The big controversy of the day surrounds Sydney Sweeney&#8217;s chest.
Sydney Sweeney is an actress who’s done a number of movies lately, but she&#8217;s mostly famous because when she&#8217;s on TV, when she&#8217;s hosting SNL, she shows a lot of cleavage.
She&#8217;s a very attractive woman and did some new <a href="https://x.com/IamSydSweeney/status/1948063444550468039">American Eagle ads</a> that blew up on social media.
One ad shows her buttoning her jeans seductively; she talks about jeans, saying, “My jeans are blue,” while the voice-over says, “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans.”
The homonym meant for the audience is that she has great genetic predispositions and characteristics. Another ad shows her closing the hood of a Mustang, then rubbing the backside of her jeans as she walks away.
The real story here is that Sydney Sweeney is doing sexy commercials, which has been a hallmark of advertising going back to the mid-19th century.
This has resulted in people going absolutely insane, totally crazy.
It’s important to note that people who are characterizing American Eagle as some sort of bizarre Right-wing company are missing the boat. American Eagle is not a Right-wing company. American Eagle is a jeans company that follows whatever it thinks are the prevailing trends of the time.
The real question is: What is the zeitgeist here? It is amazing that we are now having a controversy over what would have been, two decades ago, a perfectly normal ad on your television.
I’m old enough to remember when the Right would have objected to such an ad.
There are some of us who are traditionally-minded who still object to the overt sexualization of women in advertising, as well as the sexualization that is being forced on our culture. Some of us are old enough to remember when Paris Hilton was grinding on cars for a Carl&#8217;s Jr. commercial back in 2005, and objecting to that as being too raunchy and problematic.
I don&#8217;t mean problematic in the Left-wing sense; I mean morally problematic to put scantily clad, attractive women in advertising specifically to get people to buy a product.
But the Left has gone completely insane. They&#8217;ve broken down into two categories, both objecting to the ad.
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The first is the feminist line that these ads were “made for the male gaze.” It&#8217;s all about the “male gaze.”
Can we get over this nonsense, “the male gaze?” Men like to look at pretty women. That is the way of the world. That is the basis of all human reproduction.
That does not mean that men should ogle women. But if we are going to pretend that beauty does not exist and that men don&#8217;t appreciate it, then you are simply ignoring the realities of life.
The second category is those who say there is something peculiarly Nazi about all of this. Washington Post fashion critic Rachel Tashjian and Style Memo newsletter writer Shane O’Neill <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/07/28/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ad/">discussed</a> the ads.
O’Neill posited:
<blockquote>The most provocative part of the campaign is when she’s talking about offspring and genes. (She says, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color,” and the camera pans to her blue eyes. “My jeans are blue.”) Sweeney also has softer copy in the press release. She says of American Eagle, “They have literally been there with me through every version of myself.”
There’s a message about mutable identity there. And that could be extended into a vision of America as a place where you’re NOT bound by who you are at birth. But they went the full opposite of that. &#8230;
I think what’s getting people talking — or rather, why everyone was watching these TikToks obsessively over the weekend and picking them apart — is how regressive the ads seem,” Tashjian stated. “The line about her having great jeans — several people are suggesting in the comments on Instagram and TikTok that this is a ‘pro-eugenics ad.’ Whether or not that’s the case, it is part of a wave of imagery of influencers, pop stars and musicians that feels tethered to the values of another time.</blockquote>
You&#8217;re going to see a Right-wing backlash building. The “values of another time” would be men thinking attractive women are attractive, because attractive women are attractive. If that&#8217;s “tethered to the values of another time,” then that would be tethered to the values of all time.
There&#8217;s nothing new there. If that were not the case, sales of Ozempic would be significantly lower.
“For the past five or six years, it seemed like fashion and pop culture were very interested in — even dedicated to — body positivity. Now we’re being fed a lot of images of thinness, whiteness, and unapologetic wealth porn, what with this campaign, influencers like Alix Earle and Sabrina Carpenter’s album cover,” Tashjian claimed.
“Those Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ads are weird. Like fascist weird, like Nazi propaganda, weird. Should we be surprised that a company whose name is literally American Eagle is making fascist propaganda like this?” a TikTok influencer stated. “A blonde-haired blue-eyed white woman is talking about her genes.” 
This is crazy. A play on the words “jeans” and “genes” is not meant to be a reference to the Nazis.
Another thing: let’s be real: when people look at Sydney Sweeney — I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings here for you lefties — her eye color and hair color are the third and fourth things people are looking at when they look at Sydney Sweeney.
When she says she has good genes, people are not thinking about her eye color or her hair color.
The Right has split on this ad. There are many people in the online space who look at the insane reaction of the Left to this, where they are calling it Nazi propaganda, suggesting that it is all about “the male gaze” and the “evils of the male gaze,” “tethered to another time,” and all this crap, and they respond, “This ad is great. It&#8217;s making America great again. This ad is bringing back what makes America awesome. This is a reversion to the heterosexual norm.”
This ad can be both a rejection of the post-gender insanity push by the Left, but also be a piece leaning toward very softcore pornography. Being a moral traditionalist, I do not actually believe that commercials like this are great for America.
I think it&#8217;s good to expose the Left for being totally insane, and I think it is worthwhile noting that the Left is totally crazy. But if you&#8217;re a traditionally moral person, if you&#8217;re somebody who&#8217;s a churchgoer, a synagogue-goer, and you look at this ad, you&#8217;re saying, “This looks like a way to get a bunch of young people to buy jeans by showing Sydney Sweeney&#8217;s butt and breasts.”
Is that good for culture? Is that good for male/female relations? Is the over-sexualization of our society a generally good thing or a generally bad thing?
Two things can be true at once. One, the Left is totally insane and there&#8217;s nothing Nazi-esque about a jeans pun, and the anti-Left is correct to mock the Left for being totally insipid and insane.
But the Right is also split between people who don&#8217;t hold any sort of traditional values and people who do hold those traditional values, and they exist in an uneasy coalition.
It will be interesting to see how that coalition works moving forward.

