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Thirty-five years ago, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama made a name for himself by advancing the proposition that the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union promised the ascendency and universalization of so-called Western liberal democracy. As a Marxist-Hegelian who saw the progression of history as an evolutionary process with a natural and predetermined conclusion, Fukuyama envisioned Western-styled liberalism as both “the endpoint of mankind’s ideological evolution” and “the final form of human government.” Expecting all human struggles to barrel toward a state of imminent equilibrium and future peace, Fukuyama stated out loud what many other late-twentieth century thinkers also believed: Humanity had reached the end of history.

After the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks in the United States, two decades of the “Global War on Terrorism,” communist China’s expansive “Belt and Road Initiative,” immigration-fueled social strife, the collapse of public trust in government institutions, the prevalence of pre-civil war conditions across Europe, the rise of Indian economic power, the emergence of Donald Trump’s nationalism as a counterbalance to the World Economic Forum’s vaunted globalism, the return of the Russian Federation as a major source of European angst, the growth of “multiculturalism” and its attendant fracturing of national unity, the “great powers” competition for hydrocarbon energies and other natural resources, the new geopolitical race to project strength in the Arctic, and the ever-present discussion of an impending World War III — just to name a few of the numerous global conflicts of the first quarter of the present century — Fukuyama’s “end of history” argument has probably reached the end of its usefulness.

Much like “Marxist-Hegelian” Fukuyama himself.

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A Virginia school board settled Friday with two male high school students who were punished for objecting to a female student using the boys’ locker room, WJLA 7News reported.

The Loudoun County School District, which has a history of controversy on gender issues, actually investigated the two students for objecting to a female student, who identified as a male, using the locker room at Stone Bridge High School.

The female student also reportedly recorded the male students in the locker room.

As The Daily Signal previously reported, the school district found the two sophomore students responsible for Title IX sexual harassment and discrimination, and suspended them for 10 days.

After the investigation, the students’ families sued the school district to have the finding removed from their sons’ records.

Newsbusters.

Contrary to claims by leftist “fact checkers,” such as Politfact.com, transgender individuals actually commit a disproportionately high share of mass public and active shooting attacks, new analysis by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) reveals.

Regardless of the data analyzed or estimates of transgender population used, transgenders commit a far higher proportion of mass public and active shootings than their share of the U.S. population would suggest, the CPRC study finds.

In 2024, for example, their share of mass public and active shooting attacks was at least 12 times – and possibly more than 16 times – their share of the population.

Attempts by groups like Politifact to use data to dismiss concerns of transgender violence are based on faulty analysis – because they don’t factor in transgender individuals’ share of the violent attacks in the U.S. relative to their share of the population.

Proglodyte Politifact distorting data to prove a political point? Say it ain’t so….

Jewish Teelgraphic Agency.

The founder of radical pro-Palestinian group Within Our Lifetime has sued the right-wing militant Zionist group Betar USA, alleging that it violated her civil rights by putting out social media “bounties” on her and harassing her with beepers.

Nerdeen Kiswani announced she had filed the lawsuit Wednesday evening, She accused the revamped historic Revisionist Zionist group of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which makes conspiring against an ethnic minority a federal crime.

The lawsuit comes more than a month after Betar USA agreed to cease its operations in New York following a settlement with the state’s attorney general — which Kiswani’s lawsuit notes. The office of AG Letitia James found that Betar USA had engaged in a “campaign of violence, harassment, and intimidation against Arab, Muslim, and Jewish New Yorkers.”

Proglodytes always hate it when they are treated the way they treat others.

The Foundry.

A total of 39 people now face charges in the anti-ICE invasion of Cities Church in St. Paul last month, according to a superseding indictment that the federal district court unsealed Friday.

“YOU CANNOT ATTACK A HOUSE OF WORSHIP,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X after the court unsealed the indictment. “If you do so, you cannot hide from us—we will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you.”

Bondi announced that federal agents had already arrested 25 of the 30 new defendants included in the new indictment.

