Australian Company Introduces Lab-Grown Woolly Mammoth Meatball

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Australian Company Introduces Lab-Grown Woolly Mammoth Meatball

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The latest in the line up of food abominations is a lab-grown meatball, allegedly spawned from DNA from a woolly mammoth.

According to the Daily Wire, Vow—an Australian company that specializes in synthetic meats—used the mammoth genome to create a long-lost appetizer that will reportedly help fight climate change.

The mammoth meatball was officially revealed at the NEMO science museum in Amsterdam.

Ernst Wolvetang, a researcher at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering at the University of Queensland, synthesized mammoth muscle tissue with myoglobin, elephant tissue and sheep myoblasts.

“It was ridiculously easy and fast,” Wolvetang told the Guardian. “We did this in a couple of weeks.”

Wolvetang revealed that their original plan was to create a dodo-bird chicken nugget, but the necessary DNA sequences do not exist.

Wolvetang explained that its also very likely no one will ever eat the mammoth meatball.

“We haven’t seen this protein for thousands of years,” Wolvetang said. “So we have no idea how our immune system would react when we eat it. But if we did it again, we could certainly do it in a way that would make it more palatable to regulatory bodies.”

Vow chose the mammoth as a marketing tool to push their climate-change message, despite the reason for their extinction being shrouded in mystery.

“We chose the woolly mammoth because it’s a symbol of diversity loss and a symbol of climate change,” Vow co-founder Tim Noakesmith said.

Meat spawned in labs is progressing towards regulatory approval via the Food and Drug Administration and the United States Department of Agriculture.

The FDA completed its first cell-grown human food market consultation for a synthetic chicken product from a company known as Upside Foods.

The review stated that the FDA had “no further questions” about the product. Upside Foods is waiting to hear back from the USDA for additional approval.

A Dallas-based startup, Colossal Biosciences, recently announced its own plans to “de-extinct” the dodo bird by replicating its genome sequences using DNA from its closest known surviving relatives.

Calif. Considers Banning Consequences for Drunk or High Students

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Calif. Considers Banning Consequences for Drunk or High Students

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) California lawmakers are considering a proposal which, if passed, would prohibit the expulsion or suspension of students attending class drunk or high, or who possess drugs and alcohol.

Assembly Bill 599, written by Democrat Assemblyman Chris Ward, received approval without opposition and is now on its way to the Appropriations Committee.

According to the Daily Wire, the bill argues that the “high feelings of school connectedness can decrease drug use,” or, that students who stay in school will be less likely to do drugs in the future.

Ward also argued that by not punishing students who get high or drunk at school, the state’s educational institutions will no longer feed kids into the school-to-prison pipeline.

Ward concluded by saying that his bill would be a “more humane” approach, though he did not specify what sort of measures would be taken.

The bill also requires the California Department of Education, along with local-level education agencies, to create a new model when addressing student’s illicit possession of drugs or alcohol on campus.

Ward noted that he adjusted the language of the bill to make it more gender-neutral.

Nora Lynn, the associate director of Children Now—a public policy organization that influenced the bill—claimed that the current zero-tolerance policy has imbalanced effects on the student population.

“We would just point to the very strongly disproportionate impacts on youth of color, young boys of color, and we feel like that far outweighs whatever deterrence there may be,” said Lynn.

Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, who chairs the Education Committee, rebutted Lynn’s argument by saying she did not provide any measurement criteria.

“I would appreciate that our policy decisions be data-driven rather than based on impressions or anecdotes,” said Muratsuchi.

Several other activist organizations joined Ward and Children Now in the writing of this bill: The California Alliance of Child and Family Services, California Youth Empowerment Network, and California Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry all had a hand in the language of the document.

Sen. Cruz Shames DHS Sec. Mayorkas for Abetting Rapes, Deaths of Illegal Immigrants

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Sen. Cruz Shames DHS Sec. Mayorkas for Abetting Rapes, Deaths of Illegal Immigrants

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, started a heated exchange with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing discussing the crisis at the southern border.

Cruz eviscerated Mayorkas after the latter admitted that he and the Biden administration were responsible for the massive spike in illegal immigration, which they previously attempted to blame on former President Donald Trump, according to the Daily Wire.

“Let’s look at CBP encounters … it drops to the lowest level. Then boom, what happens? You show up!” Cruz said. “And that red line is you! That red line is Joe Biden! And you’re claiming nothing happened, oh gosh, this was here before us. No! You made the decision to allow this!”

