Hey if these people can outright lie about the LGBTQ+ community, willing to let LGBTQ+ kids die or be pushed via violence into the closet hiding who they really were, what is faking your expertise. I already posted about a sexologist who had no experience with trans kids testifying to red state legislatures enabling his bigotry to further the harm to trans kids by giving an excuse for theirs. These people are on a mission that is far from pure but one driven by hate and bigotry to make all kids pretend to be straight and cis in the hope that they can force all adults to pretend to be straight and cis also. If they can’t force the adults to pretend to be straight or cis at least they can stop the trans adults from looking like the gender they identify with in hopes of stopping those that are passing as the gender they identify as. This they hope will mark those people in ways that make their life harder. Again their lies are OK for them because either they think their god approves or their hate is that great so nothing but the mission matters. Hugs
Pippin testifying in favor of book bans at a school board meeting in 2023 (screenshot / YouTube).
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Jennifer Pippin has repeatedly claimed to be an operating room nurse. USA TODAY, the New York Times, TC Palm and other publications have cited her as such. In 2020, Pippin argued that wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 was unnecessary, citing her professional expertise.
“As a registered nurse, I’ve learned a bit. I’ve learned a whole lot more though that they won’t tell you in nursing school,” she wrote in a 2020 Facebook post. “Not wearing a mask is NOT A RISK. Not to me and not to anyone else.”
Pippin, now the chair of one of Moms for Liberty’s (M4L) first chapters in Indian River County, Florida, has also mentioned having “medical licenses” while speaking about the group’s accomplishments at a school board meeting. And in an email chain with Florida’s Department of Education, she wrote that she couldn’t make it to a meeting because she was “operating on a doctors wife.”
(Screenshot received from The Florida Fruit Loop, highlight added).
However, allegations have surfaced that these statements might not be true, and the community is growing frustrated. On Facebook, one user decried “the utter misinformation that has spewed out of [Pippin’s] mouth any time she’s shared her thoughts about public health issues.” Another sarcastically wrote that they were “shocked … to find out Jenny is a liar!!”
“We reported this years ago, but because [M4L] were so powerful politically here in Florida with Ron DeSantis, we had no voice, nobody cared,” Cindy Gibbs, a local parent and former school board candidate, told Uncloseted Media.
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Is She Really a Nurse?
Despite Pippin’s claims of being a nurse, there is a stack of evidence suggesting otherwise. One individual shared screenshots of emails they received from a Florida Department of Health (DOH) official in 2024 after they filed a complaint against Pippin when they noticed her license wasn’t turning up in database searches. In one email, the DOH official states that Pippin had been under investigation since April 1, 2024, for potentially misrepresenting herself as a nurse and that no license had been found.
Uncloseted Media also filed a public records request with the DOH for the license. In an email, they said they were “unable to find anyone licensed by the department matching the information … provided.” The department did not respond to a request for further comment.
In addition, Uncloseted Media was unable to find any license associated with Pippin in the Florida Department of Health’s medical license database or the NURSYS database, which records multi-state licensees. We also checked the certification database for the Competency and Credentialing Institute, which certifies certain specialized nurses including operating room specialists, and found nothing.
While records do exist for Jennifer Hughes Pippin, a nutritionist and dietician at Florida State College in Jacksonville, her listed address and social media profiles do not match the Pippin from Indian River County.
The Florida Nurses Association also did not find any record of Pippin’s membership.
Multiple sources and news articles say Pippin was formerly employed by the Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital. Despite this, Uncloseted Media was unable to confirm she held a position there. The hospital declined to comment on the status of current or former employees as a matter of policy.
The only employment information we found listed for Pippin later than 2021 was in a Sebastian City Council meeting agenda from 2023, where she says she is “self employed” working for Organize Me!, a gig-based home cleaning service.
Why It Matters
Falsely presenting as a nurse is a phenomenon that has been on the rise since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pippin’s case, though, is of particular interest because she is often cited as an influential figure in Florida politics. In her role with M4L, Pippin has filed hundreds of requests to ban books—many of which include LGBTQ or racial justice themes—from school libraries. Some of the books she’s requested to ban include a graphic novel adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” a memoir about growing up Black and queer.
In 2022, Pippin was also appointed by the Florida Department of Education to a workgroup of parents tasked with developing a training for state educators to comply with the classroom censorship laws signed by Governor Ron DeSantis, who has spoken at a M4L summit. One of these laws is the notorious “Don’t Say Gay” law, which prohibits educators from teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity.
