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Another scientific study, published at the direction of President Donald Trump, is breaking ground because now it's been peer-reviewed, and the potential critics were unable to find anything significant to criticize in the results that found there's almost zero medical evidence to support the agenda of putting chemicals in children, or offering them body-mutilating surgeries, when they claim to be transgender.

In a report from the New York Post, it was confirmed that the study, done by the Department of Health and Human Services after Trump issued an executive order that charged U.S. doctors with "maiming" teens with such treatment, was found by experts to have no significant failings or errors.

There were nearly a dozen critics who took on the job of commenting on the study's findings, and none was able to identify a deficiency.

"They were given the chance to show mistakes, show errors. And they were not able to identify any," Dr. Leor Sapir, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and one of the project researchers, confirmed in comments to the Post. "They had some minor comments here and there, but nothing that gets to the main findings about evidence and ethics."

Sapir pointed out that includes a former president of the Endocrine Society, a group that has been a chief proponent of the radical treatments for children.

When the report first was released by Trump last summer, it charged that gender-affirming "treatment" must be brought to an end.

"The subsequent report found that many of the studies that proponents of gender-affirming care use to back their treatments were of 'very low quality,' and that little is really known about the long-term psychological and quality-of-life effects of treatment, along with how often patients regret about undertaking them. The report also noted the UK has banned the use of puberty blockers and other treatments for minors altogether," according to the Post.

The report pointed out, "Exactly what the Trump administration will do with the report remains to be seen, but Sapir said he hopes that the medical community will take a step back from the culture war debate over gender-affirming care and look at the science. 'Let's reassess. At minimum, let's allow for open debate. Let's listen to dissenting perspectives. Let's do rigorous analysis.'"

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A Democrat former mayor and current police sergeant who recently lost a close election for New Jersey State Assembly has been arrested for sexual assault of a teen he met online.

The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office says 44-year-old Andrew LaBruno, the former mayor of Dumont, New Jersey, and current police sergeant in Jersey City, initially chatted with the juvenile on social media before making arrangements to meet up in person.

Prosecutors allege LaBruno then "sexually assaulted and endangered the juvenile" at the victim's home in Englewood while no one else was present. He was reportedly snagged when the teen's father unexpectedly came home.

NorthJersey.com reports: "Before the assault, LaBruno allegedly sprayed an 'unknown substance' into his hand and put it over the juvenile's mouth and nose, causing dizziness, said an affidavit of probable cause.

"He was charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, the Prosecutor's Office said. LaBruno was remanded to the Bergen County jail pending a detention hearing."

His campaign website says he is "married to Meghan LaBruno and has two children … . He is bi-racial and of Italian and Puerto Rican heritage. Andrew was born and raised in Jersey City, where he became a police officer and ultimately a police sergeant. He is currently assigned to the Jersey City Office of Emergency Management."

"As a husband, father, public figure, and first responder, Andrew is committed to his family, town, and his brother and sisters in law enforcement. He strives for the very best and gives it his all," it states.
He had been endorsed by New Jersey's Democrat Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill and reportedly volunteered for "Dumont Pride," a group promoting LGBT pride events in Dumont.

Some online reaction includes:

"More degenerate Dems? So business as usual then."

"Lock him up and spare us the excuses. Title, party, volunteer badge – none of that changes the fact he's responsible for his own crimes."

"This vile sexual deviance was very nearly normalized. Our children are at great risk, having been subjected to it far longer than we knew, and shockingly longer now that we know."

"Gay culture is a lot more cool about sex with children than hetero culture. I remember an old blogging scandal years back featuring a gay guy on a gay forum where the word, 'CHILF' was regularly tossed around & that is just what you think it is."

"The 'thing that never happens' sure happens a lot."

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Multiple media reports indicate that a secret plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war has been drafted and just needs to be agreed to by the warring parties.

Steve Witkoff, President Trump's special envoy, hosted Kirill Dmitriev, an adviser to President Putin, for three days in Florida at the end of October to hammer out a 28-point peace plan.