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The North Carolina General Assembly overrode Gov. Josh Stein&#8217;s veto to ban state funding of transgender medical procedures for minors.
&#8220;No State funds may be used, directly or indirectly, for the performance of or in furtherance of surgical gender transition procedures, or to provide puberty-blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones to a minor, or to support the administration of any governmental health plan or government-offered insurance policy offering surgical gender transition procedures, puberty-blocking drugs, or cross-sex hormones to a minor,&#8221; the law says.
The ban also ends transgender medical procedures for prisoners incarcerated in the state prison system.
The legislation was part of H.B. 805, which also states that there are only two sexes, defines &#8220;female&#8221; and &#8220;male,&#8221; restricts pornographic content to prevent exploitation of women and minors, and gives parents more control in schools and libraries.
Conservative activist Riley Gaines celebrated the bill&#8217;s passing on social media.
&#8220;NC legislature just overrode Gov Stein&#8217;s veto of HB 805,&#8221; she said. &#8220;BOOM.&#8221;
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NC legislature just overrode Gov Stein&#8217;s veto of HB 805.
This bill: 
&#8211; defines &#8220;woman&#8221; &amp; &#8220;man&#8221; 
&#8211; restricts pornographic content 
&#8211; prohibits state funding for chemical/surgical castration for minors and prisoners 
&#8211; gives parents more control in schools
BOOM👏🏼 <a href="https://t.co/Yb4lWETEF2">pic.twitter.com/Yb4lWETEF2</a>
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1950219969163125073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Stein vetoed multiple bills in early July, including H.B. 805, calling them &#8220;mean-spirited.&#8221;
&#8220;At a time when teachers, law enforcement, and state employees need pay raises and people need shorter lines at the DMV, the legislature failed to pass a budget and, instead, wants to distract us by stoking culture wars that further divide us,&#8221; Stein said. &#8220;These mean-spirited bills would marginalize vulnerable people and also undermine the quality of public services and public education.&#8221;
Stein is a Democrat, but Republicans hold a majority in the state House and Senate. Despite being one seat short of a supermajority in the House, Republicans were able to override Stein&#8217;s veto of multiple bills thanks to Democrats breaking with their party.
Another override was H.B. 318, the Criminal Illegal Alien Enforcement Act.
&#8220;This commonsense law requires sheriffs to check immigration status when someone is charged with a serious crime — and if they&#8217;re here illegally, they must be turned over to [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)],&#8221; Majority Leader Brenden Jones said on social media.
A few bills passed the Senate override, but are waiting on votes in the House, CBS17 <a href="https://www.cbs17.com/news/capitol-report/slew-of-bills-become-law-in-north-carolina-as-veto-overrides-pass-senate-and-house/">reported</a>. They include bills banning diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in higher and public education; a bill requiring cooperation with ICE; and a bill allowing individuals over 18 to carry a gun without a concealed carry permit. It is unclear if those bills will clear the supermajority threshold in the House.

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The Federal Trade Commission is requesting public comment on so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care&#8221; for minors.
The inquiry <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/07/ftc-requests-public-comment-regarding-gender-affirming-care-minors">seeks</a> &#8220;to better understand how consumers may have been exposed to false or unsupported claims about &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217;, especially as it relates to minors.&#8221; The FTC will accept &#8220;comment on any issues or concerns,&#8221; including &#8220;written data, advertisements, social media posts, disclosures, or empirical research,&#8221; a press release <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/07/ftc-requests-public-comment-regarding-gender-affirming-care-minors">said</a>.
The FTC is investigating whether minors and consumers have been harmed by transgender medical procedures and if medical professionals &#8220;have violated Sections 5 and 12 of the FTC Act by failing to disclose material risks associated with &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; or making false or unsubstantiated claims about the benefits or effectiveness of &#8216;gender-affirming care.'&#8221;
The request for public comment is the latest in the FTC&#8217;s campaign against the transgender medical industry.
In May, The Daily Wire first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-federal-trade-commission-is-setting-its-sights-on-transgender-procedures-on-kids">reported</a> on an FTC memo about a workshop on &#8220;gender-affirming care.&#8221; The FTC, an agency tasked with protecting American consumers, often holds workshops before initiating legal action against an industry.
“Under the Federal Trade Commission Act, the FTC is provided broad authority to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive trade acts and practices,” the memo said. “There is now considerable reason to believe that the doctors and medical providers pushing [gender-affirming care] on minors are knowingly deceiving parents by exaggerating [gender-affirming care’s] ‘benefits’ and downplaying its harmful side effects.”
The agency held the workshop on July 9 and featured academics, commentators, detransitioners, parents, and doctors, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-blatant-consumer-fraud-inside-the-ftcs-panel-on-transgender-procedures">reported</a>.
“The issue of gender medicine has shattered political boundaries,” said Texas Children’s whistleblower Vanessa Sivadge. “Not because of ideology, but because of conscience. This is not a partisan battle, but a battle of good and evil.”
Detransitioner Claire Abernathy said medical professionals encouraged her to undergo transgender surgeries when she was too young to get a tattoo, too young to drive, and hadn’t even learned algebra.
“It’s not health care,” she said, “it’s blatant consumer fraud.”
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, who moderated the panel, told the detransitioners and survivors, “The FTC hears you, we hear all of you, and we want to understand how the law is being broken.”
Department of Justice Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle said the DOJ has issued almost 20 subpoenas against clinics that are engaged in transgender transition attempts. The Justice Department’s investigations include health care fraud, false statements, and more.
Mizelle asked Americans to come forward if they could provide information about deceptive practices in the transgender medicine industry.
Both the workshop and the request for comment build on President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the federal government’s support for so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors. The FTC memo about the workshop noted that the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals recently called transgender procedures “in truth still experimental.”
Before being selected for the position, Ferguson reportedly pitched Trump on using the agency to fight “against the trans agenda” before he was selected for the post, according to a document obtained by Punchbowl News in December 2024.
At the workshop, Ferguson said he doesn&#8217;t care about backlash from Democrats over the FTC&#8217;s action against transgender medical procedures.
“If there is this material deception going on in this market, it is picking on the most vulnerable human beings in America at the worst possible moment of their lives and brutalizing them,” Ferguson said. “And frankly, the ability of people to turn away from this and say ‘no action should be taken’ boggles my mind. So at the end of the day, it is the right thing to do.”
The public has until September 26 to submit comments at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2025-0264">Regulations.gov</a>. Comments will be posted once submitted.

