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The White House has released a short video of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt praying before, as one social media personality said, "going to the den of wolves."
"This is what I voted for," said one, with others adding, "Very cool" and "Thank you @PressSec. Christ is King."
She said, "Lord Jesus, please give us the strength, the knowledge, the ability to articulate our words, and have fun and be confident in Jesus' name. Amen."
She was in the press office during Trump's first term, and worked on his 2024 campaign, the Gateway Pundit said.
She was on maternity leave for the birth of her first child when Trump was shot in the ear during a campaign event in Butler, Pa., in July 2024, and she immediately ended her leave to return to the campaign.
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A report at the Gateway Pundit calls it "peak liberal lunacy" and it certainly breaks ground for those entertainers who get in front of a camera and interview people.
It was when CNN's "golden boy," Anderson Cooper, actually "misgendered" a civil rights lawyer.
It happened during a town hall in which CNN was promoting Bernie Sanders. And the result was Cooper "on the receiving end of a brutal pronoun smackdown."
Cooper called out Grace Thomas, a Democrat activist.
"I want to introduce Grace Thomas. She's a local civil rights attorney," Cooper said.
Thomas immediately corrected him: "It's they/them pronouns, actually."
The Gateway Pundit furthered the story: "And the irony? Grace—sorry, they—went on to ask Bernie Sanders a question about why 'men' are abandoning the Democrat Party. She demanded to be called they/them but was perfectly comfortable referring to an entire demographic as men. The hypocrisy was too loud to ignore."
Social media noticed: "Isn't she misgendering by calling people she doesn't know 'men'? At some point will she realize her ideas are insane?"
Collin Rugg, of Trending Politics, took to X, "CNN's Anderson Cooper gets corrected after misgendering a civil rights attorney at a town hall event with Bernie Sanders. Wow, what a bigot. Lmao."
Podcast host Riley Gaines demanded, "Anderson Cooper's immediate resignation for believing what his eyes were telling him he saw. Bigot."
The ideology of using pronouns that are often nonsensical to refer to people, because that's what they choose, comes out of the LGBT community, specifically the transgenders, who insist on being called the gender they are not because that's what they want.
Following the science, changing from male to female, or vice versa, doesn't happen, as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level.
Joe Biden was a radical fan of transgenderism, insisting on chemicals and surgical body mutilations even for children. President Donald Trump looked at the science and reversed that agenda immediately.
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Elon Musk, President Donald Trump's leader of DOGE, is now going to war with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, openly speculating the New York Democrat could be the recipient of "a piece of the action" through government fraud.
It started Monday evening, as Schumer launched an online attack in which he alleged the president "has unleashed chaos" on the nation:
Trump has unleashed chaos on America
—His tariffs hit families with largest tax hike in more than 50 years
—DOGE is sabotaging Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid
—The market is having its worst 3 days since COVIDAnd Congressional Republicans are going along with it all so they can cut taxes for billionaires.
Early Tuesday, Musk responded by saying: "Chuck, I'm starting to think you're getting a piece of the action with the government fraud. But no, that couldn't possibly be the reason, could it? …"
Many Americans have wondered recently how some members of Congress can be worth many millions of dollars on an annual salary of less than $200,000 per year.
The current annual salary for a U.S. senator – as well as members of the U.S. House of Representatives – is $174,000, more than double the median household income which currently stands at $82,207, according to MotioResearch.
As WorldNetDaily reported, Musk previously wondered in March: "A lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress, where I just can't, I'm trying to connect the dots of how they became rich."
"How'd they get $20 million if they're earning $200,000 a year? Nobody can explain that. We're gonna try to figure it out, and certainly stop it from happening."
The Daily Mail reported: "Musk has specifically taken aim at Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren, whose cumulative net worth is said to total an estimated $439 million in a post shared to Musk's X account."
Meanwhile, Trump on Tuesday continued to promote his success with tariffs, indicating on Truth Social: "I just had a great call with the Acting President of South Korea.
