A Trump-appointed federal judge on Friday went viral for an extremely colorful dissenting opinion after the majority of his colleagues bowed down to the woke trans mob, triggering them as a result.

On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to rehear the case of Olympus Spa v. Armstrong. Olympus Spa, a Christian-owned, female-only Korean spa in Washington State, was barred from suing the state on First Amendment grounds for forcing it to allow men pretending to be women.

As Courthouse News notes, the state’s ‘Human Rights Commission’ back in 2020 issued a complaint after a so-called ‘woman’ with a p*nis was denied entry. The spa then sued the Human Rights Commission on First Amendment grounds, arguing that the state’s policy violated its rights to the free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, and association.

A federal judge dismissed Olympus Spa’s claim. Last May, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling.

Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee, issued a dissent for the ages that tore into his woke colleagues for chickening out a second time. He began in style.

He first noted this case was about “swinging d*cks” and wrote that the State of Washington insisted on allowing men to do this at the Olympus Spa and ripped the Ninth Circuit for certifying this.

Anticipating a backlash to his politically incorrect language, VanDyke stated that young girls have been “visually assaulted” by these freaks visiting the spa.

Then he turned his attention to his colleagues and did not mince words, saying: “complicit judges seem entirely willing, even eager, to ignore the consequences that their Frankenstein social experiments impose on real women and young girls.”

Well, this is what happens when the Emperor Has No Clothes. pic.twitter.com/dWGhzlZKTF

— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 13, 2026

This is a case about swinging d*cks. The Christian owners of Olympus Spa—a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa—understandably don’t want them in their spa. Their female employees and female clients don’t want them in their spa either.

But Washington State insists on them. And now so does the Ninth Circuit. You may think that swinging d*cks shouldn’t appear in a judicial opinion.

You’re not wrong. But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we all can agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspecting and exposed women at Olympus Spa— some as young as thirteen—to be visually assaulted by the real thing.

Sometimes, it feels like the supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds. Woke regulators and complicit judges seem entirely willing, even eager, to ignore the consequences that their Frankenstein social experiments impose on real women and young girls.

Judge Margaret McKeown, a Clinton appointee, issued a scathing statement alongside 28 other members of the Court, scolding VanDyke for his “coarse language” and for seeking “entertainment.”

From Reason:

The American legal system has long been regarded as a place to resolve disputes in a dignified and civil manner or, as Justice O’Connor put it, to “disagree without being disagreeable.”1 It is not a place for vulgar barroom talk. Nor is it a place to suggest that fellow judges have “collectively lost their minds,” or that they are “woke judges[]” “complicit” in a scheme to harm ordinary Americans.

That language makes us sound like juveniles, not judges, and it undermines public trust in the courts. The lead dissent’s use of such coarse language and invective may make for publicity or entertainment value, but it has no place in a judicial opinion. The lead dissent ignores ordinary principles of dignity and civility and demeans this court.

Neither the parties nor the panel dissent found it necessary to invoke such crude and vitriolic language. Decorum and collegiality demand more.

But as Reason notes, VanDyke refused to back down:

Finally, I’ll respond briefly to my colleagues’ discomfort with how I’ve written this dissent. My distressed colleagues appear to have the fastidious sensibilities of a Victorian nun when it comes to mere unpleasant words in my opinion, yet exhibit the scruples of our dearly departed colleague Judge Reinhardt when it comes to the government trampling on religious liberties and exposing women and girls to male genitalia. That kind of selective outrage speaks for itself.

The public deserves a court that is actually trustworthy. We should be earning that trust, not demanding it like petty tyrants. Yes, the introduction to this dissent intentionally uses indecorous language. But that is quite literally what this case is about. Male genitalia is precisely (and only) what the Spa, for religious reasons, objects to admitting into its female-only space. The fact that so many on our court want to pretend that this case is about anything other than swinging dicks is the very reason the shocking language is necessary. The panel majority uses slick legal arguments and deflection to studiously avoid eye contact with the actual and horrific consequences of its erroneous opinion. The “ordinary Americans” affected by the majority’s opinion don’t have that luxury. Squirm as we might, I think it’s only fair for our court to have a small taste of its own medicine.

Sometimes “dignified and civil” words are employed to mask a legal abomination. Or, to put it in vernacular perhaps more palatable to my colleagues’ Victorian sensibilities: “In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, / But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, / Obscures the show of evil?”

