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Computer tech is advancing in a lot of ways these days, what with multiple artificial intelligence programs now ready and able to enhance, and change reality.
One example is a new video with President Donald Trump explaining a plan to use dinosaurs to protect America's border.
Velociraptors on the ground, carrying mounted Border Patrol agents.
And pterodactyls in the sky.
Twitchy monitors comments on X, and said, "Imagine if we had our own Jurassic Park spanning the length of the border. We could have guard towers and towering Tyrannosaurus Rexes patrolling the border. Those T. Rexes would be known as the 'short arms of the law.'"
Trump is shown talking about the biotech company that "resurrected" dire wolves.
"If they can bring back wolves, they can bring back dinosaurs. Terrible lizard. That's what dinosaur means if you break it down," he said, citing the benefits of velociraptors on the ground: "They'll tear your head clear off."
Other social media reactions:
"You can't just fake something like this. Don't try to gaslight me … it won't work."
"Brilliant."
"Finally … weaponozed (sic) T. rex."
"grok, this is fake, right?"
"I'm sad that this is satire. I want CBD on mpunted Dinos."
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As part of the Trump administration's ongoing purge of DEI policies, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the U.S. Navy to rename a ship that had been named for controversial homosexual-rights activist Harvey Milk, who served as a sailor during the Korean War.
Miltary.com reports that Navy Secretary John Phelan put together a small team to rename the replenishment oiler and that a new name is expected this month, which culturally is know as "Pride Month," in celebration of various sexual proclivities.
The change was laid out in an internal memo officials said defended the action as a move to align with President Donald Trump and Hegseth's objectives to "reestablish the warrior culture." It also comports with the president's order to purge the federal government of so-called DEI policies.
"Secretary Hegseth is committed to ensuring that the names attached to all DOD installations and assets are reflective of the Commander-in-Chief's priorities, our nation's history, and the warrior ethos," Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement on the renaming. "Any potential renaming(s) will be announced after internal reviews are complete."
The oiler Harvey Milk was named in 2016 and christened in 2021. According to Military.com, the ship is operated by Military Sealift Command with a crew of about 125 civilian mariners. The Navy says it conducted its first resupply mission at sea in fall 2024 while operating in the Virginia Capes.
Milk served for four years in the Navy before being discharged over his sexual behavior. He later served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and sponsored a bill banning discrimination based on sexual orientation in public accommodations, housing and employment. It passed, and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone signed it into law.
On Nov. 27, 1978, Milk and Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a former city supervisor who cast the sole vote against Milk's bill.
The activist was not without his detractors, however, partly based on his sexual activity with minors. A 2009 column at WND explains some of the sordid details of Milk's life, including as a predator of young males, as documented by homosexual author Randy Shilts in his 1982 biography of Milk, "The Mayor of Castro Street."
Wrote Peter Sprigg:
"Milk … exploited his time in the Navy during his political career – by lying about it, claiming falsely that he had received a dishonorable discharge for his homosexuality. Milk 'knew the story would make good copy,' according to Shilts. 'Maybe people will read it, feel sorry for me and then vote for me,' Milk told one campaign manager."
Shilts reports that Milk, who had his own apartment off base while in the Navy, would pick up hitchhiking sailors by offering them a bed to sleep in. "The guests often would not know that Milk's apartment had only one bed until they walked in the door," wrote Shilts.
"The information Shilts provides about Milk's sexual partners is revealing about the nature of male homosexual life in America," writes Sprigg. "Milk's first long-term lover, Joe, had his 'introduction to gay life' when he performed sex acts upon men in a movie theatre for money – at age 9. Milk's next lover, Craig, had been arrested after having sex with a 40-year-old man – when Craig was 14. He met Milk when he was 17 – '[I]t would be to such boyish-looking men in their late teens and early 20s that Milk would be attracted for the rest of his life,' Shilts reports. Another lover, Jack, moved in with Milk when he was 16 and Milk was 33. Jack attempted suicide several times, and once when he physically attacked Milk, 'Harvey literally tied him up and threw him in a closet.'"
Sprigg notes that when then-President Obama posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Harvey Milk, "it may mark the first time in history that the nation's highest civilian award has been granted primarily on the basis of someone's sex life."
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While some businesses this month are choosing not to fall into line with the tradition of marking June as "Pride Month" – like the Idaho bar that instead is celebrating "Heterosexual Awesomeness Month" – Air Canada has dived into the alphabet soup with a special flight designated as "all-2SLGBTQIA+."
