Florida Expands Anti-Grooming Protections to Include Grades 4 and Up

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Florida Expands Anti-Grooming Protections to Include Grades 4 and Up

(Headline USA) The Florida Board of Education on Wednesday approved a ban on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, expanding its anti-grooming law at the request of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The proposal will take effect after a procedural notice period that lasts about a month, according to an education department spokesman.

The rule change would ban lessons pushed by far-leftist indoctrinators on sexual orientation and gender identity from grades 4-12, unless required by existing state standards or as part of reproductive health instruction that students can choose not to take. Florida currently bans such lessons in kindergarten through third grade.

The DeSantis administration put forward the proposal last month as part of the Republican’s aggressive agenda to push back against leftist infiltration into public schools that eroded parental rights.

DeSantis has not commented on the proposal. He previously directed questions to Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr., who said it was meant to clarify confusion around the existing law and reinforce that teachers should not deviate from existing curriculums.

“We’re not removing anything here,” Diaz Jr. said on Wednesday. “All we are doing is we are setting the expectations so our teachers are clear: that they are to teach to the standards.”

The prohibition, which began last year with the law banning sexual orientation and gender identity lessons in kindergarten through third grade, has been gaslit by critics who wrongly argue it marginalizes LGBTQ+ people and has vague terms that result in self-censorship from teachers. Democrat President Joe Biden has called it “hateful.”

The current law is also the root of an ongoing feud with Disney, one of the state’s largest employers and political donors.

The woke entertainment giant bowed to leftists and publicly opposed the legislation last year. DeSantis, in turn, pushed lawmakers to give him control of a self-governing district that Disney oversees in its theme park properties.

Before a set of new DeSantis appointees could assume control of the district, Disney’s board passed restrictive covenants that strip the incoming members of most of their powers, blunting the governor’s retaliation.

DeSantis has directed the chief inspector general to investigate the Disney board’s move and vowed to take additional revenge against the company through legislation.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Teacher Fired for Giving 10th-Graders Article about LGBT ‘Bear’ Sex Fetish

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Teacher Fired for Giving 10th-Graders Article about LGBT ‘Bear’ Sex Fetish

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) A woke South Carolina teacher was fired after handing out an unapproved and sexually deviant article on LGBTQ+ identity to her 10th-grade students.

The Spartanburg School District 6 administrators took action after complaints flooded the school that a Language Arts teacher at Dorman High School had presented an article to her Dorman High School students that were “inappropriate” and “unapproved.”

After researching the article further, it was discovered that the content focused on the International Bear Brotherhood, a subgroup within the LGBTQ+ community that provides a sense of belonging to men who may be struggling with their sexual identity.

The term “Bear,” is slang for non-heterosexual men who are generally larger with a fair amount of body or facial hair.

The teacher told school officials that it was her personal decision to distribute the article to her students and facilitate a class discussion, Fox News Digital reported.

No long after that conversation, she was dismissed. The district found the teacher’s decision to distribute the article to be a clear violation of their policy and terminated her employment with the school.

One parent said they would be open for discussion and conversation afterwards, “but it’s not something that I feel like should be brought up, and it would aggravate me that it happened to my child.”

The parent, who remained anonymous, added they didn’t wish for any ill will.

“I hope the person who did finds work, but at the same time, we go to school to learn about other things. You don’t want views being pushed onto your kids,” the parent said. “It would be really disturbing for me, because it’s not in line with my views, or my family’s views. We would be open for discussion and conversation afterwards.”

The school reminded educators of the importance of having all questionable lessons and materials approved in a recent meeting.

“This teacher was a part of that particular meeting,” the district said in a statement.

Red-Pilled Liberal RFK Jr. Formally Announces Presidential Campaign

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Red-Pilled Liberal RFK Jr. Formally Announces Presidential Campaign

(Headline USA) Red-pilled political scion Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who gained prominence in his own right as a vocal vaccine skeptic during the COVID-19 pandemic, launched his bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democrat nomination next year.

Kennedy, a member of one of the country’s most famous political families who has in recent years been linked to some far-right figures, kicked off his campaign in Boston on Wednesday and likened his campaign to the American revolution.

