New Spider-Man Movie Pushes ‘Trans’ Ideology, BLM Sticker in Trailer

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New Spider-Man Movie Pushes ‘Trans’ Ideology, BLM Sticker in Trailer

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The woke Marvel indoctrinators decided to include the “Protect Trans Kids” flag and Black Lives Matter sticker in the new animated Spider-Man movie, which were visible in the trailer, causing people to criticize the leftists shoving their politics down people’s throats.

According to Infowars, the creators of the upcoming feature film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse have snuck in a “transgender” flag that displays the words “Protect Trans Kids.” The message is almost invisible in the background and appears just for a split second.

In another scene, Miles Morales, the “diverse” Peter Parker’s replacement, also holds a briefcase that has a BLM sticker attached to it.

People criticized Marvel and Disney for pushing radical, divisive and dangerous ideas.

A musician Five Times August noted that leftists cannot stop themselves from pushing their politics on other people.

“It’s like a dog peeing on every mailbox as it walks down the street. They can’t help marking their territory,” he wrote.

Author John Hawkins also criticized the activists who work at Marvel.

Other Twitter users shared their points of view.

“I’m so sick of this trans stuff being shoved down our throats 24/7,” Audsauce wrote.

Julio Murillo asked a rhetorical question of why leftists don’t put the American flag in their creations, instead of the flags of sexual deviants.

“They just can’t get enough of filling up the propaganda. How about putting the Country’s flag every now and then!!?”

A conservative commentator The Professor wrote that indoctrination needs to stop.

“It’s getting beyond a joke now. Enough with the propaganda.”

A woman under the nickname Arayvek stated that she made an important decision after seeing the leftist propaganda in the trailer.

“And just like that – My kids are no longer allowed to watch Marvel,” she wrote with Peregrine-Falcon deciding to do the same thing.

AT Happenings, another conservative Twitter user, wrote that this indoctrination is the product of the New World Order and that normal people should protect children from it.

“Man, this really has got to stop. This new world order crap sucks,” AT Happenings wrote.

“How about for a change teaching kids It is OK to be the person that they were born as? Why are they trying to tell children that they are some things that they are not? It’s not fair to this young generation. I’m so glad I’m Generation X and did not have to go through this,” the user added.

Wash. Post ‘Fact Checker’ Slammed for Accusing Trumps of Intimidating Judge

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Wash. Post ‘Fact Checker’ Slammed for Accusing Trumps of Intimidating Judge

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) A Washington Post ‘fact checker‘ has come under attack for dishonestly skewing tweets by President Trump‘s sons sharing an article by Breitbart News.

The Breitbart article showed that the judge overseeing President Trump’s case, Judge Jean Merchan, has a daughter, Loren Merchan, who is the president and partner of Authentic Campaigns, which runs digital campaigns for leftists, per her LinkedIn account. Loren also lists her pronouns in her biography.

Donald Trump Jr. shared the story on his twitter account.

“Seems relevant… yet another connection in this hand picked democrat show trial,” he tweeted. “The BS never ends folks.”

“Daughter of Judge on Trump Case Worked on Biden-Harris Campaign.”

Importantly, the hyperlink to the Breitbart story was included.

Eric Trump also tweeted about the story.

“They are all hand picked,” he tweeted as reported by Breitbart News. “It is all pre-arranged. This corruption is on a different level.”

Both tweets, because they were sharing a news article about the judge’s daughter, included a photograph of her.

Washington Post’s lead fact checker, Glenn Kessler, was triggered by the tweets.

“Both Trump sons have now posted photos of the judge’s adult daughter,” he whined on twitter. “Totally irrelevant — and obviously intended to intimidate.”

Kessler included screenshot of the tweets, but cropped out the news story, thus dishonestly distorting the Trumps’ tweets.

Joe Concha, a journalist who works with The Hill, slammed Kessler.

“Both were linking to a news story, thereby already putting the photo and information into the public domain,’ he tweeted. “But for whatever reason, the WaPo “fact-checker” cropped that part out. Why is that?”

Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway also slammed Kessler.

“Did you really just deceptively edit these tweets in order to falsely portray the LINKING OF A NEWS STORY ABOUT A PUBLIC FIGURE as the posting of a private individual’s photo?” she tweeted. “Wow, BANNER FREAKING WEEK, GLENN.”

Jack Posobiec, of Human Events, urged Twitter to fact check the fact checker.

“@communitynotes do your thing,” he tweeted.

Republican Strategist Andrew Surabian pointed out how corrupt our cultural institutions are to have a ‘fact checker’ blatantly lie.

“You’re a liar. They both posted a Breitbart story about the judge’s daughter working for Kamala Harris, not a picture,” he tweeted. “Last I checked, reporters considered political staffers to be public figures.”

“In a sane world, a “fact checker” who knowingly lies would be fired on the spot.”

Hawaii Considers Charging for $50 Tourist License to Offset Ecological Impact

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Hawaii Considers Charging for $50 Tourist License to Offset Ecological Impact

(Headline USA) Repairing coral reefs after boats run aground. Shielding native forest trees from a killer fungus outbreak. Patrolling waters for swimmers harassing dolphins and turtles.

Taking care of Hawaii’s unique natural environment takes time, people and money. Now Hawaii wants tourists to help pay for it, especially because growing numbers are traveling to the islands to enjoy the beauty of its outdoors — including some lured by dramatic vistas they’ve seen on social media.

“All I want to do, honestly, is to make travelers accountable and have the capacity to help pay for the impact that they have,” Democrat Gov. Josh Green said earlier this year. “We get between nine and 10 million visitors a year (but) we only have 1.4 million people living here. Those 10 million travelers should be helping us sustain our environment.”

Hawaii lawmakers are considering legislation that would require tourists to pay for a yearlong license or pass to visit state parks and trails. They’re still debating how much they would charge.

The governor campaigned last year on a platform of having all tourists pay a $50 fee to enter the state. Legislators think this would violate U.S. constitutional protections for free travel and have promoted their parks and trails approach instead. Either policy would be a first of its kind for any U.S. state.

Hawaii’s leaders are following the example of other tourism hotspots that have imposed similar fees or taxes like Venice, Italy, and Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands. The Pacific island nation of Palau, for example, charges arriving international passengers $100 to help it manage a sprawling marine sanctuary and promote ecotourism.

State Rep. Sean Quinlan, a Democrat who chairs the House Tourism Committee, said changing traveler patterns are one reason behind Hawaii’s push. He said golf rounds per visitor per day have declined 30% over the past decade while hiking has increased 50%. People are also seeking out once-obscure sites that they’ve seen someone post on social media. The state doesn’t have the money to manage all these places, he said.

“It’s not like it was 20 years ago when you bring your family and you hit maybe one or two famous beaches and you go see Pearl Harbor. And that’s the extent of it,” Quinlan said. “These days it’s like, well, you know, ‘I saw this post on Instagram and there’s this beautiful rope swing, a coconut tree.’”

“All these places that didn’t have visitors now have visitors,” he said.

Most state parks and trails are currently free. Some of the most popular ones already charge, like Diamond Head State Monument, which features a trail leading from the floor of a 300,000-year-old volcanic crater up to its summit. It gets 1 million visitors each year and costs $5 for each traveler.

A bill currently before the state House would require nonresidents 15 years and older visiting forests, parks, trails or “other natural area on state land” to buy an annual license online or via mobile app. Violators would pay a civil fine, though penalties wouldn’t be imposed during a five-year education and transition period.

Residents with a Hawaii driver’s license or other state identification would be exempt.

The Senate passed a version of the measure setting the fee at $50. But the House Finance Committee amended it last week to delete the dollar amount. Chair Kyle Yamashita, a Democrat, said the bill was “a work in progress.”

Dawn Chang, chair of the state Board of Land and Natural Resources, told the committee that Hawaii’s beaches are open to the public, so people probably wouldn’t be cited there — and such details still need to be worked out.