Sometimes coarse and ugly words bear the truth. I coarsely but respectfully dissent from our court’s willingness to leave this travesty in place.

Should either Justices Alito or Thomas retire from the Supreme Court, VanDyke would make a very worthy replacement.

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The Iranian propaganda machine is pumping out content on social media claiming that repression in Iran is fake and that women are much freer under the regime than in America. This is, of course, nonsense. Below is a summary of the laws restricting women. Ironically, liberals, including women, are repeating the regime’s talking points, while in Iran, women have been subjected to arrest and physical assault in retaliation for forbidden social media posts, with some receiving jail time plus as many as 50 lashes.

Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran adopted a civil code based on conservative Sharia law, systematically stripping women of rights they had held under the monarchy. Under the current Constitution, the rights of women and girls are equal to those of men only when deemed in conformity with “Islamic criteria,” a term with no legal definition that has served as the basis for codifying gender-based discrimination across every area of Iranian life.

Iran is one of just six UN member states not party to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and in December 2022, it became the first nation ever expelled from the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

After the revolution, the marriage age for girls was dropped to 13. Girls as young as 9 lunar years, approximately 8 years and 9 months, can be married with the permission of a father and a judge, at which point they become subject to all laws governing women in marriage, including the Civil Code’s obligation to fulfill the sexual needs of their husbands.

Regardless of age, a woman requires the consent of her father or paternal grandfather to enter into a first marriage, a restriction that does not apply to men.

Men hold the unilateral right to divorce their wives without proving any grounds. Women must navigate a court process and prove hardship, such as abuse or abandonment, to request a dissolution. A woman who cannot obtain her husband’s consent may pursue a Khul’a divorce, but only by surrendering property to him in exchange. In divorce cases, mothers retain custody only until the child reaches age seven, after which custody reverts to the father.

A mother forfeits custody entirely if she remarries, even if the father is deceased. Legal guardianship, controlling a child’s passport, medical decisions, and major legal matters, remains with the father or paternal grandfather regardless of custody arrangements.

Under Sharia-based inheritance law, a daughter inherits half of what a son receives. A widow is entitled to one-eighth of her husband’s estate if they had children, or one-fourth if childless, with the remaining assets going to the husband’s family.

Rape is not classified as a distinct crime under Iranian law. The only recognized sexual assault offense is zina (unlawful sexual intercourse) without consent, defined as forced penetration up to the point of circumcision and only when the perpetrator and victim are unmarried, explicitly excluding marital rape.

The term “circumcision” here is a legal definition drawn directly from Islamic jurisprudence. Under Iranian law, the offense applies only if penetration reaches the point of circumcision, meaning the glans of the penis beyond the foreskin. Penetration that does not reach that anatomical threshold is not legally recognized as an offense, even if forced.

Sex within marriage is considered consensual by definition. A woman who refuses sexual relations with her husband can have her nafaqeh, her maintenance allowance covering housing, clothing, and food, legally withdrawn. A woman’s testimony carries half the legal weight of a man’s, and if she cannot prove rape, she may herself be prosecuted for zina, which carries penalties of flogging or death.

Under Article 630 of the Penal Code, a husband who witnesses his wife in consensual adultery may lawfully kill both parties.

In November 2021, the Guardian Council ratified the Youthful Population and Protection of the Family law, criminalizing abortion, contraception, and voluntary sterilization except in narrow cases where the mother’s life is at risk, and even then requiring judicial and medical board approval. UN experts denounced the law as a violation of international human rights standards.

Same-sex relations are a capital offense. Under Articles 238 and 239 of the 2013 Islamic Penal Code, female-female sexual contact carries a penalty of 100 lashes, and a fourth conviction results in the death penalty. Same-sex marriage has no legal basis under the current system.

Women are prohibited from becoming the Supreme Leader or serving as judges with authority to issue final verdicts. The Guardian Council has disqualified every woman who has attempted to run for president, citing the constitutional requirement that the president be a rijal, a political and religious personality the Council interprets as exclusively male.

Women make up roughly five percent of parliament. A husband retains the legal right to forbid his wife from working in any job he deems contrary to family interests or his own dignity, and less than 14 percent of Iranian women participate in the labor force.

A married woman cannot obtain a passport or travel abroad without her husband’s written permission. He may also determine where the couple lives and restrict her employment. Women cannot obtain motorcycle licenses and are banned from riding motorcycles or riding pillion. The Supreme Leader issued a fatwa prohibiting women from cycling in public on the grounds that it attracts the attention of men, and prosecutors and local authorities routinely detain female cyclists and confiscate their bicycles.

