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  • Flashback: Medical Association Abandoned its Own Guidance Because Trump Agreed With Them

    3/18/2025, 6:56:06 PM · by lightman · 4 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | 18 March A.D. 2025 | Guy Benson
    Last month, I wrote a piece entitled, 'what is wrong with the American Academy of Pediatrics?' I cited a number of pieces of evidence demonstrating how this medical association has been compromised and captured by far-left ideology and partisan politics. Those examples included their madness on mandatory masking of toddlers during COVID, engaging in revolting pro-Hamas propaganda (spearheaded by a conspiratorial anti-Semite who holds a DEI position within the group's structure), and embracing radical medical experimentation on minors, in the name of extreme gender ideology. One potential mitigating factor I found in my research was the AAP's seemingly sensible guidance...
  • Randi Weingarten deserves the fury of parents across the nation

    3/13/2025, 4:11:52 PM · by V_TWIN · 30 replies
    nypost.com ^ | March 12, 2025 | Post Editorial Board
    American Federation of Teachers honcho Randi Weingarten’s sudden outrage over Team Trump’s plan to abolish the federal Department of Education is simply about losing her own power and influence — not any risk to the kids. America’s “competitors — and adversaries — are no doubt cheering President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education,” Weingarten asserts in an MSNBC column, pretending the DOE “helps give all children in the United States access to the great public school education they deserve.” Nonsense: Few kids in America have “access” to “great public school education”; we lag our peers badly...
  • DOGE Finds $2 Billion in Taxpayer Funds Earmarked for Stacey Abrams-Linked Group

    2/19/2025, 11:34:59 PM · by kevcol · 65 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 19, 2025 | Thomas Catenacci
    "As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been," the EPA administrator continued. "It’s extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue."
  • LAWFARE: Web of Leftist Groups Working in Tandem to Tie Up Trump Agenda in Court

    2/13/2025, 7:40:22 PM · by jeannineinsd · 14 replies
    Daily Signal ^ | 2/12/2025 | Fred Lucas
    Lawfare hasn’t stopped since Donald Trump became president again, but has been repackaged into civil litigation to stop his second term agenda—and most of the civil lawfare can be traced to groups affiliated with a coalition known as Civil Service Strong. Members of the coalition scored federal court wins in recent days to temporarily block Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, to delay a federal employee buyout, and to halt the shuttering of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The member groups have also been involved in numerous other lawsuits against the Trump administration, including challenging the Schedule F executive...
  • Massive Teachers Union Used Taxpayer-Funded Dues For Pricey Meeting At Legendary Casino

    10/17/2024, 7:53:02 PM · by DFG · 10 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 10/15/2024 | Robert Schmad
    A union representing roughly 1.8 million teachers and other educational workers used taxpayer-funded dues to book a trip to a famous casino and to pay for meals at luxury restaurants. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) spent over $370,000 on expenses at Caesars Palace, a luxury hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, disclosure forms show. In addition, the AFT also used dues collected from its members to help pay for trips to Europe and South America, as well as to pay off five-figure tabs at upscale restaurants. “My suspicion is that this is a case of ‘rank hath its...
  • Statements by a representative of the AfD party that won in eastern Germany

    9/3/2024, 2:53:17 AM · by hardspunned · 41 replies
    Zlatti71 ^ | Tino Chrupalla
    📝 Co-chairman of the Alternative for Germany Tino Chrupalla: We clearly state: stop supplying weapons to Ukraine! €30 billion - what madness!, We demand a broad mix of energy: coal, nuclear, gas from Russia. This ensured our prosperity. ▪️On Nord Stream: Germany was attacked, our infrastructure was destroyed. Ostashko reports
  • Harris Rallies Teachers Union With Dire Warnings About Trump

    7/25/2024, 9:00:19 PM · by E. Pluribus Unum · 24 replies
    The New York Times ^ | July 25, 2024, 4:10 p.m. ET | Erica L. Green | Reporting from Houston
    Vice President Kamala Harris rallied thousands of members of the most powerful teachers unions in the country to join her in a fight against what she called former President Donald J. Trump’s plans to roll back their rights, gut their protections and undermine their profession.In a keynote address at the national convention of the American Federation of Teachers, Ms. Harris blasted efforts by “extremists” who she said wanted to take the country back to a “dark past” that included “failed trickle-down economics,” union busting, slashing social programs and curtailing student loan forgiveness.And before the crowd of 3,500 people, she assailed...
  • AFT’s Randi Weingarten warns in ‘unhinged’ speech of fascism, violence if Trump is elected

