coverage as a result of this provision in the House-drafted bill.

Schumer immediately reacted by slamming the president’s tax and spending bill before offering a word salad on his opposition to congressional Republicans’ proposed crack down on states who give illegal migrants free healthcare.

“The bottom line is the overall bill is so awful,” Schumer said. “If they want to aim — if they got some specific issues aim it, don’t just do just do a ‘meat axe,’ chainsaw, across the board and cut everything, everything, everything.”

“This goes way beyond what they’re talking about and hurts everybody,” Schumer added.

The DCNF’s Andi Shae Napier attempted to ask a follow-up regarding Schumer’s opposition to the Medicaid reform provision before he declared “next question.”

The Democratic leader also incorrectly said the CBO projections were “GOP numbers” and questioned the accuracy of the congressional scorekeeper’s estimates.

The Medicaid provision specifically lowers the Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentage (FMAP) — the Medicaid match rate the federal government pays to states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act — from 90% to 80%. The proposal would force certain blue states to cover 20% of the cost themselves, putting billions of dollars in Medicaid funding they depend on at risk.

GOP lawmakers and Trump administration officials have defended their Medicaid reforms as preserving the entitlement program’s benefits for those who need it most while eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. Savings generated from reforming Medicaid contributed in part to more than $1.5 trillion in spending cuts over a decade in the president’s landmark bill.

“We’re not cutting Medicaid,” Speaker Mike Johnson told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker on Sunday. “What we are doing is reducing the program wrought with fraud, waste and abuse to make sure that that program is essential to so many people and ensure that it is available for the most vulnerable, and it’s intended for young, single pregnant women, the disabled and elderly.”

Johnson added that 7.6 million people “will supposedly be affected by this,” referring to preliminary CBO projections. “When you look at the numbers and break them down, this is high on public opinion. You are talking about [removing] 1.4 million illegal immigrants.”

A spokesperson for Schumer did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment seeking clarification on the Democratic leader’s position.

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Adam Pack

Congressional Reporter

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‘Absolutely Horrific’: AI-Generated Child Porn Leads Teen to Commit Suicide

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As their teenage son lay in the hospital with his life oozing out of him, Eli Heacock’s parents felt their grief compounded by confusion: They had no idea why he had committed suicide.

Then they found his phone.

Messages showed their son — 16-year-old Elijah “Eli” Manning Heacock of Glasgow, Kentucky — had fallen prey to an extortioner, who convinced Eli to send photos of himself, which the predator used to generate sexually explicit images using artificial intelligence (AI).

The victim’s father, John Burnett, said Eli scrambled to collect as much of the $3,000 bribe as he could, only to hear his predator tell him, “This is not enough.”

In despair, Eli shot himself on February 27, dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the University of Louisville Hospital the next day.

The tragic death highlights the changing profile of sexual abuse and predation. Parents “no longer [have] to be scared of the white van that drives around. You have to be scared of the internet,” said Eli’s mother, Shannon Heacock.

Her son is far from the first person to lose his life to online sexual extortionists. “From October 2021 to March 2023 … sextortion involved at least 12,600 victims — primarily boys — and led to at least 20 suicides,” according to the FBI.

But even in death, Eli, who lost his unique potential so young, stood out from others: Usually, exploiters lure their victims into sending sexually explicit photos, then blackmail them into sending money or more compromising photos. Eli apparently shared less explicit images, which the predator allegedly altered using artificial intelligence — which analysts say highlights another threat of nascent AI technology.

“It’s absolutely horrific and tragic that criminals used AI-generated images to extort money out of a teenage boy, ultimately resulting in him taking his own life,” Arielle Del Turco, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. FRC previously highlighted concerns raised by AI chatbots, which appear to be human, engaging in sexually explicit dialogue with minors online — or stoking pedophiles’ fantasies by posing as sexually precocious children.

With the rise of AI-generated pornography, a victim need not send his tormentor nude or suggestive photos. Powered by AI, child exploiters do not need their victim to send them any photos at all: They can download an image from the internet or take a candid photo without the victim’s knowledge.

