Senate Confirms Jennifer Granholm to Lead Energy Department

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The Senate confirmed President Biden’s 10th cabinet member on Thursday afternoon, as a few nominees face bipartisan pushback. Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (D) was confirmed by the Senate to serve as Biden’s Secretary of Energy.

While she received bipartisan support, Granholm’s vote was closer than other nominees brought forth by the president. The Senate confirmed her by a vote of 64-35.

At the time of her nomination, Biden touted Granholm’s record on clean energy. She will be tasked with assisting Biden in transitioning the country predominately to clean energy by 2050, with carbon neutrality. (Read more from “Senate Confirms Jennifer Granholm to Lead Energy Department” HERE)

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Judge Deals Blow to the Nationwide Eviction Moratorium

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Who knew the feds telling property owners they couldn’t kick out tenants who didn’t pay their rent might be unconstitutional? A federal judge in Texas did, ruling on Thursday that the CDC’s eviction moratorium violated the U.S. Constitution.

“Although the COVID-19 pandemic persists, so does the Constitution,” wrote Judge Barker in a 21-page opinion.

Instituted under President Trump, the moratorium on evictions made it a crime for landlords to evict certain tenants who are unable to pay rent during the pandemic. President Biden and Congress extended the moratorium through March.

At question in the case was whether or not a nationwide eviction moratorium violated the limited powers of the federal government. The judge found that it did, noting the federal government has never claimed such a broad power throughout the nation’s history until last year. (Read more from “Judge Deals Blow to the Nationwide Eviction Moratorium” HERE)

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Mr. Potato Head Is No Longer a ‘Mister’

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Hasbro, the makers of Mr. Potato Head, has announced that the longtime toy has been made over — and now has no fixed gender.

According to a Thursday report from the Associated Press, Hasbro has renamed Mr. Potato Head to honor his gender neutrality and will call him simply “Potato Head.”

The change, the AP reports, will be rolled out across packaging this year. . .

ccording to a Thursday report from the Associated Press, Hasbro has renamed Mr. Potato Head to honor his gender neutrality and will call him simply “Potato Head.”

The change, the AP reports, will be rolled out across packaging this year. (Read more from “Mr. Potato Head Is No Longer a ‘Mister'” HERE)

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Your Kids Would Be Better off Feral Than Going to Schools That Make Them Anti-American Racists

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To obtain or keep teaching licenses, Illinois now requires all K-12 teachers to indoctrinate their students in critical race theory, destructive lies about sex and gender, and other leftist mind poison. The rules clearly communicate that in Illinois public schools are no longer places to learn, but places children will be lied to, manipulated, and warehoused as wards of a corrupt and malevolent state. And this kind of schooling is spreading nationwide.

Every decent parent, family, and church should refuse to allow this kind of instruction to be inflicted upon the children in their care, and assume personal responsibility for securing their genuine education outside such anti-public schools. Those who do not are abdicating their sacred duty to teach their children to love and know the truth. . .

No joke: Illinois’s state school board and legislature also deleted requirements that teachers prove they have learned any traditional curricular content or subject-matter knowledge. Social agitation uber alles.

“What’s more,” notes Stanley Kurtz, “the Illinois experience is about to go national.” A coalition of leftists is working together to make rules like Illinois’s operate in every state under the guise of “civics,” as Kurtz documents in depth. They intend to co-opt and subvert the grassroots recognition in America that education institutions use public resources to teach the next generation to hate the country that gives them more than every other country in the world does. . .

State-sponsored instruction that makes your child a dogmatic, racist relativist is not worth any benefit you feel schools give in return. Not a single one. Being Mowgli raised by wolves and bears would be better for your child than this. Thankfully, unlike the therians or human pups your children could meet under instruction like this, you realize you are not a wolf or bear, so you can do a lot better than raising Mowgli. (Read more from “Your Kids Would Be Better off Feral Than Going to Schools That Make Them Anti-American Racists” HERE)

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WATCH: Biden Pick Accused of Bullying Nuns

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Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse hammered President Joe Biden’s nominee Xavier Beccara Wednesday for “bullying” the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Sasse tore into the HHS nominee over his longstanding legal battles with the Little Sisters of the Poor during Wednesday’s confirmation hearing. The Nebraska Republican reminded Becerra that he said earlier Wednesday that he never sued the nuns.

Sasse called this “a pretty interesting way of reframing your bullying.”

“You had actually sued the government, who had given an exemption to the nuns,” Sasse said. “Can you explain to us what the Little Sisters of the Poor were doing wrong?” . . .

“You say you didn’t sue the nuns,” Sasse continued. “You sued the federal government that was keeping you from making sure that the nuns had to buy contraceptive insurance. Were the nuns going to get pregnant?” (Read more from “Biden Pick Accused of Bullying Nuns” HERE)

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Declassified Docs Show FBI Spying on Trump Camp Far Wider Than Thought

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The scope of the FBI’s spying on the 2016 Trump campaign was much wider than previously thought, according to newly declassified memos obtained by Just the News.

