Victims of a transgender-identified, male-born California convict accused of raping fellow inmates at a California women’s prison will be forced to police their pronoun usage while recounting the alleged attacks on the stand, per a recent court order. Tremaine “Tremayne” Deon Carroll, 52, identifies as a woman, and must be referred to using she/her pronouns […]
Read MoreThe State Department’s foreign disinformation center, accused by conservatives of censoring U.S. citizens, shut its doors due to lack of funding this week. Elon Musk had deemed the Global Engagement Center (GEC), established in 2016, the “worst offender in U.S. government censorship & media manipulation,” and its funding was stripped as part of the National Defense […]
Read MoreA trio of House Democrats in the progressive “Squad” is demanding an end to the U.S.-led investigation into a key ally’s anti-Israel arms embargo. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Summer Lee, D-Pa., wrote to the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), an independent agency that oversees maritime trade affecting the U.S., regarding Spain’s “decision […]
Read MoreRep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., a member of the progressive cadre of lawmakers known as the “Squad,” thinks she will eventually run for political office again. The outgoing congresswoman took office in 2021 and won re-election in 2022 but lost the Democratic primary in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District this year. “Running for office again is not […]
Read MorePutting a swing in their step could be just the thing to help ease the symptoms of depression in some Parkinson’s patients, a new study suggests. Patients who took months of dance classes found their depression eased, a small study published recently in the Journal of Medical Internet Research says. Not only did depression symptoms […]
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