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Ex-CNN host Don Lemon had a total meltdown over Trump resettling a small number of white South African refugees in America, calling it “the most racist shit ever.”

More racist than Don Lemon? Inconceivable.

A mere 59 Afrikaners arrived at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on Monday, prompting widespread derision and demonization from leftists and the media, who claimed they were not real refugees while also monstering them as white supremacists.

The backlash to the refugees arriving in America was so vociferous that it became a stunning mask off moment in proving that anti-white hatred is still mainstream.

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I will assume that we can all recall Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous words, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

King came to UVA in 1963 and told the students: “If democracy is to live, segregation must die.” But that’s segregation by law. What if racial, ethnic, or “sexual” minorities are convinced to “self-segregate” today?

In 2019, TheCollegeFix.com reported that as many as 75 American universities held “blacks only” graduation ceremonies. Sixty years ago, “blacks only” was viewed by most as the height of racism. How did we backslide so fast?

That cackling sound you hear is Orval Faubus (a Democrat) laughing from beyond the grave. “Get them to do it to themselves! Why didn’t we think of that?”

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The Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct has set a hearing date of June 9 for a judge accused of blocking a federal agent attempting to arrest an illegal immigrant.

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Democrat donors want the “safest white boy” as their presidential nominee in 2028, Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett said on a radio show Thursday.

“It is this fear that the people within the party, within the primary system will have about voting for a woman, because every time we voted for a woman we’ve lost so far. And I think that that’s a natural fear, because we just want to win,” said Crockett on SiriusXM’s “Urban View.”

Apparently Democrats have learnd that crazy racist black women aren’t electable. Who knew?

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The Department of Health and Human Services launched a civil rights investigation in March into the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles. The probe, HHS said in a press release, would investigate whether the school’s admissions office discriminates based on race.

Less than two weeks later, UCLA instructed admissions officers to do exactly that.

Victor Davis Hanson.

The decade-old age of fables like Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, or the pangolin/bat cause of COVID is not over; it is just hitting midstream.

For much of April, amid stock downturns, in the classical paranoid style, we were assured by the Wall Street Journal news reporters and the liberal press that Trump had either a) guaranteed an inevitable recession, b) engineered a losing trade war he likely regretted, c) crashed the stock market, d) lost his once majority favorability ratings, e) mostly had a failed first 100 days, or f) all of the above.

Some of us thought these diagnoses and prognoses were absurd. How in mediis rebus, during a radical counterrevolution never quite seen before, could anyone issue such bleak predictions? Would these same observers have said the U.S. was doomed to lose World War II after the bleak first five months of mostly failure in the Pacific, or North Africa, after the utter U.S. army disaster at the Kasserine Pass?

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Millions of Americans, including those among the lowest income brackets, truly have no idea how good life is for them. The grass is always greener somewhere else in the world until people actually take the plunge and move to the neighbor’s house only to discover it’s crack den.

The self hatred that progressives feel over being American and living in the US is a first-world luxury that few others can afford. Most of humanity doesn’t have time to dwell obsessively on their nation’s global image; they are too busy barely surviving. The argument often regurgitated by over-privileged activists on Reddit forums and in college classrooms is that American “exceptionalism” is problematic because there’s nothing exceptional about America.

This claim is debunked by the fact that most of the rest of the world wants to come to the US and very few people want to leave. Those that do leave are usually among the wealthiest, or, they are gullible and think they can find something better overseas. It usually doesn’t go well for them.

One black leftist recently figured this out after moving to Africa. She assumed she would fit right in, but now says she actually prefers dealing with American “racism” over the scammers, grifters and of course, the lack of snacks. Her complaints have gone viral because they expose the common leftist delusion that the US is somehow one of the worst places on Earth. They simply don’t understand how lucky they are until they step outside of their echo chamber.

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The Trump administration has opened an investigation into alleged Title IX violations in Washington state following reports of biological males participating in female sports and using girls’ locker rooms, the Department of Education announced on Wednesday.

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Trump’s ‘dictatorship,’ the French Left has suddenly become hostile to immigration and is advocating ‘national preference’ for French researchers.

The French National Assembly will now be discussing a bill aimed at creating a ‘scientific refugee’ status to facilitate the reception and hiring of American academics who want to leave their institutions in the United States to settle in France. Some U.S. academics are supposedly pursuing European options in order to escape alleged censorship of their work by Donald Trump’s government—what is in reality only a reduction in public funding for research deemed secondary or overly ideologically militant.

