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American Military News
5 days ago
- Politics
- American Military News
Sexual LGBT books revealed in list of 596 books banned by Pentagon
A list of 596 books banned from use at the Department of Defense's military schools under President Donald Trump's administration was recently released by a U.S. district court. The list includes numerous books on graphic LGBTQ topics, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) topics, and other left-wing topics. According to The Daily Caller, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia released a list on July 11 of the books the Pentagon has banned from its military schools. The list was released as part of the lawsuit brought against the Department of Defense Education Activity by the American Civil Liberties Union. The Trump administration's Department of Defense was sued by the American Civil Liberties Union, military students, and the family members of military students in April following multiple book bans and curriculum changes implemented by the administration to remove DEI policies and curriculum from the military. 'Our DoDEA schools are not playgrounds for left-wing activists pushing race-baiting, gender confusion, and anti-American propaganda,' DOD Watch Executive Director Nicole Kiprilov said in a statement to The Daily Caller. 'This isn't about banning ideas; it's about stopping the deliberate indoctrination of military children with a radical ideology that directly contradicts the values that should be shaping our children's growth and development.' READ MORE: Defense Department sued over Trump admin's alleged 'book bans' 'The Trump administration is fighting for military families by making sure DoDEA schools reflect the values of service, sacrifice, and country, and not the woke agenda of activist bureaucrats,' Kiprilov added. The Daily Caller reported that a significant number of the books included in the list feature sexual LGBTQ themes aimed at minors, while other books on the list feature DEI and other left-wing topics. One of the books on the list is a children's book titled 'My Dad Thinks I'm a Boy?!: A Trans Positive Children's Book.' According to a description on Amazon's website, 'This powerful and uplifting book for children aged 6 – 9 and their families humorously portrays a situation that is often too common, where a trans child is forced to negotiate between their true self and their parents' love.' Another book on the list is titled 'Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School.' A description of the book claims that it explains 'how the 'specter of the fag' becomes a disciplinary mechanism for regulating heterosexual as well as homosexual boys and how the 'fag discourse' is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality.' Other books included as part of the Pentagon's ban include 'Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU, 'ABC's of LGBT+,' 'Auntie Uncle: Drag Queen Hero,' and 'Baby Drag Queen.'
New York Post
6 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
CBS News reporter says he got ‘PTSD' from Trump assassination attempt because of crowd anger at media
Advertisement CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Scott MacFarlane told podcaster Chuck Todd on Wednesday about how traumatized he was by Trump rallygoers blaming the media for the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in 2024. Americans reeled in shock from the attempt on Trump's life during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, but MacFarlane said he had personal trauma from the crowd's immediate rage in response. 'For those of us there, it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America,' MacFarlane told Todd on his podcast. 'And it wasn't the shooting, Chuck. This was – I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people.' 'They were coming for us,' he said in the clip flagged by The Daily Caller. 'If [Trump] didn't jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us!' Advertisement 'I know,' Todd agreed. Later in the discussion, MacFarlane added that, 'Many of us on press row, as we talked about this on our text chains for weeks after, were quite confident we'd be dead if he didn't get back up.' 3 CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Scott MacFarlane opened up about how traumatized he was by Trump rallygoers blaming the media for the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in 2024. Youtube/ Chuck Todd Podcast 3 Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by Secret Service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. AFP via Getty Images Advertisement 3 'For those of us there, it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America,' MacFarlane said. 'And it wasn't the shooting, Chuck. This was – I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people.' Aristide Economopoulos While it wasn't everyone in the crowd, MacFarlane claimed that dozens of people turned on them and said, ''You did this. This is your fault. You caused this. You killed him,' and they were going to beat us with their hands. I mean, they were going to kill us. And respectfully, the Secret Service had bigger issues [than] protecting us. When he jumped up triumphantly, it saved us.' Nonetheless, he said, 'I can't eliminate from my mind's eye the look in their faces. That's what America is right now. It's not rational. It's an irrational thought to think the media shot somebody from the top of a building, but the lack of rationality is what connects January 6 to this.' 'How do we pull out of this as a country is the defining question of our time,' he said.
American Military News
14-07-2025
- Politics
- American Military News
Biden admits his staff used autopen for mass clemency, pardons
Former President Joe Biden admitted in an interview on Thursday that his administration used the autopen to sign mass pardons and clemency orders because he granted clemency to 'a whole lot of people.' The former president's comments come after President Donald Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the Biden administration's use of the autopen. In a Thursday phone call interview with The New York Times, Biden explained that he 'made every decision' regarding the clemency and pardons he granted to over 1,500 people at the end of his administration following Trump's win in the 2024 presidential election. 'I made every single one of those,' Biden told The New York Times. The former president explained that his administration used the autopen because 'we're talking about a whole lot of people.' During Thursday's interview, Biden described Trump and other Republican leaders as 'liars' for suggesting that Biden's aides used the autopen to sign orders without his consent or authorization. Asked about his decision to grant pardons to his family members, Biden said. 'Everybody knows how vindictive he [Trump] is, so we knew that they'd do what they're doing now. And my family didn't do anything wrong.' 'And all it would do is, if they, if he went after them, would be, is run up legal bills. I just, I just know how he operates,' Biden added. 'And so I made — but I consciously made all those decisions, among others.' The Daily Caller reported that the only pardon Biden signed with his own hand in December and January was his pardon for Hunter Biden, the former president's son. READ MORE: Fmr. top Biden aide admits to controlling autopen The New York Times reported that while Biden did not personally approve each of the individuals he granted clemency and pardons at the end of his administration, the former president orally communicated with his staff members and approved certain standards and criteria that were used to determine which individuals were granted clemency and pardons. According to The New York Times, Biden's staff members, including White House Staff Secretary, Stefanie Feldman, used the autopen to sign off on the final versions of official documents instead of having Biden sign updated versions of the documents. In a memorandum to Bondi last month, Trump said, 'In recent months, it has become increasingly apparent that former President Biden's aides abused the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden's cognitive decline and assert Article II authority.' 'This conspiracy marks one of the most dangerous and concerning scandals in American history,' Trump added. 'The American public was purposefully shielded from discovering who wielded the executive power, all while Biden's signature was deployed across thousands of documents to effect radical policy shifts.'
