Late in what was otherwise a surprisingly respectful White House press briefing on Wednesday afternoon, former conservative reporter-turned-CNN liberal Kaitlan Collins disgustingly claimed to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s comments hours earlier about the press fixating negative stories about the Iran mean the administration doesn’t want the media to cover the upcoming dignified transfer for six American heroes lost thus far in the war. Collins — with her inability to show little emotion besides robotic annoyance — huffed: “You just mentioned the President is going to attend the dignified transfer for these families. Given what Secretary Hegseth said this morning, is it the position of this administration that the press should not prominently cover the deaths of U.S. service members?” Shocked as anyone would be, Leavitt made the obvious distinction between honoring the fallen and the reality that the administration believes “the press in this room and the press across the country should accurately report on the success of Operation Epic Fury and the damage it is doing to the rogue Iranian regime that has threatened the lives of every single American in this room.” WATCH: @PressSec @KarolineLeavitt absolutely destroys a disgusting series of gotcha questions from former conservative reporter-turned-CNN liberal, @KaitlanCollins... Collins: “You just mentioned the President is going to attend the dignified transfer for these families. Given… pic.twitter.com/QJjFwITZhg — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 Collins continued to be purposefully dense: “But Secretary Hegseth was complaining that it was front page news about these six service members who were killed.” Leavitt stated another obvious point that this was “not what the secretary said” or “meant and you know it.” “You know, you’re being disingenuous,” she added and tried to continue with the claim America’s “never had a secretary of defense who cares more” about the soldiers than Hegseth, but Collins wouldn’t let her finish and read the quote aloud. “He said, ‘when a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it’s front page news. I get it. The press only wants to make the President look bad.’ As you know, we cover the deaths of U.S. service members under every president,” Collins groused. Leavitt then dropped the hammer on the CNN tool by telling her “[t]he press does only want to make the President look bad” and “especially you and especially CNN” (click “expand”): LEAVITT: The press does only want to make the President look bad. That’s a — that’s a fact — especially you. No, listen to me, especially you and especially CNN and the secretary of defense cares deeply about our warfighters and our men and women in uniform. He travels all across this country to meet with them, to connect with them, and your network has hardly ever probably reported on that. You also had the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Chairman Caine, who’s a brave patriot standing alongside the secretary at the Pentagon this morning, again expressing his condolences to these families. And I just told you that the President of the United States will be attending their dignified transfer. COLLINS: But we’re going to cover that dignified transfer. LEAVITT: So please, so please — COLLINS: That’s not making the President look bad. That’s showcasing that. LEAVITT: — so — and we — we expect you to cover that as you should. COLLINS: And we did it in his first term and under Biden. LEAVITT: We expect you to cover that as you should, Kaitlan. But you and your network know that you take every single thing this administration says and tries to use it to make the President look bad. That is an objective fact. COLLINS: I don’t think covering troop deaths is trying to make the President look bad. LEAVITT: If you’re trying to — if you’re trying to argue right now that CNN’s overwhelming coverage is not negative of President Donald Trump, I think the American people would tend to agree — COLLINS: I don’t think covering troop deaths is [inaudible]. LEAVITT: — and your ratings would tend to disagree with that as well[.] In reality, Hegseth was making an allusion to the doom porn the press have been trigger happy to deploy in the early days of the war (such as here from Tuesday night on ABC). A few minutes prior to Collins, The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg took issue with Leavitt becoming the latest member of the administration to walk through the last 47 years of bloody U.S.-Iranian relations as mere “grievances” and not provide, in his mind, a single “imminent threat” Iran posed to the United States for justifying the war. Leavitt ripped this line of attack, saying “I completely reject the premise of your question” (click “expand”): .@Independent’s @AndrewFeinberg: “At the top of the briefing, you listed a long list of grievances against the Iranian government, going back to the takeover of the embassy in 79, barracks bombing in the 80s, etc. But no one from the administration has laid out the imminent… pic.twitter.com/WElM6CzBK6 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 I completely reject the premise of your question. You have had the President of the United States, the Secretary of War, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State. And now, I am out here today to explain to you exactly what led the President to make the decision to launch Operation Epic Fury, and President Trump does not make these decisions in a vacuum. This decision to launch this operation was based on a cumulative effect of various direct threats that Iran posed to the United States of America, and the President's feeling, based on fact, that Iran does pose an imminent and direct threat to the United States of America, based on the fact that they are the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, based on the fact that they were rapidly and aggressively building up their ballistic missile program to give themselves immunity