Democratic Senators have introduced new gun control legislation that would, among other things, institute a federal license requirement to buy a gun.
Democratic New Jersey Senators Bod Menendez and Cory Booker, and Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal introduced the &#8220;Federal Firearm Licensing Act&#8221; Thursday. The bill would institute a requirement for gun purchasers to obtain a firearms license through the Department of Justice before buying or receiving a gun.
The <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000180-dc23-d6b4-a7e5-fcebd8760000">text of the bill</a> states in part:
<blockquote>[It] shall be unlawful for any individual to purchase or receive a firearm unless the individual has a valid Federal firearm license.</blockquote>
The bill then outlines the procedure for establishing the license under the Department of Justice, directing the attorney general to establish a system for issuing them. In order to be eligible to obtain the license itself, a prospective licensee must first complete a firearms safety course, which includes &#8220;a written test, to demonstrate knowledge of applicable firearms laws; and hands-on testing, including firing testing, to demonstrate safe use and sufficient accuracy of a firearm.&#8221; After that, the licensee must pass a federal background check and a criminal history; submit proof of identification; fingerprints; and information about the firearm the licensee intends to buy or obtain, including &#8220;make, model, and serial number, and the identity of the firearm seller or transferor.&#8221;
As Booker noted in a <a href="https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-menendez-blumenthal-reintroduce-federal-firearm-licensing-act">press release</a>, the federal background check and ID check would require the licensee to be at least 21 years old, effectively raising the legal age of gun ownership to 21.
Under the law, the attorney general would have to approve or deny applications within 30 days, and notify state and local officials of every application. If approved, licenses would be made available at a &#8220;designated local office.&#8221; Each individual license would be valid to buy one firearm, to be purchased within 30 days of issuance. The licenses would expire five years after the issuance date. The law would also allow the attorney general to deny or revoke the license of anyone he deems &#8220;poses a significant danger of bodily injury to self or others by possessing, purchasing, or receiving a firearm.” The bill also includes a provision in which the law would not apply in states that have licensing processes &#8220;with substantially similar requirements.&#8221;
In addition, the bill makes it illegal to transfer a gun to any person without first being transferred to a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer. It also makes it illegal to sell or transfer a gun to an unlicensed person.
In the Thursday press release, the three senators cited the mass shooting in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shooter-kills-10-wounds-three-in-buffalo-grocery-store-authorities-investigating-as-racially-motivated-attack">Buffalo</a> last weekend as the reason for pushing the legislation. A gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others at a grocery store in the city Saturday, allegedly targeting the store because of racial animus, as The Daily Wire reported. &#8220;This is the moment to enact ambitious legislation &#8211; as a nation, we must rise to it, or we are fated to witness the deadly scenes of this past weekend and years past over again,” said Booker.
&#8220;We have a moral obligation to prevent these senseless massacres in our schools, supermarkets, places of worship and shopping malls that are tearing communities and families apart,&#8221; added Menendez, calling on Republicans to pass the bill.

Senate Democrats Introduce Bill Requiring A Federal Firearms License To Buy And Own A Gun

Gun Control

Guns

Senate Democrats

U.S. Senate

Moderate Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin blasted the Biden administration and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland for doing little, if anything, to help alleviate the ongoing energy crisis.
Speaking at a hearing of the Senate Energy Committee on the Department of the Interior&#8217;s budget request for fiscal year 2023, Manchin hammered the Biden administration for failing to increase domestic oil, natural gas, and critical minerals production. He also took the Interior Department to task for canceling several large oil leases, and imposing a set of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-recommends-tighter-constraints-on-new-oil-and-gas-drilling-amid-energy-crisis">restrictions</a> and costs on new oil and gas leases that would disincentivize new oil and gas development altogether.
&#8220;We are holding this hearing during trying times,&#8221; Manchin began. &#8220;Putin’s horrific invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s weaponization of oil and gas, increasing energy and food prices worldwide, and the growing challenge of competition with China. Given the current global situation, it is essential for the United States to step up to the plate as the superpower of the world.&#8221;
&#8220;That includes the responsible development of our abundant energy and mineral resources. Unfortunately, even as we see Russia wage a war enabled by energy insecurity in Europe, this administration has made its opposition to domestic oil and gas production crystal clear – on and off Federal lands and waters,&#8221; he continued.
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ICYMI: In an <a href="https://twitter.com/EnergyDems?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EnergyDems</a> hearing today on the President’s budget request for <a href="https://twitter.com/Interior?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Interior</a> for FY 2023, Chairman <a href="https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Sen_JoeManchin</a> urged the Biden Administration to rethink its approach to energy policy to protect America’s energy and national security. <a href="https://t.co/LommrXC1o8">pic.twitter.com/LommrXC1o8</a>
— SenateEnergyDems (@EnergyDems) <a href="https://twitter.com/EnergyDems/status/1527394375227023360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
Manchin said he supported a &#8220;pause&#8221; on new leases at a hearing last year, but since then, there have been no new leases, according to Manchin. The administration did hold a lease sale in the fall because of a court order, but those sales were later vacated by another court and went unchallenged by the administration, Manchin said.
The senator said that the Biden administration is scheduled to hold lease sales in June, but only a fraction of the available land and at a higher royalty rate, and only because of a court order. &#8220;I’m sorry to say it has become crystal clear that the &#8216;pause&#8217; is in fact a &#8216;ban,’” Manchin said, noting the recent cancellation of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/while-gas-hits-record-high-biden-administration-cancels-enormous-alaska-oil-and-gas-lease-sale">three large offshore oil leases</a>.
Manchin then criticized the Biden administration&#8217;s excuse that there are 9,000 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deliberate-effort-to-mislead-the-public-psaki-hit-for-comments-on-unused-drilling-permits-as-gas-prices-skyrocket">unused</a> drilling permits, so no new leases need to be sold. First, he pointed out that the number refers to onshore leases, not offshore leases. Second, he said those leases go through an &#8220;arduous&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unacceptable-cruz-gop-senators-demand-end-to-oil-and-gas-lease-permit-delays">review</a> process, with further review before a drilling permit is issued. Third, he said that logistics and building the rig also take time, which is why the permits last two years and can be extended for good cause. Manchin stated that 7,000 permits have been extended for such reasons.
Manchin then blasted the administration for pursuing a royalty increase for certain leases that he said &#8220;may disincentivize pursuing federal leases at all.&#8221; He also excoriated regulations and public statements that he said have a chilling effect on new investment.
&#8220;My frustration is at an all-time high that we are talking to OPEC, Iran, and Venezuela to increase oil output while we are at the same time blocking increased energy production at home,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What does it say to producers here in the United States when we consider working with the Venezuelan government, which certainly doesn’t share our values, instead of supporting domestic or North American production? Is this really in our best interest?&#8221;
Manchin also said the United State was still relying too much on China to supply critical minerals and not doing enough to open up domestic mining and processing.
&#8220;The only way we will be able to guarantee our energy security, which will also allow us to develop the technology to meet our climate goals, is to rely on ourselves and our proven partners around the globe,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Given my experience with the so-called leasing ‘pause,’ and the missed Energy Act deadlines, I must admit that I am skeptical that this administration will ultimately support the development of these types of critical mineral projects.&#8221;

