The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up two cases challenging two of the federal government’s vaccine mandates – one of which requires companies with over 100 employees to force their workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine, or regularly test and mask at work.

On December 22, 2021, the Supreme Court announced it will hear arguments on January 7, 2022 over whether the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) can lawfully mandate large employers to coerce their employees into receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. OSHA did this through the creation of an emergency temporary standard (ETS).

After the Sixth Circuit decided 2-1 on December 17, 2021 to allow OSHA to implement the ETS, numerous petitions were filed with the Supreme Court to stay (stop) the mandate from taking effect. The court has opted to delay a decision on those requests pending the newly scheduled argument on January 7.

The Supreme Court’s brief order is as follows:

“Consideration of the applications (21A244 and 21A247) for stay presented to Justice Kavanaugh and by him referred to the Court is deferred pending oral argument. The applications are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. The applications are set for oral argument on Friday, January 7, 2022.”

Radical gender ideology has gotten so out of hand that woke city governments want women’s shelters to also house actual men who say they are women. Most of the women who use those shelters have been physically and sexually abused by men in the past, so it’s more than just an invasion of privacy that’s at stake. It involves psychological, emotional, and physical safety as well.

One such city is Anchorage, Alaska, whose public accommodations ordinance demands that businesses cannot discriminate on the basis of gender identity. When the city demanded that the Downtown Hope Center (Hope Center), a Christian ministry, allow biological men claiming to be women to use its overnight facilities reserved for women, the shelter fought back in court – and won.

U.S. District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason ruled recently that Hope Center is not a “public accommodation” and is therefore not bound by the city’s public accommodation ordinance.

That’s an important victory for the ministry at a time when government entities around the country continue to push ministries to adhere to laws that violate basic freedoms such as religious exercise and free speech.

Elon Musk recently sat down with the folks over at The Babylon Bee for a wide-ranging interview that was unsurprisingly filled with funny jokes and a whole lot of sarcasm. The Bee’s CEO Seth Dhillon, Editor in Chief Kyle Mann and Creative Director Ethan Nicole spoke with Musk, the famed car maker and innovator, for over one and a half hours.

Musk has become a fan of The Babylon Bee’s content, often replying on Twitter to their satire pieces. This led The Bee’s Editor in Chief to tell Musk during the interview, “You know Babylon Bee headlines better than I do.”

The trio also picked his brain on serious topics like the world’s declining birthrate, the problems with “woke culture” and the “metaverse,” along with more lighthearted ones, like whether he would rather be Iron Man or Batman. Musk, who is currently the world’s richest man worth $243 billion, had several insightful comments about many issues our culture is grappling with today.

For years, so-called “experts” have been warning that the world has too many people, and that overpopulation is going to lead to famine, widespread starvation, and social upheaval. This idea was popularized by Stanford University Professor Paul Ehrlich’s alarmist book The Population Bomb, written in 1968. Rightly, Musk disagrees.