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Congress grilled Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell on Tuesday afternoon regarding allegations of political discrimination and the agency’s request for $40 billion in disaster relief funds.

During a House Transportation and Infrastructure hearing, Criswell was questioned about a now-terminated hurricane relief supervisor, Marn’i Washington, who admitted to instructing workers to avoid homes with signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump during the relief efforts following Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

‘This is pretty hard to defend.’

FEMA has repeatedly insisted that the situation was isolated, but Washington has argued that she is being used as a “scapegoat,” claiming that the instruction to skip certain homes was not an isolated incident.

During Tuesday’s hearing, Criswell told Congress, “I do not believe that this employee’s actions are indicative of any widespread cultural problems at FEMA. FEMA, however, has taken appropriate action to ensure that this matter is fully investigated, and I am committed to ensuring that nothing like this ever happens again.”

According to Criswell, the agency’s “ongoing investigation,” which includes questioning personnel in the chain of command above Washington, has yielded “no information at this point that there was anything beyond her [Washington’s] direction to her employees to skip and bypass a home.”

Criswell agreed to request an outside investigation from FEMA’s Office of Inspector General.

FEMA is requesting that Congress provide $40 billion for disaster relief to last through the upcoming year. Amid the impacts of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the agency has highlighted its depleted resources for emergency responses.

Several Republican Congress members pressed Criswell about the agency’s request for additional funding while its Shelter and Services Program continues to provide extensive free services to illegal aliens.

In response, the FEMA administrator redirected the criticism back at Congress, pointing out that the legislative body had created the program and mandated the agency oversee it.

Rep. Marcus Molinaro (R-N.Y.) challenged Criswell’s defense, calling it the “easiest and most disingenuous argument.”

“You administer the one department in domestic policy that has to triage and to set priorities — your department,” Molinaro stated. “You are empowered and your department is empowered to decide what of the programs you’re running today should take precedence or priority over the others. Yes, sure. We can pass a law that limits the Shelter and Services funding, that stops dollars getting to illegal immigrants, but you have to make that decision every day.”

Rep. Mike Ezell (R-Miss.) questioned Criswell about 20 Hurricane Katrina infrastructure projects funded and never completed by FEMA.

“How, 20 years later, are there still unresolved projects from Katrina?” Ezell asked. “This is pretty hard to defend.”

Ezell called FEMA’s failure to complete the projects “simply outrageous.”

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More and more athletes are jumping on the presidential bandwagon and supporting Donald Trump with their dance moves.

After Trump won the presidency for the second time, athletes from across the country paid tribute to him with his signature dance as a form of celebration.

Now, nearly three weeks since the election victory, the Trump-themed dances show no sign of slowing down, and the trend is spreading across more sports.

Las Vegas Raiders tight end Brock Bowers showed off his moves after a touchdown against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. Although the Raiders fell short with a 34-19 loss, Bowers led all receivers in receptions and yards.

Perhaps unlike before the election, the Raiders’ communications team was not shy about showcasing Bowers’ dancing touchdown celebration and posted a stand-alone clip of the 21-year-old on social media.

In soccer, the U.S. Men’s National Team appropriately represented the new president during a CONCACAF Nations League match against Jamaica. Team USA took home a 4-2 victory, and when star winger Christian Pulisic scored just 13 minutes in, he ran to the corner flag to dance in front the St. Louis crowd.

“Made it look too easy,” the team proudly wrote above the video clip on X.

In another angle of the celebration, Juventus player and international star Weston McKennie can be seen joining in on the dance.

Either talented athletes are doing the Trump dance or the dance itself is a good-luck charm, because LPGA golfer Charley Hull found herself in a race for the Annika tournament championship over the weekend. Hull pulled out the Trump dance during the final round and landed herself in a three-way tie for second place on the leaderboard, earning $229,909.

These weren’t the only athletes showing off the president’s dance moves.

UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones made a point of thanking Trump at UFC 309. Trump was in the audience at the Madison Square Garden event.

Jones shared his rendition of the viral dance before handing the president his belt to hold after his victory.

With college football players and even Wayne Gretzky coming out of the woodwork as Trump supporters, enthusiasm for the red, white, and blue is at an all-time in the sports world and shows no signs of stopping.

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A Canadian Football League referee is making headlines for all the wrong reasons after making a hilarious error to start off the championship game.

At the 111th Grey Cup in Vancouver, Canada, veteran official Benoit Major took center stage in what is typically the referee’s time to shine: the coin toss.

Along with Coinbase Canada CEO Lucas Matheson, Major stood between the captains of the Toronto Argonauts and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

“All right, Lucas, get up here,” the referee told Matheson. “Please do us the honors,” he continued, handing the coin to the CEO.

As the crypto boss flipped the coin, the referee attempted to grab his arm to stop him, realizing he forgot the most integral part of the coin toss. Major forgot to ask the Argonauts’ team captains whether they were choosing heads or tails.

“Check, check check,” Major said in a French-Canadian accent as the coin hit the ground.

“I have to ask … ‘what do you want?'” Major said, while picking up the coin.

With the football players clearly unimpressed — as this is the most important game of their lives — the referee struck a quick pose in jest while laughing; the players did not find it funny.

“All right, Toronto,” Major restarted, putting his arm on Toronto’s DaVaris Daniels’ shoulder out of embarrassment.

“You’re the visiting team; what’s your choice?”

After Daniels called “heads,” the referee handed the coin back to the Coinbase CEO.

“Okay, Lucas, take two.”

As is a growing trend in sports, the CFL chose to lean into the silly moment and posted the coin toss in full on the league’s X page.

However, the league didn’t exactly draw attention to it, writing, “The coin has been tossed, let’s play some football!”

The fun starts at about 1:30 in the video.

‘I’m a bit disfigured.’

The Argonauts lost the real coin toss, but went on to win their 19th Grey Cup, 41-24.

This also isn’t the first bout of bad luck Major has had while refereeing an Argonauts game. In 2014, the Montreal native took a cleat to the face that resulted in his left eye being swollen shut.

“I’m a bit disfigured,” Major said in 2014, according to Yahoo Sports. “I’ve got swelling and discoloration going on, so it’s interesting, I guess.”

The Canadian added, “My girls say if it were Halloween, I wouldn’t need any makeup.”

Looking back, one of the most iconic coin-toss botches came on Thanksgiving day in 1998, when the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Jerome Bettis appeared to call “tails” during the toss to start overtime.

NFL referee Phil Luckett said that Bettis started to say “heads” before switching his answer.

