Wednesday, May 31, 2023
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR KIDS TO LEARN TO HATE CAPITALISM, THE POLICE, THE MILITARY, WHITES, JEWS, AND JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING AMERICANS HAVE BEEN PROUD OF?
Over my dead body will I pay thousands for my children to go to a woke college to fill their heads with useless, leftist garbage. And as enrollments plunge, millions clearly agree
By Meghan McCain
Daily Mail
May 31, 2023
The Yemeni-born and Queens, New York-raised woman (above, right) smeared the NYPD as 'fascist' and called for a 'revolution' to challenge 'oppressive' institutions, like the military, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the prison system.
Where am I going to send my girls for college? Heck, are they even going to go?
Higher education has always been seen as the gateway to a bright future in America. But increasingly, millions are deciding it's just not worth the cost.
After all, who in their right mind would willingly subject themselves or their loved ones to hateful, irrational, woke indoctrination?
It's Free Market Capitalism 101!
Between 2012-2019 the number of students enrolled in a U.S. university dropped from 20.5 million students to 18.2 million.
The COVID pandemic only accelerated the decline, but since then enrollments haven't bounced back. In fact, they've continued to tumble down.
When the times comes, my two children may be among those choosing a job over a major. My youngest isn't even out of diapers yet, but I don't think that this so absurd.
It's an idea that many parents wrestle with as they stress over schools, tests, extra-curriculum activities and stashing away money to be spent on dorm rooms, books, and tuition.
The way things are going in academia today – college is the last place I would pay for my kids to attend.
The vile, unhinged commencement address at The City University of New York's law school is just the latest example of what passes for acceptable rhetoric in our modern academic cesspools.
Keynote speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed stepped to the podium on May 12th and spewed the typical, far-left gibberish, but with her own antisemitic flair.
The Yemeni-born and Queens, New York-raised woman smeared the NYPD as 'fascist' and called for a 'revolution' to challenge 'oppressive' institutions, like the military, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the prison system.
According to her – an aspiring lawyer no less – the law is a 'manifestation of white supremacy' and, to top it all off, she indulged in all the greatest hits of antisemitic tropes.
She alleged 'donors' and 'investors' were secretly manipulating the school system, accused Israel of 'indiscriminate' murder, and encouraged her fellow graduates to 'fight against capitalism, racism, imperialism and Zionism around the world,' as if all those 'isms' belong in the same sentence.
Mohammad is certainly entitled to her opinion, but her school is not expected to endorse it, especially since this is a taxpayer-funded institution.
Though there was the Law School Dean, Sudha Setty, applauding along with all the others throwing their support behind Mohammed -- a well-known activist with antisemitic leanings.
Clips have since emerged showing Mohammed telling a Midtown Manhattan crowd last year to demand that 'Zionist professors [and] students' be excluded from campuses.
Ask yourself: Would someone who called for pro-Palestinian teachers and students to be kicked off campus ever be given a speaking slot at any university commencement?
Of course, they wouldn't. Only one type of hate is accepted.
Parents and students are watching and they're seeing this play out again and again. The woke cowards running these educational institutions see themselves as advocates for misguided students.
Remember what happened at Stanford Law School back in March.
The school's associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion rushed into a melee as a mob of deranged students berated a federal judge, who had been invited by a conservative group to speak on campus.
But instead of scolding the crazed audience – she joined them, infamously asking the judge if his right to free speech was worth the harm that his words were causing these snowflakes.
And this at one of the premier law schools in the country!
Though there was the Law School Dean, Sudha Setty, (above) applauding along with all the others throwing their support behind Mohammed -- a well-known activist with antisemitic leanings.
The school's associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion (above, left) rushed into a melee as a mob of deranged students berated a federal judge, who had been invited by a conservative group to speak on campus.
Here's what I know – no child of mine will ever attend a university that promotes anti-American, anti-free speech, anti-capitalist garbage and antisemitic hate speech.
Never. Ever. Over. My. Dead. Body.
But this is now the real price of a college education.
My alma mater Columbia University was recently ranked the worst college for free speech by The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) after they surveyed 45,000 students from more than 200 campuses.
I thrived at Columbia. It was a privilege to receive an education at such an incredible institution in the heart of New York City. I did not feel that my opinion was stifled. I was not targeted for being an outspoken Republican. But my children wouldn't have that same experience today -- it breaks my heart.
The inmates are running the asylums and there's seemingly nowhere to turn.
