Pelosi Snubs Katie Porter, Backs Schiff for Feinstein’s Senate Seat

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Pelosi Snubs Katie Porter, Backs Schiff for Feinstein’s Senate Seat

(Headline USA) Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., endorsed Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., in the race for a California Senate seat — but only if Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who currently holds the seat, retires.

“If Sen. Feinstein decides to seek reelection, she has my wholehearted support,” Pelosi told CNN this week. “If she decides not to run, I will be supporting House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff, who knows well the nexus between a strong democracy and a strong economy.”

Schiff was booted from the House committee last week.

Pelosi’s support raises the stakes of what is already a contentious race — considering Feinstein has not yet said whether she plans to retire or seek reelection in 2024. Several Democrats have already announced their intention to run for the seat, including Schiff and Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif. Other potential contenders include Reps. Ro Khanna and Barbara Lee.

“Everyone is of course welcome to throw their hat in the ring, and I will make an announcement concerning my plans for 2024 at the appropriate time,” Feinstein said in a statement last month. “Right now I’m focused on ensuring California has all the resources it needs to cope with the devastating storms slamming the state and leaving more than a dozen dead.”

Schiff announced his campaign on Jan. 26, just a few weeks after Porter announced hers.

“I’ve always believed that what’s right matters, that the truth matters, and that decency matters. And when a dangerous demagogue tried to undermine our democracy, I wasn’t about to let him,” he said in a statement, referring to Democrats’ first impeachment effort against former President Donald Trump, over which Schiff presided.

Schiff went on to claim that “MAGA extremists” are his motivation to run for Senate.

“I wish I could say the threat of MAGA extremists is over,” he said in a video on Twitter. “It is not. Today’s Republican Party is gutting the middle class, threatening our democracy. They aren’t going to stop. We have to stop them.”

L.A. Schools Let Students Carry Anti-OD Drug Narcan amid Fentanyl Crisis

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L.A. Schools Let Students Carry Anti-OD Drug Narcan amid Fentanyl Crisis

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Officials for Los Angeles Unified School District announced that they will allow students to carry Narcan to protect themselves in case of opioid overdose.

Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho updated the policy that will allow students to carry the medication as the city’s fentanyl epidemic rages out of control.

“Narcan cannot be used to get high, is not addictive and does not have any effect on a person if there are no opioids in their body,” Carvalho wrote in an email to board members.

He also received approval from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, and added that officials will reissue the updated policies in the coming weeks, reported the Daily Wire.

The current policy only allows staff to access and administer Narcan in case of an emergency. School board members, such as Nick Melvoin, approved of the policy change as a life-saving measure for students who find their lives in jeopardy.

“Narcan has the power to save lives and I’ve been working to expand its access to everyone in our school communities, including students themselves,” Melvoin said. “But the increased use of Narcan as a life-saving measure underscores the drug crisis that’s being brought to our schools.”

“We must do more to address the root causes of this crisis and that starts with education and more support for our youth,” he added.

Fentanyl continues to stream into the United States via the porous southern border.

Recent reports on the effects of fentanyl show that younger demographics are more effected by the drug than any other age group.

A 2022 report from LA County found that 92% of teens who died from drug overdoses tested positive for fentanyl. Several of the deaths were directly related to the opioid.

The drug is 50-100 times more potent than morphine. In 2022, Drug Enforcement Administration said that there was enough fentanyl in the country to kill every American citizen.

NYC Mayor Tries to Lure Illegals from Hotel Using Healthy Snacks

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NYC Mayor Tries to Lure Illegals from Hotel Using Healthy Snacks

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) New York City Democrat Mayor Eric Adams is attempting to lure illegal immigrants from the luxury Watson Hotel, where they are headquartered for free, to a shelter at a local cruise terminal using healthy snacks as an incentive.

According to Brietbart, Adams released a promotional video encouraging the single male adult migrants housed at the Watson to move to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, addressing their purported anxieties about moving into the space.

