Catherine Llamon has been nominated to serve as the assistant secretary for the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Education (ED). Lhamon’s radical views on Title IX and gender identity ideology, as well as her outright hostility toward religious liberty when she previously held this position, make her unsuitable for this nomination.
Lhamon has an established track record of pushing a radical agenda on sexuality. Under President Obama, she issued a “Dear Colleague” letter that threatened to remove funding from schools that failed to implement policies in line with this agenda. Lhamon’s letter:
required schools to allow biological boys who identify as girls into private spaces meant for biological girls, such as restrooms and locker rooms;
required schools to place biological boys who identify as girls in the housing designated for biological girls on school trips; and
required schools to “treat students consistent with their gender identity even if their education records or identification documents indicate a different sex.”

Lhamon has also demonstrated her desire to elevate gender identity ideology above religious freedom. During her tenure, the Education Department’s official website began publishing a “shame list” of religious colleges and universities that requested a religious waiver from the Obama administration’s radical reinterpretation of Title IX (to include sexual orientation and gender identity) in order to not violate their religious beliefs. While acknowledging that such waivers are legally allowed, Lhamon stressed her support for the re-definition of sex discrimination, saying that the ED would “vigorously enforce Title IX’s prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex, including gender identity, in every applicable school.”

Lhamon has a history of weaponizing radical leftist ideology to threaten schools and punish religious colleges and universities. It is clear that her policies will be dangerous for women and girls and will severely undermine religious liberty. Tell your senators to oppose Catherine Lhamon’s nomination.

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The COVID Survey That Should Have Rocked the World | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

In March 2021, a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, the New York Times shared the results of a comprehensive survey...

For those of us who’ve had the disease and survived, we’re more at risk in being around only vaccinated people. So, these people are hysterical about the unvaccinated, it’s actually the opposite of the truth.

The riskiest people to catch it from are people who are vaccinated versus people who have had the disease. Now there are some people who are unvaccinated who haven’t had the disease and I do recommend that they voluntarily get the vaccine. The current vaccines reportedly reduce the risk of severe COVID illness – hospitalization and death – and for those at highest risk, make good sense, in conjunction with consultation with one’s own physician.

But the thing is, think of all the doctors, think of all the orderlies in the hospital who worked for a year and a half to save lives, without any vaccine at all – they got Covid, they survived, they now have immunity, and the hospitals are just saying, ‘You’re worthless, we’re getting rid of you,’ unless you submit to a vaccine.” But it doesn’t go with the science. The science actually shows greater immunity if you’ve had the disease than if you’ve just simply been vaccinated.

Vaccine advocates rarely acknowledge the fact that seasonality and herd immunity seem to have had a greater impact on broad Covid trends than vaccinations.The reality is that more people have died from COVID-19 in 2021, with most adults vaccinated (and nearly all seniors), than in 2020 when nobody was vaccinated.
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biden’s and the liberals/democrats’ obsession with green energy is a disaster:

Forcing half of our electricity to be "carbon free" by 2030 necessarily entails to give up the current state of life in America for the goals of the bogus climate agenda. Show me a politician saying fossil fuels can be traded for renewable energy while keeping all other aspects of life (cost, reliability, national security) the same, and I will show you a liar. We are forgoing affordability for expensive electricity. We are forgoing reliability for blackouts. We are forgoing domestic energy for Chinese dependence. Yet these realities are never discussed.

The realities are rarely if ever discussed by the mainstream lying-liberal media—who have become wholly bought and paid-for promoters of green policies and liberal/democratic politicians—and are actively suppressed or banned from discussion by social media. Green energy mandates and taxes, fees, and regulations that shut down the use of fossil fuels are bad for people, bad for the environment, and will do nothing to prevent climate change--which, by the way, humans don’t actually control.

The green energy bill in Congress contains a minimum of $33 billion in tax credits for the purchase of electric vehicles (EVs). This is welfare for the well-to-do: 79% of EV purchasers have incomes above six figures. The new measure would boost the tax credit to $12,500 per vehicle. The bill would also grant a tax credit of $2,500 for purchasers of used electric vehicles and also extends generous tax credits to purchasers of electric 2 & 3-wheeled vehicles, commercial vehicles, and even electric bicycles. The giveaway to the rich will be much higher than the $33 billion estimate. cont'd...

