The forthcoming Trump-Vance administration has the opportunity to protect pro-life pregnancy resource centers that have been targeted, ignored, and undermined by the Biden-Harris Justice Department.  “President Trump, more than almost anyone, understands what it’s like to have the entire weight of the federal law and investigatory power of the federal law against him,” said Chelsea Youman of Human Coalition, which supports pregnancy help centers. “The pro-life movement feels that weight, that burden, as well.” At least 95 pregnancy resource centers and pro-life groups have been attacked and vandalized since the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked in early May 2022, according to CatholicVote’s tracker. The DOJ has not investigated the majority of the attacks. “If you look just at the year 2022, there were over 100 attacks, many of them violent, against pregnancy care centers, and there was not a single prosecution under [the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994] for those sorts of harms to pregnancy centers in that year,” Alliance Defending Freedom lawyer Erin Hawley told The Daily Signal. “There have been a handful since, but those pale in comparison to the dozens of prosecutions against pro-life individuals who have protested peacefully at abortion centers around the country.”  Pro-life lawyers and directors of pregnancy resource centers weighed in on how the Trump administration can protect them after four years of what they regard as mistreatment under the Biden-Harris administration. Investigate Attacks Ignored by Biden’s DOJ President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Justice can bring the hammer of justice down on vandals and domestic terrorists who have threatened and vandalized pregnancy centers, yet faced no repercussions. CompassCare Pregnancy Services’ Buffalo, New York, center was firebombed on June 7, 2022. Though pro-abortion organization Jane’s Revenge claimed responsibility, the DOJ did not bring charges against the domestic terrorists, according to CompassCare CEO and President James Harden.  President Joe Biden’s DOJ is “not actually interested in enforcing the law equally, if in fact the crimes are being committed against people who hold different political views than the current administration,” Harden told The Daily Signal.  The DOJ did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. Alternatives Pregnancy Center in Sacramento, California, has been attacked and threatened with violence, but the FBI did not follow up on Executive Director Heidi Matzke’s police report, Matzke said. Though Matzke has a video of a man standing outside the center with a machete, the Biden-Harris DOJ did not investigate the lead, she said.  “Our pregnancy center spent $150,000 to basically bulletproof the outside of our clinic,” Matzke told The Daily Signal. “We increased security measures. We had to arm all of our staff with pepper spray. We had to stop operations of our mobile clinic due to just the violence that we’ve seen on a national level.” “We give away free medical care to women in unplanned pregnancies,” Matzke continued, “and yet it’s crazy that we have to take such drastic measures.”  According to CompassCare’s Harden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, and FBI Director Christopher Wray are “vehemently” opposed to pregnancy resource centers. “Why is the attorney general, who is responsible for enforcing the law duly enacted by the legislature, refusing to do his job?” Harden asked. “That’s not to mention the fact that he’s allowing that department to be weaponized against citizens.” Trump’s attorney general should support pregnancy help centers in litigation they are facing and support initiatives in Congress that help fund them, said Thomas Glessner, founder and president of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, a public interest law firm that defends pro-life pregnancy centers.  On Wednesday, Trump announced his selection of now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., as his nominee for attorney general. (Shortly thereafter, Gaetz resigned from Congress.) “Our biggest fear in this election was, if [Kamala Harris] was elected, she would appoint an attorney general, possibly [Xavier] Becerra, and that attorney general would declare war on pregnancy centers across the country,” Glessner told The Daily Signal. The Left’s abortion agenda is so extreme that the Biden-Harris DOJ is unwilling to protect American citizens who disagree with them on abortion, said Youman, the national director of public policy for Human Coalition.  “We know that they’re willing to throw pro-lifers in jail for even praying or worshipping outside of an abortion clinic,” Youman said. “Of course, they’re not going to lift a finger to protect the same pro-life constituents from attack.” The Trump DOJ must fire and investigate career DOJ employees who have discriminated against pregnancy resource centers, Harden said.  “We’ve got to take a look at the leadership, as well as the rank-and-file at the DOJ and the FBI,” Harden said. “We need to sequester funds until an external, objective investigation can be done into the weaponization of federal law enforcement.”  Trump’s U.S. attorneys and FBI appointees will be important in securing protections for pregnancy help centers, Youman said. “If President Trump wants to protect all Americans, he’s going to do what he’s promised,” Youman said. “We know he’s promised to clean shop, and that’s going to be at those lower-level appointment positions as well.” “There’s 2,700 pregnancy resource centers across our country,” Youman continued. “We outnumber abortion clinics 4 to 1, and what that means is, the next administration has the opportunity to make America the most hopeful, resourced, and compassionate place for pregnant women seeking abortion, and he has four years to do it.” End Biden’s Marginalization of Pregnancy Centers “The Biden administration has systematically done what they can to marginalize pregnancy resource centers in a few ways,” Youman explained. But Trump can repeal Biden administration orders that discriminate against pro-lifers and ensure that federal funding doesn’t go to organizations that provide abortion referrals, according to Youman and Hawley.  