“It doesn’t matter if its Ellis Island or the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal… it’s all rooted int he American dream,” Adams explained. “I just had to come here when I started hearing all of the rumors about how it was too cold… about the food not being here. Healthy food is present; even the snacks are healthy!”

The video, which shows clips of Adams talking and playing ping pong with the illegal immigrants, has a voice over of him explaining that the migrants are grateful to the residents of New York City for allowing the influx of illegals to take asylum.

The terminal can host over 1,000 migrants. However, many local Left-wing activists have deemed the space unlivable and encouraged many of the illegal aliens to continue residing at the hotel.

The Watson Hotel—where Adams placed the migrants on the city’s dime—is a 3.5 star establishment with a fitness center, a swimming pool on the roof and complimentary coffee service. The illegal immigrants staying there have private rooms and bathrooms and appear to be free to do as they would like throughout the building.

Adams has become increasingly desperate since government officials with states and cities along the southern border started busing illegals to sanctuary cities like New York and Chicago. Despite constant calls from Adams, the Biden administration continues to ignore the issue.

“We are doing our job, we need the national government and Congress to do their job,” he said.

Recently, the situation even got bad enough for Adams to personally visit the border, acknowledge the fault in the left-wing border policies pushed by the Biden administration and call the circumstance a “crisis.”

“Our cities are being undermined,” he said. “We don’t deserve this. Migrants don’t deserve this and the people who live in the cities don’t deserve this …There is no more room in New York.”

Census Planning to Add New Ethnic Group for Arabs

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Census Planning to Add New Ethnic Group for Arabs

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In order to expand the reach of its identity-politics agenda, the Biden administration recently recommened that the U.S. Census Bureau add Arabs as a new ethnic-group option for registering American citizens, the Tennessee Star reported.

The administration specifically called for census and federal surveys to add a new group labeled “Middle Eastern and North African” in a recently published proposal.

Previously, those cultural identities would have fallen under the broader category of “Caucasian,” unless otherwise specified.

Census officials last year signaled their intention to further break down racial categories for Arabs and Hispanics in particular. By creating greater subsets of minority residents, communities may be eligible for additional federal resources and civil-rights regulations, while ethnic demographics also carry political implications during the decennial redistricting process that follows the U.S. Census.

According to Maya Berry, executive director of the left-wing Arab American Institute, the Biden administration has made great progress on the path toward securing state benefits for those of Middle Eastern or North African descent.

“This is a really big deal. We have been working to get a checkbox to get better data about our community for decades,” she said.

“We need data in our communities to be able to defend them, to be able to provide services
for them, and the census is the source of all that,” Berry added. “If you’re rendered invisible in census data there’s going to be real consequences to people’s lives.”

Biden’s proposal also calls for the elimination of troubling words, such as “minority” or “majority” in the paperwork, insisting that Americans be more “respectful of how people refer to themselves.”

According to the Washington Post, Biden’s request is welcome because the current method by which the U.S. census is taken has made some people feel excluded.

“It is this feeling like I don’t really belong—like there’s no space for me here and I just have to conform to whatever this country is telling me that I am,” said Tala Faraj, 23, an Iraqi–American who lives in Chicago. “It makes me feel sad.”

Trump Burning through 2024 Campaign Cash Faster than He Can Fundraise

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Trump Burning through 2024 Campaign Cash Faster than He Can Fundraise

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump is spending more money than he is raising on his campaign, despite a notable lack of activity and being the only declared candidate in the field.

Trump currently has $25 million on hand for his presidential run, but that is far less than his holdings from last year, according to Chron.

Trump had $105 million on hand at the beginning of 2022. These numbers are skewed by a $60 million transfer from the campaign to MAGA Inc., a super-PAC supporting Trump.

In addition, the Trump campaign’s fundraising operation costs more than it is currently bringing in, according to Politico.

Trump’s primary fundraising tool, The Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, raised about $5 million between Nov. 29 and Dec. 31.

