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Lee Zeldin, President Donald Trump's chief for the Environmental Protection Agency, has announced plans to remove the foundation on which trillions of dollars of environmental rules are based.
He has announced a proposal that would remove the "endangerment" finding, from back in 2009, that claimed greenhouse gases like carbon monoxide and methane actually "threaten" the public's health.
That concept is the base assumption on which myriad environmental rules, regulations and requirements are based.
A report at Fox Business explains the Barack Obama-era finding "serves as the legal foundation for a host of climate regulations stemming from the Clean Air Act."
Affected will be chemical plants, utilities, steel mills and more.
"With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end 16 years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers," Zeldin confirmed in a statement. "In our work so far, many stakeholders have told me that the Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to achieve their preferred ends and stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year."
He announced the looming change during an interview with the "Ruthless" podcast, calling the move against the green precedent one that will drive "a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion."
An estimated $54 billion spending for Americans each year will be saved because mandates like Joe Biden's forcing expensive electric vehicles on Americans will be scaled back.
"A lot of people are out there listening, they might not know what the endangerment finding is. If you ask congressional Democrats to describe what it is, the left would say that it means that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, carbon dioxide is an endangerment to human health. They might say methane is a pollutant, methane is an endangerment to human health," Zeldin said.
He said that's actually inaccurate.
"The Obama administration said that carbon dioxide, when mixed with a bunch of other well-mixed gasses, greenhouse gasses, that it contributes to climate change. How much? They don't say … they say that climate change endangers human health, so because of these different mental leaps… then there were all sorts of vehicle regulations that followed."
The announcement marked the beginning of a process through which the precedent actually will be dumped.
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It is science that many, many products used to vaccinate children against the threats of various diseases use cell lines obtained from abortions to develop or test those products.
And some do a great deal of good while others have left behind serious injuries.
Church organizations and faith groups long have delivered advice to their faithful on how to address the conflict between a legitimate opposition to abortion – the unneeded deaths of the unborn – and protecting against infection.
All those groups now, apparently, can halt their discussions. It is the American Association of Pediatrics that has announced its own religious beliefs and its plans to seek to enforce those against anyone believing differently.
Citing only a single writing that argues for doctors to push parents to overlook their own beliefs, even lobby and "inform" religious leaders, the organization has ruled that, "Among the major world religious traditions, none include scriptural or doctrinal guidelines that preclude adherents from being vaccinated."
The stunning dictate comes in the organization's new statement in which it states now, "The AAP advocates for the elimination of nonmedical exemptions from immunizations as contrary to optimal individual and public health."
That announcement confirms that most jurisdictions allow medical exemptions to the dozens of shots the pediatricians want to deliver to children, but rules for nonmedical exemptions vary.
Their conclusion is that there should be none of those, that parents will have the choice either to subject their children to the doctors' lists of shots, or their children will not be allowed in places like daycare and school.
The statement claims that, "The leaders of some religious groups have highlighted that vaccination can be one important way to protect oneself and one's neighbors and have thus suggested that there is a moral or religious obligation to seek vaccination."
"State legislatures are rightly reticent to enact public policies that are perceived to interfere with the exercise of religion. However, in practice, nonmedical exceptions based on religious belief can substantially limit the public health value of vaccine requirements for school attendance," the statement said. "There is no practicable way for schools or other involved community partners to distinguish fairly among religious or other nonmedical claims. State-level policies that differentiate among these types of claims serve only to introduce opportunities for uneven application, which in turn leads inevitably to disparities in immunization coverage and schools that are less safe."
A report at Liberty Daily said the statement came out as an "update" to the AAP's policies.
"We recommend that vaccination is required for participation in certain public activities, such as school and daycare, and if you choose not to vaccinate, you're essentially choosing to exclude yourself from those settings," lead author Jesse Hackell said in the report.
"We recognize that excluding a child from public education does have problems, and yet, we reach the conclusion that, on balance, assuring the safety of the school and daycare environment outweighs that risk because there are other educational opportunities available."
All states require proof of immunizations now, and all grant medical exemptions. Religious exemptions, which the AAP wants destroyed, are available in 45 of the states.
Kim Mack Rosenberg, general counsel for Children's Health Defense, told The Defender that religious freedom is a "hot-button" issue nationwide, according to the Liberty Daily.
