LGBT Lobbying Group’s Effort to Appropriate Juneteenth Backfires Horribly

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LGBT Lobbying Group’s Effort to Appropriate Juneteenth Backfires Horribly

(Headline USA) The Human Rights Campaign, a leftist LGBT group, came under fire this week after comparing Juneteenth and the “fight for black freedom” with LGBT advocacy.

“To honor #Juneteenth is to recognize the intersectionality between LGBTQ+ equality and racial justice. True Black liberation continues to be challenged today by systemic racism and oppression. Our fight for equality is synonymous with the fight for Black freedom,” the group tweeted.

Critics blasted HRC for trying to make the holiday, which commemorates the emancipation of enslaved black Americans during the Civil War era, about something it’s not.

“Right… because as my ancestors were toiling away on fields and dreaming of freedom, the prominent thought in their minds were ‘that whip might hurt, but it doesn’t hurt anywhere as badly as LGBTQ+ oppression,'” Zeek Arkham tweeted.

Twitter user Rebecca Velo agreed: “Can white liberals allow even ONE day for other people? Or does everything have to revolve around them?”

Conservative commentator Delano Squires blasted HRC as “colonizers.”

“For all the talk about ‘colonizers’, I have never seen a political movement representing so few people be so successful at extracting the resources (eg., history, imagery, rhetoric) from other movements and using them for their own purposes,” he said.

Even liberal users blasted the group for co-opting the holiday.

Moreover, conservative commentator James Lindsay pointed out that much of the black community opposes LGBT values:

The HRC’s virtue-signaling is one of the reasons why some black Americans think mainstreaming Juneteenth was a mistake.

In an article for the Daily Beast titled “Can We Admit Mainstreaming Juneteenth Has Been a Disaster?” writer Ernest Owens argued that pandering by white Democrats and corporations has destroyed the holiday’s meaning.

“Juneteenth has quickly descended into the rainbow capitalism vibes of Pride month,” he wrote. “I started to notice it last year when Walmart thought it was being progressive when they released a red velvet and cheesecake-flavored Juneteenth ice cream with a Pan-African decorated carton.”

Teachers Union Exec Defends COVID Shut-Downs: Learning Loss Made Everyone ‘Equal’

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Teachers Union Exec Defends COVID Shut-Downs: Learning Loss Made Everyone ‘Equal’

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) In a recent interview with ProPublica, a board member of a Virginia teachers union defended the school shutdowns through the pandemic, claiming the learning loss made everyone “equal.”

“The whole thing about learning loss I found funny is that, if everyone was out of school, and everyone had learning loss, then aren’t we all equal? We all have a deficit,” said Melvin Hostman, executive board member of the Richmond Education Association, according to the Daily Caller.

When presented with data revealing even greater learning loss for students of color, Hostman said that was an obvious side effect “because our society is inherently unequal.”

He also noted that the morale of teachers declined after having to come back to school to teach in person.

The comments seemed to reflect the pernicious “equity” mindset that has infected many school system, particularly in urban, blue-led regions like Richmond, where equal outcomes are now given priority over student achievement and advancement.

At one of the state’s top-ranked school’s, an administrator faced controversy when it came to light that she had failed to notify students that they had qualified as National Merit Scholarship finalists for fear of excluding those who had not.

Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress revealed last year that students incurred massive learning losses during the pandemic shutdowns.

Only 13% of eighth graders met grade-level expectations in the 2021-2022 school year, and all states saw a decline in math since 2019.

Civics test scores dropped, along with reading comprehension levels. Reading levels in K-12 schools dropped to levels not seen since the 1990s.

The learning loss has also cost schools millions of dollars as they work to recover the losses.

Seattle, Washington, schools lost an average of 17 weeks of math and 10 weeks of reading instruction, which could cost an estimated $105 million to recover.

Back in Virginia, Fairfax Public School District announced that it required $343 million to make up for the loss of 16 weeks of math lessons and 11 in reading.

The historic learning loss may also have an effect on the lifetime earnings of students. A study—based on math test scores—projected a total loss of $70,000 in lifetime earnings for students who attended school throughout the pandemic.

