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    Judge Likens Biden-Big Tech Censorship to Orwell’s ‘1984.’ Admin’s Answers on Free Speech Prove Him Right.

    President Joe Biden’s censorship efforts with Big Tech companies have shocked even a federal judge, who asked the administration last week whether the president’s staff had ever read George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel “1984,” because the court case reminded him so much of the censorship in that book. Judge Terry A. Doughty, chief district judge…
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    18 States Sue Biden Administration Over Redefining ‘Illegal Border Crossings’ as ‘Lawful Pathways’

    Missouri and 17 other states have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over what they call its “unlawful open-border policies.”   “The situation at the southern border is out of control, all thanks to Joe Biden,” Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “He refuses to carry out his…
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    Biden Admin Tells Adults How to Discuss Sex With Teens Behind Parents’ Backs

    As part of its monthlong focus on adolescent health, the Biden administration is promoting a document that tells Planned Parenthood and other taxpayer-funded family planning offices how to talk to minors about sex without their parents overhearing, and how to secretly deliver birth control to adolescents without parental knowledge or consent. Federally funded guidelines instruct…
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    Biden Admin’s Grants to Left-Wing Projects Aim to ‘Destroy’ Conservatives, Watchdog Says

    The Biden administration has weaponized taxpayer-funded anti-terrorism grants to “destroy” conservatives, including Christians and “highly reputable conservative organizations” such as The Heritage Foundation, the Media Research Center contends in a new report. The report, titled “Exposed,” says that a grant program run by the Department of Homeland Security, reorganized under President Joe Biden to focus…
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    Biden Admin Says School District Can’t Remove Sexually Explicit Books Because It Violates Students’ Civil Rights

    The federal Department of Education concluded an investigation into a Georgia school district Friday, arguing that the removal of several books containing pornographic material “created a hostile environment” for LGBTQ and nonwhite authors and readers, according to a letter. The DOE’s Office of Civil Rights launched an investigation into the Forsyth County School District after…
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    ‘Let’s Take the Fight to Them’: Why This Legal Group Keeps Suing Biden Administration

    An organization called America First Legal has filed at least two dozen lawsuits against the Biden administration. “We need to fight for the American people, advance conservative principles, and be there to really make a difference,” Gene Hamilton, vice president and general counsel for America First Legal, says.   Hamilton served as counselor to the attorney…
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    Fact-Checking Biden Admin’s Claim That Illegal Immigration Drops With End of Title 42

    President Joe Biden and administration officials say that fewer illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border into the U.S. since the end of Title 42.  Title 42, a public health measure allowing quick removal of illegal aliens, was lifted late Thursday night with the official end of the COVID-19 pandemic.  However, border and immigration experts…
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    GOP Highlights Attacks on Pregnancy Centers, Pro-Lifers Under Biden Admin

    WASHINGTON—Republican lawmakers on a House Judiciary subcommittee spent Tuesday morning highlighting President Joe Biden’s administration’s apparently selective use of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. During the “Revisiting the Implications of the FACE Act” hearing, the lawmakers brought forward Mark Houck as a witness. Houck is the father of seven children who…
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    Biden Administration’s 82% Cut to Allowable Catch Imperils New England Fishermen, Trade Group Warns

    Jerry Leeman III grew up in a family of commercial fishermen in Harpswell, Maine, and says he and others are ready to oppose aggressive federal regulations that could strike a “death blow” to their livelihoods. After being in commercial fishing for 28 years, this week he launched the New England Fishermen Stewardship Association, the first…
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    ‘Disaster’: State Financial Officers Slam Biden Admin’s ‘Upside Down’ Mortgage Policy

    A new Federal Housing Finance Agency policy that took effect Monday "will have the net effect of making it significantly more expensive for people with good credit to buy houses," according to almost three dozen state financial officers. Thirty-four state financial officers shared their "deep concern with the new Federal Housing Finance Agency policy" in…
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    GOP Lawmakers Press Biden Administration Official on Whereabouts of 85,000 Migrant Children

    “Please do better,” Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., told a Biden administration official responsible for caring for children who cross unaccompanied and unlawfully into the United States.    “I have always promised to hold the powerful to account, regardless of political party,” Porter said during a Tuesday hearing, speaking to Robin Dunn Marcos, director of the…
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    EXCLUSIVE: Smith Blasts Biden Admin for Barring Priests From Ministering at Military Center

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Republican New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith tore into President Joe Biden's administration for barring Catholic priests from ministering to service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, warning that the move calls into question "the Federal Government’s respect for, and protection of, the innate religious rights of Catholics in…
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    3 Ways New State Attorney General Aims to Hold Biden Administration, the Left Accountable

    A whistleblower says a transgender clinic at a children’s hospital in St. Louis is lying to parents about gender treatments. Now, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has launched an investigation into the clinic to find out what’s really going on inside the four walls of the children’s hospital. “We’re looking to shut these types of…
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    Job Creators Network Head Slams Biden Admin, Democrats for ‘Reckless Spending’

    The president of the Job Creators Network says "reckless spending" by the Biden administration and congressional Democrats has diluted Americans' buying power, in a response to a government report Thursday on two key price indexes. "Persistently rising wholesale prices hurt small businesses, which tend to operate on tiny profit margins that inflation erodes," Alfredo Ortiz,…
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    ‘People Urinating in Our Field’: A Border Farmer’s Plight Under Biden Administration Policies

    After Joe Biden became president, farmers in Yuma County, Arizona, watched as illegal aliens soiled large sections of their crops.   “When the United States Border Patrol lost operational control of the border here in Yuma, we had a lot of people that were making it into the production areas,” farmer Cory Mellon told The Daily…
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    Federal Judge Delivers Major Blow to Biden Administration in Pivotal Censorship Case

    A federal judge ruled against the Biden administration’s efforts to dismiss a case involving online censorship Monday, saying that the states of Missouri and Louisiana had “plausibly alleged” First Amendment violations. United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana denied the Biden administration’s motion to dismiss a suit brought on…
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