The recent flight was trumpeted via a promotion on X: "Our first all-2SLGBTQIA+ flight was a heartfelt celebration reflecting our unwavering commitment to inclusivity and equality, in the air and on the ground."
The "2S" stand for "two-spirit," a designation now getting top billing in the airline's efforts.
The X video shows crew members, both onboard and on the ground, who identify with one of the letter designations, or has a loved one who does.
"I thought it was a great initiative for the whole community," Jean-François, identified as a station attendant, said in the video. "It's somewhat of a thrill being on this flight today."
Another station attendant, René JR, felt similarly. "I'm here to support my daughter," he said. "One of my four children is part of this community. When I saw there was an opportunity to support her even more, I signed up for it right away."
Responses on X, however, noted the irony of the fact that excluding employees who are not "2SLGBTQIA+" is by its very nature "not inclusive."
Posted "Siobhan": "How is this a commitment to inclusivity & equality when straight people are excluded on purpose? You're ridiculous."
As reported by Fox News, Curtis Houck, managing editor of NewsBusters, posted on X, "This is a parody, right?"
Canadian blogger Mark Slapinski said, "Air Canada has gone FULLY WOKE. Raise your hand if you'll never fly on their airlines AGAIN."
The Daily Mail reported that many commenters expressed frustration that sexual identity, rather than professional competency and ability, was being showcased.
"When booking flights I know my first concern is the sexuality of the flight crew. LGB arent you sick of being used?" said one.
At one point, Air Canada was forced to stop accepting comments on its controversial post.
"Nothing screams 'inclusion' like blocking most of the public from commenting on your company's post," said an X user.
Another posited: "As a gay man, I find it absolutely terrifying you put people in the cockpit based on their identity rather than their skill to fly a plane. …"
As Breitbart reported, this is not the first time Air Canada has been thrust into the public eye for reasons it did not foresee.
In 2019, it parted with tradition by dropping "ladies and gentlemen" or the French "mesdames et messieurs" when greeting passengers aboard its aircraft.
Instead, crew were ordered to use gender-neutral greetings such as "good morning everybody" in a bid to spare the feelings of gender fluid passengers.
A company memo stated, "we want to ensure an inclusive space for everyone, including those who identify with gender X."
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One of the two major administration agenda points for Joe Biden's regime, during the four years he was in the White House, was abortion. The other was transgenderism.
On abortion, he promoted it everywhere he could, in the United States and around the world.
He tried to impose abortion requirements on unwilling targets of his political agenda, and one of those was the community of emergency room physicians.
Biden's administration simply reinterpreted a federal law, which actually provides protections for the "unborn child," to insist that emergency room physicians had to perform abortions, essentially on demand by a patient.
Now President Donald Trump has reversed that reinterpretation.
His administration announced it is revoking a "guidance" to hospitals that ordered them to do "emergency abortions" for women, on the condition that was "necessary" to stabilize their medical condition.
It was in 2022, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the faulty Roe v. Wade precedent that incorrectly created a constitutional "right" to abortion that the Biden administration retaliated.
Its guidance said to preserve abortion access for cases in which women were experiencing medical emergencies and needed an immediate abortion, ER doctors must commit abortion.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, of SBA Pro-Life America, said the move was one of the ways Biden tried to push abortion into states where there are legal and constitutional limits.
"Democrats have created confusion on this fact to justify their extremely unpopular agenda for all-trimester abortion. In situations where every minute counts, their lies lead to delayed care and put women in needless, unacceptable danger," she said.
Lawyers with the ADF also confirmed they had filed a voluntary dismissal of a lawsuit against the Biden actions.
The case, Catholic Medical Association v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, argued that the Biden orders under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act overstepped Biden's statutory authority and violated members' conscience rights.
"Doctors—especially in emergency rooms—are tasked with preserving life. The Trump administration has rolled back a harmful Biden-era mandate that compelled doctors to end unborn lives, in violation of their deeply held beliefs," said ADF lawyer Matt Bowman.
"Emergency room physicians can and do treat life-threatening conditions such as ectopic pregnancies, and every state allows doctors to do whatever is necessary to preserve the life of a mother. Now, doctors will be able to perform their life-giving duties without fear of government officials forcing them to end life and violate their beliefs."
It was Biden's HHS secretary, Xavier Becerra, who claimed he could override state laws regarding abortion to demand ER doctors perform the procedures.
