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Education Department Slashes $600 Million In Funding For ‘Social Justice Activism’ Teacher Training by Brecan F. Thies The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday it cut over $600 million in grants spent on training teachers in “social justice activism,” critical race theory, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology. The grants were used to fund institutions and nonprofits involved in training teachers on concepts like “anti-racism” and claims about white privilege and white supremacy. The grants also helped fund discriminatory staff recruiting strategies that targeted candidates based on their race. “It’s hard to overstate how radical these teacher trainings are — we are talking about forcing teachers to talk about their race at work, asking educators to ‘take personal and institutional responsibility for systemic inequities,’ promoting abolitionist teaching practices and defining equity as equal outcomes,” Erika Sanzi, director of outreach for Parents Defending Education https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/18/education-department-slashes-600-million-in-funding-for-social-justice-activism-teacher-training/ .

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You HAVE to be 100% pure lib, or you can't be one of us. Two more staffers quit John Fetterman's office as the senator carves his own lane with Trump NBC News ^ | February 19, 2025 | Allan Smith Two of Sen. John Fetterman’s longest-serving staff members are leaving his team as the senator takes a more open approach to President Donald Trump than many of his Democratic colleagues are. Charlie Hills, Fetterman’s communications director, and Tré Easton, his legislative director, are set to soon depart the Pennsylvania Democrat’s office. Both men worked on Fetterman’s 2022 campaign and have been with him during his two-year Senate career. “Working for John afforded me the opportunity to build a diligent policy team from scratch,” Easton said in a statement to NBC News. “Together we created a legislative body of work that I think is a blueprint for how Democrats should be governing when they have power. I’ll forever be grateful.” The departures come one month after Carrie Adams left as Fetterman's communications director. She had garnered attention when she was quoted in a Free Press article disagreeing with the senator on Israel and the war in Gaza. That followed Fetterman losing three of his top communications staffers last March, before his chief-of-staff, Adam Jentleson, stepped down. The senator’s office did not respond to a request for comment. (Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna192804

Violence Erupts After Pro-Hamas Protesters Swarm Orthodox Jewish Community Jeff Charles The pro-Hamas crowd in America is still up to their antics. A horde of anti-Israel protesters swarmed an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in New York City in Tuesday and engaged in violence against Jewish residents. Footage circulating on social media shows the mob marching through the street while chanting “Zionists go to hell,” “Palestine is Arab,” and “Settlers go back home, Palestine is ours alone.” https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/02/19/violence-erupts-after-anti-israel-protesters-stage-demonstration-in-orthodox-jewish-community-n2652474

About That 'Independent' Media... David Strom I linked to this story in my previous article on elections in Ukraine, but I think it deserves a full post all by itself. The Free Press has a piece on Internews and its influence on the coverage of the war in Ukraine that really deserves attention, going into deeper depth on USAID's control of the flow of information both within Ukraine and from Ukraine to the United States. {SNIP} But if you buy the propaganda that Internews is selling you that Zelenskyy represents Truth, Justice, and the American way and Putin is Hitler, you have been sold a bill of goods. Putin is indeed a horrible guy, but he presents as much danger to Germany or the UK as Mynamar does. Short of using nukes, their vulnerability to him is entirely based on their need for his oil, not a fear of his tanks. Paris will not be overrun by aging T-62s. Putin can't even get air superiority over Ukraine, which is remarkable. Putin is a very bad guy. Zelenskyy is simply an American satrap, and Ukraine is an American money-laundering operation. It saddens me that this is so, but it pretty obviously is. USAID has been funding a propaganda campaign aimed not just at Ukrainians but at the entire world to prop it up. Democratic countries don't hire goon squads to kidnap, torture, and murder people and shanghai people to become cannon fodder. So USAID/Internews calls "fake news" on what really happens in Ukraine in order to keep support for the war high. That may be Realpolitik, but it isn't "independent journalism." https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/02/19/about-that-independent-media-n3799982

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Back to the actual thread. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Obama-Appointed Judge Halts Democrat Attempts to Stop DOGE Review of Federal Agencies. https://pjmedia.com/bryan-s-jung/2025/02/19/chutkan-refuses-to-block-musk-doge-from-7-federal-agencies-n4937108 .

