Finland Set to Join Military Alliance This Week, Irking Moscow

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Finland is set to become NATO’s 31st member, doubling the military alliance’s border along Russia in a strategic and political blow to President Vladimir Putin.

As will all NATO members, Finland will benefit from the collective security guarantee of Article 5: “an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.”

The Finnish flag will rise between the French and the Estonian flags in a ceremony afternoon ceremony, completing the fastest accession process in the organization’s recent history.

NATO has said that it has no immediate intention to step up its presence in Finland. Some members have deployed troops there for war games over the last year.

Such assurances will fall on deaf ears in Moscow. Putin has long howled against NATO’s expansion eastward and partly used that as a justification for his country’s war with Ukraine. (Read more from “Finland Set to Join Military Alliance This Week, Irking Moscow” HERE)

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Nancy Pelosi Claims Putin ‘Feared’ Hillary Clinton in 2016

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Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin “interfered” in the 2016 election because he “feared” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“When Secretary Clinton was… secretary of State in more recent time, she… implemented many things, showing America support for democracy,” Pelosi said at a town hall meeting with Clinton, who lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump.

“It was her clarity and position to… President Putin — president — occupant — leader of — of Russia, that made him turn around and ensure in an illegal way, come out against her in her campaign,” Pelosi continued, claiming Putin interfered in the 2016 election “because Hillary Clinton was the person he feared most in terms of his lack of democracy in Russia.” (Read more from “Nancy Pelosi Claims Putin ‘Feared’ Hillary Clinton in 2016” HERE)

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Nearly Half of Gen Z Identifies as Non-Religious, New Study Finds

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Almost half of Generation Z say that they identify as either non-religious, atheist or agnostic, according to data published by the Cooperative Election Study Monday.

The study revealed the religious differences between five generations — Silent, Baby Boomer, Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z — noting that the largest difference could be found in Gen Z, according to Ryan P. Burge, a professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University. Gen Z respondents that identified as non-religious increased by 3%, bringing the total to 48% of young Americans born after 1996.

Gen Z was the largest group to indicate no religious affiliation at 31%, with Millennials coming in second at 28%, according to the study. Overall, the number of those who identified as non-religious in all generations did not change from 2021 to 2022.

Additionally, Gen Z only made up 1.5% of the population surveyed in 2014 for the annual study, but as of 2022, they made up almost 15%, according to Burge.

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Eggs-Tortion? Profits for Largest U.S. Egg Producer Soar 718%

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Remember when the price of eggs soared, and providers said it was inflation and higher transportation costs and a sudden drop in production and some kind of avian flu?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

But it turns out that Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. producer, more than doubled its revenue last quarter to nearly a billion dollars because of sharply higher egg prices — and profits surged 718%. And production wasn’t down. Cal-Maine, which controls about 20% of the domestic egg market, said the total number of eggs it sold rose by 1%, CNN reported.

The company said the average selling price for a dozen eggs in the quarter ending February 25 was $3.30. That’s more than twice what a dozen cost a year earlier, when its average price was $1.61, Cal-Maine said. Thus, net income soared to $323.2 million from just $39.5 million a year ago, CNN reported.

In January, the cost of a dozen eggs surpassed the price of a pound of beef, marking the first time that’s happened since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) began keeping data in 1980. The average price of a dozen large Grade A eggs ran at $4.82 in January 2023, while a pound of ground beef was $4.64, the BLS said. In January 2022, eggs were $1.93, and beef was $4.77, but egg prices have soared by 70% in the last year alone, according to the bureau. (Read more from “Eggs-Tortion? Profits for Largest U.S. Egg Producer Soar 718%” HERE)

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Democrat Posts Meme of Grandma Shooting AR-15 to Protect Transgender People

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Wyoming House Minority Whip Karlee Provenza (D) posted a meme of a grandma using an AR-15 to protect transgender people on Saturday, less than a week after a 28-year-old transgender person went into a Christian school and shot six people dead.

The meme shows a grandma holding an AR-15 and the text says, “Auntie Fa Says, Protect Trans Folks Against Fascists and Bigots”:

Breitbart News reported that Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’ (D) press secretary Josselyn Berry sent a tweet with a message similar to Provenza’s on the same day as the Christian school shooting.

Berry’s tweet focused on pointing guns at “transphobes.” She resigned her position two days later.

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Another Product You Should Never Buy: Social Media Reacts After Transgender Influencer Claims to Partner With Bud Light

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Transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney posted an Instagram video on Saturday claiming that Bud Light has become the latest company to celebrate the star living as “a girl” for a full year by creating a special anniversary beer can.

Mulvaney is a biological man who identifies as a transgender woman.

The influencer became known for the TikTok series “100 Days of Girlhood,” where the transgender rights activist detailed the daily life of learning what is like to be a transgender woman. The now-titled “Days of Girlhood” series hit its one-year anniversary in March, and the creator has over 10 million followers on TikTok and 1.7 million followers on Instagram. Mulvaney is a former Broadway musical theater actor who began transitioning to a woman during the pandemic. . .

