Author: HP McLovincraft

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Four Kids “Safety” Bills, Supporting Online Digital ID Agenda, Hit Senate Floor

The CHATBOT Act says that nothing in it shall be construed to require a company to “implement an age gating or age verification” system, or to “affirmatively collect any personal data with respect to the age of any individual that the covered entity is not already collecting in the normal course” of its business. The Kids Online Safety Act carries a version of the same promise, ruling out “the affirmative collection of any personal data with respect to the age of users” that a platform doesn’t already gather.

But now read the rest of the same bills…

Yesterday, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee sent four children’s online safety bills to the Senate floor, with parents who attribute the harm of their children to social media sitting right there in the room. KOSA went through on a unanimous voice vote. This obviously wasn’t a place for a debate. The Youth AI Privacy Act from Senator Ed Markey advanced. So did the CHATBOT Act from Senator Ted Cruz, with Senators Schatz, Curtis and Schiff as co-sponsors. Senator Tammy Duckworth’s bill makes four, and it orders the FTC and the Consumer Product Safety Commission to study AI-enabled toys, which turns on nothing a company has to know about a user. A fifth, the SCREEN Act, got a tally and no result, which we’ll come back to.

KOSA passed the Senate in 2024 by 91 to 3, but the House never took it up. KOSA’s “duty of care” is the provision that gets the attention. It requires platforms to “exercise reasonable care” in design features to prevent and mitigate a listed set of harms to minors, with the FTC enforcing, and the harms run from conditions with “clinically diagnosable symptoms” through patterns of use “that indicate compulsive” behavior to sexual exploitation. The House stripped it out. The Senate sponsors called that version dead on arrival.

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Little-Known Bureaucratic Procedure Pushed Medical Insurance To Be More Pro-Trans

Cultural shifts sometimes happen in ways you can’t help but notice, like the sudden growth of transgender themes on television. But there are also a bunch of quiet maneuvers you don’t see, producing change through obscure bureaucratic procedures.

To begin your introduction to one of those little-noticed avenues of change, take a moment to read the Independent Medical Review (IMR) obtained by California health care regulators in 2025 on behalf of a biological male (in the record, a “transgender female”) who wanted his health insurance company to buy him a prosthetic “vagina”.

The transgender patient had a history of depression, “with possible psychotic features,” and was taking anti-psychotic medication when his insurer denied coverage for a surgically created artificial vagina. (Surgical neo-vaginas are created by penile inversion, or less frequently by cutting out a piece of the patient’s bowels and sewing it into a surgical hole between his legs.)

Appealing that decision, the potentially psychotic patient asked the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC), which regulates health insurance plans, to conduct a review in which an independent medical expert would decide if his surgery was medically necessary.

A finding on an IMR is binding. Insurers must cover procedures an “independent expert” finds “medically necessary.” As the state’s IMR request form says: “Health plans must follow the IMR decision and promptly provide the service.”

In this case, a psychiatrist reviewed the patient’s surgical request, with no review by a surgeon. The psychiatrist overturned the insurer’s refusal to pay. A male on anti-psychotic medications got a surgically implanted fake vagina, in a procedure covered by insurance, because a psychiatrist found the surgery to be medically necessary.

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Cubs Star Pete Crow-Armstrong Shares Bizarre Conspiracy Theory that Babe Ruth ‘Didn’t Exist’

Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong seems to have gone all-in for the bizarre conspiracy theory that Baseball legend Babe Ruth is a storybook character and never existed in real life.

The player known as PCA divulged the strange theory while appearing on Kristin Cavallari’s Let’s Be Honest podcast, according to the New York Post.

“This is gonna be crazy,” he admitted as he launched into the topic. “Babe Ruth never existed is one that I like. I heard some pitcher with the Mariners … I think he did some podcast on Zoom where he was going down the rabbit hole with somebody about how Babe Ruth never existed.”

He went on to insist that, “We always talk about how the game is evolving; people might as well have been like underhanding the ball to that guy. And he’s regarded still as one of the best players ever. Might as well dive further into it and be like, well, maybe he just never existed.”

PCA referenced a claim made by one-time Mariners pitcher Tayler Saucedo, who once said that he’d only ever seen one video of Ruth, so he didn’t think the famed player ever really existed.

There is indeed very little film footage of Ruth, who retired from baseball in 1935. But film was far less common of current events and media figures until the 1940s and 50s and later, so the lack of film footage is not at all unusual for news figures of his era.

Still, Ruth’s life and career were well documented by the newspapers of the times, and there are even people still alive today who could have seen him play.