"The AAP's statement calling for an end to religious exemptions to immunization ignores constitutionally protected rights regarding religious freedom and potentially is in violation of other laws as well. AAP blatantly suggests that schools discriminate against families with faith-based reasons to not take some or all vaccines.
"To claim otherwise is to play word games — just as AAP suggests that families are not forced to take vaccines that conflict with their religious beliefs but instead that families simply must choose, in those instances, between attending school and staying true to their religious values," she explained.
The Liberty Daily noted the concern from Dr. Michelle Perro, author of "What's Making Our Children Sick?: How Industrial Food Is Causing an Epidemic of Chronic Illness, and What Parents (and Doctors) Can Do About It."
"As a pediatrician committed to informed consent and patient rights based on non-biased science, I strongly support the continued access to medical, religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions," she explained, noting many vaccines use cell lines from aborted fetal tissue, raising moral and ethical issues for those who don't promote abortion.
"In addition, vaccines contain adjuvants and excipients such as aluminum salts, polysorbate 80 and formaldehyde that create neurotoxicity and immune dysregulation in some children. Compounding these issues is the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program [VICP], which grants vaccine manufacturers legal immunity, leaving families with no recourse when vaccine injuries occur," she noted.
That liability exemption soon may end, however.
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week criticized the VICP and vowed to fix it.
"I will not allow the VICP to continue to ignore its mandate and fail its mission of quickly and fairly compensating vaccine-injured individuals," he explained.
However, civil rights lawyers have pointed out the Supreme Court has ruled that parents have a fundamental right to raise their children according to their religious beliefs, and any government violation of that demands the highest possible legal standard.
The report noted public support for religious exemptions was 20% in 2019, but nearly 40% this year.
The Liberty Daily explained, "In its statement, the AAP appeared to question the legitimacy of people's religious beliefs. It said no major world religious traditions 'include scriptural or doctrinal guidelines that preclude adherents from being vaccinated.'"
AAP is a lobbying group that gets some of its funding from corporations that make vaccines.
"The government Open Payments database shows that lead author Hackell has taken money from Merck, Pfizer, Seqirus and GSK since 2018. Author Dr. Lisa M. Kafer has received payments from the same companies, as well as others," the report said.
One social media commenter pointed out the religious basis for the AAP ruling: "In the name of 'science,' they push a monotheism of medicine – one shot schedule, no dissent, no nuance."
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A 3-year-old boy taken from his parents by Child Protective Services in Alabama has died after being left in a hot car for hours … by a contractor for CPS.
The CPS worker allegedly took the child for a visit with his father, then ran "personal errands" on the way back, eventually forgetting the boy was in the car.
A report at People.com said the death, a week ago, happened in Birmingham.
The boy was identified as Ke'Torrius Starkes Jr.
He was in the custody of the Department of Human Services at the time, and Courtney French, a lawyer for the family, told the publication, "The very system that is in place for his protection was the system that led to his death."
The report explained the child was found unresponsive in the vehicle outside a location on Pine Tree Drive.
State officials revealed he was "accidentally left inside … while in the care of a third-party contracted worker through the Department of Human Resources."
The report said he was in temporary custody of the state over claims of drug use in his home.
He apparently was abandoned in the vehicle about 12:30 p.m., and found about five hours later. He was pronounced dead at 6:03 p.m. Temperatures during the period reached 96 degrees, the report said.
According to the lawyer, the worker was employed to transport children, and took the child to a supervised visit with his father, but then decided to "run numerous personal errands with KJ still in the car seat in the back."
State officials declined to identify the child or describe the circumstances because of "confidentiality."
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Homonyms beware! You might be racist.
A sexy, new blue jeans advertising campaign by American Eagle is drawing fire from some who claim it is a subtle bit of Nazi propaganda.
Actress Sydney Sweeney appears alongside the slogan, "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans." One of the iterations has Sweeney putting up a large ad that features the word "genes" crossed out and replaced with "jeans."
That appears to be too much for those with a heighten sensitivity to racism – real or imagined.
As the Gateway Pundit reported, a report on the ABC News program "Good Morning America First Look" first raised the specter of racism. Anchor Rhiannon Ally Tuesday said, "The play on words is being compared to Nazi propaganda with racial undertones."
