Samuel Fisher, owner of Golden Valley Farms, is being persecuted by the U.S. government all because his family raises their own animals, slaughters the meat on the farm, and sells that meat to the community. Mr. Fisher is a mild-mannered, father of five who owns and operates a 100-acre cattle farm in the heartland of Virginia. The farm began five years ago selling milk, cream, and yogurt, before they began to butcher and sell their own meat. Now the farm is under attack by government operators who are trying to shut the farm down and stop the man from feeding his own family.

 

Amish farmer who feeds hundreds of people in the community, under attack

 

“This ain't right. We had all this meat. We worked hard to get it in the freezer, process it, package it,” said Mr. Fisher in an interview with Townhall. “The next day. They came with a search warrant, went through everything, the house, every building, the barn. They just raided through everything. We can't touch it. We can't sell it. We can't feed our family. We can't give it away, can't feed it to the dogs. We can't do anything with it. They just took it to the dump.”

 

Mr. Fisher raises and butchers his meat on site and sells it directly to his customers. His farm feeds about 500 people in the community. The Golden Valley Farms membership program allows individuals to own part of Fisher’s herd of 100% grass-fed golden Guernsey cows.

 

Without warning, an inspector with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) paid Golden Valley Farms a visit on June 14th. That day, the government decided to penalize Mr. Fisher for selling meat that was not processed by a USDA-inspected facility.

 

Innocent farmer is raided, his property seized, for the “crime” of feeding his family and community.

 

When Fisher began selling meat, he went to a USDA inspector and sent the meat to the designated USDA facilities. The butchering and processing through the USDA were slow and cumbersome. Mr. Fisher was unable to ship the required quantity of animals at one time and could not operate economically and in a timely manner to satisfy his customers. “By the time the meat comes back, you might be running low on certain cuts of meat, but what you order from USDA was not accurate to that. You might run out of some stuff long before other stuff because you had to order it so far in advance.”

 

His customers prompted Mr. Fisher to process the meat on the farm, without a USDA inspection. When the USDA surveyed the customer base, the majority (92%) responded that they wanted the meat processed on the farm, without interference from the government. “You have to keep going because people are depending on this stuff as their medicine. I want this world to have the opportunity of finding real food,” Mr. Fisher said.

 

Fisher said that the lockdowns in 2020 forced him to wait 8 to 12 months to schedule the butchering process. At that time, his customers were stocking up on meat as stores were running out of supply.

 

“All of a sudden, we had a lot of need for meat,” Fisher said. “Well, there was no option taking it to USDA facility, so that's when the trigger was pushed to do it ourselves. Customers were buying mostly from our own meat, not so much from the USDA. Then the pandemic came and there was no other option but either not have it available or process it ourselves. So, we started processing ourselves. We put additions to the building and made a processing room and we certainly like it now.”

 

Mr. Fisher’s customers preferred that the meat be processed on site. “They own part of the business. They own some of the herd,” Fisher explained. “My thinking was […] We can butcher their cows, process it, and sell it to them. I told the state all of this, but they said, ‘No, there’s no way around that. You can’t do that.’” Fisher said the inspectors asked permission to search the farm. Mr. Fisher denied their request. “And they told me, ‘We’ll be back,’ and left,” Fisher said.

 

The state targeted his farm from there forward. They came in and took pictures and lied to the courts, claiming that Mr. Fisher was selling raw meat and was a public health risk. When the state returned to his farm, they raided the freezers and packed a U-Haul truck full of their meat. Mr. Fisher was ordered not to feed anyone again, not even his dogs or his own family. None of these customers have ever gotten sick from his products. Many depend on the products for their health and food security.

 

But this didn’t matter to the all-powerful state. When Mr. Fisher continued to feed his family and sell food to his community, the state came in with criminal charges and seized his farm. He now has no choice but to fight back against a rogue government.

 

FOOD SUPPLY ATTACK: U.S. government raided and shutdown Golden Valley Farms, an independent meat producer in Virginia - STATIONGOSSIP

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a civil rights lawsuit against a school district on Monday to halt its recently adopted policy that requires schools to inform parents about student gender transitions.