People from all walks of life can fall victim to AI-generated “deepfakes.” Last month, New Zealand politician Lana McClure stood on the floor of Parliament and displayed nude photographs of herself, which she said she personally created in a matter of minutes using artificial intelligence software.

Lawmakers in Heacock’s native Kentucky reacted by adopting a law, S.B. 73, which makes sextortion a felony. President Donald Trump also made tackling “revenge porn,” including images created by artificial intelligence, an early priority in his second administration.

“Congress has recently worked to mitigate these types of situations by passing the Take It Down Act,” supported by First Lady Melania Trump, which passed Congress with near-unanimous consent and signed into law by President Trump, noted Del Turco. The law makes it illegal to knowingly publish, or threaten to publish, intimate images without a person’s consent; it also requires websites to remove such images within 48 hours of a victim’s valid request and help track down any sites that have republished the material. Del Turco noted that the new law “applies to AI-generated images. Policymakers should continue to enact prudent legislation to protect people from abusive uses of AI, including sexual extortion.”

Not every level of government shares Heacock’s concerns. Global governance bodies have allowed lawmakers to exclude AI-generated porn even of the youngest children. The United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, adopted last December 31, forbids “real or simulated sexual activity” but gives nations the right to limit the prosecution of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) to material that “[d]epicts, describes or represents an existing person.” That excludes child pornography images or videos that are entirely AI-generated and not based on one specific child.

“In several sections, the new UN treaty allows countries to de-criminalize virtual child pornography in all circumstances as well as private sexting by minors, even to adults,” noted Stefano Gennarini of the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM).

Americans also feel concerned some lawmakers have prioritized the explosive growth of the artificial intelligence sector at the cost of their children’s innocence, even their lives. The “One Big Beautiful Bill” which recently passed the House of Representatives contains a provision preempting states from regulating AI technology for 10 years. “I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there,” wrote Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on social media Tuesday. “We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous.”

The bill is now before the Senate. The AI provision has raised alarms beyond the chamber. Many grieving parents wish leaders would give them stronger tools to keep their children safe from the ever-expanding reach of predators. “We can’t afford to be behind the ball on creating policies that govern AI,” Del Turco told TWS. “The effects are too far-reaching” — a fact Eli’s mother, Shannon, knows too well.

“I don’t want another mother to ever face this, another sibling, another father to face this,” she said.

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

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‘Habitual Lawbreakers’: ICE Rolls Up Hundreds Of Illegal Migrant Criminals In Sprawling Massachusetts Operation

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Federal immigration authorities arrested well over 1,000 illegal migrants during a month-long enforcement operation across Massachusetts.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, working alongside a slate of other federal partners, arrested 1,461 illegal migrants throughout the Bay State during the month of May, the agency announced Monday. Most of the apprehended foreign nationals carried significant criminal histories, such as drug traffickers, sex offenders and murderers.

“Make no mistake: Every person that we arrested was breaking our immigration laws, but most of these individuals had significant criminality,” ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia Hyde said in a prepared statement.

“They are criminal offenders who victimized innocent people and traumatized entire communities — murderers, rapists, drug traffickers, child sex predators and members of violent transnational criminal gangs,” Hyde continued. “Some were convicted of violent crimes in the United States, and others were wanted for criminality in their native countries. All made the mistake of attempting to subvert justice by hiding out in Massachusetts.”

Of the roughly 1,500 arrested by ICE agents, more than half had serious criminal convictions or charges, according to the agency. Nearly 800 of the migrant offenders were either convicted or charged of crimes in the U.S. or in another country.

Members of notorious criminal syndicates were also targeted in Operation Patriot, including MS-13, Tren de Aragua, 18th Street and Trinitarios gangbangers, ICE leadership confirmed. A total of 277 of those nabbed had been previously ordered removed by an immigration judge, but had refused to comply and remained illegally in the U.S.

“This was a massive, multiagency immigration enforcement operation aimed at keeping our region safe from habitual lawbreakers who have flouted our country’s immigration laws and, in many cases, committed violent crimes that have endangered our families, friends, and neighbors for far too long,” FBI Boston acting Special Agent in Charge Kimberly Milka said in a press release.

