Sunday, May 11, 2025

Woke NYC schools are failing teachers and pupils because they have no discipline — this is why the UFT’s Michael Mulgrew must be stopped By Mike Dowd

However, under his watch schools are requiring less and less of pupils, to the point where attendance is essentially optional and almost everyone is handed a passing grade.
Voting is underway to elect the President of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City. Michael Mulgrew, who has held the position since 2009, is expecting he can sleepwalk into another term.
Brooklyn-based Social Studies teacher Mike Dowd writes why it’s time for a change and for basic discipline to be brought back.
  • Officials love to brag about the 84% graduation rate for New York City public-school students.
  • But if you thought that was an honest measure of how many kids are passing, I have bad news. High-school grading policies have become so corrupt, class credits have become almost meaningless...

#1 This day 1949-----(Ghost Riders In The Sky) Vaughn Monroe

Fascinating!-----How Gates, Soros, and Ford Use "Equity" to Hijack Federal Grants

The moral halo of philanthropy is one of the most impenetrable armors in American public life. -@amuse
Wrapped in the rhetoric of generosity and reform, large foundations like the Gates Foundation, Soros' Open Society, and the Ford Foundation operate under the assumption that doing good excuses their methods. 
But methods matter. 
Especially when those methods amount to a private-to-public laundering operation, designed to seed ideologically rigid organizations with just enough early capital to unlock the federal coffers. 
What follows is not generosity, but influence peddling, and not in the margins, but at scale.
Let us begin with a familiar model: private equity. 
When George Soros breaks a currency or Bill Gates acquires a company, they begin not with domination, but with leverage. A modest injection of capital, paired with structure, timing, and most importantly debt, can produce wildly asymmetrical returns. That same logic is now applied not to companies or commodities, but to ideology. The left-wing philanthropic giants fund non-governmental organizations (NGOs) whose only product is political conformity. They seed them with grants, polish their proposals, and send them, briefcase in hand, to Washington. The return on investment is swift and staggering...
The scale is almost unfathomable. 
Private foundations make more than $100 billion in grants available to NGOs each year. Those NGOs, freshly seeded and polished, in turn raise nearly $900 billion from the federal government in additional grants. The leverage is nine to one. For every dollar a foundation donates, the federal government grants nine...

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Trump's NIH launches health study for East Palestine train derailment victims forgotten by Biden | Blaze Media

Trump's NIH launches health study for East Palestine train derailment victims forgotten by Biden | Blaze Media

"Shockingly, the NIH had not asked that question," he continued. "But what I'm looking forward to is that we're going to address the health questions and the health needs of the American people with excellent, gold-standard research." In February, Vance visited East Palestine on the second anniversary of the disaster. "President Trump and I have never forgotten the people of East Palestine, and we will never stop fighting for the cleanup effort in this community to be completed," Vance wrote in a post on X. "We are with you for the long haul." He guaranteed the community that the environmental cleanup would be completed, calling it "a tragedy and a shame" that the Biden administration failed to finish the effort. Former President Joe Biden took a year to visit the town after the disaster.

Great!!-----Making your dishwasher and washing machine great again!

The case for eliminating Energy Star - Jeff Luse
  • The program is beyond the proper scope of the federal government.
On Friday, President Donald Trump released his budget proposal, which included targeted cuts to federal clean energy programs and ending funding to what the president calls "the Green New Scam." 
The Trump administration is now shifting its focus to energy efficiency programs. 
CNN reported Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to shutter the Energy Star program.
  • First launched under President George H.W. Bush in 1992, Energy Star sets voluntary energy efficiency standards for appliances and buildings...

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History for May 11

History for May 11 - On-This-Day.com 
Louis Farrakhan (Louis Eugene Walcott) 1933 - National Representative of the Nation of Islam
  • 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that created the Rural Electrification Administration to provide emergency loans.
  • 1934 - A severe two-day dust storm stripped the topsoil from the great plains of the U.S. and created a "Dust Bowl." The storm was one of many.
  • 1997 - In New York, Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM's chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beaten a world-champion player.
  • 2020 - Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to any tweet they decided contained disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Texas drops hammer on alleged vote-harvesting judge, officials after multi-year election crime probe | Blaze Media

Texas drops hammer on alleged vote-harvesting judge, officials after multi-year election crime probe | Blaze Media

Five of those indicted have ties to Democratic candidates, the New York Times reported.