In May, a CUNY professor was filmed destroying the display of pro-life students. But she wasn't fired until she held a machete to the throat of journalist and threatened to 'chop him up into little pieces' after he showed up at her apartment to ask questions.
The University of Colorado Boulder's website now states that misgendering people can be considered an act of violence.
In May, a CUNY professor (above, left) was filmed destroying the display of pro-life students. But she wasn't fired until she held a machete to the throat of journalist and threatened to 'chop him up into little pieces' after he showed up at her apartment to ask questions.
The University of Connecticut will reportedly soon require students to pass an 'Anti-Black Racism' course in order to graduate. 'Intro to antisemitism' is not yet a prerequisite.
I wish this were all a joke, but it is not.
Professors and administrators no longer strive to teach students how to think, but what to think. And thankfully, American's aren't buying what they're selling.
Bucking the trend of declining four-year college enrollments, two-year community colleges are roaring back.
The most popular majors at the two-year institutions include Computer and Information Sciences, Mechanic and Repair Technologies, Personal and Culinary Services and Transportation and Materials Moving.
Young Americans want to be taught a trade or a skill. Their parents want to know that their hard-earned dollars are going toward enriching their children's lives, not filling their heads with useless ideologies.
A degree in 'intersectional solidarity' isn't a great way to make a living.
American Universities better recognize that before they fail out.
THIS WILL HELP PRESIDENT BIDEN AND HURT THE REPUBLICANS
House PASSES bill to suspend $31 TRILLION debt ceiling: 165 Democrats help Kevin McCarthy beat uprising from 71 Republicans - five days before the US runs out of money
Daily Mail
May 31, 2023
The House passed the debt limit deal between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden on Wednesday 314 to 117.
Most Republicans opposed the deal, arguing it caved too far to White House demands, while some Democrats voted in favor of it.
The deal, which suspends the debt limit until Jan. 1, 2025, now heads to the upper chamber - where senators have begun to demand amendments to the bill. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has said there is not time to send an amended version back to the House before the nation runs out of funds to pay its bills -and is trying to force a quick vote.
MY HOME STATE OF TEXAS IS ONE OF THE STATES THAT HAS JOINED THE LAWSUIT
States join lawsuit against school's 'transgender support plan' for 13-year-old girl: 21 Republican attorneys general fight for parents suing teachers for going behind their backs
January Littlejohn said school bosses spoke to her 13-year-old daughter about changing her name and which bathroom she wanted to use without parental permission. The Littlejohns sued the school district in 2021 for violating their parental rights
By Kelly Laco
Daily Mail
May 31, 2023
A group of 21 Republican-led states are taking legal action on behalf of Florida parents who sued their daughter's school after teachers launched a 'transgender support plan' for their 13-year-old without asking for their parental consent.
January Littlejohn said her then 13-year-old daughter had a group of friends who were 'obsessed' with anything to do with the LGBTQ community, and when three of them began identifying as trans or non-binary, her daughter said she was confused about her own gender.
Despite bringing their daughter to a counselor to help her work through her confusion, the Littlejohns learned that school bosses had spoken to the youngster about changing her name and which bathroom she wanted to use - without their permission.
As a result, Littlejohn and her husband sued the school for violating their parental rights at the end of 2021, and now other state leaders are getting involved.
Littlejohn, center left, and her husband, right, with their family. Littlejohn and her husband are parents to three. They live in Tallahassee, Florida
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, who is leading the 21-state brief in support of the Littlejohns with Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, told DailyMail.com that it is 'unconscionable' that school districts are 'deliberately' shutting parents out of decisions.
'Parents have a fundamental and longstanding constitutional right to direct the upbringing and care of their children,' he said.
'Unfortunately, it's happening in schools across the country. It's past time for the courts to do their job and step in to protect children and put a stop to woke school administrators violating parents' rights,' Knudsen continued.
The state leaders filed the brief Tuesday in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
The states who signed on in addition to Montana and Florida include: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
The case rose to prominence when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tweeted about it as he worked to pass his parental rights bill.
The now-passed bill bans teachers from giving classroom instruction on 'sexual orientation' or 'gender identity' in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
He posted on March 28: 'The bill I signed today protects Florida parents like January Littlejohn. School officials manipulated her daughter to ''transition,'' calling her a male name & pronouns without January's knowledge or consent. This is wrong & today's legislation will ensure it doesn't happen again.'
When school resumed in 2020, Littlejohn told a teacher at the Deerlake Middle School in Tallahassee, Florida, about the situation and informed her that she and her husband were not affirming their daughter's new preferred name and pronouns at home while they were working through her feelings, and that they did not feel that transitioning was in her best interest.
