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Another Sport Bans Trans
(This won’t be right until they take ALL awards and medals away from ALL trannys that have competed.)
Following the example of world swimming, Rugby’s international governing body has also banned transgender athletes from competing in women’s matches.
The International Rugby League has issued a statement explaining that those who have transitioned from male-to-female will not be permitted to take part in sanctioned women’s rugby matches, at least until further research is carried out.
“It is the IRL’s responsibility to balance the individual’s right to participate … against perceived risk to other participants,” the league said in the statement.
While the the IRL said that it “reaffirms its belief that rugby league is a game for all and that anyone and everyone can play our sport,” it also noted that it will for now cease allowing trans people to compete in women’s games “In the interests of avoiding unnecessary welfare, legal and reputational risk to International Rugby League competitions, and those competing therein.”
“The IRL will seek to work with the eight Women’s Rugby League World Cup 2021 finalists to obtain data to inform a future transwomen inclusion policy in 2023, which takes into consideration the unique characteristics of rugby league,” the statement further notes.
The ruling comes on the heels of British cycling suspending transgender-inclusive policies in April, noting that its former guidelines were “unfair on all women riders and [pose] a challenge to the integrity of racing.”
This week FINA, Swimming’s world governing body ruled that transgender athletes who have gone through any form of male puberty must compete in a separate category that only includes those who claim their gender identity is different from their biological sex.
For transgender athletes who were born men to compete in women’s events, they must have completed their transition by the age of 12.

https://summit.news/2022/06/22/another-sport-bans-trans/

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2 minutes ago, Schmidt Meister said:

Another Sport Bans Trans
(This won’t be right until they take ALL awards and medals away from ALL trannys that have competed.)
Following the example of world swimming, Rugby’s international governing body has also banned transgender athletes from competing in women’s matches.
The International Rugby League has issued a statement explaining that those who have transitioned from male-to-female will not be permitted to take part in sanctioned women’s rugby matches, at least until further research is carried out.
“It is the IRL’s responsibility to balance the individual’s right to participate … against perceived risk to other participants,” the league said in the statement.
While the the IRL said that it “reaffirms its belief that rugby league is a game for all and that anyone and everyone can play our sport,” it also noted that it will for now cease allowing trans people to compete in women’s games “In the interests of avoiding unnecessary welfare, legal and reputational risk to International Rugby League competitions, and those competing therein.”
“The IRL will seek to work with the eight Women’s Rugby League World Cup 2021 finalists to obtain data to inform a future transwomen inclusion policy in 2023, which takes into consideration the unique characteristics of rugby league,” the statement further notes.
The ruling comes on the heels of British cycling suspending transgender-inclusive policies in April, noting that its former guidelines were “unfair on all women riders and [pose] a challenge to the integrity of racing.”
This week FINA, Swimming’s world governing body ruled that transgender athletes who have gone through any form of male puberty must compete in a separate category that only includes those who claim their gender identity is different from their biological sex.
For transgender athletes who were born men to compete in women’s events, they must have completed their transition by the age of 12.

https://summit.news/2022/06/22/another-sport-bans-trans/

Q up wailing, gnashing of teeth, and lawsuits.   Common sense must not be allowed to survive.   Although use of it would have prevented this CF to occur at all.  

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Six major cities on pace to pass historic 2021 violent crime totals halfway through 2022.
New York City and Washington DC have led the violent crime surge in 2022.
Violent crimes are on the rise in six of America's major cities and set to outpace the already historic levels of 2021 violent crime.
Baltimore, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Atlanta, and New York City are all on pace to break their 2021 levels of violent crime halfway through this year, with the nation's largest city leading the group, according to crime data reviewed by Fox News. New York City has seen a 25.8% jump in violent crime at this point in 2022 compared to the same time in 2021, despite seeing a small decrease in the amount of homicides recorded in the city.
Violent crime, which is typically defined as homicide, rape, assault, and robbery, had already been on the rise since 2020. Homicides have been one of the factors driving up rates of violent crime, rising 30% from 2019 to 2020 and another 5% between 2020 and 2021.
The nation's capital has seen violent crime continue to rise in 2022 as well, recording a 12% increase in such incidents compared to 2021 at the halfway point of this year. Los Angeles came in next with an 8.6% increase so far this year, while Philadelphia and Baltimore have recorded increases in violent crime of 7% and 6.1% respectively. Atlanta rounded out the group of six, seeing a violent crime increase of 5.5% compared to this time last year.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/six-cities-pace-pass-violent-crime-2022

