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Every bird, every reptile, and every mammal can tell the difference between males and females of their own species. Only human liberals have ‘educated’ this ability out of themselves.

What is the ‘compromise’ position between ‘transgender women are real women’ and ‘biological males not women’? The Pyrite State tried to find such a compromise position, as we reported on Friday.

CIF policies allow transgender athletes to compete alongside other cisgender girls. If the transgender athlete places high enough to advance in qualifying or to medal at a CIF event, the athlete advances or receives the medal. But so does the next athlete in line. As a result, AB shared the first-place podium alongside another athlete twice at the state track and field meet last year.

This was directly aimed at ‘transgender girl’ A B Hernandez — real name Abraham Delgado — who won championships in girls high school sports in California track and field competitions his sophomore and junior seasons. The backlash was formidable, with sensible people noting that males have natural advantages against females, differences which actually make a difference in many sports, and that Mr Delgado should never have been allowed to compete against girls.

But California states that sports are to be divided by how the competitors ‘identify,’ not biology. The state does not ban Mr Delgado from competing against girls, but also understands that he’s using his unfair advantages to push real girls lower in the standings. So they came up with the standard that allows Mr Delgado to compete, but also recognizes the place finishes among real girls had they not been competing against a boy.

The New York Post reported on Nereyda Hernandez, Mr Delgado’s mother, being appalled by this.

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Trans athlete forced to share 1st place with cisgender girls at track meet

California’s two-time state champion AB Hernandez dominated her latest division track meet this past weekend, and despite protests and controversial policies, she aims to close out her high school athletics career with a third state championship title.

by Dawn Ennis | Monday, May 18, 2026

She jumped higher than any other girl and took first place in three track and field contests. But a state athletic policy enacted last year forced transgender athlete AB Hernandez to share the podium on Saturday with cisgender girls who couldn’t match her performance.

One would think that just writing the first paragraph, reporter Dawn Ennis would have recognized that there is a significant physical difference between males and females, but, as it turns out, Mr Ennis, previously known professionally as Don Ennis, is yet another male pretending to be a woman. London’s Daily Mail has screen captures of Mr Ennis before and after. He dumped his wife of 17 years.

Hernandez, a two-time state champion representing Jurupa Valley High School, won the high jump, long jump, and triple jump competitions at the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section finals in Division 3.

The 17-year-old was apparently warming up for her next event when the long jump medal ceremony took place, so Moorpark High School’s Gianna Gonzalez stood alone on the first-place podium, despite finishing more than a foot behind Hernandez, Fox News reported. Later, although she edged out Oak Park High School’s Gwynneth Mureika by two inches in the high jump, Hernandez shared the top podium spot with Mureika, adhering to the CIF pilot entry program.

Then, after jumping nearly two feet higher in the triple jump than Malia Strange of Shadow Hills, Hernandez finally stood alone in the top spot of the podium. But although Strange was absent, she still received a gold medal as a co-winner, as did Gonzalez and Mureika.

While there are no reports of protests at Saturday’s meet, the anti-inclusion group Save Girls’ Sports organized a demonstration at the track and field preliminary meet earlier this month at Yorba Linda High School. They accused Gov. Gavin Newsom of failing to protect fairness in girls’ sports.

“Girls across California will continue losing placements, safety, and opportunities that they rightfully earned,” said former Vanguard University soccer player Sophia Lorey, who is the outreach director of California Family Council, a Christian organization designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Would that be the same Southern Poverty Law Center indicted for wire fraud and caught paying people to infiltrate and push conservative groups toward radical activities? Apparently the SPLC considers any person or group who does something really radical like tell the truth as hateful.

Riley Gaines Barker put it succinctly:

If you have to create a shared podium for the boy competing in the girls’ event, you’ve already admitted you know he isn’t a girl and that his participation is unfair.

That’s the thing that bothers young Mr Delgato’s mother and Mr Ennis: they know deep down that ‘transgender girls’ are not real girls, but they cannot admit that even to themselves, because that exposes their entire motivations and claims as delusional. The ‘compromise’ California put in really pleases no one.

The New York Post reported:

During the high jump medal ceremony, Hernandez stood atop the podium alongside Oak Park High School’s Gwynneth Mureika, who was also handed a gold medal despite finishing second.

