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Scenes from thePrinceton Hunger Strike for Hamas.
'We are cold and hot at the same time.We are all immunocompromised.'
The comedy never ends.
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(For those watching the University protests, what you are seeing and witnessing is the immature, whiny, and violent youth acting out at Colleges. And many that need to lose weight. Kek)
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Dr. Debbie Birx is starting to admit the truth about covid Vaccine injuries.
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Lock her up
Birx is still lying. Put a dog collar on her and put her head in a cage with scorpions and fleas
The ‘Micro-Intifada’: American Protesters Are Being Trained in ‘Militancy’
Guides created by radical groups are teaching pro-Palestinian students to use violence on campus.
Francesca BlockThurs, May 9, 2024
A demonstrator breaks the windows of the front door of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (Photo by Alex Kent via Getty Images)
Students participating in the Gaza Solidarity Encampments at universities across the countryare being taught to become militants, according to nine manualsobtained by The Free Press.
Many of the manuals, which are being shared via phone group chats with students across the country,encourage “militancy” and instruct protesters to break laws, seize buildings, vandalize them, and then use tactics to evade police detection and arrest.
One guide, called “De-arrest Primer,” teaches protesters to physically resist arrest or, in some cases, assault police officersor throw projectiles at them to protect fellow “comrades” from arrest. “Each de-arrest,” the guide states, “is a micro-intifada which can spread and inspire others until we may finally shake off this noxious ruling order all together.”
Another manual, called the “The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide,” contains detailed diagrams on how to break into buildings using tools like crowbars, clamps,metal cables, chains, bolt cutters, and a miniature saw known as an angle grinder.
Instructions from “The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide,” which was shared 24 hours after Columbia protesters broke into Hamilton Hall.
Instructions show how to barricade doors with “heavy furniture,” create a “shield” against police using trash cans, ropes, sheets of cardboard, or a “corrugated metal banner,” and to pick locks using a “technique” developed by “firemen and criminals.” “If these less-destructive methods don’t work,” the guide states, “more aggressive options are abundant,” such as using a crowbar to “open a window.”
Teachings from “The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide,” which was written by organizers of the Occupy Wall Street movement, but updated in 2024 “in light of a nationwide resurgence of student occupations.”
Many of these techniques were employed by Columbia students on Tuesday night when they stormed Hamilton Hall, an administrative building at the heart of the university. Protesters smashed through the windows of the hall’s main door with hammers and used metal chains to lock them shut. After cops arrested 119 people on the Ivy League campus, they discoveredmultiple glass doors had been broken and barricaded using chairs, refrigerators, and vending machines, according to NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard.
Three of the guides encourage college protesters to erase the distinction “between students and non-students.” Of the 282 people arrested on Tuesday night between Columbia and the City College of New York, 48 percent were not affiliated with either university, according to the NYPD.
“There is a movement to radicalize young people,” NYC mayor Eric Adams said at a press conference Wednesday. “This is a global problem. And young people are being influenced by those who are professionals at radicalizing our children, and I’m not going to allow that to happen as the mayor of the city of New York.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/student-protest-guides-violence-micro-intafada
Supreme Court poised to enter debate over transgender care for minors
By David G. Savage May 7, 2024
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After steering clear of the divisive issue for months, the Supreme Court may be on the verge of deciding whether to jump into the national debate over medical treatment for transgender youths.
As soon as Thursday, justices may vote behind closed doors on whether to grant an appeal that seeks to block a new Tennessee law prohibiting medical treatments that enable a “minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex.”
They have been in no hurry to act, however, and it’s possible they will put off the issue again. For weeks, they have repeatedly delayed a vote on the case, likely reflecting a division — either between liberals and conservatives, or perhaps inside the conservative majority.
At stake is the fate of a wave of a new state laws in the South and Midwest that bar transgender teens and their parents from obtaining puberty blockers and other hormones prescribed by a doctor.
Some 24 conservative states have passed restrictions on treatment for transgender youth, potentially affecting about 114,000 minors, or more than a third of transgender youths in the United States, according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA Law School. Many of those state laws have been blocked temporarily by judges.
