Biden DOJ: No Jail Time for Anti-Life, Transgender Church Vandal

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Biden DOJ: No Jail Time for Anti-Life, Transgender Church Vandal

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) The Department of Justice recommended zero jail time for a radical abortion activist who admitted to vandalizing a Catholic church, destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary, assaulting a church worker and resisting arrest. 

Fox News Digital reviewed the plea agreement showing the DOJ’s recommendation for the vandal, Maeve Nota, a 31-year-old trans person. The reports noted that this incident occurred at the St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue, Washington, after Roe v. Wade’s overturning in June 2022. 

Mike Davis, founder of the Article III Project, said the recommendation contradicts the treatment pro-life protesters outside abortion clinics received. 

“It is very clear that the Biden Justice Department has politicized and weaponized the FACE Act to go after pro-life Christians praying outside of abortion clinics, like Mark Houck, while turning a blind eye to violent felons terrorizing and badly damaging Catholic churches like Maeve Nota,” he stated. 

“The Biden Justice Department tried to put Houck in prison for 11 years for defending his son while recommending no jail time for Nota after this deranged trans terrorist badly damaged a Catholic church, fought with the police, assaulted a church employee, and scared the hell out of a little old lady praying,” Davis added. 

Nota reportedly damaged two glass doors by smashing them with rocks. He also sprayed the church walls with paints, leaving messages including, “F— Catholics,” “rot in your fake hell,” “kid groomers,” and “woman haters,” amongst others. 

The report also noted that he sprayed a church staff member who tried to chase him away with his paint, and Nota smashed the police car with a backpack filled with spray cans before turning himself in. 

Filings from early March revealed that Biden’s DOJ charged the trans vandal with destroying a religious party. According to the laws, this charge can carry up to a year in prison and $100,000 in fines. 

However, a previously unreported plea agreement between the DOJ, the trans vandal and his attorney surfaced. This plea agreement revealed that the DOJ would recommend no jail time for Nota and three years of probation at his sentencing on June 2. 

Former Obama Speechwriter Demands Sen. Feinstein Resign Immediately

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Former Obama Speechwriter Demands Sen. Feinstein Resign Immediately

(Headline USA) A former speechwriter for President Barack Obama called on Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to resign immediately in light of her extended health-related absence from the legislative chamber.

Jon Lovett, who is also the co-founder of leftist media company Crooked Media, pointed out that Feinstein’s absence is preventing Senate Democrats from confirming judicial appointments, which is thus setting back President Joe Biden’s agenda.

“There’s been a lot of reporting about Dianne Feinstein no longer being fit to serve in the Senate representing the biggest state in this country. She is currently out for shingles. That is sad. That is obviously not her fault,” he said on his podcast.

“But because she is not in the Judiciary Committee, [Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.] has said that it has made it basically impossible to move a lot of these lower court nominees to the Senate for a vote, which means that Dianne Feinstein, who should not be in the Senate, is now preventing us from being able to confirm judges,” Lovett added.

Feinstein was diagnosed with shingles last month and was hospitalized for treatment on March 2. She was indisposed for much of February as well due to an infection. She was released from the hospital on March 7, but Feinstein has yet to return to the Senate.

Feinstein revealed earlier this year that she intends to retire at the end of her term in 2024, but Lovett said Democrats should be demanding her immediate resignation.

“I think what the people around Dianne Feinstein are doing, allowing, being part of this farce of having a lack of a senator in such an important job is really wrong,” he continued. “And Dianne Feinstein should no longer be in the Senate. She has to resign and more people should be calling on her to resign.”

In that vein, two Democrat lawmakers — Reps. Dean Phillips of Minnesota and Ro Khanna of California — have also called for Feinstein to step down.

Feinstein on Wednesday reportedly asked to be temporarily replaced on the Judiciary Committee.

Biden Admin. Directly Linked to FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid

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Biden Admin. Directly Linked to FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The unearthing of recent records revealed that President Joe Biden and his administration were directly connected to the FBI’s militarized raid of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, contradicting previous regime statements.