This was the only time on Saturday that Hernandez stood next to a female athlete on the podium.

But also stated:

The policy also guarantees medal placements for biological female athletes who would have otherwise finished behind a transgender competitor.

They were also told they would share the podium next to the transgender winner of an event.

However, on Saturday, Hernandez’s female rivals iced her out during the medal ceremonies, with one competitor skipping the podium altogether and others keeping their distance.

The real girls, who are all teenagers, understand what the adults will not admit, that ‘transgender girls’ are not real girls. Every bird, every reptile, and every mammal can tell the difference between males and females of their own species. Only human liberals have ‘educated’ this ability out of themselves.

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Our good friends on the left are ‘alarmed’ at the notion of a religious revival

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States specifies:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Our good friends on the left seem to believe that it says more than it means, but, of course, they’re idiots.

Trump-backed faith event features conservative Christians as critics decry blurring of church-state lines

By David Hood-Nuño and Julio-Cesar Chavez | Sunday, May 17, 2026 | 6:06 AM EDT

A Trump administration-backed celebration of U.S. ​religious heritage on Sunday highlighted conservative Christian leaders’ ties to the president as critics expressed the gathering did not reflect the country’s diverse faith ‌landscape.

Well, of course not: how do you reflect a “diverse faith network” in a single event?

Thousands of people attended the nine-hour program, called “Rededicate 250: National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving,” for a mixture of popular worship music and speakers from evangelical Christianity and conservative Catholic traditions.

Sunday’s events included video messages from members of the Trump administration such as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. All of them generally stuck to ​the prevailing theme of the day, touching on the Judeo-Christian roots of the country’s founders and the themes they incorporated into some landmark documents such as ​the Declaration of Independence.

The event mixed elements of a rally and a religious service, where chants of “U-S-A” broke out in the crowd ⁠at times with contemporary Christian artists like Chris Tomlin leading the crowd in well-known worship songs.

Further down:

Advocates of church-state separation said the event blurs government and religion.

“This government-sponsored prayer fest ​is the epitome of exactly what our secular Constitution forbids our government from doing,” said Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, in a statement.

Well, of course: the “Freedom From Religion Foundation.” The First Amendment prohibits the government from establishing a particular state religion, but a public event, regardless of how religious it is, does not constitute the establishment of a state church. Miss Gaylor seems to have missed that the part of the First Amendment which states that there may be no law “prohibiting the free exercise thereof” when it comes to religion.

Several government leaders attended the event, though President Trump did not, but no one was required to attend.

Faith leaders who spoke included ​Bishop Robert Barron, from the Catholic Diocese ⁠of Winona-Rochester; Jonathan Falwell, chancellor of Liberty University, a school established by Christian evangelicals; and Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, senior rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City.

So, the event was neither exclusively Protestant or Catholic, or even restricted to Christians.

The very lovely Amanda Marcotte was appalled in advance:

It’s perhaps telling that Amanda Marcotte’s old Twitter biography photo was taken in a bar. It’s even more telling that the beer light is for Bud Light, of Dylan Mulvaney infamy.

The Christian right hijacks America’s 250th

Trump’s Rededicate 250 event erases the U.S.’s secular history

By Amanda Marcotte | Friday, May 15, 2026 | 6:45AM EDT

After Donald Trump blasphemed the Christian faith by posting what any fool could see was an artificial intelligence-generated illustration of himself as Jesus Christ, many members of the Beltway chattering class hoped the religious right would finally quit the president. The answer, of course, was a robust “heck no,” and this weekend, the White House is offering a reminder why.

Trump is devoted to a blasphemy that is far more important to them: rewriting history to push the false claim that the United States was founded as a Christian nation.

Has Miss Marcotte forgotten that many of the people who came to this country came to be able to practice their faiths as they saw fit. The Pilgrims, from whom I am descended, believed that the established Church of England was corrupt beyond salvation, while the Puritans wanted to reform and purify the Church of England from within. Maryland was established as a safe haven for Catholics, who were persecuted in England. Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 by William Penn as a “holy experiment” to create a sanctuary for religious freedom, particularly for Quakers — Mr Penn was a Quaker — facing persecution in England. These were all Christians, simply of different denominations.

At the time the First Amendment was ratified, several states still had established state churches, all of which were Protestant Christian of one denomination or another.

