June 20, 2025 - The Roundup: The Smoke and Mirrors Edition
From environmental propaganda to DEI hiring schemes, a lot of illusion was exposed this week.
Welcome to this edition of The Roundup, where we sift through the chaos to spotlight what matters most. From courtroom wins for religious liberty to economic gut punches delivered by misguided climate schemes, this collection captures the escalating battle lines across America. You'll find stories of censorship cloaked in diversity, power grabs dressed as progress, and communities standing tall in defense of truth, tradition, and common sense.
🔥 Civil Unrest & Cultural Disruption
Old White Boomers By Day, Antifa By Night No Kings Color Revolution, Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/political/old-white-boomers-day-antifa-night-no-kings-color-revolution
“As the evening unfolded and the retirement homes called back their revolutionary Boomer protesters for dinner, medication, and the nightly MSNBC shows, isolated urban unrest began to materialize in several cities.”
Hugely Frustrated in Seattle, Steve Gordon, June 16, 2025, https://x.com/stevemgordon67/status/1934607581424816261
“We're on the righteous side and we WILL prevail, as we must, for our kids.”
Stephen Miller Says the Actual Crisis at Hand Is the Work of Sanctuary Cities, Brett T., June 16, 2025, https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/06/16/stephen-miller-says-the-actual-crisis-at-hand-is-the-work-of-sanctuary-cities-n2414349
“Sanctuary cities working to end the sovereignty of the United States.”
🇺🇸 Border & Immigration
Personal Data of Immigrant Medicaid Enrollees Given to Deportation Officials, Andrew Powell, June 13, 2025, https://ijr.com/personal-data-of-immigrant-medicaid-enrollees-given-to-deportation-officials
“HHS acted entirely within its legal authority... to ensure that Medicaid benefits are reserved for individuals who are lawfully entitled.”
Parent Labor Organization Of Border Patrol Sponsors 'No Kings' Protest Against Own People, Sarah Arnold, June 16, 2025, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/06/16/parent-labor-organization-of-border-patrol-sponsors-no-kings-protest-against-own-people-n2658900
“The NBPC has strongly criticized the AFGE and its political positions on immigration.”
Here’s What Happened When One Million Illegals Self-Deported, Matt Vespa, June 17, 2025, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/06/17/heres-what-happened-when-one-million-illegals-self-deported-n2658942
“Increased working opportunities for Americans and increased wages.”
⚖️ Gender Ideology, Title IX, and Parental Rights
People’s Reactions to Opposing Trans Ideology, Sarah Newlyn, May 27, 2025, https://www.ukcolumn.org/blogs/peoples-reactions-to-opposing-trans-ideology
“His enthusiastic, honest approach has the capability to relay the pertinent and urgent information to society about the dangers of gender ideology.”
Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria Review of Evidence and Best Practices, Department of Health and Human Services, May 1, 2025, https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/gender-dysphoria-report-exec-summary.pdf
“The evidence base for medical interventions for gender dysphoria in minors is remarkably weak.”
‘Two Genders’ Too Hot to Handle? The Supreme Court Punts Again, Doreen Denny, June 13, 2025, https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5347555-supreme-court-gender-ideology-appeal/
“The unresolved question is whether Title IX protects students based on their biological sex rather than their gender identity.”
Rantz: SCOTUS gets it right, Washington should stop letting gender radicals gamble with kids’ bodies, Jason Rantz, June 18, 2025, https://mynorthwest.com/ktth/rantz-opinion/scotus-washington-trans/4100895
“Lawmakers have argued that teens shouldn’t be sentenced harshly for murder... but apparently that logic doesn’t apply when a 13-year-old says they were ‘born in the wrong body.’”
🏛️ Religious Freedom & the Courts
Tumwater School Board President Sues OSPI for Firing Her, Martín Bilbao, June 13, 2025, https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article308507240.html
“A Tumwater school board member is suing... after a controversial school board vote about trans student athletes.”
Federal Judge Stops New York From Forcing Christian Photographer To Do Same-Sex Weddings, Jeff Charles, June 16, 2025, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/06/16/federal-judge-stops-new-york-from-forcing-christian-photographer-to-do-same-sex-weddings-n2658883
“This is a prime example of the state strong-arming people into going against their religious beliefs.”
Dodgers’ Kershaw Has Pitch-Perfect Response to Pride Night, Suzanne Bowdey, June 17, 2025, https://washingtonstand.com/news/dodgers-kershaw-has-pitchperfect-response-to-pride-night-
“Next to the bright rainbow logo was Kershaw’s handwritten scrawl in metallic silver: ‘GEN 9:12-16.’”
👨👩👧 Pro-Life & Family Policy
Defunding Planned Parenthood Down Syndrome, Cathy McMorris Rogers, The Hill, June 14, 2025, https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5302148-defunding-planned-parenthood-down-syndrome/
“Defunding Planned Parenthood is about reclaiming moral clarity and fiscal responsibility, investing in care that respects the dignity of every human person—born and unborn.”
Senate GOP Megabill Would Defund Planned Parenthood, Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, June 16, 2025, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/3420427/defund-planned-parenthood-push-senate-house-bill/
“It is time to stop forcing taxpayers to fund the Big Abortion industry, led by Planned Parenthood.”
Congress Must Prioritize Struggling Families in Budget Talks, Washington Examiner, May 2025, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/3408383/congress-must-prioritize-struggling-families-budget-talks-child-tax-credit
“Congress has the chance to stand with the Trump administration... by making the child tax credit permanent.”
