[ZeroHedge] The FBI launched an investigation last week into security violations at the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick following several dangerous incidents in which a contractor cut holes in an employee’s biocontainment suit designed to protect against infection from pathogens such as Ebola, according to interviews and documents viewed by The DisInformation Chronicle.
Violations of safety protocol at the research facility were uncovered by Jeffrey Taubenberger on his first day as Acting Director of the NIAID,
…another reason to be grateful the country elected Donald Trump — and overcame the traditional Democrat margin of fraud….
the NIH Institute formerly run by Anthony Fauci. Fort Detrick houses multiple government germ labs, including the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. The Army’s lab was shut down in 2009 and again in 2019, both times due to safety concerns.
“Many issues have been known for months if not years and previous NIAID leadership did nothing about it,” explained an NIH official, detailing problems at the facility which was described as having a “poor culture of safety.”
Incidents in November and March occurred under the watch of NIAID Director Jeanne Marrazzo, who was let go last month during a round of federal cuts. The NIH also uncovered poor documentation of select agents, with logs not matching inventory, although all missing vials have apparently been accounted for.
An NIH employee leaked an incomplete email to Wired Magazine last week which ran a story that downplayed safety breaches and accused Secretary Robert F. Kennedy of shutting the lab down as part of “the latest disruption to federal science agencies.” The article quoted Johns Hopkins researcher Gigi Gronvall complaining that the lab shut down would harm research and cost taxpayer money.
“The sacrifice to research is immense,” Gigi Gronvall told Wired. “If things are unused for a period of time, it will cost more money to get them ready to be used again.”
Wired’s science editor, Tim Marchman, did not respond to questions asking why Wired’s story downplayed security violations and culture of poor safety, nor did he explain whether the magazine plans to correct or update their reporting. Gronvall has been an ardent supporter of dangerous gain-of-function virus research, much of which was ended yesterday with an executive order signed by President Trump.
Gronvall did not respond to questions asking if she felt a lab that studies deadly infectious diseases such as SARS-COV-2, the Ebola virus, Lassa Fever and Eastern equine encephalitis should be shut down following dangerous safety breaches.
Over the weekend, Fox News reported that the lab shut down stemmed from a lover's spat between researchers in March. One of the individuals retaliated by poking holes in the other person’s personal protective equipment (PPE), and was then fired.
Sterilization by boiling in oil would be appropriate…
Leadership at the facility have been put on leave and the NIH expects the FBI to brief officials after finishing their investigation.
Animals present in the NIH facility are said to be uninfected and under veterinary care. An NIH official stated that no research with pathogens will move forward until a full evaluation and restructuring of the program is completed.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Artificial Intelligence (AI) bots are infiltrating California college classes in a financial aid fraud scheme, costing the state and federal government millions of dollars.
Professors across Golden State community colleges have noticed an uptick in non-participative students, specifically in virtual classes, since the pandemic.
Alarmingly, a significant portion of these passive enrollees have not actually been human, but AI-generated 'ghost students.'
These bots have been creeping their way into online courses and taking spots away from real students to scam money from financial aid and scholarship programs.
Since community colleges have high acceptance rates, these academic institutions have been easy targets.
Over the last 12 months, state colleges reportedly handed off $10 million in federal funds and $3 million in states funds to fake students, according to CalMatters.
Data collected from the start of 2025 indicates schools have already thrown away $3 million in federal aid and about $700,000 in state funds.
This is a jarring increase from the period between September 2021 and December 2023, when fake students reportedly drew in more than $5 million in federal money and $1.5 million in state funds.
This growingly prominent scam has left professors disheartened. Instead of focusing on the quality of their teaching, they must probe their students to make sure they are legitimate.
'I am very intentional about having individualized interaction with all of my students as early as possible,' City College of San Francisco professor Robin Pugh told SFGate.
'That included making phone calls to people, sending email messages, just a lot of reaching out individually to find out "Are you just overwhelmed at work and haven’t gotten around to starting the class yet? Or are you not a real person?"'
In previous years, Pugh said she only had to pluck about five people from her 40-student online introductory real estate course for not engaging with her at the start of the semester.
But this spring, she had to slash 11 students - most of them bots - from the class.
