LA Sheriffs Raid Pride Parade for Outstanding Warrants

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LA Sheriffs Raid Pride Parade for Outstanding Warrants

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department fulfilled several outstanding warrants at a Pride parade in West Hollywood, drawing the ire of gay activists throughout the country.

The West Hollywood police arrested both Hunter Lee Darling—also known as Zodiac Rose—24, and Abby Nicole Thomas, 28.

 

According to the Post Millennial, police charged Darling with robbery, vandalism and battery for stealing and crushing the cell phone of a man protesting a Drag Queen Story hour event at West Hollywood Library.

Thomas interfered with Darling’s arrest; police subsequently cuffed her as well.

Darling and Thomas insisted the cop’s rampant homophobia was to blame for their arrest.

“The Sheriffs were making fun of [their] booth and the volunteers responded ‘this is why we don’t like cops at pride,” said Twitter user Jordan Davis. “The sheriffs then attacked them and are filing bogus charges.”

Davis also claimed the officers “brutalized” the suspects.

Activists started crowdfunding for Darling’s $100,000 bail not long after his arrest.

Darling also allegedly attended a “Pride Assembly” protest at Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood that turned violent.

The Glendale Unified School District Parents’ Voices group gathered outside of the school to protest LGBT additions to the curriculum.

Fighting broke out between the parents and the Antifa counter-protestors, forcing police to intervene.

Video footage of the event showed an unknown gay activist going after a parent with a bat.

Parents across the country have fought invasive gender ideology into schools, protesting at school-board meetings and raising the alarm about inappropriate content given to young kids.

NBA Player Launches Anti-Woke Clothing Line

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NBA Player Launches Anti-Woke Clothing Line

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) NBA star Jonathan Isaac recently announced the launch of his anti-woke athletic apparel line, called UNITUS.

According to Breitbart, Issac initially became a point of controversy after he refused to kneel for the national anthem.

Once again, he has decided to use his freedoms to “create an alternative” to corporations that actively have aligned themselves with the extreme Left

“You have companies that are in that field who have made a conscious decision to either attack or undermine Christian values, conservative values, and things like that,” Isaac said. “And I think they have the free choice to do so, as much as I disagree, but I feel that we also have the freedom to create what we want to create.”

Isaac announced the launching of the brand in an interview with Prager U’s Amala Ekpunobi for the documentary Unwoke Inc.

“UNITUS is a sports and apparel company, and the basis of it for me is freedom,” Issac explained. “We can be proud of what we believe in. We don’t have to hide or be ashamed of it.”

Isaac, a forward for the Orlando Magic, cited his Christian faith as his reason for rejecting the Black Lives Matter movement and the NBA’s wholehearted embrace of the ideology.

Some of the clothing in the interview announcement even featured Christian symbolism.

Twitter users responded to the announcement with overwhelming gratitude and excitement.

“We need more young conservatives who are not afraid to stand up for what they believe,” said one user. “I’m happy to support Jonathan Isaac and anyone who stands up for truth and honor.”

Several users promised they would shop at the new store come August, when the inaugural line is scheduled for release.

The short documentary also featured Vivek Ramaswamy, author of Woke, Inc. and current presidential candidate; Jeremy Boreing, Daily Wire co-founder and founder of Jeremy’s Razors; Amanda Ensing of Elevate Beauty; and Michael Farris, founder of Patrick Henry College.

The documentary encouraged its viewers to “make a cultural impact by providing non-work alternatives in academia, culture and business.”

Is China Digging a Hole to America?

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Is China Digging a Hole to America?

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Recent video footage from China showed that the eastern nation started to drill a large hole in the Xinjiang region.

According to Breitbart, the hole is 33,000 feet deep and is part of an alleged “research project.”

President Xi Jinping launched the project in 2021 as part of an earth exploration initiative based in the country’s Tarim Basin.

The basin covers an estimated 350,000 square miles. Four different mountain ranges surround the desert dig site: the Tien Shan to the north, Pamirs to the west, Kunlun to the south, and Altun to the east.

Sun Jinsheng, a scientist at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, reported that the drillers delved through more than 10 layers of rock—about 6 miles into the earth.

