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Somehow, in America, the month of June has been turned into a celebration of a lifestyle chosen by a minority of residents.
It's promoted as "Pride month" for the small percentage who have adopted LGTB ideologies.
Except in one bar, it's not "Pride month;" it's "Heterosexual Awesomeness Month."
"After all,' the promoters at Old State Saloon in Idaho say, "if it weren't for heterosexuals, none of us would be here!"
The bar managers explained, "OFFICIAL: Heterosexual Awesomeness Month begins Sunday. Join us all of June to celebrate God, country, family, freedom and HETEROSEXUALITY."
Promoted are "Beer for Breeders Monday," where, "All heterosexual males dressed like heterosexual males receive one free draft," and Duo Deal Wednesdays," with "15% off entire food and beverage bill for heterosexual couples."
A report at Not the Bee cites the "glorious replacement" for Pride events.
There's a testimonial: “The Trans Deception” With Luke Healy is now up on our Oldstate Salooncast Rumble channel.
And there's a note the "Pride" agenda is fading in many places.
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Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary for Joe Biden, has announced she is leaving the Democratic Party as she releases a new, tell-all book about the administration.
KJP is becoming an Independent, which just happens to be the title of her October release, which is subtitled: "A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines."
The book's publisher says: "As a history maker, veteran public servant, political analyst and independent thinker, she urges Americans to think outside of the blue-and-red box as we consider what's next to save our democracy."
Her announcement is being hammered online, with Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA noting of the subtitle: "As though this will trick everybody into forgetting the central role she played in perpetuating the Biden cover-up. Nice try, Karine!"
Journalist Nick Sortor posted a video clip of the "Top 5 Recent Lies" told by Jean-Pierre, and said: "After spending YEARS lying and covering up Biden's cognitive decline, Karine Jean-Pierre announced she is LEAVING the Democrat Party. Why, you ask? Because she's writing a tell-all book, PROFITING OFF THE COVERUP. KJP IS TRASH! She should be in a jail cell."
Jean-Pierre made history in May 2022 as the first black and openly homosexual White House press secretary. She was also in a decade-long relationship with Suzanne Malveaux, a former CNN anchor and White House correspondent. The pair separated in September 2023.
Other comments about the book and political switch include:
"These people are all such hypocrites, it is absolutely appalling."
"The amount of audacity one must have to willfully mislead the American Public for years and then try to do damage control by telling the truth for profit is on another level entirely."
"Leaving the party will not erase everything she did to protect the Democrats. That damage is done. Her reputation is already ruined after backing their lies for so long. Does she really think people will forget that?"
"I would've respected her a lot more if she did this in a middle of a Press Conference. Not after defending Biden for 4 years in a row. This is clearly a political stunt to profit from her fading fame. Shame on her."
"Everlasting problem is when lying to people has been your job for the last 4 years, you have earned the title of a liar. It is difficult to ever overcome that. People don't always remember the lies that were told, but they never forget the liar that told them."
"I mean, [Jake] Tapper can bullsh** us by saying 'It wasn't me, it was the network!' But there are countless hours of KJP directly lying to the public, sometimes doubling and even tripling down. It will be interesting to see if the liberal media still treats her with kid gloves."
"Karine Jean-Pierre leaving the Democrat Party to become an independent is like the captain of the Titanic jumping ship, writing a book about how bad the iceberg was, and hoping nobody remembers she was steering. 'A Look Inside a Broken White House' sounds deep until you remember she was basically the tour guide. Nice try, Karine – but you don't get to spill the tea and pretend you weren't the one brewing it."
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Can ballots be counted even if they're two weeks late?
Election Day in America for generations as meant Election Day: That single day, for presidential elections in November, when voter cast ballots and those ballots are counted.
A winner is announced then.
But in recent years legislators and others have expanded that window: It's now often election weeks or even more, as they've agreed that ballots that come in late still should be counted.
That's faced opposition from Republicans for multiple elections, and now the U.S. Supreme Court has confirmed it will weigh in.
A report at the Washington Examiner notes this case is about a state law in Illinois that lets ballots be counted even if they are two weeks late.
The court has granted a petition by Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., and two Republican elector nominees.
The state law they want to have blocked has election officials counting ballots that arrive up to 14 days after Election Day, if they are postmarked by the deadline.
Lower courts claimed that the plaintiffs didn't have standing to sue, meaning they weren't injured so could make no claim.
