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As predictable as the Sun rising in the East, death, and taxes: CBS’s John Dickerson delivering an insufferable editorial to close out the day’s broadcast of CBS Evening News Plus. Last night was no different, after a transgender individual shot up a Catholic church during a back-to-school Mass, killing two children and injuring many others. Here is that editorial in its entirety, as aired on CBS Evening News Plus on Wednesday, August 28th, 2025 (click “expand” to view transcript): JOHN DICKERSON: Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them. For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these. That Bible verse from Matthew is about welcome and protection. But in America, the welcome at school now begins with a different kind of preparation. A section in the parents’ handbook about what to do, who to call. Drills for children who are still learning the multiplication tables. At that age they are just learning how to sound out words, how to share crayons, how to line up without jostling, how to raise a hand before speaking. They also learn how to hide from a gunman. Today, for Annunciation Catholic School, that training became necessary. They were at Mass- one of the ways we mark new beginnings in the fall along with a fresh backpack, new clothes and the sight of faces you missed all summer. Now these students have been initiated into another ritual: the American communion of violence. At eight, the age of one of the victims, you're memorizing multiplication tables. At ten, the age of the other, you're learning fractions, grammar, punctuation. At both ages you are supposed to be mastering cooperation, not survival. You're supposed to play hide and seek for fun. This is now a second generation growing up knowing they might die at school. And with each shooting, they see that the adults in charge tolerate a political system- whether in laws, or in mental health care, or in personal responsibility, unwilling to address the violence. From sacrament to sacrilege, from communion to rupture, from students offering thoughts and prayers, to being the subject of them. The children pay the price for the national failure to address this reality. The Scripture books in the pews where those little children in their new green uniforms hid their rubbery limbs have words for the way adults have failed them. They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. Peace, peace, they say, when there is no peace. And that's tonight's CBS Evening News Plus. Thank you for joining us. I’m John Dickerson. Good night. Given that the shooting occurred inside a church, it is not unexpected that Dickerson would open with a Bible verse. Scriptural citation is intended to lend a veneer of gravitas and spirituality to everything that follows thereafter. Unfortunately, what followed was the kind of boilerplate gun control do-somethingism we get fed after each mass shooting. Before working school shooter drills into his prose, Dickerson condemned “the American communion of violence”, and vaguely calls for action “whether in laws, whether in mental health care, or in personal responsibility.” But Dickerson never addresses the underlying cause of THIS shooting, and an increasing rash of recent others. If there is an "American communion of violence”, there must be a willingness to address its officiants in a manner not yet seen. That much is evident by the legacy news’ refusal to even address the shooter as transgender. To put a finer point: a deranged, self-hating transgender who hated minorities, Donald Trump, saw himself as a demon, and was obsessed with other mass shooters. Dickerson’s plea for action, while florid, falls flat. And insofar as it fails to address what happened in Minneapolis, it is an appearance of piety devoid of substance. These false pieties were also addressed in the Gospel of St. Matthew (23:27) from whence Dickerson began his sermon: Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.

