Ohio House Passes Bill Banning Gender-Confused Students From Using Opposite Sex Bathrooms
(LifeSiteNews) — The Ohio House of Representatives passed legislation that prevents gender-confused students from using opposite-sex bathrooms and locker rooms.
House Bill 183 was added as an amendment to Senate Bill 104 last Wednesday during the chamber’s final session before summer recess. The measure passed 60-31 along party lines, with two Republicans voting with Democrats against it.
The proposal, which GOP Gov. Mike DeWine has said he would sign, is aimed at K-12 students enrolled in public and charter schools as well as at universities. It also prevents co-ed high schoolers and younger students from sharing overnight accommodations.
Bill co-sponsor and Republican State Rep. Beth Lear of Galena plainly argued in a statement that “boys and girls should not be in locker rooms together.”
As pointed out by several Ohio-based media outlets, similar measures have been passed in GOP-leaning states. ABC-affiliate News 5 Cleveland reported that Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota,Florida, and Utah have approved bills that prohibit gender-confused persons from using opposite-sex bathrooms.
In January, Ohio lawmakers overrode DeWine’s veto of a bill that bans transgender drugs and surgeries for minors. According to the Ohio Capital Journal, lawmakers discussed whether to do so for about an hour before ultimately agreeing to proceed. Republican Sen. Kristina Roegner said at the time that “gender is not fluid” and that “there is no such thing as a gender spectrum.”
Despite their override, officials were stymied due to a Franklin County judge temporarily halting the measure from going into effect in April. The decision was handed down after the ultra-liberal American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit.
Other courts across the U.S. have ruled on similar laws, with several of them being struck down. In January, the U.S. Supreme Court opted not to hear a case decided by the Chicago-based 7th Circuit Court of Appeals that allowed a female student in Indiana to use the boys’ bathroom.
As reported by LifeSite, “detransitioners,” the name for individuals who used to present themselves as the opposite sex, have often spoken out against the procedures they underwent. Parents of students at public schools have likewise confronted school boards after passing pro-LGBT politics that have resulted in their children being attacked or sexually assaulted by gender-confused classmates in the bathroom.
Joe Biden’s Felon Son Has Started Attending High-Level White House Meetings
Joe Biden is now taking advice from his disgraced sone Hunter Biden. According to a report by MSBNC, Hunter started sitting on on White House meetings and calls with top aides this week after spending […]
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‘Beat These Female Dogs in Heat With a Stick’ – French Rappers Release Ultra-Violent Music Video Threatening to Assault Marine Le Pen, Kill Jordan Bardella
A new anti-National Rally rap video featuring a collective of 20 popular French rappers features ultra-violent lyrics directed at Marine Le Pen, her niece Marion Maréchal, and National Rally leader Jordan Bardella.
Some of the lines include, “Marine and Marion, the whores, beat these female dogs in heat with a stick,” and “Jordan, you’re dead.”
Other violent lines include, “If the fascists come by, I’m going with a big caliber,” referring to a firearm.
French rappers release ULTRA-VIOLENT new anti-National Rally music video:
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“Marine and Marion the whores, beat these female dogs in heat with a stick.
“Jodan, you’re dead.”
“If the fascists come by, I’m going out with a big caliber.”
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The track was produced by 20 popular rappers, including Fianso, ISK, Alkpote, and Akhenaton. The song is called “No pasarán,” which translates to “They will not pass” in English, a reference to the slogan chanted by leftist Spaniards against the Franco government that ruled Spain in the 1930s.
Among the other lines are “They deserve the cane,” which is an open call to assault the French politicians along with a defense of those with deportation orders, many of whom have committed serious crimes. In addition, the rappers sing: “Fuck Bardella’s mother.”
“This is for my friends under QQTF (French deportation order),” sing the rappers.
The video also features images of Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella, and other right-wing political figures.
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“They deserve the cane.”
“This is for my friends under QQTF (French deportation orders).”
The ultra-violent and misogynistic song has received glowing praise from the French press, which makes no mention of the song’s brutal lyrics.
Le Parisian, for instance, contacted Fianso, one of the rappers involved, and quoted him in a glowing manner.
“I participated in this piece because I grew up in the heritage of French rap, very sharp, committed and which inspired me a lot,” he said. “Culture has its say and is intended to express itself on this typology of subjects. It was very important for me to participate. I am from the generation where rap does not dissociate itself from the message.”
The article simply refers to “punchlines” directed at Le Pen and Bardella, without any reference to the incredibly violent calls to action and misogynistic comments. The song has nearly 400,000 views on Youtube.
