April 20, 2026

01b People Advance

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After a 10-day mission that sent them around the far side of the moon, NASA Commander Reid Wiseman says he and his three fellow Artemis II crew members are “bonded forever.”

Wiseman and fellow astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen were welcomed home in an emotional and rousing event in Houston, one day after they touched back down on Earth.

“We are bonded forever and no one down here is ever going to know what the four of us just went through and it was the most special thing that will ever happen in my life,” said Wiseman.

The mission broke the record for the farthest humans have ever travelled from Earth, and on a personal level, Reid said it was no small feat.

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Oil prices may soon be coming down after this move by U.S. Forces.

U.S. CENTCOM on Saturday announced the USS Frank E. Peterson and USS Michael Murphy will patrol the Strait of Hormuz to clear it from mines that were placed by the Iranian regime.

The move by U.S. CENTCOM come as JD Vance and top Iranian officials are in Pakistan discussing a peace agreement that would bring an end to U.S. military operations in Iran.

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Democratic House Rep. Eric Swalwell suspended his campaign for California governor on Sunday night following sexual assault allegations that he continues to deny.

“I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made — but that’s my fight, not a campaign’s,” Swalwell said in a social media post.

Democrats quickly abandoned Swalwell, 44, after allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman twice, including when she worked for him. The allegations were first published Friday in the San Francisco Chronicle, and later by CNN.

A quantum battery prototype has been built that can allegedly recharge itself with light alone. It is an organic battery as well. The battery prototype was built by CSIRO, RMIT and the University of Melbourne.

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Scientists build a quantum battery that charges using light in seconds – Times of India

The CSIRO, RMIT and the University of Melbourne have successfully built a quantum battery prototype from theory into practice, meaning both energy and physics sciences have now made this transition to energy technology. Whereas traditional electrochemical cells rely on chemical reactions for their energy storage, this organic battery uses principles of quantum mechanics, specifically superposition and light-matter interactions, for the same purpose.

Superextensive charging (when a battery can charge faster as it increases in size) is one of the key characteristics that define this development; therefore, the quantum battery will, in turn, overcome the degradation factor typically seen in conventional batteries as they increase in size.

This room temperature prototype will potentially allow near-instantaneous charging and long-distance wireless power transfer using lasers.

After years of being under the weight of criminal prosecution, undercover journalists have now seen all their charges dropped. They exposed Planned Parenthood in a series of undercover videos selling parts of aborted babies.

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Criminal Charges Dropped Against Team Behind Videos Exposing Planned Parenthood Baby Part Sales – lifenews.com

All criminal charges against our team are finally dropped.

After ten long, brutal years of relentless legal warfare, our entire team is fully vindicated and completely out of the courts — no jail time, no fines, no probation, and no admission of guilt. The videos stand. The truth endures.

Even with the $18 million civil judgement I still face, God has sustained us, and the abortion industry’s attempt to silence us has failed.

CNN called Operation Rescue “The Abortionists’ Number One Foe.” I am proud to lead that fight.

Ten years ago this summer, the Center for Medical Progress — which I co-founded, secretly directed, and fully funded through Operation Rescue donors — caught Planned Parenthood red-handed in their grotesque baby body parts trafficking ring.

While David Daleiden faced the cameras, I stayed in the shadows because Planned Parenthood knew my face and had targeted me for years. Operation Rescue donors bankrolled the entire operation, and our hidden cameras captured the horror:

President Trump’s XO attempts to stop mass mailer elections in America. Lawsuits have already been filed.

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Trump Signs Executive Order Limiting Mail-In Ballots – Legal Insurrection

President Donald Trump signed an executive order that limits who can submit a mail-in ballot in elections.

Trump signed the order “to strengthen election integrity by ordering citizen verification.”

“The Order directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Social Security Administration, to compile and transmit to each State a State Citizenship List of confirmed U.S. citizens who will be 18 or older at the time of the next upcoming Federal election and reside in that State,” according to the fact sheet.

