Netflix is being dragged hard for the storyline of its upcoming series, “Queen of Coal,” which is so woke it sounds made up. The Spanish-Argentine series will be released in America on December 19 and is making the rounds on social media for its ultra-leftist storyline. Per the logline, it’s about “a trans woman [who] dreams of working the coal mines — but in a town steeped in superstition and patriarchy, Carlita must fight to earn her place underground.” The series stars Lux Pascal, a trans-identifying man who is the brother of Hollywood star Pedro Pascal. Reactions on social media were mostly negative, especially in light of current events. Netflix just made a deal to acquire Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion, which is subject to approval by the Justice Department’s antitrust division. Critics are concerned about Netflix’s level of control over the entertainment industry. “Is this a joke?” one person wondered about “Queen of Coal.”  “‘Why are you so against Netflix buying Warner Bros. and HBO?’ HERE’S WHY: Their upcoming film ‘Queen of Coal’ is about a man who transitions, then has to fight against his ‘conservative small-town community’, shown as hostile and evil, to keep his dream job in the mines,” conservative podcaster Benny Johnson wrote. “It’s front and center on Netflix. They’re not even hiding it. If they take over Warner Bros. and HBO, this agenda goes everywhere,” he continued. “For now, you have the simple option to cancel Netflix and keep your kids away from it. But, once they own all the studios and platforms, you can’t. They’ll put the same message in every show, every movie, every classic. Cancel Netflix, block the deal, protect the children.” “‘Queen of Coal,’ a movie about a man pretending to be a woman fighting the ‘patriarchy,’ is set to release on Netflix this month,” Libs of TikTok wrote. “If you haven’t already, now would be a good time to CANCEL NETFLIX.” Concerned Women for America (CWA) released a report Monday that found that 41% of children’s content on Netflix contained LGBT themes. While this movie isn’t meant for kids, it does highlight the company’s broader agenda of aggressively mainstreaming LGBT content. 

A federal judge has struck down a sweeping executive action by President Donald Trump that had halted all new federal wind energy leasing and permitting. Seventeen states, Washington, D.C., and the Alliance for Clean Energy New York sued the administration, arguing the freeze violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). On Monday, U.S. District Judge Patti Saris agreed, ruling that the federal agencies’ implementation of the Wind Order was “arbitrary and capricious.” According to Saris — who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton in 1993 — the government failed to provide any reasoned explanation for halting permits beyond the president’s directive itself, and did not meaningfully analyze the environmental, economic, or procedural issues relevant to such a sweeping freeze. Trump’s directive — issued on January 20, 2025, and commonly called the Wind Memo — ordered an immediate, indefinite withdrawal of all areas on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) from eligibility for offshore wind leasing. It also imposed a government-wide moratorium on issuing new or renewed approvals for both onshore and offshore wind projects pending an extensive review of environmental, economic, and permitting practices. While existing leases were not automatically voided, the order required a comprehensive reassessment of whether they should be amended or terminated. The memorandum also directed additional reviews of the Lava Ridge onshore wind project, the impact of defunct wind turbines on communities, and invited the Justice Department to seek stays in related litigation. “Plaintiffs have challenged ‘the Agency Defendants’ actions under the’ Wind Memo, not the Wind Memo itself,” Saris wrote. “The proof is in the pudding: No permits have issued since the issue was promulgated, and The Agency Defendants acknowledge they will not issue any permits at least until they complete the Comprehensive Assessment, for which there is no timeline.” The White House defended Trump’s policy, arguing that the Biden administration had unfairly favored offshore wind projects while burdening other forms of energy. “Under Joe Biden’s Green New Scam, offshore wind projects were given unfair, preferential treatment while the rest of the energy industry was hindered by burdensome regulations,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers declared. “President Trump’s day one executive order instructed agencies to review leases and permitting practices for wind projects with consideration for our country’s growing demands for reliable energy, effects on energy costs for American families, the importance of marine life and fishing industry, and the impacts on ocean currents and wind patterns. President Trump has ended Joe Biden’s war on American energy and unleashed America’s energy dominance to protect our economic and national security.”