After the Lions won the coin toss, they got the ball and kicked a game-winning field goal three minutes into OT.

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Jon Stewart slammed Democrats for their “cope” with the decisive 2024 election victory of President-elect Donald Trump. The liberal talk show host also skewered “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for making a “personal” visit to meet with Trump.

During his Monday monologue on “The Daily Show,” Stewart introduced a new segment he called “The Audacity of Cope,” where he ridiculed Democrats for attempting to find minor wins after the embarrassing election loss by Vice President Kamala Harris.

‘Republicans are playing chess, and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because they glued their balls to their thighs.’

Stewart played a montage of Democrats and liberal talking heads previously comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin. The compilation also showed them warning that Trump is a “threat to Democracy” who would cause “irreversible” damage to the country if elected.

However, Stewart later played a clip of “Morning Joe” co-hosts Scarborough and Brzezinski announcing that they met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week in an effort to reopen the lines of communication for the first time in seven years. As Blaze News reported this week, Brzezinski said the meeting was an effort to “restart communications” with Trump, of whom they have been extremely critical since he was elected in 2016.

“Now, we talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents and media outlets,” Scarborough stated. “We talked about that a good bit. And it’s gonna come as no surprise to anybody who watches this show, has watched it over the past year or over the past decade, that we didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of issues. And we told him so.”

“Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump,” Brzezinski said. “And for those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back, why wouldn’t we?”

Stewart shot back, “Uh, because you said he was Hitler.”

Last November, Scarborough compared Trump to Hitler.

Stewart also mocked Democrat politicians for attempting to “cope” with the brutal election loss by highlighting seemingly insignificant achievements.

“I assume now that the Democrats have lost to the greatest threat we’ve ever faced as a nation that they will be forthright in acknowledging, one, the Democrats’ role in this catastrophic defeat and, two, the bleak hellscape we now face,” Stewart said.

Stewart mocked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) for trying to sugarcoat the results of the election by saying that the Democrats managed to “flip three House seats and gain back almost all of those that we had lost in 2022.”

Stewart quipped, “Yeah, ‘almost’ is doing a lot of work in that sentence. ‘Yeah, we almost gained back all that we lost.'”

He accused Democrats of trying to “spin” a situation that is “clearly not good news.”

“The Daily Show” host announced, “It’s a new dynamic, it is a willful bright-siding, this s**t show that we celebrate in our new segment called ‘The Audacity of Cope.'”

Stewart teased progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) for attempting to find glimmers of hope by spotlighting that some of the new Democrats in the House are diverse, including “the first trans member of Congress” and “the youngest member ever elected to the House from New Jersey.”

Stewart joked, “Wait till you hear that this record-breaking young phenom from New Jersey is 38 years old! 38 years old! How far are we going with this? ‘Oh, in Illinois, we elected a ginger!'”

Stewart added, “Wow, this is going to be the most diverse group of congresspeople to ever get all their legislation blocked. So inspiring!”

The Republicans hold at least 218 seats in the House — the number needed for a majority. Meanwhile, the Democrats hold 212 seats, and there are five seats still undecided.

Stewart continued his scorching takedown of Democrats, “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Republicans are playing chess, and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because they glued their balls to their thighs.”

Stewart then lampooned President Joe Biden for dealing with the election loss by visiting the Amazon rain forest and then seemingly wandering off into the jungle. Stewart described Trump’s Cabinet selections as “provocative and unorthodox,” including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former Rep. Matt Gaetz, and Fox News host Pete Hegseth. The liberal talk show host claimed that Republicans will push through the Cabinet picks with loopholes.

“Democrats are positive that the vaunted constitutional rules of the Senate shall be the guardrail to this madness,” Stewart said of Trump’s Cabinet nominees. “That is our government in a nutshell: The rules say ‘We can stop it.’ The loophole says, ‘F*** that!’ So what are you left with? The last refuge of losers: the norms.”

“Republicans exploit the loopholes,” he noted. “Democrats complain about the norms over and over and over, and it has ghastly consequences.”

Stewart advised Democrats, “You guys be the loophole guys that figure out how to get s**t done, because [Republicans] don’t give a f*** about your norms.”

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Azerbaijan’s government has some troubling practices, and the world should pay attention. Whether you believe in a climate emergency or not — and especially if you do — the shenanigans at the ongoing COP29 climate conference in this authoritarian Caucasus nation should raise alarms.

Recent U.N. climate conferences, including COP28 in the United Arab Emirates and COP29 in Azerbaijan, reveal a troubling trend: Global environmental activists seem unbothered by the severe wealth inequality their policies exacerbate. These activists actively collaborate with state oil tycoons to secure their own gains, often at the expense of ordinary people.

Climate alarmism remains a luxury belief held predominantly by wealthy elites, not ordinary people.

The authoritarian regimes of the UAE and Azerbaijan epitomize this disparity. In Azerbaijan, the average GDP per person is about 18 times higher than the median income. In contrast, this ratio in Western nations typically ranges between four and five. These glaring inequalities underscore the cozy relationship between government elites and global environmental activists.

Climate activists and state oil moguls actively disregard free markets and consumer preferences. Environmentalists routinely condemn consumer choices they deem “wasteful” or “unsustainable” and push policies that force compliance rather than encourage voluntary participation. Likewise, state oil companies reject competition at home and collude internationally to manipulate oil production when it increases their profits.

Both groups enrich themselves at others’ expense. Taxpayers, not attendees, fund COP29. National delegations draw from public budgets, while global NGOs like the United Nations and World Bank use funds from member nations to support the conference.

Oil barons in the UAE and Azerbaijan exploit natural resources for personal gain. Officials use state power to secure private wealth while denying citizens their rights. These oil-rich nations exemplify extractive institutions, where elites monopolize resources and leave the public to bear the cost.

The environmental agenda seeks to do the same — transferring hundreds of billions of dollars from taxpayers to narrowly owned wind, solar, and other green projects. Rather than serving customers and receiving voluntary payment, both environmentalists and government oil barons would rather extract resources from people by force.

COP29 participants explicitly demand that wealthy nations’ taxpayers “pay up” through climate reparations. These funds will likely enrich corrupt officials instead of benefiting the poor and vulnerable who are supposed to receive them. Decades of foreign aid being diverted into government officials’ pockets provide ample reason to reject this policy.

The irony of hosting the U.N. climate change conference in oil-producing countries runs deep. Participants create massive carbon footprints through air travel, food and goods consumption, and electricity use. Their activities rely on the very oil production they criticize, in countries they now place at the forefront of climate planning.

