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‘I Just Really Wanted My Breasts Gone’: Detransitioner Explains How She Was Duped Into Transitioning 

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Detransitioner Camille Kiefel says that she and other victims of transgender surgeries “have been dismissed” by doctors pushing so-called gender-affirming care.  

“I struggled with childhood trauma,” Kiefel told The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan. “My best friend had been raped by her brother when I was in sixth grade.”  

A detransitioner is someone who attempts to transition to the opposite gender, then realized that such an attempt is impossible, and “detransitioned.” Many of these individuals, such as Kiefel, say they were betrayed into irreversible hormonal and surgical procedures by doctors and therapists who ignore biological realities in favor of radical ideology. 

“For me, it was being afraid of being vulnerable and wanting to protect myself,” she said, adding:

I just started to identify with the male characters in anime manga reading … trying to reject my female identity, dressing more masculine, trying to hide my breasts and my hips, so that men wouldn’t see. 

Kiefel confirmed that her father’s stories of “how men his age talk sexually about girls my age … was what started me on that.”

“It was when I was 26 that I saw a ‘gender-affirming care’ therapist, and then started to believe I was nonbinary, and then I got surgery when I was 30,” she said.

“The crazy thing is that they transitioned me into a nonbinary sex, one that doesn’t exist in nature,” she said.  

“This freeing idea, with being nonbinary for many people is, like … I can just be me, and I’m not sexualized,” Kiefel explained. It was an idea that she learned in women’s studies classes, adding: 

The gender ideology really co-opted it. There was this idea that you can be a third sex.

“I didn’t know what I wanted,” she said. “I just really wanted my breasts gone.” 

Explaining the approval process for getting a double mastectomy, Kiefel said, “The ideology says that you can be trans and have trauma. They’re not accounting for the people who are transitioning because of trauma … it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.” 

She explained the affirmation she received for the transition, saying, “I actually told the gender therapist what had happened to my friend and yet … but they didn’t push back at all.”  

“I dealt with all these physical health issues after the surgery,” Kiefel said, “and the doctors took me seriously at first, but then became dismissive when they thought it was psychosomatic fever.”  

In the face of that dismissal by the doctors, Kiefel took matters into her own hands and began working with a naturopath.  

“I started adding meat back into my diet and some other holistic treatments,” she said, “and all of a sudden, I was, like, ‘Wow!’ My mental health is getting better!” 

“All I needed to do was address my physical health, but nobody was doing that because … you’re depressed. … [T]hey just pegged me as someone dealing with mental illness.”  

When Olohan asked Kiefel about her contact with the surgeons after she realized the mistake, the detransitioner said, “I just don’t feel comfortable reaching out to those doctors” after having experienced a doctor who treated her like she was wasting his time. 

“I think a lot of detransitioners have those feelings of, like, we’ve been dismissed. I know many detransitioners who have been told that this is part of their gender journey,” Kiefel said. 

Many detransitioners are suing the medical establishment, accusing doctors and therapists of manipulating them into undergoing brutal sex-change experiments. 

Olohan asked Kiefel, “What would you say to doctors and therapists who are considering being a part of these so-called gender-affirming surgeries and interventions?”  

“Make sure that no one who is struggling with severe mental health issues should do any of these surgeries,” Kiefel said, “They need to get their mental health under control.” 

 “Particularly with women who have histories with sexual trauma,” she added, “there’s a lot of them who are transitioning … . It’s partially escapism and to protect themselves. “ 

Olohan stated, “It sounds like we need more medical professionals that want to help detransitioners.” 

Kiefel agreed: “We do.” 

Olohan documents numerous stories of detransitioners in her book, “Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult,” due out May 28, an intimate look at the lived experiences of detransitioners, including the manipulative therapy sessions, botched surgeries, and attempts to construct phantom body parts. 

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ATF Finally Responds to SAF Investigation…Sort Of

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ATF Finally Responds to SAF Investigation…Sort Of

Senior ATF officials must have noticed Joe Biden’s shockingly low poll numbers and realized that their war against law-abiding American gun owners will soon be lost.

Now, the ATF is taking steps to clean house as much as possible and get rid of any proof that they violated the civil rights of millions of Americans, before they’re hauled in front of congressional committees to answer for their rampant misconduct.

After years of waiting, the ATF suddenly responded to two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from the Second Amendment Foundation.

Continue reading ATF Finally Responds to SAF Investigation…Sort Of at The Truth About Guns.

Media Mistakes in the Biden Era: the Definitive List

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Read: Media Mistakes in the Trump Era here

62. March 20, 2024

At a hearing with a former Biden family business partner, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) bordered  on hysterical in her defense of the Bidens shouting that RICO or the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act “is not a crime, it’s a cat-a-gor-y.”

Many media outlets and commentators lampooned her and claimed RICO “is” a crime.

In fact, RICO is not a “crime,” it’s a statute that sets forth the conditions and penalties for charging a defendant with racketeering.

Claiming that RICO itself is “a crime” is akin to calling the hate crime statute “a crime.” Instead, the hate crime statute defines hate crimes and penalties.

61. March 16, 2024

Numerous media outlets, commentators, and President Biden falsely claimed Donald Trump was “threatening political violence” if he loses in November, when Trump used the term “bloodbath” at a rally in Ohio.

In fact, Trump was addressing the Biden administration’s policies and claiming they are allowing China to undercut America’s auto industry by manufacturing cars in Mexico.

