J.K. Rowling Comes Under Fire Over Tweet About Trans People

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J.K. Rowling, the author of the “Harry Potter” series, has come under fire for a controversial tweet in which she criticized police in Scotland for a decision they had made.

Rowling wrote her tweet on Sunday in response to an article from the Times about police receiving criticism for classifying rape offenders as women if they claim they to identify as such.

Others on Twitter were a bit more lengthy in slamming Rowling for her controversial tweet. Seth Abramson, a lawyer and journalist, said that this new policy adopted by Scottish police “ensures proper recordkeeping.”

“Sorry, J.K., but if a self-described trans (alleged) rapist is indeed a trans person, there’s no harm or foul here,” Abramson wrote at the beginning of his thread on the subject. “The policy just ensures proper recordkeeping. And if the suspect *falsely* claims to be trans, that will be used against them at their rape trial. No issue here.”

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Air Force Discharges Soldiers for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

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The Air Force has discharged 27 members for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine in the first such enforcement action from any U.S. Military branch, the Associated Press reported Monday.

The Air Force required its personnel to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by Nov. 2, but the Pentagon has allowed other branches to determine their own deadlines. While the vast majority of servicemembers have complied, a small number have refused. Each of the 27 members discharged Monday were younger, lower ranking and in their first enlistment term, Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek told the AP. None of the individuals sought out specific exemptions.

Each branch of the military is currently in the process of addressing members who have refused the COVID-19 vaccine, but the Air Force is the first to reach a discharge. Reporting from late October suggested as many as 12,000 Air Force personnel were not in compliance with the mandate, though it is unclear how many remain unvaccinated now or how the Air Force is dealing with specific cases.

The military has long required members to receive a number of vaccines before entering service, and more than 95% of active duty members have already taken the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Pentagon.

President Joe Biden encouraged Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to impose a vaccine mandate in August. Biden had instructed Austin to investigate “how and when” to implement a vaccine mandate for service members in late July. (Read more from “Air Force Discharges Soldiers for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate” HERE)

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Libs Have a Full Blown Meltdown Over Time’s Person of the Year

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Innovating entrepreneur and a leading competitor in America’s new space race Elon Musk was named Person of the Year by TIME Magazine on Monday, and libs are big mad about TIME’s decision.

As TIME’s announcement recaps, “Musk made his money differently than most of today’s famous billionaires.”

Instead of one amazing idea, he had several good ones. And instead of a bunch of clever, safe investments, he made just a few spectacularly risky ones. But there was a method to his madness, even if it wasn’t apparent to many at the time. The sum total of those bets made Musk the richest private citizen on the planet this year, and their world-altering effects—from privately-launched space missions to an electric vehicle titan that has left the auto industry desperate to catch up—have landed Musk as TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year.

Has-ran and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took the opportunity to claim that Musk is a freeloader, despite Musk’s endeavors employing tens of thousands of people and his work, at least in part, driving an entire new private space economy.

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Still No Deaths From Omicron, and Americans Are Getting on With Their Lives

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Americans are returning to normal despite the corporate media’s attempts to drum up alarm over the supposedly “highly transmissible” Omicron variant of COVID-19.

While corporate media outlets panicked and revived permanent pandemic narratives and talk of more lockdowns, a new poll from CBS News and YouGov found that of 1,731 people surveyed, 81 percent said they have not rearranged plans because of the Omicron variant or the hype surrounding it. In fact, a majority said they still plan to keep their normal holiday traditions and routines. Sixty-eight percent still plan to “gather with friends and family,” 64 percent said they will do their Christmas shopping in person, and 52 percent said they will eat in a restaurant.

Only 17 percent of those surveyed said they were “very concerned about Omicron,” while about 42 percent said they were not concerned at all about Omicron despite the initial media and bureaucracy-induced panic about it. (Read more from “Still No Deaths From Omicron, and Americans Are Getting on With Their Lives” HERE)

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Inside the Abandoned Estates Jeffrey Epstein Shared With Ghislaine Maxwell

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Amid the lurid ongoing trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is charged with grooming many of late pedo-perv Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, never-before-seen photos of the estates he shared with his “lady of the house” have come to light.

Two years after the disgraced financier’s death at 66 by hanging in a federal jail cell, these images — seized by officials who conducted raids into all of his homes — offer a glimpse at what’s become of Epstein’s sprawling properties, including his most off-the-radar compound located in the Virgin Islands, which remains abandoned. . .

Most notorious is Epstein’s island, commonly referred to as “pedo” island, where victims have described in detail trying to swim off the shore in shark-infested water, almost drowning to escape the abuse they faced at the hands of Epstein and his colleagues. . .

The Florida mansion in Palm Beach where prosecutors say Epstein sexually abused underage girls and women for many years was demolished in April after developer Todd Michael Glaser bought the site for $18.5 million in March. . .

Epstein’s New York townhouse — where the late pedophile once kept nude photos of girls, creepy taxidermy and a bizarre painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress — was sold for a little under $50 million in March. (Read more from “Inside the Abandoned Estates Jeffrey Epstein Shared With Ghislaine Maxwell” HERE)

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‘I Involved the Police’: Mom Says She ‘Went Nuclear’ ‘Rescuing’ Daughter From ‘Transgender Fantasy’

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A California mother writing under a pen name said she “went nuclear” to save her daughter from a “transgender fantasy” that left the teen contemplating suicide.

