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Amid a Trump administration war on anti-Semitism, which has moved from a number of universities with such policies to the broader scope of American society, a lawsuit has been filed by the Department of Justice over the alleged actions at a California coffee shop.
And the action was accompanied by a warning from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
"You can't do that. And so we've sued them, and we're going to stop this from happening. And anywhere in the country, if you do this, we're coming after you," she said.
Newsweek reports that a lawyer, Glenn Katon, for the "Jerusalem Coffee House," denied all the accusations it refused to serve Jews.
"Neither the owner nor staff are anti-Semitic, and they would not tolerate anti-Semitism in their cafe," Katon said.
The action alleges the coffee shop denied service to two customers wearing the Star of David, which the owner denied.
"According to the civil complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, one customer visited the coffee shop while scoping out a nearby venue for a workplace event. He was wearing a baseball cap with the Hebrew words 'Am Yisraeli Chai,' which translates to 'The people of lsrael live,'" the report said.
He was confronted by a man who accused him, as a Jew, of being complicit in Israel's defense of its own population following the Hamas terror attack on Israel on Oct. 7.
The customer returned later, to be told he was not welcome, with "owner Fathi Abdulrahim Harara then allegedly joining yelling 'Jew' and 'Zionist' at him in the street," the report said.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, said, "It is illegal, intolerable, and reprehensible for any American business open to the public to refuse to serve Jewish customers. Through our vigorous enforcement of Title II of the Civil Rights Act and other laws prohibiting race and religious discrimination, the Justice Department is committed to combatting anti-Semitism and discrimination and protecting the civil rights of all Americans."
The report said a similar circumstance happened to another Jewish customer, who allegedly was told to leave.
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley said the events also have triggered a private lawsuit by the Anti-Defamation League.
"The federal lawsuit notes that, on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, the Jerusalem Coffee House announced two new drinks: 'Iced In Tea Fada,' an obvious reference to 'intifada.' It also introduced as drink, 'Sweet Sinwar,' an apparent reference to Yahya Sinwar, the former leader of Hamas who orchestrated the massacre," he explained.
The complaint also charges the coffee house's exterior side wall displays inverted red triangles, a symbol of violence against Jews that has been spray-painted on Jewish homes and synagogues in anti-Semitic attacks, he noted.
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Following years of science-defying agendas imposed by the Joe Biden administration for students, teachers and more, the U.S. Department of Educations has concluded that sororities are for women.
A commentary in the Daily Signal explains the precedent that is a direct hit on the common pro-LGBT agendas that have been imposed on colleges and schools, especially the "T" agenda, which claims men can become women and vice versa.
Following science, that doesn't happen, as being male or female is embedded in the body down to the DNA level, and no chemical or surgical treatment changes that.
"The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights just affirmed what every sorority woman in America knew the first time she walked into her chapter—a sorority is for women," the report explained.
"A sorority that admits male students is no longer a sorority by definition and thus loses the Title IX statutory exemption for a sorority's single-sex membership practices," the department statement said.
"Translation: If you let men in, you're not a women's organization anymore. You're just another coed club—one that fails to understand basic biology and forces radical leftist groupthink on its female members," the report said.
."This Education Department clarification carries enormous weight—it reaffirms the long-standing legal basis for single-sex sororities under Title IX," the report said.
The report cited the fracas that developed at the University of Wyoming in 2022.
Then, "Kappa Kappa Gamma's national leadership forced its University of Wyoming chapter to accept Artemis Langford, a 6-foot-2, 260-pound man, despite the protests of women in the house. When some brave sorority members took legal action, they were dismissed as bigots," the report said.
"According to court documents, multiple female collegiate sorority members testified that Langford would linger in common areas in the KKG house, stare at them, and become visibly aroused. To add insult to injury, the activist judge told the young women they had no right to define what 'woman' even means in their own sorority," it explained.
The report said the Office for Civil Rights in the federal government now is investigating the school for "allegedly allowing males to join and live in female-only intimate and communal spaces."
The report explained sorority officials, from Kappa Kappa Gamma as well as Phi Mu actually expelled longtime members for opposing males inside sorority houses.
"We watched as Payton McNabb—the young woman permanently injured by a trans-identifying male volleyball player—was kicked out of Delta Zeta for daring to confront a man wearing a dress in the women's restroom on her college campus at Western Carolina University," the report said.
