Dems Introduce Bill to Bar Detainment of LGBT Illegals

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Dems Introduce Bill to Bar Detainment of LGBT Illegals

(Headline USA) Democrats are pushing to give special privileges to illegal immigrants who identify as LGBT, arguing that they qualify as a “vulnerable person” and should thus receive deferential treatment.

A bill backed by dozens of Democrats in the House and Senate, called the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, would set minimum standards for detention facilities where illegal aliens are held as they await processing. The bill would ban the use of private detention facilities and also make it harder for immigration officials to detain people who identify as gay, lesbian, or transgender.

“Our immigration system has allowed for the unjust treatment of immigrants and stripped them of their humanity and due process,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., one of the bill’s sponsors, said in a statement on Thursday. “We must respect and protect the basic rights of immigrants detained in the United States.”

Under the bill, immigration officials would have only 48 hours to determine whether to detain an alien, and would only be allowed to detain them if they determined that the “release of an alien will not reasonably ensure the appearance of the alien as required or will endanger the safety” of others. 

If an alien is detained, border officials must enforce “the least restrictive conditions” possible and only under the “presumption that the alien should be released.”

Certain groups of illegals would be exempt from detention altogether. The bill would create a “special rule for vulnerable persons and primary caregivers” making it illegal for them to be detained unless immigration officials can demonstrate that it is “unreasonable or not practicable to place the alien in a community-based supervision program.”

The bill defines a “vulnerable person” as anyone who is under 21, older than 60, pregnant, or who “identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex.”

In addition, illegals with a credible fear of persecution, “limited English language proficiency,” those experiencing “severe trauma,” and survivors of “torture or gender-based violence” also meet the definition of a “vulnerable person.”

Alito, Thomas Oppose Pro-Abortion SCOTUS Ruling

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Alito, Thomas Oppose Pro-Abortion SCOTUS Ruling

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito penned a dissenting opinion that systematically dismantled the high court’s ruling Thursday to temporarily extend access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

“As narrowed by the Court of Appeals, the stay that would apply if we failed to broaden it would not remove mifepristone from the market,” wrote Alito, who along with Justice Clarence Thomas offered the court’s only dissent. “It would simply restore the circumstances that existed (and that the Government defended) from 2000 to 2016 under three Presidential administrations.”

The drug that kills unborn babies and has been found dangerous to women’s health by numerous medical studies was approved by the Biden administration for widespread use and distribution by mail. In response, a group of pro-life doctors and medical groups filed suit, arguing that the drug was unsafe and seeking to have the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone rescinded.

Texas federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk agreed that the drug had been approved despite “legitimate safety concerns” and suspended its approval.

The Biden administration sought relief in the 5th Circuit, along with Danco Labs, the company that distributes mifepristone. The 5th Circuit put a partial freeze on Kacsmaryk’s decision, but it only suspended part of the ruling.

Not satisfied with an outcome that didn’t give wholesale access to the abortion drug, the administration took its case to SCOTUS to put whole order on hold, while a decision was litigated in the 5th Circuit.

The allegedly conservative-majority Supreme Court agreed and on Thursday issued its ruling to allow continued, unfettered access, including by mail, to the abortion drug.

Radical abortion activists and their leftist Democrat allies praised the court’s decision, but vowed to continue fighting until it had totally secured the right to kill unborn babies using a drug that can be harmful to women.

“Today’s stay by the Supreme Court is welcome, but temporary.  We must protect abortion access. Permanently,” demanded Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

Alito, in his dissenting opinion, ripped the FDA for trying to create “chaos” and argued that the 5th Circuit’s ruling should have been left in place until the lower court reached a decision. Oral arguments in the case are slated for May 17.

“At present, the applicants are not entitled to a stay because they have not shown that they are likely to suffer irreparable harm in the interim,” Alito wrote. “Our granting of a stay of a lower-court decision is an equitable remedy. It should not be given if the moving party has not acted equitably, and that is the situation here.”

Alliance Defending Freedom, the group representing doctors and medical groups challenging the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, said it was disappointed, but not surprised by the court’s ruling.

“As is common practice, the Supreme Court has decided to maintain the status quo that existed prior to our lawsuit while our challenge to the FDA’s illegal approval of chemical abortion drugs and its removal of critical safeguards for those drugs moves forward,” ADF senior counsel Erik Baptist told Life News, and vowed to continue its fight.

“The FDA must answer for the damage it has caused to the health of countless women and girls and the rule of law by failing to study how dangerous the chemical abortion drug regimen is and unlawfully removing every meaningful safeguard, even allowing for mail-order abortions,” Baptist said. “We look forward to a final outcome in this case that will hold the FDA accountable.”