Once the enthusiasm of the small French academic world, which loudly proclaimed its willingness to welcome these new ‘political exiles’ with open arms, had died down, mistrust of the new arrivals quickly set in: these researchers will obviously be cutting into the already very tight budgets of their French colleagues. Are they really so welcome?

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The two Harvard University students who faced criminal charges for assaulting an Israeli classmate during an anti-Israel “die-in” protest will take an in-person anger management class and perform 80 hours of community service as part of a pretrial diversion program, court filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.

The two students, Elom Tettey-Tamaklo and Ibrahim Bharmal, sought the program, and a Suffolk County judge approved it during a Monday hearing. Their attorneys requested only 40 hours of community service, but the judge sided with the prosecutor Ursula Knight’s call for 80 hours. Knight also called for the anger management class as well as a statement from Tettey-Tamaklo and Bharmal admitting fault. The judge did not include the latter request in his order.

Anything to prevent Children of the Crust from being punished like Mud People.

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Prosecutors in Minnesota’s largest county are now required to take a criminal defendant’s race into account when negotiating plea deals, following a new directive from Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty (D.).

“While racial identity and age are not appropriate grounds for departures [from the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines], proposed resolutions should consider the person charged as a whole person, including their racial identity and age,” Moriarty’s directive reads, according to Minneapolis outlet KARE11. “While these factors should not be controlling, they should be part of the overall analysis.”

“Prosecutors should be identifying and addressing racial disparities at decision points, as appropriate,” Moriarty added, arguing that such disparities cause “distrust” and harm “community safety.”

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“Derecognized”? More appropriate would be ‘expelled everybody involved’.s

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The most divisive carnival ride in history, apparently.

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The home of slain Texas track athlete Austin Metcalf was swatted on Thursday night, the same day his father appeared at a press conference for suspect Karmelo Anthony, WFAA reported.

On Thursday, the slain teen’s father, Jeff Metcalf, attended a press conference in Dallas at the Next Generation Action Network, a nonprofit organization working with Anthony’s family in his criminal defense.

Hours later, the Metcalf home was targeted in a swatting call when police were notified of a gunshot reported at the address. “Swatting” is a term used when fake threats are called in to police with the implicit intention of creating an escalating situation with first responders.

Probably by friends/relatives of the perp.

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PBS receives roughly 15 percent of its $373 million operating budget from the federal government. In addition to its member stations and on-demand streaming shows, some of the money goes to Independent Lens, the weekly series through which PBS airs documentary films. They often have to do with racism.

The 2022 Independent Lens flick Racist Trees, for example, chronicles a black neighborhood in the overwhelmingly liberal “LGBTQ haven” of Palm Springs, Calif. The neighborhood’s residents feel that a “wall of trees” that lines a nearby golf course was “intentionally planted to exclude and segregate” the neighborhood, and want the trees removed.

“They say that these trees are not racially motivated, that they were not racially planted there,” one interviewee says in the film. “They can prove that by one simple act. Remove the trees.”

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One of Britain’s largest police forces is mandating “equity training” for officers, focusing on “white privilege”, “micro-aggressions” and the distinction between “non-racist versus anti-racist.”

The Telegraph reports that Thames Valley Police is putting officers through the training despite a tribunal last year finding that the force positively discriminated against white officers.

As we highlighted, the force appointed an Asian detective inspector without considering white officers for promotions.

The three officers who won the case, had all been working for the force for between 19-26 years and were actively blocked from applying for the position.

Now the rest of the force is being put through the “equity training,” which according to an independent review of the case “can often be seen as demonising white people and therefore building barriers to the learning.”

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture continues to discriminate in many of its programs, according to a new letter from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty.

Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty wrote the letter telling the USDA that it will file a lawsuit if the issue is not corrected within 60 days.

Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty represents Chilton farmer Adam Faust, stating that Faust is not eligible to benefit from a dozen USDA race-based programs because he is a white farmer.

“USDA offers important resources for dairy farmers, including margin coverage, loan guarantees and grants,” Faust said. “But it is outrageous that some farmers get a better deal based on race. I am hopeful the Trump Administration will change course and fix these discriminatory programs.”