Did you take the red pill of the blue pill? If you took the red pill, you would be forced to live in the real world where things are messy, the truth is hard to swallow, and you are condemned to live in freedom with all its pains and pleasures. If you take the blue pill, you can live in blissful ignorance of the fact that you are a slave totally manipulated by people indifferent to your well-being and your fate. Newsweek chose the blue pill. Ukraine is Schrödinger's democracy. As long as we don't measure whether Zelenskyy is democratically supported by his population, we can pretend that he is the legitimately elected leader of a democratic regime. Zelenskyy was legitimately elected, but his term was to have expired last year. He is currently empowered by martial law to remain in power, and implicitly by the fact that the US government pays all Ukraine's bills, including the salaries of the government, the budget for the military, the pensions, the media, the...everything. Zelenskyy is an American satrap. I am not saying that to insult Zelenskyy. It is simply a fact. You may even think it is a good thing, and I certainly think that the current situation is at least better than having Putin own the whole damn country. But this is not "democracy." Any argument that it is is a joke. Now, I don't know whether Vladimir Zelenskyy would win an election in Ukraine if it were held today, and neither does anybody else. I wouldn't rule it out, although as the Free Press article linked above shows, the news we are getting out of the country is paid propaganda funded by USAID. None of it is real. Zelenskyy has goon squads kidnapping and torturing people to make them go to the front. He is arresting and beating reporters for telling people this. Using our tax dollars. Our tax dollars are being used to suppress that fact because the transnational elite wants that war to go on seemingly forever. It is within the realm of possibility that some people in Ukraine might object to that and want a different leader or even want the killing to stop. An election might give us insight into this question, you might think. But, as Newsweek points out, "there are concerns that the Ukrainian president might be voted out of office if the country holds an election." So I guess that the best path forward to preserve democracy there shouldn't be an election. https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/02/19/yes-newsweek-really-did-say-that-out-loud-n3799971

DOGE finds nearly $40 billion in spending linked to government-issued credit cards by Victor Nava The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) pledged to “simplify” the federal government’s credit card program on Tuesday which cost taxpayers nearly $40 billion last year. “The US government currently has ~4.6M active credit cards/accounts, which processed ~90M unique transactions for ~$40B of spend in FY24,” read an X post from the cost-cutting initiative’s official account. “DOGE is working w/ the agencies to simplify the program and reduce admin costs,” the group added. DOGE said it “will report back in 1 week” with its plan to disentangle the system. https://nypost.com/2025/02/19/us-news/doge-finds-nearly-40-billion-in-spending-linked-to-government-issued-credit-cards/ .

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Let’s Learn How To Speak ‘Democrat’ I & I Editorial Board, February 19, 2025 After President Donald Trump was elected, we published a semi-whimsical list of what would be “out” and “in” after his victory as the left instantly switched gears (“What’s In And What’s Out After Trump’s Stunning Victory”). On that list: Out: The economy is doing great! In: Why hasn’t Trump fixed the economy yet?? Over the weekend, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries proved us right. “Donald Trump and Republicans consistently promised that they were going to lower the high cost of living, and they’ve done the exact opposite,” Jeffries said. “They’ve shown no interest in lowering costs in the United States of America, which are too high.” He said the Trump administration has broken its promise and accused it of having “no interest in improving the quality of life of hard-working American taxpayers.” It was Jeffries himself who, just a few months ago, was endlessly bragging about how great the economy was under Joe Biden, and how hard-working Americans were benefitting. “Wages are up and inflation is down. President Biden continues to build a healthy economy from the middle out and the bottom up,” he posted on X last March. “The Biden economy has created more than 15 million jobs in under four years. That’s more than the last three Republican Presidents. Combined,” he posted in April Like most Democrats, Jeffries said the problem was just one of messaging. “We have to do a better job of laying out the facts,” he said in May. “That the economy has dramatically improved under the leadership of President Joe Biden.” None of it was remotely true. Now, he’s complaining that Trump, in his first month in office, hasn’t solved all the problems he inherited from Biden. Jeffries is hardly the lone Democrat speaking with a forked tongue these days. The corporate media are also demanding Trump end the inflationary problem they spent four years denying was a problem. And, inflation is hardly the only issue where Democrats have attempted to perform similar feats of linguistic legerdemain. After four years of celebrating every time Joe Biden defied the Supreme Court, they are now screaming “Constitutional Crisis!” because of what they think Trump will do should the courts rule against him. And Democrats wonder why they can’t connect with voters these days. Who can understand what they’re saying? Here’s an idea: Try using words that are even remotely connected with the truth. https://issuesinsights.com/2025/02/19/lets-learn-how-to-speak-democrat/

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So Trump lied when he said wasn’t going to cut anyone’s Social Security. Turns out he will be cutting off the payments to the 130-year-olds who have been stealing our taxes from their graves. .