If the court turns down the Tennessee appeal and says nothing more, it could signal that treatment bans for transgender youth are likely to take effect in about half of the nation. Then the map of the states would largely match the red state-blue state divide on abortion.
If justices agree to hear the appeal, it could put the issue on track for arguments later this year.
Progressive advocates for transgender youth are looking to the Supreme Court for help.
“This is a crisis and the only court that can weigh in to remedy it is the Supreme Court,” said Chase Strangio, the ACLU’s deputy director for transgender justice. “This is wreaking havoc with families who have to leave their homes to protect their children.”
The ACLU and Lambda Legal sued to challenge the Tennessee law on behalf of three transgender adolescents and their parents who had been obtaining hormones from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
A federal judge initially blocked the new law. But in July, the Ohio-based 6th Circuit Court in a 2-1 decision became the first appeals court to rule such a law may go into effect.
The state’s lawmakers had questioned the safety and effectiveness of hormone treatments for teens, and 6th Circuit Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton said that “states may reasonably exercise caution in these circumstances.”
Biden administration Solicitor Gen. Elizabeth Prelogar said the state laws impose “a categorical ban on evidence-based treatments supported by the overwhelming consensus of the medical community.”
The high court’s “intervention is warranted now,” she said.
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Conservative skepticism toward “gender affirming care” was bolstered by a recent report prepared for the National Health Service in England. Dr. Hilary Cass, who led the four-year review, called for caution in treating young people who have gender distress.
“This is an area of remarkably weak evidence,” she wrote. “The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress.”
So far, the justices have avoided a clear ruling on the rights of transgender students. When pressed, they have handed down narrow decisions.
Last year, they turned down an emergency appeal from West Virginia’s attorney general and allowed a 12-year-old transgender girl to compete on the girls’ track team at her middle school. The court issued no opinion, but Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented.
Last month, the court handed down a procedural decision that allowed Idaho’s law to take effect restricting care for transgender youths, but not for the children and parents who sued to challenge it.
The court’s majority in the Idaho case focused on the question of whether a federal judge has the power to block an entire state law if two people sue over one provision. Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented and said the state’s appeal should have been denied.
The conservative judges may be divided among themselves on rights for transgender students.
Four years ago, the court surprised many on the right when it ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids employers from discriminating against workers based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., said that because the law forbids job discrimination on the basis of sex, it must be read to include discrimination against LGBTQ+ employees.
“An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex,” Gorsuch wrote in the case of Bostock vs. Clayton County.
Three conservatives dissented from that opinion, and the court has yet to rule on whether this anti-discrimination principle extends to the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws.
That legal question is at the heart of the appeals now before the court. The ACLU, Lambda Legal and the Biden administration argue that a law “targeting transgender individuals for disfavored treatment” is a form of sex discrimination and should be struck down as unconstitutional.
They also raise the issue of parents’ rights. The laws in Tennessee, Kentucky and elsewhere should be struck down because they “violate the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the medical care of their children,” they told the court.
Samantha Williams and her husband, Brian, had sued in Nashville on behalf of their daughter, who was identified as L.W.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-05-07/supreme-court-transgender-teens
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“It’s hard to overstate the difference that our daughter’s medical treatment has made in her life and our family’s life,” Samantha Williams said when the appeal went to the Supreme Court.
“Before coming out and starting to receive this medical care she struggled to make friends, keep her grades up, or even accept hugs from her family. Now, we have a confident, happy daughter who is free to be herself. I want the Justices to see and understand my daughter and recognize her rights under the Constitution like any other person, and to see that if parents like me don’t have the right to determine what’s best for our children, then no parent does,” she said.
In defense of his state’s law, Tennessee’s Atty. Gen. Jonathan Skrmetti described it as a measure “to protect children from unproven medical interventions.”
He said the number of minors receiving gender dysphoria diagnoses has “exploded” in recent years, and states have “seen a corresponding surge in unproven and risky medical interventions for these underage patients.”
He said state lawmakers had “reasonably concluded that the well-documented risks of cross-sex hormones outweigh any purported benefits” and that “minors lack the maturity to fully understand and appreciate the life-altering consequences of such procedures.”
