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DOJ to Reduce Foreign Languages in Government Services |
2025-07-15 |
[Breitbart] The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will be reducing the use of foreign languages in the government. In a press release, the DOJ explained that it would be leading “a coordinated effort across federal agencies to minimize non-essential multilingual services.” As part of the coordinated effort, resources will be redirected to “English-language education and assimilation.” The policy follows President Donald Trump’s executive order making English the official language of the United States. “As President Trump has made clear, English is the official language of the United States,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. Bondi added that the DOJ would be leading “the effort to codify” Trump’s executive order and to “eliminate wasteful virtue-signaling policies across government agencies to promote assimilation over division.” At the beginning of March, Trump signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S. “From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language,” the executive order states. “Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, have all been written in English. It is therefore long past time that English is declared as the official language of the United States.” Breitbart News has also reported that the Trump administration directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to “end language translation services” for people who called inquiring about their immigration or employment status. |
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Gavin Newsom Taunts Texas on Redistricting, but Can't Deliver on Threat |
2025-07-15 |
[Breitbart] California Gov. Gavin Newsom taunted Texas over redrawing its congressional districts, suggesting he would retaliate — though California, with an independent redistricting commission, has no legal way of doing so. Last week, Newsom posted a clip of an interview on X in which he said that California “is watching — and you can bet we won’t stand idly by” as Texas redrew congressional districts in a special session of the legislature. Newsom failed to note that redistricting is only one of 18 items on the agenda for the special session; that the state was responding to a U.S. Department of Justice demand that it redraw the districts, because they were allegedly drawn in an unconstitutional manner; and that the Texas legislature does not meet year-round. “These guys — they’re not fucking around,” Newsom said, claiming that he was trying to “raise the bar of bipartisanship in California,” while noting that his state had an independent redistricting commission. In his post on X, Newsom hinted that California might find a way to respond to the redistricting in Texas. However, as the San Francisco Chronicle explained, Newsom does not have the power to retaliate: California’s laws constrain Newsom from responding in kind to any efforts in Texas to redraw maps to favor Republicans. Voters in California took that power from the state Legislature in 2008 and handed it to an independent redistricting commission, which draws the lines for California’s congressional and state legislative districts. Though Newsom is correct that Democrats dominate the Legislature, they do not dominate the redistricting commission. By law, the commission comprises five Democrats, five Republicans and four commissioners not affiliated with either party. It is possible that Newsom may have been thinking of the way in which Democrats have gamed the nominally “independent” commission to make California districts more favorable to Democrats. The left-leaning news outlet ProPublica documented how Democrats “fooled” the commission by organizing local groups to testify about district boundaries who did not actually represent communities, but were working for the party. Newsom may have given the game away, telling the truth about the “independent” commission. Still, he lacks the power, legally to do anything about what Texas does to redraw its districts. As for “raising the bar of bipartisanship,” Democrats recently stripped key Republicans of their committee posts in the state legislature. California also opposes excluding illegal migrants from the Census, because then it would lose more congressional seats than it already has in recent years due to slow growth relative to states like Texas. Related: Redistricting: 2025-04-03 A Seemingly Inebriated Kamala Harris Chimes in on the Wisconsin Election, and She Really Shouldn''t Have — RedState Redistricting: 2025-04-01 Musk announces bombshell DOGE investigation into 'strangely wealthy' Congress members after Pelosi and Dems beat the market Redistricting: 2025-02-03 NY Dems working to keep Stefanik's House seat vacant for months in latest scheme against Trump: assemblyman |
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Justice Ministry says NGO linked to Ra’am party gave funds to terror-supporting groups |
2025-07-15 |