For the story, ABC News interviewed professor Robin Landa with Kean University, who likened the American Eagle ad campaign to the early 20th century American eugenics movement that justified white supremacism.
Newsweek also sounded the alarm, quoting professor Robin Landa: "The campaign's pun isn't just tone-deaf – it's historically loaded."
The magazine reported: "Landa said that the phrase 'good genes' was once central to American eugenics ideology, which promoted white genetic superiority and enabled the forced sterilization of marginalized groups.
"Landa added that, when major brands use language with such weight, they risk reinforcing harmful ideologies under the guise of clever messaging."
Predictably, the internet was not quiet about the Nazi claims.
One man on X posted: "As a PROUD black man, I see nothing wrong with Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle parading her 'good genes/jeans.' Celebrating blue eyes and blonde hair isn't 'white supremacy.' Those are conventionally attractive, GOOD GENES. That doesn't mean they're the ONLY good genes."
Savannah Hernandez posted: "What the Sydney Sweeney ad actually shows is a cultural shift toward hot women again (thank God) Gone are the days of fat women and trannies accosting us with their ugliness."
Another female X user opined: "I love the new Sydney Sweeney ads for American Eagle. Normal hot girls are BACK! Not porn. Not trans. Not gay. Not obese to make a point. Not wearing a headscarf to be inclusive. Not political. Just a hot girl in jeans. The world is healing …"
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Impeach Obama!
Back in the day there were such slogans on bumper stickers, posters and the like.
They focused on his radical agenda that subjected Americans to what now is known as Obamacare, and other issues. His abuse of the nation, where he claimed it no longer is a "Christian nation" added to the sentiment.
But could it actually happen? Especially as declassified government documents now show Obama was a driver behind a grand conspiracy launched in 2016 against then-candidate Donald Trump and pursued by Democrats for years.
It involved false claims by the FBI and CIA about Trump's campaign and "collusion" with Russia, which long since has been debunked. It involved protections for twice-failed Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton. It involved changing government documents to suggest bad things about Trump, and then "leaking" that to the leftist media. The depths essentially have not been probed yet.
According to Democrats, impeach of Obama, a former president, is possible.
That's from one of the lawyers who defended Trump during his second impeachment, launched by Nancy Pelosi because of her claims that Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol was an "insurrection" that Trump orchestrated, claims that also have long since fallen into disrepute.
It's from David Schoen, a lawyer specializing in federal criminal defense and civil rights, who was one of the lawyers representing Trump during his second impeachment trial, the one that happened after he left office.
"President Trump is right when he said the immunity decision would help President Obama," Schoen said on Newsmax. "But you know what it doesn't help him with? Impeachment."
Schoen cited Article I, Section 3, Clause 7 of the Constitution — "the very clause that Democrats used during their second sham impeachment of President Trump to argue that a former president could still be tried and barred from holding office again. In doing so, they opened the door for the same standard to apply to Obama," said a report at the Gateway Pundit.
"According to the Democratic Party and the House managers in the second impeachment trial, a former President, once out of office, is still subject to impeachment," Schoen explained. "In other words, they've argued Lincoln could be impeached, George Washington impeached. Certainly, as I predicted at the time, this would come back — they would rue the day — because President Obama could be impeached if this evidence really says what it says. And that could also strip off the immunity, because under Article I, Section 3, Clause 7 of the Constitution, the Democrats argued it bars one from holding further office. The language itself says you're still subject to criminal prosecution or indictment. We'll see how that plays out."
The Gateway Pundit explained Schoen's comments were a "legal nuke" for the legacy of Obama.
WND previously reported that Trumps huge precedent at the Supreme Court only months ago establishing immunity for the occupant of the president's office on a number of issues helps Obama.
Obama, along with his henchmen James Clapper, James Comey, John Brennan, possibly even Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, now are under several investigations for misleading the American public, suppressing an intel community conclusion that Russia was no big deal during the 2016 election, and instead rewriting reports to make it look bad for Trump.
That was the election the conspirators fabricated a Trump campaign-Russia collusion conspiracy theory for which there was no evidence.
Now that government records are being declassified that confirm it was made up, there's rampant speculation about charges, including perjury, lying to Congress and more.