Climate alarmism remains a luxury belief held predominantly by wealthy elites, not ordinary people. These elites can more easily handle the higher costs created by environmental restrictions, unlike the poor and middle class. Moreover, elites are more likely to profit from net-zero policies, which subsidize solar panels, electric vehicles, and billion-dollar carbon offset and green energy schemes.

It’s time to end the self-serving theatrics of U.N. climate conferences pretending to save the planet. Expanding fossil fuel exploration and development in the United States offers a far better path. Cheap energy means greater freedom and prosperity for all.

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Even though Bill Maher was never cured from his Trump derangement syndrome and ended up voting for Kamala Harris, he is still calling the left out on its nonsense.

Dave Rubin plays the clip of Maher brutally roasting his fellow Democrats for their response to Trump’s victory.

Displaying images of “The View” and MSNBC panels, Maher said, “Someone must tell the usual suspects on the far left that the saying is ‘when you’re in a hole, stop digging,’ not ‘keep digging.’”

“The one concession I’ve heard a few people on the losing side offer [is] that liberals should stop saying the Trump voters are stupid comes with a kind of unspoken parenthesis — we know they are stupid; just don’t say it,” Maher said.

“Yeah, I got bad news for you. They don’t have a monopoly on stupid. You wear ‘Queers for Palestine’ T-shirts and masks two years after the pandemic ended, and you can’t define woman, I mean person who menstruates. You’re the teachers’ union education party, and you’ve turned schools and colleges into a joke. You just lost a crazy contest to an actual crazy person,” he added.

“There’s a lot to not like already about the new regime, but maybe take one week to ask what you did wrong.”

Then Maher turned up the heat even more.

“Democrats have become like a royal family that because of so much incest has unfortunately had children who are retarded,” he lambasted, pointing to the way the party claims to believe in science and yet called the COVID lab-leak theory “racist.”

“The same thing can happen to ideas if they are also conceived in an atmosphere of intellectual incest. Maybe take the clothespins off your noses and actually converse with the other half of the country. Stop screaming at people to get with the program and instead make a program worth getting with,” he continued, pointing out that “too woke” should be “a cancellable offense.”

Dave still has hope that Maher is “gonna get there” because at least he “cares about truth.”

To see Maher’s epic roast, watch the video above.

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Boston’s Democratic mayor has worked hard to depreciate the value of citizenship and degrade the quality of living in her city.

Michelle Wu, a
soft-on-crime defender of race-segregated events who drafted a list of critics for police to check on, has funneled taxpayer funds to nonprofits that aid illegal aliens; advocated for closing the Boston Police gang database as well as for allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections; conditioned participation in city life on vaccination status; stood idly by while undocumented migrants overwhelm her city; and looked to noncitizens and children to make potential budgetary decisions.

Given her track record and Boston’s “sanctuary city” status, Wu’s recent suggestions that Beantown might try to hinder the incoming Trump administration’s efforts to deport criminal illegal aliens were altogether unsurprising. She may have, however, been surprised by the frankness of the response by President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar.”

‘They can’t cross a clear line.’

Wu, who is
planning to run for re-election in 2025, reminded GBH News last week that Boston law prohibits police and city officials from helping federal authorities track down and deport illegal aliens. While the laws on the books only guarantee passivity from local law enforcement, she intimated that the city might take an active role in impeding deportation efforts, noting that she has been planning for a number of different scenarios.

“We still have other mechanisms where we can identify spaces that might be most targeted and think about protections there,”
said Wu.

When
speaking to WCVB-TV on Sunday, Wu appeared to suggest that the city will exhaust its options when protecting illegal aliens from consequence.

What we can do is make sure that we are doing our part to protect our residents in every possible way, that we are not cooperating with those efforts that actually threaten the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear and having large-scale economic impact. And then we are providing the spaces to reach out directly to our residents because the last thing we want is for people who are part of our economy, part of our school system, part of our community and the fabric of our city to feel that all of a sudden, they have to retreat in the shadows.

In response to Wu, former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas D. Homan
told Newsmax TV’s Greg Kelly, “She’s not very smart.”

“President Trump is going to prioritize public safety threats. What mayor or governor doesn’t want public safety threats out of their communities? That’s our number one responsibility: to protect their communities, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do,” said Homan. “So she helps us [or] she gets the hell out of the way because we’re going to do it.”

Homan stressed that federal law is explicit and Wu would do best to follow it.

“There’s a clear line here. They can’t cross a clear line. I would suggest that she read Title 8, United States Code 1324 iii that says you can’t harbor, conceal an illegal alien from federal law enforcement officers,” said Homan. “I hope she don’t cross that line. They can not cooperate, but there are certain laws in place that they can’t cross.”

The
law that Homan referred to makes it a punishable offense if one “conceals, harbors or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor or shield from detection” illegal aliens.

If violating the statute and placing someone’s life in jeopardy, the offender could be fined and/or imprisoned for up to 20 years for each alien involved. If by violating the statute an individual gets someone killed, then the offender could be “punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life.”

Like Wu, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) has
indicated that she would use “every tool in the toolbox” to shield “residents” from accountability.

Blaze News
previously reported that Homan intends to send more ICE officers to sanctuary jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials.

“If they’re not gonna help us, then we’ll just double the manpower in those cities. They don’t want ICE agents in their neighborhoods, but they don’t let ICE agents in the jail. They don’t understand, if you let us in the jail, that’d be less agents in your neighborhood,” Homan told “Fox News Live.”

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Julie Roginsky, a Democratic strategist, told conservative CNN contributor Scott Jennings on Monday that she promises she will be among the American citizens who will be protesting to prevent illegal immigrants from being deported by the military.

The topic came up as a CNN panel was discussing President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to declare a national emergency over the number of illegal immigrants in the nation and to use military assets to help law enforcement carry out deportation operations.

‘If anybody comes for these people and tries to drag them out by force, there will be protests of people like me, American citizens.’

Paul Rieckhoff, an Iraq war veteran, acknowledged that while voters clearly want something to be done to address the issue, he insisted it should not include using the U.S. military.

“What’s the alternative, to let the crisis continue?” Jennings asked Rieckhoff.

“It’s not deploy the 82nd or let the crisis continue. There’s plenty of middle ground. And by the way, our military has plenty of other priorities they need to focus on right now in addition to these. …They want it solved. They don’t want the 82nd Airborne dropping into New York City,” Rieckhoff replied.

Roginsky interjected by noting there is a shelter for “undocumented immigrants” in her Upper Westside neighborhood.