Joe Manchin

‘My Frustration Is At An All-Time High’: Manchin Hammers Biden Admin For Not Doing Enough To Fix Energy Crisis

Sen. Manchin Hammers Biden Admin For Not Doing Enough To Fix Energy Crisis

Biden Administration

Energy

Joe Biden

Oil and Gas

A dietitian at the University of Illinois Chicago is pushing for the word &#8220;obesity&#8221; to be removed from public health discourse.
An <a href="https://publichealth.uic.edu/community-engagement/collaboratory-for-health-justice/addressing-weight-stigma-and-fatphobia-in-public-health/">article</a> published by the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health says that focusing on preventing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/obesity">obesity</a> has led to an increase in &#8220;weight stigma&#8221; and negative health consequences for obese people. In the article, author Amanda Montgomery, a registered dietitian and a member of the &#8220;Collaboratory for Health Justice&#8221; at the School of Public Health, claims that instead of &#8220;focusing on the narrative that weight is controllable and a personal responsibility,&#8221; experts need to shift toward an &#8220;understanding of weight stigma as a social justice issue.&#8221;
Montgomery&#8217;s first complaint against the current &#8220;weight-based approaches to health&#8221; is that focusing on body size is rooted in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/racism">racism</a>. &#8220;Around 81 percent of societies historically have favored people in larger bodies,&#8221; she claims, citing research. &#8220;Larger bodies signified wealth and prosperity while thinness signified poverty and weakness. However, this began to change due to racism and eugenics. Charles Darwin and other race scientists created a hierarchy of civilization, placing white men on top and people of color, specifically black people, at the bottom, considering them to be &#8216;less civilized.&#8217; Fatness and differing body characteristics were used to justify lack of civilization: fatness used as a marker of &#8216;uncivilized behavior&#8217; while thinness was &#8216;more evolved.’ This idea was maintained throughout the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries, as a way to justify slavery, racism and classism, and control women through &#8216;temperance.&#8217; This ideology has perpetuated Desirability Politics- where thinness and whiteness are given more access to social, political and cultural capital.&#8221;
In addition to this, Montgomery claims that the Body Mass Index (BMI) scale is a flawed metric of health, that focusing on weight under-diagnoses thin people and misdiagnoses larger people, and that weight loss research is also flawed.
Further along in the article, Montgomery assails the idea of dieting and weight loss itself. She writes that food restriction has harmful effects on our body, noting that oftentimes while dieting, the body will undergo changes in reaction to lower food intake. She also notes that people on diets experience weight cycling, or repeated gains and losses in weight, and that eating disorders and &#8220;disordered eating&#8221; are increasing. Montgomery also claims that there is not a cause-and-effect relationship between weight and health outcomes, that &#8220;weight stigma&#8221; is harmful to health.
Montgomery then claims that the focus on weight ignores systemic injustice. &#8220;Though lifestyle factors such as nutrition and exercise are important, it is essential to note the historical racism and injustices within our current food environment,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;The U.S. food system is built on stolen land using stolen labor from Black and Latinx indigenous people. Not only has this created a large scale food apartheid and trauma for people indigenous to this land, it has caused a disconnection of indigenous people from their cultural practices and identities.&#8221;
Montgomery then suggests that &#8220;public health needs a weight-inclusive approach.&#8221; Stating that &#8220;bodies come in all sizes,&#8221; she recommends a &#8220;Health at Every Size approach&#8221; that focuses on the &#8220;root causes&#8221; of health. She suggests that public health officials &#8220;work to increase health access, autonomy, and social justice for all individuals along the entire weight spectrum.&#8221; To accomplish this, she recommends that people change their everyday language from &#8220;obesity&#8221; to &#8220;people in larger bodies.&#8221; She also recommends replacing weight-based assignments in classrooms, analyzing &#8220;fatphobia&#8221; in clinical research and exploring &#8220;internalized fatphobia.&#8221;

University Public Health Article Pushes To Cancel ‘Obesity,’ Says ‘Weight-Based Approaches’ Rooted In Racism

