Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos recently announced Live With Kelly and Mark would relocate to a new studio after nearly four decades at the current location. The news was bittersweet for longtime host Kelly, who said her children grew up at the studio. Kelly Ripa recalled her early days on Live with People. “They came to work with me every day until they went to school,” she said. “They would go to All My Children with me, they would come here with me… we meant when we say they grew up in this building, in these four walls.” The move to the new studio will bring Live together with other ABC Disney shows at the Robert A. Iger Building at 7 Hudson Square in downtown Manhattan, but there is a bit of a catch. The studio isn’t quite ready. View this post on Instagram A post shared by LIVE with Kelly and Mark (@livekellyandmark) “Live With Mark And Kelly” Will Broadcast From A Temporary Home An insider shared with Page Six, “They’re basically going to be doing it from the cafeteria lobby… because they don’t have a studio.” This is only temporary, but it will be in a different spot when the show returns live. Another person said it’s a “gorgeous open sprawling space near the cafeteria.” “It’s amazing!” an insider insisted. “They’re just putting the final touches on the studio, but everyone is thrilled to be in this new Disney building,” they said. Kelly and Mark shared a touching farewell video on Instagram on April 1, captioning it, “Here’s to new memories.” Live With Kelly And Mark hosts’ daughter, Lola Consuelos commented, “This building, the people, and the family that was formed here made me who I am today. Some of my best memories have taken place here. I cannot believe this!!!I refuse to accept.” This story’s featured image is by LORENZO BEVILAQUA/Disney via Getty Images. The post “Live With Kelly And Mark” Is Currently Filming In An Unlikely Place appeared first on InspireMore.

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'It is hurting me and other girls'

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California Democrat lawmakers killed two bills meant to protect girls sports Tuesday despite pressure on Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom to limit girls and women’s sports in the state to biological females.   Just this week, the state of Maine lost education funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for violating federal law and President Donald Trump’s executive orders by continuing to allow males in female-only sports. If California does not comply, it could face similar penalties. Assembly Bill 89, introduced by Republican Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez, would amend the California Education Code to bar male students from girls interscholastic teams. Assembly Bill 844, introduced by Republican Assemblyman Bill Essayli, would amend the code to require that participation in sex-segregated school programs, athletic programs, and facility use be based on a student’s biological sex rather than his or her gender identity. The change would apply to K-12 programs and postsecondary education.   Both bills failed 6-2 along party lines in the Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism after hours of debate and public comment. Democrat Assemblyman Christopher Ward, the chair of the committee, opposed both pieces of legislation and called on his fellow committee members to do the same.  “I don’t think anybody should be gender-policing women and girls. … I do see this bill, AB 844, as an opportunity to invade individuals’ right to privacy, to run a fowl some of our nondiscrimination laws in the state. And really and importantly, it would decimate some of the public safety and well-being of all women,” Ward said before the vote for Essayli’s bill.   The legislation would have brought California in line with federal law under Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational programs and activities that receive federal funding. Trump issued his executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” in January, mandating that Title IX must be interpreted according to biological sex rather than the sex that someone chooses to identify as.   “The vast majority of Californians and Americans agree: Keep boys out of girls sports,” Essayli said in a statement on X after the vote. “Assembly Democrats are radically out of touch with commonsense Californians, and the voters will hold them accountable to restore justice and fairness in girls sports.”   Essayli resigned from the Assembly hours later after Trump tapped him to be the next U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.   The legislation came before the Assembly as the California Interscholastic Federation, the governing body for school sports in the state, and San Jose State University undergo an ongoing investigation from the federal government into their compliance with Title IX.  U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon issued a letter March 27 to Newsom, pressuring him to support the legislation and take a stand for women’s sports after he admitted on his “This is Gavin Newsom” podcast that the inclusion of males in women’s sports is “deeply unfair.”    “As secretary of education, I am officially asking you to inform this department whether you will remind schools in California to comply with federal law by protecting sex-separated spaces and activities,” McMahon said in the letter, in which she explicitly urged the governor to support Essayli’s bill.   Newsom told The Sacramento Bee Wednesday he did not pay attention to the committee hearing for the legislation. When asked if state law should restrict transgender athletes from playing in women’s sports, he did not give a direct answer.   “These kids just want to survive,” Newsom told CBS Sacramento in response to the question. “And so, the question you’re asking is the question we’ve been asking ourselves for months and haven’t been able to answer. What is that? How can you make this fair? And I haven’t been able to figure it out.”  Erin Friday, a registered Democrat who wrote AB 844 with her team from the Protect Kids California initiative, said the courts will decide the issue of protecting girls sports in California if legislators do not act. She said she expects the federal government to freeze federal education funding in California as it did earlier this week in the state of Maine.  “The same thing is going to happen in California,” Friday said. “I can guarantee it.”  The post California Democrats Kill Bills to Protect Girls Sports, Despite Pressure on Newsom appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Senate Republicans voted to repeal a Biden administration regulation pertaining to walk-in freezers and coolers Thursday, in a move they say will save small-business owners money. The resolution, H.J. Res. 24, passed 53-42 on a straight party-line vote. The Congressional Review Act resolution eliminates then-President Joe Biden’s 2024 limits on the energy use of walk-in coolers, which are used by many small businesses. It had passed the House 203-182 on March 27 on a mostly party-line vote. Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., who introduced the regulation on the House side, argued that the energy-efficiency standards were a source of financial strain for owners of pharmacies, stores, and restaurants, while providing little benefit.  ICYMI: Yesterday, the House passed my resolution, H.J.Res 24, which removes burdensome regulations on walk-in coolers and freezers. While this may seem small, it carries a one billion dollar price tag.Watch ? pic.twitter.com/UnSrHGbIwD— Rep. Stephanie Bice (@RepBice) March 28, 2025 “[The Department of Energy] estimates that the rule would carry a minimum price tag of nearly $1 billion, with minimal energy-usage reduction,” said Bice on the House floor in March. “This action [of repealing the rule] aligns with our broader commitment to roll back burdensome regulations that stifle economic growth and infringe upon individual freedoms,” she said. After the vote, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., applauded the resolution, calling it an “Easy ‘yes’ vote,” and fellow Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford also applauded it on X But Democrats have argued the rule is a waste of time. Rep. Sarah McBride, R-Del., the first transgender member of Congress, posted on X, “the absurdity never ends in a Republican-controlled House of Representatives.”  If you're wondering what the House of Representatives is voting on later today, it's legislation to repeal energy efficiency rules for commercial fridges and freezers that actually save small businesses and consumers money. The absurdity never ends. pic.twitter.com/XduNV36aUI— Congresswoman Sarah McBride (@Rep_McBride) March 27, 2025 Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., shouted, “You think that the American people voted for you to waste our time on refrigeration standards?” when the resolution was debated in the House. The economy is in chaos, the Defense Department is trying to cover up leaking war plans in a group chat, and Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling vital programs….and what is the GOP using precious Floor time on this week?Repealing refrigerator efficiency standards.That’s… pic.twitter.com/xMhgqnyDVN— Rep. Melanie Stansbury (@Rep_Stansbury) March 26, 2025 The resolution is another step in a broader Republican effort to undo a number of Biden administration regulations. Another example is the Natural Gas Tax Repeal Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 17. The post Senate Follows House in Killing Biden Reg Imposing Curbs on Energy Use of Walk-In Coolers appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights under President Joe Biden held multiple stakeholder meetings with leftist groups—including the Human Rights Campaign—while attempting to finalize its pro-transgender Title IX rules, new documents show. Between April 2023, when the civil rights office released its first draft of rules, and April 2024, when it released the rules that would be finalized in August, the office convened quarterly meetings with leaders of left-leaning groups that support gender ideology, according to documents obtained by Protect the Public’s Trust and exclusively given to The Daily Signal. The administration faced heavy pushback and delayed the rules. While the department scrapped the rules on Jan. 31 under President Donald Trump, the meetings shed light on which organizations influenced the process. “It’s not surprising that the Biden Department of Education’s Title IX re-write was so controversial that even they had to walk back parts of it when considering the outside special interests they looked to for advice,” Michael Chamberlain, director of the nonprofit Protect the Public’s Trust, told The Daily Signal in a statement Thursday. “Nor is it surprising considering the concierge-level service the department gave to teachers unions while it completely botched an effort to set up a parent engagement effort.” “Rather, it seems par for the course for an administration that outsourced policy to powerful allied special interests at agencies such as State, Justice, EPA, Interior, and any number of others that made the rules that governed the lives of the American public,” Chamberlain added. Protect the Public’s Trust obtained documents in 2023 showing that teachers unions—which also lean left—enjoyed immense access to the Department of Education even while the department scrapped its effort to engage with parents. Protect the Public’s