In a TikTok video on Monday, a Michigan Democratic legislator offered to help children access “gender-affirming” care if they contacted her office.
Michigan State Rep. Carrie Rheingans said in the video that she was specifically talking to “trans kids here in Michigan,” adding that life-altering gender procedures are still legal in the state. Wearing a “Protect Trans Kids” sweatshirt, the Michigan Democrat posted the video Monday in response to the University of Michigan’s hospital network <a href="https://michiganadvance.com/2025/08/25/university-of-michigan-health-ends-gender-affirming-care-after-doj-subpoena/">ending</a> gender procedures for minors under pressure from the Department of Justice.
In her video, Rheingans told children that they could still get “care” at other places in Michigan.
“I want you to know, as trans kids here in Michigan, that this care is obviously safe and effective. That’s why it’s been approved and why it’s been used all across the country and continues to be used,” she added. “So if you need to find a new place to get care it is still legal here in Michigan, and reach out to our office, we’ll be able to connect you to what might still be available in our community.”
Rheingans, who represents Ann Arbor, urged children to “please contact our office” and provided contact information.
“We love you. We are really supportive of you as kids, and we want to make sure that you can grow up and thrive here in Michigan,” she added.
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<section><a title="@reprheingans" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@reprheingans?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@reprheingans</a> 🏳️‍⚧️ <a title="transkids" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/transkids?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#TransKids</a> in <a title="michigan" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/michigan?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#Michigan</a>: we live you and want to see you grow and thrive here 🩵🤍🩷 <a title="genderaffirmingcare" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/genderaffirmingcare?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#GenderAffirmingCare</a> <a title="♬ original sound - MI State RepCarrie Rheingans" href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7542692567620602655?refer=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">♬ original sound &#8211; MI State RepCarrie Rheingans</a></section>
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The federal government and medical establishment previously pushed gender procedures for children as an effective way to treat gender dysphoria, but the practice has come under intense <a href="https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/gender-dysphoria-report-exec-summary.pdf">scrutiny</a> as new research highlights the dangers of performing life-altering gender surgeries and puberty blockers. A Health and Human Services <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hhs-releases-damning-review-of-gender-treatments-for-minors-the-risks-cannot-be-ignored">review</a> released earlier this year, shortly after President Donald Trump took office, stated, “These interventions carry risk of significant harms including infertility/sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret.”
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Even before Trump stepped into the White House, the federal government was changing its tune on gender procedures for children. Last summer, the Biden administration opposed lowering the age minimums for hormonal treatments, mastectomies, breast augmentations, facial, and genital surgeries, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/health/transgender-surgery-biden.html">reported</a>.
The Trump administration has threatened to cut federal funding to hospitals that continue to perform gender procedures on children, resulting in many large hospitals such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/health-care-puts-stop-to-trans-surgeries-on-kids">Kaiser Permanente</a> and <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-hospitals-ending-gender-affirming-care-minors-impact/story?id=124889031">Children’s National Hospital</a> ending the practice.
Michigan Republican state Rep. Brad Paquette, who is leading an effort in the Great Lakes State to protect children from gender procedures, told The Daily Wire that he has a “good relationship” with Rheingans and has discussed the issue with her “pretty extensively.”
“So here in the state of Michigan, one of the unfortunate aspects is my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are completely captured by this ideology, this gender theory,” Paquette said. “So I’m trying to do my best to figure out how to get my colleagues informed as to what these procedures are.”
“She has this mentality that she carries — that the trans activists carry — that there are safe spaces, that you’re an ally or you’re not,” Paquette added. “And this causes an extreme divide among families and in the political arena.”
Rheingans did not respond to a Daily Wire request for comment, but she did address some criticism of her video on social media.
“Horrifying because I told children that I love them. Calm down,” she <a href="https://x.com/RepRheingans/status/1960364046546244058">replied</a> to one post from conservative communicator Steve Guest, who said it was “one of the most horrifying videos that I’ve ever seen posted by a politician.”
“Kids need to see that some grownups love them, and not all are bullies,” she <a href="https://x.com/RepRheingans/status/1960373622473691545">wrote</a> in another post.
Rheingans has made LGBT issues a significant part of her political agenda, saying earlier this year that she was “proud to vote YES to expand Michigan’s civil rights law,” which added sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected classes.
