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A premier legal team focusing on religious and other rights across America is warning the Houston bus authority that it is violating the U.S. Constitution with its scheme to censor the speech of a Christian.
It is the American Center for Law and Justice that confirmed it has sent a warning letter to the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County.
It concerns the attack on Howard Camp.
For nearly two years he "has ministered at an outdoor Houston bus terminal. His ministry is simple: preach, pray with people, hand out bottled water and food, offer encouragement, and share the hope of Christ with anyone who wants to hear it. No fees. No obstruction. No disruption. Just ministry."
Then came Sept. 19. Officials dispatched authority police to order him to get a "permit."
"When he questioned why he needed government permission to share his faith in a public space, the officers declared the bus terminal 'private property.' Moments later, they handcuffed him, detained him, and issued a criminal trespass warning. They told him that if he ever came back to preach the Gospel again, he would be arrested. They never cited a single rule he violated. They never gave him a written citation. And to this day, the trespass warning remains in effect," the ACLJ explained.
The legal team's new demand letter insists that METRO retract the unconstitutional trespass warning and restore Camp's First Amendment rights.
Explains the letter, "Mr. Camp has already suffered irreparable injury as a result of METRO's unconstitutional actions, and he continues to suffer ongoing harm so long as the trespass warning remains in effect. 'The loss of First Amendment freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.' Mr. Camp has been effectively banished from a public forum where he has a constitutional right to speak. He has been threatened with arrest and criminal prosecution if he returns to exercise his rights. This chilling effect on his speech is a direct and ongoing violation of the First Amendment."
The ACLJ noted that the Constitution doesn't simply vanish if someone steps onto government-owned transit property.
"Public sidewalks, streets, and outdoor terminals are places where Americans have always been free to speak, hand out literature, and share their faith. Religious speech lies at the very heart of what the First Amendment protects," the legal team explained.
And METRO cannot simply call the terminal "private property."
"Even if METRO wanted to regulate sound amplification, it must do so through clear, content-neutral rules – not by allowing officers to silence disfavored speech whenever they please. METRO has no such rule for outdoor areas. This was not policy enforcement. It was censorship," the report charged.
"If it can ban Howard Camp from a public bus terminal because it doesn't like what he's saying, then any citizen – Christian or not – can be silenced the moment their message becomes inconvenient. That is not how the First Amendment works," the ACLJ said.
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A morning news anchor with a voluptuous look is going viral for reading comments about her appearance in her own serious broadcasting voice.
"She's like the only fat 9 I've ever seen," said Carissa Codel of Fox 49 in Missouri as she read one comment in a series of videos she created. "I'm rare. That's what I get out of that," she reacted.
Other comments from viewers that Codel read on the air include:
"You look like you could survive a harsh winter."
"I ain't never worked as hard as them ankles."
"Damn girl, you look like I'm about to get featured on your news channel."
"Why have fake news when you can have cake news?"
"She's thicker than zoo glass."
"Dayuum Gurl, I want you to put a hurting on me like you do those midnight snacks."
"Brick wall, more like brick house, and I'm looking to move in."
"She gots enough muffin tops to start two bakeries."
"Girl, look like you was raised on a donkey farm."
"Fe fi foe yum."
"Built for breeding. Tonight at 5."
"Her parents gotta be beavers. Cause she's built like damnnnnnnnnnnnn."
Codel, who stands at 5-foot-3 inches weighing 180 pounds, has actually dropped 55 pounds within the last three years.
"I find it so funny, like, 'Oh you think I'm big now, you should have seen me back then," she told the New York Post. "I know who I am, and I know what I look like," she said.
"It doesn't affect me at all. I think that they're hilarious. … I don't put up the extremely mean ones, but I like the insults that are very creative," she said. "My family is very thick-skinned, I've never been bothered by a lot of that."
The anchor of "Ozark's First" began creating the videos in August, with one from October collecting more than 5 million views on Instagram, where Codel has 222,000 followers.
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PALM BEACH, Florida – As JPMorgan Chase Bank is under investigation by the state of Florida for alleged coordination with the Biden Department of Justice and Operation Arctic Frost, the chairman of the company is admitting to debanking certain customers, but says it has nothing to do with their political or religious affiliations.
"We do debank them," said JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon who appeared on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel.
"People have to grow up here and stop making up things and stuff like that. I can't talk about an individual account.
"We do not debank people for religious or political affiliations. We do debank them. They have religious and political affiliations. We debank people who are Democrats, we debank people who are Republicans, we debank religious folks. Never was that for that reason."Dimon was responding to comments last month from Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes who said his company was debanked by JPMorgan Chase.