Trump said, “We’re gonna put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not gonna be able to sell those guys, if I get elected! Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s gonna be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna to be the least of it — it’s gonna be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it. But they’re not gonna sell those cars.”

The Hill, ABC, MSNBC, The View, President Biden, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many others claimed to know what was in Trump’s mind and insisted, without evidence, that he was issuing a broad warning or threat of violence.

Trump said he was referring to the auto industry. Even an inference that Trump was speaking more generally would have to come with a fair admission that he wasn’t issuing a threat, but was rather making a prediction, and that there is no reason to infer he was speaking in any literal sense.

Elon Musk on “X” (formerly Twitter) circulated the remarks in context and drew criticism from left-leaning media and commentators for doing so.

60. December 17, 2023

NBC and numerous media outlets falsely reported that Trump said “immigrants” or “migrants” are “poisoning the blood of our country.” In fact, Trump was clearly speaking of illegal aliens. This is now year 8 of many in the media inaccurately conflating illegal immigration and/or immigrants with legal immigrants or migrants.

59. November 27, 2023

The left-leaning website Deadspin publishes an article by writer Carron Phillips featuring a photo of a 9-year-old boy, wearing face paint in his team’s colors and an Indian headdress. The article was titled, “The NFL needs to speak out against the Kansas City Chiefs fan in Black face, Native headdress.”

In fact, the boy wasn’t wearing blackface, and his family says they are of Native American heritage.

Deadspin didn’t correct its article but issued an “update” that read, in part, “We regret any suggestion that we were attacking the fan or his family.”

The family later filed a lawsuit against Deadspin saying the website “maliciously and wantonly attack[ed] a nine-year-old boy and his parents for Phillips’ own race-drenched political agenda.”

 

58. April 28, 2023

ABC News unethically edited an interview with presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to exclude Kennedy’s response to false statements that claimed he has spread anti-vaccine “misinformation.”

57. March 15, 2023

CNN and multiple outlets reported, without attribution, that Russia had “shot down” a US drone. However, it appears as though there was no weapons fire involved. As of this publication, the false reports remained posted on the web uncorrected.

56. Dec. 22, 2022

A “study” that blamed Trump as a main driver of Covid vaccine disinformation was retracted after a Reddit user drew attention to major flaws.

55. Nov. 16, 2022

Many in the media breathlessly reported, as if a fact, that Russian missiles had landed in Poland killing two people. A day later, officials said they were actually Ukrainian missiles that accidentally hit Poland. Some claimed it was “still Russia’s fault.”

54. Oct. 28, 2022

Numerous media outlets were duped into falsely reporting that, upon Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, Musk fired engineers “Rahul Ligma” and “Daniel Johnson.” In fact, the two men simply posed as fired engineers and the reporters apparently did nothing to confirm the men were who they said they were, or that the events the men described had actually happened.

“Ligma” is a reference to a popular Internet gaming reference.

The duped included ABC7 Bay Area reporter Suzanne Phan. Bloomberg, the Daily Mail and NBC were among those reported layoffs were underway after the pranksters spoke.

CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa tweeted Friday that an “entire team of data engineers” was let go after Elon Musk officially took the helm at Twitter. She later apologized for not checking her facts.

53. Sept. 9, 2022

Duke University female volleyball player Rachel Richardson alleged that observers repeatedly used racial slurs against her during a Brigham Young University-Duke volleyball match on Aug. 26 but that she had bravely played on. (BYU beat her team.)

Rachel Richardson made allegeldy false racial accusations
Photo: Duke University

Many in media, including People and ESPN, reported the allegation as if it were corroborated. Jason Duaine Hahn of People stated that “Rachel Richardson, a 19-year old student at Duke University, was called the ‘N-word’ by a Brigham Young University fan as she competed in a volleyball match.”

Jason Duaine Hahn, People

Mike Freeman in USA Today also declared, though he could not not possibly known, that Richardson was telling the truth. He likened the skepticism of her claims to “QAnon. Or mass voter fraud. It’s another conspiracy theory.”

But like many “conspiracy theories,” this one also apparently turned out to be true.

Brigham Young University says it “reached out to more than 50 individuals who attended the event” as part of its investigation, and reviewed all available video and audio recordings, and found no evidence to corroborate Richardson’s claims.  

No word on whether Richardson will face discipline, or apologize to Brigham Young fans.

Meantime, South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley reportedly cancelled her team’s basketball series with Brigham Young based on Richardson’s allegations. After the results of the investigation were made public, Staley reportedly says she stands by her decision, anyway.

52. Aug. 16, 2022

CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell tweeted a false claim from a Dept. of Justice official that contradicted Trump after the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago home. The claim was that the FBI did not have Trump’s passports, as he had publicly stated. However, the passports had, in fact, been confiscated, and were eventually returned to Trump.

51. Aug. 10, 2022

After four Muslim men were killed over a 9 month period in Albuquerque, NM, many in the news media joined political advocates and analysts in the unfounded conclusion, without evidence, that the murders were “anti-Muslim hate crimes.”

That appears not to be the case, according to police. The ‘primary suspect’ arrested for the crime, 51-year-old Muhammad Syed, is also a Muslim, and the crimes were allegedly committed over inter-personal conflicts.

The strange and unjournalistic practice of assuming racism or “hate” involving crimes committed against a victim who is or was part of a minority group, but never making the assumption when crimes are committed against whites, is widespread.

Of the murders, prior to the Muslim suspect being arrested, President Biden tweeted, “These hateful attacks have no place in America,” that he was “angered and saddened” by the killings, and that his administration “stands strongly with the Muslim community.”