Littlejohn says officials at the Deerlake Middle School in Tallahassee, Florida, gave her daughter a 'transgender support plan' to fill out after she expressed gender confusion
The case rose to prominence when DeSantis tweeted about it on March 28 as he signed his parental rights bill
Littlejohn also told the teacher that she was okay with her daughter adopting her preferred name as a nickname at school.
But weeks later Littlejohn said after one day school her daughter happily told her she had spoken with officials about changing her name, and they'd asked her which bathroom she wanted to use.
Aghast by the discussion the school had had with her daughter without parental consent, Littlejohn called them immediately and asked them about it.
She was told by the school guidance councilor and vice-principal that they could not disclose what had been talked about in the meeting, and that Littlejohn's daughter needed to give consent by-law for her parents to be informed about or be present for future discussions.
'My 13-year-old daughter who can't vote, drink, or enter into any other legal contract without our permission or input,' Littlejohn said in 2021.
Montana
Attorney General Austin Knudsen (L) is leading the 21-state brief in
support of the Littlejohns with Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R)
Littlejohn says that after several weeks of back-and-forths with the school district, the principal finally showed her a 'transgender non conforming student support plan' that the school had filled out with her daughter.
'This was a six page document that she completed with the vice principal the guidance council, and a social worker I had never met.'
'They asked her questions that would have absolutely impacted her safety, such as which bathroom she preferred to use, and which sex she preferred to room with on overnight field trips,' Littlejohn said on Fox & Friends First in May.
The document also asked for the student's preference on preferred names, pronouns, sports teams and locker rooms, and whether or not they wanted their parents to be informed about their transition.
'The plan also stated to use her birth name when speaking to us in effect to deceive us of the social transition that had occurred,' Littlejohn said.
THOSE 40 WORTHLESS PIECES OF SHIT SHOULD BE FORCED INTO THE MARINE CORPS
Nine teens - including a girl and four minors - are arrested over vicious assault of three Marines who were jumped by 'obnoxious' mob on Memorial Day
The Marines were brutally attacked along San Clemente beach by a group of 40 teenagers at 10pm on Friday after they confronted them about their behavior
By Kamal Sultan
Daily Mail
May 31, 2023
A group of nine teenagers have been arrested over the savage beating of three Marines on a California beach over Memorial Day Weekend
Nine teenagers have been arrested over the savage beating of three Marines on a California beach over Memorial Day weekend.
Orange County officials said four boys and one girl were charged with assault with a deadly weapon on Tuesday and held at juvenile hall. Another four minors were charged with misdemeanor assault and battery, CBS News reported.
The Marines were brutally attacked along San Clemente beach, just south of Los Angeles, by a group of up to 40 teenagers at 10pm on Friday after the service members confronted them about setting off fireworks.
The incident was caught on video and the men, who sustained minor injuries, refused to be transported to a local hospital in the aftermath.
Hunter Antonino, one of the Marines, told KCAL the fight began when he told the teens to stop lighting fireworks
San Clemente Mayor Chris Duncan revealed that deputies have caught the main suspects in the mob of teenagers who launched the attack.
He said: 'They think they have the people they are looking for. Not to say that there might not be a few others out there. They feel pretty confident that they have the main perpetrators.'
Footage of the incident was used to track down those involved, the mayor added.
'In today’s age, you’re going to get caught — people are going to record it,' Duncan said.
'I hope this serves as a learning lesson for young folks in the community not to let themselves get out of control when something like this happens.'
In the roughly minute-long clip posted to Facebook, the Marines were seen trying to walk up the steps outside the Pier Bowl as a group of teenagers shouted at them.
As they approached the stairs, a male teen was seen brutally punching the back of one of the Marine's heads.
The Marine turned around and charged at the assailant, which led to an all-out brawl, as the teen's friends all jumped in to take swings and kick him.
Within seconds the group circled around the two Marines yelling 'Get that f***er' and 'f*** that f***er up,' even using the N-word at one point.
And two of the victims were seen curled up on the ground as the group continued to strike them with vicious kicks.
The brawl only came to an end after two bystanders, an unknown man and woman, intervened and yelled at the children: 'Stop, what are you doing?'
It remains unclear what happened before the video, but Marine Hunter Antonino, told KCAL the fight began when he asked the teens to stop lighting fireworks.