On Sunday, May 17, the White House will kick off the celebrations of the nation’s 250th anniversary with an alarming event: Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving, an all-day prayer festival featuring administration officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as well as House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Were you alarmed? I know that I certainly wasn’t!

The founders would not doubt be appalled, as there is nothing to rededicate; they explicitly wrote the Constitution to reflect their belief that the U.S. is a secular nation. But Trump’s second term has been dominated by a single-minded determination to erase real history and replace it with self-flattering fantasies of the MAGA movement. As Jason Kyle Howard recently wrote in Salon, Trump’s efforts to inflict his grotesque architectural tastes on the nation’s capital cannot be separated from the administration’s schemes “to undermine the living history of Black and brown Americans, women and the LGBTQ+ community, and to paper over the legacy of the post-World War II liberal order.”

I think she meant “no doubt,” rather than “not doubt,” but of what there is no doubt is that the founders saw the new nation that they created as a Christian nation, not a secular one as Miss Marcotte fantasizes. A couple of the founders, Thomas Jefferson specifically, were “deists,” people who believed that there must be a creator God, but one who does not interfere in human affairs, nor left us with any holy books or instructions. Mr Jefferson had his own ‘cut and paste’ version of the New Testament, one which focused on Jesus’ morals and teachings, while omitting miracles or supernatural references, but we were an almost entirely Protestant, albeit with competing denominations, Christian nation, and it is the writer from Salon who is attempting to “undermine the living history” our nation.
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Propaganda from the credentialed media will not change reality Girls can't be boys and boys can't be girls!

The First Street Journal maintains a Stylebook of its own devise. It includes:

Those who claim to be transgender will be referred to with the names, honorifics, and pronouns appropriate to the sex of their birth; the site owner does not agree with the cockamamie notion that anyone can simply ‘identify’ with a sex which is not his own, nor that any medical ‘treatment’ or surgery can change a person’s natural sex; all that it can do is physically mutilate a person.

Sadly, most credentialed media publications do not do the same, but use the Associated Press Stylebook, something I would like to have, but it isn’t free, and I’m not about to waste my money on it.

You may think that I have issued my Stylebook to reflect my political views, and you would be correct. However, screen capturing Google’s return of associated press stylebook on transgender persons, pictured to the right, you’ll see that they have done so as well. The AP Stylebook is structured entirely on the concept that girls can be boys and boys can be girls, and cautions the users against using terms which might dispute that. I am particularly amused by the part which states:

Sex Assigned at Birth: Use phrases like “assigned female at birth” or “assigned male at birth” rather than “born a girl/boy” or “biological sex”.

Such a point has the underlying assumption that sex is something actually assigned at birth, rather than a simple recognition of the biological determination of sex made at conception. I suppose that King Henry VIII could have avoided a whole lot of trouble had he ‘assigned’ Mary as a boy rather than a girl, if such things could actually be assigned.

And so we come to a fawning article in the Los Angeles Times on Abraham Delgado[1]DailyMail.com can also reveal that AB’s name at birth was Abraham Delgado, born in Riverside, California, on August 4, 2008, according to court records filed by Nereyda (Hernandez) in June … Continue reading, the 17½-year-old boy competing as a girl calling himself A B Hernandez in California high school athletics.

Mother of transgender athlete AB Hernandez determined to push through protests

  • As protests target transgender track star AB Hernandez, her mother feels better prepared for protests and national scrutiny.
  • State policies allowing transgender girls to compete against cis-gender athletes puts California at odds with federal directives.
  • Hernandez, a two-time state champion, dominated Southern Section prelims and eyes a final state title run in Clovis.

By Marisa Ingemi | Thursday, May 14, 2026 | 4 AM PDT

A flyer featuring a pink background was the top Instagram post on California state superintendent candidate Sonja Shaw’s page on Saturday morning. It read, in blue, “a male athlete” held the top spot for an upcoming high school girls’ track and field meet, listing the event start times for protesters.

It was a tactic Nereyda Hernandez previously faced when her daughter, Jurupa Valley High track and field athlete AB Hernandez, first hit the national spotlight last year.

It has been about a year since President Trump targeted AB, who is transgender. As a result, the athlete and her mother knew what to expect when the track postseason began in May. There would be cameras, protesters and vitriol directed at a high school athlete.