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If y’all remember, this is the piece-of-**** we could have had as Governor.
Andrew Gillum, former DeSantis opponent, charged in 21-count indictment.

Florida voters dodged a bullet in 2018 when Ron DeSantis narrowly beat Andrew Gillum, then considered a rising star, to become the governor of Florida.
Their trajectories couldn’t have been more different after that race.
Gillum’s career blew up after he was found inebriated in a hotel with a man who was suspected of having overdosed on crystal meth. Meanwhile, DeSantis has gone on to do great things for Florida and is now a highly-touted as a possible presidential candidate for 2024.
NBC reported on the indictment that is related to fraud during the campaign and noted he’s retained Marc Elias for his defense.
The specific charges have now been announced. He and his longtime adviser Sharon Lettman-Hicks have both been named in a 21-count federal indictment.
The indictment alleges that between 2016 and 2019, they:
[C]onspired to commit wire fraud, by unlawfully soliciting and obtaining funds from various entities and individuals through false and fraudulent promises and representations that the funds would be used for a legitimate purpose. The Indictment further alleges the defendants used third parties to divert a portion of those funds to a company owned by Lettman-Hicks, who then fraudulently provided the funds, disguised as payroll payments, to Gillum for his personal use. Both defendants are charged with 19 counts of wire fraud. Gillum is also charged with making false statements to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Gillum claimed the prosecution was politically motivated.
(At this point in time, and seeing how the Democrats are turning EVERYDAMNTHING into politically motivated issues, I don’t give a crap if it was politically motivated. To quote a Democratic hero, “At this point, what difference does it make.")
“I have spent the last 20 years of my life in public service and continue to fight for the people,” Gillum said. “Every campaign I’ve run has been done with integrity. Make no mistake that this case is not legal, it is political. Throughout my career I have always stood up for the people of Florida and have spoken truth to power. There’s been a target on my back ever since I was the mayor of Tallahassee. They found nothing then, and I have full confidence that my legal team will prove my innocence now.”

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/06/22/andrew-gillum-former-desantis-opponent-charged-in-21-count-indictment-n582374

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One city I’m familiar with jumped on the “defund police” bandwagon and last year saw their homicide rate double.  They are boosting pay quite a bit yet are now short about 25% of allotted Officers.  In the next 18 months a lot of those Officers will be retiring.  No way can hiring keep pace let alone the experience and knowledge they are losing.  

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Here are the 14 spineless traitors that voted to pass the Democrat/Communist Red-Flag Take Your Gun Rights Away Slowly Bill.

Susan Collins
Lindsey Graham
Mitch McConnell
Lisa Murkowski
Rob Portman
Mitt Romney
Bill Cassidy
John Cornyn
Joni Ernst
Thom Tillis
Todd Young
Roy Blunt
Richard Burr
Shelly Moore-Capito

