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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government is once again in danger of collapsing after an ultra-Orthodox party made its intentions to leave the government public. The group is not large enough to immediately cause a collapse, but the concern from the Netanyahu camp is more defections will follow.
The faction left the government over a proposal to end military exemptions for religious students. The orthodox communities typically support conflict, in general, yet their children are largely exempt due to being “religious students.”
Netanyahu’s governing coalition is fracturing. What does it mean for Gaza? – National– globalnews.ca
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government suffered a serious blow on Tuesday when an ultra-Orthodox party announced it was bolting the coalition.
While this doesn’t immediately threaten Netanyahu’s rule, it could set in motion his government’s demise, although that could still be months away. It also could complicate efforts to halt the conflict in Gaza.
United Torah Judaism’s two factions said they were leaving the government because of disagreements over a proposed law that would end broad exemptions for religious students from enlistment into the military.
Military service is compulsory for most Jewish Israelis, and the issue of exemptions has long divided the country. Those rifts have only widened since the start of the conflict in Gaza as demand for military manpower has grown and hundreds of soldiers have been killed.
The threat to the government “looks more serious than ever,” said Shuki Friedman, vice president of the Jewish People Policy Institute, a Jerusalem think tank.
Insurrectionist rogue U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, a Barack Obama appointee, took the law into her own hands in an effort to protect the child murder corporation, Planned Parenthood, from being defunded. The law in question comes from a congressionally passed and presidentially signed law that defunds Planned Parenthood, in essence.
The Judge blocked the provision for 14 days. No arrests have been made following this egregious, unconstitutional ruling. Judgefare continues to erode Americans’ sense of Rule of Law. Pam Bondi remains silent.
Federal Judge, in Planned Parenthood Dispute, Attempts To Override Congress, Trump on Abortion Funding – The New York Sun
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Federal Judge, in Planned Parenthood Dispute, Attempts To Override Congress, Trump on Abortion Funding The New York Sun
During the Covid-19 era, Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church stood tall and kept his church open, defying civil law in favor of God’s law. His pastorship goes back decades and his impact on American Christianity has been significant, with many top Pastors today citing MacArthur as one of their biggest influences.
While MacArthur planned on coming back after a recent bout with illnesses, that would prove not to be the case. The Pastor caught pneumonia and died at the age of 86. MacArthur’s central gospel message was one he spoke until the end. Speaking of the job of Pastor, MacArthur said, “Being a pastor means you’re a truth-teller. The whole purpose of the Christian message is to confront the sinner’s sin so you can call the sinner to repentance and forgiveness… The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.”
John MacArthur: A fearless preacher who never wavered– www.theblaze.com
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Los Angeles megachurches often resemble their Hollywood neighbors — grand stage sets with top-tier lighting and sound, carefully produced services complete with scripts, soundtracks, and a live audience. They usually plant themselves in the “nice parts of town” — Hollywood Hills, Santa Monica, Pasadena. Perfect if you’re after a Sunday pep talk and a little feel-good music to carry you through the week.
But that was never Grace Community Church with John MacArthur at the pulpit.
MacArthur never chased applause or tailored sermons to flatter the mood of the age.
Unlike many pastors leading congregations of similar size, MacArthur, who died Monday at the age of 86, didn’t preach to people hoping to make them “feel better” about themselves. He preached to dying souls, convinced he held the only message that could save them: the gospel — the real, unvarnished gospel of Scripture.
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The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration is accepting applications for the 2025-2026 Pregnancy Help Organizations Grant Program.
In April, Gov. Sanders signed Act 1006 budgeting $2 million in funding for grants to pregnancy help organizations.
Under Act 1006, grant money can go to pregnancy resource centers, maternity homes, adoption agencies, and other charitable organizations that provide material support to women with unplanned pregnancies.
The State of Arkansas also can award funding to charities that promote infant and maternal wellness and reduce infant and maternal mortality by:
- Providing nutritional information and/or nutritional counseling;
- Providing prenatal vitamins;
- Providing a list of prenatal medical care options;
- Providing social, emotional, and/or material support; or
- Providing referrals for WIC and community-based nutritional services, including food banks, food pantries, and food distribution centers.
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In a closely watched case, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld West Virginia’s ban on the abortion drug mifepristone, marking a major legal win for the state’s pro-life stance and reinforcing state authority in the post-Dobbs era.
