DHS Is Revetting Nearly 200K Afghans Let in by Biden

DHS Is Revetting Nearly 200K Afghans Let in by Biden

Catherine Salgado  

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has confirmed that the Trump administration is reassessing hundreds of thousands of aliens allowed in willy-nilly by the Biden administration with little to no vetting.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shared a clip of Noem on March 3 from a congressional hearing. DHS clarified, “The Biden Administration let in more than 190,000 unvetted Afghan nationals into our country during Operation Allies Welcome, many of them military-aged men.” This operation has come under serious scrutiny from the Trump administration after one of the Afghans it allowed to ener, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, murdered National Guardsman Sarah Beckstrom and severely wounded her comrade, Andrew Wolfe, in November.

The DHS post added, “Under President Trump, we have instituted a comprehensive vetting process for aliens. DHS is requiring the country of origin to cross-reference biometric data and criminal history, expanding our vetting to include social media screening, and directing individuals to check-in every year.”

Hopefully, any aliens identified as having dangerous ties or problematic pasts will face removal proceedings — otherwise, simply identifying the problems is not particularly helpful. But since the Trump administration has already managed to remove two million illegal aliens from the country, it's likely that they intend to deport them.

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During her testimony to Congress, Noem explained, “Some of the things that we have implemented is under President Trump's administration… to go back and look at those individuals who came in under Operation Allies Welcome, and make sure that we're re-vetting those.”

The Biden-Harris administration certainly didn’t do any vetting, so in this, as in so many other instances, the Trump-Vance administration has to fix the catastrophe the Democrats created. 

Noem continued, “[We’re vetting] especially those that have come in in the last four years under the Biden administration, recognizing that they weren't tracking necessarily biometrics or their social media presence [or] communication.” The DHS now wants to assess “how they were doing since they've come to the United States and also, sir, there's a requirement under that program to come back every single year and do an interview, to discuss with them, and have conversations on what they're doing in the United States, how they're transitioning to the United States under that program. and that was not being done.”

You mean the Biden administration wasn’t even living up to its own lame rules? How shocking!

In conclusion, Noem said, “So, we're going back and re-vetting all of those individuals and making sure that we know that if someone is here in this country, that they love America, they want to be a part of our way of life, and they don't wish to do us harm.” 

That would seem to be basic, but then again, Democrat politicians also seem to hate America and wish to do citizens harm, so they have that in common with many illegal aliens.

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/03/04/dhs-is-revetting-nearly-200k-afghanis-let-in-by-biden-n4950230?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

The Midterm Campaign Will Be 'America Is Awesome vs. America Is Awful'

The Midterm Campaign Will Be 'America Is Awesome vs. America Is Awful'

Kurt Schlichter 

Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool

After President Donald Trump‘s magnificent State of the Union opus last week, the national component of the 2026 midterm campaign is now underway, and it’s pretty clear how this is going to go. It’s going to be a clash of visions: Trump’s vision of American awesomeness, and the Democrats’ vision of American awfulness. He was positive while they were Agnewian nattering nabobs of negativity. The only way it could have gone worse for the Dems is if their extremely white hope, Abigail Spanberger, started off her robotic response with a land acknowledgement.

Here’s the thing: Trump came out and told us that America is great and that our greatest times lie ahead of us. Then he proceeded to prove it, including shoutouts to hero after hero. And the Democrats hated it. They despised it. The ones that weren’t off cavorting with the weirdo dressed as a giraffe covering Bob Dylan at their alternate State of the Union event – I’d love to have sat in on the Dem brainstorm session where somebody ran “How about a singing furry in a giraffe suit?” up the flagpole and everybody saluted – eagerly wandered into Donald Trump’s trap. “Everybody who loves America, stand up! Everybody who doesn’t like Third World invaders raping and murdering our citizens, stand up! Everybody who loves puppies, stand up!” And they all sat there with their arms crossed, like old school rappers, glaring and bitter, with faces that will launch a thousand Republican attack ads.

