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Mon May 20, 2024 – 7:56 pm EDT

(LifeSiteNews) — A gender-confused woman who has undergone a “sex change” and who lives as a “diocesan hermit” with the approval of Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, came out yesterday as “transgender.”

“Brother” Christian Cole Matson, born Nicole Matson, told Religion News Service (RNS) on Friday, “This Sunday, Pentecost 2024, I’m planning to come out publicly as transgender,” adding that she has the permission of Bishop Stowe to publicly share this information.

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CVS Health Corp. settled with nurse practitioner Robyn Strader after she sued the company after it stopped providing religious accommodations regarding “pregnancy prevention services.”

Strader said she had been granted a religious exemption for six years permitting her to not prescribe contraceptives and filed the lawsuit in January 2023 after having been fired following the policy change in 2021, according to the press release. First Liberty Institute, which represented Strader, announced Monday that CVS had agreed to a settlement of which the terms “were not made public.”

“We are thrilled that Robyn was able to reach a resolution with CVS,” Stephanie Taub, senior counsel for First Liberty Institute, said in the press release. “We are hopeful that companies across the country will recognize the religious liberty of their employees and work to protect those rights.”

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An Oregon city doubled down on its DEI policy after city officials received complaints about people using public restrooms and locker rooms based on gender identity, not sex.

On Monday, Mayor Jan Kaplan and the rest of the Newport City Council addressed the issue during a public meeting. An agenda for the meeting claimed that parks and recreation officials had been “fielding questions” about transgender-related policies.

‘If I see you as a predator, … then I will interpret whatever you do as predatory.’

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Is it antisemitic to point out that the massive, left-wing funding apparatus set up by Hungarian American hedge-fund billionaire George Soros has bankrolled many of the organizations behind anti-Israel protests and riots on college campuses? The Southern Poverty Law Center says that it is, and it smeared Sen. Ted Cruz for citing a Politico report on Soros funding.

Cruz, a Texas Republican, isn’t letting it stand.

“Leftists cannot defend their ideas on the merits, so they instead resort to censorship and cancel culture,” Cruz told The Daily Signal in a written statement Tuesday.

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EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) released an open letter to university presidents on Tuesday expressing his “profound concern” with the wave of antisemitism at college campuses.

University administrators have come under growing GOP scrutiny for their handling of pro-Palestinian protests that have at times devolved into vandalism and acts of harassment against Jewish students. Police have been called in to disband or contain the protests, but the light touch used by some presidents has prompted calls for congressional action.

Scott, who has emphasized support for Israel during his first term in the Senate, said students had “surpassed” their free speech rights and that he would attempt to “rescind every last cent of taxpayer funding of any institution that condones” antisemitism.

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The Defense Department undercounted the number of abortions that it authorized between 2016 and 2020, new data shows.

Following a lawsuit from the Oversight Project, a division of The Heritage Foundation, the Department of Defense said that it had identified a total of 77 abortions performed in military medical treatment facilities (MTFs) during the four-year period between 2016 and 2020. (Heritage founded The Daily Signal in 2014.)

That number includes 17 abortions that had previously not been included in the DOD’s figures.

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Former President Trump and President Biden have set a late June date for their first debate of 2024. On the heels of the second anniversary of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision, which returned the right to protect unborn children to the people and their elected representatives, abortion is guaranteed to be front and center as an election issue.

Biden and the Democrats are spending millions of dollars on attack ads centered around abortion. Vice President Harris travels the country as Biden’s abortion czar and campaigned at an abortion center. Failing on everything else, they think this issue is their silver bullet. They even believe it gives them a shot at flipping Florida blue.

Yet the Democrats have a big vulnerability, one that plays right to Donald Trump’s strengths.

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Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is warning state-funded colleges that their funding will be stripped if they don’t protect Jewish students from the attacks and harassment of Nazi Hamas agitators.

Rokita warned state colleges and universities that they better start protecting the civil rights of the jewish students, too, or face the consequences.