Florida took legal action on Tuesday against a trio of medical organizations that promote transgender procedures on children, The Daily Wire has learned.  Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a suit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the Endocrine Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics over their support of transgender procedures on kids. The suit accuses the organizations of pushing irreversible medical procedures on gender-confused children for financial benefit.  “For years, these groups insisted the recommendations were settled science, but behind closed doors, they knew the evidence was weak,” Uthmeier said in a video shared with The Daily Wire. “
They knew the outcomes [were] uncertain, and the risks very real. Parents were not told the full story. In fact, some parents were told that if they didn’t put their kids through permanent, life-altering, sick procedures, like double mastectomies and castration that their child would commit suicide. 
Not only is that unethical and dangerous medicine, but it is against the law.” Uthmeier added that “truth was replaced with political activism.” In 2023, @GovRonDeSantis signed legislation to ban so-called “gender-affirming care” for kids. Now it’s time for accountability! Today, my office sued @wpath, @AmerAcadPeds, and @TheEndoSociety for mutilating kids and misleading families. pic.twitter.com/RrbIfYEFEq — Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) December 9, 2025 The suit was filed in the 19th Judicial Circuit Court in Saint Lucie County, Florida. It accuses the organizations of violating Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and engaging in racketeering by misleading “patients, parents, insurers, regulators, and courts about the reversibility and efficacy of pediatric sex interventions.” The organizations’ “immoral actions capitalize on the mental distress of children—as well as the natural affections and fears their parents — to help their members sell lucrative surgeries and drugs that irreversibly mutilate and chemically alter children’s bodies without providing any credible medical benefit,” a copy of the 75-page lawsuit obtained by The Daily Wire states. The suit lays out a comprehensive history of the development of transgender procedures and how each organization has pushed guidelines that endorsed procedures like puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries that remove the breasts of girls who identify as boys.  “Defendants have a problem: there is no credible evidence that sex interventions alleviate pediatric gender dysphoria. To convince patients, insurance companies, regulators, and judges otherwise, Defendants initiated a coordinated campaign to develop ‘clinical guidelines’ recommending sex intervention for pediatric gender dysphoria,” the suit reads.  Uthmeier wants the court to rule that the organizations’ promotion of transgender procedures constitutes unfair trade practices, impose a civil penalty of $1 million against each defendant, block the organizations from advertising the procedures as safe and reversible, and impose a $10,000 penalty for each time a false claim about the safety of transgender procedures was made.  “Defendants have disseminated multiple misleading advertisements with the same or similar intent (to legitimize and promote sex interventions as treatment for pediatric gender dysphoria), results (the purchase of pediatric sex interventions), accomplices (co-Defendants), victims (minors experiencing gender dysphoria and those paying for their care, such as parents, legal guardians, employers, and insurers), and methods of commission (through representations on their websites and publications),” the suit continues.  Groups like the American Parents Coalition, Consumers’ Research, and Do No Harm all praised the actions of Uthmeier.  “The years-long coordinated campaign by WPATH and other medical organizations to disregard the serious health risks of sex change interventions on minors will go down as the most egregious medical scandal in modern history,” Do No Harm medical director Kurt Miceli told The Daily Wire. “These groups have obfuscated risk and misrepresented the low quality of evidence to support puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, and surgeries for children—interventions that can cause lasting harm.”

