Pornhub Blocks Entire State of Utah to Protest Age-Verification Law

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Pornhub Blocks Entire State of Utah to Protest Age-Verification Law

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The adult site known as Pornhub has blocked citizens of Utah from viewing the site due to a new law enacting stricter age-verification processes.

Users reported the block initially on Monday morning when they found a 403 warning about the now-forbidden site.

According to Fox 13 Now, the company later updated the site with a lengthy message detailing the situation.

“As you may know, your elected officials in Utah are requiring us to verify your age before allowing you access to our website,” the statement read. “While safety and compliance are at the forefront of our mission, giving your ID card every time you want to visit an adult platform is not the most effective solution for protecting our users, and in fact, will put children and your privacy at risk.”

The site insisted that the measures it had in place to prevent children from accessing the content were adequate; the state of Utah, however, argued that the site had no proper enforcement.

“We believe that the best and most effective solution for protecting children and adults alike is to identify users by their device and allow access to age-restricted materials and websites based on that identification,” Pornhub’s statement continued. “Until a real solution is offered, we have made the difficult decision to completely disable access to our website in Utah.”

Senate Bill 287 unanimously passed through the state’s legislature, requiring greater identity verification processes for adult websites and content before viewing. Louisiana implemented a similar law earlier this year.

“Utah’s age-verification law goes into effect on May 3, but there’s no clear way to comply with it—Utah’s digital ID does not currently allow online verification—so many adult sites are just planning to block all visitors from the state, as they did in Louisiana,” said Mike Stabile, of the Free Speech Coalition, who is representing Pornhub in the case.

“Many of our members are concerned about the way SB287 was rushed through, with little attention to the technology or how it would be executed,” he added. “We’re already seeing incidents of identity theft in Louisiana related to the law, and expect the same in Utah.”

Republican state Sen. Todd Weiler said he believed Pornhub and other sites could easily comply with the new law.

“They are complying with LA’s law, which is essentially the same. So I expect they will eventually comply with Utah’s as well,” he wrote.

Lockdown Leaders Work to Rewrite History

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Lockdown Leaders Work to Rewrite History

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Politicians and bureaucratic officials responsible for the tyrannical COVID lockdowns are now denying their involvement in the process altogether as they realize that the decision to shut down the country for nearly two years was a vastly unpopular one.

According to the Daily Caller, ex-COVID czar Anthony Fauci and Randi Weingarten, president of the  American Federation of Teachers, are making desperate attempts to gaslight Americans and save whatever is left of their crumbling reputations.

Weingarten worked to keep schools shut down for as long as possible while still granting benefits and pay to teachers. However, in a recent hearing on the impact of school closures, she insisted that she fought to keep schools open.

“We spent every day from February on trying to get schools open,” she claimed. “We knew that remote education was not a substitute for opening schools.”

This is a blatant lie. Throughout the pandemic, Weingarten decried attempts to reopen schools, at one point even calling it “reckless, callous, [and] cruel” to try and bring kids back in.

However, Weingarten is correct about the latter point—the pandemic, among other factors, resulted in catastrophic learning loss for school-age kids.

Fauci, who served as top coronavirus advisor to former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, forced masking and vaccinations as mandatory measures against the virus.

But in an interview last week with the New York Times, he claimed that he had no influence over the lockdowns.

“Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down,” he said. “Never. I never did.”

Though Fauci did not have the literal power to shut things down, government officials relied on his decisions for guidance. He acknowledged this in the interview.

“I gave a public-health recommendation that echoed the CDC’s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that,” he explained, casting the blame on everyone else.

“So we looked at it from a purely public-health standpoint,” he added. “It was for other people to make broader assessments—people whose positions include but aren’t exclusively about public health.”

GOP Bill Would Increase Jail Time for Intimidation of SCOTUS Justices

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GOP Bill Would Increase Jail Time for Intimidation of SCOTUS Justices

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Several GOP senators proposed a bill that aims to deter activists from intimidating Supreme Court justices, adding jail time to a federal law prohibiting people from influencing a judge’s decision.

