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Defending Education, an advocacy organization that combats leftist indoctrination in K-12 public schools, recently obtained documents outlining the talking points and marching orders being fed to radicals ahead of leftist May Day protests planned across the country.

Among the leftist outfits poised to train would-be protesters is the Midwest Academy, a liberal activist-grooming center that has reportedly received over $1.7 million in recent years from the National Education Association.

‘Congress should revoke the NEA’s federal charter.’

The Midwest Academy, joined by the the NYU Metro Center and organizers from Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools member groups, is coordinating a four-week training series titled “Four Weeks of Power” with the purported aim of building “a broader, stronger base of parents, educators and students taking action to defend and transform public schools.”

Although organized by the NEA-backed outfit, sessions will be provided by the leftist organization Free the Future, part of the NEA-aligned Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools network.

Free the Future will start off the sessions by providing “an introduction to community organizing in the context of the rising authoritarianism we’re seeing in real time.” Free the Future will conclude the sessions by helping fellow travelers “better understand power mapping and targets, understanding which actions make sense for our team and community, and the logistics of planning a successful action.”

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Free the Future is evidently keen to train up radicals with the NEA-backed group in time for mass protests on May 1. Free the Future has partnered with May Day Strong “to plan hundreds of actions in the streets” next month.

May Day Strong’s tool kit reveals that radicals are reskinning their No Kings protests for May Day.

The tool kit recommends not only protesting outside lawmakers’ offices and “one of the many corporate targets we need to take on,” but that radicals stage “school walk-ins” and rally outside schools.

Hilton Hotels, Chevron, Citgo, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car are the corporations targeted by May Day Strong.

The organizers have furnished would-be protesters with a template press release that contains the following talking points:

“Tax the rich so our families, not their fortunes, come first.” “No ICE, NO War. No private army serving authoritarian power.” “Expand democracy, not corporate rule. Defend free and fair elections.”

NEA’s official May Day 2026 “Solidarity Toolkit,” which is greatly similar to the May Day Strong tool kit right down to the advocacy for school walk-ins, states, “This May Day will be a day of rallies, marches, teach-ins, labor actions, and a refusal of business as usual — because when those at the top rig the system, collective action is how we set it right.”

According to NEA’s tool kit, “walk-ins” seem to involve a school invasion:

During school walk-ins, parents, educators, and students, along with neighbors and community leaders, gather in front of their school 30-45 minutes before the school day begins. We rally and listen to a few speakers discuss what they want for the school, and then we all walk into the school together. Walk-ins can be used to celebrate your school, collaborate with school officials, or protest harmful school conditions and policies.

Rhyen Staley, director of research at Defending Education, said in a statement obtained by Blaze News, “This is yet another example of how activists and teachers’ unions view schools as a tool to advance their political agenda.”

“It should be deeply concerning that one of the suggested tactics is to enter schools to protest against policies they don’t like,” continued Staley. “Putting children’s education and safety at risk for political gain is unethical and immoral.”

Corey DeAngelis, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, told Blaze News, “Congress should revoke the NEA’s federal charter or at least bar them from engaging in political activity altogether.”

DeAngelis noted further, “These radicals are providing free advertising for homeschooling, showing us exactly who they are, and parents need to pull their kids out of these institutions.”

Becky Pringle, the Democrat NEA president who reportedly made over $500,000 while fighting to keep schools closed at kids’ expense between September 2020 and August 2021, made clear in her keynote address at last year’s National Education Association convention that her union is committed to undermining the Trump administration.

“We must use our power to take action that leads, action that liberates, action that lasts,” Pringle said in her speech.

At the convention, the NEA adopted a resolution declaring its support for mass movements against the government, including No Kings protests and anti-ICE rallies.

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The Supreme Court recently heard more than two hours of argument in Trump v. Barbara, the case testing the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship.

Trump himself sat in the courtroom for part of the session, the first time a sitting president has done so. The moment was striking not for its symbolism alone but for what it revealed: a fundamental challenge to a 150-year-old interpretation of American identity.

The American ‘exception’ was built on a conscious break from notions of blood and soil.

The executive order, issued on Trump’s first day back in office in January 2025, directs federal agencies not to recognize automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to parents who are undocumented or present on temporary visas. It turns on the opening words of the 14th Amendment: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

The administration’s core argument — one rooted in a “consensualist” theory of citizenship — is that “subject to the jurisdiction” requires more than mere presence on the soil. They argue it requires full and exclusive political allegiance, a condition that undocumented immigrants and short-term visa holders, who remain subjects of their home countries, cannot meet.

The challengers, led by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a plaintiff identified as Barbara, insist the clause was meant to be a simple, sweeping geographical rule. They point to the common-law tradition of jus soli — citizenship by place of birth — that they argue the framers of the amendment endorsed.

Constitutional history, however, is rarely so settled. While the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 — to overturn the Dred Scott decision — scholars on the right point to the intent of the amendment’s authors, like Sen. Jacob Howard, who suggested the clause excluded those who owed allegiance to a foreign power.

While the Court applied the clause to children of legal residents in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the administration argues that case never explicitly addressed the children of those present in violation of federal law.

Lower courts have struck down the executive order, but the justices’ questions on Wednesday showed they are wrestling with the modern reality of mass migration. Several asked how a “narrow” jurisdiction rule would work in a hospital delivery room. Chief Justice John Roberts reminded the solicitor general that the Constitution is not a “living” document that changes with the wind, but conservative justices also pressed the government on whether this executive action bypasses the legislative role of Congress.

The skepticism was notable because the case arrives after the Court’s 2025 ruling that limited the scope of nationwide injunctions, ensuring the policy reached the high court on its merits.

This debate is not abstract. Birthright citizenship has long set the United States apart from the “Old World.” Most countries grant citizenship primarily by descent — jus sanguinis. In Pakistan, as in India and much of Europe, a child acquires citizenship through a parent’s nationality.

The American “exception” was built on a conscious break from notions of blood and soil, but critics argue that the exception has become an unintended magnet for illegal entry and birth tourism.