Hunter Antonino is seen here with a relative after signing on as a Marine in 2022
Orange County officials said four boys and one girl were charged with assault with a deadly weapon on Tuesday and held at juvenile hall
Another four minors were charged with misdemeanor assault and battery, CBS News reported, after the Marines were brutally attacked along San Clemente beach at 10pm on Friday
The brawl only ended when two unidentified passersby intervened and yelled at the teenagers
The vicious attack began outside the Pier Bowl as the Marines began walking up the steps
Antonino said he and his friend were enjoying some rare time off from Camp Pendleton in Oceanside during the Memorial Day weekend when the crowd began setting off the fireworks.
A piece of debris then hit him in the face and Antonino said he politely asked them to leave.
'They were lighting off fireworks, they were being belligerent and obnoxious and annoying other people, so I went up to them and told them to stop,' he recounted.
But the group followed him back to the pier, at which point Antonino said he and his friend warned the teenagers that they were Marines 'so they would leave, but they didn't.'
Orange County officials said the two men seen in the video sustained only minor injuries such as an injury to the hand, scrapes to the knees and soreness to the abdomen, chest and head.
Antonino, though, feared he may also suffered a concussion.
'My face still has blood on it,' he said. 'It wasn't cool at all.'
Mayor Duncan described the Memorial Day weekend attack as 'tragic.'
'This is San Clemente, Marines are always welcome here, always going to be celebrated, always taken care of, and that is why this is so particularly tragic,' he said.
JUST MORE LIBERAL HUG-A-CRIMINAL HORSESHIT
The Clean Slate Act poised to pass would just create more advantages for criminals
May 31, 2023
Paul
Zuber, executive vice president of the Business Council of New York
State, said people deserve to seal criminal records once they serve
their sentences and stay out of trouble.
As the state’s legislative session winds down, the push for a Clean Slate Act has resurfaced, with leaders of both chambers saying Wednesday they’re close to a deal and confident it will pass.
That push, however, lacks a realistic examination of the law, its flaws and its impact on public safety and an understanding of the massive undertaking sealing volumes of criminal records would require.
It is good public policy to offer second chances to deserving individuals who have completed their sentences and been rehabilitated, to enable them to pursue employment, housing and education without the burden of past convictions.
New York’s prosecutors supported the most recent sealing statute, enacted in 2017, and initiatives exist in many counties to assist those seeking to seal convictions.
District attorneys’ offices provide information on their websites on how to navigate the process, and some offices hold workshops to educate the public about the process.
The Legal Aid Society, bar associations and others also help in sealing convictions.
Assemblywoman
Catalina Cruz joined “Clean Slate” supporters on Wednesday at a rally
inside the Capitol ahead of the June 8 end of the 2023 legislative
session.
Now lawmakers propose to expand the range of sealable convictions, automating the process without adequate consideration of logistics, risks, limitations or public-safety effects.
To their credit, the sponsors have amended the bill, addressing some concerns prosecutors raised. Access to sealed records would be granted to law enforcement, specific state agencies and employers required to conduct fingerprint checks.
The sponsors understood it would run counter to public safety to allow probationers and parolees in New York to have their records sealed.
But the bill doesn’t consider out-of-state offenses or federal charges.
Someone could have numerous pending offenses or even be on parole in New Jersey, Connecticut or any other state and still have offenses automatically sealed in New York.
Unfortunately, there are logistical and technical obstacles that prevent different jurisdictions from fully communicating information about criminal records.
There is no mechanism allowing criminal records from other states to easily flow to New York before a defendant’s criminal record would be sealed.
It is too easy to hop on a train or drive across state lines and commit a crime.
Do we really want to create more advantages for criminals?
The bill would bar potential employers and landlords from asking questions about prior convictions.
Before overhauling our current sealing statute, we must address the logistical challenges associated with sharing criminal records among various jurisdictions, courts and law enforcement.
The scope of sealing under the legislation, furthermore, is too broad.
The bill would bar potential employers and landlords from asking questions about prior convictions, including convictions related to the employer’s business, and allow those with convictions to respond as if the arrest did not occur, essentially making it OK to lie to a future employer or landlord about past behavior.
And except for sex offenses, all crimes will be automatically sealed — and it will be illegal for citizens to even ask about the convicted murderer, kidnapper or robber living in their midst.
New York’s current already-generous sealing law allows for the sealing of many felony and misdemeanor convictions, under judicial oversight.
Proponents of Clean Slate, however, argue that few defendants take advantage of that law, due to the inconvenience of filing paperwork in court, and propose automated sealing under the bill.
But mistakes are unavoidable in any automated process. Inevitably, cases that should be sealed would be missed and ineligible cases would be sealed.