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The Victorian justice system in Australia on Friday found a Christian doctor who had been suspended for nearly six years over his Christian and conservative social media posts <a href="https://www.ausdoc.com.au/news/dr-jereth-kok-found-guilty-of-professional-misconduct-over-54-online-posts/">guilty of professional misconduct</a>.
Dr. Jereth Kok, “who had no prior history of patient complaints or professional misconduct before his suspension — now faces a separate sanctions hearing in early 2026 that could result in the full cancellation of his medical license,” The Daily Declaration <a href="https://dailydeclaration.org.au/2025/07/28/dr-jereth-kok-guilty-of-professional-misconduct-for-social-media-posts-tribunal-rules/">reported</a>.
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🚨 An Aussie doctor has been found guilty of professional misconduct.
Not for harming patients.
But for posting Christian views, including memes &amp; satire from <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheBabylonBee</a>, on social media.
Yes, that can now cost you your medical licence in Australia.
Meet Dr Jereth Kok 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/eGtnuLkhuh">pic.twitter.com/eGtnuLkhuh</a>
— Kurt Mahlburg (@k_mahlburg) <a href="https://twitter.com/k_mahlburg/status/1949682050941792313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Some of the posts Dr. Kok published included two promoting The Babylon Bee, with one hilarious headline reading, “Instead Of Traditional Warfare, Chinese Military Will Now Be Trained To Shout Wrong Pronouns At American Troops,” and another titled, “Congressional Prayer Lasts Two Days As Democrat Includes All 5,787 Genders.” That title, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal reportedly ruled, “failed to respect gender diversity” and was “derogatory to LGBTQI+ persons.”
Kok was reportedly pilloried for quoting children’s rights advocate Katy Faust, the founder of Them Before Us; promoting the <a href="https://caldronpool.com/ezekieldeclaration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ezekiel Declaration</a>, a 2021 open letter signed by more than 3,000 church leaders that protested Australia’s proposed introduction of “vaccine passports,” and linking to an Australian Christian Lobby newsletter.
Kok <a href="https://x.com/k_mahlburg/status/1949682076459938279/photo/1">stated</a> in one post:
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I said above that “homosexual orientation may be addressed with therapy.” I view this as being a choice to be made by the individual. Because I do not think that orientation is a sin in itself, I do not think someone who has homosexual orientation must be urged by other Christians to seek therapy. If they wish to live a celibate life, without entertaining lustful thoughts, and without accepting a gay identity, then I do not see a problem with this. I think that an individual can be God-pleasing in this situation. If, on the other hand, he/she wishes to overcome his or her homosexual orientation in order to marry someone of the opposite sex, he/she may choose to have therapy. I believe that therapy can be successful, but I would hesitate to say that it will always be successful.
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Kok reposted a Spectator Australia article by Moira Deeming, a member of Parliament, on gender ideology in schools. In the article, she <a href="https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/08/the-cultural-juggernaut-of-transgender-ideology-not-kids-stuff/">declared</a>:
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&#8230; childhood gender dysphoria is a well-established, historically rare, psychological condition with objective diagnostic criteria. It has a long history of successful treatment using a watch and wait approach” coupled with psychological support. This approach affirms the child in their biological sex, avoids gender stereotyping and allows natural puberty to take place, resulting in approximately 85% of children outgrowing their dysphoria.  
However, in Australia as elsewhere, this unprecedented wave of gender dysphoric children has been systematically denied this highly successful, low risk method, which, upon being rebranded as “conversion therapy,” has been banned in jurisdiction after jurisdiction. Instead, gender dysphoric children are now labelled as “transgender’”and funneled into a radical and untested treatment pathway known as the “affirmative model.” But “transgenderism,” like the “Emperor’s new clothes,” exists only in the minds of believers. It is a theory developed in University Sociology departments, premised on the highly subjective and philosophical claim that a person’s sex can be “wrong.” It has never been proven to exist in the body through objective medical testing such as DNA analysis, brain scans or blood tests. 
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to crack down on homelessness across the country. 
The <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/">executive order</a> aims to make it easier to house homeless people with serious drug addictions and mental conditions in humane “long-term institutional settings” and encourages states to enforce existing laws against public drug use and squatting.
“Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe. The number of individuals living on the streets in the United States on a single night during the last year of the previous administration — 274,224 — was the highest ever recorded,” the order states. “Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order. Surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor other citizens.”
As part of the order, Trump directed his administration to seek to reverse federal and state judicial precedents and consent decrees that prevented the commitment of “individuals with mental illness who pose risks to themselves or the public” into “appropriate facilities for appropriate periods of time.”
The order also encourages his administration to offer grants that motivate states to crack down on public drug use, urban camping, loitering, and urban squatting. 
Trump also directed his administration to stop funding programs that promote “harm reduction” or the “safe consumption” of drugs. During the Biden administration, there was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-sent-the-black-community-crack-pipes-social-media-erupts-in-response-to-crack-pipe-racial-equity-initiative">public outcry</a> after a report said that the administration was distributing free crack pipes in “safe smoking kits.” 
In 2024, homelessness reached its highest total since 2007, when data collection began, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF12985/IF12985.1.pdf">according</a> to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. On a single night in 2024, there were roughly 771,480 people without homes, including 274,224 who had no shelter at all. California had the largest homeless population in the country, with <a href="https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimates</a> placing the total around 187,000. 
The Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scotus-rules-in-favor-of-oregon-citys-ban-on-homeless-encampments">ruled</a> last year that local ordinances restricting camping on public property do not violate the Constitution’s prohibition against enacting cruel and unusual punishments under the Eighth Amendment.
On Friday, Trump was asked about a group of homeless people camping outside the Treasury Department. 
“I think it’s terrible and we’ll have them removed immediately,” he told reporters. “We’ve got to get the mayor to run this city properly. This city has to be run. You know, I have the right to take it over, and I think it’s terrible.” 
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REPORTER: &#8220;I saw homeless people sleeping right outside the gates of the White House&#8230;&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s terrible and we&#8217;ll have them removed immediately.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/iC2NX8RgOh">pic.twitter.com/iC2NX8RgOh</a>
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Trump has long <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-gives-d-c-mayor-ultimatum-on-unsightly-homeless-encampments?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Gives+D.C.+Mayor+Ultimatum+On+‘Unsightly+Homeless+Encampments’">threatened</a> to strip the authority of Washington D.C. from Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser. Bowser has previously said that homeless encampments are “not technically permitted in the District” and has signaled she would be open to working with the White House to address the problem.

