Biden’s Next Climate Alarmist Target: Air Conditioners

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Biden’s Next Climate Alarmist Target: Air Conditioners

(Headline USA) The Biden administration unveiled new environmental regulations this week that reveal its next target: air conditioners.

The regulations, proposed by the Energy Department on Thursday, would create new energy efficiency standards for window air conditioning units and portable air cleaners. The standards will help reduce the nation’s carbon emissions by 106 million metric tons over the next three decades, the department claimed.

“Today’s announcement builds on the historic actions President Biden took last year to strengthen outdated energy efficiency standards, which will help save on people’s energy bills and reduce our nation’s carbon footprint,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.

Granholm said the department will “continue to engage with our public and private sector partners to finalize additional proposals like today’s that lower household energy costs and deliver the safer, healthier communities that every American deserves.”

The rule for room air conditioners will go into effect in 2026, while the rule for air cleaners will be implemented in 2024.

The move comes on the heels of the Biden administration’s efforts to ban gas stoves — also for environmental reasons.

In January, the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission admitted the agency is considering an outright ban on new gas appliances following studies that showed emissions from the appliances can be harmful.

“This is a hidden hazard,” CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told the outlet. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”

The Biden administration received plenty of pushback, including from Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who called the potential ban a “recipe for disaster.”

“The federal government has no business telling American families how to cook their dinner,” Manchin wrote on Twitter. “I can tell you the last thing that would ever leave my house is the gas stove that we cook on.”

The Biden regime also made a move against washing machines with proposed restrictions that industry experts contended would increase prices and make Americans dirtier.

Free Speech Org: Fire Stanford DEI Dean for Leading ‘Mob of Leftists’ to ‘Silence’ Judge

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Free Speech Org: Fire Stanford DEI Dean for Leading ‘Mob of Leftists’ to ‘Silence’ Judge

(Headline USA) A diversity, equity and inclusion dean at Stanford Law School defended her disruptive and inflammatory outburst during a lecture by Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan earlier this month, claiming she was just trying to protect “free speech.”

Tirien Steinbach, who is on video berating Duncan in front of hundreds of students and protesters, claimed in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal this week that she was not trying to engage in cancel culture.

“As a member of the Stanford Law School administration—and as a lawyer—I believe that we should strive for authentic free speech,” Steinbach wrote. “We must strive for an environment in which we meet speech—even that with which we strongly disagree—with more speech, not censorship.”

Steinbach’s outburst was meant to “intimidate and silence” a sitting judge, claimed a group called Speech First, tweeting that her “continued employment @Stanford is an affront to the legacy of a once mighty institution, and a direct assault on free speech.” Steinbach should be ousted, the group wrote, “for seemingly leading a mob of leftists to to intimidate and silence a sitting judge.”

The insurrectionist DEI dean claimed she was just trying to defuse a tense situation so Duncan’s lecture could continue.

“I stepped up to the podium to deploy the de-escalation techniques in which I have been trained, which include getting the parties to look past conflict and see each other as people,” she wrote. “My intention wasn’t to confront Judge Duncan or the protesters but to give voice to the students so that they could stop shouting and engage in respectful dialogue. I wanted Judge Duncan to understand why some students were protesting his presence on campus and for the students to understand why it was important that the judge be not only allowed but welcomed to speak.”

Steinbach’s claims come days after Jenny Martinez, the head dean of Stanford Law School, announced that Steinbach had been placed on leave for berating Duncan.

“At future events, the role of any administrators present will be to ensure that university rules on disruption of events will be followed, and all staff will receive additional training in that regard,” Martinez wrote in a letter to the law school community.

Steinbach also defended her position as a DEI dean, even though the programs have come under immense criticism in light of the Stanford debacle, saying the DEI agenda is essential.

“Diversity, equity, and inclusion plans must have clear goals that lead to greater inclusion and belonging for all community members,” Steinbach wrote in defense of shutting down a judge.

Headline USA’s Mark Pellin contributed to this report

Trump Warns of ‘Potential Death and Destruction’ if Indicted after Porn Star Blows Up DA Bragg’s Case

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Trump Warns of ‘Potential Death and Destruction’ if Indicted after Porn Star Blows Up DA Bragg’s Case

(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump warned of “potential death & destruction” if Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg stumbles forward with his reported plan to indict him over a hush-money payment.

