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January 8, 2025
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| McDonald's Walks Away from Super-Sized Wokeness |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| The calendar may have changed, but 2025 is picking up right where last year left off in the battle against corporate wokeness. In the biggest shocker since Walmart, fast-food icon McDonald's announced that after years of force-feeding DEI to shareholders and customers, political neutrality is back on the menu. |
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| NPR's Self-Defeating Argument against Protecting Minors from Gender Transition Procedures |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Pro-transgender activists are recycling an old, ineffectual argument against laws protecting minors from gender transition procedures through a rose-colored media blast. In a research letter published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics, transgender activist group FOLX Health and Harvard University researchers claimed the percentage of trans-identifying minor teens who accessed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones from 2018-2022 was miniscule. |
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| Facebook Deletes Censorship System, Commits to Free Speech |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| A major social media outlet is pumping the brakes on censorship and doing away with "fact-checking" ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's return to office. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and CEO of Meta, announced on Tuesday that his company, which runs Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, among others, will "get back to our roots around free expression" by "replacing fact checkers with Community Notes, simplifying our policies and focusing on reducing mistakes." |
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| Dems 'Tilted the Scales of Justice' Regarding J6, Lawmaker Says |
| by Dan Hart |
| As Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to focus on prosecuting individuals involved in the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol, lawmakers and experts say the administration and the Democratic Party have embellished the facts of what occurred, misallocated federal resources, unjustly prosecuted nonviolent protestors, and weaponized the incident for political gain. |
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| Teacher Wins $450,000 Settlement after Refusing to Use 'Preferred Pronouns' |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| An Ohio teacher has won a major settlement after a school district forced her to resign for refusing to use students' "preferred pronouns." Jackson Local School District agreed to pay Vivian Geraghty, a former middle school English teacher, $450,000 in damages and attorneys' fees last month after Geraghty, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), sued the school district in federal court in December 2022. |
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| As Tensions Rise Between Trump and Biden, Electoral College Certification Receives Zero Objections from Dems |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| While the relationship remains rocky between the president and the president-elect, the process of confirming the election results went smoothly within Congress on Monday. |
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| The Trudeau Legacy towards Christians: Indifferent at Best, Hostile at Worst |
| by Amanda Magoteaux |
| Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his upcoming resignation after months of political turmoil inside the Liberal Party. This seemingly went public after Trudeau's Finance Minister/Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned, due to conflicting beliefs on Trudeau's handling of the Canadian economy. In a letter Freeland sent to Trudeau which later was published to social media, Freeland stated that Trudeau's handling of the economy included "costly political gimmicks" and that the two had been "at odds" recently on how to handle the upcoming Trump administration. |
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| As the Trump Team Takes Over, Cuba's Bargaining Position Hits Rock Bottom |
| by Teo Babun |
| In the troubled history of U.S.-Cuba relations, changes in U.S. administrations have provided opportunities for detente. On January 20, the Trump team will assume control and soon-to-be confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a son of Cuban refugees, will weigh the value of bilateral talks. Cuba apparently desires a new relationship - as its centrally-planned economy fails and living conditions deteriorate, the government says its problems can only be solved by the U.S. lifting its economic embargo. |
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