But the American Academy of Pediatrics, joined by21 other medical and mental health organizations, fileda friend-of-court brief atthe Supreme Court to dispute Tennessee’s contention that the hormone treatments are experimental or ineffective.
About 1.4 million persons in the United States are transgender, they said, and about about 10% of them are teenagers ages 13 to 17. They said “research shows that adolescents with gender dysphoria who receive puberty blockers or hormone therapy experience less depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation. … Banning such care can put patients’ lives at risk.”
While the state law also forbids surgical interventions for minors, those provisions are not being challenged in the cases under appeal.
At the 6th Circuit Court, the key questionwas who should decide on care of minors: parents and their doctors, state legislators, or federal judges.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-05-07/supreme-court-transgender-teens
(Oh, HELL NO)
Former Biden administration official plans to jump into New Hampshire House race
Maggie Goodlander could launch her campaign as soon as this week. But the former White House and Justice Department official faces a tricky primary.
May 7, 2024, 6:21 PM EDT
Democrat Maggie Goodlander, a former senior official in the Biden White House and the Justice Department, is on the verge of launching a primary campaign against the hand-picked would-be successor to Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., according to three sources familiar with her planning.
The move, which could come as early as this week, promises to bring national and international politics to the heart of a House race in New Hampshire when President Joe Biden is trying to keep the state's four electoral votes in his column.
Scott Merrick, an adviser to Goodlander, declined to confirm or deny that she will run — but he said a decision is coming soon. Kuster announced this year that she was retiring.
“Maggie is thankful for the encouragement she’s received from Granite Staters and will be making a decision in the coming days,” Merrick said.
Goodlander, who worked on domestic issues in the federal government — on antitrust at the Justice Department and on Biden's "unity agenda" at the White House — was a Navy intelligence officer and an aide to two senators known for their focus on foreign policy. But she also has a connection to the current policy debate over the Biden administration's positioning on hot-button issues such as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza through her marriage to national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who gives Biden counsel on those matters.
But Goodlander's path to Congress won't come without obstacles, starting with her Democratic primary opponent, Colin Van Ostern. Van Ostern, a former member of the state Executive Council, has already been endorsed by Kuster and dozens of current and former local officials.
Van Ostern's campaign declined to comment for this article.
While Goodlander's résumé in the Biden administration is formidable, she also worked as a senior adviser to the late Sens. John McCain of Arizona, a Republican, and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, a Democrat-turned-independent.
Though her multipartisan résumé might help in a likely competitive general election for the district, it could hurt her in the Democratic primary.
In addition, operatives in the state have raised questions about how long it has been since Goodlander actually lived and voted in the district. After she left her White House job last month, she now lives in Nashua.
Kuster has held her seat for over 10 years, but it is still rated by the nonpartisan "Cook Political Report with Amy Walter" as competitive, though "Likely Democratic."
Several candidates are vying for the GOP nomination, including entrepreneur Vikram Mansharamani, who was a GOP candidate for the Senate in 2022.
And though the state at large is usually considered solidly blue, New Hampshire's independent streak puts it on the fringes of the presidential battleground, as well. In 2020, Biden won the state by just over 7 percentage points.
Biden visited the state in March after having shunned its first-in-the-nation primary, while former President Donald Trump visited the state multiple times before the GOP presidential primary there.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/former-biden-administration-official-plans-jump-new-hampshire-house-ra-rcna150877
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/07/asia/akiya-homes-problem-japan-intl-hnk/index.html
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Georgia State Election Board hearing yesterday on Fulton County.
Then let’s look at the paper ballots.
Secretary of State office, Raffensberger: No, you can't see them.
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Kemp and Carr knows what Raffensberger did. It was their plan. That is why Kemp hasn’t ousted Raffensberger or Fani Willis
Johnson pushes bill on voter ID requirements — flanked by Trump allies who challenged 2020 election
The backup from those officials come as Johnson seeks to fend off a challenge to his speakership from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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05/08/2024, 12:40PM ET
Speaker Mike Johnson promoted legislation that would require proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in federal electionsin a press conference Wednesday, flanked by conservatives who have repeatedly questioned the results of the last presidential contest.