Women are also prohibited from riding horses in public. Women are banned from singing or dancing solo in public. They have historically been barred from attending men’s sporting events as spectators, with only partial and contested relief granted under FIFA pressure for certain soccer matches.

In late 2024, Iran passed the Law on Protecting the Family through the Promotion of the Culture of Chastity and Hijab, imposing the death penalty, flogging, prison terms, travel bans, and restrictions on education and employment for women who defy compulsory veiling. The law was temporarily paused in December 2024 following public outcry, but has not been repealed.

There is no legal right to protest for any Iranian citizen, but women face disproportionately harsh consequences. Hundreds were killed, tortured, or imprisoned during the 2022 Woman Life Freedom protests, and several female activists have been executed. Speaking out publicly against government policy, religious law, or compulsory hijab is treated as a national security offense. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi is currently imprisoned for her activism.

Women are not formally banned from primary or secondary education, and Iranian women have outnumbered men in university enrollment in recent years. However, universities impose gender quotas capping female enrollment in fields deemed unsuitable for women, and the Ministry of Education periodically bans women from specific university majors. Under directives issued in 2025 and 2026, universities may expel or bar students who fail to comply with mandatory hijab laws.

Girls reach the age of criminal responsibility at 9 lunar years, compared to 15 for boys, meaning girls as young as nine can face prosecution carrying sentences of lashes or death. The blood money paid for the wrongful death or injury of a woman is half that paid for a man. For decades, women could not pass Iranian nationality to foreign-born spouses or children.

A 2019 law partially addressed this by allowing women married to foreign men to apply for citizenship for children under 18, a limited and belated concession.

Severe, systematic, and institutionalized gender-based discrimination pervades every aspect of life for women in Iran, codified in law and entrenched in practice, regardless of age, background, or status.

The propaganda says the West has lied about Iran and that women in Iran are free. However, after reviewing Iranian law regarding women, it seems that Western media has downplayed how repressive the regime is and how few rights women have.

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Orbán will expose Ukraine’s disruption of the Hungarian election.

Next month, Hungarians will decide the future of the Eastern European nation: will they remain on the nationalistic and conservative path they have been on for the last 14 years, or will they embrace the Globalist opposition?

Péter Magyar and his Tisza party are the darlings of the EU establishment, bound to bring all the suicidal Brussels policies: unchecked mass migration, LGBT propaganda, ‘Net Zero’ insane environmental regulations, total funding for Ukraine military… the list is long and sad.

But Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is not giving up without a fight, facing the EU and Ukraine for stopping the flow of Russian oil to Hungary, as you can read in: ORBÁN FIGHTS BACK: Hungary Blocks $106 Billion EU Loan to Ukraine Until Zelensky Allows Flow of Russian Oil Through Druzhba Pipeline To Resume

He also unleashed his Law Enforcement to disrupt illegal money transit from Kiev to fund his opposition, as you can read in: WATCH: Hungarian Counter Terrorism Forces Arrest 7 Ukrainians Suspected of Money Laundering, Seize $80 Million and 9 Kilograms of Gold.

And now, Orbán directed his government to declassify a national security report that claims to prove his main political challenger, Péter Magyar, received illegal financing from Ukraine.

Associated Press reported:

“Prime Minister Viktor Orbán faces the biggest political challenge of his career in next month’s elections, where he is trailing in most polls behind his center-right opponent, Péter Magyar and his Tisza party.

[…] Orbán has repeatedly claimed that Ukraine is financing Tisza, without providing evidence for his accusations. In an interview on commercial broadcaster ATV last week, the nationalist leader said ‘significant’ sums had been provided to Tisza by Ukraine for the development of IT applications and voter mobilization efforts.”

Hungary to declassify national security report that supposedly PROVES that PM Orbán’s main opponent is FINANCED by Ukraine — APnews

‘Not assumptions, but facts’, claims PM

Orbán has repeatedly said that his top rival Tisza party takes illegal money from the Zelensky regime pic.twitter.com/5LB2BijLtu

— RT (@RT_com) March 13, 2026

Magyar and his Tisza party deny the allegations.

“Orbán added that his claims were ‘not assumptions, but facts’ he had seen in a national security committee report, and encouraged journalists to request the report be declassified.”

Read more:

WATCH: Zelensky Casually Threatens to Unleash Ukrainian Military on Hungary’s Viktor Orbán for Blocking €90 billion EU Aid

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All six crewmembers aboard the US KC-135 refueling aircraft that went down yesterday are confirmed deceased.