 

The American Mind.

etty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, which was published 63 years ago this month, marked the beginning of the modern wave of American feminism. It has contributed perhaps more than any other radical ideology to the dissolution of traditional American culture and social order. This is a good moment to remind ourselves precisely how far out of touch with reality Friedan’s book is, as part of the ongoing effort to reclaim the culture it set out to demolish.

Based on interviews with her former Smith College classmates 15 years after graduating, Friedan’s book describes what she calls “the problem that has no name.” By this she meant a purportedly widespread perception that college-educated women believed their lives were crushingly unfulfilling, a problem that would require a complete re-envisioning of the family and the sexual division of labor to address.

However, among the book’s readers who were eager to accept Friedan’s critical diagnosis, few bothered to look closely enough to see that by her own analysis “the problem that has no name” should have been called “the problem that does not really exist except in the minds of a few discontented radicals like Betty Friedan.” She did not discover a problem—she simply found a way to interpret reality in a way sympathetic to her desires.

Feminism constantly attempts to turn girls into defective men, boys into defective women, and our culture into a sewer.

The Other McCain.

You will never understand liberals until you read Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. However often I’ve recommended that book over the years, I occasionally feel the need to repeat the recommendation for the simple reason that Sowell demystifies what would otherwise be incomprehensible, i.e., the persistent tendency of the Left to make their own good intentions an argument for supporting policies that are objectively harmful to the very people that liberals claim to be “helping.” Liberals think of themselves as morally and intellectually superior (i.e., “the Anointed”) and regard others as ignorant, at best, if not indeed immoral (“the Benighted,” as Sowell says). Because liberalism is so prevalent in the education system and the media, it is possible for the liberal to go through life with this attitude and never be forced to examine their own belief system.

Great book. Highly recommended.

Newsbusters.

A 64 year-old convicted serial child molester was immediately rearrested upon his Elderly Parole Program release in California on Thursday.

National outrage over the parole of David Allen Funston – who had been serving more than three consecutive life sentences since 1999 for convictions on 16 counts of kidnapping and child molestation of eight children between three and seven years old – was quelled Thursday when the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced that it had turned Funston over to local law enforcement to face new charges:

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This is the real story: the left’s climate crusade was never about the planet. It was about control, optics, and punishing the right villains. When Tesla’s EVs stopped being their mascot, they trashed them. Now that tariffs threaten their borderless worldview, “buy local” is out the window too. Next, they’ll be boycotting farmers’ markets if Trump tweets about them. For a movement obsessed with saving the Earth, they sure love abandoning their own ideas the minute the politics shift. The climate’s just a prop—until it isn’t.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Jewish leaders and California elected officials have condemned an antisemitic chant that was audible during a protest Wednesday against the repeal of a local San Francisco tax ordinance.

During a news conference addressing a new housing construction development plan hosted by San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie and San Francisco District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, protesters with the Democratic Socialists of America chanted “tax the rich.”

According to videos reviewed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, one woman on the scene can be clearly seen and heard chanting “tax Israel” and “tax the Jews.”

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nationalist activist Quentin Deranque in Lyon reclassified as premeditated murder, after CCTV footage showed a scooter repeatedly circling the area shortly before the fatal attack.

Seven people have already been charged in the case, all of them activists close to the La Jeune Garde anti-fascist movement. According to information revealed by Europe 1, investigators have recently focused their attention on a scooter, spotted several times at the scene of the crime by the neighbourhood’s CCTV cameras. The vehicle does not follow a random route, but makes several trips back and forth, confirming the hypothesis of reconnaissance.

It has been established that scouting by scooter is one of the methods used by Antifa activists in Lyon, who typically identify their potential victims—starting with tracking them on social media—before launching a physical attack, blocking an isolated target in an ambush. A former member of La Jeune Garde, who testified openly for Frontières magazine, confirmed this practice, which he himself engaged in alongside MP Raphaël Arnault.

The scooter’s licence plate was identified by one of the victims of the attack that cost Quentin his life. For the moment, despite police investigations, the vehicle remains untraceable. However, it is a key piece of evidence in the case: if the direct involvement of the scooter driver is established, the charges against the suspects could be reclassified from “voluntary homicide” to “murder.”