Roughly 20 percent of 2021 college applicants were likely fraudulent, CalMatters reported. In January 2024, the number of fake applications rose to 25 percent.
The fraction shot up this year, with 34 percent of applications being suspected 'ghost students.'
'It’s been going on for quite some time,' Wendy Brill-Wynkoop, the president of the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges and a professor at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, told SFGate.
'I think the reason that you’re hearing more about it is that it’s getting harder and harder to combat or to deal with.
'I have heard from faculty friends that the bots are getting so smart, they’re being programmed in a way that they can even complete some of the initial assignments in online classes so that they’re not dropped...'
Berkeley City College librarian Heather Dodge realized her online course was packed with the scammer bots when she asked students to submit a brief introductory video so she could get to know them, despite never meeting in person.
'I started noticing that there would be a handful of students that wouldn’t submit that assignment in the first week,' she told CalMatters.
After emailing them - and not receiving a response - she dropped them from her class.
Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith had a similar experience this spring, when two of her online courses and their waiting lists were completely maxed out.
'Teachers get excited when there’s a lot of interest in their class. I felt like, "Great, I’m going to have a whole bunch of students who are invested and learning,"' she told The Hechinger Report.
'But it quickly became clear that was not the case.'
Of the 104 students in the classes and on the waitlists, only 15 of the ended up being real people.
Professors have a specific time frame to move people from their roster so they cannot get financial aid for the class. However, after that period, it is more difficult to remove them.
Educators are also worried about becoming overzealous with their cuts - accidentally mistaking an actual student, possibly experiencing technical difficulties, for a scammer-sent agent.
'Maybe they didn’t have a webcam, maybe they didn’t understand the assignment. It was really hard to suss out what was going on with them,' Dodge explained.
This was the case for Martin Romero, a journalism major at East Los Angeles College, who was mistook for a bot and wrongfully dropped from a class.
On his first day of classes last fall, he failed to log into a session and his professor swiftly removed him.
'I was freaking out,' the 20-year-old told CalMatters.
He emailed the professor to try to rectify the issue, but the course was already filled up again.
An annoyance, certainly, but he will never make that kind of mistake again. Nor will anyone who hears what happened to him.
In the grand scheme of college funding, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office estimated only a fraction of a percent of financial aid has been handed out to scammers, SFGate reported.
Chris Ferguson, a finance executive at the chancellor’s office, told CalMatters the scope of the fraud is 'relatively small' considering that California community colleges received $1.7 billion in federal aid and $1.5 billion in state aid last year.
Catherine Grant of the Department of Education's Office of Inspector General, which is tasked with handling fraud, told CalMatters her team is 'committed to fighting student aid fraud wherever we find it.'
CalMatters discovered that the FBI busted a scammer ring at Los Angeles Harbor College and West Los Angeles College in June 2022 after being tipped off by the department.
These fraudsters used at least 57 AI identities to steal more than $1.1 million in federal aid and loans over four years.
Another document from the education department to the FBI revealed at least 70 fake students were enrolled at Los Angeles City College 'for the sole purpose of obtaining financial aid refund money.'
[BBC] A judge declared a mistrial after the jury was unable to reach a verdict in the murder trial of a Michigan police officer who fatally shot a black man during a traffic stop.
Christopher Schurr was charged with second-degree murder for the killing of 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on 4 April 2022.
The killing of Mr Lyoya, a Congolese immigrant, sparked widespread protests and put the question of racial injustice and policing in the spotlight.
"It hurts. My family, my wife, we are bleeding," Mr Lyoya's father said after the judge declared mistrial on Thursday. "We will continue to fight until we get the true justice for Patrick."
The mistrial is a partial victory for Mr Schurr, who still could face another trial.
The 4 April incident was caught in graphic detail and from multiple angles on a police bodycam and dashboard camera, an eyewitness' phone and a doorbell security system from a nearby home.
Footage shows Mr Lyoya fleeing from Mr Schurr on foot following a traffic stop. The two men scuffle over Mr Schurr's Taser before he shoots Mr Lyoya, who was face-down on the ground.
The scuffle over the Taser was central to Mr Schurr's defence, who testified that he was in great fear because a Taser can cause "excruciating pain" and injury.