Per Just The News:

Rokita sent a letter to university officials earlier this week saying antisemitic attacks that take place “without corrective measures” would allow Jewish students to file lawsuits, citing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That provision in the historic legislation bans discrimination on the basis of such factors as race, nationality or creed.

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Excerpt from redstate.com

Here’s the thing: The language reflected in the Operations Order and related documents was standard language — the sort of language you’d find in most orders of that nature. Don’t take my word for it — let’s see what those who’ve actually executed such warrants and/or been present at briefings involving them have to say:

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New documents are set to be released in the Florida case concerning classified files from ex-President Donald Trump, following a deal struck between defense lawyers and special counsel Jack Smith’s team.

Mr. Smith filed a status report on the agreement on Monday.

“The parties hereby file this joint status report providing the parties’ positions … regarding the unsealing of filings,” the Smith team wrote.

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EXCLUSIVE — The National Republican Congressional Committee is brushing off demands from three freshman House Democrats to retract a “tongue-in-cheek” press release claiming the lawmakers supported Hamas.

On Friday, legal counsel from the Elias Law Group representing Reps. Andrea Salinas (D-OR) and Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) and from Olson Remcho LLP representing Rep. Yadira Caraveo (D-CO) sent immediate cease and desist letters to the NRCC, accusing the organization of false statements and defamation after they published several press releases with the headline “allegedly ‘quoting’” the representatives saying “I support Hamas.”

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Judge Aileen Cannon has the Department of Justice (DOJ) for pushing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s corrupted classified documents case against President Donald Trump.

Smith and the Democrats promised America that they had all of the evidence they needed to convince a judge or jury that Trump is a criminal.

However, they have yet to provide a shred of evidence, despite continued efforts to push politically motivated charges against the 45th president.

Judge Cannon, who is overseeing the classified docs case in Florida, is getting really frustrated at the lack of substance Smith is showing.

Smith’s case is already very flimsy, to begin with, and Judge Cannon.

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has won the Democratic primary and will now be standing for re-election in November.

Willis defeated Atlanta attorney Christian Wise Smith in the Democratic primary. Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing Willis’ dubious RICO case against former president Trump, also won his primary over attorney Robert Patillo in a nonpartisan election.

If either Willis or McAfee had lost their respective races, the “election interference” case into former President Trump would have faced further delays.

The case is already nowhere near trial, as Willis has faced numerous efforts to remove her from the case due to noted political bias, as well as a series of allegations of misconduct. Willis has faced credible allegations that she misused county funds while serving as district attorney. She is currently the subject of numerous investigations, both state and federal.

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In another example of the left trying to destroy our system, a left-wing judge in Florida has ruled that illegal aliens and other noncitizens have voting “rights.”

The judge ruled against a state law that bars noncitizens from participating in voter registration drives.

Illegals and even legal noncitizens have NO right whatsoever to engage in our political system. It really is just that simple.

But leftists don’t care about laws and morality. They care only about increasing their power to coerce you to their will.

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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will reportedly lose a high-powered trio of top policy staffers barely six months into his speakership.

The influential advisers — Brittan Specht, Jason Yaworske, and Preston Hill — are leaving Johnson’s office at the end of May, Punchbowl News reported. Each of the three previously worked for then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

Johnson ascended to the top of House leadership without the existing policy, communication, and fundraising strategy as others who have spent years in leadership. The departure of such an experienced group is likely to sting, particularly as appropriations season kicks into high gear before the end-of-September deadline.

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Excerpt from lidblog.com

 

Once again, the White House has quietly “corrected” a slew of false statements by Biden in an official transcript of a Biden speech… and also once again the media is ignoring these “corrections.”

What other president would the media stand silent as a White House continually makes alterations to hide a president’s false statements on official transcripts?

100 years from now, someone will read these transcripts and have no idea how often Biden has lied in official speeches because the transcripts have been sanitized for the Democrat’s protection.