The July 15 ruling came in response to a challenge by GenBioPro, a Nevada-based manufacturer of mifepristone, which argued that the FDA’s approval of the drug should override the state ban. The court rejected that claim in a 2-1 decision, affirming West Virginia’s authority to regulate abortion within its borders.
“As Dobbs makes clear, that judgment belongs with the people and their elected representatives,” Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote in the decision. “At a time when the rule of law is under blunt assault, disregarding the Supreme Court is not an option.”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey, who defended the law while serving as attorney general, celebrated the ruling on X.
“Big win out of the 4th Circuit today,” Morrisey said. “I defended this law as Attorney General and am proud to see a victory in this case. West Virginia can continue to enforce our pro-life laws and lead the nation in our efforts to protect life. We will always be a pro-life state!”
According to Reuters, the decision marks the first time a federal appeals court has ruled that states may restrict access to the drug.
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In a closely watched case, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld West Virginia’s ban on the abortion drug mifepristone, marking a major legal win for the state’s pro-life stance and reinforcing state authority in the post-Dobbs era.
The July 15 ruling came in response to a challenge by GenBioPro, a Nevada-based manufacturer of mifepristone, which argued that the FDA’s approval of the drug should override the state ban. The court rejected that claim in a 2-1 decision, affirming West Virginia’s authority to regulate abortion within its borders.
“As Dobbs makes clear, that judgment belongs with the people and their elected representatives,” Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote in the decision. “At a time when the rule of law is under blunt assault, disregarding the Supreme Court is not an option.”
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey, who defended the law while serving as attorney general, celebrated the ruling on X.
“Big win out of the 4th Circuit today,” Morrisey said. “I defended this law as Attorney General and am proud to see a victory in this case. West Virginia can continue to enforce our pro-life laws and lead the nation in our efforts to protect life. We will always be a pro-life state!”
According to Reuters, the decision marks the first time a federal appeals court has ruled that states may restrict access to the drug.
The ruling could have broader implications for state-level regulation of abortion drugs. According to the Guttmacher Institute, 28 states currently have some form of restriction on their use.
Mifepristone, now used in more than half of abortions nationwide, has faced renewed scrutiny after several of its longstanding safety restrictions were loosened under the Biden administration.
Earlier this month, CatholicVote and more than 100 other pro-life organizations sent a joint letter to FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., urging them to restore the previous safety requirements on mifepristone.
LifeNews Note: Elise DeGeeter writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
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Asteroid 2022 YS5 is a building-sized asteroid that is scheduled to make a close approach to Earth on July 17, capturing the attention of astronomers, scientists, and space agencies worldwide. Although the asteroid is expected to fly past Earth at a safe distance, the event underscores the increasing importance of planetary defense systems, ongoing asteroid monitoring, and global cooperation in space. Both NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have confirmed that 2022 YS5 poses no threat, but are treating this event as a timely reminder of the need for continued vigilance and preparedness.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has officially confirmed that asteroid 2022 YS5, measuring approximately 120 feet (36.5 meters) in diameter, will pass Earth at a distance of about 4.15 million kilometers (roughly 2.58 million miles). While that may sound like a vast distance, it is considered relatively close in astronomical terms, especially given the asteroid’s speed of over 14,000 miles per hour (22,500 km/h).2022 YS5 belongs to the Aten group of near-Earth asteroids, known for having orbits that can cross Earth’s path. However, NASA has made it clear that this particular asteroid does not qualify as potentially hazardous, as it does not meet the two key risk criteria:
- Proximity: Within 7.4 million kilometers (4.6 million miles) of Earth
- Size: Greater than 85 meters in diameter
Since 2022 YS5 falls short on both counts, its flyby is being monitored but not considered dangerous.
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New Hampshire state Rep. James Thibault, a Republican, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI July 14, seeking records related to a Biden-era memorandum that targeted traditional Catholic communities.
The request focuses on a 2023 memo from the FBI’s Richmond, Virginia, field office that flagged “radical traditionalist” Catholics as potentially linked to violent extremist groups. The memo implied that the FBI had infiltrated and spied on Catholic groups.
In a July 14 press release emailed to CatholicVote, Thibault called the memo “a systemic pattern of religious discrimination that must be exposed and stopped.”