Still, PCA may have been commenting more on Ruth’s legendary sports achievements than his actual existence

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Democratic Socialists Openly Call For The Erasure Of Constitutional Government

Joseph McCarthy was right about everything. Communist movements have been playing the long game from inside western nations, exploiting the liberal freedoms westerners enjoy as a backdoor to sabotage free market choice and constitutional checks and balances from within. The players might have changed over the decades, but the ideological goals remain the same.

Forget about the “false left/right paradigm”; that concept is now dead. Whatever logical clarity or loyalty to the American way that average progressives might have had is long gone. They have detached completely from morality and ideals of merit and responsibility. They are financially backed by some of the most evil NGOs and globalist corporations on the planet. They have ties to some of the most despicable and oppressive governments in the world.

The political left is the monster they claim to be fighting against. They are the foot soldiers of the globalist order. They are the greatest existing threat to western civilization. To be “right wing” today simply means your principles sit to the right of Stalin and Mao. It doesn’t take much deviation to find yourself a mortal enemy of the leftist fold.

Furthermore, these groups are intricately organized and operating using classic communist subversion tactics commonly used throughout Europe from the 1920s to the 1990s. This includes front organizations, labor infiltration, agitation, influence operations, paramilitary training and mass propaganda.

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Olympic Gold Medalist Alysa Liu’s Transgender Brother is Quietly Dominating California Girls’ High School Sports

The brother of Olympic figure skating gold medalist Alysa Liu has been competing as a female athlete and steadily collecting victories in California high school girls’ sports, according to a new report.

Jaylin Liu, who previously went by the name Joshua and only recently began identifying as female, has taken first place in every 200-meter and 400-meter girls’ race he entered for Albany High School this season, including the Tri-County Athletic League Finals, according to reporting from Reduxx.

He is ranked the top “female” runner on his team in those events and the best in the league in the quarter-mile.

In 2025 alone, Jaylin Liu secured eight first-place finishes at seasonal meets, a silver medal at the NCS Bayshore Championship in the 400-meter, and a gold medal in the Tri-County Athletic League Frosh-Soph Championship 200-meter race.

Beyond track, he has also competed in girls’ varsity basketball, earning a silver medal at a championship, and played ultimate frisbee for El Cerrito High School at the Ultimate High School National Invite, where his performance was described as extremely dominant.

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CEO of Russian Drone Company Targeted by Bomb Placed Underneath His Car, Hospitalized in Critical State – His Driver Dies in the Attack

Another day, another car bomb attack from Kiev.

The more Ukraine loses the war, the more they resort to asymmetric tactics (a.k.a. terrorism).

And yes, Ukraine is losing: check it out.

The summer illusion that Kiev was winning on the battlefield is over, with Moscow again conquering more territory than Ukraine recovers in July.

Ukrainians are afraid of the coming winter.

Ukrainian energy minister Denys Shmyhal tells Politico about the hard days to come in the winter, with power plants and the electric grid that have not been sufficiently restored.

“Putin wants to finish off our energy system and derail our economy and weapons production. […] He also hopes in winter our society will break from exhaustion, and pressure leadership to sign the surrender.”

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CBS News Not Airing ‘60 Minutes’ Jeffrey Epstein Story Under Scrutiny

Senator Ron Wyden has questioned why a 60 Minutes interview with now-former correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi on Jeffrey Epstein’s banking practices never aired, adding it had been “suppressed.”

The Oregon Democrat raised the issue in a new Senate Finance Committee report, published on August 4, alleging Deutsche Bank failed to promptly disclose more than $250 million in suspicious Epstein-related transactions.

“It is disappointing that, instead of advancing new facts that would help bring accountability to the men who participated in Epstein’s trafficking operation, the report largely recycles allegations that have already been exhaustively examined by courts and the government,” a spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase told Newsweek.

Asked for comment, Wyden’s office pointed Newsweek to page 61 of the report, where it says his taped interview with Alfonsi was intended for a broader 60 Minutes segment on banks and Epstein, adding that it is unclear whether CBS News leadership will allow the broader segment to air following Alfonsi’s departure from the network.

CBS News says the segment simply was not ready before the show’s season ended.

Pushing back against any suggestion that the interview was buried, a spokesperson for the network said in a statement shared with Newsweek via email: “We air pieces when they are ready, and suggesting that an interview is being ‘suppressed’ for any reason is categorically false.”

According to Wyden’s report, “the investigation found significant evidence that JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America violated federal anti-money laundering laws by failing to screen and report Epstein’s suspicious financial transactions in a timely manner.”