The Biden Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule change in December 2023 to make pregnancy help centers ineligible for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds.  The rule change, which has not been finalized, would prohibit states from sending federal funds earmarked to prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancies to pregnancy help centers.  The Biden administration argued that pregnancy resource centers should not be eligible for TANF funds because the centers help women after they become pregnant, instead of focusing on pregnancy prevention. “On Day One in office, President Trump has the opportunity to repeal and revoke every single one of those unconstitutional religious discrimination orders, and make sure that pregnancy resource centers are protected under the law,” Youman said. “But more importantly, that women are able to be served, because the ones who are hurt from this type of discrimination are the women.”  The Trump administration also can revert to its prior rules on Title X, Hawley said. Title X is a federal program that focuses on providing family planning and related preventative services to low-income Americans at little or no cost to them. In 2019, the Trump administration issued regulations disqualifying abortion clinics and organizations that provide abortion referrals from receiving Title X funding. On Oct. 4, 2021, the Biden administration changed Title X again to allow funding for abortion and birth control.  Trump can roll back the Biden rule on Day One to “make sure the funds provided by Congress go to sources that help women and children, rather than harming them,” Hawley said.  “Title X funds health care centers around the country, but the text of that statute clearly says that those federal funds shall not be used in a center where abortion is a method of family planning, so you can’t provide abortions with federal money under Title X,” Hawley said. “The Trump administration can also put in place the rule that you cannot refer for abortions using that money. That’s a crucial protection.” Revise or Repeal FACE Act, Pardon Pro-Lifers Trump can repeal or reevaluate the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994, which has been weaponized against pro-lifers over the past four years.  The Trump administration could commit to enforcing the FACE Act evenly and making sure that pregnancy resource centers are protected from violence. Alternatively, Congress could repeal the law. Trump should also pardon, or commute the sentences of, the pro-lifers who have been convicted for praying outside abortion clinics, Glessner said.  More than 10 pro-lifers have been convicted under the FACE Act for peacefully protesting outside abortion clinics during the Biden-Harris administration. One of these pro-life activists is 89-year-old Eva Edl, who survived a World War II-era death camp before escaping to the United States.  “We know that these are peaceful, believing Americans, Americans who believe in the right to life, and for that simple belief, they’re thrown in prison,” Youman said. “Our hearts go out to them. Some of them are facing four-and-a-half [or] five years in federal prison for peacefully assembling and exercising their free speech and assembly rights, their First Amendment rights.” The charges against the pro-life activists were brought by the Biden administration; specifically, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division led by Clarke. The FACE Act prohibits use of force, obstruction, or property damage intended to interfere with “reproductive health care services.” Though it theoretically protects houses of worship and pro-life pregnancy resource centers as well as abortion clinics, the Biden administration’s Justice Department has largely used the FACE Act to prosecute pro-life activists like Edl. “We’d like to see maybe a repeal or reevaluation of the FACE Act at the federal level, so that it cannot be weaponized against these pro-lifers,” Youman said.  The post Pro-Lifers Share How Trump Can Protect Pregnancy Help Centers Undermined by Biden DOJ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Latinos left the Democratic Party in a mass exodus last week, costing Vice President Kamala Harris the presidency. The 13-point Latino shift toward President-elect Donald Trump noticed along the Rio Grande indicates Harris’ campaign failed to make Latinos forget the peril caused by her and President Joe Biden’s open border. The Latino red wave surfaced in South Texas. Trump won 11 out of 13 Texas border counties. The Rio Grande Valley, with a 91% Hispanic population, flipped, creating a Republican majority for the first time in a century. The Latino base showed up for Trump, with Hispanic men ranked as the second-largest demographic group to vote red, according to NBC exit polls. America’s Latino voting bloc was previously unpredictable by political analysts until the chaos along the southern border became an issue that could no longer be ignored. The Biden-Harris administration created an invasion along the Rio Grande, which burdened communities across the nation. The unsecure border drastically increased Latino susceptibility toward transnational human trafficking for commercial sex purposes, drug trafficking, and exploitation of cheap labor. Hispanics know those tragic matters affect their community, which explains why 74% of Hispanics polled earlier this year stated the Biden-Harris administration did a bad job dealing with the immigration crisis. Instead of addressing this top concern among Latinos, Harris released a campaign promise, “Opportunity Agenda for Latino Men,” which avoided promising stricter border policies, an aspect Latino men searched for in a presidential candidate. Harris’ address to Latinos also failed to account for more than 300,000 unaccompanied alien children lost by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security. U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered over half a million illegal alien minors, 98% of whom were of Latin American origin. The Biden-Harris administration endangered Latino children from the start when DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly stated that unaccompanied alien children who crossed the border illegally would not be turned away. Cartels capitalized on this, often smuggling the same children through ports of entry multiple times in an endless cycle for trafficking profit. An estimated 60% of Latin American children who attempt to cross the southern border illegally, unaccompanied or with a smuggler, are abused by cartel operatives for sex or drug trafficking. Where are these children? HHS guarantees minors are placed with a sponsor. Still, the American people have no way of knowing where so many of them are because HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra has treated the children like widgets on an assembly line, demanding faster processing out the door. There are corporations in the shadows who benefit from the illegal immigration crisis because of large-scale government contracts with HHS and DHS. MVM Inc. is a company that contracts with the federal government, receiving large sums of money in exchange for providing alien-relocation services. Under the Biden-Harris administration, DHS gave the company $824.13 million, while HHS provided an additional $582.77 million to transport immigrants here illegally from fiscal years 2021 to 2024. MVM transports illegal aliens en masse, including a significant portion of unaccompanied alien children. Illegal alien minors are often subjected to placement with dangerous sponsors due to lax vetting during the rushed process and volume of placements, according to reporting from Muckraker. Neither HHS nor MVM has provided transparency on how prospective sponsors are vetted to ensure the safety of unaccompanied alien children, despite requests by House committees. Ultimately, Harris fell short of assuring Latinos that a Harris-Walz presidency would benefit them. The Left’s management of the southern border created discord throughout America and led to a nationwide plea for a safe and secure border. That plea was heard in the 2024 presidential election, with some of its loudest voices coming from the Latino community. Originally published by The Washington Times The post Why Latinos Deported Harris From the White House appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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During a discussion on the necessity of the Senate’s role in advising and consenting to cabinet appointees on MSNBC’s Friday edition of The Beat with Ari Melber, activist and lawyer Maya Wiley took a bit of a detour to attack Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth for allegedly having “white supremacist and extremist tattoos.” Wiley declared, “We should also say, one of the things that's so important in this function, in this role, is the people of this country should have some understanding of who is going to be making decisions about their daily lives because let's remember.”     As an example, she focused on “Hegseth and his white supremacist and extremist tattoos on his body, he is also a person, if he is in this job, who will be having the discussion with Donald Trump about sending the military into communities to police U.S. citizens.” This was the second night in a row someone on MSNBC called Hegseth a white supremacist. On Thursday’s All In with Chris Hayes, former NAACP Defense Fund President Sherrilyn Ifill declared Hegseth is “someone who, you know, is known to be a white supremacist, known to be an extremist. Whose platform, whose book is basically about his opposition to the advancement of black officers to the top brass, and the military is actually a very important area for black advancement.” Even Hayes, who preferred to talk about Hegseth’s lack of administrative experience, was uncomfortable with that, “he says, because he was identified as an extremist, in part because of those tattoos. He thinks it’s crazy. I just want to, like, give the full side of the story here.” However, here Melber and fellow panelist Bill Kristol just sat there and said nothing, but back in the day, Kristol even appeared in a Hegseth for Senate video. The tattoos in question refer to depictions of a Jerusalem Cross and the words “Deus Vult” (God wills it). Both are Crusade-era symbols that are over 900 years old. Some say those have been co-opted by white supremacists, but even if Kristol and Hegseth have diverged on Trump, Kristol could have at least stood up for Hegseth’s character.     As it were, Wiley added, “the United States of America's based on some transparency and accountability and checks and balances, and if we throw them out the window, to Bill’s point, it's not only that it offends the Constitution but we will feel that pain, that danger and that lack of protection in our daily lives.” Even if white supremacists have co-opted the same symbols and phrases depicted in Hegseth’s tattoos, why does MSNBC want to give them the power to appropriate nearly a thousand years of history? Here is a transcript for the November 15 show: MSNBC The Beat with Ari Melber 11/15/2024 6:19 PM ET MAYA WILEY: And we should also say, one of the things that's so important in this function, in this role, is the people of this country should have some understanding of who is going to be making decisions about their daily lives because let's remember, like when we are talking about the secretary here and Hegseth and his white supremacist and extremist tattoos on his body, he is also a person, if he is in this job, who will be having the discussion with Donald Trump about sending the military into communities to police U.S. citizens.  This is something that Donald Trump has said explicitly. It's a power he has wanted to use. It's one of the warnings we heard from the joint chiefs in his administration when he was president before, and it's in Project 2025. And so it's not just that position. It's also health and its implications for people's daily lives. But the United States of America's based on some transparency and accountability and checks and balances, and if we throw them out the window, to Bill’s point, it's not only that it offends the Constitution but we will feel that pain, that danger and that lack of protection in our daily lives.