Stephen Miller’s America First Legal reported in its Twitter thread about how Biden’s White House was connected to the unconstitutional raid, exposing records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request to the National Archives and Records Administration.

“Records obtained from our investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Mar-a-Lago raid further confirm that the FBI obtained access to these records through a ‘special access request’ from the Biden White House on behalf of the DOJ,” according to AFL’s thread.

Reed D. Rubinstein, director of oversight and investigations for America First Legal, also released a statement regarding the recent news.

“The evidence further suggests that Biden officials in the Executive Office of the President and the Department of Justice unlawfully abused their power and then lied about it to the American people,” he said.

“This government, it seems, acknowledges no limits on its power to harass, intimidate and silence its political opponents.”

Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch also confirmed during his interview with Glenn Beck that the FBI would not be able to raid anyone without a “special access request” for the White House.

“They needed to access the records of Trump, and they call it a ‘special access request.'”

Beck then wanted to clarify if it is supposed to happen only if “it is directly related to something in the White House daily agenda.”

“In the end, it is the president who makes the decision… He has the ultimate authority.”

Journalist Benny Johnson also pointed out that Biden previously lied about his involvement in the raid.

“The White House knew about the raid on Mar-a-Lago ahead of time despite their constant denials. Another bold-faced lie by Joe Biden. Why should the American people have any faith in our government or our politicians when they constantly lie straight to our faces?” he wrote.

Republican Florida Sen. Rick Scott also replied to the recent news.

“This is a total abuse of power,” he wrote. “The Biden admin shamelessly weaponized the FBI and DOJ to target Americans and even a former President, all at the expense of our justice system’s integrity. And they lied about doing it! We need accountability NOW.”

“This all comes from the top,” wrote Rogan O’Handley, noting how Biden was previously involved in the witch hunt on Trump.

Other Twitter users also criticized Biden.

“Remember how they impeached Trump for allegedly abusing his power to target a political opponent, but then Biden actually did that?” Whispers of Dementia wrote.

U.S. Fiscal Path ‘Unsustainable’ with $39T in Liabilities

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U.S. Fiscal Path ‘Unsustainable’ with $39T in Liabilities

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) The U.S. holds $39 trillion in liabilities while only having $4.9 trillion in assets, leading the Department of the Treasury to say “the current fiscal path is unsustainable,” according to a recent report.

The extensive report contains detailed financial information on the state of U.S. finances. There is a section titled “An Unsustainable Fiscal Path,” that explains that “a sustainable fiscal policy is defined as one where the ratio of debt held by the public to GDP (the debt-to-GDP ratio) is stable or declining over the long term.”

The U.S. has a rapidly-increasing debt-to-GDP ratio, along with ballooning mandatory spending on programs like Medicare and Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance, driving up costs without substantial increases in revenue. These programs are projected to be depleted by 2028 and 2035, respectively.

On the balance sheet, the report shows the U.S. has assets of $4.9 trillion, which include cash, monetary assets, inventory and property, and loans receivable. On the liabilities side, however, the U.S. has $39 trillion in liabilities, which include $24.3 trillion worth of federal debt and interest payable, $12.8 trillion in federal employee and veteran benefits payable, and $1.8 trillion in other liabilities.

This is only one of many measures that show how much financial trouble the U.S. is in, and more people from both sides of the aisle are beginning to issue dire warnings that our current spending habits need to drastically change.

Questionable COVID-Relief Spending Allegations Pile Up

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Questionable COVID-Relief Spending Allegations Pile Up

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Lawmakers are outraged after reports that federal COVID-relief tax dollars may have gone to wealthy hospitals while avoiding helping out poor hospitals in recovering from the pandemic.

Republican members of Congress have raised this very question, asking why $17 billion of COVID-19 relief funds was used by hospitals with profits topping more than $53 billion, “while $35 billion went to hospitals that reported a loss of almost $130 billion.”

