Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Postpones Gun Control Legislation – Does Not Have the Votes

Majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) postponed the votes for his gun control bill on Wednesday that would expand background checks for gun purchases. He moved the vote until after next week’s Memorial Day congressional recess.

Schumer said there will be no imminent vote on a gun control bill following the deadly mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that killed at least 19 students and 2 teachers. He called off the legislation from the floor to give Democrats and Republicans a chance to negotiate the legislation.

More from NBC News:

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., signaled Wednesday that the chamber will not quickly vote on a pair of House-passed background checks bills, giving Democrats and Republicans time to negotiate a possible but improbable bipartisan deal to address a spate of horrific mass shootings that have rocked the nation in recent weeks.

“My Republican colleagues can work with us now. I know this is a slim prospect, very slim, all too slim — we’ve been burned so many times before — but this is so important,” a skeptical Schumer said on the Senate floor, the day after 19 children and two adults were shot to death at a southern Texas elementary school.

Other Democrats, including Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., want to press forward with votes on gun-safety legislation immediately, putting their incalcitrant Republican colleagues on record.

The Democratic leader did, however, take steps that give him the option in the future to quickly bring the background checks bill to the Senate floor, but Democrats lack the 10 Republican votes needed to defeat a GOP filibuster.

The lefts are not happy with Schumer’s decision.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/just-majority-leader-chuck-schumer-postpones-gun-control-legislation-not-votes/

Babylon-stradamus: Babylon Bee Publishes List of Nearly 70 Satirical Stories That Recently “Came True”

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Video: Michael Moore Calls For Scrapping Second Amendment

“We don’t need the sensible stuff. We need the hard-core” gun control.

In the wake of a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school in Uvalde, MSNBC wheeled on anti-gun fanatic Michael Moore who called for repealing the Second Amendment.

Moore asserted “We will not acknowledge that we are a violent people, to begin with. This country was birthed in violence with genocide of the native people at the barrel of a gun.”

He continued, “This country was built on the backs of slaves with a gun to their backs to build this country into the country that we got to have. We do not want to acknowledge or two original sins here that have a gun behind the ability behind our ability to become who we became.”

Moore then suggested “I think we need some really drastic action here,” before suggesting “a moratorium” on gun sales.

Then came the real kicker as he asked “Who will say on this network or on any other network in the next few days? It is time to repeal the Second Amendment”

“You cannot say that. Well, why not? Why not?” He continued, before using the argument that the founding fathers didn’t know what bullets were.

“I truly believe if Jefferson, Madison and Washington if they all knew that the bullet would be invented — some 50 years after our revolution, I don’t know if they would have written it that way,” Moore stated.

He added, “They didn’t even know what a bullet was. It didn’t exist until the 1830s. They had any idea that there would be this kind of carnage. You have to believe that the Founders of the country would not support it.”

Moore than admitted that he supports “all gun control legislation. Not sensible gun control legislation,” adding “We don’t need the sensible stuff. We need the hard-core stuff that is going to protect ourselves and our children.”

https://summit.news/2022/05/25/video-michael-moore-calls-for-scrapping-second-amendment/

Despite Pushback From Parents, Publicly-Funded “Drag Queen Story Hour” Expands into NYC MIDDLE Schools – “Performers” Teach Children “How to Put on Drag Makeup”

If you think we are approaching a slippery slope, you hit your head on a rock while sliding down a long time ago.

Over the past two years, “drag queen story time” – a disturbing event in which adult men dress up in hyper-sexualized outfits with over-applied makeup and read books to young kids – has become a sweeping phenomenon across the West. The events have been popping up in Leftist areas all over the map, from Los Angeles, California to Austin, Texas, London, England, and everywhere in between.

Even though these “drag” events shouldn’t be held anywhere – and it shouldn’t need to be explained why (children have no place in anything related to “drag”) – the events have been mostly contained to local community centers or public buildings such as libraries. Unfortunately, the left’s push for the hyper-sexualization of children has only intensified over the past few months, which has enabled these sickening programs to begin invading the public school system – backed by public dollars no less.

And, thanks to radical local politicians, that’s exactly what’s happening in New York City middle schools.

According to the Post Millennial, the NY City Council has officially expanded and increased the funding for its “drag queen story hour” program, which will now be offered at public middle schools in addition to libraries and other outdoor areas like parks.

Despite pushback from local parents, creepy adult men dressed as the opposite sex will now be paid by the taxpayer to read stories about pronouns and non-binary toddlers in schools. The expanded project will be paid for out of the NYC council’s pool of discretionary spending money, and, as part of the event, the drag “performers” will assist and teach the young kids how to put on drag queen makeup.

As if the groomer problem wasn’t bad enough already…

The addition of middle schools to the program was announced earlier this week by “dragstoryhourNYC,” which oversees the drag performers in the city, on social media. The post was accompanied by a photo of the first event, which showed children gathered around an adult male drag performer as he read to them.