"When the Arctic Frost went after our bank records at Trump Media, that's inexplicable because we didn't exist," Nunes told Bartiromo on Nov. 9. "So what reason did they have to go after us? And I've seen Jamie Dimon and others at JPMorgan say this over and over again that they don't debank people for political reasons. Well, then why the hell did you debank Trump Media?"
Dimon on Sunday explained: "I don't like debanking people. We live under very strict rules and regulations and requirements. And to protect the country and we have to report things to the government. We're required to report things to the government. I can't even tell you when we do it."
He said he wants to change the rules by which banks are currently bound.
"I actually applaud the Trump administration which is tying to say the debanking's bad, and let's change the rules. Well, damn it, I've been asking to change the rules now for 15 years. So change the rules!" Dimon exclaimed.
"And that's why a lot of this stuff takes place. It is really customer unfriendly. We're debanking people 'cause of suspected things or negative media or all of these various things."
He continued: "We don't give information to the government just because they ask. We're subpoenaed. We're required by court to give it to the government. And I've been following subpoenas with this administration, the last administration, the administration before that and the one before that. And I don't agree with a lot of it. The government does a lot of things that get angry with banks."
"Let's just take a deep breath and fix the problems as opposed to blame someone who's put in that position."
"I would tell the government, 'If we see something that might possibly be bad, we'll report it to you, and you decide.' Why do we have to decide? That's the position we're put in."
When asked if corporate America was being asked to do the government's dirty work, Dimon replied: "Democratic, Republican governments have come after us both. So let's not act like this is just one side doing this."
"This has been going for a long time. And we should stop militarizing the government in that kind of way."
Last month, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the launch of an official investigation into JPMorgan Chase Bank in connection with Operation Arctic Frost, as the Biden administration sought phone records of political enemies.
"It's come to our attention that JPMorgan debanked Trump Media Group, a Florida-based company, right before the business went public," Uthmeier said. "This is a crucial time for any company, a time where you cannot afford to lose your bank."
Uthmeier also claimed JPMorgan sought large amounts of information from Trump Media unrelated to its business practices and may have shared sensitive data with Biden's DOJ without probable cause.
"This is wrong. We will not tolerate it, and we will hold them accountable," he added.
"Here in Florida, we've passed legislation to protect our consumers from wrongful debanking, and we will stand by our consumers," he said.
As WorldNetDaily reported in January, Congress is now investigating the debanking of Americans who hold conservative political views.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky, wondered at the time: "Are these bank examiners with a wink and a nod saying don't let this person bank at your bank?"
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President Trump presented the honorees of this year's Kennedy Center awards their medallions in an Oval Office cermony Saturday.
Donning a tuxedo, Trump presented the Tiffany-designed medals to the previously announced honoress: George Strait, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Crawford, Gloria Gaynor and the rock band Kiss.
Trump will be the first president in history to host the awards show, which will be taped and broadcast on CBS later this month.
During the Oval Office ceremony, he made a prediction about his upcoming performance and got a dig in targeting one of his least favorite TV hosts.
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President Trump Saturday took aim at another "fake news" reporter, this time CNN's Kaitlan Collins.
Trump posted that the journalist is "stupid and nasty" after she asked why the budget for the new White House ballroom had increased.
Wrote Trump: "Caitlin Collin's [sic] of Fake News CNN, always Stupid and Nasty, asked me why the new Ballroom was costing more money than originally thought one year ago. I said because it is going to be double the size, and the quality of finishes and interiors has been brought to the highest level. Also, the column SPAN has been substantially increased for purposes of viewing.
"It is actually under budget and ahead of schedule, as my jobs always are. It's just much bigger and more beautiful than originally planned. Interestingly, and seldom reported, there are no taxpayer dollars involved. It is being fully paid for by private donations. FAKE NEWS CNN, and the guy who runs the whole corrupt operation that owns it, is one of the worst in the business. Their ratings are so low that they're not even counted or relevant anymore. MAGA!!!"
The president has taken flack recently for name-calling directed at mostly female reporters. It is not clear if he misspelled Collins' first name purposely.
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A foundation commentary has credited a Japanese lawmaker with saying "what the West won't." And that is that a nation must not rewrite its laws to accommodate Muslims.
The stunning verdict was unleashed in a statement made by Mizuho Umemure, a member of Japan's upper house.
The question arose because Muslims there, in a nation dominated by Shinto and Buddhism, are insisting on having more land for their burial locations.
The island nation already has a 99.9% cremation rate for several reasons, the scarcity of land, the possibility of hygiene problems when earthquakes churn up burial grounds and expose bodies, and more.
She suggested that Japanese traditions must be the priority and if someone dies in Japan, but wants a particular burial, the body can be repatriated to a home country.
A statement at the RAIR Foundation noted her dedication.
