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“Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” Executive Order doesn’t go far enough: Second place finisher

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My stolen victory: NCAA athlete demands justice after losing title to trans competitor

 

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Minna Svärd, a former NCAA athlete, is calling for official corrections to past competitions where male-born athletes were allowed to compete in women’s divisions. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, she recounts how she lost an NCAA championship title to a transgender athlete and argues that fairness in women’s sports must be restored.

Key Details:

  • Minna Svärd was placed second in the 2019 NCAA Division II Women’s 400-meter hurdles behind CeCé Telfer, a biological male who previously competed in men’s athletics.

  • She argues that “every time a male athlete enters a female competition, a woman gets cut from the roster to make room.”

  • Svärd supports President Trump’s executive order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” but says it doesn’t go far enough in rectifying past injustices.

Diving Deeper:

Minna Svärd, an NCAA athlete from East Texas A&M University, has made a compelling case for correcting past injustices in women’s sports. In her Wall Street Journal op-ed titled My Stolen NCAA Championship, Svärd argues that the victories of female athletes like herself were unjustly taken when male-born competitors were allowed to enter women’s competitions. She writes, “That made me the first collegiate woman to be told her victory was worth less than a man’s feelings.”

Svärd recalls her experience at the 2019 NCAA Division II Women’s 400-meter hurdles final, where she finished behind CeCé Telfer, a biological male who had previously competed in men’s track under the name Craig Telfer. “CeCé Telfer destroyed the women’s field and crossed the finish line almost two seconds before me,” she recounts. Telfer, who had ranked 390th in men’s competition, was suddenly a champion in the women’s division.

She underscores the inherent biological differences between male and female athletes, noting that “men have enormous athletic advantages over women, which is why women’s hurdles are 9 inches shorter than men’s.” In the world of competitive sports, these advantages translate to significant performance disparities. “Olympic gold-medal-winning times for men’s 400-meter hurdlers are about five seconds faster than for women,” she points out, highlighting the competitive gap that remains despite hormone therapy or identity changes.

Beyond losing a title, Svärd also faced a backlash for speaking out. She waited a year before expressing her frustration on social media, only to be labeled a “transphobe” and endure online harassment. Meanwhile, Telfer was celebrated in mainstream media, including a New York Times magazine profile, and pursued an Olympic dream that ended in 2021 after failing a testosterone test.

Telfer running away from the pack in the 400 M Hurdles Womens Finals, 2019

Svärd praises President Trump’s recent executive order, which seeks to bar biological males from competing in women’s sports. However, she insists this move alone is insufficient. “The official results of past competitions should be corrected to align with reality. Male competitors should be removed and the rank of affected women increased accordingly,” she asserts.

While she doesn’t expect media accolades for her stance, Svärd remains proud of her rightful place in NCAA history. “In 2019, I was the fastest female 400-meter hurdler at any NCAA Division II school. It’s been five years since that honor was stolen from me. I want it back,” she declares.

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FBI may have finally nabbed the Jan. 6 pipe bomber

Published on December 4, 2025

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After years of dead ends, public frustration, and pointed questions from Congress, federal agents on Thursday finally took a suspect into custody for allegedly planting the pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters on the eve of Jan. 6. The arrest — confirmed by law enforcement officials and first reported by CNN and the Associated Press — lands just weeks before the five-year mark of the Capitol breach and brings long-awaited movement in a case that had become an embarrassment for the bureau.

A law-enforcement source told the AP the male suspect was arrested Thursday morning, though the charges remain under seal. For years, investigators had only grainy surveillance footage to work with: an individual in a gray hoodie, mask, gloves, and Nike Air Max Speed Turf sneakers, carrying a backpack as they placed what the FBI described as “viable explosive devices” outside both national party headquarters on the night of Jan. 5, 2021. Those bombs went unnoticed for roughly 17 hours, discovered only as Congress met the next day to certify the 2020 election results.

The timeline placed then–Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi within mere feet of the devices that Wednesday as their motorcades traveled in and out of the DNC’s South Capitol Street headquarters. A House Administration Committee review earlier this year blasted federal authorities for allowing Pelosi’s motorcade to pass directly by one of the bombs after it had already been spotted, chalking up the lapse to a broader failure to secure the area.

That same review — authored by Reps. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia and Thomas Massie of Kentucky — accused federal investigators of letting the trail go cold far too early. Despite what they called “a promising array of data” and “numerous persons of interest,” the lawmakers said the FBI had, by late February 2021, already begun shifting resources away from the bombing probe and stonewalling congressional requests for updates. Their report lamented that “little meaningful progress” had been made and pressed the bureau to release more information. Hours later, investigators unveiled new details, including additional surveillance video and an estimate that the suspect is roughly 5-foot-7.

The years-long vacuum of answers fueled widespread speculation — particularly among conservatives — that the bomber may have been a politically inconvenient figure for the Biden-era Justice Department, which aggressively pursued hundreds of Trump supporters tied to the Capitol breach while offering no clarity on who planted the explosives. Now-FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who took office in March after years of publicly criticizing the investigation, had repeatedly questioned whether the case was being slow-rolled. Before joining the bureau, he suggested on his podcast that the operation had the hallmarks of an “inside job” and accused prior leadership of a “massive cover-up.”

Once inside the FBI, Bongino moved the dormant investigation to the top of his priority list. In a post last month, he said the bureau brought in new investigators, flew in outside officers assigned as task-force partners, re-examined past work product, and dramatically increased both manpower and the reward for information. “We brought in new personnel to take a look at the case… we dramatically increased investigative resources,” he wrote on X.

Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department has commented on the arrest. For now, nearly five years after pipe bombs were quietly placed outside both major political parties’ headquarters, the country is finally one step closer to answers that should have come much sooner.

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Trump vows to pause migration after D.C. shooting

Published on November 29, 2025

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President Donald Trump said Thursday he will pause migration from some countries following the shooting of two National Guard members near the White House.

The suspected gunman, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, is an Afghan national who entered the U.S. in 2021 under a Biden-era immigration program for Afghans fleeing the Taliban movement. He was reportedly granted asylum this year.

U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died from injuries she sustained in the Wednesday shooting, Trump told service members in a video call Thursday night. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, was in critical condition. Lakanwal was also injured in the shooting.

The two victims were members of the West Virginia National Guard sent to Washington, D.C. in August under Trump’s orders for a crackdown on crime.

In a lengthy social media post on Thursday, Trump claimed “reverse migration” is the answer to years of mass migration and said he plans to “permanently pause migration from all third world countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover.”

Trump also appeared to consider removing migrants who have become U.S. citizens. He said he will “remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is capable of loving our Country.”

He said the federal government will end all “benefits and subsidies to noncitizens, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport and foreign nation who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.”

The FBI said they are conducting investigations in Washington State, the suspect’s last known residence, as well as connections he may have had in San Diego.

FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau has executed “multiple search warrants around the country.”

Patel said Lakanwal had a “relationship in Afghanistan with partner forces.” Multiple reports claim Lakanwal worked alongside the Central Intelligence Agency while in Afghanistan.

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