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A new report finds that the JAMA Network ran more articles recently mentioning “inequity” than “asthma.” In his novel The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann describes wealthy European consumptives who retreat to a sanitorium high in the Swiss Alps, convinced that thin air aids in treating pulmonary tuberculosis. In their self-contained community, they affirm their faith in contemporary medical practices while delaying the demands of life in the “flatlands.” Medical researchers, it seems, are retreating to a sanatorium of their own. Based on our analysis, leading medical journals increasingly lean left and are abandoning scientific principles in service of progressive ideology....

Diversity is a ‘core value’ but Minnesota State Mankato won’t share with the public what an ‘equity lens’ in coaching means When Minnesota State University-Mankato defensive linemen hit tackling dummies and run sprints this summer, they will do so under the watchful eye of a coach with an “equity lens.” But how exactly the coaching staff defines “equity” and “anti-racism” remains shrouded in mystery, since the school denied a College Fix request to view submitted diversity statements. The Fix requested copies of the diversity statements submitted by its defensive assistant coaching applicants as required by a May job posting. The...

During a hearing in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon provided compelling testimony about how the Trump administration is rapidly weeding out discriminatory policies and practices across America. Dhillon used the "Ending Illegal DEI Discrimination & Preferences: Enforcing Our Civil Rights Laws" hearing as a report card on her tenure after the first 100 days in office, in which she said "under the leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi," they have been working diligently to "end illegal DEI [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] for all Americans," including in...

A variation on rest in peace, rest in power is used, especially in Black and LGBTQ communities, to commemorate a person whose death is considered unjust or wrongful. In this way, rest in power is a call to continue the struggle for social justice and as a show of solidarity. Rest in power is also used to pay respect to a person, especially a person of color, who made a difference in the lives of minority communities. It is sometimes used to note the death of a person felt to have died too soon or senselessly, or a person who...

New hire will assist with Office of Diversity Samford University in Alabama is advertising a job for a “diversity” staffer after removing “diversity, equity, and inclusion” references from its website following media inquiries. “The Program Coordinator for the Office of Student Success and Diversity will … work collaboratively to create an inclusive campus environment where all students feel welcomed, valued, and supported,” the job description states. The coordinator will plan and implement “diversity-focused programs and events that promote cultural awareness, engagement, and belonging among students, faculty, and staff,” it states. The description also states that the new hire will assist...

Skydance Media needs the approval of President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission in order to take over Paramount Global. It’s now promising to root out “bias” at CBS News in order to get it. In a pair of letters filed Tuesday with the FCC, Skydance committed to a post-merger “comprehensive review of CBS,” including a promise to install an ombudsman to evaluate complaints of “bias or other concerns” at the news network and report their findings to the new Paramount’s president. Skydance also committed to eliminating Paramount’s diversity, equity and inclusion practices at the entertainment giant once it takes over....

Eighty billion dollars flushed down the toilet, as air traffic controllers were stuck using equipment dating from the Carter era. Democrat frontrunner for 2028 Pete Buttigieg, is the kind of guy who could give California's Gov. Gavin Newsom or Los Angeles's mayor, Karen Bass, a run for the money. Amid news of an aircraft near collision over North Dakota, following a disastrous similar military-civilian crash in Washington, D.C. in January, we learn this about how he ran the cabinet office he headed, the U.S. Department of Transportation. So while he was 'breast-feeding' his twins and telling us about his 'husband,'...

A US-bound Delta flight with at least 150 people onboard was forced to hit the brakes during takeoff in Mexico this week when another jet nearly landed on top of it. Delta Flight 590 had just started rolling down the runway at Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez in Mexico City on Monday when the regional AeroMéxico plane suddenly flew overhead and landed in front of it, Flightradar 24 data showed. The regional jet came within less than 200 feet of the Atlanta-bound Delta flight, CNN reported.

President Trump is pulling the US out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing its anti-America and anti-Israel leanings as well as its woke agenda, The Post has learned. Trump ordered a 90-day review of America’s presence in UNESCO back in February, with special emphasis on probing any “anti-Semitism or anti-Israel sentiment within the organization.” Upon conducting the review, administration officials took issue with UNESCO’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies as well as its pro-Palestinian and pro-China bias, a White House official told The Post. “President Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from UNESCO...

