A bill to ban the administration of so-called “gender-affirming care” to minors has been defeated in the Republican-majority Louisiana Senate, after a Republican state senator with a history of dressing in drag voted against it.
State Senator Fred Mills killed House Bill 648, which would have prohibited “certain procedures to alter the sex of a minor child”, in the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, where Republicans had a majority of one, by siding with the Democrats.
Since the vote, Mills’s history of repeatedly using drag to sell a pharmacy’s products and services – including school uniforms – has emerged, leading some to question his motives in voting down the bill.
“I always in my heart of hearts have believed that a decision should be made by a patient and a physician,” Mills argued in comments quoted by The Hill.
The evidence on which physicians justify transitioning children is currently very thin, however, with major, mainstream reviews in both Norway and Sweden recently recommending that “gender-affirming care” for minors be regarded as “experimental” due to the lack of research on its potentially devastating long-term consequences.
“Gender-affirming care” for minors would not be the first medical procedure to receive the stamp of physician approval before turning out to be medically inadvisable, with lobotomies to treat depression and birth defect-inducing thalidomide to treat morning sickness once common treatments, for example.
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A bill to ban the administration of so-called "gender-affirming care" to minors has been defeated in the Republican-majority Louisiana Senate, after a Republican state senator with a history of dressing in drag voted against it.
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Leaked audio has emerged from the DeSantis donor strategy meeting in Miami on Thursday. In the clip you can hear below, DeSantis strategists tell high dollar donors making calls for the campaign that:
DeSantis’s position is keeping abortion decisions at a state level (following Trump’s position);
That the Governor will shift to the middle during a general election;
During the session, the hosts – including DeSantis pollster Ryan Tyson amongst others – can be heard lauding this a “major step forward for the Republican Party in moving to the middle [on abortion].”
There are a number of times throughout the leaked audio that DeSantis’s strategists can be heard telling wealthy donors: “You have to win a primary before you win a general,” – which is political campaign speak for “we’ll move to the middle after we win the nomination.”
In response, DeSantis supporters originally denied the existence of the audio, then claimed it never provided the quotes that can be heard in full, below. Eventually, their claim came to rest on a straw man argument: that Ryan Tyson didn’t make the comments, but that an unnamed donor in the room did. Mr. Tyson was not directly quoted as the source of all the comments in the audio in the first instance.
The full audio can be heard below. The parts on abortion begin at 27 minutes in, and run until 39 minutes in.
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Leaked audio has emerged from the DeSantis donor strategy meeting in Miami on Thursday. In the clip you can hear below, DeSantis strategists tell high dollar donors making calls for the campaign that:
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Uniparty “Republicans” in Texas have moved through and expedited a legally spurious attempt to impeach the state’s ‘America First’ Attorney General, Ken Paxton, tomorrow. But the so-called “house investigators” who have presented their flimsy case against Paxton are almost all Democrats. The move is eerily similar to when President Donald Trump was investigated by “investigator” Dan Goldman, who dropped all pretenses of legal rectitude after the matter, and now sits as a Democrat Congressman.
In this case, the impeachment proceedings are effectively led by Democrat Ann Johnson, with “Republicans In Name Only” (RINOs) colleagues on the opposite side of the house aiding her effort.
Johnson’s squad boasts five criminal attorneys. Three of the five were fired by their own District Attorneys offices. Three of the five voted Democrat in recent elections.
Erin Epley, the lead counsel, formally left the Republican Party and has voted as a Democrat since 2020. The majority of her political donations have gone to Democrats, with one donation of $50 to a Republican District Court candidate in 2018. She even posted an image of the late, left-wing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s infamous collar on her Facebook profile in 2022.
Donna Cameron, another investigator, was removed from her position by Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos. Voting records indication she cast a ballot in the Democrat primary in 2020.
Terese Buess, another investigator who was removed from her position by Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg, has also voted as a Democrat.
Mark Donnelly was also fired by Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos in 2009, branded “negligent” and “incompetent” on his way out. Donnelly voted in the 2012 Republican primary, as well as in 2022. “While a federal prosecutor, Donnelly worked with U.S. Department of Justice leaders and routinely handled cases jointly with DOJ prosecutors in Washington, D.C.,” says Law360.
