What makes a crowd at a Scott Wiener event “boo” in disgust? A woman saying that a man who identifies as a woman is not, in fact, a woman. “They are men,” Tish Hyman, the woman at the center of a viral video calling for men to stay out of women’s locker rooms, told the crowd Monday night. Hyman flew across the state for Wiener’s first appearance as a congressional candidate. He was doing an interview with Mission Local, a news outlet in San Francisco, in front of a sold-out crowd. Had a chance to have a conversation with Senator Weiner. It was an honest one. I am hopeful that this is the first of many conversations we will have regarding women’s safety . Senator Weiner said he likes working with fresh young people and that he is open to ideas. And… pic.twitter.com/qEWcuh6DXJ — Tish Hyman (@listen2tish) November 11, 2025 “As a lesbian woman who was attacked in a woman’s locker room at Gold’s Gym this week by a self-identifying trans woman with a documented history of domestic violence, I’m deeply concerned about women’s safety,” Hyman told Wiener as he opened the floor up for questions. “What would you say to women who are seeking assurance that their safety will be protected from men who by California law can self-identify as women in women-only spaces?” Hyman asked. The state senator, who has taken no action to protect women from men in any space, replied in part: “Trans women are women.” Hyman vehemently disagreed, and the crowd erupted in boos. “Trans women are women,” someone yelled at Hyman from across the room. Wiener attempted to answer Hyman’s question on how he would protect women. “I mean, I want everyone to be safe and we have trans people — both men and women who are men and women…” Wiener said. It’s not the answer Hyman wanted to hear. The leftist crowd turned on Hyman, who still made her points clear to Wiener. She said it’s the first of many conversations she hopes to have with him to make California safer. “I see a lot of these bills that are dangerous for women and young children. I am telling you as a woman first and foremost, this is dangerous. We need your help because you’re in the office,” Hyman said. Wiener claimed he appreciates Hyman’s point of view, but “trans women are also brutalized in this country.” Hyman boldly told the state senator in response to his statement that trans women aren’t women. She said it as clearly as she has in every video she’s made since being catapulted into the fight for women’s rights. One of the trans-identifying men Hyman exposed in her videos for allegedly harassing her in the women’s locker room had a lengthy rap sheet of charges, including domestic violence. The Daily Wire obtained arrest records for Grant Freeman, which said he slammed his ex-wife into a toilet seat. She told that to the crowd, too. Crickets. Before she left the venue, she let Wiener know she thought he was doing nothing to protect women. Hyman said after her exchange with Wiener that she wants women to know she will not stop fighting. “Collectively we have the strength to win this together,” she said.

The House races to vote on a resolution that could end the government shutdown, the FDA removes black box warnings for hormone replacement therapy drugs, and we look at the role media bias played in shaping Americans’ views on the shutdown. It’s Wednesday, November 12, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below, and the video version can be seen on The Daily Wire: House Shutdown Vote? Topline: The government shutdown appears to be on the verge of finally ending, as both parties debate the future of healthcare, and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) fends off calls for his resignation. The federal government may finally reopen on Wednesday. The bill broke through the Senate with the help of eight Democrats. That bill will now go to the House, and it is expected to begin voting today at around 4:00 p.m. ET. This is a major development following the longest government shutdown in American history, and it comes at a time when D.C. is deeply politically divided. There has been a lot of pushback, not only against the Democrats who voted to reopen the government, but also against Minority Leader Schumer, who is now facing calls to step down or even be primaried in 2028. What does D.C. do next? Once the government is back in operation, the focus will shift back to healthcare, but the debate will look different. During the shutdown, Democrats said they wanted the continuing resolution to be contingent upon continuing subsidies for Obamacare. Now, as part of the Senate deal, Democrats want to bring that discussion back next month, since the government will only be funded through the end of January if the bill passes. The shutdown debate could flare up again if lawmakers don’t figure this out before funding runs out. If the subsidies don’t continue, opponents have said that a coming premium spike is proof that the Affordable Care Act was not sustainable in the first place. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has said that this deal was the Senate’s, and that the House didn’t make any promises on its end, so there hasn’t been a commitment yet to finding a solution to Obamacare subsidies. Trumpcare: There has been discussion on tax-advantaged Health Savings Accounts. President Donald Trump has also floated giving some of the subsidy money back to the American people. Trump has argued that many of these subsidies only benefited large insurance companies. “Instead of going to the insurance companies, I want the money to go into an account for people where the people buy their own health insurance. If we did that, that would be so exciting. Call it Trumpcare,” the president said. HRT Black Box Warning Axed Topline: The FDA is removing “black box” warnings from hormone replacement therapy for menopause symptoms. The reversal is earning high praise from both the medical establishment and medical outsiders.  