A Non-Starter
What to know: The politics of electric vehicles is at least partially behind the ongoing United Auto Workers strike. EVs are more expensive to produce, and manufacturers are trying to keep costs down ahead of mandates.
The TPPF take: The Biden administration is committed to forcing Americans into electric vehicles, even if the EVs don’t meet a family’s needs.
“This is the brute force application of policy preferences—forcing choices onto consumers,” says TPPF’s Robert Henneke. “The result will be disastrous—it won’t be millions of Americans happily motoring to work and back in electric vehicles; most of us can’t afford them. Instead, we’ll increase pressure on the poor, who have to drive longer distances to work and who are priced out of the electric vehicle market.”
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First, Do No Harm
What to know: The Catholic Medical Alliance has a new report showing how “The Ideology of Gender Harms Children.”
The TPPF take: Confused kids must be treated with compassion—and protected from the radical trans activists who are driving this narrative.
“Kids are looking for something they can’t find,” pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Quentin Van Meter told TPPF recently. “They get into a chat room, they see a female who shows that her breasts were removed. So they think, I’m unhappy, maybe that’s what’s wrong with me. And then doors open, they find support groups online, and it’s an illusory, loving world. But I still have never met a happy transgender person. No happy parents of children who are transitioning. Such misery, crying out for some semblance of peace in their lives, and this isn’t peace.”
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Dying in the Streets
What to know: San Francisco is on track for record drug overdoses, largely among the city’s huge homeless population.
The TPPF take: TPPF’s Roy Maynard toured San Francisco’s homeless encampments in January.
“Human beings and communities are perishing,” says Roy. “A conservative estimate from the New York Times puts the death toll of California’s homeless population at 4,800 in 2021. According to the Jama Network, approximately one unsheltered person per day takes their final breath on the streets of San Francisco. But there’s hope — real hope.”
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