Conservative commentator Tomi Lahren asked her followers, “So who at @budlight thought this was the move? Do y’all really think a man pretending to be a woman (in the most demeaning manner possible) is how you sell beer?” . . .

“This isn’t a parody. Dylan Mulvaney is now the face of Bud Light,” Ian Miles Cheong wrote.

(Read more from “Another Product You Should Never Buy: Social Media Reacts After Transgender Influencer Claims to Partner With Bud Light” HERE)

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The Biden White House Is Uninterested in Honoring the Nashville Shooting Victims

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Every day last week, after three children and three adults were murdered by a transgender shooter at a Christian school in Nashville on Monday, Joe Biden waxed lyrical about the “joy, strength, and absolute courage [of] transgender and nonbinary Americans.”

Hard though it is to believe at a moment when discretion and sensitivity were needed, the president issued statements from the White House claiming “Transgender Americans shape our Nation’s soul.”

On Friday, four days after the massacre at Covenant Christian School, he issued a proclamation declaring March 31 as “Transgender Day of Visibility” and railed against “MAGA extremists [who] are advancing hundreds of hateful and extreme state laws that target transgender kids and their families . . . These attacks are un-American and must end.”

The White House marked the occasion with a 3,464-word “fact sheet” suggesting “conservative politicians” were driving “transgender youth” to consider suicide.

Never fear, though, President Biden is “standing up for transgender kids and their families.” (Read more from “The Biden White House Is Uninterested in Honoring the Nashville Shooting Victims” HERE)

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Report: Judge to Put ‘Gag Order’ on Trump; ’Unprecedented Step’ to Silence ’Presidential Frontrunner’

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The legal team representing former President Donald Trump reportedly expects that the Manhattan judge will put a gag order on him as the case awaits trial.

A source close to the legal team told the Daily Mail the judge will take an “unprecedented step” to silence the 2024 presidential candidate. The gag order could potentially undercut his ability to campaign on the issue of legal corruption during the primary.

“The Trump legal team now thinks that the Manhattan judge will take the unprecedented step of silencing the presidential frontrunner with an unconstitutional gag order tomorrow,” the source said. “The Trump legal team is considering adding a First Amendment lawyer to the effort to combat this and will fight it all the way.”

Trump breaking the gag order could potentially see him slapped with a $1,000 fine and as many as 30 days in jail, per New York law. Despite the pending order, the former president still plans to make a speech at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday evening after peacefully submitting himself to the prosecution in New York. Per the Associated Press:

Trump will hold the event at his Mar-a-Lago club after returning from Manhattan, where he is expected to voluntarily turn himself in. He is expected to be joined in Florida by supporters as he tries to project an image of strength and defiance and turn the charges into a political asset to boost his 2024 presidential campaign.

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Gender Clinic Offered Puberty Blockers to Kids as Young as 8, Surgery Referrals at 14, Records Show

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The Gender and Sexuality Development Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) offers drastic medical interventions as part of the gender transition process to children as young as eight, according to statements and documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

CHOP’s youth gender clinic, one of the first in the U.S., is a major trans medical provider in Pennsylvania and has strong ties to Rachel Levine, a former trans activist who currently serves as the U.S. assistant secretary for health. The clinic recently came under fire for holding seminars where teachers were instructed to hide students’ trans identities from their parents. Clinic employees also promoted cross-sex procedures for children while downplaying the risks, documents and statements reveal.

The clinic has referred children as young as 14 for “top surgery,” a euphemism for mastectomies or breast construction, though most referrals are for patients aged 16-18, Dowshen told lawmakers at a Pennsylvania House of Representatives Health Committee hearing in 2020.

The clinic’s co-founders, Dr. Linda Hawkins and Dr. Nadia Dowshen, advocated for “top surgery” for minors in a 2021 paper published in Pediatrics, the medical journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. (Read more from “Gender Clinic Offered Puberty Blockers to Kids as Young as 8, Surgery Referrals at 14, Records Show” HERE)

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Stanford Law Accreditation, Required Courses Under Scrutiny After Students Shut Down Judge

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Scrutiny of Stanford Law School is growing after it refused to discipline students for repeatedly disrupting a conservative federal appeals court judge and even pledged to prevent judges from identifying them by blurring their faces from a video it was paid to make.

House Education Committee Republicans asked the American Bar Association in a Friday letter to investigate whether the school was out of compliance with ABA accreditation conditions based on its treatment of 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan.

A high-profile legal scholar who faced similar sustained heckling last year from students at the University of California College of the Law, Ilya Shapiro, joined George Washington University Law School’s John Banzhaf in criticizing Stanford Law for giving a pass to the heckler’s veto.

Both have also called for bar admissions complaints to be filed against the students who shouted down and hurled crude slurs at Judge Duncan, allegedly including “We hope your daughters get raped!”

Required first-year courses for Stanford Law students may help explain their illiberal attitudes and apparent unfamiliarity with the First Amendment, according to Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department official who perused the curriculum. (Read more from “Stanford Law Accreditation, Required Courses Under Scrutiny After Students Shut Down Judge” HERE)

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