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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Under new federal guidelines‚ an employer would be guilty of harassment for requiring someone to use a restroom that comports with his or her biological sex‚ or for referring to someone by a pronoun the person doesn’t want used. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published the guidance on Monday. The guidance passed on a 3-2 vote‚ along party lines on Friday‚ a source familiar with the EEOC confirmed. “Harassing conduct based on sexual orientation or gender identity includes … repeated and intentional use of a name or pronoun inconsistent with the individual’s known gender identity (misgendering) or the denial of access to a bathroom or other sex-segregated facility consistent with the individual’s gender identity‚” the new enforcement guidance says.  The guidelines would affect most employers‚ private or public. The EEOC announced last fall it a proposed update of its harassment policy affecting to include sexual orientation and gender identity rules. This prompted opposition from 20 state attorneys general‚ led by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. In November‚ the attorneys general contended what was then the proposed “Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace” updates would threaten the First Amendment rights of employers‚ employees‚ and possibly customers.  “Here‚ the proposed guidance would require employers to affirm or convey to employees and customers—often against religious conviction or deeply held personal belief—messages that a person can be a gender different from his or her biological sex‚ that gender has no correlation to biology‚ or that they endorse the use of pronouns like ‘they/them‚’ ‘xe/xym/xyrs‚’ or ‘bun/bunself‚” the letter from the attorneys general says. “This mandate flouts First Amendment freedoms of religion and speech—yet EEOC rejects any role for accommodation of contrary religious beliefs or speech‚” the attorneys general add. “Further‚ EEOC’s for-cause insulation from direct presidential supervision unconstitutionally blurs the lines of accountability for this overhaul of workplaces nationwide.” In 2021‚ EEOC Chairwoman Charlotte Burrows attempted‚ in a statement‚ to unilaterally include these actions under harassment without public comment or a vote by the full commission. However‚ a federal court in Tennessee enjoined the guidance from going forward in 2022. A separate federal court in Texas vacated Burrow’s guidance altogether. The commission did not appeal the rulings. Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race‚ color‚ religion‚ sex‚ and national origin. It applies to any employer with more than 15 employees. “Harassment‚ both in-person and online‚ remains a serious issue in America’s workplaces‚” said Burrows‚ a Democrat‚ of the new guidelines in a public statement issued Monday afternoon. “The EEOC’s updated guidance on harassment is a comprehensive resource that brings together best practices for preventing and remedying harassment and clarifies recent developments in the law.”  Joining Burrows to vote in favor of the updated harassment guidance were two other Democrat commissioners‚ Jocelyn Samuels and Kalpana Kotagal. The two Republican members‚ Keith Sonderling and Andrea Lucas‚ voted against the guidance. Women’s rights are under attack by the EEOC‚ said Lucas in a statement issued Monday.  “Biological sex is real‚ and it matters. Sex is binary (male and female) and is immutable‚” Lucas said in a public statement. She added‚ “It is not harassment to acknowledge these truths—or to use language like pronouns that flow from these realities‚ even repeatedly. Relatedly‚ each sex has its own‚ unique privacy interests‚ and women have additional safety interests that warrant certain single-sex facilities at work and other spaces outside the home. It is neither harassment nor discrimination for a business to draw distinctions between the sexes in providing single-sex bathrooms or other similar facilities which implicate these significant privacy and safety interests.”  In 2020‚ the Supreme Court held in the case of Bostock v. Clayton County‚ that a firm violates Title VII if it fires an employee “simply for being … transgender.” But‚ the Republican state attorneys general argued in the November letter‚ “Bostock gives no license to these and other of EEOC’s novel proposals.” “Nor‚ in all events‚ can EEOC permissibly require these deeply controversial gender-identity accommodations without express congressional authorization—authorization not found in Title VII‚” the letter continued. The guidance does not carry the same weight as a law passed by Congress or a regulation imposed by an agency. However‚ the guidance essentially states the position of the EEOC. This means an employee inclined to claim harassment regarding a restroom or pronoun dispute would have the guidance to refer to. Also‚ under private litigation‚ a plaintiff could refer to the formal position of a federal agency. “If you still believed that the Biden administration’s pedal-to-the-metal advancing of gender ideology is all about freedom and individual rights‚ this new EEOC ‘guidance’ should dispel that myth‚” Jay Richards‚ director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life‚ Religion‚ and Family at The Heritage Foundation‚ told The Daily Signal. (The Heritage Foundation founded The Daily Signal.) “Employers may now find themselves in legal hot water if they prefer to use language‚ including pronouns‚ and preserve private spaces that comfort with biological reality rather than the bizarre canons of gender ideology‚” Richards continued. “We’re dealing with a totalitarian ideology that wants to destroy the present order. The sooner normal people understand that‚ the sooner we can dispatch this ideology to the history books.” The EEOC website describes guidance as “official agency policy and explains how the laws and regulations apply to specific workplace situations.” This story was updated to include comments from commission members of the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission. The post ‘Harassment’: Feds Impose Trans Agenda on Employers for Pronouns‚ Bathrooms appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Pro-Palestine protesters have defaced a statue of George Washington on the George Washington University campus in Washington‚ D.C.   