Year: 2026
Illinois FOID Card Requirement Challenged in Federal Court
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/05/19/illinois-foid-card-requirement-challenged-in-federal-court-n1232580
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FIRE sues DHS for information about alleged database of ICE protesters
Americans deserve to know whether their government is maintaining a secret database of people who have criticized the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
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Senators Push Crackdown On AI Chatbots Amid Fears Big Tech Is Putting Kids At Risk
"This issue is a matter of life or death"
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Black Caucus Tanks College Name, Image, Likeness Bill
In bad news for a bipartisan college sports reform effort, the Congressional Black Caucus—a powerful faction in the Democratic Party—has turned on the SCORE Act, criticizing key stakeholders for “silence” on pro-Republican redistricting in the South. “The Congressional Black Caucus cannot support legislation benefitting major athletic institutions that remain silent while Black voting rights and…
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Appeals Court Strikes Down New York’s Concealed Carry Law for Private Property
The Second Circuit upheld the state’s ban on guns in public parks but rejected a rule covering private businesses open to the public.
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Female Officer Suspended After Objecting to Male in Her Locker Room
When a biological male was allowed to use the women’s locker room and Norfolk Police Department Officer Meghan Grabow objected, the department didn’t protect her – it suspended her, the female officer says.
What’s more, Martin Powers, a male officer who spoke up in support of Grabow, was suspended, then fired.
“I’m completely stripped down to my underwear, and… [in comes] a man,” Grabow told Independent Women’s Features, recalling her first locker room encounter with the male recruit. “Here comes this man in a suit and tie… And [he] just stared at me.”
Grabow said she was told by her superiors that she should just take her gun into the shower with her, if she felt unsafe – and that she must use female pronouns for the biological male recruit and refer to him as “female” and a “woman.”
The transgender-identified recruit had also been caught deliberately using a female recruit’s shower towel, Powers said, noting that the sole female recruit was forced to change multiple times per day in front of the biological male.
Grabow and Powers tell Independent Women’s that the Norfolk Police Department severely retaliated against them for objecting to the department’s transgender policy:
“Both Powers and Grabow say they paid a steep price for speaking up—faced retaliation in the forms of termination and suspension. Grabow is currently appealing her suspension with the police department, Powers is attempting to exhaust all legal options.”
“The fear of reprisal is so serious” that females in the department are “terrified to even make a complaint about anything because they know what’s going to happen,” Officer Grabow said.
PJ Media notes the irony of the incident:
“The most ironic part is that the transgender-identified recruit ended up dropping out before officially becoming an officer. So Norfolk PD fired an officer of integrity (Powers), still has Grabow on suspension, and managed to drive away their only female recruit, all in order to affirm the mental illness of a man who left claiming he was emotionally traumatized.”
Indications Mount That Anti-School Choice Campaigns Are Misleading Arizona Voters
Earlier this month, I documented how signature gatherers for two ballot initiatives to curb and regulate Arizona’s education savings account program were caught on camera giving inaccurate information to Arizona voters. A new round of videos confirms that the spread of misinformation is extensive on both campaigns. The entire Arizona school choice coalition opposes both…
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