The state of Iowa will have a chance to upgrade its congressional delegation next year, though the White House understandably wanted to play it safe.

As CBS reported, Senator Joni Ernst (RINO-IA) will not be seeking reelection to the Senate next year. An official announcement is scheduled for Thursday.

Ernst has served in the Senate since 2015.

A source told CBS that Ernst had told people close to her that she intends to serve only two terms and will enter the private sector.

This news will come as a disappointment to the White House, as President Trump had urged Ernst to run again for the Senate. The reason for this is that incumbency is a powerful asset and there is no stomach for a nasty primary.

However, there is tremendous potential for a true MAGA candidate to emerge. This is necessary considering Ernst’s deviations from America-first conservatism.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Ernst was one of the senators who initially tried to derail Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Defense Secretary.

It was revealed that Ernst had been making direct appeals to former President Donald Trump, urging him to withdraw Hegseth’s nomination and positioning herself as a potential replacement.

She, of course, had no issue rubberstamping some of Joe Biden’s worst nominees.

While Ernst eventually caved and supported Hegseth, it was only after a massive conservative backlash. She had already showed her true colors.

Ernst has alse been one of the Senate’s biggest warmongers. In one instance, she advocated for shutting down Vladimir Putin’s gas pipeline to Western Europe in the winter back in 2021, an action that could resulted in all-out war.

The pipeline to Germany was only possible because Joe Biden approved the Russian pipeline after he shut down the American Keystone pipeline from Canada.

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White Coat Waste Project (WCW), a watchdog group dedicated to ending taxpayer-funded animal experiments, has discovered that millions in taxpayer dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the State of Florida are being spent on bizarre experiments to create “transgender” monkeys by pumping male rhesus macaques full of estrogen and then injecting them with mRNA vaccines.

The research, published in Cell Reports earlier this month, says that the experiments are aimed at modeling feminizing hormone therapy (FHT) as used by transgender biological males transitioning to “female.”

According to the paper, “To investigate the immune effects of estrogen within a male biological system, we administered exogenous E2 [estrogen] to male RMs [rhesus monkeys], modeling FHT [feminizing hormone therapy] as prescribed to TGW [transgender women].” Twelve young male monkeys were divided into groups and implanted with slow-release pellets containing either estrogen or a placebo.

The results were grotesque.

“FHT [feminizing hormone therapy] induces physical changes in TGW [transgender women], such as breast development, fat and muscle redistribution, and reduction in facial hair. To determine whether exogenous E2 [estrogen] therapy triggered similar female characteristics in male RMs [rhesus monkeys], we evaluated body alterations in the E2-treated animals. We found that male RMs [rhesus monkeys] treated with E2 [estrogen], but not placebo, developed significantly enlarged nipples similar to those of non-pregnant non-lactating female macaques.”

The estrogen-treated males developed “significantly enlarged nipples similar to those of non-pregnant non-lactating female macaques.” Additionally, “skin in the [estrogen]-treated macaques’ hips and thighs also became increasingly reddish and vascularized in a manifestation that resembled sex skin.” To further disrupt their systems, the researchers “artificially disrupted immune homeostasis through LNP/mRNA vaccinations,” injecting the animals with mRNA-based vaccines.

Images from the study show enlarged nipples and reddish, vascularized skin on the primates.

Tragically, one monkey, identified as rh-12, “developed a severe case of scrotal edema following the first E2 implant that was not successfully controlled by diuretic treatment (furosemide). As a result, this monkey was euthanized.”

Funding for this disturbing project came from four NIH grants totaling over $22 million, three of which are still active, including one issued by Dr. Anthony Fauci in 2020.

The grants include U19AI149646 ($13.9 million to Boston Children’s Hospital for an AAV-mediated functional cure), R01HD103494 ($4 million to the University of Florida for preventing obstetric HIV infection), R01HD102252 ($4.1 million to UF for perinatal HIV prevention), and the expired R21AI157929 ($477,000 to UF specifically for studying immunological effects of FHT in transgender women models).

