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And it's now time for your Daily Fortis News break the production of Fortis Institute.
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Saturday night at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, 831-year-old California named Cold
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Thomas Allen, tried to rush to ballroom before being arrested, and within hours, the Sarasota
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County Democratic Party posted to Facebook, quote, well, that stinks.
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They didn't use the word stinks, and it wasn't necessarily a vulgar word that they used,
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but I'm not going to say it.
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They also used a laughing emoji and the status of feeling disappointed.
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They scrub the post by Sunday morning, but screenshots don't disappear when you hit delete.
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In BetterTrump News, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced more than $2 billion
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in federal investment for America's railways.
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The department also pulled $73 million in highway funds from New York for refusing to comply
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with commercial driver's license rules.
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Now you build for the ones who follow the law and defund the ones who don't.
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A federal judge has ruled that Washington State's mandate forcing Christian foster parents
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to use transgender pronouns plausibly violates the first amendment.
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Shane and Jennifer DeGroes fostered for nearly a decade before the state demanded they
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affirm gender ideology or lose their license.
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The state's compromise was a restricted license letting them foster only kids ages 2 to 5
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on the theory those children were too young to be transitioned anyway.
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Even a Biden-pointed judge couldn't miss that one.
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And in Canada, the press is hard at work normalizing polyamory.
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C.T.B. ran a piece scolding the legal system for failing to keep up with thruples.
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Last year, in Quebec, a judge ruled multi-parent families deserve the same rights as actual families
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and a three-year-old girl was placed with three men calling themselves fathers.
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Edit Madison, Wisconsin schools are canceling classes this Friday because 70% of the staff
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plan to skip work for a day without immigrants protest against ice.
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Working parents are on their own for child care.
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A watchdog group called consumers research is launching a campaign against two of America's
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largest nonprofit hospital systems, New York Presbyterian and Common Spirit Health,
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accusing them of putting woke politics ahead of patient care.
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New York Presbyterian runs a health justice center and a program steering trans-identifying
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kids toward gender-affirming care while Common Spirit has its own office of diversity, equity
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and inclusion and belonging.
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The question they're putting to Congress is that they're really qualified as a tax-exempt
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And finally, the United Kingdom has passed a generational smoking ban.
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Anyone born on or after January 1st, 2009 will never be legally allowed to buy a cigarette.
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Not at 18, not at 50, not ever.
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And that wraps up today's Fortis News break on JimmyX.
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