Rep. Dee Morikawa, a Democrat on the committee, recommended that the state create a list of places that would require the license.

Green has indicated he’s flexible about where the fee is imposed and that he’s willing to support the Legislature’s approach.

Supporters say there’s no other place in the U.S. that imposes a similar fee on visitors. The closest equivalent may be the $34.50 tax Alaska charges to each cruise ship passenger.

Hawaii’s conservation needs are great. Invasive pests are attacking the state’s forests, including a fungal disease that is killing ohia, a tree unique to Hawaii that makes up the largest portion of the canopy in native wet forests.

Some conservation work directly responds to tourism. The harassment of wildlife like dolphins, turtles and Hawaiian monk seals is a recurring problem. Hikers can unknowingly bring invasive species into the forest on their boots. Snorkelers and boats trample on coral, adding stress to reefs already struggling with invasive algae and coral bleaching.

A 2019 report by Conservation International, a nonprofit environmental organization, estimated that total federal, state, county and private spending on conservation in Hawaii amounted to $535 million but the need was $886 million.

At the Diamond Head trail recently, some visitors said the fee would make the most sense for people who come to Hawaii often or who might be staying for several weeks. Some said $50 was too high, especially for those who view a walk through nature as a low-cost activity.

“For a large family that wants to have the experience with the kids, that would be a lot of money,” said Sarah Tripp, who was visiting Hawaii with her husband and two of their three children from Marquette, Michigan.

Katrina Kain, an English teacher visiting from Puerto Rico, said she thought the fee would “sting” some people but would be fine so long as it was well-advertised.

“If tourists were informed about it, then they would be OK with it,” she said. “If that was a surprise $50 fee, it would be a pretty lousy surprise.”

The legislation says proceeds would go into a “visitor impact fee special fund” managed by the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Carissa Cabrera, project manager for the Hawaii Green Fee, a coalition of nonprofit groups supporting the measure, said this would ensure the state has money for conservation regardless of budget swings.

Mufi Hanneman, president and CEO of the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, which represents hotels, backs the bill but said Hawaii must carefully monitor how the money is used.

“The last thing that you want to see is restrooms that haven’t been fixed, trails or pathways that haven’t been repaved or what have you — and year in, year out it remains the same and people are paying a fee,” Hannemann said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Wash. State Stockpiles 3 Years of Baby-Killing Drugs Ahead of SCOTUS Ruling

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Wash. State Stockpiles 3 Years of Baby-Killing Drugs Ahead of SCOTUS Ruling

(Headline USA) In another example of radical leftists subverting the justice system in pursuit of killing unborn babies, Washington state has purchased a three-year supply of a leading abortion medication in anticipation of a court ruling that could limit its availability, Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday.

The Democrat governor said he ordered the Department of Corrections, which has a pharmacy license, to buy 30,000 doses of the generic version of mifepristone at a cost of about $1.28 million, or $42.50 per pill. The shipment arrived in late March.

A two-pill combination of mifepristone and misoprostol is the most common form of abortion in the U.S. Research shows that medication-induced abortions are safe and effective. They were approved by the Food and Drug Administration over 20 years ago., but a growing body of science has shown potentially dangerous side effects, not just for the aborted baby, but also the mother.

The awaited ruling in a Texas lawsuit brought by a Christian group would affect states where abortion is legal as well as those that outlaw it.

“This Texas lawsuit is a clear and present danger to patients and providers all across the country,” Inslee said in a statement. “Washington will not sit by idly and risk the devastating consequences of inaction.”

Former President Donald Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk heard debate in March over the Alliance Defending Freedom’s request to revoke or suspend the FDA’s approval of mifepristone. The conservative group claims it was improperly approved.

Kacsmaryk said he would rule “as soon as possible” without giving any clear indication of how he might decide.

The bulk pill purchase also comes as Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson pursues the issue from another angle: He’s helping to lead a multistate lawsuit in federal court meant to further ease restrictions to the medication.