As of this publication, he has not corrected the record publicly to acknowledge the apparently mistaken, and racist assumption.

Photos from: Albuquerque police

50. July 29, 2022

Medscape’s Cheryl Clark incorrectly reported that Dr. Simone Gold had lost her medical license after she was convicted of trespassing in the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In fact, her license had been placed on inactive status.

49. June 30, 2022

Good Morning America wrongly tweeted that Ketanji Jackson is the first black US Supreme Court justice. Clarence Thomas (1991) and Thurgood Marshall (1967) beg to differ.

48. June 25, 2022

USA Today removed more than two dozen articles, including “Anti-vaxxer pushes urine therapy as ‘COVID antidote’ without scientific evidence” after reporter Gabriela Miranda was allegedly found to have committed many fabrications.

47. June 1, 2022

After a jury ruled the Washington Post op-ed by Amber Heard (drafted by the American Civil Liberties Union) contained multiple false and defamatory statements against Johnny Depp. The Post issued an amendment but allowed the defamatory headline to remain in place.

46. May 31, 2022

Politico reported the opposite of what the Supreme Court ruled in the case of a Texas law banning social media companies from moderating based on people’s political views. Politico originally stated the court had allowed the law to continue. In fact, the Court temporarily blocked the law.

 

45. May 21, 2022

The New York Times’ Apoorva Mandivilli falsely reported that 4,000 children ages 5-11 had died with Covid-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome. In fact, that was the number of children diagnosed, not dead.

Days earlier, a NYT article had noted fewer than 400 Covid deaths in that age group in the last 2 years even using the all-encompassing definition.

Mandivilli’s previous errors have been responsible distributing for other Covid misinformation.

44. March 29, 2022

The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Robert Costa break the “news” making much out of a supposedly suspicious 7 hour gap in Trump White House phone records on Jan. 6, 2021, the day of the Trump rally and Capitol riots. The Atlantic CBS News, Rolling Stone, NPR, the BBC, Forbes, USA Today, the New York Post and many others follow up, writing articles nearly identical in content. Democrat Jamie Raskin told reporters that Congressional investigators were very interested in the gap.

Days later, observers point out an obvious detail that had eluded the some of the supposedly best journalists in the business: there were many ways Trump likely would have communicated during the “gap” period while he was not physically at the White House, without committing crimes, such as on cell phone calls not routed through the White House switchboard.

43. Wed. Jan. 19, 2022

NPR’s Nina Totenberg reported that Supreme Court Justice John Roberts had instructed all Justices to mask, (despite being fully vaccinated and boosted), and that Neil Gorsuch refused. “His continued refusal since then has also meant that Sotomayor has not attended the justices’ weekly conference in person, joining instead by telephone,” reported Totenberg.

Thousands of news stories and commentators accepted and amplified the anonymously-sourced allegations– which included no comments from those involved– as if they were proven true, disparaging and smearing Gorsuch.

However, on January 19, all of those mentioned said, in official statements on the record, that Totenberg’s story is false.

42. January 2022

The fact checker for the Washington Post, Glenn Kessler, gave Sen. Tom Cotton a rating indicating Cotton wasn’t telling the truth in March of 2021 when Cotton accurately tweeted that under the Biden administration’s Covid relief initiative, murderers like convicted Islamic extremist terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from the Boston Marathon bombings would receive a Covid stimulus check. 

It turns out Cotton was spot on; it was the fact checker Kessler who was mistaken. A local news reporter recently turned up information that, just as Cotton had predicted, Tsarnaev received a Covid stimulus check in prison.

The Washington Post didn’t discover and revisit its error on its own: Cotton’s representative reportedly asked the newspaper to correct its false information. Still, the Post couldn’t bear to honestly state that its fact check was embarrassingly wrong. Instead, Kessler reduced his “Pinocchio” rating of Cotton’s accurate statement from two Pinocchio’s to one, still claiming that Cotton’s prediction “lacks some context.”

41. Fri. Jan. 7, 2022

The Huffington Post published a headline to an obituary mistakenly saying that Sidney Potier was the first black actor to win an Academy Award. Actually, that distinction went to Hattie McDaniel 24 years earlier. McDaniel was the first black actor to win an Academy in Award in 1940 for her supporting role in “Gone With The Wind.”

The Huffington Post later fixed the headline but did not note it had made a mistake or a correction.

 

40. Thurs. Dec. 2, 2021

Philip Bump of The Washington Post repeats Media Matters false claim, stating that the forensically-proven government intrusion of Sharyl Attkisson’s CBS computers never happened.

39. Fri. Nov. 19, 2021

Countless media outlets defamed and otherwise published false information about Kyle Rittenhouse, who was found not guilty of all charges by a jury.

After the verdict, The Independent published an article that falsely claimed Rittenhouse “shot three black men.”

None of the people who were shot were black; they were all white.

38. Fri. Nov. 12, 2021

Testimony, even from the opposing side, in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse proved the falsity of hundreds of media reports.

Rittenhouse, who went to Wisconsin in August 2020 to protect storefronts and businesses being looted and burned by rioters, shot and killed two attackers during violent protests, and shot a third man.

Media reports widely declared Rittenhouse, then 17-years old, to be a murderous white supremacist (although all three of the men shot were white and, according to evidence, had been attacking or pointing a loaded gun at Rittenhouse at the time).