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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫶🏻 Thank you to our many constituents and advocates from @equality_michigan for sharing your stories and being your beautiful selves! I was proud to vote YES to expand <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Michigan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Michigan</a>&#8216;s civil rights law &#8230; 1/2 <a href="https://t.co/2M3mtsfooo">pic.twitter.com/2M3mtsfooo</a>
— Rep. Carrie Rheingans (@RepRheingans) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRheingans/status/1923327547858731264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
In 2024, Rheingans spoke at the Ann Arbor Pride Festival and <a href="https://archive.ph/VU0Dl#selection-1603.0-1606.0">urged</a> gay people to run for office.
“If you have never thought about running for office, we need more gays in office, go run for office,” she said. “We need to have a bigger LGBTQ caucus.”

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&#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author J.K. Rowling planted a red flag on the clear message radical trans activists are sending to women and girls when they demand access to single-sex spaces that are meant to be for women only.
Rowling, whose support for sex-based rights and privacy has often put her at odds with the trans community, said that the obvious takeaway was as simple as it was insidious: women, to them, were little more than costumes that afforded the wearers everything that went along with actually being women.
&#8220;The message to girls everywhere: you are a costume that any man can put on. Once he’s wearing it, he gets to take your rights,&#8221; Rowling&#8217;s post was concise.
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The message to girls everywhere: you are a costume that any man can put on. Once he’s wearing it, he gets to take your rights. <a href="https://t.co/BlQvL8bbyR">https://t.co/BlQvL8bbyR</a>
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1958821381971300800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/neo-nazi-womens-prison-changing-gender-vj5zvwm89">article</a> Rowling shared to back up her statement was published in The Times and detailed the story of a man who was headed to a women&#8217;s prison in Germany just months after claiming that he was, in fact, a woman.
Marla-Svenja Liebich, 53 — who went by the name Sven until December of 2024 — was the leader of a banned local Nazi group called Blood and Honour in Saxony-Anhalt. He has campaigned for Russian President Vladimir Putin and cheered on the war against Ukraine.
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Liebich was arrested on several charges including inciting hatred, criminal insults, and &#8220;trying to sell a baseball bat over the internet as a &#8216;deportation aid.'&#8221;
Despite previously claiming that trans-identifying people were &#8220;parasites on society,&#8221; Liebich made use of a recently-changed policy in order to adopt his new identity. While in years past, trans-identifying individuals had to present evidence from two doctors in order to change gender on official government documents, a new policy adopted last November allows individuals to simply fill out a form at a local government office.

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After Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy issued a <a href="https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/memorandum/Governors_Safe_Roads.htm">directive</a> on July 1 ordering all governors to comply with federal standards for “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,” Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis did exactly that, ordering the state to paint over a rainbow-colored crosswalk in Orlando memorializing the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting, and enraging critics who contended it was an attack on gay rights.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer called the removal “callous” and “a cruel political act,” adding, “This crosswalk not only enhanced safety and visibility for the large number of pedestrians visiting the memorial, it also served as a visual reminder of Orlando’s commitment to honor the 49 lives taken.”
State Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith argued, “They did this in the middle of the night because they were scared of the resistance because they know what they did was wrong.”
“The state transportation agency had been notifying cities around Florida in recent months that they must remove rainbow-colored crosswalks and intersections or they could face the withholding of transportation funds,” the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/florida-lgbtq-pulse-nightclub-desantis-329ebed5d628400afb066d2772c3855a">noted</a>.
DeSantis issued a blunt and succinct reply to his critics: “We will not allow our state roads to be commandeered for political purposes.”
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We will not allow our state roads to be commandeered for political purposes. <a href="https://t.co/AXY1qxsZNW">https://t.co/AXY1qxsZNW</a>
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1958583393714667572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Some community members then <a href="https://x.com/jeremy_rodrigue/status/1958670495483592732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1958670495483592732%7Ctwgr%5E7ac4c6e18c02c61f96b81df762f6b17dcf98525c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fflorida-locals-ron-desantis-pulse-rainbow-crosswalk-2117628">rechalked</a> the rainbow colors onto the crosswalk.
