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#TransgenderWoman brings more than male-pattern baldness to womanhood! Fraud, felonies, self-confessed mental illness, and now 33 years in the big house

At least some ‘transgender women,’ like Representative Tim “Sarah” McBride (D-DE) can sort of ‘pass’ as women, but how did the good citizens of Hillsborough County ever decide to elect Barry “Stacie-Marie” Laughton to the New Hampshire state legislature? Mr Laughton had previously been elected to a Democratic Party Ward position, in 2012, but resigned from that after it was disclosed that he had a previous conviction for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and falsifying physical evidence.

Mr Laughton returned to politics, was elected to the state legislature, and wound up having to resign again:

On November 12, 2022, Laughton was arrested and held in jail on a single stalking charge of violating a court order, prohibiting her[1]As per our published Stylebook, while we always refer to the ‘transgendered’ by the honorifics and pronouns appropriate to their biological sex, we do not alter direct quotations from … Continue reading from posting on Facebook about a woman. She faced up to nine months in jail due to her suspended sentence for texting 911 during non-emergencies. Amid the charges, Laughton resigned from the House on December 22.

Following a 2015 arrest, Mr Laughton did something really radical, and told the truth:

Nashua’s Stacie Laughton Blames Mental Illness for Bomb Threat

Laughton, the state’s first transgender lawmaker, was arrested for phoning in a bomb threat to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center.

Jason Claffey | Saturday, March 14, 2015 | 3:34 PM EDT

Nashua’s Stacie Laughton, the first transgender lawmaker in New Hampshire history, said her recent arrest for calling in a bomb threat to a local hospital was the result of mental illness.

Laughton this week was charged with phoning in a bomb threat to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Feb. 27 around 8:30 a.m. Police evacuated the building and searched but found nothing. They did not release further details.

In an interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader, Laughton blamed her mental illness.

“I guess this was my worst break with it,” she told the Union Leader. “I was untreated for a long time, and I didn’t have medication … I wasn’t trying to hurt anyone, and it was totally out of character for me.”

Haven’t we been telling you all along that the ‘transgendered’ are mentally ill?

Mr Laughton was arrested and charged with aiding and abetting the sexual exploitation of children, pleading guilty to three counts of sexual exploitation of children:

Lindsay Groves, 40, of Hudson, N.H., pleaded guilty on Oct. 14, 2025 to three counts of sexual exploitation of children and one count of distribution of child pornography. U.S. Senior District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV scheduled sentencing for Feb. 4, 2026. Stacie Marie Laughton, 41, of Nashua, N.H., a former New Hampshire State Representative, pleaded guilty on Nov. 3, 2025 to three counts of sexual exploitation of children and is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 12, 2026.

Groves and Laughton were arrested and charged by criminal complaint in June 2023 and July 2023, respectively. They were both subsequently indicted by a federal grand jury in July 2023.

Groves worked at Creative Minds located in Tyngsborough, Mass. Between May 2022 and June 2023, Groves took nude images of children at the day care and sent the photos to Laughton, with whom she was previously in an intimate relationship. Specifically, Groves used natural bathroom breaks for the children (routine diaper/pull-up changes prior to “naptime”) to take multiple photos of the prepubescent children in a private bathroom and then sent the photos to Laughton via text message.

Forensic review of Grove’s and Laughton’s cellphones revealed over 10,000 text messages between them during an approximate one-month period in 2023. These messages included discussion about, and transfer of, explicit photographs that Groves had taken of children while employed at Creative Minds – including at least four sexually explicit images of children who appear to be approximately three to five years old.

Sentencing was delayed a few months, but Mr Laughton was finally sentenced to 400 months — that’s 33 years and 4 months — in federal prison. The New Hampshire Journal reported that Mr Laughton has been held in men’s prison since his arrest in June of 2023, so he has threeyears of his sentence already completed. Federal regulation require that convicted felons serve at least 85% of their sentences before becoming eligible for parole, which would mean 340 months — 28 years and four months — of which 36 months have already been served. That would put his earliest possible parole date in October of 2051, when he will be around 67 years old.

