A group of children and adults staged an hours-long walkout at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/utah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Utah</a> middle school on Wednesday over an unusual issue — &#8220;furries.&#8221;
The protesters walked out of Mt. Nebo Middle School, which is about an hour south of Salt Lake City, claiming that students who dress as &#8220;furries&#8221; were being disruptive.
Furries are people who have an interest in animals with human qualities, <a href="https://www.webmd.com/sex/what-is-furry-sex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to WebMD.
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What a time to be alive.
Yesterday, over 70 students walked out of Mt. Nebo School to protest the school for letting &quot;furries&quot; to bite, bark, &amp; lick them.
ABC even interviewed a &quot;member of the furry community&quot; (they/them) to give a comment about the situation: <a href="https://t.co/zIMjoy9U9b">pic.twitter.com/zIMjoy9U9b</a>
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In video of the protests shared to social media, students accuse the alleged &#8220;furries&#8221; at Mt. Nebo of biting, scratching, barking at, spraying air freshener on, and pouncing on other students.
Some students who walked out complained that the furries wore masks every day, according to a video of the protest shared to social media.
&#8220;They think they&#8217;re so cool,&#8221; one girl <a href="https://twitter.com/lifeisdriving/status/1780612860957360200?t=bUQt3iyNbuqAGJ8PGor2LQ&amp;s=19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
&#8220;We can&#8217;t talk or say anything to the furries or even look at them, but they can come look at us and say stuff to us and touch us,&#8221; said another girl.
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However, the school district&#8217;s public information officer, Seth Sorensen, <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/04/17/fact-check-nebo-school-district/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> back on claims about students dressing up as animals. Students may wear headbands with ears, but they do not dress up in full-body animal costumes, he said.
“Today, we had some students and parents choose to exercise their right to assemble, and do a little protest for what they perceived was something that was happening in the school,” Sorensen <a href="https://www.abc4.com/news/wasatch-front/utah-student-furry-protest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC4. “It actually is not something that’s been occurring.”
“Interestingly enough, they really didn’t address us with anything they wanted changed,” he said. &#8220;We want every student to feel safe when they come to school, and we want students to get along. In fact, we want adults to get along.&#8221;
He <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/04/17/fact-check-nebo-school-district/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a> that the protest may have been the result of a miscommunication via an email from the school about an altercation between two groups of students.
The school also said it has worked with some students whose dress and appearance might be disruptive to the school environment.
At Wednesday&#8217;s protest, children held signs reading “Compelled speech is not free speech,” as well as “I will not comply,” and “We just wanted to learn.”
A <a href="https://www.change.org/p/students-for-humans-at-school-not-animals-aka-furries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">petition</a> dubbed &#8220;Students for Humans at School, not animals aka furries&#8221; has garnered nearly 1,700 signatures so far. The petition asks the school to enforce a dress code, which the petitioners say prohibits students from presenting themselves in a way that disrupts the learning atmosphere or creates a welfare issue.
The online “furry” fandom often <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-law-forces-furry-convention-to-bar-children">has</a> sexual overtones, although some self-identified “furries” insist sex has nothing to do with their interest in the fandom.
A 2011 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130308185939/https://sites.google.com/site/anthropomorphicresearch/past-results/international-online-furry-survey-2011" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> of “furries” found that about a quarter of “furries” said they felt less than 100% human.

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‘Furry’ Claims Spark Walkout At Utah Middle School; School Pushes Back

'Furry' Claims Spark Walkout At Utah Middle School; School Pushes Back

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Remains presumed to belong to a Utah teen who went missing in 2022 have been found in a remote area of the state in Box Elder County.
Dylan Rounds was 19 when he disappeared from his farm after a phone call with his grandmother, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/us-news/utah-teen-dylan-rounds-presumed-skeletal-remains-found-as-james-brenner-faces-murder-charge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. In March 2023, James Brenner was charged with Rounds’ murder and agreed to tell police where the body was as part of a plea deal.
“On April 9, 2024, skeletal remains presumed to belong to Dylan Rounds were recovered in the remote western Box Elder County area of Lucin,” the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office <a href="https://www.facebook.com/people/Box-Elder-County-Sheriffs-Office/100069247537764/?locale=fr_FR&amp;paipv=0&amp;eav=AfYYbTyirhqFGyQDGp1dWy8CiMi5VWmwtULb7Dh1A9OOx90NRwvfGqm5k2rH16VLPWk&amp;_rdr">said</a> on Facebook. “The FBI assisted the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office by processing the area for evidence and recovering the remains. The remains are in the possession of the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner for confirmation of identity.”
Brenner was squatting on land next to Rounds’ trailer when he allegedly murdered the teen, East Idaho News <a href="https://www.eastidahonews.com/2023/06/james-brenner-man-accused-of-killing-dylan-rounds-appears-in-utah-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last year, and was charged with one count of aggravated murder and one count of abuse or desecration of a human body. Brenner had a violent criminal history and had been arrested on outstanding warrants in June 2022 before authorities announced that he was a suspect in Rounds’ disappearance.
During a hearing last year, Brenner appeared with a limp, prompting Rounds’ parents to accuse him of attention-seeking behavior.
“He’s despicable. His whole act of limping around is a complete act,” Rounds’ mother, Candice Cooley, told East Idaho News at the time. “I don’t know if it’s so we think he’s going to die or make him some sort of deal but he wants people to feel sorry for him.”
“He looks for attention to have people feel sorry for him. That’s all. I think it’s an act,” Rounds’ father, Justin, told the outlet.
While the sheriff’s office announced the discovery of a body believed to be Rounds, it did not elaborate further due to legal proceedings against Brenner.
“Our hearts go out to the family of Dylan Rounds,” the sheriff’s office <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/us-news/utah-teen-dylan-rounds-presumed-skeletal-remains-found-as-james-brenner-faces-murder-charge/">said</a>. “We offer our sincerest condolences for the loss of their family member. We understand that the pain of their loss is immeasurable, and we want to express our deepest sympathies to them. It is our hope that they can find peace moving forward.”
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Squatting has become a national issue after <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/04/us-news/why-cant-squatters-like-brett-flores-get-evicted-and-how-did-it-get-to-this-point/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several major stories</a> have come to light about people refusing to leave properties and homeowners being unable to reclaim what is theirs. The issue prompted Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fetterman-blasts-squatters-trying-to-steal-peoples-homes-squatters-have-no-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condemn the laws</a> protecting “squatter’s rights.”
“Squatters have no rights,” Fetterman <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/06/us-news/fetterman-blasts-squatters-violent-crime-i-am-not-woke/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Post. “How can you even pretend that this is anything other than you’re just breaking the law?”
“It’s wild that if you go away on a long trip, for 30 days, and someone breaks into your home and suddenly they have rights,” he added. “This is crazy. Like if somebody stole your car, and then they held it for 30 days, then somehow you now have some rights?”

