[Breitbart] Democrats are giving President Donald Trump a huge media win on the transgender debate. “Congratulations to every single person on the left who’s been campaigning to destroy women’s and girls’ rights,” author J.K. Rowling quipped.
“Without you, there’d be no images like this,” the Harry Potter author added in her Thursday X post, sharing a photo of President Trump signing an executive order protecting women’s sports from transgender athletes, surrounded by an abundance of female athletes championing his directive.
“We’re here today in the White House to watch as President Trump signs an executive order,” former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines said in a video montage posted to X by the White House.
While U.S. citizens across the country celebrated President Trump’s executive order saving women’s sports, Democrats had a public meltdown.
“You’re a bad mom if you can’t explain that there are people along a gender spectrum and it’s not this binary,” The Majority Report podcast co-host Emma Vigeland complained.
“Like, I mean, I hear this all the time: ‘My daughter plays sports, what am I going to tell her? It’s not fair to her’ — I love sports as much as anyone, [but] trans women should be able to compete without question in women’s sports,” Vigeland lamented.
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Vigeland then tried to justify men participating in women’s sports, arguing, “There’s an unfair advantage all the time in sports, that’s the nature of sports, that some people are physically more gifted or they have, like, a better mentality.”
She went on to bizarrely compare men’s physical advantages over women to basketball players being taller than others on the court.
But there has been a cultural shift in the U.S. and the tide has turned.
Even CNN has conceded to this reality, with the outlet’s senior data reporter, Harry Enten, acknowledging, “There’s such a clear trend among the American public.”
“I think these numbers are really illuminating on this topic,” Enten said, before analyzing the recent polling on the issue of men participating in women’s sports.
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“So, transgender athletes in women’s sports: only 18 percent of the country says that they should be, in fact, allowed to participate in women’s sports. Compare this to the opposition, I mean, my goodness — 79 percent,” Enten said.
“You rarely get 79 percent of the country to agree on anything,” the CNN reporter noted. “But they do, in fact, agree on the idea of opposing transgender female athletes in women’s sports.”
“It’s not just the here and now,” he added. “What we’re actually seeing is a trend on this particular issue, and it’s going in the direction of oppositions.”
Enten then pointed out that in 2021, 62 percent of Americans opposed men participating in women’s sports.
“A clear majority, but not a ginormous majority,” he said. “Then you look at 2025, [and] you see it at 79 percent.”
“So, it’s not just that the majority of Americans are opposed to transgender female athletes in women’s sports, it’s that the opposition has become considerably larger in just the last four years,” the CNN reporter conceded.
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Archaeologists - when they unearth a body - look at the pelvis (among other things) and determine male /female. Apparently, Mother Nature has given us only two options, the rest is a mental aberration.
#6
He's setting the opposition up defending the indefensible so they expend their energy and drama for the next year and a half going into the midterms with the barest of public support.
[FoxNews] London's new ambassador to Washington, D.C., had an R-rated response to a reporter who asked about his former ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the suspected sex trafficker who died in jail in 2019.
Peter Mandelson,
…ambassadorship a consolation prize after he was not elected chancellor of Oxford University? Unusually for British Labour, he’s against Jew-hate and for Israel, but does President Trump want a Dear Friend of Epstein around?
a Labour Party politician and member of the UK's House of Lords, reportedly told an interviewer from the Financial Times to "f--- off" after being questioned about his introduction to Epstein through Epstein's former lover, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
"I regret ever meeting him or being introduced to him by his partner Ghislaine Maxwell," he told the outlet during a conversation aboard a high-speed train in the U.K.
No doubt. Being publicly embarrassed is no fun.
"I regret even more the hurt he caused to many young women."
Ah, but did you also cause partake in those peculiar Epstein pleasures, milord? Or did you just choose not to see?
The reporter questioned Epstein's relationship with Mandelson, which was described in a 2019 internal document from JPMorgan that noted a "particularly close relationship" between Epstein, Prince Andrew and Mandelson, who was described as "a senior member of the British government."
The missive became public after it was filed in federal court in New York years later.
When asked about the train encounter, a British embassy spokesperson reiterated the new ambassador's regrets about Epstein and his behavior.
"As Lord Mandelson has said in response to questions about Epstein, he regrets ever meeting him or being introduced to him," the spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "He regrets even more the hurt he caused to many young women."
Andrew was named in a document dump last year as an associate of Epstein's as part of a civil lawsuit from Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who accused the British royal of forcing her into sex at Maxwell's London townhouse when she was underage. He has denied her allegations, but he paid her an undisclosed settlement in 2022 and has been relieved of his royal duties as part of the fallout over her claims.
Mandelson recently spoke with Fox News Digital and apologized for calling President Donald Trump a "danger to the world."