Faust previously successfully challenged USDA rules for programs under President Joe Biden’s administration through Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty.

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A 16-year-old runner at a California high school is suing Attorney General Rob Bonta over failure to enforce Title IX standards to protect female athletes.

In November, Taylor Starling, a track athlete at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, along with her teammate, Kaitlyn Slavin, filed suit against the district, alleging she lost a spot on the team to a biological male student. Now Stirling has added Bonta to the lawsuit in light of President Donald Trump’s executive order that banned males from competing in female sports.

“I felt angry when I was removed from my varsity team because I knew the requirements were changed for him because he is transgender. I felt like my sacrifice, hard work, and dedication didn’t matter to my school administrators because I am a girl. It was easy for them to push me aside and that hurt,” Starling said.

Apparently it’s not enough to be a girl to be on a girls’ team, you have to be the right kind of ‘girl’.

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Recently, a young Black male killed another young White male. This is hardly news, seeing as how every day, young Black males kill. It’s a ‘hood workout. The apparent motive in this case, was that the young Black male felt “disrespected.” In ghetto culture, you don’t accept “disrespect.” You have to respond, too often in a deadly way.

Now why this story has become national news is puzzling. The young victim, an honor roll high school student named Austin Metcalf, who was a Division 1 college football prospect, is no different than countless other White victims of Black pathology who remain anonymous because the crimes were ignored by mainstream media. The murderer is named Karmelo Anthony. We were assured that he came from a good home, unlike the vast majority of young Black killers. In this case, Anthony appears to have wandered into the tent provided for members of Metcalf’s high school track team. Maybe Karmelo forgot what school he went to. Metcalf asked him to leave, because the tent was reserved for track players at his particular high school. Now, no one asks a young Black man to leave any place. If he’s there, he must have a reason. So, Karmelo felt “disrespected.” And he responded in an appropriate ghetto style.

According to Austin’s twin brother, who will be haunted for the rest of his life by reliving the indescribable agony of his twin dying in his arms, Austin represented no threat to Karmelo. Austin didn’t bring a knife, or any other weapon, to a track meet. Karmelo Anthony did. The mainstream media normally suppresses stories like this, because they are so common that even the comatose “normies” might eventually start wondering. But they did report this one. Why? And the reaction has been predictable; uniform and irrational Black solidarity online. I’m sure Joy Reid and the shrews from The View will be chiming in soon. There is no other racial group that would attempt to justify cold blooded murder. You couldn’t find a single White person on earth defending this killer, if the races were reversed. This case is as cut and dry as can be. A knife to the heart for being asked to move from a restricted area?

“Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.” — Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, c. 14.

The Wall Street Journal, sadly, these days a Voice of the Crust.

Fine by me. The Islamic Republic of Michigan has been a stone in the nation’s shoe for decades.

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More than a year later Judge Irving responded. He did not order a new trial, but given how expensive and time-consuming that would be, arguably did something more useful. He ordered the punitive damages against Steyn, which he called “grossly excessive,” reduced to a mere five thousand dollars, the “maximum” sum Steyn’s attorney had suggested was reasonable.

But there was more good news to come. A week later, Judge Irving responded to Steyn’s motion that Mann pay legal fees. While only partially granting the motion, Judge Irving’s rhetoric was scathing.

What especially infuriated him was the Mann team’s false claims of a huge loss in grant money– which Judge Irving called “an affront to the Court’s authority.” The team had offered “plainly false evidence” and were guilty of “bad faith misconduct “… “extraordinary in its scope, extent, and intent.” Judge Irving said he would issue sanctions to cover the costs the defendants had in countering these “outright misrepresentations.” Steyn and Simberg have been told to submit their costs by the end of March and it is highly probable they will exceed the $5,000 Steyn owes in punitive damages. Simberg is already ahead when it comes to his punitive damages, since the court in January affirmed a sanctions award to him and CEI of $9,000 for other Mann team misbehavior during discovery.

Nature.

The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers. More than 1,200 scientists who responded to a Nature poll — three-quarters of the total respondents — are considering leaving the United States following the disruptions prompted by Trump. Europe and Canada were among the top choices for relocation.

Yeah,  well, they’re going to find out that there aren’t very many such jobs in Canada and Europe, which is why scientists from Canada and Europe come to the U.S., both for school and for after-school employment.

