[FoxNews] Maine has thumbed its nose at Trump's executive order to keep trans athletes out of girls' and women's sports
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Friday said it referred Maine’s "noncompliance" with Title IX rules to the Justice Department for enforcement.
Maine has continued to defy President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban trans athletes from women’s and girls’ sports. The HHS gave the state 10 days to correct its policies through a signed agreement or risk referral to the Justice Department.
"Today, OCR referred Maine’s noncompliance with Title IX to @TheJusticeDept for enforcement in court for continuing to unlawfully allow males to compete against females," the department announced in a post on X.
"HHS will continue to protect women’s sports and keep the promises of Title IX for America’s women and girls."
Fox News Digital reached out to Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ office and Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey’s office for comment.
The Maine School Administrative District 51, home to Greely High School, where a transgender athlete incited national controversy after winning a girls' pole vault competition in February, said Thursday it was not complying and will instead "continue to follow state law and the Maine Human Rights Act."
The Maine Principals' Association said in a statement it is also "bound by the law, including the Maine Human Rights Act, which our participation policy reflects."
The situation involving the trans athlete at Greely High School attracted national attention after Maine Republican state Rep. Laurel Libby identified the athlete by name with a photograph in a social media post. Libby was later censured by the Maine legislature, and she has since filed a lawsuit to have it overturned.
Trump signed the "No Men in Women’s Sports" executive order in early February, which led to multiple athletics associations complying with it and a handful thumbing their nose at the order. The issue with the state of Maine came to a head at a meeting of the National Governors Association.
Trump threatened to cut federal funding to the state for not banning biological males from girls’ and women’s sports.
The next day, Mills' office responded with a statement threatening legal action against the Trump administration if it did withhold federal funding from the state. Then, Trump and Mills verbally sparred in a widely publicized argument at the White House during a bipartisan meeting of governors.
Since then, multiple protests against Mills have been held outside the state Capitol, and the Maine University System has cooperated with the Trump administration to ensure no trans athletes compete in women's sports after a temporary funding pause.
[GatewayPundit] Five Senate Democrats Head to Gitmo to Protest Detention of Tren de Aragua Terrorists and Killers – But Don’t Give a D*mn About Americans’ Safety
Five Senate Democrats are heading to Guantanamo Bay—not to demand justice for Americans terrorized by violent foreign gangs, but to protest the detention of members of the notorious Tren de Aragua cartel, a brutal criminal enterprise originating in Venezuela with ties to trafficking, extortion, and murder.
The delegation includes Sens. Jack Reed (D-RI), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Gary Peters (D-MI), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and self-proclaimed Independent Angus King of Maine, who caucuses with Democrats. The trip was led under the guise of “congressional oversight.”
This visit follows months of Democrat outrage over the use of Guantanamo Bay to detain foreign nationals with suspected ties to international terrorist organizations like Tren de Aragua.
Progressive lawmakers have echoed the radical left’s talking points, prioritizing “rights” for foreign terrorists over the safety of American citizens.
The Democrat demands include:
An immediate halt to transfers of immigrants to Guantanamo Bay.
A detailed report on past or prospective transfers to the facility.
Access to counsel for any past present, or prospective detainee.
A full accounting of government expenditures related to this detention program.
While Republicans have been pushing for tougher immigration enforcement, border security, and strong action against violent foreign gangs, Senate Democrats appear more committed to virtue-signaling and appeasing the open-borders lobby.
[X] Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin founded Indivisible Project right after Election Day, 2016 as a leftwing TEA Party to resist the Trump agenda, putting together a 26 page guide for how to protest effectively. They quickly monetized it, getting themselves hired to run the thing — they’re hooked directly to ActBlue and connected to the Soros Open Society Foundations, probably among others. The couple are entirely products of the Progressive NGO web. Today is supposed to be a big day of “spontaneous” attacks on Tesla cars and dealerships, dear Reader, so keep an eye out.
WATCH: Leader of Soros-backed Indivisible Movement compares their Trump protests to Mao’s “Thousand Flowers Movement.”
This communist push led to the murder, imprisonment, and persecution of countless people. pic.twitter.com/gjiT7GvfL1
Update at 11:45 a.m. ET from Fox News — be situationally aware; if you see something, say something; and please throw a cheap WalMart cover over your Tesla if you have one:
#2
"We should have been harder on them. Mostly, we just ignored them.'
This was the comment of one of the surviving leaders of Jews who fought the Nazis, from within Poland, during WWII -- It was from an interview ~1970 discussing those Jews who refused to face their reality, for one self-serving rationale or another -- like these two loathesome creatures above.
The question was , with the benefit of hindsight how he would do things differently were he to be forced to deal with a similar set of circumstances again in the future.
By early afternoon, crowds ranging from a few dozen to hundreds of protesters had flocked to Tesla locations in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Maryland, Minnesota and the automaker’s home state of Texas. Pictures posted on social media accounts showed protesters brandishing signs such as “Honk if you hate Elon” and “Fight the billionaire broligarchy.”