Fictional character Leroy Jethro Gibbs once said in the series NCIS, “Believe me, son, you will not do well in prison.” I suspect that such would apply to Mr Laughton as well, and he just might not make it to 2051 . . . unless a future Democratic President pardons him.

Is that possible? The New Hampshire Journal, which is sensible enough to refer to Mr Laughton with male pronouns, reported that state Democratic party Chairman Ray Buckley, who is homosexual himself, “once declared Laughton part of ‘the backbone of the Granite State.‘”

The Democratic Party certainly does love its mentally ill people, so it wwouldn’t surprise me if a Democratic President let this predator loose sometime in the future. After all, President Barack Hussein Obama commuted Bradley Manning’s 35-year sentence to seven, allowing him to be released four months into Donald Trump’s first term, something which strikes me as an attempt to embarrass Mr Trump as much as anything else.

It would be wholly unjustified to suggest that just because Mr Laughton is a criminal pedophile and pervert that all ‘transgendered’ persons are pedophiles and perverts. But I would say that yes, all of the transgendered are mentally ill: they are delusional as to who and what they are. I can understand that some people might really, really, really wish that they were the opposite sex than the sex they were born, but there is a difference between wishing and hoping and dreaming that they were the opposite sex and actually believing that you are.

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Another of Larry Krasner’s minions has been sanctioned for lying through her scummy teeth At what point should the District Attorney himself be disbarred?

It seems as though I wrote too soon. Yes, the previous article, Larry Krasner gets bitch-slapped by the state Supreme Court, remains accurate and valid, but just this morning, only a few hours after the previous post was published here and on the American Free News Network, readers of The Philadelphia Inquirer are learning that the District Attorney’s Office has gotten yet another slap across the mouth, from another court.

A former supervisor in DA Larry Krasner’s office has been suspended in federal court

The development comes just one day after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court sharply curtailed Krasner’s office’s ability to seek to overturn old convictions and accused its lawyers of misleading judges.

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Larry Krasner gets bitch-slapped by the state Supreme Court Let ’em Loose Larry wants to lock up police officers, and set criminals loose

We have frequently criticized Philadelphia’s George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, a former criminal defense attorney, but hey, this is just an evil, reich-wing source, so our criticisms can be simply written off as just more evil, conservative hate, right?

But what if some of that criticism comes from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which is controlled by Democrats?

Pa. Supreme Court blasts DA Larry Krasner’s office, saying it misled judges in seeking to vacate old murder convictions

In a forceful and scolding opinion, the state’s high court said Krasner’s office “violated its duty of candor” and ruled the state attorney general’s office must now review cases it seeks to overturn.

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Amanda Marcotte and #VanceDerangementSyndrome It's a natural follow-on from her #TrumpDerangementSyndrome

It’s perhaps telling that Amanda Marcotte’s previous Twitter biography photo was taken in a bar, and the beer light behind her advertises Bud Light.

If someone were to ask me what the very lovely Amanda Marcotte hates the most, Republicans, Donald Trump, Christianity, Donald Trump, pro-life people, Donald Trump, conservatives, Donald Trump, pregnancies, J D Vance, or Donald Trump, while it wouldn’t be hard to say that she hates President Trump with a white-hot, #TrumpDerangementSyndrome-inflamed passion, she seems almost equally outraged by everything else.

I had just posted my previous article on Vice President J D Vance’s new book, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, when the thought occurred to me, “I wonder what that hater of all things Christian thinks of his book.” Miss Marcotte had already published an article entitled Divorce him already, Usha, claiming that “JD Vance and his wife really seem to loathe each other,” while also laughably claiming that Salon, her publisher, is “a journalistic outfit,” a rather callous call to make the then three Vance children fatherless, only to wax wroth when Mrs Vance, along with Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller, announced their pregnancies at about the same time.