Mail-in ballots are not going anywhere.

It’s worth doing something to prevent fraud.

White House Staff Secretary Will Scarf said:

Mr. President, as you said, you have in front of you an executive order that deals with a number of issues relating to election integrity. As you’ve consistently identified, two of the biggest problems we have with election integrity in this country are one, inaccurate voter rolls that allow ineligible people to vote in various federal and state elections all over the country. Then secondarily, you’ve consistently identified that vote by mail in this country has become rife with fraud, people returning ballots who aren’t eligible, eligible to return ballots, ballots being sent to people who aren’t confirmed to be eligible voters.

So what this executive order is going to do is one, we’re going to take federal data, we’re going to ensure that each state’s election officials are provided with a comprehensive view of who the eligible voters in their jurisdiction actually are, allowing them to properly verify that everybody voting in their elections is legally able to vote. And then it orders the Postmaster General, the US Postal Service, to take bold new measures to verify that ballots both being sent to people are being sent to people who are eligible to vote, and then the ballots being returned are being properly returned by eligible voters only.

And we believe that combined the measures in this executive order will help secure elections in the future and ensure that the many abuses of our election system in the past aren’t repeated in future elections.

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) made a huge announcement Thursday: going forward, biological males will be banned from competing in women’s categories at the Olympics, and all athletes who wish to compete as women will have to pass a SRY gene screening.

The SRY gene is located on the Y chromosome and is found in biological males. The IOC said in its announcement that it “considers that the presence of the SRY gene is fixed throughout life and represents highly accurate evidence that an athlete has experienced male sex development.” Athletes who want to compete in women’s events will have to undergo “once-in-a-lifetime” testing for the SRY gene via saliva, cheek swab or blood sample.

“The policy was developed on the basis that it is universally accepted that providing for a female category is necessary to allow both males and females equal access to elite sport,” the IOC said in an announcement.

“It was guided by the IOC’s modern goals relating to equality (equal opportunities for female athletes in finals, on podiums and in championships); enhancing Olympic value (featuring both women’s and men’s finals in every sport); and visibility and inspiration (celebrating female athletes on the Olympic podium to inspire and represent women and girls worldwide).”

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A federal judge in Louisiana ruled that the Food and Drug Administration must provide a status report on its safety review of the abortion pill within six months.

The judge also found that a challenge to the policy of allowing abortion pills to be shipped through the mail has standing and is likely to succeed on the merits.

“FDA has an obligation to act with all deliberate speed to review its past actions and complete a thorough analysis that addresses the deficiencies it has acknowledged,” District Judge David C. Joseph wrote. “The parties and the American public deserve nothing less.”

The state of Louisiana filed the lawsuit against the administration, challenging the Biden-era policy of allowing abortion drugs to be sent through the mail, including into states where abortion is illegal.

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Key Takeaways

  • West Virginia Governor approved House Bill 4106, extending permitless carry to adults aged 18-20, effective June 12, 2026.
  • Previously, permitless carry only applied to those 21 and older, creating stricter rules for those under 21.
  • The new law allows qualified residents aged 18 and older to carry a concealed weapon without a license, affirming Second Amendment rights regardless of age.
  • The law keeps prohibitions for felons and individuals under domestic violence protective orders while clarifying rules for minors.
  • Optional licenses remain for those seeking reciprocity in other states.

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A federal court has shut down an attempt by a disgraced former Wisconsin judge to overturn her criminal conviction.

Hannah Dugan, a now former activist judge, attempted to overturn the ruling after she was found guilty of helping an illegal alien evade federal immigration authorities.

U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, denied motions from Dugan seeking to toss out a jury’s verdict.

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NASA astronaut and pilot for the Artemis II mission, Victor Glover, shared the Gospel and teachings of Jesus Christ, moments before losing signal with Earth as he and the other astronauts reached the dark side of the Moon.