The rappers say that the money they earn from the song will go to the Abbé Pierre Foundation, which provides financial and legal resources to migrants.
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Law Ending Religious Exemptions for School Vaccine Mandates
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Supreme Court rejected without comment a legal challenge to a 2021 Connecticut law that eliminated religious exemptions to school immunization requirements, continuing the current court’s aversion to touching state-level vaccine mandates.
In 2021, Connecticut changed its immunization requirements for participation in public and private schools, daycare, and other childcare centers by eliminating the ability to obtain religious exemptions, leaving medical exemptions the only possible avenue to avoid objectionable injections.
Several religious institutions such as Milford Christian Church, which maintains a pre-kindergarten program called Little Eagles and a K-12 Academy, sued the Connecticut State Department of Education, Connecticut Office of Early Childhood, and Connecticut Department of Public Health on First Amendment grounds after being given a choice to either compel student vaccinations, expel those who refused, or risk being forced to close.
In January 2022, U.S. District Court Judge Janet Bond Arterton dismissed one such lawsuit on the grounds that the law change was not driven by “religious animus,” prompting the plaintiffs to appeal to the Supreme Court.
But the June 24 order list published by the nation’s highest court confirmed that We the Patriots USA, et al, v. CT Early Childhood Dev. et al. has been dismissed, without any elaboration. How individual justices voted was not listed, but with just four votes necessary to take a case, at least six would have voted not to.
“This is the end of the road to a challenge to Connecticut’s lifesaving and fully lawful vaccine requirements,” Democratic Attorney General William Tong said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press. “We have said all along, and the courts have affirmed, the legislature acted responsibly and well within its authority to protect the health of Connecticut families and to stop the spread of preventable disease.”
“WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN, and we will not lose hope. We know that there is a Divine plan in all of this, and that ‘all things work together unto good’ (Romans 8:28). Even in this loss, in fact, there is some good news,” responded We the Patriots, which represented Milford Christian Church and Little Eagles Preschool & Daycare. “Our case against the State of Connecticut to restore religious exemptions was not fully dismissed by the Second Circuit, which allowed one of our claims to proceed – i.e., that a child with an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) is entitled to an education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The Second Circuit sent this claim back to the district court for trial, but it has been on hold pending the outcome of our cert petition at the Supreme Court.”
“If we are ultimately victorious in these two cases, students with disabilities and students at private religious schools would be able to opt out of vaccinations and receive an education in Connecticut,” the group noted. “A victory in either of these cases at the Second Circuit would also apply to students in New York, which lost its school religious exemption in 2019. Although it’s not the broad, sweeping victory we were aiming for, these cases could still open the door for hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of children to receive an education in New York and Connecticut.”
Several common vaccines, including for hepatitis A and rabies, were developed using cell lines derived from aborted babies, leading many Americans to morally object to receiving anything tainted by the intentional destruction of innocent human life.
The issue is particularly acute today due to ongoing controversies surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines, which were developed and released in a fraction of the timevaccines usually take under former President Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed initiative.
According to a detailed overview by the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute, Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson all used aborted fetal cells during their COVID vaccines’ testing phase; and Johnson & Johnson also used the cells during the design & development and production phases. While many have attempted to deny or downplay the coronavirus jabs’ links to abortion, the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s journal Science and the left-wing fact-checking outlet Snopes have both admitted the connection.
Meanwhile, the ruling continues the Supreme Court’s trend of issuing decidedly mixed rulings from a conservative perspective, despite Republican presidents having appointed six of its nine current members.
The Court has delivered conservatives major victories on gun rights, environmental regulation, affirmative action, and most significantly abortion with the overturn of Roe v. Wade, but it has also issued dismissive rulings on religious freedom, LGBT ideology, and more to the point, that conservative Justice Samuel Alito has taken the rare step of criticizing Trump appointees Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh for lacking the “fortitude” to resolve such issues.
In the area of vaccine mandates, in 2022 the Court blocked the Biden administration from forcing private businesses to mandate COVID shots while upholding a mandate for healthcare workers at federally funded facilities. On state-level mandates, the court has been consistently more deferential.
Kavanaugh and Barrett have voted against taking up reviews of state-level vaccine mandates in Indiana, Maine, and New York, and Kavanaugh voted to uphold a federal vaccine mandate for healthcare workers and against a group of Navy SEALs’ bid for a religious exemption. Last fall, the Court also rejected a COVID-19 vaccine mandate case out of New Jersey, again without listing how individual justices ruled.