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Remains Found Believed To Be Of Teen Who Disappeared From His Farm In 2022. A Squatter Was Arrested For His Murder.

Remains Found Of Dylan Rounds, Who Disappeared From His Farm In 2022. A Squatter Was Arrested For His Murder.

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Daily Wire host Michael Knowles spoke to a large crowd at the University of Utah on Monday night, calling out the growing trend — especially among young Americans – of transgender identity.
At the beginning of his Young America&#8217;s Foundation speech, Knowles, who has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-knew-the-libs-were-going-to-run-with-it-knowles-says-call-to-eradicate-transgender-ideology-cornered-left-wing-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">angered the Left</a> with past comments on transgenderism, said he was surprised that even in “meek and mild Utah,” he saw a video of “some wild banshee-like lady accosting, assaulting one of the students here as the student was hanging up flyers for this lecture tonight.”
Knowles said the video was proof that conservatives across the country, even in Utah, are not safe from being thrown into the middle of a culture war where common sense is met with the hatred of leftists.
“The commonsense view to which the protester objected is banal and self-evident: men and women are different, men can’t become women, and women can’t become men,” Knowles said.
The universal truth surrounding human beings’ biology has been challenged in Western cultures around the globe, but radical transgender theory and the confusion it brings seems to be most prevalent in the U.S., according to Knowles.
“Contrary to the pretensions of purple-haired, perpetually aggrieved American leftists, the obsession with turning fellas into ladies is not universal. Transgenderism is a largely American phenomenon.”
“According to a recent <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/28/new-study-on-rise-in-transgender-shows-its-a-fad-especially-among-young-girls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> out of Virginia Tech’s School of Medicine, 80% of sampled diagnoses of ‘gender dysphoria’ come from the United States. Eighty percent. Is there something in our water? Is it the seed oils? Maybe it is the seed oils,” the Daily Wire host added, sparking laughter from the audience. “Is it something in the air? Maybe. I suspect, however, it has more to do with politics and social fads, but whatever the cause, transgenderism seems to be an especially American problem.”
Knowles cited a 2016 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/health/transgender-population.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The New York Times, which found that even eight years ago, the number of adults identifying as transgender in the U.S. had doubled in five years. Pew Research also found that <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/06/07/about-5-of-young-adults-in-the-u-s-say-their-gender-is-different-from-their-sex-assigned-at-birth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 5%</a> of American adults under the age of 30 identify as “transgender” or “nonbinary” and were three times more likely than the general population to identify as “trans.”
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“There are not sufficient data to say that America is the most ‘trans’ country in the world. There’s a lot of evidence to suggest it. But then other surveys award that dubious distinction to Brazil or alternately to Germany, to Sweden, to Switzerland. We just don’t know,” said Knowles. “Transgenderism is a weird, relatively new, still-niche thing, and we don’t yet have reliable numbers. We probably won’t have reliable numbers any time soon because trans identity is growing exponentially.”
Knowles pointed out how other Western nations, such as Sweden, Finland, and France, began pumping the brakes on and even outright banning transgender procedures for children while the U.S. has continued moving forward with offering life-altering gender surgeries and hormonal drugs to minors.
“As Europe began to ban the trans-ing of kids, America’s rulers—up to and including Mr. Biden—issued orders to expand it,” Knowles said.
Knowles added that the president, who has been described as a &#8220;devout Catholic&#8221; by legacy media and White House staff, has doubled down on his embrace of &#8220;transgender ideology&#8221; over the course of his administration, even proclaiming March 31 of this year as “Trans Day of Visibility” when the 31st was Easter Sunday.
“Joe Biden, of course, has never been deterred from error by his supposed faith,” Knowles said. “So while practically everyone turns away from transgender ideology, Joe Biden has doubled down. And it’s not just Biden; it’s the whole American political establishment. When it comes to transgender ideology, America is a radical outlier.”
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‘An Especially American Problem’: Michael Knowles Addresses The U.S. Establishment’s Radical Embrace Of Transgenderism

