W. Va. Passes a Moderate Ban on Transgender Medical Procedures

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W. Va. Passes a Moderate Ban on Transgender Medical Procedures

(Headline USA) West Virginia‘s Republican supermajority Senate followed a growing national trend of Republicans protecting America’s youth from gender mutilation and hormone treatments, but the bill includes exceptions for ‘mental health.’

The GOP-dominated House last month passed a proposal including a ban on puberty-blocking medication and hormone therapy, with no exemptions for mental health.

The West Virginia Senate bill passed Friday would outlaw those under 18 from being prescribed hormone therapy, suspending the physical changes of puberty, buying patients and parents time to make future decisions about hormones.

The legislation also includes a ban on sex changes for minors.

However, the bill would allow young people to access puberty blockers and hormone therapy if they are experiencing severe gender dysphoria, under certain circumstances.

Gender dysphoria is defined by medical professionals as severe psychological distress experienced by those whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth.

The minor’s parents and guardians also would be required to give written consent to the treatments.

During Friday’s debate, Republican Sen. Eric Tarr said the medical interventions doctors are practicing are too extreme and driven by “woke” culture.

“They’re trying to take pronouns out of our textbooks for kids,” Tarr said.

The House version of the bill passed last month 84-10, with all ‘no’ votes coming from the body’s shrinking delegation of Democrats.

Speaking against the amendment which allowed for exceptions Friday, Republican Sen. Mark Maynard said he didn’t see why any changes were necessary. He worried additions could make the state vulnerable to a lawsuit.

“This amendment would disintegrate the clarity of the bill in its very simple terms,” Maynard said. “These guardrails are already in this bill as it came to us from the House.”
The bill, now including exceptions, faces steep opposition in the state House of Delegates, which will take up the more moderate Senate version.

Oklahoma, Kansas and Georgia, have all recently passed similar bans on gender mutilation and hormone therapy.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Woke Ben & Jerry’s Accused of Using Labor of Illegals’ Kids

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Woke Ben & Jerry’s Accused of Using Labor of Illegals’ Kids

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Ben & Jerry’s, an ice cream company that is currently more known to the public for pushing its far-left politics down people’s throats rather than its product, is facing a class action lawsuit because its supply chain employs children of illegal immigrants.

The plaintiff, Dovid Tyrnauer, said that he would not have purchased or would have paid less for Ben & Jerry’s products if he knew in advance that the company uses the labor of illegal immigrants’ children. According to Tyrnauer, the brand aligning itself with ethically-sourced products is a “breach of consumer trust” that amounts to “pompous virtue-signaling,” the Daily Caller reported.

The lawsuit was filed after the New York Times reported on major U.S. companies that exploit child labor. According to the newspaper, the labor of illegal immigrants’ kids is used to process milk in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

“If migrant children needed to work full time, it was preferable for them to have jobs at a well-monitored workplace,” Cheryl Pinto, Ben & Jerry’s head of values-led sourcing, said.

Following the report, Ben & Jerry’s released a statement.

“We are deeply concerned by the claims made in this story, and do not tolerate any suppliers who are not adhering to the law,” the company wrote.

“Let us be extremely clear: Ben & Jerry’s stands in strong opposition to child labor. We have a long history of standing for justice and equity, and using our business to improve the lives and livelihoods of those we serve and work with.”

“These beliefs do not stop at our company’s supply chain,” the company added.

The class action lawsuit also states that the company uses the so-called “social justice issues” as part of its marketing. Ben & Jerry’s is not afraid to expose their leftoid bias by promoting leftist politicians such as socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Barack Obama. The company also became infamous for making limited ice creams for the so-called “social justice issues” such as “Change Is Brewing” for defunding/abolishing the police departments in 2021, “Pecan Resist” to protest against Donald Trump in 2019 and “Empower Mint” for the fake voter suppression in 2016 that the Swamp and the mainstream media has been pushing since Hillary Clinton lost. The most recent virtue signaling from the brand happened in 2023 when it promoted the “mission to end modern slavery in cocoa farming”.

Catholic Nonprofit Spends $4M to Find Priests who Use Hookup Apps

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Catholic Nonprofit Spends $4M to Find Priests who Use Hookup Apps

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A Catholic nonprofit paid $4 million to collect data from multiple dating apps so that they would be able to determine if priests are adhering to their commitment to celibacy.

Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal [CLCR] is a Colorado nonprofit that helps the clergy by providing “evidence-based resources,” “support quality formation practices” and “identify weaknesses,” the organization’s website stated.

CLCR spent $4 million to gain access to data from multiple dating apps, like Grindr, Scruff and OKCupid, to determine whether members of the Catholic priesthood were using the apps, according to the Daily Caller.

The group received data from 2018 to 2021. Grindr provided the majority of information that the organization collected to find homosexual priests. The information was compiled into reports for Catholic bishops who say they have obtained the information from ad exchanges and used location data cross-referenced with various church and seminary addresses to determine who was using the apps, the Daily Caller reported.

The report didn’t disclose whether or not any Catholic clergymen who were caught using any of these apps were released from their positions.

CLCR’s President Jayd Henricks wrote about the group’s project in an article for First Things, saying that the mission was to “explore ways technology might serve the bishops in addressing their greatest challenges.”

“It’s true, as part of our data analysis work, we learned that some clergy were publicly advertising their interest in actions that contradicted their promises of celibacy,” Henricks wrote.

“All of that is a problem—one we as a Church can choose to acknowledge and confront, or not.”

“Publicly available data, bought in the ordinary way, was given to us at CLCR, and as we analyzed it, it became clear that heterosexual and homosexual hookup apps were used by some seminarians and some priests in some places, and with volumes and patterns suggesting those were not isolated moral lapses by individuals,” Henricks added.

House Republicans Closing on Criminal Referrals for Fauci

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House Republicans Closing on Criminal Referrals for Fauci

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) House Republicans are “building the case” to issue criminal referrals against Anthony Fauci for lying to Congress, according to Becker News.

“So, specifically before your committee, and also before Rand Paul over in the Senate, Dr. Fauci has, of course, absolved himself of all funding of gain-of-function,” Benny Johnson of “The Benny Show,” told Jim Jordan.

“He said he doesn’t know anything about it. It is verifiable and demonstrable that he lied. Now, there are codes in Congress. I have a code right here, 18 U.S. Code 1001.”

“Statements — false statements to Congress,” Johnson added.

“Says you can be imprisoned for eight years if you lie to Congress. It seems like there has never been a more clear-cut case of some individual lying to Congress.”

Jordan agreed.

“Yeah, there could be a referral, but you would refer to the Biden Justice Department,” Jordan said.

“I don’t know that — they’re going to pursue that, but you can definitely do that. You could, have to have one of the committees, the Senate Judiciary Committee could do a referral. I doubt they will with the Democrats in charge.”

“We could do a referral potentially,” he added.

“I would, frankly, prefer just to have Dr. Fauci come back in and take another round of questions here, but we’re building the case. You know, like, we had Dr. Redfield testify last week, Chairman Wenstrup did. I thought he was — I thought he was great. As were the other witnesses that were brought in.”

Jordan said that the reason why Republicans need to “take another round of questions” is to lay the “foundation,” adding that he agrees that Fauci and CDC changed the definition of gain-of-function research to “juice up” the virus.

“So, they were doing that in this lab and I think that’s clear,” he said. “So, we’ll just have to see as we move through this investigation.”

MURDOCK: Tucker Carlson Exposes Democrat-Left’s Filthy Jan. 6 Lies

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MURDOCK: Tucker Carlson Exposes Democrat-Left’s Filthy Jan. 6 Lies

(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) After reviewing some 41,000 hours of security-camera videos, Tucker Carlson and his Fox News team this week refuted multiple lies that Democrats have trafficked since January 6, 2021. Here are the five biggest:

●Democrats consider January 6 a “deadly insurrection.” They call this Storming of the Bastille 2.0 a bloody attempted overthrow of the U.S. government.

Footage from outside the Capitol shows an initial cadre of violent extremists breaking windows and kicking down doors. “It was awful,” Carlson said. “We hate vandalism. We hate assault.”

But new video shows hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people who walked calmly between velvet ropes within the Capitol. Many took photos of paintings in the Rotunda. Two of them quietly perused a literature table and walked away with free publications.

Many of these unarmed protesters innocently wandered into the Capitol, after overwhelmed guards threw the doors open. Evidently, they believed that January 6 was an open house on Capitol Hill.

Should these people have been there? No.

Were they armed revolutionaries? No.