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Anyone paying attention to the fight for women’s sports already knows that Riley Gaines isn’t backing down. And as the nation starts to wake up, she’s no longer alone.
The 12-time All-American swimmer and tireless women’s advocate has become a household name by doing something simple but radical: she’s speaking the truth. Now, Gaines is teaming up with XX-XY Athletics, the only athletic brand unapologetically championing biological women, to launch a collaboration that’s as bold and brave as she is. 
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The retro-inspired Be Bold collection is infused with red, white, and blue to showcase unapologetic pride in this nation. But the brand and the styles aren’t just fashion — they represent a cultural pushback. And according to XX-XY founder Jennifer Sey, the timing couldn’t be more perfect.
“The first drop launched on June 23rd, the anniversary of Title IX. So it&#8217;s a celebration of all that Title IX represents, the opportunity it presented for women and girls across the country,” Sey told The Daily Wire in an exclusive interview. “And it sort of highlights the fact that we need to continue to fight to uphold it. We’re not going backwards.”
Not long before the collection’s June release, the Department of Education ruled that the University of Pennsylvania <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-announces-university-of-pennsylvania-has-entered-resolution-agreement-resolve-its-title-ix-violations#:~:text=This%20action%20follows%20the%20Department's,the%20Trump%20effect%20in%20action.">violated Title IX</a> by allowing a biological male to compete on the women’s swim team, therefore robbing female athletes of records, awards, and their dignity. 
The school was forced to apologize and restore honors to athletes like Gaines. Shortly after, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-states-set-to-defend-womens-sports-at-supreme-court">announced</a> it would hear two landmark cases involving men competing in women&#8217;s sports. Sey said it’s all proof that the cultural tide is turning, and that this collection will help capture that truth.
“The world is shifting under our feet,” she said. “That’s in large part due to Riley’s work.”
Sey has a background in standing up for what’s right. A former elite gymnast and the first whistleblower in her sport to expose abuse, she spent decades at the helm of major brands like Levi’s before founding XX-XY Athletics in 2023 with a singular mission: to stand up for real women.
“I looked around at all the big brands pretending to champion female athletes, and none of them really did. They make money off of it, but behind the scenes, they treat women with astonishing disregard,” she said.
With Be Bold, Sey is hoping to turn that hypocrisy on its head.
The collection wasn’t just inspired by Gaines. It was built with her.
“She was totally involved,” Sey said of the line of fitness apparel. “The red, white, and blue color scheme? That’s all her. The name Be Bold? That’s how she signs her books. We leaned into her favorite pieces and her signature style.”
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Gaines’s go-to item is the cropped performance tank, Sey says, stressing that all the pieces both make a statement and support real athletes who need their sportswear to work as hard as they do. These are high-quality items designed for female athletes who have both principles and high standards.
Another standout from the collection is the oversized concert tee, a nod to both Gen Z-approved oversized street style and old-school Americana. The back of the tee features the 37 words of Title IX, a fashionable protest.
<div id="attachment_951511" style="width: 586px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-951511" class="size-large wp-image-951511" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Title-9-T_7385-576x576.jpg" alt="Title IX tee" width="576" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Title-9-T_7385-576x576.jpg 576w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Title-9-T_7385-300x300.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Title-9-T_7385-150x150.jpg 150w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Title-9-T_7385-768x768.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Title-9-T_7385.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px" />XX-XY Athletics</div>
And for the non-athletes, there are plenty of options for a more casual look, like a vintage-inspired velour tracksuit straight out of 1972.
“When I was on the national team in the very early 80s, velour tracksuits were our dress sweats that we wore to march out at major international competitions,” Sey recalled. “So we definitely allude to them with some of the styling…we definitely use 1972 as a grounding point.”
<div id="attachment_951513" style="width: 586px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-951513" class="size-large wp-image-951513" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Velour-tracksuit-576x576.jpg" alt="Velour trackuit" width="576" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Velour-tracksuit-576x576.jpg 576w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Velour-tracksuit-300x300.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Velour-tracksuit-150x150.jpg 150w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Velour-tracksuit-768x768.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Velour-tracksuit.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px" />XX-XY Athletics</div>
This collection isn’t just about Riley, nor is it just a fashion statement. It’s about offering a platform to female athletes who’ve been abandoned by major brands and sports teams too afraid to take a side.
“One of the things we pride ourselves on is we scoop up athletes that no one else will touch. We will platform and empower the female athletes,” Sey said. “So they don&#8217;t feel so alone. Oftentimes they&#8217;re the only ones on their team or in their community [speaking up]. But when they realize there&#8217;s this network of women across the country who are doing the same thing, it&#8217;s incredibly powerful to have that.”
<div id="attachment_951507" style="width: 586px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-951507" class="size-large wp-image-951507" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Riley-leggings-and-tank_5634-576x576.jpg" alt="leggings and tank" width="576" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Riley-leggings-and-tank_5634-576x576.jpg 576w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Riley-leggings-and-tank_5634-300x300.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Riley-leggings-and-tank_5634-150x150.jpg 150w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Riley-leggings-and-tank_5634-768x768.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Riley-leggings-and-tank_5634.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px" />XX-XY Athletics</div>
Sey says Gaines will continue working closely with the brand to identify and support more athletes who have the courage to speak up.
“At the end of the day, we&#8217;re all about supporting female athletes. I mean, that&#8217;s what it comes down to,” she said.
XX-XY’s gear isn’t just for show. A runner recently completed the Boston Marathon in under three hours wearing one of their tanks. That same style shows up in the new Be Bold collection, but this time reimagined in patriotic hues.
The idea behind Be Bold is simple but subversive: give everyday Americans an easy way to express support for truth, fairness, and biological reality without having to say a word.
“The reason I started the brand, or at least part of it, was I felt like if we could create something really cool that was also world-class products, we could give people an easy way to sort of rep their advocacy,” Sey said. “The mainstream brands do this. Why can&#8217;t we do it?”
Sey, who’s been targeted by critics and called every name in the book. But she says the backlash isn’t stopping her. 
“Noisy doesn’t mean right,” she said. “You’ve got to screw up your courage and stand by women and girls.”
The Gaines collaboration is just the beginning. Sey teased more limited-edition drops on the horizon, plus a deeper partnership with Riley that goes beyond just appearing in ads. 
<div id="attachment_951515" style="width: 586px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-951515" class="size-large wp-image-951515" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Gaines-group-576x576.jpg" alt="Gaines group" width="576" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Gaines-group-576x576.jpg 576w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Gaines-group-300x300.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Gaines-group-150x150.jpg 150w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Gaines-group-768x768.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Gaines-group.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px" />XX-XY Athletics</div>
When asked where she dreams of seeing pieces from the Be Bold collection show up, Sey didn’t hesitate.
“We would love to see someone wear any item atop a podium at an NCAA championship,” she said, “Or walking into the Supreme Court wearing a Title IX tee, that would be amazing, right?”
As the legal battles heat up, broader cultural beliefs continue to influence how this topic is perceived in the general public. Sey says the silent majority is finally starting to speak up. 
“You know, I think this movement for common sense is sort of billed as right-wing by the mainstream media. But the fact is, it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s a really broad-based coalition. You can&#8217;t have 80% of Americans [agreeing] and have it only be the right. It’s just regular people.”
The Be Bold collection is available now at <a href="https://www.xx-xyathletics.com/pages/riley-collaboration">xxxyathletics.com</a>.