[IsraelTimes] Report finds ‘Aid 48’ NGO, linked to Mansour Abbas’s Islamist party, sent money to West Bank charities proscribed by Defense Ministry; bereaved families group wants criminal probe The Justice Ministry, in a letter from July 7 that was published on Monday, said it found grounds to dissolve the "Aid 48" association, a nonprofit connected to the Islamist Ra’am party, having concluded an investigation over alleged money transfers to groups proscribed for terror links. "From the association’s records and its responses to requests for information, it appears that the association transferred funds or collaborated with organizations outside Israel, that were declared terror organizations, or are suspected of being linked to terror organizations," the ministry’s Israeli Corporations Authority said in the letter. "This document should be seen as a warning before initiating liquidation proceedings against the association," the 22-page document concluded. Aid 48 transferred funds to four organizations purporting to do charity work in the Nablus, Ramallah, and Tulkarem areas of the West Bank that were proscribed by the Defense Ministry in 2008 and 2002, according to the ministry. The investigation into the group came after pressure from the "Choose Life" Forum, representing bereaved families, which opposed the Ra’am party’s inclusion in former prime minister Naftali Bennett’s coalition, labeling the party "terror supporters." The forum welcomed the decision to dismantle Aid 48, calling it "a historic victory" and demanded that Ra’am’s leaders — such as MK Mansour Abbas — be "detained for questioning," asserting that "anyone who supported Hamas ![]() leading up to October 7 must be sent to prison," in a quote carried by Hebrew media. Though declaredly an Islamist, Abbas has courted controversy among his base by stating that Israel will always be a Jewish state and condemning Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, calling on Paleostinian terror groups to demilitarize. In a statement in April, when the Justice Ministry first announced its findings, Ra’am blamed the Netanyahu government for funding Hamas and accused it of seeking to divert attention from its own mistakes. "Since the negotiations on the possible entry of Ra’am into the [previous] coalition began, an ongoing and vicious campaign has been waged against us by extreme right-wing elements, aiming to thwart any chance for the political integration of Arab citizens in the country," it said at the time. This is done on the back of a humanitarian aid ![]() At the time, Aid 48 itself called the investigation a "campaign of persecution for a clear political goal of thwarting any possibility of a political partnership between Arabs and Jews." |
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Supreme Court just ruled that President Trump can proceed with mass firings at the Department of Education | |
2025-07-15 | |
[X]Whee! Go team!!
The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling on Monday allowing President Donald Trump’s Department of Education to resume efforts to slash its workforce in half. The decision reverses a lower court ruling ordering the reinstatement of Department of Education employees cut loose in mass layoffs, and ultimately allows Education Secretary Linda McMahon to continue her mission of winding down the department. The Department of Education announced in March that it was reducing its workforce by half in an effort to streamline the department and cut down on unnecessary bureaucracy. Before the cuts, the Department of Education had 4,133 total staff, a number senior department officials said “exist[ed] largely to oversee contractors, add strings, and in many cases do duplicative efforts across the department.” Senior department officials said at the time the cuts would not impact student aid, the rollout of FAFSA by October 1, funding for special-needs students, Civil Rights investigations, and other functions statutorily mandated by Congress. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun blocked the department’s downsizing effort in May, ruling that the administration needed congressional authorization. Joun ordered the department to reinstate approximately 1,400 workers who had been terminated. The majority did not issue an opinion to accompany the order, which is not out of the ordinary. However, the court’s three liberal-leaning justices dissented, decrying the ruling as “indefensible.” “It hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out. The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave,” penned Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. | |
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NIH Director Bhattacharya warns U.S. taxpayers are funding science journals compromised by China |
2025-07-14 |
[JustTheNews] Publisher behind 'Proximal Origin' paper that dismissed lab leak, covertly shaped by Collins and Fauci, reportedly flush with Chinese money. "What exact service is being provided" for massive publishing fees, Bhattacharya wonders. The National Institutes of Health isn't just concerned about how much taxpayers are spending to read scientific and medical journals where the published research has already been funded by taxpayers. It wants to know more about publishers' possible ties to hostile powers. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya announced a cap starting this fall on how much journals can charge "NIH-supported scientists to make their research findings publicly accessible" and told investigative journalist Paul Thacker the fees prop up Germany-based publisher Springer Nature, which has a "tremendous investment and interest in the Chinese scientific establishment." The 3,000-journal publishing behemoth declined to confirm to Fox News last month the Trump administration terminated one contract and didn't renew three others, claiming there was "no material change" to its "global business." One of its journals is Nature Medicine, which published the "Proximal Origin" paper dismissing a COVID-19 lab leak from China after forcing the coauthors to completely rule out the plausibility of a leak as a condition of publishing it. The paper was covertly shaped by Bhattacharya predecessor Francis Collins and then-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, who funded the research that may have unleashed the pandemic with U.S. taxpayer dollars. Then-interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin sought information