Get Woke, Go Broke: Bud Light Cracks Down on Leftist Marketing Chief Responsible for Trans Ad, $6B Loss

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Get Woke, Go Broke: Bud Light Cracks Down on Leftist Marketing Chief Responsible for Trans Ad, $6B Loss

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Bud Light seems to be taking disciplinary action against its marketing team over an infamous collaboration with transgender TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney. 

Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light’s parent company, placed Alissa Heinerscheid, the marketing vice president, on leave of absence, indicating a potential crackdown on the woke marketing team that caused the company to lose a whopping $6 billion in value over a leftist marketing partnership with Mulvaney, an embattled transgender influencer. 

Heinerscheid, who came under fire for apparently admitting the Mulvaney partnership was a deliberate affront to loyal consumers, is to be replaced by Todd Allen, the global marketing vice-president, reported Beer Business Daily, which first broke the story. 

The company also said it is reducing layers “so that our most senior marketers are more closely connected to every aspect of our brand’s activities,” a spokesperson said.

“These steps will help us maintain focus on the things we do best: brewing great beer for all consumers, while always making a positive impact in our communities and our country,” the spinner spun.

“We communicated some next steps with our internal teams and wholesaler partners,” the company said, adding that “we made it clear that the safety and welfare of our employees and our partners is our top priority.” 

The company’s statement appeared to be addressing reports that senior leadership at Bud Light and Anheuser-Busch was left in the dark about the controversial social media partnership with Mulvaney, which left some of Bud Light’s distributors “spooked” by the backlash resulting from the controversial partnership, reported Beer Business Daily

“No one at the senior level” approved the campaign, a source close to Bud Light told the Daily Wire.

“Heads should roll,” said conservative commentator John Cardillo in response to an April 4 tweet claiming that “execs are angry at the release of Dylan Mulvaney can.”

Donald Trump Jr., former President Donald Trump’s son, called on conservatives to halt their boycott of the beer citing the company’s past campaign donations to Republicans. 

“This could be just the act of one rouge, woke, lunatic in a marketing department filled with leftist staffers,” decried Trump Jr., in his Triggered Rumble show. The first son’s attempt to call off the boycott had little effect, as media reports estimate Bud Light and its parent company face a multi-billion-dollar loss in shares. 

It is unclear when, or if, the embattled marketing vice president will return to her post.

‘It’s Tough’: Dan Bongino Reveals Real Reason Behind Fox News Abrupt Exit

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‘It’s Tough’: Dan Bongino Reveals Real Reason Behind Fox News Abrupt Exit

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Fox News and conservative firebrand Dan Bongino parted ways, they both announced Thursday. The news prompted leftist outlets to speculate whether his departure was tied to the Dominion lawsuit against the cable news channel. Bongino spoke out and gave the real reason behind his departure.

“We thank Dan for his contributions and wish him success in his future endeavors,” Fox News announced Thursday. 

The news came two days after the conservative channel and Dominion Voting Systems reached a $787 million settlement, avoiding a weeks-long trial that would have caught the nation’s attention. 

Bongino, who hosted a Saturday night show named Unfiltered, was accused of being booted off the air because of the Dominion settlement, Forbes noted. Los Angeles magazine implied Bongino had been “fired.” A similar article headlined “Dominion truth bomb produces Fox’s first casualty,” appeared in the Washington Press, Forbes reported.

The conservative host immediately took to his Rumble show, The Dan Bongino Show, to clear the air and tell the real reason behind his abrupt departure.

“It’s tough. It’s tough to say that,” Bongino said Thursday. “There is no acrimony. This isn’t like some WWE brawl that happened. We just couldn’t come to terms on an extension, and that is really it.” 

Bongino revisited the news of his exit from Fox News on his Friday show, slamming down the media’s conspiracies behind his departure. 

“The first day of my unemployment the liberals said I was fired, I’m unemployed, kind of hysterical watching the reaction,” Bongino said, ripping leftists for claiming he was terminated. 

In statements to Forbes, a person with ties to Fox News said the departure “was not related to” the Dominion lawsuit. 

Dominion Voting System sued Fox News and its parent company Fox Corporation on claims that the conservative network spread what Dominion dubbed false claims around the 2020 election.

Bongino’s daily radio and Fox Nation’s Canceled in the USA also came to an end, the Associated Press reported. 

The Dan Bongino Show will continue to air on weekdays at 11:00 pm ET via Rumble, a conservative video-hosting network.