Mayorkas also confessed that he had no idea how many migrants died in their attempt to cross the border.

“Of course you don’t! I know how many died, 853!” Cruz replied angrily. “You go back to 1998, you see it’s consistently between 300 to 400… Suddenly 2021. What happens? You get in office!”

Cruz continued, calling Mayorkas’ behavior “disgraceful” and pointing out that he is responsible for the deaths, rapes and assaults taking place at the border.

He also defended Customs and Border Patrol officers.

“The men and women of the Border Patrol, they’ve never had a political leader undermine them,” Cruz continued. “They despise you, Mr. Secretary, because you’re willing to let children be raped to follow political orders. This is a crisis. It’s a disgrace. And you won’t even admit this human tragedy as it is crisis.”

Mayorkas declined to respond to Cruz’s observations, calling them “revolting.”

“Your refusal to do your job is revolting,” Cruz responded.

The situation at the border continues to worsen, with the Biden administration either turning a blind eye to the problem or blaming Republican politicians for the issue.

An estimated 5.5 million migrants have entered the country illegally since Biden took office, some with the encouragement and support of activist open-borders organisations, and even the American Red Cross. Towns along the border have been thrown into chaos as they attempt to house thousands of illegals.

CNN Admits Biden Once Held Same Views as GOP on Social Security

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CNN Admits Biden Once Held Same Views as GOP on Social Security

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Despite blasting Republicans for months regarding their stance on the failing Social Security system, President Joe Biden and some of his colleagues once held a very similar view.

Now, even far-left CNN has admitted that the evidence against Biden in this respect is irrefutable.

CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, noted that Biden even introduced a 1975 proposal that would have cut spending on programs such as Social Security altogether.

“Biden first introduced a proposal in 1975 that would have ceased funding all federal programs—including Social Security and Medicare—unless they were reauthorized by Congress,” they wrote.

“In fact, Biden’s bill was the first so-called federal sunset bill, something the president later boasted about in his 1978 Senate reelection campaign.”

The president also formerly supported raising the retirement age to 70—a plan that Democrats have vehemently attacked in recent months.

“In the year 2010, we are going to change the retirement age for Social Security,” Biden said in a 1987 speech.

“You cannot retire at age 65,” he continued. “You have to be 65 years and three months old. And in the year 2012, 65 years and six months in the year—literally raise incrementally the retirement age, beginning around the year 2010.”

Despite his prior support for such measures, Biden slammed Republicans in his State of the Union address earlier this year, and though he said he was “politely not naming them,” he presented himself as a defender of the system.

“Look, a lot of Republicans, their dream is to cut Social Security and Medicare,” he claimed. “Well, let me just say this …. My veto pen [will] make it a nightmare.”

The next day, however, he named specific Republicans, including Sen. Rick Scott of Floriday, for his “sunset plan” for Social Security.

“I remind you that Rick Scott from Florida, the guy who ran the U.S. Senate campaign, has a plan—I got his brochure right here,” Biden said, holding up a brochure issued by Scott’s office.

“Here’s what he says in his plan,” Biden continued. “… He says ‘All federal legislation sunsets every five years. If a law is worth keeping Congress can pass it again.'”

Biden also attacked Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., for his views.

“And by the way, you have senator named Ron Johnson … Ron Johnson on Social Security and Medicare, quote, ‘We should transfer everything. So, we have to consider everything every year,'” Biden continued. “Come on, man.”

COVID Panic Succeeded in Stemming Church Attendance

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COVID Panic Succeeded in Stemming Church Attendance

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The COVID lockdowns and Fauci-led fearmongering, though ostensibly enacted to “slow the spread,” succeeded also in curbing church attendance across America, the Washington Times reported.

According to the Times report, which cited a November 2022 Pew Research poll, more Americans have stopped attending church since the lock downs than have increased their attendance.

Pew tracked church attendance data over the span of four years, from 2019 to 2022, covering the COVID panic and subsequent lock downs.

Out of the poll respondents, 87% said that their religious habits have not changed substantially in the four-year span.

But over twice as many, 8%, said that they have decreased their attendance at religious services than have increased, 4%.

By the poll’s conclusion, researchers found that 20% of Americans said that their in-person attendance at weekly church services had decreased, whereas only 7% said that it had increased.

Virtual “participation,” however, skyrocketed up, spiking by 15%.