“I can promise you with every fiber of my being because I will probably be one of those people, if anybody comes for these people and tries to drag them out by force, there will be protests of people like me, American citizens, who are going to stand there and do everything possible,” Roginsky said.

When former Trump administration official Marc Lotter asked about the criminals and suspected terrorists in the groups Roginsky wants to protect, she became incensed.

“Stop! How do you know who it is? Stop, stop, stop! I live next to these people. I can tell you they are women, and they are children. … I am telling you right now, practically speaking, is that there will be people, American citizens, who will prevent these little kids from being dragged out of these shelters. … What is going to happen to the military when the military opens fire on us?” Roginsky continued.

“We’re way down a rabbit hole here,” Jennings said in response.

You can view a clip of the fiery exchange here.

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The widely accepted definition of the Mandela effect explains it away as “a phenomenon where a large group of people remember an event or detail differently from its factual occurrence” — but Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” isn’t buying it.

The effect was named after a “false memory” that was shared regarding Nelson Mandela’s supposed death in the 1980s, though he actually passed away in 2013.

“They’re trying to lie. Mandela effects are real,” Stein says, adding, “and I’m about to prove it.”

The first example Stein pulls is of the Monopoly man from the board game “Monopoly,” whom he recalls wearing a monocle over his eye when he was younger.

“Apparently, the monocle never existed. Now people are going to say, ‘Oh are you getting him confused with Mr. Peanut, who does have a monocle?’” Stein predicts, before moving onto Jif peanut butter.

The peanut butter brand is “Jif,” however, many people remember spreading the peanut butter as “Jiffy.”

“This is very weird that it’s just Jif, that doesn’t even make sense. That’s a horrible name, they need to go back,” Stein says. “Who would even approve that?”

While it’s all incredibly confusing, Stein does have a theory as to what’s really going on.

“One of the theories is that it’s called the butterfly effect,” Stein begins. “There’s time travelers that are traveling and if you did time travel, like if you went and killed a butterfly, that could affect the whole future of humanity.”

“Somehow we still have the memory because we lived it,” he continues. “But the time traveler messed it up.”

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The public school district in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, said it mistakenly released the names of close to 100 elementary students whose families opted them out of a controversial sex-education program last year, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The families of an additional 82 children also were notified that their names may have been released, Cherry Hill Public Schools Superintendent Kwame Morton said last week, the Inquirer added.

‘A lot of parents are upset. Somebody needs to be held accountable.’

The paper said the elementary students’ names were released in September 2023 after an Open Public Records Act request seeking information about how many parents were excluding their children from the state’s controversial new standards on sex education, which include information about gender identity, puberty, and masturbation.

The Inquirer said Morton acknowledged the mistake and noted that the names were removed last week from the OPRAmachine, which assists requesters with accessing public records and is where the 2023 request had been filed.

Morton said the names were redacted in the district’s PDF files but showed up when the OPRAmachine converted the files to a different format, the paper reported. The district used an incorrect redaction procedure, which allowed the names to appear despite being blacked out, Charlie Kratovil, an OPRAmachine leader, added to the Inquirer.

Once district lawyers were made aware of the issue, the paper said they sent a letter to the OPRAmachine to get the names removed. Morton told the Inquirer that the district has implemented new security measures, and employees were retrained on confidentiality rules.

“In no way shape or form was the intention to release any names,” Morton told the paper last week. ”The important thing is not ever is it our intention to harm any child.”

Harvey Vazquez — a parent and former school board candidate — submitted an online complaint last month asking the U.S. Department of Education to investigate whether the district violated the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, which protects students’ privacy and education records, the Inquirer said.

More from the paper:

Vazquez, whose 6-year-old son was on the opt-out list, brought up the issue last month at a school board meeting, where Morton says he was first made aware.

Vazquez said the students whose names were made public without parental consent attended Russell Knight, Bret Harte, Richard Stockton, and Thomas Paine elementary schools. A parent notified the district about the release of the names in November 2023, but nothing was done, he said.

Morton confirmed that no action was taken, but said he was not informed about the release at the time.

“A lot of parents are upset,” Vazquez told the Inquirer. “Somebody needs to be held accountable.”

More from the paper:

The unauthorized disclosure came to light during a hotly contested race for three school board seats in Cherry Hill among Vazquez and nine others. Vazquez said he discovered the release after he began investigating the New Jersey Public Education Coalition, which labeled three other candidates in the race as “like-minded.” Vazquez narrowly lost.

The coalition, which touts itself as a nonpartisan group of educators, parents, and other stakeholders, made the OPRA request as part of a statewide project surveying districts. The group wanted to dispute claims that a majority of New Jersey parents had opted out of the new sex-education standards, said its founder Michael Gottesman.

The revised guidelines, which took effect in 2022, prompted an outcry from some parents. The state allowed districts to decide whether to amend their curricula to meet the expectations of what students should learn by the end of second, fifth, eighth, and 12th grade. Parents who believe the instruction conflicts with their moral or religious beliefs may have the student excused from that portion of the course.

Gottesman told the Inquirer that an outside vendor analyzed the coalition’s survey results, and the coalition never saw the students’ names. He added to the paper that he hadn’t learned that the names had been disclosed until recently.

“As a coalition, we would never release that type of information,” Gottesman noted to the Inquirer.

Bridget Palmer — one of the newly elected Cherry Hill school board members — told the paper, “There is no arguing that there was a huge mistake made. You can’t undo what has already been done, but we can take steps to make sure it never happens again.”

Vazquez noted to the Inquirer that he wants the district to better explain how the lapse occurred and enact discipline against anyone who was responsible: “There needs to be a public apology. That’s the least they can do.”

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President-elect Donald Trump nominated Republican former Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin to serve as the secretary of transportation on Monday.

If confirmed, Duffy, who served in Congress from 2011 to 2019 and is now a host on Fox Business, will be replacing Pete Buttigieg, who previously served as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and ran for president as a Democrat in 2019.

“Sean has been a tremendous and well-liked public servant, starting his career as a District Attorney for Ashland, Wisconsin, and later elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District,” Trump said in the Monday announcement.

‘I’m eager to help you usher in a new golden age of transportation.’

After serving two terms in Congress, Duffy resigned from his post to focus on his family ahead of the birth of his ninth child after learning his wife, Fox News contributor Rachel Campos-Duffy, was experiencing complications with her pregnancy.

Throughout his time both in and out of office, Duffy has remained a staunch supporter and political ally of the president-elect.

