Transgender Troops Will Be Separated From Military, Pentagon Says

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By Military Times. The Pentagon revealed the specifics of its transgender troop policy in a court filing Wednesday that says any service member or recruit who has been diagnosed with or treated for gender dysphoria is disqualified from serving — unless they can prove they meet a specific warfighting need and adhere to severe restrictions on their day-to-day behavior.

The memo effectively bans transgender members from openly serving, directing the military to identify service members who have a “current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with,” gender dysphoria within 30 days. It directs officials to then begin separation proceedings within another 30 days.

The policy memo was included in the latest court filing in a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order against transgender military service, one of many hot-button issues the president made a priority to address on his first days in office.

Like the executive order, the policy filed Wednesday suggests that the lethality and integrity of the military “is inconsistent” with what transgender personnel go through as they transition to the gender they identify with, and issues an edict that gender is “immutable, unchanging during a person’s life.” (Read more from “Transgender Troops Will Be Separated From Military, Pentagon Says” HERE)

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Male and Female Made Sole Choices in Personal Spaces as Navy Ends Diverse Gender Designations

By Stars and Stripes. Navy personnel will no longer see questions about gender identity when they fill out forms, and single-sex spaces on ships and bases can now be designated only as male or female.

Those changes are part of new guidance the service issued this week in response to an executive order requiring federal agencies to adopt a binary definition of sex.

A Navy memo dated Tuesday states that the U.S. recognizes two sexes, which “are not changeable.” It notes the Defense Department’s intention to halt references to what is dubbed gender ideology.

Intimate spaces include bathrooms and single sailors’ living quarters on base and in ship berthing. (Read more from “Male and Female Made Sole Choices in Personal Spaces as Navy Ends Diverse Gender Designations” HERE)

Dem Governors Rush to Zelensky’s Defense After Trump Kicks Him Out of White House

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Democrat governors came to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s defense after he was kicked out of the White House for making “disrespectful” remarks during a meeting with President Donald Trump.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) accused Trump and Vice President JD Vance of having “advanced Russia’s propaganda directly from the White House,” and of “embarrassing the United States on the world stage.”

In a post on X, Shapiro issued a statement criticizing Trump and Vance for having “attacked President Zelenskyy,” adding that they had undermined “the safety and security of America and our national security interests.”

Shapiro noted how “Pennsylvania is the proud home to over 150,000 Ukrainian and Ukrainian American people.”

“I know they, along with countless other Pennsylvanians, watched in shock at the President and Vice President berated President Zelenskyy and advanced Russia’s propaganda directly from the White House,” Shapiro said in his statement. “The Oval Office should be a place where we advance American values — not where we retreat from them. When the President and Vice President attacked President Zelenskyy today, they served to undermine the safety and security of America and our national security interests.”

Shapiro continued to accuse the Trump-Vance administration of having “alienated many of” the United States’ allies.

(Read more from “Dem Governors Rush to Zelensky’s Defense After Trump Kicks Him Out of White House” HERE)

Report: Trump Expected to Make English America’s Official Language

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An executive order President Donald Trump is reportedly expected to sign would establish English as the official language of the United States of America.

The Wall Street Journal first reported on the order Friday:

The executive order would rescind a federal mandate issued by President Bill Clinton that agencies and other recipients of federal funding are required to provide language assistance to non-English speakers, the officials said.

Agencies will still be able to provide documents and services in languages other than English, according to a White House summary of the order viewed by The Wall Street Journal. The summary of the order said the goal of making English the national language is to promote unity, establish efficiency in the government and provide a pathway to civic engagement.

It is unclear when Trump is expected to sign the order. The Journal notes that English is already the official language in more than 30 states in the union. (Read more from “Report: Trump Expected to Make English America’s Official Language” HERE)

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Top Zelensky Adviser Pushed for Oval Office Mineral Deal Signing — Against Trump Envoy Kellogg’s Advice

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President Trump’s special envoy to the Ukraine War urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to sign the now-deferred mineral rights deal with Washington during the envoy’s visit to Kyiv last week, but Zelensky’s chief of staff insisted on the Friday Oval Office signing that went badly awry, a senior US official involved with the talks told The Post.