“The First Amendment of the US Constitution and Part I, Article 5 of our state constitution protect every citizen’s right to worship God unimpeded by the government,” Thibault said, “so to think that federal intelligence may be infiltrating our churches and targeting our citizens for their worship is especially concerning to me.”
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It would almost be funny, at this point, if it weren’t so serious.
In the latest scandal to rock Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy, the socialist state assemblyman is revealed to have posted an offensive video of an Indian comedy troupe cosplaying as exaggerated Jewish stereotypes for Hanukkah last year.
The post was rediscovered by pro-Jewish group Stop Antisemitism, according to the New York Post, which has condemned Mamdani for his problematic statements regarding both Israel and Jewish people — including defending the use of the phrase “globalize the intifada.”
First, the original post from December, which features a video from the Geeta Brothers Duet Group and rather speaks for itself:
Happy 3rd night of Hanukkah from Astoria and Long Island City. pic.twitter.com/YoLvFq0wtj
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) December 27, 2024
A would-be mass shooter was stopped by church members before he had a chance to kill any members at the CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan. The shooter opened fire but was quickly shot by two parishioners and run over by another, who drove her car into the church lobby to stop him.
The shooter was 31-year-old Brian Anthony Browning. He died on the scene. Fortunately, only one church member was injured. Browning began firing at church members, including children, before he was stopped. There were over 150 children present at the time. Had the church not had an armed guard, the outcome could have been a lot different. It was the shot that initially stopped Browning. Motivation for the shooting was not given. Browing had infrequently attended the church in the past.
BREAKING: Active shooter killed in Michigan after driving truck into church, opening fire on congregation | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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One person was shot in the leg during the incident.
A security guard fatally shot a suspected gunman during a Sunday morning incident at CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan, police confirmed.
The Wayne Police Department responded to reports of an active shooter at the church, located on Glenwood Road between South Wayne and South Newburgh roads, on Sunday morning. Upon arrival, officers determined that an armed suspect had been shot and killed by a member of the church’s security team. Authorities also confirmed that one person was shot in the leg during the incident.
Police have asked the public to avoid the area as the investigation remains active.
Officials did not release the identity of the suspect or the injured individual. The motive behind the incident has not been disclosed.
The shooting occurred shortly after a church event had ended and while the service was still being live-streamed on YouTube. Video footage from inside the church shows the congregation applauding and beginning to rise from their seats when off-camera shouting begins.
Attendees are seen ducking for cover and running from the room as someone shouts, “Everybody to the back, please, everybody come to the back. Come to the back.” A loud bang follows, triggering additional screams before the video feed cuts out.
The Terminally Ill Adults bill passed the UK parliament by a narrow 314-291 vote. The bill will allow mentally competent adults with 6 months or less to live the option of having doctors euthanize them. The concern is the bill will start off with limited candidates for euthanasia, but keep expanding like Canda’s law has, which now even allows the mentally ill to “choose’ death.
UK parliament votes for assisted dying, paving way for historic law change– www.investing.com
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Britain’s parliament voted on Friday in favour of a bill to legalise assisted dying, paving the way for the country’s biggest social change in a generation.
The legislation passed by a vote of 314-291, clearing its biggest parliamentary hurdle.
The “Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life)” law would give mentally competent, terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months or less left to live the right to choose to end their lives with medical help.
The bill now proceeds to Britain’s upper chamber, the House of Lords, where it will undergo months of scrutiny. While there could be further amendments, the unelected Lords will be reluctant to block legislation that has been passed by elected members of the House of Commons.
The vote puts Britain on course to follow Australia, Canada and other countries, as well as some U.S. states, in permitting assisted dying.
The winner of Miss North Florida 2025 pageant, Kayleigh Bush, was stripped of her title because of her refusal to compete with biological males in a beauty pageant for women. She objected on religious grounds.
Liberty Counsel, which is pursuing the matter, said “the contract requires female beauty candidates to agree to compete against biological males, who have been subjected to medical mutilation as minor boys, and agree that these mutilated males are ‘female.’”