from Nature Medicine this spring, suggesting it committed a quid pro quo with Collins and Fauci, who soon after gave coauthor Kristian Andersen federal grants, by leaving their names off "Proximal Origin." Springer Nature also publishes Scientific American and Nature, which both endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president in 2020. The former tried to quash the Chinese lab-leak theory as "xenophobia." ESTIMATED $2.5 BILLION IN OPEN-ACCESS FEES IN 2023 Bhattacharya's announcement Tuesday, two months after rushing a new policy to immediately make public NIH-funded research, said major publishers charge up to $13,000 per article for "immediate open access" on top of subscription fees, apparently referring to Nature's "gold open access" option. He said "one publishing group reportedly" got more than $2 million from NIH subscriptions, not including "tens of millions more through exclusive article processing charges." A Canadian study estimated the six largest publishers charged more than $2.5 billion in open-access fees in 2023, nearly triple the spending from 2019. Bhattacharya said he once pulled his own "self-funded" paper from a journal after realizing it charged an "exorbitant" publishing fee. "Big publishers – Springer Nature, Elsevier – have effective monopoly power" over scientific publishing, and it's "crazy" to charge so much for just "putting it out there on the internet" when most journals don't pay scientific reviewers and pay their editors "very little," Bhattacharya told Thacker. "So what exact service is being provided?" The new cap will keep publication fees "reasonable across the research ecosystem," NIH said. Asked for a more specific figure, Bhattacharya told Just the News "we're still working that out … No firm number yet." 'ESSENTIALLY TAKING THE CHINESE AT THEIR WORD' Bhattacharya called out Springer Nature as tainted by Chinese government influence when Thacker asked how "Proximal Origin" had still not been corrected to note the participation of Fauci, Collins and World Health Organization chief scientist Jeremy Farrar, who convened the authors and made a key change to the paper. "Essentially taking the Chinese at their word," the paper was published "very early in the pandemic and somehow concluded on the basis of very, very flimsy if any evidence" that SARS-CoV-2 must have come from a wet market, he said. Thacker noted 2017 reporting by the Financial Times that Springer Nature blocked at least a thousand academic articles in China mentioning "sensitive" subjects to the ruling Chinese Communist Party, and 2021 Unherd reporting that Chinese institutions paid Springer Nature an estimated $10 million in sponsorship agreements the previous year. HHS sources told Thacker, a former Senate pharmaceutical corruption investigator, the agency is looking at CCP influence on U.S. science agencies and universities as well, he said. "I don't want to paint with too broad a brush" about scientists in China and Chinese scientists in the U.S., Bhattacharya said. "But we are in a competition with the Chinese establishment for the preeminent position of biomedical sciences in the 21st century" and "have to think carefully and strategically about our links with the Chinese government." The NIH director declined to comment on "any ongoing investigations" when Thacker noted in his reporting last month that the Justice Department is investigating a federal grant to a viral "spillover" research program that includes "Proximal Origin" coauthor Andersen. 'WE NEED A PROFESSIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT INVESTIGATION' Andersen was "in the process of fleeing" the U.S. amid the DOJ investigation, and Norwegian molecular biologist Sigrid Bratlie claimed "several sources" told her that University of Oslo scientists were trying to recruit Andersen, according to Thacker. A public records production to public health watchdog U.S. Right to Know revealed that Andersen was one of the scientists cited in an unclassified State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research report, obtained by Thacker, that came out a week after "Proximal Origin." Those scientists gave a briefing to the department that claimed "available genomic evidence" shows SARS-CoV-2 "probably emerged naturally in an animal," the unclassified report said. A Dec. 4, 2020, email from State official David Feith, whom President Trump fired this April, relayed that Andersen sai in the briefing his initial doubts about SARS-CoV-2 being fully natural were "put to rest by more detailed analysis," which contradicted what Andersen told his coauthors a month after the briefing. While Andersen, who claims to hold dual Danish and U.S. citizenship, told the San Diego Union-Tribune he has "considered leaving the United States" following NIH's ban on foreign subawards and NIAID cutting the spigot to his spillover research as "unsafe for Americans," he denied he had accepted a post at the University of Oslo. “Did we have a foreign national parading into the intel agencies and convincing senior officials to not look into a matter?” an unnamed State official told Thacker. "That’s a counter-intelligence matter. We need a professional law enforcement investigation." |
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Clarice Feldman: Beware ‘Ragebait Engagement Farming’ | |
2025-07-14 | |
By Clarice Feldman
