This study, which involved putting 95 children struggling with gender dysphoria on puberty blockers, was led by Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a physician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles who has long been involved in promoting experimental medical treatments for minors.

It would seem that the study, which followed the children for two years, didn’t have the results Olson-Kennedy was looking for.

“The leader of the long-running study said that the drugs did not improve mental health in children with gender distress and that the finding might be weaponized by opponents of the care,” states the article’s subhed.

That’s a major finding—and one that the public deserves to have access to.

After all, the argument for providing these experimental medical treatments for children is that they will help the children’s mental health. That was seen as a pro that for some outweighed the cons of puberty blockers, which pose health risks along with the unknowns about the long-term effects of delaying a young person’s development. //

But this data won’t be released because “the findings might fuel the kind of political attacks that have led to bans of the youth gender treatments in more than 20 states, one of which will soon be considered by the Supreme Court,” writes New York Times reporter Azeen Ghorayshi, summarizing Olson-Kennedy’s reasoning.

In other words, when it comes to how to medically treat children suffering from gender dysphoria, it’s not about the science. It’s about the ideology—and ensuring that ideology triumphs in American law and all states. //

At a bare minimum, we owe it to kids and their parents to give them the latest scientific data about these medical experimental treatment for gender dysphoria.

It’s a shame that the Left is prioritizing politics over science—and the rights of parents and children to make informed decisions.

“Our nation’s brave men and women in uniform brought to our attention that there has been inadequate education at the administrative level on how to register to vote, request an absentee ballot, and fill in a federal write-in absentee ballot if their state-issued ballot does not arrive in time," the letter continues.

“Other service members also stated that when a request for a federal write-in absentee ballot was made, they were told the base’s stockpile of such ballots was depleted and had not been replenished."

The U.S. Department of Defense announced this week that it is moving military assets to the Middle East to deter continued Iranian aggression against the U.S. and Israel after Iran vowed this week to hit Israel following last week’s strikes in Iran.

The Pentagon ordered the deployment of “additional ballistic missile defense destroyers, fighter squadron and tanker aircraft, and several U.S. Air Force B-52 long-range strike bombers to the region.”

The forces will arrive in the region in the coming months as the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group prepares to leave the region.

The move of B-52s and missile defense is interesting. The B-52, it should be noted, is strictly an offensive platform, and its use presumes U.S. air superiority where the BUFFs are deployed, thus perhaps the movement of fighters. //

“These deployments build on the recent decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system to Israel as well as DoD’s sustained Amphibious Ready Group Marine Expeditionary Unit (ARG/MEU) posture in the Eastern Mediterranean,” a statement said. //

anon-nn7q
11 hours ago
Is this a decision made by our senile president Biden? If not, then by whom?

This decision is a very big deal, irrespective of whether one thinks we should or should not intervene. Harris, as VP, does not have the Constitutional authority to give such an order. Biden doesn't have the mental capacity to do anything other than what someone tells him to do.

Is this Doctor Jill's decision? //

anon-x8p1
12 hours ago
JOE BIDEN is the sole commander-in chief. He gives the orders.
Let that sink in. Harris does not care. let that sink in too.

The Obama game plan is to leave a huge stinking pile of garbage on your successors lap, before you get booted out the door.

Obama's plan is still working perfectly. Obama made sure all the biggest Obamacare costs and impact kicked in only after he left office. Then Trump gets blamed for raising the public debt.

You cannot hate Democrats enough.

The problem? He is too senile and too much of a liability, and that was on glorious, hilarious display on Saturday. Standing in front of an array of "Harris-Walz" signs, making the moment that much more perfect, Joseph Robinette Biden said and did the following. Buckle up.

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Biden: MAGA Republicans "are the kind of guys you'd like to smack in the ass."

3:57 PM · Nov 2, 2024

The above is not a misquote. It is not taken out of context. The President of the United States actually said of Republicans, "These are the kind of guys you'd like to smack in the a**." He then made the face pictured below. //

As one person put it on social media, I'm not sure if Biden was threatening violence against Republicans or flirting with them. This is the absolute state of the United States right now, and it's both unbelievably funny and absolutely terrifying. We have a president who is so mentally gone that he can't stop himself from saying something that mindboggling and ripe for mockery. This guy has the nuclear codes. //

CovertJeff
6 hours ago
He secretly wants Kamala to lose and lose big. He wants the "I told you so" moment when he can declare that he is the only one to ever beat Trump and if they had left him alone, he would have done it again. //

anon-07ty
7 hours ago
Ok, that settles it. He is purposely sabotaging Harris campaign and it is glorious!! GO JOE GO!!