“Together, with our partners, we have identified and removed hundreds of illegal alien offenders from the Commonwealth, including murderers, gang members, child predators and a possible associate of a suspected terrorist, and our work is not done,” Milka continued.

Operation Patriot was assisted by the FBI, Customs and Border Protection, the State Department and several other federal agencies — a multi-agency effort that has become the norm under the current administration.

Since returning to power, the Trump White House has marshaled in the service of numerous other major agencies to assist with immigration enforcement. A directive handed down in January from the Department of Homeland Security grants members from across the federal government many of the same powers as ICE agents.

The Trump administration has made numerous other reforms designed to give ICE agents more freedom to carry out their mission, such as nixing “sensitive locations” that prohibited enforcement actions in certain locations, such as hospitals, schools or churches. The previous limitation gave illegal immigrants the ability to hide from ICE apprehension.

The reforms have been working — the White House announced in April that it arrested more than 151,000 illegal migrants and deported more than 135,000 during its first 100 days in office.

The city of Boston, and the entire state of Massachusetts, are considered sanctuary havens by immigration observers — the administration included both localities in a since-deleted public list of sanctuary jurisdictions across the U.S., and the Center for Immigration Studies labels the entire state as such in its running list of sanctuary localities.

Following President Donald Trump’s re-election victory, the Boston City Council in December 2024 voted to reaffirm its sanctuary city status.

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Jason Hopkins

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Trump Pardons Military Officer Mark Bashaw Who Refused To Follow COVID Mandates

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President Donald Trump pardoned former 1st Lt. Mark Bashaw after he was convicted in 2022 for violating COVID-19 mandates.

Former Army officer Bashaw, an entomologist at the Army Public Health Center in Maryland, was pardoned Wednesday over his conviction by a military judge for disobeying orders intended to curb the spread of COVID-19, an anonymous White House official first told The Washington Post.

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of the Pardon Attorney confirmed on its website that Bashaw was pardoned Wednesday.

After receiving the pardon Wednesday, Bashaw said on social media that he was “humbled, grateful, and ready to continue fighting for truth and justice.”

Bashaw, who said he was discharged in 2023, claimed he was targeted for his refusal to comply based on his religious beliefs. 

The 16-year Army and Air Force veteran was convicted for refusing to comply with orders to provide a negative COVID-19 test before reporting to duty, or wear a mask indoors, according to a Stars and Stripes report.

He also refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine, and his religious exemption for all vaccines was denied by the Army, the outlet reported.

The Pentagon under the Biden Administration required all service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. National Guardsmen were also required to get the vaccine under threat of pay cuts and being barred from training with their units, with further resistance leading to discharge.

Bashaw was just one of several individuals pardoned by Trump this week, including reality TV stars Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted on charges relating to fraud.

Trump also granted clemency to former Republican New York Rep. Michael Grimm and former three-term Republican Connecticut Governor John Rowland, Politico reported.

Grimm served in Congress from 2011 to 2015 and pleaded guilty to aiding the preparation of a false tax return and covering up more than $900,000 in gross income, according to a 2014 DOJ press release.

Rowland was sentenced to 30 months in prison in 2015 for his illegal involvement in two congressional campaigns, according to the District of Connecticut U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO).

Rowland resigned from office in 2004 after an investigation was launched into federal corruption, Eyewitness News 3 reported.

“He served 10 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to accepting gifts and favors from state contractors,” the outlet reported.

Just weeks after taking office, Trump signed an executive order restoring the prior ranks of service members who had been discharged from the military for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.

The Bashaw case was one of “the first known COVID court-martial” cases, as reported by Army Times.

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Senate Should Make House’s Big, Beautiful Bill Bigger, More Beautiful

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On Thursday at 6:54 a.m., the U.S. House passed the Trump and Republican-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act. (Yup, that is this 1,118-page measure’s official title.) By a snare-drum-tight, 215-214 vote, all but three Republicans and zero Democrats chose to give Americans $4.1 trillion in tax relief, along with their bacon, eggs, tea, and toast.