The report said, "Here's the reality: Title IX has had a carve-out for single-sex organizations almost from its inception. That means sororities and fraternities have a legal right to exist as women-only and men-only spaces. But if you start letting men who 'identify as women' into the sisterhood, you forfeit that protection. The colleges and universities that support you are now on notice: Support a sorority that admits men and you lose the legal exception."
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Many schools across America now are under the influence of leftist administrators, anti-faith teachers' unions, anti-Christian teachers.
And the schools' actions reflect the personal ideologies and religious beliefs, or non-beliefs, of their faculty and managers.
But the American Center for Law and Justice has come across one that has gone to extremes.
It ripped down posters for being too Christian, it ordered a student club to discontinue using the "Good News" name, it ordered censorship of well-known Bible verses and a cross image, it demanded access to planned promotions to determine "whether they were too religious," it banned an entire video series planned by the club, and tore down posters a second time.
"School officials took over and started running the club, insisting on what religious materials were and were not acceptable," the ACLJ reported. "This is viewpoint discrimination in its purest form – and it's unlawful."
The organization explained it has dispatched a demand letter, often a precursor to a lawsuit, to the school as it defends "the constitutional rights of a high school student in New York whose Christian beliefs and religious expression have been repeatedly blocked by school officials."
The organization cited violations of both the First Amendment and the Equal Access Act.
"We are representing a family whose daughter, Jenna, a ninth-grade student at Carmel High School, was denied her right to express her Christian faith and conduct a student Bible club – something countless other students at the school are freely allowed to do. Jenna's only 'offense' was her desire to encourage her peers and share the hope of her faith. For that, school officials took extreme measures to silence her," the ACLJ reported.
"After persistent efforts to gain approval for her faith-based group, Jenna finally received permission to form her club. But her constitutional struggle was far from over. To kick off the Bible club, she created simple posters that announced the club's upcoming meeting. The posters included a welcoming message, a handful of well-known Bible verses, a cross, and an invitation for all students – something Jenna herself feels strongly about – to attend and be encouraged by the words of Jesus. Still, school officials removed the posters from the hallways."
They explained she used "too many Bible verses." And they told her the club could not be the "Good News Club."
"Her posters were censored because they were Christian, and she had her religious messages removed. School officials went as far as insisting on reviewing her posters to determine whether they were too religious," the legal team explained.
Even after she met every demand from the school, officials there decided to "double down."
"When her group decided to show a faith-based video series meant to strengthen students in their personal battles of the mind and spirit – her new posters were again torn down. This time, administrators went even further, banning the entire video series from being shown, citing vague 'complaints' about the religious content," the report said.
Then the school officials demanded to decide "what religious materials were and were not acceptable."
The ACLJ pointed out the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed students' rights to have Bible clubs. It fought and won the Board of Education v. Mergens precedent more than three decades ago.
The student is protected under both of the federal precedents, and "The law is clear: School officials cannot censor religious speech simply because others might disagree with it," the report said.
What the school needs to do is end its "unconstitutional suppression of this student's rights and provide written assurances that Jenna and her peers may meet and express their religious views without interference. If the district refuses, we are fully prepared to file a lawsuit," the ACLJ said.
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Elon offers 'olive branch' as conversation being set up
The day-long word war between Tesla and X billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump may be reaching a détente.
The two had worked together on the president's Department of Government Efficiency for months, and reportedly had found about$170 billion in spending to cut in their war on criminal activity, waste, fraud and corruption.
Then, when the House adopted a piece of legislation turning many of Trump's executive orders into law, Musk erupted in frustration that it didn't cut enough.
Trump, meanwhile, is working with a fractious Congress and even multiple factions within his own GOP.
The two exchanged hot words for hours. Musk said Trump was in the Epstein files and Musk called for Trump's impeachment.
White House aides tried to organize a call and Musk, late Thursday "tried to de-escalate," according to a report in the Daily Mail.
Trump even had called for Musk to be deported, and Musk's stock dropped billions in value as traders fled his companies.
"Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman stepped into the fray, posting a plea on X for the two men to reconcile 'for the benefit of our great country,' warning that 'we are much stronger together than apart,'" the report explained.
Musk responded, "You're not wrong."
The comment appeared to some as an olive branch, and reports said the two megawealthy men would speak Friday.
Trump, in a late-night interview, shrugged off the feud, explaining, "It's okay."
The rhetoric had escalated to the point Trump called for Musk's federal contracts to be canceled and his companies stripped of security clearances and Musk responded to a social media call for the issue to "Cool off" and the two to "step back for a couple of days," with "Good advice."
Social media comments suggested Musk was upset that federal subsidies for the purchases of electric cars – his Teslas – were being cut. Trump said Musk was familiar with the details of the plans.
