[IsraelTimes] Academy cites mistake, restores memorabilia; move raised questions if exhibit was taken down in line with defense secretary’s orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion
The US Naval Academy removed items from a display honoring female Jewish graduates ahead of a planned visit Tuesday from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
A display case in the academy’s Jewish chapel that had previously contained a collection of photos and memorabilia from female Jewish graduates of the academy was completely emptied prior to the visit, according to photos obtained by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
Before the removals, the case had contained items that belonged to a number of Jewish women who graduated USNA, including a bronze star, military cap, and insignias, as well as photos from USNA graduation and tours in Iraq, according to MRFF. Other displays featuring male Jewish graduates had stayed up.
"While the boys were away, we worked for victory," read a banner held by female Jewish civilians during World War II, in the only remaining photo in the display. A piece of cardboard had also been propped up to block a placard that described "Jewish women in the Navy," according to a photo shared by MRFF.
The items were reinstated by the academy, reportedly following the visit, and the removals raised questions about whether they were taken down following recent orders from Hegseth targeting diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, content.
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Hegseth’s campaign against DEI in his department has led to the censorship of books in schools, Pentagon websites, and classes at an Air Force boot camp.
The academy confirmed reports that the items had been stripped from their display, and added that it was done "mistakenly."
"US Naval Academy leadership is immediately taking steps to review and correct the unauthorized removal," said the Naval Academy’s director of communications in a statement.
The US Naval Academy also removed 400 books from its library ahead of Tuesday’s visit following orders from Hegseth’s office last week to review its contents for the promotion of DEI. A list of the books removed has not been made available.
During his visit Tuesday in an address to the academy, Hegseth argued that "past distractions" had "diluted" the focus of the military, saying, "Our differences don’t make us strong. Our shared mission does."
It is not the first time Jewish historical material has been caught in the crosshairs of Hegseth’s anti-DEI campaign. In March, following a memo ordering officials to purge Department of Defense digital platforms of all DEI content, websites memorializing the Holocaust were removed.
Among the pages deleted in Hegseth’s DEI sweep were the stories of Kitty Saks, a Holocaust survivor, and Bea Arthur, the Jewish "Golden Girls" actress and World War II Marines veteran.
Arthur’s story along with another article about Holocaust remembrance that was originally taken down have been reinstated following a public outcry, but Saks’ article is still unavailable.
In a February cull of Pentagon school books, a picture book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the liberal icon who was the first Jewish woman to serve on the US Supreme Court, was placed under review for potential DEI content. It was later put back on shelves, according to Military.com.
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As a grad, I would like to see them fire all the clowns that decided this was a good idea, and then fire all the clowns that protest that the other clowns were just following a directive. The process of de clowning the place will be greatly accelerated. Sure there will be remaining clowns, but they will be clowns acting like non-clowns with their butt holes clenched tight. If I can’t get rid of all the clowns immediately, I would like the remaining clowns to be under heavy stress.
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#2. Yep. We're going to have to drag them from their holes one by one.
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This is malicious compliance.
Yes. Like the people who took down the Jackie Robinson WWII info then yelled about how the order to end DEI cancelled Jackie Robinson.
#7
It's time to start disciplining military personnel for malicious compliance. It is really no different than disobeying an order, and it has to stop.
[FoxNews] A source familiar with the project said its catastrophic failure is a 'shining example of how these failed green energy projects pose a hazard to the environment.'
A major part of a first-of-its-kind green energy project, which the Biden administration bragged about, is now lying in ruins and polluting some of America’s beautiful ocean and seashore in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Exclusive images obtained by Fox News Digital show the shattered remains of what is left of an ocean wind turbine constructed by Vineyard Wind in a green energy project touted by the Biden administration.
The turbine was recently struck by lightning and destroyed just months after one of its blades dangerously fell into the Atlantic Ocean, dropping non-biodegradable fiberglass shards into the water, some of which washed ashore, forcing six Nantucket beaches to close.
The Cape Cod Times reported that the broken turbine was hit by lightning on Feb. 27 and "caught fire, and detached."