According to the Daily Caller, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., introduced the Protecting Our Supreme Court Justices Act, extending the prison sentence for protestors and other malicious influencers to five years, as opposed to the current one year.

The act will “send a message that the Biden administration has refused to send,” Blackburn said.

“As we saw last summer, the woke liberal mob will go to great lengths to target those they disagree with—even illegally intimidating Supreme Court Justices at their private residences,” said Senator Blackburn explained. “It’s extremely concerning that none of these protesters have been arrested for breaking the law, and the DOJ has not issued any guidance on enforcing this statute.”

After the Dobbs decision leak in the summer of 2022, conservative Supreme Court justices faced mobs of angry protestors outside of their personal homes.

U.S. Marshals were instructed not to arrest the masses “unless absolutely necessary.” However, Attorney General Merrick Garland claimed he had no knowledge of the instruction.

The protests culminated in an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Justice Samuel Alito said that Justice Department’s inaction sent a tacit signal of approval to far-left activists who hoped to change the outcome after an early leak of the case, which effectively ruled the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade precedent as unconstitutional.

“It was rational for people to believe that they might be able to stop the decision in Dobbs by killing one of us,” Alito said.

According to Chief Justice John Roberts, judges at all levels of the court system faced greater threats to personal security and the safety of their families.

Senators joining Blackburn in introducing the legislation include Tom Cotton of Arkansas, John Cornyn of Texas, Ted Cruz of Texas, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Marco Rubio of Florida, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, Katie Britt of Alabama, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, and John Boozman of Arkansas.

Sick: Illegal Who Killed 5 ‘Execution Style’ Was Deported Four Times

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Sick: Illegal Who Killed 5 ‘Execution Style’ Was Deported Four Times

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Mexican national who is currently on the run after allegedly killing five individuals “execution style” in Texas was identified as an illegal immigrant who had been deported four times. 

38-year-old Francisco Oropeza was apprehended and subsequently deported by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in March 2009, September 2009 and a third time in January 2012, ABC News reported. 

The mass murder happened Friday night after neighbors asked the suspect to stop firing shots from a rifle-style weapon outside his home in Cleveland, Texas. Oropeza, who was allegedly under the influence of alcohol, stormed inside the neighbors’ home and killed the five residents, including a nine-year-old. 

The San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office reportedly received a call at around 11:31 p.m. on complaints of harassment. Law enforcement then uncovered the bodies of five victims at the property. 

Three children were found with no injuries but covered in blood. Authorities told ABC News that two female victims were found in one bedroom lying on top of two surviving minors. 

“Everybody has been shot from the neck up almost execution style,” a sheriff told local reporters Sunday. 

The victims were identified as Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25, Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21, Julisa Molina Rivera, 31, Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18 and Daniel Enrique Laso Guzman, 9. Earlier reports cited Guzman as an 8-year-old boy.  

Texas law enforcement is offering an $80,000 reward for information that leads to the apprehension of Oropeza, who remains at-large and dangerous. 

FBI special agent James Smith said in a Sunday press conference that law enforcement has no leads to the whereabouts of Oropeza. 

“What we need from the public is any type of information, because right now we’re just we’re running into dead ends,” Smith said. “I can tell you right now, we have zero leads.” 

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who oversees ICE, had previously declined to say whether Oropeza was in the country illegally when asked by NBC News host Chuck Todd. 

“Chuck, I won’t comment on it because it is an active case,” Mayorkas said. “The tragedy that occurred is, you described it correctly, just absolutely horrific.”

‘Deadbeat’ Hunter Biden Ripped for Staying Mum on Child Support Case

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‘Deadbeat’ Hunter Biden Ripped for Staying Mum on Child Support Case

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, refused to answer questions as he appeared Monday before an Arkansas judge for a hearing related to the unpaid child support case of his four-year-old daughter, who was born out of wedlock to former stripper Lunden Roberts.

The embattled first son ignored questions from a reporter about whether President Biden was doing a disservice by not acknowledging the child as a Biden.

