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Transgender Worker Who Identifies as “Transmasculine” Sues Nike For $1.1 Million For Being Repeatedly “Misgendered” By Coworkers


Jazz Lyles

A transgender former Nike contractor who identifies as “transmasculine/non-binary” is suing Nike for $1.1 million in damages citing pronoun abuses.

Apparently Nike isn’t “woke” enough.

“Jazz Lyles,” a biological female, claimed in a complaint that co-workers abused her when they failed to use pronouns such as they/them/their when addressing her.

And she wants Nike to pay a hefty price for allegedly allowing the abuse.

CBS reported:

A transgender former Nike contractor is seeking $1.1 million in damages from the sporting goods giant for allegedly allowing gender identity-based harassment.

According to a civil lawsuit filed this week, Nike and Mainz Brady Group, a staffing firm that hired workers for Nike, discriminated against computer engineer Jazz Lyles, who identifies as transmasculine and prefers the pronouns they/them/their. The complaint was filed with Multnomah Circuit Court in Oregon.

During Lyles’ tenure at Nike — from May 2017 to September 2018 — the engineer was repeatedly “misgendered” by coworkers, the complaint said. While Lyles notified management about the issue multiple times, the companies allegedly failed to implement any policies, procedures and trainings around the use of gender pronouns in the workplace.

“When someone refuses to acknowledge a person’s gender identity or insists on referring to them by a gender to which they do
not identify (called misgendering), this causes real and significant harm,” read the complaint. “This is particularly true when a person is misgendered repeatedly on a daily basis.”

Nike reportedly held a training session after Lyles made a series of complaints that her co-workers were misgendering her.

But that wasn’t enough for Lyles because the re-education camp training session was only conducted for her teammates and not the entire department.

Nike has rolled out a series of ad campaigns featuring transgender athletes, but they will never be “woke enough” for the radical left.

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President Trump’s Approval Rating Jumps 3 Points during Slapdash Impeachment Week — Black Support 34% — Economic Numbers Through the Roof!

Hate-filled Democrats were hoping their political slapdash impeachment this week would ruin President Trump.

Instead, their criminal acts enraged Trump voters, Independents and decent Americans.

At the beginning of the week President Trump’s approval rating was 47% on the Rasmussen daily poll.
On Friday President Trump’s approval rating hit 50%.

This is three points higher than Barack Obama at the same point in his presidency.

And on Thursday a CNN poll found the Trump economy received its best ranking in nearly 20 years.

Overall, 76% rate economic conditions in the US today as very or somewhat good, significantly more than those who said so at this time last year (67%). This is the highest share to say the economy is good since February 2001, when 80% said so.

And Black approval of President Trump is at 34%.

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Samantha Bee Horrified That Hong Kong Protesters Like Trump, Republicans

Left-wing comedian Samantha Bee traveled to Hong Kong to meet with pro-democracy protesters committed to holding “China accountable for their actions,” airing her interviews on Wednesday’s edition of Full Frontal. It came as quite a shock to the vehemently anti-Trump Bee that the protesters actually liked the President and Republican Senator Marco Rubio.

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Exclusive: Mexican Border State Judge Under Official Review After ‘Suspicious’ Releases of Cartel Gunmen

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – A local judge faces a formal review of her decisions to release cartel members for suspicious reasons. One of those freed was a leading gunman who took part in last month’s large-scale invasion of Coahuila, which led to 23 deaths.

Last month, approximately 150 gunmen from the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas rolled into Villa Union, clashing with police and shooting at the local city hall. Moments later, state police and CDN-Zetas fought in a series of shootouts that killed 17 gunmen and four officers. As the gunmen left the town, they kidnapped innocent civilians, including two local firefighters, who they reportedly killed in the aftermath.

Authorities later arrested more than a dozen gunmen and some collaborators. As part of the pending investigation, one of the leading shooters was previously arrested by Coahuila State Police. State Judge Maritza Flores then ruled the arrest illegal and ordered an immediate release. This week, officials required Maritza Flores to present herself before superiors in Saltillo as part of a review into her “suspicious” decisions, various law enforcement sources revealed to Breitbart Texas.