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., launched an investigation this week into the Department of Health and Human Services over the matter, the latest of several questions about about how trillions of COVID-19 relief dollars were spent, or misspent.

“The federal spending spree during the COVID-19 pandemic produced historic amounts of waste and fraud, and American families are paying a steep price as a result,” Heritage Foundation Budget expert David Ditch told The Center Square. “The exact amount is impossible to calculate because so much was given in so many directions.”

The lawmakers sent a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra demanding answers for why rural hospitals were “battling bankruptcy” while wealthier hospitals received more funds.

“It is crucial that we understand how the Department of Health and Human Services distributed these funds to hospitals that did not need it while hospitals in need received minimal benefit,” the letter said. “We request documents and communications to assist the Committee’s oversight of HHS’s administration of COVID-19 relief funds to low-income hospitals.”

This isn’t the first time COVID-19 relief funding has come under scrutiny. Lawmakers passed six bills totaling about $4.6 trillion in spending post pandemic, most of which has already been spent.

““Even though state and local governments did not see a meaningful drop in tax revenue, Congress still shoveled hundreds of billions of dollars in ‘relief’ their way,” Ditch said. “With money to burn, states embarked on a spending spree of their own that featured boondoggles, corporate welfare, and food stamp expansions for wealthy households.”

Much of the funding passed in the wake of COVID-19 was lost to waste, fraud and abuse, watchdog groups say.

“Massive increases in federal unemployment benefits led to individuals and criminal networks targeting the program for easy money, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars in fraudulent claims,” Ditch said. “The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) also suffered from large amounts of fraud, with just one notable example including a Georgia man using a PPP loan to buy a $57,000 Pokémon trading card.”

The Government Accountability Office has documented this kind of waste at length. From GAO’s February report:

While fraud and accountability issues will continue to occur in COVID-19 relief programs, there is already ample evidence of widespread fraud, improper payments, and accountability deficiencies during the pandemic. For example, GAO found that from March 2020 through January 13, 2023, at least 1,044 individuals pleaded guilty to or were convicted at trial of federal charges of defrauding COVID-19 relief programs. This includes the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (COVID-19 EIDL) program, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs, and economic impact payments issued by the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service.

Billions of dollars went to “equity warriors” in schools, sparking backlash.

“For example, California used ESSER funds for training in ‘environmental literacy,’ ‘ethnic studies,’ and ‘LGBTQ+ cultural competency,’” Republican lawmakers said in a letter last year to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. “New York used part of the $9 billion it received to provide staff development on ‘culturally responsive sustaining instruction’ and ‘privilege’ and to recognize ‘equity warriors.’ Illinois received $5.1 billion, which it partially used to emphasize ‘equity and diversity’ and make ‘equity driven investments.’ At least ten other state plans included proposals to use the ESSER funds to implement racially biased curriculum and programs based on Critical Race Theory.”

The federal Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan were reportedly rushing funds out the door, leading to significant issues. Unemployment insurance also saw high levels of waste.

The Department of Labor Inspector General estimated about 42% of the pandemic unemployment dollars were misspent, with 20% going to fraudulent recipients.

“[Employment and Training Administration] and states made significant efforts; however, they did not protect pandemic-related UI funds from historic levels of improper payments, including fraud,” the IG said in its report from last September. “We attribute this to four causes.”

The watchdog group pointed to government failures that allowed “large-scale fraud.”

“Specifically, states did not perform eligibility testing, ETA’s oversight was not timely enough, PUA initially allowed claimants to self-certify their eligibility, and ETA suspended 1 of their primary oversight tools for the first 3 months of the CARES Act,” the report said. “Furthermore, ETA’s interpretation of its regulations hindered the OIG’s timely and complete access to state UI claims data to assist in detecting and deterring large-scale fraud.”