University Public Health Article Pushes To Cancel 'Obesity,' Says 'Weight-Based Approaches' Rooted In Racism

Body positivity

Chicago

Fat Acceptance

Health

Obesity

House Democrats in the state of New York are in disarray, attacking each other over a likely primary showdown between two high-profile progressive Congressmen.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney announced Monday that he would be seeking re-election in New York&#8217;s 17th Congressional District, after a court-ordered <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/proposed-new-york-congressional-maps-set-up-primary-battlegrounds-for-high-profile-democrats">special master</a> published a draft set of maps for New York&#8217;s House delegation. The special master&#8217;s maps were the result of a ruling from the New York State Court of Appeals, which ruled that the state legislature&#8217;s maps for Congress and the State Senate were partisan gerrymanders in violation of the state constitution.
&#8220;While the process to draw these maps without the legislature is against the will of voters, if the newly-announced maps are finalized, I will run in New York&#8217;s 17th Congressional District. NY-17 includes my home and many of the Hudson Valley communities I currently represent,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/spmaloney/status/1526234262185336832">Maloney</a> tweeted Monday.
&#8220;Further, I believe I am the only sitting member who resides in NY17,&#8221; Maloney <a href="https://twitter.com/spmaloney/status/1526239795625742338">added</a> in another tweet.
As the Cook Political Report&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1526927597514502144">Dave Wasserman</a> noted Wednesday, Maloney would be moving from his current district, NY-18. Under the new maps, Maloney&#8217;s district would be considered vulnerable in the current political environment, since the district voted for Joe Biden by just five points in 2020. But a recent internal poll from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has shown that Republicans lead in the generic ballot by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/panic-even-dems-internal-polling-shows-huge-swing-for-house-gop-in-2022">8 points</a> in competitive districts, and another poll by the Republican Super PAC Congressional Leadership Fund found that &#8220;Biden +8 districts are now tossups,&#8221; as The Daily Wire reported. Instead, Maloney would be moving to a safer Biden +10 district. However, in doing so, Maloney, who is the chairman of the DCCC, would be running in a primary against freshman progressive Rep. Mondaire Jones, who currently represents the 17th district.
According to <a href="https://thehill.com/news/house/3493288-eying-new-house-district-dem-campaign-chair-faces-backlash/">The Hill</a>, Jones would still represent an overwhelming majority of the current district under the new maps. But Wasserman noted Monday that Jones technically lives in the new 16th district. As such, should the new maps be adopted, Jones would be caught in the rock-and-a-hard-place position of having to run against Maloney in the district he mostly represents, or having to run in NY-16 against Jamaal Bowman, another black progressive and fellow member of the Congressional Black Caucus. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/17/maloney-dccc-jones-new-york-00033277">Politico</a> notes that a number of Democrats have raised the issue privately, going so far as to push for Maloney to be ousted from his position as chair of the DCCC.
Jones lashed out at Maloney Monday. “Sean Patrick Maloney did not even give me a heads up before he went on Twitter to make that announcement,&#8221; he said, via Politico&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/allymutnick/status/1526341346751021056">Ally Mutnick</a>. &#8220;And I think that tells you everything you need know about Sean Patrick Maloney.&#8221;
Jones&#8217; colleague <a href="https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1526947497565990912">Ritchie Torres</a>, who represents the nearby 15th Congressional District, and along with Jones is one of two black gay members of Congress, also criticized Maloney for attempting to push Jones out of his district. &#8220;The thinly veiled racism here is profoundly disappointing,&#8221; Torres tweeted Wednesday. &#8220;A black man is ideologically ill suited to represent a Westchester County District that he represents presently and won decisively in 2020? Outrageous.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s a simple solution here,&#8221; Torres added. &#8220;Maloney should run in NY-18, which he mostly represents. Jones in NY-17, which he mostly represents Bowman in NY-16, which he mostly represents. Problem solved.&#8221;

Dems In Disarray: Progressives Bash Each Other Over Possible NY Showdown Between DCCC Chair, Black Caucus Freshman

Progressives Bash Each Other Over Possible NY Showdown Between DCCC Chair, Black Caucus Freshman

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Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)