Glover shared that as he, and the three other astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, got closer “to the nearest point to the Moon, and farthest point from Earth,” he wanted to remind people of one of the “most important mysteries” on Earth, love.

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I have more great news from Slovenia.

The Slovenian Supreme Court has upheld the results of the assisted suicide referendum that rejected the Slovenian assisted suicide law.

The Slovenian parliament legalized assisted suicide in July 2025. After the passing of the poison bill, a group of citizens organized by Aleš Primc, of the Slovenian Voice for Children and Families, collected 46,000 to require a referendum on the assisted suicide bill.

On November 23, 2025, the Slovenian people rejected the assisted suicide law by passing the referendum by a 53.46% margin.

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Modern electronics power everything from smartphones to satellites, but they all share a major limitation. Heat. Once temperatures climb above roughly 200 degrees Celsius, most devices begin to break down. For decades, this thermal barrier has been one of the toughest challenges in engineering.

Researchers at the University of Southern California now believe they have found a way past that limit.

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NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts are capturing the future of human spaceflight on their iPhones.

Fifty-eightyears ago, NASA’s Apollo 8 astronauts photographed the famous Earthrise image. This image of our “pale blue dot,” as famed astronomer Carl Sagan referred to Earth several decades later, forever changed humanity’s relationship with both space and Earth. Today, astronauts are seeing Earth from space through a new lens: the iPhone.

 

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Pro-abortion to the gills, the Guttmacher Institute this week reported that there were a whopping  22% fewer abortions in Iowa in 2025 than there were in 2024. The welcomed drop (to pro-lifers) in abortions was from 3,380 to 3,050.

2025 was the first full year Iowa’s “Fetal Heartbeat Act”–Senate File 579– was in effect.

“The data include numbers from Iowans who got abortions at one of the state’s brick-and-mortar clinics and through telehealth appointments, including those who received abortion pills from out-of-state medical providers in states with shield laws,” according to Natalie Krebs of Iowa Public Radio.

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Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte has referred New York’s anti-Trump Democrat Attorney General Letitia James to federal prosecutors over two cases involving possible homeowner’s insurance fraud, according to a report.

Pulte sent referral letters on Wednesday to federal prosecutors in Florida and Illinois.

The referral alleges that James made false statements on insurance-related applications tied to properties in those states.

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Kansas lawmakers overrode Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of the CARE Act, protecting pregnancy resource centers from abortion mandates and preserving their freedom to offer life-affirming care to women and families.


The Kansas Legislature last week overrode Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of House Bill 2635, which expands protections for pregnancy resource centers and limits certain forms of state regulation over their services.

 

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The final round of polls in Peru ahead of Sunday’s upcoming presidential election indicate that conservative former first lady and former Senator Keiko Fujimori is slated to win in the first round of the vote.

Peru, a country that has had nine presidents in the last ten years, will hold presidential and legislative elections on April 12 — the first such electoral event since 2021. The presidential race follows a series of impeachments that began with the removal of Marxist former President Pedro Castillo in December 2022, followed by the impeachment of Dina Boluarte in October 2025 and the ouster of interim President Jose Jerí in February.

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Baruch Hashem. Forever united. Haters going to hate the good. That’s what real friends — real allies — do for each other. Juxta this to France who has been secretly aiding Iran and stabbing us in the back.

As details emerge about the extraordinary rescue of the American pilot deep inside Iran, the Telegraph reports how Israel assisted with during the operation.

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WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters)—The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for the Justice Department to move forward with dismissing a criminal case in which Steve Bannon, an influential ally of President Donald Trump, was convicted after defying a congressional subpoena.

Bannon was convicted by a jury in Washington in 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress for failing to provide documents or testimony to a Democratic-led House of Representatives panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court’s decision to uphold Bannon’s conviction.

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U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has announced that U.S. troops will no longer attend graduate-level programs at numerous Ivy League and top-tier universities beginning in the 2026–27 academic year.