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The Utah Royals, a women&#8217;s professional soccer club based in Salt Lake City, faced criticism for their jerseys and stadium, which are named after their sponsor — America First Credit Union, from leftists who claim the term “America First” is rooted in &#8220;fascism&#8221; and &#8220;racism.&#8221;
The credit union, founded in 1939 as the Fort Douglas Civilian Employees Credit Union, changed its name to the Federal Employees Credit Union in 1947 after it moved to Ogden, Utah, then changed it again in 1984 to the America First Credit Union, Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/04/03/utah-royals-jersey-sponsor-backlash-racist-america-first-credit-union?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=editorial">noted</a>. In 2022, Rio Tinto Stadium, the home stadium for the Royals, was renamed America First Field.
“The ‘America’ in our name denotes our connection to our founding members — civilian federal employees who worked at the American military bases and defense depots in Utah,” a representative for America First Credit Union explained. “Those early members&#8217; deep and abiding sense of service and patriotism is something that continues to be felt within our membership to this day,” adding that “first” referred to “putting the financial needs of their members at the forefront.”
“In a March 30 statement, two supporter groups for the Washington Spirit and D.C. United said the company&#8217;s defense of their name ‘ignores the complex and hateful history of the name and the ongoing effects of American nationalism and white supremacy that ‘America First’ expresses,’” Axios reported.
After an account claiming to represent supporters of the North Carolina Courage posted on X, “We must weigh in on the jersey controversy. While we support all the Utah players and their fans, we can’t stand by without mentioning the front of jersey sponsor, America First Credit Union, of our opponent — the Royals. The phrase ‘America First’ has a long history rooted in racism, fascism, and hateful ideology,” Utah governor Spencer Cox responded by posting, “Just when you think this website can’t get any more ridiculous. (I had to double check if this was a parody account…sadly it is not).”
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As we approach the Courage&#39;s match against Utah Royals FC this Friday, we must weigh in on the jersey controversy. While we support all the Utah players and their fans, we can’t stand by without mentioning the front of jersey sponsor, America First Credit Union, of our opponent &#8211; <a href="https://t.co/0NopYIZuYS">pic.twitter.com/0NopYIZuYS</a>
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Just when you think this website can’t get any more ridiculous. (I had to double check if this was a parody account…sadly it is not) <a href="https://t.co/8W8tp3h65X">https://t.co/8W8tp3h65X</a>
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Former President Trump first outlined his “America First” perspective as a presidential candidate in <a href="https://time.com/4309786/read-donald-trumps-america-first-foreign-policy-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 2016</a>, when he stated, “America first will be the major and overriding theme of my administration.”
“Our foreign policy is a complete and total disaster. No vision. No purpose. No direction. No strategy,” he stated. “Our friends are beginning to think they can’t depend on us. We’ve had a president who dislikes our friends and bows to our enemies, something that we’ve never seen before in the history of our country. &#8230; Israel, our great friend and the one true democracy in the Middle East has been snubbed and criticized by an administration that lacks moral clarity. Just a few days ago, Vice President Biden again criticized Israel, a force for justice and peace &#8230;”
He slammed President Obama, declaring, “He has even allowed China to steal government secrets with cyber attacks and engaged in industrial espionage against the United States and its companies. We’ve let our rivals and challengers think they can get away with anything, and they do.”
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“The world is most peaceful and most prosperous when America is strongest. America will continue and continue forever to play the role of peacemaker. We will always help save lives and indeed humanity itself, but to play the role, we must make America strong again,” he concluded.

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Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Kevin Bacon</a> confirmed that he’ll return to the high school where the iconic dance movie “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Footloose</a>” was filmed more than four decades ago. 
Students at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/high-school">Payson High School</a> in Payson, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/utah">Utah</a>, have spent months working on a social media campaign using the hashtag “BaconToPayson” to convince the actor to visit their school for prom this year. Students did so by recreating scenes from the movie and posting dance sequences on TikTok, per Today.
That effort was successful, as the actor promised to visit the school on the day of the prom. Bacon announced he planned to revisit the school 41 years after filming “Footloose.”
“I have been so impressed with everything that’s been going on there with this crazy idea to get me to come back,” Bacon said in a video announcement to the students. “I’ve been amazed at the work that all of you have been putting into this, with the musical and the flash mobs and the re-creations.”
“It hasn’t gone unnoticed by me, not to mention the fact that you tied in SixDegrees.org, our foundation, and are trying to figure out ways to give back to your community,” he continued. “It’s really inspirational, so thank you. Thank you. And I’m gonna come. I gotta come!”
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Students at Payson High School, where &quot;Footloose&quot; was filmed, are on an all-out mission to have star Kevin Bacon attend their prom. 
In a TODAY exclusive, <a href="https://twitter.com/KayleeHartung?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KayleeHartung</a> reports on their viral campaign — and <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinbacon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kevinbacon</a>&#39;s responds live! <a href="https://t.co/03iduiYDUB">pic.twitter.com/03iduiYDUB</a>
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Bacon&#8217;s upcoming visit to the school is significant because this is the 40th anniversary of the film’s release, and Payson High School will be moving to a new location next year.
The actor became an overnight sensation after “Footloose” premiered, but he said last year that the role didn’t align with his previous acting goals.
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“When I did the dance movie, I was not a dancer. I wasn’t trained as a dancer,” Bacon said on an episode of the “Podcrushed” podcast, per <a href="https://variety.com/2024/film/news/kevin-bacon-footloose-high-school-attend-prom-40th-anniversary-1235950066/">Variety</a>. “If I’m being honest, I didn’t even really understand that it was a dance movie. I thought it was just a movie, and then, where they would indicate that there was dancing, I would just get up.”
“When I became a pop star, the last thing I wanted to be was a pop star,” the actor continued. “I had already moved into, ‘I want to be Dustin Hoffman or Meryl or John Cazale or De Niro. I want to work with Scorsese. I want to do Chekhov.’ You know what I mean? I was so into what my idea of a serious actor was, and all of a sudden I was given this thing that was completely not a serious actor. So I rejected it, full on. I tried to self-sabotage that piece of myself and my popularity.”