The post explained that the performer was discussing the woke children’s book ‘Melissa’, by Alex Gino – a book that is advertised as “the book formerly known as George” (tells you everything you need to know). Unsurprisingly, the book is about a boy who wants to be a girl.

I wonder how many parents got the memo before this event took place.

From dragstoryhourNYC’s Instagram post:

“Last week, we launched our new ‘reading with royalty’ middle school program at IS 93 in Ridgewood, Queens!”

The post was originally flagged by LibsOfTikTok, who was on top of the issue immediately, as always:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/despite-pushback-parents-publicly-funded-drag-queen-story-hour-expands-nyc-middle-schools-performers-teach-children-put-drag-makeup/

A new report shows the FBI spied on 3.3 million Americans without a warrant

High-ranking Republicans in the House of Representatives are demanding answers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation after court-ordered information surfaced showing that the federal law enforcement agency collected the personal information of more than three million American citizens without a warrant.

The Epoch Times reported that on May 25, FBI Director Christopher Wray was sent a letter from Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mike Turner (R-Ohio) asking him to explain why the bureau wiretapped and gathered the personal information of over 3.3 million Americans without first obtaining a warrant.

Typically, the limited ability to gather foreign intelligence is granted to a governmental agency by obtaining a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant.

Section 702 of this law states: “The Attorney General (AG) and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) may jointly authorize the targeting of (i) non-U.S. persons (ii) who are reasonably believed to be outside of the United States (iii) to acquire foreign intelligence information.”

However, the power granted by a FISA warrant can give federal agents ever-expanding networks of people to probe. The information gathered by doing so can then be used by the federal intelligence apparatus against American citizens who have had any interactions with foreign entities targeted by the federal government.

In the past, how FISA warrants have been used to gather intelligence and subsequently leveraged against the American public has been limited and concealed by the federal government through classified reports.

However, in late 2020, a decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) — the entity responsible for serving as a watchdog for the federal intelligence apparatus — mandated that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) report the “number of U.S. person queries run by the FBI against 702-acquired information.”

In alignment with these new protocols, ODNI’s recently released Annual Statistical Transparency Report included data on how often the FBI gathered information on American citizens invoking section 702 this past year.

In total, there were 3,394,053 searches made against individual American citizens. By comparison, there were 1,324,057 total queries made in 2020. This marks a 250% search increase in President Joe Biden's first year in office.

The ODNI reported that more than half of these queries were part of a larger investigation of alleged attempts by Russian nationals to target or weaken critical American infrastructure.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/a-new-report-shows-the-fbi-spied-on-3-3-million-americans-without-a-warrant

https://republicans-judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-05-24-JDJ-MT-to-Wray-FISA.pdf

Steve Kerr Successfully Lobbied for Police Officers to be Removed from Oakland Schools

The Golden State head coach blamed Republican Senators for the Uvalde massacre on Tuesday

Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr used his pre-game press conference to call for strict gun control in response to the Uvalde massacre on Tuesday night. The leftist basketball coach blamed the shooting on Republican Senators who refuse to back “common-sense gun reforms.” In 2020, Steve Kerr called for police officers to be removed from Oakland schools as the George Floyd riots swept the nation.

“When are we gonna do something?!” Kerr shouted after listing recent mass shootings in California, Buffalo and Uvalde. “I’m so tired of getting up here and offering condolences to the devastated families that are out there,” said a visibly emotional Kerr. “I’m tired of the moments of silence. Enough.”

“We are being held hostage by 50 senators in Washington who refuse to even put it to a vote, despite what we the American people want,” the coach continued. “They won’t vote on it, because they want to hold on to their own power.”

“I ask you, Mitch McConnell, and ask all of you Senators who refuse to do anything about the violence, the school shootings, the supermarket shootings, I ask you: Are you going to put your own desire for power ahead of the lives of our children, our elderly, and our churchgoers?” he continued.

“It’s pathetic,” Kerr said before storming out of the press conference. “I’ve had enough.”

In 2020, coach Kerr joined a protest outside an Oakland high school and called for the school’s resource officers to be removed.

“This is a real reckoning for much of America, especially white America,” said Kerr as he spoke to the crowd. He joined dozens of Oakland Unified School district parents and students who are calling for the district to dismantle its internal police force, according to NBC 11.

“You really have to listen to the community in terms of what’s happening and what’s best for the community,” said Steve Kerr. “That’s what the community is calling for and I’m all in support of that,” Kerr went on to say of removing police officers from Oakland schools.

The district unanimously voted to disband its police force after the speech from Kerr.

https://nationalfile.com/steve-kerr-successfully-lobbied-for-police-officers-to-be-removed-from-oakland-schools/

Bill Gates’s Foundation is Funding the UN’s Ukrainian Refugee Program.