Fox News reports that a February memorandum reveals that the War Department canceled 93 fellowship positions across 22 elite institutions, including Harvard, MIT, Georgetown, Columbia and Princeton, arguing that “woke” ideology was weakening military education.

Citing the need for a “sacred trust between America’s institutions and our warriors,” Hegseth reiterated the requirement that our senior war fighters be trained as strategic thinkers and decried the fact that trust has been broken by a class of elite universities which have “utterly betrayed their purpose.”

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The mass mailing of mail-in ballots was a temporary emergency measure during the draconian COVID lockdown – another hoax. It was NEVER intended to be a permanent election fixture.

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Both President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth invoked God Monday during a White House press conference detailing the rescues of two U.S. airmen whose F-15E fighter jet was shot down over Iran.

“God was watching us—amazing,” Trump said, noting that it happened around “Easter territory.”

The entire ordeal played out over Easter weekend, beginning with the traumatic shootdown of the fighter jet on Good Friday and concluding with the dramatic rescue of the second airman on Easter Sunday.

Originally published March 27, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

A. SCOTUS TARIFF RULING

In our March 6, 2026, MIA Weekly, Paul Gordon Collier did a bellwether deepdive on the Supreme Court decision affecting Trump’s tariffs issued under the IEEA Act.

In that analysis, Collier concluded, “At the SCOTUS level, I expect this court to side with the resistance, and wherever sophistry can remotely be applied to justify the denial of Trump’s policies (to defeat Hitler, in their minds), they will do so. However, there are limitations, even for this rogue court. Some degree of a semblance of Americanism must still be maintained, at least for now.

“For that reason, I expect SCOTUS to not fully shut down Trump’s tariff powers, but from here until the first District Court injunction, he has a limited time to act decisively using tariffs to target our enemies for economic warfare.

“What many do not realize is this, American pax is over and everyone knows it. There is a new real scramble for power that will leave the losers in destitute circumstances. The race to build the one AI machine to rule them all is on, and Trump recognizes this; THAT is why he chose to use tariffs in this unprecedented, but legal (unprecedented doesn’t equal illegal, Mr. Roberts) way, for he understood the stakes are high.

The world is resetting its power structure, and competition is fierce to not become a subservient to the greater power, and it’s a competition America can lose, especially with Progmerica still fighting to take over from within, aided as they are by quislings in our courts.”

With a divided house, life is uncertain. Building reserves to get you through potential upheavals in supply are as essential as they’ve been since the first Covid lockdowns were ordered. That fragile state has only continued, and we act on the assumption it is only going to get worse before it gets better (and we DO believe it will get better).

We believe most of you (hopefully us too) will not be touched at a catastrophic level, where you might be without resources for a period of time (perhaps two months), but some of you (and us) MIGHT be. We are already preparing for the potential interruption that might happen, fully expecting the lights to come back on in the end.

To make it through the dark valley, consider:

  1. ESSENTIAL NEEDS – What are your essential needs that, if you go without them for more than 2 months, could kill you? Medicines might be top on that list. Food might be easier to find than medicine. One of our spouses has medicine that is consistently not available right away due to the strain on the medical supply lines already.

Here is a list of vulnerable medicines. If your medicines are on the list, consider alternatives, or, where possible, stock up for two months in advance.

USP Vulnerable Medicines List

  1. TRANSPORTATION – Consider having electric bikes on hand for emergency travel. To go along with those e-bikes, consider portable solar panels to recharge the e-bikes if you lose power for any period of time.