Bonta announced earlier this month he launched an investigation into the Chino Valley Unified School District, which represents over 26,000 students in San Bernardino County, after district officials passed a policy in July that requires teachers to inform parents within three days if their child uses names and pronouns different from their birth certificate, or requests to use school facilities or join sports team opposite of their gender.

 

 

“Every student has the right to learn and thrive in a school environment that promotes safety, privacy, and inclusivity – regardless of their gender identity,” Bonta said in a news release.

The state’s attorney general argued the district’s “forced outing policy” discriminates against the privacy rights of LGBTQ+ students and the California Constitution.

“The forced outing policy wrongfully endangers the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of non-conforming students who lack an accepting environment in the classroom and at home,” he said. “Our message to Chino Valley Unified and all school districts in California is loud and clear: We will never stop fighting for the civil rights of LGBTQ+ students.”

Chino Valley Unified spokesperson Andi Johnston told The Los Angeles Times that the district has been working with the state’s investigation of the policy and has offered “complete transparency.”

“At this time, the district is working with its legal counsel to review the lawsuit and its contents,” Johnston told the outlet.

Earlier this month, a parents-rights activists group reportedly staged a demonstration outside the California Capitol in Sacramento, condemning so-called gender-affirming bills while promoting parental notification involving student gender policies.

Sonja Shaw, president of the Chino Valley Unified Board of Education, became the leading advocate for the district’s policy.

She told The Los Angeles Times that Bonta’s actions displayed “government overreach” and an “aggressive” response to the measure designed to bring transparency between schools and parents.

“We will stand our ground and protect our children with all we can because we are not breaking the law,” Shaw told the Times. “Parents have a constitutional right in the upbringing of their children, period. Bring it.”

Shaw, who became a local advocate for parental rights amid the state’s pandemic response, reportedly said that state investigators subpoenaed her emails and text messages.

“[Bonta’s] automatically trying to assume parents are dangerous, and I think that’s a dangerous, dangerous direction that they’re heading in,” Shaw told Fox News. “And you see it all over California. They’re trying to push out parents, and I think that is something that we need to stand up for right now.”

California has become a leading state in the nation, promoting several new radical gender theory-related laws expected to gain momentum in the coming weeks, including undermining parental authority, requiring state-controlled curriculum, and targeting local school boards.

The movement has sparked pushback from parents, school boards, and lawmakers statewide to condemn such policies.

Republican Assemblymember Bill Essayli introduced AB 1314, which would require schools to notify parents if their child uses different pronouns or a change in identity. Essayli modeled the bill after the Chino Valley Unified School District adopted its policy that has since influenced other California school districts to adopt a similar principled action.

“We will accomplish our legislative priorities either through here or through the people directly,” Essayli said at the recent rally outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento, according to POLITICO.

Although the California State Assembly has yet to pass the bill, Essayli continues to push through every school district.

California Attorney General Sues School District Over Gender Parental Notification Policy | Women System (womensystems.com)

A federal judge recently blocked a yearlong ban on a church elder who called out a transgender student in the University of Wyoming (UW) Student Union. The said Christian activist openly called a female-identifying transgender student "male."

 

On Dec. 2, 2022, Todd Schmidt, an elder at Laramie Faith Community Church, set up a table in the UW student union with a sign that read, "God created male and female and Artemis Langford is a male." Langford is a transgender student who joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority earlier that year. This move prompted members to sue the national Greek organization for accepting a biological male into the all-female group.

 

Students crowded around his table blocking his message from sight until Dean Ryan O'Neil, a UW administrator, asked Schmidt to remove the student's name from his sign. He initially refused but complied after they threatened to call the police on him. Schmidt continued to debate with students passing by for the remainder of that day.

 

"I'm just trying to tell the truth and bring people to God. That's all there is. There are not any more genders than that. Biology teaches everybody about that," Schmidt said, according to a report on the student newspaper Branding Iron, where the transgender concerned is a reporter.

 

The incident ultimately led to the university placing a one-year sanction on Schmidt. While he is still allowed in other areas of the campus, he can no longer reserve a table in the UW student union until the spring of 2024. 