“Drilling the borehole has two purposes: for scientific exploration and for finding oil and gas,” said Lyu Xiaogang, an official for PetroChina.

“Through drilling this borehole we will strengthen PetroChina’s technology reserve for ultra-deep drilling and build more ultra-deep drilling equipment,” Lyu added.

Twitter users presented several alternative theories:

“Digging a hole to America?” one user asked. “Guess we’re not that different after all…”

“They’re trying to meet my dog halfway,” user Andrew suggested.

“These guys never watched Lord of the Rings,” another user said, referencing the dwarves who unleashed a monster, known as the Balrog, after digging too greedily in their mines.

Scientists expect the project to take about 457 days under the oversight of the China National Petroleum Corp.

The place where the dig started has been long regarded as a Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The 2022 human rights report from the U.S. State Department found that the Chinese government perpetrated “genocide and crimes against humanity” against the Uyghur population, along with other ethnic and religious minorities.

Some of the crimes included brutality in the government’s re-education camps, forced labor, intentional exposure to toxic substances, sexual abuse and torture.

The Chinese authorities claimed that the Uyghyrs were under mental distress and required “psychiatric care” in order to subject them to prison and torture.

Trump-Tagged Judge Gives Win to Drag Queens, Rules Anti-Groomer Law Unconstitutional

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Trump-Tagged Judge Gives Win to Drag Queens, Rules Anti-Groomer Law Unconstitutional

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) An activist LGBT theater troupe and leftist lawfare group won its challenge to topple a Tennessee state law that prevented drag queen shows from being used to groom children, when a federal judge ruled it was unconstitutional.

Calling the law “both unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad,” U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker, appointed by former President Donald Trump, ruled Friday that the Tennessee law gagged the free speech of drag queens acting as alleged performers.

Parker’s ruling was issued in the still-harrowing echoes of a mentally deranged, transgender mass shooter killing six, including three children, at Nashville’s Christian Covenant School in March.

The state’s legislation, which was passed in March and slated to take effect next month, criminalized “adult cabaret entertainment” taking place in public or in the presence of minors. The law defined so-called cabaret performances as those featuring “topless dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dancers, strippers, [and] male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest.” Violators would be subject to class A misdemeanor charges with fines up to $2,500 and up to one year in prison. Repeat offenses would see charges escalate to a class E felony.

Landon Starbuck, whose credentials include being “an advocate for children harmed by child sexualization and exploitation,” argued in favor of the law in March, according to court documents.

The “early sexualization and exposure to explicit adult entertainment harms children” because it grooms them into “accepting adult sexual behavior as normal, healthy, and even celebrated while it encourages them to simulate and participate in high-risk sexual behaviors,”  she said.

Starbuck shared with lawmakers an example of what she called “sexually charged entertainment” performed in front of children in shows marketed as “family friendly,” citing the “Boro Pride [that] recently happened in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.” During the event adult performers were “talking about their tits and rubbing their genitalia, grinding on the ground and spreading their legs in front of children.”

Those types of graphic “family-friendly” performances “normalizing the sexualization of children empowers child predators and increases the demand to exploit and sexually abuse children.”

In his ruling Friday, the Trump-appointed Parker wrote that “Tennessee has a compelling state interest in protecting the physical and psychological well-being of minors, but Defendant has not met his burden of proving that the AEA is both narrowly tailored and the least restrictive means to advance Tennessee’s interest.”

Parker ruled that the law was passed “for the impermissible purpose of chilling constitutionally-protected speech.”

Examples presented during trial of such “constitutionally-protected speech” from drag queen shows performed at venues open to all-ages included an act called “Paradise by the Dashboard Light,” that featured drag queens playing out the sexualized lyrics of the song “with each other behind a translucent curtain,” according to court records.

Other examples included a “skit from Drag Rocks involving Rod Stewart” that “involved a portrayal of sexual acts between two performers, one of whom was ‘wearing tight, tight black pants and he is . . . wearing a penis that is over exaggerated so the audience can see it’s there,’” court records informed.

“The second is a performance entitled ‘Bitch, You Stole My Purse,’ which is about a ‘lot lizard,’ and involved ‘blow jobs and possibly having sex as well as pooping in somebody’s purse,’” the court record continued.

