FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit Friday on behalf of two female law students who expressed concerns about men accessing women’s restrooms at George Mason University’s law school. Third-year law students Selene Cerankosky and Maria Arcara expressed concerns after a male classmate informed the Antonin Scalia Law School Class of 2025 GroupMe chat of his proposal to add feminine hygiene products to male restrooms. After the male student asked for comments on his proposal, Cerankosky responded to the post saying that, if women accessed men’s restrooms, she feared men would try to use private female spaces, which would violate her safety and privacy, as well as her religious convictions about human sexuality. Arcara said she agreed. The male student accused them of bigotry and complained to the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Two weeks later, the Arlington, Virginia, school, without explanation or warning, issued no-contact orders that prohibit the women from contact with the male student. “GMU was wrong to censor me for expressing my beliefs, especially without giving me a chance to defend myself,” Cerankosky said in a statement to The Daily Signal. “Universities should be the place where free speech is celebrated the most.” Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Friday, alleging the school violated the students’ First and 14th Amendment rights by issuing no-contact orders after they shared concerns about adding feminine hygiene products to male restrooms in a private law student group chat.The school unlawfully used its Title IX and sexual harassment policies against the students because of their religious beliefs and privacy concerns, according to attorneys with ADF, a conservative nonprofit law firm.“Universities—including law schools—must preserve the marketplace of ideas for all in order to encourage civil discourse for our future attorneys, politicians, judges, and leaders,” said ADF Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer, director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom. “Selene and Maria respectfully voiced their opinion about biological differences between men and women and how the other student’s proposal blurs those lines at the expense of safety, privacy, and religious conviction,” Langhofer continued in a statement. George Mason’s policy allows the university to punish students whose opinions about controversial issues differ from that of the school, according to Langhofer. As a result, Cerankosky’s and Arcara’s law careers are in danger. “We are urging the court to restore the students’ First Amendment rights and order George Mason to stop enforcing its policy against protected expression,” Langhofer said. GMU’s policy allows the school to include protected speech as “sexual harassment,” according to ADF’s complaint. The policy also does not require the DEI office to determine that sexual harassment occurred, give notice to students before they are disciplined, advise the accused of the allegations, or allow students to appeal “supportive measures,” such as the no-contact orders. The students potentially face expulsion from school and scrutiny in their legal careers as a result of the no-contact orders, the lawsuit explains. “In America, you can’t be punished simply for stating what you believe—that’s the law,” Arcara told The Daily Signal. “Scalia Law is training the future generation of lawyers, and shutting down speech on campus means that GMU is failing in that mission. Selene and I had the right to oppose putting tampons in the male restrooms, and we should not be prevented from speaking to our fellow students for doing so.” Attorneys filed the case with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division. George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. The post EXCLUSIVE: Female Law Students Punished for Saying Men Don’t Belong in Women’s Bathrooms appeared first on The Daily Signal.

On Sunday, a comedian opening the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden made a joke about Puerto Rico being a garbage island. On Monday, that was all the American press corps could talk about. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden declared former President Donald Trump’s supporters were garbage, and all the media could talk about on Wednesday was whether there was an implied apostrophe in Biden’s statement. By Wednesday night, Trump was campaigning in a garbage truck and speaking on stage at a Wisconsin rally in an orange vest. As we approach the end of the election, less than one week away, there are some trend lines to note. First, the polling trends show us this really is a tied race. We do not really have any idea who is going to win. In a super close race, the ground game matters, and Vice President Kamala Harris has the better ground game in most states. While the polling shows a virtually tied race, the polling also continues to show a shifting race to Trump. Pollsters do not change their makeup of people polled each time. They keep a model. That model may overweigh Harris voters or Trump voters or some other group of voters. But if that poll shows a continual shift in a particular direction, even if their overall number is wrong, we can presume they are measuring a shift. In this election, that shift has been to Trump. Over the past month, polls that had Harris up five might now have her up one. Polls that had a tied race at the beginning of the month might now have Trump ahead. It has been a pattern both in national polling and state-level polling. Unfortunately for Republicans, the election is not today. In a very close election, every vote matters. Trump can say something between now and Election Day that alienates voters. Fortunately