But the high court accepted the case with the question about whether Bost and the others, as federal candidates, have a right to challenge the "time, place, and manner" regulations for elections in Illinois.
Government watchdog Judicial Watch asked for the review.
"In the aftermath of the 2020 elections, however, for a variety of reasons, courts have limited candidates' ability to challenge the electoral rules governing their campaigns. This case presents the latest — and an extreme — example of this trend," according to the petition submitted to the high court.
State election officials in Illinois said the case should be thrown out.
The case didn't ask the high court specifically about counting the ballots, but it would provide a path for exactly that question to arise.
The report cited how states all across the nation have "loosened" their ballot laws.
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When billionaire Elon Musk, whose Tesla, X and SpaceX companies routinely lead the nation in tech accomplishments, started working with President Donald Trump on the Department of Government Efficiency, he said he hoped to save taxpayers a trillion dollars, or more.
The DOGE plan, after all, was to cut out corruption, fraud and waste in government spending, and it has been on the job since Trump's inauguration, already saving, according to estimates, each taxpayer about $1,000.
One tracking software estimated DOGE already had saved Americans about $170 billion.
As his position as a temporary federal government employee expired, Musk said that still is within reach.
He pointed out that the official end of the DOGE program is scheduled for mid-2026, and added, "We do expect to achieve over time the trillion dollars of savings."
He said, "With the support of the president and Congress, could we achieve a trillion dollars of savings? I think so. We're on track to do so."
A report at the Post-Millennial said Trump and Musk held a press conference in the Oval Office Friday, with Trump congratulating the tech billionaire for his work.
They both emphasized that while Musk's "employment" is concluding, he'll still be advising the president.
Trump also said he wants to make the DOGE cuts permanent, which would require action on the part of Congress.
Trump explained, "He's one of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced. He stepped forward to put his very great talents into the service of our nation, and we appreciate it. Elon has worked tirelessly, helping lead the most sweeping and consequential government reform program in generations."
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Kristi Noem, President Donald Trump's secretary of Homeland Security, says China "wants to destroy" America, and Harvard University "is allowing that to happen" with its large number of foreign students.
Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel, Noem said Harvard has "perpetuated Chinese government priorities."
"They want these students on campus, because it's almost 30 percent of their students. They pay full tuition and they also have ties directly back to China," she explained.
"China hates us, and they have infiltrated our country. They've hacked into our systems, They've proven they can shut down our critical infrastructure."
"They're not just building up their military. They want to destroy us, and Harvard is allowing that to happen on their campus and the Trump administration's gonna stop it."
When asked how much money Harvard has taken from China, Noem replied:
"I don't know specifically. Hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars because these foreign students for years have paid full tuition plus they've gotten grants, special participation in programs that China has financed and brought forward so these ties to China are deeply alarming.
"And they're not just Harvard. There's other universities. We're going through every single one of them. If you come to this country to learn and you're a foreign student and you've recognized the opportunity, that's fantastic. But don't come here and spy on us and take that information back home to an enemy that is working to destroy us every day.
"And China has infiltrated this country. It's my job to protect the homeland, and I've been given that direction by President Trump. They will not participate in this foreign student program until they clean up their ways."
Noem concluded: "It's alarming the danger that our country is in, and it's because we've allowed universities like Harvard to infiltrate our country with Communist Chinese ties and students and spies."
Meanwhile, there are reports the daughter of Chinese president Xi Jinping attended Harvard, and is now living in Massachusetts. Journalist Laura Loomer is reportedly calling for her deportation.
As WorldNetDaily reported, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio began revoking the student visas for Chinese students last week.
"The U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields," Rubio said on X.
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In a comment reminiscent of his desire to take his opponent "out behind the gym" to fight him, former President Joe Biden, 82, said Friday he could "beat the hell out of both of them" – an apparent reference to the authors of a new book detailing his cognitive decline as leader of the free world.
The book covering Biden's mental deterioration while president, "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, was released May 20.
Biden's quip came amid his first public remarks since announcing he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, Fox News reported.
"You can see that I'm mentally incompetent, I can't walk," Biden joked with reporters Friday after speaking at a Memorial Day event in Delaware. "And I could beat the hell out of both of them."
Biden's team has pushed back on the material included in the new book.
"There is nothing in this book that shows Joe Biden failed to do his job, as the authors have alleged, nor did they prove their allegation that there was a cover up or conspiracy," a Biden spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Nowhere do they show that our national security was threatened or where the President wasn't otherwise engaged in the important matters of the Presidency. In fact, Joe Biden was an effective President who led our country with empathy and skill."