“And the third is a skit entitled ‘Dick in a Box,’ which involved ‘two people presenting gift packages where their penises would be . . . penis is in a box, it’s got tissue around it. It’s really hard to see if it is [erect] or not.’” 

In ruling the state law unconstitutional, Parker wrote that its “‘harmful to minors’ standard applies to minors of all ages, so it fails to provide fair notice of what is prohibited, and it encourages discriminatory enforcement. The AEA is substantially overbroad because it applies to public property or ‘anywhere’ a minor could be present.”

State officials have indicated they intend to consider an appeal of the ruling.

GOP Fight Against DEI Gains Momentum Nationwide

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GOP Fight Against DEI Gains Momentum Nationwide

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The legislative fight against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in education is picking up steam nationwide.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced the Fairness in Higher Education Accreditation Act,  which would ban accreditation officials from considering an educational institution’s DEI or affirmative action policies when determining accreditation.

DEI departments have exploded at universities in recent years with a spike in new administrators who enforce liberal equity and racial policies at the educational institution. These programs usually embrace the idea of systemic racism, speak of the U.S. as a deeply racist nation, and push for the most aggressive side of the LGBTQ agenda.

In recent years, more and more federally recognized accreditation agencies have implemented DEI requirements for applicants, forcing schools to embrace progressive ideas on race and gender or risk losing their accreditation.

“Wokeness should not be mandatory,” Rubio said in a statement after introducing the bill, which the Florida senator argues “seeks to prevent a politicized Department of Education from further forcing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies into higher education.”

Practically, DEI enforcement manifests in various ways. In a fact sheet published by the Department of Education, the agency touts President Joe Biden’s emphasis on DEI and lays out several examples of potential DEI activities.

From the DOE:

  • diversity, equity, and inclusion training;
  • instruction in or training on the impact of racism or systemic racism;
  • ”cultural competency training or other nondiscrimination trainings;
  • efforts to assess or improve school climate, including through creation of student, staff, and/or parent teams, use of community focus groups, or use of climate surveys;
  • student assemblies or programs focused on antiharassment or antibullying;
  • investigations of, and issuance of reports concerning the causes of, racial disparities within a school; or
  • use of specific words in school policies, programs, or activities, such as equity, discrimination, inclusion, diversity, systemic racism, or similar terms

The federal agency goes out of its way to argue that these activities do not “create a hostile environment on the basis of race.

U.S. Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, are helping lead the effort to undo these federally backed requirements for accreditation.

“We need to make sure that no school is judged based on whether a DEI agenda is used,” Scott said.

Lee said the effort “safeguards against manipulating the accreditation process to advance ideological agendas.”

The Senate effort is the latest pushback against DEI. State lawmakers and governors have already begun taking on DEI policies, as The Center Square previously reported.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill last week that will end taxpayer funding for DEI programs at public colleges and universities.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court is taking on the affirmative action issue and may prohibit the policy. The high court is expected to issue a ruling in the coming weeks on the case, which considers the race-based admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Specifically, the ruling in this case could have a major impact on schools’ affirmative action policies and how they discriminate based on race, especially whether schools receiving federal funding can continue to do so.

Students for Fair Admissions, a nonprofit group boasting 20,000 members, filed the relevant lawsuit against Harvard and the University of North Carolina in 2014. The lawsuit alleges that the policies discriminate against white and Asian-American applicants. Both SFFA cases have been defeated in lower courts, but now the Supreme Court will have its ruling out imminently.

Rep. Greene Rips ‘Fed’ Neo-Nazi Protest in Small Texas Town

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Rep. Greene Rips ‘Fed’ Neo-Nazi Protest in Small Texas Town

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Republican and conservative leaders are taking a strong stand against a recent small gathering of neo-Nazis. Denouncing the event as a catalyst for division and expressing concerns about its authenticity, these leaders are calling for a closer examination of its origins.

Viral footage of the protest captures a small group of masked individuals brandishing confederate flags, engaging in racial slurs and vociferously chanting phrases associated with white power. The shocking nature of these actions has ignited widespread condemnation.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a conservative powerhouse, reacted to the rally, expressing a desire for a thorough investigation into the identities of those involved. She asserted her skepticism, suggesting that the group may be part of a larger operation orchestrated by external forces, namely the federal government.

