Biden Admin. Won’t Deny Sending Toxic Weaponry to Ukraine

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Biden Admin. Won’t Deny Sending Toxic Weaponry to Ukraine

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Senior Biden administration officials have refused to say whether the Bradley fighting vehicles being sent to Ukraine are equipped with ammunition coated in depleted uranium—an extremely dense material that can help ammo pierce tank armor, but which has also been linked to cancer and birth defects.

According to the transcript released Wednesday from a White House “background press call,” a senior administration official refused to answer a reporter’s question about the use of depleted uranium in Ukraine.

“I’m not going to get into the technical specifics,” an unnamed “senior administration official” said twice in response to questions on the matter, according to the transcript.

The Biden White House’s silence on the matter comes as Russia warns that it will treat the use of uranium-coated weaponry as akin to deploying “dirty nuclear bombs against Russia.”

“We are aware that the Leopard 2 tank, as well as the Bradley and Marder infantry fighting vehicles, are armed with sub-caliber armor-piercing shells with uranium cores, the use of which leads to contamination of the area, as it happened in Yugoslavia and Iraq,” Konstantin Gavrilov, the head of the Russian delegation in Vienna, reportedly said Wednesday.

“If Kyiv is supplied with such shells for NATO heavy military equipment, we will consider it to be the use of dirty nuclear bombs against Russia with all the ensuing consequences.”

Depleted uranium-coated ammo was first used in combat in Iraq, where an estimated 1 million rounds were shot during the first Gulf War. They were again used in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as well as in 2015 in Syria.

The U.S. Department of Defense says depleted uranium can possibly have deleterious effects such as kidney damage, but claims that “no human cancer of any type has been seen as a result of exposure to either natural or depleted uranium.” However, the DOD’s claim has been strongly disputed in scientific studies and other by organizations—including the Italian government, which has found higher cancer rates among its troops deployed to the Balkans in the 1990s.

Historian Wendy Painting’s biography of Oklahoma City bomber and Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh chronicles the disastrous consequences depleted uranium had on McVeigh, his cohorts and the citizens caught up in that war.

“The Allies’ use of depleted uranium on tank armor and artillery shells and their bombing or Iraqi weapons facilities had released even more chemicals in the atmosphere. McVeigh’s division was among the thousands of U.S. troops exposed to [depleted uranium], whose effects, after one hour of exposure, scientists equated to fifty chest x-rays,” says Painting’s book, Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh.

“A British Atomic Energy Authority report leaked to the Independent in November 1991, said that when coalitions troops existed the Gulf, they left enough [depleted uranium] behind to cause at least 500,000 cancer-related deaths.”

Painting also described the gruesome outcome of a U.S. solider who fell victim to a depleted uranium-covered bullet in a “friendly fire” incident. The solider was a gunner on a M1A1 Abrams tank hit with a sabot round, or ‘Silver Bullet,’ coated with depleted uranium.

“The sabot ignited a fire in Applegate’s tank that burned for two days. Army officials thought his body had been sucked through a three-inch vacuum created by the round,” Painting wrote.

“‘The coffin didn’t weigh anything. I wondered if Tony was really in there,’” the soldier’s widow said, according to Painting. “The only portion of his body in the casket turned out to be a charred hipbone.”

According to Painting, the Clinton administration publicly acknowledged in June 1993 that the depleted uranium used on U.S. tanks and artillery shells may have contributed to the growing number of Gulf War veterans displaying symptoms related to “Gulf War Syndrome”—a term used to describe the raft of negative health symptoms experienced by military veterans from both sides of that war.

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

In New Book, Pompeo Denies Plotting Trump’s Removal

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In New Book, Pompeo Denies Plotting Trump’s Removal

(Philip Wegmann, RealClear Wire) No, Mike Pompeo never plotted to remove the president from power. And if any members of the White House cabinet had hushed conversations about that possibility after Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob paralyzed Congress for an afternoon, the former secretary of state didn’t know about it.

He wouldn’t leave his post early, and he wouldn’t try to push former President Trump from his. That is, at least, according to Pompeo. He says the thought never crossed his mind.

