Rep. Sylvia Garcia Shows that She Clearly Doesn’t Know what the Twitter Files are

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Rep. Sylvia Garcia Shows that She Clearly Doesn’t Know what the Twitter Files are

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) If Democrats were competing to see who could sink the lowest at Thursday’s House Weaponization Subcommittee hearing about the Twitter Files, the winner would have to be Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas.

Garcia stood out amongst her First Amendment-bashing colleagues—who repeatedly attacked the two journalists who testified at the panel, and even pressured them to reveal their sources—for her lack of even cursory knowledge about what was being discussed.

When she wasn’t asking the two journalists about whether they’re in a “threesome,” Garcia showed that she doesn’t anything about the Twitter Files, the reporters investigating them, or the platforms on which the stories are being published.

Garcia began her questioning by following the lead of the subcommittee’s ranking member Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, in trying to pressure the reporters to reveal their sources.

“When was the first time Mr. Musk approached you about writing the Twitter Files?” Garcia asked one of the reporters, Matt Taibbi.

“Again, that would be a question of sourcing,” Taibbi responded.

“I just need a date,” Garcia hounded further.

“But I can’t give it to you, unfortunately, because it’s a question of sourcing and I’m a journalist and I don’t reveal my sources,” Taibbi said again.

Things only degenerated from there.

Garcia proceeded to probe Taibbi about his latest Twitter Files report released Thursday morning. She apparently wanted to know where Taibbi first published this story: on Twitter, on his Substack page, or as a written statement to the committee—but she revealed that she doesn’t even know what Substack is.

“You yourself posted on, uh, I guess it’s kind of like a webpage. I don’t quite understand what Substack is,” she said.

Garcia also persistently asked Taibbi whether he sent his story “to Twitter” or to the committee first. It’s not clear what this line of questioning was aiming at, as Taibbi explained that he did not send the story “to” the company for publication, but simply posted it on his Twitter page as a thread.

Garcia then asked the other reporter, Michael Shellenberger, about his sourcing. Shellenberger said he was invited to report on the Twitter Files by his friend fellow journalist Bari Weiss.

In perhaps the most bizarre moment of the whole interaction, Garcia showed that she did not know Weiss, a former New York Times columnist.

“This friend works for Twitter?” Garcia asked, referring to Weiss.

“She’s a journalist,” Shellenberger replied, leading Garcia to ask Taibbi and Shellenberger: “So you’re in this as a threesome?”

“There were many more people involved than that,” Shellenberger said as laughter could be heard coming from the audience behind him.

Garcia wrapped up her questioning by asking the reporters whether they were being paid to testify on Thursday. They both said they were not.

“I don’t know what to say,” subcommittee chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said when all was said and done.

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

Fla. AG Slams Biden after White House Says No Need to Designate Cartels as Terrorists

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Fla. AG Slams Biden after White House Says No Need to Designate Cartels as Terrorists

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody called President Joe Biden “trafficker-in-chief” Thursday in response to a White House spokesperson saying there’s no need to designate Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).

On Wednesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters, “Designating these cartels as FTOs would not grant us any additional authorities that we don’t really have at this time. The United States has powerful sanctions authorities specifically designated to combat narcotics trafficking organizations and the individuals and entities that enable them.”

Jean-Pierre added: “In the last few months alone Treasury has announced a series of actions against cartels that are dangerous to the public safety and we have also taken action that further enables Treasury to sanction foreign persons,” referring to the Treasury Department sanctioning members of the CJNG cartel and several Mexican companies linked to it last week, and sanctioning Sinaloa Cartel members and Mexican companies last month.

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares led a coalition of 22 attorneys general last month calling on the president to designate the cartels as FTOs. Last September, Moody also led a coalition of 18 attorneys general calling on Biden to designate fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. In September, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order designating the Sinaloa and CJNG cartels as FTOs and called on the president to do the same. None received a response, until Jean-Pierre’s comments Wednesday.

In response, Abbott tweeted Thursday, “Texas designated Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations last year. I’ve repeatedly urged Biden to do the same. Now, 2 Americans were shot & killed by cartels just across the Texas border. It’s past time for Biden to step up & call these cartels what they are: terrorists.”