Florida Attorney General Calls on Congress to Impeach DHS Chief Mayorkas

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Florida Attorney General Calls on Congress to Impeach DHS Chief Mayorkas

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is urging Congress to “begin impeachment proceedings immediately” of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. She cites several reasons to justify her request, including claiming he’s violated federal law, lied multiple times under oath before Congress, and is endangering American lives.

In a letter addressed to five Republican congressional leaders Tuesday, she urged them “to act to protect the American people and impeach Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Secretary Mayorkas is directly responsible, and his actions have caused our unprecedented border crisis.”

She also referred to the ruling of a federal judge that handed her her first major win against the Biden administration in a lawsuit she filed over Mayorkas’ catch-and-release policies. Judge T. Kent Wetherell, of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Florida, said, “The Court finds in favor of Florida because, as detailed below, the evidence establishes that Defendants have effectively turned the Southwest Border into a meaningless line in the sand and little more than a speedbump for aliens flooding into the country by prioritizing ‘alternatives to detention’ over actual detention and by releasing more than a million aliens into the country – on ‘parole’ or pursuant to the exercise of ‘prosecutorial discretion’ under a wholly inapplicable statute – without even initiating removal proceedings.”

The judge also said the administration’s policies “were akin to posting a flashing ‘Come In, We’re Open’ sign on the southern border. The unprecedented ‘surge’ of aliens that started arriving at the Southwest Border almost immediately after President Biden took office and that has continued unabated over the past two years was a predictable consequence of these actions.”

Moody said if Mayorkas “is unwilling to do the patriotic thing and resign his position, then Congress must initiate impeachment proceedings to get rid of this threat to our national security.”

Mayorkas’s “unlawful policies,” Moody argues, have proven to incentivize an unprecedented number of foreign nationals from over 150 countries illegally entering the U.S. At least 4.5 million people have been apprehended at the southwest border alone since January 2021, she said. Over 1.3 million have been released into the U.S., she added. Additionally, Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz testified before Congress last month that at least 1.5 million people have been reported evading capture by law enforcement who illegally entered the U.S. and their whereabouts are unknown. So far, according to CBP data and Border Patrol data obtained by The Center Square, at least 7.3 million people have been reported illegally entering the U.S. since Biden’s been in office.

Law enforcement officials have told The Center Square they believe the numbers are much higher than reported because only a fraction are being caught.

Moody also points to CBP officers seizing more than 31,000 pounds of fentanyl at the southwest border since February 2021, enough to kill the entire U.S. population nearly 22 times. She also argues the administration is emboldening the cartels who are profiting from bringing it into the U.S. and killing Americans.

“Secretary Mayorkas has handed the keys to our border to organizations that should be designated foreign terrorist organizations. These organizations are not only flooding our country with deadly fentanyl, they are also raping, abusing, and exploiting the immigrants they smuggle across the border. Many of these victims are children,” she writes.

“Secretary Mayorkas also directed and oversaw policies that have created a border, national security, and humanitarian disaster that he knows, or should know, put the American public in danger,” she writes. She cites an outdated number of people apprehended on the terrorist watch list as reasons behind Mayorkas’ failure. According to most recent CBP data, officers at the southern and northern border have apprehended nearly 300 people on the terrorist watch list in fiscal 2023 to date, with the majority coming in through Canada.

She also cites examples to support her claim that Mayorkas lied under oath three times last year when testifying before a House Judiciary Committee and House Homeland Security Committee. She cites examples of Mayorkas violating federal immigration law and “repeatedly” abusing the authority of his office as reasons for him to be impeached.

Last February, she led a coalition of 14 attorneys general calling on Mayorkas to resign for his “lack of leadership and intentional destruction of public safety immigration policies.” Since he’s said he has no plans to resign, and since border security continues to worsen, Moody’s calling on Congress to act.

In testimony given last month, Mayorkas told Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, “I have unflinching confidence in the integrity of my conduct.” Cornyn said he should be fired.