On Monday, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations.” DeSantis’s move comes after Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott declared the groups terrorist organizations last month, and President Donald Trump signed an executive order paving the way for his administration to designate chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations.  The Florida order says the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology is “irreconcilable with foundational American principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and notes the group has a history of supporting violence and terrorist attacks, including political assassinations and attacks on civilians, in pursuit of a global Islamic caliphate. It further notes that members of the Muslim Brotherhood created Hamas in 1987, a United States-designated foreign terrorist organization responsible for killing 46 American citizens in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. The order then links the Muslim Brotherhood to groups in the United States, stating that the Palestine Committee — a group created to raise financial and moral support for Hamas — founded CAIR in 1994. It adds that CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror-financing case in American history and has been associated with individuals convicted of providing, or conspiring to provide, material support to designated terrorist organizations. “CAIR was founded by persons connected to the Muslim Brotherhood and was created, in the words of persons affiliated with CAIR, as ‘an official U.S. cover representing the Islamic community’ to conceal ties to Islamic extremist groups,” the order says. The order directs the Florida Highway Patrol to take all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by the designated groups and requires all executive and cabinet agencies to block any terrorist organization listed, or any person known to have provided material support or resources to such an organization, from receiving state contracts, employment, funding, or any other government benefits or privileges. CAIR, which calls itself “the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization,” fired back, calling the order “defamatory and unconstitutional” and accusing DeSantis of being “Israel First.”  “Like Greg Abbott in Texas, Ron DeSantis is an Israel First politician who wants to smear and silence Americans, especially American Muslims, critical of U.S. support for Israel’s war crimes,” CAIR National and CAIR-Florida said in a statement. “Governor DeSantis knows full well that CAIR-Florida is an American civil rights organization that has spent decades advancing free speech, religious freedom, and justice for all, including for the Palestinian people.” The group added that they plan to defeat “Governor DeSantis’ latest Israel First stunt” in court.  Last week, Abbott called on the Trump Administration to strip CAIR of its tax-exempt status for its alleged ties to foreign terrorist organizations. He argued that federal investigators and court filings have identified CAIR as “a direct subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood” and as a “front group” for Hamas in the United States. He also cited a recent report that claims CAIR awarded $1,000 cash grants to college students who disrupted classes and intimidated or harassed fellow students “while celebrating Hamas’s October 7th attack.”  “Americans have generous hearts, and federal law wisely creates incentives to donate to nonprofit organizations that promote the public good,” Abbott wrote. “But charity must not become a backdoor to sponsor terrorism, endanger Americans, and subvert our democracy.” According to Trump, the “final documents are being drawn” for the Muslim Brotherhood to receive a foreign terrorist organization designation, which will be “done in the strongest and most powerful terms.”

Records related to the sex-trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell will be released after a federal judge granted a request from the Justice Department on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer said that grand jury transcripts and materials from the investigation into Maxwell could be unsealed following the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act last month, The Hill reported. “The Act unambiguously applies to the discovery in this case,” Engelmayer ruled. With Engelmayer’s decision, hundreds more documents related to the investigation into Epstein and Maxwell’s sex trafficking crimes could soon be available to Americans. The Justice Department asked two federal judges in New York to unseal the grand jury transcripts in November as the Trump administration seeks to release more information and move past the Epstein case, an issue that has plagued the administration throughout President Donald Trump’s second term. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed by Trump on November 19, requires the Justice Department to make Epstein-related documents public by December 19. Engelmayer said he remains concerned about the identities of victims being released and criticized the Justice Department for moving to unseal the grand jury documents in July “without giving notice to Maxwell’s and Epstein’s victims,” NBC News reported. Engelmayer’s order comes days after another federal judge ruled that grand jury documents related to the 2005 and 2007 investigations into Epstein should also be made public. U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith said that the bill calling for the release of the Epstein files signed by Trump last month prevails over the standard rules safeguarding the secrecy of grand jury documents. Maxwell, who preyed on young girls and brought them to Epstein’s multiple estates and infamous island, was convicted of five federal counts related to sex trafficking. She is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence. Earlier this year, Maxwell agreed to sit down with the Justice Department and answer questions on Epstein and his connections to wealthy and powerful people, including Trump. During her interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Maxwell said that she “never saw any man doing something inappropriate with a woman of any age.” When asked about Trump, she said he was “always very cordial and very kind to me” and was “a gentleman in all respects.” Maxwell also said she disagreed with the Justice Department’s conclusion that Epstein died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019. “I do not believe he died by suicide,” Maxwell said, but added that she had no idea who could have been behind his death. Maxwell is reportedly planning to ask the Trump administration to review an application for commutation. After her interview with the Justice Department, Maxwell was transferred to a minimum-security women’s prison.

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