In simple terms, Donald Trump’s going to be positive. He went in there, disciplined and focused, a guy who is fun to be around and cool and who showed you cool things and told you about cool things that he was going to do as well as cool things that he had done. And the Democrats? They were a giant pain in the tush, America’s collective bitter ex-wife. America beats the igloo jockey in hockey? Boo! Hard-working families get a tax break on their tips and overtime? Boo! Incredible stud out of central casting who probably could’ve ripped his uniform open to display the giant “S” on his chest gets the Medal of Honor for kicking commie keister? Boo!

Everything that’s good is bad because if it’s good, it might be good for Trump, and that’s bad. And there, that’s the theme for the Dems’ 2026 midterm campaign! As the man said, it’s a bold strategy, Cotton – let’s see if it pays off for them.

And it might not. They might manage to break the precedent of midterm losses for the incumbent, but if there’s anyone who can do it, it’s the guy who broke precedent for non-consecutive terms. Walking into the State of the Union, Donald Trump had been declared a lame duck, and the regime media was reading the Republicans their last rites. History was already against them, and the conventional wisdom was that they were going to get crushed in November. But when Donald Trump walked out of there, a lot of people weren’t so sure. The Democrats are going to run on a platform of Trump is bad and so is America, and the Republicans will take the “con” position, and for normal Americans, the choice is pretty easy. Do you want to align yourself with a bunch of people who are angry because some party-hardy dudes who play hockey celebrated their crushing victory over the Great Sanctimonious North? How dare men be happy about something? Normal people hearing that there’s somehow supposed to be mad about it simply think the Democrats are insane. And then they hear more about what the Democrats want, and everything they want is crazy – something Trump made absolutely clear. That was part of the beauty of the address – it made a vivid distinction between the Republicans and the Democrats. The Republicans want things that make Americans’ lives better, and the Democrats want to ruin everything by catering to criminals, freaks, weirdos, and Third World invaders. Somebody needs to high-five the cameraman who flashed to the dorky dude who pretends to be an ugly chick when Trump started talking about trans deviants, and to that shrieking foreign harpy, U.S. Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5) when Trump mentioned Somali pirates who were looting the public purse in Minnesota.

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Who would you rather hang out with? Happy Trump or the sullen, America-hating whiners? And they do hate America. Literally. A recent poll shows just 36 percent of Democrats are proud of America, compared to 92 percent of Republicans. “Our country sucks, and if you elect us, we’re going to make you pay!” is hardly an inspirational campaign theme.

Let’s look at it in military strategy terms. The Democrats have chosen poorly. When you’re fighting a campaign, you have to decide what you’re going to focus on in order to defeat the enemy. You need an objective, something where you put your main effort. You can seek to take and hold certain territory. You can target enemy supply and logistics resources. You can focus on destroying enemy forces. In this case, the Democrats’ main effort is Donald Trump himself. They want to win by focusing on him. They are not offering an agenda of things they want to do. It’s all Donald Trump all the time. They are against him. There you go. That’s the platform. That’s the strategy.

Now, you can see the problem with that – for it to work, Donald Trump has to cooperate with them by being awful in order to allow them to portray him as awful. But the State of the Union address gave us a sneak preview of what he’s going to do, which is be awesome. If your entire strategy is based on the notion that you’re going to make America hate this guy, you’ve got a problem if he’s not being hateable. One problem for the Democrats is that they can’t conceive of anybody not hating Donald Trump because they hate him so much. It never occurs to them that somebody might look at Donald Trump and not freak out. So, basically, all Trump has to do is curb some of his most Trumperiffic inclinations. No tangents about the perfidy of Rosie O’Donnell, no long discourses on his prowess on the golf course. All Trump has to do to totally discombobulate the Democrats’ 2026 midterm strategy is, as Duane Patterson has written, be normal.