President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (both Louisiana Republicans) were the chefs who moved this elaborate meal from kitchen to table. It has plenty to nourish this economy:

  • The One Big, Beautiful Bill makes permanent the rates in the Trump/GOP Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Every House Democrat voted to let these lower rates lapse on January 1 and slap average taxpayers with a 22% tax hike.
  • As promised: No taxes on tips or overtime, plus tax leniency for seniors.
  • Deregulation and incentives should boost fuel production, restore energy dominance, slash gasoline prices, and curb electric bills.
  • “The House did a good job stopping massive new subsidies for solar and wind projects,” wrote reliable-energy advocate Alex Epstein. He urges lawmakers to “terminate the Green New Scam once and for all.”
  • The One Big, Beautiful Bill expands health savings accounts, enhances patient power, and bolsters medical freedom.

There is lots to like here, and the Senate should make this bill bigger and more beautiful.

First, senators should include something the House neglected: A 15% tax for companies that manufacture in America. This lower rate would be 28.6% lighter than today’s 21% corporate levy. This dramatically would encourage firms to produce domestically, rather than overseas. This would make it much cheaper to build U.S. factories and hire Americans than to create jobs abroad.

Conversely, enterprises that manufacture in China will find it far easier to thumb their noses at the Chinese Communist Party, come home, and keep 85% of their earnings.

The Cato Institute reports a 15% U.S. corporate rate would ease domestic manufacturers from paying Earth’s 24th lowest business levy to enjoying its sixth-lightest such tax. This is the fast lane to reindustrialization, rather than the traffic jam of higher tariffs. The latter merely hikes taxes on U.S. importers, who typically raise U.S. consumers’ price tags.

Second, some Senate Republicans demand deeper spending cuts, as they should. This makes other GOP senators sweat. Compromise: Freeze federal discretionary expenditures for one year. Pressing the pause button on such outlays for 12 months—while lowering or raising specific disbursements as necessary beneath that ceiling—would save taxpayers $49 billion next year alone.

Finally, some Senate Republicans are nervous about keeping the House’s work requirements on able-bodied Medicaid recipients. When Democrats scream that such rules are “worse than Hitler,” Republicans should remind them that former President Bill Clinton signed a work requirement within 1996’s bipartisan welfare reform law.

Republicans should quote these words to Democrats: “Since 1987, when I first proposed an overhaul of the welfare system, I have argued that welfare recipients should be required to work … I was pilloried by many of my friends back then for even suggesting the idea of requiring work. Today, I think everyone here believes that work should be the premise of our welfare system.”

That statement was uttered in 1996 by none other than Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.

Johnson frets that the Senate’s fingerprints could doom his chamber’s bill. He implores senators to “fine tune this product as little as possible.” The speaker told Punchbowl that guiding Thursday’s legislation through the House was like “crossing over the Grand Canyon on a piece of dental floss.” Too many Senate amendments could snap that floss on final passage.

Trump sounds far more open to letting the Senate have its way with Johnson’s package.

“I want the Senate and the senators to make the changes they want,” Trump told journalists on Sunday. “It will go back to the House, and we’ll see if we can get them. In some cases, the changes may be something I’d agree with, to be honest.”

“We’ve had a very good response from the Senate,” Trump added, “and I don’t know how Democrats can’t vote for it.”

And yet Democrats won’t vote for it.

The president is kidding himself if he expects even one Democrat to support his A-No. 1 legislative priority, which makes permanent the Trump-45 tax cuts. The only thing that Democrats hate more than tax cuts is Trump himself. Their disdain for him is hot enough to melt the vaults of Fort Knox.

House Democrats turned 428 thumbs down on the One Big, Beautiful Bill, and if they had more thumbs handy, they likewise would have deployed them all. Senate Democrats will do the same, and there is no point whatsoever in Republicans wasting any time trying to rally their Democrat colleagues behind this bill. GOP senators would have better luck teaching lobsters to sing.

If the Senate’s version of this bill drifts too far from the House blueprint, the latter need not accept it as is.

A House-Senate conference committee (remember those?) would help both chambers settle their differences and adopt middle-ground language. If necessary, Trump is a master at patting enough backs and twisting enough arms to transform the One Big, Beautiful Bill into something giant and gorgeous before it reaches the Resolute Desk for his signature.

