The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily handed California a major loss related to the liberal state’s scheme to advance the transgender agenda in public schools.

In a 6-3 ruling on Monday, the court reinstated a lower court order that blocked the California notification policies after the Thomas More Society filed a lawsuit at the behest of a group of Catholic parents.

‘California built a wall of secrecy between parents and their own children, and the Supreme Court just tore it down.’

California state law prohibits rules requiring teachers and other school officials to notify parents if their children change their personal pronouns or gender expression at school.

The Thomas More Society issued a statement praising the temporary ruling.

“The Court found that California’s secret transition regime likely violates parents’ rights under both the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the statement reads.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta argued in favor of the California policies in 2023.

“By enacting policies that forcibly out students against their own wishes, school districts violate these fundamental protections and risk breaching their obligation to serve these and all students equally,” he wrote.

“Research shows that protecting a transgender student’s ability to make choices about how and when to inform others is critical to their well-being,” reads a statement from Bonta’s office, “as transgender students are exposed to high levels of harassment and mistreatment at school and in their communities when those environments are not supportive of their gender identity.”

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“No more can bureaucrats secretly facilitate a child’s gender transition while shutting out parents,” said Thomas More Society Executive Vice President Peter Breen.

“California built a wall of secrecy between parents and their own children, and the Supreme Court just tore it down,” he added. “This groundbreaking ruling will protect parents’ rights to raise their children as they see fit for years to come.”

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The Pentagon said that Iran is getting pummeled by suicide drones using technology that Iran itself developed and used against U.S. allies, including Ukraine.

The U.S. attacked leaders and commanders of the Iranian regime in a joint operation with Israeli forces beginning Saturday morning. President Donald Trump said Monday that the operation was planned to last four weeks but that the military was prepared to continue “for as long as necessary.”

‘These low-cost drones, modeled after Iran’s Shahed drones, are now delivering American-made retribution.’

“CENTCOM’s Task Force Scorpion Strike — for the first time in history — is using one-way attack drones in combat during Operation Epic Fury. These low-cost drones, modeled after Iran’s Shahed drones, are now delivering American-made retribution,” reads a statement from U.S. Central Command.

The LUCAS drone was developed by Arizona-based SpektreWorks and costs about $35,000 each, which is significantly less than other options.

The use of the Iranian Shahed suicide drones by Russia against Ukraine is one of the many reasons Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy endorsed the U.S.-led strike against Iran.

He also warned that the U.S. must act decisively against Iran or risk depleting military supplies.

“It is fair to give the Iranian people a chance to rid themselves of a terrorist regime and to guarantee security for all nations that have suffered from terror originating in Iran,” Zelenskyy said.

“It is important to prevent the war from expanding. It is important that the United States is acting decisively,” he added.

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Zelenskyy said Russia fired over 57,000 Shahed-style drones into Ukraine.

Trump also refused to rule out the possibility of U.S. troops on the ground in Iran.

“I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground — like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it,” the president said.

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While a viral video of Kash Patel putting a call from President Trump on speaker in the locker room after the U.S. men’s hockey team’s historic win at the Olympics had Americans everywhere proud and celebrating, some Americans took it a little differently.

Former U.S. women’s soccer player Megan Rapinoe criticized the idea of teams engaging with the president, suggesting that she never would have allowed him or Patel into a locker room during her leadership tenure.

“I can’t believe … how people have such a, like, a lack of self-preservation. But if you don’t think you’re in threat, then you’re not going to preserve. So they obviously didn’t think that having Kash Patel or having Trump on the phone was a threat, so they’re cool with it,” Rapinoe said on “A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe.”

“But that’s why you don’t put yourself in this position, because to have the president of the United States on the phone … you get yourself wrapped in this moment. So, for me, the choice point is, like, I would have never, as a captain or a leader on my team … I think that would have been clear to our staffs and to the larger organization and, like, support staff, those people would never been allowed in our locker room,” she continued.

“When did we divide the country so bad that we don’t even have the American backing — the support of America — to go to the Oval Office or to the president of the United States? I don’t remember any sports team denying —because of policy — going to the White House for America,” Coach J.B. tells Whitlock.

“Now, it’s because they hate this man so badly that they’ll put that over America. It blows my mind. I’m so shocked. I don’t hate nothing, Jason,” he adds.

“She might be the captain,” Steve Kim chimes in. “Who the hell made her the boss?”

“I don’t think Kash Patel or Donald Trump would want to come into that locker room. I don’t think they would watch your games. I don’t think they care enough. Let’s have some perspective. I think they care about certain sports or certain teams. Yours ain’t one of them,” he adds.

Whitlock isn’t impressed either.

“It’s so childish,” he tells J.B and Kim.

“It’s the president of the United States,” he adds.

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While BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales has pointed out many problems with both the legal and illegal immigration systems, there is one way immigration is affecting Americans that she does not believe is talked about enough.