For example, this week the Department of Justice, which she heads, just won its 13th Supreme Court victory in six months. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirms that the President is proud of her and considers the “continued fixation or sowing discord on [his] cabinet is baseless and unfounded in reality. On Saturday, the president reiterated his strong support for Bondi. I will endeavor to explain how absurd this furor is and why this (like the ludicrous Pizzagate-like fantasy before it) has so many dupes believing in unsubstantiated nonsense. A very detailed portrait of Epstein’s background and operations can be found in a 2003 article in Vanity Fair, which reveals a shrewd operator who cultivated celebrities, business figures, politicians, scientists, and people of note to amass a considerable fortune. He was also a man with a perversion for sexual relations with underage young women. There has long been a widely held belief that he maintained a list of notable people with details of their crimes. Bondi said she had the Epstein list “on her desk,” and indicated it would be released. This was a mistake, because if the belief was that there was a roster of prominent people engaged in pedophilia, there is no such list. (If there ever had been, he most likely scrubbed it long before any criminal investigation.) Read the rest at the link Related: Jeffrey Epstein 07/12/2025 Ex-CIA Officer Claims Deep State Likely Destroyed Epstein Files Jeffrey Epstein 07/12/2025 Dershowitz Makes Explosive Claim About the Elusive Epstein Client List Jeffrey Epstein 07/12/2025 FBI's 'Raw' Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Doctored: Wired | |
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Trump Calls 'Epstein List' Democrats' Fabrication Against Him | |
2025-07-14 | |
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![]() "For years, Epstein, over and over again. Why release documents written by [former US President Barack ] Obama, corrupt [former Secretary of State] Hillary [ Clinton ]... They created the Epstein dossier, like they created the Hillary Clinton fake and the [former British intelligence officer] Christopher Steele dossier that they used against me," he wrote on the social network Truth Social. The head of the White House clarified that the Democrats invented the Epstein dossier together with the former heads of the CIA and FBI and representatives of the administration of former President Joe Biden. According to him, if there was anything in the documents, they would have been published. As reported by the Regnum news agency, the US Justice Department and the FBI had previously concluded that there was no evidence that Epstein, who was convicted of sexual crimes against minors, blackmailed influential people and kept a so-called client list. On July 8, the White House denied the existence of Epstein's "compromising list." However, American entrepreneur Elon Musk expressed doubt and said that Americans would not be able to trust the US president if he refused to publish documents on the case. | |
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The Trump Administration Is About to Make a HUGE Move Against the Deep State |
2025-07-13 |
[PJ Media] In a bombshell revelation, investigative journalist John Solomon confirmed to Steve Bannon on Real America’s Voice that the Department of Justice and the FBI have been quietly building a major criminal conspiracy case targeting the Deep State’s decade-long effort to derail Donald Trump. According to Solomon, the scope of the investigation could finally deliver the accountability that many in the MAGA movement have long demanded. "I think next week, over the next 10 days... the base, who’s been wondering, ’Where is all that accountability?’—they’re gonna get some big surprises," Solomon said. He claimed the case reaches back to the summer of 2016, before Crossfire Hurricane was launched, and extends all the way through to 2024, encompassing "a large series of events" aimed at stopping Trump from winning the presidency. Solomon said the massive case has been built largely out of the public eye, obscured by media theatrics and political infighting. "It’s been masked by a lot of this infighting and drama and soap opera stuff," he said. "But the truth of the matter is, MAGA base Americans are gonna be happy when they see where this is all heading." I hope so! Bannon pressed Solomon to clarify whether this was, in fact, a formal investigation by federal authorities. Solomon didn’t hesitate. "There is a conspiracy case that was opened that looks at this window as a very large window," he confirmed. "I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw a special prosecutor named by Pam Bondi in the next week or two." This is the most interesting part of the revelation to me, especially in light of the blowback Bondi has received over the whole Epstein client list debacle that has FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino threatening to resign unless she is removed. Could Bondi be reassigned to be special prosecutor to keep Bongino and Patel at the FBI? |
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The College-Jew hate nexus |
2025-07-13 |
Acting Columbia U. president apologizes for calling to remove Jewish board member after Oct. 7, replace with someone from Middle East [IsraelTimes] Acting Columbia University President Claire Shipman apologizes for calling to remove a Jewish university board member amid campus turmoil following the October 2023 invasion of Israel. The Congressional Committee on Education and the Workforce exposed texts from Shipman yesterday. Hot Air points out that Columbia’s accreditation is at risk because of this. Separately, last week the university system was hacked, with the hacker announcing he(?) was looking for evidence that the school was using race to determine admissions. And finally — and this is just a schadenfreude item — Columbia will pay out about $9 million to settle a lawsuit after they were caught inflating data they submitted to the US News & World Report “Best Colleges” list to move up from #10 to #2. The recheck dropped them down to #18.
