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Higher Ed DEI is in "hunker-down mode... trying to wait out the Trump administration"

Gov. Tim Walz Compares ICE To Nazis Hunting Anne Frank

Equal Protection Project Impact Reports – Year-End 2025

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Illinois Lt. Governor Tweets That Michael Brown Was “Murdered”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2025 62 Comments

In fact, Brown was shot when he sucker punched a cop and tried to grab his service weapon. Yet 11 years after Brown's shooting, the lie persists and is spread by politicians and activists....

Jim Lovell, Hero Astronaut Who Got His Team Home after Apollo 13 Explosion, Dead at 97

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 09, 2025 10 Comments

Lovell is an important part of the American space legacy, having taken part in two Gemini missions and Apollo 8 before being tapped to command Apollo 13....

Former AOC Organizer Arrested After Allegedly Encouraging Attack On Jewish High School

Posted by Ben Smith on August 09, 2025 23 Comments

She described herself as a youth leader driven by political ideology from an early age, recalling being “exposed to daily graphic scenes in Palestine” as a child and channeling that into activism....

Judge Stops ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Build Amid Everglades Environmental Fight

Posted by Ben Smith on August 09, 2025 30 Comments

“Alligator Alcatraz will remain operational, continuing to serve as a force multiplier to enhance deportation efforts,’ spokesperson Alex Lanfranconi said in a statement....

Ex-WaPo Fact Checker Grilled Over Concealment Of Biden Decline

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 09, 2025 10 Comments

"What kind of sourcing did you need to say Joe Biden was suffering cognitive decline? Did you see him trailing off regularly?"...

U. Wyoming Students Protest Proposed $40 Million State Budget Cut

Harvard Students Receiving Fewer As After Grade Inflation is Exposed

Trump Admin Joins Race-Based Admissions Lawsuit Against UCLA Med School

Lawyers for Alleged Charlie Kirk Assassin Don't Want Video Introduced as Evidence

UNC Professors Sign Anti-Israel BDS Pledge

Young Democratic Socialists of America at U. Oregon Demand Abortion Drugs on Campus

Germany Imposes Partial Arms Embargo On Israel Over Plan To Capture Gaza City

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 09, 2025 24 Comments

Prime Minister Netanyahu: "Germany is rewarding Hamas terrorism." ...

New York Post: Biden Admin’s Response to Hurricane Helene was Hateful and Partisan

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 09, 2025 18 Comments

A reflection on Hurricane Helene's impacts almost one year later....

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Pritzker’s ‘Defender of Democracy’ Act in Texas Redistricting Fight May Backfire

Posted by Stacey Matthews on August 09, 2025 30 Comments

"Just because a map ends up with one party having more seats than another, doesn’t mean it was gerrymandered."...

Indoctrination Factories Week in Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 09, 2025 2 Comments

Your weekly report on education news....

Can ‘Wokeness’ Be Defeated?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2025 24 Comments

"You have to lift up the rights of the individual, the dignity of the individual. Stop classifying people by identity group...

DOJ Investigating Letitia James Regarding Trump Civil Trial, Schiff for Mortgage Fraud

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 08, 2025 16 Comments

Attorney General Pam Bondi gave special prosecutor Ed Martin permission to investigate allegations of mortgage fraud allegedly committed by Sen. Adam Schiff...

Cincinnati Police Did Not Ask Attack Victim’s Name, Take Statement, Or Call an Ambulance

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on August 08, 2025 69 Comments

Despite clearly needing urgent medical attention, Holly was left to call an Uber to get herself home....

Massachusetts Sanctuary Sheriff Steven Tompkins Arrested on Extortion Charges

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 08, 2025 24 Comments

A federal grand jury has indicted Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins for allegedly trying to extort $500,000 from a cannabis company executive. "Elected officials, particularly those in law enforcement, are expected to be ethical, honest and law abiding – not self-serving," said U.S. Attorney Leah Foley....

Meta-Analysis of Over 100 Studies Shows Gas Stoves Pose No Increased Risks of Asthma

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 08, 2025 27 Comments

It turns out, pushing unrealistic green energy schemes onto low- and middle-income people at the expense of a safer fuel source was not only bad science, it was dangerous propaganda....

Appeals Court Halts Judge Boasberg’s ‘Turn the Planes Around’ Criminal Contempt Finding

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2025 35 Comments

"mandamus is appropriate because the government is plainly correct about the merits of the criminal contempt, and our saying so now would prevent long disputes between the Executive and the Judiciary over difficult, contentious issues regarding the courts’ power to control foreign policy or prosecutions,...

Zohran Mamdani Opposes Charter Schools in NYC, Despite Having Attended a Private School Himself

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 08, 2025 17 Comments

"The 33-year-old Queens assemblyman said he would fight efforts to open more charters, which largely educate minority, working-class students, and even opposed the schools sharing space in city-owned buildings."...

Oklahoma to End Taxpayer-Funded Tuition for Illegal Immigrants

Posted by Jane Coleman on August 08, 2025 9 Comments

"Federal law prohibits institutions of higher education from providing benefits to aliens that are not offered to U.S. citizens."...

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