Johnson spoke alongside conservatives like Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), attorney Cleta Mitchell, Tea Party Patriots' Jenny Beth Martin and former Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller, many of whom pursued challenges to President Joe Biden's 2020 victory.
"We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections," Johnson said at the press conference. "But it's not been something that is easily provable. We don't have that number."
The Louisiana Republican was flanked by figures like Mitchell, who helped assemble Trump's crew of post-election lawyers and participated in a conference call where the former president pressured Georgia officials over the state's election results. Martin was present at a march in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, but did not speak at a rally that day that preceded the Capitol attack.
"What we're talking about today is the 2024 election — nobody can go back and relitigate what happened in 2020," Johnson said, despite the histories of the people standing next to him.
It's not the first signal that Johnson has been aligning himself more closely with Trump and his allies. The speaker and the former president have spoken multiple times in recent days as Johnson seeks to fend off threats from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to strip him of the House gavel, and Trump has told Greene to stand down from that effort.
Thespeaker vowed Tuesday that the House would pass the voter ID billand send it over to the Senate for consideration, where it stands little chance of advancing. Despite that, Johnson pushed back on the idea the legislation was merely a messaging exercise, saying "we'll let Chuck Schumer decide" whether to move on the bill.
Lee acknowledged that undocumented immigrants are currently barred from voting under federal law, but added: "There is no valid basis upon which you could oppose this. It would be insane."
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/05/08/congress/johnsons-new-voting-push-ballot-conservatives-house-00156817
(They always do things so late, it won’t get passed. This is intentional)
OpinionFinally, a possible explanation for why Biden’s Iran envoy was suspended
With lawmakers left to dig up clues, Robert Malley should be charged or given a chance to clear his name.
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May 7, 2024 at 4:38 p.m. EDT
Considering Iran’s collaboration with U.S. adversaries in the Middle East crisis and the Ukraine war, not to mention the Islamic republic’s nuclear ambitions, the Biden administration would surely like to have its top diplomat for Iran on the playing field. But the State Department’s special envoy,Robert Malley, has been sidelined while under federal investigation for going on one year — without any official explanation. Now,new information about the case is coming to light.
Malley, who was appointed to his role by President Biden in 2021 andwas intimately involved in back-channel talks with Iran,. wasplaced on leaveand had hissecurity clearance suspended in April 2023.On Monday, the top Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs committees sent a letter, a copy of which I obtained, to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, decrying the lack of information about the official investigation and laying out the results of their own inquiry.
“Due to the Department’s evasiveness and lack of transparency, we have worked to glean information from other sources,” Sen. James E. Risch (Idaho) and Rep. Mike McCaul (Tex.) wrote in the letter.
“Our own investigations have uncovered the followinginformation and troubling allegations. We ask that you confirm the information we have learned.”
Risch and McCaul are asking the State Department to confirm that Malley’s security clearance was suspended by the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service because he “allegedlytransferred classified documents to his personal email account and downloaded these documents to his personal cell phone.”
Through leaks in the Tehran Times, an Iranian state-controlled media outlet, it had already been reported that Malley was under federal investigation for potentially mishandling classified documents, but Risch and McCaul areclaiming to have discovered more details.
In the letter, the Republican lawmakers also ask the State Department to confirm their belief that “a hostile cyber actor was able to gain accessto his email and/or phone and obtain the downloaded information.” In August, theTehran Times also publishedmultiple articles it claims were based on leaked secret U.S. government documents, including one about Biden’s internal diplomatic strategy. The State Department inspector general’s office is investigating those leaks. Risch and McCaul contend they are connected to a hack of one of Malley’s personal devices.
“When and how did the cyber actor compromise Mr. Malley’s account?” the letter asks. “Did the compromise of Mr. Malley’s device enablesubsequentcompromise of other senior officialsat the State Department, National Security Council, or other agencies? How did the malign cyber actor utilize the information obtained from Mr. Malley?”
Last June, the State Department did acknowledge that Malley had been placed on leave, and subsequent reports revealed that theFBIis also participating in theinvestigation. But the Justice Department has produced no charges and has made no comment on the matter.Malley, who is teaching at Princeton and Yale, declined to comment. His deputy has been serving as acting envoy. (SOS & DOJ declined comment)
Risch and McCaul aredemanding that the State Department answerseveral questions about the investigation, including how many classified documents are at issue, to whom they were allegedly transferred, and what if any assessment has been done as to the national security implications of the alleged mishandling of classified information.