    7/23/2024, 3:27:24 PM · by DFG · 35 replies
    NY Post ^ | 07/23/2024 | Emily Crane
    American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten has been ripped as an “unhinged lunatic” after she delivered a wild, political rally-style speech suggesting that former President Donald Trump was an “existential threat” to democracy. The teachers’ union president screamed and shouted at her members as she warned of looming violence and fascism if Trump wins the 2024 election when she took the stage during the AFT’s annual convention in Houston, Texas, on Monday. “The November elections will determine which path we take as a nation. Progress is indeed possible, but so is the eradication of the rights and freedoms we...
  • AFT to vote on controversial proposals — including ending US military aid to Israel, protecting pro-Palestinian protesters

    7/19/2024, 5:15:28 PM · by SJackson · 40 replies
    NY Post ^ | July 16, 2024 | Carl Campanile
    America’s second-largest teacher’s union has drafted a group of resolutions calling for the end of US military aid to Israel — and defending the anti-Israel protests that have rocked campuses across the country. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) — which is affiliated with the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) that represents most teachers in New York City public schools — will vote on the controversial proposals at its national convention starting in Houston next Monday.One of the resolutions, which calls for a cease-fire between the Jewish State and the terror group Hamas, demands a halt to US military assistance...
  • Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers defends pro-Hamas campus occupations as 'peacefully demonstrating'

    5/31/2024, 3:48:42 PM · by Impala64ssa · 36 replies
    Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers defends pro-Hamas campus occupations as 'peacefully demonstrating' The American Federation of Teachers led by Randi Weingarten claimed that anti-Israel protesters on college campuses were simply "peacefully demonstrating." The American Federation of Teachers led by Randi Weingarten claimed that anti-Israel protesters on college campuses were simply “peacefully demonstrating.” The Tuesday statement from the AFT came in response to a hearing last week from the House Education and the Workforce Committee where leaders of Northwestern University, Rutgers University, and the University of California, Los Angeles, were grilled regarding their response to campus anti-Israel encampments. ”AFT members...
  • Biden Wants Union Labor To Rebuild The Baltimore Bridge

    4/6/2024, 2:03:06 AM · by Kenny Bania · 70 replies
    National Palestinian Radio (aka NPR) ^ | April 5, 2024 | Franco Ordonez
    President Biden vowed on Friday that the federal government would cover the cost of rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore – and that the work would be done by union labor, potentially setting up a funding fight with the conservative wing of the House of Representatives. Biden has promised from the outset that the federal government would pay for the bridge to be rebuilt. His comments on Friday came after the House Freedom Caucus — the conservative wing of the House of Representatives — released a series of conditions for federal funding for the bridge. The conditions include...
  • NYU professor claims homeschooling being used to indoctrinate kids, cheers public schools (the projection is strong with this one)

    3/20/2024, 1:32:40 AM · by DoodleBob · 39 replies
    KATV ^ | March 18, 2024 | RAY LEWIS
    A New York University professor claimed last week homeschooled students can easily become victims of indoctrination.During an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) book club meeting, Ruth Ben-Ghiat argued the recent opposition against public schooling stems originates with authoritarians who want to indoctrinate their children via homeschooling.One of the reasons that they all go after education and one of the reasons that schools are being targeted ... A big thing is to destroy liberal, democratic models of secular education – get everybody out of the system, put them in homeschools so they can be indoctrinated,” Ben-Ghiat told AFT President Randi Weingarten,...
  • Grooming? Manitoba school hands out homosexual (pedo) pornography, condoms to teenage boys

    2/27/2024, 5:15:06 PM · by NetAddicted · 14 replies
    Lifesitenews.com ^ | 2/26/2024 | Doug Mainwaring
    The publisher describes the booklet as ‘a pocket-sized flip book that graphically models condom use between two men.’ But they are not ‘two men.’ They are a man and a teen. As such, the graphic booklet overtly suggests male homosexual pederasty. (LifeSiteNews) — Materials given to students to take home by a high school in Canada as part of a sex-ed program look less like they’re intended for educational purposes and more like a brazen attempt to groom vulnerable teen boys for sex with older males. Student mom Janine Stephanie Penner reported on Facebook that “My grade 10 son was...
  • Randi Weingarten’s Latest Take on School Choice Is Something Else