A reporter asked Trump about that immunity ruling.
He said, "It probably helps him [Obama] a lot, probably helps him a lot, the immunity ruling. But it doesn't help the people around him at all. But it probably helps him a lot. He's done criminal acts, there's no question about it, but he has immunity, and it probably helped him a lot. He owes me big. Obama owes me big!"
The Supreme Court ruled that a president as total immunity for exercising "core" constitutional powers, and presumptive immunity for actions they took as president. The ruling gave no immunity for private actions.
That immunity is required, the opinion said, to protect an "energetic," and "independent executive," willing to take "bold" actions and make unpopular decisions when needed.
All of the cases brought against Trump between his first and second terms eventually died.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has released evidence that Obama fabricated and led the Russia Collusion hoax to harm Trump as candidate and then president-elect.
Among the documents Gabbard declassified was a December 2016 presidential briefing confirming Obama knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a hoax.
Trump, at that time, ripped Obama, Clinton, Biden, Clapper, Comey and others, and called Obama the "ringleader."
"Barack Hussein Obama is the ringleader. Hillary Clinton was right there with him, and so was Sleepy Joe Biden, and so were the rest of them: Comey, Clapper, the whole group," Trump charged.
Gabbard has confirmed those actions, by those people, are under DOJ review now.
Trump charged Obama with leading a "coup."
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Vice President JD Vance on Monday blasted the "mob of lawless thugs" engaged in a "really gruesome" weekend attack on white people in Cincinnati, as he urged law enforcement to "throw their a**es in prison."
His remarks came as police have reportedly identified at least four suspects.
Speaking to a crowd in Canton, Ohio, Vance said: "I haven't seen the full context, but what I saw was a mob of lawless thugs beating up on an innocent person and it's disgusting.
"And I hope every single one of those people who engaged in violence is prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And they will be, they will be so long as law enforcement in the state of Ohio takes their job seriously.
Vance continued: "I don't know how the fight started, but the one part that I saw that was really gruesome is you had a grown man who sucker-punched a middle-aged woman. And from where I come from, at least, when you have a grown man who sucker-punches a middle-aged woman, that person ought to go to jail for a very long time.
"And frankly, he's lucky there weren't some better people around because they would have handled it themselves. But if they're not gonna handle it, the cops in Cincinnati, the law enforcement, you've got to prosecute people. We've had way too much lawlessness on the streets of great American cities.
"We have got to make great American cities safe again for families and children," Vance concluded.
"If you want to take your wife or your children out for a meal, you shouldn't be worried about street violence, and the only way to destroy that street violence is to take the thugs who engage in that violence and throw their a**es in prison."
Ken Kober, president of the Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police, told WLWT-TV he believes the victims were taken to the hospital with "pretty serious injuries" and would be "recovering from this for a while."
"There's a difference between a mutual fight and an absolute savage attack. You have somebody who's knocked to the ground and kicked in the head by multiple people and a woman trying to break this up and she gets knocked out. Just because it starts as a mutual fight, it doesn't give you the right to savagely attack somebody," Kober said.
"If you can't behave yourself in public, you have no business being out there. The police can't be everywhere all the time. You have all these things going on and we only have so many police officers," he added.
"Hopefully it tells elected officials, it tells judges that society is tired of this. It's something that never should be here, and nearly 25 years I've been with the police department, I've never seen something this disgusting. It's people downtown trying to enjoy themselves and this mob mentality it taking over and it needs to be addressed," Kober said.
The horrific beating caught the attention of the U.S. Justice Department and other federal officials, who are "closely" monitoring how local officials handle the investigation.
"Our federal hate crimes laws apply to ALL Americans," said Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for Civil Rights at the Justice Department.
"We @CivilRights will monitor closely how local authorities handle this attack. Nobody in our great nation should be the victim of such a crime, and where race is a motivation, federal law may apply."
Dhillon was responding to a post by U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, who indicated: "The Mayor of Cincinnati, @AftabPureval, who has an opinion on lots of irrelevant topics, has not issued a statement, let alone a condemnation, of this heinous attack.
"Instead of dreaming about higher office, which will never happen, he should be ensuring his residents are safe."
As WorldNetDaily reported Sunday, Cincinnati police are investigating a graphic assault by blacks Saturday injuring at least three white people, with the violence documented in disturbing viral videos.
Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge is slamming the perpetrators, indicating: "I am in complete disgust waking up to the viral video many of you have now seen."
"The behavior displayed is nothing short of cruel and absolutely unacceptable. Our investigative team is working diligently to identify every individual involved in causing harm. It's also important to clarify: this was a sudden dispute between individuals following a verbal altercation. It was not connected in any way to the Music Fest. If you have any information related to this incident, please contact Crime Stoppers immediately at 513-352-3042."
The incident has received local media attention, but the national media have been largely silent. Elon Musk is asking, "Why zero stories?"
Cincinnati Police have not released any information regarding a motive.
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A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest stormed a Manhattan skyscraper Monday, opening fire and killing a police officer and at least four civilians before turning the gun on himself.
Law-enforcement sources told the New York Post the man entered the 44-story office building housing Blackstone and the NFL headquarters armed with a rifle and opened fire at around 6:30 p.m.
Published reports identify the shooter as 27-year-old Shane Tamura of Las Vegas, Nevada.
CNN reports: "The suspected gunman, who is now dead, had a concealed carry license for a handgun, multiple law enforcement officials told CNN.
"The suspect, believed to be a 27-year-old from Las Vegas, has an expired private investigator license, sources told CNN.
"Police backtracked the suspect to his car, which video shows him exiting alone."
At least six people were shot in the onslaught.
"FBI New York Field Office management personnel and agents are responding to provide support at the active crime scene in Manhattan," said FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
FBI Director Kash Patel said: "The FBI is on scene at the Manhattan crime scene. The NYPD currently has the lead in this investigation. Our personnel are there to support their efforts. Motive is currently under investigation."
A first-floor witness said "it sounded like a barrage of shots … Like an automatic weapon. Like a high-capacity weapon."
Photos on social media showed workers inside the Blackstone building barricading their offices.
"At this time, the scene has been contained and the lone shooter has been neutralized," NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed on X.
"We don't have enough police," said New York Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa told Sean Hannity on Fox News. "And we need photo recognition technology … so we can preemptively do something."
Sliwa warned that terrorists would "take advantage of these kind of weaknesses."
"There are potential terrorists watching how easy it is to walk through the streets of New York City, to carry an AR-15, to walk into a corporate world headquarters that represents capitalism and then slaughter people indiscriminately."
"This is just senseless and cruel," said Fox News contributor Ted Williams. "He had a purpose and he didn't even hide his purpose."
U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said he expected Democrats in Congress to call more more gun control in the wake of the horror.
"We've got hundreds of gun-control laws," he told Sean Hannity. "We don't need more gun control, we need more idiot control, and that's what we need to be talking about."
"I believe there's objective evil in this world, and we saw it today."
The Post reports: "Two apparent protesters, including one who yelled, 'Free Palestine, I'm not the shooter,' were arrested outside of the building around the time of the shooting."
The paper spoke with Oleksandr Stupak, 30, who was standing on the street nearby when he heard gunshots ring out.
"I was on the one block away and I heard shots being fired and then a bunch of police, they came to neutralize it," he said. "I went to the Citizen app and it says active shooting. A lot of police started to come. I mean. [It's] crazy."
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Planned Parenthood, the giant in America's abortion industry with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue, is being sued by the state of Missouri for deceiving American women about the safety of an abortion chemical it provides.
"For years, Planned Parenthood Federation of America has been lying to Americans about the risks of abortion pills," charges the legal filing against the abortionists, according to the claim brought in federal court in Missouri by the state itself.
"Planned Parenthood tells Missourians that the abortion pill is 'safer than many other medicines like penicillin, Tylenol, and Viagra. … That is brazenly false. A single dose of the abortion pill regularly lands woman in the emergency room."
In fact, the case documents that "up to 4.6% of women who take a single dose of 'mifepristone'" will end up in the emergency room.
