NEW: @FreeBeacon has learned that Senator Raphael Warnock lives in a $1 million luxury Atlanta home FOR FREE—bought and paid for by the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church where MLK Jr. preached.
News of Warnock's new luxury church-funded housing accommodations will likely come as a surprise to his congregation, which just two weeks ago had to listen to the Senator urge them to donate their BONUS CHECKS to the church to help pay down its mortgage debts.
MLK Jr. would have never approved of church funds being used this way, said Dr. Albert Paul Brinson, who was ordained by the civil rights icon in 1965 and is widely recognized as serving as a "living source on the life and ministry" of MLK Jr.
NEW: @FreeBeacon obtained voluminous records showing how Georgia state bureaucrats inserted transgender and DEI questions into a blockbuster contract last year that determined who will administer healthcare to millions of residents starting next year.
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The records show that a cadre of Georgia state bureaucrats deliberately modified questions in the Georgia Families Medicaid contract to highlight left-wing policy priorities.
That includes edits to a question about a hypothetical 14 y/o transgender kid made around June 2023.
Georgia awarded the contract based on responses to a 1,000-point questionnaire.
Top 4 point getters got the contract.
In the end, the difference between 4th and 5th was just under 10 points.
The transgender question was worth 10 points, meaning it played a crucial role determining which companies Georgia selected to administer Medicaid to millions of residents beginning next year.
NEW: Gavin Newsom disbanded a highly trained team of certified firefighters in early 2024 — a move that left his National Guard incapable of sending a complete firefighting force to Los Angeles until 10 days after the fires broke out.
This story is wild, read this🧵to the end
First, some background.
The California State Guard is an all-volunteer militia force that reports directly to Newsom, its commander in chief.
In 2020, the State Guard launched Team Blaze. It was an on-call strike force staffed entirely with certified volunteer firefighters, all at virtually no cost to the state.
Team Blaze was effective. It battled the 2021 Dixie Fire, the largest single-source wildfire in California state history. The team also performed search-and-rescue missions during that fire.
Team Blaze came at virtually no cost to California.
Its certified volunteer firefighters attended regular trainings at their own expense.
An outside charity procured much of the team's firefighting equipment at no cost to the state.
California only paid Team Blaze when it was activated to fight a fire.
BREAKING: Gavin Newsom fired one of California's most experienced wildfire response experts in 2022, leaving him on the sidelines earlier this month as Los Angeles burned.
The former general is now suing Newsom, alleging his termination was driven by anti-Semitic animus.
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What's striking about Gen. Jeffrey Magram's case is there's no dispute he was an incredible asset to the California National Guard, especially in his ability to combat some of the largest wildfires in state history.
Magram's officer performance reports speak for themselves 👇
So, why did Newsom fire Magram?
Because his appointee to lead the California National Guard, Matt Beevers, who has faced accusations of referring to his Jewish subordinates as "kike lawyers," said Magram was no longer fit to serve as a senior military leader due to allegations made in an Air Force IG report.