37. Fri. Nov. 12, 2021

The Washington Post belatedly “corrected two articles [one from 2017 and one from 2019] and altered a dozen others” regarding its false reporting about the anti-Trump opposition research compiled by Democratic operative and ex-British spy Christopher Steele to use against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.

As Epoch Times explains, “The Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, had long insisted that Sergei Millian, a Belrusian-American businessman, was one of Steele’s sources. But its stories, which relied on two sources it did not name publicly, were increasingly undermined as time went on, most recently a grand jury indictment against Igor Danchenko, who has been described as Steele’s ‘primary sub-source’.”

36. Fri. Nov. 12, 2021

Tommy Christopher of Mediaite falsely declared that “No, Joe Biden Did Not Refer to Satchel Paige as a ‘Negro’ During Veterans Day Speech.”

In fact, Biden had done just that.

35. Mon. Oct. 25, 2021

The Washington Post corrects an article by Ashley Parker and Carissa Wolf. It falsely claimed that a pro-Trump crowd broke into a chant of “Let’s Go, Brandon!” during a speech by Donald Trump, Jr. in Georgia.

The Post says the editor is responsible for the fabricated claim. The crowd was actually chanting an expletive: “F– Joe Biden!”

In fact, the chant, “Let’s Go, Brandon!” was not first created until after the speech as a result of a sports reporter mistaking or misrepresenting the “F– Joe Biden!” chants from a crowd during a live television interview as if they were congratulating the winner of the car race she was interviewing, who’s named Brandon.

Now, the chant “Let’s Go, Brandon!” is understood to be a less profane version of the same slur against Biden.

The Post correction reads:

“Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly said a crowd broke into a ‘Let’s go Brandon’ chant during a Donald Trump Jr. speech in Georgia. The crowd broke into a ‘F— Joe Biden!’ chant at that speech in September. The error, which was inserted by an editor, has been corrected.”

34. Sat. Oct. 23, 2021

An article in Medscape states that myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation reported in some people– particularly in young people and children– after Covid-19 vaccination is “rare and temporary.

However, scientists say the disorder can have permanent impacts and even be fatal.

It’s unclear why Medscape misstates the potential outcome.

Medscape Mayo Clinic

33. Tues. Oct. 19, 2021

These media mistakes took place over a period of time, but came to widespread attention as a result of a Joe Rogan podcast with CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, in which Gupta acknowledged his network’s misreporting.

CNN falsely reported that Rogan had taken a “horse” medicine for Covid-19.

In fact, as many Americans have, Rogan says he took the doctor-prescribed human version of ivermectin, which some medical experts say has proven safe and effective for some patients as off-label treatment for Covid-19.

Many other news outlets, such as NBC/CNBC’s Doha Madani, falsely reported that Rogan and others were taking “horse dewormer” or veterinary medicine.

32. Thurs. Oct. 7, 2021

The New York Times makes several corrections to an article by Apoorva Mandavilli.

First, it incorrectly stated that Sweden and Denmark had begin offering single doses of Moderna vaccine in children after safety issues were raised. Both countries actually halted use of the vaccine in children.

Second, the article wildly overstated the number of U.S. children hospitalized with Covid-19 from August 2020 to October 2021. (It’s unclear whether that number includes children hospitalized for other causes who happen to test positive and are asymptomatic.)

The article stated the number was 900,000. It was actually 63,000.

Also, the article had the wrong date for an FDA meeting about approving the Pfizer shot for children.

31. Thurs. Oct. 7, 2021

Business Insider publishes an allegation in a book by former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham. In the book, Grisham reportedly claimed that First Lady Melania Trump dissed the family of Rep. Steve Scalise during a White House visit after he was shot by a radical Bernie Sanders supporter at a Congressional ball game.

After the article was published, Scalise disputed the claim. Business Insider apparently did not interview him for the original story. The publication updated its story to reflect Scalise’s challenge, which included photos of Melania Trump meeting with the Scalise family at the White House.

According to the updated story, Grisham said there was a different incident Scalise may not have known about. The updated story did not carry a notification pointing to the corrections or amendments.

30. Mon. Sept. 27, 2021

Some media, such as Axios, began deleting their unsupported reporting that claimed Border Patrol agents were whipping Haitian immigrants who had illegally crossed the border.

 

29. Thurs. Sept. 9, 2021

Washington Post reporter Jacob Bogage broke the news that U.S. Postal Service (USPS) workers were not included in President Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate.

“That’s a massive chunk of the federal workforce — 644k & growing — that’s not required to be vaccinated,” tweeted Bogage.

However, Bogage and the Post later corrected the story to say that USPS workers are part of the mandate, after all.

 

28. Monday Sept. 6, 2021

On August 25, Associated Press corrects a false report it published, that was widely distributed, on August 23.

The report falsely stated that 70% of recent calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center were from people who had ingested the medicine ivermectin to try to treat COVID-19.

The actual number was reportedly 1.4%, not 70%.

27. Sunday Sept. 5, 2021

Rolling Stone had to retract a false story it published claiming an Oklahoma hospital had been overrun by people who poisoned themselves with the Covid-19 treatment ivermectin, and that had resulted in gunshot victims and others being turned away or were left waiting for emergency care.

After the story was published, the hospital issued a statement that prompted a correction.

It turns out the one doctor quoted in the story hadn’t worked in the hospital in months, and the hospital had treated no patients related to ivermectin. Additionally, the hospital said, it has not turned away or delayed any patients in the ER.