At the same time, an investigation has been opened by the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office against La Jeune Garde for “reconstituting a dissolved league.” La Jeune Garde had been officially dissolved in June 2025 by decision of the council of ministers but continued its activities in defiance of the law. Another parliamentary assistant from the far-left La France Insoumise (LFI) who was a member of La Jeune Garde has since resigned quietly.

Even as the murder investigation continues, MP Raphaël Arnault is set to publish a Manual for Anti-Fascist Response on March 20th. In the book’s introduction, we read that “the grassroots activist and co-founder of La Jeune Garde proposes to reopen certain strategic discussions and advocates for comprehensive anti-fascism, from the streets to the Assembly.”

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The leak of the preliminary report of the European Parliament’s Committee on Petitions mission to the Canary Islands, carried out last year, has once again put the management of the southern Atlantic border in the spotlight. The document notes the “disproportionate” pressure borne by the archipelago and supports a greater role for the European Union on the migration route.

Based on that political backing, the Canary Islands government has once again urged Pedro Sánchez’s executive to immediately request the deployment of Frontex ships, aircraft and drones in waters near the islands.

However, the request does not imply a paradigm shift in migration policy. Sources close to President Fernando Clavijo acknowledge that the European reinforcement would serve as “real support in rescue tasks and in the orderly management of flows,” but it would not mean an effective closure of the route.

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The statue to Winston Churchill, the great British statesman who led his country from the brink of defeat to victory when serving as prime minister in WWII, was defaced on Thursday night. According to British media reports, the statue was cordoned off on Friday morning.

This is what Labour has done to Britain, and what Democrats want to do to the U.S.

UPDATE: Man arrested after ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti spray-painted on Winston Churchill statue

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Surrey County Council has removed more than 1,000 St George’s and Union flags citing lack of official approval.

According to municipal records, 1,003 flags—installed across the county as part of the “Raise the Colours” movement—have been taken down to down, with an estimated 308 still in place.

The campaign, launched last summer to encourage public displays of patriotism, saw thousands of national flags attached to lampposts and other street furniture. While the council acknowledged that flags are “symbols of national pride” and continues to fly the Union flag at its headquarters in Reigate, it insists that any public display must be legally authorised.

This is what Labour has done to Britain, and what Democrats want to do to America.

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Vice President JD Vance announced he is withholding Medicaid reimbursements from Minnesota while the administration investigates fraud in the state.

When asked by The Daily Signal if this plan should be viewed as a playbook for fighting fraud in the rest of the country, Vance said, “I think you can, certainly.”

“There are certain things that we’re doing in Minneapolis and Minnesota that I’m not gonna be able to do in other parts of the country, because the fraud is gonna be different in each place,” he said. “But yeah, I get this basic model of saying to people, ‘Hey, you get a massive amount of money to provide a service to people.’ Did you actually provide that service?”

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And yet, if you believe yesterday’s article, the banishment of fossil fuels, which was to be such a boon to the United States, is somehow a problem in Cuba.

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Well, let’s see whether it works.

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Days after the firm announced that they were scrapping DEI requirements for new board members, and six years after the death of George Floyd that ushered in institutionalized virtue-signaling, the bank’s head of DEI is leaving.

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New revelations from the Stop The Harm Database expose a grim reality: between 2019 and 2023, thousands of American children were subjected to life-altering surgeries, hormone treatments, and puberty blockers in the name of transgender ideology.

The Antiplanner.

Oregon Housing and Community Services, the agency that hands out state and federal subsidized housing grants, is biased toward developers who support the agency’s ideology regarding social services, a former affordable housing developer emailed to me. Responding to my recent posts about Portland’s affordable housing projects, this developer notes that “the most expensive project I ever built [was] 50 units of two story garden apartments” that averaged 1,000-square-feet in size and cost just “$88 per square foot.”