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The executive order does not seek to formally amend the Constitution, but rather to correct what its supporters see as a century of judicial and administrative drift. It would not strip citizenship from anyone already born; it applies prospectively.

Still a decision to uphold it would effectively align the United States with the legislative models of Britain, Australia, and Ireland, all of which moved away from pure jus soli to better manage migration pressures.

The Court’s eventual ruling — expected by early summer — matters profoundly. If the justices narrow the clause, they will have restored what originalists believe was the 14th Amendment’s true meaning: that citizenship is a mutual contract between a sovereign and a subject.

If they preserve the status quo, they will affirm that the 14th Amendment’s promise remains a geographical absolute.

The hearing did not settle the question, but it forced a reckoning. In an age of porous borders, the United States must decide whether its rule of soil remains a pillar of strength or an outdated incentive that undermines the very concept of national sovereignty.

The Court’s answer will help determine the terms on which future generations enter the American story.

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For years, Daniel Horowitz has been sounding the alarm about the deliberate replacement of American workers with foreigners. From H-1B visas to the OPT program for foreign graduates, the conservative commentator has been exposing the policies that keep Americans — especially young graduates — barred from high-paying tech, software engineering, and other STEM jobs.

Now the same pattern is hitting medicine.

Right now, many highly qualified American medical graduates are losing residency spots to foreign medical graduates.

On a recent episode of “Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz,” Horowitz and Houston ENT specialist Dr. Mary Talley Bowden dove into the startling statistics and offered a clear solution to the issue harming would-be American doctors.

Horowitz bemoans the reality that taxpayer dollars via Medicare are going toward programs that won’t even guarantee American students a residency placement. “We’re basically funding our replacement,” he says.

Dr. Bowden points to the shocking numbers from the residency match.

“6,600 foreign medical students got residency spots, and meanwhile … over 1,300 U.S. medical students did not get a spot,” she says, arguing that Americans are “getting the leftovers at that point.”

But it’s not just residencies — Americans are also being shut out of medical schools. “We are rejecting about 30,000 American students a year from medical school,” Dr. Bowden adds.

The solution, she says, is straightforward: Fill residency spots with American graduates first, then offer any remaining positions to foreign graduates. “We could just say, ‘Hey, everybody in the U.S. has to match first, and then we can do a match for the foreign residents,’” she tells Horowitz, who strongly agrees.

“No foreigner should be admitted into a medical school or residency program until every qualified American has a spot,” he says.

To hear more, watch the full episode above.

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A child reportedly has been arrested for murder in connection with the death of a 12-year-old girl who was protecting her sister amid an alleged bullying incident at a Los Angeles school.

KCBS-TV said the Los Angeles Police Department did not provide many details about the individual arrested, stating only that the person is a minor arrested for murder. KNBC-TV said police noted the arrest Thursday.

‘On the afternoon of Feb. 17, Khimberly was trying to protect her sister. She stepped in when the school didn’t.’

The family of Khimberly Zavaleta Chuquipa, the girl who died, said she was struck in the head with a metal bottle at Reseda Charter High School on Feb. 17, KCBS reported.

Days after the incident, Khimberly was rushed to a hospital, where doctors discovered severe bleeding in her brain, KCBS said.

She spent days in a coma and underwent surgery, but Khimberly died at a hospital in late February, her mother told KNBC.

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The victim’s family said she was trying to protect her sister amid an alleged bullying incident, KNBC reported.

“I’m devastated. I’m full of pain, thinking about how I will never see my daughter again,” Elma Chuquipa, Khimberly’s mother, told KNBC in Spanish.

The victim’s family filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District in March, accusing the district of failing to protect students from bullying, KNBC reported.

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“On the afternoon of Feb. 17, Khimberly was trying to protect her sister. She stepped in when the school didn’t,” Robert Glassman, the family’s attorney, said during news conference last month, KNBC noted. “This tragedy really highlights and underscores the very real and very devastating consequences of unchecked bullying.”

What’s more, the family alleged that Khimberly’s sister had been bullied prior to the February incident, but the school “did not do anything,” KNBC added.

In addition, the family said that despite numerous attempts to get more information about what led to the February attack against Khimberly, the LAUSD refused to share details, KNBC reported.

The LAUSD said in a February statement that the incident “deeply saddened” administrators, KCBS noted.

“Our thoughts and condolences are with the student’s family, friends, and the entire school community,” a district spokesperson said, according to KCBS. “The District takes the safety and well-being of our students very seriously. We are currently cooperating with law enforcement in connection with this incident.”

Police confirmed last month that a homicide investigation was under way following Khimberly’s death, KNBC said.

“This arrest is an important step toward accountability, but it does not change the bigger truth: this tragedy was entirely preventable,” Glassman wrote in a statement, according to KCBS.

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Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, explained the steps she was taking to “deconstruct” limiting beliefs in her children about gender in order to make them into ultimate humans.

The resurfaced video was widely circulated on social media as her husband continues his campaign to expand his national recognition in preparation for a suspected 2028 presidential run.

‘At the end of the day, we’re all kind of in this place in history maybe where we’re recognizing what it is to ultimately deconstruct all these gender roles and ultimately be human.’

“I’ve given our boys dolls, even if they tear the head off,” Jennifer Newsom laughed in the video.

“I’ve given them dolls to learn that care and caregiving is not just an activity that’s reserved for women, but that it’s also an activity that is a responsibility of men,” she added.

“What I’ve done with both my daughters and my sons is if I’m reading a book and the protagonist is a male, I just change the ‘he’ to a ‘she,'” Newsom continued.

“And it just normalizes, for my sons in particular — I don’t just do it for my girls; I do it for my sons because I want them to see that women can be the center of a story. That women matter. That women are interesting,” she said.

She went on to offer her theory about how to “ultimately” become human.

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“At the end of the day, we’re all kind of in this place in history maybe where we’re recognizing what it is to ultimately deconstruct all these gender roles and ultimately be human,” Newsom said.

“That’s exciting to me,” she added. “So I’ll just continue to kind of do my work and try and deconstruct all of these limiting narratives about ultimately what it means to be human.”