Police and court information obtained by Breitbart Texas from Investigation Case File # 1998/2019 revealed that earlier this year, Fuerza Coahuila agents arrested two suspects inside a house in Piedras Negras in the Palmas I neighborhood and seized 91 packets of methamphetamine and 53 packets of cocaine. However, when authorities prosecuted the case as documented by Penal Cause # 1230/2019, Judge Maritza Flores said the officers violated the rights of the suspects, declared their detention illegal, and ordered releases from custody. Judicial records revealed that one of the two freed took part in the CDN-Los Zetas invasion of Coahuila.

Maritza Flores is the same judge with a history of releasing members of the CDN-Zetas in her court. In late 2017, Maritza Flores ordered the release of 10 CDN hitmen behind a series of gruesome murders in Piedras Negras. Flores also ordered the release of a leading cartel assassin named  Jose Antonio “El Scarface” Hernandez Rangel who fled to Texas after carrying out several murders in in the same border city. U.S. authorities arrested and prosecuted the man on immigration charges before turning him over to Mexican counterparts for further criminal proceedings.

Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities.  The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by “J.M. Martinez” from Coahuila. 

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Steve Scalise: Democrat Candidates Hold 63 Million Trump Voters in Contempt

Democrat presidential candidates hold 63 million Americans who voted for President Donald Trump in contempt, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) observed Friday during an interview with Alex Marlow, host of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.

Scalise said, “They have disdain. It’s not just for President Trump; it’s for the 63 million Americans who voted for President Trump, the forgotten men and women, people in the Rust Belt who have been left behind by the liberal elites in Washington.”

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Scalise added, “You listened to all the people on the stage last night. I didn’t even [need to] watch the debate last night to know that none of them have had any record of success on any of these issues. Their economic plans would wreck what is the greatest economy in the entire world.”

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was an improvement over the previous status quo of the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA), stated Scalise.

“President Trump went and negotiated a better deal with Mexico and a better deal with Canada,” Scalise said. “Barack Obama couldn’t get a better deal with any of our allies because they kept taking advantage of us. You look at what happened in NATO. President Trump came in and made our NATO allies, they’re good friends, but they were taking advantage of us. They weren’t paying their fair share of two percent of their GDP that every country agreed to after World War II. President Trump finally has them stepping up and doing more of their part.”

Scalise continued, “If you don’t like NAFTA, this is a better deal than NAFTA, and if you like NAFTA, this is a better deal than NAFTA. The president went and negotiated a really good deal for American workers. The real win is for American workers, who are going to get well over 160,000 new jobs in our economy right off the bat. Plus you get the ability to sell products in countries like Canada that you couldn’t sell [before].”

Scalise went on. “The bigger message is for everybody else around the world; it says that we can close deals. The president can go and negotiate a better deal, but until Congress ratifies it, it doesn’t happen. Pelosi should’ve had this on the [House] floor six months ago. It would’ve passed overwhelmingly like it did yesterday, but she held it up because of her obsession with impeaching him, like she’s held up so many other things that matter to families.”

“For China, yesterday, this was not a good day,” concluded Scalise, describing American trade deals with Canada, Mexico, Japan, and European states as measures decreasing U.S. dependency on Chinese exports.

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Rep. Mike Johnson: ‘By God’s Grace, We’ve Got a Few Outlets like Breitbart’

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) praised Breitbart News in a Thursday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX).

“By God’s grace, we’ve got a few outlets like Breitbart that are willing to share the truth,” said Johnson while reflecting on recent interviews he had done with CNN and MSNBC regarding Democrats’ impeachment push against President Donald Trump.

Johnson described the acrimony he perceived from CNN and MSNBC figures during his interviews with them.

“I spent a lot of time over the last week … going into those lions’ dens,” said Johnson, referring to CNN and MSNBC. “I think I did six or seven CNN and MSNBC shows, for example, over the last four or five days to go and present our case. Now, you know going into those arenas, that it’s [going to be] a hostile interview. Some of these [interviews] we put on our Facebook page.”

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Johnson continued, “You go watch, but they’re just seething with just, it’s almost like a hatred that some of these hosts cannot even hold back, and these are journalists, right? The idea that you would come into their arena — they want you to come on — but the fact that you would stand there, answer the questions, and refute their nonsense with facts is a great frustration to them.”

“As I’ve said to our colleagues, this is the most important time ever to go into those quote-unquote mainstream or drive-by media venues, because if we don’t go share our version of — the real truth — our version of the facts, they will never hear it, because it’s an echo chamber over there,” added Johnson. “So I’m trying to encourage conservatives, constitutional conservatives, to go into these places where we’re not expected. Sometimes you’ve got to take a few incoming bullets, but you still get the message out.”

