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The U.S. Supreme Court issued a monumental ruling last week protecting the sanctity of women’s sports from trans-identifying men. That decision, however, left open a loophole exploited by pro-trans activists in their lawfare against policies recognizing biological reality.(snip)
But much like in Skrmetti, the B.P.J. majority opinion left a major question unresolved. That is, whether transgender qualifies as a suspect or quasi-suspect class.
As described by Cornell Law School, “Suspect classification refers to a class of individuals who have been historically subject to discrimination” within the law. One of the more prominent examples of suspect class is race.
Nigel Farage has been under extreme pressure from the U.K political apparatus surrounding a £5 million personal donation from a long-term friend Christopher Harborne to pay for a personal security protective detail.
Both the Labour and Conservative political parties in the U.K have been blistering Farage under investigations around this donation, and the subsequent investigations are being used as justifications in attempts to remove him from his position as leader of the Reform Party. Essentially, the British government -writ large- are using all of the mechanisms of government institutions trying to take him down.
President Donald Trump’s favorability ratings have suffered this year as higher oil prices and a persistent armed conflict with Iran have upset many voters. But with energy prices down in recent weeks, and ongoing talks with Iran, Trump may be turning a corner in public opinion, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll suggests.
The national online I&I/TIPP Poll each month asks voters to grade the president’s performance. Voters are asked four questions, starting with: “Overall, is your opinion of Donald Trump generally favorable, generally unfavorable, or are you not familiar enough to to say one way or the other?”
A suspected illegal immigrant who tried to run down an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston on Tuesday morning was shot dead by the agent.
ICE said the incident took place at about 6:50 a.m. Central Time, when ICE agents tried to stop a vehicle “as part of a targeted enforcement operation to arrest an illegal alien,” according to KRIV-TV in Houston.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who was allegedly in the U.S. illegally, was not cooperative, according to ICE.
“From information we are receiving, he rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands, and weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE
UK mom thrown out of supermarket over
what she wore during heat wave: ‘Someone
can untie your top’ replies
what she wore during heat wave: ‘Someone
can untie your top’ replies
A mom of three claimed she was thrown out of a UK supermarket after a male security guard said that her backless top could encourage someone to untie it.
Alixe Galatis, 31, said she was stopped while trying to shop at a Tesco store in Essex, southeast England, with her three children on June 26, when temperatures in the UK reached 99 degrees Fahrenheit amid the country’s heat wave.
The mom of three said she was told she couldn’t enter because of her backless top, which featured thin straps tied at the back,
For all the moral preening about Donald Trump’s character flaws, Democrats have shown in the past few months that there is no character flaw too great for them to endorse a candidate. Except one.
For today’s Democrats, It’s OK to be a communist. To sport a Nazi tattoo. Or to be a serial abuser of women.
Did you call on people to assassinate your opponent? No problem. Lie under oath? So what. Recently suffer a debilitating stroke? Don’t worry, we’ll all look the other way.
There is one and only one thing that Democrats cannot abide.
It's been more than three weeks since Sen. Mitch McConnell was admitted to the hospital, and while questions about his health remain unanswered, we're hearing from the senator's wife for the first time.
In a statement sent to WLKY on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Elaine Chao said: "The secretary was on a long-planned trip in China to support her family's philanthropic endeavors. During the trip, she met with a number of people, including the US ambassador. The Senator's health did not warrant an immediate return to the US.” They added that Chao has since returned from her trip to China and is back in the U.S. Her staff did not say
Rep. Bennie Thompson Urges Voters to Put
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Politics Ahead of Their Children's Financial Future replies
Yesterday, President Trump rang the stock market bell from the Oval Office, and with it launched the Trump Accounts, accounts for American children that will help set them up with a solid financial future. Children born between 2025 and 2028 will get $1,000 as part of the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' that was passed last summer, and some children aged ten and under will get $250 added to their accounts in a private donation from Michael and Susan Dell. Michael Dell is the founder of Dell Technologies. Senator Ted Cruz called the Trump Accounts a 'game changer' for America's kids back in January,
The socialist wave has already crashed well beyond New York City. Now the Democratic Socialists of America is even taking swings at swing states.
