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  • Socialist NYC mayoral contender Zohran Mamdani wants to hike property taxes for ‘richer and whiter neighborhoods’

    06/27/2025 8:24:24 PM PDT · by dennisw · 46 replies
    NY Post ^ | Published June 27, 2025, 8:17 p.m. ET | By Vaughn Golden, Matthew Fischetti and Matt Troutman
    Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to hike property taxes for “richer and whiter neighborhoods” in an eyebrow-raising proposal The soak-the-rich proposal is buried in Mamdani’s campaign platform that calls to fix the city’s notoriously skewed property tax system, in which ritzy brownstones are hit at lower rates than homes and rentals in lower-income neighborhoods. “Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods,” the proposal reads. Democrats and many Republicans have long pushed to fix the out-of-whack system that ends up hitting poorer, often largely...
  • Supreme Court Rules for Catholic Nuns Fighting Abortion Mandate

    06/16/2025 11:41:38 AM PDT · by Morgana · 5 replies
    Life News ^ | June 16, 2025 | Ryan Colby
    The Supreme Court has ordered New York courts to reconsider Diocese of Albany v. Harris, a case challenging New York’s abortion mandate, in light of Becket’s unanimous victory in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission. In 2017, a group of Catholic and Anglican nuns, Catholic dioceses, Christian churches, and faith-based social ministries challenged New York’s mandate forcing them to pay for employees’ abortions. After New York courts declined to protect the faith groups, Becket and Jones Day asked the Supreme Court to step in. In 2021, the Justices reversed the lower courts’ rulings and told them...
  • Wisconsin dairy farmer sues Trump administration claiming discrimination against white farmers

    06/16/2025 9:12:22 AM PDT · by thegagline · 26 replies
    DNYUZ ^ | 06/16/2025 | Staff
    A Wisconsin dairy farmer alleged in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities.The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court in Wisconsin on behalf of a white dairy farmer, Adam Faust. *** The new lawsuit alleges the government has continued to implement diversity, equity and inclusion programs that were instituted under former President Joe Biden. *** . “After being ignored by a federal agency that’s meant to support agriculture, I hope my...
  • Boeing’s Air Force One production is facing continued delays because the manufacturer can’t consistently hire and retain mechanics

    06/14/2025 10:14:22 AM PDT · by CFW · 85 replies
    Yahoo Finance ^ | 6/13/25 | Sasha Rogelberg
    Boeing’s Air Force One project has fallen years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget amid continued labor and design hiccups. The Government Accountability Office said in a report this week that “ongoing design issues, modification rework, and workforce challenges” are still plaguing the manufacturer. The Trump administration has resorted to procuring a $400 million jet from Qatar to serve as the interim Air Force One. Boeing is continuing to battle production issues plaguing the jets that will serve as Air Force One, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The Pentagon told the congressional auditors that “ongoing design...
  • Supreme Court sides with Ohio woman in reverse discrimination case

    06/09/2025 4:47:23 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 10 replies
    CBS News ^ | 6/5/2025 | Melissa Quinn
    Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a lawsuit from an Ohio woman who claimed she was the victim of reverse discrimination because her employer denied her a promotion because she is straight. In a unanimous decision in the case of Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, the high court tossed out a ruling by a federal appeals court that dismissed Marlean Ames' claims because she failed to clear a higher bar applied to members of a majority group in order for her employment discrimination case to proceed. (snip) The background circumstances rule required plaintiffs who are members...
  • Davis: SCOTUS Needs To Extend Reverse Discrimination Ban To Schools, Not Just Workplaces

    06/05/2025 3:27:31 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 6 replies
    The Federalist ^ | June 05, 2025 | Shawn Fleetwood
    ‘You can’t say that it’s OK to discriminate against someone because they’re white, but not OK because they’re black. We all know it’s wrong.’The U.S. Supreme Court should extend its prohibition on reverse discrimination to American schools, not only workplaces, Federalist CEO Sean Davis said on Thursday. The moment came during an interview Davis participated in on Fox News’ The Will Cain Show when the host of the same name asked The Federalist CEO to comment on a SCOTUS decision released on Thursday in a case known as Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services. As The Federalist reported, the...
  • Inside Harvard’s Discrimination Machine

    05/15/2025 8:37:14 AM PDT · by DFG · 6 replies
    City Journal ^ | 05/14/2025 | Christopher F. Rufo, Ryan Thorpe
    The Trump administration has escalated its battle with Harvard University, freezing all future grants and threatening to strip the school’s tax-exempt status. In response, Harvard has adopted some conciliatory measures— rebranding its DEI office and cancelling its racially segregated graduation ceremonies—but, behind the scenes, the university’s discrimination machine continues to operate at full capacity. We’ve obtained a trove of internal documents that reveal Harvard’s racial favoritism in faculty and administrative hiring. The university’s DEI programs are more than “unconscious bias” training. They are vectors for systematic discrimination against disfavored groups: namely, white men. As one Harvard researcher told us, “endless...
  • Inside Harvard’s Discrimination Machine