“He will prioritize Excellence, Competence, Competitiveness and Beauty when rebuilding America’s highways, tunnels, bridges and airports,” Trump said in the announcement. “He will ensure our ports and dams serve our Economy without compromising our National Security, and he will make our skies safe again by eliminating DEI for pilots and air traffic controllers.”

“Sean will use his experience and the relationships he has built over many years in Congress to maintain and rebuild our Nation’s Infrastructure, and fulfill our Mission of ushering in The Golden Age of Travel, focusing on Safety, Efficiency, and Innovation,” Trump continued. “Importantly, he will greatly elevate the Travel Experience for all Americans!”

“Thank you, Mr. President,” Duffy said following the announcement. “I’m eager to help you usher in a new golden age of transportation.”

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With the recent election of Delaware Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D) to Congress, female lawmakers now face the prospect of sharing women-specific facilities at the Capitol with a man.

Keen to avoid the fate of school girls and women in blue states around the country, Rep. Nancy Mace (R) introduced a resolution this week to make biological reality — not wishful thinking — the determining factor for which single-sex facilities House members or employees can use.

While there already appears to be some support for the resolution, McBride, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and other leftists are crying foul.

Mace, the first woman to graduate from the Citadel’s Corps of Cadets, shared her resolution on X Monday evening,
noting, “Biological men do not belong in private women’s spaces. Period. Full stop. End of story.”

The resolution states that “allowing biological males into single-sex facilities, such as restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms designed for women, jeopardizes the safety and dignity of Members, officers, and employees of the House who are female.”

To ensure women’s safety and protect their dignity in the Capitol, the resolution would prohibit House members, delegates, resident commissioners, officers, and employees from using single-sex facilities that do not correspond to their sex. The House sergeant-at-arms would enforce the ban.

‘Women should never be forced to share his delusion.’

Mace
told reporters outside the Capitol that McBride “doesn’t get a say. This is about real women and women’s rights. The far-left, radical left — they want to erase women and women’s rights, and I’m not going to let them.”

The Republican leadership did not reject the resolution outright.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)
told Axios, “We’re going to talk about that. We’re working on the issue.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) signaled support for the resolution,
indicating that the same prohibition should apply to all taxpayer-funded federal facilities.

When asked which facilities McBride —
a transvestite formerly known as Tim — should use, Greene said, “He is a biological male. He has plenty of places he can go. … He can go in the men’s room, and he has a bathroom in his office just like all of us do.”

“I’m sick of this s***,”
added the Georgia congresswoman. “Mentally ill men pretending to be women need to stay out of our bathrooms and our sports. They don’t have rights to our spaces or identity!”

Other feminists and conservatives insisted the rule was a no-brainer.

Filmmaker Robby Starbuck, for instance,
noted that “Mr. McBride is a biological male and he’s free to live in his fantasy world that he’s a woman but women should never be forced to share his delusion. Men don’t belong in Women’s bathrooms, sports or locker rooms.”

Leftists alternatively suggested that female lawmakers should accept men in their private spaces.

New York Rep. Joe Morelle (D) supported his fellow congressman using the women’s bathroom, telling Axios, “I think we have a lot of problems in America, I don’t think spending time worrying about the restrooms is an order of priority here. I think Nancy Mace should focus on other things.”

“She’s a woman,” continued Morelle. “She should use the ladies room.”

Democratic Rep. Sean Casten (D) suggested that if Mace is uncomfortable with men in the bathroom, she should just hide in a stall.

“If Ms Mace finds it difficult to use the toilet without thinking sexual thoughts or inspecting the genitals of the others in the bathroom she would be well advised to shut the stall door and keep her hatred and darkness to herself,”
tweeted Casten.

Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.), co-chair of the so-called Equality Caucus, said, “The cruelty is the point.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Axios, “This is not just bigotry, this is just plain bullying.”

McBride was similarly upset by female lawmakers’ desire to keep him out of their private spaces,
stating, “This is a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing.”

Despite McBride’s characterization of the opposition as extreme, most Americans agree that men should not invade women’s spaces.

Both a
January YouGov survey and 2023 Public Religion Research Institute survey found that the majority of Americans oppose policies permitting transvestites to use bathrooms designated for the opposite sex.

There is similar opposition to other gender ideology-driven policies.

According to a 2023 Gallup poll, the super-majority of Americans support sex-segregated competitive sports. A 2023 Washington Post-KFF poll revealed that the majority of Americans don’t accept LGBT activists’ premise that gender and sex can be separated and think it is inappropriate for teachers to teach K-8 students about so-called “trans identity.”

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An older foreign national died earlier this month after falling off a wall along the U.S. southern border near San Diego, California, and if not for American Border Patrol agents and first responders, he would have died alone.

At 5:42 in the morning on November 8, a group of suspected illegal aliens were spotted attempting to cross the double-barrier wall just west of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego.

Apparently recognizing that they had law enforcement on their heels, the group scattered. One person returned to Mexico. Three managed to scale the second barrier wall using an “improvised pompier ladder” and head north, according to a press release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

However, two men were still atop the second barrier when Border Patrol agents arrived in the zone between the two barrier walls. One man managed to make his descent into America and head north but was apprehended a short time later.

His fellow traveler — later identified by the San Diego Medical Examiner’s Office as Edgar Guillermo Hernández, a 62-year-old Colombian national — was not so fortunate.

At about 5:44 a.m., Hernández “fell as he descended, and landed on the north side of the secondary barrier,” said the press release, which also noted that the secondary barrier is “approximately 30 feet tall and … constructed of vertical metal bollards.”

‘This was one of the most dangerous areas. We have a double wall. We have a wall on both sides.’

From behind the barrier, Border Patrol agents noted that despite the fall, Hernández was still alive and moaning in pain. They quickly radioed for emergency medical assistance.

It seems there may have been some confusion about their exact location, because by 6:09, a Border Patrol supervisor had ordered agents to “escort” EMTs to the right spot, the press release said. They arrived about five minutes later, but within 60 seconds of their arrival, Hernández had become “physically unresponsive and stopped moving.”

Hernández was pronounced dead at 6:25 a.m.

The medical examiner’s office conducted an autopsy and determined that Hernández died of blunt-force injuries, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

An investigator from the medical examiner’s office initially “took custody” of Hernández’s body, the press release stated, but whether his body remains with the medical examiner is unclear.

The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General has been notified of the incident, and the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility is “reviewing” it, the press release said.

During his first term, President-elect Donald Trump paid a visit to the Otay Mesa Port of Entry to celebrate progress on the border wall, one of his central campaign promises.

“This is an area — because it’s so highly trafficked, this was one of the most dangerous areas. We have a double wall. We have a wall on both sides,” Trump said in a speech in September 2019.

