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Inside world's top science society's convention bashing Trump, pushing DEI, pronouns: 'Felt like a funeral'​

One of the world’s largest and most influential scientific societies held its annual conference last weekend, which a Fox News Digital review found was littered with examples of progressive messaging, criticisms of the Trump administration, and "woke" workshops.

Attendees who showed up at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) event, held at the Phoenix Convention Center from Feb. 12-14, were immediately greeted at registration with identifier stickers that used gender pronouns such as "they/them," "xi/xer," "xe/xem," and other descriptors that critics have alleged have little to do with science and biology.

During the meeting’s opening night, shortly after a 10-minute hoop dance routine from traditional Native American dancers, AAAS CEO Dr. Sudip Parikh told the audience that it’s been a "hard" and "tough year for science and scientists in this country."

Parikh went on to blame DOGE for the "devastation" of "some of our science agencies" and the "president’s budget request" that "cut science by half" and, in his opinion, amounted to "forfeiting the future." "What happened over the course of the last year is a rupture. We’re not going back, it’s not possible, too much damage has been done, too much has changed. There’s an entire generation of scientists that have a scar, a scar that is not going to go away," Parikh explained, adding that scars can "make us tougher" and "become almost shields" that "build resilience."

Parikh told the crowd that he warned last year that Robert F. Kennedy Jr was the "wrong person" for Health and Human Services secretary and said, "I still feel that way," which prompted laughter and applause from the crowd. "It’s going to take protests, it’s going to take politics, it’s going to take the ability to not speak gibberish, all of that has got to come together if we’re going to fight for the inheritance of the enlightenment to continue to make this world a better place," Parikh said.

Workshops at the event, which provided gender-neutral washrooms, included a session titled "Mao-Mei Liu: Nurturing Diversity in Science is Resistance," and another called "Investigating the Role of Race in Clinical Decision-Making." "Who Gets to Belong? Disability, Power, and Participation in Higher Education," another workshop was called.

Dr. Theresa A. Maldonado, a world-renowned expert in electrical engineering, delivered the president’s address at the conference and also lamented what a difficult year 2025 was for science and suggested climate change was responsible for the devastating southern California wildfires last year.

AAAS, the publisher of the highly respected Science magazine, posted several more videos over the course of the next few days, many including speakers who criticized the Trump administration and injected politics into discussions.

"Colonial Legacies, Climate Crises, and the Erosion of Mobility Choice" was another workshop that scientists at the conference were offered and in an interview with "climate justice scholar" Jola Ajibade, she explained how climate change has benefited a "few wealthy people" while "low-income communities are displaced."

"At the center of my work is giving a voice but also bringing to the attention of everyone the impact of a slew of climate solutions, the impact of those solutions on low-income communities, on Black communities, on indigenous, on Latino communities as well," Ajibade explained, adding that she is focused on finding a "decolonial" approach.

Listed sponsors of the event included the Science Philanthropy Alliance, a group tied to the progressive consulting behemoth Arabella Advisors through the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit that pushes a variety of progressive causes. "The whole thing that is sad for me is that when I attended these conferences in the first Trump administration there was plenty of liberal nonsense, but it still was a celebration of science and the achievements of the year, and you left excited," an event attendee told Fox News Digital.

"This year felt like a funeral, with nothing but griping and moaning. Why would people want to keep coming back year after year with something like that? I suspect that is why their attendance greatly suffered this year compared to the pre-COVID years. Their constant pleas to keep politics out of science are completely undercut by their perpetual whining and endorsing utter craziness. They’re happy for science to be political, as long as it’s leftist."

Additionally, as lawmakers in the United States continue to warn about the growing threat posed by China and what they believe is the CCP’s infiltration of top institutions in the United States — particularly in the medical and science fields — the AAAS conference opted to allow the Beijing-based research institute Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to operate a booth at the event.