The latest far-left darling is Francesca Hong, a leading candidate to win the Democrat primary in the Wisconsin governor’s race.
One might call her the Zohran Mamdani of the Midwest, but there are a few contenders now vying for that title.
Hong has unsurprisingly grabbed hold of the issues that have become hallmarks of the insurgency taking place within the Democratic Party.
She has stood proudly by her “democratic socialist” label, made wealthy people the bogeymen of her campaign (despite a seemingly upper-middle-class constituency), unrepentantly backed the obliteration of U.S.
Democrats might have shouldered Spencer Pratt out of the Los Angeles mayoral race, but they only made him more determined to expose corruption in the city.
Pratt’s new documentary series will expose not only misuses and abuses but outright criminal violations, according to him. As he talks to businessmen, residents, and whistleblowers around L.A., Pratt will show the full political-criminal machine wrecking a major American city. Pratt’s newest video begins with some of his previous comments. “Now that the campaign portion of my mission to save Los Angeles is coming to a close, and I'm moving on to the next, more interesting phase, you have no idea how bad
French President Emmanuel Macron said his country was willing to engage in a “shooting war” with the U.S. earlier this year, according to a report.
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Macron made the decision earlier this year after American forces carried out a precision strike in Venezuela that led to the arrest of former dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Somali American and Muslim community members in Minnesota are raising concerns about safety and Islamophobia after President Donald Trump posted a video showing children at a St. Paul kindergarten graduation ceremony, including several young girls wearing hijabs.
The 14-second clip, originally taken from a livestream of a graduation ceremony at Gateway STEM Academy, a public charter school in St. Paul, appeared on Trump's Truth Social account without a caption. While the president did not add commentary, Somali Minnesotans and Muslim advocacy organizations say the repost amplified online narratives targeting Minnesota's Somali and Muslim communities and has left families concerned about the safety of children and schools.
It became mandatory Tuesday for citizens of the European Union’s 27 member states to allow their cars to track their movements using artificial intelligence.
The European Union’s General Safety Regulation mandated Advanced Driver Distraction Warning (ADDW) systems that track drivers’ body movements, such as eye and head movements, in every new vehicle sold after July 7, according to Access Newswire.
“This is a driver support system,” Martin Krantz, CEO and Founder of Swedish AI company Smart Eye, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. “It’s a life-saving technology. It really helps to prevent accidents. It’s probably gonna be just like with the seat belt and the airbag.”
In a statement this morning, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear requests an official update on Sen. Mitch McConnell's health.
Gov. Beshear is sharing a direct request to Sen. McConnell amid growing concerns over the limited communication with the public about his health and his ability to serve. Sen. McConnell was reportedly hospitalized June 14. “Over the last several weeks, Kentuckians have grown increasingly concerned about the health and well-being of Sen. McConnell. As Governor – and a fellow public official who understands the commitment we’ve made to the people we serve – I am requesting the Senator provide an update on his current health status,” said Gov. Beshear. “Allowing speculation to continue
"They're scum," Donald Trump declared about the regime in Tehran, while speaking at the NATO summit in Turkey. Sometimes, people have to learn the truth the hard way. And the truth that Trump has learned over the last three months is this: You don't negotiate with terrorists. Terrorists do not negotiate in good faith, and forty-seven years of dealing with the Iranian mullahs and the IRGC have proven it every single time.
Trump declared the ceasefire "over" at the same time:
Driving the news: The comments came just hours after the U.S. conducted a new round of strikes on Iran, retaliation for renewed Iranian attacks on
The U.S.-brokered interim ceasefire with Iran is now over. President Donald Trump made the declaration Wednesday, telling reporters at the NATO defence summit in Ankara, Turkey: “These are evil, sick people,” before describing Tehran’s negotiators as scum and a cancer that needs to be excised.