Today – just a few years after the Biden administration announced the project in 2021 – the turbine sits in ruins with its interior materials being exposed just about 14 nautical miles from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
In May 2021, the Biden-era Department of Interior announced the approval of the construction and operation of the Vineyard Wind project, which it said would be the first large-scale, offshore wind project in the United States. The administration touted the project as contributing to their green energy goals.
Former President Joe Biden’s Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland called the project an "important step toward advancing the Administration's goals to create good-paying union jobs while combating climate change and powering our nation."
However, after the project went down in literal flames, local residents had much more choice words to say about the Biden administration’s "ambitious climate goals."
"Everybody wants a healthy planet, but when the ones advocating for a green planet are the ones damaging it, it makes you pause," Barstool Sports President Dave Portnoy, a Nantucket homeowner, told Fox News Digital after the blade detached and fell into the ocean.
Portnoy lamented those who paid good money only to be unable to visit the closed beaches.
"Families save up for years to take a vacation to Nantucket only to have it ruined by negligence," he said.
Mary Chalke, another local resident, posted on X on Mar. 23 that she was continuing to find blade fiberglass debris washing ashore on a Nantucket beach on the south side of the island.
The Vineyard Gazette reported that the broken blade had a manufacturing defect that was not caught during inspections and that there were 66 other blades in the project that could potentially have the same problem. The outlet reported that Vineyard Wind has been ordered to remove all the potentially defective blades.
[BBC] More documents about the relationship between Prince Andrew and an alleged Chinese agent of influence are being released to BBC News on Friday.
The court papers about Yang Tengbo's alleged activities in the UK are becoming public after a legal battle, including other media outlets, for more transparency in the semi-secret case.
Mr Yang has been banned from the UK on national security grounds after the home secretary concluded that he may have been trying to exert influence on the Duke of York.
The businessman, who denies wrongdoing, was accused of using his position as an influential businessman in Prince Andrew's inner circle to clandestinely further the Chinese state's aims.
In December, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission said Mr Yang had formed an "unusual degree of trust" with the prince and had not disclosed his links to an arm of the Chinese Communist Party which is clandestinely involved in "political interference".
The term is used for suspected Chinese state agents who are not operating as traditional spies, but are using their position to secretly influence key figures in the British state, such as politicians, academics and business leaders.
The aim is to subtly and slowly bring them around to the Chinese Communist Party's aims in a long-term operation often referred to as "elite capture".
Mr Yang, a businessman who had lived in the UK since 2002, became a key figure in Prince Andrew's money-making Pitch@Palace scheme that linked entrepreneurs and investors, including at major events in China.
He became an increasingly trusted confidante amid the fall-out from the duke's interview with the BBC's Newsnight programme in November 2019, which detailed the Duke's friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The reaction to the interview led to the prince withdrawing from public duties - and the end of the commercially successful Pitch@Palace events in the UK and China.
Documents show that one of the prince's closest aides, Dominic Hampshire had told told Mr Yang that he had personally managed to salvage the prince's reputation in China - and he was ultimately invited in late 2020 to act for the royal in a planned $3bn investment fund.
The "Eurasia Fund" scheme, to be headed by Prince Andrew, aimed to raise cash to invest in Chinese state projects in Africa and the Middle East.
The UK's security agencies appear to have been concerned about the scheme because it might lead to a member of the royal family advancing the Chinese Communist Party's aim of expanding its economic and diplomatic influence.
Documents disclosed so far show that Mr Hampshire told Mr Yang that the Newsnight interview had been "hugely ill-advised and unsuccessful" but, in its wake, the Chinese entrepreneur sat "at the very top of a tree that many, many people would like to be on".
He had assisted in getting "relevant people unnoticed" in and out of Windsor for private meetings with the prince - and he was invited to his private 60th birthday dinner at his mansion.
Another document, concerning preparations for a call between the prince and Mr Yang, reads "he is in a desperate situation and will grab onto anything."
Prince Andrew has been financially cut off by his brother King Charles and there have been questions about his financial arrangements and how he funds the upkeep of his 30-room mansion Royal Lodge in Windsor.