That money was offset by the expenditures required to obtain it. Trump’s campaign spent $2.5 million on texting, $1.7 million on online ads and $950,000 on list rentals in that period.

The campaign’s fundraising arm spent more than it raised.

Trump’s previously raised funds covered his expenditures over the holidays, but operating at a loss is not a good sign early in a campaign. Typically, candidates who have just announced are pulling in large amounts of money from the enthusiasm their new campaign is generating. Indeed, Trump was the only declared candidate for POTUS in this period.

Trump still has significant outside money backing him. MAGA Inc. reported holding $54 million at the end of 2022 and will be able to significantly support Trump.

Steven Cheung, a Trump Campaign spokesman, reported satisfaction with the operation of the organization.

“President Trump has raised $21.3 million in the last quarter, proving that he is an unstoppable force that continues to dominate politics,” he said. “The campaign built out a second-to-none operation both on the national level and in early states since announcing.”

American College of Pediatricians Calls for End to Trans Surgery on Minors

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American College of Pediatricians Calls for End to Trans Surgery on Minors

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In a shocking turn of events, the American College of Pediatricians called for the end of gender reassignment surgeries for minors in light of recently published studies.

Per the press release, the medical group requested that healthcare providers “reconsider current protocols for gender dysphoric children based on newly published data” which contains a “critique of transgender interventions.”

According to Michelle Cretella, immediate past executive director of ACPeds and advisory board spokeswoman for Advocates Protecting Children, the “science” that supposedly backs transgenderism is of suspect quality.

“The entire pediatric transgender industry is based on these two Dutch studies,” Cretella said.

“This open access report is critical because it exposes the fraudulent foundation of pediatric transgender medicine in the United States.”

Dr. Quentin Van Meter, endocrinologist and past ACP president, noted that the study’s findings correspond to anecdotal experience.

“ACPeds has long held that efforts to socially, medically and surgically interfere with the biological integrity of children and adolescents are not appropriate because of the very well documented harms and questionable benefits of such interventions,” he said.

“This published critique has pulled the foundation out from under guidelines used by major organizations pushing for transgender interventions.”

The new study, titled ““The Myth of ‘Reliable Research’ in Pediatric Gender Medicine:  A critical evaluation of the Dutch Studies- and research that has followed,” was published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy.

Per the report, “no other pediatric intervention of similarly drastic nature has ever been delivered at a scale based on such low quality of evidence.”

The authors also called their findings “a sobering reminder that the history of medicine is replete with examples of ‘cures’ which turned out to be far more harmful than the ‘disease.’”

Perhaps most disturbingly, ACPeds noted that the vast bulk of real evidence opposes surgical or hormonal treatment for “gender dysphoria” in favor of far less radical treatment.

“Extensive, decades-long published evidence has shown that returning to the biological integrity of the body occurs in the vast majority of gender dysphoric patient,” ACPeds concluded.

Biden’s Energy Dept. Officially Moves Forward on Gas-Stove Crackdown

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Biden’s Energy Dept. Officially Moves Forward on Gas-Stove Crackdown

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The Department of Energy released a proposal on Wednesday that would set an “energy conservation standard” for gas stoves and all electric cooking equipment.

The proposed rule would require that all newly manufactured stoves meet a certain threshold of energy efficiency. However, the DOE will not be putting a cap on consumers’ gas-stove usage for now, the Daily Caller reported.

“The Energy Policy and Conservation Act … prescribes energy conservation standards for various consumer products and certain commercial and industrial equipment, including consumer conventional cooking products,” said a summary of the law. “EPCA also requires the [DOE] to periodically determine whether more-stringent standards would be technologically feasible and economically justified, and would result in significant energy savings.”

The rule would also target electric stoves that are on a linear power supply.

In January, Richard Trumka Jr., a commissioner at the Consumer Product Safety Commission and son of the former AFL–CIO union boss, let slip that the Biden administration was deliberating on a total, nationwide ban of gas stoves.