While the Des Moines Field Office of USCIS reviewed the suspect names with the assistance of the state DOT supplying Alien Registration Numbers, headquarters in Washington, D.C., will not allow the Iowa office to share the information.

“This information would be critical to Iowa’s election officials in this process and ensure naturalized citizens can cast their ballots as normal,” Pate wrote.

The Biden-Harris Department of Justice has threatened to challenge Iowa’s process of vetting the voting rolls. Pate wrote that he asked the DOJ to allow their Immigration Services colleagues in D.C. to turn over the data that’s been completed in Des Moines. //

‘The most current, verified information is available. Yet, Washington, D.C. will not share it with us,’ said Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate. //

“If the federal government has information that will ensure only U.S. citizens vote AND ensure naturalized citizens can cast their ballot as normal, that information must be shared.”

anon-o7jd
3 hours ago
The only reason for wanting to bar ANY, poll watcher is to facilitate cheating.
The only reason for wanting to extend ballot casting after the legal date/time is to facilitate cheating.

Change my mind. //

GeorgiaGuy
4 hours ago
The Democrats have been learning too. What Have they learned? If there are no consequences why not cheat? //

bocmatt
4 hours ago
And what was the penalty on the officials who blocked GOP watchers? And what damage was done before they obtained their lawful access?

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🚨 WATCH: Minnesota Somali leaders endorse President Trump:

“Our conditions are horrible, we can’t afford anything. As working class and middle class people. Now please understand this, we love our brothers and sisters who are Democrats, but you left us.”

1:07 PM · Nov 2, 2024. //

Most importantly, the left left us. 33 percent of our kids cannot read - cannot read at grade level. Minnesota in education? We are failing in every standard. 8th graders - 60 percent cannot do math at grade level. These are our kids. We are talking about economic conditions here. Our conditions is (sic) horrible. We can’t afford anything. As working-class and middle-class people. Now please understand this, we love our brothers and sisters who are Democrats, but you left us. And because the left left us, join the right, and vote for Trump, 2024.

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JUST IN: Biden has been CANCELED over his "garbage" comments 🤣

“Fox News has learned multiple campaign calls that were publicly advised for yesterday were canceled as he faces continuing fallout over his ‘garbage’ comment… Biden has no official campaign events on his schedule...

8:24 AM · Nov 2, 2024 //

So the decision seems to have been made. It's the basement for Biden to ensure he doesn't mumble something else that lowers the vice president's chances in the final days of the race. Instead of doing rallies and interviews to help her, he's been plugged.

That's pretty scandalous, isn't it? Harris, the current vice president, has repeatedly asserted that Biden is at the top of his game, perfectly lucid, and capable of continuing to serve as president. Yet, he's so far gone mentally and physically that he can't even do campaign events for her in what appears to be the closest presidential election in modern history.

Harris should be disqualified for that alone. If she can't be trusted to tell the truth about Biden at this late hour despite all the evidence piling up that his remaining president is a dangerous proposition for the nation, then she certainly can't be trusted to tell the truth if she attains the White House. This is an issue that she should have been pushed on over and over. //

MizRando
13 hours ago
So, let me get this straight. Joe is so senile he can't possibly run for a second term. Joe is so senile he's not allowed to campaign for his vice president. The only thing Joe is capable of doing is being POTUS? If this doesn't tell you what Democrats truly think about America and its citizens, I don't know what does.

RedinOR MizRando
13 hours ago
It demonstrates their grasp on power and the corruption that is being hidden are far more important that the country or her citizens. These people are the real garbage. //

flguy
14 hours ago
Come on, Dr. Jill! Do not stand for this! Get Joe out there and talking up a storm! They've done you wrong so many times, don't stand for it! Get Joe talkin'!

