As the nation enjoyed an extended holiday weekend, the legacy media continued their never-ending desire to obscure reality through their choices of which stories to highlight and which to bury.

In recent weeks alone, the nation’s abortion industry has expressed outrage that Democratic governors have reduced historically high, taxpayer handouts to reduce the budget crises created by … Democratic governors. A Republican governor recently signed a bill banning disciplinary measures against students and teachers who refuse to use biologically inaccurate pronouns (but you won’t believe how the media described the bill). Abortions in a state with one of the most protective pro-life policies fell by 98% since Dobbs. And a recent poll came to the confusing conclusion that one out of four “Christian Nationalists” supports same-sex marriage.

Here are the stories you missed.

1. Planned Parenthood ‘Outraged’ Gavin Newsom, Other Democratic Governors Reduced ‘Abortion Investments’

The future British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston declared in 1848: “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.” His words hold true 177 years later, as Planned Parenthood has launched multiple, high-visibility media attacks against Democratic governors who pledged to do the abortion industry’s bidding at every step of their careers. Their crime? Having the temerity to modestly reduce the amount of money they compel state taxpayers to furnish to Planned Parenthood.

California Governor and 2028 presidential-hopeful-in-waiting Gavin Newsom (D), facing a massive $12 billion budget deficit, asked to move $1.6 billion generated by the state’s Proposition 56 measure intended to pay Medicaid doctors into the state’s general fund. Planned Parenthood, which helped pass the measure and has benefited from those dollars, has said the move will cost it $500 million.

Planned Parenthood spared its longtime ally no scorn.

“Planned Parenthood affiliates of California are outraged by the devastating cuts proposed in Governor Newsom’s May Revise to critical family planning and abortion investments,” said a May 14 Planned Parenthood press release obtained by The Washington Stand.

“Abortion investments”?

“With this May Budget Revision, Governor Newsom is effectively defunding Planned Parenthood in the state of California,” whined Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California CEO and President, Jodi Hicks — a politically explosive charge for the radical pro-abortion movement.

Planned Parenthood also expressed pique that Newsom would limit the transfer of wealth from U.S. citizens to illegal immigrants through Medicaid. The governor has proposed that next year the state Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, no longer sign up illegal immigrants over age 19 and, in 2027, charge illegals already on its rolls $100 a month. Planned Parenthood signaled that it felt “gravely concerned by the proposed changes to the Medi-Cal expansion for undocumented individuals that will result in Californians losing health care coverage,” since many of those college-aged Medicaid enrollees avail themselves of the abortion giant’s services.

“This proposed budget does not reflect California’s values,” concluded Planned Parenthood.

The same problem played further up the Left Coast, as Washington Governor Bob Ferguson (D) signed a budget cutting funding for abortionists. After the 2022 Dobbs decision, the Democrat-controlled legislature in Olympia’s 2023-25 budget allocated $15 million to create the Abortion Access Project, which subsidized abortion for anyone who wanted one statewide. In the next biennial budget, Ferguson allowed “only” $6.5 million — a 55% reduction.

Planned Parenthood admitted that without the support of compulsory taxation, it could kill fewer children. “With less dollars, we’re going to be able to provide abortion care for less patients,” Jennifer M. Allen, CEO of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates in the state (who includes her pronouns in her press releases), told local media. “To our knowledge, it is the only cut to abortion funding in state history. Our state has never before gone backwards on access to abortion.”

Realizing even blue state voters may express muted sympathy that the abortion industry received modestly less of their taxpayer dollars, Allen claimed fewer abortions would kill people. “This decision will strain our health care system, deepen inequities, and risk lives,” she said. Sami Alloy, executive director of Pro-Choice Washington, agreed that limiting the abortion industry will “put patient lives at risk.” (Which is actually her clients’ job.)

Washington’s Planned Parenthood statement also contained a none-too-veiled political threat: “This disappointing vote was approved by legislators in both chambers, many of whom were endorsed by Planned Parenthood political organizations in Washington and have previously made campaign promises to voters to fight to protect and expand abortion access,” said the group. “Last November, Washingtonians sent a clear mandate by electing candidates who vowed to defend and expand abortion access, not undermine it.”

This welcome in-fighting proves no amount of abject subservience is enough to win Planned Parenthood’s favor. It perpetually demands more of its public servants. Newsom has already caved somewhat, saying through Communications Director Izzy Gardon, “At a time when Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are working to gut access to basic reproductive care, Governor Newsom is not going to sign a budget that would shut down health clinics across California.”

It also reveals obliquely the extraordinary pressure President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have placed on the abortion industry in just three months. By defunding abortionists in the pending reconciliation bill, to investigating the safety of the abortion pill, to reinstating the strengthened Mexico City Policy, the GOP has slowly constricted the abortion industry’s access to your hard-earned money, which constitutes the death dealers’ lifeblood. “As we contend with Congressional Republicans’ proposed budget that would exclude Planned Parenthood from the Medicaid program nationwide, sustaining state reproductive health care investments that support Planned Parenthood is more urgent and critical than ever,” admitted the California affiliate’s press release.