Additional support was provided by the State of Florida through the HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases Institute (HEIDI) at the University of Miami, which has been sponsored by the Florida Department of Health under contracts totaling millions of dollars since 2014.

WCW has estimated that “the NIH, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other federal agencies have wasted at least a quarter-billion tax dollars on transgender animal labs.”

In response, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace introduced the TRANS MICE Act (H.R. 4512) in July, cosponsored by GOP Reps. Paul Gosar, Brandon Gill, and Lauren Boebert. The bill, short for “Transgender Research on Animals Now Stops and Money for Ideological Cruelty Eliminated,” seeks to ban all current and future federal funding for these cruel and unnecessary tests.

The legislation follows President Trump’s criticism of similar spending in his 2025 State of the Union address, which led to the cancellation of at least ten NIH grants, saving millions and sparing thousands of animals.

A group of House Republicans, including Gosar, Boebert, Gill, Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and others, have also recently sent a letter to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, demanding a ban on federally funded transgender animal experiments in the FY2026 budget.

The letter states:

Media reports, investigations conducted by the non-profit White Coat Waste Project, and inquiries by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform have uncovered how dozens of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants issued under the Biden Administration are funding wasteful and disturbing experiments to create “transfeminine” and “transmasculine” lab animals using invasive surgeries and hormone therapies. The
transgender animals are then wounded, shocked, injected with street drugs and vaccines, and subjected to other disturbing procedures.

President Trump has personally criticized these experiments on several occasions, and the Department of Government Efficiency has cancelled millions in NIH grants funding transgender animal testing. However, many of these NIH grants funding gender transitions for lab animals are still active.

The proposed language would prohibit funds for “research on vertebrate animals for the purpose of studying the effects of drugs, surgery, or other interventions to alter the human body… to no longer correspond to its biological sex.” They cited dozens of active NIH grants under the Biden administration for these “wasteful and disturbing” experiments, including ones where rats on hormones were tested for drug overdoses.

The letter cites a Gateway Pundit report from March, which covered WCW’s revelations that despite early intervention efforts on the part of the Trump Administration [and its Department of Governmental Efficiency] to revoke, freeze, and eliminate several unorthodox government-sponsored experiments involving transgender hormone testing on animals, nearly 40 federal grants, including one disbursed via the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, were still active.

Bureaucrats Defy Trump’s Cuts: Nearly 40 Transgender Animal Experiments, $400M in Tax Dollars, Still Active

The FY2026 NIH spending bill is set to be considered on September 2.

Anthony Bellotti, president and founder of WCW, told the Gateway Pundit in a statement:

WCW has spearheaded numerous campaigns exposing and defunding cruel government-backed tests, saving millions in public funds and sparing thousands of animals.

Founded to combat the over $20 billion annually spent on such experiments, WCW has achieved major victories, including exposing and defunding the Wuhan lab linked to COVID-19 origins, halting Dr. Anthony Fauci's infamous beagle experiments that involved infecting and killing thousands of dogs in painful toxicity tests, and shutting down the USDA's "Kitten Slaughterhouse," the government's largest cat lab where felines were bred, infected with parasites, and euthanized.

The organization also ended cat and dog experiments at the Department of Veterans Affairs, closed the FDA's largest primate lab, resulting in a 63 percent reduction in primate testing, and secured a permanent ban on all Navy-funded dog and cat experiments, terminating a $10 million program of invasive procedures.

Additionally, WCW's investigations led to the NIH closing its in-house beagle laboratories after revelations of brutal experiments pumping bacteria into dogs' lungs and inducing septic shock, marking the end of over 40 years of such practices.

Through relentless advocacy, WCW has influenced groundbreaking legislation and policies, such as the first-ever federal rules allowing lab survivors to be retired and adopted as pets across various agencies, including the NIH, VA, DOD, and FDA, as well as the passage of the first state law banning taxpayer-funded maximum-pain tests on dogs and cats.