In addition to the publication of multiple books this year chronicling the deterioration of Biden's mental faculties, leaked audio recordings of Biden's October 2023 interview with former Special Counsel Robert Hur were released this mnth, showing that Biden struggled with his words and even appeared to forget the year his son died.
Biden told reporters Friday that he is "optimistic" about his cancer diagnosis and is currently receiving treatment in the form of a pill.
"My expectation is we're going to be able to beat this," Biden said.
Campaigning for fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2026, Biden said of Donald Trump: "I wish we were in high school and I could take him behind the gym."
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is calling out Joe Biden for his regime's disastrous failure to address properly the victims of the fiery inferno that hit, and mostly destroyed, Lahaina, Hawaii.
That raging blaze, in 2023, killed about 100 people and destroyed thousands of homes. It apparently exploded after a small brush fire broke out, firefighters doused it, and then hurricane-force winds hit the embers just as the crews left.
The flames roared into life and scorched down the hillside, far out of control.
DHS now has cited a documentary about the blaze and its aftermath from the Guardian, and charged.
"In the aftermath of the August 2023 Lahaina, Hawaii fires, a new report reveals FEMA's horrific neglect and mismanagement under the Biden Administration. The report highlights that 1 in 6 survivors were forced to engage in sexual acts in exchange for basic necessities like food and housing. These women — our fellow American citizens — were so desperate for food that they had to resort to such extreme measures just to feed themselves in our own country. While American citizens from Hawaii to North Carolina suffered, Biden and Mayorkas used FEMA as a piggy bank, spending hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars to housing illegal aliens. This will never happen again under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem," the DHS said.
In fact, the report said, the need for "food, clothing and housing," pushed one in six female fire survivors into "sexual acts in exchange" for the basics.
"Immigrant women and other limited English speakers felt particularly isolated and unsafe in emergency shelters, with some sleeping with their children in vehicles – or engaging in 'survival sex' for a safer place to stay, according to the new report by Tagnawa, a Filipino feminist disaster response organization in Hawaii," the report said.
That organization shared its results exclusively with the Guardian.
The research noted Filipinos, who are the largest immigrant community in the state, made up 40% of the Lahaina population before the fire.
Researchers interviewed 70 who survived the blazes.
One of the problems identified was that authorities reopened west Maui to tourism only weeks after the fire, and that not only may have triggered "rage" and fueled domestic violence, but it also added to the residents' "sense of powerlessness" in the situation.
The resulting housing crunch left families separated, sometimes in hotels for months, and trapping women when the disaster aid was "organized around a male head of the household."
Calls to a crisis hotline for women doubled, and reports of sexual assault and more surged, the report said.
"Some men are trying to control anything they can control because so much is out of their control, especially with the current rebuilding of Lahaina. Anything they can control their money, kids, partner that's heightened. Tourism added another layer of things out of our control," Jordan Ruidas of Lahaina Strong explained to researchers.
The report said the findings overall suggest the fire and the response to it, "increased the number of people at risk of sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation by exacerbating known risk factors including domestic violence, substance abuse disorders, financial precarity and unstable living situations."
One of the aggravating factors, the report said, was that the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Red Cross, which handled much of the aid, "failed to adequately adapt their practices to local conditions or approach fire survivors through a culturally sensitive lens, in part because they rolled out a 'one-size-fits all' recovery package without adequately consulting local experts."
"The fact that in the richest country in the world women had to resort to any means necessary to meet basic human needs and survive a fire, is absolutely a critique of the entire American system – and the problem with having that system forced onto Hawaii," study co-author Khara Jabola-Carolus explained.
Even now, most survivors are displaced, with only 10 homes in the community already rebuilt, the report said.
The report said the "survival sex" problem was a result of the need for enough food, clothes, housing and shelter.
The report cited Biden's administration, which used hundreds of millions of American tax dollars to protect and house illegal aliens over the same time frame.
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A newly declassified report on Nellie Ohr, who with her husband Bruce Ohr was integral to the fake "Russia collusion" conspiracy theory created by Democrats to attack then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential race, reveals that she lied to Congress.
But never was prosecuted.
"By lying to Congress, Nellie Ohr showed contempt for congressional oversight and the American people. What's more, the FBI and DOJ's failure to hold Ohr accountable for appearing to commit multiple felonies and its obstructive conduct against agents that sought additional information reveals the agencies' deeply disturbing political bias. Ohr never suffered consequences for advancing the phony Trump-Russia narrative and attempting to cover up her involvement in the hoax," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.