●Wearing red, white and blue face paint and fur-wrapped Viking horns, an Arizona Navy veteran named Jacob Chansley — dubbed the “QAnon Shaman” — was that day’s highest-profile protester. The Justice Department called Chansley “the most prominent symbol of a violent insurrection.” Former federal prosecutor Paul Butler said on MSNBC: “Chansley is a stone-cold thug.”

But far from dangerous, security cameras witnessed Chansley on what the New York Post called a “Tour de Farce.” Police escorted him through the Capitol. At least nine officers surrounded him. Two tried to open locked doors for him. None arrested him. Indeed, his armed guides ushered him into the Senate Chamber.

Rather than attack them there, Chansley prayed: “Thank you, Heavenly Father, for taking the inspiration needed to these police officers to allow us into the building.” (Emphasis added.)

Should Chansley have been there? No.

Was he a “stone-cold thug?” No.

●CBS News blamed some 2,000 January 6 rioters for “causing the deaths of five police officers.” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough claimed that “Donald Trump’s supporters…killed police officers.”

Some rioters, in fact, battled and beat cops. They should be locked up.

There were law-enforcement personnel who perished, but “none of whom died at the scene on Jan. 6,” according to FactCheck.org. Four committed suicide — three days, eight days, and two of them six months later, respectively.

Tragic and horrible? Yes.

Did Trump supporters kill them? No.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper said: “Officer Brian Sicknick died after being hit in the head with a fire extinguisher during the fight.”

New January 6 video, in fact, shows Sicknick alive, well, and on duty inside the Capitol, after rioters supposedly murdered him outside the building. He wore a helmet, which shielded him from fatal cranial trauma.

“Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes,” an April 19, 2021 Capitol Police statement declared. Washington, D.C.’s coroner determined that two strokes killed Sicknick on January 7, 2021.

A depressing and untimely demise? Yes.

Murder by Trump supporters? No.

●According to the January 6 Committee, “On January 5th, [Trevor] Hallgren took a tour of the Capitol with Representative Barry Loudermilk, during which he took pictures of hallways and staircases.”

Lie: George Republican Loudermilk showed the carefully plotting putschists how to succeed.

Truth: Loudermilk took some 15 constituents through the Rayburn House Office Building, across the street from the Capitol. None of Loudermilk’s guests was in the Capitol the next day.

●“Later that day, Senator Hawley fled after those protesters he helped to rile up stormed the Capitol,” said then-Congresswoman Elaine Luria, D-Va. The January 6 Committee then presented a recording of the Missouri Republican running down a Senate hallway. The audience roared with derisive laughter.

New video shows that Hawley followed Capitol Police advice and was at least the 25th person to sprint past that security camera.

Of course, this unraveled the Democrats’ lies. So, they padlocked the truth until House Republicans set it free.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor

Judge Convicts J6 Protester, Denies Request to Review New Videos

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Judge Convicts J6 Protester, Denies Request to Review New Videos

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Sara Carpenter, a retired New York police officer, was found guilty on Friday in a Washington, D.C. court on seven criminal counts, including two felonies, because she was in the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

US District Court Judge James Boasberg denied her request on March 3 to delay the verdict so that her lawyers could review footage that was recently released by Tucker Carlson.

“Retired NYPD Spokesperson, Sara Carpenter, has been convicted on all counts on January 6 charges, after a judge denied her request to push back the start of her trial to allow time to review about 44,000 hours of Capitol riot footage from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy,” an independent journalist Oliya Scootercaster reported on Twitter.

51-year-old Carpenter was arrested in March 2021 after she surrendered to the FBI, according to the Post Millennial.

Scootercaster also posted footage of a woman “matching the description of Sara Carpenter” at the Capitol building on Jan. 6 saying “The congress needs to come out, they need to certify Trump as president.”

On Monday, Carlson and his team released never-before-seen footage given to them by McCarthy that exposed the Jan. 6 narrative as nothing more than leftist propaganda.

Among the revelations was the fact that US veteran Jacob Chansley, who became well-known as the QAnon Shaman, was being escorted peacefully by police, contradicting the narrative that he was a violent insurrectionist. Chansley was sentenced to 4 years in prison because he entered the Capitol building.