Numerous outlets reported otherwise. Less than a year after the riot, Jon Karl of ABC News wrote that Pompeo and then-Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin discussed invoking the 25th Amendment, the never-used constitutional process by which a vice president and a majority of cabinet officials may remove a president from office. At the time, a Pompeo spokesman denied that claim. Karl made note, however, that “the spokesman declined to put his name to the statement.”

Now, under his own name, Pompeo dismisses the anecdote as nothing more than “wild speculation.” In his forthcoming memoir, he writes that the 25th Amendment stories that rocked Washington “relied entirely on anonymous sources,” which are “always a sign of deceit and misinformation.”

RealClearPolitics has obtained an excerpt of Pompeo’s memoir, “Never Give an Inch,” which is being published as Pompeo explores his own bid for the presidency. The former Republican congressman from Kansas told RCP last September that he would make a final decision “by the end of the year or beginning of the next” and that it would be made regardless of whatever any other Republican decides to do – including his old boss.

Trump has since announced his third presidential campaign, and Pompeo has been more willing to identify mistakes of the previous administration and flaws in the character of the former president. He has said that Trump “lacked the depth” necessary to defend his own foreign policy and criticized him for needlessly bumbling into high-stakes missteps, like the time he stood beside Vladimir Putin and defended the Russian dictator.

The diplomat seems annoyed by Trump and his loyalists’ constant rehashing of old grievances. When Trump claimed during his announcement speech that he was “a victim,” for instance, Pompeo wrote that Republicans “need more seriousness, less noise, and leaders who are looking forward.” A graduate of West Point before entering politics, he added that his party now needs someone who won’t stare “in the rearview mirror claiming victimhood.”

All of this is a change. Pompeo did not publicly second guess Trump while at the State Department or before that when serving as CIA director. He was not one of the cabinet members known to leak to the press, either. In his new book, he writes that those who did “put themselves ahead of the country,” seeking to stave off “exile from the clubby world” of the Washington establishment.

“Memo to John Bolton,” he writes of that former National Security Advisor at the end of one paragraph to make sure there is no misunderstanding, “I’m talking about you.”

Dismissive of the palace intrigue that dominated news coverage of the previous administration, Pompeo also debunks claims that he and Bolton made a “secret pact” to resign if Trump met with the Iranians. Not true, he writes. Reporting that he, Mnuchin, and former White House chief of staff John Kelly all agreed to leave together if one was fired? Baseless, he adds. “I often read much of the press in utter awe of its recklessness,” Pompeo concludes, “but these statements take the cake. I can’t speak for other cabinet members, but I never had any such discussions.”

While Pompeo has his differences with Trump now, he makes clear that he never wanted to head for the exit. “My only regret about the time I put in over four years is that I didn’t have long enough in either role,” he writes of his tenure first at Langley with the CIA and later at Foggy Bottom with State. “My whole life had prepared me for what I did in the administration,” Pompeo adds. “It was a grueling test of endurance, but I loved every second of it.”

There were opportunities for an off ramp. When Kansas Republican Pat Roberts announced he was retiring from the Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged Pompeo to return home and run for the seat. Pompeo writes that he let the Republican leader down easy, agreeing not to deny his interest in public as “a favor to McConnell, giving him time to find another candidate capable of winning.”

“Mike,” he recalls Trump saying after he publicly demurred during a television interview, “are you really thinking about taking that shitty job? You’ll be junior to Mitt Romney and Rand Paul. You have the best job in the world, you’re fourth in line for the presidency, and you work for me!” Pompeo says he assured the president he had no intention of leaving.

The past comings-and-goings of the diplomat continue to be of interest, not just because of his potential White House ambitions, but also because they were at the center of the now disbanded January 6th Committee chaired by former Rep. Liz Cheney. Mnuchin was asked by the committee if he ever discussed removing Trump from office with Pompeo, as Karl and others reported.