You can see it, right away: reporter Marisa Ingemi referred to young Mr Delgado with the feminine pronoun “her”. While our Stylebook notes that we will always refer to the “transgendered” with the names, honorifics and pronouns appropriate to their actual sex, we do not change direct quotations from others.

CIF policies allow transgender athletes to compete alongside other cisgender girls. If the transgender athlete places high enough to advance in qualifying or to medal at a CIF event, the athlete advances or receives the medal. But so does the next athlete in line. As a result, AB shared the first-place podium alongside another athlete twice at the state track and field meet last year.

Perhaps Miss Ingemi simply missed it, and it was just poor prose on her part, but in saying that “CIF policies allow transgender athletes to compete alongside other cisgender girls,” the reporter leaves the implication that there is no difference between “transgender” athletes and “cisgender girls.” That even the Pyrite State recognizes the biological differences is made obvious by the sharing on the podium with real girls.

The Daily Mail reported:

Ahead of the State Championships, DailyMail.com went through the ‘meet program’.

AB Hernandez, as a girl in the Varsity Long Jump category, had a seed mark of 19′ 3.5′ and in the triple jump category 40′ 4.75′. If she, as a biological male, competed against the boys in this year’s championship, AB would not have even qualified in this weekend’s championships.

Naturally, Miss Ingemi failed to include that in her article. Males and females have significantly different hip structures. Because babies have to be able to pass through the birth canal, the hips of females are wider in ways to allow that, while the hip structure of males are optimized for speed and strength, exactly the kind of differences which make a difference in athletic events.

Young Mr Delgado may really see himself as a girl, may really, really, really believe it. He may see himself as a real girl strongly enough that he’d never dream of competing in sports against other boys. But wishin’ and hopin’ and thinkin’ and prayin’, plannin’ and dreamin‘ each night that he’s a girl won’t make him a girl. Sorry, but it just won’t. And propaganda from the credentialed media will not change reality.
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↑1 DailyMail.com can also reveal that AB’s name at birth was Abraham Delgado, born in Riverside, California, on August 4, 2008, according to court records filed by Nereyda (Hernandez) in June 2012.

The records stated she petitioned the Riverside County courts to change Abraham’s last name from Delgado to Hernandez.

She lists Abraham’s father as JayDee Delgado from Riverside, California. DailyMail.com attempted to reach out to Abraham’s father, but he did not respond to requests for comment.
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George Conway has #TrumpDerangementSyndrome He isn't the only one

George Conway, who is supposed to be a fairly savvy lawyer, became a strident critic of President Donald Trump at the same time as his much-better-looking wife, Kellyanne Conway, was serving as a Senior Counselor to the President. He was a founder of the Lincoln Project, but, of course, he never knew about one of his co-founders, John Weaver, allegedly sexually harassing 21 young men as part of his dealings with the Project.

Wisely, Mrs Conway dumped her husband in 2023.

In an attempt to become politically relevant again, Mr Conway posted yet another rant on Twitter on Wednesday:

Too many people have accepted Donald Trump’s presidency as “normal.” Too many believe there is nothing we can do, and that we simply need to outlast his term.

Let me be clear: We cannot endure another 32 months with this mendacious, narcissistic, rapist, want to be dictator who is selling us out to the highest bidder.

Not only can we stand up and fight back—we must.

Join our campaign so we can take this fight to Congress to impeach, convict, and remove Trump and his cabinet.

He then included a link sponsored by Act Blue, a fundraising organization for Democrats, for his campaign for Congress, a fundraising site which included not a single link to Mr Conway’s actual campaign. A Google search for his campaign website returned this, which was another fundraising page, but nothing else concerning what he wanted to do in Congress other than attack President Trump. There’s no issues or policies page on his website that I could see.

The House of Representatives impeached President Trump on December 18, 2019, but he was acquitted by the Senate. Then, just a week before his term ended, the House impeached him again, and again the Senate acquitted him. The Democrats realized that Mr Trump might run for President in 2024, and were hoping a conviction would attaint him, making him ineligible to become President again.

Too bad, so sad, must suck to be them!

Mr Conway isn’t the only Democrat running on a platform of impeaching the President, and if the Democrats take control of the House following the 2026 elections, there will certainly be attempts to impeach him for a third time. The Democrats hate him so much, that they might just do it.