Biden Regime under Fire for Wind Energy Projects

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Biden Regime under Fire for Wind Energy Projects

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) The executive directors of a federally-established fishery councils along the East Coast expressed alarming concern to the Biden administration last year over the threats posed by the regime’s radical green energy agenda, specifically offshore wind energy projects. 

“As we have stated in several past comment letters to BOEM, we are very concerned about the cumulative impacts of multiple wind energy projects on the fisheries we manage,” officials with the New England, Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic Fishery Management Councils wrote to Biden’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, according to Fox News.

“The multiple wind energy projects planned along the east coast will have cumulative and compounding effects on our fisheries,” they wrote. “The synergistic effects of multiple projects may be more than additive and this may not be sufficiently identified in project-specific documents; therefore, losses may be undercompensated by taking a project-by-project approach.” 

Similarly, the Pacific Fishery Management Council, representing the entire West Coast, also wrote a letter to BOEM. The council noted that every proposed area for multiple projects could negatively impact the entire marine ecosystem.

The report by Fox News also noted that these letters come after proposed guidance by BOEM in June to ensure offshore renewable energy development. However, the regional fishery management councils criticized the draft guidance. 

Seafood Harvesters of America, a national organization representing thousands of fishermen nationwide, also wrote a letter to BOEM. 

“We recognize the need for renewable energy and the role these energy sources will play as we work to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. However, addressing climate change should not require significant negative impacts to food producers or to our ocean environment,” the organization wrote.

“We remain deeply concerned that these guidelines are simply recommendations and hold no promise of any actual mitigation or compensation for the fishing industry,” they continued. “Any potential effectiveness of these guidelines is negated by the fact that they are only suggestions for offshore wind energy developers, rather than binding requirements.”

The battering criticism of Biden’s wind projects isn’t a first.

The Department of Defense has sounded alarms about the administration’s plans for wind projects, citing potential conflicts of wind turbines off the Atlantic Coast. The DoD called the wind lease areas proximity to nearby military operations and facilities, including a bombing range used to train fighter jet crews, “highly problematic.”

Netflix ‘Doc’ Depicts Cleopatra as Black, and Egyptian Lawyer Sues

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Netflix ‘Doc’ Depicts Cleopatra as Black, and Egyptian Lawyer Sues

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Woke Netflix decided to create a “docudrama” about Cleopatra and cast a black woman as an Egyptian Queen.

Adele James, a black actress who plays Cleopatra in the upcoming series, doesn’t look like the Egyptian ruler at all. The real Cleopatra was born in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in 69 BC and, according to most scholars, her primary ancestry was Greek Macedonian.

The casting decision for African Queens: Queen Cleopatra caused fury among regular people all around the world, which resulted in the “Cancel Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’” petition that now has over 5,000 signatures, according to the Daily Wire

It came to the point when one Egyptian attorney went as far as filing a complaint against Netflix for sacrificing history on the altar of “blackwashing.”

Lawyer Mahmoud al-Semary filed a complaint with the public prosecutor against the company, saying “necessary legal measures” should be taken against Netflix services in the country.

“[Netflix is promoting] the Afrocentric thinking… which includes slogans and writings aimed at distorting and erasing the Egyptian identity.”

In February, Tudum, Netflix’s promotional website, addressed the casting controversy. The website quoted Jada Pinkett Smith, the show’s executive producer, who said that Cleopatra’s heritage has been debated and that the casting was “a nod to the centuries-long conversation about the ruler’s race.”

“We don’t often get to see or hear stories about black queens, and that was really important for me, as well as for my daughter, and just for my community to be able to know those stories because there are tons of them,” Pinkett Smith said.

However, Zahi Hawass, a prominent Egyptologist and former antiquities minister, stated otherwise.

“This is completely fake. Cleopatra was Greek, meaning that she was light-skinned, not black,” he said. “Netflix is trying to provoke confusion by spreading false and deceptive facts that the origin of the Egyptian civilization is black.”

Conservative Talkshow Host Larry Elder Launches Presidential Run

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Conservative Talkshow Host Larry Elder Launches Presidential Run

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Conservative talk show host Larry Elder announced on Thursday night that he will run for president in 2024 as a Republican.

During his appearance on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, Elder, who is about to turn 71 years old next week, announced that he is running for president of the United States, according to the Daily Wire.

To convince conservatives why they should vote for him and not other 2024 Republican presidential candidates, Elder stated that he is pro-life, doesn’t believe America is racist, wants secure borders, wants the U.S. to be energy independent and wants to fix the inner-city schools.