And that’s just what Donald Trump did last week. He came out and was Orange Man Good. He was funny and affable and positive, and even when he chided those who annoyed him, it was pretty gentle. He told the Supreme Court he didn’t like its decision, but didn’t go overboard. Even when he was responding to the Democrats and their braying and hooting, it was more in sorrow than in anger when he called them “crazy” and wondered aloud why they wouldn’t stand up to honor a little girl recovering from dreadful injuries inflicted when one of the Democrats’ pet Third World invaders drove a big rig into her, thanks to their boy Golden State Patrick Bateman giving him a commercial driver’s license.

For the next nine months, including through the Olympics, the World Cup, and America’s 250th birthday bash – the Democrats are just going to hate that flag-fest so much – Donald Trump is going to be America’s number one cheerleader. You won’t get tired of all the winning, on the economy, on public order, on international villains getting gacked. Things are getting better, but while Americans are not fully sold on that yet, there’s no better salesman than Donald Trump.

And against him? The sad, bitter, angry, clown car that is the Democrat Party. As Trump puts awesome win after win up on the scoreboard, the Debbie Downers will be arguing, “No, things are awful, America sucks, and you’re actually miserable, plus something-something Epstein!”

My money is on awesome over awful in November.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/03/05/the-midterm-campaign-will-be-america-is-awesome-vs-america-is-awful-n2672030?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-dsUkqnmtmc&_nlid=dsUkqnmtmc&_nhids=ncBXkI0DhMngls

New report alleges $900M taken from solar panel program and pumped into Democratic Party voting activism.

Solar Scam: How California Turned “Green Energy” Into a Slush Fund for Activism, Rate Hikes, and Tree-Cutting

New report alleges $900M taken from solar panel program and pumped into Democratic Party voting activism.

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Back in the 1980’s, when I fled Michigan winters for Southern California, the chief money-making entities were aerospace, oil production, and entertainment.

Sadly, the progressive culture and business-strangling regulatory environment created by activist bureaucrats has pretty much gutted all those profitable endeavors within the state.

Therefore, as the California budget deficit expands, billionaires flee, and industries move to other states, fraud is becoming the go-to source of funding those in power who created the environment that is toxic to honest enterprises.

I recently reported that Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), was reviewing the state’s use of Medicaid funding. The grift was so flagrant that Oz demanded California pay back $1 billion.

Now, CAL DOGE, California’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative led by Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, released a report alleging that $928 million from the Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) program—funded by gas taxes and electric bills—has been diverted to Democratic voter registration and leftist activism instead of solar installations.

CAL DOGE said that according to SOMAH’s latest report they have completed only 269 projects for a total of $72 million.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, who has maintained his lead in the race in the latest poll, said he wants to know where the rest of the money went.

…The report lists what CAL DOGE called the partner organizations of SOMAH, who were “double dipping on public funds to provide solar panels on apartment buildings.”

It continues: “But actually are building a left-wing activist machine in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods across the state.”

Meanwhile, the California solar power industry is facing challenges. Changes to the Net Energy Metering Program in 2023 reduced the amount of money solar-power homeowners received for energy they sold back to the grid by 75%.

Demand for rooftop solar fell…unexpectedly. And there has been no rebound.

More than 17,000 solar jobs were lost according to CALSSA, with demand falling 80% post-implementation and numerous companies filing for bankruptcy.

The solar market contracted 31% year-over-year in 2024, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). This decline threatens California’s mandate to achieve 100% carbon-free electric energy by 2045, a goal that requires solar energy to account for more than half of that generation.

“We haven’t seen a rebound in the market two years after NEM 3.0 went into effect, so we really need to increase the rate of rooftop solar installation,” Brad Heavner, executive director of the California Solar & Storage Association (CALSSA), said in an interview with techxplore after the ruling. “Something has to happen and the environment just got even more challenging.”