The state-run Chinese academy, which has faced controversy over its ties to China’s government and military, has collaborated with a Chinese medical technology firm linked to a 2013 U.S. bribery case involving NIH-funded research. The company has also installed equipment in leading American research labs.

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After yet another trans shooter massacre, more troubling links between gender identity and mass violence emerge... and the questions that MUST now be asked​

Two terrible shootings have rocked North America in recent days.

On Monday afternoon, during a high-school ice hockey tournament in Rhode Island on America’s East Coast, the crackle of gunshots rang out across the arena. A livestream of the match captured the moment spectators ducked for cover and players scrambled to get off the ice.

The shooter, who was at the front of the stands, killed two people and left three others in a critical condition. Yesterday, police revealed the identity of the attacker as 56-year-old Robert Dorgan - who also went by ‘Roberta Esposito’ - and who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

It later emerged in reports that Dorgan, a biological male who was living as a woman, had opened fire on his own wife, three children and a family friend at the match, before turning the gun on himself.

The tragedy comes just a week after another horrific incident north of the US border - one of worst school shootings in Canada’s history - in which six students and teachers were killed, and dozens more injured, again by a trans-identifying male.

It emerged that the mother and stepbrother of the alleged gunman, named by police as Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, had been killed at their home before he went on to attack the school.

Bizarre initial reports from police described Van Rootselaar - who died at the school apparently from self-inflicted injuries - as a ‘gunperson’ and a ‘woman wearing a dress’. Van Rootselaar had begun ‘transitioning’ about six years ago before dropping out of school, and was understood to have taken his mother’s surname, Strang, at school.

These two recent atrocities are just the latest in a string of incidents that have raised the troubling question over whether there is a statistically significant link between trans people and mass shootings, which some on the American Right have blamed on the drugs prescribed to trans people as part of their gender reassignment treatment. In September, it emerged that senior officials within the US Department of Justice (DOJ) were in the early stages of evaluating proposals to restrict transgender people from owning guns.

That news came just days before the murder of Right-wing American activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. While his alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, isn’t trans himself, he was a passionate advocate of trans rights and had a trans-identifying boyfriend.

Kirk’s murder, meanwhile, came just weeks after two children died and 19 others were injured in a horrific church shooting in Charlotte, North Carolina, in which the 23-year-old suspect, Robin Westman, was found to be trans, having legally changed his name in 2019 on the grounds that he ‘identifies as a female and wants her [sic] name to reflect that identification’. Investigators looking for a motive for the killings said Westman was in possession of a notebook that contained images of a trans pride flag and guns.

Needless to say, mass shootings are rarer in Canada than in the US. But it is striking that two in a single week in North America have apparently been committed by trans-identifying individuals. Indeed, members of Donald Trump’s inner circle have compiled a list of seven other US mass shootings in recent years said to have been carried out by trans people or those ‘confused in their gender’.

They go back as far as 2018, when 26-year-old Snochia Moseley shot and killed four people at a pharmacy in Maryland, before killing herself. A close friend of Moseley’s claimed the killer identified as transgender.

In 2019, then-16-year-old Maya ‘Alec’ McKinney and a fellow student opened fire inside a school in Colorado, killing one person and injuring eight. McKinney, a female, identifies as male.

Lee Aldrich, a 22-year-old male who identified as ‘non-binary’, attacked a gay night club in Colorado in 2022, killing five and injuring at least 20 others. (Some critics believe he only later claimed to be non-binary to avoid hate-crime charges).

Audrey Hale, 28, shot dead three children and three adults in 2023 at a Christian primary school in Nashville, Tennessee, before being shot dead by police. Female-born Hale, who was under medical care for ‘emotional disorder’, had asked to be referred to by a new male name as well as by male pronouns.

Also in 2023, Kimbrady Carriker, 40, a cross-dressing man who didn’t identify as trans, carried out a mass shooting in Philadelphia, killing five.

