(Worthy Insights) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was spending your taxpayer dollars to study the bowel movements of women who identify as men.

American Principles Project exposed the grant via their database. Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins subsequently canceled the grant to Louisiana’s Southern University Agricultural & Mechanical College and thanked APP for the tip. It is absolutely outrageous what bureaucrats spend our taxpayer dollars on. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The major Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue, which has raised over $16.5 billion for left-wing candidates since 2004, has in recent months faced intense scrutiny over whether it has complied with federal campaign finance laws and prevented illegal contributions.

This pressure and threat of corrective legislation appears to have created cracks in the organization — likely bad news for Democratic candidates and incumbents counting on ActBlue to raise money ahead of the midterm elections.

Several top officials, including the highest-ranking legal officer at ActBlue, have reportedly jumped ship in recent weeks, while those who remain are allegedly stuck dealing with a culture of “volatility and toxicity,” and in at least one instance, retaliatory measures. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The CDC’s move comes amid one of the largest measles outbreaks the U.S. has seen in the past decade, with more than 200 cases and two deaths in Texas and New Mexico. The outbreak has been fueled by declining vaccination rates in parts of the United States where parents have been falsely persuaded that such shots do more harm than good.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, whose role includes authority over the CDC, has long sowed doubt over the safety of the combined vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR). In a cabinet meeting last week, Kennedy initially downplayed news that a school-aged child had died of measles in Texas, the first such death in a decade, calling such outbreaks ordinary and failing to mention the role of vaccination to prevent measles. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – In Kenya, hundreds of thousands are crammed into Africa’s largest slum. Known as Kibera, it’s a world where hope is often in short supply. In this darkness, however, a miracle is unfolding as a Texas-based ministry goes door-to-door, bringing God’s love and life-changing water filters.

Infamous for its gritty reputation, where crime and violence lurk at nearly every corner, Kibera faces extreme poverty and gang violence, while lacking basic necessities like clean water and sanitation, earning its reputation as one of the “darkest, filthiest, and most hopeless places in the world.”

Kibera is Africa’s largest slum, and a typical house here measures only eight by eight feet, and it’s built with mud walls, a corrugated tin roof, and either a dirt or concrete floor. There’s not a bathroom in the home. There’s no kitchen area in the home. It’s basically for sitting and sleeping only. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that suspended the security clearances for employees of the Perkins Coie law firm, which played a central role in the 2016 Russia investigation.

“This is an absolute honor to sign,” Trump said before signing the order in the Oval Office.

Perkins Coie, with money that flowed from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee, hired Fusion GPS to commission the Steele dossier, which the Trump administration said was “designed to steal an election while representing failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – It took investigative journalist David Collier exactly five hours to find out that Abdullah, the narrator and main subject of the BBC documentary “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone,” was the son of a high-ranking Hamas official.

Collier’s discovery has led to the film’s removal from streaming and ignited a very public crisis at the media outlet, long regarded as the gold standard for international journalism.

Now, longstanding accusations of the BBC’s anti-Israel bias have once again come to the fore in light of Collier’s work. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The new animated Disney series “Win or Lose” is making headlines again, only this time it’s for featuring an openly Christian character.

The company has avoided Christian references for years, but that changed with the debut of the show “Win or Lose,” which is described as “[featuring] the intertwined stories of eight different characters as they each prepare for their big championship softball game — the insecure kids, their helicopter parents, even a lovesick umpire.”

This new animated series includes a character named Laurie who is feeling self-doubt, so she turns to God in prayer for help. There is also a cutout of an angel inside Laurie’s bedroom.

“Dear Heavenly Father, please give me strength,” Laurie prays. “I have faith, but sometimes the doubt creeps in.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – For a long time federal law has allowed the government to ask courts to order plaintiffs who are suing the government to post bonds that would cover “potential costs and damages from a wrongly issued injunction.”

Seldom has that provision in the law been utilized.

But it will be now, under orders from President Donald Trump, who explained in a new order Thursday, “In recent weeks, activist organizations fueled by hundreds of millions of dollars in donations and sometimes even government grants have obtained sweeping injunctions far beyond the scope of relief contemplated by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, functionally inserting themselves into the executive policy making process and therefore undermining the democratic process.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – In a first in the history of physics, scientists have turned light into a supersolid.

“A supersolid is a counter-intuitive phase of matter in which its constituent particles are arranged into a crystalline structure, yet they are free to flow without friction,” the abstract for the study in Nature revealed.

“We actually made light into a solid. That’s pretty awesome,” Dimitris Trypogeorgos, from the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy, enthused. Along with his colleagues, he took a different route from prior research, which created supersolids in experiments using extremely cold atoms. Instead, they used the semiconductor aluminium gallium arsenide and a laser, as New Scientist reported, adding that the connections between the light and the material created a “polariton,” which formed the supersolid. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Support for Israel is at a 25-year low, according to a new poll released by Gallup, which also shows backing for the Palestinians at a record high.

Asked who “in the Middle East situation” their sympathies lie more with, 46 percent of respondents say Israelis versus 33% who say Palestinians.

The 46% support for Israel marks a five percent drop from last year, which had tied the previous low of 51% in 2001. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The US Treasury Department imposed a fresh round of economic sanctions Wednesday on key Houthi officials, exposing an extensive network of weapons deals, financial transfers, and human trafficking operations between the Yemen-based terrorist organization and Russia. Documents released alongside the sanctions detail how Houthi leaders made multiple trips to Moscow, coordinated attacks to avoid Russian vessels, and established a mercenary pipeline sending Yemeni citizens to fight in Ukraine in exchange for cash and military support.

According to the Treasury Department, the sanctions target Houthi officials who smuggled military equipment and weapons systems to areas under their control in the Arab country. These individuals also conducted negotiations to purchase weapons and military equipment for the organization from Russia. Against this background, the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the Treasury Department added another activist associated with the Houthis to the list, along with his company, which recruited Yemeni citizens to fight for Russia in Ukraine and transferred funds to support the organization. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – A federal judge in Baltimore on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that pulled funding for hospitals and healthcare providers that do not stop providing gender-affirming treatments to people under the age of 19.

Trump signed the executive order in January, which threatened to withhold federal funding for hospitals and other healthcare providers nationwide that do not stop providing the gender-affirming care, which includes puberty blockers and hormone treatments.

Judge Brendan Hurson granted a preliminary injunction against the order on Tuesday, which will impact hospitals and healthcare providers nationwide. A previous order by a different judge only impacted four states, per the New York Times. [ Source (Read More…) ]