Because of course!

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding the United Nations’ Ukraine refugee resettlement program.

The Microsoft co-founder’s charitable foundation pledged $1,000,003 to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), known as the UN Refugee Agency, to “support refugees fleeing Ukraine to bordering countries.”

The grant was announced in March and is set to be distributed over the course of one year. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has previously distributed grants to the UNHCR roughly ten times, totaling nearly $20 million, and has been partnered with the agency since 2006.

Gates tweeted about his donation, writing: “In a crisis, we can always look for the helpers—the people who are putting their lives on the line to aid refugees and victims of the invasion—and support them. I’m proud to support the UN’s refugee agency and urge the global community to do the same.”

The grant comes amidst the ongoing conflict between Ukrainian and Russian forces, with as many as 13 million Ukrainians leaving the country since the onset of fighting. Poland appears to be accepting the highest number of Ukrainian refugees, according to UNHCR data.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s ties to the United Nations’ refugee resettlement program follow The National Pulse unearthing the charity’s ties to Chinese Communist Party influence operations, including those targeting American agriculture and farmland. In addition to partnering with self-declared “socialist” groups disseminating propaganda on behalf of Beijing, the foundation has also funded scientific research at several China-based labs with ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, believed by many to be the source of COVID-19.

Despite COVID-19, whose true origins continue to be obscured by the Chinese Communist Party, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has continued to fund research in the country. Since December 2019, the Foundation has sent a total of 93 grants adding up to $54,573,428 to China-based projects.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/05/25/bill-gates-fundingn-un-ukraine-refugee-resettlement/

Whoopi Goldberg: I’m Going to Punch Somebody if I Hear ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ from Another Republican

Whoopi Goldberg expressed her displeasure over hearing Republicans offering “thoughts and prayers” in response to Tuesday’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX.

Goldberg said, “What are we doing? Why are we always at square one with this? And I swear to God, if I see another Republican senator talk about their heart being broken, I’m going to go punch somebody. I can’t take it and their thoughts and prayers. If your thoughts and prayers were really with everybody, you would have done something by now. It’s not like everybody’s not trying to make something happen. What the hell is going on?”

Co-host Joy Behar said, “I want them to stop gaslighting me also. Stop saying it’s not guns that kill people. It’s people that kill people. It’s guns that kill people, okay? Stop saying the opposite. Stop saying that mental illness is behind this. There’s mental illness in every country in the world, and they don’t have this problem. So stop gaslighting me on that one. Stop saying that you can have a good guy. Stop a bad guy with a gun. We have seen in both of these shootings in the past three weeks that a good tried and could not do it.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/05/25/whoopi-goldberg-im-gonna-punch-somebody-if-i-hear-thoughts-and-prayers-from-another-republican/

Texas Supreme Court Allows Gender Transitions In Children To Be Investigated As Child Abuse

The Lone Star state is at the forefront of the fight against gender ideology. And it is no wonder why. Texas is a bastion of conservative and traditional values — the values upon which our nation was founded. Resultantly, Texas upholds the integrity of God’s creation, and she seeks to protect that creation at all costs.

That principle extends to the use of reconstructive surgeries and puberty blockers in children. But Texas’ hardline stance against gender ideology is not proof that she hates those who struggle with a discontinuity in their mental state and their biological appearance.

She loves them and wishes them the best — both spiritually and physically. But it is not right to promote an inherently divisive ideology in the school system, or as we shall see today, in the medical industry.

As we reported earlier this month, a multitude of states are now taking action against medical transitions in children. One of those states is Alabama. Alabama’s Governor, Kay Ivey, sums up the thought of these states as follows:

“There are very real challenges facing our young people, especially with today’s societal pressures and modern culture. I believe very strongly that if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl.

We should especially protect our children from these radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries when they are at such a vulnerable stage in life. Instead, let us all focus on helping them to properly develop into the adults God intended them to be.”

Amen to that. And now the second-biggest state in the union is following suit. Texas Governor Greg Abbott made a move in February for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services agency to begin investigations into child gender transitions as child abuse violations. Opining about the move, Governor Abbott said the following:

“Because the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is responsible for protecting children from abuse, I hereby direct your agency to conduct a prompt and thorough investigation of any reported instances of these abusive procedures in the State of Texas,” reads the letter. “To protect Texas children from abuse, DFPS and all other state agencies must follow the law as explained in OAG Opinion No. KP-0401.”

That was back in February. But the order was stalled by a Texas District Court and then an appeals court. These decisions were directed at a specific case — the case of a sixteen-year-old who identifies as transgender — “Jane Doe”. But the Texas Supreme Court thought differently, effectively allowing the policy to be put in place, albeit, not in a compulsory manner. As the Washington Times reports, the Supreme Court came to the following decision:

https://dcenquirer.com/children-child-abuse/?utm_source=89381