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ESPN sportscaster Kirk Herbstreit doubled down on his earlier comments that men do not “belong in women’s sports” and made it clear he doesn’t “give a s***” if people don’t want to hear it. Speaking Tuesday on OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me With Dan Dakich” podcast, the College GameDay analyst said he has four sons and doesn’t have a daughter, but said he’s tired of not speaking out against men in women’s sports for fear of being canceled. “I’ve been biting my tongue on a lot of topics for three years,” Herbstreit said. “I happened to see somebody say what he said, and he said, ‘Should men be able to play in women’s sports?’ And I just said, ‘Ridiculous question, of course not.’” “I didn’t dwell on it, I didn’t give a long answer, that was it,” he added. “There was way more positive [reaction] than negative — I’m sure people were upset, but I think it’s kind of a no-brainer.” The sportscaster said he’s a Christian guy and he’s tired of a different set of rules for a person with traditional values. “I didn’t give a s***. I don’t really give a s***, at all,” Herbstreit said. “I’m done giving any s***s, at all, about any of it.” Of course not. Ridiculous question https://t.co/SpwZ07zewv — Kirk Herbstreit (@KirkHerbstreit) August 6, 2024 “It’s almost like there are two different sets of rules, and if you have a view that is a little bit more traditional, and you know I’m a Christian guy, it’s like there’s a different set of rules from that viewpoint,” he added. “It’s hard to turn the cheek time after time after time…” “Which I think is a good thing to get to that place, compared to ‘oh gosh, I don’t want to get canceled, don’t want to get people upset,’ I just don’t give a s***,” the broadcaster continued. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI The comments echoed the post he made on X that went viral, when a person posed a question to him that read, “Do men belong in women’s sports? Time for influential men in sports media to stand up, Kirk,” OutKick noted. The broadcaster saw the post and replied, retweeting the person’s question and answered, “Of course not. Ridiculous question.” His comments were met with praise by others who agreed that it’s wrong for men to compete against women in female sports, including former ESPN host Sage Steele, who left the network in 2023. Steele shared Herbstreit’s post and added an “applause” emoji. “Thank You for speaking up Kirk Herbstreit,” another person wrote. While a third person wrote, “Thank you, Kirk.We need to be more outspoken about this nonsense, it’s maddening.” Related: ‘Ridiculous’: ESPN Sportscaster Makes It Clear He Thinks Men Do Not ‘Belong In Women’s Sports’

“Think before you post!” So reads the warning issued by the UK government, advertising a far-reaching crackdown on expression on Twitter amidst volatile unrest breaking out across England. The Director of Public Prosecutions took to Sky News to caution the nation that he had police officers dedicated to “scouring social media” to “look for this material [incitement to racial hatred], and then follow up with identification, arrests, and so on and so forth.” Already, two perpetrators have been charged and sentenced for their tweets – both guilty of blatantly inciting violence, calling on rioters to burn down a hotel housing migrants. Incitement to violence has long been illegal, and should be wholly rejected even by ardent free speech absolutists. But the newfound zeal of the government for prosecuting online expression could soon slide into the restriction, or even criminalization, of peaceful speech. Keir Starmer has indicated an intention to beef up the Online Safety Act, set to go into force in early 2025. The Act, introduced last year under a Conservative government, sets a new and unprecedentedly low standard for prosecuting speech, making it a crime to share information known to be false, with the perceived intent to cause “harm.” The original text of the bill was stripped back after public outcry that the law would require social media companies to remove “legal but harmful” speech from their platforms, in a clear violation of the right to freedom of expression. But Starmer is reportedly considering re-introducing the same requirement, setting the threshold for criminality based on words alone to the lowest in modern history. Harm is in the eye of the beholder, and one can only imagine the manipulative misuse of the term to target and silence those with minority beliefs. Without clear parameters as to which speech falls within the bounds of the government’s definition of “harmful,” and a punishment awaiting companies who fail to comply, social media empires are likely to bend towards a cautious approach: deleting expressions which might, possibly, be offensive to somebody somewhere. The cautious cull has already begun. Richard Dawkins said his Facebook account was deleted this week after he made an