Ariz. Gov. Hobbs Forced to ‘Reorganize’ Staff Due to Scandal after Only 3 Mos.

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Ariz. Gov. Hobbs Forced to ‘Reorganize’ Staff Due to Scandal after Only 3 Mos.

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’s office is re-evaluating its leadership roles following the abrupt resignation last week of press secretary Jossely Berry, who made what some interpreted to be a terroristic threat in response to a massacre at a Christian school in Nashville, Tenn.

On Friday, Hobbs’s team announced the reorganization effort,which will include the departure of Director of Communication Murphy Herbert, the Arizona Mirror reported.

The governor’s office plans to announce Herbert’s replacement next week. 

Alli Bones, Hobbs’s chief of staff, insisted that Herbert’s replacement has nothing to do with Berry’s resignation, and his future in the administration is still undecided.

“This review has been going on for the past couple of weeks and … has been in the works for a while,” Bones said. “These things don’t happen overnight.”

Hobbs arrived in office with a public-image problem already under her belt due to the highly disputed nature of her “victory” over GOP challenger Kari Lake, who has been authorized in an ongoing court case to review and verify ballots that may have been fraudulently counted in Maricopa County.

In her first three months, Hobbs—the former George Soros-backed secretary of state—has continued to founder from a string of public blunders and tone-deaf messaging.

Berry’s resignation came after she controversially posted a tweet that appeared to endorse violence against “transphobes” in the immediate wake of the school shooting in which a trans-identifying woman killed three adults and three 9-year-olds, the Daily Wire reported.

The former press secretary posted a photo of actress Gena Rowlands holding two pistols in the 1980 film Gloria. Berry captioned the photo “Us when we see transphobes.”

Hobbs also tweeted about this carnage on Tuesday, using the occasion to suggest, albeit vaguely, that the Second Amendment was to blame for the anti-Christian terrorist attack.

“As flags across our state and our country are lowered for the six victims of school gun violence in Nashville, we mourn their loss, along with all others killed by gun violence,” Hobbs wrote.

“Our schools should be safe places for students and teachers,” she continued. “This could have and should have been prevented.”

Critics quickly reacted to Hobbs’s tweet, forcing her to take action against her press secretary. 

The Daily Wire’s podcast host Matt Walsh tweeted, “Really? This is what your press secretary thinks about this tragedy. Fire her immediately. No other answer will be acceptable.”

After calls from several critics, Hobbs’s office released a statement on Wednesday, announcing that Berry had resigned. 

“The Governor does not condone violence in any form. This administration holds mutual respect at the forefront of how we engage with one another,” the statement read. 

“The post by the Press Secretary is not reflective of the values of the administration,” the statement added. “The Governor has received and accepted the resignation of the Press Secretary.”

Bud Light Makes Trans Diva the Face of Its Brand

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Bud Light Makes Trans Diva the Face of Its Brand

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Bud Light, joining its fellow woke corporations, has made Dylan Mulvaney, the infamous gender bender, the face of its brand.

The delusional man announced the partnership with Bud Light in two videos on Tiktok that were posted to Twitter, according to the New York Post.

In honor of what Mulvaney claims is “365 Days of Girlhood,” Bud Light “sent me possibly the best gift ever, a can with my face on it.”

These comments were mirrored on Mulvaney’s Instagram post.

“Happy March Madness!!” the transgender wrote. “Just found out this had to do with sports and not just saying it’s a crazy month!”

“In celebration of this sports thing @budlight is giving you the chance to win $15,000! Share a video with #EasyCarryContest for a chance to win!! Good luck! #budlightpartner.”

In the same video, the transgender man condescended to sports fans while promoting Bud Light and March Madness.

“I’m not sure exactly which sport, but either way it’s a cause to celebrate,” the transgender said before taking a drink of Bud Light with the label out. “Love ya, cheers, go team. Whatever team you love, I love too, okay.”

The second video has minimal dialogue, and shows Mulvaney grotesquely dancing in the bath whilst wearing a training bra, drinking Bud Light and waiting on hold via speakerphone.

This video is even more disturbing than it otherwise appears, because Mulvaney identifies as a prepubescent girl, and not a woman, according to RedState. Is it worse to show a man or a girl dancing in a bathtub wearing a training bra? Has Bud Light managed to endorse both?

The videos are so grotesque “#boycottBudwiser” was trending on Twitter.