A spokesperson for Bank of America told Newsweek: “We take our legal and regulatory obligations seriously and, as we have previously said, the bank did not facilitate wrongdoing.”

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When it comes to public indecency, why do the rules differ based on sexual orientation?

Lacey Tompkins had a memorable day at the beach the other day – for all the wrong reasons.

Here’s the skinny: Lacey and her boyfriend visited the beach at Dominion Park in Saint John, N.B. And the couple did what most people do at a beach – go for a dip, soak up the sun, and so on.

The trouble began when Lacey decided to do a little sun tanning. And hey, what better way to avoid those pesky tan lines than to go topless? So it was that Lacey removed her bikini top and started soaking up the rays.

Alas, not everyone was amused.

According to a Postmedia story, along came a female lifeguard. She lectured Lacey to cover up because being topless was indecent and there were children present at the beach.

Lacey responded by saying she was doing nothing wrong. She ignored the warning and continued to tan in topless mode.

About 20 minutes later, a uniformed police officer approached Lacey. He also warned her to cover up – or face public indecency charges. Thus, she reluctantly covered up.

Talk about a tempest in a B-cup!

But here’s the thing: women going topless in public is perfectly legal. And it is based on a court ruling that dates back some 30 years ago.

We speak of the Gwen Jacob decision. In July 1991, Gwen was a 19-year-old University of Guelph student who was criminally charged when she was spotted walking down a Guelph street topless on a hot summer day. Her rationale: if men are allowed to go topless, why not women?

Gwen fought the charge and the case went all the way to the Ontario Court of Appeal. In 1996, the court decided that she was not guilty of indecency. This ruling meant Gwen Jacob and other women had earned the right to appear topless in public.

The crux of the matter is that maybe you agree with the Gwen Jacob decision or perhaps you do not. But it’s a moot point given that women going topless in public these days is no longer a criminal act. Period, full stop.

Now you’d think that a competent cop would know the law of the land. But apparently not.

And so it is that Lacey Tompkins, much like Gwen Jacob way back in 1991, is not going quietly into the night. Lacey has filed an official complaint. And we’ll be shocked if that complaint isn’t upheld. Stay tuned.

But there is another angle to this story. And it is an angle that the mainstream media dares not report on. And it has everything to do with the blatant hypocrisy vis-à-vis public nudity.

Which is to say, why did Lacey Tompkins get harassed for NOT breaking the law? Yet so many members of the Rainbow Mafia at pride parades go BOTTOMLESS – which is indeed against the law. Yes, you can go topless – but you cannot display your genitalia and buttocks.

Speaking of which, we don’t care what your sexual orientation or gender identity is, please note: NOBODY wants to see your junk or your fat, ricotta cheese candy ass.

As a side note, can anyone kindly explain to us how it is that demonstrating one’s pride means getting totally bare-naked in public? Sorry, does not compute…

Regardless, these gross exhibitionists are never told to cover up nor are they charged with public indecency – despite the police presence at these parades.

Bottom line: if you are a heterosexual woman NOT breaking the law, you will be harassed by police. But if you are a member of the LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP community, well, law enforcement will turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to illegal public indecency. This is equal parts outrageous and egregious and a dereliction of duty by members of law enforcement who are supposed to uphold the law regardless of identity politics.

In the meantime, our advice for Lacey Tompkins is simply this: next time you’re sunbathing in a topless state at the beach and you are approached by a member of law enforcement, simply say that you’re trans. Trust us: you won’t be harassed nor criminally charged. Rather you will receive a heartfelt apology and then congratulated on celebrating your gender identity.

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Scandalous! John Thune and Tom Cotton Are Blocking DOJ from Obtaining Brennan Transcripts before US Senate Committees – Impeding Investigation into Former CIA Chief

With friends like John Thune and Tom Cotton — who needs enemies?

John Solomon from Just the News broke the news on Wednesday that Majority Leader John Thune and Senator Tom Cotton are blocking DOJ investigator Joe DiGenova from obtaining the transcripts of John Brennan’s interviews with the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees.

This is holding up the investigation into Brennan and his role in the deep state coup to take down President Trump in 2016.

Apparently, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche refuses to authorize a subpoena to the US Senate to obtain the documents.

What is going on?

John Solomon broke this news earlier on Wednesday on The War Room with Steve Bannon.

John Solomon: I’m going to go back to being a reporter for a second. I do not know this information from anything I’ve gained in government. I can tell you with 100% certainty that Republicans are obstructing the investigation into weaponization. There are two Republicans I can name by name, Senator John Thune and Senator Tom Cotton. They have refused for months, four months now.