"I believed that if I hadn't done it at that time, I wasn't going to go home," Mr Schurr said of shooting Mr Lyoya.
Mr Schurr, an officer in the Grand Rapids police department for seven years, was fired soon after he was charged in 2022.
Patrick Lyoya came to the US with his family from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2014. He had lived in Grand Rapids for about five years, according to the office of civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing the Lyoya family.
The mistrial comes just one day after three former Memphis police officers were acquitted of murder in the killing of Tyre Nichols, a black man who was beaten during a traffic stop in 2023.
[Breitbart] ICE officials detained an illegal migrant in Georgia after she was caught violating multiple driving laws — but she is a good-looking college student with an illegal migrant family, so she is getting extra doses of media sympathy.
The Daily Mail has a photo of her in graduation regalia, so she is well-prepared to embark on adulthood in the country she left at age four.
The Daily Mail’s headline announced: “Glamorous college student made an illegal turn at a red light and landed in an ICE detention facility.”
The New York Post wrote: “Georgia college student faces deportation after running red light — police discover her entire family has been living illegally in US for years.”
“Ximena Arias-Cristobal: Georgia College Student to be Deported after She Ran Red Light that Revealed Her Entire Family Are Illegal Immigrants,” declared the International Business Times.
The Post filled out the story:
Mexican-national Ximena Arias-Cristobal, 19, was pulled over by police in Dalton, Ga. on May 5 when she failed to adhere to a “no turn on red” sign … a Dalton State Community College student, [she] was driving without a driver’s license but told officers she had an international driver’s license, according to WTVC, citing the arrest report.
She admitted that she didn’t have the foreign document when Dalton police officers asked her to show it, claiming that her mother had taken it away from her and said she was not supposed to be driving.
In 2010, Arias-Cristobal was brought into the US illegally by her parents when she was only 4 years old during the family’s move from Mexico City to the Dalton area — over 30 miles from the Tennessee and Georgia border.
The Daily Mail revealed that her dad had already been detained for deportation after being caught speeding:
In a cruel twist of fate, Arias-Cristobal is being held in the same facility as her father, Jose Francisco Arias-Tovar who was detained in Tunnel Hill two weeks ago for speeding.
Attorney Terry Olsen said that it’s likely Arias-Cristobal’s mother will be ‘arrested or detained within a month or so.’
On a GoFundMe for the teen, Hannah Jones said Arias-Cristobal had babysat her children for years, and added: ‘We adore her.’ Jones told the news outlet that the teenager is ‘the most precious human’ and believed her international license allowed her to drive legally.
“My cousin’s dearest friend, Ximena Arias-Cristobal, is facing an unthinkable situation,” says the GoFundMe site. “After a traffic stop for turning right on a red light in Dalton [GA] on Monday, a 19-year-old Dalton State student is now facing possible deportation.”
The episode still leaves President Donald Trump’s ICE agency with roughly 15 million more deportations to accomplish amid a deliberately tangled, slow-moving legal deportation process.
‘Trump was elected to increase deportations and he has sought to use every possible means to do so,” lawyer Jonathan Turley wrote on his website on May 3, adding:
In courtrooms across the country, the nation seems trapped in a type of Squatter Syndrome, a macro version of the housing [squatter] cases. The slowness of the removal process is being used to keep millions in the country indefinitely. It may prove to be President Joe Biden’s most lasting legacy, a de facto residency by simply overwhelming the system by the sheer number of unlawful entries.
…
It may be the greatest political scam ever pulled on the American people. The polls show that an overwhelming percentage of the public favors the deportation of aliens with criminal records and roughly half support mass deportations of those here unlawfully. According to a new Associated Press-NORC poll, roughly half of the country still approves of Trump’s handling of immigration.
“The public deserves a better system that can handle a crisis of millions of unlawful immigrants … Otherwise, we become a type of squatter nation where our inefficient legal system is being used to make a mockery of our laws,” he wrote.
Where do you keep your money?
[BBC] About 1.2m people in the UK were affected by banking outages that happened on what was pay day for many earlier this year.