The alleged vote harvesters were arrested on May 2, except Camacho. Paxton’s office noted that she would be “processed at a later date.”

“In August 2024, Attorney General Paxton’s Criminal Investigation Division executed multiple search warrants in Frio, Atascosa, and Bexar Counties as part of a multi-year election integrity investigation into credible allegations of vote harvesting,” a press release from Paxton’s office read. “On May 1, 2025, Frio County District Attorney Audrey Louis and the Election Integrity Unit of the Office of the Attorney General presented a criminal vote harvesting case to a grand jury in Frio County.”

The way we were-----Anti-German Sentiment | The Great War

Man Made Climate Emergency

DHS Invites You to 'Meet' the Detainees That NJ Democrats Went Ga-Ga Over at ICE Detention Center - Becca Lower

You'd think Democrats would take a hint to lay off beclowning themselves on the behalf of criminals and gang members, after polls showed that Americans are overwhelming sour on their policies on illegal immigration
AP Photo/Moises Castillo

On Friday, it was a group of New Jersey politicians arriving at Delaney Hall, a New Jersey facility housing the worst of the worst - illegal aliens who are gang members, killers, child abusers and rapists - and demanding to be allowed in to the facility to "exercise oversight."

...entered ICE's Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark and were held up inside the first checkpoint...

"These members of Congress storming into a detention facility goes beyond bizarre political stunt and puts the safety of our law enforcement agents and the detainees at risk," a DHS statement to Fox News said. "Members of Congress are not above the law and cannot illegally break into detention facilities....

Here's the fun bit:

The prison currently holds alleged killers, MS-13 gang members, child rapists, among other criminal offenders...

No chance it was fixed...right?-----Gamblers Walk Away With Ridiculous Amount Of Money After Betting On Next Pope | The Daily Caller

Yes, you read that correctly, you were actually able to place money on the next pope! And people did! - Andrew Powell
2025 is wild …
  • Per OutKick, most people slapped their cash on Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who was the odds-on favorite going into things, but there were a few lucky gamblers who placed their money on Robert Prevost. According to cryptocurrency-based prediction market Polymarket, Prevost only had a 0.3% chance of winning the election only hours prior to white smoke blowing out of the Vatican.
  • In other words, the lucky few who did place some money on Prevost walked away with an insane amount.
Just check out these numbers:

Report: Biden pushed for trans 'treatment' for kids AFTER same processes failed adults * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Report: Biden pushed for trans 'treatment' for kids AFTER same processes failed adults * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

But he ignored, even while promoting those chemicals and those body-mutilating surgeries as "health care," the results now confirmed in a government study that was being developed at the time, and now is released, revealing that all of those attempts to "change" adults didn't "improve their lives." The agenda immediately was applied to children, despite the failure in "treating" adults. In fact, according to a report in the Washington Stand, the report, "Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices," released by the Department of Health and Human Services on May 1, said those "same medical interventions had failed to improve the lives of adults."

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You see this headlined on you media-of-choice??!!-----President Trump Signs Executive Order to Establish National Center for Homeless Veterans, Redirects Funds Previously Spent on Housing Illegals | The Gateway Pundit | by Margaret Flavin

The EO will redirect funds from housing for illegals to establish the National Center for Warrior Independence. - Margaret Flavin 
The Center will be located on the Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles.
A Trump administration official told Fox News, “The new National Center for Warrior Independence will help them and other veterans like them rebuild their lives.”
The initiative will focus on providing shelter, healthcare, and job training to veterans in need and will partner with private organizations to expand support and resources...

Lunch video-----Why Arab countries ban all Gaza refugees

Noon-toon

 


Trump nominates Jeanine Pirro for post as key federal prosecutor * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Trump nominates Jeanine Pirro for post as key federal prosecutor * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

President Donald Trump wants Fox News host Jeanine Pirro to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. Interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin had been nominated, but his named was pulled after a single senator announced his opposition. "I am pleased to announce that Judge Jeanine Pirro will be appointed interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia," Trump wrote. "Jeanine is incredibly well qualified for this position, and is considered one of the Top District Attorneys in the History of the State of New York. She is in a class by herself."

Self-enrichment for insider scumbaggery!