The multibillion-dollar abortion industry’s outrage at its allies for failing to meet its unquenchable thirst for public funding also shows its need for new sources of public funding not controlled by Washington. As The Washington Stand reported, Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D) recently found a new way to make Obamacare pay abortionists by diverting the $1 abortion surcharge his state has collected to abortionists.

For now, the pro-abortionists’ in-fighting is a glorious sound of chaos in the Enemy’s ranks.

2. Tennessee Governor Signs Bill Protecting Teachers from Ludicrous ‘Misgendering’ Lawsuits

When is a bill to prevent lawsuits a bill that will increase lawsuits? When that bill harms the interests of the predatory transgender industry. That lesson comes from a bill Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) signed into law on May 9.

H.B. 1270, which took effect on May 15, assures that teachers and state contractors cannot be sued for using legally correct names or biologically accurate pronouns rather than a student’s “preferred pronouns.” That cheered First Amendment advocates. “No one should lose their job or face punishment at school or work for declining to say something they believe is false. Words and language carry meaning, and when used properly, they communicate truth about the world,” Matt Sharp, director of the Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Public Policy, told TWS. “Forcing individuals to say things that are false — such as inaccurate pronouns — imposes real harm on the speaker. In no world is it acceptable for the government to discipline students or force good educators or other public servants out of a job all for the sake of promoting gender ideology.”

The new law also allows that, if some parties — including students — are forced to use inaccurate monikers, they can sue, under certain conditions.

The local media bias turned reality on its head by claiming that by supporting a bill to end transgender lawsuits against the state, Lee and the Republicans had opened the state up to liability.

WBIR 10 ran the headline: “Gov. Lee signs bill opening schools up to lawsuits for using trans students’ preferred names or pronouns.” (The story warns the bill will “open schools up to lawsuits if they use students’ preferred names or pronouns, effectively requiring educators to misgender transgender students.”)

WSMV 4 stated, “Employers, public schools could face lawsuits for using preferred names, genders after Gov. Lee signs bill.”

In the woke media, any legislation that is bad for the Left is bad for the state as a whole.

Meanwhile, what the legislature delivers through democratic vote, the Left tries to destroy through lawfare: The ACLU filed a lawsuit to overturn a 2023 law — which the legislature passed with overwhelming support and Lee signed into law — requiring the state only to issue legal identification that accurately reflects the ID holder’s “biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics.” The Tennessee chapter of the Legal Left organization filed the lawsuit in Davidson County Chancery Court, with the aid of Holland and Associates PC, on May 12.

3. Indiana Abortions Have Fallen 98% Since Dobbs Decision

A staunchly conservative state with one of the nation’s most protective pro-life laws just announced it had reduced state abortions by nearly 100%.

The state of Indiana reported 7,702 abortions in 2022. Just two months after the Dobbs decision, Indiana became the first state in the union to enact a pro-life law, which Mary Szoch, the director of the Center for Human Dignity at Family Research Council, forecast “will protect 95% of unborn children from the evil of abortion.” In 2024, the number of abortions plunged to 142: 40 to protect the mother from death, 93 due to lethal fetal anomaly, and nine due to rape or incest.

“The Indiana Department of Health reveals a 98% decrease in abortions in 2024 compared to 2022,” reported a local media source after reviewing statistics supplied by the state health agency.

Again, the legacy media chose to play the futility of the law. “Indiana has a near-total abortion ban. But hospitals still performed some in 2024,” claimed Hayleigh Colombo of The Indianapolis Star. (Note to Colombo: The United States has a total ban on murder and rape. Some criminals still perpetrated some in 2024.)

Americans can rightly say pro-life laws save lives and long for the day the number of abortions falls to zero.

Speaking of numbers ….

4. 1 in 4 ‘Christian Nationalists’ Supports Same-Sex Marriage? Survey Says …

Since the legacy media began warning about the rise of “Christian nationalism” several years ago, Christian conservatives have said the ill-defined concept seemed malleable enough to include any action the media disliked. It turned out this is too narrow a definition: “Christian nationalists” can also hold views the legacy media endorses.

To prove how meaningless the term “Christian nationalist” is, a recent poll from a left-leaning polling firm claimed almost one out of every four Christian nationalists supports same-sex marriage. Moreover, Americans who identify as LGBTQ allegedly fit the survey’s criteria for Christian nationalism “adherents.”

Those unlikely data points came in a story titled “LGBTQ Rights Across All 50 States: Key Insights from PRRI’s 2024 American Values Atlas,” released by the Public Religion Research Institute on March 4.

“Nearly all Christian nationalism Rejecters (92%) and three-fourths of Skeptics (74%) support same-sex marriage, compared with 46% of Sympathizers and 23% of Adherents,” said PRRI. Only about 10% of Americans qualify for the poll’s definition of Christian Nationalism Adherents — some of whom may be involved in same-sex marriages. The poll revealed, “LGBTQ Americans are less likely than all Americans to qualify as Christian nationalism Skeptics (28% vs. 37%), Sympathizers (10% vs. 20%), and Adherents (4% vs. 10%).”

Data this ludicrous may be the Left’s way of confessing the Great Christian Nationalism Scare of the early 2020s failed, repeating itself first as tragedy, second as farce.