“It came up very briefly in our conversation. [Pompeo and I] both believed that the best outcome was a normal transition of power, which was working, and neither one of us contemplated in any serious format the 25th Amendment,” the treasury secretary testified. Mnuchin did admit that he was curious about the constitutional provision: “I Googled it.”

For his part, Pompeo writes that “the only thing true” about the stories that followed is that the two men spoke after Jan. 6. The conversation with Mnuchin, he says, “was about how to finish strong in the two weeks we had left.”

The D.C. Beltway crowd will no doubt read the memoir in light of a potential bid for president, and while daylight has started to grow between Trump and his former diplomat, it is increasingly clear that if or when Pompeo splits with his old boss it will be on his own terms, not the media’s. He writes of “denying the press my scalp,” dismissing journalists who covered him as so many “hyenas.”

During the transition between administrations, and as the previous president contested the election as fraudulent, Pompeo was irked that those reporters kept asking if he’d met with Biden’s nominee to succeed him at the State Department. “So much important work was still going on,” he writes, “and their entire focus was on whether I had held a perfunctory twenty-minute meeting with someone not yet confirmed to anything.” So, one week after Election Day, Pompeo “decided to have a bit of fun.”

During a briefing at the State Department, he recalls facetiously promising “a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.” He was smiles and summoned “more than a touch of ‘screw you’ in my voice.” The message Pompeo pressed at the end of the Trump administration: that he would not “play the media’s game of trying to drive a wedge between the president and me, even at the end.”

Why Are Millennials Having So Many Strokes?

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Why Are Millennials Having So Many Strokes?

(Ross Pomeroy, RealClear Wire) Strokes commonly strike the old. The average age for the devastating condition — in which blood supply to a part of the brain is blocked or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts — is around 71.4 years in men and 76.9 years in women. Millennials, however, are starting to bring those averages down.

Now ranging in age from 27 to 42, Millennials are suffering strokes at higher rates than their forebears did at the same age, reversing a 40-year decline in stroke deaths. Between 2003 and 2012, there was a 32% spike in strokes among 18- to 34-year-old women and a 15% increase for men in the same age range, according to CDC researchers. When Scientific American further parsed the data, they found that the hike was mostly centered in the West and Midwest, where stroke rates among young people rose 70% and 34%, respectively, with particularly sharp increases in urban areas. Now, about one in ten people who has a stroke in the U.S. is under the age of 45.

There are many potential explanations for this disconcerting trend. Rising stress, falling physical activity levels, and fewer doctor visits among Millennials could all play a role. One narrative rises to the forefront, however. As cigarette use in the U.S. declined from an alarming high of around 45% in the 1950s to just 12.5% in 2020, all Americans collectively reaped the benefit of less smoke in public places, which manifested in reduced rates of lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke. But since the 1970s, the public health benefits from reduced smoking are being eroded by rising obesity and its related health complications.

Childhood obesity is particularly noxious in regard to early stroke, and Millennials were the first generation to truly be affected by this alarming trend. The rate of childhood obesity more than tripled from 5% in 1978 to 18.5% in 2016, leaving many more children burdened by associated conditions such as diabetes and hypertension, which can lead to a stroke.

There is good news. Thanks to improved medical care, stroke fatality rates have fallen significantly between 1975 and 2019, about 65% for hemorrhagic stroke (caused by a burst blood vessel) and 80% for ischemic stroke (caused by a blood vessel blockage). And with greater brain plasticity, young people are more apt to recover. Still, strokes can leave Millennials with lasting complications, such as occasional seizures, incontinence, cognitive impairment, hindered speech, and diminished muscle control, not to mention a sharply elevated risk of a future stroke.

Increased stroke isn’t the only health issue that Millennials are contending with. The rates of many cancers, especially those tied to poor diet, are rising for people under age 50.

The best solution to reverse the rise in early stroke is for Millennials and future generations to eat right and exercise, especially from a young age. Schools and parents have a vital role to play here. Obesity’s grasp can be hard to break if it takes hold at a tender age, but if healthy lifestyle practices are instilled early, it’s likely they will remain second nature.