Ukraine Rushes to Recruit From Prisons After Suffering Hundreds of Thousands of Casualties
Since the start of the war, Ukraine has lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers who have been killed or wounded, according to German newspaper Welt. The prominent newspaper reports the seriousness of the situation is shown by the fact that the Ukrainian army is already recruiting in prisons, as it is still unable to fill the gaps at the front.
In addition to a shortage of modern fighter jets and ammunition, a shortage of soldiers is a central problem for Ukraine’s war effort.
Behind the prison walls, the Ukrainian army has found something that is rare in the country: volunteer fighters for the frontline. Since May, 2,800 prisoners have been released and are now serving as soldiers, the Ukrainian justice ministry told Welt when contacted.
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Germany’s Rheinmetall scores record-breaking €8.5 billion order for artillery shells.
The defense firm says many of these shells will go to Ukraine, while the rest will be used to replenish Germany’s depleted artillery stocks.
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A total of 10,000 to 20,000 men and women in prison could join the army as part of the recruitment program, estimates Ukrainian Justice Minister Denis Malyuska.
Recruitment from the prison population is possible through a new law adopted by the Ukrainian parliament in May. Under this law, prisoners can be released on parole early to join the Ukrainian armed forces under contract. This includes, for example, convicted drug traffickers, perpetrators of violent crimes, and certain homicide offenders.
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Prison No. 14 in Odessa, southern Ukraine, is one of the prisons where the army has been looking to recruit reinforcements since May. Volunteers have been promised proper training for the frontline and a monthly salary of around 100,000 hryvnias, the equivalent of just under €2,500. This is about the same as the standard military salary in Ukraine. Those who are deployed in assault brigades at the front earn the equivalent of €2,750 a month.
The use of released criminals in this war is nothing new. Russia has been replenishing its own ranks with prisoners since the summer of 2022. In the battle for the eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut alone, thousands of convicts were seriously wounded or killed in 2023.
Putin to Send Russian Children to North Korean Summer Camps
Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning to send children from his Movement of the First Youth organization to a summer camp in North Korea, where they will be expected to polish statues of leaders and undergo enforced exercise routines.
Grigory Gurov, the head of the Movement of the First Youth, announced the plan as part of the military pact that Putin and Kim signed in Pyongyang on June 19. Kim gifted Putin a luxury car during his visit to Pyongyang, and in return, Putin promised to send children from the Movement of the First Youth to the Songdowon camp.
(Related: North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Russia’s Vladimir Putin sign mutual defense treaty.)
The Movement of the First Youth, established by Putin in 2022 shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, seeks to instill Kremlin ideology among Russian youth. Its members, easily recognizable by their red berets and neck scarves, are often seen carrying flags at official ceremonies. Meanwhile, the Songdowon camp, built by Kim II-sung, the grandfather of dictator Kim Jong-un, in 1960, is a peculiar mix of a boarding house with frequent blackouts, early wake-ups and roll calls, combined with a Disney-themed water park.
Artem Samsonov, a former Communist Party official who visited the camp in 2015, provided a vivid description of the camp on the Livejournal blogging platform. He recounted children waking at 6:30 a.m. to clean the area in front of the Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il statues, using special pads to polish the statues.
Samsonov, who was later imprisoned in 2022 for molesting a child, detailed a tightly packed schedule for the children, including enforced exercise, state-approved lessons, cleaning and evening discos. He also mentioned that the food at the camp was consistent, with “soup, rice, potatoes” always on the menu.
“We received special attention and were given not brooms but special pads and were allowed to wipe the statue itself,” he wrote next to photographs of Russian children polishing a stone plinth.
Meaning to say, this initiative is the latest indication of strengthening ties between Russia and North Korea as they prepare for any potential invasion. The treaty obligates the signatories to provide “military and other assistance with all means in their possession without delay” if either nation faces an armed invasion.
Russian parents voice concerns about sending children to North Korea
The plan has sparked a wave of concern among Russian parents, who have taken to social media to voice their worries.
One parent humorously suggested that the only way to escape the camp would be to “walk through the jungle to South Korea.” Another user attempted to reassure skeptics, sharing her positive experience at Songdowon in 2017, which she claimed was better than a Russian youth camp in occupied Crimea.
“Compared to Artek, it’s a good camp,” she said. “It has the same pools, water parks, stadiums, just with a different culture and completely without the internet.”
But then, Gurov tried to assuage these worries and stated: “We will now form our delegation. Conditions there are good.”
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