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Kevin Bacon Agrees To Visit High School Where ‘Footloose’ Was Filmed Following Student Campaign

Kevin Bacon Agrees To Visit High School Where 'Footloose' Was Filmed Following Student Campaign

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A Guatemalan national in the country illegally was arrested by Utah police on Monday for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl, according to police records obtained by The Daily Wire.
Twenty-six-year-old Jonathan Estuardo Ruano Garcia is being held in the Utah County jail, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) placed a detainer on him, the sheriff&#8217;s office told The Daily Wire.
Police documents said that on Sunday night, a mother returned to her apartment around 11:15 p.m., where her daughter was home alone. On the way in, she &#8220;observed an adult male leaving her apartment. The mother said the male made eye contact but then quickly walked away.&#8221;
When she entered the apartment, she found her daughter completely naked in the hallway, and &#8220;the 11-year-old girl told her mother that a male she met on the internet came to the apartment and had sex with her,&#8221; the police report said.
Police used the girl&#8217;s social media history to identify Ruano Garcia, and quickly located him at his home. &#8220;Ruano Garcia admitted that he put his penis in her vagina and had sex with the 11 year old for 20-30 min,&#8221; the police report said, and claimed he believed the girl was 13 or 14.
He said he met her at a soccer game and began chatting with her online. &#8220;Ruano Garcia admitted that the chats he had with the victim turned sexual and he sent naked photos of his penis on multiple occasions,&#8221; the police report said.
Ruano Garcia was arrested for three felonies: the rape of a child, enticing a minor, and forgery.
The forgery charges are because &#8220;In his wallet was a social security card that did not appear to be authentic. When asked about the social security card Ruano Garcia admitted that it was fake and that he paid money for it when he came to the United States from his county,&#8221; police wrote.
Local <a href="https://www.ksl.com/article/50920274/lehi-man-arrested-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-11-year-old-he-met-on-internet">news station KSL</a> first reported on the arrest.
The Utah County prosecutor&#8217;s office said his first court appearance is set for Friday, and that court documents have not yet been filed.
The sheriff&#8217;s office told The Daily Wire it notifies ICE anytime an illegal immigrant is held in jail.
It is the latest instance of brutal crimes by illegal immigrants, who in many cases were repeatedly arrested for more minor crimes and then released by sanctuary jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with ICE.
In the first half of this month, ICE arrested nearly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-arrests-275-illegal-alien-sex-convicts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">300 convicted sex predators</a> who were illegal immigrants. A man who allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/previously-deported-criminal-illegal-alien-shoots-3-d-c-police-officers-serving-warrant-for-animal-cruelty-feds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot three police officers</a> on February 14 in Washington, D.C., is an illegal immigrant.
In California, an illegal immigrant was convicted of felony DUI but remained in the country, where he then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-who-killed-kid-driving-drunk-was-arrested-for-two-additional-duis-in-california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed an 8-year-old boy</a> while speeding in his BMW after consuming alcohol. He was released from prison after only 16 months, and was quickly arrested for two more DUIs, with the California localities in both cases releasing him on bail and refusing to cooperate with ICE. The 8-year-old boy would “100%” be alive today if the government had deported Karmjit Singh after his first conviction, his father told The Daily Wire.
In Louisiana, an illegal was arrested Sunday for allegedly raping a 14-year-old and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-alien-arrested-for-alleged-child-rape-stabbing-adult-in-face-during-armed-robbery-caused-terror" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stabbing</a> someone in the face. Kenner Police Chief Keith Conley said that illegal immigrants are hard to police because “Lack of access to data, false identification and language barriers put local law enforcement at a huge disadvantage. We cannot verify if an illegal alien is giving correct information as it pertains to names and date of births. It is not only a drain on police manpower, but a financial drain on local law enforcement’s budgets and taxpayer’s money.”