KFOR News in Oklahoma reported the story but had an uncorrected version still published as of this publication.

Rolling Stone called its correction, which admitted it could not verify the allegations in the original story, and that the hospital had denied them, an “update.”

Many in media and online (including MSNBC, a podcast entitled “No Lie,” Daily Mail, Newsweek, NY Daily News, The Hill, Journalism professor Jason Johnson, Daily Kos and medical professionals) passed along the false report, as detailed in this thread by commentator Drew Holden.

26. Thursday Sept. 2, 2021

Slate and other media falsely labelled a complaint about a man in the women’s spa locker room a “transphobic hoax.”

According to the complaint by women at the spa, one of whom recorded some of the aftermath and posted the video on social media, the man allegedly exposed his penis to a group of women in the locker room.

But some in the media chalked it up to a tale fabricated by the women as part of an anti-transgender hoax.

However, on Aug. 30, police actually filed charges of indecent exposure against the man, Darren Agee Merager. Meranger is reported to be a “serial sex offender.”

According to the New York Post, Merager is also facing multiple felony charges of indecent exposure over a separate incident in Los Angeles. He reportedly denied the allegations to the Post and said he is the one who is the victim of harassment.

25. Thursday Sept. 2, 2021

USA Today corrects a fact check that had bad facts.

A fact check article by David Funke had falsely claimed that President Biden only checked his watch after a ceremony in which the bodies of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan were returned.

In the false article, Funke made liars of the family members of fallen soldiers who saw Biden check his watch and said so to news reporters.

In correcting the article, USA Today continued to cling onto its narrative that there was something inaccurate about the watch-checking claim by changing the ratings from “partly false” to “missing context,” even though there was no relevant content missing.

24. Monday Aug. 30, 2021

Scientific findings effectively debunked reporting by media outlets such as Wired, which reported that social media videos showing Covid-19 vaccine injuries in January were “dangerous” misinformation.

In fact, the videos garnered the attention of scientists who investigated and concluded the videos depicted a Covid-19 vaccine adverse event called Functional Neurological Disorder (FND).

Researchers in the United Kingdom recently identified for study two additional cases of (FND) in women in their 30s after receiving Covid-19 vaccines. Read more here.

FND is a neurological disorder involving malfunctioning of the nervous system and how the brain and body transmit signals. Symptoms can include limb weakness, paralysis, tremor, spasms, problems walking, speech problems, tingling, vision loss, seizures, fatigue, anxiety, chronic pain, memory symptoms, and blackouts.

An analysis of Covid-19 vaccine adverse events showed hundreds of thousands of reports of such symptoms.

23. Saturday Aug. 28, 2021

Writing about a major study in Israel that finds, like many others, natural immunity is far superior to vaccination for Covid-19, Meredith Wadman falsely writes in the journal Science that those who were infected with Covid-19 and gained natural immunity still benefitted from vaccination afterwards.

When the false information was flagged by a reader, Science deleted the false information and posted a clarification.

No word on how the fabricated science could have appeared in the article.

However, the mistake mirrors the same disinformation the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) got caught distributing in late 2020 and early 2021. The agency also falsely claimed studies at the time showed there was a benefit for previously-infected people if they got vaccinated. The studies showed the opposite. (More below the photos.)

When Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) flagged CDC’s false information, signed off by their entire top team of immunization advisers, CDC top officials and scientists promised to correct it. However, the CDC scientists and officials continued to make the false claims to doctors and the public.

When Massie flagged it again, CDC’s ultimate correction was so obtuse, it continued to give the same wrong impression.

CDC continues to recommend that people with natural immunity get vaccinated, despite studies showing no benefit.

22. Saturday Aug. 28, 2021

PBS’ Hari Sreenivasan and others wrote that video of a violent passenger at Miami International Airport showed a “tantrum…like a 5 year old” against mask rules. Sreenivasan used the hash tag #COVIDIOTS.

However, according to news reports the incident involving a mentally troubled military veteran had nothing to do with masks.

21. Thursday Aug. 12, 2021

The Texas Tribune “overstates” the number of children hospitalized in Texas with Covid-19 by a factor of more than 40 times. The article initially claimed more than 5,800 children had been hospitalized during a seven-day period in August. However, the true number was about 142 children in a week.

When the Texas Tribune corrected the story, it did not provide the correct number for the seven-day August time period during which it initially claimed 5,800 child Covid-19 hospitalizations. Instead, the newspaper gave a corrected total that spanned a period of five-and-a-half weeks: 783 children between July 1 and Aug. 9.

As an aside, while Covid-19 is grabbing the headlines, it was actually a different virus that was filling up more of those Texas ICU beds, according to the article: an unseasonable outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV: “a highly contagious virus that can require hospitalization mostly among children… Within Texas Children’s, more than 45 children were hospitalized with COVID-19 on Wednesday, and hospital staff members have diagnosed over 1,600 cases of RSV.”

20. Thursday Aug. 12, 2021

Web MD, USA Today, and others falsely call the 2020 Sturgis, South Dakota Motorcycle Rally a Covid “Super Spreader” event. Dr. Anthony Fauci had furthered the false narrative on Meet the Press. But the “Super Spreader” claims about the event were false. Data analysis showed the rally wasn’t associated with anywhere near the national average of cases, and especially not the quarter million that some original claimed. Additionally, it was shown that many media reports used photos of a previous year’s rally, misrepresenting and misdating those photos as if they were taken during the pandemic.

