Dutch government refuses to probe UK ban on Eva Vlaardingerbroek, declines to seek explanation from London

The Dutch government has refused to investigate or seek clarification from the United Kingdom after Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek had her permission to travel to Britain revoked, confirming it has not even asked London for an explanation over the decision.

The position was set out in formal parliamentary responses from Foreign Affairs Minister Caspar Veldkamp’s ministry, delivered on Jan. 30 by Minister Van Weel, after questions were submitted by Lidewij de Vos, a Member of Parliament for the right-wing Forum for Democracy (FvD).

De Vos questioned the government over last month’s revocation of Vlaardingerbroek’s UK Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA), which now prevents her from entering Britain without a visa. British authorities informed the commentator that her authorization had been canceled because her presence in the UK was deemed “not conducive to the public good,” and that the decision could not be appealed.

Asked whether the Dutch government had sought clarification from the British government or ambassador, the minister responded simply, “No.”

When pressed on whether the government would now demand an explanation, the minister replied that the Netherlands would not intervene in such cases, stating, “The Dutch government is not a party in this matter and does not engage with the United Kingdom regarding individual cases.”

“It is not for the Dutch government to judge or interfere in how legal remedies are structured under United Kingdom national legislation,” the minister added.

The responses mark the first official Dutch government reaction to the controversy, which has drawn attention internationally.

Vlaardingerbroek said she received notice of the ban shortly after posting criticism of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on social media. Reacting at the time on X, she wrote, “I’ve been banned from traveling to the UK. No reason given. No right to appeal. Zero due process. Just an email saying the UK government deems me ‘not conducive to the public good’ — exactly three days after I criticized Keir Starmer.

“I guess my point that the UK is no longer a free country has been indisputably proven,” she added.

The right-wing commentator later accused her own government of failing to defend one of its citizens, posting, “While Orbán, Salvini, and even the U.S. State Department spoke out about my UK travel ban, the Dutch government just came forward saying it sees no problem with the UK banning one of its citizens and is not going to take action. Always a pleasure to be able to count on one’s own government.”

The British government has not publicly commented on the individual case. However, officials have said ETA cancellations do not automatically amount to a permanent ban and that border decisions remain sovereign matters.

In its parliamentary reply, the Dutch government also stated that it could not establish from media reporting that Vlaardingerbroek’s opinions were the reason for the cancellation, adding that revoking an ETA is not legally the same as denying entry. It does, however, mean that the subject cannot enter the country without a visa and thus must formally apply for entry. Travel between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands is usually visa-free for nationals of the two countries.

During a recent conversation with former British prime minister Liz Truss, Vlaardingerbroek criticized what she described as double standards in British justice and immigration policy, saying, “It just confirms everything that everyone has been saying, two-tier Keir, two-tier justice.”

She added, “The fact that all the immigrants are allowed in without any questions asked, without papers, and they are given the free hotels, they are given everything for free.”

Truss also commented publicly on the case, writing on X, “People who tell the truth about what’s happening in Britain are banned from the country. People who come to the country to commit crime are allowed to stay.”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán similarly expressed support, saying Vlaardingerbroek was “always welcome in Hungary.”

In its parliamentary responses, the Dutch government also declined to amend travel advice for the United Kingdom, stating it had received no signals of changing safety risks for Dutch travelers.

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Starmer Faces Labour Rebellion over Plans to Give Gov’t Housing to Migrants

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The leftist Labour Party government is facing backlash from backbenchers over plans to prioritise migrants over Britons in newly built government housing.

Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer may be forced into another politically embarrassing U-turn, as a brewing rebellion from within his own party’s ranks is brewing over the already contentious issue of housing asylum seekers, many of whom entered the country illegally.

The government is seeking to move away from the Tory-era scheme of block booking hotels across the country to house migrants, which sparked nationwide protests following a spate of sexual assaults committed by foreign inhabitants against native women and girls. The government appears to believe the public objects not to the migrants themselves but the hotels, and that by moving the new arrivals into different forms of accommodation the controversy will evaporate.