NASA Marks 20 Years Since Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

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NASA Marks 20 Years Since Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

(Headline USA) NASA marked the 20th anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy with somber ceremonies and remembrances during its annual tribute to fallen astronauts on Thursday.

More than 100 people gathered under a gray sky at Kennedy Space Center to remember not only Columbia’s crew of seven, but the 18 other astronauts killed in the line of duty. NASA’s two shuttle accidents account for more than half of the names carved into the black granite of the Space Mirror Memorial; plane crashes are to blame for the rest.

None of the Columbia astronaut family members attended the morning ceremony. But Zvi Konikov, a local rabbi, recalled how Israel’s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, asked him before the flight how to observe the Sabbath during two weeks in orbit with multiple sunsets a day.

“Ilan taught us a powerful message. No matter how fast we’re going, no matter how important our work, we must pause and think about why we’re here on Earth, and that’s what we’re doing today. We pause to recall the memory of all those courageous souls,” said Konikov.

Columbia was destroyed during reentry on Feb. 1, 2003, after a piece of fuel-tank foam came off and punctured the left wing during liftoff 16 days earlier. The shuttle broke apart over Texas, just 16 minutes from its planned Florida touchdown.

NASA managers dismissed the impact during the flight despite the concerns of others. That same kind of cultural blunder led to the loss of shuttle Challenger during liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, killing all seven aboard, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.

The Apollo 1 launch pad fire claimed three astronauts’ lives on Jan. 27, 1967.

Because of the clustering of these three dates, NASA sets aside the last Thursday of every January to commemorate its fallen astronauts. At space centers across the country, flags were lowered to half-staff, with ceremonies held along with spaceflight safety discussions.

Like NASA’s earlier tragedies, Columbia’s loss was avoidable, said former shuttle commander Bob Cabana, now NASA’s associate administrator.

“When we look back, why do we have to keep repeating the same hard lessons?” he said. “I don’t ever want to have to go through another Columbia.”

Besides Ramon, Columbia’s last crew included commander Rick Husband, pilot Willie McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown and Laurel Clark.

A ship’s bell pealed after each of the 25 names were read as the ceremony drew to a close.

Bob and Diane Kalander interrupted their sailing trip from their home in Jamestown, Rhode Island, to Florida’s Key West to honor the lost shuttle crews. Their daughter and her boyfriend joined them at Kennedy.

“It’s fading from people’s memory,” Diane Kalander said. “There’s been a de-emphasis on space because people say, ‘Let’s worry about problems on Earth as opposed to the future.’ We’ve got to look toward the future.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Feds Announce Plan to Lower Section of Border Wall in San Diego

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Feds Announce Plan to Lower Section of Border Wall in San Diego

(The Center Square) – As California Border Patrol agents grapple with record apprehensions of illegal foreign nationals and drug seizures, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced it was replacing part of the border wall in San Diego – and in one section lowering it from 30 feet high to 18 feet.

CBP announced this week it had lifted its suspension on replacing a deteriorated border barrier at the Friendship Circle Project, including a “dilapidated primary and secondary border barrier along the border in San Diego.” The border barrier it’s referring to is a 30-foot double wall, which it paused working on last August “to conduct additional stakeholder outreach” and “engage with the community.”

“After analyzing the feedback it received, along with reviewing the operational conditions of U.S. Border Patrol in this immediate area,” CBP said its proposed construction “meets the border security needs of the area while also addressing feedback from the community.” It also said it was “committed to providing visitors on the U.S. side of the border with access to Friendship Park.”

The area that includes Friendship Park on U.S. land was dedicated by former first lady Pat Nixon in 1971 as California’s Border Field State Park. It’s “marred by a system of double walls erected by the Department of Homeland Security,” the nonprofit organization, Friends of Friendship Park, argues, and says since 2008, “San Diego Border Patrol officials have severely restricted public access” to the park on U.S. soil. “In February 2020 they completely closed the Park to the public in the United States,” the group said.