To round out the news describing the total disaster related to California’s solar energy programs, there is a proposal for the Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Ranch solar project in eastern Sacramento County that is causing much controversy in the impacted community.

There, developers plan to remove about 3,493 mostly blue oak and other native trees across roughly 3,000 acres of oak woodlands, grasslands, and vernal pools… all in the name of “green energy”.

Many environmental groups oppose the project, along with local Native American tribes, citing the area’s grasslands, protected species and old-growth oak trees.

“I’m here today to voice my opposition to the Coyote Creek solar project. Should it move forward, it would result in irreparable harm and desecration to cultural resources, including village sites, burials, habitat for our plant and animal relatives, as well as the destruction of oak trees so critical to this unique cultural landscape,” said Malissa Tayaba, vice chair of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.

When politicians hide partisan organizing and bloated bureaucracy behind the feel‑good language of “green energy,” they don’t promote solar power, but weaponize it by raiding funds slated for installations to use for leftist activism, yanking away promised rooftop savings with mid‑stream rule changes, and even clear‑cutting native oak woodlands for industrial solar fields.

In conclusion, manipulating people into “going solar” is bad for honest government, bad for families watching every dollar, and bad for the environment itself.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/03/solar-scam-how-california-turned-green-energy-into-a-slush-fund-for-activism-rate-hikes-and-tree-cutting/

Iran Is Merely a Chess Piece in a Much Bigger Game

Iran Is Merely a Chess Piece in a Much Bigger Game

Kurt Schlichter  

AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Let’s get real about what this latest iteration of the until-now endless Iran War is all about. There’s no imminent threat. That assertion is a pacifier to the weak-kneed and timid. Last June, we set the mullahs back years in their quest for nukes. They have a metric butt-load of ballistic missiles, rockets, and drones, but they weren’t going to fire them off unless we attacked them. After seeing Sulemani turned into sushi, and their nuclear weapons program neutered like a Bulwark job applicant in one fell swoop, they weren’t about to restart throwing fists as long as Donald Trump was in the White House. Note that the word is “restart,” not “start,” as the cynical liars and historical illiterates insist. We didn’t start this war. The pagan freaks started it 47 years ago when they took our people hostage, and continued it when they killed our Marines in Beirut, our embassy workers, our Air Force folks at Khobar Towers, our troops in Iraq, and so on and so on. They started this war; we’re merely finishing it.

But why are we finishing it now?

It’s simple. Donald Trump is resetting the entire global gameboard. He’s playing 4-D chess, with the Fourth Dimension being time. This is the long game, and we finally have a president playing to win.

And it’s not all Iran. Iran is merely one piece of a much bigger whole. Understand how momentous this undertaking is. President Trump is changing the world as we have known it for the last 50 years – scratch that. Make that the last 80 years. When he is finished – which comes after many of our major foes have been finished – the world will look very different, and we will be back on top as the undisputed unipower in a unipolar world. When this is done, Donald Trump will be the most consequential president since Ronald Reagan; it’s something to be tied with the Gipper, who reset the board by defeating the Soviet Union without a shot (at least, without an acknowledged shot between Americans and Russians). From what’s happening in Europe to what’s happening in the Middle East, and elsewhere, Donald Trump is changing the game. He is no longer kicking the can down the road. He’s going to kick the tails of our enemies (and, figuratively, our allies)by changing how the United States does business.

How has the United States done business for nearly a century? It has restrained itself and allowed itself to be restrained by others. Until now, it has never fully flexed its muscles. After World War II, the United States was a megapower. Yes, the Soviets had nuclear weapons, and that put them sort of on par with us, but they never had the strategic reach that the United States had. The Soviets could never move a half-million Americans and their heavy combat equipment to the other side of the world, then move it all into another country and wipe out its entire army (the fourth largest in the world) in 100 hours. I was part of that during Desert Storm. Nor did the commies have the economic power we had. As a reserve currency with an economy that dwarfed everyone else, we were it, the man, A-number one.