That was in 2008. As I reported in my previous post, costs in the Portland area are now averaging nearly $700 per square foot. “How is it that very profitable development went from under $100/SF in rural towns to over $600/SF in big cities in less than two decades?” this developer asks rhetorically.

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President Donald Trump’s newly appointed chief immigration judge said he believes as many as 25 million to 30 million people are in the United States illegally, far exceeding official estimates.

My, what a surprise….

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Following all the controversy swirling around transgenderism, you would think that this outrageous act couldn’t possibly have happened. Of course, the person charged must be proven guilty of sexual abuse. But knowing the mental issues of the transgender community, and the other disgusting abuses that have occurred, I think this one is true.

My, what a surprise….

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When Zohran Mamdani ran for mayor, he sold New Yorkers a vision of relief. Free childcare. Free buses. A rent freeze. A city that would finally tilt toward the struggling rather than the secure. What he did not campaign on was a nearly 10% property tax hike affecting more than three million residences and over 100,000 commercial properties. Yet, days after his election, here we are.

The proposal, floated as leverage in a standoff with Kathy Hochul, is being marketed as a reluctant last resort. But for a mayor elected on affordability, threatening one of the broadest tax increases available to City Hall is not just ironic—it’s revealing. When the numbers got tight and Albany didn’t comply, Mamdani’s idiotic grand promises collided with fiscal gravity. And instead of rethinking the scale of the agenda, the answer was to reach for the biggest local tax lever available.

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The Plenary of the Spanish Congress will debate this week a non-binding motion presented by the far-left party Podemos that seeks to implement mandatory comprehensive sex education at all stages of the education system, from Early Childhood Education —starting at the age of three— through Baccalaureate and Vocational Training.

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It also proposes that the content be developed in collaboration with specialists in “sexual health, feminist pedagogy and LGBTQIA+ rights,” and that teachers receive specific and ongoing training in “sexual and reproductive health.”

According to the document, the objective is to avoid territorial inequalities and ensure that these contents do not depend on occasional or voluntary initiatives by individual schools.

The aim is to continue indoctrinating not only children but also teachers, and to standardize content across all regions so that parents cannot have options to educate their children according to their own values.

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In a quiet corner of Lyon, a young man lies dead, his skull fractured by the boots of masked militants. Quentin Deranque, a nationalist student whose only crime was to stand in defence of women exercising their right to peaceful protest, has become the latest offering on the altar of left-wing fanaticism. The suspects charged with his murder are not lone wolves or aberrant criminals; they are the uniformed enforcers of La France Insoumise, men with direct ties to a far left wing parliamentary party and funded, indirectly, by the French taxpayer.

But as the French establishment begins to question its fifty-year-old assumption that the pariah of politics must always be the far right, we in Britain would do well to cast our gaze closer to home and begin rounding up the trolls of the far left for closer inspection by Prevent.

For the beast that stalked the streets of Lyon has a long pedigree on these shores. It often wears the mild-mannered guise of the Fabian, the academic Marxist, and the well-heeled Labour Party activist. And its philosophy, whether dressed in the tweed of the don, the Palestinian keffiyeh or the combat jacket of the Antifa thug, leads inexorably to the same destination: the doxxing, the intimidation, and ultimately, the grave.

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Did the far left ever really believe its own rhetoric when it came to climate change? True, when it comes to the positions staked out by any politician on the issues of the day, the age-old question is constantly in the back of everyone’s minds: How much of what they claim to believe is based on heartfelt, core convictions, and how much is due to outside political pressure or geared toward generating contributions?

But nowhere is this question more pertinent than when it comes to politicians and their advocacy for climate change. Why? Because it’s difficult to think of anything that comes close to rivaling the number of government mandates implemented and the amount of taxpayer dollars allocated to reshape society as has happened in the name of climate change. Surely, it wasn’t all based on empty rhetoric and misdirection, was it?

Far-left environmental and climate change groups have significantly increased their political spending over the years. In turn, election after election features liberal politicians hammering away on the alleged damage done by the fossil fuel industry. In 2024 they were at it again, highlighting the latest scary predictions about the worst-case climate change scenarios, and fervently warning of the untold horrors that would happen if Donald Trump and Republicans won in 2024.