This latest set of documents could throw more light on Mr Hampshire's wider business involvement with Prince Andrew.
Last autumn Mr Hampshire registered a series of investment companies in Bahrain, under the banner of Waterberg Stirling, which became part of a proposal to take over the Pitch@Palace network and its contacts.
The deal for Pitch@Palace's former network, also involving a Dutch company called Startupbootcamp, was reported to be on the verge of delivering a significant income for Prince Andrew, but the Dutch company later withdrew.
But there had been some projects staged under the proposed joint partnership, including in Beijing, at an event held under the auspices of the Chinese government, where a spokesman announced the aim of raising funds in the Middle East for investment in China. Yang Tengbo was singled out for praise at this event last summer.
Figures linked to Waterberg Stirling were also understood to be at a business meeting with the Chinese ambassador to the UK, held at Royal Lodge in December 2024, days before the story broke about accusations over Yang Tengbo's status.
According to Bahraini registration documents, Waterberg Stirling was then put into liquidation in March 2025.
The documents to be disclosed on Friday include Mr Hampshire's account to the court of his role in events, his relationship with Mr Yang and what happened when a currently unnamed UK government agency began speaking to the aide.
Other papers are expected to cover details of the mysterious and aborted "Eurasia Fund" and Mr Yang's work as a China consultant for major British businesses.
Mr Yang is seeking to appeal his exclusion from the UK on national security grounds.
[FoxNews] Former President Barack Obama says President Donald Trump's behavior is 'contrary to the basic compact we have as Americans'
Former President Barack Obama told a crowd Thursday night that some sacrifice might be necessary in order to resist President Donald Trump's policies.
This is the man who gave us 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, which gave us President Trump in 2017. And then he gave us the Biden-Harris administration, which gave us President Trump in 2025. By his own standards, former President Barack Obama is an abject failure.
Obama spoke at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, on Thursday and accused the Trump administration of trying to destroy the post-World War II international order, according to the Washington Post.
During the speech, Obama called Trump's behavior "contrary to the basic compact we have as Americans" and called on students to do more in order to resist Trump's policies.
“Let’s you and him fight. I got mine, so who cares if you ruin your life.”
"It has been easy during most of our lifetimes to say you are a progressive, or say you are for social justice, or say you are for free speech, and not have to pay a price for it…And now we’re in one of those moments when…it’s not enough just to say you’re for something. You may actually have to do something and possibly sacrifice a little bit," Obama said.
“Girls love a jailbird, donchaknow, and by the time you get out OrangeManBad will be out of office — think of all the Teslas you won’t have to key.”
#15
The post-World War II international order went kaput along with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of communist China. We've already sacrificed enough for Baraq Obama. It's time for him the crawl back under his rock.
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I still don't believe that Obama is an independent player - let alone a shadow puppet master.
Not a shadow puppet master but a puppet whose strings are pulled by shadowy globalists.
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^ #13 While there strong "now dead" evidence Obama does like to M-M dilly dabble.
My actual point was ...
Like Putin, even when out of office.
He runs election fraud, installs puppets to do his bidding and way trying to call the shots.
[BREITBART] Senator Adam Schiff >...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation" Elected to rgw Debate in 2024...> (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC's ''Prime'' that the Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... have planned so-called shadow hearings to ''expose'' the Trump administration's ''corruption.''
Co-host Alicia Menendez said, ''You announced today a set of hearings are going to have next week with fired DOJ officials. What is it you are hoping to learn from them?''
Schiff said, ''Well, today as you know, we saw the case, the corruption case against the mayor of New York dismissed with prejudice. That means that case can never be brought again. It wasn't dismissed because of a lack of evidence. It was dismissed because the administration tried to engage in a corrupt bargain with the mayor, in which it would make the charges go away, at least for a time, if he would do their bidding on unrelated policy matters. The only losers there are the American people. In the judiciary committee, we're not having hearings on any of this, any of these abuses of power. What happened in New York is just one of many examples.''