    12/20/2023, 7:52:45 PM · by lightman · 13 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | 20 December A.D. 2023 | Madeline Leesman
    American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten recently said that school choice “undermines democracy.” In a video of her remarks, Weingarten slammed former White House Education Secretary Betsy Devos, City Journal journalist Christopher Rufo, and prominent school choice activist Corey DeAngelis. “[School choice proponents] have not one thing that they offer as a solution other than privatizing or voucherizing schools, which is about undermining democracy and undermining civil discourse and undermining pluralism, because 90 percent of our kids goes to public schools still. They just divided. Divided, divide, divide, divide,” Weingarten claimed. “What did Rufo say? Rufo, DeAngelis, Devos,...
  • Randi Weingarten Slammed Online for Question About Jewish Prayer: ‘Moron’

    11/15/2023, 10:19:53 PM · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    New York Post ^ | Nov. 15, 2023 | Houston Keene
    American Federation of Teachers (AFT) PresidentRandi Weingarten was slapped with an X community note after asking where the “women” were during an all-male Jewish prayer service. Weingarten, who said in 2010 she considers herself to be a “deeply religious” Jew, quoted Jewish conservative commentator Mark Levin’s video footage of the minyan — a quorum of Jewish adults, traditionally male, required for certain religious observances — outside the White House. “Where are the women?” Weingarten asked in the post, which has its comments section limited to Weingarten’s followers. The post garnered a response from Levin as well as a community note...
  • Union boss Weingarten thinks you’re a racist if you want good schools for your kids

    9/16/2023, 1:34:19 PM · by Oldeconomybuyer · 21 replies
    NY Post ^ | September 15, 2023 | By Eva Moskowitz
    Want to have some ability to choose where your child goes to school? Well, then you’re a racist. So says Randi Weingarten, leader of the American Federation of Teachers. Words like “school choice” or “parental rights,” she maintains, are the “same kinds of words” used by segregationists, so if you use them too, you’re one of them. Predictably, Weingarten is now furiously backpedaling, claiming that she was just making an innocent comment about “language” rather than actually accusing anyone of being racist, but this isn’t the first time she’s beat this drum. In 2017, she called school-choice programs the “only...
  • Teachers union instructed educators how to insert gender identity politics into classrooms: report

    8/27/2023, 4:15:19 AM · by Morgana · 10 replies
    Christian Post ^ | August 24, 2023 | Samantha Kamman
    One of the nation's largest teachers unions in America has reportedly offered instruction to teachers on how to insert lessons on gender identity into classroom discussions, according to a right-leaning public policy institute. The Defense of Freedom Institute, founded by two former Trump administration Department of Education officials, released a report earlier this month describing the topics promoted by the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. Before its Together Educating America's Children (TEACH) conference in July, DFI noted that AFT released a resolution on LGBT issues that touted "age-appropriate and inclusive" bathroom and locker room policies. In...
  • The Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Ruling Is Already Having an Impact. You Might Be Surprised Where.

    7/6/2023, 3:11:52 PM · by george76 · 19 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | July 6, 2023 | Aaron Sibarium
    Columbia Law journals are delaying admissions decisions in the wake of the Court's landmark ruling. The move highlights how the verdict could have implications beyond undergraduate admissions. Law journals at Columbia University Law School are delaying their masthead decisions in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling last week outlawing race-based college admissions, a sign that the ban on affirmative action is already having an effect beyond undergraduate programs. The law school's office of student services, which coordinates applications to all journals including the flagship Columbia Law Review, said Sunday that journal acceptances had been postponed until the school could...
  • The affirmative action ruling has exposed Democrats’ failure on education

    7/5/2023, 1:52:12 PM · by The Old Hoosier · 29 replies
    The Hill ^ | 7/5/2023 | Derek Hunter
    ...The education system’s failure to prepare non-white students for college admissions on the merits is not just an accident of Democratic one-party rule. It is a feature of Democratic machine politics. The two major teachers unions — the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) — tell Democrats to jump; Democrats lack the spine to do anything but ask, “How high?”...
  • Testimony of Lies: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Perjured Herself Twice Before Congress

    6/18/2023, 2:08:13 PM · by george76 · 15 replies
    THE VIGILANT FOX ^ | JUN 17, 2023
    “That woman murdered babies, and she knew it. And five days after we posted [Pfizer] Report 69, she announced her resignation. So that’s what Congress should be asking her about.” Walensky seemed less cool in this appearance for Congress. This is the least composed and the most nervous, I feel, like I’ve seen this woman who’s usually kind of cool as a cucumber,” noted conservative podcaster Emerald Robinson Thursday. She also “perjured herself twice,” expressed special guest and DailyClout CEO Dr. Naomi Wolf. The soon-to-be former CDC Director (June 30), Rochelle Walensky, testified before Congress for two hours on Tuesday....