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A school in Australia has allowed one of its students to be non-verbal in class and behave like a cat, as per her wishes. The unnamed teenage girl, who is in Year 8, is reportedly allowed to act like a feline and be non-verbal at the private school in Melbourne, as long as it does not become a distraction to the other classmates. According to the Herald Sun, the school, which has called the girl "phenomenally bright," has stated that some of their students have displayed a range of identity and mental health issues. “Our approach is always unique to...

Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly bitter over President Joe Biden’s favoritism toward “white man” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The feud is reportedly fueled by Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, which will render Buttigieg a key power broker in Washington, DC.

The totalitarian-minded education establishment and its extreme left-wing allies are starting to freak out as conservatives abandon futile efforts to “reform” government schools in favor of a mass-exodus strategy. Even powerful union bosses are starting to panic. The trend has been building quietly for years. But it has accelerated rapidly in recent months as a trickle of families fleeing the system became a tidal wave amid face-mask edicts, vaccine mandates, Critical Race Theory, Marxist indoctrination, extreme “sex education,” and other controversies. The first major shoe to drop in response came on September 30, when the fringe left-wing magazine New Republic...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio has asked former President Donald Trump to support the infrastructure deal he’s been negotiating for weeks with the Biden administration and a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators. Portman said he told Trump the package was consistent with what he tried to achieve as President and that Trump should take some credit for initiating the discussion among Republicans by proposing a $1.5 trillion infrastructure package during his campaign.

Bradley Gayton, who joined the Coca-Cola Co as general counsel in September and made headlines for requiring its law firms to staff its matters with diverse lawyers or lose its business, has resigned, the beverage giant said in a Wednesday filing. Gayton will now serve as an outside consultant to Coca-Cola’s chief executive, the Atlanta-based company said in a statement and a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.