When the wall is completed, Border Patrol agents will control access to the park through a gate in the secondary barrier, CBP said, during designated periods of time. In 2011, BP officials opened the U.S. side of the park for limited hours every weekend. CBP didn’t say if it was implementing a similar plan but said it would “allow visitors on the U.S. side of the border to communicate with friends and family located in Mexico on the other side of the primary barrier like in years past.”

Wall construction is expected to take six months.

CBP made the announcement after President Joe Biden pledged in January 2021 to not build “another foot” of the border wall. On his first day in office, he halted all border wall construction along the southern border.

He also returned $2.2 billion in border wall funds to the Department of Defense, which was reallocated to fund 66 projects in 16 countries, three U.S. territories, and 11 states. According to a DOD memo, the majority of the funds, $1.26 billion, was allocated to secure the borders of other countries like Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and others.

While in Mexico earlier this month, Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador thanked Biden for building “not even one meter of border wall” during his presidency. But the Biden administration began closing border wall gaps in Yuma, Arizona, last summer.

Both Arizona and California have reported record numbers of apprehensions and gotaways, over 800,000 and over 300,000, respectively. They’ve also seized unprecedented levels of fentanyl. In one single traffic stop last year, CBP agents in San Diego confiscated enough fentanyl to kill over 23 million people.

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Randy Grossman has expressed alarm about San Diego becoming “the epicenter of fentanyl trafficking into the United States.” Over 60% of fentanyl that’s been seized nationwide has been seized in San Diego and Imperial counties, he warned last year.

On Friday, Friends of Friendship Park said it “reject[s] and condemns[s] the most recent proposal to erect 30-foot walls at Friendship Park. The plans announced by officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection are antithetical to the Park’s original purpose to celebrate cross border friendship. This proposal will create the worst design Friendship Park has ever seen. It will be a step backward, rather than forward.”

It also vowed to fight the construction and planned a protest for Sunday.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, it said CBP’s plan to “erect two 30-foot walls across over 95% of the remaining 0.3 miles of border,” including dropping one part to 18-feet high near the center of the park, was “a token and inadequate gesture.”

It said the plan would “desecrate the binational character of the park,” “undermine cross border connection and friendship between the peoples of the United States and Mexico,” and destroy a native plant garden, among other things.

CBP’s announcement came after the San Diego BP Sector announced its agents had seized over 60 firearms last year, an increase of nearly 50% from 2021.

“We have seen an increase in armed encounters,” San Diego Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke said. “We never know who we’ll encounter as we patrol the border,” he added. “Our agents are the first line of defense against smugglers who have become more aggressive and brazen in their attempts to bring people and narcotics into our country.”

Republicans Seek Broader TikTok Ban

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(Derek Draplin, The Center Square) A bill introduced by a pair of Republican lawmakers seeks a broader ban on the use of the social media platform TikTok in the U.S.

The legislation directs the president to “block and prohibit all transactions in all property” of ByteDance, which owns TikTok, in the U.S., citing China’s ability to pull user data from the social media platform.

The bill, which is introduced by U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., and Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., comes as dozens of states have in recent months banned TikTok’s use on state-owned devices. The app is already banned from some U.S. government-owned devices as part of the omnibus bill signed into law last month.

“Not only is TikTok directly associated with the Chinese Communist Party, but it has been used to spy on Americans and gain an alarming level of access to users’ phones,” Buck said in a statement on Wednesday. “This should concern every citizen who values their privacy, security, and personal information. Banning CCP-tied TikTok nationwide is the only route to ending this malicious cybersecurity threat.”

Hawley added that “banning [TikTok] on government devices was a step in the right direction, but now is the time to ban it nationwide to protect the American people.”

The bill also orders the Director of National Intelligence to brief Congress with a report on the app’s national security threats.

Dr. Robert Malone: Pfizer Cops to ‘Extraordinary Measures’ and “Breaking the Law’ w/ COVID Mutations

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Dr. Robert Malone: Pfizer Cops to ‘Extraordinary Measures’ and “Breaking the Law’ w/ COVID Mutations

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) A top Pfizer executive unwittingly revealed that multiple Covid strains forced the Big Pharma company into dangerous and likely illegal research territory in an effort to regain control of the virus and maximize vaccine profits, according to biochemist Dr. Robert Malone.