Automatic sealing overlooks the limitations of existing infrastructure and automated systems’ lack of human oversight.
Those mistakes can have a direct effect on public safety.
Instead, to benefit those individuals who deserve sealing, our lawmakers should encourage expanded use of the state’s current sealing statute, including investing money for legal services for people to be able to complete the process of sealing past convictions.
Michigan’s
Clean Slate Act passed in 2020, for example, but required more than two
years of effort and significant funding to create software and train
staff, who are still working overtime tackling the glitches.
Other states that have implemented clean-slate laws have dedicated considerable resources to addressing the complexities of sealing criminal records and minimizing errors.
Some of those states are still facing challenges.
Michigan’s Clean Slate Act passed in 2020, for example, but required more than two years of effort and significant funding to create software and train staff, who are still working overtime tackling the glitches.
Michigan’s system must be reevaluated monthly to find new convictions that might be eligible for sealing.
More thought and planning need to go into any clean-slate law in our state.
NO SURPRISE ..... AFTER ALL, IT'S BERKELEY
Ousted soft-on-crime San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin to run Berkeley Law’s new criminal justice center
May 31, 2023
Chase
Boudin, 42, the progressive San Francisco prosecutor booted out of
office by voters in June, said he’s now the founding executive director
at Berkeley Law School’s new criminal justice center.
Former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a controversial progressive prosecutor who was booted by voters last year over his soft-on-crime policies, is taking the helm of a new criminal justice center at UC Berkeley School of Law.
Boudin, 42, was named the executive director of the school’s Criminal Law & Justice Center, he announced in a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed Wednesday.
“In my new role, just as I did as district attorney, I will continue to draw on networks of advocates, activists, judges and legal practitioners to support reform and advance safety in ways that are rigorous, principled and responsive to the lived experiences of directly impacted communities,” he wrote.
“The center will systematically evaluate the outcomes of specific policies and communicate to the public which policy changes are essential to enhancing public safety and justice,” Boudin said.
“Electoral politics will only take the criminal justice reform movement so far. Winning a few big elections isn’t enough, on its own, to create lasting change. I learned a lot while in office, including that how people feel often matters more than data and facts.”
Boudin, who came under fire as a soft-on-crime prosecutor in the Golden City, was voted out of office in a recall election in June — and announced in August that he would not try to reclaim the post.
Critics griped that the lefty DA’s policies contributed to a spike in crime in the city, with drug dealers peddling their wares in public and shoplifting and robberies rampant.
Some 60% of San Francisco voters cast ballots in favor of a recall.
But in his op-ed piece, Boudin stuck to his progressive guns, and claimed that it was Republicans and the “sensationalistic media” who made public safety an issue — calling it a “manufactured frenzy.”
“In New York state, officials rolled back pretrial release reforms for poor people who can’t afford bail,” Boudin said.
Boudin
was named the executive director of the school’s Criminal Law &
Justice Center, he announced in a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed
Wednesday.
“Meanwhile, despite widespread claims about being defunded, police budgets across the country surged without any demands for accountability.
“Even in liberal San Francisco, the mayor’s office closed a supervised drug consumption site while ratcheting up policing of drug users with results as predictable as they are tragic: The city is suffering its most fatal year of overdoses on record, by far.”
At Berkeley, Boudin will conduct research and advocate for criminal justice reform, the school’s dean said in a release announcing the move.
“Since coming to Berkeley Law, I have wanted to create a criminal law and justice center to further advance the important work of our tremendous faculty and clinics in this area,” Berkely Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said in a statement.
“I am delighted to launch the center and that Chesa Boudin will be its first executive director,” Chemerinsky said.
“Chesa was chosen after a national search and has substantial experience across the criminal justice system. He has thought deeply about the system, and I cannot think of anyone better to create and direct this important center.”
Boudin is the son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, who were members of the far-left Weather Underground terrorist organization.
Both were convicted of murder and served decades in prison for the deadly 1981 Brink’s armored truck heist in Rockland County, New York.
The 14-month-old future DA was raised in Chicago by adoptive parents.
“Both of my biological parents were arrested when I was a baby and spent a combined 62 years in prison,” Boudin wrote in his op-ed.
“A lifetime of visiting them behind bars, together with the years I spent as a public defender and then an elected prosecutor, taught me how catastrophically California and the nation’s current approach to justice are failing.”
WHAT AN AWFUL SHAME
Children are dead because activists say it’s racist for ACS to act
May 31, 2023
Jalayah Eason died after being found unconscious and unresponsive in an apartment with bruises to her wrists and body on May 26.