The aim of the Obama administration’s Trump-Russia collusion probe was to find “anyone” in the Republican campaign tied to Russia who was trying to get dirt “damaging” to Clinton, the documents show.

Immediately after opening the probe in July 2016 with a focus on campaign aide George Papadopoulos, FBI agents pressed their source Stephan Halper for information on other Trump campaign figures. They included future Attorney General Jeff Sessions, foreign policy adviser Sam Clovis, campaign chairman Paul Manafort, economic adviser Peter Navarro, future National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and campaign adviser Carter Page.

An early FBI electronic communication from Halper’s undercover work stated: “The Crossfire Hurricane investigative team is attempting to determine if anyone in the Trump campaign is in a position to have received information either directly or indirectly from the Russian Federation regarding the anonymous release of information during the campaign that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton.”

The documents show agents directing an undercover informant to make secret recordings and pressing for intelligence on numerous GOP figures. (Read more from “Declassified Docs Show FBI Spying on Trump Camp Far Wider Than Thought” HERE)

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Senator to Transgender HHS Pick: Do You Support Amputating Kids’ Private Parts?

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At a confirmation hearing Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., confronted President Biden’s nominee for assistant secretary of Health and Human Services on the government’s support for “sex-change” treatment and surgery.

The exchange was particularly significant because the nominee is Dr. Rachel Levine, who would become the first transgender U.S. official if confirmed. . .

“Dr. Levine, do you believe that minors are capable of making such a life-changing decision as changing one’s sex?” Paul asked. . .

Paul pressed further, asking, “Do you support the government intervening to override a parent’s consent to give a child puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or amputation surgery of breasts or genitalia?”

Levine dodged again, repeating the previous answer while welcoming a discussion about the issue with Paul and his staff if confirmed. (Read more from “Senator to Transgender HHS Pick: Do You Support Amputating Kids’ Private Parts?” HERE)

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Kamala Has to Remind Joe to Wear His Mask

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Vice President Kamala Harris had to remind President Joe Biden to re-don his mask Thursday after he left it at a podium during a speech at the White House. . .

“For God’s sake, wear a mask!” Biden said during his speech, marking the 50 millionth shot of the coronavirus vaccine administered to Americans.

But after his speech, Biden wandered away from the podium without his mask and spoke to a nurse who had administered vaccine shots earlier in the event.

As Biden approached her to greet Harris, the vice president looked at him and asked,”Where’s your mask?” (Read more from “Kamala Has to Remind Joe to Wear His Mask” HERE)

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Former USA Gymnastics Coach Kills Himself After Being Charged with Human Trafficking, Sexual Assault

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Former USA Gymnastics coach John Geddert committed suicide after he was charged on Thursday with 24 counts of criminal misconduct, including human trafficking and sexual assault, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced.

State officials confirmed the news to WLNS CBS that the coach died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 63 years old.

Geddert coached the 2012 U.S. women’s gold-winning Olympic team and worked closely with Larry Nassar, the disgraced physician convicted of multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct and child pornography that owned and operated Twistars USA Gymnastics gym near Lansing, Michigan, where Nassar also treated several gymnasts.

Geddert was charged with 14 counts of human trafficking and forced labor causing injury; six counts of human trafficking of a minor for forced labor; one count of continuing criminal enterprise; one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct; and one count of lying to a police officer during a violent crime investigation. (Read more from “Former USA Gymnastics Coach Kills Himself After Being Charged with Human Trafficking, Sexual Assault” HERE)

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Report: FBI Investigating Members of Congress as Riot ‘Suspects’!

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By WND. Hundreds of people have been investigated for their roles in the riot at the U.S. Capitol in January, and many have been arrested and face charges ranging from trespassing on up.

Now, some members of Congress also are being investigated by the FBI as suspectets, the Intercept reported.

Within hours of the riot, the FBI began obtaining thousands of phone and electronic records involving people at the scene, including members of Congress, the publication said.

“Using special emergency powers and other measures, the FBI has collected reams of private cellphone data and communications that go beyond the videos that rioters shared widely on social media,” the Intercept said, citing two sources.

The FBI obtained the information through emergency orders that do not require court authorization as well as data downloads from cellphone towers in the area. (Read more from “Report: FBI Investigating Members of Congress as Riot ‘Suspects’!” HERE)

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House Committee Holds Domestic Terror Hearing in Wake of Capitol Riot

By New York Post. The House Judiciary Committee will convene a hearing Wednesday afternoon on the rise of domestic terrorism in America, with last month’s deadly US Capitol riot likely to dominate the discussion.

Coming one day after a Senate panel on the insurrection, Wednesday’s hearing by the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security will kick off at 2 p.m. and include testimony from experts on domestic terrorism.

Scheduled witnesses include: Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Michael German, of the Brennan Center for Justice; Malcolm Nance, founder and executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project; and conservative journalist Andy Ngo, editor-at-large of The Post Millennial.

The subcommittee is chaired by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), while Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs is the panel’s ranking Republican member. (Read more from “House Committee Holds Domestic Terror Hearing in Wake of Capitol Riot” HERE)

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