Democratic Party

New York

Republicans are already seeing a huge advantage in turnout during the 2022 primaries, according to one pollster.
In Tuesday&#8217;s primary elections in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Kentucky, Idaho, and Oregon, Republicans made up 54.9% of the total votes cast, according to John Couvillon, founder of the polling firm JMC Analytics. When factoring in the other five states that have already held primaries — Texas, Indiana, Ohio, Nebraska, and West Virginia, Republicans account for fully 60% of votes cast in the primaries so far.
“In every state where I’ve been measuring turnout changes relative to previous midterms, I’m seeing a clear advantage on the Republican side,” Couvillon told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/gop-primary-turnout-suggests-red-wave-in-november-midterms/">New York Post</a> Wednesday. Couvillon added that the data was “not super representative,&#8221; since it was only from 10 states with early primaries, and there are still 174 days before the general elections. Still, the data from these primaries suggest that “states that are swinging and are Republican are going to move far to the right,&#8221; he said.
Couvillon also shared his data on Twitter Wednesday. According to the data, overall turnout in the 10 states that have already had primaries was up 21% from 2018, which he noted was a high turnout year in itself. But a partisan breakdown showed a massive advantage for Republicans — so far, Democratic turnout has totaled just under five million votes, while Republicans have cast nearly 7.5 million. In addition, Democratic turnout increased by just 3% over 2018, while Republican turnout increased by 38%.
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PARTISAN PRIMARY TURNOUT, 2022 v 2018
Now we have a sample of 10 states.
Overall turnout up 21% (and 2018 was a high turnout year); Dem turnout +3%, Rep turnout +38%
The Republican % of the vote went from 53 to 60% of the electorate. 
(1/2) <a href="https://t.co/LIAdThNEtx">pic.twitter.com/LIAdThNEtx</a>
— John Couvillon (@WinWithJMC) <a href="https://twitter.com/WinWithJMC/status/1526908113340743682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
Democratic turnout went down in five states relative to 2018: turnout was down 6% in Indiana; 29% in Ohio; 49% in West Virginia; 39% in Idaho; and 29% in Kentucky. Republicans, meanwhile, increased turnout in every state so far, and more than doubled their turnout in North Carolina. Couvillon also noted that the electorate in three states — Kentucky, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania — flipped from 2018 to 2022 from a Democratic advantage to a Republican one. Oregon was the lone bright spot for Democrats. Republicans increased their turnout, but made up less of the electorate because of higher Democratic turnout.
The turnout trend heavily favored Democrats in 2018, Couvillon said, via the Post. JMC Analytics data from the <a href="https://winwithjmc.com/archives/8436">2018 primary season</a> showed that Democrats made up 53% of the overall electorate, and increased turnout that year by a massive 75% over 2014. Democrats flipped 41 seats to take back the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterms.
News of a Republican turnout advantage is the latest warning sign for Democrats that a Republican &#8220;red wave&#8221; election is coming in November. An internal poll of highly competitive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/panic-even-dems-internal-polling-shows-huge-swing-for-house-gop-in-2022">battleground districts</a> conducted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee found that the generic Republican candidate is leading the generic Democratic candidate by an 8-point margin, as The Daily Wire reported. “Given that Democrats generally have a three or four-point built-in advantage on the generic ballot, this is a particularly concerning development for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s majority,” Punchbowl News noted. Thirty-two House Democrats have already resigned or announced they won&#8217;t be running for re-election so far this year, the most since 1992, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/whats-stake-2022-us-congressional-elections-2022-05-02/">Reuters</a> reported.
President Joe Biden, meanwhile, has continued to collapse in the polls, another warning sign for his party. Biden fell to the lowest rating of his Presidency, 38%, in a <a href="https://www.umass.edu/news/article/president-bidens-approval-falls-below-40-first-time-new-national-umass-amherst-poll?_gl=1*16x4hlw*_ga*MTUxNzIzNzg3NS4xNjUyMzc2MTI1*_ga_21RLS0L7EB*MTY1MjgxNjA3NC4zLjEuMTY1MjgxNjQxMi4w&amp;_ga=2.218538910.606830135.1652816075-1517237875.1652376125">University of Massachusetts Amherst</a> poll Tuesday, and a Wednesday poll from <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3846">Quinnipiac</a> found Biden at just 35% approval.

Voting

Republicans Have A Massive Turnout Advantage In 2022 Primaries So Far: Report

2022 Election

2022 Midterms

Nancy Pelosi

Republican Party

Republican Utah Congressman Burgess Owens delivered a powerful pro-life testimonial at a Congressional hearing on abortion Wednesday.
During witness testimony at a hearing of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm0ZGOuR3p8">House Judiciary Committee</a> discussing abortion rights, Owens spoke about the value of life, firing back at Treasury Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/treasury-secretary-yellen-claims-restricting-abortion-access-would-have-damaging-effects-on-americas-economy">Janet Yellen</a>, who claimed at a Senate Banking Committee hearing that &#8220;eliminating the rights of women to make decisions about women, whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades.&#8221;
Owens opened his statement by taking aim at Yellen over her comments. He accused Yellen of parroting Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger&#8217;s ideology. &#8220;Secretary Yellen argued that ending the life of an unborn child is a good thing for the labor force participation rate,&#8221; Owens said. &#8220;Since I&#8217;m very aware of the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, I find the parroting of her manifesto by Secretary Yellen, the devaluation of life of unborn poor, black, and minority children, very concerning.&#8221; Owens praised Republican South Carolina Senator Tim Scott for pushing back on Yellen&#8217;s comments during that hearing, as well as in an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/17/tim-scott-abortion-single-black-mothers-economic-problems/">op-ed</a> that the senator wrote for The Washington Post Tuesday.
&#8220;Secretary Yellen&#8217;s comments [are] also deeply offensive to me,&#8221; Owens continued. &#8220;For years, the black community has been disproportionately targeted by the abortion industry. I&#8217;ve watched it happen. We&#8217;ve lost over 20 million black babies over the last 40 years. That&#8217;s 40% of my race exterminated before given a chance to bless our nation with their innate talents. Based on [Yellen&#8217;s] conclusion, their demise is a good thing for our labor force participation rate. Secretary Yellen has obviously concluded that these 20 million black lives would have been an economic drain on our society.&#8221;
Owens then cited a <a href="https://www.lifeissues.org/2017/02/investigation-planned-parenthood-speeds-targeting-minorities/">2017 report</a> by the pro-life think tank Life Issues Institute, which found that 88% of Planned Parenthood &#8220;mega-centers&#8221; target women of color, including 80% that target black communities and 56% that target Hispanic or Latino communities. &#8220;For those who love the concept of equity in everything under the sun including test score outcomes, when it comes to the death of unborn, the abortion equity seems pretty racist to me. Abortion is not health care. Health care does not result in the intentional death of over 60 million human beings. It undermines the dignity and worth of every individual and their God-given right to life. If a woman feels that abortion is her only and best option, I believe that woman has been failed by her family, her partner, her community, and her health care providers.”
&#8220;I&#8217;m the father of six children and 16 grandchildren,&#8221; Owens went on. &#8220;My pride comes from the joy of watching them grow and start families of their own, even if their circumstances are imperfect, or as Ms. Yellen would have us believe, an economic burden. Now two of my beautiful, loving, talented children [were] born after my NFL career, after I lost everything due to a failed business, and after a brief job stint as a chimney sweep and a security guard. Thank goodness I was raised by a generation of proud black Americans who taught me that [in] America, our financial status does not define us. It can be temporary. Our children and family relationships, on the other hand, are not only eternal, but a valuable treasure during our brief time on this Earth. They are the only legacy at the end of our lives that really matter.&#8221;
&#8220;Our children are the most precious gifts and blessings from a loving God,&#8221; Owens concluded. &#8220;The fight to defend life has never been more important. The fight to defend the founding ideals of our nation, that all people are &#8216;created equal, that they are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,&#8217; has never been more important.&#8221;