for Republicans, it was Biden who claimed Trump supporters are garbage. I suspect that will be more alienating to voters than a comedian telling a bad joke. A voter who has been leaning toward Trump, but still undecided, is probably not going to suddenly vote for Harris after still leaning toward Trump despite all the attacks on him as a fascist Nazi who will end democracy just because a comedian called Puerto Rico a garbage island. Unfortunately for Democrats, the early voting numbers have some serious warning signs. In Georgia, the percentage for black voters in early voting is below 30%. To be competitive in Georgia, black voters need to generate at least 32% and preferably 34% of the early vote to be competitive. In North Carolina, the black vote is also down from where it should be while Republicans are outpacing Democrats in the early vote for the first time in decades. In Nevada, Republicans are outpacing Democrats for the first time in that state’s history of early voting. In Arizona, the GOP is also crushing it. Pennsylvania remains a wild card, but while Democrats are dominating early voting, Republicans are keeping it closer than they normally do. On Wednesday night, after the media refused to give Biden’s “garbage” comment as much time as they had given a comedian’s Puerto Rico joke, Trump climbed into that garbage truck to take questions from the press and wore an orange vest on stage. He forced attention on Biden’s remarks. His campaign has been extremely proficient. Trump’s team procuring a garbage truck quickly suggests the campaign management team is focused. Harris’ failure to find time to speak with Joe Rogan and his more than 20 million listeners suggests her campaign is just not as engaged. Her closing argument speech with the White House’s South Lawn as the backdrop got overshadowed by Biden’s “garbage” comment. Harris could easily win this election. It is tied. But her campaign never seems quite able to capture key moments and capitalize on them. Even with an American press corps doing everything it can to help her, Team Harris often seems unable to execute its strategy as competently as Team Trump. The press now tells us it could be a week or two before we know who has won. I am just not sure that will be the case. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Garbage In/Garbage Out appeared first on The Daily Signal.

At least a dozen women’s and girls sports teams have forfeited games against teams with biological male players without consequences, but one team has been kicked out of its league for almost a year for refusing to play a team with a transgender-identifying player. Mid Vermont Christian School in Burlington, Vermont, forfeited a girls’ high school basketball game in November 2023 against a team that had a male athlete playing for it. The Vermont Principals’ Association resultantly kicked Mid Vermont Christian out of the association and denied it public funding through the state’s tuition program. But other teams across the country have faced no penalties for declining to play teams with biological male players. The Collegiate Charter School of Lowell’s girls’ basketball team forfeited its Feb. 8 game against KIPP Massachusetts after a biological male injured three of the school’s players in less than 16 minutes of play. In 2022, the Cherokee County Board of Education in North Carolina voted 5-1 to forfeit all future games against Highlands High School because of a transgender player on the volleyball team. Several members of the Hillsboro-Deering High School girls soccer team in New Hampshire refused to play against the Kearsarge Regional High School team in October. The opposing team’s star athlete is a male named Maelle Jacques. In August, four Merrimack Valley High School soccer starters did not play a game in protest of a boy being allowed to compete in New Hampshire. Averroes High School, an Islamic school in the Bay Area of California, abruptly canceled a basketball game against San Francisco Waldorf, reportedly after being made aware of a transgender player. Several women’s volleyball teams in the Mountain West Athletic Conference have declined to play San Jose State University due to a biological male player who goes by the name of Blaire Fleming. The women of the University of Nevada at Reno volleyball team defied their school by refusing to compete against a team with a male player. They were the fifth team to do so, following Southern Utah University, Boise State University, the University of Wyoming, and Utah State University. Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Mid Vermont Christian against the Vermont Principals’ Association for preventing the Christian school and its students from participating in the state’s tuition program and sports league because of its religious beliefs about biological reality. Almost three-quarters of voters say they believe medals awarded to biological men who beat females in sports should be given instead to the women who lost. And 72% of registered voters think biological males should not be allowed to participate in women’s and girls sports, according to national polling from RMG Research. Biological males competing in women’s sports is expected to be a “sleeper” issue in the 2024 elections. Female athletes worldwide have lost nearly 900 medals to so-called transgender rivals competing against them in women’s sporting categories, according to a new United Nations report.Republicans have been slamming Democrats’ support for transgenderism, and several Democrats have flip-flopped or scaled back their position on the issue. For instance, when a debate moderator asked Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred about an ad from his opponent, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, accusing