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Be Bold: Riley Gaines and XX-XY Athletics Drop Americana-Themed Collab To Celebrate Title IX

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The president of the Cleveland Guardians rebuffed President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the team re-adopt its prior name, the Cleveland Indians.
Trump’s suggestion came amid his statements calling for the NFL’s Washington Commanders to re-adopt the name Washington Redskins. On Sunday, he <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114885987478070699">wrote</a> on Truth Social:
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The Washington “Whatever’s” should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past. Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago. We are a Country of passion and common sense. OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!
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Five hours later, he <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114887236310446076">added</a>:
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My statement on the Washington Redskins has totally blown up, but only in a very positive way. I may put a restriction on them that if they don&#8217;t change the name back to the original &#8220;Washington Redskins,&#8221; and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, &#8220;Washington Commanders,&#8221; I won&#8217;t make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington. The Team would be much more valuable, and the Deal would be more exciting for everyone. Cleveland should do the same with the Cleveland Indians. The Owner of the Cleveland Baseball Team, Matt Dolan, who is very political, has lost three Elections in a row because of that ridiculous name change. What he doesn&#8217;t understand is that if he changed the name back to the Cleveland Indians, he might actually win an Election. Indians are being treated very unfairly. MAKE INDIANS GREAT AGAIN (MIGA)!
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Guardians president Chris Antonetti responded, “I understand there are very different perspectives on the decision we made a few years ago, but it’s a decision we made and we’ve gotten the opportunity to build the brand as the Guardians over the last four years and we’re excited about the future that’s in front of us,” as <a href="https://x.com/zackmeisel/status/1946961807198875727?s=46&amp;t=LuLzStMNvByXMHfO71_ucQ">The Athletic</a> reported.
At a campaign rally in March 2024 in Dayton, Ohio, Trump <a href="applewebdata://B140A885-0203-4914-B564-DAE509C43B86/v">slammed</a> the Dolan family, declaring, “I like sports and I like tradition. So you have a team called the Cleveland Indians. Indians. They&#8217;re Indians. And they took the team Cleveland Indians and made it to the Cleveland Guardians. Almost like they&#8217;re in charge of a trust fund.”
In December 2020, months after demonstrations related to the death of George Floyd called for racial justice, the Cleveland franchise announced it would drop the “Indians” name due to growing pressure around racial sensitivity. Some groups had criticized the team&#8217;s Chief Wahoo logo as an offensive caricature that was culturally disrespectful. The franchise announced the new name, “Guardians,&#8221; in July 2021, and it was officially used as the 2022 season began. When the current Cleveland major league baseball franchise was established in 1901 as one of the six original teams of the American League, it was called the “Blues.” That name was changed to the “Naps” in 1904 when the fans voted to honor their star player, Hall of Famer Nap Lajoie.
After Lajoie left the team in 1915, the team’s name was changed to the &#8220;Indians.&#8221; However, some have asserted that the name was intended to honor former player Louis Sockalexis, a Native American. Major League Baseball has a different explanation, writing on <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/cleveland-guardians-team-name-history">MLB.com</a>:
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There are old newspaper records that show that the baseball writers were left to vote on a name and had decided on Indians. In 1914, the Boston Braves had won the World Series, which could leave some to wonder if the name for Cleveland &#8212; the last-place team that season &#8212; was inspired by one that experienced great success. 
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The Indians won two World Series titles; the first in 1920, defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers in a series that featured three historic highlights in the last game, all from the Indians: right fielder Elmer Smith blasting the first-ever World Series grand slam; starting pitcher Jim Bagby slamming a three-run homer, the first home run by a pitcher in World Series history, and the most dazzling: an unassisted triple play by Indians second baseman Bill Wambsganss, the only one in World Series history. There have been only 15 unassisted plays in MLB history, rarer than a perfect game thrown by a pitcher.
In 1948, the Indians defeated the Boston Braves in the World Series, led by player-manager shortstop Lou Boudreau, who also won the Most Valuable Player award that year.