Guess what? Once more, it all fell flat with most voters. Trump won the presidency, Republicans kept control of both the House and Senate, and across the nation GOP dominance continued in state government.

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“Public” broadcasting demonstrates how dramatically one-sided it is by allowing only one side of the “LGBTQIA+” debate — because they believe there should be no debate. There is no defensible position in opposition. On Saturday’s Consider This podcast, National Public Radio spent more than 11 minutes mourning the Trump administration’s decision to remove transgender troops from service.

The star of the story was Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former general in charge of troops in Afghanistan under President Obama — until he ripped the adminstration in a Rolling Stone profile. Then he had to go. But since then, McChrystal has become an opponent of Trump, and endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020 and Kamala Harris in 2024, so he’s good again.

You’ll notice that these ‘transgender troops’ are almost always men pretending to be women, rarely women pretending to be men.

New York Post.

The Justice Department has axed New York’s most lenient immigration court judge, The Post has learned.

Judge Vivienne Gordon-Uruakpa, who ruled in favor of asylum claimants 97% of the time — more than any of her colleagues in the state – was terminated without public notice back in September because of her prolific record of asylum rulings, according to a government official.

Gordon-Uruakpa no longer appears on the web site of the downtown Manhattan courthouse where she used to serve.

She is, of course, a Female Of Color.

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“I think the customer has spoken. That’s the punchline,” said Jim Farley, the Chief Executive of Ford, as he unveiled a $5 billion annual loss – joining the wider car industry in facing up to a catastrophic collapse in the EV market.

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California imported a record amount of gasoline in November after major refinery closures tied to years of Golden State leaders imposing strict regulations, Bloomberg News reported Sunday.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s newly appointed cabinet secretary, Dame Antonia Romeo, is facing mounting criticism following reports that she pushed civil servants to join a “gender non-conforming book club” and devote substantial work time to diversity initiatives.

The allegations date back to her tenure as head of the Department for International Trade (DIT) between 2017 and 2021. Documents cited by The Telegraph suggest one employee was instructed to spend up to 20% of their working hours on “inclusivity” goals. These reportedly included promoting non-binary identities, encouraging colleagues to display preferred pronouns in email signatures, celebrating “non-binary awareness week,” and recruiting non-binary staff.

Joining a “gender non-conforming book club”—where officials read novels centred on intersex and transgender themes—was allegedly written into performance targets that influenced career progression.

The Foundry.

Having removed Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro in January, the Trump administration is now endeavoring to rebuild Venezuela after decades of corruption, neglect, and theft.

Under Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela declined from what was once South America’s richest country and among the 20 wealthiest in the world to “a failed petrostate.” Between 2014 and 2021, Venezuela’s gross domestic product shrank by more than 70%.

Today, the country’s infrastructure is in tatters, its judicial system is riddled with corruption and cronyism, and, given Venezuela’s history of expropriating private assets, many foreign investors say the country is “uninvestable.”

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Margaret Thatcher once said, “The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money,” and New York City’s new socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is learning just how right she was, and New Yorkers are going to pay a hefty price for it.

On Tuesday, a mere two months after declaring he would “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,” Mamdani announced a $127 billion preliminary budget for fiscal year 2027, a $5 billion increase from the prior year, while simultaneously warning residents of “painful” tax hikes if state officials refused to bail him out to cover his socialist policies.

“That’s a city budget bigger than the state budgets of 47 states. Even the state government of Florida (population 23 million) spends less than New York City’s,” explains The Washington Post editorial board. “And the state still managed to attract hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers in recent years.”

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving set of people.

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Hee Hee….

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The young, overeducated, underpaid, and disproportionately new arrivals that gave New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani his electoral margin of victory last November have no memory of how badly run and unlivable the city was before Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg cleaned it up. Judging by Mamdani’s first budget proposal, however, they are about to experience ideologically driven mismanagement firsthand.

