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A 15-YEAR-OLD girl has been accused of stabbing her parents to death and knifing her pet golden retriever before sending grisly pictures to her pals.
The teen from Groningen in the Netherlands would regularly identify as a dog and used to “crawl around on all fours and bark while running through the school corridors”, concerned friends said.
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On Monday, a shooter went on a rampage in the Canadian city of Montreal. The shooting spree left three victims dead, one of whom was a police officer. The shooter has been identified as one Seth Hatfield, who reportedly drove from his native Alberta to Quebec before the shooting. The shooting started in a Montreal grocery store; the gunman was later killed by police. And, yes, the shooting happened in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Montreal.
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Melat Kiros, a socialist congressional candidate challenging incumbent Democrat Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, believes there is a need for a “Trans Bill of Rights,” considering it “horrific” to protect children from gender mutilation surgery.
Kiros announced that her campaign page was being updated to include a “Trans Bill of Rights,” during an appearance on the Call Me Limbo podcast.
“Like, we’re actually updating the website right now. I wrote all of our policy page a year ago now, but we’re updating it this week, and some of the things that we’re adding in there is also a Trans Bill of Rights,” she said, calling for greater “force” in pushing the transgender agenda.
“You know, I think we have to be so forceful and clear and aggressive in our protection and our advocacy for the trans community, especially for trans kids,” she continued, asserting that there are ballot measures in Colorado coming up that she considers to be “just horrific” and “absolutely destructive for young trans kids.”
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“It’s about God’s [promise] that he makes to us,” Giants starter Landen Roupp said.
Major League Baseball has drawn a line in the sand: rainbow logos are fine, Bible verses are not. Three San Francisco Giants pitchers have reportedly been warned by the MLB after appearing during Friday night’s Pride Night game with Scripture references written on their caps, prompting a fresh round of questions about whether baseball’s diversity mantra extends to Christians who dissent from the league’s liberal social messaging.
Giants starter Landen Roupp appeared with “Genesis 9:12-16” written on his cap, the biblical passage describing God’s covenant symbolized by the rainbow. The inscription partially overlapped the Pride-themed rainbow “SF” logo featured on the special-edition cap. Relievers JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker also displayed Bible verses, while pitcher Sam Hentges opted to wear the club’s standard black cap rather than the Pride Night version.
MLB was not amused. “The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations,” MLB Chief Communications Officer Pat Courtney told The Athletic. Roupp, however, made clear he wasn’t backing away from the message.
“It’s just about God’s covenant and a promise that he makes to us,” Roupp told reporters. “That’s just kind of something I believe in, and I stand firm in that, and I’m thankful we live in a country where we have the freedom to believe what we want … and express what we want.”
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We’re more than halfway through June, and the parade of LGBT “pride” propaganda across professional sports continues at full speed.
Most recently, the MLB came under fire for issuing a warning to multiple players on the San Francisco Giants who wrote Bible verses on their hats.
The same hats had already been very conspicuously altered to include the month’s ubiquitous rainbow imagery, but adding a small nod to the Creator was apparently too much for league execs.
Per the Daily Caller:
Staying true to their faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, numerous San Francisco pitchers wrote verses from the Bible on their caps. Starting pitcher Landen Roupp, one of the hurlers, talked following the contest about why he scrawled the verse, stating that it was the representation of “God’s covenant.”
“It’s just about God’s covenant and a promise that he makes to us that, you know, his faithfulness and his mercy,” said Roupp to the media, per OutKick. “That’s just kind of something I believe in, and I stand firm in that, and I’m thankful we live in a country where, you know, we have the freedom to believe what we want … and express what we want.
“There’s no hate at all. It’s just what I stand for, and what I stand in. I believe in God,” added Roupp.
Here’s a sampling of the backlash the MLB received in response:
The three Giants players on Friday night. God bless them. pic.twitter.com/HioJXpkskU
— Josh Howerton (@howertonjosh) June 16, 2026
Bullies with a veneer of “inclusion” pic.twitter.com/BobFFb3YLq
— goodcop (@podcastcop) June 16, 2026
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are playing for the Giants… in the midst of Sodom and Gomorrah…! pic.twitter.com/fASRoaDqGH
— Michael P. Mahler (@ItTakesFaith) June 16, 2026
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“I will pay the fines for any @MLB Christian player who wears a Bible verse on their uniform. @MLB is ANTI-CHRISTIAN,” Schneider declared Tuesday in a social media post.
Schneider was reacting to a Sports Illustrated story reporting on the league’s rebuke:
“Three Giants pitchers were issued a warning from Major League Baseball after they appeared in Friday’s game against the Cubs with Bible verses written on their Pride Night caps. The league notified the players that similar behavior would not be tolerated in the future.