He added, ''So I'm teaming up with Jamie Raskin. We're doing our own hearing to bring in some of the prosecutors who were fired or had to quit because of these corrupt acts. We're also bringing in a young attorney who left one of the major law firms because the law firms are capitulating to the Trump administration and are also giving in to this campaign of abuse of power and an attack on the rule of law.''
Schiff concluded, ''Shedding a light through these spotlight or shadow hearings, like we're going to do on Monday at 330, we're going to expose this corruption at the top of the Justice Department for the American people to see. And that's one way also of putting pressure on this administration and pressure on our Republican colleagues to do something about the runaway corruption of this administration.''
[Epoch Times] Dr. Mehmet Oz has been confirmed as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The Senate approved the former attending physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and professor of surgery at Columbia University in a 53—45 party-line vote.
BLUF: “I agree with everything he is doing, except that he’s the one doing it!”
[BREITBART] During an interview with MSNBC host and NBC News Senior Business Analyst Stephanie Ruhle that took place on Wednesday, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said that he supports the goal of the Trump administration's investigations of campus antisemitism and threats to withhold funds and schools where Jewish students can't go to class, get fair grades, or be treated fairly should be accountable, but ''The way they're going about it, like everything else, I think is chaotic and is reckless and is undermining people's fundamental rights,'' and people can say what they wish ''within the bounds of the laws and the rules on campus, to say it, as long as they're not interfering with some other student's ability to learn, some other student's ability to physically get to class.''
Ruhle asked, ''I do want to ask, you have spoken out against antisemitism on college campuses. The president is doing so, but he's now launching investigations, investigations against DEI and potentially holding federal funds because of speech on campuses. What do you think about that?''
Shapiro answered, ''Look, I have tried to speak out against antisemitism on the left, right? As well as on the right. There should be absolutely no place for antisemitism, hatred, bigotry, in any form, on a college campus or in a community center. A Jewish student, a Moslem student, should have the ability to get to class, to learn, to get a fair grade, to be treated fairly on campus. And where that's not happening, universities need to be held accountable, communities need to be held accountable. And so, I applaud the aim of what the administration is trying to do.''
#6
Shapiro can consider himself lucky that Harris did not select him to be her running mate. He won't have any of that Kamala taint on him if he runs for the White House in 2028.
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people can say what they wish ''within the bounds of the laws and the rules on campus, to say it, as long as they're not interfering with some other student's ability to learn, some other student's ability to physically get to class.''
Of course you have a right to say whatever you want but you have no right to taxpayers' money.
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[FOXNEWS] California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans Friday morning directing the state to pursue "strategic" relationships with countries announcing retaliatory tariffs against the U.S., urging them to exclude California-made products from those taxes, Fox News Digital exclusively learned first.
"Donald Trump's tariffs do not represent all Americans," Newsom said in a video announcement posted to X. "And on behalf of 40 million Americans that live in the great state of California, the tentpole of the U.S. economy — the dominant manufacturing state in America, our state of mind is around supporting stable trading relationships around the globe."
Sources in Newsom's administration told Fox News Digital Thursday night the announcement was a direct response to President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff plan, which sets out a baseline duty of 10% on all imports to the U.S. and some higher percentages for other top traders.
[ZeroHedge] The self-professed “Mary Poppins of disinformation,” Nina Jankowicz, emerged from whatever troll-cave she’s been living (and, unfortunately, breeding) in to testify to Congress, the occasion of which she took to inform the People with much self-assuredness that “the so-called censorship-industrial is a fiction.”
Textbook gaslighting: “psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories/”
(The percentage of the population that will believe literally anything if a girlboss in a pantsuit at a Congressional hearing says it with enough confidence is truly disturbing — a topic perhaps for another day.)
It doesn’t take much reading between the lines to understand that what the Mary Poppins From Hell is trying desperately to justify is unelected bureaucrats cajoling private media enterprises into censoring on its behalf — a practice clearly anathema to the free speech protections enumerated in the First Amendment — thereby skirting any legal responsibility by outsourcing their censorship regime.
If I were king, this bitch would’ve (legally) [been] dispensed with long, long ago for treason.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...every time you hear the phrase 
[FOXNEWS] California Gov. 