The footage also showed Ray Epps, an alleged FBI undercover agent who previously claimed that he staged the “insurrection” by encouraging Trump supporters to enter the Capitol building. The footage also showed that Police Officer Brian Sicknick was alive after Democrats claimed he had been killed because of the riot. The mainstream propaganda and Democrats wrongfully claimed that five police officers died because of the riot, without even mentioning people on the other side who were murdered by the Capitol Police, like an unarmed mother and veteran, Ashli Babbit.

As was expected, Carpenter wanted to look at the footage to use it to protect her in court, but Judge Boasberg denied her request because the precedent could “derail dozens of trials that are set in the next few months.”

Elon Building a Muskville in Texas

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(Headline USA) Chief Twit Elon Musk is reportedly planning to build his own town in Texas.

Musk, who owns Tesla and Twitter, recently purchased thousands of acres near Austin, Texas, and has already hired architects to draw up plans to build a new community, according to the Wall Street Journal. The town will be near facilities owned by SpaceX and Boring Co., Musk’s tunnel-building operation. It will be named Snailbrook, after Boring’s mascot.

Construction on the community has already begun, with homes, a pool, an outdoor sports area and a gym already completed. Signs hanging from poles read, “welcome, snailbrook, tx, est. 2021,” according to pictures posted on Facebook.

Boring President Steve Davis reportedly wants to turn Snailbrook into an entire city. He even floated the idea of having residents, most of whom will likely be employees of Musk’s nearby companies, vote for a mayor.

Musk has reportedly discussed his vision for a town with several people, including Kanye West and West’s architectural design, the Journal said.

Musk left California for Texas in 2021 due to the Golden State’s “overregulation, overlitigation, and overtaxation.” Both Tesla and Boring were headquartered in California before he moved them to Texas as well.

He was recently offered land to move Twitter’s headquarters to Texas, too. Jim Schwertner, CEO of Schwertner Farms near Austin, Texas, offered Musk 100 acres of land on which to build Twitter’s new campus.

“Elon Musk, Move Twitter to Schwertner, TX. 38 Miles North of Austin in Williamson County, and we will give you 100 Acres for FREE,” Schwertner said.

In an interview, Schwertner said he believes Twitter’s move to Texas would benefit the entire community.

“We’ve always been entrepreneurs in our family and we’ve always tried to help the communities,” Schwertner continued. “And I think my offer is a serious gesture to help the citizens around Williamson County.”

Rep. Cori Bush Paying Big Bucks to Anti-Semitic, Spiritual Guru Security Guard

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Rep. Cori Bush Paying Big Bucks to Anti-Semitic, Spiritual Guru Security Guard

(Headline USA) A security guard on Rep. Cori Bush’s, D-Mass., payroll believes he is 109 trillion years old and claimed he can cause natural disasters at will, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

Nathaniel Davis III is the highest-paid private security guard on Bush’s staff. Since 2020, when he was brought onto the campaign’s payroll, he has made $137,000, according to FEC filings. Just last December, he was paid $5,000.

Davis described himself as a spiritual guru, known as Aha Sen Piankhy, who teaches classes in St. Louis, Missouri, on how to read minds, summon mythical beings and avoid buying food from Jews. 

Davis holds many other anti-Semitic views. He is part of the New Black Panther Party, according to the report, which believes that blacks are the real Israelites and that Jews are lesser humans. Davis even claimed Jews unleashed the COVID-19 pandemic to murder 99% of the population.

“I’m going come teach the people how to survive. It’s what I came to this planet for in this lifetime,” Davis said in a July 17, 2020, Facebook live stream. “I’m 109 trillion years old in this galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy.”

On another Facebook account, Davis claims to be a member of the “Priesthood of the Sun Moon Sect.”

“You have to be able to heal before you learn to battle,” he wrote. “Study of healing arts as well as battle arts.”

Davis has also claimed the ability to summon hurricanes, levitate and predict winning lottery numbers.

“My anger brings tornadoes, hurricanes, and water spouts not just rain. I’m not upset over anything,” he wrote. “My energy set in motion known as emotions are tied to nature and it’s very destructive.”

Bush’s connection to Davis has come under scrutiny following reports that she married another security guard on her payroll, Cortney Merritts.

“Any time a member of Congress puts someone with a close personal relationship on the campaign payroll, increased scrutiny is necessary to ensure the legal standard has been met,” Kendra Arnold, Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust executive director, said. “Both the fact that reportedly Bush’s husband isn’t licensed to provide security services for which he was paid and that she was simultaneously paying large amounts to another company for the same services raise red flags that warrant an investigation by the FEC.”