argument that males should not compete in women’s sports. Legal? Certainly. True? Absolutely. Harmful? Only according to the shrouded perceptions of an ideologically-biased Meta, who have obviously turned a blind eye to the actual physical and psychological harms inflicted upon women who are made to take punches from competitors with XX chromosomes in a boxing ring, and concede their medals in biologically-rigged races. Of course, social media content can be horrid. Nobody likes mean tweets. But one need only look across the world to see the authoritarian horrors visited upon citizens when these vague, far-reaching bans on free speech are implemented. Credit: Alliance Defending Freedom International Take Finland. Parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen, a former government minister and grandmother, has been on trial for “hate speech” for a 2019 Bible-verse tweet which simply questioned her Church’s involvement with a Pride event. She was charged under the Finnish criminal code’s section on “War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity,” carrying a maximum sentence of 2 years imprisonment. With support from ADF International, she is awaiting the Finnish state’s appeal of her prior acquittal at the Supreme Court in Helsinki. Credit: Alliance Defending Freedom International Or look at Mexico. Former congressman Rodrigo Iván Cortés and sitting congressman Gabriel Quadri have been convicted of “gender-based political violence,” and placed on an offenders’ register, for Twitter posts. For expressing their views on biological sex, both have been ordered to publish a court-written apology on X every day for 30 days, 3 times a day, as a form of public humiliation. ADF International are supporting their appeal at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Meanwhile in Australia, Canadian activist “Billboard Chris” is soon to face trial for an “X” post he wrote, criticizing the appointment of a radical transgender activist to the WHO’s “panel of experts” set to advise on global transgender policy. Chris, a Canadian, wrote the tweet on the American-based platform, with no reference at all to Australia – yet unelected e-Safety bureaucrats in Canberra have taken it upon themselves to censor the tweet across their country. Both Chris (with ADF International’s backing), and “X”, are involved in a legal battle to restore free speech and unblock the post. Policy-makers who impact the treatment of vulnerable and confused children must surely be open to public critique. JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images The cases are mounting. Freedom of Tweet has already been squeezed across the world, yet governments are increasingly drawn to passing these authoritarian laws. In Scotland, police were overwhelmed with reports about JK Rowling’s tweeted beliefs when the hate speech law came into effect on 1st April, despite resources already having had to be cut away from dealing with theft and other petty crimes. In Ireland, the government are considering passing a “hate speech” law which could place people in prison for up to five years even for the memes they have on their phone. If implemented in England & Wales, a ban on “legal but harmful” posts on “X” or Facebook will inevitably slide into censorship of unapproved views, giving the state unlimited reach into controlling conversations amongst the public. “Blasphemy laws” in Middle Eastern nations are righteously condemned by European states. We must set a better example – not implement laws to punish heresy against our own dominant societal beliefs of today. * * * Lois McLatchie Miller (@LoisMcLatch) is a Scottish commentator and Senior Legal Communications Officer for Alliance Defending Freedom UK. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

An illegal alien accused of sexually assaulting and murdering an 11-year-old girl was freed into the interior of the United States by the Biden-Harris administration just months before allegedly committing the heinous crime, a new report from the House Judiciary Committee confirms. Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez illegally entered the United States in January 2023 after being smuggled to the border from his home country of Guatemala, the new report from the House Judiciary Committee explains. Garcia-Rodriguez was 17 at the time and qualified as an unaccompanied alien child, resulting in the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Homeland Security handing him over to the Department of Health and Human Services to facilitate his resettlement in the interior of the United States. Garcia-Rodriguez, who stated that he came to the United States “for academic and work opportunities” and “to live a better life,” was then charged with the sexual assault and murder of 11-year-old Maria Gonzalez in Pasadena, Texas, in August 2023, just seven months after being smuggled across the border and allowed to resettle by the Biden-Harris