Abbott’s press office also confirmed that he hasn’t heard from the president since he hand-delivered a border security plan to him in January listing five actions Biden could take to immediately secure the border.

Moody tweeted the president is now “Trafficker-in-Chief” citing his failure to secure the border, enabling human and drug trafficking facilitated by Mexican cartels.

In a statement emailed to The Center Square, she said the president “preventing the Mexican drug cartels from being designated federal terrorist organizations (which they are) [is] further evidence that he is the Trafficker-in Chief.”

She thanked Florida’s senior U.S. Sen. Rick Scott and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., for introducing the Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act, which Moody said will “do the job Biden refuses to do – protect the American people.”

The senators filed the bill on Wednesday to formally designate four Mexican cartels as FTOs: the Reynosa/Los Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel, Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa cartel. The bill would prohibit individuals from entering the U.S. who knowingly provide “material support or resources” to these cartels. It also would ban any foreign citizen from entering the U.S. who are members of the designated cartels, or are formally associated with them or who have “engaged in terrorist activity” relating to them.

“For too long, Biden’s botched border policies have prioritized criminals and cartels over legal immigration and Americans’ safety,” Scott said. “Dictators, cartels and bad guys around the world know that Biden is a weak appeaser with open border policies. They’re taking full advantage by trafficking evil drugs like fentanyl across the southern border, poisoning our communities and killing our loved ones. Those who knowingly distribute these highly lethal drugs are declaring war on Americans and deserve to be held accountable and classified as the terrorists they are.”

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, who joined the attorneys general coalitions, told The Center Square, “The Biden administration’s response to the border crisis has been feckless and an abject failure – and Americans are dying as a result. … President Biden must take stronger action to secure the border and protect Americans, and he needs to do it now.”

Mexican cartels are “assassinating rivals and government officials, ambushing, and killing Americans at the border, and engaging in an armed insurgency against the Mexican government,” the coalition argues. “This dangerous terrorist activity occurring at our border will not abate unless we escalate our response.”

Earlier this year, Biden said his plan to address the fentanyl crisis involved having “more drug detection machines,” implementing greater inspection of cargo to “stop pills and powder [coming in through] the border,” “working with couriers, like FedEx, to inspect more packages for drugs,” and implementing “strong penalties to crack down on fentanyl trafficking.”

Education Supremacists Adopt CRT-laden Social Studies Standards in Rhode Island

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Education Supremacists Adopt CRT-laden Social Studies Standards in Rhode Island

(Mike Stenhouse, RealClear Wire) America’s upcoming 250th birthday should be a patriotic celebration of our inalienable and constitutional rights and recognition of our American birthright of liberty. Instead, patriotism is systematically being de-institutionalized across our country.

Ronald Reagan warned in the1980s of the dire consequences of the failure to institutionalize “informed patriotism”. Not only has America’s birthright of liberty been de-emphasized, but one has to wonder if the woke Left believes that America, itself, is the evil empire.

Over recent generations, pride in America’s founding ideals has deteriorated. The true history of our nation has not changed. What has changed is the radical Left’s false narrative and how we teach and portray US history – via a critical race theory lens – in our schools.

From academia to the legacy media, to Hollywood, to corporate board rooms, and to our governmental bodies and the courts, a negative emotional contagion is sweeping the country. Most affected are the increasing numbers of youth and young adults who are taught to view their own country as unworthy of national pride, even deserving of shame.

If not an intentional psy-ops strategy, how else can we explain that only 16% of Gen Z youth are “proud” to live in the United States and only 36% of Millennials? This compared with 73% of Baby Boomers and 54% of Gen Xers according to a recent Morning Consult national poll.

Without the unifying core sentiments of “love of country” and “trust in God”, there is little remaining to bind our Republic together. We truly have become a fractured nation … and it’s been done on purpose.

Perhaps nothing better exemplifies the misguided effort to indoctrinate young people with divisive narratives than the social studies standards (Standards) recently proposed by the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE).

In late February, education supremacists at RIDE and the RI Board of Education became guilty participants in this anti-American scheme, when they adopted the error-riddled, bloated, and overly politicized Standards, constructed by RIDE Commissioner Angelica Infante Green.

