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The Small Business Administration on Friday ordered all companies that get preference for government contracts due to their status as “socially disadvantaged” minorities to provide detailed financial information to show they are not defrauding the program, The Daily Wire has learned. The change represents a move to reevaluate a decades-old program that Washington insiders have long recognized as openly corrupt. The 8(a) program is one of the largest and oldest DEI initiatives in the country, affecting contracts at almost all federal agencies. SBA administrator Kelly Loeffler said there is mounting evidence that minority contracts had become “a pass-through vehicle for...

AT&T has vowed to scrap its DEI policies, including a worker training program that labeled racism as a “uniquely white trait.” The telecommunication giant’s sudden change of heart on policies that discriminate against white men comes after pressure from FCC Chairman Brendar Carr. The New York Post reports that AT&T, the Dallas-based telecom company with over 110,000 employees in the United States, has announced its decision to eliminate its DEI policies. This move comes in response to pressure from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who has made it clear that companies will not be approved for crucial FCC licenses until they...

An a cappella group at Kent State University in Ohio allegedly banned white students from auditioning for certain solos and disciplined a longtime member for questioning the race-based policy. Emails obtained by Campus Reform display how Vocal Intensity A Cappella limited certain solos to “people of color,” claiming white students would be engaging in “cultural appropriation” if they were to perform them. Mark Phillips, a three-year member and the a cappella group’s beatboxer, contacted a board member to inquire about how the exclusion of white students aligned with Kent State’s anti-discrimination policies. Phillips suggested the limitation seemed “at odds with...

My 11-year-old son joined the elementary school band, and so I went to the parents’ orientation night held at a local high-school. As the night went on it became obvious why young men rage against the larger social system and why they might find a character like Nick Fuentes attractive. The classrooms were inundated with DEI messages and trans pride flags. On the walls there were posters, stickers and decorations that all invoked the various totems of diversity. Black Lives Matter messaging, decolonization messaging, LGBTQ+ messaging and basically every sort of race and gender social justice messaging you can imagine...

New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick made waves earlier this week when she stated illegal immigration by foreign nationals in the U.S. is a "civil issue" and that therefore her agency will not enforce certain immigration laws — but would respond when ensuring public safety and that those involved in a federal operation are "not going to get hurt." Kirkpatrick made the remarks at a press conference marking the end of a 15-year consent decree between the city and federal government, after then-Mayor Mitch Landrieu invited the Obama Justice Department to probe the agency for alleged "pattern or practice"...

A supplier of Boar’s Head cheese has issued a recall due to the potential presence of Listeria, according to the Food and Drug Administration. “Boar’s Head took immediate action to halt the purchase of these products from The Ambriola Company, notify retail partners, and ensure that the affected products are being removed from distribution nationally,” Boar’s Head said in a statement. The recall is categorized as a Class I, meaning exposure could result in serious health consequences or death. Which Boar’s Head items are being recalled? The recalled items were sold at Kroger stores in Kentucky and Indiana, and include:...

Earlier today I brought you this massive report that President Trump just declared all Biden actions signed with the Autopen NULL and VOID. That is estimated to be 92% of everything he did. Not just Executive Orders, and that’s what I want to unpack right now. Here was our original report in case you missed it: BREAKING: President Trump JUST Cancelled ALL Biden Autopen Actions — Perjury Charges! But now let's examine what all is suddenly at stake... It's actually quite large, but let's focus on two big areas. First up, Supreme Court Justice appointments. And how many did Biden...

Scouting America responded on Tuesday to a reported memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seeking to cut ties with the organization, saying it was “surprised and disappointed” by the potential policy change, as the military has given its support to the Scouts since 1937. Congress requires the Pentagon to support Scouting America’s Jamboree, lending trucks, ambulances and medical teams free of charge. “The Scouting movement has had a strong relationship with our nation’s military going back more than a century,” according to the group. “From the tremendous support of the West Virginia National Guard at our National Jamborees to Scout...

Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez (D) who let Lawrence Reed out before he lit a woman on fire despite prosecutors begging to keep him detained and 72 prior arrests, basically admits she’s a DEI hire and rules based on how people look

OPINION/ANALYSIS The Battalion student newspaper at Texas A&M university does not seem to be a fan of conservative student thought. An analysis of the 60 opinion pieces focused on politics published since November 2024 found that nearly all of them — 50 — leaned liberal (35), left-leaning (5), far-left (5), and liberal satire (5). Only 7 of the opinion political pieces were moderate or neutral, and a total of three were conservative, or a ratio of almost 17 to 1 liberal to conservative. The research was conducted by student Justino Russell, who was inspired to dig into the analysis after...