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But DeSantis had plenty of support online, as Twitchy<a href="https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/08/22/desantis-painted-over-pride-intersection-carlos-smith-big-mad-n2417681"> documented</a>. Some comments included:
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Good on DeSantis. This should have never been on the sidewalk to begin with. Stop painting sidewalks, crosswalks and roads for any group cause. All it does is make people more irritated with you.
Painting a sidewalk in rainbow colors has nothing to do with the people who were murdered there. People can mourn them in private or go to the cemetery. This is like marking a spot for one group of people. Also, the Governor can do what he thinks is best for all his citizens.
Painting a sidewalk in rainbow colors has nothing to do with the people who were murdered there. People can mourn them in private or go to the cemetery. This is like marking a spot for one group of people. Also, the Governor can do what he thinks is best for all his citizens.
DeSantis doesn’t play! Florida just painted over the rainbow crosswalk in Orlando and the left is LOSING it.  One senator is literally on-scene crying about a sidewalk… Meanwhile, real Floridians are cheering. 🌴🇺🇸  Common sense &gt; woke symbolism.
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ESPN, a global sports media network that has remained woke despite the prevailing zeitgeist having moved away from that perspective, on Thursday put out a problematic post on X celebrating itself, captioned, “All the icons. All the moments. All of @espn. All in one place.”
The problem? The professional athletes pictured in the post — which was later deleted — were heavily dominated by WNBA players, a sport that has low attendance and has to be propped up by the NBA.
Various social media posts counted the number of professional athletes, and the results indicated that ESPN, once again, seemed to be shilling for a woke perspective instead of celebrating the sports that have a genuinely heavy turnout.
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“If you were an alien you would believe from this picture that the most popular sport in the United States is the WNBA. ESPN is out of its damn mind,” Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro posted.
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If you were an alien you would believe from this picture that the most popular sport in the United States is the WNBA. ESPN is out of its damn mind. <a href="https://t.co/zTWMRS4ZXX">https://t.co/zTWMRS4ZXX</a>
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1958909522732367890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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David Cone, co-host of Crain &amp; Company, posted a hilarious meme referencing “A Clockwork Orange”:
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ESPN making sure I watch the WNBA <a href="https://t.co/k3TpkfUJAD">https://t.co/k3TpkfUJAD</a> <a href="https://t.co/xppktxG3dC">pic.twitter.com/xppktxG3dC</a>
— David Cone (@davidadamcone) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidadamcone/status/1958905364478415055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Fellow co-host Blain Crain echoed, “20 WNBA players and no Scottie Scheffler? ESPN is cooked.”
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A story in 2 parts. <a href="https://t.co/DU3FEt6HX9">pic.twitter.com/DU3FEt6HX9</a>
— NeitherSchnierOrThere (@Cathew_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cathew_/status/1958927099151950270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Former MLB All-Star Zack Cozart chimed in, “Having more WNBA players than MLB players shows u how big a joke ESPN is.”
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having more WNBA players than MLB players shows u how big a joke ESPN is <a href="https://t.co/GR7hzpwjqM">https://t.co/GR7hzpwjqM</a>
— Zack Cozart (@zack_cozart) <a href="https://twitter.com/zack_cozart/status/1958862220416168152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“There are 20 WNBA players on here, 18 of whom most people don’t recognize. Yet Scottie Scheffler, the most dominant athlete today, isn’t included. Why?” Bobby Burack of Outkick noted.
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There are 20 WNBA players on here, 18 of whom most people don’t recognize. Yet Scottie Scheffler, the most dominant athlete today, isn’t included. Why? <a href="https://t.co/Q6N9ZBf3t4">https://t.co/Q6N9ZBf3t4</a>
— Bobby Burack (@burackbobby_) <a href="https://twitter.com/burackbobby_/status/1958889640896659572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“3 NHL players. 3 MLB players. 20 WNBA players. Tells you everything you need to know about ESPN,” the Utah Football Fans Podcast snapped.