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I have become fascinated with the Ruby Franke case. I have not publicly discussed the case because when the story broke months ago, I was not convinced that more commentary would be beneficial to add to the discussion, namely because this story was quite dark. However, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MKNgVX6u34">the statement</a> she gave in her recent court appearance was unexpected.
A Utah-based family, the Frankes became quite popular several years ago via their “8 Passengers” YouTube channel that had over two million subscribers. They fit into the YouTuber families who look like the perfect family — well-dressed, church-going (Mormon), wife, husband, six children. But by June 2020, some of those subscribers started to take note of some strange happenings in the family. Followers began criticizing Ruby Franke’s punishing techniques, they noticed the degree to which she allowed her children to prank one another, and then they realized one of her children was sleeping in a beanbag.
Viewers’ concerns escalated, and some reached out to the local Children Protection Services and went so far as to begin a petition that forcing a child to sleep in a beanbag was too harsh of a punishment. But when Franke was asked about it, she simply said the kid loved it. In 2021, Ruby and Kevin, her husband, began going to counseling with Jodie Hildebrant, a business partner who became her mentor and counselor to her children.
In August of 2022, Franke faced more criticism, this time over a lunch debacle. Her six-year-old daughter had packed a lunch but forgot it. Franke refused to take the lunch to her daughter and let her eat — a punishment obviously way too harsh for a six-year-old.
Police visited the home a few times, but it was not until August of last year when everything exploded. Franke and Hildebrant were arrested after Franke’s 12-year-old son escaped from Hildebrant’s house, ran to a neighbor, and called 911. The boy was entirely malnourished, his limbs had been duct taped, and he had visible injuries.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/beyonce-fans-don-t-come-for-me-my-review-of-her-country-music-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: Candace Owens</a></h4>
Hildebrant had allegedly become a counselor to the children; however, the son later told investigators that Hildebrant put cayenne pepper and honey on wounds he had from being tied with a rope. When the Department of Public Safety arrived at the residence, they found another child, her daughter, in comparable condition who had been subjected to the same mistreatment and abuse. As more details unfolded, more abuse came to light. The mother was apparently telling her children they were possessed, and the children believed their mom. Franke told her daughter that to be absolved from possession, she must be subjected to such treatment.
This entire situation is absolutely infuriating. It involves children. Precious, innocent children. It also involves a parent with a warped brain.
This week, Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrant were sentenced to 30 years in prison — and Franke’s not fighting it. That’s what has made this case so interesting. Typically, lawyers work to get a sentence reduced, but part of the reason this court case has moved so quickly is because she is not fighting the charges. Franke gave a rather surprising <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MKNgVX6u34">statement in front of the court</a> — surprising in that it is uncommon — saying she believes she deserves to go to prison for what she has done.
In her statement, she explains how she got to her delusional way of living, coming to believe the church was against her, the government was against her, and in order to “save” her children, she must inflict these punishments on them. She was working with an exceptionally dark and disturbed woman, Hildebrant, but Franke says it was her own choice to believe what she heard. She apologizes to her husband, thanks the police officers, addresses her parents with sincerity, and pleads to God, saying her greatest desire is to one day stand in God’s courts, spotless and confident. She ends by confirming she knows this is “a necessary step” to learn until she is “ready to re-enter as a contributing member of our beautiful society.”
What Ruby Franke did is horrible. What her children have experienced is an absolute tragedy. Even with cases such as these, we are conditioned to watch people commit atrocious crimes and then explain why we should understand they committed them.
Everyone looks for an excuse and for understanding. But not Franke. Her response is surprising because people don’t take accountability anymore. They do not admit wrongdoing. They do not ask for healing, own their faults, and admit they deserve every single thing thrown at them.
To be clear, regardless of her statement, the victims are the children and that fact can never be removed. But it is a response worth discussing. What an interesting conclusion — and one we never see.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/utah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Utah</a> lawmakers advanced a bill this week to prevent the granting of inherent rights to nature, a movement gaining momentum among environmental activists.
<a href="https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0249.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Bill 249</a>, the “Utah Legal Personhood Amendments,” declares that only mankind may enjoy the legal rights and obligations of personhood. The Utah House passed the bill on Tuesday; it now faces consideration by the Senate.
The bill expressly prohibits the granting of legal personhood to any artificial intelligence, inanimate object, body of water, land, real property, atmospheric gas, astronomical object, weather, plant, nonhuman animal, and “any other member of a taxonomic domain that is not a human being.”
Republican State Rep. Walt Brooks brought forth the bill amid efforts by environmental activists to leverage current U.S. law to grant legal personhood to the Great Salt Lake.
Brooks <a href="https://le.utah.gov/av/floorArchive.jsp?markerID=124928" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> during the House floor vote on Tuesday that a constituent brought the movement to his attention, a request he believed was in jest until he did his own research. Brooks said the bill was “common sense.”
“I had to explain to my kids that, you go to a dairy, those cows are pregnant because they need to be if they’re going to give milk. But, did anybody get the permission of a cow to get them pregnant?” said Brooks. “So, if they were a person, that would be sexual harassment.”
Democratic State Rep. Joel Briscoe indicated that nonhuman entities and beings should enjoy the legal rights of personhood, since corporations may have legal rights under U.S. law. Briscoe said he wasn’t sure whether granting personhood to the Great Salt Lake would be a good idea or not.
“What I do know is this: before I put into code, and vote to put into code, a prohibition against something that I’m told is dangerous without any examples, I would really love to see some detail[,]” said Briscoe.
In closing, Brooks impressed on the importance of definitions that reflect reality. He compared the hesitation to decline personhood for nature to the ongoing confusion over defining gender.
“What I do know is this: a person is a person, and a tree is not, neither is an animal, neither is a stream, neither is the air,” said Brooks. “I bet you if you went back ten years ago, no one had a question about what a woman was and what a man was, but we do get confused.”
Last month, Brooks <a href="https://www.kuer.org/politics-government/2024-01-23/lawmakers-looking-to-close-the-door-on-legal-personhood-for-the-great-salt-lake" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> KUER that assigning personhood to something nonhuman wasn’t an appropriate preservation effort.
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“We value animals. We value our rivers and streams, wetlands, whatever it may be, our lakes, and there&#8217;s ways that we can preserve them and go forward,” said Brooks. “But trying to mix the idea that it&#8217;s actually a human person is not appropriate.”
Environmental activists have already undertaken similar measures in other states.
Last October, Milwaukee County in Wisconsin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/milwaukee-county-passes-resolution-granting-nature-equal-rights-to-mankind" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> a resolution granting nature equal rights to mankind with the aim of securing greater protections for the county’s bodies of water.
The movement to grant inherent rights to nature links back to the 2012 establishment of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
IPBES considers granting inherent rights to nature a significant public policy instrument.
The bill passed out of the Utah House with overwhelming support on Tuesday, with 58 members voting for it and 11 against. Only one Democrat voted for, not against the bill: State Rep. Ashlee Matthews.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/utah">Utah</a> legislature passed a ban last week on transgender bathroom use in public buildings, and the bill is now awaiting the governor&#8217;s signature.
Lawmakers passed the <a href="https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0257.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ban</a>, called the &#8220;Sex-based Designations for Privacy, Anti-bullying and Women’s Opportunities,” on Friday in a 58-16 vote <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/01/26/utah-transgender-bill-house-bathroom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mostly</a> along party lines.
The new law <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/utah-legislature-passes-transgender-bathroom-ban-rcna135957" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prohibits</a> trans-identifying people from using the bathrooms of the opposite sex in public buildings such as K-12 schools and government buildings. Under the bill, any new public building must have a single occupancy bathroom, and the bill also encourages the state to add more single bathrooms to existing buildings.
The bill also establishes that the state&#8217;s legal definition of “male” and “female” is based on their reproductive systems rather than their gender identity.
The bill has been sent to the desk of Governor Spencer Cox, a Republican. However, the governor has not indicated whether he plans to sign the bill.
“Let’s be clear, sexual assault knows no boundaries. Keeping men from women’s spaces is an appropriate and much needed boundary in Utah and across America,” Utah state Representative Kera Birkeland, the bill’s main sponsor, said on X on Thursday.
Birkeland said she recognized it was a &#8220;challenging and sensitive topic&#8221; and that she had met with survivors of sexual assault and parents of children her legislation could affect.
“I don’t think we wait until an 8-year-old is raped or molested by a predator. I think we act in good faith, with respect, finding accommodations that show compassion all along the way,” Birkeland told a legislative committee earlier this month.
Riley Gaines, a former college swimmer and women’s sports activist, thanked Birkeland for her &#8220;leadership&#8221; on the bill in a <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1750708640460263652" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> Thursday on X.
&#8220;All eyes on [Governor Cox] (R). Will he veto it like he did the women&#8217;s sports bill in Utah? Keep the pressure on. Men don&#8217;t belong in women&#8217;s bathrooms,&#8221; Gaines posted.
In 2022, Cox vetoed a bill that would have barred trans-identifying males from competing on girls sports teams in schools. His vetoed was ultimately overridden by the legislature, and the bill went into effect.
However, last year Cox changed his approach, signing a ban on transgender medical interventions for children.
On Thursday, Utah&#8217;s Democratic lawmakers held a press conference wearing all black to signify their disapproval of the bathroom ban.
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Utah Democrats are wearing all-black to mourn the passing of HB257 and HB261
HB257 bans men from girls bathrooms in schools and HB261 bans DEI from public education: <a href="https://t.co/KVz0I8yrSb">pic.twitter.com/KVz0I8yrSb</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1750627951530397712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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At least 10 other states — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Tennessee — also have laws dealing with which bathrooms trans-identifying people can use.