Townhall columnist Derek Hunter slammed the brand on Twitter.

“Congratulations to @budlight on becoming the official beer of trans,” he tweeted. “Anyone who drinks it is either trans or into dating trans people.”

“I assume @MillerLite  or @MichelobULTRA put them up to this, why else would they alienate all normal straight people and sports fans at once?”

Bud Light joins Hershey in using a gender bender as a spokesman.

Watchdog Demands Shareholder Report on Disney’s Collusion w/ Communist China

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Watchdog Demands Shareholder Report on Disney’s Collusion w/ Communist China

(National Legal and Policy Center) On Monday, the National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Communist China Audit” proposal at The Walt Disney Company’s annual shareholder meeting, which would require the company to produce a report that addresses its vulnerabilities related to its business and ambitious expansion plans in the communist country.

Disney’s board of directors opposed the proposal, as explained on pages 79-81 of the company’s proxy statement.

NLPC’s response to the board’s opposition statement, and an extensive report that lays out why the existing board should not be re-elected, was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month.

Speaking at the meeting as sponsor of the resolution was Paul Chesser, director of NLPC’s Corporate Integrity Project.

A transcript of his two-minute remarks, which you can also listen to here, follows:

The National World War II Museum is hosting an exhibit about how Walt Disney and his company supported the war effort.

For example, the Disney studio lot in Burbank was converted into a military base almost overnight after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Disney studios immediately began work on training videos for topics like “how to spot enemy planes.”

Demonstrating sacrifice, Walt’s now-beloved classics of the early 1940s like Pinocchio and Bambi suffered early box office losses due to the war effort.

Producing the training videos cheaply, Walt said, “I don’t like this profit during war … when people are out there giving up their lives.”

It’s quite a contrast to today’s Walt Disney Company.

As we highlight in Proposal No. 5, Disney has cozied up to the communist regime in China.

According to the U.S. State Department, the dictatorship is guilty of slavery, forced organ harvesting, genocide and many other human rights horrors.

Rather than take the financial hit for principle like Walt did, instead the Company thanked the Uyghur torturers in Xinjiang for letting Mulan be filmed in their province, for example.

Disney also capitulates to the Chinese government’s every censorship demand in order retain access to that market.

And rather than enlist its artists against oppressive forces like Walt did, Disney instead infuses its cartoon features with mature adult themes that American parents don’t want their kids exposed to.

That led to two box-office bombs for its top two animated theatrical releases last year.

It’s also what cost Disney its special tax district around its theme parks in Orlando.

Upon his return at the end of last year, Mr. [Robert] Iger … said about the company’s critical relationship with the state of Florida, “to the extent that I can work to kind of quiet things down, I’m going to do that.”

But instead last week we saw Mr. Iger escalate hostilities against the Sunshine State regarding the district.

That’s why Mr. Iger, and this entire board that presided over last year’s disaster, cannot be trusted and should be opposed on your proxy ballots.

Read NLPC’s shareholder proposal for The Walt Disney Company annual meeting here.

Listen to Paul Chesser’s remarks at the Disney annual meeting in support of the proposal here.

Read NLPC’s response, filed with the SEC, to Disney’s opposition to our shareholder proposal, and our call to vote against the entire renominated board of directors, here.

Meghan Markle Fuels Political Speculations w/ Payment to Michelle Obama’s Press Sec

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Meghan Markle Fuels Political Speculations w/ Payment to Michelle Obama’s Press Sec

(Headline USA) Meghan Markle fueled speculation of a potential political run this week after it was revealed that her nonprofit organization, the Archewell Foundation, paid Michelle Obama’s former press secretary more than $100,000 in 2021.

Tax returns obtained by The Sun reveal that the foundation, which is run by Markle and Prince Harry, paid $109,870 to a public relations firm run by Katie McCormick Lelyveld, a longtime Obama aide. Lelyveld worked for Michelle Obama from 2007 and 2011, and has also done public relations work for Hillary Clinton and former presidential candidate John Kerry.

The payment was listed on the Archewell Foundation’s tax documents as “strategic support for social impact PR.”

Markle has waded into the political world quite frequently over the past few years. In 2021, the Duchess issued a controversial letter calling on Congress to pass a federal paid parental leave program.