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Govt Will Brand Climate a 'Public Health Issue' for Power.
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Mark Mills, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, wrote an analysis of what it would take(1) to reach net-zero CO2 emissions from energy use by 2050, “The ‘New Energy Economy:’ An Exercise in Magical Thinking,”
Here are a few facts to consider:

When the world’s 4 billion poor people increase energy use to just one-third of Europe’s per-capita level, global demand will rise by an amount equal to twice America’s total consumption.
A 100-times growth in the number of electric vehicles to 400 million on the roads by 2040 would displace just 5% of global oil demand.
Renewable energy would have to expand 90-fold to replace global hydrocarbons in 2 decades. It took a half-century for global petroleum production to expand “only” 10-fold.
Efficiency increases energy demand by making products and services cheaper. For example, since 1995, aviation fuel use per passenger-mile is down 70 percent though air traffic rose more than 10-fold, and global aviation fuel use thus rose more than 50%. Energy used per byte is down about 10,000-fold, but global data traffic rose about a million-fold, and global electricity used for computing soared.
For security and reliability, an average of 2 months of national demand for hydrocarbons is in storage at any time. Today, barely 2 hours of national electricity demand can be stored in all utility-scale batteries plus all the batteries in one million electric cars in the United States.
To make enough batteries to store 2 days’ worth of U.S. electricity demand would require 1,000 years of production by Tesla’s Gigafactory (currently the world’s biggest battery factory).
The physics-based limit for solar cells (the Shockley-Queisser limit) is a max conversion of about 33% of photons into electrons; commercial cells today are at 26%.
Physics limits wind turbines (the Betz limit) to a max capture of 60% of the potential energy in moving air; commercial turbines now achieve 45%.
Energy prices continue to surge to new records from the worst shortage in decades. India has warned it has only 4 days of coal reserves left, German power plants are running out of fuel and China just unloaded an Australian coal shipment despite an import ban and icy relations. Supply is just not there as economies rebound from a pandemic-induced lull, while problems like logistical logjams and transport bottlenecks are adding to the pressure. OPEC didn't come to the rescue despite calls from world leaders, including the White House, to bring more crude on to the market and keep a lid on prices. According to the EIA, average daily crude production in the U.S. has been 6.7% lower than last year, while commercial stockpiles of crude, excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, are off by 15% compared to 2020.

That's helping send oil prices to their highest levels in three years. High natural gas prices are also prompting American utilities to switch to coal this year, but their supply is constrained by miners that have been forced to cut capacity by 40% over the last 6 years. This situation is the first major energy crisis of the forced energy transition by biden. It is a warning about how complex the energy transition is going to be.

1. Among other things it will require major technology breakthroughs in hydrogen production and transportation, nuclear generation construction, battery technology, carbon capture and sequestration, agricultural practices and advanced manufacturing processes. This at a time when America is suffering from huge debt and a lack of qualified Science, Technology, Enginering and Math labor.

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Excl: Govt Will Brand Climate a 'Public Health Issue' for Power, Says Fox

Governments will try to brand climate change as a public health issue in order to expand their powers, Baroness Claire Fox warned.

"I have this strange notion, we are a democracy... if you can't get the votes... you can't [legislate] by executive order unless you're a dictator.”—Joe Biden 1-26-21

Yes, democracy rightly understood is the outcomes of the voluntary action by free individuals. But for Uncle Joe the Corrupt, lying about his commitment to it is as close to it as he’ll ever get. Since 1-6-21 biden has instead acted like a dictator, ignoring our republic form of democracy and instead signed 63 executive orders, 37 presidential memoranda, 122 proclamations, and 23 notices. For example, he recently instructed the Department of Labor to force employees around the country to get vaccinated. But immigrants illegally crossing from Mexico to the U.S. (400,000 last month alone, with bigger groups on the way) had no vaccine requirement and are dispersed across our country, secretly.

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