The lawyer who represented Jeffrey Epstein, who was a convicted sex offender and was awaiting the processing of more charges when he died, apparently by suicide, in a jail, confirmed in a statement that he had asked Epstein before he died, and Epstein confirmed he had no damaging information on Trump, although the two knew each other.
Trump said he had asked Musk to leave, prompting Musk's response.
"Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files," he said.
Musk offered no evidence for his claim.
The two previously have been compatriots, and enemies, consecutively. Musk was on two of Trump's advisory councils during his first term, but later stepped down. They also were at odds off and on in 2022 in social media.
Leftists unleashed a flood of insults at both men, with one claiming, "so the girls are fighting."
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The Supreme Court has, in a unanimous decision, blasted the discrimination set up by the state of Wisconsin when it banned Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior from participating in the church's less-costly unemployment compensation program.
The 9-0 decision means that Catholic Charities now can avoid being ordered to participate in the state's own less efficient and more costly plan.
The state based its discrimination on the fact that the charities programs offers help to the poor and needy in ways that were not "typical" religious actions.
"At the heart of Catholic Charities' ministry is Christ's call to care for the least of our brothers and sisters, without condition and without exception," said Bishop James Powers, bishop of the Diocese of Superior. "We're grateful the court unanimously recognized that improving the human condition by serving the poor is part of our religious exercise and has allowed us to continue serving those in need throughout our diocese and beyond."
Sonia Sotomayor wrote the opinion, deciding Wisconsin violated the Constitution by imposing "a denominational preference by differentiating between religions based on theological choices."
The ruling also noted "whether to express and inculcate religious doctrine through worship, proselytization, or religious education when performing charitable work are, again, fundamentally theological choices driven by the content of different religious doctrines."
According to Becket, which represented the religious organization, "Most Catholic dioceses have a social ministry arm that serves those in need. Catholic Charities carries out this important work for the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin, by helping the disabled, elderly, and those living in poverty—regardless of their faith. This belief that ministry to those in need should not be limited to Catholics flows directly from Catholic Social Teaching and is embodied in the Church's 'corporal works of mercy'—which include feeding the hungry and sheltering the homeless."
Wisconsin law exempts nonprofits that run primarily for religious purposes from the state's unemployment compensation program. The leftists on the state Supreme Court, however, rejected that standard because Catholic Charities serves everyone, not just Catholics.
"Wisconsin shouldn't have picked this fight in the first place," said Eric Rassbach, of Becket. "It was always absurd to claim that Catholic Charities wasn't religious because it helps everyone, no matter their religion. Today, the Court resoundingly reaffirmed a fundamental truth of our constitutional order: the First Amendment protects all religious beliefs, not just those the government favors."
The decision said Wisconsin's arguments fail because "the State has not met its burden to show that the law's application is narrowly tailored to further a compelling government interest. Wisconsin contends that the exemption advances two principal interests. First, it argues that the law serves a compelling state interest in ensuring unemployment coverage for its citizens. The State, however, has failed to demonstrate that the theological lines drawn by the statute are narrowly tailored to advance that interest, particularly as applied to petitioners.
"Indeed, petitioners operate their own unemployment compensation system, which provides benefits largely equivalent to the state system. The distinctions drawn by Wisconsin's regime, moreover, are underinclusive, exempting religious entities that provide similar services (i.e., without proselytizing or serving only co-religionists) when the work is done directly by a church. Second, the State asserts an interest in avoiding entanglement with employment decisions based on religious doctrine. Resolving misconduct disputes for employees tasked with inculcating religious faith, the State argues, may require it to decide whether those employees complied with religious doctrine. The lines drawn by the exemption, however, are overinclusive in relation to that interest, for they operate at the organizational level, covering employees that do and do not inculcate religious doctrine in equal measure. This poor fit between the State's asserted interests and the distinctions drawn cannot satisfy strict scrutiny."
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'Yo, mom and dad, where you at on this one?'
A school has launched an investigation after a kindergartner brought booze-infused Jell-O shots and gave them to classmates.
The classmates were checked out by medical experts to make sure they were all right.
But a comment at Not the Bee seemed to vocalize the question many were asking: "Yo, mom and dad, where you at on this one??"
The scenario developed at Johnstown Elementary School in western Pennsylvania.
"Out of an abundance of caution," explained Supt. Amy Arcurio in the report, "Emergency Medical Servcies (EMS) were called to assess and transport the students to a local hospital for appropriate medical care."