“Hunter, is your dad doing a disservice by not recognizing his grandchild? A Fox News Digital reporter asked Hunter as he left the courthouse for a lunch break. “Isn’t your art money going toward your daughter.”

A non-challant Biden ignored the questions related to his daughter, Navy Joan Roberts. President Biden has refused to acknowledge the four-year-old child while speaking about his grandchildren on several occasions.

“Deadbeat Hunter Biden has no time for questions as he leaves court in Arkansas after a child support hearing for his daughter, who he refused to acknowledge,” an RNC account captioned on a tweet.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., torched the Biden family in reaction to the court hearing.

“Hunter Biden is in court today for the child support case of his 4-year-old daughter, who Joe Biden won’t even recognize as his grandchild,” Taylor Green said via Twitter. “Hunter and his entire family should be in court for potential influence peddling, money laundering, and human trafficking. Do you agree?…”

One user on Twitter called Hunter a “slime loser” after ignoring reporters’ questions.

Former Rep. Billy Long, R-Mo., referred to Hunter as a “Deadbeat Dad” in a tweet that shared a RedState article with a familiar nickname.

The child support case is one of many legal battles surrounding the Biden family. Hunter Biden came under fire last month after an IRS criminal supervisory special agent said the Biden administration is attempting to thwart a criminal probe into the first son’s taxes.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., accused at least a dozen Biden relatives of benefiting from foreign business deals tied to the Democrat president.

Several Republican lawmakers called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to either resign or be impeached after an Obama CIA official exposed Blinken as the mastermind behind an infamous intel letter that sought to falsely label the Hunter Biden laptop scandal as Russian disinformation.

Blinken, who served as a Biden campaign aide, had denied ever playing a role in the inception of the letter.

The trial for Hunter’s child support case is scheduled to begin July 24, Fox News reported.

Tucker Carlson: ‘I’m Still Employed by Fox’

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Tucker Carlson: ‘I’m Still Employed by Fox’

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Despite Tucker Carlson and Fox News making headlines after the wildly popular host’s show was cancelled, Carlson, while on the outs at Fox, is reportedly still employed by Fox.

That detail was apparently confirmed by Carlson, who reportedly texted the outlet 19FortyFive, “I’m still employed by Fox.”

While the outlet didn’t delve into any details about Carlson’s employment status or cryptic text message, it did note a report from Vanity Fair on a theory explaining the split.

The outlet cited a source who claimed that “Fox Corp. chair Rupert Murdoch removed Carlson over remarks Carlson made during a speech at the Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary gala on Friday night.”

The speech, captured by Headline USA, featured Carlson not only blasting mainstream media, but also vibrating with “religious overtones that even Murdoch found too extreme, the source, who was briefed on Murdoch’s decision-making, said,” Vanity Fair reported.

Carlson, again without adding detail, reportedly  told 19FortyFive that the religious theory “would be hard to prove.”

Whatever the precipitating cause of the split, reports indicated the termination of Carlson’s contract wasn’t completely finalized. The site 19FortyFive also pointed to previous statements from former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, as evidence to confirm its own reporting.

On Kelly’s Sirius XM show, she reportedly was told by Fox CEO Suzanne Scott that Carlson said he would not be allowed to do any more shows.

“He was kicked out of his company email, and now he has to negotiate an exit,” Kelly said. “Some reporting to me suggested that it’s going to be an amicable parting … completely catching Tucker off-guard.

The former Fox host said the treatment Carlson had received was “disheartening” and claimed that Fox wouldn’t even provide Carlson details about why his show was cancelled.

“Tucker’s not fired,” Kelly said. “That’s my information, that he still needs to negotiate the exit and that right now he’s not free to launch a podcast or a digital show or to negotiate with other employers at all because he’s still under contract. They pulled his show off the air. They also fired his executive producer Justin Wells.”

Fox and Carlson have seen their respective profiles soar in polar opposite directions since the show’s cancellation was announced. Fox market share and stock value have both tumbled, while a video message that Carlson released on Twitter received massive views and hugely supportive feedback.