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There was a court case that challenged the approval by the Food and Drug Administration of the use of mifepristone, the abortion drug that is widely used as a replacement for surgical abortions.
The Supreme Court ruled that the drug should be available, but the ruling was on very narrow grounds, and was based only on the court's claim the pro-life physicians who brought to challenge didn't show they had been harmed personally because it would be others who actually used the drug.
Now there's going to be a new review of the drug by the FDA itself.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who has advocated for tighter controls over the use of such chemicals, posted on social media that the FDA chief, Marty Makary, "just committed to me to do a full review of the chemical abortion drug's safety."
Makary said, in fact, the FDA "continues to closely monitor the postmarketing safety data on mifepristone for the medical termination of early pregnancy."
"I am committed to conducting a review of mifepristone and working with the professional career scientists at the agency who review this data," Makary said. He explained mifepristone remains the subject of "pending litigation," and the FDA doesn't comment on such matters, so he cannot provide more details now.
A report in the Washington Examiner said Hawley has been pushing for the FDA to take such action.
"The review comes after Hawley and anti-abortion groups slammed Makary in April after he said he had 'no plans to take action' regarding FDA regulations on mifepristone that have allowed healthcare providers to ship the abortifacient to patients in other states, irrespective of state laws prohibiting elective abortions," the report explained.
Those actions, by abortion businesses who sell and ship drugs even to states which have abortion limits following the Supreme Court's rejection of the faulty Roe abortion standard that was used for years, have been exploding.
There have been problems because drugs shipped into a state with those limits don't always comply with that state's abortion restrictions.
In chemical abortions, mifepristone blocks the hormone progesterone, causing the death of the unborn child.
The FDA in 2016 made its rules on the drug lax, allowing its use for chemical abortions and no longer requiring abortionists involved to report complications.
Then Joe Biden removed in-person screening requirements for patients to obtain the medication, allowing healthcare providers to ship mifepristone to patients in other states without a physical consultation.
But the report noted a study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center pointing out that "severe complications" from the abortion drug use is "22 times higher than FDA data indicate."
When the Supreme Court ruled on the dispute over the lethal drug regarding the physician plaintiffs, several state attorneys general said they would continue the case on their own.
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According to defense lawyers for three boys arrested for throwing rocks at vehicles, they were "seniors in high school with nothing else to do," and they really didn't mean to hurt anyone.
The result was that a teen girl died when she was hit by a rock one boy threw, and he now has been sentenced, under state guidelines, to life in prison without parole, plus 60 years, according to a report from Denver television channel 7.
It was Alexa Bartell, 20, who died in the deadly rock-throwing attack that happened on a rural road in a small area between Denver and Boulder, Colorado, in 2023.
Arrested were Joseph Koenig, now 20, Zachary Kwak and Nicholas Karol-Chik. All were 18 at the time of the attack.
All initially faced first-degree murder, attempted murder, second-degree assault and attempted second-degree assault charges for the landscaping rock that was chucked through her car windshield as she drove in Jefferson County.
Kwak and Karol-Chik reached plea agreements, with Karol-Chik getting 45 years in the Department of Corrections to be followed by eight years of parole for second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder, and Kwak getting 27 years for first-degree assault, in addition to five years for second-degree assault and a concurrent eight years for attempted second-degree assault.
They told the court Koenig was the one who threw to rock that caused Bartell's car to crash.
"Attorneys for the three men argued that they were seniors in high school with nothing else to do and did not intend to harm anyone," the report explained.
Koenig's term was required by Colorado law for defendants convicted of first-degree murder.
He also faced 18 other counts, and was handed 60 years in the Department of Corrections to be served consecutively to his life sentence.
In victim statements delivered at the sentencing, the girl's father said her dreams and goals had "all been stolen." He said a death sentence was appropriate.
Her family and friends urged the judge to impose a maximum sentence.
"A part of me died with her that day," explained a friend of the victim.
She had tracked Alexa and arrived at the crash scene.
"I replay opening the car door to… I beg God to get that vision out of my head," she said.
The judge noted the horror of the situation, in that one of the paramedics to arrive on the scene "had to medically retire after the incident."
Other statements described how friends and family members now struggle to drive down two-lane roads and encounter oncoming traffic.
"I try to position myself behind the frame of my car when passing," a cousin said.
