Happy Thursday!

Today features further dispatches from the Bananas Republic.

Students at All-Woman Wellesley College Vote to Admit Transgenders and Non-Binary

Who knew? An all-women’s college doesn’t need to be all women. At least not at Wellesley. The Wellesley College Government Senators voted unanimously in a non-binding resolution to admit transgender and non-binary students. The vote doesn’t mean the door’s open. Yet.

A spokesperson for the college released a statement saying:

Although there is no plan to revisit its mission as a women’s college or its admissions policy, the College will continue to engage all students, including transgender male and nonbinary students, in the important work of building an inclusive academic community where everyone feels they belong.

I’m a little confused. A transgender male would be a biological female who identifies as male. And since you’re supposed to accept that a biological female who identifies as male is, in fact, male, why would an all-woman’s school allow someone they insist is actually a male?

Well, if Wellesley does eventually allow transgender females, its sports teams will certainly enjoy the boost.

Just ask Brookline High in Massachusetts. They just nailed down the state title in indoor track and field with the help of a biological male.

Nebraska Democrat Threatens to ‘Burn the Session’ Down to Stop Bill Banning Sex Change Surgeries for Children

A Democratic lawmaker in Nebraska is threatening to burn the state’s legislative session to the ground in order to stop a Republican bill that would ban sex change surgeries for children. So far State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh has been filibustering every bill that has come along. With half the session done, not a single bill has been passed, as she has wasted eight hours each legislative day offering amendment after amendment. All to allow doctors to cut off the breasts of healthy girls. Because, in Cavanaugh’s mind, fighting against such depravity is “hate.”

Said Cavanaugh, “If this Legislature collectively decides that legislating hate against children is our priority, then I am going to make it painful — painful for everyone. I will burn the session to the ground over this bill.”

Hello, “Calling evil good.” It is “legislating hate against children” to prevent ghouls and profit-mongers from shredding the bodies of innocent, confused children.

Update: Christian School in Vermont Banned From Future Tournaments for Refusing to Play a Team With a Biological Male. Noted Celebrity Responds.

A famed athlete defended Mid-Vermont Christian School after it was banned from competing in further basketball tournaments after refusing to play a team featured a biological male.

This Olympic legend told Fox News Wednesday the Vermont Principals’ Association (VPA) made a “political decision.”

“The radical left and their radical gender ideology have really tried to, over the years, blur that line between men and women and affected us not only with transgender issues, but everything, and I just don’t feel like that’s a good thing.

“There is a difference between men and women and that is a good thing. We should honor that.”

That athlete? Obviously a hater of transgenders. No, wait. It was Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner.

We close this run of stories with Harry Potter novelist J.K. Rowling, who is being torched by the transgender activists for holding that women are women.

J.K. ROWLING: “I can only say that I’ve thought about it deeply and…I’ve listened, I promise, to the other side. I believe absolutely that there is something dangerous about this movement, and it must be challenged.” pic.twitter.com/UWN4ZXCvJL

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) March 15, 2023

What Connects 9/11 and COVID-19?

If you said “Events that gave the government excuse to grab more power,” you’d be on the right track. If you said “Anthony Fauci,” you’d really be hitting the mark.

Independent journalist Kanekoa the Great dropped a thread yesterday evening that unravels how Fauci became the government’s highest paid employee. (By being put in charge of our biodefense/bioweapons.) It details how in the wake of 9/11 came the Patriot Act and a massive increase of funding for bio defense research. How Fauci was now able to fund dangerous gain-of-function research until several leaks and the pleas of hundreds of scientists convinced President Obama to halt that research in the U.S. … which Fauci then simply transferred to the Wuhan Lab.

🧵THREAD: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top-paid US federal employee, has developed bioweapons for the Pentagon since 2002. In 2014, Obama shut down 18 of Fauci’s gain-of-function experiments after lab leaks, and 300 top scientists complained about his dangerous bioweapons research. pic.twitter.com/PoG9ax5HRW

— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) March 15, 2023

There’s even a tidbit for conspiracy fans. Remember the anthrax scare? Anthrax was sent to two Senators who were fighting against the Patriot Act. Long after the Patriot Act was passed, the anthrax was traced to Fort Detrick. The suggestion being the CIA sent the Anthrax to further encourage the adoption of the Patriot Act, which gave the federal government enormous new power.

Which leads to the day’s “Bananas Republic” moment. So we kind of knew already that Fauci paid the Wuhan Lab to support gain-of-function research. A former CDC director testified under oath last week that he thought that was precisely what Fauci had done.

What we didn’t know — and what makes mouths drop in confounded amusement — is the U.S. government appears to have been double billed, and to have double paid the lab! Once through the National Institutes of Health and the same bill again through the State Department’s USAID. CBS News broke the story. Diane Cutler, a former federal investigator, pored through 50,000 documents.

“What I’ve found so far is evidence that points to double billing, potential theft of government funds. It is concerning, especially since it involves dangerous pathogens and risky research,” she told CBS News. Ya think? We’re talking tens of millions of dollars scammed from taxpayers to fund research that apparently killed hundreds of thousands of those taxpayers.

Sen. Roger Marshall initiated Cutler’s work. He’s calling for a 9/11-style committee to investigate.

Update: James O’Keefe Launches New Media Company

We now know what Project Veritas Founder James O’Keefe is going to be doing. And it ain’t going back to Project Veritas. On Tuesday, he announced the launch of O’Keefe Media Group. Yes, the initials are OMG.

They have awakened a sleeping giant!
My brand new movement O’Keefe Media Group will not just be me – It will include you.
Let’s build this army and keep every statehouse, every city council, every school board and everywhere people are conspiring to keep power, proactive… https://t.co/ytXW7UTDrq

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 15, 2023

However, after watching the video you might believe James was shooting a promo for Dancing With the Stars.

Along The Stream

Eric Metaxas was watching the war classic The Longest Day while flipping back and forth to the Oscars. The juxtaposition between the manly stars of the flick — names like John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, Richard Burton — and the male leading actors of today blew his mind. This sparked a fascinating exchange between Eric and John Z. “What Happened to Manhood?”

 

Al Perrotta is the Managing Editor of The Stream, chief barista for The Brew and co-author, with John Zmirak, of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration. You can follow him at @StreamingAl at GETTR, Gab, Parler, and now at TRUTH Social.