Last month, Mayorkas’ testimony given before Congress consistently contradicted testimony given by Border Patrol chiefs about a range of issues from operational control of the border to fentanyl seizures to claiming no murderers are being released into the U.S. despite Texas law enforcement regularly apprehending violent criminals released into the U.S., including murderers and sex offenders with outstanding warrants.

Trump Sues Former Attorney Michael Cohen for $500 Million

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Trump Sues Former Attorney Michael Cohen for $500 Million

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump is taking former jailbird and disgraced attorney Michael Cohen to court in a battle of titanic financial proportions, as a legal team filed a 30-page federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Wednesday. 

Trump is charging his former attorney with “breaching of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, conversion and breaches of contract” and is seeking $500 million in damages for unjust enrichment, Fox News Digital reported.

“This is an action arising from [Cohen’s] multiple breaches of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, conversion and breaches of contract by virtue of [Cohen’s] past service as [Trump’s] employee and attorney,” the lawsuit stated.

The “Defendant has engaged in such wrongful conduct over a period of time and, despite being demanded in writing to cease and desist such unacceptable actions,” Trump’s lawyer wrote.

“Such continuous and escalating improper conduct by [Cohen] has reached a proverbial crescendo and has left [Trump] with no alternative but to seek legal redress through this action,” the lawsuit noted. Adding, Trump “suffered vast reputational harm as a direct result of [Cohen’s] breaches.”

The lawsuit comes after a 34-count indictment was lodged against the former president last week. Trump is accused of making hush-money payments before the 2016 presidential election, which Cohen testified in March before a Manhattan grand jury. Statement of facts gathered by New York prosecutors alleged Trump made payments to Stormy Daniels, Playboy model Karen McDougal and a former Trump Tower doorman, who said Trump had a child out of wedlock. Trump has maintained his innocence of the matters. 

A statement released by Lanny J. Davis in response to the lawsuit against Cohen claimed Trump is using intimidation tactics in an effort to control those cooperating with the prosecution against him through fear and bullying.

“It appears he is terrified by his looming legal perils and is attempting to send a message to other potential witnesses who are cooperating with prosecutors against him,” Davis said. “Mr. Cohen will not be deterred and is confident that the suit will fail based on the facts and the law.”

It’s unclear why Trump would be quacking in his legal boots. The politically-weaponized indictment brought by Bragg has been roundly dismissed by legal analysts as grossly flawed.

According to Fox News, a source close to Trump’s legal team says the complaint against Cohen “has nothing to do with the Manhattan DA’s lawless and fact-less case and is a totally separate matter.”

In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight charges connected to tax evasion, as well as to giving false testimony to the United States Congress during its probe into the phony Russian involvement in the 2016 election. He was sentenced to three years in prison and his sentence was reduced through good behavior, serving over a year. He was on house arrest for 18 months starting in 2020.

PolitiFact Admits DeSantis Right about Bragg, Tries Adding Context

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PolitiFact Admits DeSantis Right about Bragg, Tries Adding Context

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) PolitiFact got slammed for trying to contextualize Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s claim about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. 

Desantis asserted that the Soros-funded district attorney was in the habit of downgrading most felonies occurring in Manhattan. However, PolitiFact received the heat on Saturday after posting a fact-check with a contextual clause. 

According to Fox News, the reporter who wrote the fact check, Jill Terreri Ramos, concluded it was true. However, the attempt to brush it off as a regular practice in the area did not go unnoticed. 

“DeSantis claimed that Bragg has downgraded ‘over 50% of the felonies to misdemeanors.’ Data from Bragg’s website confirms that 52% of felonies that were screened by prosecutors were downgraded to misdemeanors in 2022, the first year Bragg was in office. 2023 data show that so far, 54% of felonies have been downgraded to misdemeanors,” Ramos wrote. 

“Experts said that downgrading charges is a common practice and that it was done more often in three of New York’s other boroughs, according to state data from 2021.” she continued. “We rate this claim True.”

PolitiFact also tweeted, “Yes, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has downgraded felonies as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said,” acknowledging that Bragg truly downgraded over 50% of felonies to misdemeanours as DeSantis asserted. However, the organization added, “but it’s a common practice among peer counties.”