‘Media Matters’ Cops to Advocating for Child Pornography

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‘Media Matters’ Cops to Advocating for Child Pornography

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Ari Drennen, LGBTQ program director at far-leftist Media Matters, accidentally admitted that sexually-explicit books and graphic novels marketed towards children are indeed pornographic.

The book, titled Gender Queer, has been subject to contention as librarians across the country attempt to make it available to minors despite graphically depicting oral sex, in addition to talking about strap-ons and sexting.

According to the Post Millennial, Drennen outed herself in a desperate attempt to own Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon, who posted about the book in response to Chelsea Clinton’s endorsement of the graphic novel.

“Chelsea Clinton has come out in favor of porn for kids,” Dillon tweeted in response to Clinton’s announcement.

Drennen responded by making a crude joke about Dillon’s use of the “children’s books,” which he responded to with photos from inside the book, asking Drennon how she could possibly consider this appropriate for children.

“Hey Seth I think you mean this for my DMs, you just sent me an unsolicited drawing of a blowjob,” Drennen responded, unintentionally admitting that the book’s content was graphic enough that even she did not want to look at it.

Greg Price and Libs of TikTok both pointed out the obvious contradiction.

The author of the book argued that it is necessary for young people to have access to literature like this.

“It’s very hard to hear people say ‘This book is not appropriate to young people’ when it’s like, I was a young person for whom this book would have been not only appropriate, but so, so necessary,” Kobabe told NBC News last year.

The book was removed from Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, Brevard Public Schools in Florida, and Wake County Public Libraries in North Carolina. Parents in New Jersey and Rhode Island challenged its inclusion in the children’s section in their state’s libraries.

‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ Wants to Spy On, Censor Text Messages

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‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ Wants to Spy On, Censor Text Messages

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Investigative journalists Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, who wrote and published initial stories on the Twitter Files, discovered that leftist activist, pro-censorship tyrants and administration officials attempted to spy on encrypted texting apps.

Censorship activists tried to spy on and censor texting apps that market themselves as encrypted, such as What’s App, Signal and Telegram, according to a report from the journalists.

“There is currently no easy way to discover potentially problematic content on WhatsApp and other end-to-end encrypted platforms at scale,” censorship advocates in a January 2022 Omidyar Foundation report said. “One potential solution is to make use of misinformation ‘tiplines’ to identify potentially misleading or otherwise problematic content… On WhatsApp, a tipline would be a phone number to which WhatsApp users can forward potential misinformation they see to have it fact-checked.”

One Twitter-adjacent project known as “CryptoChat” also advocated for the surveillance of encrypted chats in order to track language that is not approved by our government overlords.

The stated goal of the project, funded by a group known as the Omidyar Network, is “to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of dangerous content on encrypted messaging apps,” and “to build and test a legal and ethical framework for the collection and use of encrypted messaging data.”

The Omidyar Network, founded by Ebay creator Pierre Omidyar, is a staunch advocate for spying on individuals who use encrypted apps.

“Reports of violence, disinformation, and manipulation campaigns originating on private messaging platforms have become all too common,” Omidyar said in a 2022 report. “Not only are individuals’ lives and liberties impacted, but dangerous platform design choices also have devastating implications for our democratic institutions and the health and well-being of our societies.”

Left-wing magazine Wired called for the government to spy on private messaging apps, saying they promote “abusive and illegal behavior, disinformation and hate speech, and hoaxes and scams.”

The Omidyar Network has a net worth of $9 billion, and claims to be a longstanding advocate for free speech and personal privacy.

 

Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Lawyer Advocates for Theft of 94-Year-Old Black Woman’s Home

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Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Lawyer Advocates for Theft of 94-Year-Old Black Woman’s Home

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In 2015, the government of Hennepin County, Minnesota, seized an elderly black woman’s home after she couldn’t pay some $15,000 in taxes and interest accrued.

The government sold the widow, Geraldine Tyler’s, home for $40,000, but kept the balance instead of giving her the difference between the home’s worth and what Tyler owed.

