Is a real-life superhero roaming the streets of Mexico? That might just be the case because bike thieves are being hunted down by a man dubbed the “Batman of Lagos de Moreno.” He’s been taking justice into his own hands by taping suspects to lampposts and parking the stolen ride beside them. He’s rounded up 5 crooks in the last 10 days and may capture more unless authorities stop him first.
Maybe politicians should take a few pointers from this guy on developing a “tough on crime” mindset.
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Lead:Â The Court Gets One Right
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The Supreme Court has rejected President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, ruling 6-3 that children born in the United States to illegal immigrants and temporary visa holders remain U.S. citizens under the 14th Amendment.
Justice Clarence Thomas, who disagreed with the Supreme Court’s decision, argued that the Court got the history wrong. He wrote that the 14th Amendment was intended to secure citizenship for freed slaves, “not… the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens.” He also said the amendment “has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support.”
Thomas’s view was that because much of the application of Trump’s Day 1 executive order was “consistent with the original public meaning” of the clause in the 14th Amendment, it should have been upheld.
If Thomas is right about the amendment’s original purpose, then this ruling isn’t preserving the Constitution but instead redefining it.
President Trump called the ruling “Too bad for our Country,” adding that Republicans could “easily make up for it in Congress through legislation.”
In another major ruling, all nine Supreme Court justices agreed that states can prohibit transgender athletes from competing in female school and college sports without violating Title IX, the 1972 federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education.
Not everyone agrees, though. Defenders of LGBTQ rights say the decision opens the door to discrimination. But what about biological girls? Don’t they have rights too?
According to the Court, they do.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh made that clear when he pointed out that forcing women and girls to compete against males would “deny equal opportunity to female athletes because, as all agree, females and males have inherent physical differences.”
Yesterday was a good day for girls’ sports. Young women shouldn’t have to sacrifice the opportunities they spent years working toward or their safety just to satisfy someone else’s ideology.
Six Years Too Late
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For those of us who thought the COVID-19 pandemic was over years ago, we were wrong.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced yesterday that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has signed determinations terminating the COVID-19 Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) declarations.
The move came after HHS determined that the circumstances justifying those emergency authorizations no longer exist. This change won’t go into effect until next year, though, because those who were profiting from these EUAs need to wind down their operations.
Here’s how RFK Jr. explained the decision:
“Americans deserve a regulatory system that is transparent, accountable, and rooted in the rule of law.By ending these COVID-19 Emergency Use Authorization declarations, we’re reinforcing public confidence that emergency authorities are temporary and targeted.”
Public confidence? It’s a little too late for that.
Why?
Because over a million unreported deaths and injuries were caused by the COVID vaccines rolled out under these Emergency Use Authorizations. The public was lied to about many aspects of COVID. Vaccine providers and health agencies were given a free pass to keep risks such as myocarditis hidden from the public. Federal employees were mandated to get vaccinated, with certain employees being investigated for espionage for choosing not to.
Reports suggested that the COVID shot saved mostly the elderly and few people under the age of 45. Yet we were all directed to get vaccinated, even infants. On top of this, the government admitted to over-counting COVID deaths, which could be viewed as a scare tactic to coerce as well as profit.
At the end of the day, the emergency powers that paved the way for the rapid rollout of COVID vaccines are finally coming to an end, but the products themselves have already moved beyond that. Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines already have full FDA approval, so they aren’t dependent on emergency authorization anymore.
So, no, ending the COVID Emergency Use Authorization declarations six years later isn’t going to magically restore the public’s confidence.
More importantly, how has it been allowed to go on for this long in the first place?
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News by the Numbers
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$529,000. That’s how much cash four Venezuelan nationals stole from rest-stop ATMs in Connecticut in under two weeks. They’ve been detained and, if convicted, could spend more than ten years in the slammer.
17. That’s how many states alleged that three major U.S. egg producers colluded to manipulate egg prices between 2022 and 2025, driving wholesale egg prices to unaffordable levels. The producers agreed to settle for $3.3 million and donate 53 million eggs on top of that.
100. That’s how many monkeys escaped from a government-run enclosure in central Thailand before swarming nearby neighborhoods.
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