The first request came in late January, early February. They are refusing thus far to provide to Joe DiGenova, to the prosecutors in Florida, to the Miami U.S. Attorney, to the Justice Department, the transcripts of John Brennan’s interviews with the Senate Judiciary— Senate Intelligence Committee.

They have refused to do so. I’m gonna call out a third name because I don’t understand the Justice Department’s behavior. When a body that’s separate of the executive branch doesn’t comply, Every other time in American history, go back to Iran-Contra, go back to Watergate, the Justice Department subpoenas the Congress.

For some reason, the acting Attorney General, who wants to be the permanent Attorney General, has not authorized a subpoena to the United States Senate to get those documents.

Those documents will allow the prosecutors in Miami to decide whether the charges are warranted against John Brennan.

The idea that Republican senators will not cooperate with the Republican administration is ridiculous politically, but it’s illegal. It’s obstruction. There ought to be a grand jury subpoena sitting in the Senate clerk’s office, and there ought to be a court case yesterday compelling this because the Justice Department has been delayed by 8 months by 2 Republican senators who have the responsibility and the ability to deliver this.

You want to get to the grand conspiracy case, you need the missing evidence, and the Senate possesses it. And as of this date, I can find no evidence they’ve turned it over, and there is no grand jury subpoena because the clerk of the Senate would have to report it publicly. I just checked the Congressional Record again today. So Todd Blanche, Tom Cotton, John Thune, you got some explaining to do to the War Room posse.

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White House Moves to Accelerate AI Data Center Development on Federal Lands

The Trump administration has issued executive orders intended to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence data centers, including on federal lands, according to administration officials. The orders are designed to address rising electricity demand from AI computing and to strengthen U.S. competitiveness, the White House said. Data centers currently consume about 4.4 percent of total U.S. electricity, a figure projected to reach 12 percent by 2030, according to industry estimates cited by the White House. [11]

Executive Orders Direct Agencies to Open Federal Lands

The executive orders direct the Departments of Energy and the Interior to identify federal parcels for data center leases and to designate projects as priority infrastructure, according to the administration. Agencies have been instructed to expedite permitting and coordinate transmission connections, officials said. The Bureau of Land Management has already approved the Townsite Data Center project to construct, operate, and maintain a data center on 88.5 acres of public land, Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) said on Facebook, accusing the administration of approving the “first private data center on public land using a permit meant for a solar project.” [10]

A report by Children’s Health Defense, “Cheating the System,” details how developers have exploited legal loopholes following a May 2023 Supreme Court ruling that limited Clean Water Act jurisdiction, leaving many data centers outside Environmental Protection Agency oversight or eligible for streamlined nationwide permits that require minimal review. [12]

Power Demand Drives Energy Infrastructure Plans

Officials said the data centers will require electricity from natural gas, nuclear, and geothermal sources, along with expanded high-voltage transmission capacity. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum warned the Senate that the U.S. risks losing the global AI race to China unless it prioritizes reliable, baseload electricity generation, primarily from fossil fuels, to meet the energy demands of AI and data centers. [5] In its quest for more electric power, AI data centers are forming partnerships with nuclear power providers, with utilities owning about a third of U.S. nuclear power plants in discussions with AI centers about long-term electricity supply, according to the Trends Journal. [6]

The rapid buildout raises questions about grid reliability, water consumption, and environmental impacts on previously undisturbed federal lands. Local officials across the United States say rapid construction of data centers is creating environmental and infrastructure concerns, according to NaturalNews.com. [4] The backlash against AI data centers is intensifying across America, driven by growing awareness that these facilities are escalating electricity costs and displacing resources essential for human life, including water, farmland, and energy, according to BrightVideos.com. [14] According to U.S. Labor Department data cited in the Trends Journal, electricity bills are up more than 10 percent and homeowners’ insurance is up 13 percent over the past two years. [7]

Supporters Cite Competition; Critics Raise Concerns

Administration officials and industry representatives said the buildout is necessary for U.S. leadership in AI and for national security. State lawmakers and big tech are pushing back against what they call misinformation surrounding data centers, arguing that the facilities are vital for American jobs and technological leadership, according to Just the News. [9] Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in Senate testimony that without reliable baseload power, the United States risks falling behind China in the AI race. [5]

Opposition has also organized. More than 300 cities, towns, and counties have enacted bans or moratoriums on hyperscale construction, according to a count by The Information, and a poll cited by NBC News found 58 percent oppose local data centers. [8] Environmental groups and local residents have objected to land use and emissions, while public health advocates have cited concerns about noise and light pollution, according to BrightVideos.com. [14]

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