The squishy addition immediately sparked an adverse reaction, as critics slammed the organization’s attempt to normalize the practice. 

DeSantis press secretary Bryan Griffin tweeted, “Yes, @GovRonDeSantis was correct. But @PolitiFact feels compelled to note it’s simply ‘common practice’ to refuse to hold criminals accountable in NY.”

Radio host Joe Cunningham also posted a sarcastic reaction to PolitiFact’s tweet, writing, “‘We regret to inform you that Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is correct.”

RealClearInvestigations senior writer Mark Hemingway also tweeted, “PolitiFact’s rulings start to make sense when you realize it is a political disinformation organization for Democrats.”

Minnesota House Republicans executive director Andrew Wagner also commented on Twitter. 

 

CDC STUDY: 2% of Kids Have Autism, No Idea Why

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CDC STUDY: 2% of Kids Have Autism, No Idea Why

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) More than 2% of 8-year-old children have an Autism Spectrum Disorder, according to a new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which refuses to ask why, thus endangering these kids.

The new study found that results were worse for boys than for girls. Four percent of boys had an Autism Spectrum Disorder while only one percent of girls were diagnosed.

These numbers represent an increase in diagnosis from the last CDC report, which found 1 in 44 8-year-olds had autism in 2018, compared to the current 1 in 36 numbers.

The CDC began tracking data in 2000, and at that time only 1 in 150 children were diagnosed with Autism, according to the Epoch Times.

Mark Blaxill, is a journalist who regularly writes on autism, the chairman and co-founder of the Canary Party, editor-at-large of Age of Autism, and the former director of SafeMinds, who also speaks at conferences about autism, according to HealthChoice.

“Today’s new report from the CDC’s ADDM [Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring] Network places the latest ASD rate at 1 in 36 children born in 2012, but that’s not even the largest number out there (a recent survey using NHIS [National Health Interview Survey] data reported a rate of 1 in 29 children in 2020),” he said.

Though unlisted by Blaxil, his numbers are corroborated by a report produced by Fox 5 New York.

The cited CDC studies, for the first time, found that autism was more prevalent among Black, Hispanic, and Asian children than among White kids. These groups saw an increase in Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis’s of 30% from 2018 to 2020.

Some experts suggest that the increase in numbers of minorities, and the increase in numbers of Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis’ in general, may be the result of better and more available screening.

This is a long standing narrative of the CDC propped up by the media, according to the Defender.

Sallie Bernard, co-founder and board president of SafeMinds, commented on this reasoning.

“That does not explain why their rate is higher than white children,” she said. “As a group, no racial or ethnic minority here gets better assessment and diagnosis than white children, so to explain the disparity in the rate now as due to better assessment for minorities is just ludicrous.”

Bernard commented on what could inform Americans of the cause of the increasing numbers of Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis.

“For that, we need environmental justice,” she said. “You have to ask what are they exposed to?”

The studies are not asking that question. Some experts argue that increasing detection of individuals who require lower services, what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome, is driving up the numbers of people being diagnosed. Bernard also rejected this.

“When you look at the trends, no matter how you break it down, autism is rising in all of these groups and it has been since they started taking the data 20 years ago,” she said. “It’s hard to believe that when the experts went out and did their epidemiology studies and found lower rates in the past that they would have missed out on 3 of 4 kids on the spectrum.”

Toby Rogers holds a Ph.D. in political economy and wrote his doctoral thesis on “The Political Economy of Autism,” according to the Defender.

He commented on the CDC’s narrative of increased diagnosis practices driving up the numbers.

“The unwillingness of the CDC to even ask why these numbers are increasing is a massive ‘poker tell’ that they know, but are prohibited from talking about it,” he said. “Two high-quality, multi-million dollar studies in California (Byrd et al., 2002; Hertz-Picciotto and Delwiche, 2009) both concluded that better awareness, changes in diagnostic criteria, and earlier age of diagnosis only explain a small fraction of the rise in autism.”