According to the report, white evangelicals were the most likely to attend in-person services through and after the pandemic. In-person attendance never fell below 30%, even at the height of the lock downs. By November of 2022, 52% had returned to in-person attendance at religious services.

Things look less rosy for Catholics, whose attendance was a paltry 13% during the locked down summer of 2020. The poll indicated that a mere 20% had returned in person.

Blacks protestants also appear to have taken the lock downs very seriously, with a low point of attendance at 14% in July of 2020, returning to 41% by November.

Pew noted in its report, however, that blacks “suffered a disproportionately high share of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, which the left-leaning pollsters suggested might have contributed to the lower attendance figures.”

Some have accused the globalist administrative state of intentionally leveraging lockdown hysteria as part of a broader cultural effort to diminish the influence of religion—and Christianity in particular.

According to Pew’s pollsters, the lockdowns did not, in fact, play a major role in church attendance since it was already on the decline before the pandemic.

“We can pretty clearly say from this data that there were no major shockwaves from the pandemic that totally threw off attendance from the trajectory it was already on,” said Pew research associate Michael Rotolo, according to Deseret News.

Jury Deadlocked on Day 1 in Trial over Hillary Clinton Meme

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Jury Deadlocked on Day 1 in Trial over Hillary Clinton Meme

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) After a full day of deliberation, the jury in the trial of Douglass Mackey told the judge that they were unable to come to a unanimous decision regarding Mackey’s guilt, or lack thereof, the Post Millennial reported.

Mackey, who is accused of election interference for posting a meme in 2016 about voting for then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton via text message, had been operating the popular “Ricky Vaughn” Twitter account that had some 58,000 followers.

He has maintained that the memes were clearly satire, while the U.S. government claims his actions were designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.

The jury, however, was unable to reach a decision Tuesday.

“We have completed our deliberations and we have not reached a unanimous decision. Please advise,” they told the judge, who sent them home for the night and asked them to reconvene in the morning.

“This is actually not unusual,” said Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Ann Donnelly. “By our terms you’ve only been deliberating for a little while.”

One of the government’s testifying witnesses will be an FBI informant who operates anonymous right-wing Twitter accounts.

According to prosecutors, the informant operates accounts similar to the Ricky Vaughn account. They claimed that the two worked in tandem to spread “misinformation.”

The informant plead guilty to the same charge that Mackey now faces, and will testify against Mackey at the trial. His identity has been protected because he is allegedly still working with the FBI in respect to other Twitter users.

“The [informant] is presently involved in multiple, ongoing investigations and other activities in which he or she is using assumed internet names and ‘handles’ that do not reveal his or her true identity,” prosecutors said.

Mackey’s lawyer, Andrew Frisch, claimed that the revealing of the informant’s identity is an essential part of the legal process to which nobody should be considered exempt.

“While the defendant and [the informant] never met, they were both political conservatives, and the [informant] is now at odds against him. If the [informant’s] political views have changed significantly, it is relevant to understand his community and biases,” Frisch wrote.

“If his political views have changed, the defense may wish to probe as to whether he has a political bias against the defendant,” Frisch continued. “If his views have not changed, it is relevant to probe his motivations.”

Biden’s DOJ Running Cover for Trans-Terrorism Activists Armed for Vengeance

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Biden’s DOJ Running Cover for Trans-Terrorism Activists Armed for Vengeance

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Claiming that a transgender triggerman who terrorized a community and left six dead in the Covenant School massacre was a matter for local law enforcement, the Biden Justice Department said it is not treating Monday’s mass shooting as an act of domestic terrorism.

A transgender mass shooter targeting a Christian school did not meet the FBI’s definition of “Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.”

An FBI spokesperson issued a squishy statement to the Daily Wire, ducking responsibility for investigating the trans mass shooter.

“If it was terrorism, we would have federal jurisdiction. Given that Nashville metro is leading the investigation, I think you can take a lot from that,” said Elizabeth Clement-Webb, a spokesperson for the Memphis Field Office of the FBI, which includes Nashville.

Local police were leading the investigation and the FBI was “in an assistance role” with Nashville partners, the spokesperson said. When pressed if the FBI “was monitoring radical trans activists as a source of potential domestic terrorism,” the FBI spokeswoman said “No.” 

Trans Radical Action Network, the group that has called for a march on the Supreme Court in a Day of Vengeance, warned in a statement Tuesday that “Hate has consequences.”