Burgess Owens

‘Most Precious Gifts And Blessing From A Loving God’: Rep. Burgess Owens Delivers Powerful Pro-Life Testimonial At Congressional Hearing On Abortion

Rep. Burgess Owens Delivers Pro-Life Testimonial At Congressional Hearing On Abortion

Abortion

Pro-Life Movement

Supreme Court

Nearly half of President Joe Biden&#8217;s Twitter followers are fake accounts, according to a report.
An audit of Biden&#8217;s official @POTUS Twitter account found that 49.3% of the Twitter users who follow the account are &#8220;fake followers,&#8221; <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/half-joe-biden-twitter-followers-are-fake-audit-elon-musk-1707244">Newsweek</a> initially reported Tuesday. To conduct the audit, Newsweek used a follower audit tool, called &#8220;Fake Followers,&#8221; created by data analytics firm SparkToro.
According to the <a href="https://sparktoro.com/fake-followers/potus">Fake Followers</a> tool, which is available to use for free online, the @POTUS Twitter account has about 10.9 million &#8220;fake followers&#8221; out of 22.2 million total, which make up 49.3% of the account&#8217;s followers. That number is relatively high for an account of that size. The median percentage of &#8220;fake followers&#8221; for an account of similar size is 41%, putting the @POTUS account on the high end of the spectrum. The low end of the spectrum for an account of similar size is about 25% &#8220;fake followers.&#8221;
The tool defines &#8220;fake followers&#8221; as &#8220;accounts that are unreachable and will not see the account’s tweets (either because they’re spam, bots, propaganda, etc. or because they’re no longer active on Twitter).&#8221; To conduct the audit itself, the tool samples 2,000 random users picked from the 100,000 users who followed the audited account most recently. The tool then analyzes the followers, using more than 25 factors that correlate with &#8220;spam/bot/low quality accounts.&#8221; SparkToro notes that while none of these indicators alone point to a fake account, when multiple indicators are present, there is &#8220;strong correlation with low quality.&#8221;
According to the tool, 81% of the audited sample consisted of followers who had created accounts in the last 90 days; 93% had profile URLs that were not correct; 91% had a &#8220;suspiciously small number of followers&#8221;; 88% &#8220;follow an unusually small number of accounts&#8221;; 24% had a default profile picture; 45% had display names with spam-correlated signals; and 72% had spam-correlated signals in their biographies.
Biden&#8217;s personal account has a somewhat lower percentage of &#8220;fake followers,” according to the report. The audit tool found that the @JoeBiden account had 43% “fake followers,&#8221; equal to about 14.7 million followers out of about 34 million total. Biden&#8217;s account was much more toward the median percentage than @POTUS. Still, some 55% of sampled followers had not been active for more than 120 days; 60% had a &#8220;suspiciously small number of followers&#8221;; 47% followed &#8220;an unusually small number of accounts&#8221;; and 87% had suspicious profile URLs.
SparkToro also conducted a large-scale audit of Twitter. In a blog post Sunday, SparkToro <a href="https://sparktoro.com/blog/sparktoro-followerwonk-joint-twitter-analysis-19-42-of-active-accounts-are-fake-or-spam/">reported</a> the results of a joint audit with another firm called Followerwonk, of more than 44,000 accounts active in the last 90 days. The audit found that 19.42% of active accounts were likely to be fake. Also in its report, SparkToro estimated that 22.35% of accounts were fake, using data aggregated from the more than 500,000 accounts audited using the tool over 3.5 years. That percentage was four times more than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-publicly-calls-out-twitters-ceo-for-claims-about-spam-accounts">Twitter&#8217;s Q4 2021 estimate</a> of the percentage of spam accounts on the platform.
SparkToro’s figure was likely cited by billionaire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-doubt-about-spam-accounts-could-kill-twitter-deal">Elon Musk</a> when he threw his agreement to buy the platform into question Tuesday. &#8220;20% fake/spam accounts, while 4 times what Twitter claims, could be *much* higher,&#8221; Musk tweeted. &#8220;My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate. Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of &lt;5%. This deal cannot move forward until he does.&#8221;

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Nearly Half Of Biden’s Twitter Followers Are ‘Fake’: Report