“One of the ones that I don’t think anyone thought about that is now a big problem are these illegals getting commercial driver’s licenses and operating, you know, 18-wheelers, which is kind of a problem,” Gonzales says, pointing out a few recent tragic accidents caused by these illegal aliens that ended the lives of American citizens.

And Frontlines TPUSA reporter Savanah Hernandez is on the front lines exposing it.

“We ended up finding CDL schools located in places such as Ohio and Michigan that were advertising CDL programs in six different languages including Arabic, Somali, and Hindi. We found reviews of students written in broken English or sometimes in a completely different language stating that they were able to get their CDL in just 10 days,” Hernandez said in her TPUSA documentary on the subject.

“Videos of recent graduates were also posted advertising their new CDL certificates, oftentimes in different languages. And one school in Ohio was even offering free housing to people on TikTok, writing, ‘Ohio brother, we have house for stay for free,’” Hernandez reported.

“I have worked the most extensively on this project than I ever have on another project in my life because I really thought I was just going to ask the question, ‘How are illegals getting CDLs’ and get a simple answer,” she tells Gonzales.

“But what I uncovered was an [alleged] web of fraud so vast that we are talking the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration relaxing regulations so that these migrants could open CDL schools more easily. We’re talking PPP loan fraud. We are talking, I mean, every single aspect of trucking being completely overrun by illegal immigrants or sometimes legal immigrants who are importing people in to undercut the American trucker and the American trucking business creating the unsafe environments that we have today,” she explains.

Before all the regulations were relaxed, there were about 2,100 CDL schools nationwide.

“After the FMCSA, which again is tasked with federal motor carrier safety, after they relaxed that, the CDL school jumped up to 32,000 nationwide,” Hernandez says.

“It’s crazy because these migrants have created an entire ecosystem, right? So basically, the way the migrants get over here is by being sponsored by a trucking company, which by the way, is also migrant owned. They get sponsored by a migrant trucking company. They go to a migrant CDL school. They work for said trucking company,” she continues.

There are also issues with DOT numbers, which “anybody can very easily get.”

“And what these migrants do is once they bring people over here, they have them apply for a DOT number. Now that DOT number is supposed to be registered to one trucking company. And let’s say your trucking company gets into a crash, right? You’re tied to that number, and all of your other trucks are tied to that number,” Hernandez explains.

“Well these migrants have registered sometimes to hundreds of DOT numbers and then they just switch out the number, and the trucks are on the road the same exact day as that trucking crash has happened,” she continues, adding, “and it’s why we are seeing such a huge uptick in these horrific semi crashes, specifically with illegal immigrants or migrants across the U.S.”

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Video of an apparent interaction between a Kuwaiti citizen and a U.S. Air Force pilot who ejected from an F-15 fighter jet went viral online.

Three U.S. military jets were shot down from the sky in Kuwait, and reports initially assumed they were downed by Iran’s military forces. U.S. Central Command later indicated the incidents were the result of “friendly fire” from Kuwaiti air defenses.

‘You’re safe, you’re safe. … Thank you for helping us!’

The video shows the perspective of the Kuwaiti walking up to the soldier, who smiles as the man greets her and reassures her she is in friendly hands.

“You’re fine? Really? Do you need something to help you?” the man asks.

“No, I’m OK,” she replies.

“No problem, you’re safe, you’re safe. You’re safe,” he repeats. “Everything good? No problem.”

“Thank you for helping us!” he adds.

Video of the amicable interaction was posted to social media, where it went viral.

The U.S. military said six Air Force members parachuted from the jets to safety and survived. The fighters were a part of Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S. and Israeli military attack on Iran.

All of the aircrew are in stable condition, according to U.S. Central Command. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Dan Caine confirmed the incident during a press briefing on Monday.

“Kuwait has acknowledged this incident, and we are grateful for the efforts of the Kuwaiti defense forces and their support in this ongoing operation,” reads a statement from CENTCOM.

Jeffrey Fischer, a former U.S. Air Force colonel, told Military.com that it was “nearly impossible for Iran to reach that far with an air defense missile and score a hit against a fighter jet.”

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The incident remains under investigation.

Kuwait was at the center of the controversial U.S. military intervention in the Middle East after Iraq invaded the small oil ally of the U.S. in 1990. President George H.W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, which eventually led to the 2002 invasion under George W. Bush after the 9/11 attack.

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An artificial intelligence company has one philosopher in charge of teaching its chatbot right and wrong, and now her views are everywhere.

That person is Scottish immigrant Amanda Askell, who holds degrees from Oxford and NYU. Askell is in charge of the moral leanings of Claude, the state-of-the-art chatbot from Anthropic — the leading AI company Trump banned from government work for “radical left, woke” politics.

