Cross-Examination

• “Trans” Dem arrested for child porn: In 2012, “Stacie” (Barry) Laughton became the first openly “transgender”-identifying individual to become a state lawmaker in the country. The Leftmedia celebration of this LGBTQ “progress” was short-lived, as the New Hampshire Democrat would soon resign following revelations of a previous felony credit fraud conviction. Despite his criminal past, the Democrat would win election again in 2020 only to resign in 2022 after he was arrested for stalking and harassing a woman online. Now the troubled former lawmaker has been arrested yet again, this time on four counts of distribution of child pornography. It would seem this man’s gender-bending deviancy should have been a dead giveaway that he was not a fit lawmaker, but this is the result of crusading for sexual deviancy as normative and inclusive.

• Rainbow Mafia says the quiet part out loud: Speaking of crusading for sexual deviancy, over the weekend marchers at a New York City “Pride” parade were captured on video chanting: “We’re here! We’re queer! We’re coming for your children!” While some have dismissed the chant as sarcasm aimed at conservatives over the charge of “grooming,” the actions of these Rainbow Mafia adherents defending the euphemistically labeled “gender-affirming care” for minors and the promotion of sexual deviant materials in America’s public schools say otherwise. They are indeed targeting America’s youth seeking to corrupt them into embracing a worldview that sees their deviant sex cult as normative and “good.”

• TCU drag course: Texas Christian University has apparently fallen far from the faith indicated by its name, as the school is offering a course titled “The Queer Art of Drag.” The course is offered through its Women and Gender Studies Department and is taught by a professor who engages in drag shows. One of the course requirements is for students to “engage queer theories in relation to performance practice” by creating their own drag persona, and they will perform during the school’s Annual Night of Drag. The Bible makes clear that God created human beings in His own image, male and female. Jesus himself reiterated this fundamental binary truth of human sexuality when referencing marriage. Evidently, TCU believes it knows better than the Creator.

• Woke, weaponized ChatGPT scolds female athlete: Recently, in an effort to create a more succinct message for a Twitter post, NCAA volleyball player Macy Petty decided to employ the new artificial intelligence ChatGPT to help her out. However, after inputting her paragraph and instructing the AI tool to shrink down her message, she received an unexpected reprimand. According to Petty, ChatGPT effectively undercut her attempt to present the message she wanted emphasizing that “girls’ sports are for girls only” and that allowing “transgender”-identifying boys to play in girls’ sports amounts to “robbing girls of their chance to play.” ChatGPT responded by arguing that “it’s important to emphasize inclusivity and equality in sports rather than promoting exclusion based on gender.” It added, “Sports should be accessible and welcoming for all individuals, regardless of gender.” What this episode demonstrates is that, despite the claims otherwise, AI tech will naturally reflect the bias of its human creators. So don’t let AI do your thinking for you.

• COVID origins: On Friday, the Biden administration finally released its declassified report on the question of the origin of COVID. Importantly, the report noted that “all” U.S. intelligence agencies now believe the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China to be the source of the deadly virus. Other than that significant conclusion, there is little other new information from the report. Given the recent revelations of the first individuals to become infected with the novel virus being Chinese scientists working in the Wuhan lab, and the fact that they were engaged in studying coronaviruses, combined with the preponderance of evidence pointing to a lab rather than natural origin, the report’s conclusion is not surprising. That said, the report further notes that “almost all” intelligence agencies believe that COVID was not engineered, while also observing “that some scientists” in the lab did engage in genetic alterations of coronaviruses.

Headlines

• Merrick Garland calls criticism of DOJ “attack” on democracy (Free Beacon)

• With Russia revolt over, mercenaries’ future and direction of Ukraine war remain uncertain (AP)

• House intel chairman: Prigozhin had “a number of accomplices” inside Russia (Daily Wire)

• Supreme Court strikes down Texas’s challenge to Biden border policy (Daily Signal)

• House GOP: “Almost all” migrants at ports of entry are being freed into U.S. (Breitbart)

• U.S. files first-ever charges against Chinese fentanyl manufacturers (Free Beacon)

• Montana becomes third state reporting suspicious letters received by GOP officials (Daily Wire)

• New poll shows staggering “wrong track” number under Joe Biden (RedState)

• Bud Light sponsors pride event with naked people and other concerning things near children (RedState)

• Judge blocks Wyoming’s first-in-the-nation abortion pill ban while court decides lawsuit (AP)

• New York City turns up the heat on wood- and coal-fired pizzerias, demands restaurants slice emissions by 75% (Blaze Media)

• States weigh charging by the mile as fuel taxes plummet (Fox Business)

• Sweden shocks Europe: Abandons “unstable” green energy agenda, returns to nuclear power (RedState)

• Foreign intel agencies say Iran on cusp of testing first nuke (Free Beacon)

• Satire: NASA commits to planting pride flag on the moon by 2030 (Babylon Bee)

• Humor: New study finds bizarre connection between being liberal and having giant, googly eyes (Babylon Bee)

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