“At an alarming rate, millions of women dropped out of the workforce, staying home with their kids as schools and daycares were closed, and looking after loved ones full-time,” she wrote in the letter, which was addressed to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “The working mom or parent is facing the conflict of being present or being paid. The sacrifice of either comes at a great cost.”

Markle and Prince Harry also met with California Gov. Gavin Newsom privately in 2020, though the governor’s office claimed the meeting was just an “introductory meeting welcoming the Duchess to California.”

Markle’s interest in politics could be due to her failure in other industries, such as entertainment. Her children’s show with Netflix was axed before it even went into production.

The children’s show, which was “in the development stage,” was to depict a story loosely based on Markle’s childhood, especially on the power women that she looked up to throughout her childhood that helped inspire her to become a power woman herself.

Markle was to be the creator and the executive producer of Pearl. The program was to be the first in a series of ambitious projects launched by Archewell Productions, the royal couple’s attempt at writing and producing stories. As of now, they have yet to produce shows for Netflix, or for any other streaming service.

Los Angeles County Takes Up ‘Decarceration’ Proposal to Empty Out Jails

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Los Angeles County Takes Up ‘Decarceration’ Proposal to Empty Out Jails

(Headline USA) The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is reportedly considering a “decarceration” policy that would empty out its jails, releasing many current prisoners.

The policy, which will be debated during the board’s meeting on Tuesday, is called “Los Angeles County to Take Actionable Next Steps to Depopulate and Decarcerate the Los Angeles County Jails: Granting Local Authority, Advocating for Court and State Support, and Legislative Changes.”

If the proposal passes, it would “declare the state of mental health services and overcrowding in the Los Angeles County jails a humanitarian crisis, requiring the County to move with all deliberate speed on meaningful solutions; and prioritize decreasing the number of individuals entering the Los Angeles County Jails” through a number of measures.

One such measure would require law enforcement to “cite and release individuals with aggregate bail amounts set at $50,000 or below” and “adopt a zero bail schedule for individuals accused of low-level offenses, infractions, misdemeanors, and felony offenses.”

The supervisors behind the proposal – Hildal Solis and Lindsey Horvath – argued that emptying out the county’s jails is necessary to “redress historical wrongs.”

“To depopulate and decarcerate is a monumental task, and the Board is committed to redress historical wrongs, deeply rooted in systemic racism and prejudice, and reverse status quo responses to poverty, mental health and medical needs, and substance use dependencies,” they wrote in a motion.

The county’s prosecutors, however, are objecting to the policy proposal, warning it would make crime in the city even worse.

“The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ motion to gut parts of the criminal justice system without input from stakeholders is dangerous and recklessness,” Eric Siddall, vice president of the Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys, told Fox News. “The authors sought no advice from those who know and understand public safety issues. They seek to lower the jail population without addressing the root causes of crime or protecting the public.”

Trump’s Attorney Says Indictment Only Happened Because Trump Is Running in 2024

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Trump’s Attorney Says Indictment Only Happened Because Trump Is Running in 2024

(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, argued this week that the only reason leftist prosecutors pursued the Stormy Daniels “hush money” case is because Trump is again running for office.

Tacopina, who is representing Trump against the indictment brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, told ABC News on Sunday that Bragg’s charges are entirely political.

“If you’re an American and you’re concerned about rule of law, there should be no scenario where you want this to happen,” he said. “If you’re intellectually honest, we all know that had Donald Trump not been Donald Trump, and it was John Smith, this case would have never been brought. If he was not running for reelection, there is no way this case would have been brought.”

Tacopina pointed to federal prosecutors’ past decision not to pursue charges against Trump in this case, saying that even they knew it was too legally weak.

“This case is not even legally sufficient. Factually, it’s a joke,” Tacopina added. 

The statute of limitations almost certainly guarantees the case will have no legal standing, Tapocina argued. Moreover, the agreement between Daniels and Trump’s team never involved Trump personally, he said.

“We do all know that it has to do with a confidential settlement agreement – a completely legal confidential settlement agreement with Stormy Daniels, her attorney. Michael Cohen and her attorney signed that together, Donald Trump did not,” Tacopina said. “And the entries into the ledgers would be misdemeanors, and they’re not even false – but they would be misdemeanors and way past the statutes of limitations.”

However, the attorney said in a separate interview with CNN on Sunday that he is not going to seek an immediate dismissal at Trump’s arraignment on Tuesday because “that would be showmanship and nothing more.”