Mr. Sussman is now lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against MIT. Commentary from Hot Air here. University of California reiterates ban on boycotts of Israel by student governments University head Michael Drake says financial decisions by campus bodies must be grounded in ‘sound business practices,’ which boycotts based on nationality violate. New York’s Barnard College settles antisemitism lawsuit filed by Jewish students Barnard College in New York City, an affiliate of Columbia University, agreed to take measures to combat antisemitism in a lawsuit settlement with Jewish students, a law firm representing the students said on Monday. The US lawsuit was filed last year against the trustees of Columbia and Barnard in the federal Southern District court of New York. It argued that Columbia and Barnard failed to protect Israeli and Jewish students and enforce university policies against protesters as anti-Israel activists riled the campuses after the October 2023 Hamas invasion and onslaught. The plaintiffs claimed that the harassment of Jews violated the federal Title VI Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination at federally funded institutions. The law is widely used by pro-Israel advocates against universities that receive federal funding, like Columbia and Barnard. Barnard is a women’s liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia. The two schools operate separately, but are deeply intertwined and located next to each other in Manhattan. The anti-Israel student activist group leading the protests, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, is active on both campuses. Most of the student plaintiffs were students at Columbia. The lawsuit said students had been harassed with language like “Fuck the Jews” and were laughed at by professors while counter-protesting on campus. Some of the students suffered “immense stress” due to their treatment that interfered with their studies. Some dropped classes or attended remotely, and others avoided classes taught by professors active in anti-Israel protests. The student plaintiffs were backed by the advocacy groups Students Against Antisemitism and the StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice, and represented by the Kasowitz LLP law firm. Israeli postdoc sues Stanford for discrimination; university denies it Researcher says lab tampered with his findings, falsely accused him of sexual harassment; Stanford says investigation found claims ‘unsubstantiated’. The lawsuit, filed in a federal California court, said a lab at Stanford had falsely accused Dr. Shay Laps of sexual harassment, tampered with his research, and forced him out of his position, due to his Israeli and Jewish identity. The university said the charges had been investigated and were unfounded. Laps enrolled at Stanford as a post-doctoral student in the spring of 2024 to work on a diabetes treatment. When he arrived, a lab staffer connected to anti-Israel campus activists told Laps not to speak with her in person, refused him a seat with other colleagues at lunch, and told friends to ostracize him in common areas. Laps was the only Israeli in the lab and the staffer treated her other colleagues respectfully. When another researcher asked Laps where he was from, and Laps said he was from Israel, the other researcher turned his back and never spoke to him again, the lawsuit said. Part of the staffer’s role was to order research materials for Laps, but she was hostile or noncooperative, hampering Laps’s work. The staffer later tampered with Laps’s research results by introducing insulin to compounds he was testing for diabetes treatments, and later asked him to destroy the irregular samples, potentially setting him up for allegations of fraud, the lawsuit alleged. The leader of the lab later said the issues with the staffer were minor errors, although the alleged tampering was not investigated, the lawsuit said. Laps approached his lab leader about the problems, who told Laps he was under investigation for sexual harassment by the university’s Title IX office, that his research appointment could be ended, warned he could lose his visa, and encouraged him to “resign quietly.” Laps contacted the Title IX office, which told him there was no investigation and that he was in good standing. The lawsuit said that members of the lab knew Laps was Jewish and Israeli, that all other members were not subjected to hostile treatment, and that the staffer giving him problems was part of an anti-Israel activist social circle. The issues also took place within a broader campus context of anti-Israel activism and antisemitism. The lawsuit did not include instances of antisemitic or anti-Israel rhetoric directed at Laps, though. Laps made formal complaints, saying he was being discriminated against. The university probe said that Laps was not “discriminated against because he was Jewish or Israeli,” although the lawsuit said the investigation was thin. Laps was eventually removed from the lab, had a research grant revoked, and was forced to leave the country due to visa issues, causing severe damage to his career and reputation, the lawsuit said. The lawsuit argued that the hostility toward Laps was part of a broader trend of antisemitism and discrimination against Israelis on the campus. A May 2024 internal report found that such discrimination was widespread and charged the university with a “failure to respond to the rising wave of antisemitism.” The lawsuit said Laps was in contact with other Israelis on campus who reported similar treatment. The lawsuit seeks damages, including unpaid wages, a declaration that the lab defamed Laps, and an injunction preventing Stanford from discriminating against Jews or Israelis, among other measures. Laps