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While many eyes are focused on Iran, the Trump administration’s policies suggest that reasserting the Monroe Doctrine in the Western Hemisphere could rank among its highest geopolitical priorities. As laid out in the 2025 National Security Strategy, the Trump corollary “is a common-sense and potent restoration of American power and priorities, consistent with American security interests.”

The moment is right. The case is overwhelming. And the window is closing.

What if America could project its dominance quickly, dramatically, and without firing a single shot? With one bold stroke, President Trump could expand America’s sovereign territory by nearly 20% and recover the largest unclaimed tract of land left on the planet.

Marie Byrd Land is the name for 620,000 square miles of Antarctica, a territory roughly the size of Alaska. It belongs to no nation and is governed by no sovereign power. It is desolate, largely uninhabited, and of enormous strategic importance. Claiming it would be the largest expansion of American sovereign territory since William Henry Seward’s purchase of Alaska in 1867.

The moment is right. The case is overwhelming. And the window is closing.

The territory carries an American name for a reason. Richard Byrd — a U.S. Navy rear admiral, aviator, and the most celebrated polar explorer of his generation — surveyed and mapped the region in the late 1920s, naming it for his wife. America has maintained a presence in Antarctica ever since, operating research stations, conducting flyovers, and asserting its right to make a claim. But it never has.

The 1959 Antarctic Treaty halted existing territorial claims and committed signatories to peaceful, scientific use of the continent. However, it did not require anyone to relinquish the right to make new claims. America explicitly reserved that right. Sixty-six years later, America still has not used it, and the world has changed considerably since Eisenhower signed the treaty.

The resource case alone justifies the move. Antarctica sits atop estimated offshore reserves of roughly 45 billion barrels of oil equivalent, plus coal, iron ore, and rare-earth minerals that remain largely uncharted. The Madrid Protocol, which added environmental protections to the treaty framework, currently prohibits extraction, but it is up for review beginning in 2048. That is only 22 years away.

A prohibition that depends on the continued goodwill of all signatories, including China, which acceded to the Antarctic Treaty in 1983, is a different kind of guarantee from actual sovereignty. One is a diplomatic norm. The other is a legal fact.

RELATED: America won’t beat China without Alaska

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But the strategic case runs deeper than oil and minerals. The great infrastructure competition of the 21st century will be fought over low-earth-orbit communications networks, the constellation of satellites that will carry the world’s most sensitive data, military communications, and economic traffic.

Those networks require polar coverage. The physics is simple: Polar orbits deliver global reach, and the ground infrastructure at high latitudes controls latency, resilience, and network security. The northern approaches, Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard, have been contested and militarized for decades. The southern pole has barely registered.

This is what a strategic choke point looks like. The world is learning that lesson right now in the Strait of Hormuz. The strait’s strategic importance was hardly a mystery, but for almost everyone, it was theoretical. Until it wasn’t.

Since the start of the U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign against Iran, 20% of the world’s oil supply has been trapped by a strip of water 21 miles wide, caught between great powers playing out a global strategic game. The results include the largest disruption to global energy supply since the 1970s; South Korea capping fuel prices for the first time in 30 years; and Bangladesh closing its universities to conserve power.

The world now understands, viscerally, what a choke point costs. The poles are the global choke points of satellite communications. The question is whether America secures its position before the lesson has to be learned the hard way.

The window between ‘no one is paying attention’ and ‘it is too late’ is shorter than Western governments typically think.

The answer cannot wait. In March 2025, Russia and China jointly announced plans to build new research stations in Marie Byrd Land. This was not a scientific gesture. It was the same playbook Beijing ran in the South China Sea: establish a presence, build infrastructure, wait for the world to normalize it, and then dare someone to undo it. It worked at Fiery Cross Reef. It worked in the Spratly Islands.

The window between “no one is paying attention” and “it is too late” is shorter than Western governments typically think.

Strategic ambiguity has its uses. It served American interests during the Cold War, when the Soviet Union could be managed through mutual deterrence and the goal was to avoid locking both sides into positions that could escalate. Ambiguity gave everyone room to step back.

That logic made sense when the Soviets were the main adversary. It makes considerably less sense when your adversary seeks to exploit ambiguity rather than be restrained by it.

The only power that benefits from murky Antarctic sovereignty today is China.

The diplomatic path is more navigable than it appears. Chile, Argentina, Britain, France, Norway, and Australia all hold Antarctic claims, some overlapping, which is its own absurdity. The British, Chilean, and Argentine claims have never been formally resolved; all three parties simply agreed to disagree and keep the treaty functioning. Marie Byrd Land overlaps with none of those claims. A U.S. sovereignty declaration would stake out genuinely unclaimed territory.

Moreover, it could catalyze something broader: a coordinated Western territorial framework that organizes allied claims, provides a legal architecture for resource governance when the Madrid Protocol comes up for review, and, most importantly, excludes adversaries from positions of strategic leverage before those positions become entrenched.

RELATED: What’s Greenland to us?

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The historical precedents are instructive. The Louisiana Purchase looked reckless in 1803. Napoleon needed cash, Jefferson needed room, and $13 million bought 828,000 square miles that doubled the size of the country. Contemporaries called it constitutionally dubious and geopolitically impulsive. They were wrong.

Seward’s Folly in 1867 — the purchase of 586,000 square miles of Alaska for $7.2 million — was mocked almost universally at the time. History was not kind to the mockers. In both cases, the critics had a point about process and a blind spot about geography. Marie Byrd Land is in that tradition: counterintuitive at first glance, obvious in retrospect.

And unlike those other two cases, the U.S. doesn’t have to pay a dime for it.

The objections are predictable. Treaty purists will say a claim violates the spirit of international agreement — but they are technically wrong. The treaty halted existing claims; it did not prohibit new ones on unclaimed land. The foreign policy establishment will warn of diplomatic friction with partners, a real concern. But allies with their own Antarctic stakes have more to gain from a coherent Western framework than from the current vacuum.