“Right-handed pitcher Landen Roupp started Friday’s game on the mound. Etched on his cap throughout the game was ‘Gen 9:12-16’ in white lettering. The writing was a reference to the Bible verse Genesis 9:12-16.”
Two San Francisco relief pitchers, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker, also wore Bible verses on their caps.
The next day, the Giants issued a statement apologizing to the LGBTQ+ community because the Bible verses angered them:
“We understand that the choices by individual players have caused pain and anger to many in the LGBTQ+ community and we are sorry for that.”
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(LifeSiteNews) — Major League Baseball (MLB) has issued a warning to three Christian San Francisco Giants pitchers who inscribed a Genesis chapter 9 citation on their team’s specially issued “Pride Night” ball caps last Friday.
As it turns out, so-called “Pride Night,” which is purported to be promoting tolerance, is actually about intolerance for Christians.
“The writing on the cap violates our rules and consistent with normal practice we have warned the players about future violations,” Pat Courtney, MLB’s chief communications officer told the LGBT sports site, Outsports.
Outsports suggested that MLB didn’t go far enough for fans “who wanted baseball to issue a fine for the uniform infractions.”
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Although the league says it was merely responding to a run-of-the-mill rule infraction, its warning to three San Francisco Giants players after a recent game struck many Americans as inherently anti-Christian.
The trio wrote Bible verses onto their caps before the “Pride Night” game during which the team had been instructed to wear rainbow-themed uniforms.
In response to the move, the MLB handed down its reprimand and, in turn, opened itself up to widespread criticism.
As The Hill reported, Vice President J.D. Vance was among the critics:
“To be clear, this routine verbal warning not to wear the hat in future games is not disciplinary and had absolutely nothing to do with the content of the message,” MLB told The New York Times about the incident. “We respect players’ right to free expression. However, writing of any kind, with any message, is prohibited per Major League Baseball’s uniform regulations.”
Vance, in a social media post on Tuesday, responded to a Sports Illustrated report about the warning, saying “Trump won we don’t have to do this anymore.”
MLB is one of several major sports leagues that features annual Pride nights and events, encouraging teams to celebrate diversity during Pride Month in June.
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Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is investigating rumors of a “Never Ending Meat Wheel” at a Wednesdays-only speakeasy somewhere near the Inner Hebrides.
This isn’t just about California today, but that’s always a good starting place for any overall examination of the extreme leftward drift of the Democratic Party. As we discussed last week, that is the proving ground for the most insane leftist initiatives and schemes that the Dems hope to one day mainstream.
Our jumping off point is a real doozy, even by California lunatic fringe standards. Had I not read it on one of our sister sites, I probably would have triple-checked it. This is from my Townhall colleague Joseph Chalfant:
A new report from the City Journal revealed the “LGBTBE Certification” process that individuals must go through should they wish to receive preferential treatment in the taxpayer-funded contract bidding process in the state of California.
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Major League Baseball (MLB) threatened to punish several Christian ballplayers for the San Francisco Giants on Monday after they inscribed Bible verses on their team’s “pride night” uniforms.
“The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations,” MLB Chief Communications Officer Pat Courtney said in a statement to media outlets.
The league further claimed that “writing on uniforms violates MLB rules,” according to local media.
The warning came days after pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker all wrote variations of Genesis 9:12-16 on their LGBT-themed hats during the Giants’ Friday matchup against the Chicago Cubs. The Bible verses detail God’s use of a rainbow to symbolize His covenant that He would never again destroy mankind by flooding the Earth.
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Out of Cicero-North Syracuse High School in New York, a biological male athlete who identifies as a transgender has won the girls’ shot put state championship.
Formerly named Jeff, Julia Arnold claimed the girls’ Class A shot put championship Sunday, doing so at the NYSPHSAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. 39 feet and 9.25 inches was the winning toss for the trans athlete. The competitor who came in second place tallied 37 feet and 4.75 inches, which was over two feet short of the title.
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Thanks to our lord and savior Donald J. Trump, these stories are less frequent than they were during the People Who Controlled Joe Biden Administration. We still get the occasional advertisement for homeschooling. Like a Colorado teacher who made girls kiss in the classroom as part of “sketches” and graded them on it. And, yes, the teacher IS on the LGBTQ spectrum. However, did you guess?
Jennifer Honka is a now-former teacher from Denver Public Schools. She taught French Language and Culture at Northeast Early College for eight years. So maybe instead of a lesson in tolerance of Ls, Gs, Bs, Ts, and whatever the Qs are, it was just a misguided lesson in French kissing in between lessons in how to make macarons and how to surrender in war.
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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is demanding answers from Major League Baseball (MLB) after it threatened to punish several players for expressing their Christian faith.