Democrats have latched onto Pete Hegseth’s past as a Fox News personality as a negative attribute, but Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” doesn’t agree in the slightest. “Pete Hegseth is going to be an excellent head of the Department of Defense. Not only his track record, but as a television personality, he will be able to get up there and deal with the tough questions and communicate the policies properly,” Rubin explains. In a recent interview, Hegseth made this crystal clear. “First of all, you’ve got to fire the chairman of Joint Chiefs,” he said, explaining how the Trump administration could course correct after a disastrous four years under the Biden administration. “You’re going to bring in a new secretary of defense, but any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that was involved in any of the DEI, woke s***, has got to go,” he continued. “You’ve got to get DEI and CRT out of military academies so you’re not training young officers to be baptized in this type of thinking, and then whatever the combat standards were say in, I don’t know, 1995, let’s just make those the standards,” he added. While Hegseth admits the trust has been broken between the military and the people, he doesn’t believe it's too late. “You have to reestablish that trust by putting in no-nonsense war fighters in those positions who aren’t going to cater to the socially correct garbage,” he concluded. Rubin is thoroughly impressed. “I think you can see right there, exactly why I think he’s the right pick. He can communicate the ideas, he’s been in the belly of the beast, he’s got the TV presence, and he just laid it out. You got to fire a whole bunch of people at the top. We have to get DEI and the woke stuff out,” Rubin says. Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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Getty Images for Netflix © 2024 Netflix’s livestream of the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul boxing match was a mess. I’m not talking about the bout itself — although people had their qualms with that, too — it’s the livestream, which people across the internet complained was plagued by buffering, unstable, and unwatchable muddiness. That doesn’t bode well for Netflix’s live sports ambitions, especially its upcoming Christmas Day NFL games. I had the same experience, having tuned in a few minutes before Paul showed up in the back of a lowrider truck. For the vast majority of the 8-round match, I had to lean heavily on my brain’s ability to construct a cohesive picture from very little information to have an idea of what was going on. The X post below was very much what the... Continue reading…

China’s leap into the future of transportation just gained some serious altitude. XPeng, a leading electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, showcased a new flying car at a Chinese airshow. The vehicle is called the “Land Aircraft Carrier,” and reports suggest XPeng hopes to start shipping it to the public by 2026. The futuristic vehicle was introduced alongside XPeng's other aviation technology developments, and aims to merge traditional driving with aerial capabilities. It represents a significant step in integrating cutting-edge transportation solutions into daily life. While flying cars have long been the subject of science fiction, XPeng’s unveiling signals that this technology may soon be a part of our reality. This Chinese flying car is not just a civilian dream, though. It also has strategic implications. Some reports suggest it includes features designed to reduce radar visibility, making it a potential asset for military use. This dual-purpose design aligns with China's broader technological goals to blend civilian innovation with defense strategy. https://twitter.com/scubaryan_/status/1857215978452517338 Known for its expertise in EVs, XPeng has leveraged its electric propulsion knowledge to create an eco-friendly aerial vehicle that aligns with global efforts to reduce carbon emissions while enhancing mobility options. And this modular design is yet another way the company hopes to continue striving toward those goals. The debut of this flying car also highlights China’s increasing prominence in advanced technology sectors. We’ve already seen rifle-toting Chinese robots, and the development of flying cars is just another rung that the nation will climb in its continued rise to technological advancement. While XPeng’s flying car is still in its developmental stages, its unveiling raises exciting possibilities. The fact that the company hopes to start shipping models to the public by 2026 is a huge indicator of how seriously XPeng is taking the development of this vehicle. Of course, this vehicle doesn't just take off and fly like you'd expect. XPeng’s flying car is actually a modular design that features a "mothership" ground vehicle and then a detachable flying module, as seen in the image at the top of the page. Still, it's an exciting design that brings us one step closer to the futuristic world science fiction authors have been envisioning for decades. Don't Miss: Researchers found a surprise in DNA from Beethoven’s 200-year-old hair The post China just debuted a ‘flying’ car and it could release as soon as 2026 appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $169 AirPods Pro 2, $898 Hisense 75-inch TV, $68 Furbuster, $649 Google Pixel 9, more Today’s deals: $280 Acer Aspire 3 laptop, $23 TP-Link WiFi extender, $199 Shark vacuum, $60 Keurig, more Best Apple Watch deals for November 2024 Today’s deals: $30 in Amazon credit, $149 Roomba, $100 Fitbit, $180 Ninja CREAMi Deluxe, more