Environmentalists will invoke the Madrid Protocol — but a sovereignty declaration changes nothing about current extraction rules. The precedent argument — if America claims land, does everyone else? — has the weakest foundation of all. That scramble is coming whether the United States acts or not. The question is whether America shapes it or watches other countries take the lead.

A declaration of sovereignty on Independence Day would wrap a bold geopolitical move in the most durable possible American framing: expansion as destiny, strength as inheritance, and the republic still growing into its potential 250 years on.

Jefferson did not agonize about whether purchasing Louisiana would set an awkward precedent. Seward did not lose sleep over what Alaska said about the American appetite for territory. They saw geography, they saw the future, and they moved.

There is one large piece of unclaimed earth remaining. It carries an American name. Russia and China are already building there.

July 4, 2026, would be a fine day to make it official.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published at the American Mind.

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After a decades-long decline, America is now in the throes of the worst fertility crisis in our nation’s history. A record number of people are not having children.

The big question is why?

Certainly the answer is multifaceted, but there’s one undeniable driver behind America’s as well as nearly every other country’s declining birth rates, says Lyman Stone, senior fellow and director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies: the iPhone.

On this episode of “Rufo & Lomez,” Christopher Rufo and Jonathan Keeperman speak with Stone about how our most pervasive technology is wrecking the world’s fertility numbers.

While there are many drivers behind globally declining birth rates — infertility issues, financial difficulties, a genuine desire to have fewer children, and even a desire to have no children at all — iPhones, says Stone, are “little sterilization boxes that we all carry in our pockets.”

But it’s not a literal sterilization — “The research suggests that the radiation from them is actually harmless,” Stone says — but rather a social sterilization.

“[Smartphones] change how we socialize together. … Social media replaces in-person interaction; reading stuff online replaces in-person interaction, replaces intermediation in the physical world,” he explains.

“Increasingly, it’s not just that people have fewer babies; they have fewer first kisses; they have fewer one-night stands; they have fewer dinner parties; they have fewer every kind of social interaction … and so as social media and cell phones are just killing life together,” he adds.

This isn’t just speculation either. The data shows a major decline in face-to-face interaction starting in 2008 — just one year after the first iPhone hit the market.

Before 2008, fertility rates across the world would ebb and flow depending on a variety of circumstances, but following the invention of the iPhone, they’ve stayed consistently low, Stone explains.

The social isolation caused by the iPhone has resulted in a decline in marriage rates, which directly impacts birth rates.

Interestingly, statistics show that people who do marry young are having the amount of children they desire.

“There’s no gap between desired fertility and actual fertility on average for people who marry before age 26,” says Stone.

Further, countries that have “religious prohibitions” on iPhone usage for extended periods of the day have also maintained higher birth rates.

“So Israel with Shabbat or Muslim countries, where we know from cellphone data everybody turns off their cell phone for 20 minutes five times a day … still have high fertility,” says Stone.

iPhones, he explains, essentially turn off “the part of our brain that’s supposed to know your tribe and recognize your tribe and really want to have sex with your tribe.”

Simultaneously, it supplies “an endless stream of porn” to keep people sexually satiated without producing children.

To hear more about the factors behind the world’s declining birth rate, watch the full interview above.

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A Florida teenager was arrested and charged with murder after police said they literally found his name on evidence left with gruesome remains of the victim.

The Palm Bay Police Department said it responded on Saturday to a report of vultures surrounding a closed, abandoned suitcase in Palm Bay.

Jones allegedly confessed to the killing to his girlfriend and told her he wanted to kill sex offenders. He allegedly printed out a list of registered sex offenders nearby.

When police arrived at the location, they found a black suitcase in tall grass emitting a strong odor and containing human remains.

A second suitcase was found with additional remains, according to an affidavit.

Police said they immediately suspected a 19-year-old named Lucas Sander Jones of Indialantic because they found an Amazon package addressed to him in one of the suitcases. They also found other personal belongings.

Detectives said they learned Jones was associated with 28-year-old Colie Lee Daniel, who had been reported missing six days earlier by his mother.

Police obtained a search warrant and found Jones at his residence with his girlfriend. They observed that Jones had several injuries, including visibly healed wounds and bruises. He chose not to speak to police.

His girlfriend, however, told police she saw Jones trying to wake up Daniel as he was lying on Jones’ bed on Friday, March 20. She also said that Jones had her drive him out to locations in Palm Bay to discard of two gray totes from her Honda Accord.

Police said they found blood and a knife at the residence.

Jones was charged with several crimes and released on bond, but as the investigation progressed, police determined the evidence justified a murder charge, and he was arrested again. He was charged with second-degree murder, dangerous and depraved without premeditation.

Another affidavit said that Jones allegedly confessed to the killing to his girlfriend and told her he wanted to kill sex offenders. He allegedly printed out a list of registered sex offenders nearby.

RELATED: 14-year-old stabbed and murdered after going on a bike ride in Florida. Police arrest a ‘homeless drifter’ for the crime.

Booking records indicate he was initially arrested for felony abuse of a dead human body and tampering with evidence.

While officials are still trying to determine what his alleged motivation might have been, they said that they believe he had some of the victim’s blood on slides of a microscope. WKMG-TV theorized that he might have been inspired by the serial killer show “Dexter.”

A local official said they are trying to develop the rural area, and if they do, he expects more bodies will be found in the area.

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Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani faced fierce criticism when he responded to the death of a 7-month-old baby girl who was struck by a stray bullet in Brooklyn.

The tragic death of Kaori Patterson-Moore on Wednesday led to demands for change from the community, but Mamdani fell back on tired old tropes.

‘We all know you still hate police and policing and would dine with this vile criminal if you could get away with it, politically.’

“This is not the first family in our city to know this pain,” Mamdani said during a media briefing Thursday.

“Too many children have never grown up into becoming adults,” he added. “Too many parents have had to bury those that they love the most. We cannot accept this as normal in our city. We cannot grow numb to this pain, and today is a devastating reminder of just how much more work there is to be done to combat gun violence across this city.”

Critics saw the statement as blaming guns rather than criminals.