POWOXI 12V Solar Car Battery Charger: 15W Solar Trickle Charger Maintainer with MPPT Controller for Car – RV Boat Marine Motorcycle – $50

SOLPERK Solar Panel Kit 20W 12V, Waterproof Solar Battery Trickle Charger Maintainer + Smart MPPT Controller + Adjustable Mount Bracket – $30

URLIFE 20″*3.0 Fat Tire Electric Bike for Adults, 28MPH 48V, 80-Mile, 7-Speed & Suspension, Adjustable Seat for Adults and Teens, UL 2849 – $380

Electric Bike for Adults,1500W Peak Motor Retro E Bike,30MPH Max Speed,60/110 Miles Range,Removable 48V 15Ah Battery,20″x4.0″Fat – $630

B. APOCALPYPSE IRAN: IRAN’S NEW ORDER AND THE PRICE THE WORLD IS ALREADY PAYING

In our March 13, 2026, issue, our military affairs correspondent, Michael Cessna, presented an analysis of the Iran War that focused on the looming secondary global threats emerging from this war. One of the most pressing challenges comes through the Strait of Hormuz. So long as Iran can continue to shut down, or even slow down, commercial trade through the strait, global economies and even food supplies face existential threats.

Cessna explained, “The financial consequences were immediate and severe. Kuwait announced oil production cuts, and Iraq cut 1.5 million barrels per day as onshore storage filled. Brent crude logged its largest weekly gain in the history of the futures contract, surging by 28%.  By March 8, Brent had crossed $103 per barrel — the first time it had exceeded $100 in four years. U.S. retail gasoline prices jumped to a national average of $3.45 per gallon by March 9, up more than 51 cents in a single week.

“J.P. Morgan’s commodities research team warned that production cuts could exceed 4 million barrels per day by the end of the following week if the strait remained closed, and that prices could exceed $150 per barrel if Gulf infrastructure continued to be targeted — an outcome that Qatar’s Energy Minister described as capable of triggering the collapse of world economies.”

While seeming hyperbolic on the surface, the IEA convened an emergency meeting of its 30+ member states, which collectively hold 1.2 billion barrels in strategic reserve, to discuss a coordinated release.”

  1. EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLY – If you haven’t started growing your own food already, starting now won’t help you deal with this immediate potential crisis. Stocking up on food is advised, and if you haven’t you definitely should.

The Best Emergency Food Supplies, With Insights From Disaster Relief Experts – Lee Cutlip

  1. FOOD BUYING CO-OPS – You still have time to join a local food buying co-op in your area, or maybe even start one yourself. Here are some resources to get you started:

Local Harvest Food Coops (mostly Northeast U.S.)

Neighborhood Buying Club: How to Start and Run One Safely – JoinSpark

Feeding America – Find Free Groceries

C. TRANSITIONS: PT. 2 – FROM JUDGES TO KINGS, HOW ISRAEL BECAME A KINGDOM OF MEN

In our March 20, 2026, issue of MIA, Paul Gordon Collier analyzed Israel’s transition from a nation of Judges to a nation of Kings. What he noted was this:

“The Kingdom still ostensibly claimed God as King, but their King would, more often than not, gain more praise from the people than God would. While God ordained it and allowed it to happen, it was not his desire. He knew the hearts of men. He knew one day his own people would call for a King even after they had one supernaturally deliver them from slavery.

“‘I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.’- Hosea 13:11

“While they held on to the foundation of the Judges nation, what they built on top of it, kingship, would ultimately undermine the foundation that gave them legitimacy, which ultimately led to the death of the Kings nation and the eventual rise of the 2nd Temple province of many Empires (save for the era of the Maccabees).

“The differences between the two are, to me, radical enough to identify them as two civilizations (but one people). The second civilization sought to compromise with the civilizations around it. The kingdom sought the approval of neighboring Kings, not that of the King of Kings they once declared their sovereign.”

What the Kingdom drifted away from was a foundation in the Word of God. Our challenge this month to our readers is to read Psalm 119 every day for 30 days. In that reading, pray that the Holy Spirit moves in you to imprint the Hebrew alphabet in you.