Beauty Queen Stripped Of Crown Over Refusal To Support Trans (Male) Inclusion In Pageant– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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In the political pursuit to fight the invisible patriarchy that no one can seem to touch, see, or fully explain, leftists have decided that it’s necessary to punish the winner of the Miss North Florida 2025 pageant because she refused to sign a contract with the Miss America Organization that states “female” includes men who claim to feel some type of way deep down inside, despite not being able to explain what it means to feel like a women.
According to Liberty Consuel, “the contract requires female beauty candidates to agree to compete against biological males, who have been subjected to medical mutilation as minor boys, and agree that these mutilated males are ‘female.’”
Kayleigh Bush, the rightful winner of the Miss North Florida pageant, said this violated her religious conscience. But the left does not care about this little thing called Freedom of Religion when it violates trans dogma.
Wow. Sounds like she has got a good head on her shoulders!
According to The Post Millennial:
Liberty Counsel had sent a letter demanding that Bush’s title be restored in April. The organization noted that the contract initially given to Bush incentivizes “child abuse in violation of Florida law,” due to many Miss and Miss Teen contestants being minors.
The contract that was given to Bush states that an “Applicant must be a Female,” which is defined as those born female or “an individual who has fully completed Sex Reassignment Surgery via Vaginoplasty (from male to female) with supporting medical documentation and records. Supporting medical documentation must be in the form of the certification attached, signed by the surgeon who performed the surgery and notarized, along with a copy of board certification and a current medical license. No alternative gender affirming surgery will suffice as acceptable in place of a Vaginoplasty.”
While the world remains silent, the rise of Islamism in Nigeria is causing death for Nigerian Christians, who see their government fail to protect them while it also prevents them from protecting themselves. The latest slaughter happened in the Yehewata village in the Benue State. Over 100 men, women and children were slaughtered by raiding Islamists.
BLOODBATH: Muslims Slaughter Hundreds of Christians in Nigeria, Families Wiped Out– gellerreport.com
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The dying legacy media continues to keep shtoom about Islamic atrocities against non-Muslims. Opposition to Islamic genocide is ‘islamophobic.’ And when the media does report on the carnage, all references to Islam are scrubbed and censored.
The latest bloodbath in the ongoing jihad against Christians in Nigeria, Muslims slaughtered over a hundred Christians in the Yelewata village in Benue, Nigeria.
Families were locked in their homes and burned alive.
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Children woke up to silence.
The great Islamic genocide of Christians on the African continent is the great, grievous news story censored and ignored by the sharia-compliant left-wing media.
These attacks are not only causing death and injury, but also poverty, internal displacement, human trafficking, refugee crises and human rights violations. This is particularly devastating for women and children, who are often left without a home, livelihood or family, making them vulnerable to trafficking and sexual violence.
There’s a grief that lingers when lives are taken so senselessly.
What happened in Yelewata village, Guma LGA, Benue State on the night of June 13th is both tragic and devastating.
Families were locked in their homes and burnt alive.
Children woke up to silence.
Mothers are… pic.twitter.com/o6VZwvtabZ— Paul Adefarasin (@pauladefarasin) June 16, 2025
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The Nigerian chapter of the rights organization reported that the massacre took place between Friday night and early Saturday in Yelewata, a village situated in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.https://t.co/6R0ZDxrruq#HomeOfHardTruths pic.twitter.com/DGNfUVcAa6
— Radio Generation (@RadioGenKe) June 15, 2025
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When it comes to federal funding, Americans are speaking loud and clear: they don’t want their tax dollars bankrolling gender ideology — or abortion, for that matter.
A poll from Life Leadership Conference (LLC), first obtained by Breitbart, revealed 64% of registered voters oppose their hard-earned tax dollars going toward “an organization that provides puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and other gender transition treatments for minors.” Of those in opposition, 76% were Republicans, 71% were Independents, and Democrats were evenly split 44% to 44%.
The poll’s findings gain added context from a recent Live Action investigation, highlighted by Breitbart, which alleged that Planned Parenthood — known as the nation’s largest abortion business and second-largest distributor of gender transition drugs — has been offering hormone treatments to minors as young as 16 with minimal parental consent or medical oversight. This revelation comes as Congress debates the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which aims to eliminate taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood through Medicaid.
