A lesbian Florida couple allege in a lawsuit that Key West authorities are violating their constitutional right to paint rainbow colors on their picket fence.

Nicole Sohn and her wife, Linda Bagely-Sohn, have filed a lawsuit after the city’s Historic Architectural Review Commission fined them $250 a day for their LGBTQ fence.

‘If the city is only enforcing the law against some people because of the message they’re expressing, that’s viewpoint discrimination.’

The couple said they decided to paint the pickets as a way of protesting state officials ordering that rainbow crosswalks be painted over to avoid politicization of public spaces. They live in the historic Old Town section of the city.

“It was so upsetting for so many of us, and I woke up one morning and was like, ‘I’m going to paint some pickets on our front gate,'” Sohn said.

“We posted on Facebook as a joke, like, ‘Anyone else want the rainbow fairy to come visit?'” she added. “And we were inundated, and my wife and I ran around that weekend painting a bunch of fences and gates, and it just took off.”

That’s when the commission notified them that the fences were in violation of local regulations, after they received several complaints. The couple said they tried to go through the approval process and obtain a permit for the fences but were denied.

They were told in March to paint the illicit fences an approved color or face the daily fine.

ACLU of Florida attorney Nick Warren accuses the city of violating the lesbians’ constitutional rights.

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“If you walk around Old Town Key West, you’ll see lots of colorful displays and different colored paints on fences and houses,” Warren says. “Many of them violate the same rules that the city is citing — but if the city is only enforcing the law against some people because of the message they’re expressing, that’s viewpoint discrimination.”

Their attorney said the city has three weeks to respond to the lawsuit, and city officials did not comment about the litigation.

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A mother discovered that her seventh-grade child had been given a bookmark in support of the LGBTQ agenda, and her email to her county supervisor has led to a bitter debate.

The mother claimed that a woman gave a presentation during English classes and passed out the politically charged bookmarks, according to the email sent to Fresno County Supervisor Garry Bredefeld.

‘These items stray into inappropriate and unwelcome advocacy.’

She said her 13-year-old daughter was given a bookmark and called it “abhorrent” that the Fresno County Public Library had used “tax dollars to target children, suggesting reading materials with sexual/homosexual and transgender content.”

A screenshot of the email was published by KMPH-TV.

The mother went on to point out that library employees had access to children’s private information, and she posited that LGBTQ activists might misuse that information.

“In theory someone could use that data as a grooming list of vulnerable children — confused, unsupervised, ‘not supported at home,'” she added.

Bredefeld brought the issue before the other supervisors, and they voted 3-2 to restrict public libraries from recognizing Pride Month or erecting any display to support the LGBTQ agenda.

“The library now, rather than serve all members of the community in an unbiased fashion, has chosen to become advocates and promote a political agenda that many don’t support,” Bredefeld said.

Predictably, activists are outraged that public spaces won’t be used to push their LGBTQ agenda.

“When an LGBTQ youth walks into a Fresno County library and sees a Pride display, it’s not about politics. It’s a lifeline,” said Diana Feliz Oliva, the founder and CEO of Casita Feliz. “It tells them you are seen.”

Clovis mayor pro tem Diane Pearce disagreed and supported the decision.

“These items stray into inappropriate and unwelcome advocacy,” she said.

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The KMPH report said the libraries would still be allowed to display whatever books they wanted.

And despite Bredefeld airing concerns about the questionable content of some books, the county supervisors had no plans to take those books off the shelves.

Bredefeld brought out a sign reading, “No indoctrination of our children,” before the voting took place.

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The Trump administration is investigating the U.S.-funded Ukrainian biolabs that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was previously smeared as “treasonous” and “traitorous” for bringing to the public’s attention.

Then

Gabbard issued a video statement while a private citizen in 2022 where she claimed that “there are 25-30 U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine. According to the U.S. government, these biolabs are conducting research on dangerous pathogens.”

In order to mitigate the risk of breaches at the facilities, Gabbard said that “these labs need to be shut down immediately, and the pathogens that they hold need to be destroyed.”

‘The era of lies and betrayal is over.’

Gabbard was viciously attacked over the video even though days earlier, then-Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland — a woman whose meddling in Ukrainian affairs helped pave the way for the ruinous overthrow of its previous government — admitted that such labs existed.

Nuland testified to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee both that “Ukraine has biological research facilities” and the U.S. government was worried that “Russian forces may be seeking to gain control” of “research materials” in the labs. Then-Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) then steered Nuland into prophesying that should there be a biological or chemical incident in Ukraine, the Russians would necessarily be to blame.

Following Nuland’s admissions, then-Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines testified to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee that Ukraine “operates a little over a dozen” biolabs for bio-defense; that the U.S. had “provided assistance” to the labs, at least “in the context of biosafety”; and there was room for misuse of “some of the material that’s there that is not intended for weapon purposes but nevertheless could be used in dangerous ways.”