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But we never used our power to its full extent. We were restrained. Part of it was voluntary. Our morally misguided ruling elite believed that, at some level, America was unworthy of its power and not trustworthy to wield it. They counseled restraint, and so we restrained ourselves. We allowed the Vietnamese communists to drag a war on for decades that we could have won in a year. We didn’t bomb Hanoi or mine its harbors (where the Soviet arms came in) until Christmas 1972. And when we did, we had a peace treaty by March 1973.

Of course, our trash foreign policy establishment and cultural left screamed about that. How dare Nixon do the thing that would win the war? After they got rid of Tricky Dick in the first iteration of Russiagate, they betrayed our South Vietnamese allies and let the North win – as our elite felt it should.

In Europe, we agreed to pick up the tab for defending Europe to get our allies back on their feet after WWII. That continued until Trump drew the line. The allies chose degeneracy, weakness, and to spend the money they saved, thanks to Uncle Sucker picking up the tab, on welfare and Third World invaders. Similarly, we never used our economic power. We gave trade deals that screwed our own producers to our allies – and others – to grow their economies. And we allowed ourselves to be restrained by international law, a mythical construction pushed by European globalists who were less interested in right and wrong than in making their lilliputian move by tying down the United States of Gulliver with rules and norms that bound only us.

Trump is not playing any of that. While the convoluted explanations and fake moralizing that attempt to justify hobbling the United States and preventing it from exercising its full power in the defense of its interest may appeal to the elite, normal Americans – of whom Trump is an avatar – don’t buy it, especially nearly a century after World War II ended when we nuked Japan (have you noticed how mad they get that we used that power to save hundreds of thousands of American lives?).

We took out Venezuela because it has been an enemy for a couple of decades and a thorn in our side, cooperating with our other enemies. We will soon take out Cuba for the same reason. No, they did not launch an overt attack at us lately for the same reason Iran didn’t. They are weak, and we are strong. So, what better time to attack? The usual suspects are making hilarious arguments that it’s wrong for us to attack weaker countries, as if this were some playground where we’re trying to steal their lunch money. Only an idiot fights fair; hitting them while they are weak, before they fix their defense systems, replenish their missile stocks, and build a hot rock is the best time to hit them.

It's another made-up “norm” that no one ever voted on that exists solely to restrain the United States from leveraging its power to promote its interests. When Iran goes, that deprives Russia of a key arms partner and lets us get our hands around China’s throat because the CCP’s oil comes largely through Iran. If you want peace, support regime change in Iran so we can control the fossil fuel spigot. China can’t invade Taiwan as long as we can turn off the gas.

Imagine the world that Donald Trump and his team imagine. The Europeans will start paying their own checks; maybe getting their allowance cut off will encourage them to get serious about preserving their culture. Even if they don’t, the fact that Trump did not even bother inviting them into the Iran fight shows they are totally irrelevant as far as actual power goes. We will have the Americas free of communist subversion for the first time since JFK shamefully wussed out at the Bay of Pigs, which additionally helps us domestically on drugs and immigration, while providing new markets for what we manufacture. In the Middle East, the regime that is the main force for destabilization in the region will be replaced by people who do not chant “Death to America!” and we can finally end the ‘forever wars” we hear so much tiresome whining about. We will never face a coterie of seventh-century savages with The Bomb atop a ballistic missile that can reach Kansas City – could you imagine that, because it was in the cards if the “adults in the room” had their way?. And Russia and China will have the military option taken off the table – no oil, no war. Then, when the delusion of conquest has dissipated, we can build a peaceful relationship.

Trump loves peace. That’s why he has gone to war. But more than that, he has totally rejected the perpetual cycle of failure and defeat that allows our enemies to persist for decades when we could have brushed them off our shoulders like dandruff. If you want peace, support Donald Trump and this war. If you want war, support the pinkos, traitors, half-wit podcast bros, and libertarians who support “peace.”

