Friday Phenomena

On a sunny but cold Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a victory for female athletes.

From FrontpageMag, USAID is a cesspool.

From Townhall, a Christian bridal designer in New York faces legal trouble for refusing to design a bridal jumpsuit for a same-sex couple.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Trump becomes an icon to Gen Z.

From the Washington Examiner, the Democrats again choose chaos on immigration.

From The Federalist, Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) slams USAID funding for a "Sesame Street" in Iraq.

From American Thinker, Israel has an important relationship with Azerbaijan.

From MRCTV, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) follows the law, except when she doesn't.

From NewsBusters, will Trump and the Chief Twit make any real budget cuts?

From Canada Free Press, some thoughts about the Super Bowl.

From TeleSUR, Haiti has been without an elected government for four years.

From TCW Defending Freedom, climate fearmongers blame the recent California wild fires on both wet and dry conditions.

From Snouts in the Trough, does the U.K.'s National Farmers Union really give a rat's rear end about actual farmers?

From EuroNews, according to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Poland will not implement the E.U.'s Pact on Migration and Asylum.

From ReMix, Dutch Minister of Asylum and Migration Marjolein Faber has little intention to make any changes to a proposed asylum law.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at NOS.)

From Balkan Insight, voters in Kosovo will elect new parliamentcritters this coming Sunday.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and Libya sign a Memorandum of Understanding about fisheries and aquaculture.

From The New Arab, Morocco prevented 78,685 migrants from illegally entering E.U. territory in 2024.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a seven-year-old boy is ostracized by school classmates because he's not Muslim - in Dortmund, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at Ruhr Nachrichten.)

From The Jerusalem Post, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Arabia can create a Palestinian state within its own territory.

From Gatestone Institute, Chinese spies and military personnel move to Cuba.

From Radio Free Asia, North Korean authorities threaten to punish citizens who spread "rumors" about it soldiers dying in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

From The Stream, USAID promoted anti-Christian morality by funding abortion, LBGT advocacy, and atheistic ideologies.

From The Daily Signal, according to a report, foreign funding and ranked choice voting are the main concerns about election integrity.

From The American Conservative, the forgotten founder of the America First philosophy.

From The Western Journal, don't forget that then-President Biden ordered that children be deprived of food if their parents opposed his agenda.  (But, but, Trump is the fascist.)

From BizPac Review, a former Democratic National Committee official reveals how the Biden administration was really former President Obama's "third term".

From The Daily Wire, conservative and pro-life organizations urge Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate allegations that pro-life prisoners were neglected during the Biden administration.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Dan Goldman (D-NY) is accused of helping illegal aliens from China to avoid ICE.

From the New York Post, golfer Tiger Woods commits to competing in his first official event since last July.

From Breitbart, a truck drive from Austin, Texas faces life in prison after being convicted of murdering a victim of sex trafficking.

From Newsmax, Amazon cuts "inclusion and diversity" from its annual report.

And from Hot Air, U.S. taxpayer money has gone to creating transgender mice, rats and monkeys.