According to the Financial Times, it demands significant concessions from Ukraine, including recognizing Russian as an official state language and giving up its stockpile of U.S. weapons.
Also part of the still officially secret plan is a requirement that Ukraine half the size of its army and surrenders the Donbas region in the eastern part of the nation.

Ukraine would also grant official status to the local branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, reports the Times of London.

Dmitriev said the Kremlin was likely to accept the plan because "we feel the Russian position is really being heard." He told Axios, which first reported the proposal: "It's happening with the background of Russia definitely having additional successes on the battlefield."

This includes a recent Russian attack on western Ukraine, killing at least 25 people, including children.

The talks between Witkoff and Dmitriev appear to suggest Ukraine and Europe have been frozen out of negotiations. "We don't really care about the Europeans," a White House official told Politico. "It's about Ukraine accepting."

To that end, U.S. Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll arrived in Kiev Wednesday to brief President Zelensky whose administration recently has been rocked by corruption charges.

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Amid the ongoing wars over the failing Obamacare – the stratospheric costs, the huge co-pays, the high deductibles, the general lack of market competition and the huge and invasive government spying on procedures and patients, one state is working on something unique.

BearCare.

At least that's what officials in Wyoming are calling their plan to provide catastrophic coverage for events like an attack from a bear.
It is the Cowboy State Daily that explained the odds of getting attacked by an angry grizzly, or hit by a bus or some other rare event are low.

But they do happen.

The report cited the problems for Shayne Patrick Burke, 35, who was attacked by an angry momma grizzle in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. On social media he said it was the most violent experience of his life.

The new "BearCare" now is part of a series of proposals from the state department of health turned over to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The idea comes from people who need the coverage.

"More than 1,300 Wyoming residents responded to an online survey addressing the health care priorities of rural communities," Cowboy State reported.

And Miranda Hinkle, of the state department, said there were concerns over accessibility, costs and such.

Also, about "BearCare," which isn't a replacement for routine health insurance but would kick in for catastrophes, like the one experienced by Burke, or the one for Celia Easton.

She was in elk hunting country when, because of a wet morning, pulled on her "muck" boots.

She saw a mama grizzly charging about three seconds before impact, the report said.

But when the bear chomped on her foot, the boot came off and the bear scampered.

The state plan covers things besides bears, such as "necessary medical services in an episode of care beginning with an emergency anchor event."

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Islam's religious law, Shariah, has been trigger point for a protest that involved punches thrown, scuffles, someone stealing a Quran and more in the Muslim-dominated city of Dearborn, Mich.

The result was a slew of online videos showing the fisticuffs and other violence.

One report confirmed, "Violent Muslim protesters attack provocateur Jake Lang as he hits a Quran with bacon," the consumption of which is banned by Islam.

The protest was to oppose the advance of Shariah Islamic law in America, and Muslim demands for a higher level of protection for Islam than for Christian or Judaism or their components. For example, an "artist" years ago created a stir and won acclaim for submerging a crucifix in Urine and calling it "P— Christ."

The Shariah opponents clashed with pro-Islam radicals in Dearborn, a city now run by Muslims in government there.

CBS reported the "dueling demonstrations stemmed from when Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Anthony Hudson falsely claimed that there was Shariah Law in Dearborn."

Hudson later walked back those comments, explaining, "If we're going to bring these people together, then we're going to lead by example and come down here, put boots on the ground and walk with these people and show that we can come together."

Joining the protest was Lang, a candidate for Senate from Florida.

Lang challenged the status quo by trying to burn a Quran, which was ripped from his possession by a counter-protester. He then grabbed another Quran, slapping it repeatedly with a slab of bacon before it, too, was stolen from him.

Lang had promoted his activism ahead of time.

And it's not the only action Lang is taking regarding what he feels is improper Muslim influence, with his lawsuit charging that the incoming New York City mayor, a Muslim, is discriminating against Christians.