WASHINGTON — Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg failed to replace outdated air-traffic-control systems while in office — with his agency instead shelling out tens of billions of dollars on a DEI agenda, according to federal spending records and airline-industry insiders. What his department was really interested in was handing out hundreds of diversity, equity and inclusion grants totaling more than $80 billion over four years — at least half of the DOT’s entire budget for a typical fiscal year, records show.

Discriminatory and divisive DEI ideology has no place in medical education,’ watchdog says The Association of American Medical Colleges continues to infuse “diversity, equity, and inclusion” ideology into medical education despite scrubbing DEI programs and commitments from its website, a medical advocacy group found. Two experts told The College Fix that DEI in medical schools jeopardizes funding, lowers standards for students, and damages trust in doctors. A recent report from Do No Harm states the Association of American Medical Colleges has recently “taken steps to remove dozens of the more explicit and overt endorsements of DEI from its website” following...

Nature used to be a prestigious journal, and deservedly so. Now it is, as with so many elite institutions, still prestigious, but undeservedly so. It, along with its subsidiary Nature-Springer, which publishes hundreds of scientific journals, is no longer concerned with the quality of the science it publishes and focuses on pleasing the commissars. Elite institutions have been ideologically captured because, as with everything elite, they are downstream from the headwaters from which most prestige flows: academia. As academia became captured by Critical Theory, everything else has been as well, including science. The result is clear: the descent into modern...

A poet said his career skyrocketed within the liberal literary scene by taking on minority personas to promote his work to publishers. Aaron Barry, 29, of Vancouver, experienced the most success when he posed as writers with identities far from his own, even if the poems were blatantly 'trash.' His reasoning behind the scheme was simple - to prove the poetry world is more concerned with writers' identities than the quality of their work. 'My thinking was that, if the industry - from small magazines to full-on publishing imprints - could get away with showing a clear preference toward certain...

According to a recent Speech First report, the nation’s leading medical schools are controlled by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion fanatics, who inflict beliefs such as “weight inclusivity,” racial justice, and gender ideology on their staff and students through policies, forced statements, and curricular mandates. Filed in the fall of 2024, “Critical Condition” analyzed public records from FOIA requests from 54 of the country’s top medical schools, and the results are alarming. For example, the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School offers a “Developing Outstanding Clinical Skills” program that teaches students to embrace “weight inclusivity,” arguing that weight-loss strategies...

A mysterious fever gripped the nation in 2020. Some called it mass formation psychosis. Others called it hysteria. It was a result of three distinct events, as well as institutional responses designed to exploit existing societal tensions. Those three events were the Covid-19 pandemic, the death of George Floyd, and the impending re-election of Donald Trump. So much of what we were told by the authorities and the experts at that time has now been debunked. But those who work in academia know that, as crazy as life was out in the “real world,” it was even crazier in the...

United Airlines has vowed that 50% of its future pilot hires will be women and people of color by 2030—and Delta, American, and Southwest have pledged similar DEI commitments. But how will these goals affect airline standards, pilot competency, and aviation safety?

JP Morgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon on Thursday blasted the Democrat Party for being too devoted to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). “I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots. I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out failed,” Dimon said. The JP Morgan chief executive has said that too many American companies focused too much time and energy with DEI and that the banking company he led would pull back its focus on these topics. “They...

Hey, do any FREEPERS know what happened to the DEI website? Did it get taken down or are the DNS servers burying it? My school is having us fill out DEI paperwork and I'd like to report it.

Democratic strategist James Carville ranted on his Thursday podcast about the political damage diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has inflicted on his party. Democrats have repeatedly pushed DEI agendas, including in the government under former President Joe Biden’s administration. In response to a “Politics War Room” listener’s question asking why Democrats are “fighting so hard for DEI,” Carville asserted the premise of the question was wrong, claiming it is now a universal belief that DEI is disastrous — before clarifying his criticism was broader than just DEI. WATCH: VIDEO AT LINK............. “They don’t [fight for DEI]. And everybody is trying...

As the flood in Texas continues, the Austin fire chief Joel Baker has been accused of delaying help for Kerr County during this dire situation. He faced a 'No Confidence' vote against him by the Austin firefighters union due to his delayed response. The Austin Firefighters Association posted about Baker on their Facebook page, calling it "absolutely outrageous" and an "egregious dereliction of duty" and calling for Baker to be held accountable. AFA says that on Tuesday, July 8, Austin firefighters plan to start a vote of no confidence on Baker. The Austin Fire Department responded to the accusation with...