While offering condolences for the victims that their trans brethren murdered in cold blood leading up to their planed Day of Vengeance, TRAN declared a “second and more complex tragedy is that Aiden or Aubrey Hale, who felt he had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others, and by consequence, himself.”

“I’ll tell you what has consequences,” tweeted Culturcidal’s John Hawkins. “Encouraging unstable people to embrace their mental illness, pretend to be something they can never be, and take massive amounts of mood-altering hormones more typically found in the other sex.”

A growing movement of trans-terrorism activists, which the FBI has declared is not a domestic terrorist threat, responded to the Covenant School massacre and killing of Christians by arming themselves and calling for vengeance.

Katie Hobbs Under Fire for Post Glorifying Trans-Shooter

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Katie Hobbs Under Fire for Post Glorifying Trans-Shooter

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Arizona Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs is under increasing pressure to fire her press secretary for a grossly inappropriate and inflammatory social media post that mocked the victims of Monday’s mass shooting at the Covenant School and promoted violence in defense of a radical trans agenda.

“This is what @katiehobbs press secretary decided to tweet after a trans militant shut up a school. Any Republican would be fired for this in an instant. We’re done with the double standard. @joss_berry must be fired,” Matt Walsh tweeted.

The offending post has since been locked, but it was caught for posterity, along with a message exchange between Hobbs’s press secretary Jocelyn Berry and a radicalized trans activist condoning violence.

In a message exchange, Berry reportedly picked up a thread  and wrote that “If you work in the progressive community and are transphobic, you’re not progressive. Period. End of story. It’s not hard to understand but you’re (sic) bigotry masquerading as feminism absolutely is.”

A retort from “Elyse Guidas (she/her)” declared, “Not sure these transphobic-from-the-left posers know who they’re messing with,” which prompted Hobbs’s spox to post a picture of a gun-wielding activist, with the warning, “Us when we see transphobes.”

Hobbs offered no response when confronted with her press secretary’s dangerously outrageous rhetoric.

Walsh wasn’t alone in calling out Hobbs for allowing the rhetoric to stand, in what many called a tacit endorsement for the kind of vengeance being fostered by trans radicals.

“Your own press secretary is promoting this kind of violence. You’re such a disgrace,” wrote one commentator, while another asked “How is this even real with your staffer showing the opposite?”

Mike Cernovich also noted the absence of any mainstream media attention, calling it a “total cover-up.”

‘Squad’ Rep. Spills Real Reason Dems Defend TikTok

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‘Squad’ Rep. Spills Real Reason Dems Defend TikTok

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) China’s reported spy app TikTok is a leading promulgator of leftist talking points and narratives, which is why one Democrat lawmaker said his party embraces the device despite its potential national security implications.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., conceded to NBC last week that banning the Chinese social media app would “harm [Democrats] politically in 2024.”

Bowman claimed that many of the 150 million Americans on the CCP-linked app are young and “tend to lean Democratic,” which is why he thinks a total ban of TikTok would hurt his party’s base.

“So if the Democratic Party is a part of shutting down a platform that they have used to build community … it can harm us politically in 2024,” Bowman declared, and argued that banning the CCP app would also damage the fragile psychological and emotional balance of many users.

“But more importantly, it can harm the American people and our sense of wellbeing because people find space to be themselves on TikTok that they can’t find somewhere else,” Bowman said.

Radical activists and Squadish Democrats have aggressively used that “space” to peddle their twisted agendas and so-called progressive policies. The “sense of wellbeing” Bowman heralded and Democrats increasingly rely on for votes includes promoting everything from dangerous gender mutilation surgeries, BLM riots and Antifa-sponsored domestic terrorism to open borders, CRT indoctrination and no-limits abortions.

Nearly half of all states have banned TikTok from use on government devices and the Biden administration has demanded that ByteDance, the CCP-linked company that owns TikTok, disinvest or face a nationwide ban.

“If there’s Chinese espionage happening on TikTok, absolutely, that trumps everything else. The problem is there’s been no evidence of it,” claimed Bowman, who fell back on spreading his own patch of disinformation.

“I mean, Donald Trump used Twitter to nurture the behavior that occurred on January 6th in a violent insurrection. That’s a national security concern.” Bowman gaslighted in an attempt to divert attention from his defense of TikTok with another blatant J6 distortion and fables about the 2016 election. “Looking the other way and allowing Russia to interfere in the 2016 national election, that’s a national security concern.”