And earlier this summer, she filed a complaint against a Vero Beach wine bar for hosting an all-
ages drag event, which she alleges contained performances with sexual themes. The bar’s owner, who is also a city official, denies the allegations.
This is not M4L’s first brush with controversy. The group’s co-founder, Bridget Ziegler, allegedly assisted her husband in sexually assaulting another woman. An Indiana chapter came under fire for quoting Adolf Hitler in a 2023 newsletter. And the group has hosted speakers who’ve spread medical misinformation on multiple occasions, claiming that doctors are “sterilizing and mutilating [trans] children” and that gender-affirming health care is “snake oil.”
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Pippin’s Response
When presented with these allegations, Pippin did not provide any evidence of a nursing license. In an email, she told Uncloseted Media that she was “surprised to see these allegations being raised again — especially considering they were addressed over a year ago.” She pointed to a prior case involving stalking and said the answers about whether she is a licensed nurse can be found via that case. However, the case and its associated documents are not available online.
Pippin testifying before the Indian River County School Board (screenshot/YouTube).
Pippin has previously stated that the reason her license is not publicly accessible is because she was ordered to “hide [it] from the public for five years” after filing a fraud suit in 2020 against someone who she says had used her license to file for unemployment. In emails with Uncloseted Media, she reaffirmed this story.
While Uncloseted Media was unable to verify the existence of this fraud case, experts say that such a decision from the court would be “unusual.”
“We have fought to make nurses licenses private and have been unable to do so even in at-risk areas,” says Willa Fuller, executive director of the Florida Nurses Association.
Multiple people in Indian River County say that Pippin’s questionable nursing status has been an open secret for years, but the issue didn’t start attracting wider attention until it was covered by The Florida Fruit Loop, a local Facebook page that promises to provide “a daily dose of MAGA butthurt.” Last weekend, Pippin left a note in the page’s comments titled “CEASE AND DESIST LETTER,” where she called multiple statements made by the page defamatory. However, the notice does not mention or dispute any allegations made about her nursing license.
The intro to Pippin’s comment (screenshot received from The Florida Fruit Loop).
The Implications
Falsely presenting as a nurse is a crime in Florida under certain circumstances, with one woman being arrested in the state for this just last month. However, in emails reviewed by Uncloseted Media, a DOH official cautioned that the laws only apply in specific cases.
“For those statutes where an unlicensed person is allegedly holding themselves out as a licensed healthcare provider to apply, the Subject would need to hold themselves out / lead the public to believe they are a current and active licensee,” the official wrote.
While the full results of Pippin’s investigation have not yet been released, the individual who corresponded with the DOH says the department later informed them that their complaint “lacked … a criminal finding.”
The DOH official did note, though, that the video of Pippin’s testimony before the school district could be considered a violation. Pippin has also publicly used the formal title “registered nurse” on multiple occasions, including in a rant against masking posted to the Republican Club of Indian River’s Facebook page in 2020; in a Department of Education report; and in Vero News.
“She has been out here presenting herself as an authority on things in the world of health care and education,” says Cindy Gibbs. “And the groups of people that she associates herself with … just keep generating and regenerating the same stuff: ‘oh, Jennifer knows things because she’s a registered nurse.’”
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(I admit this CI story is some pretty quick thinking/delivery for Republicans. It’ll probably work with the Qanon folk.)
Agent Orange by Clay Jones
Speaker Mike Johnson claims Trump was an FBI informant, spying on Jeffrey Epstein Read on Substack
If you believe Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein case, then I have a slightly used Venezuelan speedboat I will sell to you…cheap.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson claimed yesterday that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.
Johson was questioned by CNN reporter Manu Raju about how Trump has been using the term “hoax” a lot in regard to Epstein. Johnson argued that it was not about downplaying Epstein’s abuse of underage girls, but attacks and accusations against Trump’s relationship with Epstein.
Johnson said, “What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him.” But why would Trump use that regarding a press conference last week of survivors of Epstein, where nobody accused Trump of any wrongdoing? That doesn’t make sense, unless Trump was trying to intercept something he believed they would accuse him of. (snip-there are more than 3 comics here, so commentary is snipped, but Highly Recommended Reading.)
