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YouTube Censored Detransitioner’s Story While ‘Glamorizing’ Pro-Trans Content
- YouTube has censored the story of a young woman who underwent an irreversible surgery as part of an attempted gender transition. Meanwhile, pro-transgender videos of biological women who underwent double mastectomies remain on the platform uncensored.
- Prisha Mosley spoke to Kelsey Bolar in December 2022 about the traumatic events that led her to take testosterone injections and undergo a double mastectomy, then to ultimately detransition back to living as a woman.
- Her story has garnered almost 100,000 views on YouTube. But at some point since the video’s December 2022 publication, YouTube censored the video, making it viewable only on its platform.
- Meanwhile, YouTube platforms countless pro-transitioning videos, even about children.
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It's Even Worse Than We Thought: New Details on Pentagon's Abortion Tourism Revealed
- The Pentagon is refusing to reverse its policy to fund travel for female troops seeking abortions. They're doing so even as hundreds of military promotions are held up by a number of Senate Republicans.
- The Pentagon's policy has no restrictions and women are free to travel, on the taxpayer dollar, to obtain abortions at any point in a pregnancy. This includes late term abortion in states where it is still permitted -- like Colorado and New York.
- Earlier this week the White House justified the abortion policy and claimed it was essential for female troops to receive abortions due to a self-inflicted recruiting crisis.
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Kim Foxx’s Pro-Criminal Policies Are to Blame for Chicago’s Rising Violence
- The violence in Chicago is largely predictable, preventable and the result of pro-criminal policies, especially those of Kim Foxx, Chicago’s radical, rogue prosecutor.
- Once she took command, Foxx announced that she would not allow her prosecutors to prosecute certain crimes, including certain theft and drug offenses.
- Under the false pretense of making amends for the “racist” criminal justice system, Foxx enacted policies that actually lead to more young black men being victims of violent crime — particularly shootings and homicides.
- But despite Democrats’ attempts to save face, the carnage can’t be overlooked, and until Foxx’s policies are reversed, things are likely to only get worse
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Is Biden’s New Student Loan Scheme Any More Legal Than the One Quashed by Court? (Probably Not)
- A few weeks after the Supreme Court disabused President Joe Biden of the notion that he could unilaterally cancel $430 billion in student loans, Biden has now announced that his administration will instead cancel $39 billion in student debt held by 800,000 borrowers.
- Biden, with the help of Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, continues to hallucinate an executive power to cancel student loans at will.
- Here, again, Biden is moving forward with a forgiveness plan broader than anything Congress has created.
- And once more, the power he asserts to change the written law lacks a limiting principle, meaning that it could be applied to an ever-broadening class of borrowers until it becomes the primary means by which they discharge their student loan debt at a fraction of its value.
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