Bragg is reportedly planning to file federal charges against Trump for paying porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence after they had an affair. Bragg claims the payment was a campaign finance violation.

Trump has blasted the alleged charges as political persecution, and urged his supporters to protest if Bragg moves forward with the case.

“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday.

“Why & who would do such a thing?” he continued. “Only a degenerate psychopath that hates the USA!”

Bragg’s case took several major hits this week, the latest came when a letter reportedly signed by Daniels resurfaced.

“Over the past few weeks I have been asked countless times to comment on reports of an alleged sexual relationship I had with Donald Trump many, many, many years ago,” Daniels reportedly wrote in the Jan. 30, 2018 letter.

“The fact of the matter is that each party to this alleged affair denied its existence in 2006,20011, 2016, 2017 and now again in 2018. I am not denying this affair because I was paid “hush money”as has been reported in overseas owned tabloids. I am denying this affair because it never happened.”

Though Trump has blasted Bragg repeatedly, he has also privately told his allies that he thinks an indictment and arrest would be the best thing for his 2024 presidential campaign.

According to a report, Trump rejected a proposal by the Secret Service to voluntarily turn himself in to prosecutors in a discreet location to avoid media attention. He said he didn’t care if the arrest was public, or even if someone tried to shoot him during it, because then he would become “a martyr” and easily win the election.

Trump also reportedly told advisers that he wants to be handcuffed if he has to make an in-person court appearance, saying that if he is going to be fingerprinted and taken in for a mug shot, he might as well use the event to benefit his campaign.

Pocahontas Demands Fed Chair’s Ouster

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(Headline USA) Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., demanded that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell be removed from his position, accusing him of deliberately trying to tank the economy by hiking interest rates.

On Wednesday, the Fed announced it would hike rates for the ninth time in an effort to ease inflation. Warren argued the rate hikes will lead to mass lay-offs, and demanded that President Joe Biden fire Powell before those lay-offs occur.

“I made it very clear as publicly as humanly possible that I didn’t think that he should be reconfirmed as chair of the Fed. And I think he’s doing a really terrible job,” Warren said when asked if she has talked with Biden about her concerns.

When asked if she thinks the U.S. is headed for a recession, Warren said: “I think that is where Jerome Powell is trying to drive it.”

“You think he’s purposely trying to drive it to a recession?” Tapper asked.

“Well, what he’s trying to do is get two million people laid off,” she answered. “And one of the things that we need to understand, he wants to raise the unemployment rate by more than a point within a single 12-month period. We have done that before in this country. In fact, we have done it 12 times before. And out of all 12 times. How many times has it resulted in a recession? The answer is 12.”

Powell is a “dangerous man to have in this job,” Warren added.

Warren is not the only lawmaker to express similar concerns. During a congressional hearing this month, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., accused Powell of “trying to put people out of work.”

“In effect – I’m not being critical – when you’re slowing the economy, you’re trying to put people out of work. That’s your job, is it not?” Kennedy said.

Jack Dorsey Loses $562M after Report about His Company’s Alleged Connection to Criminal Activity

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Jack Dorsey Loses $562M after Report about His Company’s Alleged Connection to Criminal Activity

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Jack Dorsey, an ex-Twitter CEO and censor, recently lost $562 million after a notorious short-seller released a report revealing that his payments company Block misled its investors and embraced a criminal user base.

On Thursday, Hindenburg Research released its findings from a two-year investigation, saying that the company “misled investors on key metrics, and embraced predatory offerings and compliance worst-practices to fuel growth,” according to the Daily Mail.

That same day, Block’s shares plunged nearly 15% and Dorsey lost $562 million, which automatically dropped his net worth 11% to $ 4.4 billion.

Bloomberg Billionaires Index reported that shares of Block plunged nearly 15% on the day, and Dorsey’s net worth took a $562 million hit, dropping 11% to $4.4 billion.

Even though Hindenburg is not an unbiased watchdog, it previously led to criminal charges and convictions, like in the case of Nikola founder Trevor Milton, who was found guilty last year of deceiving investors with exaggerated claims about his electric truck company.