New York Post
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Kathy Griffin stands by belief that Trump didn't win 2024 election, despite ‘tinfoil hat' label
Comedian Kathy Griffin said she doesn't believe President Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, and doesn't care if people call her 'Tinfoil hat' in response. 'People think I'm tinfoil hat because I don't think he won in a free and fair election this time' Griffin said during a Substack Live with writer E. Jean Carroll, posted Tuesday on Griffin's YouTube channel, in response to a question from Carroll about who won the election. 'No, I'm going to take a hit for that, and I understand, but that's just my humble opinion,' Griffin added. In the clip flagged by The Daily Caller's Jason Cohen, she also said she is suspicious of Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Inc., who headed up Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and was assigned to trim $2 trillion from the federal government's budget. Musk announced he was leaving DOGE in a post on X on May 28, and has been critical of various proposals from Trump, including the 47th president's 'big, beautiful bill' which he signed into law on July 4. Griffin made her claims during a Substack Live with writer E. Jean Carroll. KathyGriffin/YouTube U.S. President Donald Trump is applauded after delivering his inaugural address during inauguration ceremonies in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Getty Images 'I don't trust the Elon connection,' Griffin said. 'I have my suspicions and yet at the tender age of 64, I never thought I would say something. And I know that sounds crazy, but I just had to put that out there because I can't resist getting in trouble.' Carroll, who accused Trump of sexually abusing her in the 1990s, told Griffin that 'there's a wave of people who agree with you.' 'That's why I'm sort of saying it out loud now because look, I'm not a conspiracy theorist,' Carroll said. 'But something about him winning every swing state, all seven … it doesn't sit right with me. But I also don't know if we'll really find out anything in my lifetime.' During a recent conversation with Don Lemon, Griffin made similar remarks, saying that 'I do not think Trump won in a free and fair election. I believe there was tampering.'
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Chuck Todd tears into Biden's family-man image, questions if we 'were sold a 40-year bill of goods'
Former NBC News host Chuck Todd wondered on Monday if the media were sold a "40-year bill of goods" about former President Joe Biden being a family man during a discussion about Biden's decision to run for re-election. "You and I covered, for most of our professional lives, the story of Joe Biden was: This guy cared about his family so much he commuted home every night from Washington," Todd said during his podcast, "The Chuck Toddcast," first reported by The Daily Caller. Todd spoke to CNN host Jake Tapper about Biden while discussing Tapper's book, "Original Sin," which is about the former president's decision to run for re-election and the cover-up of his decline while in office. "You know what else you could say is, this man was so ambitious that after his family went through that tragedy, he commuted every day to work, like it's the same story. I sit here, I look at this, and I think, were we sold a 40-year bill of goods?" Todd said. Jake Tapper Unloads On Hunter Biden As 'Demonstrably Unethical, Sleazy And Prone To Horrible Decisions' "So for me, the original sin was running in the first place. Because his family was in crisis. I followed that Hunter Biden trial soup to nuts," Todd told Tapper. "I read every single transcript. I read all of the testimony. I cannot believe to this day, Jake, that Joe Biden did this to his kids. I just can't believe that he did it. I can't." Read On The Fox News App The CNN host said a person close to the Biden family had told him there were a lot of "truths the family did not want to face up to." "One, Beau was dying, two. Hunter is addicted to drugs. Three, Joe Biden cares about his family more than anything else, and those three are not true, this person close to the family said. And when you talk about his running in 2020, I think that comes to bear, because, obviously, he was putting his ambition, and if you want to be charitable, his hopes to save the country from Trumpism, or whatever, obviously he was putting that above what was going on with his family and his two children and their struggles," Tapper said earlier in the discussion. Todd criticized the notion that Biden is a family man in March and has argued that he shouldn't have run for president at all. Irritated Chuck Todd Refuses To Accept 'Stupid Premise' That Press Missed Biden's Decline "You know, Joe Biden never should have been there in the first place, right? Number one, he shouldn't have run for president [in 2020]," Todd said during a March appearance on Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt's "The Warning" podcast. "I completely got so angry at Joe Biden, the man, when I read the transcript of the Hunter Biden trial, and when I realized that not one, not two, but three Biden children, and I count Beau's widow, were all dealing with drug problems in 2018. And Joe Biden said, 'Now's a perfect time to run for president, because who cares about our family?'" he said. Todd argued that there was a "mythology" about Biden caring so much about his family. Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture Biden's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Fox News' Kristine Parks contributed to this article source: Chuck Todd tears into Biden's family-man image, questions if we 'were sold a 40-year bill of goods'