One scheme as a potential alternative to hotels is a programme to create new council housing by building new buildings or refurbishing derelict properties to house migrants.

However, this has raised the issue of the 1.3 million low-income families in Britain currently on government waiting lists for council housing, with some Labour MPs vowing to rebel against the plan unless their constituents are given priority over migrants.

Labour MP for Hartlepool, Jonathan Brash, told the Daily Mail: “We have an acute shortage of council housing, with local families and key workers stuck on waiting lists or in temporary accommodation.

“Any programme to build new social homes should be focused first and foremost on meeting that local need.”

Blackley and Middleton South Labour MP, Graham Stringer, added that the scheme is “unacceptable” given the “shortage of council housing that should be going to local people.”

One Labour MP, who spoke to the paper anonymously, predicted that the scheme “will go down awfully” in the so-called Red Wall seats of the country that traditionally backed Labour but have increasingly sided with Nigel Farage’s anti-mass migration Reform UK party.

“I’ve told the Home Office I’m against it and they need to U-turn on it in my seat,” the MP said. “My problem is they won’t become council houses for years and when you have … a waiting list of 10,000 people – they will feel asylum seekers will be prioritised – never mind the loss of houses in our area.”

At present, the government is housing around 36,000 asylum seekers in hotels throughout Britain, a figure which is likely to continue to rise in light of the over 41,000 illegal migrants who reached the UK by crossing the English Channel from France last year.

One Labour MP, who spoke to the paper anonymously, predicted that the scheme “will go down awfully” in the so-called Red Wall seats of the country that traditionally backed Labour but have increasingly sided with Nigel Farage’s anti-mass migration Reform UK party.

“I’ve told the Home Office I’m against it and they need to U-turn on it in my seat,” the MP said. “My problem is they won’t become council houses for years and when you have … a waiting list of 10,000 people – they will feel asylum seekers will be prioritised – never mind the loss of houses in our area.”

At present, the government is housing around 36,000 asylum seekers in hotels throughout Britain, a figure which is likely to continue to rise in light of the over 41,000 illegal migrants who reached the UK by crossing the English Channel from France last year.

An assessment from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government reportedly warned: “The proposal [to house migrants] may give rise to anxiety amongst local residents, which may be adversely affected by protesters/demonstrators or riots.”

Indeed, it is already clear buying up property in communities has already created new community grievances which can also lead to protests. As reported at the time of the Ballymena protests last summer, in analysis of the social and economic issues which built the pyre sparked by another sex assault, local journalist Dougie Beattie revealed:

…the alleged attack on a 14 year old girl, now that isn’t what is at the very heart of this problem… There are other problems in social housing in Northern Ireland… the [government’s contractor] has bought up contracts with all the private landlords and what that has done is reduced the housing stock, but it has also… set up the price of rent much, much higher.

Because of course the [government] pays much, much more than an ordinary person going to hire a house… [the government’s contractor] has offered all the private landlords twice the rent in order to keep these migrants because, of course, the government is giving them big money to get them out of the hotels.

So what’s happened is the people of Ballymena that lived here, born here, actually can’t get housed here and that too is causing friction in this area.

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Censorship Concerns Rise as Police Raid Musk’s X Offices in Paris

French authorities have searched the Paris offices of X and summoned the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, in a move that has intensified concerns over state pressure on online speech.

The raid—carried out on February 3rd by French cybercrime investigators with the involvement of Europol—forms part of an investigation into whether X’s recommendation algorithm was used to influence domestic politics. The probe was opened last year after a lawmaker from President Emmanuel Macron’s party accused Musk of improper “personal interventions” in the platform’s management.

French economist Philippe Murer described the accusations against the platform as “extremely serious,” adding that officials “want to censor Twitter and eliminate freedom of expression.”

Swedish journalist Peter Imanuelsen added that searches like those carried out against X are “what happens in Europe when you don’t bow down to censorship.”

Pavel Durov, CEO of the messaging service Telegram, has previously condemned French officials, and the EU more broadly, for waging a political campaign to silence dissent and tighten state control over digital platforms. Following today’s raids, he said that “France is the only country in the world that is criminally persecuting all social networks that give people some degree of freedom (Telegram, X, TikTok…),” adding:

Don’t be mistaken: this is not a free country.

