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 FAIR: The example of the brutal Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is illustrative. Millions of Venezuelans migrated to neighboring countries in South America, thus voting with their feet against the socialist Chavez-Maduro regime and the intense poverty it has generated. Tren de Aragua members were part of this outflow, and they brought with them women, usually from very poor backgrounds, whom they forced or otherwise encouraged to engage in prostitution. In Peru’s capital of Lima, Tren de Aragua began to violently muscle in on the local prostitution business, killing local prostitutes while bringing in women from Venezuela. Due to Biden-Harris open-borders policies, Tren de Aragua has expanded its criminal empire to the U.S., wreaking real havoc throughout the country and claiming American victims. The Biden-Harris administration sent the message that migrants who could make it to the U.S. border would get to stay. This policy drew migrants northward through Panama’s Darien Gap. FAI...

 Daily Signal: Two House Democrats Vote to Pass Bill Protecting Women’s Sports from Biological Male Infiltration There should be some practical limits to the transgenders.  Crossdressing does not change reality.  Women have the right to some privacy.  BTW, there is a nude resort not too far from my house, and in my conversations with the owner, he made clear that women and men had separate toilet areas. See also: House Passes Bill Banning Male Athletes From Women’s School Sports Teams

  Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes Subscribe Elon Musk is raising awareness of Congress Reps who won’t deport sex offenders California Democrats are involved “As a progressive proud member of this body for the last 12 years, I'm done. I'm done with us protecting people who would buy and abuse our children” - Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (Democrat rejecting her own party) “I don't want people buying girls. I don't want people buying little girls anymore. And I'm tired of saying it's okay and that we have to protect the men who do it.” “What do we stand for? — Girls are being bought and sold. Men are being given a slap in the hand or a couple days and then they're back out again and they do the same thing.” As someone with daughters and granddaughters, it is hard to imagine those who would sell them into a form of slavery.  Buying and abusing children is disgusting.  Musk is right to bring awareness of the problem. See also: WeGotitBack   @NotFarLeftAtA...

  FAIR: Although you wouldn’t know it from the self-styled humanitarians who claim to care about the well-being of migrants, the mass illegal migration crisis they champion exacerbates more than a few harmful social pathologies. Among these are sex trafficking and prostitution which occur both along the illegal migration routes and at the final destinations in the U.S. The example of the brutal Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is illustrative. Millions of Venezuelans migrated to neighboring countries in South America, thus voting with their feet against the socialist Chavez-Maduro regime and the intense poverty it has generated. Tren de Aragua members were part of this outflow, and they brought with them women, usually from very poor backgrounds, whom they forced or otherwise encouraged to engage in prostitution. In Peru’s capital of Lima, Tren de Aragua began to violently muscle in on the local prostitution business, killing local prostitutes while bringing in women from Venezu...

 National Review: In United States v. Skrmetti, which was argued Wednesday, the Supreme Court’s justices are asked to decide whether the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause is violated by a Tennessee law that restricts the use of puberty blockers and hormones by minors. To begin with the obvious, the 14th Amendment says nothing of the sort. The people who wrote and ratified the amendment at the noontide of the Victorian age would have been baffled by the claim that they were creating a constitutional right for children who are confused about their sex to take drugs that make irreversible changes to their bodies. If the Court takes seriously the original public meaning of the equal protection clause, this case is no contest. Unlike Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was at issue in Bostock, the equal protection clause says nothing about sex discrimination. It has long been read to bar irrational distinctions on the basis of sex, for reasons similar to why it bar...

 NY Post: Americans hoping to preserve women’s sports for women mustn’t be complacent about Donald Trump’s electoral victory. Though he vowed to ban males from facing women in athletic competitions , Democrats are pushing back. The battle is just beginning. In Riverside, Calif., two high-school students are suing their school district after being told they couldn’t wear t-shirts that said “Save Women’s Sports” and “It’s common sense. XX≠XY.” School officials rebuked the girls and likened their clothing to touting Nazi-ism and wearing a swastika in front of Jewish students. The plaintiffs, 9th-grader Kaitlyn Slavin and 11th-grader Taylor Starling, wore the T-shirts in response to a trans-identified male athlete who, per their lawsuit, did not meet the eligibility requirements to be on the varsity team but was placed on it anyway, displacing Taylor. ... Men who pretend to be women have a physical advantage which is usually apparent in competition with women.  I don't think the ...

I don't think I ever consider being deranged normal in any sense. I personally do not think Trump is deranged. In fact, his four years in office were much more normal than the four years of the Biden administration which brought record inflation and wars in Europe and the Middle East.  I do oppose men participating in women's sports.  Vance was a good pick for Trump's VP.

 The Blaze: Girl with suspected autism punished by UK 'Serious Case Panel' for asking trans soccer opponent with beard, 'Are you a man?' If men want to pretend to be women that is their business.  But it is wrong to make others pretend that they are women.  Neither men nor women are capable of changing their chromosomes which identify their gender.  I can remember when women with beards were part of a circus act.

 Daily Caller: Kamala Close With Dem Who Tried To Make Child Porn Possession A Non-Felony ... Mark Leno, a Democrat politician who served in the California State Senate until November 2016 and is someone Harris has called a “dear friend,” authored a piece of legislation that would have allowed pedophiles to possess up to 99 items depicting child pornography before they could be charged with a felony, according to former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. At the time, McCarthy was serving as the California Assembly Republican leader and said Assembly Bill 50 as originally written would have allowed the possession of up to 99 items of child pornography before the crime could be prosecuted as a felony. A compact disc (CD) with 1,000 images on it would have counted as one item, according to McCarthy. The legislation received pushback even from Democrats. Political analyst and veteran Democrat Pat Caddell told the Los Angeles Daily News: “What the Democrats did on AB 50 was insane,...