Charlie Jacobs penned an op-ed published Monday in The Daily Signal “warning” other parents of “gender dysphoria,” which the American Psychiatric Association defines as the emotional “distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity.”

“My daughter was an ultrafeminine girl since birth,” Jacobs began her piece, titled “What I’ve Learned Rescuing My Daughter From Her Transgender Fantasy”. “That all abruptly changed when she turned 12.”

Jacobs described how her once feminine daughter began dressing in boys’ fashion, anime and cosplay, with Jacobs not realizing “anime and cosplaying involved gender-bending themes and that the community crosses into pedophilic and sexual themes.”

Jacobs said her daughter distanced herself from friends and began immersing herself in social media. (Read more from “‘I Involved the Police’: Mom Says She ‘Went Nuclear’ ‘Rescuing’ Daughter From ‘Transgender Fantasy’” HERE)

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‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Decorated Boat Wins ‘Best in Show’ — Before Being Stripped of Title

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A boat decorated in a “Let’s Go Brandon” theme won the “best in show” prize at the 25th Annual Lighted Boat Parade in Yorktown, Virginia, on Saturday, only to have the prize stripped away later by the judging committee.

Bill Berger, owner of the boat, christened the “Southern Rock” and temporary winner of the “best in show” prize, also festooned his craft with an “FJB” sign, as well as Christmas lights and a Christmas tree.

Berger hastened to tell the media that his “FJB” sign did not mean to relay the popular “F*ck Joe Biden” chant but instead meant “falling Joe Biden” because the sign was next to a display of Biden falling off a ladder he said, according to WAVY Channel 10.

“My boat was best in show to the crowd,” Berger insisted.

Two days after his initial win, though, the Yorktown Foundation revoked Berger’s placing and apologized to the public for awarding the prize to the “Southern Rock’s” anti-Joe Biden display. (Read more from “‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Decorated Boat Wins ‘Best in Show’ — Before Being Stripped of Title” HERE)

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Kentucky Governor Gives Devastating Tornado Update

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Kentucky officials on Monday morning gave an update on the tornado, or possibly tornadoes, that wreaked havoc in the western part of the state Friday night and Saturday morning.

Dozens of people were confirmed dead across multiple states including Illinois, Arkansas, Missouri, and Tennessee, but western Kentucky bore the worst of the storm’s damage. Gov. Andy Beshear (D) declared a state of emergency in the counties that were torn apart, and President Joe Biden has promised federal assistance in the area.

Beshear said that at least 64 people have been confirmed dead in the commonwealth, ranging from 2 months old to 86 years old, but that number is expected to rise.There are still 105 people unaccounted for in Kentucky, and at least 70 people are likely dead, he said. More than 1,000 properties were destroyed.

“But again, with this amount of damage and rubble, it will be a week or even more before we have a final count on the number of lost lives,” Beshear said.

Of those confirmed dead, there are still 18 who have not been identified. Six of the dead are younger than 18. One of the youngest victims is 2-month-old Oaklynn Koon, who succumbed to her injuries Monday morning, her heartbroken parents, Douglas and Jackie, revealed in a Facebook post. (Read more from “Kentucky Governor Gives Devastating Tornado Update” HERE)

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Kentucky Governor Expects Tornado Death Toll to Rise; Deadly Tornadoes Devastate Communities in Six States

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By The Hill. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Sunday said he expects the death toll from this weekend’s tornado event will rise.

Beshear told co-host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” that more than 80 Kentuckians have died as a result of the severe weather conditions but warned that the “number is gonna exceed more than 100.”

“This is the deadliest tornado event we have ever had. I think it’s going to be the longest and deadliest tornado event in U.S. history,” he said. (Read more from “Kentucky Governor Expects Tornado Death Toll to Rise” HERE)

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Deadly Tornadoes Devastate Communities in Six States

By CNN. District Judge Brian Crick was among those who lost their lives when a series of tornadoes pummeled the state this weekend, according to a statement from Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. . .

The family of Clayton Cope, a 29-year-old US Navy veteran, confirmed to CNN that he died when a tornado hit an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, on Friday evening. . .

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson called the fact that only one person died after a tornado devastated a Monette nursing home, “a miracle.”

“As I went to that facility, it was like heaven sucked up the roof and all the contents of it. And it’s just a miracle with 67 residents that we only lost one there. And that’s because of the heroic efforts by the staff and also the fact that we had 20 minutes of warning,” Hutchinson told CNN.

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Is Mike Pence Running for President in 2024?

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Former Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to New Hampshire last week and stops in other high-profile early primary states are fueling speculation about a potential 2024 presidential run — and questions about whether he can win over the GOP voters he angered on Jan. 6.

In New Hampshire, Pence made a number of campaign-style stops, attending a fundraiser for Republican state Senate candidates, meeting with local political activists and stopping by a local bakery.

While the former vice president insists that he is laser-focused on bolstering support for Republican candidates running in 2022, New Hampshire is the latest early primary state he’s visited as he works to navigate political life after former President Trump.

In his most direct comments to date, Pence did not rule out a potential 2024 bid, even if Trump also entered the race, as the former president is increasingly hinting he’ll do.

“I can honestly tell you in 2023, my family and I will do what we have always done. We’ll reflect, we’ll pray and determine where we might best serve, and we’ll go where we’re called,” Pence told a CNN reporter in Manchester, N.H., on Wednesday. (Read more from “Is Mike Pence Running for President in 2024?” HERE)

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