Judge Blocks Law Allowing Librarians to Be Criminally Charged Over ‘Harmful’ Materials

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Arkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors, a federal judge ruled Saturday.

US District Judge Timothy L. Brooks issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which also would have created a new process to challenge library materials and request that they be relocated to areas not accessible by kids.

The measure, signed by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders earlier this year, was set to take effect Aug. 1.

A coalition that included the Central Arkansas Library System in Little Rock had challenged the law, saying fear of prosecution under the measure could prompt libraries and booksellers to no longer carry titles that could be challenged.

The judge also rejected a motion by the defendants, which include prosecuting attorneys for the state, seeking to dismiss the case. (Read more from “Judge Blocks Law Allowing Librarians to Be Criminally Charged Over ‘Harmful’ Materials” HERE)

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Video: Man Spends $14,000 to Fulfill Childhood ‘Desire to Transform’ Into a Collie Dog

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A Japanese man finally fulfilled his childhood “desire to transform” into an animal. The adult human spent over $14,000 on a custom-made collie dog costume.

A Japanese man released a video of his “transformation” to a collie dog on his YouTubechannel named: “I Want To Be An Animal.” The man is seen in the collie costume is seen interacting with real-life dogs and people who are unaware there is a grown man disguised as an animal.

The man inside the dog costume does tricks for a German TV host who was interviewing him at the time.

At the time of publication, the video racked up more than 3 million views on YouTube.

The man previously posted more than 20 videos of him dressed in the dog costume, but his latest video is the first that he left the privacy of his home. Toco said he felt “nervous and a little scared” about going out in public dressed as a dog. (Read more from “Video: Man Spends $14,000 to Fulfill Childhood ‘Desire to Transform’ Into a Collie Dog” HERE)

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Special Counsel Adds New Charges Against Donald Trump; DOJ Adds Charges to Trump a Day After Sweetheart Hunter Biden Deal Exposed

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By Breitbart. Special Counsel Jack Smith on Thursday brought new charges against former President Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago White House documents case.

Smith charged Trump with one count of willful retention of national defense documents and two counts of obstruction.

Trump’s valet, Walt Nauta, who was previously charged in the first indictment, also received two new obstruction-related charges.

The superseding indictment also charged Carlos De Oliveira, Mar-a-Lago’s head of maintenance, with altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing a document, making false statements, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. (Read more from “Special Counsel Adds New Charges Against Donald Trump” HERE)

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DOJ Adds Charges to Trump a Day After Sweetheart Hunter Biden Deal Exposed

By Breitbart. The Department of Justice (DOJ) added three charges to the prosecution against President Joe Biden’s main political opponent, one day after the DOJ’s sweetheart plea deal with the president’s son was exposed in court.

While critics of former President Donald Trump celebrated, the juxtaposition of these two events is certain to lend weight and urgency to the charge that the DOJ is rife with political bias and continues to be weaponized.

As Breitbart News reported, the plea bargain that DOJ prosecutors reached with Hunter Biden’s lawyers fell apart on Wednesday after Judge Maryellen Noreika questioned its terms. Specifically, she queried a clause in an annex to the agreement — which she was apparently only shown right before the hearing — that would have given Hunter Biden immunity from any further prosecution related to his lucrative foreign business dealings. . .

The following day, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against Trump that added three new charges, plus a new defendant, Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira, to the original case.

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Jill Biden Ex: Joe Stole My Story as His Own — Minutes After I Told It

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Jill Biden’s ex-husband said he knew that Joe Biden had trouble with the truth the first time they met — and the budding politician swiped a story from Bill Stevenson’s life and passed it off as one of his own.

The 75-year-old told The Post that Biden was running for the US Senate in 1972 when he stopped by the Stone Balloon, Stevenson’s new night spot in Newark, Delaware. Stevenson told Biden an anecdote about how his mother had asked his prep-school football coach why the schedule for the season’s games was prominently posted in the women’s bathroom. The coach gave a funny answer that Stevenson repeated to Biden.

“No disrespect … [but] that’s where our schedule belongs: in the ladies’ room,” said the coach — the implication being that the losing team was playing like “a bunch of girls,” said Stevenson.

Two hours later, after Biden was introduced to the club’s bouncers — all of them University of Delaware football players — he repeated the same story as if it were his own — right in front of an astonished Stevenson.

“I just stared at him in shock,” Stevenson told The Post. “He just acted like it was his own story. I just told myself, ‘This must be what politicians are like.’” (Read more from “Jill Biden Ex: Joe Stole My Story as His Own — Minutes After I Told It” HERE)

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Universities Around the Country Will Host ‘Critical Whiteness Studies’ Courses

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Courses involving “Critical Whiteness Studies,” an offshoot of Critical Race Theory, will be available to students at several colleges across the country during the upcoming 2023-2024 school year.

The University of New Mexico’s Department of English Language and Literature will host a “Critical Whiteness Studies” course in Fall 2023, where students “will learn about whiteness as an ideology of supremacy and domination.” . . .