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Video Emerges of UCSF Administrator Threatening to Kill Critic of Child Trans Surgeries By Eli Shepherd | 6:30 AM on March 04, 2026The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. AP Photo/Robin Rayne We’re all aware of a sickness in our public life right now. To be honest, I'd call it much more of a spiritual attack from darkness. But at the very least, it's a widespread cultural delusion of gender ideology. The symptoms are not coming from the parents who are asking hard questions. It is coming from the people who cannot tolerate those questions. This week, video surfaced of Madeline Mann, a UCSF administrator, threatening to kill a woman for speaking out against gender transition surgeries on minors. The target was Beth Bourne, a mother who has been critical of medical interventions pushed on children struggling with gender dysphoria. Instead of rebutting her arguments, Mann escalated to a death threat. We are not talking about a random anonymous troll online. We are talking about a university administrator tied to one of the most prestigious medical institutions in the country, the University of California, San Francisco. UCSF is not a fringe activist blog. It is a powerhouse in medical research and pediatric care. Parents trust institutions like that with their children’s lives. And one of its administrators is caught on video threatening violence against a critic of child gender surgeries. If you want to understand where we are as a culture, start there. ALSO SEE: The Uncomfortable Truth About Trans Violence and Political Radicalization Falling Like Dominoes: NYU Langone Health Hospital Will End Its 'Transgender Youth Health' Program Madeline Mann is married to Merlin Mann, a podcaster who has built a brand in progressive tech circles. Together, they reportedly transitioned their daughter at age 15. That is not ancient history. That is a recent, life-altering decision made while their child was still legally a minor. Now think about that context. You have a family that made a deeply controversial medical choice for their teenager. You have a national debate raging about puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible surgeries. And you have critics raising concerns about consent, long-term harm, and the explosion of diagnoses in adolescent girls over the last decade. You can disagree with those critics. You can call them wrong. But when your response is to threaten to kill one of them, you are not defending science. You are revealing something darker. For years, parents, pastors, and even secular feminists have been labeled bigots for asking basic questions. What are the long term outcomes? What are the regret rates? Why are so many clinics rushing kids through affirmation models with minimal psychological evaluation? Instead of answering those questions, activists try to shut them down, resorting to labels and just the right amount of outrage. This pattern has been on a constant loop in our culture over the last decade. The loudest voices in any ideological movement eventually show their true posture. If your position is strong, you argue. If it is fragile, you threaten. As a father of two boys, I cannot read this story without thinking about my own kids. Fifteen is still a child. Fifteen-year-olds cannot vote. They cannot sign contracts. They cannot buy alcohol. They can hardly keep up with their chores. Yet we are supposed to believe they can consent to lifelong medical interventions that alter their bodies and fertility. And if you dare question that, some activist with institutional power might threaten your life. Fanaticism at its worst. Supporters of pediatric transition insist this is about love and affirmation. But love does not scream at mothers. Love does not threaten violence. Love does not demand silence. Love is patient. Love is willing to be examined. The reality is that institutions like UCSF have staked their reputations on this model of care. Billions of dollars in research grants, pharmaceutical pipelines, and clinical programs are now tied to gender medicine. When critics challenge the foundation, they are not just challenging feelings. They are challenging power. And power does not like to be questioned. Of course, the tragedy in all of this is that children are caught in the middle. Real kids. Confused kids. Hurting kids. They deserve careful, slow, cautious medicine. They deserve therapists who explore root causes, not clinicians who rush them toward irreversible decisions. They deserve adults who are steady and calm. What they do not deserve is to become symbols in an ideological war so heated that administrators threaten to kill critics. UCSF must address this threat publicly and decisively. Silence would send a chilling message. It would tell parents across the country that institutional elites are so invested in this ideology that they will tolerate intimidation to protect it. This debate is not going away. More countries in Europe are scaling back pediatric gender interventions. More detransitioners are coming forward. More lawsuits are being filed against doctors who fast-tracked teenagers into surgeries they later regret. And thank God that in recent months, several rulings have made it clear that truth is not hate, biology is not bigotry, and the law will not be bullied into affirming delusion.