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3 NHL players. 3 MLB players. 20 WNBA players. Tells you everything you need to know about ESPN
— Utah Football Fans Podcast (@UtahFBFans) <a href="https://twitter.com/UtahFBFans/status/1958758689617088707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A baseball analyst and author posted Shane Gillis’ joke about the WNBA at the ESPYs:
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— Ryan M. Spaeder (@theaceofspaeder) <a href="https://twitter.com/theaceofspaeder/status/1958738493573628362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Of course, ESPN has featured woke perspectives for years; Fox News delineated some in a 2022 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/espn-woke-moments-america-bashing-july-4-china?utm_source=chatgpt.com">article</a> which listed, “Sarah Spain calls Rays players ‘bigots’ for not wearing gay pride patch,’” “On-air tears after Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade,” “ESPN’s Elle Duncan urges fathers to advocate for their daughters&#8217; right to have abortions,” and ‘Moment of silence to protest Florida’s parental rights bill.”

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The Trump administration announced Thursday that it will be pulling more than $12 million from California over &#8220;gender ideology&#8221; in its sexual education programs.
The Health and Human Services&#8217; (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) put out a <a href="https://acf.gov/media/press/2025/hhs-defunds-californias-attempt-indoctrinate-children-gender-ideology">press release</a> announcing this move to stop California&#8217;s Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) from receiving a massive amount of federal funding over the next few years.
Acting Assistant Secretary of the ACF Andrew Gradison wrote in the press release, &#8220;California&#8217;s refusal to comply with federal law and remove egregious gender ideology from federally funded sex-ed materials is unacceptable.&#8221;
&#8220;Accountability is coming for every state that uses federal funds to teach children delusional gender ideology,&#8221; Gradison said.
According to the <a href="https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DMCAH/CA-PREP/Pages/default.aspx">California Department of Public Health</a> (CDPH), the program aims at changing behavior, including delaying sexual activity, increasing condom or contraceptive use for sexually active youth, and reducing the number of sexual partners for youth ages 10-19.
The program receives all of its funding from the Health and Human Services&#8217; ACF and Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB).
Gradison appeared on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377188148112">&#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom&#8221;</a> on Thursday to explain the process that went into this decision.
Gradison pointed to materials that promoted the belief that &#8220;boys could be girls and girls could be boys and that the solution, oftentimes, was mutilating their genitals.&#8221;
&#8220;The American people elected President Trump to restore sanity and common sense in this country,&#8221; Gradison said. &#8220;Part of that is removing gender ideology from state sex-ed curriculum.&#8221;
President Trump also threatened federal funding from any state that chooses to disobey the guidance from HHS in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-ultimatum-california-schools-must-follow-transgender-policies-or-face-consequences">post</a> to Truth Social on Thursday.
&#8220;Any California school district that doesn&#8217;t adhere to our Transgender policies, will not be funded,&#8221; Trump wrote on Truth Social. &#8220;Thank you for your attention to this matter!&#8221;
This decision to pull all federal funding from California&#8217;s PREP is the product of months of back and forth between the Trump administration and California health officials. The ACF originally requested PREP documents from California in March. In June, it demanded that the state revise its program within 60 days.
California state health officials failed to respond until one day before the deadline, when they denied any medical inaccuracies on the part of the program and said it would not take the recommended corrective measures.
&#8220;In a disturbing and egregious abuse of federal funds, California has been using taxpayer money to teach curricula that could encourage kids to contemplate mutilating their genitals, &#8216;altering their body … through hormone therapy,&#8217; &#8216;adding or removing breast tissue,&#8217; and &#8216;changing their name.&#8217; It instructed teachers to &#8216;remind students that some men are born with female anatomy,'&#8221; HHS said in a Thursday press release of the teachings, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kennedys-hhs-terminates-california-sex-ed-grant-after-refuses-drop-radical-gender-lessons">according</a> to Fox News.
Previous grant <a href="https://acf.gov/fysb/grant-funding/state-personal-responsibility-education-program-prep-grantees">funding</a> shows California&#8217;s PREP program received just under $6 million from the federal government in fiscal year 2022.
This is the most recent step that the Trump administration is taking against what the president has called woke programs that affect students and young people. The president recently signed an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-olympic-committee-bans-men-in-womens-sports">executive order</a> to keep men out of women&#8217;s sports.
Trump is also currently in a litigation battle against California for continuing to allow transgender-identifying males to compete in female sports. The suit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-president-means-business-trump-admin-sues-california-over-transgender-athlete-policy">argued</a> that California was depriving young girls of athletic opportunities.

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to gut all &#8220;woke&#8221; nonsense from our museums, specifically calling out the Smithsonian.