“The evidence on the labor market value of skills implies that the average student during the pandemic will have 5.6% lower lifetime earnings,” Eric Hanushek, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Standford University, wrote. “This figure compares the expected earnings given the eight-point loss in math achievement to what could have been expected without the pandemic.”

DOJ’s Sweetheart Deal for Hunter: Guilty to Misdemeanor Tax Crimes, Avoids Gun Charge

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DOJ’s Sweetheart Deal for Hunter: Guilty to Misdemeanor Tax Crimes, Avoids Gun Charge

(Headline USA) The Justice Department was slammed on Tuesday after revealing it had reached a plea deal with Hunter Biden, who is poised to avoid jail time if he pleads guilty to alleged tax and firearm violations.

As part of the sweetheart deal, the embattled First Son will plead guilty to misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax in 2017 and 2018, and enter a pre-trial diversion on a felony gun possession charge, meaning the gun charge could be dropped altogether if he meets certain requirements.

The felony gun possession charge alone normally carries a minimum 5-year prison sentence, according to former U.S. attorney Brett Tolman.

“Thousands of people have been prosecuted under Project Safe Neighborhoods by DOJ,” Tolman tweeted. “They brag about getting nearly 5 years of prison time on average for their gun cases. If they followed policy, Hunter would be looking at a minimum of 5 years in federal prison. But he’s a Biden.”

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the chairman of the House Oversight Committee and head of a congressional investigation into the Bidens, vowed to continue uncovering evidence against Hunter Biden.

“Let’s be clear,” he said in a statement. “The Department of Justice’s charges against President Biden’s son Hunter reveals a two-tiered system of justice. Hunter Biden is getting away with a slap on the wrist when growing evidence uncovered by the House Oversight Committee reveals the Bidens engaged in a pattern of corruption, influence peddling and possibly bribery.”

Florida GOP governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis agreed, and said the only reason Hunter Biden is getting a sweetheart plea deal is because he’s “connected to the elite DC class.”

Former President Donald Trump pointed to the plea deal as additional evidence that the justice system is rigged and “broken.”

“Wow! The corrupt Biden DOJ just cleared up hundreds of years of criminal liability by giving Hunter Biden a mere ‘traffic ticket.’ Our system is BROKEN!” he wrote on Truth Social.

FBI Whistleblower Disclosures Undermine Washington Post Propaganda

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FBI Whistleblower Disclosures Undermine Washington Post Propaganda

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Washington Post’s roughly 7,000-word article Monday about the DOJ’s Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill investigation is making waves this week—due in large part to its suggestion that Donald Trump will soon be charged over the matter.

But one of the article’s main narratives is demonstrably false. Citing a slew of anonymous sources and documents, the Post claimed in its report that DOJ and FBI officials took a hands-off approach to the J6 investigation to maintain the appearance of impartiality.

“[FBI Director Chris] Wray and his team sought to avoid even an appearance of top-down influence by having local field offices run investigations and make day-to-day decisions,” the Post said. “In fact, when it came to the Jan. 6 investigation, agents noticed that Wray did not travel the five blocks from FBI headquarters to the bureau’s Washington field office running the investigation for more than 21 months after the attack.”

This description by the Post runs directly counter to disclosures made by FBI whistleblowers.

Indeed, in his recently published memoir, former FBI special agent Stephen Friend said the FBI’s Washington DC officials maintained a tight control on J6 cases throughout the country. According to Friend, J6 cases were delegated to field offices around the country only on paper, while in reality they were controlled from DC.

“FBI Headquarters and the Washington Field Office were still running the cases. Opening one large January 6th case or even opening separate cases for each subject was acceptable and within FBI [rules]. If the Washington DC field office was the office of origin, case agents in Washington DC could cut leads to the field. Instead, the cases were designated for investigation by all 56 field offices,” Friend wrote in  True Blue: My Journey from Beat Cop to Suspended FBI Whistleblower.

“This is a radical deviation from FBI DIOG rules … For all intents and purposes, special agents in Washington, DC, were working as case agents in absentia.”