Tyler has been fighting in the courts to recover her stolen assets ever since, and the U.S. Supreme Court heard her case last week.

Representing the U.S. government? Neal Katyal, an Obama-appointed former Deputy Solicitor General who the government hired from the private sector to represent its case.

Revolver News noted the irony that Katyal, an anti-Trump “resistance” hero to the Left, is arguing for the theft of a 94-year-old black woman’s home.

“It’s almost too perfect … Katyal is the legal eagle who the Democrats chose to defend the Voting Rights Act and the Affordable Care Act at the Supreme Court. Katyal was also commissioned by Bill Clinton for a report calling for an increase in pro bono legal work. Besides that, Katyal criticized World War II-era Japanese internment camps on behalf of the Obama administration, and was highly critical of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay,” Revolver said.

“The new liberal left now defends stealing homes from tiny, helpless 94-year-old black women. What a comedown.”

Luckily, an overwhelming number of organizations from all ideological stripes have stepped up to defend Tyler.

Americans For Prosperity, the Chamber of Commerce, the ACLU and the National Association for Realtors were in support of the private citizen.

“These seizures often target poorer communities—and often the elderly within those communities—who own their homes but have insufficient disposable income to pay their taxes,” the ACLU stated in its amicus brief.

The Pacific Legal Foundation, which is representing Geraldine Tyler, termed it “home equity theft.”

According to Reason legal analyst Ilya Somin, last week’s SCOTUS hearing seemed to favor Tyler.

“The bottom line takeaway from the oral argument is that Tyler will almost certainly win her case, and it isn’t going to be close … By my count, at least eight justices seem to be leaning Tyler’s way,” Somin said.

“In my last post about Tyler, I noted the unusually broad cross-ideological support for the property owner’s position among the organizations filing amicus briefs in the case. If the oral argument is any indication, a similar broad consensus may be emerging among the Supreme Court justices, as well.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Universities Push Anti-White, Race-Segregated Events

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Universities Push Anti-White, Race-Segregated Events

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) American colleges and universities continue to expose their blatant racism toward white people by holding graduation celebrations and events for students based on their skin color.

According to the Daily Caller, the University of Oklahoma, Illinois State University, Georgetown University, California Polytechnic State University, Arizona State University, Grand Valley State University and Harvard University are among the schools who decided to create graduation ceremonies for their spring graduates of every color, except for the white ones.

The UO’s website states that it “offers a more intimate celebration of students’ academic journeys.” Only American Indian, Asian, black and brown students would be able to have a separate graduation ceremony. White people are not included on the list.

ISU will have the same types of ceremonies for the so-called “underrepresented” students so that they would be able to “celebrate their successes and graduation in a unique way.”

An elite leftist indoctrination center in Washington D.C. — Georgetown — also scheduled similar graduation ceremonies, while also adding another non-white category, “Chicanas/Chicanos.”

According to the CalPoly website, it will have the “Cultural Commencement Ceremonies” that are separated into nine events for different races and, in some cases, ethnicities and sexual orientations.

ASU’s schedule indicates that the university planned various convocation ceremonies in addition to its graduate and undergraduate commencements. The website reads that these “special interest” events that are available only to non-white people and sexual deviants are “a time for smaller groups to gather and celebrate students’ graduation.”

GVSU, another anti-white institution on the list, was even called out by Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire for its blatant racist practices.

“There will be no special celebrations for straight white people, of course,” he wrote.

As with previous institutions, Harvard also decided to discriminate against its white students.

“Segregated graduations divide the student body at exactly the time that students should celebrate their common achievements at their alma mater,” Adam Kissel, visiting fellow on higher education reform at the Heritage Foundation, said.

“Americans overcame segregation long ago, but too many colleges are bringing it back.”

This is not the first time when Marxist breeding grounds were trying to divide people based on their skin color.

McMaster University that is located in Hamilton, Canada, Portland State University and even a so-called “Christian” university in Indiana — Anderson University — were all pushing the racial segregation.

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