Johnson noted that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is required to deliver the articles of impeachment, as passed by the Democrat majority in the House of Representatives, to the Senate given the text of the resolution.

“What’s interesting about this is Nancy Pelosi’s own resolution — this is the Democrat resolution that they drafted, everybody can pull this up on the Internet and read it for themselves — it says in the third and fourth lines of the resolution, ‘Resolved …  that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited in the United States Senate,’” explained Johnson. “S0, by their own resolution that they passed by that majority vote last night, they are required to deliver this — to exhibit it — to the Senate.”

Johnson went on, “Now, it doesn’t have a timeline on there, but obviously it’s presupposed that because they were breathless in their sense of urgency over the last week, remember, they had to get this done, ‘Donald Trump is an existential threat to the Constitution and the country,’ it was presumed that, of course, they would deliver it.”

Johnson concluded, “As someone said today, Nancy Pelosi currently has a grenade in her hand with the pin pulled, and she doesn’t know what to do with it, and so we’re in a real interesting constitutional quandary. How long can she hold it? I don’t know. If she holds it too long, you might suppose that Mitch McConnell and the Senate, if he were in a court, he would bring a motion to dismiss for want of prosecution that they didn’t bring it over, but it’s not even a live issue in the Senate, yet, because they’ve not yet delivered it. So we don’t even know what’s going to happen. That’s a long, complicated answer to a very simple question that everyone on Capitol Hill is asking themselves right now.

Pelosi said on Wednesday she would not commit to delivering the articles of impeachment to the Senate.

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Joe Biden Goes Woke: ‘We Should Unionize McDonald’s’

Former Vice President Joe Biden pledged his support to unionize the fast food giant McDonald’s on Thursday, claiming it was a vital step to correct power imbalances in the American economy.

Biden, who often touts himself as a “union man” on the campaign trail, made the promise while speaking at a rally organized by the progressive organization Fight for 15 in Los Angeles, California. During his remarks, which came only hours before the Democrat presidential primary debate, the former vice president channeled his more progressive rivals when stating that fight for $15-an-hour was about more than economics.

“It’s not just the numbers, and by the way there’s been a war on fast food workers for a long, long time,” the former vice president said, before lambasting companies like Chuck E. Cheese that require their workers to sign non-compete agreements.

“It’s all about depressing the wages for working people,” Biden said. “Folks, look we’re in a situation now where we find ourselves in a position, where you are the victims of power, a significant amount of power.”

The former vice president argued that power imbalance would not be rectified by simply raising the wage to “$15 at minimum,” but by improving the “dignity of workers.”

“There is only one way you can fight back power,” he said. “That is with more power, and that’s union power… we should unionize McDonald’s.”

Biden added that if he was elected president in 2020, there would “never” be “a better friend in the White House for working people and for unions.”

The former vice president is not the only 2020 Democrat to express support for unionizing the fast food giant. Progressive firebrands like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have advocated for collective bargaining rights for McDonald’s employees since at least 2018.

On Thursday, Biden even echoed some of the same language about “power” imbalances that Warren used earlier this year when unveiling a wide reaching proposal to grant fast food workers the ability to unionize.

“We cannot have a truly democratic society with so little power in the hands of working people,” Warren said in October. “We cannot have sustained and inclusive economic growth without a stronger labor movement.”

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President Trump Signs Defense Bill Creating Space Force — First New Military Branch Since 1947

ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MARYLAND — Flanked by two fighter jets and in front of a giant American flag, President Trump on Friday signed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that officially created the Space Force, the sixth and first new military branch since 1947.

“For the first time since Truman, we will create a brand new American military service,” Trump said. “You will witness the birth of the Space Force. That’s a big moment and we’re all here for it.”

“Space is the world’s newest warfighting domain,” Trump said. “American superiority in space is absolutely vital.”

The creation of the Space Force marked the achievement of one of the president’s top national priorities. The new branch will reside inside the Air Force.

The president thanked Vice President Mike Pence for his work in helping to establish the Space Force. Trump also announced the appointment of Air Force Gen. James Raymond as the new Space Force commander: “He will now join the Joint Chiefs.”