was backed by The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a nonprofit that uses legal means to advance Jewish civil rights. The center and other Jewish groups have regularly filed lawsuits against universities and other entities for alleged discrimination. Pro-Palestinian activists spray paint UW regents’ homes, accuse them of ‘genocide’ [CollegeFix] Pro-Palestinian activists vandalized the homes of at least four Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents members Friday, accusing them of “genocide.” At two of the homes, the vandals spray-painted messages reading “Regents are complicit in genocide” and “UW blood on your hands” on the driveways, Madison police Sgt. Matthew Baker said, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. Baker also said the protesters splattered artificial blood on some of the properties and posted letters with a set of demands on the doors. Further, they used air horns and left them on the properties. A neighbor to one of the regents was awoken at 3:40 a.m. by an air horn. Ring camera footage from one home showed six people wearing all black arriving on bicycles. Police are analyzing the footage to determine where the protesters came from. “They were probably masked and hiding their identities. But oftentimes we can trace that video back to a meetup location or a gas station, even where they would buy the spray paint or something,” Baker said. And for the high school contingent: Jewish Teen Hid in Locked Classroom as Anti-Semitic Mob of Classmates Pounded on Door: Lawsuit[FreeBeacon] Seattle Public Schools likely allowed footage of the incident to be deleted, plaintiff's lawyers say Elite private DC-area school expels siblings after parents report antisemitic bullying — lawsuit At Nysmith School for the Gifted, an hour from US capital, students allegedly called Jews ‘baby killers,’ said they deserve to die over Gaza, and cast Hitler as a ‘strong leader’, school told parents their kids needed to toughen up before kicking them out. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Dillon PLLC said Tuesday they had filed a complaint against the school, saying the decision violates the Virginia Human Rights Act. Nation’s Largest Teachers’ Union Moves to Cut Ties with the ADL over Group’s Defense of Israel [NationalReview] The National Education Association’s policymaking body voted this week to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League over the antisemitism watchdog’s defense of Israel. The 7,000-member policymaking committee approved New Business Item 39, which says the nation’s largest labor union in the U.S. “will not use, endorse or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), such as its curricular materials or statistics.” The committee explained its decision by saying, “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.” The New Business Item must receive final approval from the NEA executive committee. If passed, the measure would end a nearly 40-year relationship between the ADL and U.S. schools that has involved curriculum, programming and teacher training. “With antisemitism at record high levels, it is profoundly disturbing that a group of NEA activists would brazenly attempt to further isolate their Jewish colleagues and push a radical, antisemitic agenda on students,” an ADL spokesperson told National Review. “We will not be cowed for supporting Israel, and we will not be deterred from our work reaching millions of students with educational programs every year,” the spokesperson added. “It is our understanding there’s an internal NEA process that deals with issues like this and it is far from a completed process. We will continue to call out this antisemitism and prioritize our Jewish students and educators.” Union delegates who spoke on the Assembly floor “rejected the ADL’s abuse of the term ‘antisemitism’ to punish critics of Israel, and its use of hyperinflated statistics on hate crimes to gin up fears about Jewish safety and paint calls for Palestinian rights as ‘hate speech,’” according to Mondoweiss. “These are educators who believe in antiracist and social justice unionism. They’re beginning to understand Palestine in that context. They’re intolerant of the justification of violence,” one NEA member said, according to the report. 'Quite Shocking to Us': Local Parents Fighting 'Cesspool' of Anti-Semitism in Philly Schools Say Josh Shapiro's Office Stopped Meeting With Them [FreeBeacon] Philadelphia's public school system, according to documents provided to the Free Beacon, teaches identity politics and hosts radical pro-Hamas employees The Philadelphia school district settled a federal discrimination case with the Department of Education last year after students allegedly taunted their Jewish classmates with Nazi salutes, swastika graffiti on doors, and threats to "kill the Jews." |
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John Brennan's Checkered Past Comes Back to Haunt Him Amid DOJ Investigation |
2025-07-12 |
