News and Views: January 18, 2025

The Week in Pictures: Two Days to Go! 

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12 Disgraceful Acts Biden Has Committed (So Far) On His Way Out The White House Door  While Biden is set to leave office in disgrace in the next few days, that doesn’t mean he and the left-wing radicals running his administration are finished making stupid and dangerous decisions. In fact, they’re doing everything in their power to thumb their noses at the voters who overwhelmingly rejected their failed “leadership” on their way out the White House door.

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Wellesley College offers ‘Queer Bible’ course to examine ‘varieties of gender in the ancient world’ and ‘queerness of gender’   The course conducts “an examination of queer readings of the biblical canon and the canon of contemporary queer theory” and “explores the social construction of gender and examines how people in the biblical world and ancient Middle East maintained and contested gender roles.”

Yale course asks: Can science ‘be made queer’ 

The course description says “students will engage with the tools, methods, and theories of both STS and queer studies that emphasize the constructed and political underpinnings of scientific thought and practice.”

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Nuclear-Free Germany Forced To Import Expensive Nuclear Power As Election Looms  Germany is importing huge volumes of nuclear-generated electricity due to recent unfavorable weather for renewable energy production — placing the left-wing government’s decision to shut down Germany’s nuclear power plants firmly under the spotlight in the lead-up to next month’s federal elections.

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Sen. Mazie Hirono Establishes that No Trump Nominees Have Made Unwanted Sexual Advances  While these inquiries may have been relevant during Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s hearing, they were utterly ridiculous for all of the others. Nevertheless, she asked the same questions of Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi.

     Mazie Hirono is forgettable.

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Does Abortion Cause Breast Cancer?

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Marco Rubio destroys Kristen Walker in his defense of mass deportations. Absolutely brilliant answer.

Seriously this is how absolutely every single Republican must talk about deportations because this is the truth and this is where we are as a country because of the last four… pic.twitter.com/oyDK8MHJdl

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) January 17, 2025