Meet D.J. Daniel, a 13-year-old boy who wishes to become a police officer but was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2018.

In President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, he fulfilled one of D.J.’s dreams, designating him as our nation’s newest member of the U.S. Secret Service.

“In 2018, D.J. was diagnosed with brain cancer,” the president recounted. “The doctors gave him five months, at most, to live. That was more than six years ago.”

“Since that time, D.J. and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true. D.J. has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer, actually a number of times.

The police love him; police departments love him,” the president said, before declaring,

“Tonight, D.J., we’re going to do you the biggest honor of them all. I’m asking our new Secret Service director, Sean Curran, to officially make you an agent of the United States Secret Service.”

Upon the president’s announcement, D.J.’s eyes grew wide as Director Curran promptly presented him with his new Secret Service badge.

The 13-year-old’s father then proudly held him up to extended applause before D.J. leaned over and gave Director Curran a big hug.

Minutes later, President Trump formally accepted high school senior Jason Hartley into West Point, making him a fourth-generation member of the U.S. military. Jason’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather all served our country in uniform.

The House of Representatives is preparing to pass a bill targeting revenge porn, online sextortion and pornographic deepfakes, multiple sources report, following exhortations from America’s first family.

The bipartisan Take It Down Act (H.R. 633) makes it illegal to share, or threaten to share, nude images and videos without consent. It passed the Senate on February 13 in a rare unanimous vote.

First lady Melania Trump joined Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at a Congressional roundtable Monday to support the bill.

“I am here with you today with a common goal — to protect our youth from online harm,” Mrs. Trump began, continuing:

“In today’s AI-driven world, the threat of privacy breaches is alarmingly high. As organizations harness the power of our data, the risk of unauthorized access and misuse of a person’s information escalates.

“We must prioritize robust security measures and uphold strict ethical standards to protect individual privacy.”

Johnson echoed the first lady, acknowledging “laws need to keep up” with the “unspeakable evils” spawned by the “dark side of tech.”

“We are anxious to put it on the floor in the House, to get it to President Trump’s desk for his signature, because we’ve got to do what we can to stop [nonconsensual sharing of explicit images],” he said.

A federal court ruled that a sex discrimination lawsuit against Liberty University can move forward.

The school fired a transgender-identified employee who violated the university’s Christian beliefs about sex and sexuality.

The former employee, Jonathan Zinski, who now goes by the name Ellenor, believes, “You can be transgender and Christian. I am.”

Zinski started taking female hormones even before he was hired by the Christian school and agreed to Liberty’s doctrinal position which states that “denial of birth sex by self-identification with a different gender” is a sinful act “prohibited by God.”

The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and Butler Curwood, PLC filed a lawsuit on behalf of Zinski, alleging the school violated his Title VII employment rights.

ACLU of Virginia Senior Transgender Attorney Wyatt Rolla, who was born female but is transgender-identified, said in a statement:

“No one should be fired because of who they are, but Liberty University made it clear that’s exactly why it fired Ellenor.

“It’s no surprise the judge ruled our case can move forward. Workplace discrimination against transgender people is against the law – no matter your religious beliefs.”

Liberty Counsel, a Christian legal aid nonprofit, is representing the school. Founder and Chairman Matt Staver sharply disagreed.

It is fairly well-documented in the academic literature that women suffer poorer mental health compared to men and this is generally true cross-culturally. It is also well documented that conservatives tend to have greater mental health and happiness compared to liberals. This gap has been demonstrated since the 1970s.

Additional research shows that girls who lean more left politically are experiencing plummeting levels of mental health. A new report, highlighted by the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), indicates this trend is not diminishing, but growing more stark.

It is tragic.

IFS explains “Young liberal women are markedly less satisfied with life than their conservative peers.”

• 37% of conservative women report being “completely satisfied” with life.
• 28% of moderates indicated this.
• Only 12% of liberal women reported being completely satisfied.
  

This means young conservative women are just over three times more likely to feel very happy in their lives than their liberal peers. IFS adds, “Moreover, liberal women are two to three times more likely to report they are ‘not satisfied’ with their lives, compared to conservative women.”

Journalist Matthew Yglesias has an idea for what causes this disparity, saying, “One possible culprit for this widespread sadness is that social media apps are especially damaging to girls’ psychological health, a thesis long championed by Jonathan Haidt.”