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This is great news.
Mark Levin to Moderate Two GOP Congressional Candidate Debates at Florida Sunshine Summit
Mark Levin will moderate two debates among Florida Republican congressional candidates next month at the 2022 Sunshine Summit, where the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) plans to host four such debates as the midterms swiftly approach and Republicans aim to take back the House from Democrat control in November.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) made the announcement on Monday during a press conference in Callahan, Florida. The four debates will feature qualified candidates from congressional districts 4, 7, 13 and 15. Notably, the 13th district will feature the Republicans vying to fill Rep. Charlie Crist’s (???-FL) seat; Crist hopes to challenge DeSantis in this year’s gubernatorial election.
The four debates will take place at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Two of the debates will be moderated by conservative talker, author, and Life, Liberty & Levin host Mark Levin.
“So as part of the Sunshine State summit, we are, the Republican Party … they’re gonna be sending out invitations for the qualified candidates in those races. We’re gonna be doing debates at the Sunshine Summit,” DeSantis said during the press conference.
“There’ll be four debates. I have for the first two that we’re going to tee up, you know, I have Mark Levin,” he said, calling him a “great guy.”
The debates are on July 23rd.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/conservative-talk-host-mark-levin-moderate-republican-congressional-debates-florida/

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40 minutes ago, Schmidt Meister said:

....Florida voters dodged a bullet in 2018 when Ron DeSantis narrowly beat Andrew Gillum, then considered a rising star, to become the governor of Florida....

Never forget how close this was.  Florida is not reliably a red state, with the continued onslaught of damnyankee carpetbaggers moving down from New York.   It's always too close here.

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Long article … but I love how SpaceX handled these latte peons.
SpaceX Straight-up Fires Woke Activist Employees

More of this, please! After a group of woke employees took the initiative of trying to build anti-Musk sentiment, within the company Musk founded and still mostly owns, and issuing a set of tiresome, leftist demands, SpaceX summarily fired them.
On Wednesday (15th), a group of employees posted “An open letter to the Executives of SpaceX” in an internal chat with more than 2,600 employee members. The letter criticized Elon Musk, whining that he was an embarrassment to their efforts to make SpaceX more “inclusive,” “safe,” a “great place for all,” and whatever other boilerplate diversity platitude came to mind.
Excerpt from ‘woke’ letter:
In light of recent allegations against our CEO and his public disparagement of the situation, we would like to deliver feedback on how these events affect our company’s reputation, and through it, our mission. Employees across the spectra of gender, ethnicity, seniority, and technical roles have collaborated on this letter. We feel it is imperative to maintain honest and open dialogue with each other to effectively reach our company’s primary goals together: making SpaceX a great place to work for all, and making humans a multiplanetary species. (emphasis added) End of excerpt.

The internal activists leveraged a mere accusation of harassment against Musk to justify their actions, though it was clear their real beef is that he’s embarrassingly unwoke. Check out their breathtaking self-appointed authority to shape and control the culture of a corporation they don’t own or lead, but which is owned by Elon Musk.
Excerpt:
Elon’s behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us, particularly in recent weeks. As our CEO and most prominent spokesperson, Elon is seen as the face of SpaceX—every Tweet that Elon sends is a de facto public statement by the company. It is critical to make clear to our teams and to our potential talent pool that his messaging does not reflect our work, our mission, or our values. End of excerpt.
Usually, this is the point at which corporations cave to the woke moblet of employees, trampling on the silent majority who just want to get their work done to waste company time and money on soothing the sensitive hyperventilaters. They then discover too late that it’s never possible to placate these people, and that once in the throes of the cycle, the organization ends up circling the drain. (See Disney Corporation.)
But this time, for once, something wonderful happened: within 24 hours, the auto-anointed guardians of inclusive corporate culture were fired. CNBC reports:
‘SpaceX has fired at least five employees who were involved with circulating a letter around the company that was critical of CEO Elon Musk, according to two people familiar with the company who declined to be named and an internal email from President and COO Gwynne Shotwell.’
In her email, Shotwell wrote, and I apologize for the lengthy quote, but every word is a savory spanking of the joyless prigs who got canned:
“You may have received an unsolicited request from a small group of SpaceX employees for your signature on an “open letter” yesterday and your participation in a related survey. Based on diverse employee feedback, this has upset many. That is, the letter, solicitations and general process made employees feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied, and/or angry because the letter pressured them to sign onto something that did not reflect their views. Employees also complained that it interfered with their ability to focus on and do their work. We have 3 launches within 37 hours for critical satellites this weekend, we have to support the astronauts we delivered to the ISS and get cargo Dragon back to the flight-ready, and after receiving environmental approval early this week, we are on the cusp of the first orbital launch attempt of Starship. We have too much critical work to accomplish and no need for this kind of overreaching activism — our current leadership team is more dedicated to ensuring we have a great and ever-improving work environment than any I have seen in my 35-year career.”
Shotwell then lay down the law:
“…blanketing thousands of people across the company with repeated unsolicited emails and asking them to sign letters and fill out unsponsored surveys during the work day is not acceptable, goes against our documented handbook policy, and does not show the strong judgement needed to work in this very challenging space transportation sector. We performed an investigation and have terminated a number of employees involved.”
It’s amazing what happens when grownups are in charge.
“I am sorry for this distraction. Please stay focused on the SpaceX mission, and use your time at work to do your best work. This is how we will get to Mars.”
Sorry, wokesters, looks like SpaceX will stay focused on its actual mission, rather than becoming yet another zombie company that vaguely resembles its namesake but is actually a soulless corpse animated only by Marxism.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2022/06/21/spacex-straight-up-fires-woke-activist-employees-n1606806