Despite the White House crackdown, however, Anthropic’s products are dominating the tech sector and transforming the economic landscape, and Askell’s indoctrination of Claude is spreading through the internet as its powerful applications become an emerging industry standard.

‘Respecting others’ values can also be harmful. Navigating this is hard.’

Askell, formerly MacAskill from a previous marriage (since divorced), is the woman who teaches chatbot Claude how to be “a good person.”

According to the Wall Street Journal, Askell is instructing the AI on how to read subtle cues and to avoid being a bully or “doormat,” and she compares her work to that of a parent raising a child.

To that end, X owner Elon Musk — who is indeed a competitor with his own xAI — criticized Askell as the company’s choice.

“Those without children lack a stake in the future,” Musk wrote in February.

Askell replied, “I think it depends on how much you care about people in general vs. your own kin. I do intend to have kids, but I still feel like I have a strong personal stake in the future because I care a lot about people thriving, even if they’re not related to me.”

Musk shut her down, though, stating that Askell cannot understand his point until she has a child, “anymore than someone who has never experienced true love can understand love.”

Askell is not shy about bringing her philosophical or political leanings into the public spotlight for open discourse, and although she displays obvious liberal leanings, it would be hard to label her as unwilling to engage in debate.

She has often discussed ethics and morals of AI bots throughout her time with OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly posing questions about navigating cultural viewpoints for a worldwide product.

“It’s easy to say you want technology to respect local values when those values are unobjectionable,” she wrote in 2021. “It’s harder when they include things like persecuting gay people. Imposing your values can be harmful. Respecting others’ values can also be harmful. Navigating this is hard.”

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Also in 2021, Askell praised the vaccination rate in San Francisco. Four years later, she seemed to call out some of the vaccine side effects:

“Getting a covid vaccine is like a surreal religious experience of chills and pain and fever dreams where you feel like you’ve lived a decade in a single night and gazed into something absurd and otherworldly. As a bonus, it also makes you less susceptible to covid,” she claimed.

She even referred to her dosage, albeit jokingly, as the “mind-bending RNA vaccine.”

Askell has also engaged in discussions surrounding reparations and said she supported governments paying off the debt for those of certain ethnicities.

“It seems more sensible for governments to underwrite some amount of debt from historically disadvantaged groups like black people in the US,” she claimed. “That way you try to prevent social harms from perpetuating without legislating the burden onto a specific industry.”

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Askell has also frequently discussed immigration, and in addition to saying how difficult the process has been for her in the United States, she has noted an increased intolerance for illegal immigration from both sides of the political aisle.

“Legal and illegal immigration seem to basically be entirely different policy domains and I’m not sure why they get lumped together,” she wrote on X in late 2024. “Americans dislike illegal immigration but are surprisingly supportive of legal immigration.”

Askell’s views are now being disseminated throughout the world through OpenClaw (formerly known as Clawdbot), an open-source AI bot that users are downloading for their own use to do their own bidding. This can happen locally on one’s computer, be unleashed online, or both.

It is, to borrow a ’90s analogy, the first burned CD of the AI chatbot world, based on Anthropic’s Claude; and now it is everywhere, perpetuating Askell’s views.

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The image of the undershirt of the shooting suspect in Austin who was gunned down by police suggests that he may have been motivated by the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran.

Two people were killed and another 14 were injured when 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne allegedly opened fire early on Sunday morning at Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden. Police tracked him down and shot him to death, according to the Austin Police Department.

The sweatshirt is stained with blood.

Images of the suspect showed that he wore a hoodie proclaiming the wearer to be the “Property of Allah,” but another image after Diagne was taken down points to Iran for the possible motivation.

The image, obtained by CBS News and posted on social media, shows a gloved hand, likely of a police officer, lifting the suspect’s sweatshirt to show another shirt with designs from the Iranian flag. The sweatshirt is stained with blood.

FBI agent Alex Doran had previously said “there were indicators … on the subject and in his vehicle that indicate potential nexus to terrorism.”

Police said Diagne first shot at patrons outside the bar from the window of his vehicle. He then parked his SUV and fired a rifle at unsuspecting pedestrians. Police fatally shot him after encountering him on East 6th Street.

A New York Times report indicated that a Quran was found inside the suspect’s vehicle. Investigators also found an Iranian flag and pictures of Iranian leaders after conducting a search warrant on Diagne’s residence in Pflugerville.

CBS also reported that the suspect had dealt with mental health issues.

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Diagne migrated to the U.S. on a B-2 tourist visa in March 2000 and became naturalized in April 2013 after seven years of being married to an American citizen, according to the Department of Homeland Security. He was originally from Senegal.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) made reference to the suspect’s alleged terror ties.

“To anyone who thinks about using the current conflict in the Middle East to threaten Texans or our critical infrastructure, understand this clearly: Texas will respond with decisive and overwhelming force to protect our state,” the governor wrote.

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