Brian A. Benken is the only one of the five who appears to have any real right-leaning sympathies, having donated $221 to Donald Trump in April 2020. Described as “low-key and likeable,” Benken appears to be the only investigator not rocked by his own firings or scandals.
Despite the litany of bias, corporate media sources continue to describe the impeachment as “bipartisan.” Amongst far more, Paxton said in a statement Friday: “The vote is expected to take place Saturday at 1pm. I invite my fellow citizens to peacefully come let their voices be heard at the Capitol tomorrow. Exercise your right to petition your government. Let’s restore the power of our great state to the people.”
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Uniparty "Republicans" in Texas have moved through and expedited a legally spurious attempt to impeach the state's 'America First' Attorney General, Ken Paxton, tomorrow. But the so-called "house investigators" who have presented their flimsy case against Paxton are almost all Democrats. The move is eerily similar to when President Donald Trump was investigated by "investigator" Dan Goldman, who dropped all pretenses of legal rectitude after the matter, and now sits as a Democrat Congressman.
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Donald Trump’s presidential announcement at Mar-a-Lago last November was viewed by around 4.5 times the number of people as that of Governor Ron DeSantis’s on Twitter this week, according to the data.
DeSantis said his glitch-ridden Twitter Space, or a recording of it, had been watched by “probably over 10 million people”. There’s no evidence of this. In fact, the Space managed only just over 300,000 concurrent listeners, with Twitter showing a currently tally of 3.9 million people tuning in.
Trump’s announcement, despite many news networks not carrying it in full, interspersing it with adverts, or not carrying it at all, achieved millions more concurrent viewers. Fox News alone pulled in over 5.16 million people in the time slot, with CNN piling on 2.43 million more.
The number of people who tuned in after the fact is harder to determine, but some indication of the level of interest in Trump’s annoucement can be determined from looking at the numbers for networks which streamed Trump’s announcement on YouTube: Fox News pulled in 1.2m views, Fox Business another 826,000, and CNBC 612,000, for example.
Video of the full speech uploaded to the site by CNN adds 660,800 viewers, ABC Action News another 923,000, with hundreds of thousands more spread out across channels for relatively obscure broadcasters, with uploads of the speech by the likes of Fox 2 Detroit, for example, boasting 117,000 views. Video streaming platform Rumble showed a further 2.05 million views on the official account of Donald J. Trump alone, while the Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) announced that it hit more than 3.8 million viewers for the speech.
Trump again demonstrated this “ratings gold” again in April 2023, with a major speech following his indictment in New York being viewed by 6.6 million viewers on Fox alone, with another 2.125 million watching on CNN – “far higher than the network ha[d] seen in prime time in months,” Forbes observed.
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Donald Trump's presidential announcement at Mar-a-Lago last November was viewed by around 4.5 times the number of people as that of Governor Ron DeSantis's on Twitter this week, according to the data.
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Sordid details about the “booze-fueled” life of American Conservative Union (ACU) Chairman and Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) honcho Matt Schlapp have come to light in a new book that the long-time Republican lobbyist co-operated for.
In The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind, author Ben Terris spent time with Schlapp and his network, discovering details of the private life of one of the most prominent conservatives in the United States. Moreover, Terris reveals that Matt Schlapp and his wife Mercedes almost ditched their support for President Donald Trump due to his hardline stance on immigration (Mercedes is of Cuban origin) and the Access Hollywood tapes.
In one strange tale, Schlapp is said to have been cut off from his alcohol by his own young daughter, after he threatened to break into Disney World and “raid the Magic Kingdom”.
The details have been published in the Daily Mail, and come just one day after The National Pulse exclusively revealed the resignation of one of Schlapp’s closest allies Bob Beauprez. The former Congressman and ACU treasurer said there is a “cancer” at the heart of the organization and pointed to alleged financial mismanagement, as well as a recent massive staff exodus from the group.
One close associate, Ross Hemminger, told the book author that Schlapp is “conflicted” over the subject of homosexuality.