him of refusing “to protect the integrity of women’s and girls sports,” Allred denied his voting record on the issue in the House. Former President Donald Trump, seeking to return to the White House, pledged to “ban” transgender-identifying biological males from competing in women’s sports in a Fox News town hall with only female voters on Oct. 16. “I’ve never met a person that came up to me and they say, ‘We want men to play in women’s sports,’” Trump said. “Somehow, they’re pushing it. I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve been talking about this for a while, because I’m ending it. On Day One, I’m ending it.” The post Christian School Punished for Forfeiting Game With ‘Transgender’ Player, Though a Dozen Women’s Teams Won’t Play Biological Males appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Being a survivalist doesn't mean you only prepare for roughing it in the wild, but also learning lifelong survival skills you can use on your homestead. Read on and find out how survival and homesteading come together in many ways! The Ease Of Being A Survivalist On Your Own Homestead Homesteading by definition means “To claim and settle land as a homestead”. (source) Life has become quite different since the introduction of the Homestead Act of 1862 in which the U.S. federal legislation permitted settlers to occupy a homestead on designated public land in the western states and own it after five years. (source) These brand new settlers would build homes, grow crops, make their own clothes, raise cattle…the list goes on and on. Unfortunately, homesteading is slowly becoming a dying art, especially when it comes to large homesteads. For example, in my area of North Texas, family farms and other pieces of beautiful land are being purchased to make room for new housing subdivisions and retail stores. Large fields of corn, for example, are now stripped with a sign by the road that is pretty hard to miss. The signs usually read “(BUSINESS) COMING SOON”. It truly makes my heart sink every time I see one of those signs! The Survivalist Way As fellow survivalists, we look for ways to be and stay prepared. It’s our way of life. When disaster strikes, we are packed and ready to go at a moment’s notice. Our bug-out bags stay packed and ready to grab at all times. We have extra supplies such as water and blankets. We have fully stocked first aid kits in our homes, our vehicles, and our workplaces. We even have an emergency plan down to the very last detail in the case of any possible disaster. Did I forget anything? You may be thinking “Sounds like you covered everything!” Homesteading As Part Of Survivalism…My Thoughts I didn’t always have homesteading as part of my “survivalist mentality” but, as time goes by and the world continues to change daily, I realize that homesteading is just as important as everything else that we, as survivalists, do to be and stay prepared. As survivalists, when we think of disaster, we think of a possible evacuation from our homes. In a lot of cases that is, unfortunately, the case. But, what if you were unable to evacuate your home in the midst of a disaster (for whatever reason) and you had to live off your own land? What if you had no access to the local grocery store to buy food and water, no access to the local gas station to put gas in your vehicle, no access to your local Wal-mart for needed supplies, no access to roads…..you have access to nothing outside of your home! Would you be able to survive long term without access outside of your own property? The Reality Of It All Now, I’m not usually one to purposely try to instill fear into anyone but, the reality is that our world is in chaos. There is no denying that. I see tragic events unfold daily on the news. It has made me realize that ANYTHING can happen at any given moment. If you’re like me, it leaves you with a feeling of uncertainty and a series of “what ifs”. For me, homesteading as a survival tool became an answer to one of my most recent “what if” moments…”What if I’m bound to my own home? Could I survive long-term?”. Like so many other survivalists out there, my honest answer as of right now is no, I don’t think I could. I am prepared for a short-term evacuation. BUT, I’m going to be straight with you  – I am not fully prepared for a situation where I possibly become bound to my own home for a long period of time. I think it’s safe to say that this goes for a lot of fellow survivalists out there. My opinion is that homesteading and survivalism go hand in hand. It’s all about self-reliance and self-sufficiency! It’s all about surviving!   Having thoughts of being self-sufficient nowadays? Watch this video to find out the reasons why! In the next few months, I will be writing a series of articles on homesteading and it’s connection to basic and long-term survival. I will be (at times) learning alongside you, the reader. I will share every bit of my extensive research and my own personal knowledge as I go. I will also speak with homesteaders across the nation to bring their personal experiences to you as well. There is always something we can learn from each other. In this field, in these crucial times where anything can happen…knowledge of survivalism on any level from anyone willing to be the teacher or student is so very valuable. Like I always say, “Having the knowledge and skill before you actually need it is how one survives.” Do you consider yourself a survivalist who enjoys homesteading too? Please leave your tips and experiences in the comment section below. Give a jump start on modern day homesteading- urban style and be guided with these 10 simple tips every urban homesteader needs to see! Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook!