"Japan's famously reserved political culture erupted in rare bluntness this week when Mizuho Umemura, a member of Japan's upper house and rising figure in the Sanseitō party, delivered a firm rejection of expanding Muslim burial plots in Japan. Her remarks, now going viral, came during a November 27, 2025, session of the Health, Labour and Welfare Committee," it explained.
The report added, "She said openly what most Japanese politicians avoid acknowledging: Japan's funeral practices are not simply 'tradition' — they are rooted in public health, national history, and cultural continuity. And they will not be rewritten because of foreign demands. Within hours, millions of Japanese praised her for saying what they feel but cannot express under modern speech restrictions: Japan will not be bullied into changing its identity."
She noted Muslim calls for "dedicated burial sites" but that raises questions of public health, land use and social harmony. Further, she said, "cultural" agendas actually impact Japanese society as a whole."
'The problem with existing society and Muslim people – what happens in Europe and America – we have to learn from it," she warned.
The commentary noted that Miyagi Prefecture in Japan recently rejected plans for a Muslim burial site, and while, "media spin portrayed it as 'xenophobic,'" the objections aligned with important factors.
Those include public-health concerns, environmental impact, and a refusal to alter local norms for a religious minority.
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The grand jury transcripts from federal sex trafficking cases involving Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell, have been cleared to be made public.
The Los Angeles Times confirmed that U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith cited a new law specifically authorizing those records to be released in issuing an order.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump, and compels the Department of Justice, FBI and prosecutors to, by Dec. 19, release the boxes of material that accumulated while investigating Epstein.
The DOJ wants documents from three Epstein cases: a 2006-2007 Florida grand jury review of his actions, his 2019 sex trafficking case in New York, and the 2021 sex trafficking case involving Ghislaine Maxwell, which also developed in New York.
According to a Fox report, the new federal law overrides the Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) which provides for grand jury secrecy.
The records will be released on the orders of the DOJ.
According to the Gateway Pundit, the new law applies to "unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials that relate to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell."
Congress overwhelmingly supported the bill, and President Trump explained, "We have nothing to hide, and it's time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat 'Shutdown.'"
Trump previously has called for action.
"Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged by the Trump Justice Department in 2019 (Not the Democrats!), was a lifelong Democrat, donated Thousands of Dollars to Democrat Politicians, and was deeply associated with many well-known Democrat figures, such as Bill Clinton (who traveled on his plane 26 times), Larry Summers (who just resigned from many Boards, including Harvard), Sleazebag Political Activist Reid Hoffman, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (who asked Epstein to donate to his Campaign AFTER Epstein was charged), Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, and many more."
He continued, "Perhaps the truth about these Democrats, and their associations with Jeffrey Epstein, will soon be revealed, because I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! As everyone knows, I asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to pass this Bill in the House and Senate, respectively. Because of this request, the votes were almost unanimous in favor of passage. At my direction, the Department of Justice has already turned over close to fifty thousand pages of documents to Congress. Do not forget — The Biden Administration did not turn over a SINGLE file or page related to Democrat Epstein, nor did they ever even speak about him.
"Democrats have used the 'Epstein' issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories, including THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL TAX CUT BILL, Strong Borders, No Men in Women's Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden's Record Setting Inflation, lowering Prices, Biggest Tax and Regulation Cuts in History, ending EIGHT Wars, rebuilding our Military, knocking out Iran's Nuclear capability, getting Trillions of Dollars INVESTED in the U.S.A., creating the 'HOTTEST' Country anywhere in the World, and even delivering a HUGE DEFEAT to the Democrats on the recent Shutdown Disaster."
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It seems that America's northern neighbor is far from a freedom-loving, tolerant nation.
In fact, if you have the wrong beliefs, and refuse government demands that you apologize for them, you'll be in a lot of trouble. Cuffed and arrested, in fact.
This is known because of the recent arrest of Pastor Derek Reimer, who refused to comply with a court order that he apologize for his own personal opinions on drag queens and the LGBT lifestyle choices people have made.
He earlier was "convicted" of harassment for objecting to a drag queen event that focused on grooming children.
Commenters on social media said:
"Shame on Canada."
"Canada sounds like a fun place."
And, "It's embarrassing to be Canadian now."
According to a Not the Bee report, apparently jailing people who don't adopt the government's religious beliefs is "what they do in Calgary."
"Yup, the court ordered Pastor Derek Reimer to apologize for a 2023 incident where he 'intimidated' a librarian by protesting an event at the library where men in lingerie were reading to children. Keep in mind, he had already been on a year-long house arrest which was set to end next month when he refused to apologize. However, this breached his sentence conditions."
According to the report, Reimer explained, "I went into my freedom of conscience and a thorough study and my understanding of it, mixed with freedom of expression and religion, it explained and constituted that you have to express to the court your deeply held religious views of why this is a violation of your conscience and why you can't do it.