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A Republican state senator introduced a parents&#8217; rights bill in New Jersey Monday.
New Jersey State Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-truck-driver-beats-new-jerseys-most-powerful-democrat-lawmaker-after-only-spending-a-few-thousand-dollars">Edward Durr</a> introduced Senate Bill 2648 into the legislative record on Monday. The bill prohibits schools from teaching courses on sex and gender identity for students in grades K-6. It also requires students in grades 7-12 to obtain parents&#8217; permission before receiving instruction on such topics.
The <a href="https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2022/S3000/2648_I1.PDF">text of the bill</a> reads in part:
<blockquote>A school district shall not include, as part of a course of instruction, information on sexual orientation or gender identity for students in grades kindergarten through six as part of the school district’s implementation of the New Jersey Student Learning Standards.
A school district shall not provide instruction for students in grades seven through 12 that includes information on sexual orientation or gender identity without receiving prior written consent from the student’s parent or guardian. Any student whose parent or guardian does not provide prior written consent shall be excused from that portion of the course where such instruction is provided and no penalties as to credit or graduation shall result therefrom.</blockquote>
The bill further states that if a student receives instruction on sex and gender in violation of the bill, their parents or guardians can bring civil action against the school district. Additionally, if a school district or a district employee, such as a teacher, violates the law, the bill empowers the New Jersey Attorney General to seek an injunction against either.
The bill also empowers the New Jersey Commissioner of Education to withhold state funding from a district that violates the bill, until such time as the commissioner finds that the district is no longer in violation. If passed and signed into law, the bill would take effect in the first full school year after signing.
Durr announced that he would be proposing the law in April. “I highly doubt that New Jersey parents would want their children to learn about gender identity and sexual orientation in elementary school,” he said in a <a href="https://www.senatenj.com/index.php/durr/durr-to-introduce-bill-prohibiting-classroom-instruction-on-sexual-orientation-gender-identity-from-kindergarten-through-sixth-grade/57068">statement</a> at the time. “The new curriculum being foisted on us by the Murphy Administration is not only absurd and unnecessary, but it is incredibly insulting to every parent in the state. My legislation will reverse the implementation of these new sex education standards and allow parents to determine if and when such curriculum should be offered to their children.”
“I have heard from countless parents throughout South Jersey who have expressed anger and frustration in response to this new curriculum. They genuinely feel that their parental rights are being ignored by the Murphy Administration—something that is difficult to dispute,” Durr added. “Gender identity and sexual orientation are complicated subjects and I don’t think you will find a rational person in this country that thinks teaching such subjects to first- and second-grade students is a good idea.”
Durr also co-sponsored two bills authored by fellow Republican State Senators Joe Pennacchio and Mike Testa earlier this year: one would <a href="https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2022/S1000/598_I1.PDF">prohibit</a> New Jersey schools from teaching Critical Race Theory; the other would <a href="https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2022/S2500/2385_I1.PDF">remove the requirement</a> to teach diversity and inclusion classes in grades K-8, classes which would be introduced beginning in the 2022-23 school year. None of the three bills are likely to pass in New Jersey&#8217;s Democratic State Legislature.

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Pain at the pump is worsening nationwide, as every state in the United States is paying more that $4 a gallon for gas, according to AAA.
AAA&#8217;s <a href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/">Gas Prices tracker</a> broke another record Tuesday, with the national average price for a gallon of gas climbing to $4.523 per gallon. That number is nearly $1.50 more per gallon than last year, when the average price was $3.045. At the same time, the average price for a gallon of gas climbed above $4 in every state in the union.
The states of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Georgia were the final holdouts. Gas prices in Oklahoma rose to $4.01 per gallon, an increase of just over one cent from Monday&#8217;s average of $3.99. Prices in Kansas rose 2 cents, from $3.98 per gallon Monday to $4.00 Tuesday. In Georgia, prices climbed an additional 6 cents overnight, from $3.99 to $4.06 per gallon.
Prices in California also crossed the $6 threshold Tuesday. The statewide average rose to $6.02 per gallon Tuesday, up 4 cents from Monday&#8217;s average of $5.98 per gallon. Two states, Oregon and Alaska, crossed the $5 mark as well. Washington and Nevada have also seen prices rise above $5 a gallon in recent weeks.
Prices have also soared to record highs in Canada. GasBuddy Chief Petroleum Analyst <a href="https://twitter.com/GasBuddyGuy/status/1526596366675369985?s=20&amp;t=HWKl_KDfeok1_HGjMZT9GQ">Patrick de Haan</a> reported Tuesday that average prices in Canada surpassed $2 per liter for the first time ever.
The price of diesel continued to soar as well. The price of a gallon of diesel fuel rose to $5.57 Tuesday, continuing a streak of record-breaking price increases. Diesel prices broke records first in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-u-s-national-average-price-of-gasoline-hits-new-all-time-record-high-report-says">March</a> of this year, but began climbing again in April and have continued since then. This time last year, the price of a gallon of diesel was about $3.17.
Experts have pointed out a number of potential causes for the continued surge in prices at the pump. The Biden administration has continued to be critical of American oil and natural gas production.
The Department of the Interior <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/while-gas-hits-record-high-biden-administration-cancels-enormous-alaska-oil-and-gas-lease-sale">canceled a massive lease</a>, totaling more than 1 million acres, in the Cook Inlet in Alaska, citing a “lack of industry interest in leasing in the area.&#8221;
The DOI also canceled two lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico because of “conflicting court rulings that impacted work on these proposed lease sales.” Biden also shut down the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office, and has previously nominated anti-fossil fuel advocates like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/key-biden-nominee-on-oil-companies-we-want-them-to-go-bankrupt-if-we-want-to-tackle-climate-change">Saule Omarova</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-anti-fossil-fuel-fed-nominee-withdraws-after-confirmation-stalls">Sarah Bloom Raskin</a>, who have called for the financial sector to divest from fossil fuels.
In addition to lack of production, the U.S. is also experiencing a shortage of refinery capacity, especially for diesel fuel. According to the <a href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48636">Energy Information Administration</a>, the U.S. achieved about 19 million barrels per day in refinery capacity in 2019. But capacity declined by 4.5%, or nearly 1 million barrels per day, in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has not recovered.
As <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/why-diesel-fuel-costs-are-really-rising/">National Review&#8217;s</a> Jim Geraghty pointed out Tuesday, six major oil refineries closed down in 2020: the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in Philadelphia, PA; the Shell refinery in Convent, LA; the Tesoro Marathon refinery in Martinez, CA; the HollyFrontier refinery in Cheyenne, WY; the Western Refining refinery in Gallup, NM; and the Dakota Prairie refinery in Dickinson, ND. All but one of those refineries has been shut down permanently or converted into a refinery for processing biofuels.
Without these refineries and no existing plans to build new refineries or expand existing ones, as one Bloomberg headline put it: &#8220;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-13/gasoline-diesel-jet-fuel-refining-capacity-is-too-low-in-the-us-to-meet-demand">The US Can&#8217;t Make Enough Fuel and There&#8217;s No Fix in Sight.</a>&#8220;