within their country alongside their navy, so that inside their country they could continue to create nuclear weapons and nuclear bombs, which would, of course, pose a risk to Americans in the region. And even Americans one day here at home. And then another point on this is the president found that through these extensive, exhaustive failed negotiations with Iran, that they were hell bent on death and destruction. So, again, the President was not going to be just another president on a very long list who sat back and stood by and passed the buck of this direct threat to the next administration. The President had a feeling, again, based on fact, that Iran was going to strike. The United States, was going to strike our assets in the region, and he made a determination to launch Operation Epic Fury based on all of those reasons, and I would like the media to actually report on all of them, rather than just picking soundbites from one person in this administration and saying, oh, they're contradicting the other person. No. Again, these decisions are not made in a vacuum. They are made by the President's feeling that Iran was going to strike the United States and our assets in the region, and he was not going to sit back and watch that happen. The determination was made that the president was going to strike first alongside Israel and that has obviously been proven to be the right decision and an effective one at that. Rewinding to the beginning, the “new media seat” recipient was TBN’s Erick Stakelbeck and then NBC’s Garrett Haake leveled a challenging but substantive question (i.e. the kind Collins and the CNN trolls should try more often: NBC’s @GarrettHaake: “Axios, I think, was the first to report this morning, this phone call between the President and Prime Minister Netanyahu saying that Netanyahu had given us this information about where the ayatollah would be and that he'd be with these deputies on Saturday.… pic.twitter.com/5uctCPtXrZ — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich came up after a Haake follow-up and she focused on the Americans stranded in the Middle East and the impact the war has on gas prices: JACQUI TIME: “Obviously, seeing the update from the State Department on the 17,500 Americans that have already come back, including some 8,000 just yesterday, there are still 6,000 that are looking to get out, as I understand it. And just in the context of what you just told… pic.twitter.com/Xz6bgS6OYA — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 Fox’s @JacquiHeinrich: “And then one follow up just on how people might be experiencing this at home with respect to the economy and the cost of oil spiking, is there a need to start those Navy escorts in the Strait of Hormuz now to sort of blunt the impact to people, and also… pic.twitter.com/SwfOWOGqlt — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 CBS’s Nancy Cordes tried to trap Leavitt on this liberal narrative that Trump has unnecessarily stranded Americans a la Joe Biden in Afghanistan. Of course, Leavitt repeatedly explained there had been repeated warnings (along with what she told Heinrich in the second video above): CBS’s @NancyCordes: “The President said yesterday there wasn't time to make evacuation plans because this all happened so quickly, given how critical the President has been of the chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan by the last administration five years ago, why wasn't there more… pic.twitter.com/NIgjxEJBkE — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 CBS’s @NancyCordes: “But Americans who called the State Department hotline as recently as last night were being told, we can't help you. You have to make your own plans.”@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “Well, the line was updated, and I expect every single person in this room to… pic.twitter.com/ntOnqS10Zp — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 CBS’s @NancyCordes: “Do you have any details on how many charter flights have been able to get out of the region so far with Americans on board?@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “I don't have an exact count for you, but I know that we're working on chartering many flights as soon as… pic.twitter.com/4Mnz0QWwyA — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 Skipping ahead, New York Times reporter Shawn McCreesh asked whether “the United States airstrike a girls elementary school in kill 175 people”: .@NYTimes’s @ShawnMcCreesh: “Did the United States airstrike a girls elementary school in kill 175 people?”@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “Not that we know of, Sean. And the Department of War is investigating this matter. And I would just tell you very strongly, the United States… pic.twitter.com/UVkU6u5kOW — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 On an important, non-Iran-related topic, our friend Reagan Reese of the Daily Caller brought up the SAVE Act: .@DailyCaller’s @ReaganReese_: “Prior to the Iran conflict, the SAVE Act was really the focus of the news cycle. Is the SAVE Act still a priority for the administration?”@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “Absolutely.” Reese: “Will you just provide an update on the administration's… pic.twitter.com/tzEbsODfeF — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 Remarkably, there was only one question about the U.S. military operations Tuesday in Ecuador and it came in the last question of the entire briefing from Washington Examiner’s Christian Datoc: .@DCExaminer’s @TocRadio: “First, what can you tell us about the military operation in Ecuador? And then secondly, is the President considering invoking the Defense Production Act to boost munitions stockpiles while we are in this conflict?”@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “It’s not… pic.twitter.com/JChS37Kotg — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 To see the relevant transcript from the March 4 briefing (including even more questions), click here.