Video Emerges of UCSF Administrator Threatening to Kill Critic of Child Trans Surgeries

By Eli Shepherd  

    

AP Photo/Robin Rayne

We’re all aware of a sickness in our public life right now. To be honest, I'd call it much more of a spiritual attack from darkness. But at the very least, it's a widespread cultural delusion of gender ideology. The symptoms are not coming from the parents who are asking hard questions. It is coming from the people who cannot tolerate those questions.

This week, video surfaced of Madeline Mann, a UCSF administrator, threatening to kill a woman for speaking out against gender transition surgeries on minors. The target was Beth Bourne, a mother who has been critical of medical interventions pushed on children struggling with gender dysphoria. Instead of rebutting her arguments, Mann escalated to a death threat.

We are not talking about a random anonymous troll online. We are talking about a university administrator tied to one of the most prestigious medical institutions in the country, the University of California, San Francisco. UCSF is not a fringe activist blog. It is a powerhouse in medical research and pediatric care. Parents trust institutions like that with their children’s lives.

And one of its administrators is caught on video threatening violence against a critic of child gender surgeries.

If you want to understand where we are as a culture, start there.

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ALSO SEE: The Uncomfortable Truth About Trans Violence and Political Radicalization

Falling Like Dominoes: NYU Langone Health Hospital Will End Its 'Transgender Youth Health' Program

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Madeline Mann is married to Merlin Mann, a podcaster who has built a brand in progressive tech circles. Together, they reportedly transitioned their daughter at age 15. That is not ancient history. That is a recent, life-altering decision made while their child was still legally a minor.

Now think about that context. You have a family that made a deeply controversial medical choice for their teenager. You have a national debate raging about puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible surgeries. And you have critics raising concerns about consent, long-term harm, and the explosion of diagnoses in adolescent girls over the last decade.

You can disagree with those critics. You can call them wrong. But when your response is to threaten to kill one of them, you are not defending science. You are revealing something darker.

For years, parents, pastors, and even secular feminists have been labeled bigots for asking basic questions. What are the long term outcomes? What are the regret rates? Why are so many clinics rushing kids through affirmation models with minimal psychological evaluation?

Instead of answering those questions, activists try to shut them down, resorting to labels and just the right amount of outrage. This pattern has been on a constant loop in our culture over the last decade. The loudest voices in any ideological movement eventually show their true posture. If your position is strong, you argue. If it is fragile, you threaten.

As a father of two boys, I cannot read this story without thinking about my own kids. Fifteen is still a child. Fifteen-year-olds cannot vote. They cannot sign contracts. They cannot buy alcohol. They can hardly keep up with their chores. Yet we are supposed to believe they can consent to lifelong medical interventions that alter their bodies and fertility.

And if you dare question that, some activist with institutional power might threaten your life.

Fanaticism at its worst.

Supporters of pediatric transition insist this is about love and affirmation. But love does not scream at mothers. Love does not threaten violence. Love does not demand silence. Love is patient. Love is willing to be examined.

The reality is that institutions like UCSF have staked their reputations on this model of care. Billions of dollars in research grants, pharmaceutical pipelines, and clinical programs are now tied to gender medicine. When critics challenge the foundation, they are not just challenging feelings. They are challenging power. And power does not like to be questioned.

Of course, the tragedy in all of this is that children are caught in the middle. Real kids. Confused kids. Hurting kids. They deserve careful, slow, cautious medicine. They deserve therapists who explore root causes, not clinicians who rush them toward irreversible decisions. They deserve adults who are steady and calm.