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WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt celebrated news Thursday that multiple hospitals have halted their transgender procedures for children, telling reporters that President Donald Trump &#8220;wants to protect the innocence of children.&#8221;
Leavitt highlighted news that the largest provider of so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care,&#8221; the Center for Trans Youth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/la-trans-youth-center-closing-34d27684692c95b4f7c3266c55a71d38">is closing in response</a> to the Trump administration&#8217;s promise to cut federal funding for institutions that are transitioning children.
That program is one of a number that are shutting down or halting the irreversible treatments for children — Chicago&#8217;s Rush University Medical Center &#8220;paused&#8221; puberty blocker and hormone replacement therapy for children, according to policy documents <a href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/15/rush-medical-center-rolls-back-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-as-pressure-from-trump-mounts/">covered by a local outlet</a>.
Asked by The Daily Wire during the White House press briefing on Thursday if the nation should expect to see more closures, Leavitt responded: &#8220;The president spoke a lot about this issue, which is a political issue, but also really a cultural issue that impacts children and families. He talked about it a lot on the campaign, and I think he was quite surprised by the uptick we were seeing in the embracement by the Democrat Party when it comes to the chemical castration and mutilation of young, innocent bodies.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_948775" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/karoline-leavitt-celebrates-closure-of-transgender-hospital-programs-for-kids-barbaric-procedures/media-briefing-held-by-white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-2" rel="attachment wp-att-948775"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-948775" class="wp-image-948775 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225641414-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225641414-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225641414-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225641414-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/GettyImages-2225641414.jpg 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; JULY 17: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt calls on reporters during a press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on July 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)</div>
&#8220;The president made it a very early priority to sign very strong executive orders to cut off the funding for any hospital or any medical facility in this country that provides such barbaric procedures,&#8221; Leavitt stressed. &#8220;And, as a result of that strong policy and the president&#8217;s strong common sense position on this issue, we&#8217;ve had such an overwhelming response, which is great for children &#8230;&#8221;
The White House press secretary then listed off a number of these hospitals that have halted their transgender programs for children.
&#8220;Phoenix Children&#8217;s Hospital has stopped providing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to minors,&#8221; she said. &#8220;In California, Stanford Medicine ended sex change surgeries for minors. Children&#8217;s Hospital Los Angeles is closing its center for Trans Youth Health and Development surgical program. In Illinois, Lurie Children&#8217;s Hospital of Chicago stopped sex change surgeries.&#8221;
&#8220;Again, let&#8217;s think about what we&#8217;re talking about here,&#8221; Leavitt told the assembled reporters. &#8220;Sex change surgeries for minors. These are barbaric practices that no children, no child, innocent child should have to endure.&#8221;
&#8220;The president wants to protect the innocence of children, and I know the vast majority of Americans support him in that effort,&#8221; she added. &#8220;This is a wildly popular and common sense endeavor this administration has taken, and we&#8217;ve seen many of these medical institutions have followed through with the president&#8217;s executive orders, but we’ll continue to take further action on this important issue.”
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President Trump’s bold executive actions are protecting American children from irreversible chemical and surgical mutilation and the facilities that offer these barbaric services are shutting down as a result.
Thanks to President Trump, gender ideology insanity is over. <a href="https://t.co/ZvXALDaQae">pic.twitter.com/ZvXALDaQae</a>
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1945965076789305807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
In an X post following the briefing, Leavitt again celebrated the news, tweeting: &#8220;President Trump’s bold executive actions are protecting American children from irreversible chemical and surgical mutilation and the facilities that offer these barbaric services are shutting down as a result.&#8221;
&#8220;Thanks to President Trump,&#8221; she added, &#8220;gender ideology insanity is over.&#8221;

