Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
The Trump administration is using dishonest legal tactics to get away with their crusade to gather the medical records of transgender children.
A biased judge defying the law out of ideology or/and partisan bias, is helping the Trump administration and weakening America’s rule of law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_bl71wDqSs
If Thailand maintains its low fertility rate for 200 years, it will have a population of 2 million. That’s smaller than Houston right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F7_qa-XLBg
It’s hard to reproduce a culture and a people when you don’t have children.
“The U.S. general fertility rate hit an all-time low — again — with 53.1 live births for every 1,000 women in 2025. That’s down about 1% from the prior year”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/family-relationships/article/the-us-fertility-rate-dropped-again-whats-the-big-deal-040100863.html
“The school’s location, the nearby smoke, and the timing of the bombing – in the first round of strikes by US and Israeli forces – all give credence to the assertion that the school was hit as part of a series of strikes by the US and Israel on or around the IRGC complex. The US military said it was “looking into” the bombing.
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There is no indication, however, that the school is in any sense a military-use building: its classroom building and playground is walled off from the rest of the IRGC compound, and the colourful murals on its walls are visible in some satellite imagery.”
Nor were its classes exclusively reserved for children of military families
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/03/minab-school-bombing-how-the-worst-mass-casualty-event-of-the-iran-war-unfolded-a-visual-guide
“Educators fear these immigration raids will have long-term consequences similar to the Covid-19 pandemic like increased student absences and anxiety and declining academic performance. They have already seen signs of this, with early data showing steep attendance drops despite their best efforts to keep students in their brick-and-mortar classrooms.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/24/school-officials-wrestle-with-how-to-protect-students-from-ice-00793035?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it
The Vice President either did terrible research, or lied. He said that ICE had no choice but to detain the five year old boy because his illegal father ran and abandoned the child. He failed to mention that another adult living in the home begged ICE to let him stay with them, and that they used the 5-year old as bait to see if they could capture anyone else in the home.
Multiple police chiefs met and said that their off-duty non-white police officers were being harassed by ICE. The Vice President dismissed this as something someone said on the internet, and claimed that they take accusations of discrimination seriously while dismissing credible claims of exactly that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDjdY_zkemM
A parallel between the demographic crisis and global warming is that for each, one side of the partisan divide largely doesn’t think it’s a problem at all. And for each side, the deniers are straight up wrong. Human caused global warming is essentially a fact. Declining demographics and the problems it causes are simply true. Being in denial of either of these is not a difference of opinion, but being wrong about the ample and sufficient evidence. Disagreeing about what to do about these problems once they are recognized is legitimate and complicated, so is disagreeing about some of the consequences, but, denying them as problems is going against reality.
Unfortunately, global warming has been coded as a liberal issue. The demographic crisis has been coded as a conservative issue. But neither of them them should have partisan or ideological coding. They are both real problems that are happening. The only disagreement should be what to do about these problems, not whether they are severe problems with difficult consequences, because that is in the realm of fact.
“”Flexibility at work has the power to drive fertility decisions,” according to researchers running a survey in the U.S. and 38 other countries.
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People who worked from home at least one day per week “had more biological children from 2021 to early 2025, and plan to have more children in the future, compared to observationally similar persons who do not” work from home, according to the August 2025 working paper, “Work from Home and Fertility.”
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Researchers say working from home may make it easier to balance work and family, but note that “it’s also plausible that parents with young children at home may select” work-from-home arrangements more often.
Self-selection seems less of a confounding factor when it comes to future fertility intentions. In both the U.S. and multicountry samples, and for both men and women, working from home at least one day per week increased their preferred number of kids. For women, having a partner who occasionally worked from home was also associated with a desire for more children.
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A study out of Norway published in the December 2025 edition of Labour Economics found the country saw “a significant and persistent” 10 percent increase in births beginning nine months after the first COVID-19 lockdowns started. These “fertility increases were concentrated among women in ‘greedy jobs’ with lower flexibility prior to lockdown,” according to the paper. “The overall birth response was driven by women who retained their job during the lockdown period, consistent with changes in the nature of work (flexibility) being a key mechanism,” rather than increased time due to job loss.
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It also calls into question the wisdom of a professedly pronatalist presidential administration ordering all federal employees to return to the office, as President Donald Trump did in early 2025. Simplifying remote work for both public and private sector employees could be a quicker, cheaper path to more children.”
https://reason.com/2025/12/28/work-from-home-have-more-kids/
“Nick Shirley’s Credibility GONE In Under 10 Minutes – Minnesota Somali” Fraud Video Exposed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKx_GDdh4sM
Some Minnesota schools are closed for a week because ICE operations caused disruptions and chaos at a school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXUmhb7IPQA