"We talked about their tremendous and unsustainable Surplus, Tariffs, Shipbuilding, large scale purchase of U.S. LNG, their joint venture in an Alaska Pipeline, and payment for the big-time Military Protection we provide to South Korea.
"They began these Military payments during my first term, Billions of Dollars, but Sleepy Joe Biden, for reasons unknown, terminated the deal. That was a shocker to all! In any event, we have the confines and probability of a great DEAL for both countries.
"Their top TEAM is on a plane heading to the U.S., and things are looking good. We are likewise dealing with many other countries, all of whom want to make a deal with the United States. Like with South Korea, we are bringing up other subjects that are not covered by Trade and Tariffs, and getting them negotiated also.
"'ONE STOP SHOPPING' is a beautiful and efficient process!!! China also wants to make a deal, badly, but they don't know how to get it started. We are waiting for their call. It will happen! GOD BLESS THE USA."
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The two U.S. senators from Wyoming are co-sponsoring a plan that immediately would address the problem of leftist federal judges at the entry-court level, in district courts, who have been controlling America's nationwide security and safety policies through their injunctions.
It would simply remove their authority to issue those mandates that follow their own political agendas.
District judges were fans of the practice during President Donald Trump's first term, and immediately resumed their activism when he took office for his second term.
So far, they've issued at least 17 nationwide injunctions that prevent Trump's administration from effectively working to protect the nation's borders, its security, and its safety.
Sens. John Barrasso, the Senate majority whip, and Cynthia Lummis, both Wyoming Republicans, are working on the Judicial Relief Clarification Act, along with a couple dozen other senators.
The chief sponsor is Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and the chief of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Already, one hearing has been held on the plan that would take away from the nation's 677 federal district judges the authority to issue nationwide injunctions, through which several of the judges have tried to control the nation's international policy and practices.
The plan would allow district judges to issue injunctions that would impact only the parties before the court.
"Essentially under JRCA, judges could not halt actions by President Donald Trump's administration on a national level," reported the Cowboy State Daily.
Barrasso explained, 'The Senate Judiciary Committee already started hearings on this legislation, and I expect it will be debated on the Senate floor soon."
The bill also would also make temporary restraining orders immediately appealable.
"Judges are not policymakers — and they have not been elected by the American people to legislate," Lummis told the publication. "Our courts should not be a tool for far-left activists to obstruct every part of President Trump's agenda."
Barrasso has warned, in support of the bill, that "partisan, unelected, district court judges" are trying to "micromanage the president of the United States."
Similar legislation is being developed in the House. There it is called the No Rogue Rulings Act.
According to the report, U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., explained at a hearing recently that judges issuing those nationwide rulings "might be violating federal regulations related to bond."
"They have not been requiring the parties seeking the injunction to put up a bond," she explained.
"Bonds are generally required of plaintiffs seeking a temporary restraining order to cover the costs to defendants in the event that a TRO is granted, but later found to be wrongly issued," the report explained.
Hageman specifically cited James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., for an injunction that purportedly barred Trump from deporting illegal alien criminals.
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It's one of the most famous events in all of the Bible, prominently featured in both the Old and New Testaments.
Passover broadcasts the message of rescuing people from the death penalty through the slaying of a lamb, whom Christians believe represents Jesus Christ, called the Lamb of God.
But as millions of believers across the globe commemorate the annual event this year, there are some intriguing aspects to the original Passover that many may have overlooked or never understood.
"The original event involving Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt is quite famous, but there are numerous hidden nuggets that are bursting with new life when they're understood at the Spirit level," says author Joe Kovacs, who examines Passover in depth in his latest best-seller, "Reaching God Speed: Unlocking the Secret broadcast Revealing the Mystery of Everything."
"We need to remember that Jesus only taught people in parables, and 'without a parable, He did not speak'" (Matthew 13:34 NKJV).