The lawsuit filed with Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum in February against the FDA accuses it of singling out mifepristone for excessively burdensome regulation despite evidence that the drug is safer than Tylenol, Ferguson said in a statement at the time.

The lawsuit asks the court to find certain FDA restrictions unlawful and to stop the federal agency from enforcing or applying them to mifepristone.

State lawmakers are also bringing legislation that will authorize the state Department of Corrections to sell or distribute the drug stockpile to licensed providers in Washington.

The bill’s co-sponsor, Sen. Karen Keiser, of Des Moines, said the last year has made it clear that they can’t be complacent when it comes to killing unborn babies.

“The Legislature is taking a number of crucial steps this session to protect abortion rights,” Keiser said, “but those rights are meaningless without access to care.”

Several moves have been made in Washington to strengthen abortion access, including a directive from Inslee instructing the Washington State Patrol not to cooperate with out-of-state abortion investigations. Other abortion and gender mutilation bills are expected to pass the Washington Legislature this session.

Abortion has been legal in Washington since a 1970 statewide ballot referendum.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

McCarthy Meets w/ Taiwan’s President at Reagan Library, Despite Chinese Threats

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McCarthy Meets w/ Taiwan’s President at Reagan Library, Despite Chinese Threats

(Headline USA) Risking China’s ire, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy welcomed Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to a high-level meeting on U.S. soil as a “great friend of America” on Wednesday in a fraught show of U.S. support.

More than a dozen Democrat and Republican lawmakers, including the House’s third-ranking Democrat, joined Republican McCarthy for the talks at southern California’s Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, against a backdrop of rising tensions between the U.S. and China.

The members of Congress rose to their feet to greet the Taiwanese leader at a long table lined with bouquets. The formal trappings of the meeting, and the senior rank of some of the elected officials, in themselves threatened to run afoul of China’s position that any interaction between U.S. and Taiwanese officials is a challenge to China’s claim of sovereignty over the island.

McCarthy said he wanted the Taiwan president to see that “this is a bipartisan meeting of members of Congress,” not any one political party.

“We will continue to find ways for the people of America and Taiwan to work together to promote economic freedom, democracy, peace and stability in Asia,” the House speaker said.

The United States broke off official ties with Taiwan in 1979 while formally establishing diplomatic relations with the Beijing government. The U.S. acknowledges a “one-China” policy in which Beijing lays claim to Taiwan, but it does not endorse China’s claim to the island and remains Taiwan’s key provider of military and defense assistance.

For Tsai, it was the most sensitive stop on a weeklong journey meant to shore up alliances with the U.S. and Central America. The U.S. House speaker is second in line of succession to the president. No speaker is known to have met with a Taiwan president on U.S. soil since the U.S. broke off formal diplomatic relations.

China has reacted to past trips by Taiwanese presidents through the U.S., and to past trips to Taiwan by senior U.S. officials, with shows of military force.

The Chinese responded to a visit by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan last August with its largest live-fire drills in decades, including firing a missile over the island.

Chinese officials have pledged a sharp but unspecified response to the meeting with McCarthy. There was no immediate reaction from China on Wednesday, a holiday there.

However, Chinese vessels started a joint patrol and inspection operation in the central and northern waters of the Taiwan Strait, state media announced Wednesday morning. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said Wednesday evening it had also tracked the Chinese Army’s Shandong aircraft carrier passing through the Bashi Strait, to Taiwan’s southeast.

China’s “deliberate action has jeopardized regional stability and caused tension in Taiwan Strait,” Taiwan’s defense ministry said. “However, external pressures will not hinder our determination to move toward the world & defend our country.”

The Biden administration insists there is nothing provocative about this visit by Tsai, which is the latest of a half-dozen.

“The first thing to emphasize is that these transits by high-level Taiwanese authorities are nothing new,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters Wednesday during travel in Europe. “They are private, they are unofficial, but they are nothing new. Given that, Beijing should not use the transits as an excuse to take any actions, to ratchet up tensions, to further push at changing the status quo.”