The warnings were slapped on HRT for menopausal and perimenopausal women more than two decades ago by the FDA. But FDA Commissioner Marty Makary says those warnings were unnecessary, harmful, and based on a significantly flawed 2002 Women’s Health Initiative study that connected this treatment to an increase in breast cancer risk. Why it matters: While currently fewer than 5% of menopausal women take HRT, Dr. Makary says between 50 and 70 million women have been denied or discouraged from taking the treatment since that study was mainstreamed. Makary also says the vast majority of those women were denied life-changing or even life-saving treatment.  “Women who go through menopause and start hormone replacement therapy have profound short-term and long-term health benefits, including reducing the risk of bone fractures by 50-60% later in life, reducing the risk of fatal heart attacks by 30-50%,” Makary told Morning Wire. “That’s the number one cause of death in women – and reducing cognitive decline. There may be no medication in the modern era, aside from perhaps antibiotics or vaccines, that can improve the health outcomes of women on a population level more than hormone replacement therapy started within 10 years of the onset of menopause.” Makary noted that this treatment is for the vast majority of women in this phase of life, though he said there are rare exceptions to that, for example, if a woman currently has breast cancer. Women should talk to their doctors before receiving treatment. View from the experts: Major medical groups are supporting this. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), which represents more than 60,000 physicians and medical professionals, praised the FDA for empowering women. The Menopause Society, the American Association of Clinical Urologists, and the National Consumers League, a consumer advocacy organization, also applauded this change from the FDA. Also of note, Harvard Medicine Magazine last year acknowledged that this Women’s Health Initiative study “has widely been considered flawed.” Democrat-Media Complex Topline: With the government shutdown poised to end on a sour note for most Democrats, it has become painfully obvious just how eager some in the media were to put their thumbs on the scales.  The legacy media coverage was biased against Republicans over the shutdown, and the numbers prove it. The Media Research Center conducted a study of the first full month of the shutdown, from October 1 to October 31. It looked at the evening news broadcasts on the three major networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC – and discovered that 87% of the network news coverage during that time had been skewed in favor of the Democrats. The center evaluates only the statements made by anchors and experts who are supposed to be nonpartisan, which would exclude comments from elected Democrats or Republicans, or from pundits who are decidedly partisan. Using that framework, it found 83 statements about the shutdown that were critical of Republicans and only 12 that were critical of Democrats. Those same people, despite discussing the shutdown on multiple broadcasts, showed very little interest in discussing why the government was shut down or who repeatedly voted against the clean continuing resolution that would have reopened the government. According to the center, “On both ABC and CBS, only 12.5 percent of reports on either network mentioned this basic detail. On NBC, that fact was included in just 31 percent of newscasts.” View from the media: On CNN, the network is laying it on thick against Schumer and highlighting the blowback against him within his own party. CNN pollster Harry Enten sounded off: “ What about Democrats nationwide feeling about Chuck Schumer? I think the word of the day is terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible.” The hosts of ABC’s “The View” have been gunning for Schumer since March because, as they said, he “caved” to avoid a shutdown early in Trump’s term. They re-upped calls for him to step aside on Monday, and on Tuesday, they spent some time yelling at Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman for voting in favor of his constituents not starving. There’s a bit of a pile-on effect happening right now. The argument appears to be that the compromise has given President Trump yet another win, which is something Democrats and many in the legacy media hate to do.

Venezuela has announced a “massive mobilization” of its military in response to the increased U.S. military presence in the Caribbean Sea. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said Tuesday that Venezuelan military and reserve forces would carry out training exercises through Wednesday in response to the “imperialist threat” from the United States, according to CNN. Padrino López said that the order to put Venezuela on a war footing came from Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The military buildup in Venezuela comes as the United States’ largest warship, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and the rest of its carrier group entered the US Southern Command region. War Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the aircraft carrier to the Caribbean Sea last month to join U.S. forces policing international waters off Venezuela’s shores. “The enhanced U.S. force presence in the SOUTHCOM AOR will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said, according to the Miami Herald. “These forces will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle TCOs.” Last week, Russian-made anti-aircraft systems were seen inside the La Carlota military airport in Caracas. The Buk-M2E missile systems were tagged after Maduro sent out requests to Russia and China for aid against a possible attack from the United States. In addition to the systems seen at La Carlota, a slew of anti-air missile defense systems have been spotted being placed across Venezuela. Tensions between Caracas and Washington have soared since President Donald Trump took office over Venezuela’s ties to the international drug trade and the trafficking of drugs into the United States. In response, Trump has moved warships into the southern Caribbean Sea to target suspected drug boats and subs. The White House has also targeted Maduro personally. Trump said last month that he has approved CIA operations against Maduro in Venezuela, suggesting that the White House wants regime change in Caracas. Trump has also weighed whether to expand U.S. strikes against the drug trade to Venezuelan soil.