They are very angry about this, but let’s just review why there might be some culpability. Take John Brennan. He was a big proponent of waterboarding and enhanced interrogation under President George W. Bush’s administration and the things that went on in Guantanamo. I’m not gonna comment on whether they were right or wrong. But he flipped to condition himself to go into the Obama administration, and then he attacked the very president that he had served, George Bush. Then he began sounding off about Islam—"Religion of Peace"; "Jihadism is not a violent act"—to condition himself further to be appointed by President Barack Obama, which he was, eventually, a CIA director. But then he started lying. I mean, he always probably lied, but I mean, flagrantly so. He said before Congress and the media there wasn’t one civilian killed by Obama’s targeted assassination program via Predators on the Afghan or Pakistan border. Actually, there were 50 or 75 innocent people we killed. He was caught in that lie. Three years later, he went before the Congress and there was information that he had been tapping, his CIA, the staffers for the Senate to get into their computers. He not only lied about it, he did so emphatically—"Oh, we would never do that. That’s horrible." Then he was forced to say, "Yes, I lied." In both cases, there were no perjury charges, nothing. The pièce de résistance for John Brennan was in October 2020, on the eve of the second and critical presidential debate, Joe Biden was in trouble. People were furious about this laptop. There was pornography on it. There was drug use. There were references to Joe Biden as "Mr. Big Guy." Ten percent that he’d been giving money. He was crooked. People wanted to hear, he had no excuse. So, what happened? Antony Blinken, his future secretary of state, campaign aid, called Michael Morell, interim CIA director at one point, said, "Round them up." So, 51 "intelligence authorities" swore the laptop had all the hallmarks of Russian information. Notice the words: All the hallmarks, escape clause, of Russian information. Not disinformation, but that’s what they meant. So, what happened in the debate? Donald Trump went right after Biden and said, "That laptop is real. It shows that you’re a crook. It shows your son is a miscreant." And Joe Biden’s, "How dare you? Fifty-one Intelligence authorities swear that it’s a product of Russian espionage. Only you and Rudy Giuliani believe that." And it was effective. |
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The Most Explosive Story You Haven't Heard: Netanyahu, Trump, and the Fight Behind the Front Lines | |||||||
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[IsraelUnwired] While most eyes are fixed on the war in Gaza, few realize that the real battle for Israel’s future is being fought by Netanyahu and Trump in the shadows, and this may be the most explosive story you haven’t heard. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s latest trip to Washington, his third this year and second meeting with former President Donald Trump on this trip itself, sparked intense speculation: Was it about Gaza? Iran? A future regional deal? Yes, all that—but ultimately, something deeper is unfolding. These meetings aren’t just about military coordination or diplomatic pressure. It reflects a shared understanding: no external victory is possible without also confronting internal dysfunction.
Let’s zoom out. From the very start of the war, a coordinated bloc of senior legal officials, top IDF officers, and mainstream media figures — Israel’s unelected elite — has worked systematically to hijack the war narrative, destabilize Netanyahu’s government, and prevent a decisive victory in Gaza.
Netanyahu, understanding this dynamic, pursued a war strategy that included limited, tactical ceasefires — not as surrender but as a way to save lives while undercutting the protest movement that had co-opted the hostage issue. The results are clear: what once paralyzed the country has become a fringe cause, as the public increasingly sees through the exploitation of genuine pain for political gain.
Just listen to Brigadier General (res.) Erez Wiener, former head of planning in the IDF Southern Command, who revealed: "We should have started by evacuating Gaza City. But we didn’t. Because the Military Advocate General said: ’You can’t force civilians to evacuate — and you must keep supplying them with aid.’ Then we’re told: go in and fight, but under those conditions. The result? More fallen soldiers."
This isn’t a political opinion. It’s operational reality from someone who helped run the war effort. And the same unelected legal elites who have paralyzed our war effort have been waging a crusade against IDF soldiers, including the ones who served at the Sde Teiman prison. The legal establishment accused them of abuse, relying on testimony they told a Hamas terrorist to say, and a video—exposed to have been doctored with no proof whatsoever of any wrongdoing. Yet, the blood libel was launched into the world. This same legal elite have ignored the far more troubling misconduct inside their own ranks. There has been no investigation into the legal insiders allegedly involved in doctoring and leaking that video of prisoner treatment—a manipulated video that was leaked to the media on a silver platter. That clip reached billions of viewers worldwide, fueling a modern-day blood libel, and just days ago, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese cited it as "proof" that Israeli soldiers systematically sexually harasses Hamas terrorists in custody. The video’s leak didn’t just smear Israel’s name, it endangered our global legitimacy, demoralized our soldiers, and handed Hamas a diplomatic victory. Yet while soldiers face public crucifixion, those within the legal system who enabled this international scandal remain untouched, protected by the very legal institutions now claiming to defend "ethics" and "rule of law." What kind of justice system holds soldiers to impossible standards in combat in a just war but shields those sabotaging the war effort from within? Israeli attorney Efraim Dimri recently said in an interview that he has proof that ties the Biden administration directly to the legal persecution of the IDF soldiers in Sde Teiman prison.
And it’s not just about the military. The U.S. Department of Justice recently issued a second official notice to the far-left Israeli NGO Blue and White demanding documentation about tens of millions of dollars it received from the Biden administration.