Musk has yet to publicly comment on the searches, and on his call-up for a ‘voluntary interview’ with French prosecutors.

The raid comes as Britain’s data regulator opened a probe into X over sexual imagery generated by artificial intelligence. Officials said “the reported creation and circulation of such content raises serious concerns under UK data protection law and presents a risk of significant potential harm to the public.”

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French Far-Left Leader Mélenchon Celebrates the ‘Great Replacement’ for a New France

A political taboo long enforced across Europe fractured this week when French far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon openly invoked the term “Great Replacement” during a municipal campaign event—language left-liberals, globalists, and pro-mass migration activists have spent years condemning as dangerous “conspiracy theory.”

Speaking in support of La France Insoumise (LFI) candidate François Piquemal, Mélenchon addressed critics on the conservative-nationalist right by declaring, “Yes, Mr. Zemmour, yes, Mr. Bayrou, there is a ‘Great Replacement.’” The remark stunned observers, given the French left’s long-standing effort to criminalize or censor the term.

Mélenchon, being the clever politician that he is, attempted to soften the impact by redefining the phrase as a matter of generational change rather than immigration. He said the “Great Replacement” simply described “a generation which comes after another,” calling it a natural process that has existed “since the dawn of time.”

Yet Mélenchon went further, explicitly linking the concept to his party’s political ambitions. He said upcoming municipal elections should demonstrate LFI’s ability to “embody the new France, that of the Great Replacement,” framing demographic transformation as an electoral asset rather than a concern.

Conservative figures immediately saw and highlighted the comments as a blatant admission. Reconquête founder Éric Zemmour said Sunday that Mélenchon had confirmed what critics have argued for years.

“He finally admits it,” Zemmour said. “La France Insoumise is the party of the Great Replacement.” Zemmour added that Mélenchon is openly staking his political future on immigrant-heavy urban districts.
National Rally president Jordan Bardella echoed the criticism, accusing Mélenchon of promoting “community fragmentation” and empowering political Islam under the banner of diversity.

Mélenchon, for his part, responded dismissively on social media, comparing demographic change to leadership succession. “Jean-Marie Le Pen was replaced by you,” he told Bardella, calling it “the mechanism of life.”
The controversy is not confined to France. Across Europe, left-wing parties that once denied demographic change are increasingly reframing it as inevitable—and desirable.

In Spain, leading figures from the radical-left Podemos party have made similar remarks. Senior Podemos politicians have spoken of Spain becoming a “plurinational” and “post-traditional” society, with some explicitly celebrating large-scale demographic transformation driven by mass immigration as a political necessity.

Last week, a video out of Spain, circulated widely online, drawing attention well beyond the country’s borders and reigniting debate over how parts of Europe’s radical left approach immigration policy. The clip has intensified claims that, for some political actors, migration is viewed not merely as a social issue but as a mechanism for long-term electoral change.

One prominent Podemos figure previously described mass migration as essential to building a “new Spain,” remarks widely interpreted by critics as endorsing population replacement while dismissing native cultural continuity as obsolete.

The video features Irene Montero, a senior figure in Spain’s far-left Podemos, a former equality minister, and a current member of the European Parliament (MEP), speaking at a public event. In her remarks, Montero said she hoped immigration would help “sweep this country of fascists and racists,” language that critics say suggests an intent to reshape the electorate through demographic transformation.

After spreading on X, the footage quickly went viral, amassing more than five million views and becoming a flashpoint in wider European political discussion.

Like Mélenchon, Spain’s radical left has attempted to rebrand these statements as inclusive or progressive, while continuing to label critics as extremists or conspiracists.

The shift reflects a broader European trend: denial has given way to normalization. What was once dismissed outright is now being reinterpreted, repackaged, and integrated into campaign messaging—especially in urban districts transformed by decades of mass immigration.

For years, the phrase “Great Replacement” was treated as radioactive across Western politics. Journalists, academics, and politicians insisted demographic change was either imaginary or irrelevant. Now, leading figures on the left are openly discussing and celebrating it—while attempting to control the narrative.