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Already, Larry Summers, who was Bill Clinton's treasury secretary and held a position in Barack Obama's administration, Virgin Islands delegate Stacey Plaskett and Obama's White House counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, all Democrats, have been confirmed to have been interacting with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Now there's another: current House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. That's according to U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky.
A report at PJMedia opined, "The Democrat Party's house of cards just took a fresh round of demolition, courtesy of the latest Jeffrey Epstein revelations. Last week, Democrats released a few select and doctored Epstein emails, hoping to destroy Trump. Then the GOP released over 20,000, and suddenly, one Democrat after another found themselves wrapped up in the Epstein fallout."

The report explained Epstein "was not simply on the fringes of the party; he was on the radar of the Democrat establishment, even after his 2008 conviction."

It's because that email shows a Democratic consulting firm reaching out to Epstein in the hope of securing his attendance at a Jeffries campaign event.

Comer confirmed, "Another email shows Democrat fundraisers invited Epstein to an event or to meet privately with Hakeem Jeffries as part of their 2013 effort to win a majority. So Hakeem Jeffries' campaign solicited money from Jeffrey Epstein. That's what we found in the last document batch."

It was Lisa Rossi of Dynamic SRG, a fundraising group for Democrats, who promoted, to Epstein, Jeffries as "Brooklyn's Barack."

"Comer posits that this is likely the reason why Jeffries has refused to condemn Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) for colluding with Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing with Michael Cohen. Text messages show Epstein closely following Plaskett's questioning during Cohen's testimony and even helped steer her approach," the report said.

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Onetime popular entertainer Rosie O'Donnell has become a one-person attack machine against President Donald Trump these days.

She "seems to spend much of her days in a constant rave about Trump, Republicans, and the demise of the United States from her new home in Ireland. That is fine and an exercise of free speech. However, it may have crossed the line into defamation in her latest posting," explained constitutional expert Jonathan Turley in a commentary.

In fact, she said, "Did you think it a million years that they would reelect a man who orchestrated an insurrection against the government? They would reelect that guy with all the charges of sex abuse? — the adjudicated rapist…And then I just saw this thing today about all the cases he's settled with children, children's families, accusations about him, that he chose to settle. … When are we going to be able to go, 'We're grown up enough to understand that this kind of deviant, psychotic, mentally ill behavior goes on at the highest level sometimes, and no matter where it goes on, it is our duty to stop it.'"

Turley, whose expertise in the Constitution and the law has qualified him to advise Congress on those issues, even represent members in court, explained the issue.

"O'Donnell may have supplied the president with another defamation case if she cannot back up sensational claims made against the President to her 2.9 million TikTok followers. She states as a fact that the president is an 'adjudicated rapist' and settled child abuse cases."

Turley noted about a year ago, O'Donnell called Trump a "rapist" and a "serial pedophile rapist."

A previous case involving such allegations resulted in a jury refusing to "adjudicate" Trump a "rapist," prompting a leftist judge to issue his own condemnation of Trump.

"Nevertheless, Trump was not legally 'adjudicated' to be a rapist," the commentary said.

Further, "MSNBC and the show 'Morning Joe,' for example, quickly retracted a statement that Trump was a 'rapist,'" he continued. "The second claim is that Trump settled with the 'children's families' over abuse cases."

O'Donnell wasn't even "clear what the basis for this allegation is," Turley said. "It is not clear if O'Donnell can produce support for the claim. If she cannot, it would certainly constitute 'per se' defamation."

He said, "The common law has long recognized per se categories of defamation where damages are presumed and special damages need not be proven. These include: (1) disparaging a person's professional character or standing; (2) alleging a person is unchaste; (3) alleging that a person has committed a criminal act or act of moral turpitude; (4) alleging a person has a sexual or loathsome disease; and (5) attacking a person's business or professional reputation."

A "couple of these categories" could be triggered by O'Donnell's statements.

"That she said this to millions of followers only magnifies the general damages presumed in such cases. Unless O'Donnell can argue truth as a defense with credible support for such settlements, she may have just given Trump a golden opportunity to pursue his long-time critic."

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PALM BEACH, Florida – A powerful public service announcement featuring survivors of Jeffrey Epstein was aired during ABC's broadcast of "Monday Night Football," just ahead of the U.S. House vote Tuesday on releasing the files probing the Palm Beach pedophile.