“There’s no reason for the Chinese to overreact in any way,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Wednesday. “We’ll watch this as closely as we can.”

The Taiwan president’s visit to America comes as China, the U.S. and its allies are strengthening their military positions and readiness for any confrontation between the two sides, with Taiwan and its claim to sovereignty a main flashpoint. How the U.S. and China are approaching military readiness stand in stark contrast, with the Biden regime increasingly focusing on wokeness and DEI mandates.

Confrontation between the U.S. and China, a rising power increasingly seeking to assert its influence abroad under President Xi Jinping, surged with Pelosi’s visit and again this winter with the cross-U.S. journey of what the U.S. says was a Chinese spy balloon.

Taiwan and China split in 1949 after a civil war and have no official relations, although they are linked by billions of dollars in trade and investment. China regularly flies fighter planes and bombers near Taiwan to emphasize its stance that the island is obliged to eventually unite with the mainland, by force if necessary.

Taiwanese presidents call their stops in the U.S. “transits” rather than visits. They avoid Washington on their itineraries as well as any public meetings between their top-level officials and those of the U.S. on American U.S. soil.

McCarthy, who has seldom made forays into foreign policy, is trying to steer Republicans – and many Democrats – into taking a tougher approach to China.

As the newly elected House speaker, he started a Select Committee on China that is probing many aspects of Chinese actions in the U.S. and abroad. Joining him for the bipartisan meeting were the Republican chairman and ranking Democrat on that panel, along with the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee that handles tax policy important to Taiwan, and lawmakers who are military veterans and members of the Armed Services Committee, among others.

The venue, at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley about 50 miles outside of Los Angeles and near McCarthy’s own home district, evokes an era when the Republican Party played a more substantial role on global matters. In contrast, McCarthy’s GOP includes a strong non-interventionist wing that is more skeptical of involving the U.S. overseas.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Judge Presiding over Trump’s N.Y. Case Donated to Anti-Trump Campaigns

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Judge Presiding over Trump’s N.Y. Case Donated to Anti-Trump Campaigns

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The New York City judge presiding over the prosecution of former President Donald Trump made political contributions to President Joe Biden’s campaign and a “Stop the Republicans” campaign, according to FEC records.

Judge Juan Manuel Merchan donated three times to ActBlue, the Democrats’ online fundraising machine for a total of $35. The donations, while small, signal a potential “impartiality” against Trump, the DC Patriot reported.

The records list New York State’s Office of Court Administration as Merchan’s employer. OCA is the “administrative arm” of the New York Supreme Court, the state’s lowest trial court, where Trump is being tried.

The donations aren’t the only ties that link Merchan to Democrats. The judge’s adult daughter, Loren Merchan, worked for the defunct 2020 presidential campaign of Kamala Harris and for the campaign of anti-Trump Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

According to Newsweek, Loren now runs a consulting firm called “Authentic Campaigns,” which lists the Biden–Harris campaign and leftist California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

In recent Truth Social posts, Trump lashed out at Merchan, who also presided over a tax fraud case related to the Trump Organization.

“The Judge ‘assigned’ to my Witch Hunt Case, a ‘Case’ that has NEVER BEEN CHARGED BEFORE, HATES ME. His name is Juan Manuel Merchan, was hand picked by Bragg & the Prosecutors,” Trump posted.

Merchan served as a Manhattan prosecutor and then as an attorney in the state attorney general’s office before being tapped by then-NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg to be a judge in a family court in the Bronx in 2006, according to the Associated Press.

An anonymous New York court official told Politico that judges are “randomly” selected through an “assignment wheel” and that Merchan was picked by mere coincidence.

Merchan also oversaw the arraignment of Steve Bannon—Trump’s former strategist and host of the conservative WarRoom podcast—on charges related to Bannon’s effort to fundraise for a border wall.