Trust requested records under the Freedom of Information Act showing communications between certain outside organizations and key figures at the Office for Civil Rights, including its director, Catherine Lhamon, regarding Title IX. The new records included documents showing quarterly meetings involving left-leaning activist groups and the civil rights office. The first meeting, on May 12, 2023, included Maya Wiley, president and CEO at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Damon Hewitt, president and executive director at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP; Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, executive director at the LGBTQ activist group GLSEN; Louise Melling, director of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Center for Liberty at the ACLU; Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign; and Janai Nelson, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. (GLSEN originally stood for “Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network.”) PPT FOIA 2023-05-12 Meeting OCRDownload Each of these organizations supports gender ideology, the belief that a person’s internal sense of gender overrides his or her biological sex such that society must kowtow to the demands of a small minority. Critics note that this ideology allows men who claim to identify as female to compete in women’s sports; allows men to access women’s spaces like bathrooms, changing rooms, shelters, and prisons; and encourages kids to undergo experimental medical interventions that may leave them stunted, scarred, and infertile. Most also support critical race theory (the notion that America is systemically racist against black people and for white people), climate alarmism (the belief that humans burning fossil fuels will bring about global disaster), and the preference for technocratic government. Many of these groups came up in my research for my book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.” The book exposes how far-left activist groups, bankrolled by the Left’s dark money network, infiltrated and advised the federal government under Biden, using the bureaucracy to force their ideology on the American people. Former staff at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law went on to high positions in Biden’s Justice Department, such as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke. An ACLU immigration staffer helped advise Biden’s transition team on the Department of Homeland Security. The Human Rights Campaign, which uses a “Corporate Equality Index” to pressure companies to adopt pro-trans policies, released a “Blueprint for Positive Change” in 2020, and the Biden administration implemented at least 75% of it—including the Title IX rewrite. Another quarterly meeting, on Aug. 11, 2023, included some of the same names but also involved Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. The National Women’s Law Center supports gender ideology and opposes efforts to prevent men from competing in women’s sports. PPT FOIA 20230811 Title IXDownload The Dec. 6, 2023 meeting included most of the same people, with one new addition: Denise Stile Marshall, CEO of the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, an organization focused on helping children with disabilities. PPT FOIA 20231209 Title IX MeetingDownload The March 7, 2024 meeting included most of the same people, with the addition of Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League. The National Urban League, like most of the other organizations on the list, advocates for gender ideology, climate alarmism, and critical race theory. None of these meetings included conservative organizations or parental rights groups, which grew as a response to the mask mandates and school closures of the COVID-19 pandemic. The involvement of these far-left groups only further illustrates how woke nonprofits directed policy in the Biden administration. The post EXCLUSIVE: Biden Department of Education Met With Far-Left Groups While Discussing Pro-Trans Title IX Rewrite appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Trump Gives Public Schools 10-Days to Certify They Have Done Away with DEI

American political journalists Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen just debuted their latest book: “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House.” This soon-to-be bestseller exposes the cognitive state of President Biden during his time in office like no one has seen before. Insider access and extensive interviews with key political figures allowed Parnes and Allen to get the real scoop on Sleepy Joe — the one the White House and the media hid from the American people. Glenn Beck reveals some of the book’s biggest revelations. Perhaps the most shocking divulgence is that “by 2023, Joe Biden's allies were quietly preparing for ... his death in office.” According to the book, there was a “death pool roster that the White House had that Kamala Harris' team drew up listing the federal judges who might swear her in if his heart stops,” says Glenn. Other revelations include: “Fluorescent tape [marked] his path at public events to keep him from wandering off.” “They had a resident makeup artist on hand all the time — not just to make him up to enhance his appearance in case he goes on television but to mask the shell that he had become.” “On some days, Biden would endure the makeup ritual only then to cancel all of his briefings entirely and call it a day.” On one occasion, when Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) came to the White House to meet with the president, Biden “had no idea” who he was and had to be reminded of their previous interactions. Biden’s stepping down following the debate “was forced on him by Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi.” When