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Some of the few truly entertaining moments you&#8217;ll find in politics are the times when activists who are extremely ideological — the total fanatics — suddenly have to confront the reality that they&#8217;re losing. 
You&#8217;ll remember that when Donald Trump won in 2016, we saw a lot of that. HBO captured <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRFmtGwLnP4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">footage</a> of Ben Rhodes, the Obama adviser, sitting shell-shocked on a bench for several minutes when he realized that Hillary Clinton wasn&#8217;t going to be president. There was also the famous <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDYNVH0U3cs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">woman</a> screaming and howling as Trump was inaugurated, who became an instant meme. These kinds of moments are great because if you&#8217;re a sane person, it&#8217;s a win-win. Your enemies aren&#8217;t just being defeated; they&#8217;re also providing some unintended humor on the way out.
Yesterday in the state of Utah we were treated to another one of these moments. The state senate overwhelmingly <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/01/25/utahs-anti-dei-bill-passes-senate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> a bill that will dismantle all &#8220;diversity, equity and inclusion&#8221; programs in the government as well as the public education system. As the Salt Lake Tribune reports:
<blockquote>The wide-sweeping proposal requires that diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, offices at the state’s eight public colleges and universities, specifically, be reframed. They can no longer be race- or gender-based, but instead must cater to all students as generalized student success and support centers. .. [The bill] additionally bans schools and government employers from asking job applicants for a statement about their beliefs on diversity or inclusion, and [schools and employers] could lose state funding for violating that. And all entities would be required to eliminate any training on &#8216;discriminatory practices&#8217; while replacing that with instruction on free speech from all viewpoints.</blockquote>
This is, by far, the most sweeping anti-DEI bill that&#8217;s ever been proposed in this country. And just for good measure, the Utah Senate also <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/01/25/ban-transgender-people-utahs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> a separate bill banning men from entering women&#8217;s restrooms. The governor has indicated he&#8217;s going to sign both of these bills, so in all likelihood, very soon they&#8217;ll become law.
For DEI race hustlers, this is their Ben Rhodes, “crazy-lady-screeching-at-the-inauguration” moment. This doesn&#8217;t just mark the rollback of their ideology in Utah, it&#8217;s also virtually certain to inspire similar bills all over the country and create a kind of domino effect. Already, states like Oklahoma, Florida and Texas have taken their own <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-an-order-from-oklahomas-governor-seeks-to-defund-dei-in-state-offices" target="_blank" rel="noopener">steps</a> to end DEI. And now the process looks like it&#8217;s going to accelerate.
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Here&#8217;s the fun part. Democrats in Utah, as you might imagine, didn&#8217;t take this news very well. So they did what any mentally unbalanced, crazy person would do in this circumstance. They all dressed in black and solemnly held a funeral for DEI, because in their words, &#8220;they are hurting.&#8221; There was no casket as far as I can tell, but they did have a eulogy and a strict dress code for the occasion. Watch:
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HAPPENING NOW: Utah&#39;s Democrats are wearing all black, asking <a href="https://twitter.com/GovCox?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovCox</a> to veto two controversial bills dealing with DEI and bathroom access. 
They say they&#39;re in black because they are &quot;hurting&quot; that these bills are likely to pass. <a href="https://twitter.com/KSL5TV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KSL5TV</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/utpol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#utpol</a> <a href="https://t.co/FzVJqjVQeT">pic.twitter.com/FzVJqjVQeT</a>
&mdash; Lindsay Aerts (@LindsayOnAir) <a href="https://twitter.com/LindsayOnAir/status/1750615549829071247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Imagine the process of arranging something like this. Did they all get on a conference call and say, &#8220;Hey everyone, it looks like that bill that bans racial discrimination is going to pass, so we&#8217;re going to hold a funeral for DEI. Be sure to wear all black.&#8221; And then no one thought that was remotely unusual or weird in any way. All of them apparently thought that, by color coordinating, they&#8217;d lend some gravity and seriousness to the situation. But of course, they did the opposite. There is not a single living creature who saw this press conference in Utah and felt anything other than amusement and second-hand-embarrassment for everyone involved.
Actually, the more you watch this DEI funeral, the more humiliating it gets. You may have noticed that the Democrats didn&#8217;t simply coordinate their clothing. They also coordinated their positions at the press conference. All of the white guys are conspicuously located in the back. You can barely see them. The women are up front. The Utah Democrats didn&#8217;t specifically call attention to this staging, like they did with the clothing, but it&#8217;s not hard to figure out the message. They&#8217;re once again highlighting the fact that DEI means that white guys go to the back of the bus. Even the white guys who are on board with DEI are subjected to this humiliation because they&#8217;re inferior, solely by virtue of their skin color. This is a fundamental principle of DEI, and they will continue to embrace it even as the DEI scam collapses around them.
At the same time, there was one candid, slightly less choreographed moment from the Utah capitol the other day. The Salt Lake Tribune captured this image of trans activists storming the capitol, presumably because they&#8217;re upset about the other bill (the one that keeps men out of women&#8217;s bathrooms):
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Ban of transgender people from Utah’s public bathrooms passes Senate <a href="https://t.co/lOELr3cNzs">https://t.co/lOELr3cNzs</a> <a href="https://t.co/H1zXWN8way">pic.twitter.com/H1zXWN8way</a>
&mdash; Salt Lake Tribune politics (@SLTribPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/SLTribPolitics/status/1750605769928474643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It&#8217;s a shot of two very angry individuals — one of them wearing a mask for some reason — holding signs that read, &#8220;Trans Joy is Power.&#8221; But if you look closely at their faces, you can&#8217;t help but notice that &#8220;trans joy&#8221; looks a lot like blind, homicidal rage. This is always the case with “trans joy.” We hear a lot about it, but nobody has ever seen anything resembling joy from any trans activist. This photo went viral for obvious reasons. For one thing, it&#8217;s like a Babylon Bee photo, except in real life. But the photo also does a great job of capturing the anger and bitterness of deranged activists who know they&#8217;re losing. They don&#8217;t have time for debates or logic or anything like that. All they can do is rage, and they know it.
We&#8217;re seeing a similar phenomenon play out in the journalism industry, or what&#8217;s left of it anyway. Faced with a very public and overwhelming rejection of everything they stand for, journalists are not pondering their failures. They aren&#8217;t wondering why everyone hates them. Instead, they&#8217;re wallowing in self-pity and frustration, just like the trans activists. 
This week, for example, the Los Angeles Times laid off more than 20% of its newsroom. This is the paper that, in just the past couple of years, has run headlines like <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-20/recall-candidate-larry-elder-is-a-threat-to-black-californians" target="_blank" rel="noopener">these</a>: 
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<li>&#8220;Larry Elder is the Black Face of White Supremacy. You&#8217;ve Been Warned&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Mocking anti-vaxxers&#8217; COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes — but may be necessary&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;White drivers are polluting the air breathed by L.A.’s people of color&#8221; 
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White drivers are polluting the air breathed by L.A.’s people of color<a href="https://t.co/1cBp2TTay6">https://t.co/1cBp2TTay6</a>