"I consider my remarks about President Trump as ill-judged and wrong," the newly appointed ambassador said last week. "I think that times and attitudes toward the president have changed."
“Please God, let my soft answer turneth away his terrifying wrath!”
He also penned a Fox News op-ed in which he acknowledged the will of U.S. voters must be respected abroad.
"Trump’s election-winning ‘America first’ vision foresees a strong America in the world that is respected and seeking peace through strength," he wrote. "America’s allies need to hear the message the American people have sent and calibrate their partnerships in order to work with and alongside the U.S. to stand up for the joint interests that unite us."
“Shoulder to shoulder as we march into the glorious future together, right? ‘Cause it wouldn’t be nearly as glorious if your old pal, England, weren’t there, too.”
#3
Related, anyone catch The Diddys Award Show the other evening?
Bouncy is a Country Star, Lady Gig is super weird into trannies, the Will Smiths are headcases, whoever that larper is for the sportsball final received rewards, all Diddycrats including Bouncy's "husband" Jayz.
[10News] Nice try. GTFO
Chair Ellen L. Weintraub said President Trump has the ability to remove her, but her replacement must be confirmed first.
Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen L. Weintraub said in a post on X that she received a letter purporting to be from President Donald Trump saying that she has been removed from the FEC.
The letter addressed to her says, "You are hereby removed as a Member of the Federal Election Commission, effective immediately. Thank you for your service on the Commission."
Weintraub claims President Trump had not followed proper procedure to remove her from the commission.
"There’s a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn’t it. I’ve been lucky to serve the American people & stir up some good trouble along the way. That’s not changing anytime soon," she wrote.
The Trump administration has yet to confirm her dismissal. She is still listed on the FEC's website as the commission's chair.
The Federal Election Commission consists of three Democrats and three Republicans.
#4
I don’t think people are getting fired randomly. This tells me that something is coming down the pike that the FEC should have been doing. All the IGs went first. Think about it. There was an IG who had oversight of USAID.
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NYP: Weintraub’s term expired in 2007 but she remained on the commission “in holdover status” for over two decades since a replacement for her was never appointed.
Weintraub has been critical of Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud in federal elections.
“I think it is damaging to our democracy to spread information like that if there is no proof,” she told CNN in a 2019 interview, according to Fox News, describing Trump’s allegations as “baseless.”
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Wasn't your job to stir up 'good' trouble. Kind of a creepy statement, actually.
[PM] The inquiry began after the Alapaha Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office received complaints regarding Johnson’s involvement in fraudulent schemes.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has arrested Pearson Mayor Robert "Buster" Johnson, 49, following an investigation into allegations of fraud, bribery, and other criminal activities.
According to the GBI, the inquiry began after the Alapaha Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office received complaints regarding Johnson’s alleged involvement in fraudulent schemes. The district attorney’s office then requested the GBI’s assistance in reviewing the claims. During the investigation, agents uncovered a series of alleged crimes, including an attempt to secure the release of an incarcerated individual using falsified documents, misappropriation of city funds through kickbacks, theft of municipal property, and bribery of city employees.
As a result, Johnson faces a laundry list of charges, including:
Criminal Attempt to Commit Hindering the Apprehension or Punishment of a Criminal
Influencing Witnesses (3 counts)
Criminal Solicitation to Commit False Statements and Writings
Criminal Solicitation to Commit False Official Certificates or Writings
False Statements and Writings (2 counts)
Criminal Attempt to Commit Theft by Taking
Conspiracy in Restraint of Free and Open Competition
Conspiracy to Defraud State and Political Subdivision (4 counts)
Theft by Deception
Bribery (3 counts)
Theft by Taking (2 counts)
Fraud, Forgery, and Theft in Connection with Registration of Title to Land
Filing False Documents
Violation of Oath of Office by a Public Officer (4 counts)
Following his arrest, Johnson was booked into the Atkinson County Jail and has since been transferred to Coffee County. The GBI has confirmed that the investigation remains ongoing and additional arrests may follow.
In a December 2024 post to Facebook, Johnson wrote out racism "isn’t a think of the past in South GA, especially in good old Atkinson County," the county in which Pearson lies. "What kills me is the suppose to be Christian’s are the absolute worst. I might not say anything but I’m not fooled," the post added. Another post from June stated that he wanted to stand for his mayoral photo in the council meeting room, stating, "I needed the whole world to see this WHOLE NEGRO!! Our ancestors fought and died for me to be where I am standing. Business man and the Mayor of the City I was born and raised in," adding, "Happy Juneteenth."
The U.S. government is executing a substantial reduction of USAID's workforce, from approximately 14,000 to just 294 staff members, as confirmed by various news sources. This decision has coincided with legislative moves to potentially dissolve the agency entirely, as Rep. Greg Steube introduced a bill to abolish USAID and redirect its functions to the U.S. Department of State. Additionally, the pause in USAID funding has impacted the BBC's international charity arm, BBC Media Action, which expressed concerns over its operational capabilities due to an 8% funding cut.