Taylor Greene further added, “This group, just like the Patriot Front group that marches in DC, looks like a fed operation trying to create racism, white supremacy, and racial division where none exist. Take your masks off you cowards. 

A concerned resident of Centerville, named Kenneth, expressed his dismay over the rally, underscoring the peaceful coexisting between black and white families in the community. 

“These are people that don’t know nothing about this community or this area,” Kenneth said. 

“They’re over there yelling, ‘white power.’ In this community, within 30 miles, any direction you go, there are more African American cowboys and families than any white families. We all coexist. We all get along,” Kenneth added.

Greene championed Kenneth’s sentiments, stating, “This man speaks on behalf of everyone I know and most Americans. The federal government or whoever is funding this group and others need to be exposed and it needs to stop.”

Harvard Accused of Hosting Racist Program: ‘No Whites Allowed’

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Harvard Accused of Hosting Racist Program: ‘No Whites Allowed’

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Harvard University is facing criticism for its support and involvement in a music business program that has been accused of engaging in racial discrimination, according to a civil rights complaint.

The complaint, filed by the medical watchdog group Do No Harm, alleges that Harvard University, in partnership with the No Label Academy, excludes participants based on their race.

The Daily Caller News Foundation reported on Saturday that the 10-day program, held at Harvard, is explicitly open only to individuals who identify as “BIPOC” (black, indigenous, people of color) and are interested in the music business.

“In violation of Title VI, this program discriminates on the basis of skin color by operating exclusively for BIPOC individuals only and illegally excluding and discriminating against non-BIPOC individuals on the basis of their race, color, or national origin,” the complaint alleges.

The complaint, which is led led by Do No Harm Senior Fellow Mark Perry, also added, “Several recent news reports document the University’s support, connection and partnership with a program that will be racially segregated and be hosted by the University on its campus in the fall.”

Perry slammed Harvard University for hosting the racist program, saying on a Saturday tweet that “Harvard’s BIPOC-only, no whites allowed program is just as illegal, offensive, and objectionable as a whites-only program.”

Perry has called for an investigation into what he deems “illegal racial discrimination” and has submitted the complaint to the Boston Office for Civil Rights.

The complaint further highlights recent news reports documenting Harvard University’s support, connection and partnership with a program that promotes racial segregation and will be hosted on the university’s campus in the fall.

This incident is part of a larger debate on race-based admissions policies at universities. Several institutions, including Harvard, have faced scrutiny over their practices. Last month, America First Legal (AFL) filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to enforce federal anti-discrimination laws and prohibit race-based admissions that receive federal funds.

AFL President Stephen Miller argues that these race-based policies, inspired by “insidious, woke” quotas “keep qualified applicants” from gaining admission to schools.

Shocking Suspension Delivers Major Blow to Bragg’s Case Against Trump

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Shocking Suspension Delivers Major Blow to Bragg’s Case Against Trump

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, under Soros-backed Alvin Bragg, has suspended a top detective involved in the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump due to conflicting contacts with Michael Cohen, Trump’s disgraced former lawyer who made hush payments to Stormy Daniels.

Jeremy Rosenberg, known as an investigator of financial crimes associated with the Soros-backed DA, had his gun taken away while an internal review examines his connections to Cohen, according to law enforcement officials who spoke to the New York Post on Saturday.

“The office is conducting a review of an investigator’s compliance with internal office protocols,” a spokeswoman for Bragg told the Post.

The exact nature and extent of the interactions between Rosenberg and Cohen are unclear. However, Cohen’s attorney, Lanny J. Davis, rushed to defend the potentially unethical ties, claiming, “The interactions between Mr. Rosenberg, Michael Cohen, and myself were always professional and focused on Mr. Cohen’s personal security, which we appreciated.”

Trump took to Truth Social to celebrate Rosenberg’s suspension. He cited legal experts who warn that the DA’s office could be forced to drop the case immediately.

The former president and leading candidate for the GOP primary in the 2024 presidential election, also torched Mark Pomerantz, a former attorney with ties to the Clinton administration who had been working for Bragg but resigned in protest due to the initial reluctance of the DA’s office to charge Trump.