When a child is found dead with bruises on her wrists and torso, the first question is always: Were there warning signs?
In the case of 6-year-old Jalayah Eason, the answer is undoubtedly yes.
It wasn’t just the upstairs neighbor who heard the child “screaming for her dear life” and yelling, “Stop, stop, stop!” Who told a reporter, “You could hear the thumps, bro.”
Nor was it the reports of her 8-year-old brother, who told a classmate that his mother was “whipping him, slapping him.”
Nor was it the school that reported long stretches of absences by the brother, that he was regularly picked up more than an hour late from school, that he wore the same clothes each day and smelled like urine.
Nor was it the brother who came to school with a bruised and swollen face and told a teacher his mother had punched and kicked him for drinking out of the sink.
It was also the worker at the Administration for Children’s Services who went to the home, heard the boy’s account and then listened as the mother explained she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder but was not being treated.
The Administration for Children’s Services is apparently trying to peddle a story that this tragedy is in part the result of an agency that is stretched too thin.
According to the New York Times, that neighborhood’s “caseworkers have an average load of 12.5 cases, ACS said — about 17 percent higher than the citywide average.”
Never mind that the average caseload nationwide is between 24 and 31 children. Or that it is well beneath the Child Welfare League of America recommendation of 15 children per social worker.
Just like smaller class size doesn’t guarantee a better education if the teachers are incompetent or spouting ideological nonsense, it has been clear for years that New York City’s child welfare problems do not stem from caseworkers being overwhelmed or children “falling through the cracks.”
Neighbors reportedly heard Jalayah “screaming for her dear life” and yelling, “Stop, stop, stop!”
Between 2008 and 2020 (the last year for which data are available), the number of deaths of children in families who had been previously reported and investigated by ACS increased from 49 to 52 even while workers’ caseload plummeted from 18 to fewer than six children per employee at one point.
These tragic situations are often the result of deliberate decisions by agency leaders to leave children in situations that are unsafe.
There are two narratives driving these decisions.
Jalayah’s 8-year-old brother told a classmate that their mother was “whipping him, slapping him.”
The first is that ACS is racist. Activists argue the reason black children are placed in foster care more often is structural bias in the system. They want to abolish child protective services the same way they want to defund the police.
In her speech to fellow CUNY Law graduates last week, Fatima Mousa Mohammed proudly mentioned her classmates had gone to court to reunite families “torn apart” by the city’s Administration for Children’s Services.
ACS has all but embraced this rhetoric, commissioning a survey of 50 black and Hispanic employees (in an agency with thousands of employees) that concluded child welfare is a “predatory system that specifically targets Black and brown parents.”
Lynija Eason, Jalayah’s mother, at her arraignment.
The other narrative is that families are investigated and children are removed from their homes simply because of poverty, and claiming a parent is engaging in neglect is really the same as just saying she’s poor.
While it is true families involved in the child welfare system are disproportionately poor, correlation is not causation. A recent study of almost 300 California case files that cited neglect, for instance, found 99% “included concerns related to substance use, domestic violence, mental illness, co-reported abuse or an additional neglect allegation (i.e., abandonment).”
Substance abuse and mental illness often lead to poverty. They also make it hard to properly care for children. But that doesn’t mean poverty is the root cause of child neglect.
ACS says its caseworker didn’t see visible signs of abuse on Jalayah’s brother.
Agency leaders say they make a distinction between neglect and abuse and understand there are circumstances in which children are not physically safe.
But in the case of Jalayah, the evidence for abuse was there. ACS says its caseworker didn’t see visible signs on Jalayah’s brother, but that’s probably just an indication it took too long to investigate.
It is time for the agency to stop taking its cues from activists driven by progressive ideology and start putting the safety of children first.
UC REGENTS OPEN CIVIL SERVICE JOBS TO ILLEGAL ALIENS
By Bob Walsh
The University of California Board of Regents
The University of California Board of Regents has decided
that it is appropriate to open campus jobs up to undocumented
democrats. The vote by the 18 member board was unanimous.
The U C system is a constitutional construct in California and has a great deal of say-so about their own operations.
A STRATEGIC HILLTOP HAS BIDEN'S STATE DEPARTMENT UP IN ARMS
King of the Hill: Where is Homesh, and Why Does It Have Everyone So Bothered?
The battle for the hilltops of Samaria is the frontline in the battle for the Land of Israel.
The ruins of Homesh in northern Samaria. Jews are now returning to this strategic hilltop.