The statue is draped in a Palestinian flag‚ while a black and white scarf is wrapped around the statue’s neck. Stickers reading “End the Genocide Free Palestine‚” “The Students United Will Never Be Divided‚” and “Anti-Fascist Action‚” are dotted around Washington’s bronze body. A pink sticker reading “Rise Love Resist” covers Washington’s face. “Genocidal Warmongering University” is written in paint across the granite base of the statue and a portion of the statue’s plaque.   Protesters have draped a Palestinian flag around a statue of George Washington on the GWU campus in DC.“Genocidal Warmongering University” is written in paint on the base of the statue. pic.twitter.com/ks3H9HuRZl— Virginia Allen (@Virginia_Allen5) April 29‚ 2024 The anti-Israel protest began Thursday. Dozens of tents litter University Yard on campus around the statue where students are working on laptops‚ taking naps‚ and talking in small groups. Some tents sit empty and appeared open for students to take up residence.   &;#63;A quick tour of the pro-Palestine encampment on the campus of George Washington University in D.C. pic.twitter.com/rHrj1j5AG1— Virginia Allen (@Virginia_Allen5) April 29‚ 2024 The protest was calm late Monday morning‚ but was intense around 1 a.m. Eastern Monday morning when students tore down the metal barricades authorities had in place around the encampment. The barricades now sit in the center of the encampment with two Palestinian flags waving over the pile.   In a statement Monday morning‚ the university said “protesters from the encampment demonstration located adjacent to GW property breached and dismantled the barriers used to secure GW’s University Yard. This group of approximately 200 protesters from across the DMV‚ including professional organizers‚ activists‚ and university students‚ have joined the unauthorized encampment on our campus.”   SEE: Metal barricades are piled in a heap in the center of the pro-Palestine encampment at George Washington University. pic.twitter.com/NTX6Ff3uKv— Virginia Allen (@Virginia_Allen5) April 29‚ 2024 The statement went on to warn that the removal of the barricades around the encampment “is an egregious violation of community trust and goes far beyond the boundaries of free expression and the right to protest.”   The university told the public it is “committed to implementing the safest resolution possible‚” adding that “additional security resources” have been arranged to “respond appropriately to this escalation.”   About a half dozen police officers were visible at the encampment just before noon Monday.   The post SEE: Statue of George Washington Defaced at DC University Bearing President’s Name appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties‚ subscribe to Reclaim The Net. According to the US-based healthcare colossus‚ Kaiser Permanente‚ an extensive amount of customer information was likely shared with companies like Microsoft and Google‚ among others. A whopping 13.4 million existing and former members were notified of the situation‚ in which potentially personal information may have been unwittingly passed to these third-party vendors via Kaiser’s own web and mobile platforms. The Kaiser corporation revealed that it was the implementation of third-party tracking and analytics tools that led to the unforeseen information leak. It’s only recently that they have understood the full scope of data delivered by this embedded tech to third-party entities whenever users were active on their digital interfaces. Highlighting the severity of this leak‚ earlier in the month‚ Kaiser Permanente officially reported a security lapse to the US Department of Health and Human Services‚ as was reported by TechCrunch. This disclosure evidenced the scale of the impact‚ with a massive 13.4 million data leaks. The data that potentially found its way into the hands of third parties‚ ranged from IP addresses‚ names‚ login status to Kaiser services‚ interaction history on Kaiser’s web and mobile platforms‚ and even search terms used in their online health dictionary. Kaiser‚ however‚ was keen to suggest that super-sensitive data—usernames‚ passwords‚ Social Security numbers‚ financial details‚ and credit card numbers—had not been accessed by the third parties. Related: Meta is sued over data collection on hospital patients  Having detected and addressed the situation‚ Kaiser‚ assembled in Oakland‚ California‚ took steps to eliminate the problematic tech from its platforms and implemented additional measures to prevent any repetition of such privacy breaches. The post Kaiser Data Breach Exposes 13.4 Million Users’ Info to Google‚ Microsoft‚ and Others appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Scientists have discovered huge remains of a snake in the Indian state of Gujarat: it can now be recognized as the largest in the history of the world. The length of the reptile could reach fifteen meters (50ft)‚ while its weight was close to a ton. The find was given a symbolic name – Vasuki indicus (in honor of the huge snake Vasuki from Indian myths). The ancient snake was part of Madtsoiidae‚ an extinct group of primarily Gondwanan land snakes with a temporal range spanning about 100 million years from the Late Cretaceous epoch to the Late Pleistocene. An artist’s impression of Vasuki indicus. Credit: sci.news “The Madtsoiidae family existed for around 100 million years from the Late Cretaceous to the Late Pleistocene and lived in a broad geographical range including Africa‚ Europe‚ and India‚” said Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee paleontologists Debajit Datta and Sunil Bajpai. “Vasuki indicus represents a lineage of large madtsoiids that originated in the Indian subcontinent and spread via southern Europe to Africa during the Eocene‚ approximately 56 to 34 million years ago.” “This is comparable in size to the longest known snake to have ever lived‚ the extinct Titanoboa‚” the researchers said. “The large size of Vasuki indicus made it a slow-moving‚ ambush predator akin to an anaconda.” “Biogeographic considerations‚ seen in conjunction with its inter-relationship with other Indian and North African madtsoiids‚ suggest that Vasuki indicus represents a relic lineage that originated in India‚” they added. “Subsequent India-Asia collision at 50 million years ago led to intercontinental dispersal of this lineage from the subcontinent into North Africa through southern Eurasia.” “Recovery of additional material and new species‚ including large-sized forms‚ may provide further insights into madtsoiid systematics and biogeography.” The study was published in the journal Scientific Reports. The post Snakes as long as a five-story building once lived in India appeared first on Anomalien.com.