19. Sunday August 8, 2021

USA Today‘s Gabe Lacques, ESPN, The Denver Post, The Washington Post, Associated Press (AP), the New York Post, and other publications report, as if true without attribution, that a fan shouted a racial slur at a Miami Marlins player. However, an investigation revealed what many had said from the start: the fan was yelling the name of the Rockies team mascot, and that racist-minded observers mistook that for “the N-word.”

As of a week later, uncorrected headlines and/or with the false information remained accessible online (see below).

18. Monday July 26, 2021

The Associated Press corrects a story that falsely claimed CDC had released guidance in May stating that unvaccinated people don’t have to wear masks indoors. “The story should have said the CDC guidance released in May was that those who are vaccinated don’t have to wear masks indoors.”

17. Saturday July 24, 2021

The Associated Press corrects a story published July 24, 2021 that falsely claimed Florida had changed to weekly reporting on Covid-19 cases earlier in the month. Florida actually implemented the change a month before, in early June.

16. Monday July 19, 2021

The Associated Press corrects a story that falsely claimed a supposed decision not to prosecute former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was made by the Department of Justice under the Biden administration. AP later said it was under the Trump administration.

15. Wednesday June 2, 2021

The Washington Post joins a cacophony of other media in finally correcting their false reporting that incorrectly claimed, early and often, that the Covid-19 “lab theory” was a “debunked” “conspiracy theory.”

Read and watch my Covid-19 origins investigation here.

14. Tuesday May 17, 2021

The Poynter Institute retracts a September 2020 Politifact fact check about a statement by Li-Meng Yan that falsely claimed, among other assertions:  The genetic structure of the novel coronavirus rules out laboratory manipulation.

Many authorities have said that is not now and has never been the case. In light of growing recognition of that fact, Politifact added the following Editor’s Note to the original fact check:

When this fact-check was first published in September 2020, PolitiFact’s sources included researchers who asserted the SARS-CoV-2 virus could not have been manipulated. That assertion is now more widely disputed. For that reason, we are removing this fact-check from our database pending a more thorough review. Currently, we consider the claim to be unsupported by evidence and in dispute. The original fact-check in its entirety is preserved below for transparency and archival purposes.

13. Wednesday May 11, 2021

As people wait in long lines for gas, and even as the New York Times showed images of long lines in its news coverage, the newspaper claims in a Tweet that “there have been no long lines.”

Additionally, the same day the Tweet claims no “major price hikes,” consumers documented major price hikes up to $9.99/gallon, prompting President Biden to warn against gouging.

12. Saturday May 1, 2021

The New York Times, Washington Post and NBC News correct their false reporting about Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani. The articles all claimed Giuliani and/or One America News had received a “former warning from the FBI about Russian disinformation” prior to 2019 political scandals involving the U.S., Russia and Ukraine. Giuliani and One America News did not receive such so-called “defensive briefings,” after all.

The false New York Times article was written by William K. RashbaumBen ProtessMaggie Haberman and Kenneth P. Vogel. Haberman and Vogel are repeat offenders on anti-Trump media mistake lists.

The false Washington Post article was written by Ellen Nakashima, Shane Harris, and Tom Hamburger.

And Ken Dilanian is on the error list again, at NBC News.

11. Friday April 30, 2021

NPR, like many in the media, reports (as if it as somehow confirmed firsthand) that “President Donald Trump’s… allegations of election rigging and widespread voter fraud” are “false.” Instead, the reports should or could accurately say that NPR and other news outlets have not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud; yet, there is no indication any outlets conducted a widespread firsthand investigation to find or eliminate fraud.

NPR also calls the media outlet “Newsmax” “far right”– when it is not. If NPR inserts such opinions and attacks in its news reporting, it should label them as opinions, or attribute them to a source, rather than claiming them to be fact.

10. Friday April 30, 2021

Newsmax corrects its 2020 election fraud reporting and apologized to Eric Coomer, director of product strategy and security for Dominion Voting Systems. 

“Newsmax has found no evidence that Dr. Coomer interfered with Dominion voting machines or voting software in any way, nor that Dr. Coomer ever claimed to have done so…Nor has Newsmax found any evidence that Dr. Coomer ever participated in any conversation with members of ‘Antifa,’ nor that he was directly involved with any partisan political organization,” said Newsmax in a statement.

9. Tuesday April 27, 2021

A Politico article by with three bylines, EUGENE DANIELSKRYSTAL CAMPOS and MICHAEL CADENHEAD, wrongly stated that Rep. Byron Donalds was “Florida’s first-ever Black Republican in Congress.”

In fact, he is third.

A correction added to the article didn’t explain how the basic research impacting the very premise of the article wasn’t done prior to publication.

8. Tuesday April 27, 2021

New York Post reporter Laura Italiano resigns after saying she was pressed to write an incorrect article claiming a book written by Vice President Kamala Harris was being distributed to children who illegally crossed the border into the U.S.

A correction to the Post article noted: “The original version of this article said migrant kids were getting Harris’ book in a welcome kit but has been updated to note that only one known copy of the book was given to a child.”

7. Monday April 26, 2021

Fox News corrects an earlier report that “incorrectly implied” a calculus involving Americans eating less red meat was part of “Biden’s plan for dealing with climate change.”

“That is not the case,” says Fox News.

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6. Sunday, April 4, 2021

CBS’ 60 Minutes is accused of selectively editing a segment with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, in a story that implied he is guilty of “pay-for-play,” linking a campaign donation from Publix grocery stores to the selection of Publix as a major Covid-19 vaccine distribution center. Numerous media outlets picked up the narrative.