“The authors of these studies urged public health officials to place greater emphasis on researching the toxicants that might be driving the increase in autism prevalence. [For a longer discussion of these studies please see Rogers, 2019.] The fact that the CDC is still refusing to properly investigate autism causation is outrageous.”

Bernard commented on the data available for potential causes of the spike of autism.

“There are many studies suggesting that something in our environment is driving the increase in autism, and that’s where we need to focus our attention,” she said.

Much research has been done on environmental factors that could multiply the genetic risks of an autism diagnosis, according to the Epoch Times.

The Epoch times reports that some possible connections include:

These causes were not investigated, despite the growing body of evidence suggesting a connection to the surge in Autism Spectrum Disorders.

“No one asks the obvious questions: Why are so many children sick?” Blaxill said. “What is this all going to “And of course there are the related questions: What are these people thinking and how do they go to sleep at night? I wish I knew.”

Increasing the probability of environmental causes, the CDC’s Early Identification ADDM Report found that diagnosis rates vary widely depending on location. Diagnosis levels were the lowest in Maryland and the highest in California.

Rogers commented on our ability to contain the epidemic.

“We absolutely know how to stop the autism epidemic—keep toxic substances out of kids’ bodies,” he said. “Toxic substances known to increase the risk of developing autism include mercury, ingredients in plastics and fire retardants, pesticides and herbicides, EMF/RFR, and pharmaceuticals (Tylenol, SSRIs, and vaccines).”

Tragically, the victims of this negligence, those afflicted with Autism Spectrum Disorders, are being victimized by a radicalized, leftist agenda.

People with autism are much more likely to experience gender dysphoria, and the American Left is seeking to shelter its transgender ideology behind folks diagnosed with autism.

In so doing, the American Left endangers people with autism. The National Library of Medicine explained that transgenders experience a monumental risk of committing suicide.

“Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide,” it reported.

Jim Jordan Subpoenas FTC Chair for Targeting Twitter

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Jim Jordan Subpoenas FTC Chair for Targeting Twitter

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The House Judiciary Committee announced Wednesday that its chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has subpoenaed Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan for documents related to the agency’s recent actions against Twitter.

Jordan’s subpoena stems from a March House Weaponization Subcommittee report, which accused the Federal Trade Commission of “harassing” Twitter by, among other things, demanding details of the company’s interactions with journalists.

The subcommittee, which was formed to investigate the weaponization of federal agencies, said in its report that the FTC targeted Twitter in retaliation for billionaire Elon Musk purchasing the platform.

The subcommittee noted that Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter on October 27, 2022. Just two weeks later, the FTC launched the first of over a dozen demand letters to the company. “Between just November 10 and January 18, the FTC issued over 350 requests—an average of roughly 35 requests per week,” the Weaponization Subcommittee said in its report.

The subcommittee spotlighted a particularly troubling request from the FTC, which demanded details of Twitter’s interactions with journalists, including “Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Abigail Shrier,” and the identities of all other journalists to whom Twitter had potentially provided access of its internal records. This came only days after the first published report on the Twitter Files, the trove of internal documents showing the company’s censorship decisions.

“The journalists’ reporting did not concern private user data or information that Twitter users wanted private. Quite the opposite, the reporting in the Twitter Files concerned content that users attempted to publicly share but that the government had pressured Twitter to restrict,” the subcommittee said in its report.

“While the FTC’s inquiry would be inappropriate in any setting, it is especially inappropriate in the context of journalists disclosing how social media companies helped the government to censor online speech.”

Republican legislators have apparently been seeking answers since the publication of the subcommittee’s report.

Jordan said Wednesday tht Khan has “failed to sufficiently comply” with requests for relevant documents and information about the matter.

“Accordingly, and in light of your disregard of our earlier requests for voluntary compliance, please find attached a subpoena for the requested documents and information,” Jordan said in his letter to Khan.

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

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