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  • “White Lives Matter” Slogan Earns Two Dutch Men Imprisonment for Racism

    12/15/2025 4:26:38 AM PST · by MarlonRando · 40 replies
    European Conservative ^ | 12-11-25 | Steven Lek
    The prosecutor argued that the slogan “White lives matter” constitutes an insult to people with dark skin. Both suspects, identified as John A. and Daniel S. (25 and 35 years old at the time), lost their appeal and now face six months in prison, which Dutch mainstream media describes as a “light sentence”. They faced charges such as insulting a group, inciting discrimination, disseminating discriminatory messages and possessing discriminatory stickers.
  • Who is Benjamin Erickson? Wisconsin man, 24, in custody for Brown University mass shooting

    12/14/2025 6:57:07 PM PST · by Morgana · 26 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | December 14, 2025 | Melissa Koenig
    A US Army sniper has been taken into custody in connection with the Brown University mass shooting. Erickson, originally from Wisconsin, was apprehended in connection with the Saturday shooting that left at least two dead and nine injured, according to the Washington Post. He was taken into police custody early Sunday morning at the Hampton Inn in Coventry, around 15 miles from Brown University campus in Providence after federal authorities received a tip from local police and used 'geolocation' to locate him. It was later revealed that Erickson was not a resident of Rhode Island or a student at the...
  • Fed Up Aussie Goes on Explicit Rant After Islamic Terrorist Attack

    12/14/2025 4:28:59 PM PST · by MarlonRando · 30 replies
    Rumble ^ | 12-14-25 | Ozzy Someguy
    This is a short video of a very fed-up Australian citizen who is sick to death of islam and multicultural bull crap. I have to warn you that there are some very nasty words but the guy is angry and if the other side shoots us, rapes us, murders us and robs is— you know what? They are going to hear a few choice words. Sticks and stones mate.
  • California Family Still Waiting For Permit To Build Gingerbread House

    12/14/2025 7:55:12 AM PST · by Navy Patriot · 8 replies
    The Bee ^ | December 12, 2025 | Staff
    PACIFIC PALISADES, CA — Bucking years of tradition, a family new to the California area has failed to build a single gingerbread house this Christmas season due to a backlog at the permit office. "We're still waiting for the appropriate permits to build our gingerbread house," said Mona Riggs. "Baking gingerbread houses is a fun tradition we do every year, but at this point we'll be lucky to have one put together by the end of the decade." According to sources, the January Pacific Palisades fire and its resulting destruction caused a significant logjam of processing permit applications. The city...
  • It's Official: Ditching The SATs Was A Big Mistake

    12/13/2025 9:04:48 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 49 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 12/13/2025 | Jonathan Miltimore
    In early 2020, the University of California set the tone for the rest of the country when its regents voted to drop SAT and ACT admissions requirements through 2024. That decision, initially framed as a pandemic necessity, quickly reshaped admissions nationwide. By late 2022, roughly 1,750 schools, or about 80 percent of U.S. universities, had adopted test-optional policies, according to Forbes.“It’s a sea change in terms of how admissions decisions are being made,” Robert Schaeffer, of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, told NBC News.“The pandemic created a natural experiment.”Five years later, the results of this “natural experiment”...
  • Parents' fury over school district teaching nine genders and 30 sexual orientations for kids

    12/13/2025 6:40:07 PM PST · by Morgana · 44 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | December 13, 2025 | Jenson Bird
    A San Diego school district is under fire for providing a curriculum that teaches young students about nine genders and 30 sexual orientations. Parents have objected to a slideshow featured on the San Diego Unified Schools (SDUS) website entitled 'LGBTQIA+ Terms you should know'. The resources outlined definitions for nine gender identities including transgender, non-binary, genderfluid and agender. The slides also included a graphic showcasing more than 30 'LGBTQ Youth Sexual Orientations' including graysexual, queer, asexual and pansexual. SDUS is the second largest district in California and services more than 121,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. It is unclear...
  • Trump Education Department Announces They’ve Found More Than a BILLION in Student Aid Fraud