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Ban on road salt puts Berliners on a slippery slope

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For days on end pedestrians in Berlin have had a difficult time moving around the German capital.

Exceptionally wintry weather has turned many sidewalks in the German capital into skating rinks – and little relief is possible as the city has banned the use of road salt.

As one Berliner told Brussels Signal today: “You cannot leave the house anymore without risking slipping on ice that is inches thick. It is all over the pavements and cycle paths and the city is doing very little to fight it with a bit of grit.

“People with disabilities are dependent on external help because they can no longer leave their homes. I have also had several close calls. It is pure luck that nothing has happened to me so far.”

Not everybody has been so lucky. According to media reports 30 to 40 people have needed to be treated daily for “accidents caused by slippery conditions” in Berlin’s largest trauma hospital alone – primarily for broken wrists and hand bones as well as concussions.

A spokesperson for the hospital recommended Berliners use the “penguin walk”, shuffling about in very small steps like the Antarctic animals, to avoid accidents.

Spikes for walking shoes sold out in the capital, according to Nils Busch-Petersen on January 31, manager of the Berlin Trade Association. Some Berliners are now pulling socks over their shoes to improve their grip on ice.

The slippery malaise is compounded by a long-standing ban on the use of road salt.

Berlin’s Nature Protection Law from 2013 expressly forbids the use of road salt or other defrosting agents throughout the city. The ban covers pavements and driveways as well as public roads.

There is derogation from the ban in Berlin’s Street Cleaning Act in case of “extreme slipperiness” but it only applies to roadways and cycle paths. Pavements are not covered by the exemption.

“Road salt is a real danger for trees,” the City of Berlin explains on its website. “Anyone who wants to clear paths of ice and snow by using road salt, accepts that this will irrevocably damage the trees.

“The salt accumulates in the soil and then in the roots of the trees which are no longer adequately nourished and die.”

Infractions of the ban carry fines of up to €10,000.

On January 30, Berlin’s city senate announced an emergency rule allowing the use of road salt on sidewalks despite the legal ban. The intended liberating move, though, was immediately challenged as the Berlin Greens party. Influential environmental NGO Nabu announced it would examine whether the emergency regulation was even legal.

The exceptionally cold weather that has the German capital in its grip is expected to last for another week at least.

Berliners who want to escape the dangers of walking by taking the bus or the subway are in for a tough time too: yesterday, a  strike by union Ver.di shut down the city’s public transportation system almost completely.

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Third world foreigner calls the Birmingham Cathedral ‘s–t’ (but a good place to ‘smoke weed’) in explosive new documentary

“Come see how diversity destroyed ‘England’s Second City’” with the Jolly Heretic.
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There’s a brand new documentary being released by Edward Dutton, also known as the Jolly Heretic, titled “The Yookay,” and it’s an exploration of how catastrophic “diversity” has been for Europe (in this case England), and the white, Christian West as a whole. And, the entire documentary could no doubt be summed up by one exchange, between Dutton and some random third world heritage “Brit” walking through the grounds of Birmingham Cathedral:

Naturally, the viewer can’t deny this scene was foretold of sorts, in Jean Raspail’s famous work, The Camp of the Saints. In the book’s opening chapter, Calguès, the professor watching the third world hordes land on the beach below the villa that’s been in his family for three centuries, is confronted by a young looter, who says this:

I look at you and you know what I think? I think you’re perfect. That’s why I hate you. And it’s here, to your house, that I’ll bring all the most wretched ones tomorrow. They know nothing about what you are, about what you represent. Your world means nothing to them. They won’t try to understand. They’ll be tired. They’ll be cold. They’ll build a fire with your lovely oak door. They’ll shit all over your terrace and wipe their hands on the books in your library. … Every object will lose the meaning you attach to it. What’s beautiful won’t be beautiful anymore.

