Plus: Libs of TikTok Creator Chaya Raichik Calls for National Ban on App
March 24 2023
Good morning from Washington, where Congress’ passage of a parents’ bill of rights would keep the heat on for education reform at the state level. How? Check out Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ commentary. Representatives of TikTok hope to fend off an outright ban of the Chinese-owned app, and Samantha Aschieris has takeaways from a House hearing while Virginia Allen covers a “Ban Tiktok” rally outside. Plus: a key agency puts the kibosh on Biden’s plan to cancel student debt; lawmakers probe China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims; and a top U.S. election official questions the role of election observers. On this date in 1996, biochemist Shannon Lucid becomes the first female U.S. astronaut to live in a space station when she transfers from the shuttle Atlantis to Russia’s Mir.
Progressive elites’ contempt for parents’ rights has fueled a long train of abuses, from racist curricula to a war on girls sports and bathrooms to darker episodes of cover-ups and student grooming.
“It is necessary to provide needed accountability [for abortion clinics] to ensure they are not aiding and abetting the abuse of women enslaved in the sex trade,” says Sen. Ted Budd.
"Have any moderation tools been used to remove content on TikTok associated with the Uyghur genocide? Yes or no?" Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers asks the TikTok CEO.
Testifying to a congressional panel, a federal election official referred Thursday to citizens who seek public records as a “weaponization” targeting election workers.
Sterilization, electric shock torture, and brainwashing are hallmarks of the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of the Uyghur people, according to prison camp survivors.
Law professor Jonathan Turley accuses the George Soros-funded DA of “struggling to twist state laws to effectively prosecute a federal case long ago rejected by the Justice Department against Trump.”