Until then, no more congressional vacations, and lots more late nights and weekend sessions until this whole thing is wrapped up. The economy needs a strong infusion of certainty already, and the American people have waited long enough for tax relief.

The sooner Donald Trump’s big, beautiful John Hancock is on this legislation, the better.

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A VERY BIG Deal: Critically Thinking about what Science actually is!

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For years now, I have preached a central theme: the main underlying cause of almost any societal technical problem is that we have replaced Real Science with political science. Think COVID, climate change, renewable energy, etc.

The root problem with ALL of these (and many more) is that Real Science had been summarily escorted out of the building, and the issue was taken over by lobbyists and a slew of other self-serving, scientifically-challenged parties.

Despite my writing about this ad nauseam (e.g., here, here, here, here, here, here, etc.), it doesn’t seem to have resonated with enough key people.

Until now!

On May 23, President Trump issued a new Executive Order (EO), titled: Restoring Gold Standard Science. Although it did not specifically say that “political science” was being substituted for Real Science, that was the crystal clear message.

I have also repeatedly asserted (e.g., here, here, here, here, etc., etc.) that a true Scientific Assessment will have four key characteristics: 1) Objective, 2) Comprehensive, 3) Empirical, and 4) Transparent. The EO did not use this simple four-part tool, but covered most of this at one point or another.

The EO had some good definitions, but under “plagiarism” they should have included unattributed material from any Artificial Intelligence (AI) source. This is exploding right now, so it needs to be cut off at the pass.

The EO did not address one of the primary tricks used to fool the public: Statistics. One other constructive suggestion is that although they mentioned “risk models,” they did not address the elephant in the risk room: that many suppliers of medical products, etc. convey to the public the relative risk of their product rather than the absolute risk. (See here for details.)

Please read the EO carefully, because if this is actually properly adopted across much of the federal government — even without my employing my helpful suggestions — this will be one of the most important and far-reaching US developments in many decades.

You can thank me later for teeing this up years ago!

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That Big Beautiful Bill

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The House finally passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” in the early morning hours on Thursday, after weeks of hearings during which Democrats did their best to obstruct, delay, and obfuscate.

One extraordinary example that got my attention — no thanks to the national media, which almost totally ignored it — was the elimination of nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid fraud.

Democrats portrayed the changes as “cuts” to Medicaid that would leave nearly a million Americans with no health coverage. That was too much for HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

In a heated exchange with California Democrat Josh Harder, Kennedy explained patiently that the so-called “cuts” were actually reductions that resulted from eliminating waste and fraud.

“I’ll tell you what that means. It means that because of DOGE, we were able to determine— and it’s about 8 million people who would be affected— that there are a million people who are claiming Medicaid from multiple states. That’s illegal. It’s theft. You’re not allowed to do that. There are another million people who are collecting both under Obamacare and Medicaid.”

HHS also plans to remove more than one million illegal aliens who currently are collecting Medicaid.

Just the day after Kennedy made that announcement, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that his state would stop offering Medicaid to illegals because the feds had stopped paying for it.

Friends, this is a revolution. And it’s about time.

So why are the Democrats so keen on continuing to waste taxpayer dollars?

As a Floridian, I object to citizens of my state being forced to subsidize the bad spending habits of states like New York and California through the increase in the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction.

Florida’s population is roughly 1.5 million greater than that of New York, in part because so many New Yorkers fled to Florida during Covid. And yet, the New York state budget is twice Florida’s — and I don’t hear anyone complaining about not receiving essential services in Florida.

But I also understand political necessities. Sometimes you just can’t get a big result such as this bill, which should unleash 3% to 4% annual growth, without making compromises.

A handful of New York and California Republican Congressmen threatened to vote against the bill without the SALT deduction, so the President came up to Capitol Hill to jawbone the GOP conference and close the deal.

The two GOP holdouts — Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson from Ohio — deserve to be primaried next year. Politics is a team sport. If you can’t play together, you’re off the team.

Democrats were also huffing and puffing this week about the alleged “corruption” of the President, which they claimed was on full display during his recent trip to the Gulf.