Earlier in the month, my organization, the Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity, along with the Civics Alliance, co-published a report, written by David Randall of the National Association of Scholars, Taken for a RIDE, which critiqued the Standards as one of the worst social studies standards adopted by any state.

Despite our report, which inspired overwhelming public opposition, these controversial and unprofessional history curricula guidelines were mindlessly rubber-stamped into effect.

These Standards are neither by the people of Rhode Island, nor of the people of Rhode Island – but they nevertheless will be imposed on the people of Rhode Island.

With failing and falling reading, math, and science scores – unacceptable given Rhode Island’s relatively high-level of per pupil expenditures in public schools – I shudder to think how Ocean State students might fare if there was a commensurate US History test. Our report detailed the utter failure of RIDE to develop curriculum standards that will teach America’s common language of liberty, patriotism, and national memory.

These state-imposed Standards are undeniable proof that the problems we face in our public schools were not thrust upon us from the heavens above, but, rather, by agenda-driven elitists – federal and state unelected educrats who have zero accountability.

Here’s a brief timeline of how these 2023 Standards came to pass:

In 2019, Rhode Island lawmakers empowered RIDE to develop and force adoption of curricula standards upon every local school district. RIDE has since proven wholly irresponsible and unworthy of such authority.

In March 2021, the Biden Administration passed its 1.9 trillion-dollar covid relief fund package, with incentive for states to adopt “equity” standards in their school systems. Indeed, ARP allocated over $120 billion for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Education required each state to submit plans outlining how they intended to spend the federal funding, in line with these equity standards.

In July 2021, the RI Department of Education created and launched its LEAP task (Learning, Equity & Accelerated Pathways) force to determine and recommend best uses for these federal funds in the state’s pending application. Only left-leaning activists, education officials, and parents were invited to participate on LEAP’s “diverse” committee.

Within months, RIDE submits its state application, State Plan for the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. Incorporated throughout the application document, Rhode Island’s plan uses Critical Race Theory tenets like “cultural responsiveness,” “anti-racism,” and “equity” as the guiding principles in describing how it plans to spend ARP funding … funding that was originally promoted to be use as relief from the COVID pandemic.

Sometime in late 2021 or early 2022, RIDE receives hundreds of millions in federal aid. According to a report published by One Nation America, Rhode Island received over $415 million to implement CRT-based curricula in its K-12 schools, part of over $44 billion nationwide for this purpose.

As previously outlined, by February 2023, the resulting Standards for Rhode Island were proposed and adopted; standards that will shortchange students and teachers. As our report explains in detail, these standards will “teach students to hate their country, its history, and its ideals, and to know only distorted tatters of the history of the world.”

America’s true birthright is its noble pursuit of liberty and equality – even as imperfect as that pursuit has often been.

If we are to become a more united union, it must begin with a re-appreciation of our nation’s past and present struggles – and successes – in its pursuit of freedom. Rather than further divide us, social studies standards should inspire teachers and education leaders to celebrate and teach to students their true American birthright of liberty.

COMMENT: American’s Last – Biden’s Strategy to Prioritize Illegals over American Citizens

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COMMENT: American’s Last – Biden’s Strategy to Prioritize Illegals over American Citizens

(Bianca Gracia) As a nation, we have always been proud of our generosity and compassion towards others, especially those who are less fortunate. But we must not forget that our first and foremost responsibility is to take care of our own citizens before we extend our help to others, including illegal aliens.

Our government has a responsibility to prioritize the needs of our citizens before addressing the needs of illegal aliens. We must ensure that our own people have access to healthcare, education, and other basic necessities before we allocate resources to support those who are not legally entitled to these benefits.

Americans are struggling to put basic necessities on the table. Eggs, gas, electricity and a host of other commodities are in short supply, and the Biden administration has chosen to value the needs of noncitizens over those of Americans. We cannot ignore the plight of our own citizens who are struggling to make ends meet, while we divert resources to support illegal aliens.