“My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism in our country,” Kennedy said.

Self-help author Marianne Williamson is also running for the Democrat nomination. Biden has said he’s planning on running again but has not formally announced a campaign. He’s expected to have a glide path to the nomination, with much of the Democrat establishment behind him, despite his failing health and falling poll numbers.

Kennedy, a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and the son of his slain brother Robert F. Kennedy, repeatedly referenced both of them during his lengthy speech Wednesday.

Kennedy Jr. was once known most as an environmental lawyer who worked on issues such as clean water. But over the past nearly two decades, he’s become one of the leading voices of the vaccine-realist movement. His work has been described by members of his own family and public health experts as misleading and dangerous, while others call it realistic and helpful.

His efforts intensified after the pandemic and suspect development of the COVID-19 vaccine. A photo posted on Instagram showed Kennedy backstage at a July 2021 Reawaken America event with former President Donald Trump’s ally Roger Stone, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

Kennedy has been a guest on Infowars, the channel run by Alex Jones, and on the “War Room” podcast hosted by longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon, where he promoted his bestselling 2021 book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” in which he accused the U.S.’s top infectious disease doctor of participating in “a historic coup d’etat against Western democracy.”

Facebook and Instagram both censored and removed the accounts of Children’s Health Defense for failing to parrot regime talking points.

Kennedy has repeatedly invoked Nazis and the Holocaust when talking about measures aimed at mitigating the spread of COVID-19, such as mask requirements and vaccine mandates. He has apologized for some of those comments, including when he suggested that people in 2022 were worse off than Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her family in a secret annex in an Amsterdam house for two years.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Barrier-Breaking Black Astronaut Complains about ‘Whitey on the Moon’

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Barrier-Breaking Black Astronaut Complains about ‘Whitey on the Moon’

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Victor Glover, the first black astronaut to orbit the moon, spoke out about the racism he experienced in a recent interview, where he claimed that America has not changed since the launch of the first Apollo program.

Glover referenced the 1970 poem “Whitey on the Moon” to describe his feelings on the situation. According to the Daily Wire, he listens to the poem twice a week on the way to work.

“Honestly, I started listening to [the poem] in the car to talk with my colleagues about it,” Glover said.

“I live in the America that sent me to space, told my grandfather he couldn’t fly during the Korean conflict when he was enlisted, but he got to sit and watch me fly,” he continued. “We live in a very complicated country.”

The poem, composed by activist and jazz musician Gil Scott–Heron, bemoans the government using tax dollars on the Apollo program while neglecting its citizens back home—much the way the Biden administration has prioritized the well-being of Ukraine over domestic priorities.

“Taxes takin’ my whole damn check, / Junkies makin’ me a nervous wreck, / The price of food is goin’ up, / An’ as if all that s*** wasn’t enough … / Was all that money I made las’ year / (for Whitey on the moon?),” the song asks.

Glover admitted that many people are still skeptical of government spending on voyages into space, and acknowledged that they deserve recognition.

During the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020, Glover also spoke out in defense of NASA for hiring him.

“When I came to NASA, you know, they said, ‘Hey, we hired you because of who you are,’” he said. “OK. Cool. You get all of it.”

NASA announced Glover as the primary pilot of Artemis II, a new, manned mission to the moon, on April 3.

“The Artemis II crew represents thousands of people working tirelessly to bring us to the stars,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement. “This is their crew, this is our crew, this is humanity’s crew… Together, we are ushering in a new era of exploration for a new generation of star sailors and dreamers—the Artemis Generation.”

Biden’s ATF Director ‘Not a Firearms Expert,’ Refuses to Define ‘Assault Weapon’

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Biden’s ATF Director ‘Not a Firearms Expert,’ Refuses to Define ‘Assault Weapon’

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) At a recent budget hearing, the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Steve Dettelbach, admitted that he is not an expert on firearms and refused to define the term “assault weapon.”

After the director announced his support for for a national “assault weapons ban,” Rep. Jake Ellzey, R-Texas, politely asked Dettelbach to provide a definition of the term in 15 seconds or less.

