https://drudge.com/user/bellringer New links and comments. en-us http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wordzilla/0.58 10 https://drudge.com/news/291188/gender-medicine-set-itself-up https://www.compactmag.com/article/how-gender-medicine-set-itself-up-for-disaster/ At a closed-door meeting in 2021, ACLU attorney Chase Strangio declared, "If we take away these health care options, kids are going to die." The scrappy litigator uttered this dire proclamation in an address at the biennial conference of USPATH, the US branch of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH. Strangio has played a pivotal role in the transgender movement's general refusal to offer concessions on the chief principles animating its cause. Most central, and controversial, has been the demand that minors identifying as transgender have access to gender-transition treatments, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries. Speaking to USPATH, Strangio entreated attendees to infuse legal and political advocacy into their work as doctors and mental-health providers. This battle cry was tempered with a foreboding vision Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:42:43 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/291188/gender-medicine-set-itself-up#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.291188 discussion, 0.5 daily 291188 https://drudge.com/news/290974/big-loss-federal-censorship-regime https://x.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/2036534267002433640 We just won Missouri v. Biden. As Missouri's Attorney General, I sued the Biden regime for brazenly colluding with Big Tech to silence Missouri families " censoring the truth about COVID, the Hunter Biden laptop, the open border, and the 2020 election. They tried to turn Facebook, X, YouTube, and the rest into their private speech police, labeling dissent "misinformation" while they pushed their narrative on the American people. Today, after years of unrelenting litigation, we deep state into a historic 10-year, court-enforceable Consent Decree. It directly binds the Surgeon General, the CDC, and CISA: no more threats of legal, regulatory, or economic punishment. No more coercion. No more unilateral direction or veto of platform decisions to remove, suppress, deplatform, or algorithmically bury protected speech. Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:45:14 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/290974/big-loss-federal-censorship-regime#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290974 discussion, 0.5 daily 290974 https://drudge.com/news/290841/esg-may-eating-away-your-investments https://www.wsj.com/opinion/esg-may-be-eating-away-at-your-investments-cb73e7db?st=WgqywD President Trump recently signed an executive order that aims to end a 20-year experiment in backdoor socialism usurping private wealth to serve special interests. It affirms fiduciary responsibility and extends it to proxy advisers "that prioritize radical political agendas over investor returns." Fiduciary responsibility requires investment managers and advisers to act in "the best interest of the investor," and it applies even when the investor is seeking nonfinancial outcomes such as environmental, social, faith-based or humanitarian gains. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins's recent announcement that the commission is reviewing Biden-era rules governing so-called environmental, social and governance funds affirms this point. Fiduciary duty requires investment managers and advisers to exercise loyalty and care to ensure that investment objectives, whether financial or nonfinancial, are fulfilled Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:16:13 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/290841/esg-may-eating-away-your-investments#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290841 discussion, 0.5 daily 290841 https://drudge.com/news/290807/hell-happened-doge https://americanmind.org/salvo/what-the-hell-happened-to-doge/ While there are many political and policy victories Trump supporters can point to after his first year back in office, there are also questions about what might have been. A lingering one is often uttered in the form of a sigh: "What the hell happened to DOGE?" Elon Musk first suggested the Department of Government Efficiency to Trump during the 2024 campaign. A government agency specifically tasked with downsizing bloated federal agencies and rooting out fraud was politically popular, and signing an executive order establishing the agency was one of Trump's first actions upon being sworn in Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:36:14 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/290807/hell-happened-doge#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290807 discussion, 0.5 daily 290807 https://drudge.com/news/290805/newsoms-climate-false-alarms https://www.wsj.com/opinion/newsoms-climate-false-alarms-b891b2ed?st=HaokZv Gavin Newsom is raising alarms on climate change again"and getting basic facts wrong. The California governor vows to sue the federal government over the Trump administration's repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 "endangerment finding," the main legal basis under the Clean Air Act for mandating reductions in carbon-dioxide emissions. Mr. Newsom claims the reversal will trigger "more deadly wildfires" and "more extreme heat deaths." Age-adjusted heat-related death risk in California has risen modestly in recent decades"enough to account for 90 additional annual deaths likely linked to higher temperatures. But he omits the other side: Warming has helped reduce age-adjusted cold-related deaths by more than 5,000 a year. Citing only the tiny heat increase while ignoring the large decrease in cold-related deaths is misleading. Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:24:44 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/290805/newsoms-climate-false-alarms#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290805 discussion, 0.5 daily 290805 https://drudge.com/news/290804/there-only-1-thing-voters-dislike-more https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/03/18/elections-voters-reject-socialism-extremes-democrats/89186279007/ Last month, Illinois U.S. Senate candidate Juliana Stratton (the state's progressive lieutenant governor) ran an ad with a not-so-subtle message regarding our president: "F--- Trump." Stratton herself doesn't say this, but she lets multiple other people say it for her. The crude campaign stunt got me thinking: Is this really what Democratic voters want? (That primary election is March 17, as I write this, so it's TBD if her messaging worked.) There's a growing disconnect in America. As our political parties move further to their respective extremes, most voters fall somewhere in between. Whether Republican or Democrat, the majority of Americans simply want what's best for their families and for their country. The Democratic Party is having an especially hard time connecting with its constituents, as witnessed by a steady stream of polls showing just how bad off it is. Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:17:43 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/290804/there-only-1-thing-voters-dislike-more#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290804 discussion, 0.5 daily 290804 https://drudge.com/news/290778/fairfax-protects-illegal-aliens-peril https://www.iwfeatures.com/reports/fairfax-countys-leaders-protect-adult-illegal-immigrants-at-the-peril-of-students/ On March 7, Israel Flores Ortiz, an 18-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador enrolled as a junior at Fairfax High School, was arrested for allegedly fondling the genitals of multiple female students in the hallways during school hours More than two weeks after the students reported the incidents to school officials"and only after his arrest"Fairfax High School Principal Georgina Aye sent an email notifying parents of the incident. [snip] The email notably did not disclose that the alleged perpetrator was an adult who illegally entered the country in 2024, nor that the alleged "touching" extended beyond the victims' "buttocks." One mother of an alleged victim described the delayed email as a "completely sanitized letter" that minimized the harm done. Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:03:47 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/290778/fairfax-protects-illegal-aliens-peril#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290778 discussion, 0.5 daily 290778 https://drudge.com/news/290750/marxist-wing-democratic-party https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/16/the_marxist_wing_of_the_democratic_party.html Democrats' refusal to fund the Department of Homeland Security has exceeded any hypothesis of good faith. It is an unpatriotic attack on America's frontline of defense during a time of war and potential Iranian sleeper cells, and an inexcusable burden on the department's employees. Last week, all Senate Democrats, except John Fetterman, again voted to block funding for DHS. Financed in part by malign foreign powers who seek to defeat the United States, radical left activists have co-opted the Democratic Party. Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois, head of the supposedly centrist New Democrat Coalition, typifies the illogic. "My concern about DHS is their absolute disregard of the Constitution and American citizens' civil rights," he said, adding "So until we see officers who abuse citizens' civil rights held to full account, until we restore full congressional oversight, I'm not giving another penny to ICE and CBP." Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:00:30 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/290750/marxist-wing-democratic-party#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290750 discussion, 0.5 daily 290750 https://drudge.com/news/290720/why-do-media-consistently-obfuscate https://drewholden.substack.com/p/terrorisms-spin-doctors Two teenagers, shouting "Allahu Akbar," threw homemade explosives at anti-Muslim protesters near the mayor of New York City's residence. Thankfully, the bombs didn't explode as intended, and the two were arrested and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and providing material support to terrorists. Reporters and law enforcement quickly found that the two had very publicly supported ISIS and had carried out the act of terrorism in the Islamic terrorist group's name. That kind of tidy, to-the-point framing, apparently, was lost on the legacy media this week. Rather than report the obvious facts, outlets tied themselves in knots to muddy the waters about what had been thrown, and by whom. NBC News called the IEDs merely "suspicious devices" thrown "during [an] anti-Islam rally." CBS reported that "suspicious devices ignited during protests near Manhattan's Gracie Mansion." The New York Times published an all-timer of a headline, "Smoking Jars of Metal and Fuses Thrown at Protest Near Mayor's House." Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:18:12 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/290720/why-do-media-consistently-obfuscate#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290720 discussion, 0.5 daily 290720 https://drudge.com/news/290659/gov-shapiro-twists-squatter-law-take https://www.aol.com/articles/pennsylvania-gov-josh-shapiro-neighbor-184451531.html Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's neighbors are suing the Democrat, accusing him of stealing a slice of their land to erect an eight-foot-high security fence around his private residence in an "outrageous abuse of power." The neighbors, Jeremy and Simone Mock, are currently duking it out with the governor in court over a 2,900 square foot parcel of land located between their two homes in Abington, Montgomery County, court papers show. The Mocks alleged in a lawsuit filed last month that Shapiro and his wife, Lori, unlawfully seized the stretch of land after initial negotiations to buy it from them went up in flames. Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:29:28 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/290659/gov-shapiro-twists-squatter-law-take#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290659 discussion, 0.5 daily 290659 https://drudge.com/news/290658/woman-claiming-2-day-ice-detainment-likely https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/11/ohare-ice-dhs-detain-chicago/ A Skokie woman made headlines this week after her family and a local politician claimed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security detained her for nearly 48 hours before she ultimately ended up in Wisconsin " an extraordinary story disputed by accounts from the federal government, two sheriff's departments and her purported employer. Summer Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi's family alleges the 28-year-old woman was taken into custody Thursday morning at O'Hare International Airport after arriving on a flight from Istanbul. Naqvi, whom Cook County records show was born in Evanston Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:51:41 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/290658/woman-claiming-2-day-ice-detainment-likely#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290658 discussion, 0.5 daily 290658 https://drudge.com/news/290594/americas-exiled-free-speech-dissident https://www.racket.news/p/interview-with-americas-exiled-speech Last week, the New York Times ran an alarming house editorial called "Politicians Are Trying To Control The News," outlining how the "shadow of press repression" is now expanding to "onetime bastions of press freedom" like Hong Kong, Israel, and Donald Trump's United States. Written in the grave tone the paper brought when it published a history-altering essay by Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov fifty years ago, it was all true, except it left out our country's strangest and most shameful example, one in which the Times played a regrettable part: the case of Dimitri Simes. In August, 2024, the FBI raided the Virginia home of Simes, who defected to the United States in 1973 after being expelled for protesting Soviet involvement in the Vietnam War. A huge team of agents swooped into the empty home " both Simes and his wife were away " and took almost everything ... Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:39:20 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/290594/americas-exiled-free-speech-dissident#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290594 discussion, 0.5 daily 290594 https://drudge.com/news/290577/23-back-save-act-and-its-bipartisan https://tippinsights.com/two-thirds-back-save-act-to-require-voter-id-and-support-is-bipartisan-i-i-tipp-poll/ The bitter debate between Democrats and Republicans over the SAVE Act " which would require voters to provide a valid ID to cast a ballot " has roiled political waters as both major parties gird themselves for the 2026 midterms. But do voters care? They sure do, and it's not good news for the Democrats, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll results indicate. Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:38:15 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/290577/23-back-save-act-and-its-bipartisan#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290577 discussion, 0.5 daily 290577 https://drudge.com/news/290576/moment-mass-migration-started https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-moment-mass-migration-started/ B Before dawn on March 10, 2014, a group of roughly thirty migrants awoke in Tijuana, Mexico, packed their belongings, and ate one final meal before attempting to cross into the United States. Some were Mexican nationals who had previously been deported. Others were Central American women and children hoping to reunite with family members who had migrated north years earlier. There was nothing unusual about their intentions. For decades, foreign nationals with similar hopes had arrived at Mexican border cities to prepare for the journey into the United States. What distinguished this group was not why they wanted to cross, but how they intended to do it Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:37:44 -0400 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/290576/moment-mass-migration-started#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290576 discussion, 0.5 daily 290576 https://drudge.com/news/290514/us-and-venezuela-establish-diplomatic https://www.axios.com/2026/03/06/us-venezuela-diplomatic-consular-relations The U.S. and Venezuela "have agreed to re-establish diplomatic and consular relations," the State Department announced Thursday. <blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgbvbiycxk24" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreifx66dir3n4hz6xdlqj4fclbxadbqbnivdmgmgxhkqqgiadfbebwm" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode="system"><p lang="en">We&#x27;re plundering Venezuela<br><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/post/3mgbvbiycxk24?ref_src=embed">[image or embed]</a></p> -- Matt Novak (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw?ref_src=embed">@paleofuture.bsky.social</a>) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/post/3mgbvbiycxk24?ref_src=embed">Mar 4, 2026 at 10:48 PM</a></blockquote><script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:31:58 -0500 BellRinger https://drudge.com/news/290514/us-and-venezuela-establish-diplomatic#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290514 news, 0.5 daily 290514