Countries enforcing race or gender diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies will now be at risk of the Trump administration deeming them as infringing on human rights. The State Department is issuing the new rules to all US embassies and consulates involved in compiling its annual report on global human rights abuses. The new instructions also deem countries that subsidise abortion or facilitate mass migration as infringing on human rights.... The changes reflect a major shift in Washington's established focus on global human rights protection, and signal the expansion into foreign policy...

Washington (AFP) – In a sharp change, the United States said Thursday that its signature human rights report would start tracking countries that support gender changes for children and diversity and equity programs. Specifically, the report will ask US embassies to report on countries that allow "chemical or surgical mutilation of children in operations that attempt to modify their sex." Rubio also asked embassies to track "enforcement of policies like affirmative action of diversity, equity and inclusion that 'provide preferential treatment' to workers on the basis of race, sex or caste." The issues reflect top priorities for Trump since he...

Rigid ideologies like DEI, climate dogma, and anti-Trump obsession keep collapsing under their own contradictions, leaving their loudest champions looking increasingly absurd. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a euphemism for a rigid racialist theology. It deductively postulates that a large percentage of the population is oppressed by racism and sexism, mostly by white males. DEI makes no allowance for the class or wealth of the alleged victims or their supposed victimizers. So once that rigid party line is set, it cannot account for tens of millions of affluent and privileged non-white Americans or like numbers of poor and non-privileged...

A historically black university whose president is under scrutiny for plagiarism allegations reported on by The Daily Wire is a “criminal enterprise to divert federal and state funds,” according to a federal lawsuit filed by the school’s former Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. It is one of four similar lawsuits filed in the last few months against the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, its president Heidi Anderson, its provost Rondall Allen, and its diversity, equity, and inclusion czar Jason Casares, that all follow a similar pattern: A faculty member allegedly discovers wrongdoing at the university, and then is retaliated against...

As communism continues to gain ground in the worldview of democrats—a reality showcased through the recent election of Zorhan Mamdani to be New York City Mayor—President Trump took the historic step of signing a proclamation declaring “Anti-Communism Week” to highlight “one of history’s most destructive ideologies.” The Proclamation declared November 2 through November 8 as “anti-communism week,” with the President reiterating the United States’ commitment to ensure that communist systems “find their place, once and for all, on the ash heap of history.”

A former Air Force Intelligence officer has pleaded guilty to lying to law enforcement when she claimed her then-estranged astronaut wife committed the first crime in space, according to authorities. Summer Worden, 50, faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 maximum fine for falsely alleging top NASA astronaut and then-spouse Anna McClain accessed Worden’s bank account from the International Space Station, the US Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Texas said in a press release. Worden’s guilty plea Thursday put an end to a bitter legal feud with McClain. Worden alleged McClain had guessed the password and illegally...

The Texas Education Agency will remove the Fort Worth Independent School District’s elected board members and may appoint a new superintendent to oversee its operations, Commissioner Mike Morath announced Thursday morning. The decision to assume control of the North Texas district follows months of speculation about how the state would respond to one of the Fort Worth campuses not meeting Texas’ academic accountability standards for five consecutive years. The district closed the sixth-grade campus at the end of the 2023-24 school year, but Morath indicated in the spring that state law still required him to intervene. Dallas’ local news station...

- A new analysis shows that of 22 selective-admissions institutions, 20 showed declines in the the share of enrolled black freshmen in the years since the Supreme Court banned race-conscious admissions. Nine saw declines of 30% or more. Ever since the Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill (SFFA) banned the use of race-conscious college admissions, speculation has turned to the impact the ruling would have on the racial composition of incoming classes, particularly at selective institutions, essentially the only schools where consideration of race played a role in admission decisions prior to SFFA....

Katie Miller blasted former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on CNN for using her identity as an LGBTQ+ black woman to boost her career. Stunned CNN host Jake Tapper was forced awkwardly cut to commercial when Miller - wife of Trump aide Stephen Miller - called Jean-Pierre 'incompetent' and claimed she only got her White House gig because she was a 'black, queer, LGBTQ woman.' 'What I think you're seeing is that she's quite incompetent to do the job,' Miller said. 'This is what Republicans have been saying for years now, she is just another evidence that DEI doesn't...

When you use skin color and chromosomes as criteria for filling positions of trust, as opposed to filling those positions with the best people regardless of skin color or chromosomes, you will not, unless by accident, get the best people for the job. No public figure in recent memory exemplifies this maxim more than Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. But that does not even tell half of the story. According to The New York Times, Jackson has found herself increasingly at odds not only with SCOTUS’ nominally conservative majority, but also with her fellow liberals, Justices Elena Kagan and...