The details have emerged in letters from Lloyds, TSB, Nationwide and HSBC to Dame Meg Hillier, the chair of the Commons Treasury Committee, which is looking into the incident that occurred on Friday, 28 February.
HSBC also revealed that customers had to wait two hours on average that day to reach its online customer service team. Its standard target wait time is five minutes.
In their correspondence, the banks said they had paid compensation to affected customers and also outlined what they were doing to try to prevent similar problems in the future.
PAY DAY PROBLEMS
Lloyds Banking Group customers faced the biggest impact from the February outages.
Ron van Kemenade, the bank's group chief operating officer, said around 700,000 people who are customers of Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and MBNA were affected as they couldn't log into their accounts on a first attempt.
However Mr van Kemenade argued it did not amount to an outage, as there were five million successful logins during the period of disruption.
Nonetheless, the bank said it was improving its log-in infrastructure and monitoring systems following the incident.
The letters from the banks revealed about 250,000 TSB customers, 196,255 from Nationwide and 60,000 from HSBC also faced disruption on that morning.
The banks have paid out over £114,000 in compensation to customers so far, with Nationwide (£84,341) paying the most.
All the banks said there was no evidence of an increase in fraudulent activity during the disruption, and said there was also no indication that outages were more prevalent at some times - such as pay days - than at other periods.
FINE AND FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE
The pay day outage was far from the only IT problem the banking sector has experienced.
In March, it emerged that nine major banks and building societies operating in the UK accumulated at least 803 hours - the equivalent of 33 days - of tech outages in the past two years.
The Treasury Committee - which has been investigating the impact of banking IT failures - compelled Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Nationwide, Santander, NatWest, Danske Bank, Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Bank to provide the data.
The report also said Barclays could now face compensation payments of £12.5m following an outage there that affected customers on pay day in January.
Experts including Patrick Burgess of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, and Shilpa Doreswamy, a director with GFT, a company committed to the digital transformation of the financial sector, have stated that the recent outages reveal the problems banks have with ageing infrastructure and failing IT systems.
Ms Doreswamy told the BBC on Thursday that payday outages were "not just a case of unfortunate timing" but also predictable, preventable events.
"They've highlighted the need for banks to invest in IT modernisation to prevent the eroding of customer trust," she said.
Not acting to reduce the possibility of downtime or frustration for customers - particularly during high-demand periods - could potentially see banks risk their reputation and losing customers, Ms Doreswamy added.
"When customers can't access their wages, pay bills or run their businesses, the impact is not just financial, it becomes deeply personal."
[AP] Japan’s top automaker Toyota reported record sales for the fiscal year through March on Thursday, but its profit for the latest quarter faltered partly because of a certification scandal.
Toyota Motor Corp.’s January-March net profit totaled 664.6 billion yen ($4.6 billion), down from 997.6 billion yen the same period a year ago. Quarterly sales totaled 12.36 trillion yen ($85.9 billion), up from 11 trillion yen.
Toyota has been strengthening the testing system of its vehicles after acknowledging wide-ranging fraudulent testing, including the use of inadequate or outdated data in crash tests, incorrect testing of airbag inflation and engine power checks.
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[Regnum] The White House may announce a reduction in customs duties on goods from China from 145% to 50% next week. This was reported on May 8 by the New York Post.
“While negotiations are ongoing, they are going to reduce them (duties. — Ed.) to 50%,” the publication’s source said.
It is noted that trade talks between delegations from Washington and Beijing will take place in Switzerland at the end of the week. According to the newspaper, the discussion process will be lengthy.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 8, US President Donald Trump said that Washington would eventually reduce import duties on Chinese goods. According to him, the tariffs have reached their limit and cannot go higher. In April, the head of the White House also noted that duties would be reduced, but not to 0%.
On April 28, the Wall Street Journal also reported that Trump's tariffs were a "gift" to Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was noted that the measures gave Beijing the opportunity to attract many countries, as China emerged as a more reliable giant market.
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at 145% the tariffs were probably bringing in almost no revenue
cutting to 50% will start the flow of revenue again
sort of like the Philips curve for income taxes
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Trump doesn’t want tariffs, he wants trade negotiations. China finally agreed to sit down at the table and while those negotiations are ongoing, the tariffs were cut back.