    12/12/2025 11:42:21 PM PST · by Morgana · 25 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | December 12, 2025 | Mike LaChance
    The Trump Education Department has been focusing on identifying student loan fraud and they have a lot to show for their efforts. They just announced that they have uncovered more than a billion dollars in fraud. Trump’s Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, may be the last cabinet official of her kind if Trump has his way. Like many Republicans going all the way back to Ronald Reagan, Trump wants to do away with the department completely. McMahon and Trump have successfully done away with a number of horrible Bide-era policies on student loans and financial aid, which has helped them to...
  • Innocent woman's hair is burned off after stranger emerged from bushes in Savannah park and hurled ACID at her

    12/12/2025 11:07:21 PM PST · by MarlonRando · 40 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 12-12-25 | Wilko Cachero
    'This was a random person in the park who went out of their way to disfigure another human being,' he said. He added that there was no evidence of the attack on Wasielewski being 'part of a larger pattern,' while urging locals to take care of one another. The police chief also pushed back on unfounded rumors concerning the attack. 'We understand how quickly information, speculation and worry we can spread,' he said. 'That's why we're 100 percent committed to sharing verified updates as soon as we have them and not before. Accuracy matters.'
  • Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.

    12/12/2025 3:13:21 PM PST · by Borges · 73 replies
    NYT ^ | 12/12/25 | Dana Goldstein
    In American high schools, the age of the book may be fading. Many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. Twelfth-grade reading scores are at historic lows, and college professors, even at elite schools, are increasingly reporting difficulties in getting students to engage with lengthy or complex texts. Perhaps that is to be expected in the era of TikTok and A.I. Some education experts believe that in the near future,...
  • BREAKING: Black student stabs white classmate in the face at Atlanta high school, screams 'white b*tch'

    12/12/2025 12:06:04 PM PST · by MarlonRando · 143 replies
    Post Millennial ^ | 12-12-25 | Thomas Stevenson
    The video also showed the black student running back up to the stabbing victim after the attack screaming “white b*tch!” before he was stopped by another individual. Charges in the stabbing were pending after the incident.
  • Burnt Offerings

    12/11/2025 8:10:21 PM PST · by Morgana · 8 replies
    Moonbattery ^ | December 11, 2025 | Dave Blount
    If we are to propitiate the angry climate, we must make certain sacrifices — like the occasional school bus driver. Via KTLA: An electric school bus burst into flames in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning, prompting a massive emergency response and shutting down a stretch of the 210 Freeway in Sylmar, authorities said. The oversized moonbatmobile burst into flames as it went under an overpass at 9:20 a.m. Sky5 was over the scene as heavy flames and thick black smoke poured from the fully involved bus. The driver was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. Fortunately, there were no...
  • Dem Kentucky rep says she 'doesn't feel good about being white' while arguing for DEI in education

    12/11/2025 7:58:51 PM PST · by MarlonRando · 37 replies
    Post Millenial ^ | 12-11-25 | Libby Emmons
    "I think we're missing an incredible opportunity right now," Stalker said. "I'm going to be honest, I don't feel good about being white every day for a lot of reasons, because it's a point of privilege that I get to move through the world in a way that so many of my other colleagues and friends and family members in the community don't get the privilege to do."
  • Trump admin drops hammer on ‘ghost students,’ claws back $1B from alleged loan scammers

    12/11/2025 10:33:09 AM PST · by Libloather · 18 replies
    Fox News ^ | 12/11/25 | Emma Colton
    FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Education thwarted more than $1 billion in student aid fraud under President Donald Trump's first year in office, including stopping suspected bots and "ghost students" from obtaining taxpayer-funded loans, Fox News Digital learned. Officials say the savings come from new "enhanced fraud controls" the department implemented in June to combat fraudsters from working to obtain financial assistance loans from colleges. College officials and cybersecurity experts in recent years have pointed to a new scam trend of "ghost students," which are fabricated or stolen identities created solely to enroll, trigger financial aid disbursements and then...
  • Kwanzaa Finally Revealed To Be Elaborate Prank On White People

    12/11/2025 7:02:48 AM PST · by Navy Patriot · 58 replies
    The Bee ^ | December 10, 2025 | Staff
    U.S. — In a corroboration of what many had long suspected, a new report finally confirmed that the holiday of Kwanzaa had been revealed to be an elaborate prank on white people. While experts had wondered for decades if the manufactured holiday was just a clever inside joke to mess with caucasians, it wasn't until a bombshell exposé revealed the complex ruse for what it was all along. "Yeah, you got us," said black dude Achonte Ndukwe. "We all held a secret meeting back in the late '60s to figure out what we could do to mess with white people....
  • Man Jailed in Switzerland for 10 Days for Posting That Men's and Women's Skeletons Are Different