So, naturally, I checked Salon, and was unsurprised by what I found: Continue reading →

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“Communion,” by J D Vance

I have my rosary hanging from the rear view mirror of my 2010 Ford F-150.

I will admit that it’s truly baffling to me that the northeast, the most politically liberal area of our country, is also our most heavily Catholic region, yet our good friends on the left love to spend their time bashing Catholics. It kind of makes me wonder just how actually Catholic they are.

Our 46th President was famously Catholic, attending Mass frequently, but he nevertheless supported but he prenatal infanticide, including wanting the federal government to pay for abortions including helping to pay for women in states which ban abortions to travel to states which do not, homosexuality, transgenderism, including overturning bans on transgender surgeries for minors, all things which the Church says are sins. Under his Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was surveilling “radical traditionalist Catholics,” due to the alleged:

probability that policy issues of mutual interest to RMVEs (Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists) and RTE (Radical-Traditionalist Catholics) adherents will remain in the public spotlight. Catalyzing events in which RMVEs and RTC adherents might have common cause include legislation or judicial decisions in areas such as abortion rights, immigration, affirmative action, and LBGTQ protections.

After this was exposed, FBI Director Christopher Wray lied through his scummy teeth as to the extent of the program.

The Philadelphia Inquirer recently reported, undoubtedly to their discomfort, that “Catholicism is growing in Philly and New Jersey. Who’s filling the pews? Local diocese officials are confirming what’s becoming a global trend: more people are converting or coming back to Catholicism.”

That would undoubtedly appall the very lovely Jennifer Palmeiri, once Hillary Clinton’s director of communications, caught in this exchange when Mrs Clinton’s campaign e-mails were hacked and disclosed by Wikileaks:

Center For American Progress fellow John Halpin: Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) …they must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations.

Miss Palmieri: I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.

That was then, and this is now, where we come to Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, by Vice President J D Vance.

Vance’s new book puts his Catholic faith at the center of his story — and his political future

by Steve Contorno | Monday, June 15, 2026

When JD Vance published his best-selling book “Hillbilly Elegy” in 2016, he had drifted away from the Christian faith of his childhood — a familiar story amid a broader national retreat from organized religion that had left church pews emptier than in previous decades.

Now, Vance as vice president — and likely 2028 presidential contender — is a practicing Catholic, a conversion he has chronicled in his second book, “Communion,” publishing Tuesday. And it’s landing on bookshelves amid a remarkable turnaround: Catholicism is, by some measures, experiencing a resurgence in the United States unlike anything in recent memory.

An American-born pope presides over the Vatican the first time in the church’s history. While Catholicism still faces long-term demographic struggles, conversions are surging, with some dioceses reporting record highs. Accounts of Gen Z converts filling church pews have injected new energy into the 2,000-year-old religion and have surprised even Catholic leaders who had long braced for continued decline.

I note, with some amusement, that the CNN article did not include a link to Mr Vance’s book. I am not particularly surprised.

St Elizabeth’s Catholic Church, where I attend Mass. Photo by D R Pico.

My small parish, St Elizabeth’s, is too small to be statistically significant, but we have seen that new energy as well. We have a couple and another man coming in as catechumens, and two new already Catholic families, along with another man, have moved in as well. For a small parish, in a small county, in an area of the country with few Catholics, it’s noticeable.

“Rather than doing the JFK thing and saying, ‘I’m not going to be a Catholic president,’ (Mr Biden said), ‘If I’m elected president, here is how my Catholic faith will inform my presidency,’” (Terry Schilling, the founder of American Principles Project) said.

President Biden’s Catholic faith didn’t inform his presidency very much it would seem. Rather, Mr Biden, like so many other elected Catholic Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, found that being a Democrat was far, far, far more important to them than being Catholic.