 


🚨 HOLY SMOKES!! I knew prices were going down, I didn't realize it was to THIS DEGREE!

And the list goes on. - Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh 
Per CNBC:
  • Gasoline? -10%.
  • Tomatoes? -8%.
  • Lettuce? -5%.
  • TVs, car/truck rental? -9%.
  • Dishes/flatware? -11%.
And the list goes on.


Pulitzer Prize is scum!



It's been EASY to do for decades!-----Large-scale health care fraud and kickback conspiracy that led to more than $127 million in false claims to federal health benefit programs| Medicaid & Medicare Fraud | Fraud of the Day

scheme to use durable medical equipment (DME) companies, telemedicine companies, and doctors in order to submit millions of dollars in false claims to healthcare benefit programs based on a circular scheme of kickbacks and bribes. - Larry Benson 
Empire then paid kickbacks to telemedicine companies, who in turn paid kickbacks to doctors in exchange for prescriptions for the DME...
And then Karlewicz and Romanowski’s step-by-step fraud cycle would repeat. 
  • Empire received over $63 million in kickback payments as a result of this scheme. 
  • In total, Karlewicz and Romanowski caused the submission of over $127 million in false claims...

#1 This day 1982-----Ebony and Ivory (1982) | Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder

Would the Left Finally Explain the Inexplicable? | RealClearPolitics

Somewhere between 10 and 12 million illegal aliens were invited into the United States by the Biden administration. -  Victor Davis Hanson
After all, they somehow managed to stop the congressionally approved continuance of the border wall, to subvert federal immigration law, to emasculate the border patrol, and to ensure that millions of people around the world could simply walk into the U.S. illegally, unaudited and with impunity.
But why did Biden or his puppeteers do something so anarchic, so injurious to their fellow Americans?
  • Why cost the nation hundreds of billions of dollars in massive new entitlements? 
  • Why swamp the social services of our own poor citizens?
  • Why turn loose half a million criminal aliens and gang members to prey on our own weak and defenseless?...

"Trust" the government?

 


'There are Chinese spies at Stanford': Shocking report unmasks CCP's espionage at American universities | Blaze Media

'There are Chinese spies at Stanford': Shocking report unmasks CCP's espionage at American universities | Blaze Media

China reportedly operates an 'extensive' spy network at Stanford University. The Chinese Communist Party is operating an "extensive" espionage network at Stanford University, according to a new shocking report from the school's independent newspaper. The Stanford Review released the startling findings of a months-long investigation into Chinese spying at the research university. The paper's conclusions were drawn from dozens of interviews with Stanford faculty members, students, and experts in technology and Chinese intelligence between July 2024 and April 2025.

Where Was Democrats’ Outrage When Obama And Biden Deported Illegal Alien Housekeepers And Gardeners?

No one made a peep when Obama and Biden deported millions of illegal aliens who also merely worked hard, paid taxes, and stayed out of prison. - Todd Bensman
It’s going to happen as sure as the sun will rise: 
Once Congress approves a “big, beautiful bill,” the Trump administration will supercharge its “mass deportation” plans far beyond mostly illegal alien convicts...
And along with it, get ready to see illegal immigration advocates — among them progressive operatives and protesters, battalions of lawyers, corporate media, and sanctuary state elected officials — intensify an information war barrage of planted heartstring-tugging “human interest” stories...
  • But Americans need to be reminded that no such war for their hearts and minds happened when Democrats Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton collectively deported millions of illegal aliens who also merely worked hard, paid taxes, and stayed out of U.S. prisons and off gang and terrorism intelligence databases...


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History for May 10

History for May 10 - On-This-Day.com 
David O. Selznick 1902 - Film producer (Movie: Gone with the Wind)
  • 1773 - The English Parliament passed the Tea Act, which taxed all tea in the American colonies. The legislation led to the Boston Tea Party.
  • 1869 - Central Pacific and Union Pacific Rail Roads meet in Promontory, UT. A golden spike was driven in at the celebration of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S.
  • 1908 - The first Mother's Day observance took place during a church service in Grafton, West Virginia.
  • 1924 - J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the Bureau of Investigation. The department became known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
  • 1933 - The Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.
  • 1940 - Germany invaded Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
  • 2013 - The IRS (Internal Revenue Service) apologized for the "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups about their tax-exempt status during the 2012 election.