administration. Gonzalez’s father says that he found his deceased daughter in a trash bag and a laundry basket underneath his bed after the brutal attack. Garcia-Rodriguez first denied involvement in the crime before later admitting that he had committed it, but claiming that he was forced to carry out the assault by two black men who held him at gunpoint. “The disastrous immigration policies of the Biden-Harris administration have had real-world consequences for American citizens,” the report from the House Judiciary Committee states. “The effects of those policies will be felt for years to come, with criminal aliens in American neighborhoods harming families and hurting public safety across the country.” The report details how the Biden-Harris administration resettled the illegal immigrant after he was smuggled into the United States, authorizing him to be given to an unrelated, Louisiana-based sponsor who Garcia-Rodriguez claimed he knew from Guatemala. An HHS caseworker assigned to Garcia-Rodriguez and his sponsor repeatedly attempted to contact the two as early as March 2023 and officially closed the case in June 2023, just months before the attack. The migrant is believed to have then run away from his sponsor, joining “at least 85,000 UACs of whom the Biden-Harris administration has lost track” before going on to allegedly committing the attack. Garcia-Rodriguez’s alleged crime against the 11-year-old girl comes amid a broader wave of killings and crimes committed by illegal immigrants. Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student, was allegedly killed by Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela on February 22, 2024. There’s also the case of Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old girl who is believed to have been murdered by two adult illegal immigrants from Venezuela who entered the United States under the Biden-Harris administration. Over 10 million people have crossed the border under President Joe Biden, with an estimated 1.7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded since he was inaugurated in 2021. There were 415,000 total reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 under the Trump administration.

An intelligence officer with the U.S. Army pled guilty on Tuesday to selling critical military documents to an individual in Hong Kong believed to be tied to the Chinese government.  Korbein Schultz, 24, who was stationed at Fort Campbell along the Kentucky-Tennessee border, pled guilty to conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, exporting technical data related to defense articles without a license, conspiracy to export defense articles without a license, and bribery of a public official, the Justice Department announced. He faces up to 65 years in prison upon his sentencing in January.  “This defendant sold national defense information to a foreign actor and conspired to corrupt other members of our military,” said United States Attorney Henry Leventis. “In doing so, he violated his training and his oath as a member of the armed services and he compromised our national security.”  Robert Well of the FBI said that the incident was a reminder that hostile governments like China are trying to steal U.S. military secrets.  “Governments like China are aggressively targeting our military personnel and national security information and we will do everything in our power to ensure that information is safeguarded from hostile foreign governments,” he said.  According to the indictment, Schultz’s illegal activity began in June 2022 and continued until his arrest in March. One of his most recent duties was listed as “Classified Document Custodian,” the indictment against him noted.  Some of the information that Schultz sold included a document explaining how the U.S. would apply lessons learned from the Russia-Ukraine war to Taiwan, Air Force documents about the HH-60 helicopter, American intelligence on the Chinese military, rocket defense systems, and U.S. military exercises with South Korea and the Philippines.  Prosecutors previously said that he made around $42,000 from the transmission of the materials. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Schultz could get 10 years in prison for conspiracy to obtain and transmit national defense information, 20 years for exporting defense data to China without a license, 20 years for conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act, and another 15 years for the bribery charge.  “This Soldier swore an oath to faithfully discharge his duties, to include protecting national defense information. Not only did he fail in his sworn duty, but he placed personal gain above his duty to our country and disclosed information that could give an advantage to a foreign nation, putting his fellow Soldiers in jeopardy,” said Brigadier General Rhett Cox. The FBI and the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Command conducted the investigation into Schultz.