“Literally anything but blaming the criminals who our system releases onto our streets repeatedly, over and over again, with no consequences,” said NYC Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino. “Absolute disgrace.”

“Framing this as a gun problem rather than an evil gangbanger problem is more familiar territory for a self-styled progressive,” said Manhattan Institute fellow Rafael A. Mangual to Fox News Digital, “whose political base is constituted by people simultaneously (if dissonantly) committed to the cause of ‘gun control’ as well as efforts to reorient the criminal justice system to be more lenient toward the offenders who pull triggers.”

“We should focus on the family’s loss today. But every time you now ‘thank NYPD,’ it burns my blood after you spent your career attacking them and coddling criminals,” replied attorney Jim Walden, who ran against Mamdani.

RELATED: Curtis Sliwa cozies up to Mamdani in cutesy cat comedy sketch — and Republicans are calling him a traitor

“You really should be ashamed of yourself, @NYCMayor,” Walden added. “But we all know you still hate police and policing and would dine with this vile criminal if you could get away with it, politically.”

Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting who was allegedly caught on surveillance video. The video shows one man apparently shooting while riding as a passenger on a moped being driven by another man. The driver is being sought by police.

The baby’s family said she had just learned to say her first word, which was “mama.”

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Drag queens and transgender-identifying persons had a sad day at the Capitol in Boise after Idaho state officials forced them to take down a Pride flag on the Transgender Day of Visibility.

Mayor Lauren McLean choked up as she read a proclamation Tuesday regarding the trans day in front of about 60 people at a special City Council meeting.

‘Let me be clear: Boise’s values have not changed, and they are not defined by any single action taken at the Statehouse.’

The removal of the LGBTQ flag from city hall marked the end of a bitter feud between state and local officials.

“Many people in this state and around this country are seeking to divide us. They’re seeking to divide us by targeting the most vulnerable among us,” the liberal mayor said. “I want the people in this room to know that I see you. We see you. You are wanted, important, and unique members of our community.”

Among the attendees were Preston Pace, the co-founder of the transgender advocacy group Trans Joy Boise; Trans Affirm founder Arya Shae; and the members of the city council.

They were also angry that Republican Idaho Gov. Brad Little chose that day to sign into law a bill that would protect women and girls by prohibiting people from using bathrooms of the opposite gender in government-owned buildings and places of public accommodation.

McLean previously refused to follow the state edict against the flag but relented after officials passed a law saying violations would incur a $2,000 fine per day.

“Because the law includes a substantial penalty — one that would ultimately fall on the taxpayers of Boise to shoulder — I decided to take down the city’s official Pride flag,” reads a statement from McLean. “But let me be clear: Boise’s values have not changed, and they are not defined by any single action taken at the Statehouse.”

At a rally in front of the Capitol, a gender-queer folk singer played music and a drag queen performed in honor of the Transgender Day of Visibility.

Idaho state Rep. Ted Hill, a Republican who sponsored the bill, said it was a direct response to McLean refusing to take down the flag.

A Blaze News request for comment from the Idaho Attorney General’s Office was not immediately returned.

RELATED: Leftist mayor ignores deep-red state law, flies racial LGBTQ flag

McLean said the city officials are reviewing their options to fight the law and erect their Pride flag once again, but the Idaho Statesman reported that a legal analyst said the law was likely valid.

In the evening, officials lit up the city hall in the colors of the transgender flag.

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Yesterday, President Trump announced on Truth Social that the administration was parting ways with Attorney General Pam Bondi. He thanked the former Florida AG for her service and said that she would be transitioning to an unspecified new job in the private sector, while Deputy AG Todd Blanche steps in as acting attorney general.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales welcomed part of the news with enthusiasm.

“Finally happened. President Trump actually decided to fire some of the deadweight in his administration,” she says.

However, Sara strongly pushes back on Trump’s description of Blanche as a “very talented and respected legal mind.”

“Todd Blanche is, like, neck-deep in deep state, OK? Todd Blanche is like a Harvard elitist. Todd Blanche is not to be trusted. All of my sources within the DOJ are saying Todd Blanche is a problem,” she says.

Some of her sources have even suggested that Blanche, not Bondi, bears much of the blame for the DOJ’s perceived failures.

“Some of my sources have said that Pam Bondi is so incompetent that she just farmed everything out to Todd Blanche. Like she just handed everything over to Todd Blanche. Todd Blanche has actually already been running things, and this is how it’s going,” Sara says.

Even though Blanche is only a temporary acting AG while Trump searches for a permanent replacement, Sara warns that the damage he could do in the interim is significant.

“You could have an interim attorney general, an acting attorney general, for literal years. … If he’s here longer than five minutes, it’s going to be a problem,” she quips.

An attorney general, she argues, should be “should be competent … willing to fight … willing to go to the trenches.”

But neither Bondi nor Blanche, according to Sara, fits that bill.

Several names are now floating as potential replacements, with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin emerging as the leading contender. To hear Sara’s full take on the possible candidates, watch the video above.

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Before the Artemis II mission blasted off to go around the moon, the astronauts were faced with one more earthly question about diversity and representation.

The last-ditch struggle session-style question came while the astronauts were in preflight quarantine, literally unable to escape the woke query.

‘It’s the story of humanity, not black history, not women’s history.’

Just three days before the launch on Sunday, the astronauts fielded questions, with a focus on race and gender coming from Spectrum News’ Anthony Leone. He asked, “There are so many firsts here for this mission. The first commander of a returned manned mission to the moon. The first black man, the first woman, the first Canadian to visit the moon. What do these firsts mean to each of you?”

The first to answer was Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, who squashed any idea of self praise:

“We are not doing this for the superlatives. We’re doing this because it’s a unique opportunity. We are going for all and by all. This is what NASA embodies.”

Next it was pilot Victor Glover who completely rejected the premise, going viral for his response.

“I want to highlight, I guess maybe one facet of this is the tension,” Glover explained.