"That means everything is a parable, in addition to the actual historical event taking place."
Kovacs says one of the verses that people may read over quickly without giving it much thought is Exodus 12:30, which states:
"And there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn't a house without someone dead" (CSB).
The author stresses while this physical event did happen thousands of years ago, this single sentence broadcasts an additional message for all time periods.
"The loud wailing throughout Egypt represents everyone's painful time here in the flesh," says Kovacs. "The word Egypt, which is 'Mizraim' in Hebrew, means what it pretty much sounds like in English: MISERY. We all experience a lot of misery, pain, anguish, and weeping in the darkness of the flesh in which we're currently held in captivity."
"The fact that the story mentions every house had someone dead is also saying something extremely important on the higher level of Godspeed. Because every single person in the physical world is already spiritually dead in the sight of God! Our house is our own body, and we all live in this 'body of death,' as the apostle Paul called it in Romans 7:24.
"We need to make our personal Exodus out of Egypt, out of this dark place of misery, out of our dead house, out of our dead physical body, out of our sinful self, and live forever with God."
Another verse that many people often overlook is Exodus 12:22, which states: "None of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning" (KJV).
"When our eyes and ears are opened to God's Spirit, understanding this on the parable level becomes quite simple," says Kovacs.
"Because our house is our own physical body, our literal daily dwelling place, this verse is telling us that we won't be exiting our body during this spiritual night time in which we dwell in the flesh. We will leave our house, our body of flesh, when the morning light, who is Jesus Himself, returns. Remember that Jesus calls Himself 'the bright and morning star' (Revelation 22:16 KJV). It is in the morning, when the light overcomes the darkness, that we exit our current house and become the 'children of light.' (1 Thessalonians 5:5 KJV)."
"This is why Exodus 12:10 says of the lamb itself, 'You must not leave any of it until morning.' (CSB) Because there won't be any of the flesh left when the morning comes! People's physical bodies will be completely transformed, finally reaching their eternally alive Spirit state once the morning light returns!"
Yet another hidden gem lies in Exodus 12:38, stating: "Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds" (NIV).
Kovacs explains, "When we remember that God is often 'declaring the end from the beginning' (Isaiah 46:10 KJV), telling us the conclusion of the story right from the start, it becomes obvious what's being said because it deals with the very happy ending to mankind's story.
"Here's the translation: Many other people besides the Israelites also will be saved through the blood of the Passover and go up, as in being resurrected to eternal life. The mention of large numbers of livestock, flocks, and herds merely repeats this fact, since animals symbolize people in Scripture, as Jesus even called His own followers 'lambs' and 'sheep.' And 'large droves,' at the parable level of God speed, suggest numbers that are so enormous, they're hard to grasp.
"So when we open our eyes to see and ears to hear the additional messages the Spirit of God has embedded in Scripture, the Good News is even more sensational than we already thought!"
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A transgender agenda adopted by many school districts across the nation, a policy that is being challenged over and over by parents, has taken a huge hit in a court in the leftist state of California.
There, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit by a mother against the Chico Unified School District over the decision by officials there to covertly help her fifth-grade daughter's "gender transition."
That's the idea that a girl can become a boy, or vice versa, through chemicals and body mutilating surgeries, even though that, by science, can't happen as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level.
Nevertheless, as part of the agenda, wildly and extensively promoted by Joe Biden while he was in office, schools often allow their teachers, counselors, and others to persuade children they are transgender. Then they facilitate treatments for the child, all the while keeping their actions secret from parents who almost never would approve.
According to a report from the Center for American Liberty, an organization launched by attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon, who now is serving in the Trump administration, "The Constitution is clear, parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children. Government-run schools cannot usurp that role behind closed doors."
The report called the decision from the 9th Circuit a "significant First and Fourteenth Amendment victory."
The appeals court ruled that the case brought by Aurora Regino "may proceed, reversing a lower court's dismissal."