The latest report by Hindenburg includes expansive allegations against Dorsey’s company, formerly known as Square, which also owns the popular smartphone payment application Cash App, the most important part of the report that, according to Hindenburg, is used by criminals for drug deals, sex trafficking and even murder-for-hire.

In its statement, Block said the company would file a lawsuit against Hindenburg for its “factually inaccurate and misleading report’ that was ‘designed to deceive and confuse investors.”

“Hindenburg is known for these types of attacks, which are designed solely to allow short sellers to profit from a declined stock price. We will not be distracted by typical short-seller tactics,” Block said.

“We have reviewed the full report in the context of our own data and believe it’s designed to deceive and confuse investors. We are a highly regulated public company with regular disclosures, and are confident in our products, reporting, compliance programs and controls.”

Iowa Uni. Bans White Women from Attending Annual Spring Retreat

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(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Female minorities at Iowa State University will be able to attend a retreat in April where white females are not allowed because of the color of their skin.

“The [‘Womxn of Colour’] retreat is a one-day event open to all women of color students on campus,” Iowa State Daily, the student newspaper, reported.

As expected, the university supports the anti-white event.

“This retreat is very special to our executive board because usually it is planned by an entire faculty team,” Bria Felix, president of the Womxn of Colour Network, said.

According to a university website, the retreat “is a signature program supported by the Margaret Sloss Center for Women and Gender Equity in partnership with the Office for Multicultural Student Affairs, the Womxn of Colour Network student organization, as well as other campus advocates, student groups and departments.”

The women’s center and diversity office also offers other opportunities for minority female students to get to know each other in an environment where white females are not allowed, The College Fix reported. One example is a “meet and greet reception for women of color” that will happen this fall.

However, it is not a new event. It goes back to at least 2011 when the WCN group was formed.

“In 2011, a small group of women of color participated in a campus event that, while well-intentioned, left them with a clear message that the event was not created with their needs in mind,” Felix said.

According to Felix, allowing her no-whites-allowed event to happen will help non-white students to grow in “love” and “compassion.”

“We want to provide our participants with a moment to breathe surrounded by love, compassion and motivation,” Felix said. “It’s a great introduction into the network and gives a preview of what it’s like at our meetings and events.”

Tennessee Governor Signs Bill to Protect State Funds with Gold and Silver

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Tennessee Governor Signs Bill to Protect State Funds with Gold and Silver

(Jp Cortez, Sound Money Defense League) Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a measure into law that would empower the state treasurer to invest state funds in physical gold and silver.

House Bill 1479, introduced by Rep. Bud Hulsey, passed out of the House of Representatives on Monday with a 98-0 vote. A week later, the same bill received a 33-0 vote in the Senate.

In an exclusive comment to the Sound Money Defense League, Rep. Hulsey said, “Gold and silver have been real currency for the past 5,000 years. [Passing HB 1479] not only provides a hedge for the State, but gives us varied options while facing a shrinking dollar and the threat of CBDC’s.”

Passing with strong grassroots support and backing from the Sound Money Defense League and Money Metals Exchange, the bill defines “bullion” and “specie” and provides that “subject to appropriation, the state treasurer may purchase and sell gold or precious metal bullion or specie that will be directly owned by the state, and in the custody of the state treasurer.”

Additionally, the twin bills would allow the state treasurer to “make and enter into contracts, trust instruments, agreements, and other instruments with a person to effectuate this section, including, but not limited to, financial institutions, accountants, auditors, attorneys, consultants, and other contractors.”

Lastly, the measure calls for “physical gold and precious metal purchased under these acts to be custodied by the state treasurer in a state depository, and maintained in a vault within the state depository’s banking facilities in accordance with accepted industry standards for secure storage, and within the geographical boundaries of Tennessee.”

States that help set up the infrastructure to protect state funds with the monetary metals will help further to bring gold and silver into use as an alternative to the inflationary paper-money system, as well as buttressing state funds, many of which are invested in risky paper assets.

Rep. Hulsey continues to be a powerful voice for sound money in Tennessee, earning him the 2022 Sound Money Legislator of the Year award last year for his tireless work on eliminating Tennessee’s state sales tax on gold and silver.

After ending the state sales tax on gold and silver, Tennessee shot up the 2023 Sound Money Index rankings to earn a 9th place finish. Tennessee also recently ended its state income tax on sale of all capital assets, including gold and silver.