USAID’s Samantha Power has been FIRED.
She claims, “People that work for USAID wanted to make the World a better place…”
Senator Eric Schmitt breaks down some of the insane spending:
- $45 million for DEI scholarships in Burma - $3 million for girls centered climate action in Brazil - $125 million to racialize public health - $280,000 for diverse birdwatchers - $1.5 million for DEI in Serbia -… pic.twitter.com/PB0TZ1Ncq8
- $70,000 for DEI musical in Ireland
- $2.5 million for electric vehicles in Vietnam
- $47,000 for trans opera in Colombia
- $32,000 trans comic book in Peru
- $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala
- $6 million for tourism in Egypt
#5
The $40 billion a year is only a small fraction of the US budget.
The importance lies in the tremendous damage that has been inflicted on Western Civilization in general by these $40 billion a year.
The peculiar thing about this 'deep state' is not corruption and grifting but the apparent fanatical commitment of that entity to the ultimate destruction the very institutions that it parasitizes.
#6
I am hoping that the breakup of this "hive of villainy" is transformative to our world. Less chaos and more growth. All of the events that didn't quite make sense could be explained by these maggots disrupting our society.
#7
The common thread in the USAID grants seems to be "we'll pay you to lie for us".
Personally, I think they should hung from lamposts and not fired, but that's just me.
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While people struggle with their incomes just to exist and you had survivors living in tents, these people were playing Oprah, a billion for you, a billion for you. They keep pushing this crap, the guillotines will be coming out.
#11
She claims, “People that work for USAID wanted to make the World a better place…”
The problem is that you're idea of a better place is out of sync with the American people who just elected Trump to can your ass. Don't give us any crap about suddenly not know how you're gonna pay rent either. Having worked in the private sector, I've been there and done that and I don't see why federal employees should never have to worry about it like I have. If the taxpayers don't want to pay your bills anymore, you might have to find another job where actual work is involved. Try the Waffle House.
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This post.
I had to ask the guy next to me to pinch me in case I was dreaming.
#13
USAID was funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 "media" NGOs, including nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine.
Some years ago I posted a question on Rantburg. I asked what power could make all these birds sing the same song, word for word and note for note in perfect harmony every day. Now we know.
I don't know if it was ever really true or just an ideal but the ideal was that big cities would all have multiple media outlets and each outlet would compete every day for the biggest "scoop". Reporters would work their asses off every day trying to find some little snippet of information that the others didn't have yet. That way, they could keep each other and the politicians honest. If there ever really was such a time, we need to get back to it. Putting a tight leash USAID seems to be a good step in the right direction.
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Me on a Friday Night, watching USAID trying to dance.
The Trump Transportation Department has ordered state transportation directors to "decertify" plans created to spend $5 billion to build thousands of EV charging stations across the interstate highway system.
The program was part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which included the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. As much as $5 billion was earmarked to build charging stations.
To date, about 30 EV charging stations have been constructed.
It's clear, after nearly four years, that the mountains of red tape the Biden administration forced states to add to the program — including DEI mandates, environmental impact statements, and other impediments — would make the NEVI program take years to complete.
"The new leadership of the Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) has decided to review the policies underlying the implementation of the NEVI Formula Program," wrote Emily Biondi of the Federal Highway Administration in a letter to state transportation agencies.
"Therefore, effective immediately, no new obligations may occur under the NEVI Formula Program until the updated final NEVI Formula Program Guidance is issued and new State plans are submitted and approved," Biondi wrote.
It's a process that will take months. Where I'm sitting, it's necessary. NEVI had turned into a $5 billion boondoggle, and perhaps streamlining the entire process would speed up the construction of the stations.
[Breitbart] Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy roasted former secretary of state Hillary Clinton for blaming him for the recent plane crashes in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, accusing her of “lashing out because DOGE is uncovering your family’s obscene grifting via USAID.”
Duffy, who was sworn in as leader of the Department of Transportation (DOT) last week, immediately got to work in his new role in the Trump administration and announced Wednesday that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will be helping to “upgrade our aviation system”:
Failed 2016 presidential candidate Clinton jumped in, claiming that DOGE staffers “have no relevant experience” and that “most of them aren’t old enough to rent a car”:
“And you’re going to let them mess with airline safety that’s already deteriorated on your watch?” she asked in an X post.
Some particularly young members of the DOGE team, headed by X owner Elon Musk, have already become targets of a hateful harassment campaign by far-left activists, Breitbart News reported.
Duffy, a former Republican congressman from Wisconsin, shot back at the ex-first lady’s post, arguing that “experienced” bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. “are the reason our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling”.