Trumka cited a study that asserted the standard household appliance caused an inordinate number of cases of childhood asthma. However, it was quickly discovered that funding for the study came in part from nonprofits lobbying for the nationwide use of electric stoves.

A different study, performed in 2013, found that there is “no evidence of an association between the use of gas as a cooking fuel and either asthma symptoms or asthma diagnosis.”

The latter study had a sample group of 500,000 children from across the globe.

Gas stove bans keep cropping up in blue-run cities, 77 of which, in 10 different states, are currently banning or limiting the use of natural gas.

But another 20 states have taken countermeasures to prevent future government officials from banning gas stoves.

Despite the recent virtue-signaling, several of our nation’s elites have openly boasted of having gas stoves in their homes, as pointed out by Twitter users.

Dallas Startup Plans to Bring Back Extinct Dodo Bird Using DNA

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Dallas Startup Plans to Bring Back Extinct Dodo Bird Using DNA

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-area “de-extinction” startup, said it plans to use genetic manipulation to bring back the long-extinct dodo bird, the Washington Times reported.

The company, which uses genetic-engineering technology to bring back hybridized clones of extinct species, has been given $150 million to bring the dodo back via its closest relative, the Nicobar pigeon.

If successful, the company also has designs to resurrect the wooly mammoth and a fox-like predatory marsupial called a thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.

Per Colossal Scientific Advisory Board member Beth Shapiro, the company plans to release the birds back into the wild once they have been successfully re-created.

“The dodo is a prime example of a species that became extinct because we—people—made it impossible for them to survive in their native habitat,” she claimed.

“… [A]s the first to fully sequence the dodo’s genome, I am thrilled to collaborate with Colossal and the people of Mauritius on the de-extinction and eventual re-wilding of the dodo,” she added.

But Shapiro and others at Colossal expect to encounter difficulties in imitating natural genetic variations.

“Once a species is extinct, it’s really not possible to bring back an identical copy,” she said.

“The hope is that we can use, first, comparative genomics so we can get at least one, and hopefully more, dodo genomes that we can use to look and see how dodos are similar to each other, and different from things like the solitaire,” she continued, referring to another extinct flightless relative of the dodo, the Rodrigues solitaire.

According to Colossal investor Erik Anderson, the company’s genetic manipulations are cause for hope.

“Colossal is a new symbol for hope in species preservation and conservation,” he said. “Their de-extinction achievements are making it possible for ecosystems to return to their intended state, which is an incredible breakthrough in biodiversity.”

Still, some may eye warily any talk of genetic manipulation following the recent COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted from presumably well-intentioned efforts to manipulate organic viruses using gain-of-function research that relied on a similar process.

Colossal’s work also may call to mind the premise of the Michael Crichton’s 1990 bestseller Jurassic Park—later turned into a popular movie franchise. In it, researchers use dinosaur DNA from a mosquito trapped in amber to genetically resurrect the extinct species for a theme park gone awry.

Nat’l Prayer Breakfast Snubs Longtime Christian Organizers in Favor of Swamp

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Nat’l Prayer Breakfast Snubs Longtime Christian Organizers in Favor of Swamp

(Headline USA) In another sign that the Marxist-sympathizing Biden administration is deliberately slouching toward Gomorrah, President Joe Biden and other top elected officials snubbed the longtime Christian organizers of the National Prayer Breakfast in favor of a new Swamp-based foundation dedicated solely to putting on the annual event.

The breakfast was held at the Capitol’s visitor center, and the auditorium’s 450 seats were packed with members of Congress, government officials and others.

Every president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has spoken at the event, which in past years has been attended by thousands.

For decades, it was overseen by the International Foundation, a Christian organization that has drawn increasing scrutiny over the years due to its religious roots, even though it touts itself as “non-profit, non-sectarian and non-political.”