Polling shows that Catholics are moving in the direction of those who identify as evangelicals by becoming more conservative. Trump won 59% of Catholics in 2024, according to CNN exit polls, higher than any Republican presidential nominee since at least 1972. New converts and recently ordained priests and nuns also appear to be considerably more conservative than those born into the religion and older clergy, said Ryan Burge, a political scientist at the Washington University Center on Religion and Politics.

You mean, Catholics are becoming more Catholic? That’s what we need to see!

We are seeing the weirdness of James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate from the Lone Star State, and a Presbyterian Church USA seminarian, telling us that he is a devout Christian, but he supports prenatal infanticide, using the story of the Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38) as a supposedly Christian argument for it, supports “trans children”, and The Advocate, a ‘magazine’ which supports homosexuality and transgenderism, has said the candidate “has positioned himself as a fierce queer ally, even using the Bible to advocate in favor of LGBTQ+ rights.” With that kind of idiocy oozing from a supposedly Protestant Christian church, we need more men like Vice President Vance to argue and testify for the truth.

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The truth has a conservative bias. That's why the left want to restrict your freedom of speech and of the press.

My good friend Jeffery[1]I do know his last name, but as he has tried to keep that private, I shall not publish it here, whether under that name, or his subsequently adopted screen names of Jethro Bodine or, currently, Elwood P Dowd, on William Teach’s fine site, The Pirate’s Cove, once made a claim, “The truth has a liberal bias,” sometimes expressed as “The facts have a liberal bias,” something I have seen elsewhere. It seems, however, that whatever they might say, our friends on the left are afraid, really afraid, of the truth, because the truth, the facts, actually have a conservative bias!

It was just over four years ago that we wrote about The New York Times publishing an article by a member of their own Editorial Board, Greg Bensinger, telling readers of that august supporter of Freedom of the Press that it was bad, bad, bad that Elon Musk was trying to buy Twitter, and that his promise to make the social media service an “inclusive arena for free speech” and that “Twitter Under Elon Musk Will Be a Scary Place.”

Mr Bensinger was by no means alone in that, as Brynn Tannehill of The New Republic told us that Mr Musk’s “idea of ‘free speech’ will help ruin America“, Taylor Lorenz, Amanda Marcotte, CNN’s Kara Alaimo, The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Helen Ubiñas, as well as did the newspaper’s Editorial Board, and even 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry all exercised their freedom of speech and of the press to tell us that other people exercising those same rights without restrictions is harmful.

We pointed out that The New York Times gave OpEd space to Chad Malloy[2]Chad Malloy is a man male who claims to be a woman, and goes by the faux name “Parker Malloy.” to claim that restrictions on speech actually promoted freedom of speech. They also published articles claiming that Free Speech is killing us. Noxious language online is causing real-world violence. The Times told us how wonderful it was that Jeff Bezos was able to deplatform Parler, a not-very-good conservative alternative to Twitter following the banning of several conservative voices, but lamented that some of those who lost their speech on Parler migrated to other platforms.

And today? There were riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland, following the attempted beheading of a Scotsman by a Sudanese asylum seeker, and the Usual Suspects complained not about the attack, but about Twitter not censoring people writing about it! There’s more of that here and here and here.

The United Kingdom’s Secretary for Northern Island Hilary Benn said, following the knife attack in Belfast:

Social media companies have a very heavy responsibility. It’s why we’re going to bring forward new powers next week to make it clear that social media companies need to take down illegal content, particularly when we are facing circumstances such as the ones we’ve seen in Northern Ireland over the last two days.

It’s simple: our good friends on the left are afraid, deathly afraid, that if the people in general have the information Our Betters would rather not see disseminated, people might, horrors! draw conclusions from that information of which the left would disapprove!

That’s why The First Street Journal publishes the truth! That’s why we publish the photos and mugshots of criminals, regardless of race, because do not adhere to stupidity like the McClatchy Mugshot Policy, and why we maintain our own Stylebook, which mandates actual truth in names, titles, and pronouns. The left want to obscure the truth, because yes, the truth has a conservative bias.