 

In a campus-wide message sent on Dec. 5, UW officials said Schmidt "violated the university policy prohibiting discrimination and harassment," noting that "a line was crossed when a student was harassed by name." The religious advocate argued that the area serves as a public forum and that his message was not harassment but First Amendment-protected speech.

 

On Aug. 18, a federal judge ruled that UW "appears to be favoring one viewpoint over another." In a preliminary injunction, the U.S. District Court in Wyoming sided with Schmidt, ordering the university to not ban him from tabling on campus while the case proceeds.

 

According to U.S. Senior District Judge Nancy Freudenthal, the inclusion of the student's name was necessary for the Christian activist to fully express his opinion. "Schmidt's speech was expressive, with the intent to convey a particular message," the judge wrote. "Schmidt mentions Artemis Langford by name, but that is unavoidable, as the debate revolves around the propriety of a particular biological male participating in an activity – joining a sorority – traditionally reserved for biological females."

 

"Schmidt does not misgender Langford to denigrate her, but to debate a public issue," the ruling further included. "This is particularly true on college campuses because they are the 'marketplace of ideas.' While elementary and public schools prioritize the inculcation of social values, universities seek to encourage inquiry and the challenging of a priori assumptions," Freudenthal added. "Therefore, this Court finds that Schmidt's speech is protected free expression and not harassment or discriminatory conduct."

 

UW said in a statement that although it is disappointed, it will comply with the terms of the preliminary injunction while weighing on whether to keep defending its policy in court.

 

Sorority sisters sue Kappa Kappa Gamma for admitting biological male into the group.

 

Schmidt's message that he posted on his UW student union table triggered seven sorority sisters from the UW chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma to file a lawsuit, pointing out that the organization violated its own rules by admitting male-born Langford in September 2022. The suit was seeking damages from the national sorority. It also asked for the revocation of Langford's membership.

 

Langford may not live in the Kappa house, but he spends time there frequently in areas reserved for women, watching the female members as they walk into the bathroom with only a towel on or spending hours sitting on a couch "staring at them without talking," the complaint explained.

 

"Some plaintiffs sought to live in Kappa's single-sex environment because of religious or moral beliefs that young, unmarried women should not live with young, unmarried men," the lawsuit stated, adding that one of the plaintiffs is "a victim of sexual assault who wanted a safe place to interact with other college students without the presence of men."

 

Meanwhile, back in June, the national sorority filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, denouncing it as a "frivolous" attempt to remove Langford from the organization for "political purposes."

 

"Kappa defines its membership in its position statement adopted in 2015 as individuals who identify as women," the motion read. "Plaintiffs cannot identify any bylaw, standing rule, or policy that prohibits Kappa from taking this position, and the term is unquestionably open to multiple interpretations."

 

Judge blocks university ban on church elder who called out transgender student for joining sorority - YourDestinationNow

Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration is pumping a staggering $1.4 billion taxpayer money into a new Covid vaccine push.

Despite the pandemic being over, Biden’s Health and Human Services (HHS) has directed the funding for new Covid research, vaccines, and therapies.

The move comes amid a recent expansion of a Covid fear campaign from the corporate media as the 2024 election approaches.

The big tax dollar spending suggests that Biden may be preparing to make his administration’s Covid response the centerpiece of his 2024 campaign.

Biden’s HHS issued a statement on the new effort that reads:

 

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), awarded more than $1.4 billion for Project NextGen to support the development of a new generation of tools and technologies to protect against COVID-19 for years to come.

The awards announced today follow extensive coordination with industry partners and include support for clinical trials that will enable the rapid development of even more effective and longer-lasting coronavirus vaccines, a new monoclonal antibody, and transformative technologies to streamline manufacturing processes.

“Project NextGen is a key part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to keeping people safe from COVID-19 variants,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “These awards are a catalyst for the program – kickstarting efforts to more quickly develop vaccines and continue to ensure availability of effective treatments.”

Project NextGen is a $5 billion behemoth led by ASPR’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) in partnership with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s replacement as the new director of NIAID is Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo.

Marrazzo is the mask-pushing, lab-leak-denying, vaccine-embracing, diversity choice of the medical-bureaucratic complex.