This student lost her research support and her stipend when the Trump administration shut down funding for the US Agency for International Development. Her adviser found emergency funds to support her in the short term, but she is scrambling to apply for teaching-assistant positions — now extremely competitive — to carry her through the rest of her programme.

The gravy train is entering the station and getting ready to stop. Time to get off and find a real job.

I’ll bet that, like the Democrats who swear up and down that they’re going to leave, this is all hot air and noise.

The Hill, a Voice of the Crust.

Hundreds of advocacy organizations have called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to reject a budget blueprint from House Republicans.

A letter sent to Thune, led by the liberal health care advocacy group Families USA, features more than 300 organizations, such as Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union.

“We write to share our deep concerns about the House-passed budget reconciliation resolution—specifically the catastrophic health care cuts it would require and the resulting harm it would impose on families and communities across the country,” according to the letter, sent Wednesday.

As aways, proglodytes assume that if the government doesn’t do something, It Won’t Ever Get Done.

When they say ‘cuts’, they always refer to a reduction in spending increases, not actual cuts at all.

This country survived for centuries without the Federal government paying for people’s health care, and ‘families and communities across the country’ got along just fine. The actual problem they have is that they are afraid that the gravy train of Federal money is going to decrease–it’s too much to hope that it will stop completely–and this threatens their status and paychecks. The government’s job is to keep people safe and keep people honest, not to pay for their stuff.

Slate, a Voice of the Crust.

On Monday, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice made two arguments in two different courts that, taken together, amount to a legal claim of near-dictatorial power by Trump. First, it informed a federal appeals court that the president has authority to declare any noncitizens to be “alien enemies” and to deport them to foreign prison, where they will be forced to perform hard labor indefinitely—without notice, a hearing, or any meaningful opportunity to prove their innocence. Second, it refused to provide U.S. District Judge James Boasberg with details of these mass deportation operations, even in a closed courtroom, even under seal, insisting that Boasberg’s authority must yield to the “mandate of the electorate.” In other words, Trump’s electoral victory grants him an absolute right to conduct these deportations, rendering them unreviewable by the judiciary.

Well, no. What renders them ‘unreviewable by the judiciary’ is the President’s plenary power, under the Constitution, to conduct American foreign policy. This is basic Separation of Powers stuff, and has nothing to do with any ‘mandate of the electorate’. This whole ‘mandate of the electorate’ business refers to the fundamental value of democracy, which sock-puppets for the Democrat party purport to value higher than any other value. Either we live in a democratic system in which people get to determine policy by electing certain people to do that stuff for them, or we do not.

What terrifies Slate and other constituents of the Narrative Media is the prospect that democracy doesn’t mean that they win all the time. And that prospect upsets their entire world-view.

The Register.

The purge of DEI language from US federal websites has claimed another victim. This time, it is NASA’s pledge to land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon as part of the Artemis program.

Artemis III is planned to be the first mission to put boots on the lunar surface in more than half a century, and the original goal, set during the first Trump presidency, was for the mission to include a woman. This was later extended to include the first person of color.

Now, however, it’s all about humans with text that might fall foul of the US administration’s avowed intent to eliminate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs at federal agencies scrubbed. British journalist Oliver Morton first noted the change.

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Of course they do. Color beats facts every time.

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Evidently much of what she ‘learned’ was wrong.

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It’s only March, and we have yet another declaration of a “constitutional crisis.”

The latest dire declaration comes from roughly 950 law professors, who refer generally to actions and policies implemented by President Trump as “beyond his constitutional or statutory authority.”

So — what happens if the “experts” hold a crisis and no one shows up?

After years of such claims, the perpetual crisis has left a dwindling number of people inclined to panic. Many simply have more pressing matters at the moment and have the same reaction of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: “There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”

The latest letter follows a familiar pattern that has played out like a political perpetual motion machine since the first Trump impeachment. It works something like this: A legal academy composed of largely liberal academics announces a “constitutional crisis” caused by conservatives, and then a largely liberal media runs the story with little scrutiny or skepticism. On most echo-chambered media sites, the public rarely hears an opposing view.