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Killadelphia: I confess to being unable to see how a victim’s race makes him either more or less dead.

On Sunday, November 28, 2021, Temple University student and a fellow with Philadelphia City Commissioner’s Office, Samuel Sean Collington, 21, was robbed and then murdered near the school in North Philadelphia. Mr Collington was a white victim, murdered by a black juvenile named Latif Williams in a botched robbery. On Thursday, December 2, 2021, The Philadelphia Inquirer published 14 photographs from a vigil for Mr Collington, along with another story about him.

On Thursday, September 22, 2022, recent Drexel graduate Everett Beauregard, 23, was senselessly murdered, shot in the neck.

Now there’s another senseless murder of 22-year-old William Schmidt, a Penn State student, in South Philly:

A Penn State student was shot to death in South Philadelphia, police said

The victim lived just steps away from where he was killed.

by Michelle Myers and Andrew Kitchenman | Sunday, June 7, 2026 | 1:59 PM EDT

A 22-year-old Penn State student died after being shot a half block from his home in South Philadelphia early Saturday, police said.

Police said officers from the 1st District responded at 1:32 a.m. to a radio call for a person with a gun on the 1900 block of Durfor Street. They found William J. Schmidt lying in the street with a gunshot wound to the chest, police said.

Schmidt was returning home from a local bar where he had been watching the NBA Finals with friends, according to his father, 6abc reported.

Surveillance cameras captured video that appeared to show the moments before the shooting, 6abc reported. A man can be seen throwing a cell phone in one video, and seconds later, another man ran around a corner with Schmidt chasing him, before the gunman turned around and shot him, according to another video.

There’s more at the original.

Note that there was video, but the newspaper simply referred to the suspects as “a man”, “another man”, and “the gunman”. Now, on Wednesday, 6ABC released images of the suspects, and though they do not describe the suspects, we can see that the suspects are black males. Perhaps the newspaper, the day after Karmelo Anthony, a black male, was convicted of murdering Austin Metcalf, a white teenager, the Inquirer doesn’t want to fan any flames of racial hatred. Those who love to fan the flames of racial hatred have been decrying the fact that Mr Anthony was convicted at all, but at least as I am typing this, the Inky has neither any stories on the trial or the Usual Suspects among the columnists pontificating on the subject.

But that doesn’t mean the newspaper won’t have any stories about a black man being murdered by a white criminal!

Brooklyn man is convicted of fatally stabbing a Philly dancer at a gas station

Dmitriy Popov faces up to 25 years in prison for killing O’Shae Sibley at a Brooklyn gas station in 2023.

by Rob Tornoe | Tuesday, June 9, 2026 | 4:38 PM EDT

A Brooklyn man has been convicted in the killing of beloved Philadelphia dancer O’Shae Sibley, who was stabbed to death at a New York City gas station in 2023.

Dmitriy Popov, 20, was convicted of manslaughter as a hate crime and other charges related to “taunting, stabbing, and killing” Sibley, which included “hurling homophobic and anti-Black slurs,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement.

Sibley, 28, was a gay Black man, while Popov, who was 17 at the time of the killing, is white. Popov, who was tried as an adult, faces up to 25 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for June 30.

The reporter, Rob Tornoe, went out of his way to tell us that there was a racial aspect to the killing. More, as the newspaper has been celebrating homosexual “Pride” month, Mr Tornoe had to tell us that the victim was homosexual. I’m not certain how Mr Sibley being black or homosexual makes him either more or less dead.

I do not celebrate the conviction of Karmelo Anthony, because he is a young man who had his whole life ahead of him. He got stupid, killed another young man with his whole life ahead of him, all due to a fight which should never have been a fight. Austin Metcalf is stone-cold graveyard dead, and Mr Anthony, when he gets out of prison in 17½ to 35 years will be a hardened criminal, with no future other than the next crimes he’ll commit. He’ll wind up back in prison, or dead.

The conviction was necessary, but no one is better off for it.