As a Conservative and a middle class American, I strongly disagree with the recent call by top House Democrats to increase funding for the controversial Case Management Pilot Program that aids illegal aliens facing deportation. It is simply unacceptable to prioritize funding for illegal aliens over American citizens and legal residents. This program not only provides voluntary case management services but also includes mental health services, school enrollment, legal aid, cultural orientation programs and connections to social services.

While some of these services may be important, they should not be provided to individuals who are in the United States illegally. Furthermore, the Democrats’ call for limiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s surveillance of illegal aliens is concerning. ICE’s mission is to enforce immigration laws and protect national security. Limiting their ability to surveil illegal aliens only hinders their ability to do their job effectively and efficiently. The CMPP was authorized by Congress in the 2021 DHS Appropriations Act, which provided $5 million in funding to FEMA for the program.

Democrats are now urging the Office of Management and Budget to continue the $20 million in funding for the program, in addition to instructing the Department of Homeland Security to prioritize establishing the program and not expand individuals subject to ICE surveillance. This stance demonstrates a willingness to prioritize the interests of illegal aliens over the security and sovereignty of our country. It is time for Democrats to prioritize American citizens and legal residents over illegal aliens.

We need to enforce our immigration laws and protect our national security, and the CMPP only undermines these efforts. Constitutional Conservatives must stand firm in their opposition to this program and demand Democrats refocus their priorities on the American people.

As billions of your tax dollars leave our homeland bound for foreign hands, we must recognize that our resources are not infinite. We cannot afford to provide for the needs of everyone in the world who wants to come to our country. We must set reasonable limits on immigration and prioritize the needs of our own people.

Our government must ensure that our resources are allocated to address the needs of our own people before we extend our assistance to those who are not legally entitled to it. We must enforce our laws and set reasonable limits on immigration to ensure that we are able to provide for the needs of our own citizens and maintain our nation’s sovereignty.

It seems that this central tenet of representative government has been discarded by the current administration. Instead, the far Left in Washington has seen fit to prioritize the needs of illegal criminals over those of our citizens.

Bianca Gracia is the co-founder and president of the Latinos for Trump Organization, and the founder and executive director of Latinos for America First PAC. She previously worked as Statewide Hispanic Engagement Director for the Republican Party of Texas and State Director for the Faith and Freedom Coalition. She is also President of Leaderes de la Comunidad, President of Americanos Conservative United, and was a former State Director and Advisor for Blexit Texas.

In Battle for FBI HQ, Md. Leaders Say There Is a ‘Finger on the Scale’

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In Battle for FBI HQ, Md. Leaders Say There Is a ‘Finger on the Scale’

(Madison Hirneisen, The Center Square) Maryland officials said Wednesday the current criteria for the selection of the new Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters puts the “finger on the scale” toward Virginia, arguing the criteria needs to be re-evaluated to ensure a fair process.

Maryland leaders made their case Wednesday for why they believe the FBI’s new headquarters should be built in their state, representing the latest discussion in an ongoing competition with Virginia for site selection.

State officials and Maryland’s congressional delegation met with federal officials at the General Services Administration headquarters in Washington D.C. Wednesday to discuss site selection for the FBI’s new headquarters, which will replace the agency’s deteriorating headquarters in D.C.

Two Maryland sites in Prince George’s County are under consideration for the FBI’s new headquarters — one located in Greenbelt and the other in Landover. The other site under consideration is located in Springfield, Virginia. These three final sites were selected from an initial batch of 35 potential sites, officials said Wednesday.

Virginia leaders are set to make their case to GSA officials Thursday about why the Springfield site may be the best fit for the agency’s new headquarters. In a letter to the GSA last month, Virginia’s congressional delegation and Gov. Glenn Youngkin argued the Springfield site meets the agency’s criteria and “presents the government with a comprehensive and holistic candidate location to house the FBI.”

Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Maryland officials said they raised concerns to the GSA – the sole agency authorized by Congress to finalize the FBI headquarter site selection – about the selection criteria directing officials to consider proximity to the FBI Academy in Quantico. Maryland officials say this criteria point, which was only added in September 2022, provides an unfair advantage to Virginia.

“We know that Maryland and Virginia are not competing on equal footing – not because of anything that Maryland lacks, but because the selection process that was changed last September gives away points to our friends across the Potomac,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said during a press conference in D.C. Wednesday.