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On Saturday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents entered a student residential building at Columbia University in uptown New York and detained Mahmoud Khalil, one of the lead negotiators on behalf of pro-Palestine protesters at 2024’s Gaza solidarity encampment. In a sweeping attack on the First Amendment, the Trump administration said this week it would begin revoking visas of “Hamas sympathizers,” specifically citing Columbia University students. The detention followed a two-day targeted online campaign against Khalil by pro-Israel groups and individuals, including Columbia’s high-profile pro-Israel professor, Shai Davidai.

Khalil, an Algerian citizen of Palestinian origin and an American green-card holder, was detained by DHS officials around half past eight as he was entering the Columbia residential building he lives in. He was returning from an iftar, breaking the day-long fast observed by many Muslims during the month of Ramadan.

Khalil’s wife, who is eight months pregnant, was with him at the time. A statement by the pro-Palestine group Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) stated that he was “abducted and detained without the physical demonstration of a warrant or officially filed charges.” At the time of writing, Khalil is still being detained at a DHS facility in New Jersey, according to a database for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

What goes around comes around.

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Mexico’s government may look for other trade partners besides the U.S., the nation’s president said Wednesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on the U.S.’ southern neighbor.

Other nations to which to send illegal immigrants, cartel criminals, and drugs? Knock yourselves out.

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Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

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Democrats had expected to begin the cold new year by throwing a great pity party for illegal aliens, instead they have had to paint on their tears for a new victim: the government.

The government is what they had really been talking about all along when they flipped through their roster of victims, Mother Earth, illegals, criminals, welfare queens, drag queens, and put their solutions on the table, solar panels, open borders, open prisons, free stuff and pronouns.

Social justice really means more government. It’s only government that can get rid of the racist highways, rising (or falling) temperatures, the isms and the phobias, save the planet, keep cities weird and raise up the wretched, huddled masses yearning to never work a day in their lives.

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

The for-profit charity organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, has done an about-face on its commitment to corporate diversity.

Executives at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) informed employees on Tuesday evening that the organization would in effect do away with both internal and external diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, according to an internal email and other correspondence viewed by the Guardian. On 10 January, leaders at CZI reassured staff that its longstanding support for DEI was not changing. Zuckerberg’s company Meta had announced earlier that day it would terminate its DEI programs, in the days before Donald Trump’s second inauguration.

Marc Malandro, CZI’s chief operating officer, wrote in the email to all employees: “Given the shifting regulatory and legal landscape, we will no longer have a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility team at CZI.”

The organization also rolled back its Diverse Slate Practice, an effort to ensure that qualified candidates from a diverse set of backgrounds be interviewed for all open roles at the charity. Meta nixed a similar rule last month. The changes “align with our focus as a science philanthropy”, Malandro wrote.

Many organizations indulged in DEI virtue-signaling because the pervasive power of a Woke administration in D.C., I suspect, made them apprehensive of what sort of political persecution that administration might subject them to, considering the egregious and pervasive lawfare aimed at Trump.  Now that Biden is out and Trump is in, I suspect that a significant number of them are tossing DEI into the trash can with a sigh of relief and a willingness to get back to their real business without the distractions of a lot of political posturing.

Dems concede Republicans ‘running circles’ around them online as Trump remakes Washington (Elena Schneider/Politico)

Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority (Edward-Isaac Dovere/CNN)

US Drops Website Wording on Not Supporting Taiwan Independence

As US recedes, NATO scrambles to find a new leader (Politico)  More accurately, a new souce of ‘funding’.

“Washington Recession Begins”: DC Active Home Listings Soar, Jobless Claims Spike As DOGE Drains Swamp

Trump’s true enemy isn’t China or Russia but liberal democracy (Nick Cohen/Writing from London)  More acc accurately,  Liberal ‘democracy’.

House Republicans Drafting Impeachment Articles Against Activist Judges Blocking DOGE

Utah Bans Collective Bargaining for Public Workers (Orlando Mayorquín/New York Times)

Hundreds of Maga Afrikaners rally in support of President Trump in Pretoria

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Refuses to Apologize, DOUBLES DOWN on Sharing CEO Shooter Support Site After Deleting X Post

EEOC Seeks To Drop Transgender Discrimination Cases, Citing Trump’s Executive Order (HuffPost)

Saturday Night Dead

“Taking Away Everything We Have”: Democrats & Unions Launch An Existential Fight Over Buyouts

Boycotting President Elon (Scott Lemieux/Lawyers, Guns & Money)  Oh, like Elon cares.