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Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Planned Parenthood’s challenge to South Carolina’s attempt to bar the organization from participating in its Medicaid program, clearing the way for the state to strip the organization of Medicaid funds.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in the case of Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic to find that Planned Parenthood and a patient cannot sue the state of South Carolina under federal civil rights law to enforce a provision of the Medicaid Act that aims to ensure a beneficiary can obtain medical care from the provider of their choosing. Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the opinion for the court. The three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, were in dissent.
The court’s conservative majority reversed a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit that allowed Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against state officials to move forward and prevented South Carolina from excluding the organization from its Medicaid program.
The ruling is likely to pave the way for more states to exclude Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs, a move that anti-abortion rights have been pushing for several years.
“[T]he decision whether to let private plaintiffs enforce a new statutory right poses delicate questions of public policy. New rights for some mean new duties for others. And private enforcement actions, meritorious or not, can force governments to direct money away from public services and spend it instead on litigation,” Gorsuch wrote. “The job of resolving how best to weigh those competing costs and benefits belongs to the people’s elected representatives, not unelected judges charged with applying the law as they find it.”
Fr. James Martin affirms Pete Buttigieg’s belief that God helped him ‘come out’ as homosexual– www.lifesitenews.com
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(LifeSiteNews) — During the second episode of his “The Spiritual Life” podcast, featuring openly homosexual former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, heterodox Jesuit priest Father James Martin affirmed his statements about how his faith in God inspired him to “come out” as a homosexual and praised him as a “model of freedom” for “many people.”
While discussing Buttigieg’s experience (the exchange is viewable below from 23:48-25:08) of “coming out” while identifying as Christian, Martin asked the former secretary about whether growing closer to God helped him to “be more honest” about his sexual orientation. Buttigieg, who is “married” to another man and has two adopted children, quickly answered, “Yes,” and dove into how he learned to accept “God’s love for him as a gay man.”
“There’s two things I’m really sure about. One is that God loves me, and another is that I’m gay,” Buttigieg told Martin. “There are things you can just put … into perspective when you have put yourself in a position of being ready to accept God’s love and the unconditional nature and the infinite nature of God’s love that is taught in the best of the Christian tradition.”
Martin jumped in: “It’s great to hear you say that. … I work with LGBTQ Catholics and there are still so many people (who consider) those two things inconsistent. So thank you for being a model of freedom for so many people.”
READ: Pete Buttigieg shows how out of touch Democrats are with remarks on divorce, online pornography
While God loves all people, including those with same-sex attraction, the Catholic Church formally condemns homosexual activity and urges homosexuals to live a chaste lifestyle.
The Catechism teaches that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered” and “contrary to the natural law.” The text is very clear that homosexual activity can never be approved, and repeats that “[h]omosexual persons are called to chastity.” Homosexual acts are also mortal sins; therefore, anyone who commits these sins and does not repent through the sacrament of confession is in danger of hell.
Martin has a long history of contradicting Church teaching on homosexuality. The Jesuit priest frequently speaks of “loving LGBTQ people,” but he equivocates to downplay the fact that he endorses what the Church condemns: gravely sinful homosexual behavior.
Democrat states demand FDA end safety checks for abortion pill distribution– www.lifesitenews.com
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(Live Action) — The states of Massachusetts, California, New Jersey, and New York have petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove the REMS safety requirements put in place to monitor adverse events of the abortion pill (mifepristone).
The moves comes as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) signaled a review.
Key takeaways
- The abortion pill “record” – including the “experts” who originally reviewed the drug – has been kept secret from the American public, so any pro-abortion bias involved in the approval decisions is unknown.
- Big Abortion has executed a scheme to hide abortion pill complications for decades, potentially impacting FDA decisions.
- The Petitioner States seeking to be released from following safety protocols ultimately want increased access to abortion.
- The states admit that most of their abortions are already committed by pill, yet they claim the REMS safety protocols are “burdensome.”
- The states go so far as to claim that known risks associated with the abortion pill aren’t caused by the pill, despite the FDA’s mifepristone label and other studies showing otherwise.
New Bill Would Stop Canada From Euthanizing Mentally Disabled People– www.lifenews.com
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On June 20, 2025, Tamara Jansen (MP – Cloverdale – Langley City) introduced private members Bill C-218 in the House of Commons to prevent (MAiD) euthanasia for mental illness by excluding mental disorders from being considered a “grievous and irremediable medical condition” for the purposes of MAiD. If passed no one would be eligible for MAID for mental illness alone.