A few Jews sitting atop a solitary, otherwise barren hilltop. It’s a statement, and one the world apparently can’t tolerate. For the Palestinians, it’s a declaration of war.
Earlier this year, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repealed portions of the 2005 Disengagement Law pertaining to the evacuation of Jewish settlements in northern Samaria.
The Jewish communities of the Gaza Strip will remain Jew-free, but it is now not illegal for Israeli Jews to return to the northern Samaria hilltops where once stood four Jewish settlements. The focal point is the former community of Homesh.
The Biden administration hooted and hollered that Israel was violating commitments it made not only to the Palestinians, but to the United States. But Israeli officials noted that the letters exchanged at the time between former US President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon also contained American commitments to Israel, such as supporting unrestricted Jewish construction in parts of Judea and Samaria, and guaranteeing security in southern Israel.
The Obama administration, in which Joe Biden was vice president, explicitly excused itself from honoring those commitments, so some wondered why Israel should still see itself as obligated.
The West was really upset when a handful of Jews last week returned to Homesh, with approval from Israel’s defense establishment, and rebuilt a local yeshiva.
The European Union condemned “the establishment of permanent structures for Israeli settlers in the Homesh outpost in the occupied West Bank” and demanded that Israel “reverse this action.”
The White House stressed that it was “deeply troubled” by the presence of religious Jewish seminary students atop Homesh.
For the Palestinians, it was all the justification they needed to ramp up terrorist attacks against Jews in the area. After all, if the West was so upset by the move, surely it wouldn’t mind if they shoot at a few of those troublesome Israelis.
With tacit government approval, religious Jews reestablish a yeshiva in Homesh.
A look at Homesh
Before we continue, let’s take a look at the tiny settlement at the center of this international storm.
Homesh was established on a strategic hilltop in 1978 as an outpost for the Nahal Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces. Soon after, civilian settlers began to move to the hilltop with the tacit approval of the Israeli government.
The previous short-lived Israeli government acknowledged last year that Homesh had been built on privately-owned Palestinian land, though that land had long been barren and successive Israeli governments had not opposed the presence of the Jewish settlers.
The community was named after five (hamesh) Jewish villages that had existed nearby during the first and second centuries AD.
Homesh is situated along Highway 60 directly in the heart of northern Samaria, and is surrounded by many Arab villages.
An aerial view of Homesh in the heart of northern Samaria.
Why it matters
The Jewish settlers reclaiming Homesh are doing so because it is part of Israel’s biblical inheritance.
But there’s also a strategic reason. The Jewish settlers know that if Homesh, Ariel and the Etzion Bloc fall–in other words, if Israel is unable to justify its claim to the biblical heartland–then the rest of Israel will fall soon after.
Israel’s secular leadership used to understand this, too, to a certain extent.
In Arab eyes, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Netanya and Nazareth are lost, at least for now. The frontline of the battle for the Land of Israel has shifted to the hilltops of Samaria. And that was by design. Forty years ago, Israel’s Labor-led (read “leftist”) government knew that if it pushed the frontline into the “disputed territories,” that would relieve pressure on the major population centers. But if that frontline falls, whether through violence or international pressure like that emanating from Washington, make no mistake – the Palestinians will again turn their full gaze to the coastal plains, the Mediterranean shores and the Galilee. In their mind, it’s all theirs, as evidenced by what they teach their children.
A PALESTINIAN STATE WOULD POSE AN EXTREME DANGER TO ISRAEL
Rockets in Judea and Samaria Are a Game-Changer
Nothing could make clearer the danger of creating a Palestinian state.
Videos circulated on social media showing a failed launch of a rudimentary rocket in the West Bank. For the rocket situation in Gaza to come to Judea and Samaria would alter the course of the conflict.
There has been a flurry of reports in recent days about Palestinian Arab terrorists in Judea and Samaria developing rocket launchers. This is a game-changer. It also goes straight to the heart of the debate over whether Israel could survive the creation of a Palestinian state.
After Israel eliminated three Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders on May 9, IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari said that one of the three, Tariq Muhammad Ezzedine, had been involved in “bringing improvised rockets that will be launched from the West Bank into Israel to harm civilians.” The Jerusalem Post noted, “Rockets have never been fired from the West Bank into Israel.”
On May 24, Israel Hayom reported that the IDF had discovered “a homemade rocket launcher” in the Palestinian Arab town of Kafr Nazlat “with which Palestinians allegedly tried to fire rockets at the Jewish community of Shaked.” They did succeed in launching at least one rocket, which “unverified footage” on social media showed exploding in midair before reaching its target.
