Date: August 29, 2025
Host: Jim Schneider
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This week’s news was highlighted by the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis where 2 children were killed. Jim provided additional related stories as well as the following:
–On Wednesday, the FBI said they’re investigating the Minneapolis church shooting as domestic terrorism and a hate crime and that the person said to be responsible (Robert (Robin) Westman) was a transgender person born a male but who self identified as a female.
–The issue of transgender mental illness and violence has quickly moved front and center in the media and online. In fact, the term trending on X is “trans terror.”
–Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced that there will be new studies launched into the effects of some anti-depressant drugs and their use by those who turn out to be killers.
–Robert (Robin) Westman’s mother is allegedly not cooperating with law enforcement.
–Comments from the father of one of the two victims who died in the Minneapolis shooting.
–Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki offered comments criticizing prayer in regard to the shooting in Minneapolis.
–The University of Michigan hospital system is suspending its gender transition practices on minors.
–On August 30th, Children’s National Hospital, in the nation’s capital, will become the latest institution of its kind to cease offering all remaining gender transition drugs to minors thanks to the Trump administration’s rules for federal health dollars.
–Parents are outraged after a Massachusetts school district allegedly forced students to take a survey that their parents had recused them from.
–According to a new study from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, approximately 2.8 million Americans age 13 and older are now identifying as transgender. That’s about 1% of the population.
–The Cracker Barrel restaurant chain scrapped it’s newly unveiled logo and reinstated its classic, old-timer design after a week of customer outrage and political backlash. In addition, they’ve also quietly removed the pride page from its website as it faced intense furry over its short-lived rebranding effort.
–Last year intense rain affected the Burning Man festival in Nevada. This year it’s a wind storm that’s been the problem. One of the festival’s most infamous attractions, the Orgy Dome, will not reopen after high winds tore down its structure earlier in the week.
Other stories looked at President Trump’s desire to have more Chinese students in America…Across all federal agencies nearly 350,000 deportations have taken place since President Trump took office…President Trump threatens to send National Guard troops into more American cities…President Trump announced that his administration will seek capital punishment for anyone who commits murder in Washington, DC…Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller gave additional details about how the Washington, DC, Metro Police Department was “cooking the books” on data in order to make the argument that crime was going down.
Jim presented much more, including input from listeners.