“We will very loudly and proudly say ‘not guilty,’” he said.

Tacopina also predicted that Trump’s team will eventually file a dismissal — perhaps after the former president has used the case to build up his 2024 presidential bid.

“The team will look at every potential issue that we will be able to challenge, and we will challenge,” Tacopina told CNN, adding that the defense “very much anticipates a motion to dismiss because there’s no law that fits this.”

Leftist Go Beserk Over ‘60 Mins.’ Interview w/ Rep. MTG

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Leftist Go Beserk Over ‘60 Mins.’ Interview w/ Rep. MTG

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) After Sunday’s broadcast of an interview featuring Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Left took to social media to condemn 60 Minutes host Lesley Stahl and CBS. 

The show’s preview on Twitter read, “Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, nicknamed MTG, isn’t afraid to share her opinions, no matter how intense and in-your-face they are. She sits down with Lesley Stahl this Sunday on 60 Minutes.”

Daily Wire reported that leftists expressed outrage at the interview, immediately blasting CBS for airing it. 

Laura Helmuth, one of the angered leftists, tweeted, “Some of the most important decisions you make as an editor are about who and what NOT to cover.” 

Bruce Bourgoine also took to Twitter to lament. “Wasteful of our time journalism malpractice. This should have been an April Fool but sadly is not,” he wrote. “Serious treatment of this individual by @60Minutes is not providing informative, insightful news or analysis but rather a platform for hate to build on.”

Television producer Jonathan Goldman also called the congresswoman names on Twitter as he blasted the 60 Minutes host. He wrote,  “Shame on 60 Minutes for normalizing the hateful bile that MRG (sic) spews.”

After condemning the interview and questioning the show’s credibility, @Mommamia1217 tweeted, “I certainly won’t be watching. Will you?”

Independent journalist Gleen Greenwald also pointed out that many critics only judged blindly as they all complained about an interview they did not watch. 

He wrote, “The number of liberals vehemently condemning this interview they have not seen — based on their view that journalists should ignore everyone who isn’t a Democrat or at least a good Trump-hating Republican like Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney — reveals so much about their mindset.”

He further noted that it only makes sense for the host to interview MTG as an influential congress member.

“They want journalists to create a make-believe reality for them in which bad people and bad things don’t exist,” Greenwald said. “Don’t we learn when we’re 8 that this doesn’t work?”

School Dist. Avoids Term ‘Women’s Studies’ Due to Exclusive Language

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School Dist. Avoids Term ‘Women’s Studies’ Due to Exclusive Language

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A Texas school district on the outskirts of San Antonio offered a “Women and Gender Studies” course that claims to take the bias out of language, despite nearly half of the students within the area lacking proficiency in both reading and math.

The course, offered in Judson Independent School District, covers all manner of woke topics—from basic tenants of feminism, to gender ideology, to critical race theory.

According to the Daily Caller, the class quizzed students on the definitions of terms like “safe space” and “patriarchy,” and asks them to take bias out of terms like “mailman,” “policeman” and “sportsmanship.”

“Although these gender-biased labels reflect our past more accurately than the present, they are still used,” the curriculum documents read. “Some will try and tell us that some titles are ‘inclusive’ and can be used for both men and women. This is not true. What would happen if a group of males were referred to as ‘you gals?’ Yet females are called ‘you guys’ all the time.”

The assignment also asked students to think of gender neutral terminology for words declared to be sexist simply because they reference men, such as “mankind,” “tomboy,” and “bachelor’s degree.”

“Language has had to change to reflect the change of the workforce,” the assignment said. “We still have words to describe careers and jobs that we have found hard to change.”

Neutralizing racial terms was another key component of the assignment.

“Patriarchy” was defined as “control with men having a disproportionately large share of power.” The course defined “safe space” as “a place (as on a college campus) intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas or conversations.”

Within the Judson District, a woeful 50% of high schoolers are proficient in reading and 56% are proficient in math.

“Half of the high schoolers students in this district aren’t proficient in reading,” Alex Nester, investigative fellow for Parents Defending Education, a parental rights organization, said “Yet, they’re teaching students definitions of words like ‘non-binary,’ ‘patriarchy,’ and ‘cis-,’ and asking students to make common words and phrases ‘gender neutral.’ Seems like the priorities are a bit off here.”