Bill C-218 will likely receive it’s first hour of debate in November 2025.
When Canada expanded the euthanasia law in March 2021 by passing Bill C-7, one of the expansions in the law permitted euthanasia for a mental illness alone. At that time the government approved euthanasia for mental illness alone with a two-year moratorium to give them to prepare.
After two previous delays, last year the government delayed the implementation of euthanasia for mental illness alone until March 17, 2024.
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Red states are leading the way in this battle but it’s far from over.
The College Fix reports:
‘Education, not indoctrination’: Texas governor signs higher ed reform bill
A new law signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday is another effort by Republican lawmakers to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion activism from public higher education.
State Sen. Brandon Creighton, the lead sponsor, described the legislation as a “bold step to ensure our public colleges and universities return to their core mission: education, not indoctrination.”
“Just as SB 17 eliminated DEI hiring last session, SB 37 now takes on politically charged academic programs and ensures students graduate with degrees of value, not degrees rooted in activism and political indoctrination,” Creighton stated in a news release.
Senate Bill 37 includes a number of structural changes in the governance of public higher education institutions.
Among other things, it creates new committees to review curriculum at least once every five years to ensure that classes “prepare students for civic and professional life.”
However, lawmakers did remove a section from the final version of the bill that prohibited curriculum that “promote[s] the idea that any race, sex, or ethnicity or any religious belief is inherently superior to any other.”
Creighton said the law, which will go into effect Sept. 1, “demands real accountability from our institutions by creating curriculum review committees in course offerings, aligning core curriculum with workforce needs, and empowering Texans to report ideological bias or political coercion in the classroom.”
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Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in reproductive technology by successfully breeding normal, healthy, and fertile motherless mice using DNA from two sperm cells: no egg, no female DNA. This work is part of a broader effort to understand the advantages and disadvantages of same-sex parenting and represents a significant leap in the field. Remarkably, the motherless mice survived to adulthood, but also reproduced, demonstrating their fertility.This finding could enhance our understanding of genetic inheritance and may eventually enable the use of epigenetic programming. The paper presents compelling evidence for the future possibilities of assisted reproduction through epigenetic techniques. Ongoing research in this area opens new avenues for exploring same-sex reproductive patterns, with potential applications in biomedicine and beyond. This breakthrough significantly expands our options for creating fertile offspring.
Breakthrough in same-sex reproduction: Healthy mice born from dual sperm DNA
According to the study, published in the journal Nature, the researchers were able to breed healthy and fertile mice using DNA from two sperm, and this was achieved through epigenetic programming. Unlike previous attempts, which resulted in weak or short-lived offspring, this study yielded viable pups. The scientific demonstration involved the targeted editing of methylation using epigenetic programming, meaning that the changes do not affect the underlying DNA sequence.
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President Donald Trump issued a rebuke of the state for allowing a 16-year-old transgender runner to compete. Trump said the inclusion of a biological male was “totally demeaning to women and girls” and threatened to pull funding from the state. McMahon confirmed on Fox & Friends that this would be a reality unless the state makes immediate changes.
“We are giving them 10 days to remedy the situation. We have a remedy for them, but if they do not comply within 10 days, we will refer this to the Department of Justice,” McMahon said. “They really need to send a letter of apology to all of the female participants in sports. They need to return the titles that were taken away from these women who competed and lost to the males in sports, and they just have to make it right to those women competitors.”
This follows Trump’s “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order, which clarified that Title IX, a law banning sex-based discrimination, would be enforced on the basis of biological sex. His administration argues that requiring biological females to compete against a transgender woman instead of having biological female-exclusive sports constitutes a civil rights violation.
Federal funding comprised over one-third, or $152.8 billion, of California’s 2024-25 budget, according to the California Budget and Policy Center. While McMahon did not detail how much federal funding could be lost due to this violation, she said it would be a “substantial amount.”
“They run the risk of losing their federal funding, in their K-12 schools, that’s where these infractions were committed,” McMahon said before paraphrasing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) take on the matter. “It’s very interesting to hear Gov. Newsom say it’s a matter of fairness. It is easy. Talk is cheap. I think he needs to put his money where his mouth is.”
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A California man who was accused of conspiring with the man who blew himself up in an explosion that damaged a California fertility clinic was found dead in prison where he was awaiting trial.