"Yet time and again, the American justice system has been weaponized against President Trump and his associates with reckless abandon. The DOJ's inaction on Nellie Ohr's criminal referral – despite the obviously incriminating evidence provided in the FBI's own analysis – undermines public trust in the rule of law. I applaud Director Patel, Attorney General Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Blanche for cooperating with my request to declassify this information, which is in the public's interest, and chart a new course for transparency and accountability at the FBI and DOJ."
The Democrat power structure at that time fabricated claims about Trump, through Fusian GPS, for whom Nellie Ohr worked, and by weaponizing the FBI and DOJ, for whom Bruce Ohr worked, to assemble the "Steele dossier" of false allegations about him.
The conspiracy ended up before a special counsel who spent years of time and millions of taxpayer dollars to find out there was no evidence to support the allegations that aligned with Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton's losing agenda.
The U.S. Senate on the Judiciary explained the FBI and DOJ declined to prosecute Ohr, a contractor for Fusion GPS, even though an internal FBI analysis confirmed "Ohr's false congressional testimony."
The 2019 analysis was declassified at Grassley's request.
The investigation at the time, now revealed, "provides detailed evidence Ohr lied to Congress during sworn testimony and, as a result, obstructed ongoing congressional investigations, violating federal statutes 18 U.S.C. § 1001 and 18 U.S.C § 1505. The document also exposes how the FBI prevented agents from reviewing all relevant information necessary to perform a full analysis of the extent of Ohr's false testimony and her role in the fake Russia collusion investigation," the committee reported.
The report said Nellie Ohr "was employed by the political opposition research firm Fusion GPS between 2015 to 2016 to perform open-source research attempting to connect then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to Russian organized crime."
"This research was paid for by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and Democratic National Committee (DNC). Both organizations ultimately settled with the Federal Election Commission after allegations of campaign finance violations for intentionally misreporting the true purpose of the payments," the report said.
"At the time of Nellie Ohr's Fusion GPS employment, her husband, Bruce Ohr, was an Associate Deputy Attorney General at DOJ. Both Nellie and Bruce Ohr testified to the House Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in 2018 as part of the committees' oversight of the FBI's bogus 2016 Crossfire Hurricane investigation into President Trump's disproven collusion with Russia," the report said.
Nellie Ohr was referred to the DOJ for criminal investigation by then-Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., of the House Oversight Committee, who accused her of knowingly providing false testimony to Congress.
Among the findings:
For instance, the committee report confirmed. "Nellie Ohr gave a thumb drive containing her Fusion GPS work to her husband, Bruce Ohr, which he then provided to the FBI as part of its ongoing investigation. Nellie Ohr's email traffic shows she emailed her Russian investigative research directly to Bruce Ohr. Nellie's research closely mirrored the DOJ and FBI's Trump-Russia investigation. Bruce Ohr only shared information with the FBI relating to the Trump-Russia investigation after receiving it from his wife, Nellie Ohr. Nellie Ohr and Bruce Ohr met personally with British intelligence officer and Fusion GPS contractor, Christopher Steele, in 2016. Fusion GPS pitched Nellie Ohr's research to the Department of State (DOS) for additional investigation, per DOS emails. Nellie Ohr deleted emails with Russia-focused DOJ prosecutors, indicating an effort to conceal her exchanges with DOJ officials involved in the Trump-Russia investigation."
The report also notes Nellie Ohr have testified falsely to Congress that she was not involved in drafting Steel dossier claims as she made an "analytical error" in her own work that was identical to a mistake in the dossier, and a report deleted from a thumb drive owned by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and provided to the FBI via Bruce Ohr contained the same subject matter researched by Nellie Ohr.
Further in direct contradiction to her own testimony, she disseminated Fusion GPS research to DOJ prosecutors beyond those named in her testimony, including Lisa Holtyn, Ivana Nizich, Joseph Wheatley.
And she took six ham radio classes and an exam during her time at Fusion, even though she claimed her training was before her employment there.
A report in the Daily Mail charged that her "false claims" about Trump led to him "being investigated for colluding with Russia…"
It was the FBI's Office Federal Public Corruption squad in Washington that was tasked with reviewing the referral.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the U.S. will start revoking visas of Chinese students in America.
"The U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields," Rubio said on X.