The Birmingham Cathedral is a resplendent work of English Baroque architecture, and was consecrated in the early 1700s. Every aspect of the church, from the weather vane to the stained glass windows, drips with some of the richest history the West has to offer—which is all “shit” to the pothead in the park, who, like the looter in Raspail’s novel does, “hates” the cathedral because of what it represents: European and Christian greatness. The resentment is even more obvious when he says this: “It’s not my ancestors, I don’t know whose ancestors those are….” (Did he just end the debate about how the West was “built” by the blacks and browns? Seems like it. And, if his ancestors admittedly didn’t build the West, what claim do they have on it? What entitles him to live in nations built by our forefathers?)

But in his words lie the crux of the issue: heritage matters, and heritage is not a matter of documentation or paperwork citizenship, but of shared culture, ancestry, and tradition. The man speaking to Dutton is not English, despite the fact that he probably was born there. The ancestors of true Englanders are the men and women who labored for Birmingham Cathedral.

Ilana Mercer, a South African author, wrote this in the introduction of her book, Into the Cannibal’s Pot:

In the U.S., a slower, more incremental transformation is underway. It began with a state-orchestrated, historically unparalleled, mass importation of inassimilable ethnic groups, into a country whose creed is that it has no creed any longer. American institutions no longer assimilate immigrants.

Rather, they acculturate them to militant identity politics aimed at doing away with merit. Dissolving the American people and electing another, to paraphrase Bertolt Brecht, will likely erode American institutions further, and may well replicate on American soil the terrifying conflicts that mar the third world.  

While Mercer was specifically speaking to the political trends in the U.S., of course her position can be applied to what we’ve seen across Europe. These people are “inassimilable ethnic groups” that do not have a shared history and heritage with Westerners, which brings me to my last point. There’s a quote attributed to Karl Marx, and it goes like this: “A people without heritage are easily persuaded.”

The destruction detailed by Dutton is entirely by design.

To watch the documentary in its entirety, and I highly encourage it, visit Edward Dutton’s Substack here.

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Transgender Terrorist Sues Federal Bureau of Prisons Alleging Unconstitutional Discrimination On The Basis Of His “Female Sex”

“Emily Claire” Hari as of 2022.

A trans-identified male serving a 53-year sentence for multiple domestic terrorism charges has launched a new lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons, alleging sex discrimination because he is now “female.” Emily Claire Hari, formerly known as Michael Hari, led a ragtag white supremacist militia known as the Patriot Freedom Fighters, later re-named to the White Rabbits.

Hari, along with the small group, began engaging in criminal activity in 2017 with the intention of carrying out acts of domestic terrorism. In August of that year, Hari’s group set an improvised incendiary device near the Imam’s office of the Dar-al Farooq Islamic Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One of Hari’s associates, Micheal McWhorter, would later confirm the purpose of the attack was to “scare Muslims out of the United States.” No one was injured in the attack.

In November of 2017, Hari and his “soldiers” targeted the Women’s Health Practice in Champaign, Illinois, where they threw a pipe bomb into the building. The bomb did not detonate and was found by a receptionist of the clinic who called police to safely extract the device from the facility. 

Hari and his militia would go on to engage in a series of petty crimes in an attempt to gather the funds to continue their operations, including robbing a Hispanic man and holding up two local Walmarts in Clarence, Illinois in December of 2017.

In early 2018, Hari and his ‘militia’ attempted to sabotage railroad tracks near Effingham, Illinois with a bomb. After the attack, the group sent ransom emails demanding $190,000 in cryptocurrency under threat they would damage the railway further. 

Shortly after, Hari tried to frame another individual for the crimes, but the effort would only lead to Federal Investigators more easily tracking him and the members of his militia down.

Hari and his colleagues were ultimately arrested, and, in 2021, Hari was sentenced to 53 years for his role in the Dar al-Farooq bombing. He later received an additional 14 years in 2022 on a number of other charges related to his domestic terrorist activity and the attempted bombing of the women’s clinic. The 14 years is to be served concurrently with the 53-year sentence.

During his trial, it was revealed that Hari identified as a transgender “woman.” While leading the White Rabbit militia, he had been searching terms such as ‘sex change,’ ‘transgender surgery,’ and ‘post-op transgender’ on the internet. Hari allegedly planned on fleeing to Thailand to get ‘gender affirming’ surgeries.

