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In recent years, we've seen drama play out on the podium at athletic competitions involving biological men competing as women.
In most cases, it's common knowledge when a man competes as a "transgender woman," and he often does well competing against real women.
But the man who won a women's powerlifting championship last weekend apparently fooled the very organization sponsoring the competition – and that group has now disqualified him after the fact.
According to a report at the Blaze, multiple competitors have spoken out about the controversy, with the runner-up, an actual woman, reportedly saying as she took the podium after the competition, "This is bulls**t."
Here is video of the incident:
The 2025 Official Strongman Games took place in Arlington, Texas, and saw lifter Jammie Booker, a biological male, defeat nine female competitors. As reported by Fitness Volt, Booker took home the narrow victory after runner-up Andrea Thompson finished seventh in the final event, edging her out by just a point.
On Tuesday, the strongman organization posted a statement to Instagram, the Blaze reported. The group says it was unaware that an athlete "who is biologically male and who now identifies as female" competed in the Women's Open category.
The organization said that had it been aware, the athlete would not have been permitted to compete in that category.
"We are clear – competitors can only compete in the category for the biological sex recorded at birth," the organization wrote.
The company said it had "disqualified the athlete in question" and that "athlete points and places will be altered accordingly" –- which means Thompson will be declared "The World's Strongest Woman."
The statement concluded: "The Official Strongman World Championships is an event which is rightly one of the pinnacles of the strength world. We are disappointed on behalf of all those who fairly and legitimately took part that the attention has been taken away from their efforts which deserve celebration, no matter how they performed or where they finished. We stand with them and stand with fairness."
Critics of Booker have pointed to a YouTube video seemingly posted in 2017, in which he described himself as a "21-year-old" transgender person with a "history of abuse, struggling to stay true to herself while under the rule of her religious parents."
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A federal judge has issued a ruling protecting Democrats James Comey and Letitia James from prosecution for now.
Comey, the ex-FBI chief, played a massive role in the Democrats' lawfare against President Trump, and was indicted for lying to Congress. James, who brought a fraud case against Trump's companies, obtained a half billion dollar judgment, then saw it tossed for being unconstitutional, was accused of mortgage fraud for lying on legal documents.
It was Cameron Currie, a South Carolina judge, who dismissed both cases that were being prosecuted by interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan.
"I agree with Mr. Comey that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid," the judge wrote. "And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Mr. Comey's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice."
Cases dismissed without prejudice ordinarily can be refiled, and the Department of Justice has the option to appeal the ruling from the judge at the entry level of the federal court system.
Currie, appointed by Bill Clinton, and was brought into the Virginia disputes because they were a conflict for judges in that state.
The cases ended up being consolidated.
A DOJ lawyer had said if there was a mistake, it was no more than "at best a paperwork error."
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Barack Obama took the United States far into left field during eight years in the White House. He imposed the injurious Obamacare, he paid Iran's terror regime billions and repeatedly belittled the nation's Christian heritage.
He then stayed in Washington after his terms, lining up to serve essentially a third term when Hillary Clinton ran in 2016, but was that plan was disrupted by President Donald Trump's victory.
He did get that "third term" when Joe Biden, his own vice president, was elected in that questionable 2020 vote.
And he's now staging meetings and plans to return his party to power, according to the Daily Mail.
That publication confirmed Obama, who became a multimillionaire based on deals he made when he left the White House, "has descended into Washington DC for a secret meeting with Democrats to plot his party's return to power after Donald Trump leaves office."
The report said Obama "huddled" with dozens of Democrat newcomers to the U.S. House in a meeting held by ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"The longtime Democratic leader was also spotted conniving in the shadows with one of the most progressive freshman Democratic lawmakers at the private event," the report revealed.
That would be Rep. Sarah McBride, a man who represents Delaware and is the first man who calls himself a woman to be in Congress.
The report explained McBride told Politico Obama's pathway forward for Democrats includes multiple voices.
"It's not going to be a former political leader or any single current political leader," McBride said.