“I’ll go shorter than that, because honestly, if Congress wishes to take that up, I think Congress would have to do the work, but we would be there to provide technical assistance,” Dettelbach said. “I, unlike you, am not a firearms expert to the same extent as you maybe, but we have people at ATF who can talk about velocity of firearms, what damage different kinds of firearms cause, so that whatever determination you chose to make would be an informed one.”

Twitter users took Dettelbach to task for his incompetence.

“If he was an expert on firearms, he wouldn’t be Director of the ATF,” one user quipped. “The Biden administration is strongly opposed to hiring people with knowledge and expertise.”

“I don’t know what an assault weapon is but when it gets here I’m gonna hate it,” user Sarah Bellum joked.

“Just as bad as ‘what is a woman?’ and ‘I’m not a biologist,'” The Billy Clerk said, referencing Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s infamous refusal to define the word “woman” in throughout her Supreme Court hearings.

Despite Dettelbach’s self-admitted lack of expertise, the ATF has made several moves towards stricter gun control in recent months.

In March, the organization reclassified pistols with stabilizing braces, used to balance the arm when shooting, as short-barreled rifles. This move effectively turned millions of lawful gun owners into felons overnight.

The administration demanded that owners of stabilized pistols re-register their guns—which comes with hefty tax requirements—remove the brace, surrender the firearm to the ATF or completely destroy the gun.

There was little reason behind the ban aside from a vague nod towards “public safety.”

‘Fast and Furious’ Reporter Scores Win in Lawsuit against Computer-Hacking Feds

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‘Fast and Furious’ Reporter Scores Win in Lawsuit against Computer-Hacking Feds

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former CBS journalist Sharyl Attkisson, who had her computers hacked by federal agents in retaliation for her numerous stories about the Obama-era Operation Fast and Furious scandal, scored a big win this week in her lawsuit over the matter.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Stewart Aaron ruled Tuesday that CBS must produce the hard drive that the government hacked while Attkisson worked for the news network. CBS must also scour its internal records for all communications between CBS, government agencies and Congress about Attkisson and the computer intrusions.

Attkisson’s lawsuit stems from “anomalies” she noticed on her electronic devices while working on the “Fast and Furious” stories more than 10 years ago.

“Fast and Furious” was an operation overseen by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, in which the government purposely allowed firearms dealers to sell marked weapons illegally with the goal of tracking them to Mexican drug cartels.

The operation turned into a major scandal when one of the firearms was used to murder Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

“On Feb. 13, 2012, unknown to Attkisson at the time but later revealed through forensic exams, remote intruders downloaded new spyware into Attkisson’s CBS Toshiba laptop at approximately 10:30 p.m. after she downloaded an mp3 file and clicked on an email,” Attkisson said of the government targeting her.

Attkisson sued then-Attorney General Eric Holder and other officials over the matter in 2015, but that lawsuit was largely unsuccessful because the courts ruled that Holder had sovereign immunity protections. (Holder earlier had been held in contempt of Congress for his refusal to cooperate with a GOP-led investigation into the matter, but he declined to prosecute himself for the crime.)

Nonetheless, Attkisson’s lawsuit proceeded against former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges, who had been assigned to the Baltimore Silk Road Task Force at the time her computers were hacked, and undercover DOJ informant named Ryan White. She is also suing “unknown named agents of the DOJ,” according to court records.

In that case, CBS had filed a motion to quash Attkisson’s quest for these records last month, arguing that the news agency has already done plenty to aid the journalist in her lawsuit against the government.

CBS argued in its motion that the hard drives sought by Attkisson contain “proprietary CBS data and information protected by the reporter’s privilege, making it impossible to produce the drives wholesale.”

However, Judge Aaron shot down these arguments in his Tuesday decision.

“[Attkisson has] reason to believe that the hard drive evidence that CBS has in its possession may be different. Accordingly, no later than Thursday, April 27, 2023, CBS shall produce the hard drive evidence in its possession,” the judge said.

Meanwhile, Attkisson is apparently hunting down the DOJ informant, White, to serve him a subpoena.