    05/14/2025 7:18:34 PM PDT · by T Ruth · 5 replies
    City Journal ^ | May 14, 2025 | Christopher F. Rufo, Ryan Thorpe
    The Trump administration has escalated its battle with Harvard University, freezing all future grants and threatening to strip the school’s tax-exempt status. In response, Harvard has adopted some conciliatory measures— rebranding its DEI office and cancelling its racially segregated graduation ceremonies—but, behind the scenes, the university’s discrimination machine continues to operate at full capacity.We’ve obtained a trove of internal documents that reveal Harvard’s racial favoritism in faculty and administrative hiring. The university’s DEI programs are more than “unconscious bias” training. They are vectors for systematic discrimination against disfavored groups: namely, white men. ...***In another hiring guide, “Best Practices for Conducting...
  • Restaurant asked Tommy Robinson to leave after staff 'felt uncomfortable'

    06/07/2025 5:34:58 PM PDT · by RandFan · 15 replies
    BBC ^ | June 7 | BBC
    Far-right anti-Islam activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, was asked to leave a London restaurant after the business said guests and staff felt uncomfortable. The 42-year-old said he and four others were told to leave the Hawksmoor steakhouse, near Piccadilly Circus, on Thursday. Yaxley-Lennon has accused the restaurant of "discriminatory behaviour" due to his political beliefs. Hawksmoor, which did not name Yaxley-Lennon in its statement, said the group left the restaurant "politely", adding that its decision was "not about politics or belief" and it was "not trying to engage in a public debate". The restaurant chain has been...
  • Supreme Court rules Wisconsin unconstitutionally discriminated against Christian charity

    06/05/2025 8:20:28 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 24 replies
    Fox News ^ | June 5, 2025 | Breanne Deppisch , Shannon Bream , Bill Mears
    The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a Wisconsin-based Catholic charity group in a case centered on unemployment tax credits for religious institutions – delivering a victory for faith-based institutions, who had argued the state's decision had violated the religious clauses under the First Amendment. In a unanimous opinion, justices on the high court agreed that the state had engaged in an "unnecessary entanglement" in attempting to define whether religious groups should be entitled to an otherwise-available tax exemption based on the state’s criteria for religious behavior. "When the government distinguishes among religions based on theological differences in their provision...
  • SCOTUS Just ruled "Reverse Discrimination" IS Discrimination 9-0

    06/05/2025 7:49:19 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 50 replies
    X ^ | 06/05/25 | Chuck Callesto
    SCOTUS Just ruled "Reverse Discrimination" IS Discrimination 9-0 A rare UNANIMOUS ruling from the Supreme Court. Honestly, this should be obvious and never made it to the Supreme Court. - June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that “reverse discrimination” is discrimination, siding with Marlean Ames, who claimed she was denied a promotion and demoted at the Ohio Department of Youth Services for being straight. - The ruling eliminates the “background circumstances” requirement in 20 states, ensuring majority groups like straight or white employees face the same evidentiary standard under Title VII. - Justice Ketanji "Woman?" Brown Jackson wrote...
  • Comedian sentenced to eight years over discriminatory jokes

    06/04/2025 7:04:57 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 78 replies
    Euroweeklynews ^ | 06 04 2025 | Santiago Carneri
    A court has sentenced comedian Leo Lins to more than eight years in prison for inciting intolerance through a stand-up performance viewed by over three million people on YouTube. On Tuesday 3 June, Brazilian comedian Leo Lins was sentenced to over eight years in prison for making discriminatory remarks in a stand-up routine that targeted a wide range of minority groups — including black people, obese individuals, elderly people, those living with HIV, homosexuals, evangelicals, Indigenous communities, people from the impoverished northeast of Brazil, Jews, and people with disabilities. The federal court in São Paulo ruled that the right to...
  • South African president signs controversial land seizure law

    05/23/2025 11:33:23 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 74 replies
    BBC News ^ | 24 January 2025 | Khanyisile Ngcobo
    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law a bill allowing land seizures by the state without compensation - a move that has put him at odds with some members of his government. Black people only own a small fraction of farmland nationwide more than 30 years after the end of the racist system of apartheid - the majority remains with the white minority. This has led to frustration and anger over the slow pace of reform. While Ramaphosa's ANC party hailed the law as a "significant milestone" in the country's transformation, some members of the coalition government say...
  • Elon Musk's reaction sends people wild during testy Trump showdown with South African president