To mark the historic moment, the president signed the bill in a giant aircraft hangar at the Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland surrounded by an audience of young service members, Pentagon officials, and other distinguished guests.

One airman told Breitbart News it was a “historic moment” to watch the creation of the Space Force.

At the signing were members of Congress and the top civilian and military leaders in each military service.

The NDAA, a yearly bill that authorizes the Pentagon’s budget, also established a 3.5 percent pay raise for members of the military, the largest pay raise in a decade.

The bill also pays for scores of new aircraft, tanks, and ships. It also eliminates the widow’s tax for fallen service members and authorizes paid parental leave for federal civilian workers. The bill also allows for members of the military to sue for medical malpractice in cases after 2017.

The Senate passed the bill on Thursday, sending it to the president. It authorizes $783 billion for defense spending for 2020. The bill was passed on a bipartisan basis, 11-81.

With the bill, Trump declared the rejection of “American decline.” Trump has raised spending for the military to new levels, after a decade of deep cuts under sequestration. He signed a defense bill authorizing $716 billion for the military in 2018, and $700 billion in 2019.
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Trump Accuses Pelosi Of Quid Pro Quo, Suggests Impeaching Her

Who’s really committing obstruction? It’s not Trump.

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President Donald Trump ripped Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday for withholding the articles of impeachment from the Senate, stating that was engaged in a “quid pro quo” and suggesting that she should be impeached.

Trump’s tweet comes as Pelosi continues to hold the partisan articles of impeachment against Trump from going to the Senate because she is worried that the political trial would be biased in favor of the president.

“Nancy Pelosi is looking for a Quid Pro Quo with the Senate,” Trump tweeted. “Why aren’t we Impeaching her?”

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Resistance To Virginia Democrats’ Extreme Anti-Second Amendment Agenda Surges To New Heights

The grassroots resistance to Virginia Democrats’ extreme anti-Second Amendment agenda has exploded as nearly 90% of the counties in the state have declared themselves to be sanctuary cities in response to the Democrats’ anti-freedom agenda.

More than 100 cities, towns, and counties have passed resolutions in preparation for Democrats taking over the state who had indicated a desire to confiscate semi-automatic firearms from law-abiding citizens.

“The National Rifle Association has voiced support for the movement on social media but has not been actively organizing its supporters to attend local meetings,” The Free Beacon reported, adding, “thousands of people [are] expected to show up for a pro-gun rally in the state capital next month.”

Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), a pro-gun group, is planning a massive protest on January 20, 2020, on the steps of the state Capitol.

VCDL President Philip Van Cleave told the Free Beacon that Democrats in the state do not “realize the magnitude of what they’re looking at,” and that this massive resistance that has sprung up across the state has “been like a freight train” in terms of the how hard of an impact it has had on state politics.

“[Democrats] truly don’t understand it,” Van Cleave said. “They think that money’s coming in from the National Rifle Association, some big organization is behind this. It’s not that at all.”

“It’s mostly grassroots,” Van Cleave continued. “Localities have passed this that weren’t even on our radar. It’s like a grass fire that the grassroots had started and then we went in and threw some more gasoline and a match on it to make it burn even brighter.”

“We’re gonna say you’ve got the partisan map then you’ve got the gun-owner map,” Van Cleave added. “In essence, this is a referendum saying ‘no more gun control.’ This is clearly not what the election was about and these people want to make sure you understand that. You need to stay away from their gun rights.”

The movement has picked up so much momentum that Virginia Democrat Attorney General Mark Herring, who has openly admitted to wearing racist blackface and refused to resign, said that it is his opinion that the new sanctuary cities mean nothing in legal terms.

“It is my opinion that these resolutions have no legal effect,” Herring said on Friday. “It is my further opinion that localities and local constitutional officers cannot nullify state laws and must comply with gun violence prevention measures that the General Assembly may enact.”

Virginia House Majority Leader Todd Gilbert responded to Herring’s letter with a statement:

The issue has become so severe in Virginia that at least one Sheriff in the state has promised to deputize his citizens if Democrats go through with their extreme anti-freedom agenda.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced the push toward extreme gun control measures in large part to get media attention off of himself over his racist scandal in which a KKK and blackface photo appeared in his yearbook.

The tactic of pushing gun control in response to dealing with charges of racism is a common theme among leftist politicians as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently did the same thing, promising to ban semi-automatic rifles and allowing cities to ban handguns.

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