MSDNC boychick bloviator Chris Hayes even complained that the President had forced the Qataris to donate a $400 million Boeing for an interim Air Force One, when the President and DoD had actually been in negotiations to purchase the aircraft back in February.

Since when is it bad to relieve the taxpayers of a $400 million bill?

Sure, the Trump Organization, which is run by the president’s sons, plans to franchise a new Trump tower in Riyadh, a billion dollar golf course in Doha, real estate developments in the UAE, and possibly even a $200 million Trump Tower in Damascus.

Will the president benefit from these deals eventually? Undoubtedly. Does that violate the Constitution’s “emoluments” clause, as Democrats claim? I doubt it. The Supreme Court has already dismissed three earlier challenges to Trump under the emoluments clause in 2020 and 2021.

And let’s be clear: the reason the Constitution prohibits the president from taking payments from a foreign government is to prevent undue influence over policy. Somehow, I find it hard to conceive of Donald Trump changing his opinion on, say, lifting sanctions on Syria because the Trump Organization might eventually franchise a high rise in Damascus.

Of course, it’s much easier to imagine someone like Joe Biden interfering in Ukraine’s domestic politics to get a prosecutor fired because he was investigating a company that was paying Biden’s son.

Trump broke generations of precedent during his recent trip to the Gulf.

For starters, he abandoned the Deep State catechism about a Palestinian state.

How many of you know that Trump actually invited the so-called president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, to attend the public meetings in Riyadh — not as a participant, and without being allowed the opportunity to meet with him?

Dan Diker, the president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, says Trump’s very public rebuke of Abbas was akin to “taking him out to the woodshed.”

Next, he called on the Gulf leaders, as well as the new leader of Syria, to publicly denounce terrorism and the October 7 attacks by Hamas on Israel. And they did.

The Saudis welcomed Trump with a procession of 12 Arabian stallions on the tarmac. Why? Because they know that Trump is the strong horse.

We’ve never had a president like Donald Trump, and probably will never have his equal again.

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EXCLUSIVE: School District Piped Taxpayer Cash Into Clandestine Clubs Turning Kids Into LGBT Activists

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A California school district took federal funds from a disease prevention grant and funneled them into student LGBT clubs focused on gender ideology and queer activism, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) Network — which backs over 4,000 LGBT student groups in the U.S. — uses the clubs to engage kids on topics such as transgenderism, sexuality and queer activism, all while leaving parents in the dark, documents show. The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) burned nearly $60,000 in HIV prevention grant funds from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the GSA clubs.

The CDC grant funds Healthy Oakland Teens, a school-based program with the goal of reducing HIV and STD’s among the district’s middle and high school student population.

OUSD’s 2018 grant application revealed it used part of the Healthy Oakland Teens funding to pay school staff members, called “LGBTQ Liasons,” to oversee middle and high school GSA clubs and help create a school climate that “affirms” LGBT students. A July 2023 award letter shows an additional $50,000 of grant funding paid elementary school staff to run similar LGBT programs for younger students.

OUSD describes its GSA clubs, which are student-led under the supervision of an adult staff member, as a place where students who identify as “LGBTQ+, Non-Binary, or as an ally” can meet weekly to “do activism.”

It’s unclear how funding school GSA clubs prevents HIV and STDs. The OUSD did not respond to requests for comment.

A slide describing GSA clubs from an Oakland Unified School District resource about gender identity and expression.

Across the county, GSA clubs serve as a student hub of gender ideology and queer activism.

OUSD’s 2018 application for the HIV and STD prevention grant lists decreasing LGBT bullying as a primary goal. Of the thousands the district carved out for LGBT programming, $20,000 went to hire an LGBT consultant to “help OUSD host its annual GSA day for all middle and high schools” and develop “materials and training to help teachers create welcoming classrooms for LGBTQ students.” More than $10,000 of grant funding was earmarked to cover the costs of GSA day, a full-day event with “workshops, student-led advocacy, and celebration” for LGBTQ students, according to the grant application.

From 2018 to 2023, OUSD received more than $3 million as part of the “Healthy Oakland Teens: Promoting Adolescent Sexual Health in Full Service Community Schools” grant from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) grant database.