In a Tuesday letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, the Show Me State’s senior senator requested the league account for its recent warning to a group of San Francisco Giants players over their decision to inscribe Bible verses on their “pride night” hats. The players wrote variations of Genesis 9:12-16, which details God’s use of a rainbow to symbolize His covenant that He would never again destroy mankind by flooding the Earth.
Following leftist backlash, MLB released a statement Monday, saying, “The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations.”
Writing to Manfred about the incident, Hawley cited a recent story involving a Washington Nationals executive who was fired after admitting on camera that the team discriminated against one of their Christian players. In doing so, the GOP senator demanded that the commissioner “must answer for what appears to be a pattern of discrimination within MLB against baseball players who profess their Christian faith.”
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Although the league says it was merely responding to a run-of-the-mill rule infraction, its warning to three San Francisco Giants players after a recent game struck many Americans as inherently anti-Christian.
The trio wrote Bible verses onto their caps before the “Pride Night” game during which the team had been instructed to wear rainbow-themed uniforms.
In response to the move, the MLB handed down its reprimand and, in turn, opened itself up to widespread criticism.
As The Hill reported, Vice President J.D. Vance was among the critics:
“To be clear, this routine verbal warning not to wear the hat in future games is not disciplinary and had absolutely nothing to do with the content of the message,” MLB told The New York Times about the incident. “We respect players’ right to free expression. However, writing of any kind, with any message, is prohibited per Major League Baseball’s uniform regulations.”
Vance, in a social media post on Tuesday, responded to a Sports Illustrated report about the warning, saying “Trump won we don’t have to do this anymore.”
MLB is one of several major sports leagues that features annual Pride nights and events, encouraging teams to celebrate diversity during Pride Month in June.
The Progressive State of California is pushing a bill through its legislature critics say could effectively silence any speech that challenges the assumptions of a child who has chosen to change their gender. The bill would not criminalize speech causing a cis-gendered child to question their gender, however.
San Francisco Giants pitcher Landen Roupp wrote Genesis 9:12-16 on his rainbow festooned ballcap on “Pride Day.” The day celebrates non-heterosexuality and the denial of the human binary gender. Roupp stated after the game that the rainbow is “about God’s covenant… a promise that he makes to us.”
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Senior officials in President Joe Biden’s Department of Education defied a federal court order in launching investigations of gender identity and sexual orientation discrimination in schools, according to a federal watchdog finding.
The Office of Special Counsel released a report this week that confirmed the disclosure of Education Department whistleblower Timothy Mattson, who said the department’s Office of Civil Rights unlawfully processed complaints about gender identity discrimination after a federal judge halted an executive order from going into effect that was the basis for the investigations.
According to Mattson’s disclosure, the Office for Civil Rights investigated a school that restricted athletic competition to biological sex.
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Now, once again, the battle over the lunatic practice of allowing boys to compete on girls’ sports teams has gone into the legal arena. This time, though, it’s a bit different; a Washington family is suing their local school district, claiming that their daughter was sexually assaulted by a male wrestler during a girls’ wrestling match.
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(LifeSiteNews) – America First Legal (AFL) accused Chicago Public Schools (CPS), San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), and Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) of “socially transitioning” gender-confused students without the knowledge or consent of their parents in new complaints filed with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
The New York Post reported that the group maintains all three districts let students change the names and genders they use at school without parental involvement or notification, plus lets male students who “identify” as girls participate in female-specific athletics and use female lockers and restrooms.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted a Pride event at City Hall. He did this not because it makes the lives of residents better off, but because he is beholden to leftist ideology. The insanity should have stopped there, but of course, in perfect leftist fashion, it certainly did not.
The city will now offer new gender-affirming care services. Again, to claim this does nothing beneficial to anyone would be an understatement.
These people are “too gay to function.”
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There are masses of self-proclaimed homosexual and transgender individuals surging into Seattle, Washington, from states led by Republicans that are passing new restrictions on such behaviors.
LGBT nonprofits are now lobbying the city government for more handouts as they seek to answer the influx of allies.
Over Memorial Day weekend, dozens of activists rallied to call on Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson to issue a civil emergency, according to a report from GoMag.
A recent Gallup poll shows support for people “changing one’s gender” has dropped from 46% in 2021 to 38% in 2026. 60% of Democrats still support the idea while only 5% of Republicans do.
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It’s Pride Month, so Democrats are not only donning the rainbow flag, they’re continuing their work to erase gendered language from our lexicon and destroy the nuclear family. In New York, a bill was just advanced that would replace the terms ‘mother’ and ‘father’ with the Orwellian ‘gestating parent’ and ‘non-gestating parent.