With former co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck filling in for co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin as she’s out on maternity leave, ABC’s The View finally had something they’d been missing since Meghan McCain left: an actual conservative that was willing and able to call the cast out on their hypocrisies. And on Wednesday’s episode, Hasselbeck had them in a tizzy when she called out their hypocrisy on border security when the studio has security and their aversion to masks on ICE when they wanted everyone masked during COVID. Early in the episode, the show was looking to take swipes and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem following her congressional hearing the previous day. Hasselbeck drew outrage from the permanent cast when she called out their hypocrisy for supporting loose borders and immigration practices, despite the fact the studio they were broadcasting from had security and the audience was verified: We need a strong border especially now with our current global situation. And I believe that you may say you don't want border control and you're against ICE, but I actually don't believe you in your daily lives. How many people in the audience here had to go through security, and to get right here. Raise your hand, just be honest. [Cuts to shot of the audience. Some raise their hand, most don’t] Otherwise, you go to jail, I guess for illegal trespassing. Right? This is an authorized audience. They had to go through security to get through the border to get right here to just hear us talk. We need strong borders more than ever right now. We are being infiltrated -   Elisabeth Hasselbeck calls out The View's hypocrisy on wanting open borders by pointing out their audience had to do through security and would be trespassing otherwise. pic.twitter.com/0HIPX0rc77 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 4, 2026   “But we’re not on the border when Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered and death is not a mistake!” co-host Sunny Hostin started shrieking; possibly opening up ABC and Disney to liability by accusing two ICE agents of a crime they were not adjudicated as committing. To counter Hostin’s shouting, Hasselbeck noted that “I hate the fact that people are dying in this” and her “heart actually bleeds for this.” She also said her heart “also bleeds for Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Moran, Matthew Dennis, Sarah Ruett, Ivory Smith, all killed at the hands of illegal immigration.” Names often ignored and over looked by The View. The next hypocrisy Hasselbeck called out took aim at how they were demanding ICE agents not wear masks (to keep leftist extremists from Doxxing them and threating their families), when The View and the Democrats wanted everyone masked during COVID: GOLDBERG: If somebody come at me with a mask on running and to talk about ‘hey, and didn't show me cop.’ Um-hm. HASSELBECK: This is the party of masks. You guys forced masks on everybody in the United States -- GOLDBERG: I didn't do anything. HASSELBECK: I don't want to hear that you can't see my face. “I think a public health crisis is a little bit different,” chided Hostin, who also ridiculously claimed illegals paid more taxes than Americans. “That was a lie,” Hasselbeck shot back.   Whoopi whines about masked ICE agents and Hasselbeck calls out how the show and the Dems wanted everyone masked during COVID (the cast and the audience did not like that truth bomb): GOLDBERG: If somebody come at me with a mask on running and to talk about hey, and didn't show… pic.twitter.com/g6jKWyCd3N — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 4, 2026   Hasselbeck also annoyed moderator Whoopi Goldberg by calling out how Presidents Obama and Biden had failed to fix illegal immigration. Goldberg flat out refused to discuss their role in perpetuating decades of problems: HASSELBECK: Yes, the how matters. Yes, and it was done without a how during the Biden administration and Obama. GOLDBERG: Here's the thing. Let's take Obama and Biden out of here because this is -- [makes dramatic movements to mime pushing them out of the way] [Applause] - let's move them. Goldberg also didn’t want to hear the facts of how Biden’s border policies failed, shouting over Hasselbeck: GOLDBERG: Because, you know, Joe Biden, I remember during the - the speech to the nation said I -- we have a good border plan that is bipartisan. HASSELBECK: It failed. GOLDBERG: No! It didn't fail! The Republicans were told by you-know-who, don't do this, block this.   