After three days of intense negotiations, retired Gen. Keith Kellogg secured the long-sought agreement with Ukraine that would have provided Washington with 50% of all future proceeds from the European country’s lucrative critical and rare-earth minerals.

“Kellogg and Zelensky had agreed to a deal with one item still to be finalized,” the US official said of the talks that concluded Feb. 21.

As negotiations wrapped up, Zelensky chief of staff Andrii Yermak pushed for the Ukrainian president to join Trump at the White House to sign the agreement.

Kellogg “advised against it, knowing that the relationship [between the presidents] needed to be strengthened” before meeting in-person, according to the official. (Read more from “Top Zelensky Adviser Pushed for Oval Office Mineral Deal Signing — Against Trump Envoy Kellogg’s Advice” HERE)

Illegal Alien Allegedly Murders Two Elderly Gay Men After Escaping ICE Deportation Order

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An illegal alien has been charged in the murders of two elderly gay men after he escaped authorities who were trying to deport him for burglary.

Twenty-five-year-old Zsolt Zsolyomi allegedly confessed to the separate murders of two disabled males and has been charged with second-degree murder in each case.

Zsolyomi’s alleged crime spree began when he overstayed his visa and then was arrested for robbery in 2024. He told police his name was “Thomas Kray” at the time and was released from custody in July.

A deportation order was issued for the man after Immigration and Customs Enforcement realized he had overstayed his visa by more than two years. He was arrested in September and released with an ankle bracelet through the Alternatives Detention Program. He was apparently able to disable the ankle bracelet and elude authorities.

Then in November, police found 66-year-old Carlos Alonso Villaquiran face down in the water of his bathtub of his Miami Beach apartment. The amputee had died of strangulation, and surveillance cameras captured the image of a man who had entered into the apartment a day earlier. (Read more from “Illegal Alien Allegedly Murders Two Elderly Gay Men After Escaping ICE Deportation Order” HERE)

Trump Kicks Out Zelensky, White House Staff Eats His Lunch

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White House staff are reportedly eating Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky’s lunch after President Donald Trump ousted him from the premises.

According to reports, Trump did, indeed, kick Zelensky out after a contentious exchange witnessed by the press and American people. In other words, the Ukrainian leader did not leave on his own accord. Further, according to Fox News’s Jacqui Heinrich, White House staffers will be eating the lunch set for Zelensky.

“WHEN I WENT TO UPPER PRESS TO ASK WHAT WAS GOING ON, THE LUNCH THAT TRUMP AND ZELENSKYY WERE SUPPOSED TO DINE ON AND TALK OVER WAS SITTING IN THE HALLWAY. I’M TOLD WHITE HOUSE PRESS OFFICE STAFFERS WILL BE EATING IT,” she wrote in the update.

Things went awry in the Oval Office after Zelensky became agitated and irritated, prompting Vice President JD Vance to call him out for being disrespectful and unappreciative of the American people and Trump administration. (Read more from “Trump Kicks Out Zelensky, White House Staff Eats His Lunch” HERE)

Patel’s FBI Could Shine Light on Nashville Trans School Shooter’s Manifesto

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For those who believe politically weaponized justice is injustice, Pam Bondi running the Department of Justice and Kash Patel at the helm of the FBI feels like a warm spring breeze after a brutally cold winter. For those who turned federal law enforcement into the Stasi and cheered on the myriad abuses (I’m looking at you Schiff, you weasel), things are about to get, well, difficult.

There’s much to look forward to in the reckoning that Trump 2.0 is bringing to the people who transformed America’s DOJ into a banana republic. It’s long past time for accountability and, hopefully, justice served to the wicked.