Hari formally applied for transfer to a women’s prison in October of 2023, attempting to exhaust his internal remedies.

In an email exchange dated January 10, 2024, the Transgender Executive Council, which makes housing decisions for the Bureau of Prisons, re-affirmed his placement at the men’s facility and told Hari his case would be re-reviewed in November of 2024.

Newly-filed records now show that Hari was briefly placed in female classification under US Marshal custody at Sherburne County Jail in Minnesota and Livingston County Jail in Illinois before being moved back to male classification for reasons that are unclear. While incarcerated at USP Allenwood, a men’s prison, Hari managed to obtain a card permitting he only be pat-down by female officers.

Hari’s Pat Search Card, issued while he was at a men’s prison in 2024.

In 2025, Hari’s first suit was dismissed due to an improper venue. Later on that same year, in November, Hari filed a new complaint for injunctive and declaratory relief alleging his constitutional rights had been violated.

Hari claims his fifth amendment equal protection rights and his eighth amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment are being violated by the Bureau of Prison’s refusal to return him to a women’s facility and arrange his “gender affirming” care.

“Ms. Hari is unsafe in any male prison due to her female sex characteristics,” Hari’s complaint reads. “[Denying] Ms. Hari classification as a female inmate in accordance with her legal female sex, placing her at risk of sexually abusive victimization and discriminating against her on the basis of her sex.”

Hari’s complaint points to a series of psychiatric and medical assessments he received following his 2018 incarceration including recommendations for hormone therapy, electrolysis hair removal, a vaginoplasty, breast implants, and access to feminine undergarments and clothing.

While Hari had begun feminizing hormones, his treatment was abruptly halted in January of 2025 after President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning the use of federal funds for “gender affirming care” in federal prisons.

Hari details this event in his complaint.

“In January of 2025, an announcement was posted on the FBOP electronics billboard announcing that President Trump’s Executive order 14168, titled with the Orwellian title; ‘Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’ would be implemented by the FBOP … On March 15, 2025, at the FBOP Oklahoma City Transfer Center, Ms. Hari’s female undergarments were seized by staff in implementation of Trump’s Executive Order … and were not returned to her.”

Hari notes that he was then told by staff that “transgender no longer exists,” “there’s only two genders now,” and “this is Trump’s America.” He claims he was later sexually harassed by staff who quoted these lines to him.

Arguing that he has been “misclassified” as a male inmate, Hari points to the fact that he was legally able to change his sex and name, and a past physician report stating that he had “undergone ‘appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition to the new gender of female.’”

From Hari’s 2025 complaint.

Hari’s complaint also details his claim that his eighth amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment have been violated because of the withdrawal of his “gender affirming” procedures and accommodations.

“… the denial of Ms. Hari’s gender confirmation surgery violates the Plaintiff’s 8th Amendment rights by violating the 8th Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment because it denies her necessary medical treatment for a serious medical condition, with deliberate indifference to serious risk of harm, as it is a blanket ban which takes no consideration of Ms. Hari’s individual circumstances, nor her suffering or the medical necessity of treatment.”

Hari, who is currently being housed at a men’s prison in Oregon, is seeking injunctive relief ordering the Bureau of Prisons to classify him as “female” and to provide him with surgical evaluations for his “gender confirmation” surgeries and for the removal of his “gender non-conforming” hair.

Hari’s demands and arguments echo those of another recent case brought by a trans-identified male inmate against the Bureau of Prisons, with the court ruling in the inmate’s favor.

As previously reported by Reduxx, the Bureau of Prisons was ordered to provide laser hair removal and other cosmetic services to a transgender pedophile currently incarcerated for sexually abusing his own 10-year-old son. Brian Buckingham, 47, changed his name to “Nani Love” and declared that he identified as “female” just before he was sentenced for the horrific crime.

Buckingham claimed that Bureau of Prisons had violated his eighth amendment rights and his rights under Section 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 by denying him access to “medically necessary care.” Buckingham described himself as a “transgender female” in the motion, and claimed that he was at risk of irreparable harm if the accommodations were not provided to him.