And now, even the ideological architects of Israel’s activist legal system are admitting the stakes. Former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak, who reshaped Israel’s judiciary in the 1990s, recently said last week: "If Netanyahu leaves political life, there would be no justification for continuing the trial... If he retires from politics, I think it’s not a bad idea that the trial should also come to an end." That’s a stunning statement. If the charges against Netanyahu are real, they should proceed, regardless of politics. And if they’re not, they should be dropped now. Instead, we’re told that if Netanyahu walks away, the system will quietly let the charges go. That’s not the rule of law—it’s political leverage. This is why the Netanyahu—Trump alignment matters. Not because of personalities or partisan politics—but because both leaders now face the same challenge: unelected deep state institutions that have drifted from their mandates, acting as power centers unto themselves. This isn’t about Left or Right—it’s about democratic accountability. When unelected legal officials override government decisions on life-and-death military policy, that’s a crisis. When US-funded NGOs run political pressure campaigns to topple our government, especially during wartime, that’s a threat. When top military brass ignore binding cabinet decisions, that’s not "independence"—it’s insubordination. We’ve seen this before. In 1982, during the First Lebanon War, internal pressure campaigns and foreign condemnation — fueled by the Sabra and Shatila massacre by Lebanese Christians — led to Israel’s premature ending of the war. Then too, rising casualties and media pressure were weaponized to halt a war mid-fight. Netanyahu remembers that moment well. He’s determined not to let history repeat itself. He has already delivered major blows to Iran’s proxy network, damaged Iran’s nuclear and ballistic weapons programs, weakened Hamas’s military infrastructure, and resisted global pressure for a premature ceasefire. But to finish the job, he must also take back control at home. That means restoring civilian authority over military and legal bodies. It means confronting insubordination directly. And it means telling the public a hard truth: We are not struggling slowly in Gaza because of Hamas’s strength, but because of deep state senior positions who weaken our resolve, handcuff our army, and try to divide our people in wartime. This is not just a war against terrorists in tunnels. It’s a war against fear, dysfunction, and the deep-state machinery—in both Jerusalem and Washington—that has worked to erode the authority of Israel’s elected governments and sabotage their ability to act. Now, Netanyahu and Trump are doing more than comparing notes, they are forging a joint strategy to confront and dismantle the unelected power centers that have hijacked policy in both countries. The parallel power structures that allowed U.S. State Department—funded NGOs to operate freely in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, without oversight or accountability, are finally being brought to an end. This isn’t about defending one leader or another. It’s about defending democracy itself—the right of free nations to be governed by those the people choose, not those the system protects. No more legal vetoes on war policy. No more foreign-funded interference. No more unelected elites dragging nations into paralysis and defeat. What began as meetings in Washington DC may well be remembered as the start of a coordinated effort to reclaim democratic control, to stop the sabotage, protect sovereignty, and chart a path forward based on strength—not submission. The world is watching. And this time, the people, not the unelected deep state bureaucrats, must win. | |||||||
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Dershowitz Makes Explosive Claim About the Elusive Epstein Client List |
2025-07-12 |
[PJ] Last week, after months of mounting pressure and speculation, the Department of Justice and FBI released what they thought would be the final word on the Epstein scandal. In a memo that many are calling a whitewash, the DOJ declared there’s no evidence of a client list, no blackmail network, and no coordinated effort to silence Epstein. The backlash was immediate and fierce. If the Trump administration thought this would put the controversy to rest, it was dead wrong. Instead of closing the book, the memo has only reignited public outrage and deepened suspicions that powerful people are still being protected. In an interview with Sean Spicer, renowned Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz claimed he’s personally seen Jeffrey Epstein’s full client list. However, don’t expect any revelations just yet — Dershowitz says a judge-imposed confidentiality order bars him from disclosing the identities of those entangled in the infamous files. Dershowitz wasn’t vague about the gravity of what’s being concealed. He asserted that critical documents in the Epstein saga are being "deliberately, willfully suppressed" to shield certain individuals from scrutiny. "Hand to God, I know the names of the people whose files are being suppressed in order to protect them, and that’s wrong," he declared, indicating that the suppression isn’t just bureaucratic inertia; it’s a conscious effort to protect the powerful. When pressed on whether these protected individuals were politicians or business leaders, Dershowitz’s answer was blunt: "They’re everything." The implication is chilling. The rot, he suggests, is not confined to one sector but permeates the very fabric of elite society. Related: Alan Dershowitz 05/12/2025 Sexual allegations against Khan spurred Israeli ICC arrest warrants, report suggests Alan Dershowitz 04/18/2025 Dershowitz: Boasberg Should Be the One Held in Contempt Alan Dershowitz 12/01/2024 UN envoy Albanese says Israel had no right to wage a war in Gaza after Oct. 7 |
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