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President Trump also wants to decouple the American economy from China, which is actively predatory when it isn’t shaping its future — in its view inevitable — conquest of America and the world.
[DailyMail, where America gets its news] As President Donald Trump had hoped, carmakers are starting to shift gears on manufacturing.
But much of the industry reaction is centered on electric vehicles — technology Trump has repeatedly criticized, even as his trade policies help bring it stateside.
…the president criticizes EVs and Americans don’t buy them. I’m not sure this is the win the Mail claims.
Volkswagen Group, the second largest automaker in the world in 2024, is preparing to join the growing list of automakers looking to rejig its US factories in response to the tariffs.
The German automaler's luxury brand, Audi — which assembles most of its lineup in its home country, Hungary, Mexico, Slovakia, Spain, and China — is planning to make some of its crossover and SUV models in America.
'We want to localize more strongly in the USA,' a company spokesperson told DailyMail.com.
'To this end, we are currently examining various scenarios. We are confident that we will make a decision on this in consultation with the Volkswagen Group before the end of this year as to what this will look like in concrete terms.'
On a recent earnings call, Audi CFO Jürgen Rittersberger added that Audi plans to launch 10 new models in the US, with production locations to be announced in 2026.
While no final decision has been made, sources speaking to German trade publication Automobilwoche say Audi is scouting three potential locations in the US.
Scouting? That can take infinite time… or however long until a Democrat is elected.
The frontrunner plant reportedly in consideration is in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where its parent company Volkswagen already builds the ID.4 electric crossover.
Since the Audi Q4 E-tron shares a similar platform with the ID.4, the plant could be adapted relatively quickly to handle production without starting from scratch.
Volkswagen also builds the Atlas and Atlas Sport at the Chattanooga facility, and several thousand vehicles from the plant are exported each year — boosting US GDP in the process.
Shifting production lines to make room for Audi models could slow some of those exports, but it would deepen the domestic supply chain.
Another potential site is in South Carolina, where VW is breaking ground on a new factory to build electric-based pickups and SUVs under the Scout Motors name.
The third option remains undisclosed. An Audi spokesperson didn't immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment.
President Trump has claimed that his 25 percent tariffs will revive American manufacturing after decades of decline.
Some automakers are now localizing production of EV platforms they’ve already poured billions into — creating a reshuffling of global supply chains that aligns with White House goals, even if not with its messaging.
Audi is a great example: the company has been launching multiple electric concept vehicles and has bet heavily on customers going EV.
Hyundai, too, has doubled down on building its Ioniq electric series in Georgia during the second Trump administration.
Honda said plans to keep Civic Hybrid production in Indiana in response to the tariffs.
Even startups are getting the message.
Jeremy Snyder, chief commercial officer of the newly-unveiled Slate electric truck company, told DailyMail.com that US EV manufacturing is a no-brainer.
'Building EVs for a new company is the only obvious solution,' Jeremy Snyder, the CCO of Slate told Daily Mail.com.
'Current EV problems are a education and infrastructure issues that are being corrected over time.
'For drivers, it is simply a better experience. You pull into your parking spot, you plug in, you wake up to a full "tank" every single day.'
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[Regnum] A car crashed into a crowd of fans during the celebration of the victory of the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) club over Arsenal in a Champions League football match. The incident occurred near the Champs-Elysees in Paris, Le Parisien newspaper reported.
As a result, at least three people were injured. They were hospitalized, one of the victims is in critical condition.
"As fans celebrated their team's victory over Arsenal at the Parc des Princes stadium, a black sedan drove into the crowd for unknown reasons, hitting several people," the article says.
After the incident, dozens of fans chased the car. The car was later found burned out a few meters from the crash site. There are no reports of the driver or people in the car being detained.
The return match of the Champions League semi-final between PSG and London's Arsenal took place on May 7 and ended with a score of 2:1. After the victory of the Parisian club, its fans staged mass riots. The fans smashed and set fire to shop windows, threw stones at the police, and also used pyrotechnics. In response, law enforcement officers used tear gas and batons. It is reported that 43 people were arrested.
[RedState] National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya announced the closure Monday of the agency’s last beagle laboratory, ending controversial experiments on the NIH campus linked to Dr. Anthony Fauci, RedState reported.