On September 18, 2025, United States Magistrate Judge David Christel filed a report determining that Buckingham was “likely to succeed” on the merits of his claims that his Eighth Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment had been violated. 

“Buckingham has presented evidence that she suffers from a serious medical need, gender dysphoria. She also has presented evidence that Defendants were aware of her need for the Consultations,” Judge Christel wrote, referring to Buckingham with feminine pronouns. “The evidence shows BOP healthcare providers at FDC SeaTac referred Buckingham for the Consultations, and then BOP healthcare providers at FCI Butner discontinued the requests for the Consultations without reason and summarily denied her request for the facial feminization consultation … The undisputed evidence shows the Consultations are medically necessary.”

Judge Christel then recommended Buckingham’s motion for a preliminary injunction be granted, and that an injunction ordering the Bureau of Prisons to provide him with the cosmetic consultations be issued. Explicitly included were those for laser hair removal, facial feminization surgery, and voice training.

United States District Court Judge Ricardo Martinez adopted Christel’s recommendations, and gave the Bureau of Prisons 30 days to comply with the mandatory injunction.

Buckingham has since filed additional action against the Bureau of Prisons, accusing them of noncompliance with the order and seeking damages.

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Cardinal Müller: German Synodal Way seeks ‘totalitarian ideological dominance’

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Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said that the heretical German Synodal Way wants “totalitarian ideological dominance” in the German church.

In an interview with kath.net, Müller, who is the former bishop of Regensburg, addressed the recent Synodal Conference of the German bishops in Stuttgart, Germany.

“At the so-called Synodal Conference in Stuttgart, it was reported that there was no mention of the triune God, of Christ, His Son and sole mediator of grace and truth, of the proclamation of the Gospel to all nations, of the sacraments as means of grace, or of the salvific necessity of the Church as the sacrament of salvation for the world in Christ,” the former prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith said.

“The only issues that were debated and argued about were structural questions, i.e., the distribution of power and financial resources and, above all, totalitarian ideological dominance, which excludes not only other theological opinions but also the sole validity of the Catholic faith in the Catholic Church.”

The German cardinal was also asked how a potential new president of the German Bishops’ Conference should act, given that Bishop Georg Bätzing announced he would serve a second term in the position.

“Above all, he should see himself for what he is, namely only a moderator of the assembly and not a party leader or sect founder who imposes or foists an ideological program or secularist agenda on his followers,” Müller stated.

“Anyone who wants to sell blatant contradictions to the Catholic faith, i.e., ecclesiological and anthropological heresies, to an astonished audience as ‘a different kind of Catholicism’ is using the attribute ‘Catholic’ to perpetrate a shameful deception of the faithful,” he continued.

“No one can call themselves Catholic according to their own taste or ideological guidelines, in contrast to the definition of Catholicism with regard to the one and entire doctrine of the faith and the full sacramental constitution of the visible Church, which is led by the bishops as successors of the apostles in full communion with the Bishop of Rome as the personal successor of Peter.”

The sixth synodal assembly in Stuttgart took place at the end of January, three years after the conclusion of the first five assemblies, and is meant as an opportunity to evaluate the “reform process.”

Two prominent critics of the German Synodal Way, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki and Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer, refused to attend the meeting.

The German Synodal Way is famous for proposing heretical changes to immutable Catholic teaching. The heterodox “reform” project was launched by the German Bishops’ Conference and the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), a lay organization, in December 2019.

By 2023, an overwhelming majority of the members of the Synodal Way, including more than two-thirds of the German bishops, voted in favor of heretical documents calling for “women deacons,” “blessings” of homosexual relationships, changing Church teaching on the sinfulness of homosexual acts, and even “transgender” priests in a text replete with pro-transgender ideology.

In addition, the heretical German bishops plan to establish a permanent “Synodal Council” with the ZdK, which would strip the bishops of their sole authority and officially involve laity in decision-making. This change would be contrary to the sacramental constitutions of the Catholic Church and could cause an open schism, critics have warned.

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