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Can socialists learn anything?

I raised, in our after-Mass Bible study group — contrary to some Protestant claims, Catholics actually do read the Bible! — a theological question: can God, who is omniscient, learn? My question was inspired by this: God, being all powerful, cannot be hurt, but by taking human form, Jesus suffered the agony of the crucifixion, so did God learn anything new in this?

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The peasants are revolting!

Apparently, at least in liberal-speak, if you are a member of an Accredited Victim Group™, you do not have to do anything really radical like obey the law or behave like a civilized human being.

The City of Brotherly Love — a pretty appropriate nickname right now — has gone all out on the homosexual “Pride” month, something our nation’s third oldest continuously published daily newspaper has been very eagerly covering, and as you might have guessed, the party atmosphere has not led to orderly behavior.

15 arrested as police response to Gayborhood Pride festival spurs criticism from some in LGBTQ+ community

Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said officers had responded “to a growing number of public safety concerns.”

by Jesse Bunch | Monday, June 8, 2026 | 7:06 PM EDT

Fifteen people were arrested at a Pride celebration in the Gayborhood on Sunday, authorities said, and the response drew criticism from some LGBTQ+ residents over how police handled crowd control at the event.

Images of police officers engaging with attendees in Center City circulated widely across local social media feeds on Monday, featuring criticisms of what some considered to be an outsized and aggressive law enforcement presence.

In one image shared on X, a police officer on a motorcycle appears to push against a woman’s chest, and in another photo, pushes the woman against a garage door while arresting her.

Others videos showed police on horseback dispersing young people from a sidewalk, as well as officers physically struggling with a man outside of the gay bar Woody’s.

Sounds like crowd control to me, efforts by the Philadelphia Police to keep things safe and orderly, among a crowd in which some partygoers might have consumed mood-or-judgement-altering substances.

And in yet another clip, a row of police officers — two of whom were wearing face coverings — formed a line to clear a barricaded Gayborhood street while officers on motorbikes rode along the sidewalks.

Joshua Stokem, a New Jersey resident who regularly attends the city’s Pride celebrations, said he has never seen that large of a police presence during such festivities.

“They were definitely getting more and more aggressive” as the gathering stretched into the early evening, said Stokem, who works as a promoter for LGBTQ+ events at city bars.

Councilmember Rue Landau, herself a member of the LGBTQ+ community, said in a statement Monday that LGBTQ+ constituents had reached out to her office in “outrage” and that she was working to better understand the department’s strategy.

It’s really simple: police officers in those situations are trying to keep things orderly and safe, while ‘revelers’ are not always inclined to behave.

Considering the size of the crowds, at least to judge by the coverage that The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philly television stations have provided, fifteen people being arrested, mostly for disorderly conduct, but at least one person “was arrested for aggravated assault of a police officer.”

Can I blame that on the newspaper’s encouraging attitude when it comes to citizens ‘resisting’ law enforcement when it comes to immigration? To me, those things are related. If someone has no respect for law enforcement in one area, would it be any particular surprise that such a person might have less respect for law enforcement in other areas?

Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said in a statement that the celebration was “by all accounts, a successful event attended and enjoyed by thousands of people.”

Still, “as crowd sizes increased in the Gayborhood, officers responded to a growing number of public safety concerns, including fights, disorderly behavior, blocked roadways, and the challenges associated with safely managing large crowds in a confined area,” Bethel said.

What? Fights? Among our peaceful, leftist communities? I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!

Let’s face it: Commissioner Bethel, all of the supervisors, and really every police officer in the City of Brotherly Love know that Philly is very supportive of the homosexual community, and they would certainly not be going out of their way just to beat up the revelers; that’s very much a career-limiting move, and with the city’s asinine, far-left, police-hating District Attorney, any cop would know that if he stepped over the line, Larry Krasner would want to throw him in jail. I’m not going to give any credit to the special pleaders for this particular Accredited Victim Group.™