The lawsuit explains, "Planned Parenthood is lying about the abortion pill to cut costs and boost revenue. Most physicians are not interested in working for Planned Parenthood—in part because of what the New York Times reports as a pattern of 'botched care' at Planned Parenthoods across the country that has put Planned Parenthood in a 'crisis.' Katie Benner, Botched Care and Tired Staff: Planned Parenthood in Crisis, New York Times (Feb. 15, 2025). Indeed, a Planned Parenthood facility in Columbia, Missouri, was recently shut down by the health department because the facility was using moldy abortion equipment. Working for Planned Parenthood carries reputational risk. Unable to hire enough physicians, Planned Parenthood schemes for shortcuts. Because it is easy for untrained, nonphysicians to deliver abortion pills, Planned Parenthood has successfully increased the proportion of abortions that occur by abortion pill. Now, two-thirds of all abortions occur by pill, a significant increase from 2017, when the abortion pill was used in just over one-third of abortions. To induce women to obtain the abortion pill, Planned Parenthood lies to women, concealing from them the high risks posed by the abortion pill."
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey the abortion corporation is in violation of the state's Merchandising Practices Act.
It got to that position by "systematically" misleading women, the case charges.
"The national Planned Parenthood organization is actively endangering the lives of women and girls across the country by spreading lies and disinformation about the powerful chemical abortion drug," Bailey charges.
Bailey's court action seeks more than $1.8 million in civil penalties for daily violations of Missouri law, up to $1,000 in damages or restitution for every Missouri woman Planned Parenthood provided abortion pills to in the past five years, reimbursement to the state for Medicaid and other taxpayer-funded emergency care resulting from abortion pill complications and a court order halting Planned Parenthood Federation of America from continuing to promote these falsehoods in Missouri.
In March, Bailey had previously issued a cease-and-desist order to Planned Parenthood formally prohibiting the abortion giant from performing chemical abortions in the state citing the company's "uncontroverted track record" for disregarding Missouri health and safety laws.
Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver said, "Comparing chemical abortion drugs to Tylenol is offensive and deceptive. Chemical abortions harm women physically and emotionally and cruelly kill defenseless children in the womb. The abortion industry has an agenda of death that disregards the life of unborn children and the health of their mothers."
Bailey added, "Planned Parenthood's false advertising has a national reach, including targeted claims against Missouri women. The organization uses its website to make dangerous claims, such as calling the chemical abortion drug mifepristone, 'safer than many other medicines like penicillin, Tylenol, and Viagra.'"
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A pro-abortion judge who owes her position to Barack Obama, a radical advocate for abortion, has ruled American taxpayers must give hundreds of millions of dollars each year to abortion-industry giant Planned Parenthood.
The ruling, from Indira Talwani, for now halts a portion of a law that was adopted by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump.
An appeal, of course, is in the works.
But meanwhile, officials with Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America pointed out how Talwani made her decision based on lies, even citing those lies in her court opinion.
"An activist judge just issued a ruling full of falsehoods about abortion giant Planned Parenthood in a desperate effort to keep forcing taxpayers to prop up Big Abortion," explained Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA Pro-Life America.
"Every day this order stands, Planned Parenthood continues to rake in millions of our tax dollars, fueling thousands of unborn lives ended daily and putting women at unacceptable risk of serious harm and even death. Women have better and more comprehensive alternatives with community health centers outnumbering Planned Parenthood facilities 15 to 1. We look forward to the Trump administration swiftly stopping this lawfare and restoring the historic victory secured through the One Big Beautiful Bill."
The SBA organization noted where Talwani strayed far from the truth:
A report at the Washington Examiner said Talwani "permanently" blocked the bill cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.
The ruling replaces a preliminary injunction she had insisted on imposing earlier.
Talwani claimed in court documents that defunding Planned Parenthood "will result in the closure of clinics that inevitably will have 'adverse health consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable.'"
She alleged there could be an "increase" in unintended pregnancies if Planned Parenthood is not paid hundreds of millions of dollars annually by taxpayers.
She complained absent that tax money, there would be a decrease in access to contraceptives and that would produce a "corresponding increase in the number of unintended pregnancies" and therefore that "will likely result in an increased number of abortions."
Federal law already prohibits using taxes for abortions, but pro-life organizations long have pointed out that money that subsidizes other operations by Planned Parenthood also subsidizes its abortion procedures.
The abortion industry leader reported grabbing about $800 million in federal tax money during fiscal 2023-2024.
It sued over the democratically created legislation.
Talwani's ideological ruling already has drawn criticism from the Department of Justice, where chief of staff Chad Mizell called her "lawless."