Two astronauts have been stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) since early June after their Boeing Starliner — the company’s first manned spacecraft — sprang leaks and lost multiple thrusters while approaching the space station. Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams were supposed to be in space for a total of eight days when they left Earth on June 5, but the Boeing Starliner’s mechanical issues have prolonged their stay, and NASA is still unsure of when the Americans will come back home. NASA has even suggested that Wilmore and Williams might have to stay at the space station until February, turning their eight-day mission into an eight-month stay. NASA has been considering greenlighting a return flight in the Boeing Starliner, and Boeing remains confident that its spacecraft could complete the trek back down to Earth, according to Live Science. Boeing said it would bring its ship back empty if NASA decides to leave the astronauts at the International Space Station instead of risking a return trip on the plagued Starliner. “It’s a fairly major discussion to decide whether or not we’re going to have crew on board for Starliner’s return,” Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, said at a news conference on Wednesday. “We’re expecting that the data analysis will be ready for a program board by the middle to end of next week, and will be ready for a flight readiness review around the end of next week.” The Boeing Starliner had issues even before it launched with Wilmore and Williams on board on June 5 when it sprang a leak in the propulsion-related plumbing. Five of Starliner’s thrusters also failed as it approached the space station. After conducting tests from the ground and in space, all but one of the spacecraft’s 28 thrusters appear to be working, the Associated Press reported. The thrusters are vital to keep the capsule in the right position during its deorbit burn. NASA is considering bringing Wilmore and Williams home on a SpaceX Dragon capsule, a spacecraft made by Elon Musk’s space exploration and rocket company. The Dragon capsule would usually go up to the space station with a four-man crew, but if seats are needed for Wilmore and Williams, it will carry two astronauts of Crew-9 to the ISS. Under that plan, Wilmore and Williams would have to remain at the ISS until February 2025 as that is when Crew-9 is scheduled to return on the SpaceX Dragon capsule. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “I do want to keep this in perspective, if Butch and Suni do not come home on Starliner, they will have about 8 months in orbit,” Russ DeLoach, NASA’s chief of safety and mission assurance, said at the Wednesday news conference. NASA assured that its astronauts are still healthy and safe aboard the ISS and have enough food and water to stay there for the long haul. Astronauts have stayed at the ISS for months at a time. Recently, Frank Rubio and his Russian crewmembers were at the ISS for over a year after their spacecraft was damaged by space junk after it had docked, the Associated Press reported. Russia sent an empty capsule to bring them back home in September 2023. The Boing Starliner fiasco adds another item to the list of recent issues plaguing the aerospace company. Earlier this year, a door plug flew off an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max shortly after it had taken off. More than seven months after the incident, Boeing still doesn’t know who was responsible for replacing the door plug before it flew off the Alaska Airlines plane, according to CNN. In a separate case, the aerospace company pled guilty last month to conspiracy to defraud the United States after it was charged over two crashes involving the company’s planes in which hundreds of people died.

On Tuesday, a federal district court issued an injunction against UCLA to stop the university from permitting and aiding anti-Semitic agitators blocking Jews from the campus. The injunction is the first in the nation against a university for permitting an anti-Semitic encampment. Yitzchok Frankel, Joshua Ghayoum, and Eden Shemuelian sued the regents of the University of California after the university helped anti-Israel activists erect encampments where they blocked Jewish students from going to class, the library, or other areas on campus. “With the knowledge and acquiescence of UCLA officials, the activists enforced what was effectively a ‘Jew Exclusion Zone,’ segregating Jewish students and preventing them from accessing the heart of campus, including classroom buildings and the main undergraduate library,” UCLA Professor Eugene Volokh wrote in Reason. “In many cases, the activists set up barriers and locked arms together, preventing those who refused to disavow Israel from passing through. To enter the Jew Exclusion Zone, a person had to make a statement pledging their allegiance to the activists’ views and have someone within the encampment ‘vouch’ for the individual’s fidelity to the activists’ cause.” “UCLA reinforced these zones—both by providing metal barriers and by sending away Jewish students—while taking no effective action to ensure safe passage for Jewish students,” Becket Law, which represented the Jewish students, noted. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi wrote, “In the year 2024, in the United States of America, in the State of California, in the City of Los Angeles, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith. This fact is so unimaginable and so abhorrent to our constitutional guarantee of religious freedom that it bears repeating, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith. UCLA does not dispute this. Instead, UCLA claims that it has no responsibility to protect the religious freedom of its Jewish students because the exclusion was engineered by third-party protesters. But under constitutional principles, UCLA may not allow services to some students when UCLA knows that other students are excluded on religious grounds, regardless of who engineered the exclusion.” “The injuries result when Plaintiffs are excluded from certain of UCLA’s ordinarily available programs, activities, and campus areas and UCLA still provides those programs, activities, and campus areas to other students knowing that Plaintiffs and students like them are excluded based on their religious exercise,” Scarsi added. The ruling will be implemented on August 15. UCLA is expected to appeal the ruling.