But most Republicans support the President, at least to some extent. The Republican senators might have somewhat different views, but the Republican voters, the people to whom the senators ultimately answer, continue to support Mr Trump. There are twenty Republican-held seats up for election in 2026, and most Republicans running strongly support Mr Trump, as do their constituents. With only 47 Democrats and independents aligned with the Democrats in the Senate, they’d have to pick up twenty votes they don’t have now to remove Mr Trump from office. It’s not impossible, but the probabilities are almost vanishingly small. Mr Trump already holds the record for times being impeached and times winning acquittal in impeachment trials.

Impeachment is supposed to be a serious thing, but today’s Democrats are turning it into nothing but mockery.

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Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen! Are you tired of winning yet?

In an identically titled article, I noted that the federal workforce in the Philadelphia metropolitan area had significantly through now-former employees voluntarily leaving on their own. At least some of them wouldn’t have left if Kamala Harris Emhoff had won the election, but it is nevertheless great news:

Since January 2025, the federal government has cut -12% of its headcount, or -345,000 jobs.

Federal jobs now account for 1.68% of total employment, the lowest percentage since at least the 1930s.

Meanwhile, the federal job openings rate fell -0.5 percentage points in March, to 2.7%, the 2nd-lowest since the 2020 pandemic low.

And guess what? The great news is continuing!

Record number of immigration cases now ending in voluntary departure, report says

The number of migrants receiving “voluntary departure” decisions is way up.

By Laura Romero | Tuesday, May 12, 2026 | 7:40 PM

Immigrants are giving up their claims in immigration court and opting to voluntarily leave the U.S. in exponentially higher numbers under the current Trump administration’s immigration crackdown than at any time previously, according to a new report based on federal data.

The report by the Vera Institute of Justice shows that the number of people in removal proceedings receiving “voluntary departure” decisions has risen dramatically — particularly among those held in federal detention.

That, of course, is the whole point of immigration detention: make the illegals realize that they aren’t going to simply be released, so they just give up and go home. By voluntarily leaving, they don’t have a deportation on their records, so they could apply for legal immigration in the future.

“This is widespread across the United States,” said Jacquelyn Pavilon, one of the authors of the report. “In three-quarters of U.S. states and territories, the number of voluntary departure decisions increased more than fivefold since the end of Biden’s term.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m not tired of winning yet.

Voluntary departures in immigration court — in which a formal request to depart the country is approved by a judge, assuming the requester is legally permitted to leave — is different from self-deportations arranged through the Department of Homeland Security, in which migrants inform DHS they’re leaving the country in order to avoid potential detention or removal.

The report’s co-author told ABC News that while the number of voluntary departures is rising, it does not necessarily mean people want to leave the U.S.

No, of course, they don’t really want to leave, but we American citizens want them to leave, and 77,302,580 of us voted for them to leave.

“Many of those people may have legal avenues to remain in the United States,” Pavilon said. “Voluntary departure decisions do not mean that you do not have legal rights to remain. People are under harsh conditions and making very difficult decisions.”

According to the report, voluntary departures surged from roughly 800 per month at the end of the Biden administration to more than 8,800 by February 2026.

By those numbers, Donald Trump is an eleven times better President than Joe Biden, but that’s an admittedly low bar to surpass.

Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security under President Biden, finally admitted that that Administration should have ramped up border controls sooner:

In an interview at the POLITICO Security Summit, former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who became a lightning rod of Republican criticism for the Biden administration’s alleged mishandling of a historic wave of migration to the United States, placed most of the blame on a “broken immigration system” that set a “low bar” for admission to the country for those with “credible fear of persecution.”

Asked if earlier steps from the Biden administration on border security — including raising the bar for migrants claiming “credible fear” of returning to their home country — would have prevented President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Mayorkas replied: “I am not in a position to speculate, but I will tell you that I would be far more better rested and less punched.”

Mayorkas, who was impeached by the House in 2024 on claims that he intentionally did not enforce U.S. immigration laws, also emphasized that the Biden administration did, eventually, act to address the migrant influx at the border.