“You need to sit this one out,” he added.
Clinton retorted by bringing up the January 29 helicopter-plane collision that took the lives of 67 people near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and the January 31 air ambulance crash onto a busy Philadelphia street that ended seven lives:
“US airlines had gone 16 years without fatal crashes. Then MAGA fired the FAA chief, gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and threatened air traffic controllers with layoffs,” she wrote.
“Now there have been two fatal crashes. Hope your unvetted 22-year-olds fix things fast,” Clinton snarkily remarked.
That is when Duffy’s full X fire unleashed, calling out the Clinton family’s “grifting”:
“I know you’re lashing out because DOGE is uncovering your family’s obscene grifting via USAID, but I won’t let you lie and distort facts,” Duffy wrote. “The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before Trump took office, and the air traffic controllers were always exempt from Trump’s civil service buyouts.”
Former DOT Sec. Pete Buttigieg also made the incorrect claim that air traffic controllers were offered resignation packages along with other federal workers earlier this week, even after the U.S. Office for Personnel management said they were exempt. Duffy continued:
The previous administration shamelessly used USDOT as a slush fund for the Green New Scam, throwing away money and resources on wasteful environmental and social justice projects rather than updating our nation’s antiquated air traffic control systems and other critical infrastructure.
“I’m returning this department to its mission of safety by using innovative technology in transportation and infrastructure. Your team had its chance and failed,” he wrote. “We’re moving on without you because the American people want us to make America’s transportation system great again.”
He concluded by shooting back at Clinton’s jab about the young DOGE staffers, writing, “And yes, we’re bringing the 22-year-olds with us.”
And the young voters, who’ll vote Republican for the rest of their lives, rebelling against their Hillary!- loving elders.
Duffy’s last reply received over 80,000 likes, compared to Clinton’s 27,000 despite having 30 million followers.
[Breitbart] Newly-sworn Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Scott Turner announced his commitment to removing “far-left agenda items” and being a “good steward of tax dollars” on his first day in the Trump administration.
Turner, who was confirmed by the Senate Wednesday in a bipartisan vote, told reporters on Thursday that he is doing away with the Obama-era “equal access” policy that gave people the right to stay in sex-segregated HUD shelters “in accordance with their gender identity.”
“I am directing the HUD staff to halt any pending or future enforcement actions related to HUD’s 2016 equal access rule, which in essence tied housing programs, shelters and other facilities funded by HUD, to quote, gender identity,” the secretary said at a press conference.
“We are carrying out the mission laid out by President Trump on January 20, when he signed an executive order to restore biological truth to the federal government,” he added, before explaining that his department will recognize that there “are only two sexes, male and female.”
“It’s time to get rid of all the far-left gender ideology.”
Speaking about HUD-funded domestic violence shelters for women, Turner said that victims might feel “uncomfortable” sharing a space with males, even if they are dressed as women.
“We want to protect the ladies that are entering any HUD-funded shelters,” he said.
Turner, a former NFL player and Republican Texas state representative, went on to announce the creation of a U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) “task force” at HUD.
“We plan on taking inventory on every program” within the department, he said during the press briefing.
“Our mission is to be a good steward of tax dollars,” he continued, before speaking to Breitbart News about the January Los Angeles wildfires.
When asked if the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) would be helping victims who lost their homes to the fires with loans to rebuild, Turner called the disaster “devastating,” and said, “We are working very hard to help people.”
“The FHA will do exactly what it’s called to do, and what it’s supposed to do, and you can count on that.”
When Breitbart News asked him how it feels to be a member of the Trump administration after then-candidate Donald Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt last July, Turner replied that it is “very humbling.”
“I am extremely humbled to be here,” the secretary said as he looked around the briefing room at the HUD building. “I love America, I love the Lord, I love the people.”
“I thank God he spared President Trump’s life,” he added solemnly.
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Shelters tend to have issues with violence because so many addicts and mentally ill folks are collected in a small space with all their belongings. Trans folks are in need and are there as well probably at a higher percentage than in normal society. Some of them are likely also predators. Certainly, sheltering them with vulnerable women is a bad idea. Blocking them can easily escalate into violence. Not sure there is a good solution. Life is messy like that. Shelters are better left to charities where possible. Government sucks at most stuff including farming our money to charities.
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Add a rule that if articles are filed and the president is not convicted, the one who filed them will suffer the death penalty. Make Congress /exciting/.
#3
^ #2 I'd support barred public office thereafter for those involved. With each member that voted in support of it, required to make personal restitution of the legal fees incurred by the TAXPAYERS & President in pursuing a political stunt.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[PM] The inquiry began after the Alapaha Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office received complaints regarding Johnson’s involvement in fraudulent schemes.