#7
Delivered donuts to the local dealership. Our area is mostly Grantifa. It's the outside Transtifa types we're looking out for.
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Search “Tesla Takedown” — dozens to hundreds are the numbers reported at protests around the world — and mostly dozens at that, as far as I can tell. Maybe the crowds will grow after dark, when Molotov cocktails are so much more dramatic, and the Black Bloc come out to play in their dear little destructive way.
#9
Here in Idaho the lefties were outnumbered about 3:1 by defenders who self-organized on X. (No violence; I'm assuming potential troublemakers understand the %age of concealed carriers here.)
[FoxBusinessNews] The judge ordered the CFPB not to delete any data, to reinstate terminated workers and to allow work to resume
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from attempting to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying the court "can and must act" to save the agency from being shut down.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson
…appointed by President Obama in 2011 to the DC circuit, she ascended to senior judge status two years ago…
agreed to issue a preliminary injunction to keep the agency in existence until she rules on the merits of a lawsuit seeking to preserve it.
The federal government can now ask a federal appeals court for emergency relief.
Lawyers representing a workers' union and other consumer advocates had sued the Trump administration to reverse the move last month to shutter the agency. The shutdown led to mass firings, contract terminations, office closures and an agency-wide work stoppage.
The agency had been "within hours of firing nearly its entire staff," Deepak Gupta, an attorney representing CFPB workers, said in a statement. "We're heartened by the decision and look forward to continuing to press our case in court."
President Donald Trump said after firing the CFPB's director last month that the agency should be shut down. His senior advisor, Elon Musk, who leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), posted "CFPB RIP" on X on the day DOGE workers gained access to the CFPB's headquarters.
But after the lawsuit was filed, agency officials backtracked from some of their positions, claiming in court that they did not plan to eliminate the agency and instructed staff to resume some work.
"If the defendants are not enjoined, they will eliminate the agency before the court has the opportunity to decide whether the law permits them to do it, and as the defendants' own witness warned, the harm will be irreparable," Berman Jackson wrote.
She rejected key evidence Justice Department lawyers had presented, calling some claims "a charade for the court's benefit."
The judge wrote that Mark Paoletta, the CFPB's top legal officer, "insults the reader's intelligence when he feigns surprise" that few CFPB employees were still working.
Berman Jackson also said that the agency's chief operating officer, Adam Martinez, after being contradicted by sworn statements undermining the administration's position, had appeared on the witness stand torn between the "loyalties to his new employers and the truth playing out on his face."
Berman Jackson ordered the CFPB not to delete any data, to reinstate terminated workers and to allow work to resume.
She said "the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden ‘disinformation’ letter" also had their clearances rescinded.
[FoxNews] Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has revoked security clearances for several people, including former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and other political opponents.
In a Friday post on X, Gabbard said she revoked the clearance per a Trump directive.
"Per @POTUS directive, I have revoked former President Joe Biden’s security clearance, and revoked clearances and access to classified information for Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, and Alexander Vindman," she wrote.
Cheney has been a staunch Trump critic following the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when many of the president's supporters rioted in the U.S. Capitol. Hill testified during the November 2019 House impeachment hearings against Trump, while Kinzinger, a Republican, became known for his vocal opposition to Trump while serving in the House.
Vindman, an Army veteran, garnered national attention in October 2019 when he testified before Congress regarding the Trump–Ukraine scandal. His testimony was used to charge Trump with abuse of power in his first impeachment.
Last week, the White House released a memo that read: "I have determined that it is no longer in the national interest for the following individuals to access classified information: Antony Blinken, Jacob Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weissmann, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Cheney, Kamala Harris, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and any other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family."
Earlier this month, Gabbard announced that she had revoked the security clearances of several people listed in Trump's memo and blocked them from having access to classified information. She said "the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden ‘disinformation’ letter" also had their clearances rescinded.
"The President's Daily Brief is no longer being provided to former President Biden."
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[JustTheNews] The memo cites authority issued under the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act, which Trump is also using to end collective bargaining agreements with federal unions that represent agencies with national security missions.
The smartest thing I ever did was to marry Mr. Wife. Voting for Donald Trump, twice, is the second smartest.
The White House Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Thursday announced in a memo that President Donald Trump had signed an executive order limiting the ability of federal employees across multiple departments to unionize.
The memo cites authority issued under the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act, which Trump is also using to end collective bargaining agreements with federal unions that represent agencies with national security missions, per a White House Fact Sheet.
The order impacts all agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Treasury Department, Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the General Services Administration, and more.
“Consequently, those agencies and subdivisions are no longer required to collectively bargain with Federal unions,” OPM states in its memo, according to The Hill. “Because the statutory authority underlying the original recognition of the relevant unions no longer applies, unions lose their status as the ‘exclusive[ly] recogni[zed]’ labor organizations for employees of the agencies.”