The Daily Mail reported Monday that Merchan was believed to would slap Trump with a gag order, which would have ultimately muzzled the former president from speaking on the matter until trial. 

Similarly, Trump has accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg—a George-Soros-backed prosecutor who made convicting the former president a “No. 1 issue” of his campaign—of plotting a witch hunt against him.

Trump is expected to appear before the New York Supreme Court a second time on Dec. 4, 2023, reported the New York Post.

DOJ May Pay $144M to Victims of Texas Church Shooter Who Eluded FBI Database

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DOJ May Pay $144M to Victims of Texas Church Shooter Who Eluded FBI Database

(Headline USA) The Justice Department announced Wednesday a tentative $144 million settlement with families and victims of a 2017 mass shooting at a Texas church that was carried out by a former U.S. airman who was able to purchase firearms despite a criminal history.

More than two dozen people were killed when Devin Patrick Kelley opened fire during a Sunday service at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs. Authorities put the official death toll at 26 because one of the 25 people killed was pregnant in what remains the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history.

Kelley had served nearly five years in the Air Force before being discharged in 2014 for bad conduct, after he was convicted of assaulting a former wife and stepson, cracking the child’s skull. The Air Force has publicly acknowledged that the felony conviction for domestic violence — had it been put into the FBI database — could have prevented Kelley from buying guns from licensed firearms dealer.

U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez had previously ruled that the Air Force was “60% liable” for the attack because it failed to submit Kelley’s assault conviction during his time in the Air Force to a national database. He ruled that Kelley was at fault for the rest.

The Justice Department said the settlement is still subject to court approvals.

“No words or amount of money can diminish the immense tragedy of the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs,” said Vanita Gupta, associate attorney general for the Justice Department, in a statement. “Today’s announcement brings the litigation to a close, ending a painful chapter for the victims of this unthinkable crime.”

Jamal Alsaffar, a Texas attorney who has represented the Sutherland Springs victims in the lawsuit, noted that the settlement was not yet final and said the families have been fighting for justice.

“The Sutherland Springs families are heroes,” Alsaffar said in a statement. “The country owes them a debt of gratitude. They have gone through so much pain and loss in the most horrific way.”

The settlement would end a long-running lawsuit that was filed in 2018. When lawsuits are filed against federal agencies or programs, they are defended by attorneys with the Justice Department, which has separate divisions for criminal prosecutions and other responsibilities.

The settlement is less than the $230 million that Rodriguez had ordered the government to pay families and the victims last year, but the Justice Department appealed that ruling.

Rodriguez said in 2021 that had the government done its job and entered Kelley’s history into the database, “it is more likely than not that Kelley would have been deterred from carrying out the Church shooting.”

Kelley was able to purchase four firearms after being discharged in 2014, three of which he carried into the church. After the shooting, the Air Force was blamed for not reporting his record to the FBI. The conviction would have been a red flag in the mandatory background check when Kelley tried to purchase a gun.

Kelley died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after he was shot and chased by two men who heard the gunfire at the church.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

White House Snubs Losers after ‘Taco Jill’ Flub Insults Winning NCAA Basketball Team

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White House Snubs Losers after ‘Taco Jill’ Flub Insults Winning NCAA Basketball Team

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden on Tuesday scrapped the idea of inviting the NCAA champion Louisiana State women’s basketball team along with Iowa’s players, who lost the title to LSU, to celebrate at the White House. His wife, Jill, had suggested such a nontraditional scenario a day earlier.

But the social media pushback to her suggestion, made on Monday, was swift and unexpected by her staff, and the commentary led her to drop the idea, too. Her spokesperson said Tuesday that the first lady also looked forward to welcoming LSU to the White House.

The tone-deaf flub from the first lady insulted some LSU players, who had signaled instead that they would prefer to be invited to celebrate with former first lady Michelle Obama.

Caitlin Clark, Iowa’s star player, also said Louisiana State shouldn’t have to share the spotlight.