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The Pentagon also noted in a fact sheet that month that the U.S., through the Biological Threat Reduction Program, had by that point dumped roughly $200 million in Ukraine since 2005 “supporting 46 Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and diagnostic sites.”

The fact sheet noted further that BTRP sought to help the Ukrainians “consolidate and secure pathogens and to continue to ensure Ukraine can detect and report disease outbreaks before they pose security or stability threats.”

Despite the Biden administration bolstering in advance the claims that Gabbard would make in her March 13, 2022, video, failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney accused Gabbard of “parroting false Russian propaganda” and spreading “treasonous lies” that “may well cost lives.”

Then-Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), a Ukraine hawk who later stumped for Kamala Harris’ doomed presidential campaign, shared Gabbard’s video, writing, “Actual Russian propaganda. Traitorous.”

Gabbard noted that such remarks were “slanderous” and stuck to her guns.

Now

Now in a position to do the work she took abuse recommending the government do in 2022, Gabbard is investigating over 120 biolabs outside the U.S. that have been funded by American taxpayers.

The spy chief told the New York Post on Monday that her team will “identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what ‘research’ is being conducted to end dangerous gain-of-function research that threatens the health and well-being of the American people and the world.”

“The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have,” Gabbard said. “Yet despite these obvious dangers, politicians, so-called health professionals, like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of these US-funded and supported biolabs and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.”

ODNI officials confirmed that more than 40 of the biolabs under investigation are — as Gabbard indicated four years ago — in Ukraine and could “be at risk of compromise” due to the ongoing war.

Trump ODNI officials said that the Biden administration’s mixed messaging about the Ukrainian biolabs were part of an “Information Resilience” strategy to “shape the public narrative” to simultaneously “mitigate and counter foreign malign influence” and downplay American ties to the war-zone research. In other words, they were pushing falsehoods domestically to neutralize foreign half-truths.

The State Department, for instance, noted in a carefully worded March 9, 2022, statement that “the United States does not own or operate any chemical or biological laboratories in Ukraine.” The State Department proceeded to reject the claim, not that the U.S. and Ukraine were collaborating on biological and chemical research, but that they were “conducting chemical and biological weapons activities.”

“The prior administration bankrolled dangerous gain-of-function research and foreign biolabs with American tax dollars, then deliberately hid it from the American people,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said in a statement.

“Under President Trump’s leadership, DNI Tulsi Gabbard and the entire Cabinet are righting these historic wrongs and delivering justice for our warfighters and the ones they protect,” Hegseth continued. “The era of lies and betrayal is over.”

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Basketball sensation Caitlin Clark has done more for women’s basketball — at both the collegiate and professional level — than any other player in history. And she’s just at the beginning of her career.

But BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock believes Clark’s impact and influence is waning rapidly, not due to any fault of her own but because the WNBA has already broken her.

“This whole secular, feminist, matriarchal, slave to the LGBTQ agenda may have completely destroyed Caitlin Clark,” he says.

On this episode of “Fearless,” Whitlock adopts the persona of “Sherlock Homie” and investigates the real reason Clark’s reign is likely coming to an end.

Last week, the WNBA tipped off with a three-game run for the league’s 30th season. Clark’s Indiana Fever was one of the teams to debut the season, but to the surprise of many, Clark (who plays point guard) went back to the Fever’s locker room twice during the game for back adjustments.

In her postgame interview, she, as well as her coach Stephanie White, insisted the injury was nothing serious.

But Whitlock thinks there’s more to the story.

The Fever recently drafting point guard Raven Johnson when Clark is just in her third professional season is a “red flag” and “a clue,” he argues.

“Caitlin Clark got manhandled and beaten up in year one, and I don’t think she’s ever recovered, and I think they know it,” he says, pointing out that the WNBA and sports news outlets have started featuring other players in marketing over Clark.

“They know Caitlin Clark is not long term for this league. … They’re trying to hustle us until Caitlin Clark can’t play anymore, and they’re hoping that, hey, by the time you figure that out, that she’s not going to be Super Caitlin and that she may have a limited career because of what we put her through in her rookie year,” Whitlock continues, playing footage of Clark getting repeatedly fouled during her first professional season.

Clark, he argues, has been put through “a hazing process” by the WNBA, which he calls a “lesbian college fraternity.”

“DiJonai Carrington and Marina Mabrey and the other LGBTQ thugs damaged this woman with their brutal style of play,” he says.

“They damaged their rookie hazing her way too aggressively, and now they’re apologizing now that she’s damaged and destroyed potentially.”

“We’ve been had, and that’s why Sherlock Homie is on the case.”

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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