More Like ‘Inaction Network’: Nationwide Tesla Protest Flops As ‘Rent-A-Protester’ Goes MIA

CBS Host Says Hitler ‘Weaponized Free Speech’ To Commit Holocaust, Gets Shut Down By Rubio

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BLUF:

In 2019, Spicer was appointed by Trump to the Naval Academy’s Board of Visitors. Trump’s current OMB director Russell Vought was also made a member then.

In 2021, both were told by Biden’s White House personnel office that they had the option of resigning their board positions or being fired. Spicer realized an opportunity in the making, so both of them refused to resign and they were fired. They filed suit, alleging an unjust firing. The lawsuit was denied and their dismissals were upheld (as he expected).

Spicer wrote an op-ed before Trump’s recent inauguration, laying out the case for dismissing presidentially-appointed boards and mentioned a specific one: the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees. On February 7, Trump dismissed the entire Kennedy Center board and put in place a new one. One of the fired board members was Katherine Petrelius, who had sent Spicer and Vought the emails in 2021 telling them to resign or be fired.

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A better question would be: what was the need for this exhibit to exist in the first place? It seems a little…cult-ish…even for a place where the highest aspiration is to be a 5th grade field trip stop. But we digress.

“In the past 48 hours, HHS canceled 62 contract[s] worth $182 million. These contracts were entirely for administrative expenses — none touched any healthcare programs. This included terminating a $168,000 contract for an Anthony Fauci exhibit at the NIH Museum,” DOGE wrote on its X account this week.

The cut is part of more than $180 million in cuts being made, according to the New York Post.

The American Mind.

As Donald Trump was sworn in as president for the second time, he was surrounded by the men who deplatformed and silenced him four years ago. Google CEO Sundar Pichai banned Trump from YouTube and removed his app, Truth Social, from Google Play. Mark Zuckerberg sat flanked by Republican politicians despite banning Trump on Facebook and Instagram following the January 6 protest at the Capitol.

Whether it’s due to political opportunism or a real change of heart, the tech moguls’ now cozy relationship with Trump is one of necessity. It was easy to censor someone they thought would never become the most powerful man in the country again.

New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

But in interview from her home in Colombia, Mr. Castillo’s sister Yajaira Castillo said her brother was not a gang member to be feared, but rather an everyday Venezuelan who had fled his country because of its economic crisis.

She broke down repeatedly during the conversation, crying as she described her pain and confusion around her brother’s situation.

“My brother is not a criminal,” she said. “This is all discrimination and xenophobia, just because he’s Venezuelan.”

If he is present in this country contrary to law, he is by definition a criminal. You don’t just get to follow the laws you like and ignore the ones you don’t like.

The Other McCain.

We do not know why the initial gunshot was fired — robbery? assault? just another Friday night in Canarsie? — but it so happened that at least four cops were within earshot of this incident, and considering how it played out, the suspect is lucky he didn’t get shot dead. Where I come from, you point a gun at a cop, let alone four cops, and you’re likely to die in the proverbial “hail of police gunfire.” What kind of place is this, where gunfire goes off randomly on a Friday night and the perp thinks it’s a smart idea to point his gun at cops? That’s how my curiosity about Canarsie got started; the description included a street address — 754 East 80th Street — and I was able to do a Google “street view,” which showed a pleasant-looking tree-lined street, with brick apartments or rowhouses.

Just looking at it, you wouldn’t think of East 80th Street as “ghetto,” and in terms of its physical appearance, this Canarsie neighborhood probably hasn’t changed much since the days when, as Wikipedia says, it was “a largely Italian American and Jewish suburb.” Alas, the Jews and Italians cleared out decades ago because of a school-zone dispute, and the more recent “gentrification” that turned neighborhoods like Park Slope into hot spots for yuppies never got as far east as 80th Street. OK, so who is this suspect walking around with a pistol? “Moonra Durham” is a sufficiently unique name that I figured it was worth a Google search.

