Pro-crime liberal activist has crying meltdown after her phone was allegedly stolen by a group of homeless men

Marc Andreessen explains Biden admin and Elizabeth Warren banning their political opponents from critical services to run a business

Texas adds more miles of razor wire every week

https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1861894806622085400

Tom Homan clip with Abbott at the border

https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1861832474977771846

Women’s #1 tennis star suspended for doping

Five-time Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek accepted a one-month suspension after testing positive for the banned substance trimetazidine, a heart medication known as TMZ, the International Tennis Integrity Agency announced Thursday.

Swiatek failed an out-of-competition drug test in August. She formally admitted the anti-doping rule violation Wednesday and accepted her penalty. The ITIA accepted her explanation that the result was unintentional and was caused by the contamination of a nonprescription medication, melatonin, that Swiatek was taking for issues with jet lag and sleeping.

It was determined her level of fault was "at the lowest end of the range for no significant fault or negligence," the ITIA said.

Swiatek has only eight days remaining on the punishment, after she was provisionally suspended from Sept. 12 to Oct. 4 and missed three tournaments. The remaining suspension will be completed while there is no competition, and Swiatek will be cleared to return to play as of Monday.

She had said in September that she was missing the Korea Open, China Open and Wuhan Open for personal reasons.

The ITIA said Swiatek also forfeited her prize money of $158,944 from the Cincinnati Open, the first tournament she played after the failed test. Swiatek lost in the semifinals in Cincinnati.

Swiatek, 23, called testing positive the "worst experience of my life."

"In the last 2½ months, I was subject to strict ITIA proceedings, which confirmed my innocence," Swiatek said in an Instagram video. "The only positive doping test in my career, showing unbelievably low level of a banned substance I've never heard about before, put everything I've worked so hard for my entire life into question.

"Both me and my team had to deal with tremendous stress and anxiety. Now everything has been carefully explained, and with a clean slate I can go back to what I love most."

This is the second recent high-profile doping case in tennis. Jannik Sinner failed two tests for a steroid in March and was cleared in August, right before the start of the US Open, which he went on to win for his second Grand Slam title of the season.

With two of the biggest names in tennis escaping lengthy bans for anti-doping violations, questions are being raised about the sport's reputation.

Addressing reporters Thursday, ITIA chief executive Karen Moorhouse said: "These are not cases of intentional doping. We're dealing with inadvertent breaches of the rules.

"So I don't think this is a cause for concern for tennis fans," she said. "I think the fact that we're being clearly open, transparent, and it shows the breadth and depth of our anti-doping program."

Swiatek, from Poland, was ranked No. 1 most of the past two seasons but is now at No. 2. She won the French Open in June for her fifth major championship and took home a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics in early August.

She was passed for the top spot by Aryna Sabalenka during her provisional suspension.

The WTA said in a statement that it "fully supports Iga during this difficult time."

"Iga has consistently demonstrated a strong commitment to fair play and upholding the principles of clean sport, and this unfortunate incident highlights the challenges athletes face in navigating the use of medications and supplements," the WTA said.

TMZ is the drug at the center of the case involving 23 Chinese swimmers who remained eligible for the Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive for performance enhancers in 2021. Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva also tested positive for TMZ, with the result revealed during the 2022 Winter Olympics. She was disqualified from the team competition at the Beijing Games and handed a four-year doping ban.

https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/42660782/iga-swiatek-accepts-one-month-suspension-doping-case

San Jose State Tranny volleyball team advances to Mountain West championship by forfeit

Rather than compete against a team with a transgender player Friday, Boise State University dropped out of this year’s Mountain West Conference volleyball championship Wednesday night.

It’s the seventh in a six-game string of boycotts by Boise State, University of Wyoming and other Mountain West teams of playing San Jose State University.

“The decision to not continue to play in the 2024 Mountain West Volleyball Championship tournament was not an easy one,” reads a statement the school dispatched late Wednesday. “Our team overcame forfeitures to earn a spot in the tournament field and fought for the win over Utah State in the first round on Wednesday.

“They should not have to forgo this opportunity while waiting for a more thoughtful and better system that serves all athletes."

Boise State beat Utah State University 3-1 in four matches Wednesday. The winner of that match was set to play second-seeded SJSU Friday at 5 p.m. mountain time.

Utah State had also forfeited against San Jose prior during pre-tournament conference play.

The semifinal round boycott comes after 11 former and current volleyball players — plus an associate coach for San Jose — sued the Mountain West Conference earlier this month, and asked the federal court to remove the transgender player, Blaire Fleming, from the tournament while the litigation is ongoing and to reverse the forfeit losses the boycotting teams have taken.

Judge S. Kato Crews declined to do that, and wrote that the women are likely to lose their lawsuit altogether.

When the women appealed to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, the higher court also refused to rearrange the tournament, but that court countered Crews, saying the women’s lawsuit may have merit.

After it pockets its seventh win by forfeit Friday, SJSU will play either first-seeded Colorado State University or fifth-seeded San Diego State University later Friday. Neither of those teams has forfeited against SJSU this season.

In a Thursday email to Cowboy State Daily, SJSU wrote, “In this time of Thanksgiving, we are especially thankful for those who continue to engage in civil and respectful discourse. We celebrate and support all of our students, including our student-athletes as they compete for our community on this holiday weekend.”

The school is disappointed in Boise State’s decision, the statement continues, adding that the SJSU women’s volleyball team is preparing for Saturday’s match, “and looks forward to competing for a championship.”

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/11/28/boise-state-university-pulls-out-of-mwc-volleyball-tourney-over-trans-player/

Tom Homan one liner is pretty sweet

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1861468197930639475

Democratic lawyer Marc Elias is now deleting tweets after trying to steal the Pennsylvania Senate election from Dave McCormick

https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/1862163935333405178

George Washington thanksgiving proclamation (1789)

Thanksgiving Proclamation

[New York, 3 October 1789]

By the President of the United States of America. a Proclamation.

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be—That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks—for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation—for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war—for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed—for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted—for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions—to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually—to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed—to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord—To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us—and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New-York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

Go: Washington

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-04-02-0091