“You think he picks a gay vice president?” Matt said to colleagues of Senator Tim Scott, who is unmarried and childless, but never come out as gay. “You think that’s going to work out great? I’m okay with it, if you’re okay with it?”
Schlapp recently said transgender athlete Lia Thomas “deserves our compassion” and referred to the “trans woman” as a “she/her”.
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Sordid details about the "booze-fueled" life of American Conservative Union (ACU) Chairman and Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) honcho Matt Schlapp have come to light in a new book that the long-time Republican lobbyist co-operated for.
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British Cycling, the national governing body for cycling in Great Britain, has instituted a ban on “trans women” (biological men) competing against natural-born women, abolishing the Men’s category in favor of an ‘Open’ category so that they and people who claim to be “non-binary” can compete there instead.
“Transgender women, transgender men, non-binary individuals and those whose sex was assigned male at birth will be eligible to compete in the ‘Open’ category,” the sporting body explained in the announcement for its new policy, adding that natural women will also be able to compete in this category “if they so wish.”
The “Female” category, on the other hand, will be exclusively “for those whose sex was assigned female at birth,” i.e. natural women, and “transgender men who are yet to begin hormone therapy,” i.e biological females who believe themselves to be men but have not begun taking testosterone.
The policy will pose challenges for transgenderism advocates who have argued that biological males have no advantage over biological women in sports, given competition between the sexes will be the norm in the ‘Open’ category.
It also poses challenges to the likes of Rachel McKinnon, a “trans woman” who previously accused female cyclists of “poor sportsmanship” after beating them for world championships.
McKinnon and his allies have long argued “trans women” should not be stopped from competing because “sport is a human right” – but the new British Cycling policy does not deprive him of his right to compete, only of his right to compete in a females-only category.
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British Cycling, the national governing body for cycling in Great Britain, has instituted a ban on "trans women" (biological men) competing against natural-born women, abolishing the Men's category in favor of an 'Open' category so that they and people who claim to be "non-binary" can compete there instead.
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First Lady Jill Biden suffered embarrassment at the Reagan Institute Summit on Education when an “applause line” fell flat, resulting in her actively requesting that her audience clap.
JILL BIDEN: "I've found that the common values that unite us are deeper than our divisions!"
“I’ve visited red states and blue states and I’ve found that the common values that unite us are deeper than our divisions,” said the 71-year-old at the event, pausing and clasping her hands together in expectation of applause but being met by silence.
“And, um – I thought you might clap for that,” Jill Biden added awkwardly, prompting laughter and a short burst of dutiful applause.
Such classic lines about Americans being more similar than different may be failing to resonate in the post-2016 era, with Democrats and liberals, in particular, appearing to be more intolerant of people who do not share their views.
AEI has found that while over half of Republicans have Democrat friends, less than a third of Democrats say they have Republican friends, for example, and Democrats are also roughly three times more likely than Republicans to “unfriend” people on social media for not sharing their politics.
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First Lady Jill Biden suffered embarrassment at the Reagan Institute Summit on Education when an "applause line" fell flat, resulting in her actively requesting that her audience clap.
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Taxpayer-funded, state officials working for Governor Ron DeSantis have been soliciting presidential campaign donations from lobbyists who have business in front of the Governor’s office, according to the Republican lobbyists themselves.
“What the f— am I supposed to do?” one lobbyist told NBC, “I have a lot of business in front of the DeSantis administration.”
The shakedowns come at a time when the Governor still has to act on the state budget, and lobbyists are scrambling to obtain their provisions, carve-outs, and budgeted items.
Campaign fundraising is also typically a job for political staffers, not state employees. But at least four state employees have been sending lobbyists messages asking them to pitch in to DeSantis’s presidential fund “through a specific link that appeared to track who is giving”.
The solicitations raise legal questions, and will depend on such factors as “whether they were sent on state-owned phones, or if they were sent on state property.”
Ron DeSantis launched his presidential campaign this week after months of denial, and having been re-elected by Florida voters just 5 months prior. While out of state, he will be deputized by Lt. Gov Jeanette Nunez, who has referred to Donald Trump as a “KKK” supporter, and a “con-man”.
“The bottom line is that the administration appears to be keeping tabs on who is giving, and are doing it using state staff,” one local lobbyist explained.