After the commercial break, Whoopi suddenly wants secure borders: "Welcome back. So, I was just -- I was going to say that one of the things that I think everybody in the nation wants is they want tight borders. They want people who are not good for the country out of the… pic.twitter.com/JvkfB0JwzJ — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 4, 2026   Yes, Whoopi That’s how it failed to get passed. While Hasselbeck would only be back with The View for a short time, she was leaving many yarning for a permanent, real conservative woman to put the liberal ladies in their place. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View March 4, 2026 11:05:49 a.m. Eastern (…) ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Yes, there are mistakes made. But I think if Kristi Noem were up for promotion right now and she put forward the statistics that zero illegals released into the U.S. for 10 months straight have not crossed. Okay? That nearly 3 million aliens have left the United States. That we have the lowest murder rate in 125 years. That fentanyl trafficking is down 56 percent -- JOY BEHAR: Wait a second. HASSELBECK: - at the border. And daily counters have gone down 96 percent. Hang on one second. We need a strong border especially now with our current global situation. And I believe that you may say you don't want border control and you're against ICE, but I actually don't believe you in your daily lives. How many people in the audience here had to go through security, and to get right here. Raise your hand, just be honest. [Cuts to shot of the audience. Some raise their hand, most don’t] Otherwise, you go to jail, I guess for illegal trespassing. Right? This is an authorized audience. They had to go through security to get through the border to get right here to just hear us talk. We need strong borders more than ever right now. We are being infiltrated - [Crosstalk] Behar: But Elisabeth, can I give you a stat- SUNNY HOSTIN: But we’re not on the border when Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered and death is not a mistake! (…) 11:09:06 a.m. Eastern HASSELBECK: I hate the fact that people are dying in this. My heart actually bleeds for this. It also bleeds for Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Moran, Matthew Dennis, Sarah Ruett, Ivory Smith, all killed at the hands of illegal immigration. This needs a fix. But it needs a fix now. But let me tell you - HAINES: The how matters. HASSELBECK: Yes, the how matters. Yes, and it was done without a how during the Biden administration and Obama. BEHAR: But she's made it worse. She's made it worse you have to admit that. GOLDBERG: Here's the thing. Let's take Obama and Biden out of here because this is -- [Applause] - let's move them. Because, you know, Joe Biden, I remember during the - the speech to the nation said I -- we have a good border plan that is bipartisan. HASSELBECK: It failed. GOLDBERG: No! It didn't fail! The Republicans were told by you-know-who, don't do this, block this. (…) 11:16:18 a.m. Eastern GOLDBERG: I guess my point is -- I guess my point is there have been efforts made by both sides to figure out how to do this. This is not the way to -- to round people up the way that they do. And you're right. If somebody come at me with a mask on running and to talk about ‘hey, and didn't show me cop.’ Um-hm. HASSELBECK: This is the party of masks. You guys forced masks on everybody in the United States -- GOLDBERG: I didn't do anything. HASSELBECK: I don't want to hear that you can't see my face. I just can't. I can't. I love you, but I can't. I love you, but I can't. GOLDBERG: I now that you can't. HOSTIN: I think a public health crisis is a little bit different. HASSELBECK: That was a lie. GOLDBERG: I was going to say that's a whole different thing. (…)

As the U.S. and Israel war against Iran enters Day 4, the PBS News Hour continues to rely on coverage sympathetic to the murderous regime pro-regime from “special correspondent” Reza Sayah. Reza Sayah: ….just another intense, unnerving, frightening day of airstrikes here in the capital, Tehran. And it just continues to be an astonishing scene, seeing these jet fighters, hearing them zoom ahead and then hearing these earth-shaking explosions followed by thick plumes of smoke, the most intense air raids taking place overnight from about midnight to 2:00 a.m. Then it was a quiet morning, and then, during the afternoon hours in broad daylight, more airstrikes. When asked by co-anchor Amna Nawaz if reports of Iranians "celebrating in the streets and toppling monuments" could be a sign of "a larger protest brewing?" Sayah again took Tehran’s side in the propaganda war, pointing to the apparent dearth of mass public defiance while barely noting the deadly