Several other states are considering their own sound money bills this month, including Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Missouri, Mississippi, South Carolina, Vermont, Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon, and more.

Jp Cortez is the Policy Director for the Sound Money Defense League, a non-partisan, national public policy group working to restore sound money at the state and federal level and publisher of the Sound Money Index.

Prosecutor Repeats Bogus Claim that Militiaman Put Bounty on FBI Informant

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Prosecutor Repeats Bogus Claim that Militiaman Put Bounty on FBI Informant

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) During a hearing this week in the case of four men accused of helping plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the state’s assistant attorney general, William Rolstin, accused one of the alleged plotters of issuing a $1,000 bounty against an FBI informant who betrayed him.

Rolstin was arguing that government records produced in the trial should be kept from the public. He accused Barry Croft—who was convicted of being involved in the plot last August—of leaking case records to his friends in an attempt to expose the identity and inflict harm against an FBI informant.

“Barry Croft is a person the court is more familiar with … There was a contract we discovered. An offer was made for $1,000 for one of our informant’s addresses,” Rolstin said. “And I don’t think they were going to drop off flowers. This is serious business.”

However, Rolstin’s accusation was already debunked in federal court in February 2022, when federal prosecutors were trying to have undercover FBI agents testify under false names. Prosecutors argued at the time that Croft had leaked discovery material to his “extremist associates,” who then “offered a cash bounty for the identity of informants.”

Federal prosecutors pointed to a Facebook post from one of Croft’s associates on Oct. 8, 2020—the day Croft and other defendants were charged.

“Croft [has] been snatched up by feds. $1,000 reward for the name and location of the rat,” the Facebook post said.

But as Croft’s attorney pointed out last month, the Facebook post was from an unknown person long before Croft obtained any discovery, and while he was still being held incommunicado by the FBI in Delaware.

“The government can’t, in good faith, be arguing that after the government seized all of Mr. Croft’s electronics and while he was awaiting his first appearance in the District of Delaware that he somehow was arranging for people on the outside to offer ‘bounties’ and that he was also clairvoyantly disclosing discovery which he wouldn’t receive for months to come,” Croft’s attorney said in a stinging rebuttal on Feb. 25, 2022.

Moreover, the presiding judge in the federal trial sided with Croft in this matter, ruling that the undercover agents had to testify under their real names: special agents Timothy Bates and Mark Schweers.

“It is time for all guise and pretense to end and for the prosecution to present the evidence in an open forum with witnesses testifying using their true identity,” U.S. Judge Robert Jonker ruled last March.

But a year later, state prosecutors made the same accusation, seeking to keep government evidence under wraps. The move to seal court records was a reversal from last month, when Rolstin said he had no objection to making the documents public.

Headline USA wrote to the FBI and Michigan’s attorney general, asking for evidence that Croft was involved in a bounty. Neither party responded to this publication’s email queries.

In any event, the state’s motion to seal records was opposed on Tuesday not only by the defendants, but also by an independent reporter working on a documentary about the case. The reporter, Eric VanDussen, pointed to the contradictions with government’s position that the records should be kept secret.

For instance, Rolsin had claimed that neither the state nor federal prosecutors released any exhibits, as can be seen here:

VanDussen demolished this claim by showing the judge exactly what records have already been made public.

“This pile [of records] I have right here has already been disclosed during the federal court proceedings, and during preliminary hearings,” he said, waving a stack of documents in his hand.

“When they’re playing audio recordings … I recorded all those with that camera,” he said, gesturing to his camera that was recording the hearing.

“All the audio recordings prosecutors are saying a protective order should encompass—I recorded them with that camera, and they say a protective order should encompass those.”

Judge Charles Hamlyn ruled in favor of VanDussen, declaring that the evidence already made public shall remain so.

“If it has been made public, it is then public,” he said. “The phrase that we always used in a trial … you can’t un-ring the bell. That information is out there.”

The baseless claims uttered at Tuesday hearings were the latest falsities uttered thus far in the state case, where Eric Molitor, Shawn Fix, Michael Null and William Null each face one count of providing material support for an act of terrorism.

