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Democrats demand increased fertility treatment access for LGBTQ federal workers

.....Congressional Democrats are pushing the federal government to make it easier for LGBTQ federal workers to access fertility treatments....More than 30 House Democrats, plus Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., wrote a letter to the Office of Personnel Management claiming the definition of "infertility" in existing government employee health plans was "outdated and lacks inclusivity."...."By adopting an inclusive definition that recognizes the full spectrum of reproductive needs and removing unnecessary barriers to coverage, we can ensure that all federal employees, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status, have access to the comprehensive reproductive health care they deserve," the lawmakers said....

.....Just last month, House Republicans added amendments to the annual National Defense Authorization Act that would stop military health care from covering surgeries and hormone treatments for transgender troops. Both sides of the aisle have also butted heads over taxpayer dollars being given to LGBTQ organizations....."We would like to highlight two specific concerns with the current definition of infertility used by OPM," the letter states. "First, the requirement of six cycles of Artificial Insemination or Intrauterine Insemination performed by a qualified specialist using normal quality donor sperm, while excluding other assisted reproductive technologies, is both arbitrary and unnecessarily restrictive....The second concern, they said, was that "the definition fails to account for same-sex couples and single individuals....."

.....Fertility treatments like intrauterine insemination and in vitro fertilization typically cost thousands of dollars out of pocket and are not always covered by health insurance policies....

https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-demand-increased-fertility-treatment-183937068.html

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Obama Received $20 Million from Healthcare Industry in 2008 Campaign

.....While some sunlight has been shed on the hefty sums shoveled into congressional campaign coffers in an effort to influence the Democrats’ massive healthcare bill, little attention has been focused on the far larger sums received by President Barack Obama while he was a candidate in 2008.....A new figure, based on an exclusive analysis created for Raw Story by the Center for Responsive Politics, shows that President Obama received a staggering $20,175,303 from the healthcare industry during the 2008 election cycle, nearly three times the amount of his presidential rival John McCain.....

......Currently, the Center’s website shows that Obama received $19,462,986 from the health sector, which includes health professionals ($11.7m), health services/HMOs ($1.4m), hospitals/nursing homes ($3.3m) and pharmaceuticals/health products ($2.1m). Miscellaneous health donations (from which Obama received $860,411) are also factored into the current total health sector numbers .....

https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/obama-received-20-million-from-healthcare-industry-in-2008-campaign/

 

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Obama, including his now thinly veiled "Third Shadow Term", is all woke and all hard line identity politics, except when it starts to cost money from the coffers of his Big Healthcare/Big Pharma overlords. 

Going after kids in school, via K-12, and trying to indoctrinate them is using TAX DOLLARS in public schools to try to create future generations of woke shock trooper cannon fodder for the DNC and Team Blue. There's a return on that "investment" 

But if Big Healthcare has to go deeper into their own pockets for it? Yeah, you'll see Team Blue, in action, not their shameless gutless virtue signaling, seem very very very conservative in general fiscally.  Funny how that works. 

But, clearly, it's (D)ifferent

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Oprah Hit With Criticism For 'Stealing Land' On Maui After She Commits To Help Amid Wildfires

....The famed talk show host has come under fire for her purchase of over 2,000 acres on the island as native Hawaiians continue to be priced out of their homes.....Oprah Winfrey has sparked controversy with her recent visit to the War Memorial Complex in Wailuku, which is currently functioning as an emergency shelter for survivors of the devastating Maui Fires. The media mogul's visit generated headlines after reports emerged that she was denied entry along with a CBS News crew..... it has also amplified an ongoing debate about her presence and actions in Maui in light of her purchases of over 2,000 acres as natives continue to be priced out of their ancestral home. The Maui Fires have caused significant destruction, claiming the lives of more than 110 people so far and leaving 2,200 structures damaged or destroyed. The tragedy has led to the displacement of approximately 4,500 individuals from their homes...Oprah's initial visit was met with restrictions imposed by the shelter management. According to reports, the TV mogul was informed that no camera crews or journalists would be allowed inside the shelter to respect the privacy and dignity of those seeking refuge....

....Hawaii is grappling with the aftermath of historic wildfires that have left over 1,000 individuals still unaccounted for a week after the blazes ravaged the island. State officials are issuing cautionary warnings that the death toll is expected to rise as search and recovery operations persist....On Tuesday night, Maui County officials disclosed that the fire that consumed a significant portion of Lahaina had scorched an estimated 2,170 acres.....

https://www.comicsands.com/oprah-criticism-stolen-land-maui-2664012184.html

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'The View' hosts brazenly defend Jamaal Bowman after fire alarm incident: 'He panicked'

....Surveillance video shows Bowman appearing to pull the alarm in front of two closed doors. The Democrat stunned conservatives after he claimed that he was rushing to cast his vote and pulled the alarm by mistake in an attempt to exit the building.....Co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg adamantly defended the congressman on Monday's show. Hostin said she personally knew Bowman and believed he "panicked" when he couldn't open the door, which were marked as emergency exits. She compared the situation to being trapped in an elevator.  ...."I don't want to call it a stunt," Hostin insisted....."I know Jamaal, and so again, I’m a little biased, but the doors that are normally open so that he could get to the chambers to read, were somehow miraculously closed. How did that happen?" she questioned....."So yes, sometimes you’re freaking out, and you’re in an elevator, and you’re pressing all the buttons," she added while gesturing frantically....