danger still posed by Iranian military troops to street protesters. Sayah: At this point, we're not. Obviously when the death of the supreme leader was announced, there were pockets of celebrations throughout the country. But millions of others came out to mourn his death. The bottom line is, Iran is a country of 90 million people. These are 90 million voices. Are there many people among this population that didn't like the supreme leader, that despised him? Indeed, there are. But there's also millions of people that despise the United States and Israel more, especially with this war. And there's other Iranians who are simply confused. They feel helpless. They feel under attack and they want some stability. So that's the indication of this uncertainty that exists right now. Again, at this point, no sign of any mass protests, mass uprising and no indication of an organized opposition with a clear leader. If in the coming days, it so happens that people come out, it is very likely that armed security forces are going to be waiting for them. They're aware of that possibility. Since the war begin, Sayah's X account has exclusively reposted pro-regime propaganda, including from Trita Parsi, founder and former president of the National Iranian American Council, who is openly sympathetic to the Iran regime, or at least what is left of it. A transcript is available, click “Expand.” PBS News Hour 3/3/26 Amna Nawaz: Let's turn now to our special correspondent in Tehran, Reza Sayah. Reza, more airstrikes on this now fourth day of war. Tell us about what you saw today. Reza Sayah: Yes, just another intense, unnerving, frightening day of airstrikes here in the capital, Tehran. And it just continues to be an astonishing scene, seeing these jet fighters, hearing them zoom ahead and then hearing these earth-shaking explosions followed by thick plumes of smoke, the most intense air raids taking place overnight from about midnight to 2:00 a.m. Then it was a quiet morning, and then, during the afternoon hours in broad daylight, more airstrikes. Amna Nawaz: Meanwhile, we have seen Iranian state TV has been reporting that funeral and burial plans for the late supreme leader the Ayatollah Khamenei are now under way. What more can you tell us about that? Reza Sayah: Yes, Iranian officials say they're planning for it, but few other details. They say there's going to be a ceremony here in Tehran and they say the late supreme leader is going to be buried in his hometown of Mashhad in the shrine of Imam Reza. And, obviously, this is going to pose a huge challenge for the establishment, for the government. They want to project stability and continuation. They want to honor the supreme leader, a spiritual leader that to them died an ideal death, being martyred in the month of Ramadan at the hands of the very same countries that he preached against. So they see this as an opportunity to energize their base, but obviously this is a country that's under attack, being bombed every day. How are they going to plan this? How are they going to execute it? We will wait and see. Amna Nawaz: Reza, as you know, and we have spoken about, when he first announced the U.S. and Israeli strikes, President Trump called for the Iranian people to -- quote, unquote -- "seize control of your destiny," essentially calling for regime change. And in the days since, we have seen some videos, some reports of people celebrating in the streets and toppling monuments. Are you seeing any indication of a larger protest brewing? Reza Sayah: At this point, we're not. Obviously when the death of the supreme leader was announced, there were pockets of celebrations throughout the country. But millions of others came out to mourn his death. The bottom line is, Iran is a country of 90 million people. These are 90 million voices. Are there many people among this population that didn't like the supreme leader, that despised him? Indeed, there are. But there's also millions of people that despise the United States and Israel more, especially with this war. And there's other Iranians who are simply confused. They feel helpless. They feel under attack and they want some stability. So that's the indication of this uncertainty that exists right now. Again, at this point, no sign of any mass protests, mass uprising and no indication of an organized opposition with a clear leader. If in the coming days, it so happens that people come out, it is very likely that armed security forces are going to be waiting for them. They're aware of that possibility. Amna Nawaz: That's our special correspondent in Tehran, Reza Sayah, reporting tonight. Reza, thank you. Reza Sayah: Thank you, Amna.