“This dichotomy between happiness that a young woman can look at Christina and just physicalize her, her passion or her interest, or even if it’s not something she wants to do, she can just be like, ‘girl power.’ And that’s awesome. And that young brown boys and girls can look at me and go, ‘Hey, he looks like me, and he’s doing what?’ And that’s great, I love that,” Glover continued.

However, the astronaut then revealed he has grown tired of race being the first thing mentioned about his accomplishments:

“I also hope we are pushing the other direction that one day we don’t have to talk about these firsts, that one day this is just —” Glover paused to reset for emphasis. “Listen to this: that this is the human history. It’s about human history. It’s the story of humanity, not black history, not women’s history, but that it becomes human history.”

RELATED: The return to the moon starts NOW: ‘Exploration is what we do’

Glover then passed the mic to Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist. Koch did not disappoint either, telling reporters that the mission is “not about celebrating any one individual.”

“If there is something to celebrate, it’s that we are at a time when everyone who has a dream gets to work equally hard to achieve that dream … if we are not going for all and by all, we aren’t truly answering all of humanity’s call to explore. That, to me, is what’s worth celebrating.”

While the NASA astronauts all focused on the bigger picture rather than celebrating race or gender politics, the fourth crew member, Canadian mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, took a different route.

While Hansen began by saying the mission is an acknowledgment of “anybody who shows up” and is able to contribute something meaningful, he quickly pivoted to give progressives an answer to be proud of.

“I’m wearing a Canadian patch here that was designed by an Anishinaabe artist in Canada, and it just represents some of the beauty of indigenous culture and their perspective on the moon and the seven sacred laws and just the richness of doing something together and how inviting that is.”

The Anishinaabe refers to a grouping of native tribes that surrounded the Great Lakes region. Including the Algonquin and Mississauga people, as well as groups of smaller tribes, it is an oft-cited moniker favored by activists pursuing their political endeavors.

RELATED: America returns to the moon: How to watch Artemis II launch

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Glover is a devout Christian; he has been adamant about his faith and even asked for prayers regarding his moon mission. His brazen unwillingness to compromise on presenting his views has made him stand out throughout the mission lead-up.

“I want to use the abilities that God has given me to do my job well and support my crewmates and mission and NASA,” he said in a 2020 Christian Chronicle interview; in remarks to Christianity Today, Glover said that he “very intentionally” puts “God at the front” of his missions because “it’s the way I try to live my life as well.”

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Chinese illegal aliens were arrested by the Department of Homeland Security after their son allegedly brought an explosive device to an Air Force base and their daughter allegedly helped him cover his tracks.

Qiu Qin Zou and Jia Zhang Zheng were denied asylum and were residing illegally in the United States. Their children Ann Mary Zheng and Alen Zheng are U.S. citizens.

‘Her brother … had attempted to damage government property by fire or explosion,’ the DOJ alleges.

The Department of Justice charged Ann Mary for allegedly assisting Alen after he allegedly planted the explosive device at MacDill Air Force Base visitor center in Tampa.

Alen has been charged with attempted damage of government property by fire or explosion, unlawful making of a destructive device, and possession of an unregistered destructive device. Ann Mary has been charged with evidence tampering and assisting after the fact.

Ann Mary and Alen fled to China on March 12. Ann Mary was arrested when she returned to the United States on March 17, while her brother is believed to still be in China.

The DHS arrested their parents on March 18 for illegal entry, and they remain in ICE custody, according to the Daily Wire.

RELATED: Trump makes history at SCOTUS birthright citizenship hearing

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“Ann Mary Zheng, knowing that her brother, Alen Zheng, had attempted to damage government property by fire or explosion, assisted him in order to hinder and prevent his apprehension, trial, and punishment,” a DOJ press release reads.

“The indictment also charges Ann Mary Zheng with corruptly altering, destroying, mutilating, and concealing a 2010 black Mercedes-Benz GLK 350 with the intent to impair its integrity and availability for use in the federal prosecution of Alen Zheng.”

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The Department of Homeland Security has shut down a Democrat suggesting that an immigrant had been targeted over his skin color or religious beliefs.

Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin posted an article about the detention of the president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, the largest mosque in Wisconsin, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

‘This terrorist will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.’

The report said Salah Sarsour was a legal permanent resident of the U.S. for more than three decades. Local activists accused the Trump administration of targeting pro-Palestinian voices.

“They want to criminalize advocacy for Palestine,” said Othman Atta, another leader at the mosque, at a rally to oppose the detention. “That is the only reason that he is being targeted. There is nothing else.”

Baldwin pounced to accuse ICE of racism as well.

“Salah is here lawfully and has been a productive member of our community for 30 years,” she claimed. “This looks like ICE targeting someone because of their skin color or what they believe — and that is not the American way. This doesn’t make us safer. We need answers why ICE targeted Salah.”

Several hours later, she got those answers from DHS.

“ICE arrested a Jordanian national with a prior conviction for THROWING A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL at the homes of Israeli Forces,” DHS responded on social media.

“He lied on his immigration application and became a green card holder under President Clinton,” the department added. “This terrorist will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.”

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Atta added that Sarsour’s wife and six children are U.S. citizens. He also claimed that U.S. authorities had known about the arrest by Israeli authorities since Sarsour immigrated to the U.S. in 1993.

“He is being deported because he’s exercising his right of freedom of speech,” Atta added.

Sarsour also owns at least three furniture stores in the Milwaukee area and was called a pillar of the community by his adult son.

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A Democrat candidate who is running to flip a U.S. House seat in Texas once toured with an accordionist who had been convicted for indecent conduct with a child.

Bobby Pulido won two Latin Grammys as a Tejano music performer, but a New York Post report found that he performed many concerts with a child sex offender who also played the accordion.

‘Despite being caught on tape admitting he knew of this man’s criminality and praising him as recently as November, Mr. Pulido now falsely claims to have been unaware of his crimes.’

Frankie Caballero was sentenced to four years in prison for the second-degree felony with an 8-year-old girl in 2014.

The Post documented that Pulido performed with Caballero at concerts in Kansas City, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Tucson, and other places between 2018 and 2021.

In addition, the accordionist still identifies himself as the accordion player for Pulido on Facebook.