In a bombshell undercover video, Jordon Trishton Walker, Pfizer R&D director for strategic operations and mRNA scientific planning, admitted that the company was exploring ways to “mutate” the coronavirus using “directed evolution” to corner the future market of vaccine production.

The revelation was shocking, but missed the bigger picture, Malone told Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

“It appears that they are recapitulating exactly what was done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Malone said of the explosive Pfizer admissions captured on video.

“But the buried lede in this, Tucker, if you don’t mind me saying so, is the implicit acknowledgment that they [Pfizer] cannot construct vaccines fast enough,” Malone said. “The virus is outrunning them and they’re having to resort to extraordinary measures.”

Those measure appeared to cross a serious ethical line, based on what Malone said he heard the Pfizer executive reveal.

“This is an acknowledgment of defeat of their vaccine technology and their platform and campaign,” Malone said. “They’re saying, ‘We have to go so far out on the edge that we’re really crossing a line, we’re breaking the law, but we have no other choice because our technology is not meeting the need. We’re not able to produce vaccines fast enough to get ahead of these mutations.’”

Malone’s assessment could explain corporate media and Big Tech’s panicked blackout of the Project Veritas report, as well as the Pfizer executive’s unhinged reaction when confronted for a follow-up interview.

The explosive undercover video has been roundly ignored by the mainstream media, coupled with attempts to suppress the story.

“They have all kinds of ways they can do this,” Malone told Carlson of Pfizer’s ability to cross dangerous research lines. “They have the ability with their money and power, as you have seen, to define the rules and construct their own reality.”

That combination can lead down a harrowing and deadly path, according to Malone.

“A senior emissary from an immortal corporation, which courts have defined as having rights formerly restricted to human citizens, and which chronically preys and feeds on human suffering,” Malone wrote of the Pfizer executive’s admissions.

Pfizer is nothing if not “A corporation which shrugs off massive fines for illegal activities as just another inconvenience, a mere business expense,” Malone wrote.

“Look deeply into the face of this ambassador from another world, listen carefully to these worlds. This is how we got here. This is the culture that has given us this global human tragedy. Behold the banal face of unrepentant evil.”

Public Library Reportedly Denounces Event Excluding White People

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Public Library Reportedly Denounces Event Excluding White People

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A Nordic spoon-carving class reportedly advertised to be held at a public library for non-whites only was, in fact, “incorrect,” according to the library.

The Minnesota-based Alpha News reported the bizarre details of the story, noting that the event scheduled for Hennepin County Library specifically asked people: “Please do not register if you are a white-bodied person,” and said classes are “intended for folks identifying as people of color.”

Alpha News reported Wednesday that the Minnesota library contacted Fireweed Community Woodshop to fix its discriminatory advertisement.

“The woodcarving event description from Fireweed Community Woodshop was incorrect. We have contacted our programming partners and they have updated the listing to remove the exclusionary language,” Daniel Rogan, the assistant county administrator, reportedly told Alpha News.

“Anyone is welcome to participate in this woodworking class and any future library program. Excluding participants in a library program based on skin color would be wrong and a violation of contract,” Rogan added, according to Alpha News.

Fireweed Community Woodshop has updated its advertisement, but it still says that “BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) students are encouraged to sign up” to the event.

Not the Bee—a publication that runs seemingly satirical articles that are actually true—noted the irony of an event promoting Nordic culture banning white people.

“This is an actual story about a woodworking class in NORDIC carving that banned anyone not deemed melanated enough from attending!” Not the Bee jeered.

On its website, Fireweed Community Woodshop says its mission is to “empower women and non-binary folks through the art of woodcraft.”

Other events advertised on the Fireweed’s website include “BIPOC CENTERED POWER TOOLS 101,” which the group says is “intended for women and marginalized genders that feel comfortable with a femme approach to woodworking.”