In September, the GSA published their Site Selection Plan, outlining five criteria for officials to consider when evaluating the options for the FBI’s second headquarters – the FBI’s mission requirements, transportation access, site development flexibility, advancing equity and cost. Serving the FBI’s mission is weighted the highest at 35%, while cost is weighted the lowest at 10%.

In the sub-criteria for considering the FBI’s Mission is a point directing officials to consider “proximity of the site to the FBI Academy Quantico,” which is in Virginia. Maryland officials said Wednesday proximity to Quantico as a consideration for site selection was first discussed in 2022 – 11 years into the site selection process for the FBI’s headquarters.

In a letter to the GSA Wednesday, Maryland officials wrote they were concerned about the “surprise emphasis” on proximity to Quantico, arguing it “put a finger on the scale toward one site and is not based on any real needed requirement of the FBI to carry out its vital national security mission.”

Congressman Kwesi Mfume, D-Md., reiterated this concern in remarks Wednesday, using a sports analogy to underscore the impact of the September 2022 criteria change.

“We started out believing that there was going to be one set of rules – that the 100 yard dash was going to be the 100 yard dash,” Mfume said. “Then when we start to run in the game, and all of a sudden, it’s a 200 yard dash. And then in September of last year, somebody put their finger on the scale and changed the rules. So all of a sudden, the things that we worked around and prepared for and developed were no longer as important.”

Maryland officials also argued Wednesday the two sites in Prince George’s County are a better deal for taxpayers in the long run. Moore said the headquarters would be built “faster and cheaper” in Maryland, while other officials claimed locating the headquarters in Virginia would cost federal taxpayers more than either Maryland site.

“It is so clear to anyone who looks at the criteria that’s been set out over the last 10 years that Prince George’s County objectively is the strongest site for the FBI headquarters to be relocated,” Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks said Wednesday. “This site results in preserving taxpayer dollars.”

Maryland leaders said they discussed their concerns about the criteria surrounding Quantico with GSA and FBI officials Wednesday, specifically asking officials to eliminate the criteria tied to Quantico and to place equal weight on all five criteria under consideration. Officials also said Wednesday they want the GSA to place more equal consideration on the equity criteria of the site selection process, which is currently weighted at 15%.

Leaders overall expressed confidence Wednesday that under “objective standards,” Maryland is the best location for the FBI’s new headquarters. Officials pointed to commuter rail and bus access at both sites to fulfill the transportation criteria and said both Maryland sites are “ready to go in every sense,” noting both sites are available to begin construction quickly.

On equity, officials noted in their letter to the GSA that Prince George’s County is the only majority Black jurisdiction in the National Capital Region. They also pointed out that the county currently has 48% of federal warehouse space and 20% of the federal workforce in the National Capital Region, but the county only has 4% of federal office leased space.

“Fairfax County has almost triple the federal office leased space and about half the federal warehouse space as Prince George’s County,” the letter sates. “According to Prince George’s County officials, 72% of county residents must leave the county for work each day.”

Moore told reporters Wednesday the timeline for when a decision will be made on site selection is unclear. He said the GSA indicated “this is the highest priority.”

Minn. Dems Float $100M Reparations Bill w/ George Floyd Apology

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Minn. Dems Float $100M Reparations Bill w/ George Floyd Apology

(Headline USA) Minnesota Democrats introduced a bill this week that would require the state to pay black residents a total of $100 million in reparations and formally apologize to the family of George Floyd.

The bill, introduced by state Rep. Samakab Hussein, claims the “structural institutionalized racism in Minnesota and all of American society has led to overwhelming Black-white disparities in housing, business investment, economic prosperity, health and wellness, life expectancy, and infant mortality.”

As such, $100-million in reparations are necessary to break down “the societal structure related to power, money, and access to resources.” Indeed, reparations “may be the only solution that can be applied intergenerationally that would be an investment in the future and in reducing disparities,” the bill claims.

The bill then lists several other items that Minnesota must take action on, including apologizing for the deaths of Floyd, Philando Castile and Jamar Clark.

“The tragic murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer has stirred a local, national, and international reckoning of the immorality of the racial hierarchy that exists under our democratic institutions and defies the founding values of this nation,” the bill says.