Daniel Park, 32, faced conspiracy charges after being accused of sending explosive materials to Guy Edward Bartkus, who exploded a car bomb at American Reproductive Centers in Palm Springs last month, according to the New York Post.
Park was arrested in Poland after the attack and later returned to the United States.
A man from Washington state federally charged with assisting the pregnancy clinic bomber in California has been found dead in detention.
Daniel Park had been charged with providing material support to terrorists for allegedly helping Guy E. Bartkus bomb a Palm Springs, Calif.… pic.twitter.com/8aZyLwiNPw
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 24, 2025
“Daniel Park was found unresponsive at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Los Angeles, California. Responding employees initiated life-saving measures. … Mr. Park was transported by EMS to a local hospital and subsequently pronounced deceased,” the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.
No further details were revealed.
According to the complaint against him, Park bought ammonium nitrate six times between October 2022 and May 2025, according to USA Today.
He is accused of shipping 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate to Bartkus in January. He paid for another 90 pounds of the chemical to be sent to Bartkus in May, the complaint alleged.
The FBI alleged that Park and Bartkus experimented with the explosives in January and February at Bartkus’ residence in Twentynine Palms. The FBI also alleged Park sent Bartkus money via PayPal.
Bartkus left behind extremist writings.
“A manifesto allegedly written by the man was posted online before the bombing. It has some similarities to the rantings of the far-left, who also hate Christianity and view being pro-life as fascist,” journalist Andy Ngo posted on X.
Guy Edward Bartkus, 25, of Palm Springs, has been formally identified as the pro-abortion/anti-natal suicide bomber.
Bartkus was extremely active on @Reddit, like other recent violent extremist suspects. He posted regularly on the r/antinatalism subreddit. A purported online… pic.twitter.com/jlOXIN4MfJ
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 18, 2025
DOJ Sues Washington State Over Law Forcing Priests to Violate Priest-Penitent Privilege– pjmedia.com
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Excerpt:The state of Washington declared war on the Roman Catholic Church in May when Democrat Gov. Bob Ferguson signed Senate Bill 5375 into law. The bill requires Catholic clergy to break the seal of confession and inform on a penitent who confesses to child abuse.
The law gives priests a choice: Violate the sanctity of the confessional and suffer excommunication, or refuse to report the abuse and go to prison.
The sanctity of the confessional has been recognized in America since 1813, when a New York court refused to compel a priest to reveal what a man accused of stealing jewelry told him during confession.
Senate Bill 5375 “adds clergy to Washington’s list of mandatory reporters for child abuse but explicitly denies them the ‘privileged communication’ exemption granted to other professionals, such as nurses and therapists,” reports The National Catholic Register.
Two other states, New Hampshire and West Virginia, also require priests to report abuse without offering the confidentiality exemption for confession. Washington is different because it still affords attorney-client privilege and similar privileges for other professions.
“Senate Bill 5375 unconstitutionally forces Catholic priests in Washington to choose between their obligations to the Catholic Church and their penitents or face criminal consequences, while treating the priest-penitent privilege differently than other well-settled privileges,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said. “The Justice Department will not sit idly by when States mount attacks on the free exercise of religion.”
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Prominent MAGA-aligned commentators launched xenophobic attacks on Zohran Mamdani over the 33-year-old state lawmaker’s Muslim religion following his apparent Democratic primary win in the New York City mayoral race.
In a series of posts, conservative social media personality Laura Loomer wrote “New York City will be destroyed,” Muslims will start “committing jihad all over New York” and that “NYC is about to see 9/11 2.0.”
If elected in November, Mamdani would become the first Muslim mayor in New York City’s history. And while many conservatives have criticized Mamdani’s progressive policies, others have taken aim at Mamdani for his religion.
“24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11,” conservative activist Charlie Kirk posted on X, referencing the number of people killed in New York. “Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City.”
“New York City has fallen,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote, quoting a post by Michael Malice about when New Yorkers “endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.”
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The recent Israeli and American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities have been “extremely successful” in significantly delaying Iran’s nuclear program, according to Robert Greenway, a former senior intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s U.S. Central Command.
Greenway, who also served as a senior director for the National Security Council and principal architect of the Abraham Accords during President Donald Trump’s first term, questioned leaked intelligence assessments suggesting limited damage.