Pulido’s campaign manager, Abel Prado, told the Post that Pulido did not know about the child sex crime conviction.

“Bobby was never made aware of Caballero’s sex offender registration and would never knowingly associate with anyone with that kind of history,” Prado said. “Bobby extends his deepest sympathies and support to all of the victims involved.”

The report also notes that the court records of the conviction in 2014 were not public because the victim was a minor, but the charge, sex registry status, and the sentence are all available on an official website for the Texas Dept. of Public Safety.

Booking records at the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s website indicate that Caballero was booked on four counts related to indecent sexual contact with a child.

Pulido’s Republican opponent, Rep. Monica De La Cruz (Texas), released a statement accusing the musician of being less than truthful about what he knew.

“My heart goes out to the children who were sexually abused by a close friend and professional associate of Bobby Pulido. For three decades, Mr. Pulido brought a child predator into our neighborhoods with multiple convictions for sexually abusing children in Hidalgo County, including an 8-year-old girl,” reads the statement from De La Cruz.

“Despite being caught on tape admitting he knew of this man’s criminality and praising him as recently as November, Mr. Pulido now falsely claims to have been unaware of his crimes,” she added. “These are not South Texas values. As both a mother and a congresswoman, I want the families of these sexually abused children whose suffering Mr. Pulido ignored to know that I am here for you.”

She went on to ask the victims’ families to contact her office for federal resources of support.

RELATED: Democratic challenger in pivotal Texas election portrayed pervert who masturbates in public in music video

Prado also said that Pulido learned about Caballero’s criminal history in 2021 and immediately fired him.

De La Cruz trounced her Democrat opponent in the 2024 election by more than 14 points. President Donald Trump also won the district easily.

Prior to the revelations about his touring with a child sex offender, Pulido tried to gain media attention by asking 15-year-old Latinas to invite him to their birthday parties.

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President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on a short ride to the Supreme Court on Wednesday with just four words, a report says, and now rumors about her potential replacement are swirling around Washington.

Trump reportedly told Bondi, “I think it’s time,” to notify her of her firing the day before formally announcing her removal in a Truth Social post. Trump later announced her departure on Thursday, calling her a “Great American Patriot and a loyal friend” but reportedly privately expressing frustration with the lack of prosecutions against Democrats and her botched handling of the Epstein files.

‘I’m not going anywhere.’

Needless to say, Bondi had become a sore spot for the administration, prompting her to become the second departure from Trump’s Cabinet following former Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem.

Trump has since announced that Todd Blanche, Bondi’s former deputy, would temporarily step in as attorney general while the president continues weighing his options to fill the slot long-term.

Trump’s top pick continues to be EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, who met with the president on Tuesday, according to one administration official. The meeting was about an unrelated topic, but the official told Blaze News that Trump floated the idea of Zeldin replacing Bondi. The next day, Trump informed Bondi of her firing.

RELATED: Bondi is OUT — and Trump already has a replacement in mind

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While Zeldin is widely regarded to be the top choice, Trump has not yet made a formal announcement.

Other names have been circulating, although most of them would be considered long shots. Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas had been floated by onlookers, both of whom would likely sail through Senate confirmation. Critics quickly called out anonymously cited senators endorsing Lee for the role, saying they just want to get rid of one of the most conservative lawmakers.

“Senators who prefer working two and a half days a week are probably Lee’s biggest cheerleaders in taking another job,” a senior Republican source told Blaze News.

Lee later set the record straight in a post on X, saying, “I’m not going anywhere.”

RELATED: Bondi speaks out after ouster, still may have to testify before Congress

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Another rumored candidate to be top cop has been Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is currently running a fierce campaign to oust Republican Sen. John Cornyn. The two have been facing off in a high-stakes primary that Trump was expected to weigh in on but so far has not done so.

Although Paxton is popular with the base, he would have to first be approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on which his opponent sits. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina would also be a challenging committee vote to secure, not to mention Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, who have known to defect on key floor votes.

Other possible candidates are some of Bondi’s top DOJ officials, including Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and even Blanche. While Blanche has assumed the role in the interim, he has shut the door on any future Epstein investigation, telling Fox News that “it should not be a part of anything going forward.”

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A ticketholder at a Dallas Stars hockey game has said she called a fan misbehavior hotline on a group of men for doing what she describes as “Nazi salutes.”

The Stars’ home arena and the hockey team are investigating the incident that has gone viral online due to a fan video.

‘It was every goal they were doing it.’

The viral video was taken by Courtney Ripley, a Stars fan who was near the four men in question when they were making the alleged hand gestures during the game.

Typically, fans at American Airlines Center make a fist pump motion while chanting the “Dallas Stars” team name repeatedly. However, Ripley told WFAA-TV that “this group of men were doing Nazi salutes instead.”

“It was shocking,” she said. “It was every goal they were doing it.”

Ripley also said she reported the group of fans to the arena’s fan misbehavior hotline and was told that the organization sent a staff member to speak with the men. However, despite allegedly providing her video and their seat numbers, Ripley said not only was she told the men could not be located but that she never saw staff approach them at all.

“Kind of disappointing on that front too, a little bit,” she told WFAA.

RELATED: ‘We want to be inclusive’: After Christian player posts Bible verses, Patriots coach says team needs to be ‘educated’

Ripley told the local outlet that the video only recently went viral, despite it being filmed during a December 21 game against the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Now, the American Airlines Center is coordinating with the Stars for an investigation.

“American Airlines Arena (AAC) has zero tolerance for any acts of hate and/or discrimination, and we aim to ensure an environment for our guests that is free from disruptive behaviors, including foul/abusive language and obscene gestures,” the arena said in a statement, per ESPN.

“As such, we strongly denounce the actions that appear to be depicted in the video footage and are conducting an internal investigation.”

A spokesperson for the Stars told ESPN on Thursday that the franchise is “fully aligned with the arena’s statement” and is working with the team to “find out exactly what happened.”