Friend isn’t the only whistleblower to allege that DC controlled the direction of the J6 cases. Retired FBI agent George Hill made an even more shocking disclosure that the DC field office withheld Capitol Hill surveillance footage from other offices, due to fears that the footage could reveal undercover agents or informants.

“The [Washington field office] said, ‘We can’t show you those videos unless you can tell us the exact time and place those individuals were in the Capitol’, to which [Boston agent] responded back: ‘Why can’t you just give us access to the 11,000 hours of video?’” Hill said in an interview to the House Weaponization Subcommittee, which was played live during a hearing last month.

According to Hill, the DC office then responded, “Because there may be undercover officers or confidential human sources on those videos, whose identity we’d need to protect.”

The Post’s story did not address the discrepancies between its anonymous sources and the FBI whistleblowers.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Schiff Censure 2.0 Is Reportedly Imminent

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Schiff Censure 2.0 Is Reportedly Imminent

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) A U.S. House censure resolution against Russia-collusion hoaxer Adam Schiff, D-Calif., following a House Ethics Committee investigation appears likely to be headed to a second vote.

The deletion of the potential $16 million fine that could be assessed against the disgraced former chair of the House Intelligence Committee is reportedly the major selling point for censure 2.0.

First-term Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is the prime mover behind the revised Schiff censure, which is a parliamentary reprimand, although it doesn’t materially affect his status as an elected House member.

However, fulfilling a promise made by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Schiff earlier was stripped of his spot on the select Intelligence Committee after he was exposed for having lied repeatedly and leaked sensitive classified information to the media during the Donald Trump presidency.

Luna’s original resolution fell short the first time around when 20 Republicans aligned with the chamber’s Democrats voted to block it.

One of the 20, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who is typically a principled America First stalwart rather than considered a RINO, opposed the resolution because he concluded that the monetary fine was unconstitutional.

This group faced significant backlash for refusing to formally rebuke Schiff “for conduct that misleads the American people in a way that is not befitting an elected member of the House of Representatives.”

Among a litany of the congressman’s improprieties, the original resolution also asserted that Schiff repeatedly “behaved dishonestly and dishonorably.”

This included reading bogus Steele dossier allegations into the Congressional Record and reciting a “false, concocted rendition” of Trump’s phone conversation with his counterpart in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which was an element of impeachment 1.0.

“We are removing fine as that seems to be what made these Republicans uneasy,” Luna explained on Twitter.

Luna’s House Resolution 489 language implied that the potential Schiff fine amounted to 50% of what the American taxpayer actually ponied up for the unfounded federal collusion investigation.

Massie—plus GOP colleagues Kelly Armstrong, Lori Chavez–DeRemer, Juan Ciscomani, Young Kim, Jay Obernolte, David Valadao and Steve Womack—have reportedly signaled that they are prepared to vote in favor of Luna’s resolution.

RepublicanReps. Marc Molinaro and Michael Lawler, both of New York, seem also ready to back Luna’s measure.

The original vote was 225-196 to table it.

“Democrats plan to try and table the motion again with the hopes that seven Republicans will vote with them, but they are less hopeful that they will succeed in defeating the resolution, according to senior aides,” Just the News reported.

Schiff is one of several far-left, California Democrats vying to replace ailing Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 89, who is not seeking reelection in 2024.

Edu. Dept. Sponsors Teachers Summit on How to Subvert Anti-Grooming Laws

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Edu. Dept. Sponsors Teachers Summit on How to Subvert Anti-Grooming Laws

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Midwestern teachers undertook an online training session last week during which they learned to identify potential transgender students and help them pursue transition without the knowledge of their parents, the Post Millennial reported.

The online workshop, which included 30 teachers from several midwest states, was put on by Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center.

According to its website, the MAP is “one of four regional Equity Assistance Centers, funded by the United States Department of Education under Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.”

During the “equity session,” public school teachers from Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio and other states discussed ways to be “subversive” to anti-grooming laws by adopting their own personal “code of ethics.”