The president criticized our museums for downplaying American greatness, and instead promoting &#8220;woke&#8221; ideology that denigrates our nation.
&#8220;The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of &#8216;WOKE,'&#8221; Trump declared in a Truth Social post.
&#8220;The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future,&#8221; he criticized.
Trump said he&#8217;s instructed his attorneys to rid &#8220;wokeness&#8221; from our museums through the &#8220;exact same process that has been done with colleges and universities.&#8221;
&#8220;This country cannot be WOKE, because WOKE IS BROKE,&#8221; the president emphasized. &#8220;We have the &#8216;HOTTEST&#8217; country in the world, and we want people to talk about it, including in our museums.&#8221;
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Currently, the Smithsonian often promotes overt ideological content, radical gender ideology, LGBT propaganda, or aggressive reframing of events like the COVID pandemic or the Black Lives Matter movement, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-moves-to-rid-smithsonian-of-left-wing-spin-highlight-american-history">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
Last week, the Trump administration moved to weed out the left-wing ideology and historical spin from the institution. In a letter dated August 12, Trump officials Lindsey Halligan, Vince Haley, and Russ Vought informed Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch that the administration will be conducting a “comprehensive internal review of selected Smithsonian museums and exhibitions” in fulfillment of the president’s “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History&#8221; executive order.
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“This initiative aims to ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions,” the Trump officials told the Smithsonian, noting their review is “rooted in respect for the Smithsonian’s vital mission and its extraordinary contributions” and they want to “support a broader vision of excellence that highlights historically accurate, uplifting, and inclusive portrayals of America’s heritage.”
As Trump posted on Truth Social, his administration has targeted left-wing ideology permeating our colleges and universities, too.
For example, in February, Trump gave schools and universities across the country two weeks to eliminate controversial diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, or risk losing federal funding. The Department of Education specifically told schools to stop practicing “racial preferences” in admissions, financial aid, hiring, or other areas, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/dei-critical-race-theory-colleges-diversity-db8317ad37931558dd5a396cf5ab3d42">noted</a>.
Trump has also told schools they must comply with sex and gender on the basis of reality, not radical gender theory. In one prominent example, the University of Pennsylvania <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/upenn-agrees-to-strip-medals-from-lia-thomas-as-part-of-sweeping-white-house-deal">agreed to strip trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas of the titles</a> he won on the women’s team.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-moves-to-rid-smithsonian-of-left-wing-spin-highlight-american-history">Trump Moves To Rid Smithsonian Of Left-Wing Spin, Highlight American History</a>

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After a leftist activist berated a transgender-identifying man for mocking a fellow transgender-identifying man boasting about buying bras online, &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author J.K. Rowling issued a sharp rejoinder.
The series of incidents began with one of the transgender-identifying men boasting, “I fully intend to attend my bra fit at M&amp;S. I&#8217;m a woman. I&#8217;m a human being. I will not be intimidated by bullies. I stand strong! I stand proud!”
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I fully intend to attend my bra fit at M&amp;S. I&#39;m a woman. I&#39;m a human being. I will not be intimidated by bullies.
I stand strong! I stand proud! 🏳️‍⚧️
&mdash; Sophie Molly 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@SophieMolly_OFF) <a href="https://twitter.com/SophieMolly_OFF/status/1957365640404058532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Brianna Wu, also a transgender-identifying man, responded acidly by noting that &#8220;normal trans women&#8221; don&#8217;t publicly discuss things like shopping for undergarments, writing on X:
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Please don’t associate me or normal trans women with this train wreck. Do you see other women talking about bra shopping on Twitter? No? Maybe because it’s inappropriate. Maybe there’s a level of feminine modesty you should be thinking about. Secondly, we’re not the same as normal women &#8211; as much as we may want to be. We are not automatically entitled to anything. Women’s spaces are heavily vibe based, and yours are dreadful. By politicizing this you’re making life harder for yourself and everyone else. Thirdly, I’m just gonna be honest. You come off as a fetishistic cross dresser. Normal women don’t brag about bra fitting appointments and plan to post pictures on Twitter. Can we not just vote these clowns off Trans Rights island? They don’t have anything to do with me.
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Please don’t associate me or normal trans women with this train wreck. 
Do you see other women talking about bra shopping on Twitter? No? Maybe because it’s inappropriate. Maybe there’s a level of feminine modesty you should be thinking about. 