“It’s a very powerful, very powerful wall,” he added, “the likes of which, probably, to this extent, has not been built before.”

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President-elect Donald Trump’s
nominations so far have generated significant backlash from establishmentarians, confirming the picks’ strategic value as disruptors.

While Trump has yet to disclose who, if anyone, he wants to replace FBI Director Christopher Wray — whose term does not expire until 2027 — the old guard’s pre-emptive attacks on former National Security Council official Kash Patel signal that he might be the prospect most threatening to the dysfunctional status quo.

Senior officials at the highly politicized bureau are
preparing for a thorough housecleaning. Meanwhile, former FBI Special Agent Daniel Brunner has gone to the liberal media with his concerns, blasting Patel as “dangerous” and insinuating that his housecleaning may prove to be more thorough than that executed by others.

When speaking to CNN’s Jessica Dean on Sunday, Brunner
parroted the talking points that have been recycled by others in Washington, D.C., in response to each of Trump’s appointment announcements: Patel is supposedly inexperienced, revenge-driven, and keen on littering a sacrosanct federal agency with pink slips.

‘He will conduct a massive amount of damage to the interior of the FBI.’

“It’s really important to understand that the person who is leading the FBI, who is the director and then the deputy director, those are two very important positions,” Brunner told Dean. “You’re in charge of tens of thousands of employees, both special agents, analysts, everyone that is enforcing the law, federal law that is on the books and supporting the Constitution of the United States. Putting someone like Kash Patel in the position of director of the FBI is, I believe, extremely, extremely dangerous.”

Brunner unwittingly continued his commercial for Patel, noting, “His resume isn’t traditional. There is nothing on his resume other than three years as a line U.S. attorney at the DOJ.”

Patel
previously served as chief of staff to former acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller; as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council; principal deputy to the acting director of national intelligence; as national security adviser for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; as a terrorism prosecutor at the Department of Justice; as a public defender; and as a hockey coach.

After downplaying Patel’s experience, Brunner highlighted what was apparently his greater concern:

He has clearly stated that he wants to exact revenge upon those that have investigated President Trump and those who have investigated those that are around him. He will conduct a massive amount of damage to the interior of the FBI … and employees who have put their names on certain documents because they were just working the case. There will be hundreds of employees who will be unjustly fired or have their security clearances removed only because he feels that it’s something he needs to do. So I think he’ll be very, very dangerous.

Elements of the liberal media appear to be singing the same tune.

The leftist blog New Republic
blasted Patel as an “intellectual lightweight,” warning that “if Trump installs Patel at the FBI, it would certainly further Trump and his MAGA allies’ goal of purging the federal workforce of disloyal employees.”

Another prospect, former
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), has not been subject to the kind of attacks that Patel has faced in recent days.

Semafor
reported that the “MAGA wing” of the Republican Party is keen to see Patel as FBI director, whereas “more conventional Republicans” are pushing for Rogers, the former chair of the House Intelligence Committee who defended warrantless surveillance of American citizens.

“If they aren’t bloody, if they don’t have scars from one of the get Trump ‘scandals,’ then they’re for Rogers,” an unnamed source close to the transition team told Semafor.

“I am a big fan of Mike Rogers, and should there be an opening, he would be my choice,” said Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R).

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said, “Mike Rogers is a terrific guy. I don’t know Kash Patel.”

While Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Rogers “might be good,” he stressed that Patel would “be great.”

“Smart, knows a lot about law enforcement,” said Tuberville. “He’s loyal to the president. And those are pretty much the top requirements.”

Toward the end of his first term, Trump considered installing Patel as deputy director at the FBI or CIA,
reported the Associated Press. The plan fell apart when then-CIA Director Gina Haspel and former Attorney General Bill Barr made a stink.

In his book “Goverment Gangsters,” Patel called for an elimination of “government tyranny” within the FBI and the removal of anyone who “in any way abused their authority for political ends,”
reported ABC News.

“The FBI has become so thoroughly compromised that it will remain a threat to the people unless drastic measures are taken,” wrote Patel.

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A high school girls’ volleyball team in California refused to play in a tournament match after learning their opponent has a male athlete on their team.

Stone Ridge Christian School was set to play San Francisco Waldorf in the California Interscholastic Federation State Girls Volleyball Championship playoffs. However, after learning the San Francisco team had a male player, the team has announced its intention to forfeit.

A copy of a school letter sent to parents, posted on X, revealed that the school was standing on its religious beliefs as the reason to not participate.

“As many of you know, our girls won on Wednesday and advanced to the state playoffs,” the letter dated November 15 began. “Unfortunately, we were just informed that our opponent, San Francisco Waldorf, has a male athlete playing for their team.”

“We believe God’s Word is authoritative and infallible. It is Truth. And as Genesis makes clear, God wonderfully and immutably created each person as male or female,” the letter continued.

“We do not believe sex is changeable and we do not intend to participate in events that send a different message,” it added.

The message concluded by expressing a “duty and responsibility” for the safety of the students, expressing that standing on their beliefs “means more” than the game.

The school then asked recipients to congratulate the student-athletes.

‘We will always stand for Biblical truth.’

The male student was identified by outlet Reduxx as Henry Hanlon, a senior who also plays on the Waldorf girls’ basketball team.

Hanlon has likely sparked previous forfeits in basketball, particularly from the Islamic school Averroes High School, which declined to specify the reason for its forfeiture.

In a statement to Blaze News, Stone Ridge said it intends to stand for what the school believes is the truth.

“We will always stand for Biblical truth and what is right.”

“Girls must compete against girls for fairness safety and truth,” the school added.

Stone Ridge has a history of going against the grain in the ultra-liberal state of California. In 2021, it was one of three schools to receive a two-year playoff ban in high school football for playing while COVID-19 shutdowns were in effect.

Capital Christian, Ripon Christian, and Stone Ridge received bans, in addition to their teams and athletic departments being placed on probation.

Sac-Joaquin Section school district said at the time that while it “understood that the postponement of interscholastic athletics” was “frustrating,” it expected all schools to follow the rules set forth by the governor’s office.

Commissioner Michael Garrison called the shutdown a “public safety issue” and expressed disappointment that the schools did not follow directives.

Stone Ridge is reportedly seeking counsel for the volleyball debacle from Alliance Defending Freedom.

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As expected, the left has gone into full-on meltdown mode as Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House — and celebrities across the nation are threatening to leave the country for greener pastures.