For example, Angel Nathan, the session’s host, said the focus of the workshop was to review the new laws and find ways around them.

The teachers discussed ways to “remedy the marginalizing effects and disrupt problematic policies.”

According to Kimberly Martin, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion coordinator for Royal Oak Schools in Michigan, activist organizations were plotting ways to use federal money to ensure that the sexual information and advice that adults give to schoolchildren be hidden from their parents.

“We’re working with our record-keeping system so that certain screens can’t be seen by the parents … if there’s a nickname in there we’re trying to hide,” Martin told attendees of the conference.

MAP has held numerous other conferences wherein school administrators and teachers collaborate to teach young children about sexual orientations and preferences.

For example, the organization plans to hold the second part of a prior meeting, “Partners in Practice: Athletic Directors Creating Intentional Safety for Trans Student Athletes.”

The organization also advocates racially charged ideologies such as critical race theory, including conferences for the promotion of “anti-racist learning environments” and for “students with disabilities at the intersection of race, sex, national origin, and religion.”

Biden Vows to Retroactively ‘Blunt Climate Impact,’ Gets Dragged Across Stage

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Biden Vows to Retroactively ‘Blunt Climate Impact,’ Gets Dragged Across Stage

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) At an event in Santa Clara, California, President Joe Biden announced that he was committing $600 million for climate projects, the Gateway Pundit reported.

Unfortunately for Biden, he announced that the commitment would take place in 2020—apparently the year that Biden believes it is right now.

“I’ve committed to—by 2020—we will have conserved 30% of all the lands and waters the United States has jurisdiction over” Biden stammered, adding that his administration would leap into the past to “blunt climate impact.”

According to the president, 2020 looks like a bright year for federal programs “combating” climate change.

“We’re on our way! The conservation of land and water—we put forward the conservation of land and water more than any president in the history of the United States since John Kennedy,” he concluded confusedly.

After his speech, the president was pulled across the stage by a Democrat state representative in an embarrassing display, wherein it appeared that he was being directed by a nursing home attendant.

It was the latest in what appears to be an increasingly frequent series of mental lapses—including one in which Biden recently claimed that he planned to build a railroad across the Indian Ocean.

Nonetheless, at 80 years old and with decreasing competence, the president remains firmly committed to running again in 2024.

While in California, Biden and his administration made several other stops, including the Los Gatos, California home of Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Scott, where Biden affirmed his desire to rule once more in 2024 at a bigwig fundraiser.

“I am confident about this election because of the people I’m standing for,” Biden said at the event, which was co-hosted by Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and board member at Microsoft.

“I’m confident because I think there is a sense of wanting to finish the job,” he added.

Feds Preparing to Push LGBT Agenda on Small Businesses

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Feds Preparing to Push LGBT Agenda on Small Businesses

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created a new rule that requires banks to collect and report data relating to small business loans, which would allow the bureau to encourage banks to favor ‘LGBTQI’-owned businesses and punish those who will not.

“The small business lending rule” purports to be enforcing requirements of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, according to an executive summary of the rule published by the bureau.

The rule requires banks to report the kinds of financial information one would expect for small business tracking, such as gross income, number of employees, how much was loaned and what the loan was for.

However, the rule also required the bureau to collect personal and demographic information on the businesses that apply for loans.

“The final rule requires a covered financial institution to report certain data points based
solely on the demographic information collected from an applicant,” the executive summary stated.

This information included “the applicant’s minority-owned business status, women-owned business status, and LGBTQI+-owned business status,” the rule read, explaining that the bureau must track how many racial minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and LGBTQI+-owned businesses are approved and rejected, for small business loans.

This data will probably be used to assert unfair or discriminatory lending practices by banks, which will create pressure to lend to unworthy borrowers who fit with the favored sexual behavior, race or class, according to RedState.

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La.,  and Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, introduced a resolution in their respective chamber of Congress to disapprove of the rule.

Kennedy addressed the new reporting requirements.

“Reporting these personal details is an invasion of privacy and a waste of resources aimed at furthering the woke agenda,” he said. “The practical impact of this rule could hamstring lending to Main Street.”