Arcurio's message to parents explained when school staff found out, "immediate action was taken," with students being taken to the nurse's office, then hospital.
"We are currently in possession of the jello cups and the matter is under investigation," the statement said. "We are cooperating fully with local authorities to determine how the student came into possession of these items and to ensure the continued safety of our students and staff."
Privacy laws don't allow her to share "specific details," she said.
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Pornography has exploded from "dirty" magazines to a multi-billion-dollar global industry on the web.
It's influencing children more and more as they have access with the click of a computer mouse, it's affecting men's sexual health, it's changing perceptions of reality, it's fueling addictions and it's generating truckloads of cash for the players involved.
But all of a sudden, a speed bump has appeared: One of the most progressive nations in the world abruptly has taken legal action against one of the most popular porn platforms, OnlyFans, after concluding online acts are no different than prostitution.
It is a report in the Washington Stand that has described how the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament, adopted a law forbidding people from offering OnlyFans webcam performers money in exchange for performing a specific sexual act.
"Under the new law, which takes effect July 1, anyone found guilty of buying a personalized sexual act (but not those selling it) face up to one year in prison, and anyone guilty of financially exploiting the person carrying out the sex act could face four years in prison," the report said.
Teresa Carvalho, of the liberal Social Democratic Party, explained, "This is a new form of sex sales and it is high time that we modernize sex sales, and that we also include sales that occur remotely on digital platforms such as OnlyFans."
There is, she confirmed, "a dark picture behind [OnlyFans performances that involve] drugs, human trafficking and abuse, as well as being a gateway to more prostitution."
The law, she said, is intended to protect children and young people.
The Washington Stand reported, "The law criminalizes only paying for personalized interactions, not subscribing to prerecorded pornographic content. But even such a limited protection would eliminate the majority of the pornographic websites' cash flow. Keily Blair, CEO of OnlyFans, told The Wall Street Journal last December that pay-per-view messages make up 59% of the platform's total revenue, while OnlyFans derives 41% from subscription fees."
Marcel van der Watt of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation commended Sweden "for making a concerted effort to confront sex trafficking and prostitution that happens online."
The online prostitution, analysts confirm, is the start of a road that leads to physical prostitution.
Van der Watt said eliminating the "buyers" of prostitution will help bring sexual exploitation to an end.
Reem Alsalem, the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, welcomed the move.
"As I recommended in my report on prostitution and [violence against women and girls], States must adopt a standard approach to online and offline prostitution.
The platform itself repeatedly has been accused of misusing and abusing victims, and policymakers have charged that there's evidence of child sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and other forms of exploitation.
Multiple testimonials have confirmed the industry uses and abuses women and girls, and NCOSE sought a Justice Department investigation a year ago on the evidence, but the Joe Biden administration took no action.
The corporations owning such sites shield themselves under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which says they cannot be prosecuted for videos created by others.
Such online images are also blamed regularly for the actions of the mentally unstable, such as stalkers who pursue performers and those who threaten their lives.
The Stand reported: "In 2022, Wisconsin police arrested a 45-year-old former high school swim coach who drove more than 400 miles to stalk an unnamed female OnlyFans creator whom he had been interacting with online. He followed her to a baseball game and paid a boy to hand-deliver a note to her containing $200. He later sent her pictures of her apartment and from the baseball game with the menacing message, 'I was ten feet away from you.' He later said he watched her have sex with her boyfriend through her apartment window and accused her of cheating on him."
The report noted that OnlyFans reported revenue last year of $1.3 billion.
Sweden previously adopted a law to ban buying sexual services "without punishing the seller."
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A suspect arrested while screaming "Free, free Palestine" in the ambush shooting deaths of a Jewish couple in Washington, D.C., has been linked to an extremist organization that advocates the demise of capitalism and the rise of socialism.
The organization, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, at one point acknowledged shooting suspect Elias Rodriguez as a member, but now is frantically issuing statements that he no longer is with the group, and they have not heard from him in years.
A report in the Washington Examiner identified Rodriguez as the suspect arrested for the shooting deaths of Israeli embassy staff members Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum late Wednesday.
The report said Rodriguez was featured in an Oct. 25, 2017, article for Liberation, the PSL's newspaper, titled "Chicago Demands Justice for Laquan, Not Money for Amazon."
Its focus is a protest outside the residence of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel over an Amazon business deal, and the death of Laquan McDonald.
"The wealth that Amazon has brought to Seattle has not been shared with its Black residents," Rodriguez claimed at that time, linking the death of McDonald and Amazon plans.