Much of the money is going to Covid vaccine development.

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The Catholic Diocese of Worcester in Massachusetts has implemented a policy in the 21 schools it oversees prohibiting "confused notions of gender ideology" and gay activism.

The diocese stresses in its new policy that sex and gender are both inseparable and immutable; "sexuality is ordered to the conjugal love of a man and a woman within the bond of marriage"; marriage is exclusively for straight couples; and it would "not serve anyone's greater good by falsifying the truth, for it is only the truth that frees us for the full life that God offers to each of us." 

 

 

 

The policy was approved by Bishop Robert McManus, who previously rejected a Jesuit-affiliated school's Catholic status after it refused to stop flying "Black Lives Matter" and LGBT activist flags.

The superintendent for Catholic schools in the diocese, David Perda, said in a statement last week, "While some schools had policies in place, others did not. Individual situations were arising which underscored a need for a single policy which clearly states Church teaching and provides consistent application of that teaching across all our schools." 

 

The diocese's insistence that its Catholic schools and the roughly 9,000 students therein hold fast and true to church teaching has enraged LGBT activists and other radical leftists, who have taken to protest and called the policy "an act of violence." 

 

 

What does the policy say?

The policy underscores that the purpose of all entities of the Catholic Church, including its schools, is to further the "saving mission of Jesus Christ."

Accordingly, rather than peddling social constructivist propaganda in the classroom or participating in the latest leftist fad, the schools "must operate in accord with the truth revealed by God in both natural law and divine revelation."

In light of church teaching, the policy underscores that sex ought to be reserved for married couples and that marriage "is always ordered by its very nature to both the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of children."

The policy further intimates that unmarried persons, regardless of sexual preference, are alternatively "called to chastity."

Extra to referencing tradition, scripture, and canon law, the policy notes that Pope Francis has repeatedly rebuked gender ideology and and other such "ideologies that attempt to sunder what are inseparable aspects of reality."

Finally, the policy makes clear that this rejection of gender ideology and the LGBT agenda is not simply a matter of faith, but based on realities "also knowable through the use of properly functioning senses and right reason."

 

Policy implications

The policy explicitly prohibits bullying of the non-straight and the confused, but also bars students from advocating, celebrating, or expressing "same-sex attraction in such a way as to cause confusion or distraction in the context of Catholic school classes, activities, or events.

Romantic or sexual displays of any kind, straight or otherwise, are not permitted at school.

Rather than embrace woke euphemisms, the policy also notes that should homosexuality or homosexual inclinations come up in academic discussion, the term "same-sex attraction" is preferred.

In terms of transvestism, the diocese's policy states, "All students are expected to conduct themselves at school in a manner consistent with their biological sex."

School administrators, staff, and other employees will similarly "consider the gender of all students as being consistent with their biological sex, including, but not limited to, the following: participation in school athletics; school-sponsored dances; dress and uniform policies; the use of changing facilities, showers, locker rooms, and bathrooms (with rare exceptions only on a limited, case-by-case basis, to be determined by the principal of the school); titles, names, and pronouns; and official school documents."

In the event a student flouts this policy in a disruptive manner, the diocese reserves the right to oust the student from the school.

 

Leftist meltdown

MassLive.com reported that the youth-focused LGBT activist group Love Your Labels, MassEquality, the local YWCA, and other groups have attempted to pressure the diocese into backing down by way of protest, political pressure, and petition.

Love Your Labels denounced the diocese's reiteration of Catholic doctrine and social teaching, calling it "a regressive step that has far-reaching consequences for the wellbeing and inclusivity of over 9,00 students," adding that it "not only contradicts the core principles of inclusivity and acceptance, but also perpetuates harm to LGBTQ+ individuals."

While claiming that "faith and acceptance can coexist," the activist outfit demanded that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester "reconsider and revoke these policies, embracing a stance that values and uplifts all young people in our community."

Joshua Croke, the president of Love Your Labels, who refers to himself as a plurality, stressed that the policy is "an act of violence."