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Karoline Leavitt Celebrates Closure Of Transgender Hospital Programs For Kids: ‘Barbaric Procedures’

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The Department of Justice opened up an investigation into George Mason University on Thursday over employment practices that may discriminate against white people and men.
In a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1408276/dl">letter</a> to the university, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division stated that the investigation would focus on whether the university had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which addresses employment discrimination.
“It is unlawful and un-American to deny equal access to employment opportunities on the basis of race and sex,” Dhillon said. “When employers screen out qualified candidates from the hiring process, they not only erode trust in our public institutions — they violate the law, and the Justice Department will investigate accordingly.”
Dhillon’s letter said that the actions of University President Gregory Washington were the focus of the investigation.
“The investigation stems from statements and policies made by the University’s president, which indicate that race and sex are motivating factors in faculty hiring and other employment decisions to achieve ‘diversity’ goals,” the Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-launches-investigation-employment-practices-george-mason-university">said</a>. “Multiple emails and internal documents suggest preferential treatment of certain races and sexes in hiring and other employment practices, including promotion and tenure of faculty members.”
In an email from July 23, 2020, Washington said he wanted to “develop” a “renewal, promotion, and tenure process” to help “faculty of color and women in their professional work.”
In that same email, Washington said that he was working to “develop specific mechanisms in the promotion and tenure process that recognize the invisible and uncredited emotional labor that people of color expend to learn, teach, discover, and work on campus.”
Dhillon also said that the university would intentionally list race on faculty member hiring panels “to ensure greater non-white participation in the hiring process.”
Last week, the Department of Education also <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-opens-title-vi-investigation-george-mason-university">launched</a> a Title VII investigation into George Mason over its hiring policies. The investigation was launched after the department received a complaint from multiple professors alleging racial discrimination.
The university denied any wrongdoing in response to the Education Department investigation.
“I can assure you that George Mason has always operated with a commitment to equality under the law, ever since our inception. It is simply the Mason way, and in my experience, it has not discriminated based on race, color, national origin, or otherwise,” Washington <a href="https://www.gmu.edu/news/2025-07/update-university-response-investigations">said</a>. “Our diversity efforts are designed to expand opportunity and build inclusive excellence – not to exclude or advantage any group unlawfully.”

Statue of George Mason on campus of George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

Justice Dept Probing Another University Over Racially-Based Hiring Goals

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Chip and Joanna Gaines, whose public embrace of their Christian faith has made them especially popular among American Evangelicals, are facing new allegations of hypocrisy.
The “Fixer Upper” stars serve as producers for &#8220;Back To The Frontier,&#8221; a new show on HBO Max in which three families attempt to live as 19th-century homesteaders. One of the couples, Jason and Joe Hanna-Riggs, are gay men with adopted children. Their inclusion in the show has caused some Christians to accuse the reality stars of failing to live up to the values they have publicly espoused.
Ed Vitagliano, vice president of the American Family Association, also publicly called out the couple for disappointing their fan base.
“This is sad and disappointing, because Chip and Joanna Gaines have been very influential in the evangelical community,” Ed Vitagliano, vice president of the American Family Association, <a href="https://x.com/AmericanFamAssc/status/1943747871985025097">said</a> on X.  &#8220;In the past, they have stood firm on the sanctity of marriage regardless of the personal cost that has entailed.&#8221;
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Chip and Joanna Gaines’ new show on their Magnolia Network spotlights a same-sex couple and their two sons, drawing concern from Christians who expected the network to uphold biblical values.
“This is sad and disappointing, because Chip and Joanna Gaines have been very… <a href="https://t.co/LKMupgB6o3">pic.twitter.com/LKMupgB6o3</a>
&mdash; American Family Association (@AmericanFamAssc) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmericanFamAssc/status/1943747871985025097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Chip Gaines responded to the backlash on X.
“Talk, ask [questions], listen.. maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never,” he wrote on Sunday. “It’s a sad sunday when ‘non believers’ have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian.”
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Talk, ask qustns, listen.. maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never
It’s a sad sunday when “non believers” have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian💔
— Chip Gaines (@chipgaines) <a href="https://twitter.com/chipgaines/status/1944344464215957561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“On our way to church,&#8221; the father of five wrote in a follow-up <a href="https://x.com/chipgaines/status/1944378161732485352">post</a>. &#8220;Y’all enjoy this beautiful Sunday!”