....As show producers put up a photo showing the clearly marked fire alarm adjacent to the doors that Bowman pulled, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin teased, "I don't know, it seems pretty fire alarm-y to me...."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/view-hosts-brazenly-defend-bowman-fire-alarm-incident-panicked

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MSNBC denies report it sidelined Muslim anchors in Israel-Hamas coverage as ratings slump

....MSNBC denied a report that it quietly sidelined Muslim anchors amid slumping ratings and outrage over the network’s biased coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.....said the network has quietly taken Mehdi Hasan, Ayman Mohyeldin and Ali Velshi out of the anchor chair since Hamas’ cold-blooded terror attack on Israeli children, women, men and senior citizens......MSNBC parent NBCUniversal told Semafor it did not sideline the hosts, saying the changes in the lineup were “coincidental.”

The network has lost 33% of its primetime viewers since the deadly attack on Israel. It also saw its total viewer figures plunge 24% for the four days between Oct. 7 and Oct. 10 compared to the same period the previous week.....The network has come under fire for refusing to refer to Hamas attackers as terrorists during its coverage, as well as providing reasoning around Hamas violence, which claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Israelis and 30 US citizens.

National Review said MSNBC spent the week “justifying Hamas violence as the inevitable result of Israeli aggression,” citing Mohyeldin’s analysis that the attacks were the “very deadly consequences of failed policies” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration.....Meanwhile, New York Post writer Jon Levine has pointed out that the three hosts spent parts of their careers at Al Jazeera, the Qatari state-run TV network.

NewsNation host Dan Abrams said on his nightly show “Dan Abrams Live” that the three hosts were attempting to “pander to the far left” and he slammed them for saying the Hamas assault was the result of “failed policies” by Israel and the US. “Right. It’s Israel’s fault. It’s the United States’ fault,” Abrams said mockingly on Monday. “The policies that somehow justify or even explain the slaughter, rapes, and kidnapping of innocent civilians.”

A Washington Examiner editor at the time accused Mohyeldin in a tweet of “denying Israel’s existence” following the anchor’s aggressive questioning of Netanyahu’s spokesman.....Prior to that, in 2014, Mohyeldin, the network’s most experienced reporter in Gaza, was abruptly pulled from NBC’s coverage of the region and replaced by Richard Engel for several days, Semafor said. ....CNN reported at the time that NBC execs did not give Mohyeldin a concrete explanation beyond citing vague “security reasons.”

https://nypost.com/2023/10/16/msnbc-denies-report-it-sidelined-muslim-anchors/

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Biden quietly places unconfirmed labor secretary in presidential line of succession, drawing GOP criticism

.....Senate Republicans are expressing frustration with the Biden administration over its decision to add Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su — whose nomination to the role was never confirmed — to the presidential line of succession.....In a Tuesday letter to President Biden, Alabama GOP Sen. Katie Britt and 29 of her Republican Senate colleagues expressed "grave concerns" and requested clarification from the administration for its "apparent belief" that Su is "eligible to assume the office of President of the United States pursuant to the presidential line of succession as established by Congress in the Presidential Succession Act of 1947."

"As you are well aware, since March 14, 2023, the United States Senate has declined to confirm Ms. Su’s nomination as Secretary of Labor, and she continues to lack adequate support from both Republican and Democratic members of the Senate to be confirmed to that position," the senators wrote. "Despite that reality and Ms. Su becoming the longest-ever Cabinet nominee to await confirmation in a time when the same party controls the White House and the Senate, the White House has chosen to keep her in place as Acting Secretary of Labor on an indefinite basis and has also listed her on the White House website as a member of the Cabinet ‘n order of succession to the Presidency.’"

Listed ninth in the "order of succession" to the presidency on the White House's website, Su previously served as California's labor secretary under Gov. Gavin Newsom from 2019 to 2021....."While you and your Administration have clearly decided to ignore congressional intent in keeping Ms. Su in place in her current role, it would be unfortunate if you have decided to further discount congressional intent — and violate the law — by taking the position that Ms. Su is eligible for placement in the presidential line of succession," the Republican senators added.

Pointing to the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the senators reminded President Biden that Congress has "the power to set the presidential line of succession beyond the Vice President.".....Su's nomination to the role of labor secretary was met with immense backlash, both from Republicans and Democrats, earlier this year. As a result, she was never confirmed to the role and has remained as the acting secretary of labor ever since....