“I was very pleased that in June of 2024, we took executive action that, I thought, made reforms that were sensible and that proved successful,” Mayorkas said. “Our tougher border stance in June of ‘24 was coupled with an increased focus on providing lawful pathways for people to arrive at the United States outside the hands of smugglers — more secure and more humanitarian. Those two combined — our numbers dropped 70, 75 percent.”

The rare comments from Mayorkas, who has only spoken publicly a handful of times since leaving DHS in January 2025, speak to the tensions that existed within the Biden administration about what balance to strike between enforcing U.S. immigration laws amid a major influx of migrants to U.S. ports of entry after the Covid-19 pandemic and adopting a humane posture toward people fleeing genuine hardship and plights around the world.

77,302,580 of us said that we were not at all interested in a “humane posture” toward the wave of immigrants. What we want is for them to improve their lives in their home countries. Our immigration policies should be based on admitting people who will benefit the United States, not just feel sorry for them. Far, far, far too many of the illegal immigrants have been a huge burden on our government and our communities, and a major factor in street crime as well.

Had Secretary Mayorkas and President Biden and “border tsarina” Kamala Harris Emhoff done their f(ornicating) jobs and enforced our immigration laws, an enforcement system that was working and which they inherited from President Trump’s first term, we wouldn’t have had the huge problem Mr Trump inherited in his second term, and be having to be as aggressive to solve the problem. If the Biden Administration had done its job, there wouldn’t be two stupid Minnesotans who are now stone-cold graveyard dead for interference with law enforcement, all because leftist thinking didn’t have their brains working Pretti Good.

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Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen, Federal employees are leaving, which is an unambiguously good thing

One thing is certain: that Donald Trump guy sure is an evil genius! He wanted to reduce the size of the federal government, and he’s gotten a lot of government employees to leave voluntarily!

From The Philadelphia Inquirer:

Trump’s administration planned mass layoffs. Instead, thousands of Philly-area federal workers left on their own.

Thousands in the Philadelphia region left federal jobs last year, but only 2% of them were laid off.

by Joe Yerardi and Ariana Perez-Castells | Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | 5:01 AM EDT

Early last year, federal workers braced for layoffs after President Donald Trump took office. But as his administration’s threat loomed, many in the Philadelphia region opted to leave on their own instead, recent data suggest.

In 2025, roughly 4,700 federal employees in the Philadelphia metro area — an 11-county region spanning Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland — left their jobs. That is more than in the two previous years combined.

But only 2% of them were laid off, according to an Inquirer analysis of data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, the government’s human resources arm.

The vast majority of workers who left their positions chose to do so. They opted to retire, quit, or take a government incentive — the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program — that allowed federal employees to resign and continue to be paid for months.

There’s a lot more at the original, detailing how the departures were made, and that’s good reporting.

Some left because they saw their agency’s mission change, said Richard Gennetti, a national AFGE representative in Pennsylvania.

He heard from Environmental Protection Agency employees, for instance, who told him, “‘I’m not doing this. I came to protect the environment, not water down all the rules. I came to provide services. I didn’t come to destroy them,’” Gennetti recalled.

Hey, if they can’t stand to implement the policies of the government, they should leave rather than linger on, trying to subvert the policies of our elected leadership.

Regardless of their motives, and regardless of the manner in which they left, they all helped the President’s goal of reducing the federal workforce, and that’s a good thing.

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You in a heap o’ trouble, boy! As Leroy Jethro Gibbs once said, "Believe me, son, you will not do well in prison."

Timothy Shay, mugshot by Bucks County District Attorney’s Office, via NBC Channel 10.

I have previously noted that the credentialed media frequently conceal the sex of the victims of child molestation, something which makes me believe that this is being done to hide the frequency with which the molestation is homosexual in nature. This time, The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Vinny Vella put it right out in front for us.

A Bucks County music teacher and serial molester of 18 boys sentenced to decades in prison

Timothy Shay was sentenced to 18 to 54 years in state prison on Tuesday for molesting 18 students over the course of three decades.

by Vinny Vella | Tuesday, May 12, 2026 | 2:59 PM EDT

Over three decades, in music shop backrooms and, sometimes, his own home, Timothy Shay molested 18 boys whose parents trusted him to teach them piano and saxophone lessons.

On Tuesday, as Shay, 50, was sentenced to 18 to 54 years in state prison, Bucks County Court Judge Stephen Corr expressed outrage over his crimes.