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Another lengthy article.

The GOP and the Log Cabin Republicans
Texas Republicans reject the special identity status promoted by the Rainbow Mafia.

Over the past weekend, Texas Republicans held their convention in Houston, where the party formally adopted its platform. Prior to the convention, controversy was stirred up after the party refused to grant a booth to the homosexual lobbying group known as the Log Cabin Republicans. The move sparked pushback from several well-known Republicans, including Donald Trump Jr. “The Texas GOP should focus its energy on fighting back against the radical democrats and weak RINOs currently trying to legislate our 2nd Amendment rights away,” he said, “instead of canceling a group of gay conservatives who are standing in the breach with us.”
It’s true that President Donald Trump had little problem with the homosexual community. In fact, he sought to expand the Republican big-tent vision by making overtures toward them. As the Log Cabin Republicans asserted: “President Trump, who historically expanded the GOP’s coalition, made clear that LGBT conservatives are welcome in the America First movement and the Republican Party. It’s shameful that the Texas GOP leadership is choosing not to follow his lead.”
However, the Texas GOP’s decision to deny the Log Cabin Republicans a booth was not a slight or mere overlooking; it was in keeping with the state party’s political ideology. Within the Texas GOP’s 40-page platform is a section titled “Homosexuality and Gender Issues,” in which the party makes its position on the issue clear:
“Homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice. We believe there should be no granting of special legal entitlements or creation of special status for homosexual behavior, regardless of state of origin, and we oppose any criminal or civil penalties against those who oppose homosexuality out of faith, conviction, or belief in traditional values. No one should be granted special legal status based on their LGBTQ+ identification.”
The key insight here is the term “special legal status.” In other words, due to the Republican view that homosexuality is an identity based upon a behavioral choice and not a state of being or immutable condition, to recognize homosexuality as special would be to fundamentally embrace inequality under the law. Persons engaged in the homosexual lifestyle have every right to marriage, for example, but they don’t have the special right to redefine that term in order to suit their behavioral proclivities.
The Texas GOP’s platform is similarly consistent when it speaks to the hot-button issue of the day, gender identity and so-called “transgenderism.” The document states:
“The official position of the Texas schools shall be that there are only two genders: biological male and biological female. We oppose transgender normalizing curriculum and pronoun use. We hold that biological men shall compete against other biological men and biological women shall compete against other biological women in athletics in the public school system of Texas and at the collegiate level.”
The document further delineates the party’s rejection of taxpayer funding for “sex change operations and/or treatments” while opposing any laws that would forbid or penalize “therapists, psychologists, and counselors” from “practicing Reintegrative Therapy or other counseling methods when counseling clients of any age with gender dysphoria or unwanted same-sex attraction.”
Once again, the Texas GOP made its stand refreshingly unambiguous and clear. While it may not be the popular position with many moderates and obviously with the woke Left, the party is not backing down from the battle. The erosion of our nation’s moral fabric will not be repaired if good people who know better sit by and for the sake of “unity” refuse to stand up for the truth. Texas Republicans are to be commended for bravery, even as they are ridiculed by some as bigots. When confusion rages across the country, honesty is not bigotry. Rather, it’s enlightenment leading to freedom.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/89253-the-gop-and-the-log-cabin-republicans-2022-06-22