Instead, the party's return will be because of "a broad bench of younger Democratic elected officials who can take the baton and carry it forward," he said.
Obama told lawmakers, "I get feeling discouraged sometimes. I get feeling worn out, tired, and embattled. But in our second term, Denis McDonough, my chief of staff, used to pass out stickers based on a conversation that he and I had had that talked about, 'we do not succumb to cynicism — cynicism is our enemy.' And it's pervasive in this town."
The report said Obama continued, "And that, I think, is our most important battle, right? We don't give into that, and then we're going to be able to figure out the same stuff."
He still, nearly two decades after he ascended to power at the Democratic National Convention in Denver prior to the 2008 election by planning to "fundamentally transform" America, is insisting his party is "creating the momentum and the opportunity for change."
He, of course, rode into the White House on unhappiness over the economy under George W. Bush, and his involvement in foreign wars.
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Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat from Arizona who long has built a reputation as an anti-Trump extremist, is getting scorched online for defending a video he and other leftists, like Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado, made urging a military insurrection in America.
Specifically, they repeatedly warned members of the CIA, the military and more they do not have to obey "illegal" orders, presumably orders with which they disagree politically.
"Sounds like the bluster of someone just caught openly calling for a military insurrection!" one commenter said.
It was Stephen Miller who pointed out the Democrats' desire for an insurrection:
To which Kelly responded: "I got shot at serving our country in combat, and I was there when your boss sent a violent mob to attack the Capitol. I know the difference between defending our Constitution and an insurrection, even if you don't."
Kelly, who served time as a military pilot, was the object of scorn: "I'm ashamed of your representation of me in D.C. Urging people to go against the orders of their commander in chief, implying what he orders them to do is unlawful. Which orders? Trump NEVER sent people to do harm or damage on Jan 6 you're a liar," one said.
Explained a commentary at Twitchy, "Sorry but anyone who claims the riots at the Capitol were an 'insurrection' immediately loses credibility."
Another likened Kelly to Hillary Clinton's aged, and false, claim that she arrived at an overseas location "under sniper fire," when there wasn't any.
Twitchy wondered, "Which illegal orders are they suggesting that members of the military should have disobeyed, or are they just playing pretend?"
In fact, no military unit could operate under the condition that every member could decide which orders are, or are not, illegal, and which they would obey.
The original call for a military insurrection:BREAKING: Elected Democrats just released a video encouraging members of the military to commit treason and DEFY orders from Trump and Hegseth
WND reported Democrats featured in the video are Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, a former CIA officer; Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, a former Navy captain and astronaut; Rep. Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, a former Navy officer; Rep. Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire, a former intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve; Rep. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, a former Air Force officer; and Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado, a former paratrooper and Army Ranger.
Others noted:
"This is seditious conspiracy. Arrest every one of them."
"That's a helluva way for the Dems to advocate for military members ending their careers."
"Every attempt to take over this country has failed. Now the Epstein documents are coming out. And coincidentally you're asking our military to commit treason, just as you all probably have. How fitting."
"Haha, these are the same people who voted against our military personnel and federal employees receiving compensation for their work."
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Colorado's years-long campaign to discriminate against and suppress Christians has added another chapter.
And it's in court again, in the state's deliberate discrimination against Christian preschools.
In this case, now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Catholic Archdiocese in Denver, a group of Catholic preschools, and a Catholic family are asking for a ruling that stops the state from excluding them from a state program generally available to all others, except them.
It is the state's "universal" preschool program that was set up by Democrats in the legislature and Democrat homosexual Gov. Jared Polis to exclude schools of faith from benefits that otherwise are generally available.
"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit recently upheld the state's exclusion, punishing faith-based schools and the families they serve for operating according to their religious beliefs," according to Becket, which is representing the Catholics in the case.
"The court even praised Colorado's discriminatory regime as a 'model' and an 'example' for other states to follow. With Becket's help, Catholic parents and preschools are asking the Supreme Court to ensure that Colorado makes good on its promise of universal preschool."