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation Monday making it a crime to picket or protest outside an individual&#8217;s home.
DeSantis signed Florida House Bill 1571 into law Monday. The law bans protests outside a person&#8217;s home. Under the law, law enforcement officers must first issue a warning to protesters to disperse, but if they do not, officers can arrest them. Violations of the law will be prosecuted and punished as second-degree misdemeanors. The law will go into effect on October 1.
“Sending unruly mobs to private residences, like we have seen with the angry crowds in front of the homes of Supreme Court justices, is inappropriate,” DeSantis said in a <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2022/05/16/governor-ron-desantis-protects-floridians-from-protests-outside-their-homes/">statement</a> Tuesday. “This bill will provide protection to those living in residential communities and I am glad to sign it into law.”
In the preamble to the law, the Florida legislature states that &#8220;the state has a significant interest in protecting the tranquility and privacy of the home and protecting citizens from the detrimental effect of targeted picketing.&#8221; The <a href="https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1571/BillText/er/PDF">text of the law</a> reads:
<blockquote>It is unlawful for a person to picket or protest before or about the dwelling of any person with the intent to harass or disturb that person in his or her dwelling.</blockquote>
And further, the text of the law describes the procedure for law enforcement officers to follow when enforcing violations:
<blockquote>Before a person may be arrested for a violation of this section, a law enforcement officer&#8230; or a local, state, federal, or military law enforcement agency must go as near to the person as may be done with safety and shall command any person picketing or protesting before or about the dwelling of a person to immediately and peaceably disperse. If any such person does not thereupon immediately and peaceably disperse, he or she may be arrested for a violation of this section.</blockquote>
The Florida law is a direct response to a recent string of protests by pro-abortion activists at the homes of Supreme Court justices, in response to a leak draft opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization which indicated that the Court was in position to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The protests began on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/__trashed-5">May 7</a>, when protesters marched through the streets of Chevy Chase, Maryland, toward the homes of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. One of the groups, calling itself &#8220;Ruth Sent Us&#8221; in reference to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had previously published a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/map-doxing-conservative-justices-violates-googles-terms-of-service-platform-says">Google map</a> showing the home addresses of the 6 conservative justices on the Court, but the map was removed by Google.
Protests continued on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-activists-demonstrate-outside-justice-alitos-virginia-home">May 10</a>, when pro-abortion activists demonstrated outside the Virginia home of Justice Samuel Alito. Protesters also demonstrated outside Justice Amy Coney Barrett&#8217;s home on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amy-coney-barretts-neighbor-has-a-message-for-pro-abortion-handmaids-demonstrating-at-her-house">May 12</a>. The protests have drawn widespread condemnation from Republican leaders.
As the Daily Wire has noted, Federal law <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1507">prohibits</a> “interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence.”