HHS and CDC didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Pages from the Oakland Unified School District gender support plan document used by school staff, which was obtained by the DCNF through a public records request.

‘Choose A More Accepting Family Member’

Through a public record request the DCNF obtained OUSD’s “gender support plan,” a document outlining how staff can “support” a student’s new gender identity by socially transitioning them to another sex at school, without notifying their parents.

The document directs staff to ask students to rate their parents’ support and list “go to adults” on campus they can contact. The gender support plan also recommends students be connected to their school GSA club and “LGBTQ Liason.”

Students are asked to list the name and pronouns they’d like to be called at school and which they’d like staff to use when contacting their parents or guardians. A disclaimer at the top of the form states that if parents do not affirm their child’s chosen identity, in order to “maintain privacy” the gender support plan should not be placed in the student’s file.

OUSD’s “behavioral health unit” offers a resource for “transgender” and “questioning students” which recommends students seek out “accepting adults” at school, particularly if their family is not supportive of their new identity.

“Get a sense of how your family feels about LGBTQNB people. Choose a more accepting family member to connect with first,” states the OUSD resource.

“If you think you won’t be safe if you tell your family, it is best to wait. Find accepting adults at schools and family members who are the most accepting to start with.”

Genders & Sexualities Alliance

The Gay-Straight Alliance Network, which originated in San Francisco in 1998 to provide peer support for gay teenagers, changed its name in 2016 to Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network as part of an effort to move beyond “the limits of a binary gender system,” according to its website. The organization, which includes more than 4,000 GSA clubs and 40 statewide organizations, now has a focus on mobilizing students for queer activism.

“GSAs have evolved beyond their traditional role to serve as safe spaces for LGBTQ+ youth in middle schools and high schools,” states the GSA Network website.

“GSA Network is a next-generation LGBTQ racial and gender justice organization that empowers and trains queer, trans and allied youth leaders to advocate, organize, and mobilize an intersectional movement for safer schools and healthier communities,” its website states.

The GSA Network did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

The GSA Network advisor handbook, a guidebook for GSA advisors, tells adult leaders to anticipate “possible resistance” from parents and to “be discreet” when contacting students noting “it might not be safe” to use the term “GSA Club.”

“When calling youth, it may not be safe to mention ‘GSA club’ or another trans or queer reference. Alternatively, club leaders can say they are from a student leadership program at (insert school name),” the GSA advisor handbook states.

The GSA clubs have not gone unnoticed among parents.

Erin Lee, executive director of Protect Kids Colorado, told the DCNF a teacher invited her middle school daughter to a GSA club disguised as an after-school art club, where she was taught about puberty blockers, transgenderism and LGBTQ identities, without parental consent.

“My child was lured into a confidential GSA club disguised as an Art Club in her 6th grade classroom. She was deceived by her ‘trusted adult’ teacher about what the club entailed, and parents were completely kept in the dark about what the club really was,” Lee said. “We were not prepared in any way for our little girl to be attending a secret gender and sexuality club.”

“They talked about sexual attraction, how being uncomfortable in your body actually means you are ‘trans,’ puberty blockers, polyamory, unsupportive parents, and suicide,” Lee told the DCNF.

After attending the GSA meeting, Lee’s daughter began identifying as transgender and wanted to transition to another sex. Her involvement with the GSA club “led to a months-long emotional decline of gender and sexuality confusion that required counseling and included suicidal thoughts,” according to a lawsuit the Lee’s filed against the Poudre School District, where her daughter attended school, in March 2023.

“They planted seeds of distrust towards parents; they manipulated her feelings; they violated her innocence; they lied to her. And they lied to us. They tried to keep it all a secret and persuade her to keep the secret, too,” Lee told the DCNF.

The district told the DCNF the lawsuit filed by the Lees was dismissed in a federal district court, and that decision was affirmed by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

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BREAKING! Pornography Companies SUED for Allowing a Minor Access to the Sites

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As a mother, Jane Doe was fully aware of the online dangers that children face. So, she did everything she possibly could to monitor and safeguard her 14-year-old son’s devices. She was vigilant.

