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Friday, July 7, 2023

Secret Service Says Cocaine Was Found Near the Situation Room

Spencer Brown: While President Biden’s spokespeople refuse to say whether the administration will be transparent with the American people about the results of the Secret Service investigation of the cocaine found in the West Wing on Sunday, those “involved” with the situation changed their story on Thursday (Townhall). RNC Research: NEW: The White House is now claiming the cocaine was found “in a much more secure place … near the Situation Room” and next to “where, for example, the vice president’s vehicle is parked” (Twitter).

Left Resorts to Lies in Effort to Discredit ADF After Supreme Court Win in 303 Creative

National Review: Lawyers representing the Christian website designer whose free expression case triumphed at the Supreme Court on Friday are pushing back on recent reporting in The New Republic insinuating that the designer fabricated a request to create a same-sex wedding website around the time the lawsuit was filed (National Review). Velshi on MSNBC: After Melissa Gira reported the CO web designer case before #SCOTUS had a MADE UP plaintiff, Supreme Court lawyer Neal Katyal says the case should be revisited. “There is a procedure in court to seek re-hearing and to get this decision stricken from the books” (Twitter). Alliance Defending Freedom: In the wake of the historic SCOTUS ruling protecting Free Speech rights for all Americans, commentators, activists, and even the CO AG are desperately attempting to delegitimize and spread false information about 303 Creative v. Elenis. Facts are important (Twitter). ADF Comms Director: Greetings, Denver Post. Your headline is flat-out false. This is why trust in corporate media is at an all-time low and sinking further. And you misspelled Justice Gorsuch’s name in the subhead, which also lies about the decision in 303 Creative (Twitter). Inquirer: Creative professionals should be free to say no because of the message being requested — but not based on who is requesting. Conversely, it is unlawful for creative professionals to refuse to serve a customer not because of the message, but because of the customer’s religion. There’s a distinction between disagreement with a message and animus toward a group (Inquirer).

CDC Gives Guidance to Trans People Looking to “Chestfeed” Infants

Post Millennial: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published on its website guidance for people who identify as trans and non-binary on how to “chestfeed” infants. The CDC’s website now has information on how to feed children for biological women who had their breasts removed as part of gender-reassignment surgeries and for biological men taking hormones in order to grow breasts. The agency added that “The gender identity or expression of transgender individuals is different from their sex at birth,” noting that “the gender identity of nonbinary-gendered individuals does not fit neatly into either man or woman.” Under the website’s “Breast Feeding” section discussing breastfeeding for those who have undergone surgeries, the agency used the term “chestfeeding” (Post Millennial).Daily Wire: The CDC adds that trans-identifying parents may need help with maximizing milk production, supplementing with donor milk or formula, medication to induce lactation, suppressing lactation for those who do not want to “chestfeed,” and finding “appropriate” lactation and emotional support (Daily Wire).

Trust in American Institutions is Eroding

Washington Examiner: Public confidence in national institutions continues to trend downward among American voters, according to a new survey. A Gallup poll found trust in seven of the 16 institutions surveyed this year had significant drops since last year’s historically low records. The U.S. military and medical system suffered the worst losses — they were both down four percentage points. The five other institutions that saw considerable drops were small businesses, police, banks, public schools, and organized labor. The Supreme Court and the presidency did not see major shifts in public opinion between 2022 and now, but each was already at a record low (Washington Examiner). Gallup: Overall, the new poll finds small business enjoying the most public trust, with 65% of Americans having a great deal or fair amount of confidence in it (Gallup).

Riley Gaines Blasts People Attempting to Normalize Pedophilia

Daily Wire: A viral photo of a man identifying as a woman nursing a baby prompted swimmer-turned-activist Riley Gaines to declare that such behavior was “normalizing pedophilia.” The photo was posted by Mika Minio-Paluello, a former adviser to Great Britain’s Labour Party, who said he “only breastfed my child for a few weeks” before stopping due to cancer treatments. Gaines, a former All-American at University of Kentucky who has become outspoken about radical gender theory and protecting women and girls in sports, called it “sick” (Daily Wire). Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis: Riley Gaines is calling out normalizing pedophilia. Well done Riley Gaines. And the GUY is an advisor to the UK government!!! Imagine that (Twitter).