Last month, Michigan circuit court judge Kevin Elsenheimer falsely said that Brandon Caserta and Daniel Harris were involved in the plot, when those men were acquitted last April. Michigan’s AG has also issued press releases referring to the defendants as being members of the Wolverine Watchmen militia, even though the men currently standing trial were not members of that organization.

Meanwhile, Croft is being held in a supermax prison facility in Terre Haute—blocked from communicating with media or other members of the public. He had been incarcerated in a Michigan county jail, but was moved exactly one day after Headline USA published a message he recorded for the House Weaponization Subcommittee, which was formed to investigate FBI malfeasance.

The Weaponization Subcommittee has yet to comment on what Croft’s supporters view as retaliation for him trying to provide the committee with information about his case.

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

Ark. Gov. Sanders Denounces ‘White Privilege’ Survey for Teachers

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(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders blasted a school district that gave high school teachers a “white privilege” survey to fill out in February.

The survey also compelled Caucasian teachers to reject any so-called privilege associated with being white, a core tenet of the controversial doctrine known as Critical Race Theory.

The survey, dubbed “Cultural Competency Continuum: Knowledge, Behaviors, and Dispositions for Educators,” was handed out to the teachers in a mandatory training organized by the school, Fox News reported. 

Reacting to this survey, the newly elected Sanders—who previously served as press secretary for then-President Donald Trump—told Fox News that such “CRT and indoctrination” would not be tolerated in public schools under her administration. 

“We’ve already reached out to the district to ensure no teacher is forced to sign this pledge,” she said.

“We’re making sure it doesn’t happen again,” she added. “We will teach kids how to think, not what to think.”

A letter from Fayetteville Public Schools Superintendent John L. Colbert noted that this survey could have violated the governor’s ban on critical race theory. 

He stated that Fayetteville Public Schools would no longer share the survey and would review future developmental materials more appropriately.

“The survey was not required or collected, but it was used as a self-reflection tool,” Colbert said in his letter.

A Mom’s for Liberty group received pictures of this four-section survey from a teacher and shared them online.

In a section titled “Analyze and Align,” the survey asked if the teachers refused to accept any privileges associated with “white racial identity” and if they “advocate for cultural competency and social justice effectively and professionally.”

The survey also asked if they knew of their privileges and stereotypes in another section called “Awaken and Assess.”

However, the Moms for Liberty chapter called out the school district via a tweet for the CRT displayed in the survey.

The group tweeted, “This survey does not measure IF a teacher is racist and privileged but rather how far down the racist and privileged continuum their answers rate them.

“If there was any question about the presence of CRT in our district, this survey removes all doubt,” the group concluded. 

WATCHDOG: Records Show CRT a Top Priority at Air Force Academy

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WATCHDOG: Records Show CRT a Top Priority at Air Force Academy

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) According to records released Friday from the Department of Defense, the U.S. Air Force Academy has made, and will continue to make, race- and gender-sensitivity training a top priority, the Judicial Watch reported.

The Judicial Watch received a 167-page document containing details of the woke training.

According to the document, the Academy considers “Behavioral Science 362, ‘Class, Race, Gender, and Sexuality’” to be a core class, required for all students.

The course appears to cover much of the same material that would be covered by a Critical Race Theory curriculum.

Superintendent Lt. General Jay Silveria definitively wrote in an introduction to the Sept. 21, 2020, “U.S. Air Force Academy Internal Racial Disparity Review,” that racism is one of America’s foremost problems.

“Systemic racism exists in our society,” he said. “Identity groups, whether based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or disability, have all experienced less-than-equal treatment in our nation, both historically and persisting in the present day.”

Silveria cited “ongoing events across our nation and around the world” as reminders for the Air Force’s future officer core that “racism and social injustice continue to afflict our society.”

According to the superintendent, even the Air Force is “not immune to these issues.”

Racism and sexism, he suggested, can be seen “across our installation, and throughout the Cadet Wing.”

To think otherwise, he noted, would be “naive.”

In order to address the internal racism and sexism, Silveria announced at the time the launching of a “Critical Conversations Working Group (CCWG), led by the Center forCharacter Development (CCLD), to facilitate recurring USAFA-wide critical conversations forcadets and permanent party.”

He also announced that he would assign to his “Director of Equal Opportunity” the task of internally assessing the Air Force in search of biases—specifically racial biases—within the organization’s policies.

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