Moonra Durham is a registered sex offender who was convicted of first degree sexual abuse in 2013. Details of his full criminal history were not available, but the fact that a registered sex offender armed with a pistol was just strolling through Canarsie on a Friday night — well, that would be scary, if you happened to be in Canarsie, but my advice is to stay the hell away from there. The New York Times published an interactive map of the 2024 presidential election, which allows you to search results down to the precinct level, and in this particular part of Canarsie, the results were Kamala Harris 93%, Donald Trump 6%. This neighborhood is part of New York’s 8th Congressional District, represented in Congress by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who won reelection last year with 75% of the vote.

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If it ain’t woke, don’t build it: Hideous monument to 44th president plagued by delays, cost overruns, and racial quotas.

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Boston University’s much-maligned Center for Antiracist Research will be shut down this coming summer as its founder, Ibram X. Kendi, prepares to jump ship to Howard University.

Kendi had high hopes for his Center for Antiracist Research, saying the $50 million project would “solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequality and injustice” when he launched the initiative at the height of the “defund the police” movement in 2020. But the center produced hardly any research five years into the project, and Boston University now says it wants nothing more to do with it when its charter expires on June 30.

Kendi’s center was hamstrung by allegations of financial malfeasance under his watch. By 2023, financial contributions to the center had largely dried up as it produced only two original pieces of research and had long since stopped collecting information for its “Racial Data Lab,” which Kendi claimed years earlier would “give us the ability to see the hotspots of racial inequity in real time in this country,” the Washington Free Beacon reported. A Boston University audit ultimately cleared the center of any illegality in the misuse of its $50 million endowment. In September 2023, the think tank slashed a third of its workforce in a restructuring effort that Kendi said would ensure its viability for decades to come.

Another race grifter bites the dust….

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DOJ Pride, an LGBTQ employee resource group at the Department of Justice, has shut down more than a week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to root out all diversity, equity and inclusion measures from the federal government.

The group “ceased to operate effective immediately,” the group’s board said in an email sent to members Tuesday evening.

“In this time of uncertainty and concern, we have taken the extraordinary measure of ceasing operations of DOJ Pride,” the message said. “We have made this decision in the interest and for the protection of all members.”

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Migrants from Guatemala, Venezuela, and other countries attempting to cross the border into the United States have found themselves stuck in Mexico after the Trump administration closed the asylum system at the border, The Washington Post reported.

On Monday Trump scrapped the program known as CBP One that allowed asylum seekers to schedule appointments on their phones before arriving at the border.

Also this week, the Trump administration began shutting down the processing offices in Latin America that the Biden administration had created to give migrants legal immigration options to dissuade them from crossing the U.S. southern border illegally, CBS News reported.

They could always go back where they came from — or just stay there in the first place — and try to make things better there,  rather than leech off of our successful efforts to create a great country.

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Westminster City council in London has advertised a job opportunity and admitted that while it is open to everyone, white British people will not be favoured over people from a “Global Majority (GM)” background.

The position, which has a starting salary of £54,684, is for an “Executive Assistant.”

The ad states “The council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce.”

That’s a lot of words to say ‘A DEI hire is preferable.’

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A lot of people (notice that Narrative Media trick I just pulled there?) will be indulging in a bit of schadenfreude at California’s expense.

UPDATE: Prepare to Be Shocked: Los Angeles’ Fire Chief Is a DEI-Obsessed ‘LGBTQ’ Woman Who Wasted Millions (Bonchie/RedState)

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Economics works whether you like it or not.

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Geez, she sure sounds like a white supremacist.

New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.

Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim American federal appellate court judge, wrote an angry letter to President Biden describing bigotry he faced in the confirmation process.

CBS News, a Voice of the Crust.

A man with a loaded gun in his car and a device in his underwear that would enable the firearm to act like a machine gun was arrested outside the Pentagon last week after attempting to speed off with Pentagon police officers clinging to his vehicle, according to court documents reviewed by CBS News.

Oh, boy. Some MAGA fringe cook or white supremacist, no doubt.

Prosecutors allege Kaleel Nagbe had a loaded firearm with 16 rounds, including one in the chamber, when he was stopped for a traffic infraction — holding a phone while driving — at the Pentagon complex. Prosecutors say the Pentagon police officer who stopped him smelled marijuana and subsequently ordered him out of his vehicle. Nagbe then jumped back into his car, and attempted to speed away, according to prosecutors. Justice Department court filings say “multiple officers hung onto the vehicle,” thwarting the suspect’s escape.

Oh, I guess not. Disappointment!