“You stole from these boys their childhoods, you stole from them their love of music, you stole from them their ability to love, and you stole from them their adulthood, because they are still living with this,” Corr said.

“Quite frankly, if someone hadn’t spoken up and given these men the courage to speak up, you might still be out there perpetrating your crime on other victims,” he added.

No, of course the Inquirer didn’t publish the malefactor’s mugshot, though one photo shows it in the background, enough to show that he’s white, but not really enough to make him recognizable. Fortunately NBC Channel 10 in Philly also carried the story, and television being a visually-oriented medium, used the mugshot.

Shay, of Middletown Township, pleaded no contest in September to corruption of minors and related crimes in connection with the assaults, which began in the late 1990s and ended only with his arrest in February 2025, prosecutors said. That arrest came after one victim, decades after his abuse occurred, filed a police report.

So, he got away with it for a long, long time.

The details of his sometimes-slow grooming of his young victims can be found at the embedded link; I will not repeat it here. But I will suggest that, as Mark Harmon playing Leroy Jethro Gibbs in NCIS once said while interrogating a young punk, he will not do well in prison. Sentenced to 18 to 54 years, unless something changes, he won’t get out of prison until he’s in his late sixties at the earliest, and could very well only leave prison feet-first.

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Some common sense concerning the Louisiana v Callais decision. This might not be quite the result for which Republicans hoped

The two pages of the Congressionally-signed original of the Fourteenth Amendment in the National Archives, written with iron gall ink on parchment. It was last publicly displayed in 2013. As of 2025, it is stored in the research wing of the archives inside a boxed book of Acts of Congress from its 39th session.

Our good friends on the left, who have been so supportive of the Fourteenth Amendment’s provision that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside” must grant automatic citizenship to the “anchor babies” of people in our country illegally, they have not been nearly as thrilled with the Equal Protection Clause, “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws,” when that clause says, essentially and throughout dozens of decisions, that Americans may not be treated differently based upon their race. Oh, the left certainly doesn’t want white Americans to be given a legal advantage, but legal “remedies” to “past discrimination” to assist black Americans meet with their approval.

After a Supreme Court ruling that was an affront to history, some states can’t wait to turn back the clock on voting rights | Editorial

After long ago overcoming racist efforts to dilute the power of voters of color, the conservative justices have unreasonably made it more difficult to challenge discriminatory legislative maps.

by The Editorial Board | Monday, May 11, 2026 | 5:01 AM EDT

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana

Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the U.S. Supreme Court giving its seal of approval to Republican attempts to turn back the clock on voting rights in America is that, after long ago overcoming racist efforts to dilute the power of voters of color, we now see similar vipers slithering past the corroded gates of hell that were supposed to hold them in check.

The court defied reason with an opinion that, in essence, neutered the 1965 Voting Rights Act by ruling government efforts to remedy past racism, which tipped the scales in favor of white political candidates, are also racist — unless those remedies can be tied to specific acts of past discrimination that made them necessary.

The decision has opened the door for states to attempt to invalidate any congressional district lines drawn to favor candidates of color.

Note what appalls The Editorial Board, that they might lose “congressional district lines drawn to favor candidates of color.” The Board are specifically asking for districts which favor non-white candidates. This would be the same Editorial Board which wrote last January:

The president has also successfully lobbied some Republican-controlled states to remake congressional maps to favor the GOP, regardless of their potential illegality. In Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed 2025 redistricting maps to be used for the upcoming election, even as a legal challenge moves forward over racial gerrymandering.

It seems that the Board approve of racial gerrymandering, an attempt to create, again in their words, “congressional district lines drawn to favor candidates of color,” but are diametrically opposed to district boundaries which favor Republicans.

There is a strong bias on the part of the Board. It would seem that black Americans, in their view, can only be represented by black representatives, but if anyone were to suggest that black representatives cannot represent white Americans, they’d be among the first to scream that’s racist. If someone stated that only a white candidate could reasonably represent a majority white district, they’d also claim such was racist.