The hysteria began to ramp up about a year ago when Barbra Streisand told Stephen Colbert in an interview on “The Late Show” that she couldn’t live in the United States should Trump be successful in his bid for the presidency, and would likely move to England.

Cher joined Streisand on the list of celebrities afraid of a Trump presidency, telling the Guardian in an interview that she “almost got an ulcer the last time he was in office.”

“If he gets in, who knows. This time, I will leave,” Cher continued, adding, “I was with two trans girls the other night and my own child. I was saying we’ve got to stand together. I don’t know what their eventual plan is for trans people, I don’t put anything past them.”

Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” believes they should make good on their promises, saying, “Good, don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.”

Sharon Stone has also reportedly been considering a move to Europe if Trump wins, explaining she was “certainly considering a house in Italy” as this is one of the first times in her life that she’s “actually seen anyone running for office on a platform of hate.”

However, Gray doesn’t believe they mean it — as many celebrities said the exact same thing in 2016.

“Among those was Miley Cyrus, who declared in an Instagram post back in 2016, ‘Honestly f*** this. I’m moving if this is my president. I don’t say things I don’t mean,’” Gray says, adding, “Yet, she’s still here.”

Lena Dunham made the same promise, telling fans she planned to move to Canada after Trump’s election.

“Unfortunately, she didn’t,” Gray says.

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The Epoch Times on Thursday interviewed me about my views on Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks. The only nominee I expressed reservations about was Matt Gaetz, Trump’s choice for attorney general. But the reason I offered was not quoted fully. I said that while I would certainly vote for Gaetz if I were a U.S. senator, I do not believe he is confirmable. Republican senators like Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska would likely oppose his nomination, alongside all Senate Democrats, who will likely vote as a bloc against most of Trump’s nominees.

Gaetz is a troublesome choice for several reasons, starting with allegations of sexual involvement with a 17-year-old girl. The House Ethics Committee has investigated the charge, but its findings have not yet been released. I recognize the double standard at play here. Legacy media defended individuals like Bill Clinton and concealed the appalling misconduct of Democratic donors such as Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein for as long as possible.

The weaponization of federal agencies like the Justice Department and Secret Service against political dissenters will no longer be tolerated.

I also acknowledge that Biden’s administration resembled an intersectional exhibitionist show, featuring figures like Admiral Levine, Sam Brinton, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg. These appointments seemed to cater to the Democrats’ identitarian agenda. Notably, many “centrist” Republicans now criticizing Gaetz’s nomination had no problem voting for Biden’s ideologically driven Cabinet selections.

But we are not dealing here with a level playing field, and even conventional Republican outlets like National Review and the Wall Street Journal are railing against Gaetz’s nomination. I’m not sure that I see any way forward for the former Florida congressman. His sexual scandal, his effort to overthrow a Republican speaker of the House, and his flamboyant rhetoric will all be held against him if the confirmation process goes forward.

Let me clarify that, unlike the RINOs and neocons, I do not oppose Gaetz’s nomination because I want an attorney general the left will find inoffensive — someone modeled after Trump’s attorneys general during his first term. I recently heard Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal lament the absence of a nominee with Bill Barr’s moderating influence.

This time, however, Trump appears to want someone in the role who will support him unequivocally. He is not looking for an attorney general who will flaunt nonpartisanship by distancing himself from a president despised by the legacy media. Joe Biden and Barack Obama appointed attorneys general who loyally served their interests and advanced their ideological agendas. Trump has every right to seek an attorney general who will do the same — while demonstrating a greater commitment to justice than those Democratic appointees showed.

Any of the three candidates previously on Trump’s short list would likely be more confirmable as attorney general than Gaetz. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, or former Deputy Attorney General Matthew Whitaker could effectively perform the duties assigned to Gaetz while generating less controversy as nominees.

Let me stress that my reason for opposing Gaetz’s nomination is most definitely not the one probably driving the Bushies and neocon Republicans. I don’t want a “bipartisan” attorney general who will try to get along with with the opposition as we pursue an aggressively liberal internationalist foreign policy. I am hopeful that anyone who becomes attorney general will actively investigate and prosecute those bad actors who abused their positions under the Obama-Biden-Garland administrations.

The D.C. swamp must be drained, and those “public servants” who have gone after the political opposition without just cause and who have threatened religious and social traditionalists should be treated accordingly. They should not only be dismissed from their positions but also prosecuted.

It is crucial to send a clear message to public administrators and Democratic Party leaders: The weaponization of federal agencies like the Justice Department and Secret Service against political dissenters and culturally traditional Americans will no longer be tolerated. Simply turning the page to focus on foreign policy or fiscal issues will not achieve the same impact. Least of all should we pretend that the systematic weaponization of administrative agencies, which has been ongoing since Obama’s presidency, never occurred. Ignoring this history will only embolden the Democrats to resume such practices as soon as they regain power.

This is why any prospective attorney general must not only be up to this task but also be confirmable. Unfortunately, Gaetz does not meet this criterion, which is why his nomination was ill advised. While it is commendable that he has vigorously defended President Trump against baseless, malicious accusations, that alone will not secure his confirmation.

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Bill Gates has more money than most of us can even imagine. If he wanted, he could disappear to some remote paradise, live in absolute comfort, and never deal with any of us again.

But for the bespectacled billionaire, it’s never just been about money. It’s about power. The man has a god complex.

Would you really take health advice from someone who looks like he’d slip a disc opening a jar of pickles?

Sun scheme

His latest fixation involves blocking the sun. Yes, Gates, a man who looks like he hasn’t seen daylight in a decade, is backing a geoengineering project that would inject particles into the atmosphere to reflect solar rays, supposedly cooling the planet to reverse global warming.

It may sound like a science fiction plot — but it’s happening, and the implications are vast and unsettling. In short, a handful of tech moguls and venture-backed startups would be meddling with our planet’s climate on a scale that none of us voted for and none of us fully understand.

This method, known as stratospheric aerosol injection, aims to bounce sunlight back into space by dispersing particles in the upper atmosphere. But experts caution that the fallout could be devastating: unpredictable weather patterns, crop failures, droughts, and even shifts in hurricanes and disease patterns.

And, to make matters worse, it does nothing to tackle the greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, it’s a temporary Band-Aid, with the potential to send temperatures spiking if the project ever stops.

When billionaires like Gates throw their weight behind these grand schemes, there’s a troubling lack of oversight. Who ensures these experiments don’t lead to disaster? Who’s accountable if unintended consequences arise?

Without international regulations and transparency, we’re left to trust that a few wealthy individuals are acting in our best interests. But if history teaches us anything, it’s that powerful elites rarely — if ever — have our well-being in mind.