An Arkansas teacher was arrested Wednesday for allegedly sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy she met at a church beginning in 2020.  Reagan Gray‚ a volunteer at the Immanuel Baptist Church‚ allegedly sent nude photos to the young boy after hunting down his cell number on the church’s WhatsApp group. Gray‚ 26‚ was a teacher at the Little Rock Christian Academy and volunteered at the Immanuel Baptist Church. The boy didn’t attend the school‚ but was part of the church's student ministry where Gray volunteered. According to local news THV11‚ the child’s parents discovered text messages on their son's phone in 2020. They told the senior pastor about the abuse and he had Gray removed from the student ministry and required her to undergo counseling from the church. At the time‚ Gray maintained that her relationship with the boy wasn't &;quot;physical.&;quot;  That didn’t last long. According to the same report‚ Gray returned to the ministry and continued pursuing the relationship with the boy‚ which she later confessed was “sexual in nature.” According to local news KARK‚ the boy and Gray met in her car and apartment. She allegedly sent nude photos to him daily and expected some to be sent in return. Mirror reported that Gray performed oral sex on the boy but did not have intercourse with him “in order for [him] to stay pure.” Gray was charged with a single felony count of sexual assault of a teenager after turning herself in to Little Rock police this month. She was released on a $20‚000 bond and her court date is set for June 17. Oddly enough‚ former president Bill Clinton had once praised the church where Gray and her victim met. Back in 1993‚ Clinton‚ who was born in Arkansas and lived for a time in Little Rock‚ tearfully thanked the congregation just days before starting his first term as president. Related: Calif. Teacher Pleads No-Contest to Raping 14-Year-Old Student “Were it not for this church…I believe it would be virtually impossible (that) I would be going to Washington next week as president. And I am absolutely certain I would be less prepared for the job‚” Clinton told parishioners at the time.  Hate to say it but‚ with a man like Bill Clinton praising a congregation for his campaign success given his second term's...er...less-than-&;quot;happy&;quot; ending‚ it’s not surprising that another alleged sexual abuser just cropped up in the same circle. Follow us on Twitter/X: MRCTV's @Schineman joins @AlisonOAN to talk John Legend &; Hillary Clinton being drug out by the media to bash Trump. pic.twitter.com/YvSKUOmEAm — MRCTV (@mrctv) April 25‚ 2024

The New York Post has unearthed some important information about some of the anti-Semitic pro-Hamas campus protests across the nation.  In an April 26 article‚ New York Post reporter Isabel Vincent broke down not only the funding behind anti-Israel groups involved in campus protests but also revealed that some of the activists were trained to lead such protests by a Soros-funded group. “At three colleges‚ the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are ‘fellows’ of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR)‚” Vincent wrote.  She added‚ “USCPR provides up to $7‚800 for its community-based fellows and between $2‚880 and $3‚660 for its campus-based ‘fellows’ in return for spending eight hours a week organizing ‘campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.’ They are trained to ‘rise up‚ to revolution.’” Vincent went on to say that the USPCR received $300‚000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations. Soros has a long history of funding anti-Israel causes. In 2007‚ the leftist billionaire made an absurd comment about the terrorist group‚ saying that America and Israel “must open the door to Hamas.” Soros also gave $525‚000 to Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) between 2017 and 2022 and $350‚000 to JVP Action.  Recently‚ Soros-funded anti-Israel groups JVP and MPower Change organized protests of a deal between Google and the Israeli government. During the same month‚ Soros-funded groups mounted a campaign to sanction a unit of the Israel Defense Forces‚ as Israel battles Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.   SEE MORE: Fox Business Host Maria Bartiromo on Soros-funded groups training anti-Israel activists Soros did not react well to the expos&;eacute;. In a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter)‚ the Open Society Foundations accused the New York Post of continuing “its practice of mixing distortion and unsubstantiated insinuations in attacking George and Alex Soros and the Open Society Foundations.” Conservatives are under attack&;#33; Contact ABC News (818) 460-7477‚ CBS News (212) 975-3247 and NBC News (212) 664-6192 and demand they report on Soros’s funding of anti-Israel causes.