Then in January 2024, 17-year-old Dylan Butler opened fire at his school in Perry, Iowa. He killed a student and the school’s principal, injuring six more people before he shot himself. Butler’s TikTok profile used ‘he/they’ pronouns and he called himself ‘genderfluid’ on the social media platform, although he didn’t appear to identify as a woman.

And, although they don’t count as mass shooters so have been left out of this particular row, the so-called Zizians, a ‘transgender, radical vegan death cult’ accused of being involved in at least six killings across the US, boast a membership almost entirely made up of trans people.

Does this all constitute a significant trend? Yes, according to a swathe of prominent US conservatives in politics and the media. ‘This is happening a lot. Something is deeply wrong,’ said Elon Musk on X after last year’s Iowa school shooting. Musk has an estranged transgender daughter - whom he claims has succumbed to the ‘woke mind virus’.

Donald Trump Jr has said: ‘Seems like per capita the radical transgender movement has to be the most violent movement anywhere in the world.’

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I'm just going to play devil's advocate here, and say that we have lots of mentally ill people who already feel like societal rejects and are prone to violence and have bought in to the idea that changing gender will solve their problems. When that doesn't work, they decide that mass murder is the best way to get revenge on humanity, which is only reinforced by all the attention these crimes receive.
 
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Registered sex offender seeks city council seat, drawing outrage from local leaders​

A registered sex offender convicted in a child sex abuse material case is seeking elected office in California — launching a campaign for Fresno City Council amid fierce backlash and renewed questions about whether someone with his record should hold public office.

Rene Campos, a Fresno native required to register as a sex offender, has announced plans to run for the District 7 seat on the Fresno City Council. Campos was charged in 2018 with possession of child sex abuse material, according to court records. He has said he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge and is now a registered sex offender.

His opponent, Nav Gurm, says the campaign has transformed what should be a local race focused on infrastructure and public safety into a national controversy. "His candidacy is a slap in the face to families and children in Fresno," Gurm told Fox News Digital. "They deserve a councilmember who can show up at their schools and in their neighborhoods without restriction."

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Campos defended his candidacy, arguing he has met all legal requirements. "I satisfied every legal obligation imposed under the laws this state enacted for accountability and rehabilitation," Campos said. "If those same laws can be set aside when politically inconvenient, then we are not debating one candidacy — we are testing whether the rule of law is stable or selective. Democracy depends on consistent standards. When eligibility shifts under pressure, public confidence weakens. Voters decide elections — not political preference."

Under California law, registered sex offenders are not automatically barred from seeking or holding local office as long as they meet voter registration and residency requirements.

But Gurm argues that legality does not equate to fitness for office. "While it may not be a legal disqualification, it’s a disqualification in practice," he said. "If you can’t fully participate in school events, youth gatherings and community activities, you can’t fully do the job." Gurm is urging state lawmakers to amend eligibility standards. "I urge the Fresno City Council and the California State Legislature to push forward legislation making lifetime sex offender registration an explicit disqualification for holding public office," he said.

The backlash has extended beyond campaign opponents.

Fresno City Council President Mike Karbassi said he believes voters will reject Campos and suggested he would oppose him taking office if elected. "When it comes to the safety and welfare of our children, your past matters," Karbassi said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "So long as I am Council President, I will not permit him to be seated on the Fresno City Council." It remains unclear what legal authority, if any, the council president would have to prevent an elected candidate from assuming office.

Outgoing Councilman Nelson Esparza, who currently represents District 7 and is termed out, also criticized the campaign. "Regardless of any rehabilitation, he needs to find a different line of work," Esparza told Fox News Digital. "So much of what I do in this district is for and with respect to our children and youth. I don’t see any reasonable way someone with registered sex offender status could effectively do this job."

Esparza noted that councilmembers regularly participate in school initiatives and that children frequently visit City Hall for tours and meetings. He said councilmembers are examining possible municipal policy changes and urging legislative action at the state level. The District 7 seat will open when Esparza’s term expires. Candidates face a filing deadline in early March, and the primary election is scheduled for June.