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Jaylon Ferguson, Ravens linebacker, dead at 26.

NY Post: Jaylon Ferguson, Ravens linebacker, vaccinated, dead at 26.
Ravens linebacker Jaylon Ferguson has passed away at age 26, the team announced on Wednesday morning.
“We are profoundly saddened by the tragic passing of Jaylon Ferguson,” the team said in a statement. “He was a kind, respectful young man with a big smile smile and infectious personality.”
Ferguson, who starred at Louisiana Tech, was a third-round pick by the Ravens in the 2019 NFL Draft.
The cause of death is “unknown.”
Ravens achieved a 90% vaccination rate.

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I can’t remember a time when so many young, healthy, professional athletes died like this ‘plague’ … (Plague of the vaccinated.)
Former NBA Player Caleb Swanigan Dies of “Natural Causes” at 25.
Have the Covid jabs claimed the life of another young and healthy athlete? We’ll never be told one way or another, as is always the case, following the death of Caleb Swanigan at the age of 25.

According to ESPN:
Former NBA player and Purdue Boilermakers standout Caleb Swanigan has died. He was 25.
Swanigan died Monday night, with the Allen County coroner’s office saying he died of natural causes at a Fort Wayne, Indiana, hospital.
Whether it’s “cause of death is unknown” or “died of natural causes,” the accumulation of surprising deaths of young people, particularly athletes, has Covid-19 vaccine skeptics very concerned. We should be, considering this continues to happen over and over again without official explanation.
The best they’ve come up with so far is “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” which many in the anti-vaxx world believe is just a way to lump all of the vaccine-induced deaths together without acknowledging what they are. This has become far too common, yet the nobody in corporate media is asking the question and only a handful in alternative media dare say “adverse reaction” for fear of being canceled by Google or Facebook.
The Portland Trail Blazers Are 100% Vaccinated.

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2 hours ago, Schmidt Meister said:

Here are the 14 spineless traitors that voted to pass the Democrat/Communist Red-Flag Take Your Gun Rights Away Slowly Bill.

Susan Collins
Lindsey Graham
Mitch McConnell
Lisa Murkowski
Rob Portman
Mitt Romney
Bill Cassidy
John Cornyn
Joni Ernst
Thom Tillis
Todd Young
Roy Blunt
Richard Burr
Shelly Moore-Capito

I'm in Texas and no one I know is voting for cornyn. He's a rino pos.

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Shot Uvalde teacher called police officer husband, told him she was dying. He tried to rescue her but was stopped, removed from scene — and his gun was taken.

"Eva Mireles — a teacher who was fatally shot during last month's massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — called her police officer husband and told him she was dying, but when he tried to rescue her, he was detained, his gun was taken, and he was removed from the scene, according to Col. Steven McCraw, director of the state Department of Public Safety, NBC News reported."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/slain-uvalde-teachers-officer-husband-tried-wife-gun-was-taken-away-rcna34710

https://www.theblaze.com/news/uvalde-teacher-called-cop-husband?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20220622Trending-PowellBiden&utm_term=ACTIVE LIST - TheBlaze Breaking News

"McCraw told the state senate that police at the scene had enough officers and firepower to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, and they would have found the door to the classroom where he was holed up was unlocked if they had bothered to check it.  McCraw did not reveal which agency removed Ruiz from school grounds."

 

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