After the segment, numerous Democrat political figures in Florida confirmed that, contrary to the implication in the report, Publix was recommended by other state agencies rather than the governor’s office.

Gov. Ron DeSantis answers a question from Sharyn Alfonsi of CBS’ 60 Minutes

Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat, tweeted, “I said this before and I’ll say it again. [Publix] was recommended by [Florida Division of Emergency Management] and [Florida Department of Public Health]. Period! Full stop!…No one from the Governors office suggested Publix…It’s just absolute malarkey.”

In remarks edited out of the 60 Minutes story, DeSantis also had explained that other stores were actually chosen for earlier vaccine distribution jobs before Publix.

Palm Beach County Mayor Dave Kerner, a Democrat, accused 60 Minutes of reporting “intentionally false” information, saying that the TV program knew the county– not the governor’s office– had been the one to request “to expand the state’s partnership with Publix” to help get more of the county’s elderly vaccinated.

5. Thursday, April 1, 2021

NPR corrects its book review by senior editor and correspondent on the Washington Desk Ron Elving that falsely claimed U.S. intelligence had discredited the story of the FBI obtaining and investigating material on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

4. Wednesday, March 31, 2021

The Atlanta Journal Constitution falsely reports that Georgia’s new voting integrity law would “limit voting hours.”

A later correction acknowledged “nothing in the law changes” the hours: 7am to 7pm. It also pointed out that “experts say the net effect was to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians, not limit them.”

3. Monday, Jan. 18, 2021

AP incorrectly reports that 200,000 small flags were placed on the National Mall to honor Americans killed by Covid-19.

But the flags represented people who couldn’t come to the inauguration, not COVID deaths.

2. Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021

The Washington Post‘s Amy Gardner, AP, CNBC, Rolling Stone, and others falsely report that President Trump pressed a lead Georgia elections investigator to “find the fraud,” and told the investigator it would make them a national hero.

However, the actual recording of the call later made public revealed that Trump did not say either of those things.

1. Friday, Jan. 8, 2021

The New York Times reporters Marc SantoraMegan Specia and Mike Baker report Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by “pro-Trump supporters” who “overpowered” him and “struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher.”

But other reports the same day referenced Sicknick dying from a stroke.

The Times waited until mid-February to issue a correction, but still claimed– citing no evidence and no autopsy report– that Sicknick had died “from injuries in pro-Trump rampage.”

There was no explanation as to who fabricated the fire extinguisher story.

Read: Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List.

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Minibus Subsidizes Gun Control Lobby, Funds Anti-Gun Research

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GOA To Key Vote “NO” on Anti-Gun Research, Gun Control Filled Minibus

The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024, which was unveiled at 2:32 AM the day before a vote, is a dream come true for anti-gun politicians and the bill even subsidizes the gun control lobby. Further, its expedited timeline is an outrage, not giving gun owners enough time to analyze the full extent of the gun control funded by the legislation.

On behalf of more than two million law-abiding gun owners, GOA urges all members of Congress to vote against this anti-gun funding bill that seeks further restrictions on the Second Amendment rights of Americans and advocates for gun control measures.

Dickey Amendment Violations

The Dickey Amendment is supposed to prevent the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from “advocating or promoting gun control.” However, Gun Owners of America has found that the bill appropriates a total of $25,000,000 for “Firearm Mortality and Injury Prevention Research.” The House of Representatives voted against this language on November 15th, 2023 in the Mariannette Miller-Meeks amendment, which passed 216-211.

GOA’s analysis of existing “Firearm Mortality and Injury Prevention Research” reveals how it completely subverts the Dickey Amendment. Identical funding to previous years is already being used by CDC and NIH illegally for:

❌ researching a firearm retirement age for senior citizens;
❌ safety check-ins to find guns in pregnant women’s homes;
❌ studying the effectiveness of gun confiscation;
❌ investigating mandatory wait periods for gun purchases;
❌ exploring expanded background checks;
❌ and more!

This is why dozens of House Representatives wrote to Speaker Johnson and Appropriations Chairwoman Granger late last week urging them to protect the Second Amendment. Apparently, such advice has been disregarded.

Gun Control Lobby Subsidy

One earmark even sets aside $59,000 for an anti-gun 501(c)(3) who boasts that they helped “create Ethan’s Law” which “Senators Blumenthal and Murphy introduced” and that they are lobbying to “pass nationally.”

This anti-gun 501(c)(3) is questionably lobbying for an unconstitutional federal unsafe storage law. “Ethan’s Law” is extremely dangerous to gun owners because it:

❌ Bans emergency access to firearms when gun owners want them for home and self-defense; and
❌ Directs the Attorney General to seize firearms not stored according to unconstitutional bureaucratic standards.

Speaker Pelosi forced a vote on this unconstitutional gun control in 2022 and Gun Owners of America also key voted against this bill. This non-profit also hosts so-called “gun buybacks” of firearms which never belonged to the government in the first place.

Even though this earmark is directed towards a “firearm safety curriculum” it is likely that the class will be anti-gun and discourage gun owners from having ready access to firearms to utilize for home defense. It will also subsidize the non-profits efforts by allowing them to redirect other funds to lobby for gun control and waste money on useless buyback programs.