Meanwhile, those in foreign governments who have tried to censor Americans, or have supported speech restrictions that could impact Americans' rights to express their opinions will now face retribution.
Rubio also announced new visa restrictions Wednesday for any foreign authority that has been "complicit" in censorship.
"For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights," Rubio said on social media.
"Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans. Free speech is essential to the American way of life – a birthright over which foreign governments have no authority."
Rubio continued, "Foreigners who work to undermine the rights of Americans should not enjoy the privilege of traveling to our country. Whether in Latin America, Europe, or elsewhere, the days of passive treatment for those who work to undermine the rights of Americans are over."
He cited one threat coming from the European Union's Digital Services Act, which could "effectively export European-style censorship" to Americans through pressure on tech companies.
Those who have adopted that regime already have ordered X and other platforms to follow their rules. Those authoritarians also fine American companies for failing to follow that regime.
In fact, Vera Jourova, an official with the EU's executive European Commission, recently threatened that the U.S. soon would be required to have "hate speech laws."
Those are laws that criminalize thoughts and statements that do not align with the leftists in power.
In the United Kingdom, for example, there have already been people arrested for having the wrong thoughts inside zones set up to protect the lucrative abortion industry.
According to the Independent Sentinel, Jourova said, "What qualifies as hate speech, as illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the U.S. … I think that we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law; we need the platforms to work with the language simply and to identify such cases."
It's also common for such authoritarians to call speech they dislike "disinformation," "misinformation," or even "malinformation" and ban it.
The report, in fact, explained, "The DSA is horrendous and vague enough to keep going further. The UK is locking people up for praying silently outside abortion clinics, and Germany's fining or imprisoning people for memes and spoken phrases."
A report from Fox News explained the U.S. has long condemned censorship and repression from the Chinese Communist Party, from Russia, from the extremist regimes in Iran and Cuba.
But President Donald Trump has also noted the threat from Europe's leftist agenda.
Vice President JD Vance just weeks ago accused European leaders at the Munich Security Conference of suppressing dissenting opinions by categorizing those views as "misinformation" and "disinformation," the report said.
He cited the "threat from within – the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values."
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump's Health and Human Services secretary, has announced COVID booster shots are being removed from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule for healthy children and healthy pregnant women.
"I couldn't be more pleased to announce that as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule," he explained. "Last year the Biden administration urged healthy children to get yet another COVID shot despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children."
He was joined in the announcement by Jay Battacharya, the chief of the National Institutes of Health, who said the move is "common sense and it's good science."
A report from the Daily Mail suggested the change will affect millions of Americans.
The report explained, "The recommendation for the COVID vaccine for young and healthy individuals has long been criticized, given that the groups face a low risk of hospitalization and death from the virus."
Further, the report said, there are the COVID shot side-effects, "including myocarditis — or heart inflammation — which is rare, but slightly more common among young adults."
The Food and Drug Administration just days ago confirmed that annual COVID updates no longer will get automatic approval, and drug companies standing to profit from them must do clinical trials to document whether they are safe or not.
Only 23% of those eligible for the 2024 booster, ages six months and over, took it.
According to an analysis in Ars Technica, eventually only people ages 65 and older and people with underlying conditions that put them at risk are expected to take the "seasonal boosters."
The Food and Drug Administration just days ago confirmed that annual COVID updates no longer will get automatic approval, and drug companies standing to profit from them must do clinical trials to document whether they are safe or not.
Only 23% of those eligible for the 2024 booster, ages six months and over, took it.
According to an analysis in Ars Technica, eventually only people ages 65 and older and people with underlying conditions that put them at risk are expected to take the "seasonal boosters."
"The move was laid out in a commentary article published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, written by Trump administration FDA Commissioner Martin Makary and the agency's new top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad," the report explained.
The two explained in the commentary that a "one-size-fits-all" ideology presumes that Americans are unable to understand age- and risk-related recommendations.
The report said, "Under Makary and Prasad's new framework, seasonally updated COVID-19 vaccines can continue to be approved annually using only immunology studies—but the approvals will only be for people age 65 and over and people who are at high risk. These immunology studies look at antibody responses to boosters, which offer a shorthand for efficacy in updated vaccines that have already been through rigorous safety and efficacy trials."
It continued "Moving forward, if a vaccine maker wants to have their COVID-19 vaccine also approved for use in healthy children and healthy adults under age 65, they will have to conduct large, randomized, placebo-controlled studies. These may need to include tens of thousands of participants, especially with high levels of immunity in the population now."