Williams also explained his reasons for introducing the resolution.

“The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) new rule is a continued attack on Main Street America,” he explained. “Each day, small businesses struggle with rising costs, increasing interest rates, and ongoing labor shortages, and this new rule only builds on those issues.”

Kaepernick’s New Book Claims Marxism is Linchpin for ‘Black Liberation’

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Kaepernick’s New Book Claims Marxism is Linchpin for ‘Black Liberation’

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) In an interview on his upcoming book, former NFL quarterback and millionaire Colin Kaepernick decried capitalism and explained that “black liberation” cannot happen under the current economic system.

According to the Post Millennial, Kaepernick came to the realization with the help of “two of the most prominent black Marxists in the country,” both of whom assisted the former NFL player with his forthcoming book.

The book, titled Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies, featured a collection of essays by civil rights activists and Marxist revolutionaries, compiled by Kaepernick with the help of Robin D.G. Kelley and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.

The book featured essays from W.E.B. Du Bois and Angela Davis, both of whom expressed disdain for capitalism in their writings, alongside the quarterback’s prose.

The book originated out of the battle over AP African American Studies, which focused largely on teaching modern critical race theory to high school students. The College Board revised the curriculum after Florida Governor and 2024 Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis pushed back on the course.

Kaepernick called out DeSantis, claiming that his book was “the kind of book [the governor] wants to ban.”

“Any attempt to whitewash the past should actually be understood as a concrete step toward fascism and a desire to build a nation state where power is concentrated in the hands of a self-anointed (read: white) few,” he said.

Kaepernick alleged that the book made the argument against capitalism very well, and claimed he wanted readers to understand that white supremacy is a complex, multi-faceted problem.

“I hope it challenges readers to see that racism is not white supremacy’s only ingredient,” Kaepernick said. “White supremacy persists in part because of its relationship with capitalism, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and so on.”

Kaepernick previously wrote essays advocating for all levels of government to adopt far-left critical race theory by abolishing police and prisons.

In his essays, the former San Francisco 49ers player claimed law enforcement and the criminal justice system protect “institutional racism.”

Kaepernick, who left the NFL due to his poor performance, also compared the NFL training camps to slavery in a Netflix special.

Trump Slams Bret Baier for Criticism Over Presidential Records at Mar-a-Lago

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Trump Slams Bret Baier for Criticism Over Presidential Records at Mar-a-Lago

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) President Donald Trump sparred with Fox News anchor Bret Baier for storing presidential records at his Mar-a-Lago home in a recent contentious one-on-one interview.

Baier questioned Trump about him allegedly possessing a classified document detailing a U.S. military attack plan on another country.

“You were quoted on the recording saying, ‘The document was secret,’ adding that you could’ve declassified it while you were president, but ‘now I can’t. You know this is still secret, highly confidential.’ You say on tape that you can’t declassify it, so why have it?” Baier questioned.

Trump responded that when he said he couldn’t declassify certain information, it was because there was no specific document. Instead, there were “many articles and stories in various media about Iran and other topics.” Therefore, there was nothing to declassify as it wasn’t a formal document, he said.

The topic of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the storage of presidential records at Trump’s estate entered the heated conversation.

The revocation of Trump’s executive privilege by Biden created an opportunity for the former president to be subpoenaed. The DOJ charged Trump with 37 federal crimes, including the deliberate retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements. The preliminary court date is set for Aug. 14, Fox News Digital noted.

Baier also pressed Trump on the DOJ’s investigation into whether he mishandled classified documents after leaving office in January 2021. The National Archives went after Trump a year later about the boxes of records stored at Mar-a-Lago.

“The only way NARA could ever get this stuff back would be to say please, please, please could we have it back,” Trump said.

“They did ask for it,” Baier snapped back. “Why not just hand them over then?”

“Because I had boxes. I want to go through the boxes and get my personal things out. I don’t want to hand that over to NARA yet,” Trump said. “And I very was busy as you’ve sort of seen,” Trump shot back.

“I have every right to have those boxes,” he added.

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