By “homemade,” the IDF presumably means that development of the rockets had not yet reached the stage at which the terrorists have actual factories to produce them. They’re still developing and testing individual prototypes. But the phase of mass production is not far off.
The Jerusalem Post, possibly referring to incidents other than the Kafr Nazlat attack, cited “unconfirmed reports that terrorists had attempted to fire rockets from the West Bank, but had been stopped.”
All of this means that Palestinian Arab terrorists in Judea and Samaria are on the verge of acquiring the ability to fire rockets at Jewish communities.
To be clear, this represents a threat not only to Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria, but to every city and town throughout Israel. The first rocket was fired at Shaked in northern Samaria because it is the town closest to where the rocket launcher happened to be set up. But there are major Palestinian Authority-controlled cities, such as Tulkarm and Qalqilya, that are a few miles from Israeli towns situated within the pre-1967 lines.
This means that the rocket fire terrorizing Jewish communities near Gaza in recent years could soon be duplicated throughout the country.
Terrorists firing rockets in and from Judea and Samaria will be much harder to catch than those who use guns or knives. Snipers and stabbers need to get close to their targets. Rockets, by contrast, can operate from much greater distances. The terrorists can pick up their rocket launchers and disappear into the back alleys of Tulkarm long before Israeli soldiers arrive.
Obviously, rockets can cause a lot more harm than a bomb, rifle or knife. A well-aimed rocket can destroy an entire kindergarten or school bus. Imagine every Israeli kindergarten and school bus having to live with that danger on a daily basis.
These developments make it even more outrageous that the PA refuses to uses its American-trained and American-armed security forces to arrest the terrorists. The PA has one of the largest per-capita security forces in the world, yet terrorists operate within its territory with complete immunity—and, as usual, the international community is silent.
Most of all, the imminent deployment of Palestinian rockets demonstrates the extreme danger that Israel will face if it ever permits the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state in any part of Judea and Samaria. The borders of “Palestine” would put rocket-launchers within striking distance of the heart of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa—and, of course, every plane taking off from or landing at Ben-Gurion Airport.
Until now, discussions about the feasibility of a Palestinian state have largely focused on hypothetical dangers. That’s changing now. The introduction of rockets into the arsenal of terrorists based in Judea and Samaria, and the PA’s refusal to take action against them, is creating what can only be described as a direct danger to Israel’s survival.
TEXAS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS ..... THE DEFENDERS OF THE ALAMO WERE ALL BLACK
Texas judge grants injunction in case that will impact how state history is taught in schools
The temporary injunction stops the Texas State Historical Association from holding meetings until the dispute is resolved
Texas history as it should be taught: The final attack on the Black defenders of the Alamo
Galveston County Judge Kerry Neves of the 10th District Court on Tuesday granted a temporary injunction in a case that will impact how state history is taught in schools.
The temporary injunction stops the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) from holding meetings until a dispute is resolved over the makeup of the board.
A view of the Galveston County Courthouse
Executive Director J.P. Bryan, who filed a temporary restraining order against TSHA President Nancy Baker Jones, contends that the board is violating its own bylaws which mandate that it must comprise 10 academics and 10 non-academics. The board now consists of 12 academics and eight non-academics.
In a previous interview with Fox News Digital, Bryan argued that the board's imbalance of members has unfairly shifted the organization's ideological tilt towards the left.
Defendants in court filings, meanwhile, have accused Bryan of downplaying non-Anglo communities in shaping Texas history.
"I don't think this has anything to do with politics, or whatever your view of history is," Bryan told Fox News Digital. "It just has to do, legally, with — are there 10 lollipops in the jar, or are there five? That's what we're fussing about. If you can count, I think, to me, it's all self-evident."
Neves is expected to hear within 45 days a motion to change the venue from Galveston to Austin. A trial on the case is slated to begin on Sept. 11.
Founded in 1897, TSHA publishes research material and education programs about the Lone Star State.
The association’s output includes the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, the Texas Almanac, the Handbook of Texas, and other books and periodicals frequently cited by classrooms and authors and influences content on Texas historical sites, which include urban museums, Spanish missions, and world-famous revolutionary battlefields. The organization receives taxpayer funds from the Texas Legislature.
Fox News Digital reached out to Jones' attorney for comment.
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE AUTONOMY OF OUR PRIVATE LIVES AND RELATIONSHIPS
To Address The Loneliness Epidemic, The Feds Want To Control Your Town And Friends
The project is potentially so massive in scope, it’s not an overstatement to say it threatens to regulate our freedom of association in shocking ways.
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