Colorado's long history of anti-Christian activism dates back more than a decade already. Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop has been in the courts for that long for refusing to submit his Christian faith to the progressive LGBT agenda in which state officials believe.
That's despite the state losing at the U.S. Supreme Court in the fight.
Same thing happened with the state's demand a web designer give up her Christian faith in order to operate her business. It lost again at the Supreme Court, and taxpayers there were billed millions for state officials to waste in their legal fight.
Right now the Supreme Court is considering whether the allow the state to censor pro-Christian comments by counselors, who are urged to deliver pro-LGBT ideologies to young clients. And the state recently attempted to impose its transgender beliefs on a Christian children's camp.
"Colorado is picking winners and losers based on the content of their religious beliefs," said Nick Reaves, senior counsel at Becket. "That sort of religious discrimination flies in the face of our nation's traditions and decades of Supreme Court rulings. We're asking the Court to step in and make sure 'universal' preschool really is universal."
Becket explained, "Families who send their kids to Catholic preschools in the Archdiocese of Denver expect them to receive a high-quality education and to be part of a faith-centered Catholic community. That's exactly what these preschools offer, supporting parents with the religious and educational upbringing of their children by providing excellent intellectual, moral, and spiritual formation."
However, when the state launched its universal preschool program, offering families 15 hours of free preschool per week at the private or public schools of their choice, the Democrats built in discrimination based on religious belief.
The Catholic schools were targeted because they ask families who enroll children to be supportive of their Catholic faith.
"Our preschools exist to help parents who want an education rooted in the Catholic faith for their children," said archdiocese spokesman Scott Elmer.
"All we ask is for the ability to offer families who choose a Catholic education the same access to free preschool services that's available at thousands of other preschools across Colorado."
Plaintiffs Dan and Lisa Sheley now are forced to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket each year for benefits provided to other families by the state at no cost.
Becket warned, "The state's discriminatory rules have had their predictable effect: Since UPK began, enrollment at Catholic preschools has swiftly declined, while two Catholic preschools have shuttered their doors, including one that predominantly served low-income and minority families."
Becket even pointed out the ill intent from the state: "Colorado admits that it looks the other way when nonreligious schools have admissions policies that violate state law."
Further the 10th Circuit decision "defies the Supreme Court's recent decisions in Carson, Espinoza, and Trinity Lutheran, which held that states cannot exclude religious schools from public benefits because of their religious exercise."
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President Donald Trump has included in his Oval Office goals to fight the terror-like antics of Antifa.
That's a loose organization of leftists and extremists who have rioted across the United States in opposition to his enforcement of American law.
His actions already included designating the schemes and the schemers as domestic terrorists.
It was just weeks ago, the president said, "I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices."
He noted Antifa "is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that calls for the overthrow of the U.S. government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law—using illegal means, including violence and terrorism, to accomplish these goals."
Trump's order at the time instructed the federal government to "investigate, disrupt, and dismantle all illegal operations conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa."
He also targeted the "funding" schemes."
"Antifa engages in coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws, with the goal of achieving policy objectives by coercion and intimidation – this is domestic terrorism," the White House said. "Antifa has engaged in armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violently assaulted ICE and other law enforcement officers, and engages in routine doxing of political figures and activists, threatening public safety."
Now a report from Fox News confirms that campaign against terror is going global.
"The State Department will designate four Antifa-linked groups operating in Europe as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specifically Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) — putting them among the likes of ISIS, al-Qaeda and Hezbollah — Fox News Digital has learned," the report said.
It apparently is the first time the U.S. government has applied foreign terrorist designations to Antifa-linked groups, the report said.
The four Antifa-aligned cells designated are from Germany, Italy and Greece, and are accused of organizing or carrying out bombings, shootings and other politically motivated attacks.
The designation is significant as it now requires U.S. financial institutions to freeze assets of FTOs and SDGTs and ban entry of the group's members into the U.S.
Further, those organizations and their members now can be prosecuted criminally in the U.S., as well as those who offer support to them.
One group is Antifa Ost, whose left-wing members are linked to attacks during 2018-2023 in Germany.