It was likely just a coincidence, but on Thursday, one day after a transgender individual shot up a Catholic school in Minnesota and brought questions of mental illness to the front pages of our national conversation, Washington Post therapist and advice columnist Sahak Kaur Kohli told a distraught mother to stop referring to her daughter as her daughter because she identifies as a he, even though the daughter clearly has some issues. To set the scene, the “heartbroken mom” wrote a four-paragraph letter that suggested her daughter’s gender transformation was not the conclusion of a lifelong process or even an adolescent phase of struggling with her identity, but rather sudden. She describes how her daughter always wanted to be a doctor and an excellent student, but “in her sophomore year [of college], she began struggling with classes and lost her scholarship second semester and never did well enough to get it back. It was during this time she was coming out as gay and began her first relationship.” She then adds: Her partner is a trans man who had a traumatic childhood and is estranged from his family. My daughter is now 22 and has been living with her partner for two years. She has rarely been home in those two years and never without her partner, who doesn’t drive. She began identifying as male going into her senior year last year, had a falling-out with her father (my ex, who paid for her college), and had a mental breakdown in the first semester of senior year and dropped out of school (her partner dropped out in freshman year). After chronicling the couple’s grave financial situation, the mom mourns her daughter won’t accept her invitation to come home (she did not extend the invitation to the partner), “They both resent that I don’t use he/him pronouns for my daughter, but I really don’t think that’s who she is, and I’ve been mourning the loss of who she used to be. I have no doubt she is gay, and I’m fine with that, but I have never seen gender dysphoria in her.” Kohli wasted no time trying to shame the mom, “I can hear how much you are grieving and struggling to accept how much your child has changed over the years. I imagine that is difficult, but you can mourn the loss of who your kid used to be without invalidating who they are today.” She added, “You say your ‘daughter has become an entirely different person these past two years,’ but what I am hearing is your son is becoming who he has always been and is now feeling confident enough to emerge more fully as himself.” How did Kohli arrive at that conclusion? Again, there is nothing in the letter to suggest the daughter had any issues prior to going to college and struggling for the first time as a student. Nevertheless, Kohli rolled on: You may not ‘see’ your child’s gender identity, but it’s not something you get to confirm or deny. Rejecting his pronouns or chosen name, even if you don’t yet understand, communicates rejection of him as a person. He may be keeping his distance right now because he feels he has to choose between his selfhood and your love. That’s a painful place for him to be in. So even if you can’t fully understand or agree, use your child’s pronouns and name; after all, it’s the foundation for the bridge that keeps you in his life. Sometimes people are blind to the fact that they are in a toxic relationship and need an outsider to lovingly speak uncomfortable truths, but continuing with the demands for uncritical affirmation, Kohli added, “I know you are worried for him, but you are also not showing up as a safe or supportive place for him to lean on. Instead, you are blaming his partner for essentially everything that has gone wrong from struggling in school to having ‘low-wage jobs.’” Kohli concludes: Right now, you’re presenting your concerns as if they are rooted in wellness and safety. But from where I’m sitting, your worrying is actually more about your desire for control and your discomfort with your child’s identity and choices. You cannot steer your adult child back to who they ‘used to be,’ and attempts to do so will only deepen estrangement. Is it worth losing your relationship with your child completely because you couldn’t find the strength to understand him? Only you can answer that. Kohli seems completely uninterested in the daughter’s decline. The mother painted the picture of a daughter who is in the midst of a horrible downward spiral, and identifying as a male is just one part of that struggle. The mom wants the version of her daughter that wasn’t deeply troubled, but Kohli portrayed that as possessiveness.

Republican Rep. August Pfluger of Texas is taking charge of codifying President Donald Trump's executive orders.Pfluger, who chairs the Republican Study Committee, recently introduced a bill that would ensure only American citizens are counted in the United States census, according to bill text obtained exclusively by Blaze News. The legislation, dubbed the COUNT Act, will ensure that illegal aliens are omitted from the census in order to fairly apportion congressional seats.'We cannot allow Democrats to weaponize our census.'"The Biden administration sabotaged our census system to count millions of illegal aliens as American citizens, robbing congressional seats from law-abiding Republican states, including shortchanging my home state of Texas by at least one seat," Pfluger told Blaze News. "This is nothing short of a constitutional crisis." RELATED: Exclusive: Congress pushes bipartisan bill preventing Mexico's 'illegal seizure' of American assets Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty ImagesUnder former President Joe Biden's purview, the administration effectively rigged the census to include millions of illegal aliens into the census, skewing congressional representation in favor of Democrats. As a result, everyday American citizens were overshadowed and overlooked by Democrats' desire to secure a political advantage.The census currently does not require individuals to provide proof of citizenship, often including illegal immigrants into the official count, which later informs congressional apportionment. Despite the clear malpractice, Democrats are keen on keeping with the status quo. In May 2024, 202 Democrats unanimously voted against the Equal Representation Act, which requires the census to include a citizenship questionnaire designed to prevent illegal aliens from being included in the total count. Senate Democrats also unanimously defeated an amendment proposed by Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee in March 2024, which would similarly require a citizenship questionnaire on future censuses. RELATED: Exclusive: DHS reveals ‘record-shattering’ winning streak on immigration Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images"That's why I'm introducing the COUNT Act to permanently codify the executive order President Trump signed into law during his first term, creating a citizenship database that ensures only American citizens determine congressional representation and funding, because we cannot allow Democrats to weaponize our census again," Pfluger told Blaze News.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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