RELATED: Female ex-referee accuses NFL of sexism, sues after she was allegedly made to perform ‘an utterly humiliating’ act

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American Airlines Center has a plethora of prohibited behaviors they list as “disturbances,” which can result in an ejection from the arena. They include standing on chairs, “mooning,” interfering with the game, and lighting a fire.

Obvious infractions also include drunk and disorderly conduct, fighting, throwing objects, or violating laws.

While profanity and offensive words are also prohibited, the arena’s rules do not appear to include anything about gestures unless they are part of “taunting” players, employees, referees, or performers.

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CNN analyst Harry Enten delivered Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other members of his party some bad news on Thursday, revealing that President Donald Trump’s approval rating is under water but that Democrats’ approval rating is nearly scraping bottom.

Talking head John Berman noted that the new CNN poll conducted by SSRS found that while Trump had an approval rating of 35%, “bad news for Republicans hasn’t really been good news for Democrats.”

‘They don’t like their own party.’

“No, no, not at all,” said Enten.

“These numbers are just atrociously awful. A double A for the Democrats here.”

Seventy-four percent of respondents said that congressional Democrats did not have the right priorities. Even more damning was the response from Democrat respondents, 55% of whom said as much of their party’s representatives in Congress.

“This, to me, just jumps out of the screen because it screams ‘primary challenges’ all over the map, and it says that even if Democrats don’t like Donald Trump, they don’t like their own party either when it comes to Congress,” said Enten.

Whereas 32% of Americans hold a favorable view of the GOP, the poll found that only 28% of Americans hold a favorable view of the Democratic Party.

RELATED: Democrats’ gerrymandering campaign in Virginia hits a snag: Obama

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Berman characterized the damning responses as “Democrat-on-Democrat crime,” then asked about American support for the Democrat leadership.

“The bottom has fallen out,” said Enten.

“Even Democrats don’t like their own leaders when it comes to Congress. And overall, of course, the numbers are just absolutely awful.”

Enten cast doubt on whether Schumer will be able to remain the Senate leader for the Democrats, suggesting that it’s a “coin toss when it comes to Schumer actually winning the next Dem Senate leader selection.”

An Economist/YouGov poll published this week found that a plurality of Democratic voters — 41% — disapprove of the job Schumer is doing as minority leader of the U.S. Senate, and 37% signaled approval. Schumer’s overall approval rating was 20%.

David Axelrod, who served as a political strategist for former President Barack Obama, recently told PBS that Schumer “has been under fire for some time, particularly from progressives in the party,” and that his political fate may be linked to the midterm elections.

“There’s questions as to whether he’ll run in 2028. There’s even questions as to whether he might be challenged as leader,” said Axelrod. “I think the results of this election may impact that.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), whose overall approval rating was 24%, fared slightly better with Democrats than Schumer, with 43% signaling approval and 32% signaling disapproval of his job performance.

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In a massive win for those against transitioning minors, the Supreme Court ruled this week that Colorado is not allowed to enforce its “conversion therapy” ban — which aimed to shut down conversations between therapists who do not believe in affirming sin and minors.

The 8-1 decision by the high court pointed out that it was wrong for the law to allow for therapists to affirm minors’ gender identities or sexual orientations but not allow them to help them change if they want to.

The initial lawsuit was brought by Kaley Chiles, a licensed Christian therapist, who argued that the conversations she had with her clients were a form of protected speech, while Colorado claimed the state was allowed to regulate her speech.

BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is thrilled by the news.

“What this means is that Christian counselors, Christian mental health professionals are allowed to say what is true. Not only say what they believe biblically, which they should have a right to do, but also say what is true biologically. They were being punished by acknowledging and affirming biological reality,” Stuckey says.

“And people, including minors, should be free to have access to biblical counselors, counselors who will tell them the truth,” she continues, pointing out that the real “conversion therapists” are on the left.

“What is actual quote unquote ‘conversion therapy’ is the psychiatrist who tells the young, autistic, schizophrenic woman who is coming from an abusive household that, yeah, those feelings of distress that you feel about your body, it’s because you’re the opposite gender,” Stuckey explains.

“That is conversion therapy. Conversion therapy is when you tell a young boy, ‘Yeah, sure, you’re actually a girl. Let’s get you on those hormones. I’ll sign the waiver for you. I’ll sign the form telling the endocrinologist and telling the surgeon that you’re good to go,’” she continues.

“That is actually harmful, real conversion therapy that absolutely should be banned because it’s a lie,” she adds.

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Military members will be allowed to carry their personal firearms on military bases, War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Thursday.

The previous policy against personal firearms has been heavily criticized each time a shooting at a military base takes the lives of unarmed military personnel.

‘Confirming your God-given right to self-protection is what I am signing into action today, and I’m proud to do so.’

In a video posted to the X platform, Hegseth said the decades-old policy would be lifted and troops will be allowed to request to carry privately owned firearms “with the presumption that it is necessary for personal protection.”

“Effectively, our bases across the country were gun-free zones,” Hegseth said. “Unless you’re training or unless you are a military policeman, you couldn’t carry. You couldn’t bring your own firearm for your own personal protection onto post.”

He cited the Dec. 2019 attack at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, which took the lives of three men and injured eight others, as well as other lethal shootings.

“In these instances, minutes are a lifetime. And our service members have the courage and training to make those precious, short minutes count,” he explained.

“Before today, it was virtually impossible — most people probably don’t know this — it was virtually impossible for War Department personnel to get permission to carry and store their own personal weapons aligned with the state laws where we operate our installations,” he added.

“Well, that’s no longer.”

He said that in those instances where firearm possession is denied, the refusal must be in writing and fully explained.

“The War Department’s uniformed service members are trained at the highest and unwavering standards. These warfighters — entrusted with the safety of our nation — are no less entitled to exercise their God-given right to keep and bear arms than any other American,” Hegseth added.

RELATED: My friend survived the Global War on Terror. Leftist immigration policies got him killed.

“Confirming your God-given right to self-protection is what I am signing into action today, and I’m proud to do so,” he added before signing the memo in the video.

The previous policy against guns on bases can be traced back to rules signed under former President George H.W. Bush.

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