On early Sunday morning in Austin, Texas, a gunman fired into crowds of pedestrians from his moving vehicle, wounding 14 people and ultimately killing three. The shooter, Ndiaga Diagne, a Muslim immigrant from Senegal, was wearing a hoodie that read, “Property of Allah.” Left-wing cable networks CNN and MS NOW have reported all of the above details at least once — all except the fact that Diagne was a Muslim.  MRC analysts looked at all coverage on CNN and MSNOW of the March 1, 2026 shooting in Austin, Texas, from the day it happened through the end of March 3. In that time, not a single on-air personality on either network bothered to identify Diagne’s Muslim faith. In fact, both networks seemed eager to drop the issue of the shooting entirely. By Tuesday, March 3, the story had disappeared, save for one segment on CNN during the 5:00 a.m. ET hour.  MS NOW covered the shooting just four times, for a total of less than ten minutes (9 minutes and 50 seconds). During those four segments, Diagne’s “Property of Allah” sweatshirt went unmentioned, and he was identified as an immigrant only once.  On CNN, the story received a more respectable 22 minutes of airtime. During that coverage, Diagne’s status as a naturalized citizen was brought up five times, and his “Allah” hoodie saw three mentions. But even with those references to the obvious religious messaging on his clothing, nobody on CNN could bring themselves to utter the words, “Muslim,” “Islam,” or similar permutation. Both CNN and MS NOW had reporters on the ground in Austin on Tuesday, the same day that the story evaporated from left-wing cable news. However, those journalists were there to cover the primary elections happening across the state.

It’s best to scowl or laugh when someone suggests the media exist to offer us “the first draft of history” – especially when their ideological predispositions spur a refusal to acknowledge history. Take Supreme Court rulings. The ones that the media likes are often a “landmark decision.” But the ones they dislike can vanish. On Monday, the Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 upheld an injunction against the state of California’s gender secrecy policy, which mandated that school staff hide any student’s claimed transgender identity at school from parents unless the student expressly consented to reveal it. But since CNN announced the news as breaking after 6 pm, it was too late for the nightly newscasts and the print edition of national newspapers. CNN legal reporter Joan Biskupic used leftist weasel words as the story broke. The California policy "prevents teachers from informing parents about a student's gender expression. If a middle schooler, for example, and there were middle schoolers at issue in this case want to transition and use different gender pronouns, the school policy there in California was the parents could not be told….the state had said it was intended to protect trans minors from rejection and abuse at home." On parents rights, CNN falls back on leftist weasel words. Legal reporter Joan Biskupic said SCOTUS ruled on "a California education policy that prevents teachers from informing parents about a student's gender expression. If a middle schooler, for example, and there were middle… pic.twitter.com/NKp1kI0Ixq — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) March 4, 2026 ABC, CBS, and NBC had nothing. Maybe they all wanted to say the Court blocked a policy temporarily -- so it's not news. But when liberal judges block Trump policies temporarily, that's not their judgment. NPR’s All Things Considered wouldn’t consider it – but court reporter Nina Totenberg covered the Supreme Court ruling on guns and drug users for four minutes on Monday night, and they also provided four minutes of tribute to the late radical-pacifist Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy, who once insisted humans should never have pet dogs or cats. It was also a zero on Morning Edition.  PBS News Hour offered a 35-second brief on Tuesday evening, and pitched it as a Gavin Newsom story:  PBS gave 35 seconds to the big parental-rights ruling. Geoff Bennett: "California's governor is criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to temporarily block a state law banning public schools from outing transgender students to their parents. A spokesperson for Governor… pic.twitter.com/eCKH6fxjzx — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) March 4, 2026 GEOFF BENNETT: California's governor is criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to temporarily block a state law banning public schools from outing transgender students to their parents. A spokesperson for Governor Gavin Newsom said 'teachers should be focused on teaching, not forced to be gender cops.' The law bans automatic parental notification if students change their gender identity or pronouns. California officials had argued that it gave students privacy, especially if they feared rejection from their families. But the Supreme Court sided with Christian groups who say it allowed schools to mislead parents. Somehow, you're "gender cops" if you don't hide students pretending they're the opposite sex in school. Teachers should be focused on teaching, not on leftist social engineering. If you still drop about four bucks and pick up actual newspapers, The Wall Street Journal had nothing.  The New York Times published a story on Page A-15 under the headline "Supreme Court Sides with Religious Parents, Blocking Trans Policy."  The Washington Post alerted readers to its Page A-3 story on the front page: "The high court blocked enforcement for now of California policies that discourage educators from telling parents about a student's sexual orientation or identity without consent." The headline inside the paper was "Christian parents notch victory in fight over trans policies."