Speaking to Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo today, Greenway said the Israeli and U.S. operations damaged Iran’s most protected facilities and left the country with no meaningful air defenses.
“The United States and Israel enjoy complete freedom of action in the air over Iran,” Greenway said on “Mornings with Maria,” emphasizing that Iran “has no air defenses to speak of and no air force.”
Greenway expressed optimism that the weakened Iranian position creates favorable conditions for expanding the Abraham Accords, potentially including Saudi Arabia, and represents a fundamental shift in regional power dynamics.
He also suggested the strikes send important signals to other U.S. adversaries like Russia and China, particularly through renewed American influence over global energy markets.
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Over the course of his third presidential campaign, President Donald Trump repeatedly presented himself as a defender of American Christians and his rivals, then-President Joe Biden and then-Vice President Kamala Harris, as opponents and even persecutors of the Christian faith. A new survey is showing that American Christians largely agreed with Trump’s rhetoric, even if not with all of his policy decisions. Change Research conducted what Time Magazine called “one of the largest polls of Christian voters ever to quantify the mood of the nation’s largest voting bloc,” and found that American Christians broadly do not trust the Democratic Party.
According to the survey, 75% of Christian voters say that they have “little or no trust in the Democratic Party,” while 58% say that party elites and leaders are “hostile to Christianity,” 54% say that even Democratic voters are “hostile to Christianity,” and 62% say that they would “never consider voting for a Democrat.”
Doug Pagitt, the “progressive pastor” who commissioned the study, told Time that Democrats have crippled their electoral prowess by ignoring and denigrating American Christians and Christian values. “You can’t be the majority party if you ignore the majority faith in this country,” he said. Pointing to the success Republicans have had with Christian voters, he continued, “Republicans have made a concerted effort. Democrats have done everything they can never to name that [Christian] identity. They have a built-in bias against these identities in the Democratic Party.” Pagitt opined that Democrats “squandered” their chances with Christian voters in the 2024 election. “They just walked away,” he said.
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Every so often, an academic wrapped in the robes of theory decides to rewrite history — not to correct it, but to commandeer it.
The latest example comes from the Conversation, in which a University of Iowa scholar, Sarah Barringer, claims that Christianity has a “transgender” heritage. You heard that right: Saints who renounced the world to live in chastity and devotion are now being posthumously enlisted in a modern identity crusade they never chose.
The modern obsession with identity — splintering the self into ever-narrower categories — is antithetical to the Christian ethos.
Let’s acknowledge the truth up front: There is no such thing as a “transgender saint.” There are saints who disguised themselves, fled arranged marriages, and shaved their heads and donned robes to live among men in monasteries because that was the only place they could escape danger, obligation, or temptation.
But calling this “transness” is like calling Joan of Arc gender-fluid because she wore armor. It’s historical trespassing and spiritual identity theft dressed up as scholarship.
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(LifeSiteNews) — U.S. government agencies have never engaged in open coercion to force down the birth rate, at least within the borders of the United States. (USAID’s past actions overseas are another matter.)…
The blueprint for this assault on American families and American fertility was drawn up way back in 1972 by something called the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future.
The Commission was the brainchild of one of America’s original population bomb fanatics, John D. Rockefeller III, who also happened to be one of the wealthiest men on the planet.
Like many of his fellow globalist elites—think Bill Gates and Warren Buffet—Rockefeller had long been convinced that Americans were having way too many babies. And he decided that it was past time to use a whole-of-government approach to put a stop to this reckless reproduction.
Rockefeller badgered President Richard Nixon into setting up the Commission on Population Growth in 1970 and appointing him as chairman. Over the next two years he steered it with an iron hand, using it to concoct a comprehensive plan that he hoped would stop America’s population growth dead in its tracks.
The report that he issued, called Population and the American Future, was a population controller’s dream. It began—as such screeds always do—with a stark warning: Unless something was done to stop America’s high birth rates, the population of the U.S. would explode from 203 million in 1970 to 300 million by 2000.
Grim consequences would follow, the report warned: Cities would become overcrowded cesspools of poverty and racial tension. Inequality would grow. Hordes of children would strain schools and other social services to the breaking point. Pressure on natural resources like water and energy would escalate as cities sprawled across the landscape, full of people sowing pollution wherever they went.