“I’m announcing that I’m running for the presidency of the United States on your program,” Elder said. “And thank you so much for giving me this honor and this platform.”

Elder said that the reason why he wanted to run for president is that he never served in the military, while his father, older brother and little brother all served in the U.S. Armed Forces.

“I’m the only one who didn’t serve, and I don’t feel good about that,” Elder said. “I feel I have a moral, a religious and patriotic duty to give back to a country that’s been so good to my family and to me. And that is why I’m doing this.”

He also added that among the top issues driving him were fighting the lie that was spread by Democrats that America is inherently racist and addressing how a lot of black children grow up without fathers because Democrats have “incentivized women to marry the government.”

In 2021, Elder ran against Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom to replace him because people decided to recall the latter. Among the multiple reasons why they decided to do it was Newsom’s tyrannical handling of coronavirus, which many residents of California labeled disastrous. Even though the Californians despised the governor and that Elder came in first among dozens of replacement candidates, receiving over 3.5 million votes, Newsom still managed to win by beating the recall attempt by more than 20 points.

Injured High School Athlete: ‘Allowing Biological Males to Compete against Biological Females Is Dangerous’

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Injured High School Athlete: ‘Allowing Biological Males to Compete against Biological Females Is Dangerous’

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) A high school athlete severely injured on the volleyball court is calling upon North Carolina legislators to pass the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.

In testimony before N.C. lawmakers and a subsequent press conference, Payton McNabb recalled how she suffered a concussion and neck trauma after being ball-spiked in the face “by a transgender athlete on the opposing team.”

With the lingering and serious adverse effects of these injuries that she detailed, McNabb said she had to give up volleyball but currently plays on the Hiwassee Dam High School softball team.

She recognized, though, that her ability to compete in that sport is hampered by the injuries.

The senior from Murphy, N.C., also indicated that she is dealing with learning challenges as a result of the ball-spiking incident that occurred back in September 1, 2022.

“Due to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association policy allowing biological males to compete against biological females, my life has forever been changed,” McNabb declared, in part.

“Allowing biological males to compete against biological females is dangerous. I may be the first to come before you with an injury, but if this doesn’t pass, I won’t be the last,” she warned.

Acknowledging that her own high school experience is coming to an end, McNabb noted that “I’m here for every biological female athlete behind me. My little sister, my cousins, my teammates.”

McNabb was joined at the event by champion college swimmer turned activist Riley Gaines, who has acquired a national profile in the ongoing debate, even at times putting her personal safety at risk.

“I was honored to stand alongside [McNabb] in N.C. to continue the fight to protect women’s sports,” Gaines wrote on Twitter, along with sharing a video clip of what purports to be the spiking incident.

The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act has already received approval by the N.C. House.

If the bill passes in the state senate, it is likely to be vetoed by Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper.

One N.C. politician implied that McNabb’s injury was just a one-off.

“Democratic Rep. Vernetta Alston blasted the GOP for amplifying a few isolated incidents to blow the problem out of proportion, saying injuries happen all the time in sports regardless of who’s participating,” the New York Post reported. “‘It is a pretext for bigotry and part of a larger effort to ban transgender people from living their lives,’ Alston said during floor debate, warning that the bill would further exclude a small and already vulnerable population.”

“The bill would expressly prohibit individuals from competing on sport’s teams that do not match the sex they were assigned at birth,” ABC Asheville, N.C., affiliate WLOS explained.

GOP State Rep. Kristin Baker, the primary sponsor, insisted that “This bill is a bill to be inclusive, not to be exclusive. This bill is to allow fair and particularly safe, physically safe, competition.”

On Wednesday, the bill passed in the lower chamber by a vote of 73-39, which included the aye votes of three Democrats.

Time will tell as to what happens in the N.C. senate, which is considering a separate, related bill, but Republicans have a veto-proof majority in both chambers, if it comes to that.

The far-Left, Democrat White House operatives running the Biden administration have, of course, fully adopted the gender ideology agenda.

Republicans members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation protecting women’s sports in the context of participation by biological males athletes. Zero Democrats voted for that bill.

On their own, U.S. Senate Republicans lack the votes to pass the bill or one like it, however, let alone override a Biden veto.

House GOP Slates Hearing to Hold Biden Admin. Accountable for Pandemic School Closures

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House GOP Slates Hearing to Hold Biden Admin. Accountable for Pandemic School Closures

(Headline USA) House Republicans announced this week that they will hold a hearing to look into the consequences of the Biden administration’s directives encouraging school closures during the pandemic.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, said the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will tackle this issue in order to provide accountability for the many families and students who were devastated by extended distance-learning. He specifically blasted Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who helped draft the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s school closure guidance.