🧬 Health & Science
Cannabis use linked to doubled risk of cardiovascular disease death, Sadie Harley and Robert Egan, June 17, 2025, https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-cannabis-linked-cardiovascular-disease-death.html
“Cannabis use is linked to a doubling in the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, with significantly heightened risks of having a stroke or acute coronary syndrome.”
Wellbeing: The Accelerating Obesity Epidemic, Robert W. Malone MD, MS, June 17, 2025,
“Cysteine restriction plays a key role in weight loss.”
Another Spike in the Vaccine Coffin?, Professor Angus Dalgleish, June 17, 2025, https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/another-spike-in-the-vaccine-coffin/
“The covid vaccines were never necessary, nor are they effective. Indeed, they have inflicted more misery, damage and death than perhaps any other medical intervention ever.”
WPATH Training, Conference Videos May Be Shared with Public Judge Rules, Joshua Arnold, June 16, 2025, https://washingtonstand.com/commentary/-wpath-training-conference-videos-may-be-shared-with-public-judge-rules-
“The documents produced revealed an organization whose scientific integrity was hopelessly compromised by politics.”
🌎 Energy & Environment
The CCA Auction Last Week Raised the Price of Gas in WA State by 6 Cents, Future 42, June 16, 2025, https://x.com/future42org/status/1934642123694825763
“The CCA Auction last week raised the price of gas in WA State by 6 cents. And starting July 1st, the Gas Tax itself will increase by another 6 cents.”
‘Report Card’ Warns Washington State Failing to Meet Targets in Key Energy and Environmental Areas, David Boze, February 3 2025, https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/report-card-warns-washington-statefailing-to-meet-targets-in-key-energy-and-environmental-areas
“Despite expensive policies, our emissions have increased over time.”
Group Ties to Chinese Communist Party Part of U.S. Climate Network, Just the News, June 16, 2025, https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/group-ties-chinese-communist-party-part-climate-network-influencing-us
“The CCP is co-opting the American progressive climate change lobby... leaving [the U.S.] dependent on Chinese supply chains.”
Trump’s Energy Department is taking back our home appliances from berserk bureaucrats, Ben Lieberman, June 16, 2025, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trumps-energy-department-taking-back-our-home-appliances-from-berserk-bureaucrats
“The Trump DOE is proposing to roll back home appliance regulations as aggressively as the Biden administration created them.”
Lower Snake River Dams Transportation Study, Washington State Department of Transportation, June 17, 2025, https://wsdot.wa.gov/construction-planning/search-studies/lower-snake-river-dams-transportation-study
“Phase 2 will develop scenarios to understand what will happen to the rail and road network should the dams be removed.”
🎓 Education
How Red States Left Blue States in the Dust in Education Achievement, Rick Moran, June 18, 2025, https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/06/18/how-red-states-left-blue-states-in-the-dust-in-education-achievement-n4940910
“Red states have avoided this ideological approach and stuck with what works... The results have been nothing short of astonishing.”
Teacher Union Chief Randi Weingarten Resigns From DNC Position, unknown author, June 17, 2025, https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/teacher-union-chief-randi-weingarten-resigns-dnc-position/
“Why did the head of the largest teacher union have a position at the DNC?”
🗳️ Election Integrity & Government Transparency
Kash Patel Drops 2020 Election Interference Evidence Bombshell, Matt Margolis, June 16, 2025, https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/06/16/kash-patel-drops-2020-election-interference-evidence-bombshell-n4940866
“The intelligence community was sitting on evidence that might have blown the lid off the election narrative—and they buried it.”
The Autopen Presidency, Jeff Clark, June 18, 2025, https://x.com/JeffClarkUS/status/1935655093958738213
“Widespread use of the autopen... functionally creates a multiplicity of cloaked Presidents.”
Democrats Can’t Stop Lying About Medicaid in the Big Beautiful Bill, Katie Pavlich, June 16, 2025, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/06/16/democrats-cant-stop-lying-about-medicaid-in-the-big-beautiful-bill-n2658899
“Their claim is the BBB cuts Medicaid, failing to mention the 'cuts' are for illegal aliens.”
🏛️ Media & Institutional Power
Virginia Republican Sets Standard for How to Respond to Democrat Smears, Stacey Matthews, February 2, 2022, https://nsjonline.com/article/2022/02/matthews-virginia-republican-sets-standard-for-how-to-respond-to-democrat-smears/
“If you’re going to question the faith and the intentions of anybody who happens to disagree with you on policy, then you don’t get to lecture us on compassion and tolerance.”
Listen to this., Thomas Sowell, June 16, 2025, https://x.com/ThomasSowell/status/1934700002892263689
Listen to VA Delegate Freitas take the opposition party to the woodshed in classic style.
I work in tech recruiting, It's 100% your race, gender, sexuality and nationality blocking you, PhreakyDev, June 17, 2025, https://x.com/phreakydev/status/1934781207532982408
“Every straight white American male I've screened was qualified... and every time I was told to focus on 'other pipelines' AKA the diversity hires.”
In an age when narrative often outruns fact, clarity is a revolutionary act. These stories remind us that beneath the headlines lies a deeper struggle for sovereignty, sanity, and the soul of the nation. Stay alert, stay vocal, and as always—stay grounded in truth. See you next week for more of The Roundup.
Nancy Churchill is a writer and educator in rural eastern Washington State, and the chair of the Ferry County Republican Party. She may be reached at DangerousRhetoric@pm.me. The opinions expressed in Dangerous Rhetoric are her own. Dangerous Rhetoric is available on Substack, X, and occasionally Rumble.