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Dr. Jordan Peterson blasted Sports Illustrated Monday for featuring a plus-sized model on the cover of its annual Swimsuit Issue.
&#8220;Sorry. Not beautiful,&#8221; Peterson remarked on Twitter in response to a New York Post headline about Yumi Nu, who was announced as the cover model for Sports Illustrated&#8217;s 2022 Swimsuit Issue. &#8220;And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.&#8221;
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Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that. <a href="https://t.co/rOASeeQvee">https://t.co/rOASeeQvee</a>
&mdash; Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1526279181545390083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Peterson illustrated his objection in response to a Twitter user who criticized him. &#8220;It&#8217;s a conscious progressive attempt to manipulate &amp; retool the notion of beauty, reliant on the idiot philosophy that such preferences are learned &amp; properly changed by those who know better &#8230; but don&#8217;t let the facts stop you,&#8221; Peterson fired back at the user.
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It&#39;s a conscious progressive attempt to manipulate &amp; retool the notion of beauty, reliant on the idiot philosophy that such preferences are learned &amp; properly changed by those who know better (see <a href="https://t.co/RLOu4wlNM6">https://t.co/RLOu4wlNM6</a>)(<a href="https://t.co/tUzihxdXOl">https://t.co/tUzihxdXOl</a>) but don&#39;t let the facts stop you. <a href="https://t.co/90uEnV6DL3">https://t.co/90uEnV6DL3</a>
&mdash; Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1526291865355558913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Peterson also included links to two scientific studies in his reply: the first one, published in the journal <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016363839890011X#:~:text=Several%20previous%20experiments%20have%20found,is%20present%20soon%20after%20birth">Infant Behavior and Development</a> in 1998, showed that babies spent more time looking at faces judged to be attractive by adults; the second, a 2009 study published in the journal <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513809000270?via%3Dihub">Evolution and Human Behavior</a>, found that more attractive women had more children than their less attractive counterparts, while the least attractive men had less children than every other group of men, who had roughly the same number of children, indicating that physical attractiveness may be related to reproductive success rates.
Peterson&#8217;s tweet came in response to a <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/16/yumi-nu-shaking-over-si-swimsuit-cover-reveal/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter">New York Post</a> interview with Nu, who will appear as one of the cover models of the 2022 Swimsuit Issue, along with model, socialite, and television personality Kim Kardashian, model and singer Ciara, and model Maye Musk, the mother of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The 25-year-old Nu is of Dutch and Japanese ancestry. She is the granddaughter of Rocky Aoki, the founder of the Benihana chain of restaurants, and the niece of DJ Steve Aoki.
In the interview, Nu expressed her excitement at the opportunity and described herself as a champion of body and race diversity. “It’s amazing. I’m on cloud nine,&#8221; she told the Post. &#8220;This is nothing I could prepare for. It’s unexpected. I feel like we’re in a place right now where people are making space for more diversity on magazine covers. It’s a big time for Asian-American people in media. I know I play a big role in representation in body diversity and race diversity, and I love to be a role model and representative of the plus-size Asian community.”
The 2022 Swimsuit Issue is Nu&#8217;s first appearance on the cover, but not her first in the issue itself, as she was previously featured in last year&#8217;s issue. She is also the first Asian plus-sized model to appear on the cover. Sports Illustrated drew controversy when it featured plus-sized model Ashley Graham on the cover of the issue in 2016. Graham&#8217;s appearance has since become a trend. Plus-sized model Hunter McGrady, dubbed the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sports-illustrated-swimsuit-2020-issue-features-curviest-model-ever">curviest model ever</a>,&#8221; appeared on the cover in 2020. In the Post interview, Nu said that both Graham and McGrady were inspirations for her.
The swimsuit issue also includes a number of race and body diversity firsts, including the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/2022-si-swimsuit-finalists-include-first-breast-cancer-surivor-nasa-physicist-and-more">first breast cancer survivor</a> to appear in the issue, the first indigenous woman, and a NASA physicist, as well as the first woman to reveal a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sports-illustrateds-new-swimsuit-cover-shows-model-baring-pelvis-for-c-section-scar">C-section scar</a> in her photo for the issue.

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‘Sorry. Not Beautiful’: Jordan Peterson Blasts Sports Illustrated Over Plus-Sized Swimsuit Issue Cover Model

Jordan Peterson Blasts Sports Illustrated Over Plus-Sized Swimsuit Issue Cover Model

A number of high-profile House Democrats may be forced to campaign against one another in New York&#8217;s Democratic primaries, under new House maps released Monday.
New York Special Master Jonathan Cervas released his maps for the New York State Senate and Congressional delegation. Cervas, a professor of political science at Carnegie Mellon University, was appointed by the New York State Supreme Court to oversee the redrawing of district maps, after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-yorks-highest-court-strikes-down-democrats-gerrymandered-congressional-state-senate-maps">New York State Court of Appeals</a> struck down the maps as partisan gerrymanders. The newly-drawn Congressional maps create primary battlegrounds in two districts where high-profile incumbent Democrats will have to campaign against one another.
The first intra-party battleground is in New York&#8217;s 12th Congressional District. The seat is currently held by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, and encompasses the Upper East Side of Manhattan, as well as parts of Queens and Brooklyn. Maloney&#8217;s district currently borders New York&#8217;s 10th District, which encompasses the Upper West Side, as well as Midtown and Lower Manhattan, and parts of Brooklyn. The district is held by Rep. Jerry Nadler. But under the new maps, both Nadler and Maloney&#8217;s homes would be in the 12th District, putting them into a primary against one another.
Both Nadler and Maloney are powerful and longtime members of the Democratic Caucus. Nadler is the chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, and is a member of the House Progressive Caucus. He won a special election in September 1992 to replace the late Rep. Ted Weiss, and was elected to a full term that November. Maloney was also elected to Congress in 1992. She is the chairwoman of the Oversight and Reform Committee, and the Vice Chair of the Joint Economic Committee. She is also a member of the Progressive Caucus.
Both Nadler and Maloney released statements to Twitter announcing their intention to run in the 12th District. “I believe these newly proposed lines by the Special Master violate the NYS constitutional requirements of keeping communities of interest together and keeping the cores of existing districts largely intact,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryNadler/status/1526267248356237316?s=20&amp;t=1qWvOxxnX9dSMPdIKmt7dQ">Nadler</a> wrote on Twitter Monday. &#8220;However, provided that they become permanent, I very much look forward to representing the people of the newly created 12th District of New York.&#8221;
&#8220;I am proud to announce that I will be running to continue to represent the 12th Congressional District,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/CarolynBMaloney/status/1526271453531881479">Maloney</a> wrote. &#8220;A majority of the communities in the newly redrawn NY-12 are ones I have represented for years and to which I have deep ties.&#8221;
The second high-profile battleground is the 16th Congressional District. Cook Political Report House Editor <a href="https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1526247612244013057">Dave Wasserman</a> reports that Rep. Mondaire Jones, who currently represents the 17th Congressional District, will be on a collision course with fellow Rep. Jamaal Bowman in the newly-drawn 16th. Jones serves on the Judiciary, Education, and Democratic Steering Committees, and is one of two openly gay black members of Congress. He is also the co-chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus. Bowman is the only male member of the &#8220;Squad&#8221; and is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. He also serves on the Education and Science Committees. Jones and Bowman are both members of the Congressional Black and Progressive Caucuses.

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