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- Many drivers of two-wheeled motorized vehicles are breaking the law in the nation’s capital and don’t appear to be facing any consequences for doing so.
- Individuals, many of whom entered the country illegally, are acquiring and driving motorbikes to do food deliveries in the District of Columbia, but many of the bikes do not have legal license plates, indicating they aren’t properly registered or insured.
- The Daily Signal launched an investigation to determine whether the drivers of the motor bikes have the legal requirements to operate the motorized bikes, and whether D.C. police are striving to eliminate the operation of vehicles that are not registered in the city.
- Over a week’s time, The Daily Signal spoke with about a dozen motorized bike owners and a D.C. shop selling the bikes.
- The investigation determined that illegal aliens are acquiring motorized bikes through a number of sources and that D.C. police do not appear to be enforcing registration laws.
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- While conservatives have been warning for some time that the rush to chemically castrate gender-confused kids should give way to the European approach of “watchful waiting” and mental health counseling, it appears that at long last, the narrative about adolescent gender dysphoria is falling apart.
- This review comes on the heels of a landmark study out of the Netherlands, which found most children suffering from gender dysphoria grow out of that feeling by the time they are fully grown adults.
- This growing body of research is blowing a hole in the once seemingly impenetrable dam of gender identity built by the White House, cultural elites, celebrities, and politicized medical groups.
- Schools that socially transition kids, doctors rushing to perform medical interventions, and therapists who affirm with no questions asked are not acting neutrally. And they will face a reckoning the legal profession has never seen.
- A series of medical malpractice suits have already been brought against Kaiser Permanente in California federal court, and school gender confidentiality policies have been challenged in at least ten federal courts nationwide. This flood of litigation is only just beginning.
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- The number of bicyclists in America killed or hurt in crashes with motorists hit a peak in 2021, when 966 died and another 42,000 were injured, according to the latest data available.
- In light of such statistics, cities certainly should try to keep cyclists safe. But city officials harm cyclists when they approve bike lanes for unsafe areas.
- Case in point: beautiful Petaluma, California, where the Petaluma City Council is considering building bike lanes along D Street, a designated truck route with a fire station.
- Sonoma County’s High Injury Network identifies D Street as a thoroughfare where some of the most severe injuries occur.
- Crashes in areas such as D Street in Petaluma accounted for 85% of all cyclist deaths in 2021.
- The city has a responsibility for the safety of residents and tourists that it spends funds to attract.
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