Live Action Barbie Movie to Showcase Trans Actor

Daily Signal: Hari Nef is the biological male “transgender” actor who is playing the doctor version of the Barbie character in the upcoming live-action “Barbie” movie. Nef said on social media just how important he believed it was for a transgender person to portray the toy character (Daily Signal). Blaze: There’s been a trend of movies flopping at the box office lately. Not just any movies though — woke movies specifically. Take Pixar’s film “Elemental.” It resulted in the second-lowest three-day opening in the history of the studio. Why did it flop when it had a $200 million budget and was expected to earn $40 million on opening weekend? Might it have had something to do with the fact that one of the characters is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns? Regardless, numbers are indisputable, and the numbers for many of these overtly woke movies are abysmal (Blaze).

Republicans Send Letter to Target Concerned About Their Pride Campaign Targeting Children

New York Post: Seven Republican state attorneys general warned Target on Wednesday that its LGBTQ-friendly Pride collection may violate child protection laws. The seven AGs sent a five-page letter to Target CEO Brian Cornell saying state officials are “concerned” that Target’s 2023 Pride collection was “potentially harmful to minors” as it interfered “with parental authority in matters of sex and gender identity, and possible violation of fiduciary duties by the company’s directors and officers.” They wrote that “Target wittingly marketed and sold LGBTQIA+ promotional products to families and young children as part of a comprehensive effort to promote gender and sexual identity among children” (New York Post). Fox Business: Target’s stock has fallen nearly 20% since the news of its controversial Pride merchandise broke. The seven attorneys general argued that the corporation’s leadership acted negligently and must put business, not politics, first (Fox Business).

Belarus President Says Wagner Group Leader Prigozhin Has Returned to Russia

Wall Street Journal: Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is back in Russia after a short-lived revolt and brief exile in neighboring Belarus, that country’s president said, in a fresh challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authority. Alexander Lukashenko, who brokered a deal with the Wagner leader to halt his march on Moscow last month, promising him safe passage to Belarus, said Prigozhin wasn’t on Belarusian soil on Thursday. A Kremlin spokesman said it wasn’t following the paramilitary leader’s movements. “We have neither the ability nor the desire” to do so, the Russian news agency Interfax quoted Dmitry Peskov as saying. Prigozhin’s whereabouts couldn’t be confirmed but have been the subject of intense speculation since his June 24 mutiny (Wall Street Journal). CBS: Russian media have said the Wagner chief was recently spotted at his offices in St. Petersburg, however, and pro-Kremlin outlets published photos Thursday purportedly taken inside a mansion belonging to Prigozhin in the city, which is Russia’s second largest (CBS).

Studies Link Marijuana Use to Mental Illness

Wall Street Journal: Several studies have shown that chronic cannabis use is linked to a higher incidence of schizophrenia among men in their early 20s, the age when the disease is usually diagnosed. The first paper on the topic, a Swedish study published in 1997, found that heavy cannabis use was associated with a sixfold increase in schizophrenia risk. In the decades since, social scientists have unearthed a strong link between heavy cannabis use and other severe psychological illnesses, including clinical depression and bipolar disorder. People diagnosed with cannabis use disorder were almost twice as likely to be diagnosed later with clinical depression. Now a new longitudinal study has examined the medical records of all citizens of Denmark over the age of 16, some 6.5 million people in all, for patterns of diagnosis, hospitalization and treatment for substance use between 1995 and 2021 (Wall Street Journal).

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Wisconsin Governor Provides Funding to Schools for 400 Years by Utilizing Veto Power

Washington Examiner: Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) pulled off a veto trick that allowed him to lock in spending for public schools for the next 402 years. The original budget sent to him offered $325 in spending for children for the school years “2023-24” and “2024-25.” However, Evers struck the “24” from the first school year, the “20” in the second, and the hyphen between 2024 and 25. The result was for the budget to promise $325 in funding per child from 2023 until the year 2425 (Washington Examiner). Daily Wire: Evers’ shocking veto was among the over 50 line-item vetoes Evers made to morph the $99 billion budget Republicans passed for 2023-2025 into his own image. Among the vetoed lines was a $3.5 billion tax cut championed by the state’s Republican leaders (Daily Wire).