“Efforts to locate and serve Ryan White for deposition continue, but are still unsuccessful,” she said in a status report last week.

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

Provisional Ballot Analysis May Reverse Democrat Steal in Arizona Race

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Provisional Ballot Analysis May Reverse Democrat Steal in Arizona Race

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Analysis of ballots in Arizona has indicated that the Republican candidate for attorney general, Abe Hamadeh, likely received more votes in the 2022 midterms than the eventual declared victor, Kris Mayes, the AZ Free News reported.

The vote margin according to the final 2022 count was a mere 280. Since the election in November, Hamadeh and his team have argued that over 250 voters were allegedly disenfranchised.

Hamadeh’s case will be heard on May 16 by a Mohave County court.

In addition, Hamadeh and his team assert that over 1,000 ballots had their registrations canceled due to government voter software issues, whether fraudulent or accidental.

“It’s really a screwed up situation,” said Hamadeh. “If you can imagine, the disenfranchisement is even bigger than what we’re arguing.”

Hamadeh also noted that Democrats play by different rules when it comes to early voting, ensuring that their own voters get privileged treatment while Republicans are disenfranchised.

“If you’re on PEVL [Permanent Early Voting List] and you expect your ballot to come but it doesn’t, you’re disenfranchised,” said Hamadeh.

Moreover, according the report, there are approximately 8,000 provisional ballots outstanding, meaning ballots that have not yet been counted, per Arizona county reports.

Given that the uncounted ballots are largely from Election Day itself, Hamadeh’s chances of overtaking Mayes in the final count appear strong.

Despite the fact that not all votes had been counted, and that there were several very close races, Arizona officials certified the results in December 2022.

“All data points suggest that it favors Republicans,” he said. “As more data comes in, it’s getting worse for the government and looking better for us.”

Also bolstering Hamadeh’s case, surprisingly, is high-powered election lawyer Marc Elias, who has pivoted away from the Democrats insofar as he is arguing for all provisional ballots to be counted.

Given the extraordinarily narrow margin between Hamadeh and Mayes, it appears that any one of Hamadeh’s challenges could secure his victory.

Biden Campaign Colluded w/ Lying Intel Officials to Downplay Hunter’s Laptop

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Biden Campaign Colluded w/ Lying Intel Officials to Downplay Hunter’s Laptop

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A congressional probe headed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has uncovered ties between then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign and a letter from security experts dismissing the claims about Hunter Biden’s laptop, Just the News reported.

Jordan, who expects to release a report later this month on the possible collusion, suggested that the handling of the laptop investigation—which has been systematically ignored or downplayed by the corporate media, in partnership with the FBI-=-was partisan from the very beginning.

“It was all done with politics, and it looks like there was some some real connections with the Biden campaign,” Jordan said in an interview last week.

The timing of the letter, whose signers are known as the “Dirty 51,” was meant to confuse voters, he suggested, causing them to doubt the connection between the Biden family and the corruption revealed in the contents of the laptop, while giving left-wing media and social media companies the cover they needed to justify suppressing the story altogether.

Biden even cited the deceptive letter as proof that the laptop was a Russian disinformation scheme when pressed about it during a debate with then-President Donald Trump.

“There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that this—what he’s accusing me of—is a Russian plant,” Biden claimed.

“… Five former heads of the CIA—both parties—say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage,” Biden continued. “Nobody believes it except him and his good friend Rudy Giuliani.”

However, Jordan specifically noted two connections between the Bidens and the expert-approved letter, both Obama-era CIA officials, who have aided the investigation: former acting Director Mike Morrell and Nick Shapiro, a former adviser to ex-Director John Brennan.

Both held their high-up positions at the agency during the Obama administration.

“It seems to me that one of the key players here was Michael Morell, that he was one kind of coordinating this, working this together,” Jordan said.

“And then there are a few other folks. We have talked to Nick Shapiro,” Jordan added. “Mr. Shapiro, I think, was the one kind of coordinating the outreach to the legacy media and how they wanted this story presented.”