Secondly, we’re not the same as… <a href="https://t.co/qAJVkYoNV3">https://t.co/qAJVkYoNV3</a>
&mdash; Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) <a href="https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1957436385641586926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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That prompted a critic of Wu to declare, “Hi @BriannaWu You&#8217;ve talked about bras multiple times on Twitter. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll find a way to say &#8216;but I&#8217;m a good trans woman, so when I do it it&#8217;s different.&#8217; Transphobes have politicised everything trans women do, but you&#8217;re not dim, you&#8217;re just pretending not to know that.”
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Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/BriannaWu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BriannaWu</a> You&#39;ve talked about bras multiple times on Twitter. I&#39;m sure you&#39;ll find a way to say &quot;but I&#39;m a good trans woman, so when I do it it&#39;s different.&quot; Transphobes have politicised everything trans women do, but you&#39;re not dim, you&#39;re just pretending not to know that. <a href="https://t.co/iZD6nUw0SK">https://t.co/iZD6nUw0SK</a> <a href="https://t.co/1zN7WzFMP9">pic.twitter.com/1zN7WzFMP9</a>
&mdash; Aidan Comerford (@AidanCTweets) <a href="https://twitter.com/AidanCTweets/status/1957675085101253061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rowling then entered the fray, snapping, “Yes, when my friends and I are talking on X, bras are definitely something we regularly discuss. It’s the perfect place to discuss our underwear. Sometimes, if  @bindelj hasn’t mentioned her bra for a couple of days, I DM to check if she’s ok and offer to buy her a front fastener.”
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Yes, when my friends and I are talking on X, bras are definitely something we regularly discuss. It’s the perfect place to discuss our underwear. Sometimes, if <a href="https://twitter.com/bindelj?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bindelj</a> hasn’t mentioned her bra for a couple of days, I DM to check if she’s ok and offer to buy her a front fastener. <a href="https://t.co/SDyCfkVlMJ">pic.twitter.com/SDyCfkVlMJ</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1957769578789867581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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As writer Christian Toto <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/expelliarmus-j-k-rowling-disarms-her-critics-again-and-again">noted</a> in June:
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The Legacy Media and the Left (but we repeat ourselves) declared war on “Harry Potter” author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling">J.K. Rowling</a> in 2019 after she questioned elements of the trans agenda. Rowling, a certified progressive on cultural and political matters, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-years-ago-j-k-rowling-took-a-stand-against-trans-activists-she-hasnt-backed-down">refused to rubber stamp every aspect of the movement</a>. 
&#8220;Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?&#8221;
For that, she was canceled in every way possible, over and again.
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Major retailer Costco has decided against selling abortion pill mifepristone at its 500+ pharmacies across the nation, sparking praise from pro-life activists.
Costco joins other major retailers, like Walmart and Kroger, in refusing to sell the life-ended pill, which has been marred by controversy over its safety for women.
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A top legal mind at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a legal organization aimed at protecting religious freedoms, called the news a &#8220;huge win.&#8221;
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&#8220;Huge win: Costco said NO to distributing deadly Chemical Abortion Pills,&#8221; ADF&#8217;s Jeremy Tedesco posted to X. &#8220;No business case. No shareholder upside. Just ideology—and it failed.&#8221;
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&#8220;Kudos to [Costco, Walmart, Albertsons, &amp; Kroger] for protecting shareholder value over activist demands,&#8221; he added, referring to the companies&#8217; decision to refuse to sell mifepristone.
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Huge win: <a href="https://twitter.com/Costco?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Costco</a> won’t cave to activist pressure to turn stores into abortion pill dispensaries.
No business case. No shareholder upside. Just ideology—and it failed.
Credit to <a href="https://twitter.com/inspireadvisor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Inspireadvisor</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryLeeBowyer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JerryLeeBowyer</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/AMACforAmerica?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AMACforAmerica</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/SFOF_States?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SFOF_States</a> &amp; other fiduciary trustees who…
— Jeremy Tedesco (@Jeremy_Tedesco) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Tedesco/status/1955978533508956184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
Pro-lifers were quick to praise the move by Costco, while also calling out other major pharmacies, like CVS and Walgreens, which do sell the controversial drug.