What they do not deserve is to become symbols in an ideological war so heated that administrators threaten to kill critics.

UCSF must address this threat publicly and decisively. Silence would send a chilling message. It would tell parents across the country that institutional elites are so invested in this ideology that they will tolerate intimidation to protect it.

This debate is not going away. More countries in Europe are scaling back pediatric gender interventions. More detransitioners are coming forward. More lawsuits are being filed against doctors who fast-tracked teenagers into surgeries they later regret. And thank God that in recent months, several rulings have made it clear that truth is not hate, biology is not bigotry, and the law will not be bullied into affirming delusion.

https://redstate.com/eli-shepherd/2026/03/04/video-emerges-ucsf-administrator-threatens-to-kill-critic-of-child-trans-surgeries-n2199782?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

The War's Going Pretty Well, Ackshully

The War's Going Pretty Well, Ackshully

Stephen Green  

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"The dog did nothing in the night-time," a confused Inspector Gregory said to Sherlock Holmes, who replied, "That was the curious incident."

Without glossing over the losses suffered by American, Israeli, or coalition forces — not to mention the civilians targeted by Iran's terrorist regime — in the first few days of Operation Epic Fury, Iran is so far the dog that didn't bark. Or, more accurately, tries to bark but not much comes out.

Or at least that's my impression after seeing a nifty map of all of Iran's attacks, courtesy of a generally reliable X user calling himself Plane Fag.

Sorry, I don't name X users.

"I popped over to GeoConfirmed's website... and it verified the impression I'd got from my OSINT feed: Iran is losing this war, badly," PF posted early Monday. "Because if they weren't, the Gulf states part of the map below would be absolutely awash in red icons."

Here's PF's map:

The data is roughly 30 hours old now, but the current map — which you can see for yourself at this link — doesn't look all that much worse.

"It's normal to go after an enemy's C3 (command, control, communications) to disrupt their ability to pass on orders and co-ordinate attacks, but by erasing almost all of Iran's most senior military and political leadership in one stroke, there wasn't even anyone to give those orders even if C3 had been intact," PF added. "Operating on their own initiative and/or pre-planned strikes, they're just not massing enough fires to achieve salvo weights that can effectively saturate defenses."

Translated into civilian speak: You've got to fire a lot of missiles or drones all at once at a single target to overwhelm defenses, and Iran either lacks the physical ability or the command cohesion to do so.

Roughly half of Iran's ballistic missile launchers are believed to be destroyed, and that's a number that can only go up.

So, yes, the war's going pretty well.

There are at least three caveats, though.

The longer the bombings continue, the greater the likelihood of being "one mechanical failure or magical BB away from having an American held prisoner or worse," as CDR Salamander put it in that column I linked to yesterday.

Along a similar line, Iran's terror attacks (via missile, drone, or direct) are meant to create cracks in the coalition (even such as it is), and Tehran might have some success there. Russian strongman Vladimir Putin got on the phone Monday with Emirati and Qatari leaders, and according to the Kremlin, both agreed that both men "emphasized the need for an immediate ceasefire and a return to the political and diplomatic process."

(But a caveat within the caveat: That's to be expected of both Qatar and the UAE. Keep an eye on Riyadh, though. If it starts to waver, then SecState Marco Rubio will be knee-deep in shuttle diplomacy before breakfast.)

Finally, there's the missile/interceptor logic. Does the coalition run out of ballistic missile and drone defenses before Iran's offensive capabilities are smothered or the regime collapses/cries uncle? All while the clock ticks on the coalition and that "magical BB" gets a lucky hit on an F-35.

Tehran's leaders — whoever they are at this point — seem to believe they can wait it out. There was a report on Sunday that Trump offered a ceasefire, which Tehran rejected. Diplomatic efforts continue, but Tehran remains intransigent.

So while the war goes well, Tehran either seems to think it knows something we don't, or they've badly miscalculated once more.

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