Pomerantz, along with radical far-left activists, pressured Bragg to file weak charges against the former president’s alleged criminal hush payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. Bragg is accusing Trump of falsifying business records, an act the DA’s office considers a felony. But even some of Trump’s biggest critics warned that this case lacks merit.

Although Trump suggested that the case might be dropped, the Post did not clarify whether the suspension of Rosenberg could impact the high-profile and unprecedented partisan prosecution of a former U.S. president.

Nevertheless, former Manhattan prosecutor Mark Bederow told the Post that the ties to Cohen could benefit Trump’s defense team.

“It might not affect the case, but certainly from a defense standpoint they would want to know what’s the nature of their relationship,” said Bederow. “What did they talk about and did this detective investigator have anything that fits the form of a disclosure to the defense.”

‘What is a Woman?’ Doc Exceeds 150M Views on Twitter

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‘What is a Woman?’ Doc Exceeds 150M Views on Twitter

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Despite the initial censorship issues on Twitter, the “What Is A Woman?” documentary created by one of the Daily Wire‘s podcast hosts Matt Walsh exceeded 150 million views on the platform as of this Sunday afternoon.

The Daily Wire’s “movie they [the pro-“transgender” activists] really don’t want you to see” will be available on Twitter for the rest of this weekend.

According to the Post Millennial, the outlet initially planned to release the film for free only on June 1 but later decided to prolong the free watch time.

“We want everyone to have a chance to watch it for free!” the Daily Wire said.

Previously, the Daily Wire documentary was censored on Twitter. On June 1, the Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing said that Twitter had canceled a deal both companies struck to promote the film on the platform.

“Twitter canceled a deal with [the Daily Wire] to premiere What is a Woman? for free on the platform because of two instances of ‘misgendering,'” Boreing wrote.

Boreing then stated that Twitter claimed that the company censored the film because of their “freedom of speech not reach” policy. Twitter owner Elon Musk responded within a few hours.

“This was a mistake by many people at Twitter. It is definitely allowed.”

The restrictions to sharing the video, however, were still limited, which led to people doubting whether Musk’s previous claim about Twitter becoming a free speech platform were sincere or not. It eventually became clear that Musk actually believes that Twitter is a free-speech platform by sharing the film himself.

“Every parent should watch this,” he wrote in his tweet.

“Consenting adults should do whatever makes them happy, provided it does not harm others, but a child is not capable of consent, which is why we have laws protecting minors,” he added later.

YouTube Now Allows People to Talk about the 2020 Election

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YouTube Now Allows People to Talk about the 2020 Election

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) YouTube made a decision to stop removing content on its platform that says that the 2020 election and other U.S. elections were stolen from the Republicans, which will likely have consequences for the 2024 presidential election.

YouTube’s policy reversal comes as the 2024 presidential primaries heat up. According to the Daily Wire, Donald Trump, who leads Republican primary polling, continues to bring back the results of the 2020 election by saying that the election was stolen from him due to widespread voter fraud, which resulted in Joe Biden being able to step into the Oval Office.

“Two years, tens of thousands of video removals, and one election cycle later, we recognized it was time to reevaluate the effects of this policy in today’s changed landscape,” YouTube stated.

“With that in mind, and with 2024 campaigns well underway, we will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections.”

The Big Tech platform said that it “carefully deliberated” before making the surprising change to its policy, but did not provide specific details on what exactly caused one of the biggest censors for Democrats to reverse course. The new policy took effect on Friday.

This March, YouTube also allowed Trump to go back to the platform after he was banned from it following Jan. 6, 2021, riot on Capitol Hill.

On that day, Trump encouraged lawmakers and his then-vice president, Mike Pence, to refuse the certification of the 2020 election. Additionally, Trump recorded and posted a video on YouTube, in which he told protesters to go home and be peaceful. YouTube took down the video, as a way to suppress Trump and portray him as someone who would support breaking into the Capitol.

However, YouTube, which was bought by Google in 2006, will continue stifling content that it would consider “election misinformation,” which includes “aiming to mislead voters about the time, place, means or eligibility requirements for voting; false claims that could materially discourage voting, including those disputing the validity of voting by mail; and content that encourages others to interfere with democratic processes.”

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