Crystal Ball, Fake Ball, Hoax Ball, Woke Ball by Clay Jones
The Advance wrote this to go with my cartoon today: “The races for Lt. Governor and Attorney General are tightening, but the race for governor in Virginia as we head into early voting — it begins September 19 — looks about as one-sided as a governor’s race in Virginia is likely to get in the current political environment. Abigail Spanberger has consistently been at least 5 points ahead of her Republican opponent, Winsome Earle-Sears, in every poll to this point. No one is suggesting landslide-like numbers of Spanberger (even Mark Robinson polled 40% in the North Carolina gubernatorial election in 2024 — and candidates don’t get much worse than Robinson), but this is her race to lose. When numbers don’t go the Republicans’ way these days, how do they respond? Blame the messenger. Clay Jones has noticed.”
I did notice.
I was hanging out at J. Brian’s Tap Room last week, and a stranger sat next to me and started chatting. I guess I have one of those faces.
Anywhosies, I forgot what topic he started with, but for some weird reason, he started talking about the governor’s race. He’s from Virginia but lives in Florida, and golly gee whiskers, he sure did think Florida was a great place. He described himself as a moderate who leans right, which means he’s downplaying it and is a MAGAt. But he was nice. A little dense and outside reality, but nice.
At one point, he said, “See? Two people who disagree on politics can have a civil conversation.” And I replied, “Yeah? See how civil I’ve been despite you being full of shit and gaslight?” Warning, it’s not just online where I don’t tolerate bullshit. I won’t start screaming at you, but if you dish out bullshit to me in the real world, I’ll tell you what I think. I’m not afraid of MAGA fuckers. (snip-MORE)
Exhibition in Norway by Ann Telnaes
If you’re lucky enough to be visiting or living in Norway Read on Substack
The Museene i Akershus (MIA) just opened an exhibition of my work and is offering a number of prints for sale. It runs from September 6 – October 12, 2025.
Epstein File Missile Strike by Clay Jones
Would Trump conduct a missile strike to keep the Epstein Files covered up? Read on Substack
I can’t figure out why Trump and Nicolás Maduro are not besties yet. And I say “yet” because at one time, Trump and Kim Jong Un were at each other’s throats, figuratively.
Maduro is a dictator, which is what Trump is trying to be. He has manipulated the courts to increase his power. He has dismantled democratic institutions that would challenge his authority. His legislature is a mere puppet to pass his agenda. He’s crashed his economy. He runs sham elections. He doesn’t seem to want to ever leave office. He’s serving a third term. He stayed in office despite losing an election. He surrounded himself with sycophants and lickspittles. He’s suppressing opposition. He describes all accusations against him as hoaxes. He likes to glorify himself as all dictators do. He uses the military to maintain his power. His government has seized corporations. He’s friends with Vladimir Putin. He’s even survived assassination attempts. And like Trump, most of his constituents hate him.
Why Maduro isn’t eating chocolate cake at MAGA-Lardo is beyond me. But instead, Trump hates the guy, and we may soon be at war with Venezuela. (snip-MORE)
Do we have a military for defense or to wage war? President Harry Truman, who made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, believed it was for defense. Truman signed the law that turned the War Department into the Defense Department. Today, Donald Trump plans to sign an Executive Order to revert the Defense Department back to the War Department. Does anyone think Donald Trump is smarter or a better president than Harry Truman?
Just like the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” this is a stupid idea. When Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico, he told the world that America was xenophobic. Now, he’s telling the world that America has a tiny penis.
We are always prepared to defend our nation, which is why “Defense” is appropriate, and hopefully, more accurate. “War” means we’re either at war or looking for a fight. Remember when Trump boasted about not getting us into any foreign wars? And “War” is a bad look for a guy lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize. (snip-MORE)
September 8, 1756 Colonel John Armstrong and troops under his command destroyed the Indian village of Kittanning. The Corporation of the City of Philadelphia awarded a silver medal to Armstrong and his officers for their action.
September 8, 1941 In Norway, 2000 workers in the shipyards went on strike against diversion of milk, “depriving mothers and babies,” to military use by the German soldiers in Finland. In retaliation, Oslo was placed under a 7 o’clock nightly curfew, after which transportation was stopped, public meetings prohibited, radios seized, dancing forbidden. Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Salvation Army organizations were all dissolved. More about the Milk strike
September 8, 1965 Table grape pickers, the mostly Filipino members of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), led by Larry Itliong, went on strike for higher wages in Delano, California. Larry Itliong More about Larry Itliong
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