<div class="css-175oi2r r-xoduu5">&#8220;[Walgreens &amp; CVS Pharmacy] should follow Costco’s lead and immediately stop trafficking in the deaths of children. The FDA must pull its approval for this lethal drug!&#8221; activist Lila Rose said on X.</div>
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/Costco?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Costco</a> will NOT sell the deadly abortion pill!<a href="https://twitter.com/Walgreens?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Walgreens</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/cvspharmacy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cvspharmacy</a> should follow Costco’s lead and immediately stop trafficking in the deaths of children.
The FDA must pull its approval for this lethal drug!
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) <a href="https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1956051853592158262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<div>Kristan Hawkins, of Students of Life, wrote, &#8220;This is what winning looks like.&#8221;</div>
&#8220;Students for Life has worked hard to call on pharmacies to reject these dangerous drugs,&#8221; Hawkins wrote. &#8220;Great to see 500+ pharmacies truly living up to their slogan, &#8216;Simplifying Home and LIFE.&#8217; Protecting moms, protecting babies.&#8221;
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WIN: Costco said NO to distributing deadly Chemical Abortion Pills. <a href="https://twitter.com/StudentsforLife?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StudentsforLife</a> worked hard to call on pharmacies to reject these dangerous drugs.
Great to see 500+ pharmacies truly living up to their slogan: “Simplifying Home and LIFE.” Protecting moms, protecting… <a href="https://t.co/l5vFWLPbme">pic.twitter.com/l5vFWLPbme</a>
— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/KristanHawkins/status/1956065604911423723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
The safety of mifepristone has become a key issue in the fight over abortion and women&#8217;s safety. As highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fda-chief-commits-to-full-review-of-abortion-pill">The Daily Wire</a>, the pill, which is usually followed by misoprostol, aims to end the life of the unborn baby and expel it from the woman’s uterus. However, the drugs sometimes fail to expel all the fetal tissue, which can cause life-threatening complications.
An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abortion-pill-22-times-more-dangerous-than-fda-claimed-new-study-says?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Abortion+Pill+22+Times+More+Dangerous+Than+FDA+Claimed%2C+New+Study+Says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> released in April found that more than one in 10 women experienced a “serious adverse event” after taking the mifepristone abortion pill in 2023. This can include hemorrhaging, needing a blood transfusion, an emergency room visit, and even deadly conditions like sepsis.
That is about 22 times higher than what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) listed on its label for the brand Mifeprex in 2023. The FDA <a href="https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2023/020687Orig1s025Lbl.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> clinical studies saying less than 0.5% of women suffered “serious adverse reactions” to mifepristone.
In June, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary committed to reviewing the pill.
“As the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, I am committed to conducting a review of mifepristone and working with the professional career scientists at the Agency who review this data,” Makary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fda-chief-commits-to-full-review-of-abortion-pill">wrote</a> in a letter to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO). “As with all drugs, FDA continues to closely monitor the postmarketing safety data on mifepristone for the medical termination of early pregnancy.&#8221;
Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-1-in-20-women-need-second-abortion-attempt-after-abortion-pill-fails">More Than 1 in 20 Women Need Second Abortion Attempt After Abortion Pill Fails</a>

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Young Americans and other ignoramuses seem to be moving to the political Left. A new poll shows that 62% of Americans aged 18 to 29 now hold a favorable view of socialism — and the percentage is even higher among 18- to 29-year-olds who wear rings in their noses because they couldn&#8217;t locate their ears.
In on-the-street interviews with young people or just people with enough tattoos to qualify as glitches in the evolutionary progress of humankind, the subjects interviewed gave various reasons for their leftward shift.
For instance, one young man named Sketchy Boardslide told a reporter, “I believe in socialism because if you ran a metal wire into my left ear, it would come out my right ear without touching anything in-between. As a result, I’m so shallow that my shallowness goes down very deep, a sentence that doesn’t even make any sense, which should give you some idea of just how incredibly stupid I am. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to guide my battery-powered skateboard to a voting booth in order to help elect someone who will destroy every vestige of what good men hold dear, whatever a vestige is. Bye, Felicia.”