"I suffered so much pain," numerous women state in the PSA, as they hold photos of themselves when they were girls as young as 14 when they met Epstein. "There are about a thousand of us."

"It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows. It's time to shine a light into the darkness," the women say.

The video concludes with an on-screen message indicating: "Five administrations and we're still in the dark."

There's also a plea to call Congress and demand release of the Epstein files.

"This should have never been a fight," said U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who has been vocal in her push for the public to see the files.

"Raping teenage girls, trafficking victims, and protecting powerful people is not a hoax. I unapologetically and proudly stand with these women."

Human Events host and bestselling author Jack Posobiec shared the video, reminding everyone that "Epstein visited the White House 17 times during the Clinton Presidency."

As WorldNetDaily reported, both Bill and Hillary Clinton are refusing to appear before Congress to testify in connection with the sordid case of Epstein, according to a member of the House Oversight Committee.

U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., made the assertion Monday, stating: "Bill and Hillary Clinton are refusing to appear before House Oversight for their depositions regarding Jeffrey Epstein."

"Notice how House Democrats suddenly have nothing to say about it," the congresswoman added.

On Monday, President Donald Trump again directly tied Bill Clinton to Epstein, saying, "All of [Epstein's] friends were Democrats. You look at this Reid Hoffman, you look at Larry Summers, Bill Clinton, they went to his island all the time, and many others. All Democrats."

The survivors' PSA was produced by World Without Exploitation, which calls itself "a fiscally-sponsored project of the Tides Center," which has been linked to billionaire leftist George Soros.

"It's a call to action," one of the women, Danielle Bensky, told NBC News on Sunday. "While we are Epstein and [Ghislaine] Maxwell survivors, we are standing for so many victims of sexual assault and of domestic violence, as well."

"Many people scroll and they see our stories, and they want to find a way to advocate, and they're not really sure how," Bensky said. "We really want to tell people that you can get out there and you can do this for yourself and be a part of what's starting to really feel like a movement, in a way."

NBC reported: "Epstein survivor Annie Farmer, whose sister Maria Farmer was the first woman to file a criminal complaint against Epstein, in 1996, stressed the release of the files is not a political issue but one that has been buried too long."

"Please remember that these are crimes that were committed against real humans, real individuals. This is not a political issue. This, this has been going on for decades," Annie Farmer said.

"My sister Maria Farmer reported this under the Clinton's administration, right? There have been mistakes that were made in this case under the Bush administration. So many things have happened over the decades that were law enforcement failures in this case.

"This is not partisan. We're asking for you to stand with us now to release all of the files."

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Apparently, not everyone named JD Vance is a MAGA Republican.

Consider James Donald "JD" Vance Jr., a Michigan man sentenced to two years in prison for threatening to kill the Vice President JD Vance, as well as President Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Elon Musk.

Vance Jr., a 67-year-old from Grand Rapids, Michigan, has pleaded guilty to the dastardly deed after using left-wing social media app BlueSky to post several threats, reports the New York Post.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan, Vance used the alias "Diaperjdv."

"If Trump, Vance, or Musk ever come to my city again, they will leave it in a body bag," Vance allegedly wrote in an April 1 post.

"I will either be shot by a secret service sniper or spend the rest of my life in prison. I've only got about 10 years of life left anyway so I don't f***ing care either way," he added.

In another post, on March 7, with the headline "Donald Trump Jr. Considering a Run for President in 2028," Vance threatened the president's oldest son.

"I will murder that stupid f***er before he gets secret service protection," Vance wrote, according to federal investigators.

The Post reports that Vance pleaded guilty to two felonies of threatening to kill or injure the president and vice president, and interstate threatening communications.

United States Attorney Timothy VerHey said in a statement:

"When Vance said he planned to kill our President and the Vice President simply because he disagreed with them, he crossed a line we all understand and so had to be punished."

The older Vance is not related to the veep, whose birth name is James Donald Bowman. He later changed his name to James David Vance.