Judson Independent School District is one of many educational organizations revealing abysmal proficiency scores. Cities like Chicago, New York and St. Paul are all struggling—likely due in part to COVID learning loss, but also because of misplaced priorities of school district bureaucrats.

Gov’t Leaks SSNs of Nearly 2K White House Visitors from Trump’s Last Month in Office

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Gov’t Leaks SSNs of Nearly 2K White House Visitors from Trump’s Last Month in Office

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A recently-published Government Publishing Office report has revealed that almost 2000 White House visitors in December of 2020, during former President Donald Trump‘s final months in office, had their social security numbers leaked by the federal government.

According to the report, the numbers were “inadvertently” leaked along with the J6 Committee’s 2022 publication of government records.

 

White House visitors are required to submit their social security numbers and dates of birth prior to gaining entry, the Daily Caller reported.

The Biden administration had directed the National Archives and Records Administration to release visitor information without sensitive information, like social security numbers.

But after learning of the error, the GPO removed the initial document and replaced it with an updated version. The GPO issued a statement explaining the gaffe, noting that they are not sure who to blame.

“Due to the involvement of multiple governmental agencies from different branches of government, it is not clear which body is responsible for the breach response. GPO has presented congressional oversight with a breach response plan and is waiting for their approval to act.”

They also noted that the mistake arose because of an “inadvertent” error in the midst of a “perfect storm” of confusion and rushed procedures, blaming the J6 Committee for causing “confusion” that left the publishing office “without active committee oversight.”

They added that the massive volume of material requested by the J6 Committee caused a great deal of confusion and chaos.

In response to the gaffe, the GPO also pledged to improve its processes by creating systems to “overtly notify customers to review their information” before publication, ensuring that all released information is properly “sanitized.”

Republicans were also compromised by leaks from Snapchat last year, when the social median platform gave leftist political operators access to their opponent’s political data before the 2022 midterms.

FBI Arrests Non-Violent Grandma for 5-Minute Capitol Tour on Jan. 6

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FBI Arrests Non-Violent Grandma for 5-Minute Capitol Tour on Jan. 6

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) As violent crime spikes in Washington DC, the FBI has arrested a grandmother who was peacefully inside Capitol Hill for about five minutes on Jan. 6, 2021.

Virginia woman Stacey Lynn Stephens faces charges of disorderly conduct, entering or remaining in restricted grounds and demonstrating in a Capitol building.

According to a sworn statement from FBI special agent Bela Schuler, an FBI informant provided pictures of Stephens in May 2022. The informant also provided photographs of still shots where Stephens is seen in videos inside the Capitol.

Last August, the FBI interviewed Stephens, who told agents that she and her mother, Linda Carpenter, went to see President Trump speak on the National Mall on Jan. 6.

“Stephens stated that she entered the U.S. Capitol to protect her elderly mother, to make sure she would remain safe among the crowd,” special agent Schuler said. “Stephens and Carpenter were inside the U.S. Capitol for approximately five minutes.”

Despite the harmless nature of what Stephens did more than two years ago, the FBI arrested her last week in what could be a new round of Jan. 6 prosecutions. The DOJ reportedly warned courts recently that more than 1,000 more people could face charges in relation to Jan. 6.

“We expect the pace of bringing new cases will increase, in an orderly fashion, over the course of the next few months,” U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves reportedly warned a federal judge last October. Graves added at the time that it was difficult to predict the exact number of cases due to the “nature and the complexity of the investigation.”

Meanwhile, the Washington Post reported last Wednesday that Graves’s office declined to prosecute 67% of those arrested by police officers in cases that would have been tried in D.C. Superior Court.

“That figure, first reported earlier this month on the substack DC Crime Facts, nearly doubled from 2015, when prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office declined to prosecute 35 percent of such cases,” the Post reported.

“The increased number of declined cases has sparked frustration among city leaders who are already under a national microscope from members of Congress for their crime fighting efforts.”

Conservative commentators were quick to note the sad irony that Graves is choosing to devote his resources towards prosecuting non-violent grandmothers while violent crime in his district is increasing unchecked.

“Absolutely stunning. Matthew Graves’ office is working nonstop to prosecute mostly misdemeanor offenses related to Jan 6 but allowing legitimate criminals in DC to skate,” wrote American Greatness journalists Julie Kelly. “Highest declination rate by far of any major city.”

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

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