But her son found an old laptop in the closet. And through that, he was able to access hardcore pornography. 

Jane Doe’s son spent countless hours on the pornographic websites Chaturbate.com, Jerkmate.com, Superporn.com, and Titan Websites. His viewing became more and more compulsive. Until finally, terrified at how badly he’d spiralled out of control, he confessed everything to his mother.

At first glance, this story may seem commonplace. Sadly, children are exposed to pornographic websites all the time, even when their parents take precautions to prevent it.

But here’s the kicker: This mother and son lived in Kansas. And the state had already passed a law requiring pornography websites block access to children by verifying the age of users. 

The pornography websites that harmed this 14-year-old boy were violating the law.

First U.S. Lawsuits Suing Pornography Websites for Violating Age Verification Laws

The NCOSE Law Center is now representing this boy in lawsuits against the pornography websites that illegally exposed him to harm. These are the first lawsuits in the United States that seek to hold pornography websites accountable for violating age verification laws!

In 2024, Kansas passed a law requiring that websites which contain “content that is harmful to minors” use age verification technology to block access to children. The law was specifically passed with pornography in mind, responding to a prior resolution adopting the Kansas Senate which stated, “pornography is a public health hazard that leads to a broad spectrum of individual and public health impacts and societal harms.”

Yet in spite of all this, the pornography websites that the boy accessed employed no meaningful age verification technology, allowing children to freely access their content.

To add insult to injury, the pornographic sites geolocated the boy and served him ads encouraging him to meet people in his area—a shocking risk for child molestation and sex trafficking! Such “meetup” sites are one of the biggest advertisers on pornography sites.

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For example, longitudinal research shows that adolescents who intentionally viewed violent pornography were nearly 6x more likely to become sexually aggressive later on in life.

Many studies, including longitudinal research, have linked pornography consumption to the development of sexual dysfunctions.

Adolescent pornography consumption has also been associated with poor mental health outcomes, including poor self-image, increased insecurity, lower life satisfaction, psychosomatic symptoms, depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts.

Pornography does not depict safe sex practices and research has found that adolescent pornography consumption is associated with having unprotected sex, among other risky sexual behaviors.

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Trump Suggests Biden Diagnosis Could Be Part Of Bigger Conspiracy

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President Donald Trump suggested on Monday that there may be a larger conspiracy at work following former President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis. 

Trump addressed Biden’s stage four prostate cancer diagnosis while in the Oval Office, calling the situation “very sad.” The president added that people should look into how Biden’s cancer developed into a dangerous situation with no earlier detection.

“If it’s the same doctor who said there was nothing wrong there, that’s being proven to be a sad situation,” Trump told reporters. “In other words, there are things going on that the public wasn’t informed. And I think somebody is going to have to speak to his doctor, if it’s the same or even if it’s two separate doctors. Why wasn’t the cognitive ability — why wasn’t that discussed? I think the doctors said he’s just fine, and it’s turned out that’s not so. It’s very dangerous. Look, this is no longer politically correct. This is dangerous for our country.”

Biden’s team announced Sunday that the former president had been diagnosed with an “aggressive” cancer, which has spread to his bones. Since, many doctors have come forward to express concern about how the cancer was caught so late.

Doctors and cancer experts told the Daily Caller that Biden likely had cancer while he was in the White House. Such a type of cancer, the metastasization from prostate cancer spreading to the bones, typically takes at least five years, experts told the Caller.

“It’s not credible that we are hearing of his metastatic disease for the first time because he was having difficulty urinating and they found it. That just doesn’t track,” Dr. Steven Quay, a physician, scientist and member of the American Association for Cancer Research, told the Caller.

Trump raised similar concerns in the Oval Office on Monday.

“The other thing is, you have to say, why did it take so long when you — this takes a long time. It can take years to get to this level of danger. So it’s a — look, it’s a very, very sad situation, and I feel very badly about it, and I think people should try and find out what happened,” Trump said.

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South African Orphanage Denied Food Because Children Are White

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The video on this issue was censored in South Africa. Of course.

WATCH: Censored in South Africa: Orphanage denied food because orphans are white

Thank you Hellequin GB.

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