A course titled “Problematizing Whiteness: Educating for Racial Justice” at the University of Colorado, Denver, asserts that “Critical Whiteness Studies provides a deeper analysis of race that accounts for both sides … the plight of people of color and how white people are complicit.

The University of Oregon also hosts a class titled “Critical Whiteness Studies,” which “explores the social construction of race by investigating and historicizing ‘whiteness’ as a racial category in the U.S.” The University of Oregon also hosts courses on “Environmental Racism” and “Feminist Theories of Race.” (Read more from “Universities Around the Country Will Host ‘Critical Whiteness Studies’ Courses” HERE)

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RFK Jr. Says Biden Admin Denied Him Secret Service Protection

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Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday the Biden administration has denied him Secret Service protection. . .

Kennedy then quotes the denial from Biden appointee Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas:

Secretary Mayorkas: “I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time.” Our campaign’s request included a 67-page report from the world’s leading protection firm, detailing unique and well established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats.

The Biden administration is beyond ruthless. On the one hand, they are in the process of imprisoning His Fraudulency’s top Republican challenger, former president Trump. On the other, they are trying to get His Fraudulency’s top Democrat challenger killed. (Read more from “RFK Jr. Says Biden Admin Denied Him Secret Service Protection” HERE)

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Kim Jong Un Decorates Walls With Huge Portraits of Putin (VIDEO)

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Images posted Friday by North Korean state media show that the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, had large portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin installed throughout an official building.

The portraits can be seen in photographs of Kim with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who is visiting Pyongyang this week to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, which is called “Victory Day” in North Korea.

Max Seddon, the Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, noted the presence of the portraits—which are visible in multiple rooms of the building—and created a slideshow that he posted on Twitter.

Though Putin didn’t accompany Shoigu to Pyongyang, he sent a letter to Kim that was published by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Friday. (Read more from “Kim Jong Un Decorates Walls With Huge Portraits of Putin” HERE)

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Arizona Federal Judge Temporarily Rules Males Can Compete in Girls’ Sports

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Last week, a federal judge in Tucson, Arizona, ruled in favor of the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction blocking a state law that would prevent males from participating in girls’ sports. Arizona’s Save Women’s Sports Act was passed in 2022 and signed into law by then-Gov. Doug Ducey, ensuring that “…athletic teams or sports designated for ‘females,’ ‘women,’ or ‘girls’ may not be open to students of the male sex.”

Prior to the law’s passage in 2022, the Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA) had a policy allowing males to play on girls’ sports teams if they submitted a request that was approved by a “committee of medical and psychiatric experts, and consistent with AIA health and safety policy and if not motivated by an improper purpose.”

Arizona is not the only state to pass a law protecting girls’ sports. At least 20 other states have passed similar laws, most of which are also facing legal challenges. . .

However, the order, written by Obama-appointed Judge Jennifer Zipps, makes numerous “findings of facts and conclusions of law,” most of which sound like gobbledygook pulled straight from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) website.

According to Judge Zipps, the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their claims that the Arizona law is unconstitutional because the two transgender plaintiffs, 11 and 15 years old, respectively, have taken medication that prevents them from going through male puberty. (Read more from “Arizona Federal Judge Temporarily Rules Males Can Compete in Girls’ Sports” HERE)

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Parents’ Efforts to Suppress Transgender School Shooter’s Manifesto Would Be Unprecedented if Granted: Expert

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The efforts of parents and Nashville community members to stop the release of Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale’s writings, if successful, would be an unprecedented move that could have bigger implications going forward, an open-government expert told The Post.

Tennessee’s victims’ rights statute does not give individuals a “carte blanche” to veto other laws, such as the one that allows people the right to public records, said Deborah Fisher, executive director of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government.

“There’s nothing really to indicate that there would be this ability for victims to veto the release of otherwise public records and in, and in this case, crime records,” Fisher said Thursday.

Fisher is not a party in the ongoing litigation over whether Hale’s writings — previously described as a “manifesto” — should be released.

But she was asked by an attorney involved to provide her input on the history of the victims’ rights legislation, she said. (Read more from “Parents’ Efforts to Suppress Transgender School Shooter’s Manifesto Would Be Unprecedented if Granted: Expert” HERE)

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Emails Reveal That Biden White House Pressured Facebook to Censor Vaccine Memes, Tucker Carlson Videos: ‘Worse Than Anyone Could Ever Have Thought’

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) provided new damning insights into the lengths to which the Biden White House has gone to suppress speech and views online that it has found undesirable or threatening.

The internal Facebook documents shared to Twitter Thursday were obtained via subpoena by the House Judiciary Committee, which Jordan chairs. They reveal Facebook and Instagram censored content online following “unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House.”

Among the damning documents was an April 2021 email circulated by a Facebook employee, ostensibly on behalf of company CEO Mark Zuckerberg and then-COO Sheryl Sandberg.

The email stated, “We are seeking your guidance on whether to take more aggressive action against certain vaccine discouraging content. We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the White House and the press, to remove more COVID-19 vaccine discouraging content.”

The email specifies that the Biden White House took issue with a “vaccine discouraging humorous meme,” which it told the social media company to delete.

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