Jordan and his colleagues sent a letter in February warning the former deep state officials that their actions would be investigated at greater length in the coming months.

“The Judiciary Committee made a prior request to you for documents and information about the public statement you signed in October 2020 that falsely implied the New York Post’sreporting about Hunter Biden was the product of Russian disinformation,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote in the letter.

He obtained information for Morell and Shapiro via “transcribed interview before the Committees.”

Morell is now a contributor for CBS News. Shapiro runs a political consulting firm.

Colorado’s ‘Moderate’ LGBT Gov. Polis Enacts 1st ‘Transgender Tourism’ Law

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Colorado’s ‘Moderate’ LGBT Gov. Polis Enacts 1st ‘Transgender Tourism’ Law

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a gay Democrat, announced that his state would open its doors for teenage “transgender tourism” in the coming months, the Daily Mail reported.

The bill that the supposedly-moderate governor signed into law will protect healthcare industry participants who administer “gender-affirming care” to out-of-state patients, including teenagers seeking hormone therapy.

According to the governor, Colorado will protect liberty by allowing teens to mutilate themselves and using state coercion to perform abortions.

“Here in Colorado, we value individual freedoms, and we stand up to protect them,” Polis said.

“I’m excited by the work of advocates and legislators to further Colorado’s reputation as a beacon of freedom, a beacon of choice, a beacon of individuality where we live our own lives on our own terms in a Colorado for all,” he added.

Democratic state Sen. Julie Gonzales expressed her support for those seeking hormone therapy.

“We see you and in Colorado, we’ve got your back,” she said.

State House Minority Leader Mike Lynch, a Republican, said that the laws will make Colorado attract “the vulnerable, the indigent and frightened minors from all over the country.”

The news comes in the wake of Polis signing into law a trio of health care bills enshrining access to sex-changes, protecting abortion, and restricting pregnancy centers.

One of those laws will force businesses in his state pay for their employees to get abortions.

Yet the news should come as no surprise. Polis has signed into law numerous radical bills during his tenure as governor.

In April of 2022, for example, he “codified into law” the “right” to get an abortion until the moment of birth.

“In the State of Colorado, the serious decision to start or end a pregnancy with medical assistance will remain between a person, their doctor, and their faith,” he said at the time.

Fox News, Dominion Reach $787M Settlement, Trial Avoided in Defamation Lawfare Suit

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Fox News, Dominion Reach $787M Settlement, Trial Avoided in Defamation Lawfare Suit

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Fox News avoided a potentially ugly and grueling court challenge in a blockbuster $1.6-billion defamation lawsuit, agreeing hours after the beginning of the trial Tuesday to settle with Dominion Voting Systems for a reported $787 million.

“We are pleased to have reached a settlement of our dispute with Dominion Voting Systems,” a Fox spokesperson said after the agreement was announced. “We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false. This settlement reflects Fox’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. We are hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues.”

The settlement will also allow some of the network’s biggest personalities, such as Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo, and Fox founder Rupert Murdoch, to avoid having to take the witness stand.

Dominion had sued Fox and its parent company Fox Corporation for $1.6 billion, claiming that the network used its on-air personalities and select guests to knowingly spread what the company argued were false claims that Dominion had changed votes in the 2020 election through algorithms in its voting machines that had been created in Venezuela to rig elections for the late dictator Hugo Chavez.

Fox had argued that the 2020 election claims made by Trump and his legal team were newsworthy and covering those claims were protected by the Constitution’s First Amendment. The presiding judge ruled in March that Dominion’s complaint “supports the reasonable inference that Fox either (i) knew its statements about Dominion’s role in election fraud were false or (ii) had a high degree of awareness that the statements were false.”

Dominion CEO John Poulos crowed over the settlement. 

“Fox has admitted to telling lies about Dominion that caused enormous damage to my company, our employees, and the customers that we serve,” he said at a press conference Tuesday. “Nothing can ever make up for that.”

Under the terms of the settlement, however, “Fox News will not have to apologize or admit to spreading false claims on network programming, according to a person familiar with the details of the agreement,” the New York Times reported.

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