Minnesota must also “issue an apology for the past occurrence of chattel slavery and notable slave owners in Minnesota.”

And lastly, the bill would form an advisory council to “determine what form of compensation to African Americans who are descendants of persons enslaved in the United States can be achieved.”

Members of this council “must be chosen with an emphasis on appointing members who are descendants of persons believed to have been enslaved in the United States, or members of the American descendants of chattel slavery with lived experience of racial discrimination and who were impacted by policies which have caused intergenerational trauma,” the bill adds.

Transgender Activist Brags about Giving ‘Trans’ Drugs to Minors

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Transgender Activist Brags about Giving ‘Trans’ Drugs to Minors

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Eli Erlick, a man who pretends to be a woman and a self-described “trans” activist, openly bragged on social media about giving life-altering cross-sex hormones to minors who are delusional enough to think that they are a member of the opposite sex, and Erlick actively encouraged others to do the same.

“I’m now a proud criminal in Mississippi for ‘aiding and abetting’ lifesaving medicine for trans youth,” Erlick tweeted on Monday, as reported by Libs of TikTok. “I realize the risks of posting this but it’s more important to encourage others to share lifesaving medications than guarantee one’s safety (granted I’m in little danger in NY).”

Erlick also informed his followers that he orders more drugs than required to fulfill the role of illegal hormone supplier to confused young people.

“I order 4 times more estrogen & testosterone blockers than I actually take. You should do too,” Erlick wrote.

“Several states have now banned trans medicine for minors but we won’t let a single young person go without medication. We’ll provide care ourselves if youth can’t access formal medicine.”

According to Libs of TikTok, the reason why Erlick is so open about the crimes that he committed is that he knows he is above the law because the Biden administration supports the mutilation of the bodies of children.

“Eli knows ‘she’s’ breaking the law but thinks ‘she’ can get away with it. Trans activists are used to getting away with whatever they want by emotionally manipulating the public. They think they’re above the law. We’re not gonna let them get away with it anymore,” Libs of TikTok wrote.

Matt Walsh, a conservative commentator on the Daily Wire, responded to the series of tweets by saying that he contacted the Mississippi governor’s office regarding this crime.

“Erlick has admitted to many crimes but never to committing one in a state that is not only willing to prosecute but has the political will to do so. This was a serious error and I intend to fully exploit it,” he wrote.

U.S. Navy Drops Fitness Tests as China Ramps Up Military Readiness

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U.S. Navy Drops Fitness Tests as China Ramps Up Military Readiness

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) As China-U.S. relations continue sinking to record low levels and fear of conflict escalates, both countries have taken steps to ensure that their militaries remain strong, but have used decidedly different approaches.

In the latest step to help recruitment numbers and bolster re-enlistments, the U.S. Navy unveiled a new policy that drops the branch’s fitness test mandate, which had significantly reduced the retention rate for sailors. 

As reported by the Navy Times, the director of military personnel, plans and policy, Rear Admiral James Waters III, said the new strategy was primarily to improve accession and retention rates to meet goals set to be achieved by the end of the year. 

He added that this shift was needed to improve attrition, saying, “We don’t want to punish sailors because gyms were closed during the pandemic. We don’t want to disadvantage sailors.”

Moving forward, all sailors who intend to continue their service will have no issues due to PFA failures and can continue in service and advance as long as they choose. Waters concluded, “We think this reset could allow up to 1,500 sailors to remain in service who might otherwise be separated. Requirements and standards remain constant.”

Meanwhile, China’s communist leader Xi Jinping has called for “more quickly elevating the armed forces to world-class standards,” the AP reported. Xi stressed an increased need to maximize the country’s abilities to cope strategically with threats and safeguard China’s interests.

In a speech last year, Xi referenced the need for “a strong system of strategic deterrent forces, raise the presence of combat forces in new domains and of new qualities, and deeply promote combat-oriented military training.”

In his first conference as the Foreign minister, Qin Gang subtly threatened the United States. He said, “If the United States does not hit the brake, but continues to speed down the wrong path, no amount of guardrails can prevent derailing and there surely will be conflict and confrontation.”