The president tweeted Tuesday that both LSU and the University of Connecticut, winner of the NCAA men’s basketball title, “showed us the best of what this country can be.”

“We can all learn a lot from watching these champions compete,” he said, “and I look forward to welcoming them at each of their White House visits.” He did not announce dates, and the comment suggested that Iowa will not be joining the winning teams.

UConn coach Dan Hurley said “it will be an honor to go to the White House” and called the prospect “one of the great thrills of winning something like this.”

Following LSU’s victory, coach Kim Mulkey said she would go to the White House if invited. There was no immediate comment from Connecticut, but the team has made the trip to the White House after winning the NCAA title game in prior years.

The first lady had watched LSU’s 102-85 victory over Iowa from the stands in the Dallas arena on Sunday alongside tennis great Billie Jean King and several college athletes.

During an appearance Monday in Denver with Colorado lawmakers, Jill Biden followed up by praising Iowa’s sportsmanship and congratulated both teams on their performance. She noted the long-standing White House tradition of celebrating championship sports teams — and added a twist.

“I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House, we always do. So, we hope LSU will come,” she said. “But, you know, I’m going to tell Joe I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game.”

The suggestion didn’t go over well. LSU star Angel Reese, who was honored as Most Outstanding Player, on Monday tweeted a link to a story on Jill Biden’s remarks. “A JOKE,” Reese wrote, along with three rolling-on-floor-laughing emojis.

Others commenting on social media noted the racial dynamics involved, saying that only winners should be rewarded with a White House visit and that hosting both teams would detract from the achievement by LSU’s team, which is predominantly Black. The Iowa team is largely white. Others noted the important role of Black women in Democratic Party politics.

Vanessa Valdivia, a spokesperson for Jill Biden, said the first lady was excited by watching the women’s game and meant no disrespect to LSU.

“Her comments in Colorado were intended to applaud the historic game and all women athletes,” Valdivia tweeted Tuesday. “She looks forward to celebrating the LSU Tigers on their championship win at the White House.”

During her remarks in Colorado, the first lady also talked about how U.S. women have excelled in athletics since Title IX in 1972 gave women equal rights in sports at schools that receive federal funding.

Clark, asked in an interview if she wanted to go to the White House as a runner-up, said such a visit would be a “pretty cool moment” for the Louisiana team to enjoy alone.

“I don’t think runner-ups usually go the the White House,” she told ESPN. “I think LSU should, you know, enjoy that moment for them and congratulations. Obviously, they deserve to go there. Maybe I could go to the White House on different terms, though.”

Lisa Bluder, Iowa’s coach, echoed Clark’s comments, adding on Twitter that “we would welcome the First Lady and President to come to Iowa’s ‘House’ – Carver Hawkeye Arena – any time!”

The pushback over the first lady’s NCAA comments recalled an episode last year when she apologized for saying Latinos are “as unique” as the breakfast tacos served in San Antonio. She had made the comment during a speech in that Texas city to UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization.

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists and others registered their offense on social media, with the journalists’ organization tweeting, “We are not tacos.”

Joe Biden, meanwhile, has offended many Iowans by pushing to end their long run as the first state to select its Democratic presidential candidate in next year’s election.

Under pressure from Biden, the Democratic National Committee unveiled plans to begin its nominating contest instead with South Carolina, a more “diverse” state, where Biden hopes to see a stronger showing of support as was the case in the 2020 election.

Biden languished in early primaries and was all but dead in the water before his South Carolina showing gave him the jolt needed to cruise to victory on Super Tuesday, when he was able to vanquish or broker deals with all other candidates except for socialist Bernie Sanders.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

New British Series Features Adults Exposing Themselves to Children

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New British Series Features Adults Exposing Themselves to Children

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) After years of pushing LGBT propaganda, the Left has now moved to legitimizing pedophilia in the broader American culture.

The latest instance of such a push is a new TV show called Naked Education, which aired its first episode Tuesday night, Metro reported. In the trailer for the show, children are shown at desks, ostensibly watching bath-robed people strip down in front of them to show them “what real male bodies look like.”