The decision said, "the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children."
"Today's decision restores hope to parents nationwide that their rights don't end when their children enter the classroom," said Mark Trammell, CEO of the Center for American Liberty. "The Constitution is clear, parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children. Government-run schools cannot usurp that role behind closed doors."
"Regino filed the lawsuit after learning that her 11-year-old daughter's school had been affirming a new gender identity, complete with name and pronoun changes, over a period of weeks, all without any notification to or involvement from her. At the time, her daughter was struggling with mental health issues, including anxiety and depression," the organization reported.
Regino said, "No mother should ever be blindsided by a secret school policy that excludes parents from life-changing interventions."
The opinion also said that "the right to familial association encompasses the right of parents to make important decisions about their children's health and education," a conclusion that is seen as putting guardrails around "ideologically driven practices in public education."
The organization reported the case began for Regino's daughter, A.S. "when an elementary school guidance counselor decided to socially transition her from female to male without Aurora's consent. In fact, the school never even notified Aurora that this transition was happening."
The CAL said, "It took the school guidance counselor just minutes to determine (1) that A.S. was really a boy, and (2) that at school A.S. would have a male identity: new name, new pronouns, etc.—after A.S. confidentially expressed gender confusion to her. But it took no time at all for the Chico Unified School District to decide to socially transition A.S. without so much as a phone call to her mother, Aurora."
In California, extremists at the state level decided that schools are prohibited from telling parents about such "gender transitions."
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently has been critical of district judges across the nation "shaping national policy" by asserting that they have control over certain Executive Branch responsibilities, issuing nationwide injunctions, and more.
During a recent interview with "Kudlow" he warned that this is a pivotal moment in history as, "You cannot have individual, random district judges who get up in the morning and say, 'I think I'll play president tonight, today. And some of their rulings are crazy."
But it's getting worse, to the point he believes America now is living through a potential "judicial coup d'etat."
"There is clearly a potential constitutional crisis involving the Judicial Branch's effort to fully override the Legislative and Executive branches," he said in testimony to Congress.
He pointed out that 15 lower court judges "effectively seized control of various Executive Branch duties" during just the first six weeks of President Donald Trump's second term.
"This is potentially a judicial coup d'etat," he confirmed. "It clearly violates the Constitution and more than 200 years of American history."
He said during the "Kudlow" interview, "There are already more of these [rulings] coming down the road than the Supreme Court has ever heard in a single term. I would hope that the Supreme Court Chief Justice [John Roberts] would intervene, indicate that there's something clearly wrong here, and that they're going to follow a procedure so that the executive branch is not being dictated to by random individual district judges."
He said Roberts' response to the crisis so far has been abysmal.
"He put out a press release about 10 days ago lecturing President Trump and saying there's an appeals process. That's nonsense. If you are involved with crime, with violence, with national security, you can't have some judge make rendered an injunction," Gingrich said. "And then, six weeks, eight weeks, nine weeks from now, maybe it'll get taken up."
The Gateway Pundit noted his testimony to Congress was before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet and the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government.
Gingrich also pointed out that there were 12 federal judges appointed by President John Adams "on his way out of office to hamstring incoming President Thomas Jefferson's agenda."
Impeachment was too slow, so Jefferson and Congress "simply abolished the courts in which they served via the Judiciary Act of 1802," he said.
He also noted the huge number of nationwide injunctions that judges are using to target the Trump administration.
And more than 90% are from "judges appointed by Democratic presidents."
"The notion that unelected lawyers can micromanage the Executive Branch – and override a Commander in Chief who received 77.3 million votes – should trouble every American," he warned.
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'To engage in conduct that advises anyone to defy court orders and kidnap their child would be contrary to our biblical, Christian, and professional ethics'
A legal fight has involved nine years in the courts. And 25 depositions. And 186,000 documents. And 6,800 pages of transcripts.