State Sen. Robyn Kennedy (D) joined Croke and a handful of other LGBT activists Wednesday to protest the diocese's affirmation of its Christian faith, stating that she was "deeply disappointed in this policy."

While she encouraged activists to fight the policy, that may be a losing battle given that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is leaning into the fight against gender ideology.

For instance, the USCCB notified Catholic health care institutions in March that they are not to perform sex-change mutilations or provide irreversible cross-sex hormones.

Worcester is not alone in remaining steadfast in its commitment to tradition.

TheBlaze previously reported that the Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa, implemented a similar policy to Worcester's in its 17 schools, four hospitals, and 80 parishes, thereby buttressing old common sense.

The Archdiocese of Omaha, Nebraska, and others have similarly followed suit.

Gov. Kevin Stitt joined Republican leaders at the Texas border to witness the migrant crisis firsthand.

After visiting the southern border and witnessing the migrant crisis firsthand, Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt is calling on the Biden administration to reinstate the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policy, telling "Fox & Friends" Tuesday that Americans want a secure border.

 

 

GOV. KEVIN STITT: We don't understand why they keep doubling down on this. The material is already there on the border. Americans want a secure border. And I like to remind people this has nothing to do with proper immigration. In Oklahoma we have a great Hispanic population, and they've come here legally, and they're great contributors to our society. I've got great friends. But you don't have a brain if you don't think that we should have a secure border. The amount of terrorist people on the terrorist watch list that have crossed –  we're creating this mass migration because they know they get released into the U.S. with all of our services as soon as they get there. 

So that's the problem. We need to go back to the "Remain in Mexico" policy that we had before President Biden was in office. 

The Biden administration reportedly has been selling off millions of dollars’ worth of border wall materials in a race against Republicans who are vying to pass legislation to finish its construction. 

Steel "square structural tubes" photographed in a storage lot in Arizona were listed for sale on GovPlanet, an online auction marketplace run by publicly traded Canadian company Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, this month. Those 28-foot-tall hollow beams are "excess border wall materials that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers turned over to the DLA for disposition and are now for sale," the Department of Defense’s logistics agency first confirmed to the Daily Upside and later the New York Post.

GovPlanet, which specializes in military surplus, has sold 81 lots of those beams for about $2 million, according to the Post.

Fox News' Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.

Oklahoma gov calls to reinstate 'Remain in Mexico': 'You don't have a brain' if you don't want a secure border | Fox News

Will they try it again? You bet! What did we learn last time? Not enough! How can we advocate for ourselves right now? Stand your ground!

 

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-Here is something anyone can do. I walked into our local hospital, sat down, and waited. Soon enough, a woman asked if I needed a mask. I politely said, no thank you. She then came over, with mask in hand and demanded I wear it. I said that if she could provide a scientific basis for me to cover my face when I felt perfectly fine, I would wear it. I got the usual: it's our policy. I said, I know that. She said, it's posted at the door. I said, thank you, I am literate. I again asked for a scientific basis for the mask requirement. A supervisor came out....I was very calm and relaxed- not trying to upset them. I even pointed out that everyone wearing one in the lobby had them under their noses, and that is improper use. I again stated that I required an actual REASON- not "we're just doing our jobs" or "it's policy". Nobody could give me a reason, and I could see they were becoming frustrated, so I calmly left after pointing out that "we're just following orders" was reminding me of another huge historical event. PUSH BACK!!!

-I'm STUNNED at the people who can't believe our govt. is corrupt.

-I will not comply.  I heard that they will even go so far as lockdowns.  I told my daughter about your bravery, Dr Jensen. Thank you and God bless you and your family.

-I did not comply last time nor will I again...thank you Dr Jensen for all you do and keeping us informed!

-Colleges are hemorrhaging money. SCSU has been through retrenchment more than once and let go of tenured professors. This is exactly what every college that returns to masking and online learning deserves. You behave like idiots; you go into debt…. You won’t be able to pass it off to your student body anymore. Go woke, go broke. My niece who attends college in SD had no mandates or restrictions during 2020 -2021, her college experience was not interrupted. And… she is alive and well and unvaccinated.

-Many of us KNEW this was going to be a recurring strategy. Unfortunately, we were Right.