‘What happened between 8:00 a.m. [and] 1:00 p.m. is unknown because we were not given advance notice,’ said DeKalb County GOP Chairwoman Marci McCarthy. //

“These acceptances of absentee ballots were being done outside of the purview of legal observers without notification,” McCarthy said. “Nobody was watching these absentee ballots come in as prescribed by law because we had no advance notice.” //

Cobb County also extended its absentee ballot drop-off time period. Cobb County Republican Party Chairwoman Salleigh Grubbs told The Federalist she was not notified about the change and was likewise caught off guard.

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Kamala Harris SNL skit DIRECTLY copied Trump’s from 2015.

Can she do ANYTHING original at all?

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Kamala Harris spent THREE HOURS rehearsing for this cringe fest on SNL.

Complete with the fake black accent.

This is a tough watch. Good Lord.
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Kamala and "SNL" even ripped off the bit Hillary Clinton did in 2008 about her laugh/cackle: //

In the skit, Clinton wondered “do I really laugh like that?” – a gag that was repeated nearly word-for-word during Harris’ appearance.

“SNL writers must be as lazy as everyone thinks they are,” one viewer noted of the joke. //

Why should we vote for Copycat Kamala, when we can get the better, real original policies from Trump, without any of her bad polices and actions?

[Abraham Lincoln] helped fell trees to build a large river raft to carry farm goods down a local river and then the treacherous Mississippi to New Orleans. There, they took the raft apart and sold the logs to build houses in the first bustling big city the future president had ever seen.

Lincoln then walked the nearly 800 miles back to central Illinois. //

The 1860 presidential election has always seemed like a political presidential watershed to me. //

That was the first national confrontation between the two major parties that have shaped American politics ever since and endure today. That's because their ideologies and platforms have been – shall we say – malleable, adapting adeptly to society's changing times, interests, and priorities and starving third parties of lasting issues.

The Republican Party was created in Wisconsin in 1854 around the dominant issue of the day, slavery. In its first presidential contest, the anti-slavery GOP carried the day with Abraham Lincoln as nominee. //

When slavery split Democrats into northern and southern wings in 1860, that election became a four-way race. The northern Democrat was old friend Illinois Sen. Stephen Douglas, who fared the worst.

There were 33 states then. Douglas won one of them, Arkansas. Lincoln needed 152 electoral votes. He got 180 from 18 states with only 39.7 percent of the splintered popular vote.

Welcome to the White House, Mr. President. Until 1933, Inauguration Days back then were in March. By March of 1861, seven states had seceded. Five weeks later, Confederates started the Civil War in South Carolina.

In 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all enslaved people in the South.

As an attempt to begin national healing, for his 1864 reelection, Lincoln chose as his vice-presidential running mate a southern Democrat, Sen. Andrew Johnson of Tennessee.

That’s the only time a U.S. political party has nominated a bipartisan national ticket. It worked for the election. But not so well after, when GOP Congress met Democrat president. Post-presidency, Johnson became the only president to later serve in the Senate.

Lincoln’s second inauguration came outside the Capitol with John Wilkes Booth reportedly watching from nearby. Like much of what the self-educated Lincoln wrote, the speech was full of humanity, grace, and humility, and far shorter than today's wordy promise agendas salted with calculated applause lines:

With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds…

The ensuing celebration lacked Lincoln’s favorite food, chicken fricassee. But the 250-foot-long buffet table was laden with veal, venison, quail, oyster stew, and six flavors of ice cream, including Lincoln’s favorite, vanilla.

Twenty-five days later, the Civil War ended as the deadliest conflict still in U.S. history.

Thirty days after that inauguration, the Lincolns went to a play at Ford’s Theater. It was Good Friday.

Allegedly to see the performance better, the president’s bodyguard, John Parker, left his post outside the Lincolns' box. But he wound up in a nearby saloon.

Confederate sympathizer Booth had no trouble sneaking in behind the president with his .44 Derringer. The bullet entered the left side of Lincoln’s head, passed through the brain, lodging just behind the right eye.

The 56-year-old president, who had maintained the Union but would lose three of his four sons to illness, never regained consciousness and died the next morning.

(In a bizarre twist, Lincoln's eternal rest was interrupted 12 years later by a band of grave robbers who successfully absconded with the presidential corpse for some weeks, seeking ransom for the kidnapped body. Which explains why Abraham Lincoln now rests in a Springfield memorial in a coffin sealed within two tons of cement and steel.)