“The influence of Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), may have jeopardized the well-being of our nation’s children during the COVID-19 pandemic. If so, she should be held accountable,” Wenstrup, the chairman of the committee, said.

Weingarten and the other teachers union officials who advocated against schools reopening seemed to have had political motivations, Wenstrup pointed out.

“Even when healthy and successful learning environments were possible, Ms. Weingarten and the AFT advocated against school reopenings. Safely returning our children to school as soon as possible should have been our top priority,” he said. “I look forward to hearing Ms. Weingarten’s testimony and learning about the role AFT played in promoting school closures that ultimately harmed the academic, mental, physical, and social development of our youth.”

The committee held its first hearing on this topic last month, during which witnesses testified that evidence did not support keeping schools closed.

“At the Select Subcommittee’s first hearing on pandemic-era school closures in March, expert witnesses testified that the ‘science’ never justified the prolonged closing of schools. Chairman Wenstrup sent a letter to Randi Weingarten last month requesting documents and information related to AFT’s impact on the CDC’s scientific school reopening guidance,” the subcommittee said in a statement.

Dem. Rep. Shocks w/ Threat to Jail Twitter Files Journalist Matt Taibbi

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Dem. Rep. Shocks w/ Threat to Jail Twitter Files Journalist Matt Taibbi

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) House Democrats have taken censorship to new and dangerous levels, threatening journalist Matt Taibbi with up to five years of prison time for a typo.

The threat was spearheaded by House Democrat Stacey Plaskett, V.I., over Taibbi’s testimony to Congress in March about “Twitter Files” published on the social media platform and an interview the reporter did on MSNBC — sparking more threats for the renegade writer, according to the Daily Wire.

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan has been on a bizarre and increasingly dangerous mission to discredit Matt Taibbi, an independent journalist and contributor to “The Twitter Files.” Mehdi claimed Taibbi lied under oath to Congress – a felony that can be prosecuted with prison.

The reporter mistakenly referred to CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) when the intended reference had been CIS (Center for Internet Security). Taibbi recognized his mistake and amended the statement to make it clear that the organization in question was the Center for Internet Security. In response, Taibbi conceded the inconsistency, saying that he had inadvertently used the wrong abbreviation.

Plaskett jumped on board with Hasan, going after the reporter.

“While these inaccuracies may seem minor to you, they could lead Congress to rely on inaccurate testimony in considering and/or passing new legislation which would impact all Americans,” Plaskett said in her letter to Taibbi.

Plaskett wrote, “you swore ‘under penalty of perjury that the testimony you [were] about to give [was] true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information, and belief.’ Under the federal perjury statue, 18 U.S.C. 1621, proving false information is punishable by up to five years imprisonment.”

Taibbi responded on Substack that “Plaskett is threatening me with prison, over her own error. Just after I ran a piece called “The Press is Now Also the Police” about the New York Times and Washington Post boasting of roles in delivering a leak suspect to the FBI, MSNBC’s new attack-caster, Mehdi Hasan, got his wish, inspiring first Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and then Plaskett to trumpet his incredibly vicious and mistaken claim that I lied to Congress.”

There was an immediate conservative media backlash when the news broke about a government official threatening a journalist.

Fellow Twitter Files journalist Michael Shellenberger, who also testified at the hearing, said he was extremely disturbed by the manner in which Plaskett has treated those she has invited to testify in her hearing.

“It is an honor to be invited to be an expert witness. Not only are we unpaid, we pay our own travel. What @StaceyPlaskett has done is a disgrace. Why would anyone choose to testify if they’re going to threatened with prison? Talk about a grotesque attack on norms. For shame.”

The Spectator contributing editor Stephen L. Miller asked if this was going to be the new norm that “Democrat House Reps are now threatening journalists with prison. Are the norms restored to everyone’s satisfaction now?” 

“The party of Norms threatens to imprison a journalist for confusing nearly identical acronyms,” Washington Free Beacon Aaron Sibarium likewise said.

If it wasn’t bad enough that same day during his testimony in front of Congress, an IRS agent paid an unannounced visit to Taibbi’s home in New Jersey. 

Weaponization Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, rebuked the timing of the visit and fired off a letter to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, writing, “The circumstances surrounding the IRS’s unannounced and unprompted visit to Mr. Taibbi’s home, at the exact time that he was testifying to Congress about ‘the most serious government abuse he has witnessed in his career as a journalist, are incredible.”

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