    05/21/2025 1:53:21 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 52 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | 21 May 2025 | CHARLIE SPIERING
    Billionaire Elon Musk triggered a flood of attention on social media on Wednesday as he joined President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday. The president confronted South African president Cyril Ramaphosa on the issue of the deaths of white farmers. Musk did not speak during the event, as President Trump asked staff to dim the lights in the Oval Office as he played a video of EFF leader Julius Malema chanting 'Shoot the Boer, Shoot the farmer.' Trump also showcased a series of news clippings including a file from the Daily Mail about the horrific crimes committed against...
  • A Major Setback Looms in Florida

    05/21/2025 9:11:00 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 9 replies
    Chronicles ^ | 21 May, 2025 | Paul du Quenoy
    On May 4, a search committee at the University of Florida recommended current University of Michigan President Santa Ono to succeed Ben Sasse as UF’s president. Ono’s appointment is subject to confirmation by UF’s Board of Trustees and the Florida State University System’s Board of Governors. Heretofore, the Board of Governors has wisely confirmed multiple appointments to carry out Governor Ron DeSantis’s praiseworthy vision of a state education system free of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), critical race theory (CRT), radical gender ideology, and other pernicious policies that have marred education across the United States and the English-speaking world. Yet...
  • Minnesota softball players sue Ellison, state officials for being forced to compete against male

    05/20/2025 3:48:09 PM PDT · by CFW · 32 replies
    Alpha News ^ | 5/20/25 | Jenna Gloeb
    A group of Minnesota high school softball players is suing Attorney General Keith Ellison and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL), alleging that the state’s transgender athlete policy violates federal law and harms female athletes. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a national legal organization, filed the federal lawsuit Monday on behalf of Female Athletes United (FAU), a group of Minnesota girls who say they have been forced to compete against a biologically male athlete in high school softball. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, claims the state’s current policy allowing males to compete in...
  • WATCH: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Says He Favors Hiring Black Staff Because They Are ‘Earth’s Most Generous Race’

    05/19/2025 12:29:24 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 65 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/19/2025 | Amy Furr
    Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) made some controversial statements on Sunday while speaking about why he hires so many black citizens to work for the city. While speaking to the congregation at the Apostolic Church of God in Woodlawn, Johnson made statements that brought criticism online, MRC-TV reported on Monday. “Some detractors that will push back on me and say, ‘The only thing the mayor talks about is the hiring of black people.’ No, what I’m saying is when you hire our people we always look out for everybody else. We are the most generous people on the planet,” Johnson...
  • Does Trump Want to Destroy Harvard, or Reform It?/Barf

    05/18/2025 11:41:40 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 28 replies
    Compact ^ | 16/5/25 | Gregory Conti
    he Trump administration’s campaign against higher education has proceeded on so many fronts, and at such breathtaking speed, that it is hard for individual elements of it to capture the news cycle for long. But one especially notable development occurred in the first week of May, when Secretary of Education Linda McMahon wrote a letter to the president of Harvard, Alan Garber, announcing that his institution would be cut off from future government grants. This followed the extraordinary list of demands that the administration issued (by mistake?) to Harvard a month earlier. The more recent McLetter is worth reading for...
  • FEMA’s Woke Disaster: $2 Billion Fraud, Reverse Discrimination, and Retaliation Buried for Six Years

    05/15/2025 4:58:36 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 3 replies
    X.com ^ | May. 15, 2025 | Barry Angeline and Col. Dan McCabe
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/femas-woke-disaster-2-billion-fraud-reverse-discrimination/For six years, FEMA has quietly buried one of the worst scandals in federal disaster response—a toxic mix of reverse discrimination, fraud, and whistleblower retaliation tied to the Hurricane Maria recovery in Puerto Rico. I led the contractor team that uncovered it firsthand. In 2018, I deployed as the technical lead of a Lean Six Sigma team made up of straight, older, white veterans and executives. Our mission was to bring order, transparency, and efficiency to a FEMA operation crippled by dysfunction. What we found was not just inefficiency—it was corruption: theft, favoritism, and rot embedded deep in FEMA’s culture....
  • 44 Law Firms Hit With Discrimination Complaint Over Race-Based Internship

    05/13/2025 3:58:26 PM PDT · by Twotone · 18 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | May 12, 2025 | Aaron Sibarium
    Forty-four of the nation’s largest law firms were hit with a discrimination complaint on Monday alleging that they use an outside staffing agency to hire interns based on race, putting Big Law on track for another clash with the Trump administration. The complaint, filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, targets Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), a nonprofit that places minority students at elite firms the summer before their first year of law school. The paid internship often leads to a return offer the following summers, giving recipients an extraordinary leg up on their white peers. Americans for Opportunity, the...