In the face of a new executive order issued by President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposing significant penalties on schools that allow males to compete in girls’ sports, the Maine Department of Education (DOE) maintained its commitment to radical gender ideology.
“The Executive Order ‘Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’ applies to the Federal government/Federal government agencies only and does not inhibit the force of Maine law or locally-adopted school board policies,” said the DOE in a priority notice on January 21, even before the latest White House executive order was issued.
While the state’s education department is currently holding firm in its commitment to the gender ideology that says a boy can identify as the opposite gender and compete against girls, and share their locker rooms and bathrooms, it may soon be forced to capitulate in the face of federal penalties.
President Trump’s latest order would remove all federal funding from educational programs that allow males to compete in girls’ sports.
It also directs the U.S. Department of Justice to prioritize enforcement of Title IX laws banning sexual discrimination against schools that fail to provide girls with an equal opportunity by allowing men to compete against them.
“This is demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls, and denies women and girls the equal opportunity to participate and excel in competitive sports,” said Trump in his order.
Maine is being ruined by this greedy, obstinate administration. The usual explanation, which is probably about right, is Maine politics are driven by wealthy transient residents who own expensive shorefront properties but live in Maine only during warm months and have zero understanding of the state or of the people who have lived here for generations. It’s a classic form of elite takeover based on smarmy ideological considerations which are entirely disconnected from the real lives of real people. ABN
This kind of verbal assault is a species of ‘mad dog’ attack. When repeated often it reminds sane people to say nothing on the topic. When millions engage in the same mad-dog attack for many decades, you find yourself where we are today. ABN
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee announced that it is going to war with National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
In two letters sent to the CEOs of the outlets – Katherine Maher and Paula Kerger – Marjorie Taylor Greene, the DOGE subcommittee chair, called on them to testify on Capitol Hill to defend the government funding they use to share ‘systematically biased content.’
Greene said that the department plans to address its concerns about the station’s ‘blatantly ideological and partisan coverage’ at the hearing, scheduled for either the week of March 3 or March 24.
In each letter, the subcommittee gave examples of ‘bias’ reporting done by both NPR and PBS against Elon Musk – the head of DOGE – and cited NPR’s decision to not report on Hunter Biden‘s laptop scandal.
In the one sent to Kerger, the subcommittee said: ‘Recently PBS implied that Mr. Elon Musk made a fascist salute while addressing an inaugural celebration hours after President Donald Trump was sworn into office,’ referring to the Tesla CEO’s hand gesture that’s sparked major controversy online.
‘The characterization was clearly false’.
The letter sent to Maher cited NPR’s decision to not report on a laptop belonging to the former president’s son, which contained data critics claim implicates members of the Biden family in a corruption scandal.
Berliner worked for the outlet from 1999 until April 2024, as he blasted NPR for its far-left political bias, while also referring to the outlet as ‘an assembly line.’
‘There’s an unspoken consensus about the stories we should pursue and how they should be framed,’ Berliner wrote at the time.
‘It’s frictionless—one story after another about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and the dire threat of Republican policies. It’s almost like an assembly line.’
NPR has potential if their entire staff is thrown out the door. The lying, the lies by omission, the patronizing lefty mind-control, the smugness and also their constant hypnotic use of sing-song and childish voices appears designed to infantilize listeners. I am a big fan of voice variety and love all ways people speak. But NPR’s exclusive use of weak voices, beta-male voices, occasional strong female voices, is a clear attempt to lull listeners into a passive state and trick them into believing they know something when they don’t. I fully agree with Berliner in the highlight above. NPR’s content largely sucks, the speakers mostly suck, the politics is disgusting for a station receiving US tax dollars. It is a negative use of money and time when it could be made positive with new people. ABN
I am going to leave this at this, for now. It does look like Lobach was insufficiently trained and probably rusty during that flight. She did work at the Biden WH for two years, from what I have seen. Was she responsible for the crash? I do not know. Trump indicated he knows what happened and that it involved an error in the flight path of the helicopter, which was 200 feet higher than it should have been. More info will probably come out on this. ABN
Now it’s the “Lutheran” faith (this use of “religion” as a money laundering operation must end):
Lutheran Family Services and affiliated organizations receive massive amounts of taxpayer dollars, and the numbers speak for themselves. These funds, total BILLIONS of American taxpayer dollars.
Here are just a few of the recent grants awarded (pre RFK Jr) by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS):
LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICE INC: $367,612,906 LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH, INC: $134,190,472.95 LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA, INC.: $82,937,819.95
There are MANY more organizations cashing in on our hard-earned money. These entities are receiving huge sums, which raise serious questions about how taxpayer funds are being spent and who’s benefiting.
It’s time to hold these organizations accountable. American taxpayers deserve transparency. Enough is enough!
This is what most of us voted for. USA needs a deep and serious house cleaning. This is the only way it can happen. The right only gets tough when the left has gone waaaay too far. Check the video of Polish troops on the Polish-Belarus border posted below. They get tough because the left won’t stop. This is the history of most of the left-right division throughout the world. The FBI went rogue years ago. This is the corrective. My only concern is will it be deep enough? ABN
Former SSPX Bishop Richard Williamson died last night following his hospitalisation earlier this week in a serious condition.
It was previously reported that Williamson had been admitted to hospital and received the Last Rites following what was believed to be a brain haemorrhage. The Catholic Herald was informed that he died last night at 11.23 p.m. He was 84 years old.
“He was surrounded by clerics and faithful who have been keeping vigil with him for his final journey,” an email from the bishop’s office stated. “They were praying right to the end.”
The email added: “Thousands of people all around the world have been praying for him. We are inundated with messages of condolence.”
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