After promising an explosion of new spending on free buses, free child care, and lower rents, Mamdani unveiled his first budget this week, which is a $127 billion plan for a city of 8.5 million people. To put that in perspective, the state of Florida has a population almost three times that of New York City, 23 million, and manages to provide government services for $10 billion less, $117 billion, than the Big Apple does.

Of course, Florida is run by Republicans.

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Legendary and liberal director Steven Spielberg has moved from California to Manhattan as some of the state’s wealthiest residents weigh leaving the Golden State ahead of a controversial wealth tax targeting billionaires that voters are set to consider.

The proposed 2026 Billionaire Tax Act, sponsored by the healthcare union Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West, would impose a one-time levy on California residents worth more than $1 billion, taxing the equivalent of 5% of their assets.

Supporters say it could generate about $100 billion in revenue for the state.

Spielberg spokeswoman Terry Press insisted that the move is not related to the tax, but had been “both long-planned and driven purely by his and [wife] Kate Capshaw’s desire to be closer to their New York-based children and grandchildren,” The New York Post reported Friday.

Press did not respond to questions about Spielberg’s views on the proposed tax.

The rats, having chewed numerous holes in the hull, flee the sinking ship.

UPDATE: Legendary director Steven Spielberg is latest billionaire to flee California in another blow to state (Matt Troutman/New York Post)

UPDATE: Steven Spielberg Flees California Amid Raging Wealth Tax Battle

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Federal officials are investigating Portland Public Schools in Oregon for alleged racial discrimination in the district’s Center for Black Student Excellence (CBSE) program, the U.S. Department of Education stated on Feb. 17.

“CBSE’s guiding principles pledge to ‘center Blackness unapologetically’ by offering black students year-round academic interventions in math and literacy, tutoring, food assistance, and transportation support,” the department’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) said in a statement.

“According to a complaint filed with OCR, a recent $1.2 billion bond includes tens of millions allocated for academic interventions, wraparound support, facilities, and family programs exclusively for black students, despite PPS [Portland Public Schools] data showing other student groups face similar or greater challenges.”

According to the department, PPS data from 2021–2022 showed “widespread academic struggles” among various racial groups.

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More than 240 million gallons of raw sewage has spilled into the Potomac River since a pipe burst last month, and the lackluster response of the DC Water Board is raising questions about the competency of those in charge.

Dr. Unique Morris-Hughes was appointed as Chair of the DC Water Board by the Democratic Mayor of Washington D.C. Muriel Bowser, despite lacking expertise in wastewater management or engineering.

Though Morris-Hughes has an extensive background in administering federally-funded workforce programs, that experience has done little to mitigate the effects of what may be the largest sewage spill in U.S. history.

Victor Davis Hanson.

The Left typically “pounces” on anyone daring to suggest that the Biden administration had green-lighted illegal immigration to gain new constituents for agendas that otherwise were without broad public support.

The Left smears critics of open borders as racist conspiracists spreading the “Great Replacement Theory.”

Yet for years, Democrats and leftists themselves had written triumphalist books with titles like The Emerging Democratic Majority. And often they crowed that “Demography is Destiny.”

A few left-wing globalists even boasted of a new borderless world, in which anyone could live anywhere he wished.

The Times (UK).

Sir Keir Starmer has appointed Dame Antonia Romeo as Britain’s first female cabinet secretary.

Romeo, the current permanent secretary at the Home Office, will replace Sir Chris Wormald, who was sacked by Starmer last week.

Downing Street said the appointment had been made after a “detailed due diligence process” overseen and approved by the first civil service commissioner.

The Feminist Party keeps on destroying the British government and British society.

This will end badly.

Watch it.

Tim Pool lays it out.

The Foundry.

Former CNN host Don Lemon has pleaded not guilty to federal charges for his role in the invasion of a Minnesota church last month, claiming he was merely covering the “protest” as a journalist, but the church’s pastor says Lemon was “in on the terror.”

Jonathan Parnell, the pastor of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, had been attempting to read aloud from the Bible when agitators opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement disrupted the Jan. 18 service. He wrote about the event for WORLD magazine Tuesday.