Private Security for Congress

While researching how to disarm American citizens, the legislation also funds increased private security for members of Congress. Elected politicians don’t need “Enhanced Member Protection” or “Risk-Based Protections for Members of Congress.” Instead, politicians should exercise their Second Amendment-protected rights—as any other American must—and protect themselves by carrying a firearm for self-defense. Extra private security for members is hypocritical and sends a clear message to law abiding gun owners: “guns for me but not for thee!”

No Action to Protect Conservatives from Weaponized Government

Apparently, Congress “is concerned” that the government is targeting folks, like GOA members who believe gun control is unconstitutional, as militia violent extremists, domestic terrorists, etc. But unfortunately, the omnibus only directs bureaucrats to write a few reports on it—which is completely unacceptable!

The explanatory statement admits there are ongoing issues regarding rogue bureaucrats and their “consultation and coordination with non-governmental organizations to identify what constitutes ‘extremism’ and ‘extremist organizations.’”

Therefore, Congress needs to do more than just having those same anti-American bureaucrats give a biased “brief [to] the Committees.” Simply publishing a report on “the ways in which the Department consults with and utilizes non-government organizations and non-profit entities to track alleged ‘extremist’ groups operating in the United States” is not enough.

Congress just needs to ban bureaucrats from targeting conservatives! This study is meaningless, and the American people recognize that.

Failure to Rescind Past Gun Control Funding

This bill also fails to rescind past gun control funding for  the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to coordinate with the Department of Veterans Affairs to create “gun storage maps” of where veterans keep their firearms, implement “safe storage” requirements, and utilize “red flag” gun confiscation laws.

GOA Key Vote Notification

Gun Owners of America will be key voting against this minibus and scoring all votes to advance the bill as anti-gun votes in both the House and Senate. GOA urges Congress to vote against this unconstitutional, hypocritical, and anti-gun minibus.

Any votes in favor of this anti-gun Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024 represent an attack on the individual Second Amendment rights of the American people and will be scored as anti-gun votes.

This vote will be taken into account in Gun Owners of America’s Scorecard, Voter Guide, and future Candidate endorsements—which can be accessed here.

Alabama stops funding DEI programs at state institutions, denies men access to women's bathrooms on college campuses

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Alabama has joined several other states in turning the tide of leftist activism by starving diversity, equity, and inclusion programs of funding at all public institutions and requiring males and females to use bathrooms on college campuses that correspond with their sex.

SB129 takes aim at eight "divisive concepts" related to race, religion, sex, ethnicity, and national origin. All too often, the bill claims, programs that focus on such concepts foster an unwarranted "sense of guilt, complicity, or a need to apologize."

Apparently to counteract some of the social and emotional consequences of these "divisive concepts," SB129 prevents the state from providing funds for DEI programs or offices at state agencies and public schools. It also bans mandatory DEI trainings, compelling individuals to share a "personal point of view on any divisive concept outside of an academic setting" and limiting enrollment to a class or training based on race. The law even applies to all firms that contract with the state, except those providing construction services.

"My administration has and will continue to value Alabama’s rich diversity, however, I refuse to allow a few bad actors on college campuses – or wherever else for that matter – to go under the acronym of DEI, using taxpayer funds, to push their liberal political movement counter to what the majority of Alabamians believe," Gov. Kay Ivey (R) said in a statement.

Alabama House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels took the opposite view, calling the law "regressive" and claiming that it "undermines the strides we’ve made in cultivating an inclusive society in Alabama."

Florida, Oklahoma, and Texas have passed similar measures to eradicate DEI as well.

In addition to effectively killing DEI in Alabama, SB129 helps protect women and girls on college campuses by placing an important restriction on bathroom use there. "Each public institution of higher education shall ensure that every multiple occupancy restroom be designated for use by individuals based on their biological sex," the bill reads. Thus, men who claim to be women will no longer be able to enter a restroom on campus reserved for females.

Violations of the new bathroom or DEI regulations will result in "certain penalties," the bill says. The bill lists professional disciplinary action and termination of employment as possible "penalties" but did not necessarily preclude others.

Both chambers of the state legislature voted to approve the measure this week before Gov. Ivey signed it into law on Wednesday. The law will go into effect on October 1.

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The Biggest Issue With Joe Biden’s EV Mandate Has Absolutely Nothing To Do With EVs

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This is a good opportunity to emphasize a key point that is often missed.   In the research and discussion outline yesterday, about Joe Biden’s EPA publishing new regulations for the auto industry, we dove deep into the background of what actually creates the issue. {GO DEEP} The issue that should concern everyone is not the […]

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Homeowner of $1 million house ARRESTED for changing door locks: "Unlawful eviction" of squatters

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A New York homeowner has recently been arrested following a standoff with alleged squatters who have been refusing to leave her family home.

The homeowner, Adele Andaloro, was changing the locks on her $1 million home in Flushing, Queens, when she was taken in by law enforcement and charged with unlawful eviction. Andaloro says she inherited the home from her parents when they died and planned to sell the property until the standoff with the squatters began.

“It’s not fair that I, as the homeowner, have to be going through this,” Andaloro said.

In New York City, a person can claim “squatters rights” after only being on the property for 30 days. To make matters worse, it’s illegal for the homeowner to take any action to keep the squatters out of his or her home.

These actions include changing the locks, turning off utilities, or removing the belongings of the squatters — who are then legally “tenants.”

Pat Gray is disturbed.

“This is the new America,” he says, “You can’t hinder the squatters. How dare you try to keep them out of the home you’re paying for, who do you think you are?”

“For whatever reason, the law favors the criminal,” Gray adds.


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