🚨 Surging – March 05 2024

The Supreme Court ruled that Colorado cannot remove former President Donald Trump from the presidential ballot. This ruling sets a precedent for other states that they also cannot do that. At least not based on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The court ruled that states cannot enforce Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. Only Congress can do that. "The notion that the Constitution grants the States freer rein than Congress to decide how Section 3 should be enforced with respect to federal offices is simply implausible,” the ruling says.

All nine justices agreed that Colorado cannot remove Trump from the ballot but the opinion was unsigned. There was some in-fighting of opinion however. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson agreed with the result but published a separate opinion stating that the court's ruling was correct but their colleagues took it too far. Justice  Barrett responded with a one-page opinion saying that the other three should not have weighed in further because “this is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency. The Court has settled a politically charged issue in the volatile season of a Presidential election. Particularly in this circumstance, writings on the Court should turn the national temperature down, not up.”

Trump is expected to win Super Tuesday primary races handily today. 

Newly released documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) show that transgender "medicine" is not evidence-based at all. We knew that but now we know that they know it too. 

These files were published by journalist Michael Shellenberger in a report titled "The WPATH Files: Pseudoscientific Surgical and Hormonal Experiments on Children, Adolescents, and Vulnerable Adults." It is a collection of leaked documents from WPATH whistleblowers. 

The files were published by Environmental Progress. They reveal that "the organization does not meet the standards of evidence-based medicine, and members frequently discuss improvising treatments as they go along. Members are fully aware that children and adolescents cannot comprehend the lifelong consequences of 'gender-affirming care,' and in some cases, due to poor health literacy, neither can their parents." Further, "the files provide clear evidence that doctors and therapists are aware they are offering minors life-changing treatments they cannot fully understand. WPATH members know that puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries will cause infertility and other complications, including cancer and pelvic floor dysfunction. Yet they consider life-altering medical interventions for young patients, including vaginoplasty for a 14-year-old and hormones for a developmentally delayed 13-year-old." 

32. That is how many damaging health outcomes are linked to ultra-processed foods, according to a new study.

104. That was the age of Eleanor Collins, Canada’s first lady of jazz when she passed away Sunday.

58%. That is how many scientists say that sex is binary, according to a recent survey. 

Jason Kelce is trending because he announced that he is retiring from football after 13 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles in this tearful speech.

Russell Wilson is trending because the Denver Broncos announced that they will not bring him back as quarterback next season. 

Fire ants are trending because the Australian government says that it will spend $2 billion Australian dollars per year to eradicate invasive fire ants.