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-quietly-places-unconfirmed-labor-secretary-presidential-line-succession-drawing-gop-criticism

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Hillary-endorsed candidate for Houston mayor Sheila Jackson Lee berates staff in profanity-laced tirade

.....Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee calls staff members profanity-based names as she berates one over a calendar event....Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, was recently heard on recorded audio going off on one of her staff members in a profanity-laced tirade in which she said he and another staff member had no brains and are "f- -k-ups.".....Jackson Lee, a Hillary Clinton-endorsed congresswoman who built a reputation in Washington as being one of the "meanest" members of Congress, has represented the same Houston, Texas district in the House of Representatives for over 28 years......In March, Jackson Lee threw her name in the running to become the mayor of Houston in an off-year election, which if elected, would bring her time in Congress to an end.....

In audio obtained by Texas newspaper Current Revolt and published on Saturday Jackson Lee is heard speaking with a male staff member when she asked, "You took a piece of paper from that woman regarding something that was owned by Duncantell. Where is it? What date was it?"......The man answered by telling the representative he gave the piece of paper to Jerome, who took it upstairs. The staff member then tells Jackson Lee he has to call Jerome, before being cut off......."I don’t want you to do a [expletive] thing," she said. "I want you to have a [expletive] brain. I want you to have read it. I want you to say, ‘Congresswoman, it was such and such a date. That’s what I want. That’s the kind of staff that I want to have."

Jackson Lee continued to spew profanity at the staffer as she berated him over how she expects her staff members to handle calendar events, especially those from Ovide Duncantell, founder of the Black Heritage Society, Inc.

Rather than pawn it off to someone else, the congresswoman said she needs whoever took the information about the event to know when and where the event takes place......"When I called Jerome, he only sits up there like a fat [expletive], just talking about what the [expletive] he doesn’t know," she said. "Both of y’all are [expletive]-ups…This is the worst [expletive] that I could’ve ever had put together. Two [expletive] big [expletive] children. [expletive] idiots. Serve no [expletive] purpose......Nobody’s respecting him, nobody gives a [expletive] about what you’re doing. And you ain’t doing [expletive]. And this is an example of it. I gave it to Jerome. This is not child’s work, ok," Jackson Lee said.

This is not the first time Jackson Lee has gone off on staff members. In fact, in 2011, a Daily Caller report cited a number of former staff members as saying she used demeaning language and name-calling when addressing them.....Jackson Lee was forced to resign as the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) in 2019 in the wake of a lawsuit by a former employee who claimed she was fired as retaliation for planned legal action related to an alleged 2015 rape by a supervisor.....According to The New York Times, which first reported on Jackson Lee's plans to resign, CBCF board members told Jackson Lee to step down as chairwoman or face a removal vote after the lawsuit became public a week earlier.

In the suit, the unnamed former staffer alleged she was raped while a CBCF intern by the foundation's internship program coordinator and her supervisor at the time. Two years later, she was hired to work for Jackson Lee, who had recently been made chairwoman of the CBCF's board of directors. Shortly after she was hired, Doe said Jackson Lee received a text message from the CBCF's chief executive at the time, A. Shaunise Washington....."I just received a notification that you have a new staffer," Washington allegedly messaged Jackson Lee, mentioning the staffer's name. "Call me, I have background on her."....The staffer said she was fired in March 2018, roughly two weeks after she told Jackson's chief of staff, Glenn Rushing, that she had "recently learned more about her case involving Mr. Jones and CBCF and planned to move forward with legal action" against the foundation.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hillary-endorsed-candidate-houston-mayor-sheila-jackson-lee-staff-profanity-laced-tirade

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NYC can’t deny gun licenses based on applicants’ ‘moral character,’ federal judge rules

.....A federal judge ruled Tuesday that New York City’s gun licensing regime, which allows city officials to turn down applicants for firearms based on their “moral character,” violates the Second Amendment....US District Judge John Cronan struck down the regulations in a 48-page ruling, determining that empowering unelected officials with discretionary authority to refuse gun permits to those “not of good moral character” or for “other good cause” is inconsistent with the country’s “tradition of firearm regulation” – a standard set by the Supreme Court in last year’s New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen case, which overturned the Empire State’s century-old law restricting the carrying of concealed firearms. 

....Cronan found the argument unconvincing, writing that the NYC regulations “apply broadly to those seeking to possess a firearm.”......“[N]othing in either the Massachusetts or New Hampshire statute provides a burden on the right to bear arms comparable to a holistic and discretionary assessment of an individual’s character or other unspecified good cause prior to that individual’s ability to exercise their right to possess a firearm,” he added.....“This case is not about the ability of a state or municipality to impose appropriate and constitutionally valid regulations governing the issuance of firearm licenses and permits,” the judge wrote.

....Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that the Empire State’s “proper cause” requirement for concealed carry permits violated the US Constitution.....“The constitutional infirmities identified herein lie not in the City’s decision to impose requirements for the possession of handguns, rifles, and shotguns. Rather, the provisions fail to pass constitutional muster because of the magnitude of discretion afforded to City officials in denying an individual their constitutional right to keep and bear firearms, and because of Defendants’ failure to show that such unabridged discretion has any grounding in our Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” 

https://nypost.com/2023/10/24/metro/nyc-cant-deny-gun-licenses-based-on-applicants-moral-character-federal-judge-rules/

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