The US Central Command on Thursday confirmed a KC-135 refueling aircraft went down in western Iraq.

CENTCOM said this was not due to friendly fire or hostile fire.

A second refueler landed safely in Israel.

The crash is under investigation.

Per CENTCOM:

All six crew members aboard a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft that went down in western Iraq are now confirmed deceased.

The aircraft was lost while flying over friendly airspace March 12 during Operation Epic Fury.

The circumstances of the incident are under investigation. However, the loss of the aircraft was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire.

The identities of the service members are being withheld until 24 hours after next of kin have been notified.

All Crew Members of U.S. KC-135 Loss in Iraq Confirmed Deceased

TAMPA, Fla. – All six crew members aboard a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft that went down in western Iraq are now confirmed deceased. The aircraft was lost while flying over friendly airspace March 12 during…

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 13, 2026

“Please keep these brave airmen, their families, friends, and units, in your thoughts in the coming hours and days. Our service members make an incredible sacrifice to go forward and do the things that the nation asks of them,” Joint Chiefs Chair General Dan Caine said on Friday during a presser.

13 US service members have been killed in Operation Epic Fury.

On Saturday, President Trump attended the dignified transfer of six of the fallen heroes.

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Jeff and Tony shooting the breeze in the official British Prime Minister residence.

Besides running the sex trafficking ring that the world go to know in the last few years, the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was also a power broker for the super-elites, from scientists, bankers and businessmen to royals, politicians and entertainers.

It’s become clear, now, how disgraced Labour peer Peter Mandelson was Epstein’s man inside the British establishment, to the point where he could even arrange a sit-down of ‘his best pal’ Epstein with the Prime Minister.

Then-Labour PM, Tony Blair, is said to have ‘discussed religion’ with Epstein at a Downing Street meeting brokered by Mandelson, new US DOJ-released documents reveal.

Epstein memo from 2018 recounts meeting with Tony Blair in 2002, both discussed the role of religion in world conflict@vidurkat tells you more pic.twitter.com/PxlgdWYgPl

— WION (@WIONews) March 13, 2026

The Telegraph reported:

“The Prime Minister held talks with the pedophile at No 10 in May 2002 after Lord Mandelson recommended Epstein in an email to Jonathan Powell, Sir Tony’s then chief of staff.

The half-hour meeting was documented in a note that Epstein emailed to himself in December 2018, some 16 years later. The note has been released by the US department of justice and is Epstein’s own account of what they discussed.”

Tony BLAIR is named 258 TIMES in Epstein files.

Documents claim Tony BLAIR was once CHARGED in London court for seeking sexual favors in a public toilet, using his middle names to HIDE his identity.

Fine paid. Case buried. This exposes how POWER protects its own. pic.twitter.com/yFqcgWZVoq

— Global Dissident (@GlobalDiss) February 3, 2026

“He wrote: ‘I met Tony at Number 10. He told me then that his future goal was to understand the nature that religion plays in world conflicts. He told me that he had a wise religious man in Australia that he would consult when he needed personal advice. Btw [by the way] I am very happy to be called your friend’.”

TONY BLAIR ALLEDGED TO HAVE BLOCKED NAMES OF FAMOUS PAEDOPHILES ACCORDING TO EPSTEIN FILES

Would not surprise me one bit

The man was pure evil pic.twitter.com/WWBDZKJvzr

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) January 31, 2026

It was already public knowledge that Blair met Epstein, but this note from the disgraced financier is the first alleged summary of the discussion.

“The meeting happened just over a month after Sir Tony and George Bush, the then US president, reportedly discussed the possibility of invading Iraq at a meeting in Texas.”

Jeffrey Epstein was trying to make Tony Blair the absolute monarch of the Middle East as early as 2009. pic.twitter.com/evh981Ng0N

— Eyup Lovely (@eyuplovely) January 31, 2026

TONY BLAIR – JEFFREY EPSTEIN RECORDING

“Tony has turned funny, I don’t know what Tony’s doing with the money”

“I hear GIGANTIC numbers”

[@AJENews ] pic.twitter.com/wovmtmdBle

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) February 23, 2026

Read more:

British Government Releases Documents on the Appointment of Disgraced Peter Mandelson as US Ambassador – PM Starmer Was Warned That the Epstein Friend Posed a ‘Reputational Risk’

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