 Washington Post: Taliban begins enforcing new draconian laws, and Afghan women despair Afghan religious police wield new power to enforce a ban on women raising their voices in public and looking at men other than their husbands or relatives. As the Taliban begins enforcing new draconian laws, Afghan women say that whatever hopes they once harbored for an easing of the severe restrictions on them have largely vanished. The new religious code issued late last month bans women from raising their voices, reciting the Quran in public and looking at men other than their husbands or relatives. It requires women to cover the lower half of their faces in addition to donning a head covering they were already expected to wear, among other rules. Women’s lives were heavily regulated by the Taliban-run government before the latest rules were promulgated, and some of the new laws codify restrictions that were already imposed on women in practice. But Afghan women, speaking in phone interviews ...

 Red State: Biden's Justice Department Goes After Whistleblowers to Protect Illegal Texas 'Gender Affirming' Clinic null I think calling sex change operations "gender-affirming" is Orwellian doublespeak.  The thing they are affirming is sexual dysphoria. See also: Biden Justice Department targets political opponents again

 There is a way to determine one's gender without stripping down.  It can be revealed with a simple DNA test.  This would be a good way to keep things straight and protect the privacy of women. See also: GOP Governor hit Joe Biden where it hurts after making this ruling

 The Federalist Wire: ... Democrats have been making a strong effort to try and introduce their woke gender ideology on American citizens. In some blue states like California, they’ve been successful, but red states are starting to fight back. One of those states is Arkansas, where Republican Governor Sarah Sanders has had enough of the Left’s agenda. On Tuesday, her office revealed that the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) would no longer allow individuals to use “X” as a gender option on their state-issued ID. Instead, they must use the gender that was given to them on their birth certificate, which is either male or female. “This policy is just common sense. Only women give birth, men shouldn’t play women’s sports, and there are only two genders,” Gov. Sanders said to The Daily Wire. “As long as I’m Governor, Arkansas state government will not endorse nonsense.” Any Arkansas resident who has an “X” on their ID is allowed to keep it until their license is e...

 NY Post: Pay your heating bill or have sex to stay warm? Faced with soaring utility costs, some folks are choosing the latter. That’s according to a new report from NewHomesMate , a marketplace for new construction homes. It found that 46% of the 1,000 Americans surveyed are struggling to afford their bills. Roughly 25% pile on extra clothing, while 35% are forced to choose between heat and groceries. To keep themselves toasty, 5% are getting hot and heavy between the sheets — and 2% are getting drunk, according to the report. ... In Texas, we are more likely to have warm weather and cheap energy, but we still have sex too. 

 Red State: The evidence is overwhelming that the sadistic tactics Hamas terrorists used against the Israeli women and girls they brutalized on October 7th included rape, torture, and  burning  them alive. We know this not just because Hamas  documented  their barbaric savagery, but also because some of the terrorists later  admitted  under questioning that their intent for the women and children they captured was to “dirty them, to rape them.” On Wednesday, the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel submitted a deeply disturbing report to the United Nations detailing their findings on the atrocities committed against women and girls by Hamas terrorists, not just on the day of the attack but afterward during captivity. The  full report  is too graphic to quote here, but this was the  abstract summary : The report finds that the Hamas attack included brutal acts of violent rape, often involving threats with weapons, specifically dir...

 NY Post: Forget Iran, Russia and China — Antony Blinken is targeting your pronouns "Misgendering" is an odd term to describe someone who pretends to be a different gender than the one they were born as.   The term seems to mainly be used when a male pretends to be a female but is described by others as a male.

 Post Millenial: Trans activists protest Florida DMV for not allowing gender identity lies on licenses Some of the tombstones read: "Killed by the FL DMV," "Ron DeSantis killed me," "Killed by Ron DeSantis," "Hate kills," and "The DMV murdered me." A DNA examination will confirm what their gender really is and is more accurate than what they think their gender is. 

 Headline USA: Biden Admin Gives $200K for App that Teaches Men How to Sound Like Women 'Transgender and gender diverse people exhibit a significantly lower quality of life than the general public...' I suppose with practice someone can change the way they sound.  What they cannot do is change their DNA which scientifically tells what their sex is. 

 Military.com: Army Reveals It Fired Female Commander in Troubled Brigade After Claims of Sexual Assaults on Male Soldiers A female Army officer was fired from command of a unit based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord amid allegations of multiple sexual assaults against several male subordinates and a pattern of sexual harassment, according to a service spokesperson. Col. Meghann Sullivan served as commander of the 5th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 5th Security Force Assistance Brigade, at the base in Washington state. She was relieved of command Oct. 13, but this is the first time her firing has been reported. Military.com first reported on her suspension and the subsequent investigation into her conduct in April. That reporting was part of the publication's investigation into the 5th SFAB , which uncovered potentially systemic issues with counterproductive leadership and performance and morale struggles among its rank and file. ... Some women can be predatory. 

 Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.: Scientists Shocked to Discover That Male and Female Athletes are Different! People may try to change their plumbing but they cannot change their DNA.