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The Miss America Organization and a related operation, the Miss Florida Scholarship Program, have been accused of failing to live up to an oral contract, misstating science and ignoring state law in their pro-LGBT ideology.
The dispute erupted because the organizations entered into an oral agreement with Kayleigh Bush when she won the Miss North Florida title, "where there had been no mention or public-facing materials put forth by the organization indicating they subscribed to this 'false' definition of 'female,'" then submitted a paper contract for her to sign that violates her faith and defies science and the law.
In fact, according to the science, being male or female is embedded in the human body to the DNA level, and does not change.
The report is according to Liberty Counsel, which twice has asked the organizations to alter their contract, and twice has been refused.
Mat Staver, Liberty Counsel chief, said, "We commend Kayleigh Bush for taking a stand and refusing to sign the Miss America Organization's contract that is infused with false gender ideology. A contract that defines 'female' to include boys 14-18 who have been medically castrated is an abandonment of reality and an endorsement of harming children. Kayleigh Bush should have her crown restored and these types of reprehensible contracts must be stopped."
The pageant corporations were told by Liberty Counsel, "Miss Florida, Inc. is in apparent breach of its oral agreement with [Bush], over terms that are void under Florida law and public policy."
The letter states the MAO contract "contradicts Florida's legal definition of 'sex', which classifies people as 'either male or female' based on the human body's 'specific reproductive role,' including 'sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, and internal and external genitalia present at birth.'"
Further, Liberty Counsel explained, the contract's definition of "female" "ignores current, enforceable Florida law prohibiting sterilization and castration of minors under the guise of 'sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures.'"
"A contract which violates a provision of the Florida Constitution or a Florida statute is void and illegal, and will not be enforced in Florida courts," the legal team told the corporations.
The report notes Attorney General Pam Bondi released only days ago a "scathing memorandum" criticizing the "'barbaric practice' of chemically castrating and surgically mutilating children."
That aligns with President Donald Trump's January executive order that withdraws all federal funding for puberty blockers, hormones, or irreversible mutilating surgeries for minors, and directs rigorous enforcement of all laws to protect children from these destructive and life-altering procedures, the report said.
Transgender ideologies are "junk science," Bondi confirmed.
Confronted with the transgender ideology is a pageant contract, which wildly insists that "castrated males" are, in fact, "females," Bush refused to sign, and the corporations then stripped her of her title.
In fact, "The contract requires female beauty candidates to agree to compete against biological males – who have been subjected to medical mutilation as minor boys – and agree that these mutilated males are 'female,'" the report said.
The legal team also pointed out such requirements were not in the oral agreement, and a pageant participant "would not expect to be presented with an overtly false definition of 'female' after otherwise performing all other conditions to the oral agreement."
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Elon Musk, President Trump's former chief of DOGE, held nothing back over his opposition to the Republicans' "Big Beautiful Bill" Tuesday, posting on his platform X that is outrageous and "a disgusting abomination."
Wrote Musk: "I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it."
Besides increasing spending, the bill raises the federal debt ceiling by $5 trillion. U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., one of two GOP votes against the bill in the House had a two-word reply to Musk's post: "He's right."
In recent days, Musk has distanced himself from the administration, both officially and in his comments about the massive spending bill.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about Musk's post during Tuesday's press briefing, dismissing the complaint and emphasizing that President Trump is "sticking to" his promotion of the bill, which the House passed and is pending in the U.S. Senate.
Meanwhile, Trump is slamming Republican senators who have vowed not to support the bill, Tuesday targeting Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.
"Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas," Trump posted Tuesday on Truth Social. "His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can't stand him. This is a BIG GROWTH BILL!"
Paul posted earlier, "I want to see the tax cuts made permanent, but I also want to see the $5 trillion in new debt removed from the bill. At least 4 of us in the Senate feel this way."
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Multiple lawsuits have erupted in recent years filed by plaintiffs who demand their local libraries provide them with pornographic material, or other titles that many find offensive.
They claim a constitutional right to have taxpayers provide such materials, but a decision from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has destroyed that argument.
To plaintiffs who wildly claim that, "Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people," the ruling said such "over-caffeinated arguments" should stop, and parties "take a deep breath … No one is banning (or burning) books."
The solution is clear, the judges wrote in an opinion in the case Little v. Llano County: "If a disappointed patron can't find a book in the library, he can order it online, buy it from a bookstore, or borrow it from a friend. All that Llano County has done here is what libraries have been doing for two centuries: decide which books they want in their collections. This is what it means to be a library – to make judgments about which books are worth reading and which are not, which ideas belong on the shelves and which do not."