Beijing’s Foreign Ministry merely discarded questions about China’s intentions behind its “military expansion and pursuit of hegemony.”

American Red Cross Helps Illegals Cross Biden’s Border w/ Maps, Guides

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American Red Cross Helps Illegals Cross Biden’s Border w/ Maps, Guides

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The American Red Cross decided to work toward the communist goal of abolishing all countries and their borders by making it easier for illegal aliens to flood the country.

To accomplish this, the organization created maps and guides for people who decided to become criminals by illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the Daily Caller.

The map — a part of a packet stamped with the International Committee of the Red Cross and American Red Cross logos — shows a list of resources, like hotels, clinics and shelters where future illegals can get support both in Mexico and Central America.

The maps also include clearly defined lines that lead to cities along the U.S. border, including El Paso, Texas; Nogales, Ariz.; and McAllen, Texas.

The guides also acknowledge that the journey is dangerous. Because of that, the Red Cross’s guide provides migrants with the tools that would help them to protect themselves from deadly and treacherous situations, if they are going to encounter them. The Red Cross is also ready to make sure that illegals won’t be able to procreate.

“If you use contraceptive methods, don’t forget to bring them with you. In necessary cases, some Red Cross’ clinics and medical brigades will give them to you for free,” according to the document obtained by the Daily Caller.

The document also tells illegals how to navigate the desert and jump on top of cargo trains, which are called “La Bestia” or “the beast,” that transit north through Mexico.

“In the desert during the day, temperatures are extreme. Seek to bring with you lots of portable water, pants and long sleeves to protect you from the sun and maintain the sweat and humidity. Also take with you warm clothes, gloves to protect your hands and a flashlight and matches,” the guide stated.

“Traveling seated (on trains) is the most recommended. Be careful on your trip, there are branches, electric cables and tunnels that can hit you. Accommodate yourself where you have supporting points.”

Despite the evidence that showed the Red Cross helps illegal immigrants to cross the border, the organization tried its best to gaslight the public.

“The International Committee of the Red Cross, as a part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, does not prevent nor does it encourage migration. We aim to help prevent and mitigate the humanitarian consequences that migration can bring – including separation and loss of family contacts, disappearances, serious medical issues and even death,” an International Committee of the Red Cross spokesperson said.

Leftist Mayor Declares Minn. a ‘Refuge’ for Genital Mutilation

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Leftist Mayor Declares Minn. a ‘Refuge’ for Genital Mutilation

(Adrienne Ferguson, Headline USA) Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz did his part to incite more cultural discord with an executive order that transformed the state into a place of “refuge” for individuals interested in undergoing genital mutilation or other types of transgender surgeries. 

Under the executive order, doctors are also able to prescribe growth hormones or other types of medications and drugs to fully experience a “gender change,” according to Breitbart.

As part of the executive order, Walz requires all state agencies to “to the fullest extent of their lawful authority” to protect people and entities “providing, assisting, seeking, or obtaining” transgender treatments.

Walz also instructs some departments to remind insurance companies that coverage for genital mutilations is welcomed in his state. The executive order also tries picking fights with other state legislatures or governors who disagree with his radical agenda.

“No state agency will comply with a subpoena issued in another state seeking information about a person or person’s child who travels to this state for gender affirming health care services related to potential child protection matters or criminal charges against a parent, guardian, or provider for seeking, obtaining, or providing gender affirming health benefits,” the order states.

Despite medical professionals from numerous countries finding fault and suspicion with the practice of transgender surgeries and genital mutilation, the United States is moving forward full-throttle with the procedures and promoting them.

One of Finland’s leading experts on pediatric gender medicine has studied the potential ramifications of the widely-promoted surgeries of the United States medical conglomerates, and warned that even promoting “social transitions” in youth can have disastrous consequences.

Despite the research of other medical professionals and a growing number of states banning gender surgeries for minors, Walz trumpeted his unilateral decision to declare his state a “refuge” for genital mutilations.

“Today, Minnesota joins other states and a growing number of municipalities that have acted in solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ community,” Walz said. “We stand with this community by maintaining a refuge for those who seek and provide gender affirming health care services.”

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