"I kept going, and she got up and left her own courtroom, and the whole gallery of supporters erupted into applause."
The report noted Reimer had explained his own probation officer, Santander Parmer, was biased, after the court officer stunningly confessed he was working to "break down" Reimer's beliefs and supplant them with government ideologies.
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A student in a battle with a transgender teaching assistant at the University of Oklahoma has won.
The school has agreed to discard the TA's failing grade on an assignment done by the student.
The Daily Mail said student Samantha Fulnecky, a psychology student, forced the university "into stunning U-turn."
She got a zero grade on the assignment for citing the Bible in the opinion-based project.
She said, in an interview with the Oklahoman, that the assignment will have no effect on her class average, a result that followed her appeal to the school about the situation.
She charged she was targeted by religious discrimination.
School officials then confirmed there is "no academic harm to the student."
The controversy was over the teaching assistant's insistence that students parrot leftist ideologies about transgenderism.
Fulnecky had been ordered to respond with her opinions about another article on society's "gender expectations."
She emphasized the biblical teaching that there are two genders, calling the idea that there are more "demonic."
"Fulnecky noted the Bible supported her belief that eliminating gender would prove to be 'detrimental' because it would put humans 'farther from God's original plan,'" the report said.
The teaching assistant, Mel Curth, claimed to be offended by Fulnecky's opinions, and charged that in an opinion piece, Fulnecky "should have cited 'empirical evidence,'" the report said.
Curth punished Fulnecky with a score of zero out of 25 points.
Fulnecky said, "To be what I think is clearly discriminated against for my beliefs and using freedom of speech, and especially for my religious beliefs, I think that's just absurd."
The governor called for an investigation, because the result was "deeply concerning."
Fulnecky was awarded a Citation of Recognition from the Oklahoma House of Representatives' 98th District for "speaking from a foundation of truth," Rep. Gabe Woolley announced.
WND reported when Woolley confirmed he was getting vicious and lethal threats after defending Fulnecky.
Woolley shared the audio of one menacing message, stating: "Hi, this is a message for Rep. Gabe Woolley. Could you please pass this message on to him? Tell him to put a gun in his mouth and pull the trigger for all of our sakes. Thank you. Bye."
Curth, a man pretending to be a woman, had openly denigrated the student's references to the Bible and faith, and instead insisted she should adopt the teacher's ideologies. The teacher has since been removed from the classroom, as WorldNetDaily reported.
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The Chuck Schumer-led Democrats in Congress, following up on their failed weeks-long shutdown of the U.S. government to try to force taxpayers to pay billions of dollars for Obamacare subsidies, have created a new plan to accomplish their goal.
But in reality the "designed to fail" agenda is all about messaging, allowing Democrats to claim Republicans don't want to extend those taxpayer subsidies.
In fact, they don't.
But the problem was created by Democrats alone, and the GOP doesn't feel an urgent need to bail them out.
The issue is that Democrats in the majority then created subsidies, paid for by taxpayers, to Obamacare premiums during the COVID-19 panic. The Democrats scheduled them to expire at the end of this month.
The result, as they are not the majority now and cannot simply extend their largesse, is that those forced into the Obamacare program are facing huge premium increases.
The Schumer Shutdown, which ended only just ended, was about forcing the GOP to raid taxpayers' pockets for some $1.5 trillion for those subsidies. Democrats failed, but now a new report at the Washington Examiner explains their latest.
They have plans to force a vote next week on their idea of extending those expensive subsidies, draining for taxpayers, for three years.
They are pushing the plan even while opposing bipartisan suggestions to address the problem.
The report said that has left Republicans charging the Democrats are in an "unserious attempt to avert skyrocketing out-of-pocket premiums."
What it would do, the report said is, "offer Democrats their latest healthcare messaging opportunity ahead of the 2026 midterm elections."
"It remained unclear whether Republicans, who said Democrats settled on a measure designed to fail, would counterprogram and offer an alternative bill to address health insurance costs," the report explained.
Schumer claimed that Republicans have only one path to work to avoid premium increases, support his agenda.
Republicans have been willing to work on compromise legislation, but they want additional abortion limits, and Democrats have flatly refused to consider that.
GOP members already have proposed shorter extensions, and just minutes before Schumer's announcement, House centrists proposal a bipartisan one-year deal.
"Opting for a more partisan route breathed new fire into Republican accusations that Democrats were insincere about blunting rising costs for most of the 24 million marketplace recipients who are forecasted to leave millions without the ability to afford insurance," the report said.
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said, "This is not an offer that they're trying to get Republican buy-in at all. That's not it. This is complete messaging on their part."