The power tools class and other Fireweed events are set to be held at private venues instead of a public library, and therefore presumably don’t trigger the same constitutional and civil rights issues.

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

House Dems Introduce Bill to Force Taxpayers to Pay for Abortions

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House Dems Introduce Bill to Force Taxpayers to Pay for Abortions

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) For the fifth time, House Democrats decided to reintroduce the bill that would reverse the Hyde Amendment and force taxpayers to pay for the murders of unborn babies through programs like Medicaid.

On Thursday, Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., introduced the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance Act that would allow anyone who receives health care or insurance from the federal government to also be able to murder an unborn baby, according to Breitbart.

“The Hyde Amendment disproportionately impacts and restricts low-income people, primarily black and brown communities, from accessing the full range of reproductive health services that they should be afforded. So it’s discriminatory and racist,” Lee said.

“I know the fear that people have. I know personally the trauma and the horrible moments that I experienced,” she added, referring to herself murdering her unborn baby as a teenager before the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.

However, the majority of people do not agree with Lee and other radical abortion activists.

Ahead of the first March for Life since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a Marist Poll revealed that 60% of Americans oppose forcing taxpayers to fund murders of innocent human beings in the United States — six points higher than the results from last January. Of those people who oppose taxpayer-funded abortions, 34% are Democrats, 92% are Republicans and 59% are independents. Seventy-eight percent of Americans also oppose taxpayer-funded abortions abroad — 61% of Democrats, 91% of Republicans and 81% of independents.

According to the president of one of the nation’s leading pro-life groups, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, the Hyde Amendment saved the lives of millions of unborn babies.

“More than 2.5 million Americans are alive today thanks to the Hyde Amendment, yet pro-abortion Democrats continue to ignore the clear will of the people in their push to impose abortion on demand and even infanticide, paid for by taxpayers, nationwide,” Susan B. Anthony President Marjorie Dannenfelser said.

Federal Judge Blocks Calif. Gov. Newsom’s COVID ‘Misinformation’ Law

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Federal Judge Blocks Calif. Gov. Newsom’s COVID ‘Misinformation’ Law

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A federal judge blocked a California law that allowed the the state’s radical leftist rulers and Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom to punish doctors for sharing the so-called “misinformation” about COVID.

U.S. District Judge William Shubb this week ruled that Assembly Bill 2098, which Newsom signed in September and went into effect Jan. 1, was unconstitutional, according to the Daily Wire.

“Because the definition of misinformation ‘fails to provide a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice of what is prohibited, [and] is so standardless that it authorizes or encourages seriously discriminatory enforcement,’ the provision is unconstitutionally vague,” he wrote.

“Accordingly, the court concludes that plaintiffs have demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits of their vagueness challenges.”

The five doctors who fought against the governor in the Hoeg v. Newsom lawsuit argued that the law was unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.

The law described so-called COVID misinformation as “false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus,” the Daily Wire reported. Doctors were not allowed to provide “misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19, including false or misleading information regarding the nature and risks of the virus, its prevention and treatment; and the development, safety, and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.”

A nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group that represented the five doctors in the case — the New Civil Liberties Alliance — issued a statement, celebrating the court’s ruling.

“NCLA is gratified Judge Shubb has recognized that AB 2098, which seeks to punish California doctors for giving patients information that departs from the so-called contemporary scientific consensus about Covid, creates an impossible standard for physicians to follow and would result in silencing physicians who disagree with state orthodoxy,” Jenin Younces, litigation counsel for NCLA, stated.

“The speed with which he issued his decision no doubt reflects the significance of the constitutional problems the law presents, as well as the negative consequences it would have for doctor-patient relationships.”

Greg Dolin, senior litigation counsel for NCLA, also criticized Newsom’s legislation.

“This Act is a blatant attempt to silence doctors whose views, though based on thorough scientific research, deviate from the government-approved ‘party line,’” he said.

“At no point has the State of California been able to articulate the line between permissible and impermissible speech, further illustrating how problematic the statute is. NCLA is pleased the Court recognized all the problems with AB2098 and enjoined this unconstitutional law.”

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