The State Department cut LGBT seminars, blindfolded team-building exercises and career events for pet owners from agency onboarding as part of its new Foreign Service recruiting push.
Foreign Service orientation or "A-100" is a six-week orientation for new officers and specialists. The revised curriculum aims to remove undue ideological influence and what some State Department officials saw as "juvenile" exercises.
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
State Department dumps woke mind virus in new recruiting push * WorldNetDaily * by Benjamin Roberts, Daily Caller News Foundation
State Department dumps woke mind virus in new recruiting push * WorldNetDaily * by Benjamin Roberts, Daily Caller News Foundation:
Read all!-----The Steps a President Would Take to Destroy His Nation, According to Elon Musk's AI Chatbot, Grok | Open Culture
If a president of a superpower wanted to destroy his own country, what steps would he take?Just out of curiosity, and apropos of nothing, we asked Grok (the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk) the following question:
If a president of a superpower wanted to destroy his own country, what steps would he take?
Here’s what Grok had to say:
- Economic Sabotage: They could tank the economy by imposing reckless fiscal policies—massive, unsustainable debt..
- Undermining National Security: Militarily, they might weaken defenses by slashing budgets, pulling out of strategic alliances, or leaking sensitive intelligence to adversaries...
- Social Division: They could stoke internal conflict by amplifying divisive rhetoric, targeting specific groups with policies that breed resentment...
Liberals are already pushing masks for the hantavirus | Not the Bee
Will the DOJ indict Fauci? Or will the statute of limitations expire? | Blaze Media
Will the DOJ indict Fauci? Or will the statute of limitations expire? | Blaze Media:
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has filed multiple criminal referrals for former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice over the geriatric immunologist's apparent false testimony before Congress in 2021.
According to Paul, the statute of limitations on charging Fauci over his alleged perjury expires on Monday.
Instapundit - THE EVIDENCE IS PRETTY SOLID IN FAVOR
What we know.
I love this:
Testosterone’s reputation has had its ups and downs since the hormone was first synthesized in the 1930s... Despite the presumed risks, he says he still thought that the hormone could help some of his patients who had low testosterone and sexual problems. So, he started treating them while monitoring them closely.
They didn’t get cancer, Morgentaler says, and they benefited from the treatment greatly. Some of his clinical findings — along with the revelation that Huggins’s most dire warnings about the hormone causing cancer were based on observations of a single person — helped to clear the way for renewed interest in testosterone therapy.
Sample size: One.
So much received medical wisdom comes from this sort of thing. - Glenn Reynolds
History for May 13
History for May 13 - On-This-Day.com 
Dennis Rodman 1961 - Basketball player, nickname: "The Worm", actor
- 1821 - The first practical printing press was patented in the U.S. by Samuel Rust.
- 1846 - The U.S. declared that war existed with Mexico.
- 1865 - The last land engagement of the American Civil War was fought at the Battle of Palmito Ranch in far south Texas, more than a month after Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA.
- 1888 - Slavery was abolished in Brazil.
- 1897 - Guglielmo Marconi sent the world's first wireless communication over open sea.
- 1985 - A confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped an explosive onto the group's headquarters. Eleven people died in the fire that resulted.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Oregon Democrats Found a Way to Improve Roads. Now Their Gas Tax Goes before Voters as Prices Soar | Newsmax.com
Oregon Democrats Found a Way to Improve Roads. Now Their Gas Tax Goes before Voters as Prices Soar | Newsmax.com:
Under the legislation, Oregon’s gas tax would rise from 40 cents to 46 cents a gallon. That would make it tied with Maryland for the eighth highest gas tax of any state when factoring in other state taxes and fees, according to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
At Flint Schools, teachers are doing great – students, not so much
Flint schools get $33,151 per pupil but 90% of third through eighth graders aren’t proficient at reading - Michigan Capitol Confidential Staff
- In 2024-25, nearly all of Flint Community Schools’ students in grades three through eight — 90% — were not proficient in English Language Arts, which is largely reading and writing.
- And 96% of students in grades three through six were not proficient in math...
Despite this track record, the Michigan Education Association announced it had honored Flint union president Karen Christian with its Paul Blewett Friend of Education Award on April 23.
The MEA award goes to someone who “did the most to improve the lives of teachers, to further the goals of the MEA or to further the cause of public education,” according to a nominating form available on the union website...
GM slams brakes on electric trucks as reality crashes the EV party | Blaze Media
GM slams brakes on electric trucks as reality crashes the EV party | Blaze Media:
The company has indefinitely delayed the next-generation refresh of its electric trucks and SUVs. No new deadline. No confident road map. Just a quiet admission that the plan isn’t working the way Washington, or the automakers themselves, promised.
Translation: The market isn’t cooperating.
Vivek Ramaswamy vows Medicaid crackdown after home health fraud report | Fox News
Vivek Ramaswamy vows Medicaid crackdown after home health fraud report | Fox News:
Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is calling for a sweeping crackdown on his state’s Medicaid program after a report alleged that companies billed millions of taxpayer dollars from vacant offices, including abandoned buildings with piled-up mail, "out to lunch" signs and no visible staff.
"We're going to have to take a deep, hard look at the way the $40-plus billion in state Medicaid dollars are being spent," Ramaswamy told "Saturday in America" host Kayleigh McEnany.
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