Transparency is absolutely essential in that pursuit. Patel could go a long way on that front by lifting the Biden-era FBI shroud over the records from some of the most egregious crimes committed and covered up in the name of identity politics. In particular, America could use much more light on the dark minds of gender-bending killers.

Case in point, Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old woman masquerading as a man who nearly two years ago stormed into a Nashville Christian school and gunned down three children and three adult staff members. The FBI and the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department have refused to turn over Hale’s manifesto, absurdly claiming that doing so could harm their “ongoing investigation.” Police responding to the Covenant School attack on March 27, 2023 fatally shot the killer. Police have said there are no other suspects. There is nothing more to investigate.

So why the holdup? Why have law enforcement in leftist-led Nashville and at the Biden administration Department of Justice fought multiple attempts — including several open records lawsuits — to release the documents? (Read more from “Patel’s FBI Could Shine Light on Nashville Trans School Shooter’s Manifesto” HERE)

FBI Withheld ‘Thousands of Pages’ of Jeffrey Epstein Docs, Pam Bondi Says — And She’s Demanding They Be Turned Over

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Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed Thursday that “thousands of pages” of documents in the FBI’s investigation into the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were withheld from her.

And she’s demanding that they be turned over by Friday morning.

Bondi, 59, disclosed in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel a tipster said that all but “approximately 200 pages of documents” were still being kept secret at the FBI’s office in New York — despite her after repeated requests for the “full” Epstein files.

The initial batch included flight logs, phone numbers and the names of victims, but a source in the FBI’s New York office reached out and said that hundreds additional documents were not included.

“By 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, February 28, the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office, including all records, documents, audio and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained,” Bondi said. (Read more from “FBI Withheld ‘Thousands of Pages’ of Jeffrey Epstein Docs, Pam Bondi Says — And She’s Demanding They Be Turned Over” HERE)

JD Vance Tangles With British PM Starmer Over ‘Infringements on Free Speech’ in Contentious Oval Office Meeting (VIDEO)

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The “special relationship” between the US and the UK got awkward Thursday, when Vice President JD Vance confronted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office over the longtime American ally’s weakening of freedom of speech.

Earlier this month, at the Munich Security Conference, Vance had riled European opinion by decrying what he called “the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values—values shared with the United States of America.”

Vance stood by his comments Thursday when pressed by a reporter, saying: “I said what I said, which is that we do have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in the UK and also with some of our European allies.

“But we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British, of course, what the British do in their own country is up to them,” the 40-year-old added, “but also affect American technology companies and, by extension, American citizens. So that is something that we’ll talk about today at lunch.” . . .

In Munich, Vance had rattled off examples of criminal convictions in Europe for what would be protected First Amendment activity in America, including the case of 51-year-old British Army veteran and physiotherapist Adam Smith-Connor, who was ordered to pay £9,000 ($11,346) for violating a buffer zone while praying outside of an abortion clinic. (Read more from “JD Vance Tangles With British PM Starmer Over ‘Infringements on Free Speech’ in Contentious Oval Office Meeting” HERE)

Trump Hits Socialist Dictator With Consequences for Not Holding His End of the Bargain

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President Donald Trump says he is reversing a Biden-era grant allowing Chevron to operate within Venezuela on Wednesday.

Trump detailed the decision in a lengthy post on Truth Social, stating that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had not upheld his end of the bargain.

“We are hereby reversing the concessions that Crooked Joe Biden gave to Nicolás Maduro, of Venezuela, on the oil transaction agreement, dated November 26, 2022, and also having to do with Electoral conditions within Venezuela, which have not been met by the Maduro regime,” Trump wrote.

“Additionally, the regime has not been transporting the violent criminals that they sent into our Country (the Good Ole’ U.S.A.) back to Venezuela at the rapid pace that they had agreed to,” he added.

“I am therefore ordering that the ineffective and unmet Biden “Concession Agreement” be terminated as of the March 1st option to renew. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump continued. (Read more from “Trump Hits Socialist Dictator With Consequences for Not Holding His End of the Bargain” HERE)

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