And the conclusion from a federal judge is that Liberty Counsel, a prominent legal team that routinely works on a multitude of civil and religious rights issues, had no involvement in a lesbian's fight over custody of a child.
Judge William K. Sessions III ruled that Liberty Counsel did not "engage in, aid, or abet any conspiracy" over a situation that developed when one woman, Lisa Miller, left the lesbian lifestyle choice, and took with her her child.
The other half of the duo, Janet Jenkins, sued over custody of the child and Miller was represented for a time by Liberty Counsel.
Then, however, things took a strange turn, resulting in Jenkins' lawsuit, to which she, years later, added Liberty Counsel, demanding the stunning sum of $200 billion in damages.
Liberty Counsel chairman Mat Staver explained, "Liberty Counsel never did anything wrong and this ruling is a complete and total exoneration. To engage in conduct that advises anyone to defy court orders and kidnap their child would be contrary to our biblical, Christian, and professional ethics. This frivolous lawsuit by the Southern Poverty Law Center was pure lawfare designed to destroy Liberty Counsel. The truth has prevailed."
The unusual circumstances developed during a time when leftists still were assembling their program for same-sex marriage, a status later granted in a questionable ruling, by the U.S. Supreme Court.
At the time, before the Supreme Court ruled, Miller and Jenkins entered into a "civil union" in Vermont. Then Miller dissolved that civil union, but the courts awarded Jenkins rights to a then 2-year-old girl as a "legal parent" and gave her visitation.
Miller complied for a time, but then the child reported abuse.
The Liberty Counsel involvement happened when Miller dissolved her union to Jenkins and moved to Virginia, where the fight put the laws of Virginia, which did not recognize civil unions, against the laws of Vermont, which did.
"The Vermont court eventually ordered visitation rights to Jenkins. Miller complied until Isabella complained of abuse," Liberty Counsel explained.
However, while legal cases were under way in two states, Miller "suddenly fled with Isabella to Nicaragua. When Liberty Counsel became aware, it informed the court and sought to withdraw from the case," the report said.
The legal team explained it was a "complete and total victory" in the civil case that "falsely alleged Liberty Counsel advised a former client to flee … ."
Lawyer Rena Lindevaldsen had been added to the lawsuit by Jenkins at the same time Liberty Counsel was added, and the ruling from the judge exonerated her, too.
Further, Sessions noted the lawsuit also was barred by the statute of limitations.
Other people eventually were identified as having helped Miller flee with her daughter, and they were indicted.
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Maine residents are more aligned with President Donald Trump than their own governor over the concept of men, even those who say they are women, participating in womens 'athletics.
Trump has declared that the U.S. government recognizes two genders, male and female, and has worked to halt the promotion of the vast range of alternative sexual lifestyle choices. He issued an executive order to bar males from girls' and women's competitions.
Maine's governor, Janet Mills, has insisted on defying Trump, and the federal Office of Civil Rights in the Health and Human Services Department, and pushing for those making those lifestyle choices to participate where they choose.
Fox News has pointed out Maine's refusal to follow the rules has left the state in "noncompliance with Title IX" and the state has been referred to the Justice Department for possible prosecution.
Now the results of a polling by the University of New Hampshire reveal that Mills is off base, when it comes to her voters.
The poll confirms that some two-thirds of the state's residents, 64%, believe transgender athletes "definitely should not" or "probably should not" participate in girls' and women's sports.
"Only 29% of Maine residents believed that transgender athletes 'probably should' or 'definitely should' compete against girls and women in sports," the report said.
Even among Democrats whose party has promoted the transgender ideology extensively during the tenure in Washington of Joe Biden, only 56% endorsed men who call themselves women in women's sprots.
Half of the poll's respondents said the enforcement of those standards should be at the federal level, another 41% said it should be up to the states.
The polling surveyed 1,057 Maine residents from March 24-30, with a margin of error of 3%.