Lila Rose, president of the anti-abortion organization Live Action, said in a statement that the ruling from Talwani, appointed by Obama in 2014, "is a blatant act of judicial overreach."
"Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill with clear language and intent to stop the forced taxpayer funding of abortion," Rose said. "This unelected judge has decided that her personal pro-abortion agenda matters more than the law."
The Constitution actually doesn't mention abortion, as was pointed out when the faulty Roe Supreme Court decision was overturned several years ago. That left the regulation to the states, under their laws. Federal cash handouts, of course, are under the Constitution left to Congress.
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The barbaric conflict that started Oct. 7, 2023, marked by widespread casualties, terror, torture and hostage-taking, delivered a harsh lesson to the West: Appeasing the Iranian mullahs' regime inevitably leads to war.
Under the 2015 nuclear agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, in an effort to contain Tehran $150 billion in frozen Iranian assets were released to the Middle East's major sponsor of terrorism. The regime used these funds not for the welfare of its own people, but to expand its network of proxy militias across the region, enrich uranium to 60%, and move dangerously close to building a nuclear bomb.
Even targeted airstrikes on its nuclear facilities can no longer ensure that the world is safe from a weapon that would undoubtedly be used as an instrument of war and destruction.
The nuclear threat posed by Iran must be taken seriously. The Islamic Republic currently possesses over 400 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% and is just a few technical steps away from producing a nuclear weapon. In 2020, Iran operated only 512 centrifuges. By 2025, that number has soared to over 11,000 advanced centrifuges.
Simultaneously, the regime continues to test ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads. This is no longer a theoretical danger – it is an imminent one.
Despite international scrutiny, the Iranian regime has never abandoned its pursuit of nuclear weapons. It has merely continued its efforts in secrecy, with increasing sophistication.
According to revelations from the theocratic regime's main opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, or NCRI, Tehran's nuclear weapons program was never halted – it was simply concealed behind a new political façade. Since 2009, under direct orders from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, a secret initiative known as "Project Kavir" has been underway, managed by the SPND organization, a research and development agency within the Iranian Ministry of Defense tasked with developing new military technologies. It's aim: the development of long-range nuclear weapons with a reach of over 3,000 kilometers.
Concurrently, research on tritium and nuclear fusion is being pursued to amplify the destructive power of these weapons.
To support this program, Iran's Semnan province has been transformed into a military zone, where four secret military facilities have been constructed. Additionally, the regime is producing "Ghaem 100" solid-fuel and "Simorgh" liquid-fuel missiles – both with ranges exceeding 3,000 kilometers – under the guise of civilian space exploration.
Feeding the crocodile didn't tame it, but made it more dangerous
European policymakers had hoped economic engagement would lead to a more moderate Iranian regime. Instead, the opposite occurred: More money led to more centrifuges, more missiles and increased domestic repression. The regime failed to honor its commitments and exploited the diplomatic vacuum to accelerate its militarization.
Rooted in medieval ideology and incapable of meeting the demands of a young, modern and forward-looking population, the mullahs' regime depends on war and regional terrorism for survival. Nuclear weapons and long-range missiles are tools of survival – not deterrence – for this regime. Its survival is so deeply entwined with its nuclear program that expecting a voluntary halt to enrichment, or the abandonment of a project that has consumed over $2 trillion, is dangerously naïve.
In the face of this mounting threat, the only effective legal mechanism left is the JCPOA's "snapback" provision. This allows any of the remaining signatories – especially the European troika of Germany, France and the United Kingdom – to unilaterally restore all U.N. sanctions against the Iranian regime, without the need for a vote or consensus. Crucially, neither Russia nor China can block this process.
With support from its lobbyists in the West, Tehran promotes the narrative that sanctions harm the Iranian population and lead to shortages of food and medicine. Yet the 2017 uprising, which occurred after billions of dollars were released under the JCPOA, revealed the truth: Those funds were funneled into repression, armament and the export of terrorism – not into improving the lives of ordinary Iranians.
Today, the Islamic Republic is closer than ever to building a nuclear bomb. The snapback mechanism, enshrined in U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, is the last viable legal and practical tool to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Silence or delay in triggering it will carry a heavy cost – for regional stability and for global peace. Europe must not hesitate to act.