The executive order has not officially been posted as of press time.
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Do I think Federal Workers should have a Union?
NO.
They already have strict Federal Wage & Hour, work environment rules, annual COLA adjustments and retirement plans. All, far better than a majority of the private sector workers have now.
While I support the worker level efforts of fair wage and safe working conditions, that Unions were originally designed for. The leadership of too many Unions have decided to play Politics with Union funds and numbers, instead of staying focused on their union members.
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The national government is sovereign. By that definition it can not negotiate with a subset of the population on these issues. They are not equal. The unions already have their representatives whom they fund and elect to Congress. They don't get two votes.
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...NN2N1 speaks wisdom. On top of that, public employee unions, at the local or Federal levels, long ago became nothing more than a mechanism to provide ever-growing benefits to those employees and return a not-insubstantial amount of cash to the Democratic Party.
And that is the true cause of the howls coming from the unions this morning. Calvin Coolidge - yes, that one - said "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time," when the Boston Police went on strike, and he was right. And public employee unions have no right to contribute to or endorse any politician any where, any time.
One last point - the best part of this is that if the unions protest in any way other than statements by their leaders, they will be slitting their own throats. No civilian will sympathize with them, and they'll be handing POTUS an almighty big hammer.
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The industrial union adversarial model is problematic for public-sector workers--the result is inevitably adversarial, inescapably political, and as experience shows, often becomes a Praetorian Guard.
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People have a constitutional right to free association, peaceful assembly and the right of petition. They do not have the right to strike against the sovereign elected government of the people.
[RedState] President Trump signed an executive order Thursday seeking to restore truth to American history through an overhaul of the Smithsonian.
The order, titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," slams the Biden administration for ushering in an era of "corrosive ideology" in recent years and seeks to unfurl "divisive, race-centered" themes plaguing the institution.
"Once widely respected as a symbol of American excellence and a global icon of cultural achievement, the Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology," the order reads. "This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive."
The directive puts Vice President JD Vance in charge of overseeing efforts to “remove improper ideology” from all areas of the institution. Vance serves on the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents.
The President notes that institutions like these - including the institution's museums and research centers - should focus on American achievements.
If you're looking for the red meat issue that's almost certain to make liberals pull their hair out, it'd be the section of this new executive order that directs Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to review and "restore" any "public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties" that may have been improperly removed in the past five-plus years.
A White House fact sheet states that their removal or any subsequent changes made to alter them were designed "to perpetuate a false revision of history or improperly minimize or disparage certain historical figures or events."
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I was born in the state of Georgia, lived there until I was almost 10, and had grandparents who lived there until I was in my 30s.
The love of the Confederacy was still strong. But not "racism"...not that. People celebrated the military prowess of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. They told stories of how to fight when out-gunned. But the people I knew never advocated for damage to other races.
The last 20 years of attempts at "shame" for anything associated with the south have worked. They have worked so well that I've actively considered buying a souvenir state of Georgia flag that once upon a time included the flag of the Confederacy.
I'm beyond fed-up with those who wish to erase American history.
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Interesting that you say that. I, too, have considered buying a Confederate flag just to display it in my house, to thumb my nose at the race-baiters, so-called progressives (spit) and the demoncrat commies. I want them to seethe, and be very, very upset.
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“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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The leadership of the south were the slavers who exploited the tribal affiliation of their citizens. The average soldier fought for his 'team' which at the time was usually their state. Even in the North, most of the formations were state formations. It's a tribalism that is not much different than we witness with March Madness or the fall college football season. Those who actually were killing each other, respectfully saluted each other upon the surrender at Appomattox. Those men had more respect for each other than the cowards over a hundred years later who never had to face the fire.
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1st, let me say, being the grandchild of Indentured Servants for a Chicopee, Massachusetts Cotton mill family. A mill that used Southern Cotton.
SLAVERY IS NEVER RIGHT.
But the Confederacy and its flag, to a vast majority (95+%) of Southerners, was and still is, not about Racism. The Stars and Bars, is about fighting the DC Swamp Dictatorial imposed rule on the States since, before 1860 and thereafter.
Remember, it was the abuses and taxation of the DC Swamp that were the cause of the Session.
A LITTLE ADDED HISTORY
Remember, official record show there were over 77,343 Northern Slave Owners in 1860+. Plus, some of the larger slave owners were Northern syndicate operations or Northern Family owned to supply their mills with cotton and the northern population with foods and materials.
NOTE: Delaware only ratified the 13th Amendment in 1901. About 45 years AFTER it was introduced and approved.
With all that said.
When ANY Political Group seeks to retune, adjust or destroy history, what it usually is really seeking, is to hide info about its own misgiving and abuses of power?
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
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[GatewayPundit] Five Senate Democrats Head to Gitmo to Protest Detention of Tren de Aragua Terrorists and Killers – But Don’t Give a D*mn About Americans’ Safety