A clearly angry Trump further added he didn’t “want to deal with them any more” after launching overnight strikes on the totalitarian Islamic republic after it attacked commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz., as Breitbart News reported.
The White House is getting a permanent helipad installed on the South Lawn.
President Donald Trump confirmed to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that the White House is getting a granite helipad paid for by Sikorsky Aircraft — a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin — to support the new fleet of helicopters used as Marine One.
A Lockheed Martin spokesperson confirmed the contribution and told Business Insider it was being made to the National Park Service. Trump said the permanent fixture will help protect the South Lawn's grass.
The newer helicopters from Sikorsky are about "two and a half times more powerful than the old ones," Trump said. "When you land
The far-left group Progressive Victory is unveiling a troubling allegation against a potential candidate to replace Democrat Graham Platner in Maine’s U.S. Senate race, alleging that this individual “struck a female colleague with a bottle he threw at her” during a disagreement, corroborated by several witnesses. Platner is facing more than an uphill battle after yet another controversy bubbled up. This time, a woman alleges that Platner broke into her home and sexually assaulted her. Jenny Racicot, 41, the alleged victim, told Politico that she was dating Platner on and off. In 2021,
With the latest allegations against Graham Platner, Democrats in Maine are scrambling to find a candidate to replace him on the ballot this fall.
One name that has been floated is Troy Jackson, a far left Maine Democrat who also ran for governor of the state.
There’s just one problem. There are allegations of assault against a woman by Troy Jackson too. You could not make this up.
Amazingly, the allegations against Jackson were uncovered and published by a leftist group which doesn’t want Democrats to make the same mistake they did with Platner.
Virginia rolled hard toward gun control this year. Never mind that Gov. Abigail Spanberger ran as a moderate, said little to nothing about guns during her campaign, said she was about affordability, and then took office and did nothing about the cost of living. Instead, she tried to redistrict the state--something she expressly said she wouldn't do--and tried to take everyone's guns away. I was ready to hold onto Cam's guns for him if he needed it, but thankfully, that hasn't been necessary.
Part of the reason it's not necessary is because of grandfather clauses thankfully, but another part is that everything Spanberger's tried has blown up in her face spectacularly.
The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil. Those prices are dropping like a rock! In other words, customers are being ‘gouged.’ I have instructed the DOJ to immediately start looking into this. Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I’m seeing!”
That was President Donald Trump on June 24 in a post on Truth Social, stating he had ordered the Justice Department to investigate alleged price gouging at the gas pump, noting oil prices are falling faster than gasoline. The implication is there might be illegal price collusion.
SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100 on Tuesday, 25 days after Elon Musk took the rocket company public.
For millions of Americans with passive funds inside a 401(k), the company that made Musk the first trillionaire in recorded history may soon land inside their retirement account too. SpaceX opened at $150 a share on its first day of trading, moved higher, pulled back, and closed Monday at $160.42. Nasdaq confirmed SpaceX would enter the Nasdaq-100 on July 7.
Funds that track the index will buy the stock. Many of those mutual funds and exchange-
Israel: Rule of Law in Crisis
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Well, it finally happened. The executive branch – Israel's government – has apparently had enough of the activist, self-selected Supreme Court endeavoring to micro-manage policy decisions that have nothing to do with it.
For the first time in Israel's nearly 80-year history, the government announced it would not abide by a Supreme Court ruling.
The reality... is that the Supreme Court is itself guilty of these allegations directed towards the government. The court has ignored existing law, for reasons of its own ideological persuasions, and has led the country to a constitutional crisis entirely of the court's own making.
Nigel Farage has been under extreme pressure from the U.K political apparatus surrounding a £5 million personal donation from a long-term friend Christopher Harborne to pay for a personal security protective detail.
Both the Labour and Conservative political parties in the U.K have been blistering Farage under investigations around this donation, and the subsequent investigations are being used as justifications in attempts to remove him from his position as leader of the Reform Party. Essentially, the British government -writ large- are using all of the mechanisms of government institutions trying to take him down.
To put a stop to the nonsense,