Kaepernick Blasted for Whining about Cornrows, Accusing His White Adoptive Parents of Racism

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Kaepernick Blasted for Whining about Cornrows, Accusing His White Adoptive Parents of Racism

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Colin Kaepernick, a former NFL alleged quarterback who became infamous for hating the United States, the country that helped him flourish, showed his ingratitude toward his adoptive white parents by accusing them of racism.

Kaepernick joined CBS Mornings to pimp his comic book, Change the Game, and say that his adoptive mother had been “perpetuating racism” by opposing his desire to get his hair done in cornrows, according to the Daily Wire.

The comic book is about a young Kaepernick who is embracing his so-called “blackness” despite the so-called resistance from many people, including his adoptive parents.

“I know my parents love me, but there were still very problematic things that I went through,” he said. “I think it was important to show that, no, this can happen in your own home. And how we move forward collectively, addressing the racism that is being perpetuated.”

Kaepernick added that the reason why he wanted to have cornrows is because he idolized basketball player Allen Iverson, who “wore his blackness like a suit of armor.” His mother didn’t like the idea, saying the hairstyle would make him “look like a little thug.”

People criticized and mocked Kaepernick for another of his takes.

“My mom wouldn’t let me grow a mullet at 15… she must’ve hated me,” writer Rodney Muterspaw wrote.

Susan Bagwell, another writer, agreed.

“I’m thinking of all the white boys I knew in the 80s with long hair, and their white parents that were constantly screaming at them to get it cut.”

Obianuju Ekeocha, a pro-life activist, said that black African parents hate the hairstyle, too.

“Actually, black (particularly) African parents frown at their sons wearing cornrows and piercing their ears. They could even go as far as cutting your hair while you are asleep! Black parents often get their way, but skip over that let’s criticize white adoptive parents.”

Tim Kennedy, a UFC fighter, showed that Kaepernick just wants to make everything about race.

“I bleached my hair when I was in high school and my dad told me I look like an idiot. He told me that nobody would hire me. He told me that colleges would laugh at me during interviews. I guess he was just perpetuating racism and didn’t want the best for me.”

Va. Middle School in Ultra-Woke Fairfax County Investigated For Racism

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Va. Middle School in Ultra-Woke Fairfax County Investigated For Racism

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) A middle school in Virginia that prides itself on being part of a district that ranks as one of the wokest in the nation, is under investigation for racism for using race and color as determining factors for a college preparation program.

The reported discrimination came under scrutiny earlier this month, when parents of 8th graders attending Cooper Middle School, located in McLean, Va., received an email from the school, according to the Daily Mail. The email encouraged specifically black or Hispanic children to apply for a college preparation program.

When informed about the program, Virginia Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares wrote to the school and called for an end their discriminatory practices.

“Please cease and desist the illegal conduct of soliciting and selecting applicants to the College Partnership Program based on race, color and national origin,” Miyares wrote. “This matter is under investigation by the Office of Civil Rights.”

In response, the school claimed that the course was open to all, emphasizing the website stating that “a typical college prep student” was black, Hispanic, Native American, or economically disadvantaged. The school further stressed that it did not share any information on the website that exempts whites or Asians from the program. 

Widespread criticisms remained, with concerned parties claiming the school has actively worked to promote the exclusion of white and Asian students, as the school did not mention them anywhere on the website.

Fairfax County Public Schools, home base for Cooper Middle, has become notorious for skirting discrimination laws in proactive attempts to increase the number of black and Latino students. The school district, which openly boasts about its wokeness, has come under repeated criticism and investigations for taking steps to achieve this goal at the expense of white and Asian students.

Miyares has been actively investigating Fairfax County’s Thomas Jefferson High School for withholding National Merit awards to Asian students to give more recognition to lower-performing minority groups.

A Fairfax County Public Schools spokesperson claimed the allegations against Cooper Middle School were false and damaging. Though the school did not explain the original email that reportedly pushed discrimination, the spokesperson added that “publishing false narratives like this undermine public school efforts to boost U.S. educational achievement.”

Standing his ground, Miyares took to Twitter to emphasize he was following the law.

“The Virginia Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin,” Miyares wrote. “It is important that every public school in the Commonwealth follow the law.”

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