The report described how officials in the state continue "to thumb their nose at Trump's 'No Men in Women's Sports' executive order from February.
The HHS said the state's refusal to follow the law has been referred to the Department of Justice.
Maine officials have said they are following state law, suggesting that supersedes federal law on this question.
"The situation involving the trans athlete at Greely High School attracted national attention after Maine Republican state Rep. Laurel Libby identified the athlete by name with a photograph in a social media post. Libby was later censured by the Maine legislature, and she has since filed a lawsuit to have it overturned," the report said.
OCR Acting Director Anthony Archeval explained, "What HHS is asking of the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals' Association (MPA) and Greely High School is simple — protect female athletes' rights. Girls deserve girls-only sports without male competitors. And if Maine won't come to the table to voluntarily comply with Title IX, HHS will enforce Title IX to the fullest extent permitted by the law."
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Concerns over Communist China's navy and the threat it poses to U.S. interests have increased at alarming rates through the years, with multiple reports revealing that China is outpacing the United States in both naval and commercial ship production.
For the U.S., the shipbuilding industry is unquestionably vital to its economy and its national security. For this reason, on March 4 President Donald Trump announced in a joint address to Congress that he would "create a new office of shipbuilding in the White House and offer special tax incentives [for the sector]."
WorldNetDaily interviewed Col. Grant Newsham, USMC-Ret., who once served as the first Marine liaison officer to the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. According to Newsham, "The Chinese shipbuilding industry and its dominance didn't come about by coincidence," adding, "The Chinese Communist Party placing priority on shipbuilding is just one segment of the strategy of [becoming] the world leader in manufacturing."
"Shipbuilding," Newsham noted, "is a 'big ticket' industry. It's immensely profitable when you dominate a market – especially one that provides products – ships in this case – that all other nations depend on, either directly or indirectly." It is that dependency, he stressed, that "gives China leverage over countries it regards as rivals and even enemies."
"All in all," he said, "the CCP views shipbuilding as one front in the 'economic warfare' it conducts against the USA and the West – and it has been hugely successful in strengthening itself and its relative position while beating down its adversaries."
For Newsham, resurrecting America's shipbuilding industry, both military and commercial, is a must. The economic benefits cannot be disputed. "Control and independence" are essential to the international trade network, he said, explaining that "a trading nation with global interests like the United States needs to have its own commercial fleet."
And with trading activity comes the need for security. "Enemies will try to interdict your trading activities, and your commercial ships," Newsham pointed out. "This requires a large enough navy to protect trade," which he asserted is "literally the lifeblood of the United States." For Newsham, "A powerful Navy and a large commercial fleet go hand in hand for a country like the United States."
Thus, a build-up of the U.S. Navy is "indispensable," according to Newsham. "Without a large enough and powerful enough U.S. Navy," he warned, "the United States could easily become a second-rate nation dominated by enemies with powerful navies that can – either individually or collectively – dictate how what and with whom America trades."
What's more, in a warfighting capacity, the retired Marine Corps officer said, "You have simply got to have enough ships to deploy as needed far-and-wide and [the ability] to concentrate them in force as needed."
"Technology does not make up for numbers, except perhaps if you're fighting pirates off of Somalia or Nigeria," he argued. "Even then the bad guys are getting technology that can cause even a modern Navy considerable trouble. We're seeing this phenomenon play out against the Houthis in Yemen."
"Even with Iranian help," Newsham explained, "the Houthis are a third- or fourth-rate force, but you can see how we need U.S. Navy ships in adequate numbers in order to defeat them and re-open a key global trade artery." For Newsham, it's worth noticing that "our European allies that have shrunken navies are basically of no help and would, by themselves, be unable to keep the Red Sea open."
"The lesson here: You must have numbers, and Mr. Trump is right to try to revive U.S. commercial and military shipbuilding capabilities."
Newsham is the author of the 2023 book "When China Attacks: A Warning to America."