“You are in a prisoner’s dilemma. They are going to remain in power. We all understand that,” they added, suggesting there are fears of repercussions against lobbyists who do not contribute.
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Taxpayer-funded, state officials working for Governor Ron DeSantis have been soliciting presidential campaign donations from lobbyists who have business in front of the Governor's office, according to the Republican lobbyists themselves.
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British lawmakers say a new pandemic treaty will give the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) the power to impose lockdowns on signatories, despite corporate media claims to the contrary.
The Associated Press has suggested that “while the treaty, if ratified, would be considered a legally-binding document, there [would be] effectively no legal consequences for signatories who fail to adhere to it or violate its terms”.
But British Members of Parliament warn the pandemic treaty powers can’t be so easily ignored, with signatories obliged to submit to “WHO’s recommendations in their international public health response” by, for example, closing down borders, imposing vaccine passports on citizens, and enforcing quarantine requirements on them.
A letter from UK lawmakers discusses the WHO’s “ambition” in transitioning “from an advisory organization to a controlling international authority” like the European Union. Esther McVey MP told the Telegraph the plans “represent a significant shift for the organization, from a member-led advisory body to a health authority with powers of compulsion.”
“This is particularly worrying when you consider the WHO’s poor track record on providing consistent, clear and scientifically sound advice for managing international disease outbreaks,” she added.
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British lawmakers say a new pandemic treaty will give the United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) the power to impose lockdowns on signatories, despite corporate media claims to the contrary.
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Washington D.C. witnessed four shootings in a single night on April 21st, including one involving a 12-year-old girl. It was an evening emblematic of how gun violence continues soar in the city, despite it being a “gun free” zone that spends millions on “social justice.”
Gun violence in the nation’s capital has “increased significantly” over the past five years, with a 40 percent rise in offenses involving a gun since 2017. In 2017, there were 1573 violent offenses involving a firearm, whereas, in 2022, there were 2,203, according to Axios D.C.
The city’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) seized 3,152 guns in 2022 – over 800 more than in 2021 – 127 of which were modified to feature a fully automatic switch.
In general, D.C. has seen skyrocketing criminality in recent years, with back-to-back years with more than 200 murders between 2021 – 2022 for the first time since 2002 – 2003. There were more than 200 in 2022, 226 in 2021, and even 198 in 2020.
As of May 3, there has been a 26 percent increase in all crime this year compared to 2022, according to the MPD’s own statistics. These offenses include, homicide, sexual abuse, robbery, motor vehicle theft, carjackings, and arson.
The outgoing MPD Chief, Robert Contee, told CBS, “[t]here are a lot more guns are in communities now, a lot more guns than what we experienced over the course of my time here in the police department.”
Contee added that violent crime is often linked to illegal firearms – a growing problem as a result of the city’s stringent firearm policies.
Indeed, the Washington D.C. city council has enacted some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country. Washington D.C. requires all guns to be registered, there to have been a universal background check, gun owner licensing, handgun dealer licensing, extreme risk protection orders, assault weapon restrictions, large capacity magazine bans, waiting periods, child access prevention laws, open carry regulations, and strong concealed carry laws. In other words, guns are almost impossible to own in the city.
At the end of April, the Mayor of Washington D.C., Muriel Bowser, who was quoted as having “anxiety” about the growing D.C. criminality, announced a new “focused and community-centered” strategy that will help reduce the city’s crime rate.
The strategy shall include, increasing the visibility of police patrols, better use of personnel (greater unit availability), no “displacement” of crime, a “diffusion” of benefits, and providing a varied experience throughout the city.
MPD Chief Contee, however, argues that the real problem is the lack of police staff. “Whether it’s D.C., New York, L.A., Detroit, Chicago, it doesn’t matter,” says Contee, “everybody is having this struggle when it comes to recruiting and retaining police officers.”
In other words: the left’s demonization of cops over the past decade has directly led to more death and suffering.
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Washington D.C. witnessed four shootings in a single night on April 21st, including one involving a 12-year-old girl. It was an evening emblematic of how gun violence continues soar in the city, despite it being a "gun free" zone that spends millions on "social justice."
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