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Transgender woman dressed as a BLUES BROTHER 'murdered millionaire developer, 92,' in his stunning beachfront home​

A transgender woman dressed like a Blues Brother has been arrested after a seven-hour siege of an oceanfront home with a decomposing body inside. Retired property developer Demetrius Doukoullos, 92, was found dead inside the stunning $6.3 million property in Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles. The elderly man was allegedly killed weeks ago by Eleanor Beaulieu, 39, who is locked up in the county jail charged with murder.

Photos said to show Beaulieu on the terrace of the property show her in a black suit, white shirt, black tie, black trilby hat and black Wayfarer sunglasses like the characters in the hit 1980 action movie. Neighbors along on The Strand regularly saw Doukoullos relaxing on his front porch, overlooking Manhattan Beach and the Pacific Ocean.

But when he stopped coming out for weeks and the blinds stayed closed, they began to worry. Then they saw a strange man in a suit and fedora coming and going. Then his upstairs neighbor smelled a foul odor coming from the unit and a suspicious person was in the unit, and called the landlord.

Doukoullos had lived alone since his wife Fredda died aged 75 in 2012 and was renting a two-bedroom unit in the building for $6,900 a month since January 2024. Eleanor Beaulieu, 39, surrenders to police after a seven-hour siege inside the home of retired property developer Demetrius Doukoullos, 92.

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What purpose does the UN serve? What a stinking pile this is.

Outrage at UN: Democracies Enable Iran, China, Cuba to Oversee Human Rights Bodies

April 11, 2026
China, Cuba, Human Rights, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, United Nations

GENEVA, April 10, 2026 — UN Watch, the independent Geneva-based non-governmental organization that monitors the United Nations, today called on Canada, France, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia, the UK, and other democracies to explain why they joined in the election of serial abusers of human rights to key UN bodies that oversee human rights.

On Wednesday, the UN’s 54-nation Economic and Social Council nominated the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN’s Committee for Program and Coordination, which meets next month to shape policy on women’s rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention. ECOSOC’s nomination is effectively decisive, as the UN General Assembly customarily rubber-stamps such nominations without a vote.
In addition, ECOSOC by acclamation elected China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan to the influential Committee on NGOs, which oversees the work, accreditation and UN access of thousands of human rights and civil society groups that enjoy consulative status at the world body.

The United States was the only ECOSOC member to object, saying that Iran, Cuba and Nicaragua were “unfit.”
UN Watch today called on all democratic ECOSOC member states — Canada, France, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia, the UK, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, and Finland — to explain why they joined in the election of serial abusers of human rights to key UN bodies that oversee human rights.

“Appointing China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia to oversee the work of human rights activists is like putting Al Capone in charge of fighting organized crime,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. “It’s truly indefensible, and puts lives at risk.”

“As an organization accredited with special NGO consultative status at the United Nations, and which regularly gives a platform to dissidents from China, Cuba, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Nicaragua, we are gravely concerned that brutal dictatorships were elected to oversee our work and credentials — and it is scandalous that Western democracies put them there.”

“This means dictatorships will have a majority on the committee in order to deny United Nations accreditation to independent organizations that call out their human rights violations, and to accredit more fake front groups created by the regimes,” Neuer said.

“It harms the ability of pro-democracy dissidents to protect the most vulnerable victims and to advocate for human rights inside the United Nations.”
“By their cynical actions at the UN, major Western states have betrayed their own human rights principles, severely undermining the ruled-based international order that they claim to support.”
“We note that Western states did take action in recent years to stop Russia from getting elected to similar ECOSOC bodies, and we deeply regret that they failed to do the same now to stop the election of serial violators such as Iran, China, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan,” said Neuer.

Activists Issued Warning Before ECOSOC Election
Ahead of the election, 70 civil society and human rights groups warned that countries with poor records were at risk of being elected. The group International Service for Human Rights gave a failing grade to China, Cuba, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Nicaragua and others. Yet their warning was ignored.

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