New York Democrats just advanced Democrat State Sen Luis R. Sepúlveda’s bill which would replace the words mother and father with terms like “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent”
This is real pic.twitter.com/uxUc3OXPlR
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 2, 2026
A woke new bill erases the terms “mother” and “father” from state child custody and parental laws — a gender-neutral rewriting that’s expected to spark a flood of similarly clunky legislation.
“Mother” would be replaced with “gestating parent” while “father” becomes “non-gestating parent” or “parent” in family court along with in domestic and education law, under the legislation, passed this week by state Democrats.
“Paternity” proceedings to determine a child’s biological father would meanwhile become “parentage” cases, under the bill, which was rammed through the Assembly in March and of the Senate this week.
A “putative father” — also known as a deadbeat dad — would now be called “an alleged parent” in official state records, under the bill, which was sponsored by liberals Sen. Luis Sepulveda (D-Bronx) and Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-Westchester) and will go to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk for approval.
“It’s woke culture run amok. It’s one-upmanship,” said state Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar, a former longtime state Senate and Assembly staffer.
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This takes us to an eye-opening new Gallup poll that was released on June 3:
Approval of same-sex marriage, moral acceptance of gay and lesbian relations, and endorsement of gender changes are all down from peaks reached in the early 2020s.
While most Americans still favor legal same-sex marriages, the 65% who do so today is down six percentage points from the peak in 2022 and 2023. Similarly, the percentage viewing gay or lesbian relations as morally acceptable, 62%, has not been lower since 2016. And the share of Americans who consider changing one’s gender morally acceptable has declined eight points over the past five years, to 38%.
On three key LGBTQ issues — same-sex marriage, the morality of homosexuality, and gender identity — Gallup’s polling data told the same exact story: Popularity for all three skyrocketed between the 2010s and the early 2020s. The future, it seemed, was pro-trans and pro-LGBTQ.
But over the past few years, the pendulum swung HARD in the opposite direction:
Between 1996 and 2022, the percentage of U.S. adults in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage increased by 44 points, from 27% to 71%. In 2024, the figure dipped to 69%, and it has shown a marginal decline each year since.
Gallup first asked about the morality of same-sex relations in 2001, when 40% said they were morally acceptable. By 2022, 71% held that view, before a sharp drop to 64% in 2023, holding at about that level during the past three years.
When Gallup first asked about changing one’s gender in 2021, 46% found it morally acceptable, and 51% found it morally wrong. Today, those numbers stand at 38% and 57%, respectively.
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Wisconsin Democrat Gov. Tony Evers is doubling down on seemingly defying a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on so-called “conversion therapy” for children.
The moment came during a Monday “Pride Flag Raising” event at the State Capitol. While flanked by attendees waiving rainbow flags, the left-wing governor bragged about vetoing bills passed by the Republican-controlled General Assembly that he claimed “target[ed]” so-called “trans kids” and “harm[ed] the health, safety, and security of LGBTQ Wisconsinites.”
In doing so, Evers went on to tout a June 2021 executive order he signed “banning the use of state and federal funds for conversion therapy on our kids.” The governor’s administration also adopted a rule declaring it “unprofessional conduct” for any state Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Counseling, and Social Work Examining Board licensee to provide therapy that tells the truth about sex and gender ideology. The regulation took effect last year following a favorable ruling from Wisconsin’s liberal Supreme Court.
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Pride Month is off to a faltering start again this year as yet another red state ditches the month-long celebration of LGBT depravity in favor of family values. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) signed a proclamation last week declaring June to be “Fidelity Month” in her state.
“The United States of America was founded on the values of faith, liberty, and patriotism as acknowledged in its founding documents and in the statements of its Founding Fathers,” the proclamation reads. “The commitment of Arkansas to spiritual and civic institutions is at the core of the State’s collective identity. … Cultivating fidelity to God, family, community, and country contributes to human flourishing and supports a healthy, stable, well-ordered society,” it continues. “Practices that encourage virtue, commitment, responsibility, and shared moral foundations strengthen both individuals and their communities. … Fidelity Month provides an opportunity for residents to reflect on and renew commitments to these shared values and institutions…”
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Martina Navratilova, a tennis legend and lifelong Democrat, says that her party had an opportunity to have a listening session regarding transgender athletes and rights for women.
However, they never did.
A winner of 18 Grand Slam singles titles, as well as one of the most famous openly gay people in the history of sports, Navratilova recently spoke with OutKick in an interview and said that she tried to send a message to former Vice President Kamala Harris amid the Republican Party blasting their Democratic counterparts in the 2024 campaign cycle regarding transgender athletes and women’s rights.
“I tried to get to Kamala Harris’ campaign,” said Navratilova to OutKick. “Nobody would listen to me.”
According to Navratilova, it wasn’t just a problem with the Harris campaign, it was a problem for the Democrats overall.
Bingo https://t.co/F3aJ3F0JfN
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) June 3, 2026