    12/11/2025 4:17:36 AM PST · by MarlonRando · 28 replies
    Twitchy ^ | 12-10-25 | Brett T.
    A Swiss man, Emanuel Brünisholz, is serving 10 days in prison in Switzerland for saying on Facebook that skeletons are either male or female. For that remark I was fined 500 Swiss francs. I refused to pay, and so, on the 2nd of December 2025, I will serve ten days in prison. It is worth noting that, legally speaking, this prison sentence is not a punishment for refusing to pay the fine. Instead, the prison sentence is an alternative way to be punished for the Facebook post itself. I have chosen to trade a monetary fine for time behind bars....
  • Bethesda Public School Recruits 11–12-Year-Olds Into LGBTism

    12/10/2025 9:40:00 PM PST · by Morgana · 7 replies
    Moonbattery ^ | December 9, 2025 | Dave Blount
    Where moonbats have been allowed to dominate it, education is not about education; it is about moonbattery. This includes introducing prepubescent children to sexual depravity: A Maryland middle school presented a slideshow to 6th graders celebrating “Transgender Awareness Week” where the children were given a lesson that included “advice for coming out” and “8 tips for being nonbinary.” This time it isn’t Baltimore but Bethesda. Westland Middle School is a public school financed by taxpayers. Indoctrination included “a video that was produced by the LGBT educational resource provider Pop’n’Olly.” In no sane world would an “LGBT educational resource provider” be...
  • 8 PA High School Football Players Arrested in FL for Stealing 47 Items from Local Sporting Goods Store, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd Responds

    12/10/2025 8:43:52 PM PST · by Morgana · 16 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | December 10, 2025 | Margaret Flavin
    The Polk County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of eight teenagers caught trying to steal more than $2,000 worth of merchandise from a local Dick’s Sporting Goods in Posner Plaza, Davenport. The teens, who are from Pennsylvania, are members of a Philadelphia youth football team, the United Thoroughbreds, who were in Polk County participating in the Prolifix Nationals tournament. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office shared, “On Saturday, December 6, 2025, at approximately 10:55 a.m., PCSO deputies responded to a report of retail theft in progress at the Dick’s Sporting Goods. The store manager contacted PCSO after observing multiple juveniles concealing...
  • Delayed Gratification

    12/10/2025 7:15:10 AM PST · by PeterPrinciple · 33 replies
    PsychUniverse ^ | 3 December 2025 | Dr. Balaji Niwlikar
    The Original Marshmallow Experiment The Marshmallow Experiment began in the late 1960s and early 1970s at Stanford University, led by psychologist Walter Mischel and his colleagues (Mischel et al., 1972). The setup was famously simple: a child was placed at a table with a marshmallow (or sometimes a cookie or pretzel). The researcher explained that the child could eat the marshmallow immediately, but if they waited until the researcher returned—usually around 15 minutes—they would receive a second marshmallow. The children’s reactions ranged from hilarious to heartbreaking. Some covered their eyes. Some sang to themselves. Some sniffed, stroked, or poked the...
  • Footage captured of asylum seeker attackers by rape victim 'would start a riot if the public saw it'

    12/09/2025 11:35:21 PM PST · by MarlonRando · 32 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 12-8-25 | Jack Hardy
    Even Niazal's own lawyer Joshua Radcliffe called the phone footage 'genuinely horrific', adding: 'I have no doubt that if the general public were exposed to that, we would have disorder on our hands.' The asylum seekers were living in taxpayer-funded houses at the time of the attack, having arrived in the UK by small boats as unaccompanied children.
  • Judge Finds Luigi Mangione Too Stunningly Handsome And Gorgeous To Stand Trial

    12/09/2025 6:11:54 PM PST · by Navy Patriot · 4 replies
    The Bee ^ | December 9, 2025 | Staff
    NEW YORK, NY — In a shocking development in the case of a killer charged with murdering a health insurance executive, a New York judge found that Luigi Mangione was too stunningly handsome and gorgeous to stand trial. Though the prosecution had reportedly built a strong case with substantial evidence against him, Mangione was deemed, upon examination, to be far too good-looking to be tried for the murder. "Have you seen him?" said Judge Maureen Donaldson in her ruling. "My goodness. In all my years on the bench, I have never run across a case that is so startlingly violent...