In light of this wonderful news, we spoke to a couple in Virginia who were among the first two people to adopt and rescue Beagles experimented on at the Envigo lab in Virginia, which was featured in a heartbreaking undercover piece from PETA. Warning: it’s not for the faint of heart, seeing how these little pups were tortured.
In the case of full disclosure, these two wonderful people are members of my own family. My sister Vickie Sipes and her husband Danny Sipes both work in Washington, D.C., and live about an hour west of the Capitol.
They talked about their pups' journey from those experimentation labs, to the adoption when they brought home not one but two beagles they named Max and Darby. Also, about the challenges they went through rehabilitating the puppies, and how these two lovable dogs became a wonderful part of their family and found their forever homes.
For those that might not remember, an undercover investigation discovered the cruel experiments being done on Beagles by the NIH labs run by Fauci, RedState reported. Some of the painful medical experiments being performed on the pups can be found here and are truly heartbreaking.
In 2022, RedState also reported on the massive rescue of 4,000 Beagles living in “deplorable” conditions at the facility in Cumberland, VA. That year, a federal judge approved a request by the Justice Department and the Humane Society to remove them. The puppies were sent to animal shelters across the country to find homes.
[JustTheNews] Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., retired professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, published a study in Nature last summer, arguing that the methodology NOAA uses in the tally lacks scientific integrity.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will no longer update its tally of weather and climate-related disasters that produce more than $1 billion in damage.
“In alignment with evolving priorities, statutory mandates, and staffing changes, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will no longer be updating the Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters product,” the agency states in a banner on the top of the website housing the data.
When the annual updates were posted, they received widespread media attention, portraying the rising cost of damages as an indication that the weather is becoming more extreme. The tally is often cited by climate policymakers and climate activists calling for regulations.
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., retired professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, published a study in Nature last summer, arguing that the methodology NOAA uses in the tally lacks scientific integrity.
NOAA responded to the study in August, saying it “will take actions to improve the documentation and transparency of the data set for greater compliance with NOAA’s Information Quality Guidelines.”
According to the announcement, all past reports from 1980 to 2025 and their underlying data will remain authoritative, archived, and available online.
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A related rates problem... the increasing ratio of land mass under development, coupled with the decreasing real value of the dollar due to inflation, and a pretty soon a F1 tornado in Texas will cost us a billion dollars.
No doubt DOD medical spending will drop noticeably as a result, leaving more funds for bullets.
[Breitbart] The Pentagon is taking upwards of 1,000 military personnel who openly self-identify as transgender out of immediate service.
The separation began Thursday at the same time those who have yet to step forward as transgender have been granted 30 days to depart of their own volition.
The Department of Defense (DOD) has also begun searching medical records to reveal others who haven’t declared as it challenges the long-held establishment media narrative that some 15,000 transgender military personnel now serve.
These moves come on the back of Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to enforce a long-promised ban on transgender individuals in the military, as Breitbart News reported.
In a brief order, SCOTUS justices granted an emergency request to “lift a nationwide injunction blocking the policy.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who issued the latest memo confirming the separation action, made his views clear on X after the court’s decision, declaring “TRANS is out at the DOD:
AP reports DOD officials have said it’s difficult to determine exactly how many transgender service members there are, but medical records will show those who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, who show symptoms or are being treated.
Officials have said that as of Dec. 9, 2024, there were 4,240 troops diagnosed with gender dysphoria in the active duty, National Guard and Reserve. But they acknowledge the number may be higher.
The majority of Leo’s posts on the X platform are related to or in support of Catholic news and church initiatives. He rarely writes original content, but a look back through his social media timeline shows numerous posts sharing viewpoints opposed to moves aimed at restricting acceptance of migrants and refugees in the US.
So pro-life/anti-abortion, believes in only two sexes, but also chastised the Trump administration for not welcoming illegals and refugees. That the new pope was a registered Republican when he served here in America is immaterial.
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.
[Breitbart] ICE officials detained an illegal migrant in Georgia after she was caught violating multiple driving laws — but she is a good-looking college student with an illegal migrant family, so she is getting extra doses of media sympathy.