It is the American Center for Law and Justice that contributed to the arguments with a friend-of-the-court brief, and explained, "For over a year, the ACLJ has been fighting to protect children from far-Left groups that want to expose children to sexually explicit content without your knowledge. School districts have been inundated with far-Left lobbying, demands, and lawsuits seeking to force them to include reprehensible and disturbing content in the children's sections of school libraries. We've been working with school districts around the country to fight back and allow school officials – who represent the parents of the school children they serve – to empower parental rights and protect children from sexualized and Marxist indoctrination. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just issued a decision that will assist us in this fight."
The decision, "unprecedented," according to the ACLJ, resulted in two significant factors.
"First, [individuals and groups] cannot invoke a right to receive information to challenge a library's removal of books. … Second, a library's collection decisions are government speech and therefore not subject to Free Speech challenge," the ACLJ said.
"This means that school libraries cannot be forced to house inappropriate material no matter how many lawsuits radical librarians and far-Left groups like the ACLU file."
In this case, some people from Llano County sued the Texas library for removing 17 books because of their sexual and/or racial themes.
"The plaintiffs in this case argued that they had a 'right to receive information' – even sexually explicit information – under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment and that the public library (and taxpayers) must supply them with whatever books they desire," the ACLJ charged.
"The plaintiffs disingenuously argued that the removal of the inappropriate books constituted a book ban reminiscent of 'totalitarian regimes.'"
The 5th Circuit said, "It is one thing to tell the government it cannot stop you from receiving a book. The First Amendment protects your right to do that. It is another thing for you to tell the government which books it must keep in the library. The First Amendment does not give you that right to demand that."
The ACLJ said, "The Fifth Circuit's ruling is a breath of fresh air and represents a long, overdue, legally sound, and commonsense approach to this issue. As the Fifth Circuit noted, the plaintiffs incorrectly 'demand to receive information from the government itself.'"
"If – as the groups we've battled have been arguing – '[P]eople can challenge which books libraries remove, they can challenge which books libraries buy. . . . Suppose a patron complains that the library does not have a book she wants. The library refuses to buy it, so she sues.' Where would it end? It wouldn't, and groups like the ACLU wouldn't stop until you, the taxpayer, are forced to fund and stock pornography and other inappropriate content on every children's library shelf in America."
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Trump warns attacks on Jewish interests 'WILL NOT BE TOLERATED'
State criminal charges are being filed by prosecutors against Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the 45-year-old Egyptian national who is in the United States illegally and is accused of launching a flamethrower and Molotov cocktail attack on participants of a "Run for their Lives" event in Boulder, Colorado, in support of the hostages held by the terrorists in Hamas.
Now he's facing a federal "hate crime" charge, too.
Soliman was taken into custody immediately after the attack on marchers in Boulder Sunday, who had been protesting in support of the hostages in the Middle East.
Authorities in Boulder said the suspect arrived at the rally after noon on Sunday, "waited for participants to begin their walk," then throwing incendiary devices at them, "igniting a fireball that left multiple victims with serious burns.
He also allegedly had an improvised flamethrower to use, as well as 16 additional unlit Molotov cocktails and a backpack sprayer filled with gasoline in his care.
A Washington Examiner report said Soliman is being charged with "violating 18 U.S.C. §§ 249(a)(1) and (a)(2), federal hate crime statutes involving acts of violence motivated by actual or perceived religion or national origin"
Various state charges also are pending.
Twelve people were injured as they were attacked by a suspect shouting "Free Palestine."
The report said, "According to an FBI affidavit filed Monday, Soliman confessed after his arrest that he researched how to make Molotov cocktails on YouTube, purchased the materials, and traveled to Boulder specifically to attack the event."
"He stated that he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead," the affidavit said.
President Donald Trump said such hate "WILL NOT BE TOLERATED" in the U.S., blaming Joe Biden's open borders strategy for allowing him in.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told the Examiner, "The Department of Justice has swiftly charged the illegal alien perpetrator of this heinous attack with a federal hate crime and will hold him accountable to the fullest extent of the law. Our prayers are with the victims and our Jewish community across the world.":
Soliman came into the U.S. on a tourist visa in 2022, and then sought asylum while staying in the country illegally. The Biden administration later gave him a work permit.