A woman we interviewed who is either between 18 and 29 years old or just so ignorant it’s hard to tell the difference, told our reporter, “When I look at all the inequality and suffering in the world, I care so much it really makes me feel good about what a warm-hearted person I am. Believing in socialism is a way for me to express the precious tenderness of my heart without actually having to do anything for anybody, because that would take time away from making videos about opening boxes of cosmetics while pouting with surgically modified lips so big they look like a cross between a gravy boat and some unidentifiable kind of roadkill. If I vote socialist, everyone will admire my compassionate nature until the country collapses in a catastrophe of poverty and oppression and is overrun by barbarians so that I become part of some savage’s harem, which has been a big fantasy of mine ever since I read a novel in which all the men had bat wings and did rough sex with women who were beautiful, fragile fairies but really strong in some kind of magical way.”
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Pollsters have found that the move toward socialism among young people and other dunderheads has opened up a gender gap between women, who make good money and are completely miserable, and men who scratch their armpits in public and are working on developing an organizational chart of the Marvel Comics Universe. Some psychologists say the divide may be caused by sex differences that have been socially constructed in every society that has ever existed and ever will until the end of time.
For instance, studies show that young women experience higher levels of anxiety and stronger feelings of vulnerability, while young men are far more likely to chase women down the street, shouting, “Hey, baby, give me some of that hot stuff, the way they do it in porn,” diverse sex traits that some scientists believe may be mysteriously connected.
One gender scientist, Dr. Bartholomew Creepy, says these sex differences, which are not at all innate but simply socially constructed everywhere always and forever, may give clues to why young women are increasingly socialist, while young men believe Spiderman is actually a real person but you never see him because we don’t live in his section of the multiverse. In a speech to a convention of middle-aged men who subscribe to Teen Vogue for some reason, Dr. Creepy said, “Young women have been shown to exhibit higher levels of agreeableness and tender-heartedness which are conducive to socialism when combined with their almost total inability to reason. I hope to deliver deeper insights into this phenomenon in my latest study of young women with its focus on their uncannily smooth and shapely legs.”
Older people, conservatives and anyone else with a lick of sense are hoping to avoid the consequences of the leftward trend among the young by praying for death to mercifully carry them away before the next election.
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As President Donald Trump prepared to return to Washington, D.C. from New Jersey on Sunday, he delightedly answered when asked about actress Sydney Sweeney&#8217;s new ad campaign and her political affiliation.
“Mr. President, actress Sydney Sweeney came out this weekend that she was a registered Republican. Any thoughts on that?” a reporter asked him, adding, “She&#8217;s a very hot actress right now. “
“She&#8217;s a registered Republican?” Trump queried.  When the reporter confirmed it, Trump responded, “Oh, now I love her ad. Is that right? Is Sydney Sweeney? Yes. You&#8217;d be surprised at how many people are Republicans. That&#8217;s what I wouldn&#8217;t have known. But I&#8217;m glad you told me that. If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.”
Trump flogged the actress on Monday morning in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114970952739677687">post on Truth Social</a>, writing, &#8220;Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the &#8216;HOTTEST&#8217; ad out there. It&#8217;s for American Eagle, and the jeans are &#8216;flying off the shelves.'&#8221;
Left-wing website BuzzFeed <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/yes-sydney-sweeney-registered-republican-131433446.html">reported</a> that Sweeney was a Republican on Saturday after leftists went berserk over her ad campaign for American Eagle jeans. One spot featured Sweeney in various seductive poses while saying she had “good jeans,” and the double entendre with the word “genes” catalyzed leftists to label the ad as racist, noting that Sweeney is white, has blond hair, and blue eyes.
In one of the ads, Sweeney states, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are blue.”
The Daily Wire reviewed records that show a Sydney B. Sweeney is a registered Republican in Florida. The middle name of Sweeney, the actress, is reportedly Bernice. Additionally, the date of registration is June 2024, the same time it was <a href="https://pagesix.com/2024/06/06/lifestyle/sydney-sweeney-buys-13-5m-oceanfront-florida-mansion/">reported</a> that the actress purchased a $13.5 million home in Summerland Key, Florida. The registration reviewed by The Daily Wire named Summerland Key as the city where the registrant resides.
American Eagle responded to the furor by issuing a simple statement: “&#8217;Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans’ is and always was about the jeans. Her jeans. Her story. We’ll continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way. Great jeans look good on everyone.”
Amanda Prestigiacomo contributed to this article.
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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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