Conservatives have long fought against the reverse racism which has been used, but electorally, the Louisiana v Callais decision might not be the win they think. Blacks are the Democrats most loyal voting Demographic, frequently giving 90% of their ballots to Democrats. Creating majority black districts had the effect of making neighboring districts safer for Republican candidates. If those majority black districts are phased out, spreading heavily black areas back into other districts, Republican candidates might fare more poorly, and close races more likely to elect the Democratic candidates. The Editorial Board might be appalled if fewer black Democrats were elected, but I’m sure that they’d trade black Democrats for white Democrats if it meant fewer Republicans of any color were in office.

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The journolism of NBC News Can you trust anything from NBC News these days?

That’s not a typographical error in the headline! The spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their objectivity. I use the term ‘journolism’ frequently when writing about media bias.

Though I spent two years writing for the Kentucky Kernel, I was not actually a journalism student; my degree is not in journalism. But I do know enough to recognize thoroughly biased ‘reporting’ when I see it.

So here you go: from NBC News:

Kyle Rittenhouse hospitalized following bite from venomous spider

“The communists couldn’t take me out and i’ll be damned if I let a brown recluse take me out,” said the gunman who opened fire in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 5, 2020.

By David K. Li | Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 10:42 AM EDT | Updated” 11:44 AM EDT

Kyle Rittenhouse, who gained fame for opening fire at a 2020 civil rights rally in Wisconsin, was hospitalized after a venomous spider bit him, the noted firearms enthusiast said Wednesday.

Did you catch that? In both the subtitle and the first paragraph, reporter David K Li used the description “opened fire” and “opening fire,” as though Mr Rittenhouse stood on top of a platform, put his weapon on spray and pray, and raked a (peaceful?) crowd indiscriminately, like a Philadelphia gang-banger.

Rittenhouse, 23, told his 100,000 followers on X that he fell victim to a brown recluse, posting pictures of himself in a hospital bed strapped to monitors with one close-up shot of the bite mark.

“The spider, like the commies, also thought it was a good idea to come after me while I was armed,” Rittenhouse posted. “He did not survive.”

Rittenhouse appeared to be in good spirits, joking that his only disappointment was that “I’m not Spider-Man now.”

He did not say exactly when or where the spider attack happened.

Rittenhouse’s post, predictably, drew thousands of responses — a mix of support and mockery.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was among the first and highest-profile well-wishers, telling Rittenhouse “you got this.”

“Thank you, Senator,” Rittenhouse responded Thursday.

Others came at him with body-shaming ridicule, which the shirtless, stout Rittenhouse didn’t appear to respond to.

Rittenhouse became a household name in late summer 2020 after he fatally shot two men and wounded a third during civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

There’s more at the original, and though Mr Li did note that Mr Rittenhouse was tried for “killing Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounding paramedic Gaige Grosskreutz during the melee”, there is absolutely no mention made that Mr Rittenhouse was backing away when he was attacked by Messrs Rosenbaum, Huber, and Grosskreutz. The article did note that he testified in his own defense, claimed the men were shot in self-defense, and that the jury acquitted him on all charges.

Mr Li added hyperlinks to three of his previous articles, plus a fourth, all in the paragraph above, in which he declined to note that Mr Rosenbaum had mental issues and had spent most of his adult life in prison for sexually molesting underaged boys, Mr Huber “had spent time in prison twice, first for violating probation after strangling his brother and again for kicking his sister,” same link, and Mr Grosskreutz was pointing a firearm at Mr Rittenhouse as he was shot, again, same link. The link is to an article by National Public Radio, not some evil, reich-wing source.

If Mr Li’s article was your only source of information, you might be inclined to think that yes, Mr Rittenhouse was the a perched on a platform, mowing down mostly peaceful protesters. That’s journolism, not real journalism.

Mr Li covered the trial and most of the story for NBC News, and was absolutely aware that Mr Rittenhouse was thrice attacked, in succession, by the three men, two of whom were previously convicted felons, and the third armed and pointing his weapon at the defendant at the time he was shot, but he chose not to tell his readers that. His article was not something limited by the old 750-word limit, but had the freedom of the twenty-first century, and virtually unlimited bandwidth.

Both the reporter and his editor — there are editors at NBC, right? — had to have known the article was biased, and had to have known that the case was famous enough that [insert plural slang term for the anus here] like me would notice it, but apparently they just didn’t care. One thing is certain: you cannot trust Mr Li to tell the whole truth in any of his reporting, and NBC News itself must be suspect. The days of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley are in the distant past for NBC News.