However, Democrats have recently complained about its religious bent and outsize influence among conservatives. Notably, the Freedom from Religion Foundation and other atheist groups sent a Jan. 17 letter urging Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to boycott it.

“It has become a nexus for religious extremism, infiltration by Russian agents, and
organized bigotry (anti-LGBTQ and anti-labor),” said the letter. “The National Prayer Breakfast is an active marketplace of Christian nationalism, and it is not the bipartisan event that it purports to be.”

Instead, the event is now run by the National Prayer Breakfast Foundation, a group led by former members of Congress.

The International Foundation held its own event at a nearby hotel, where Biden’s speech was being watched remotely.

“Welcome to all 1,300,” Biden said, a reference to the size of the crowd at the other breakfast. It was his only acknowledgement during the public program to changes behind the scenes.

Contradicting his divisive pre-election rhetoric, which vilified his political rivals as a “threat to democracy,” Biden delivered a message of unity while sitting shoulder to shoulder with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

“In our politics and in our lives, we too often see each other as opponents and not competitors. We see each other as enemies, not neighbors,” Biden said. “And as tough as these times have been, if we look closer, we see the strength, the determination that has long defined America.”

Quoting Scripture, Biden said it was important to “love thy neighbor as thyself.”

“That’s the hardest one, I think,” he said. “At least it’s hardest here. It didn’t used to be as hard. I’ve been here a long time. But it seems to be getting harder.”

The decision to abandon the prayer breakfast’s Christian roots was one in a long list of ways that the radical Left has attempted to replace religious values with those actively antithetical and even hostile to the Judeo–Christian tradition.

Most recently, leftists in New York removed a statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt, also a New York governor, from a courthouse and replaced it with a decidedly pagan golden idol whose sculptor said was an homage to the “god of abortion.”

The statue appeared to have antlers and tentacles, as well as the lace judicial collar worn by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Hunter Biden Implicates Himself w/ Bizarre Legal Attempt to Change Laptop Narrative

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Hunter Biden Implicates Himself w/ Bizarre Legal Attempt to Change Laptop Narrative

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) After years of disingenuous dissembling, Hunter Biden finally came clean and admitted ownership of the contents from the infamous laptop that he abandoned at a Delaware repair shop and has led to multiple investigations of his and the Biden clan’s dubious personal connections and shady business dealings.

The admission became public when Biden, who along with his presidential pops is under myriad investigations stemming from the contents of the laptop, tried to deflect attention from its alleged damning information with what the New York Post called a “petulant letter from Hunter’s lawyers seeking a criminal probe into what they called, attempts to ‘weaponize’ its contents.

Biden’s lawyers wrote to the Justice Department and the Delaware attorney general requesting investigations into people who the attorneys claimed illegally accessed or disseminated information from the laptop.

The letters claimed that the offenders “violated various statutes, including by making public restricted private information; accessing and disseminating stolen property; and making false statements to Congress.” Among those they want to be targeted are John Paul Mac Isaac, who recovered the laptop, along with Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon. The legal ploy is already starting to backfire.

“In a letter demanding probes of the dissemination of Hunter Biden’s files, his lawyer appears to admit the underlying data is real,” noted NYTimes reporter Kenneth P. Vogel.

Biden’s attorney also sent cease and desist letters to Tucker Carlson and Fox News, demanding that they retract information they have reported about Hunter Biden’s links to shady business dealings and his father’s influence peddling.

The legal team also wrote to the IRS requesting a probe into former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler, who has posted some of the laptop’s data on his Marco Polo USA website, challenging the tax exempt status of his venture. Ziegler told the Post that the legal threat was a “desperate attempt” by the Biden family to get the spotlight away from “their crimes.”

Giuliani’s personal lawyer, Robert Costello, who was also named in the letters, echoed those claims.

“This letter is a ridiculous attempt to intimidate that will not succeed,” Costello told the Post. “It is the product of desperation by Hunter Biden because they know judgement day is coming for the Biden family.”

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