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VINDICATED: Dr. Simone Gold on Selective Persecution

Simone Gold, MD, JD is an experienced emergency physician and attorney, and the visionary who led the pivotal press conference event that broke the spell of the coronavirus panic in 2020. Creating the most viral moment in modern media history, Dr. Gold became the founder of America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), the nation’s leading medical and civil liberties organization. The mission of AFLDS is to provide independent information from the world’s top experts in medicine and law, empowering people to protect their health and exercise their inalienable and constitutionally guaranteed rights.

Dr. Gold is also a mom, the CEO of GoldCare.com, and a best-selling author. She graduated from Chicago Medical School before earning her Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford University Law School, and then served minority communities as an ER doctor for over 20 years, without a single malpractice complaint. She has worked in Washington, D.C. for the Surgeon General, as well as for the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee.

Dr. Gold is a dynamic speaker known for both educating and invigorating audiences to take effective action in reclaiming their health and their natural human rights. She is a frequent guest on media outlets around the world, including Tucker Carlson, USA Today, Associated Press, The Guardian, The Charlie Kirk Show, The Dennis Prager Show, Daystar Television, and many others.

Dr. Gold is America’s expert voice of common sense and scientific clarity in the information war against Medical Marxism and the fraud of corporate media and medical bureaucracy, and she continues to stand as a frontline advocate for civil liberties.

Here is Dr. Gold’s presentation at the VINDICATED event discussing Selective Persecution.

VINDICATED: Dr. Simone Gold on Selective Persecution pic.twitter.com/ZDOQBd4P5K

— Joe Hoft (@realJoeHoft) August 29, 2025

Dr. Gold has a new book out that she discussed titled – Selective Persecution.

Get your copy now. 

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Vice President JD Vance pulled off an incredibly creative troll on Thursday that threw off several overweight agitators and forced them to get some actual exercise in.

As WEAU reported, roughly 150 protesters gathered in La Crosse, Wisconsin during Vance’s visit to the Badger State.

Vance was in Wisconsin to promote “The Big, Beautiful Bill,” which was signed into law last month.

The legislation provides the largest tax cuts in American history, incentivizes American-based manufacturing, and eliminates taxes on tips and overtime.

“What the working families tax cuts did is simple, ladies and gentlemen. It let you keep more money in your pocket,” Vance explainedto the crowd at Mid-Steel. “It rewarded you for building a business or working at a business right here in the United States of America. It makes it easy for you to take home more of your hard-earned pay, and it makes it easier if you’re an American manufacturer or an American business … to build your facility or expand your facility right here in the United States of America.”

But the agitators, who were gathered outside, were apparently triggered at the thought of Americans keeping more of their own money.

They were on the edge of a street where they thought Vance’s motorcade would be driving down. As one would expect, the protesters were carrying nonsensical signs.

But Vance had a little trick up his sleeve. He and his team decided to drive down an adjacent road, which the Wisconsin Democratic Party claimed was a one-way street.

Watch these unathletic liberals, many of them portly, forced to run for the first time in years just in an effort to get noticed and shout at Vance. Look at them ‘race’ across the median strip.

How hilarious and pathetic at the same time.

WATCH:

JD Vance went the WRONG WAY down a one way street to avoid protesters in Wisconsin.

Disgraceful. pic.twitter.com/j4p7FTLr7m

— Wisconsin Democrats (@WisDems) August 28, 2025

It’s safe to say Vance and his team would have burst out laughing if they had seen this video.

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President Trump has announced that he may allow as many as 600,000 Chinese students to enter the United States. While I generally support most of the president’s decisions, this move poses a serious threat to U.S. national security.

There have been numerous cases of Chinese graduate students stealing American intellectual property and even biological samples. But the most compelling reason to restrict their entry is that Chinese law obligates all citizens to spy for the regime. And the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) routinely threatens or coerces individuals and their families until they comply. By this standard, Chinese students in the U.S. are effectively acting as spies, or what U.S. law officially refers to as “foreign agents.”

Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), individuals must register if they act “at the order, request, direction, or control of” a foreign principal, even without a contract or formal agreement. The law also considers whether requests are made through coercion or threats, and whether the foreign principal exercises power over the agent. By these standards, Chinese students studying in America meet the definition of foreign agents and should be required to register.

The PRC’s 2017 National Intelligence Law, Article 7, states: “All organizations and citizens shall support, assist, and cooperate with national intelligence efforts in accordance with law, and shall protect national intelligence work secrets they are aware of.” In practice, this means that when intelligence agencies demand information or assistance, compliance is mandatory, and refusal can result in punishment.

The scope of the law is global, applying to all Chinese citizens, organizations, and institutions regardless of location. Failure to aid public or state security agencies constitutes a violation of Chinese law. Its sweeping reach makes it especially dangerous, as “national intelligence” is defined as anything that could endanger the “national security and interests” of the People’s Republic of China, a vague standard the CCP can exploit to classify virtually any academic or scientific research as subject to collection.

The most common coercion tactic is threatening family members who remain in China. U.S. intelligence officials have noted that “the ability to blackmail people into being agents because of threats to their family is very powerful.” In one case, authorities retaliated against Chinese dissident Sulaiman Gu by harassing his relatives and freezing control over a property worth more than $300,000. Similarly, a 2018 New Jersey court case revealed how a former Chinese official living in the U.S. was pressured by the Wuhan-based Xinba Construction Group. He received threats, was harassed outside court, and was later sent a coerced video of his family pleading for his return.

China’s intelligence gathering through students abroad is systematic and organized. Investigations at Stanford revealed that many Chinese nationals are assigned handlers whose job is to collect and relay information. One source explained, “Many Chinese [nationals] have handlers; they [the CCP] want to know everything that’s going on at Stanford. This is a very normal thing. They just relay the information they have.”

Much of this activity is tied to state sponsorship. Many graduate students in the U.S. receive funding from the China Scholarship Council (CSC), a government program that pays tuition and expenses for carefully selected candidates. Recipients must pass party loyalty tests and are reportedly required to visit Chinese consulates to provide updates on their research. The majority of Chinese students in the U.S. are concentrated in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, fields the CCP prioritizes for espionage. Nearly half pursue advanced degrees, ensuring direct involvement in research.

Through financial sponsorship, ideological vetting, and structured reporting, the CCP has created a pipeline of talent it can exploit for intelligence gathering in sensitive fields across American universities. According to accounts from students themselves, “Every single week I’m asked to meet a handler where I’ll be asked to talk about the research I’m doing, the directions that research is going in, how that research is progressing, and how we could reimplement that research back in China.”

One notable case was that of Ji Chaoqun, who came to Chicago in 2013 to study electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology and later enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves.

In 2018 he was arrested for secretly acting as an agent of China’s Ministry of State Security. Convicted of espionage and making false statements to the Army, he was sentenced in 2022 to eight years in prison for attempting to gather information on American engineers and scientists.

In 2024, five students from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, enrolled in an exchange program at the University of Michigan, were caught photographing military equipment at Camp Grayling during training exercises involving Taiwanese forces. Their arrests on espionage-related charges prompted Michigan to sever ties with the Chinese university in early 2025.

Another example is that of Hao Zhang and Wei Pang, doctoral students in electrical engineering in Southern California, who were charged with stealing thin-film bulk acoustic resonator technology from U.S. firms Avago and Skyworks. Between 2010 and 2015, Zhang funneled research to China and was later convicted of economic espionage, theft of trade secrets, and conspiracy.

In September 2020, the U.S. State Department cancelled the visas of 1,000 Chinese students and researchers, citing ties to the People’s Liberation Army and accusations of espionage. A survey by the Center for Strategic and International Studies found that 49 percent of Chinese espionage cases involved individuals directly connected to the military or government.

Nothing has changed in China since then, so it must be assumed that the same proportion of students still have links to intelligence services or can be coerced by the CCP to spy on the United States. Consequently, cancelling all Chinese student visas would be the safer option.

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