"[Amazon's] whitening of Seattle is structurally racist and a direct danger to all workers who live in that city. So do we in Chicago and all across the country want a nation of cities dominated and occupied by massive corporations where only the rich and white can live and the vast majority of us must live on the edges of the city and society living in deeper and deeper poverty?"
The page was taken down but still appeared in an archived version on the Wayback Machine.
PSL responded to reporting of the link immediately.
"We reject any attempt to associate the PSL with the DC shooting. Elias Rodriguez is not a member of the PSL. He had a brief association with one branch of the PSL that ended in 2017. We know of no contact with him in over 7 years. We have nothing to do with this shooting and do not support it," the party said.
President Donald Trump reacted with a rejection of the violence.
"These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW! Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA. Condolences to the families of the victims. So sad that such things as this can happen! God Bless You ALL!" Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
The two embassy workers were leaving at event at the Capital Jewish Museum when attacked by a suspect who apparently was Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago.
Reports said Rodriguez apparently was seen pacing back and forth outside the museum before he approached a group of four, which included the two victims.
He began shooting.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino called the attack an "act of terror" and said, "Last night's act of terror has the full attention of your FBI. Targeted acts of anti-Semitic violence are typically carried out by spineless, gutless cowards. And the penalties will be harsh as we tighten up this investigation and run down any additional leads. I should have additional updates for you shortly as I head back to FBI HQ."
Tal Naim Cohen, of the Israeli embassy, told Fox News, "We have full faith in law enforcement authorities on both the local and federal levels to apprehend the shooter and protect Israel's representatives and Jewish communities throughout the United States."
Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, said the deadly shooting was a "depraved act of anti-Semitic(sic) terrorism" in a social media statement.
"Harming diplomats and the Jewish community is crossing a red line. We are confident that the US authorities will take strong action against those responsible for this criminal act. Israel will continue to act resolutely to protect its citizens and representatives – everywhere in the world," he wrote.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement from his office, said he was outraged.
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In his Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa today, President Trump showed a surprise video roundup of political leaders from that country calling for the death of white farmers, a longtime reality that recently resulted in white South African refugees arriving in the U.S.
Trump challenged the foreign leader with a stack of recent news stories about white South Africans being murdered and their farms being seized. Referring to a scene from the video showing white crosses, each representing a murdered South African, Trump said, "It's a terrible sight."
The video, entitled "Proof of Persecution in South Africa," was posted on X by the White House:
President Trump responded to a reporter's question about the future of the relationship between the U.S. and South Africa:
Later, Trump asked Ramaphosa to explain how such persecution could continue, noting, "They happen to be white, and they happen to be farmers."
President Trump asked his counterpart why those inciting violence against white South Africans are not arrested:
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Don't mess with Texas – at least not after a law goes into effect barring men from competing in women's sporting events.
As a result of a man winning five gold medals at a San Antonio swim meet in April, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into the sponsor of the event, U.S. Master's Swimming.
According to Fox News Digital, multiple female swimmers were unaware that the winning competitor was a biological male.
"The policy of U.S. Masters Swimming, which allows men to compete in women's events, is reprehensible and could violate Texas's consumer protection laws," Paxton said in an announcement. "Not only is this policy insulting to female athletes, but it also demonstrates deep contempt for women and may violate Texas law. I will fight to stop these unfair policies and never back down from defending the integrity of women's sports."
The swimmer in question, a 47-year-old who goes by Ana Caldas, won every race he entered, taking gold in the women's age 45-49 category in five races, including the 50- and 100-yard breaststroke, freestyle and the 100-yard individual medley.
Louisiana woman and long-time swimmer Wendy Enderle said she filed a request for an eligibility review. Besides the Paxton investigation, Enderle is also calling for action by the U.S. Department of Justice.
"I hope that U.S. Masters Swimming quickly adopts a more appropriate and fair policy in line with World Aquatics policy. I also would like to see U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi look into whether U.S. Masters Swimming violates Presidential Executive Order number 14201, Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports, dated Feb. 5, 2025," Enderle told Fox – though the president's order applies only to publicly funded entities, and U.S. Master's Swimming is a private organization.
"Thank you to the great state of Texas for standing up for women and girls!" added Enderle.
In June 2023, Texas passed the Save Women's Sports Act, which bans trans athletes from competing in girls and women's sports and only allows students to compete in the gender category listed on their birth certificate.
According to Fox News Digital, USMS policy allows transgender swimmers to participate in the gender competition category in which they identify, and they may also be recognized for accomplishments, if certain conditions are met.