&mdash; Los Angeles Times (@latimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1633840062160072707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Apparently, we&#8217;re not talking about principled journalists holding the powerful to account. These are ghoulish activists who want to cause a race war and dance on the graves of their political enemies. And you can say — well, not everyone in the newsroom may have agreed with those headlines. But the fact is, none of them condemned any of this. None of them spoke out, or reconsidered the wisdom of working for an organization that would publish garbage like this. And we all know why that is: The staff of the LA Times was openly racist and overtly hostile to anyone they disagreed with. That showed in their &#8220;journalism,&#8221; and most of the public found it to be completely repulsive. So the paper started losing something like $40 million a year. And now the newsroom has been gutted as a result.
But in the wake of these cuts, there has not been a single LA Times employee — current or former — who has said, &#8220;Hey, maybe we shouldn&#8217;t have wished for the death of our enemies.&#8221; Not a single one, as far as I can tell, has said that it was a bad idea to publish an article accusing white people of poisoning the &#8220;people of color&#8221; in Los Angeles. In fact, the opposite has been happening. LA Times employees have been defending their coverage. 
One LA Times reporter, Sarah D. Wire, insisted the other day that the article about white drivers &#8220;polluting the air&#8221; was <a href="https://x.com/sarahdwire/status/1750241416771494153?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">great journalism.</a> She wrote, &#8220;Ah yes, how dare we inform people about a USC study that found pollution in Los Angeles disproportionally impacts the communities that highways run through&#8230;&#8221; 
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Ah yes, how dare we inform people about a USC study that found pollution in Los Angeles disproportionally impacts the communities that highways run through&#8230;
Journalists&#39; job is to inform their community <a href="https://t.co/LPPVMedmZd">https://t.co/LPPVMedmZd</a>
&mdash; Sarah D. Wire (@sarahdwire) <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahdwire/status/1750241416771494153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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So she still doesn&#8217;t get it. She&#8217;s not even trying to get it. Even now, after everyone has pointed out to her that &#8220;white drivers&#8221; aren&#8217;t the only ones driving on Los Angeles&#8217; highways, Sarah D. Wire at the Los Angeles Times doesn&#8217;t see the problem with the headline. And keep in mind, this is one of the few people who wasn&#8217;t fired this week at the LA Times. This is supposedly the cream of the crop. That&#8217;s how committed this organization is to fomenting race hatred by lying to the public.
Just to be sure I wasn&#8217;t missing anything, I spent some time looking through the Twitter/X feeds of current and former LA Times employees. I wanted to see if any of them were showing any introspection whatsoever. I wanted to see, for example, if any LA Times reporters expressed regret for predicting a year ago that Twitter would implode — because you have to admit, it&#8217;s pretty ironic that the LA Times imploded, and Twitter/X is still around. But I didn&#8217;t find anything like that. Instead, the more I looked, the worse it got.
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As Chris Rufo noted, the post-layoffs <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1750208797564657820" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from the LA Times&#8217; various &#8220;diversity caucuses&#8221; didn&#8217;t even attempt to defend their work on the basis of quality or merit or profitability. Instead, they all invoked various racial grievances: 
<blockquote>The announcement today. .. has devastating implications for Black, Latino, AAPI and other journalists of color. &#8230; If these layoffs are allowed to go through, &#8230; the Latino Caucus will lose 38 percent of its members. The Black Caucus will lose 36 percent of its members. The [AAPI] and Middle East, North Africa and South Asia caucuses will lose 34 percent of their combined membership.</blockquote>
So it&#8217;s all racial bean counting, to the very end. And no one at the LA Times seems to realize how normal people are perceiving all of this. 
Yesterday, the LA Times&#8217; Noah Goldberg tweeted out this photo of an empty LA Times newsroom, apparently to garner sympathy:
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The LATimes newsroom today. What’s missing <a href="https://t.co/p85IJbeltU">pic.twitter.com/p85IJbeltU</a>
&mdash; Noah Goldberg (@Noah__Goldberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/Noah__Goldberg/status/1750288689564107210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Literally no one reacted with sympathy to that photo. Tim Pool had maybe the <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1750562538356441167" target="_blank" rel="noopener">best response</a>: 
<blockquote>This is like taking a picture of a kitchen and lamenting there are no roaches running around.</blockquote>
Then, after the post was completely dogpiled by thousands of people, Goldberg <a href="https://twitter.com/Noah__Goldberg/status/1750551574999609778" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted:</a>
<blockquote>Well I’ve gone viral apparently among people who think the LA Times is staffed by journalists who advocate for white genocide and are propagandists. They all believe that the layoffs were good.</blockquote>
Well, that constitutes some accurate reporting from the LA Times, at least, but no one was allowed to celebrate it. Goldberg very quickly locked the replies to that tweet. This is what journalists have to do now —They&#8217;re hiding from the customers they&#8217;re supposedly serving. And yet, somehow, they&#8217;re still in denial about why everyone has so much disdain for them. Even after so many publications have been conducting layoffs this year — including Sports Illustrated, the LA Times, TIME, Business Insider, Forbes, Conde Nast and the New York Daily News — these hacks are still convinced that they&#8217;re irreplaceable. The remaining workers are even going on strike in many cases, as if that&#8217;s magically going to generate the money that these businesses need in order to pay them. But it didn&#8217;t work for the LA Times, and it won&#8217;t work for the New York Daily News or Forbes either.
That&#8217;s because, in the end, reality is non-negotiable. That&#8217;s true for every industry, whether it&#8217;s DEI or journalism. You can only sustain a fantasy for so long. And as journalists and DEI bureaucrats are discovering, sooner or later, whether you hold a funeral for it or not, the fantasy has to end.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Stock Exchange</a> has withdrawn a rule that Republicans said would have illegally implemented a radical environmentalist agenda and harmed national security.
On Wednesday, the NYSE <a href="https://www.sec.gov/files/rules/sro/nyse/2024/34-99355.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that it would be withdrawing a proposed rule to the Securities and Exchange Commission that would have created a listing <a href="https://www.nyse.com/introducing-natural-asset-companies">entity</a> called a Natural Asset Company (NAC). A NAC would be empowered to control private and public lands by capturing “the intrinsic and productive value of nature” and block things like logging, herding, and drilling from happening on the land.
The proposed rule was opposed by a coalition of over two dozen Republican attorneys general and state financial officers who warned that the rule would be used to push a liberal political agenda. Republicans also said that foreign entities would be able to purchase and control what happens on public lands by designating it a NAC.
Utah Republican Treasurer Marlo Oaks said that he was pleased with the NYSE decision to withdraw the rule.
“The proposed creation of Natural Asset Companies is one of the greatest threats to rural communities in the history of our nation. Under the proposal, private interests, including foreign-controlled sovereign wealth funds, could use their capital to purchase or manage farmland, national and state parks, and other mineral-rich areas and stop essential economic activities like farming, grazing, and energy extraction,” he said in a statement obtained by The Daily Wire. “It is my hope this news signals an end to this horrible idea and that it does not resurface in other venues.”
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The SEC was considering the proposal to approve NACs and was scheduled to take public comment until January 18.
Derek Kreifels, the CEO of the State Financial Officers Foundation, said the consequences for America could have been “dire” if the rule had been accepted.
“I’m grateful for all who helped raise the alarm on this attempted land grab by climate alarmists, and thankful for today’s corrective from the NYSE, but we must continue to be vigilant in defending our communities and states from future efforts that would seek to upend what has made this country great in pursuit of radical political agendas,” he said. 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-ags-issue-warning-over-proposed-environmental-rule-they-say-would-compromise-national-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican AGs Issue Warning Over Proposed Environmental Rule They Say Would Compromise National Security</a>