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In honor of the Fourth of July, I shared some lessons from America’s past that came about in this way: As I chatted with one of my friends, born in 1941, I was struck by how valuable his stories were and how they harkened back to some days in which Americans faced challenges with remarkable resiliency. I got his permission to share some of these stories with you, in the hopes that they will inspire you to look back to your own ancestors and the elders in your own communities for lessons on how to be prepared.  This is the second part in this series. In the first part of the series, which you can find here, I shared how George learned about these values from a young age: Waste Nothing, A Hard Day’s Work, and Improvise. These are values highly relevant to preparedness. A bit about George these days: In his early eighties, George lives alone independently and tends a small garden. A year or two ago, he built the entire front deck on his house by himself. A year before that, he built a good-sized pump house for his well, also on his own. He is out at least twice a week enjoying social card games with his friends, and has many visitors from his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.  Neighborly Bartering As described in the previous installment, George worked many jobs of responsibility on the farm from the time he was a young child, just as my mother did on the dairy farm she was raised on. As he traveled to all the farms to do relief milking and other work, such as sheep shearing, George rarely received cash. Instead, he would be offered small livestock or other things around the farm that were not being used. For a weekend of milking, George might earn three geese. As George was the youngest of ten children, these small livestock could be used to help feed the family.  When George was 14 years old, he milked 50 cows every day for an entire week while a farmer was away on a trip. When he returned, the farmer offered him a 1932 Chevy that was sitting in the yard as pay. George got it going and was able to sell it when he no longer needed it for the princely sum of $35 to a farmer who wanted to use it to rake hay.  George recalled a neighbour, Mr. Watson, who never owned a bailer. George’s father told him that Mr. Watson had come by the farm, asking, “Can I work with you?” He would trade his labour with George’s father for the use of his bailer. George also recalled that Mr. Watson had a brand new 8N Ford Tractor. It was a small tractor that was perfect for raking. Mr. Watson let George’s father use it for raking as part of the exchange. George recalled that raking and baling were considered small jobs that two of the family’s children could manage: one on the tractor raking and another on the baler. When it was time for Mr. Watson to get his wood done, the neighbours all pitched in. To prepare for what was called the “Wood Bee,” Mr. Watson would cut full-length ironwood logs that did not need to be split and haul them all to the barnyard. He liked this size, as it was easy to load into the stove. With a circular saw in the yard, 10 neighbours would arrive and cut all the logs, bringing them right down into the basement. In this way, all the wood was prepared by the group in only a day or two at most. A Harvest Excursion Another communal activity was the harvest excursion. George’s father owned one of the only threshers in the entire area. His 1948 threshing mill was the first that ever sat on rubber wheels. Most often, the harvest excursion was to thresh the oats grown on a farm, which were used to feed the cattle, horses, and pigs. To prepare for the excursion, first, the family needed to cut and bind the sheaves in the field. As the sheaves were bound, they would be set up in piles to dry by at least two people in the field. This was because the sheaves needed to lean against each other just right. After a week or so of the right weather, the grain would be ready for threshing, and the harvest excursion would arrive.  Most often, George said, the field team would consist of 22 men, from the farm itself and virtually all of the local neighbors. Inside the kitchen on the farm, at least 8 or 9 women would be cooking all day long. Most often, a cow had been killed to feed the crew, who would eat four square meals that day, at 10am, 1pm, 3pm, and 7pm. All of the men were chewing tobacco to keep the dust out of their lungs. The women would bring lemonade in a calf pail and all the men would drink from a single metal cup. George smiled as he remembered how the lemonade would have a kind of tobacco tinge to it. The mill would sit in the yard, powered by a 1944 tractor using a 50-foot belt. The sheaves would be gathered onto a wagon from the field and brought to the thresher. George said that the talent to pile the sheaves well was widely respected. Some men could pile the sheaves high, and they would never fall; others would lose a small pile, and all would have to be reloaded. As this led to the loss of grain, it was frowned upon.  The day ended with the grand 7pm roast beef meal. Every one of the 22 men was given an entire full-size pie for dessert, and it was insisted that they finish it!  No Measurement Taken Through his entire childhood and youth, George did not recall a single instance in which there was any counting of what was shared back and forth, or any gossip on that topic. If there was any injury on a farm or illness, neighbours would pitch in until no longer needed. There was never any pay and no questions asked. Neighbours loved each other and respected each other, he recalled. Days of Ingenuity and Hard Work I find the values of neighborly bartering and collective labor, such as the harvest excursion, are relevant to my own approach to preparedness. I found these stories to be hopeful in how communities can support each other through difficult times and with tasks too great for one family to manage. Have you heard stories from America’s past that inspire you in your preparations? Do you have a story from an ancestor or someone else or yourself that you can share with us? Please tell us in the comments section. About Rowan Rowan O’Malley is a fourth-generation Irish American who loves all things green: plants (especially shamrocks), trees, herbs, and weeds! She challenges herself daily to live her best life and to be as fit, healthy, and prepared as possible. The post Harvest Tales from an Old Timer: Lessons from America’s Past (PART TWO) appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

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