“The allegationswe have been privy to are extremely troubling and demand immediate answers,” the letter concludes. “These allegations have substantial impact on our national security and people should be held accountable swiftly and strongly.”…
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Mishandling of classified documents can be a felony in some instances, but the Justice Department’s approach to such investigations varies greatly case to case. Biden, former vice president Mike Pence and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton were all investigated but never charged. Former president Donald Trump was charged, albeit under very different circumstances.
The letter is a sign of the deep frustration on Capitol Hill about the lack of public information regarding the case. Risch and McCaul also ask whether the FBI has recommended charges and what, if anything, the White House or State Department has done to weigh in on the matter behind the scenes.
Meanwhile, Malley sits in limbo, unable either to clear his name or avail himself of legal remedies. In many cases, officials are able to contest allegations of mishandling of classified information and thereby avoid charges (as in the Clinton case). If Malley were formally charged with a crime, at least he would then be afforded due process to defend himself.
Malley has critics in Congress who see him as too cozy with the Iranian regime and its allies. Lawmakers and the public have a right to know the details of any alleged transgressions. But Malley also has a right to know his fate, one way or the other.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/07/malley-iran-envoy-suspended-congress-letter/
NY Judge Thwarts Dems’ 2024 Scheming With Smackdown Of Deceptive Abortion Amendment
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May 08, 2024
Democrats and activists who sought toenshrine abortion in the New York Constitutionwith the ratification of adeceptively worded amendmentface a new obstacle after State Supreme Court Justice Daniel Doyle ruled that the state legislaturefailed to adequately satisfy the constitutionally outlined procedurefor passing a ballot measure.
“The constitution is the supreme will of the people,”he wrote. “Its amendment should be undertaken by strict adherence to the will of the people.”
New York requires the state attorney general’s office to issue a formal opinion about the amendment before the legislature fulfills its mandated two-time passage. State Assembly Member Marjorie Byrnes, a Republican, filed a lawsuit noting that New York Attorney General Letitia James’ formal opinion on the ballot measure did not come until after the rushed first vote.
“‘Substantial compliance’ is not compliance, and this court cannot condone actions taken by the Legislature in derogation of the expressed will of the people,” Doyle agreed, waving off Democrats’ excuses for the procedural flop.
Doyle’s smackdown is one of the first actions a court has taken against the several abortion-themed ballot measures facing voters in various states this fall. Corporate media readily admit that the rulingthrows a wrench in New York Democrats’ expensive 2024 election strategyto increase turnout in the battleground race for control of the state’s lower legislative chamber.
New York already ensures unlimited, on-demand abortionthrough the subjective judgment of a medical professional who only needs to deem the mother’s life or physical or mental health at risk to greenlight abortion at any point in gestation. The ill-named Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), however, sought to effectivelypreventthe government from enactinglimits on baby-killing in the future.
The proposed amendment alsoincluded a barrage of sweeping languageand terms such as “discrimination” that would equip the New York Constitution witha “civil right”allowing men to play women’s sports.Proponents of the ballot measure even bragged that the amendment couldstop the state from banning things like transgender mutilation and chemical castration for children.
“The ERA … would prohibit discrimination by the government based on a person’s ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, and sex — including their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes,” the ACLU of New York wrote. “It would also protect against any government actions that would curtail a person’s reproductive autonomy or their access to reproductive health care.”
As conservative groups around the state have repeatedly noted, those “outrageous and unconstitutional” provisions infringe on parents’ rights.
James said she plans to appeal the ruling.
“The Equal Rights Amendment was advanced to protect people’s fundamental rights like reproductive freedom and access to abortion care. The decision to strike the ERA from the ballot in November is disappointing, and we’re appealing to defend New Yorkers’ rights,” James said in a statement.
Other Democrats expressed confidence that the ballot measure would be reinstated in time for voters to cast their ballots.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/08/ny-judge-thwarts-dems-2024-scheming-with-smackdown-of-deceptive-abortion-amendment/