Psalm 119 outlines the purpose of meditating on the Word daily, how to meditate on that Word, and what the fruit of meditating on the Word of God daily produces. Psalm 119 spells out why the Word of God should be the first and last plumbline of your actions, not the pleased voices of men, or the fear of their rejection.

For help in that meditation, here are three possibilities:

  1. Psalm 119 – Charles Bridges
  2. Faith in Exile: Psalm 119 and the Christian Life – David VanDrunen
  3. A Lamp Unto My Feet: A 12-Week Study through Psalm 117 – Stave Gallagher

For those of you affiliated with a church community, seek guidance from your leaders about study guides for Psalm 119.

D. JUDGEFARE VERSUS AMERICA

In this week’s issue, our monthly review for March 2026, our bellwether deepdive for the month was about the growing threat of Judgefare in America. In that deepdive, our staff wrote, “Recent rulings by what we would classify as progressive activist judges have only widened the divide between the conservative executive and the progressive judiciary.

“We believe the judiciary is mostly controlled by progressives, directly through progressive activist judges and indirectly through bar associations, law schools, and other judicial enforcement institutions.

“Their values are unique to their people, and alien to Americans, for they rest on the assumption that the social usurps the individual and social status usurps American rule of law

“We call this part of the progressive revolutionary war machine, Judgefare, the use of judges and the judiciary to stifle dissent and complete the transition from “Progmerica” to the Progressive U.S., now free to openly practice progressive values and bury Americanist values once and for all.”

To protect yourself from potential lawfare and Judgefare, consider first whether your actions present challenges to progressive power. Do you own a business that has a lot of social signal power? If so, you might be at risk of future targeting should you not comply to a future offer too good to be true (usually offered by a “special interest” group like GLAAD).

If the course of your life does not in some way either invite power for progressives or challenge it, you need not worry too much about the threat of Judgefare or lawfare in your life. If the course of your life falls into either of those two categories, then consider our recommendations.

  1. LEGAL INSURANCE – One way to protect yourself against lawfare is to purchase legal insurance. There are a variety of options out there, so we suggest you start first by learning exactly what legal insurance is and whether it is right for you, and second, which legal insurance provider is the best one for you.

What is Legal Insurance – and Do You Need It? – The Penny Hoarder

5 Best Legal Insurance Options in 2026 – Benzinga

  1. LEARN LEGAL BASICS – We don’t recommend anyone ever represent themselves in a legal matter, but we do recommend people becoming as familiar with the law as resources will allow. The more familiar you are with at least the underlying principles of constitutional law, the better prepared you will be to be an advocate for your rights not just with the authorities but even with your own lawyer (especially if you have a court-appointed one).

These resources are geared towards both non-lawyers and lawyers, but even the resources for lawyers listed here can be very useful to anyone wanting to get a basic familiarity with U.S. constitutional law.

How to Learn law Without Going to Law School – Halt.org

Self-Study Map for Law (Complete Guide) – TME.NET

The Ultimate Guide to Free Law Study Materials for Students on a Budget – Lawyers Inventory

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You don’t need to be a biologist to understand there is a physical difference between males and females. This is such a well-known fact that even cavemen understand this concept. The left, however, woke up one day and decided that there is no difference, despite reality proving otherwise. This is why the Department of Justice is suing Minnesota, as they have allowed boys to invade the female division of sports for far too long.

According to the New York Post:

The Department of Justice sued Minnesota on Monday for discriminating against female athletes by letting biological males compete against them and enter their bathrooms and locker rooms.

These asinine policies don’t just destroy the integrity of the game: They actively jeopardize women’s safety.

The suit, filed in Minnesota federal court, alleges that the state’s Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League have been implementing policies and practices that ignored “undeniable physiological differences between male and female athletes” in violation of Title IX.

To claim the state ignored “undeniable physiological differences” would be an understatement at this point.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon noted in the 45-page civil filing that the state also committed the violations while taking more than $3 billion in federal funding per year and agreeing to uphold nondiscriminatory policies.