The gamble here isn’t just Gates’ money; it’s our future, our food, our planet’s ecosystems. Should Bill Gates be trusted with a project of this magnitude? Your gut says no — and you’d do well to trust it while you still can.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The gut microbiome, an incredible ecosystem within us, plays a crucial role in digestion, immunity, mood regulation, and even cognitive function. Far more than a digestive aid, it’s so intertwined with our nervous system that it’s often called our “second brain.”

The gut-brain axis — a vast communication network involving the vagus nerve and complex chemical signals — links our gut directly to our mind, shaping everything from emotional health to behavior.

This fact is not lost on Mr. Gates.

His deep investment in microbiome research goes way beyond a philanthropic interest in improving health. Interestingly, Jeffrey Epstein, who met with Gates on numerous occasions, also contributed significant funds to gut microbiome research.

Gates’ heavy involvement in both food production and vaccine development isn’t coincidental. It’s part of a broader vision that merges the two worlds, a concept that becomes most evident when you look at initiatives like edible vaccines. This blending of food and medicine sounds revolutionary, promising a streamlined way to deliver health interventions. But it also brings unsettling questions.

Who controls this supply chain, and who decides which treatments are slipped into our food? Embedding medicine in our meals could just as easily make us sicker and more compliant. Maybe that’s the point.

Microbial malfeasance

In this interview with Bild, one of Germany’s largest media outlets, Gates spoke about the critical “relationship between the microbiome of mothers and the future of children.”

He warns that disruptions in both the intestinal and vaginal microbiomes can have severe outcomes. An imbalanced vaginal microbiome, he argues, is linked to stillbirths and premature births, while a disrupted intestinal microbiome can heighten susceptibility to diseases like HIV.

According to Gates, these imbalances drive malnutrition in children, not due to a lack of food but because chronic intestinal inflammation impairs growth and development.

Gates isn’t wrong to highlight the microbiome’s impact on health — but let’s not forget, he’s not a medical doctor (yes, they’re often wrong too). Still, should someone with no formal medical training be meddling in such delicate areas of health? Of course not. And take a look at the man — would you really take health advice from someone who looks like he’d slip a disc opening a jar of pickles?

In his Bild interview, Gates leaned hard into his devotion to putting children on the path to proper growth and long-term health. How noble.

Edible vaccines — an emerging focus for Gates — could become the bridge linking his vast investments in food production and vaccine development, merging nutrition and immunization into one potent tool.

Good for Gates, who’ll no doubt be one of the elites wielding this tool. The rest of us may regret not paying attention sooner.

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A union representing staffers at the Democratic National Committee released an angry statement excoriating the DNC firing staffers with little notice and no severance pay despite raising a billion dollars in the election.

The DNC Staff Union posted the statement about the layoffs from Wednesday and made demands of the DNC in expectation of further layoffs after the astounding election losses.

‘DNC leadership refuses to disclose to the DNC Staff Union the full extent of these layoffs and whether additional cuts are planned.’

“The Democratic National Committee is facing the fallout of callous and short-sighted mismanagement by senior leadership,” the statement read. “Starting Wednesday night, permanent employees were notified of their termination, effective Friday and with no severance pay. DNC leadership refuses to disclose to the DNC Staff Union the full extent of these layoffs and whether additional cuts are planned. These cuts go far beyond typical campaign turnover and impact employees who were previously told their positions would be retained after the election.”

The union went on to criticize the DNC for raising more than a billion dollars for the campaign before firing employees.

“Despite record-breaking fundraising, the DNC failed to provide any financial support to those who have tirelessly served the Democratic Party and its mission,” it said in part.

“The DNC staff is proud of the values that our party stands for,” the statement continued. “We want to make it clear, however, that the principles we champion on the national stage have been disregarded in our own workplace. The process of regaining the trust of the American people must start with living our party’s values.”

The union demanded that the DNC leadership align its actions with its principles by offering severance pay and addressing the staff “honestly and transparency.”

The Harris-Walz campaign has been under intense scrutiny after some reports indicated the campaign had ended in nearly $20 million worth of debt after spending more than a billion dollars on lavish parties just to lose control of two branches of government.

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Monday that Democrats could not count ballots that were undated or misdated in their recount for one of the state’s U.S. Senate seats.

Sen. Bob Casey, the Democratic incumbent, refused to concede the election and pressed for a recount despite numerous news outlets declaring Republican challenger Dave McCormick the winner. The official margin of victory narrowly falls within the 0.5% cutoff for a recount, though many have called on Casey to concede to save taxpayers money and based on the long-shot odds of a challenge.

‘The Pennsylvania Supreme Court rightfully struck down the flagrantly lawless campaign by Bob Casey and his scumbag lawyer, Marc Elias, to undermine the will of the voters and steal a Senate seat.’

“Senator-Elect McCormick’s lead is insurmountable, which the AP made clear,” said McCormick’s communications director, Elizabeth Gregory. “A recount will be a waste of time & taxpayer money, but it is Casey’s prerogative. McCormick knows what it’s like to lose an election & is sure Senator Casey will eventually reach the right conclusion.”

Critics were even more outraged when Democratic officials in some counties began counting undated or misdated ballots in their recount, an apparent violation of Pennsylvania election law.

The court quoted a 2023 election law in its decision.

“The Election Code commands absentee and mail-in electors to date the declaration that appears upon ballot return envelopes, and failure to comply with that command renders a ballot invalid as a matter of Pennsylvania law,” the section read.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley denounced Democrats after the ruling.

“Following our latest RNC lawsuit, today the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled yet again that undated ballots CANNOT BE COUNTED. No more excuses. Election officials in Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia, and other counties have absolutely no choice but to reject illegal ballots,” wrote Whatley on X.

“We will hold them to it. Protect The Vote!” he concluded.

The National Committee of Senate Republicans was far more acerbic in its fiery response.

“The Pennsylvania Supreme Court rightfully struck down the flagrantly lawless campaign by Bob Casey and his scumbag lawyer, Marc Elias, to undermine the will of the voters and steal a Senate seat weeks after the election was called,” the organization wrote on social media. “[Pennsylvania Gov.] Josh Shapiro, [Sen.] John Fetterman, and national Democrats must call on Casey to concede and stop undermining faith in our elections.”

Bucks County Commissioner Diane Marseglia, one of the commissioners who reportedly voted to continue counting the ballots, did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

Republicans elected Sen. John Thune of South Dakota on Wednesday as their majority leader when they take control of the Senate in January.

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