Allowing China to jeopardize national security while pushing social and political narratives to benefit Democrats, on the other hand, is understandable, Bowman argued.

“For me, it’s about having a larger conversation about the harms and befits of social media,” Bowman said of retaining a leftist hold on those platforms to benefit Democrats.

‘He Was on Our Radar’: New Research Details FBI’s Prior Contacts w/ Mass Shooters

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‘He Was on Our Radar’: New Research Details FBI’s Prior Contacts w/ Mass Shooters

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) “He was on our radar.”

It’s a phrase uttered by the FBI in the wake of mass shootings—often enough that an anonymous internet researcher who posts under the handle “Boltzmann Booty” took the time to chronicle just how many times the bureau has monitored, but failed to stop, mass shooters before they go on their sprees.

Booty’s heavily-sourced research found that this has happened at least 22 times.

Prominent examples of mass shooters who were on the FBI’s “radar” include Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza, Orlando Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen and Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz.

In Lanza’s case, FBI agents had reportedly previously questioned him for hacking computers.

“Years before the Sandy Hook shooting, law enforcement agents visited Lanza’s family home after he hacked into a government computer system in ninth grade, his neighbors told FBI agents investigating the Sandy Hook shooting,” USA Today reported in October 2017, citing FBI records. “Agents then apparently told Nancy Lanza that if her son was that smart, he could have a job with them someday.”

With Orlando shooter Mateen, the FBI reportedly went as far as investigating him in direct relation to possibly being a terrorist threat—twice. “But the F.B.I. soon ended its examination of Mr. Mateen after finding no evidence that he posed a terrorist threat to his community,” the New York Times reported in June 2016.

In his research, Booty noted another anomaly with Mateen: His father was an FBI informant for more than a decade, as was reported by NPR in March 2018.

Then, there’s Parkland. Booty’s research linked to a 2018 New York Times report that “The F.B.I. received a tip last month from someone close to Nikolas Cruz that he owned a gun and had talked of committing a school shooting, the bureau revealed Friday, but it acknowledged that it had failed to investigate.”

Additionally, Booty’s research covers Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron, who reportedly was possibly communicating with a retired federal agent within as little as 30 minutes of his killing spree. Gendron’s possible links to a retired federal agent are more bizarre when coupled with a July 2019 story from the Buffalo News about FBI agents tracking potential mass shooters in the area.

Headline USA sent the FBI questions about its reported investigation into Gendron’s communications with a retired agent, but the bureau declined to comment.

So, what’s going on with the FBI and mass shooters?

Booty theorized that the FBI is playing a “dangerous game” of monitoring potential threats with the goal of catching them right before their shooting sprees.

“Individual federal agents receive adulation and career advancement when they orchestrate plausible-looking attacks and then stop them at the last minute—a dangerous game that can obviously spin out of control quickly,” he said. “Agencies like the FBI benefit directly from the attacks through budget increases and mandate expansions.”

But could it be that the FBI’s surveillance is preventing mass shootings, with a few—or, as Booty found, at least 22—shooters evading the bureau to successfully carry out their attacks?

Booty addressed this point in his research by delving into the 2015 Garland, Texas, case of Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, who were  stopped by a good guy with a gun before they could kill anyone.

It turned out that Simpson and Soofi were being monitored by the FBI. One agent even reportedly encouraged Simpson to “tear up Texas”—and, remarkably, that same agent was tailing the two shooters all the way up to their shootout.

“The official story from government prosecutors is that the FBI agent simply had no idea that he was in the car behind two would-be mass shooters who the FBI was closely surveilling and who the agent had corresponded with a week beforehand,” Booty noted with a hint of sarcasm.

“He didn’t even know they were in Texas! It was just an unfortunate coincidence that he was following them taking pictures of the man they were about to shoot. He was there for a completely different operation related to a totally different guy. I hate when that happens! Case closed.”

Booty posited that the case of Simpson and Soofi represents a playbook for the FBI—one that would not have been revealed if the Garland shooting were deadlier.

“If Simpson and Soofi had managed to get through and do some serious damage, do you think we would have heard about the FBI connections to the attack?” Booty asked.

“We might have eventually learned about Simpson’s earlier FBI scrutiny—exactly the sort of connection that frequently emerges after more “successful” mass shootings, as you’ll see below—but I’m confident that the actions of the ‘Tear up Texas’ agent would never have seen the light of day.”

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

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