"The International Revolutionary Front, also known as the Informal Anarchist Federation, is an Italy-based coalition of groups that endorse revolutionary armed conflict against the state," the report said.
Two other groups are based in Greece, the Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self Defense.
All are suspected of attacking innocent people, government operations and industry.
"The anarchists, Marxists, and violent extremists of Antifa have waged a terror campaign in the United States and across the Western world for decades, carrying out bombings, beatings, shootings, and riots in service of their extreme agenda," an official confirmed.
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Students at a Rhode Island high school have responded to one of their teacher's vitriol against slain civil-rights leader Charlie Kirk by starting a chapter of Turning Point USA in his honor.
Fox News reports on the controversy at Barrington High School and spoke to Brayden Ryan, vice president of the new Turning Point USA chapter.
"What inspired me personally to start this Turning Point chapter was the teacher at our school said after Charlie Kirk's death. He made a TikTok about how he has no remorse over him and how he was a hateful person," Ryan said Tuesday.
Kirk was assassinated Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University. Shortly afterward, social studies teacher Benjamin Fillo posted a video saying that Kirk "hated the LGBTQ community" and "hated women's rights." Fillo said that Kirk "thought he proved how tough he was with his words. … What a piece of garbage. Look what happens. … Bye, Charlie!"
Fillo currently is on administrative leave over the incident. Here is his video:
Ryan told Fox News: "I feel like we should give space to other students, a free and safe space to other students, other conservative students, to speak their own personal values, such as their religious beliefs and their political beliefs."
Caleb Kaplan, president of the Turning Point USA chapter, says part of the opposition the new club has received includes a petition drive to reinstate Fillo.
"I'm not going to name any names out of respect, but they have been campaigning or making petitions to get the teacher that we spoke about back in a position," Kaplan said.
"We don't reward hate with hate," added the high-school freshman. "All we do is we push harder and we try to recruit more people to join."
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Kathy Hochul, the Democrat governor in New York, now is being challenged for her office by U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican, who has described Hochul as the "worst governor in America."
Hochul's leftist performances long have been standard issue, even to the point of supporting Zohran Mamdani, a self-proclaimed "democrat socialist" with communist agenda points, for New York City mayor.
Stefanik explained, "New York is the most unaffordable state in the nation, with the highest taxes, the highest energy bills, the highest utility bills."
Now the Daily Mail is revealing the potential source of some of Hochul's far-left ideologies: A former top aide who is suspected of being an undeclared agent for the Chinese Communist Party.
That accusation is about Linda Sun, 41, who caught the attention of authorities when she bought a $3.6 million mansion, $1.9 million condo in Hawaii and a 2024 Ferrari Roma, a $240,000 car, on a salary of only about $145,000, the report said.
Federal prosecutors have said she used her position to influence Hochul, and earlier ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to take actions that Beijing desired.
Prosecutors explained during her trial that she was getting millions of dollars from side deals arranged on China's controlling party.
Citing the Wall Street Journal, the report said she and husband Chris Hu used cash to purchase the Long Island mansion, the condo and the car.
"She made frequent visits back to China and even celebrated the Communist Party's 70th year in power at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing," the report said.
They are also accused of generating $2.3 million in kickbacks on personal-protection equipment imports during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the formal charges against her fall under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, visa fraud, bank fraud and money laundering.
She has denied any responsibility.
The department of Justice charged Sun violated rules and protocols for the New York governor's office in order to provide benefits to China and the CCP.
"Sun secretly provided a Chinese diplomat access to a state conference call, prosecutors alleged. The couple is accused of pulling $15.8 million into the US through Hu's lobster export business and personally profiting from a PPE vendor that Sun set up as a government supplier," the report said.
Chinese cash allegedly was moved through the husband's businesses. He also faces a list of charges and has pleaded not guilty.
Sun held posts in the Cuomo administration starting in 2012, and was appointed deputy chief of staff for Hochul in 2021.
She later was fired.
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As significant progress was being made toward ending the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump issued a scathing warning Monday to some air-traffic controllers, while praising others.