The show “aims to break taboos and aid body positivity” by having contestants strip down all the way on live TV. It is specifically designed to promote transgenderism and a variety of sexual orientations.

One of the contestants, Finlay Games, had breasts removed and an artificial penis created out of skin from the forearm. According to Games, the show will help slow the spread of misinformation.

“There is so much misinformation around being transgender in general, but especially around gender-affirming surgery and what that is, and why we have surgery,” he said.

“It was so important to show that this isn’t just surgery that we choose, it’s life-saving stuff.”

For Finn, the surgery is “more than just the aesthetic changes on the outside, it’s really deep, internal, life-saving changes.”

The platform can be used to “show that [transitional surgery] really does enhance lives.”

Pushing pedophilia and transgenderism both have become favorite activities of the Left, both in academia and in political life.

In March, for example, University of Victoria professor Rachel Hope Cleves explained her disgust for the term “pedophilia,” arguing that instead we should refer to the act as “intergenerational sex.”

“So I do talk about intergenerational sex, to get to this terminology question,” she continued. “This is a contentious term because by the standards of our time—we don’t see any possibility for sex between adults and children; we see it as rape, and not following within the framework of sex and sexuality.”

In February a Soros puppet, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon, suspended prosecutor Shea Sanna for “misgendering” and “deadnaming” a convicted child molester who started to “identify” as a woman after he was arrested.

Brainwashing Victims Seek to Hold Gov’t Accountable for CIA’s MKUltra Experiments

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Brainwashing Victims Seek to Hold Gov’t Accountable for CIA’s MKUltra Experiments

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Some 70 years after the CIA conducted secret brainwashing experiments on unsuspecting, innocent civilians—including some that involved the use of dangerous, psychotropic drugs like LSD—victims are still attempting to hold the U.S. government responsible for its actions.

Victims who were experimented on in Canada appear to be fighting an uphill battle.

After having their lawsuit against the U.S. government dismissed last year by a judge in Montreal, Quebec, an appeal hearing took place last week.

According to reports, lawyers for the U.S. government reiterated their position that the CIA should be immune for its actions. Appeals court justices reserved their decision for a later date.

“On Thursday, a lawyer representing the United States government told the Quebec Court of Appeal that the country should be immune from prosecution and that any lawsuit against the U.S. government should be filed in that country,” the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported last Thursday.

The lawsuit in question stems from CIA-sponsored experiments that took place at Montreal’s Allan Memorial Institute under psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron.

Court records from the lawsuit describe Dr. Cameron’s “Montreal Experiments” as consisting of extreme mind-control brainwashing experimentation on “unwitting” patients by methods of such as drug-induced comas, intensive electroconvulsive therapy, “psychic driving,” sensory deprivation, and the administration of a cocktail of drugs to suppress nerve functionality and activation.

Historian Wendy Painting provided more details about Dr. Cameron’s experiments in her book, Aberration in the Heartland of the Real, showing that the Canadian doctor was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the CIA-front organization Human Ecology Fund at Cornell University.

“His subjects consisted mostly of depressed homemakers that checked in for nerves and anxiety; for which they received large doses or LSD, Thorazine, Seconal, and high-voltage electroshocks, as Cameron sought to obliterate their memories and fully regress them into infantile states,” Painting wrote.

“Afterwards, Cameron placed them in sensory isolation rooms, keeping them in drug-induced comas for months at a time, all the while playing nonstop recorded messages as a way of reprogramming their underlying personality structures, in a process Cameron called ‘psychic driving,’” she added.

In 1992, the Canadian government reportedly offered compensation payments of C$100,000 (US$78,000) to 77 former patients of the institute who had been reduced to a childlike state.

But lawyers for victims said last week that the U.S. government still needs to be held accountable.

“We don’t think that Canadian citizens who are injured on Canadian soil are required to go to the United States to sue,” said class-action lawyer Jeff Orenstein, according to CBC.

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

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