Parnell recalled that “several individuals scattered throughout the sanctuary rose together and, like a flash mob, converged with chants and clenched fists.” When the mob shouted, “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” that led worshippers to flee, “fearing it was an active shooter situation.”

My first reaction to hearing “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” would be to shoot. But that’s me.

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Workers following weeks of debate and opposition from Jewish groups over their potential ban.

“After careful deliberation, IFSW members voted against this motion,” the National Association of Social Workers, the U.S. affiliate of the International Federation of Social Workers, said in a statement.

The vote to suspend or expel the Israeli union on Wednesday would have required 75% of the union’s 67 voting member nations to vote for the measures.

The vote stemmed from a complaint issued by the Irish, Spanish and Greek affiliates of the federation, who accused the Israeli union of failing to seek an exemption from mandatory military service for its members.

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This week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) joined the many Californians now seeking their fortune elsewhere. The difference is that Newsom is planning to come back to California, even as billionaires, investors, and companies flee his state for greener pastures.

Newsom and Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) were selling a brave new world that looked a lot like the broken old world. It was an ironic moment. They were addressing countries at the Munich Security Conference that had previously destroyed their economies through socialist and far-left policies.

The rush of liberal Democratic officeholders to Europe was telling.

A new poll shows that a record 58 percent of voters believe their party is “too liberal.”

But Newsom and Ocasio-Cortez found a welcoming audience in Europe.

Occasional-Cortex never opens her mouth except to stick her foot in it.

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Eilish’s look of constant eyes-half-closed makes her look like a dullard.

At this year’s Grammy awards, pop artist Billie Eilish made national headlines not for her music, but for a political statement wrapped in an award acceptance speech.

After thanking her supporters and fellow artists, she added, “As grateful as I feel, I honestly don’t feel like I need to say anything, but, that no one is illegal on stolen land.”

This comment echoed two familiar positions of modern, progressive left-wing ideology: first, that the United States should allow unrestricted immigration and, second, that Americans are living on land illegitimately taken from Native Americans.

While it may be tempting to dismiss such rhetoric as another example of celebrity activism at an awards show, doing so would miss a more troubling reality. The idea that America is fundamentally “stolen land” is not confined to award show stages, it has become increasingly embedded into the schools that teach America’s children.

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The Polish Defense Minister has cancelled a supplementary training course for military personnel that focused on “gender perspectives in military operations.” The move follows criticism from the conservative opposition and alleged discontent among soldiers, which prompted W?adys?aw Kosiniak-Kamysz’s change of plans.

The topic of supplementary gender training was proposed by the chairwoman of the Council for Women’s Military Service and approved by the defense ministry’s human resources department, the ministry stated on Monday.

The Foundry.

Anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement activists in Minneapolis are setting up blockades.

They’re demanding ID from drivers.

In short, they’re setting up their own borders—against America’s laws and law enforcement.

It’s not the first time “protesters” have done this.

The Foundry.

Oh, ya think?

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My, what a surprise.

Nothing is more inevitable than the formula “Elect a socialist => Taxes get raised”.

No socialist ever lowered taxes.

No socialist ever lowered government spending.

UPDATE: New Yorkers Report Warmth Of Collectivism Feels Strangely Like Crushing Tax Hike (Babyulon Bee)

UPDATE: Mamdani says tax hike is needed to stop ‘fiscal crisis.’ Critics aren’t buying it.

The Foundry.

A Minnesota activist group encouraging protests against immigration enforcement will host a training to teach attendees to let guilty criminals walk.

Defend the 612 will instruct viewers of the Feb. 23 virtual “Jury Nullification Training” on how to use false jury verdicts to fight “unjust laws and political persecution,” according to an event description on its website first reported by Alpha News.

The Trump administration has charged hundreds of people with impeding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations around the country, including at Minneapolis protests during ICE’s enforcement surge in the Twin Cities that is now winding down after weeks of immigration arrests.

Defend the 612 did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.