he didn’t immediately endorse Kamala Harris, she called him and said, “Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi want an open primary; you got to endorse me." He agreed and endorsed Harris “just to screw Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama” for ousting him. “I want to know who sanctioned all of this?” says Glenn. “The aides knew it; all the leadership in the White House knew it; the people that applied the makeup knew it; the schedulers who cleared his calendar knew it.” Biden’s doctors and Jill Biden, his wife, certainly knew it, as well. So, “Why were no cameras allowed to capture it? Why didn't anyone say anything? Why were there no leaks?” Glenn asks, calling the cover-up an “act of treason” against the country. The press corps or rather “the press corpse” is largely to blame, he says. “They're just as useful as dead people.” To hear more revelations from “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House” and more of Glenn’s analysis, watch the clip above. Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Stand-up comedian Danny Polishchuk accurately predicted the bulk of President Trump's tariff plan months before it happened.The president shocked the world on Wednesday when he revealed his "Liberation Day" plans to slap reciprocal tariffs — which he detailed were the combined rates of tariffs and deficits — on dozens of countries across the globe.Trump's large, now-controversial chart included new penalties on most of America's major trading partners apart from Canada, such as the European Union, United Kingdom, China, Japan, Vietnam, and Taiwan.Back in January, though, Polishchuk predicted how Trump would apply the sweeping policies to global trading partners and was even able to accurately suggest some of the terminology that would be used in the media.What were his predictions?Polishchuk dedicated a segment on his podcast "Low Value Mail" to explain what he thought the president's strategy would be and how he felt the administration had plans to reshape the world's financial system in America's favor."He's gonna tariff every f**king country on earth," Polishchuk began. "[Trump] is trying to just totally redo the entire global financial system to benefit America, because the way that it's currently designed was to not benefit America," he continued. "America set it up specifically that way following World War II and wanted to help all these countries rebuild, especially after the Cold War and whatnot. [The policy] was not in the benefit of America. But at the time, America had something like 40-plus percent of the world's GDP, so it made a little more sense to do."The comedian, who revealed he has a degree in economics, said that the best weapon the United States could deploy would be "tariffing every f**king country on earth." He added, "If this works — this only applies to the Americans — if you live anywhere but America, it is gonna suck for you. But if you live in America, taxes are going way lower.""Nobody's ever seen such winning. The winning will be exponential," the comedian went on, channeling his inner Trump.The comic also stated that the term "Mar-a-Lago Accord" would start popping up in to the news, which referred to policy plans from the administration relating to reforming global trade and economic imbalances."You're gonna be hearing this term, the Mar-a-Lago Accord. You're gonna be hearing this. ... He is going to literally rewrite the entire global financial system." — (@) Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States could no longer continue with its "policy of unilateral economic surrender" and pay other countries' deficits. The president blamed military funding, theft of intellectual property, and the manipulation of U.S. currency.Currency manipulation is exactly what Polishchuk was referring to, which includes foreign investors buying U.S. Treasury securities to sway the American dollar.As for the Mar-a-Lago Accord, the term was virtually unused back when Polishchuk referred to it in January. Google Trends showed that interest in the term was a flat line until mid-March, when outlets like Investing.com, Bloomberg, and others started to catch on.Even Chinese outlet the South China Morning Post described the accord in April as one that had the potential to "reshape America’s role in the global economy."'It's out there for anybody who wants to find it.'How did he know?Polishchuk attributed his predictions to a document called "A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System" by Stephen Miran. Miran, Trump's top financial consultant as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, was appointed by the president-elect in November 2024. Miran was a Treasury Department adviser during Trump's first term and previously worked for Hudson Bay Capital, where he published the aforementioned document last November."The craziest thing is everybody for the last three months has been speculating, trying to figure out what Trump has been doing. It's been in this paper the whole time," Polishchuk told Blaze News. "It's out there for anybody who wants to find it."The stand-up comedian said he fully expected the document to be pulled down, but was shocked that even as Trump's tariff plan was being widely discussed in the media, he did not see many outlets citing it.Polishchuk said he now expects, based on the blueprint, for the Trump administration to start charging "user fees" on U.S. Treasuries to prevent currency manipulation in the coming months.As for results, Polishchuk said the tariffs already seemed to be working.For example, Reuters reported on Thursday that General Motors had already planned to increase production in Indiana after Trump added a 25% tariff on auto imports.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!