"All Air Traffic Controllers must get back to work, NOW!!!" Trump exclaimed in a lengthy message on Truth Social. "Anyone who doesn't will be substantially 'docked.'"
"For those Air Traffic Controllers who were GREAT PATRIOTS, and didn't take ANY TIME OFF for the 'Democrat Shutdown Hoax,' I will be recommending a BONUS of $10,000 per person for distinguished service to our Country.
"For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn't step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK that was only meant to hurt our Country. You will have a negative mark, at least in my mind, against your record.
"If you want to leave service in the near future, please do not hesitate to do so, with NO payment or severance of any kind! You will be quickly replaced by true Patriots, who will do a better job on the Brand New State of the Art Equipment, the best in the World, that we are in the process of ordering. The last 'Administration' wasted Billions of Dollars trying to fix antiquated 'junk.' They had no idea what they were doing!
Again, to our great American Patriots, GOD BLESS YOU – I won't be able to send your money fast enough! To all others, REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"
As WorldNetDaily reported, forty days into the longest government shutdown in history, eight members of the Senate Democratic Caucus bucked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to support a deal that will end the government shutdown.
Lawmakers voted 60 to 40 to advance a House-passed clean continuing resolution Sunday night that had previously failed to clear the Senate's 60-vote threshold 14 times. Though the deal marks a crucial breakthrough to reopen the government, the process is expected to take several days due to likely opposition from a number of senators to expedite a vote on final passage.
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In a stunning revelation of the warped thinking behind the transgender agenda, a Maine select board member publicly has accused parents who oppose boys in locker roomss and showers with their young daughters of having "pedophilic tendencies."
The wild and perhaps injurious claim came from Leslie Trentalange who spoke remotely to a school board meeting in Kennebunk.
Listen:
A report at the Maine Wire said Trentalange, the Kennebunk Select Board's vice chair and a liaison to the RSU 21 school board, immediately was the subject of complaints to the select board, as chairman Miriam Whitehouse confirmed it has gotten demands that Trentalange quit or be removed.
Whitehouse confirmed the remarks "were not a reflection of her role on the board, nor did she intend to speak for the select board."
"I understand that members of the public sometimes do not see us separately from our official select board roles, but we do not give up our rights as citizens when we decide to serve on the select board," she added.
But resident Melissa McCue-McGrath told the board in a letter, "Accusing her constituents of being sex offenders is one of the worst charges someone can make."
She pointed out, "Even prisoners go after pedophiles in jail. This is a dangerous assertion."
The district recently was in headlines when a teacher "expressed a hope that the assassinated conservative commentator Charlie Kirk would 'rest in hell,'" the report said.
Federal Title IX antidiscrimination standards require schools to designate sports and private spaces by biological sex, although state officials in Maine repeatedly have affirmed opening up girls showers to boys at will.
Under its "Corruption Chronicles" category, Judicial Watch wrote such a wild claim "is shocking even for an attention-seeking liberal politician."
The report said, "The Maine public official who blasted concerned parents is also sticking to her highly offensive words, refusing to apologize for calling them pedophiles because they want to protect their children."
Trentalange's rant included, "Their obsession with what private parts are sitting in between the legs of our students is nothing less than creepy and should absolutely be raising eyebrows in and around our school district. … Their obsession with genitalia points not to caring for the students in this district, but perhaps to an underlying guilt for their own pedophilic tendencies. There is a registry for that."
School board chair Matthew Stratford attempted to interrupt Trentalange's tirade, according to the local news report and video of the meeting, and called her comments "inappropriate," the report said.
But she kept talking.
"The unhinged lawmaker insisted she did not think her comments were inappropriate and that she stood by them.," the report said.
The select board's code of conduct, the report confirms, "includes a provision that states 'discussions should be conducted in a professional manner with all participants treating each other with civility and respect.'"
The report continued, "Accusing parents of being pedophiles for trying to shield their girls from the detriments of the transgender revolution does not seem to demonstrate integrity required under the town's code for elected officials."