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Fans Accuse Christian TV Stars Chip And Joanna Gaines Of Hypocrisy With New Reality Show

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A majority of young men support restricting access to pornography, according to a new <a href="https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/a-cultural-crossroads-americas-uncertain-future-amidst-enduring-discontent-and-rising-disconnection/?mkt_tok=NDc1LVBCUS05NzEAAAGbkvewKzlBksy5UkP8DK3ZgRteqCvUlLg6RRzvNoAw09KIInAbzFQuPQL0HeCMPUibHA3Fz92YAMuG_OzHJyBMDqSemLVT1DGE3tV34ZM32Jrf1cE">survey</a> by the Survey Center on American Life.
The survey, which includes a number of different topics concerning the opinions of everyday Americans and their satisfaction with the current state of the country, details the declining support of pornography among Gen Z men.
According to the survey, 64% of men under the age of 25 support making online pornography more difficult to access.
“In 2013, young men were divided—about half (51 percent) favored making it more difficult to access pornography online, while just about as many (40 percent) opposed this policy,” the survey found. “Today, six in 10 young men say they believe we should make accessing pornography online more difficult.”
This comes just weeks after the Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring consumers to provide age verification to gain access to commercial porn sites. The Texas measure was enacted in 2023 for the purpose of protecting children from pornographic content, requiring every user to provide proof of age in order to access the sites. The 6-3 vote marks the first time the court has required this of adults for the purpose of protecting minors. A total of 19 states currently have active age verification laws for porn websites and several other states have similar bills pending.
The shift among Gen Z men demonstrates a staggering turn in generational opinion, as The Daily Wire&#8217;s newest talent, Isabel Brown, wrote in a Thursday X post.
“WOW. Culture is changing.”
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WOW. Culture is changing. <a href="https://t.co/7B9yeO00G5">https://t.co/7B9yeO00G5</a>
&mdash; Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) <a href="https://twitter.com/theisabelb/status/1943349571284787709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“That’s good news!” said one commenter beneath Brown’s post. “Maybe in a generation or so, we can make pornography illegal again?”
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That&#39;s good news! Maybe in a generation or so, we can make pornography illegal again?
&mdash; C.F. Dalton (His Lordship/His Majesty) (@cfdalton1) <a href="https://twitter.com/cfdalton1/status/1943350080125219026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Gen Z men agree in large part with men over the age of 65, 73% of whom support a pornography restriction, while under half of men between the ages of 25 and 54 remain in favor.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday sent a <a href="https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/memorandum/Governors_Safe_Roads.htm">letter</a> to every governor in America, as well as the mayor of Washington, D.C., and the governor of Puerto Rico, urging them to remove political messages from crosswalks, including crosswalks painted in rainbow colors that recognize the LGBTQ community.
“Roads are for safety, not political messages or artwork,” Duffy told <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/01/exclusive-trump-admin-urges-governors-remove-rainbow-crosswalks-roads-promoting-safety/">The Daily Signal</a>.  “Today I am calling on governors in every state to ensure that roadways, intersections, and crosswalks are kept free of distractions.”
Noting that there were an estimated 39,345 traffic fatalities in 2024 across the nation and more than half of them occurred at intersections, Duffy implemented the Safe Arterials for Everyone through Reliable Operations and Distraction-Reducing Strategies (SAFE ROADS) plan, which would “focus on the non-freeway arterials within your State, including safety and operation at intersections and along segments, consistent and recognizable traffic control devices including crosswalk and intersection markings, and orderly use of the right‑of‑way that is kept free from distractions.”
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Duffy gave the governors 60 days “to develop a list of arterial segments, including intersections, with the highest safety, operational, or compliance concerns that will be addressed by the end of Fiscal Year 2026.”
Rainbow sidewalks have proliferated across the nation in recent years. The list of cites with rainbow crosswalks includes San Francisco, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Washington, D.C., Nashville, and smaller cities such as West Hollywood, California — where the first rainbow intersection was installed in 2012 — Key West, Florida, Huntington, West Virginia, and Ames, Iowa.
“Crosswalk markings are classified as either transverse line or high-visibility,” the 2023 <a href="https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Edition/mutcd11thedition.pdf">edition</a> of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Devices for Streets and Highways — which is issued by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) — states. “Transverse crossing markings consist of two transverse lines. High-visibility markings consist of longitudinal lines parallel to traffic flow with or without transverse lines. Crosswalk markings shall be white.”
“The FHWA is concerned that considerable ambiguity continues regarding how colored pavement can be used, especially between the white transverse lines of a legally marked crosswalk,” the Department of Transportation <a href="https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/interpretations/3_09_24.htm">stated</a> in 2013. “In 2011, the FHWA issued an additional Official Ruling<a href="https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/interpretations/3_09_24.htm#fn4">4</a> that crosswalk art—defined as any freeform design to draw attention to the crosswalk—would degrade the contrast of the white transverse lines against the composition of the pavement beneath it. In deviating from previous Official Rulings on the matter that concluded an increased factor of safety and decreased number of pedestrian deaths were not evident after installation, this 2011 Official Ruling stated that the use of crosswalk art is actually contrary to the goal of increased safety and most likely could be a contributing factor to a false sense of security for both motorists and pedestrians.”

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