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Over two dozen Republican attorneys general are challenging a proposed rule from the New York Stock Exchange that they say would illegally implement a radical <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/environmentalism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">environmentalist agenda</a> and harm national security.
The rule from the NYSE would create a listing <a href="https://www.nyse.com/introducing-natural-asset-companies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entity</a> called a Natural Asset Company (NAC), which would be empowered to control private and public lands by capturing “the intrinsic and productive value of nature” and block things like logging, herding, and drilling from happening on the land. The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering the proposal to approve NACs and is taking public comment until January 18.
“If it approves the NYSE’s proposal, the Commission will have effectively enabled the NYSE, the most well-known and influential stock exchange on earth,  to authorize the existence of entities that could ultimately be used to subordinate the interests of millions of Americans to the aims of environmental activists as well as to United Nations policies and mandates,” a Tuesday <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/01/2024-01-09_Comment_Letter_to_SEC_re_File_No._SR-NYSE-2023-09.pdf">letter</a> from 25 Republican attorneys general led by Utah AG Sean Reyes and Kansas AG Kris Kobach said.
The letter said that the proposal would violate federal securities laws, the Administrative Procedure Act, and the Constitution. The Republicans added that the rule is intended to fund a rule proposal from the Bureau of Land Management that is seeking to grant “conservation leases” on public lands.
The letter said that it is not in “the public interest to facilitate a massive corporate takeover of public lands by private actors who owe no duty to the public and who are guided by their own financial and political interests. Yet that is precisely what the proposed rule does.”
There would also be national security concerns if the SEC allows the NYSE to adopt its proposed rule.
“Even more alarming, the proposed rule will enable foreign actors to obtain perpetual control over public lands, either directly through organizing and registering as NACs or through obtaining controlling interests in NACs. This raises serious national security concerns, particularly given the importance of energy production and natural resource availability to America’s geopolitical position,” the letter said.
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Reyes said that the push for NACs is a “brutish vehicle to accomplish an activist political agenda.”
“They deprive public use of land in multiple ways that will further jeopardize U.S. energy independence and grid stability while illegally opening management, use and ownership of these lands to private parties, including hostile countries or entities,” he said in a statement.
The letter was signed by the AGs of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.

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