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"It was a cacophony of hell."

YouTube, the Google-owned video streaming platform, rebuffed pressure from The New York Times and The Washington Post to silence some prominent right-leaning and free-speech voices just days before the 2024 presidential election. On Thursday, The Times and The Post published separate reports accusing several podcast hosts, news anchors and legal scholars of spreading so-called election-related misinformation on platforms such as YouTube. But, to the detriment of the left, a YouTube spokesperson affirmed that the platform would not censor the videos, claiming it values a range of opinions. “The ability to openly debate political ideas, even those that are controversial, is an important value — especially in the midst of election season,” YouTube told both The Times and The Post, shocking many as the platform has had a reputation for censoring speech that the left disagrees with. Not deserving of being called a free speech bastion by any means, the platform still removed three of the videos targeted and temporarily slapped an informational banner on 21 of them, most of which were later removed, according to The Times.  While YouTube's refusal to fully cave to censorship pressure from The Times and The Post is a welcome sign, it doesn't excuse the platform's ongoing censorship. Data from MRC Free Speech America’s exclusive CensorTrack shows that YouTube has censored speech no fewer than 534 times, and that’s just scratching the surface. YouTube’s response came after the targeted individuals blasted The Times for reaching out to them for comments to be featured on the infamous report, which exclusively relied on data from a discredited, radical leftist group. The Post did not use the discredited leftist group for its report. The information that The Times and The Post relied upon singled out 286 videos across 30 channels, featuring some of the biggest and most influential hosts like Tucker Carlson, Benny Johnson, Tim Pool and Donald Trump Jr., Fox News hosts Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters and Mark Levin and The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro and Michael Knowles. YouTube said it reviewed eight of the 286 videos and that they did not run afoul of the company’s community guidelines. Legal voices were also targeted, including Tom Fitton, Stephen Miller, Mike Davis, Harmeet Dhillon, Kash Patel and Kimberly Guilfoyle, among others. Many of these figures rebuked The Times for blindly echoing the radical anti-free speech talking points it was fed, with Shapiro taking the lead. Shapiro accused The Times of relying on a “radical Left-wing organization whose sole purpose is destroying conservative media … in order to pressure YouTube to demonetize and penalize any and all conservatives ONE WEEK FROM THE ELECTION.” In a separate report, The Post accused Shapiro, Johnson, and podcasters Dan Bongino and Charlie Kirk of “preemptively casting doubt on the integrity of the 2024 election.” Similar to The Times, The Post also contacted YouTube and other podcast platforms, requesting comments about the videos it deemed misinformation. However, YouTube similarly dismissed their request, reiterating to The Post the same statement it had provided to The Times. YouTube’s subdued approach to censorship came after the Media Research Center and members of the MRC-led Free Speech Alliance warned Big Tech giants against interfering in the presidential election by censoring online speech. “We know that governments across the world are pressuring tech firms to interfere in the 2024 elections just as so many of you did in 2020,” FSA members wrote in August 2024. “Now is the time for you to affirm that you will not bow to this coercion and to reaffirm your commitment to providing fair and even-handed service to your customers.” Several prominent free speech leaders signed the letter, including MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell and Article III Project President Mike Davis, the latter of whom was also targeted in The Times’s one-sided report. Other members of the Free Speech Alliance that were targeted were The Claremont Institute, through its senior fellow Jeremy Carl; The Heritage Foundation, through its senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky; and Human Events, through its senior editor Jack Posobiec. Former President Donald Trump has also weighed in, warning Google that any interference in the upcoming November election would come with dire consequences if he is elected president. His admonishment came after MRC released several bombshell studies showing that Google Search users had to wade through a bevy of leftist media outlet content before finding the Trump campaign’s website. "It has been determined that Google has illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some made up for this purpose while, at the same time, only revealing good stories about Comrade Kamala Harris,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in September. Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.