The mayor and city council of Salt Lake City, Utah signed a joint statement last week declaring racism a public health crisis.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/salt-lake-city-mayor-city-council-declare-racism-a-public-health-crisis">reported</a> that Mayor Erin Mendenhall, a Democrat, announced the declaration in a tweet on Tuesday.
&#8220;We are publicly acknowledging the existence of a grave inequity many in our community have long experienced, and are committing ourselves to creating policies and ordinances that are anti-racist,&#8221; Mendenhall tweeted.
The resolution cited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which under the Biden administration declared racism “a serious threat to the public’s health” in April. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-director-racism-a-serious-public-health-threat">reported</a> at the time, CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, made the statement. The CDC’s website was updated to echo the statement, saying, “To build a healthier America for all, we must confront the systems and policies that have resulted in the generational injustice that has given rise to racial and ethnic health inequities.”
“Racism — both interpersonal and structural — negatively affects the mental and physical health of millions of people, preventing them from attaining their highest level of health, and consequently, affecting the health of our nation,” the CDC’s statement on the Racism and Health initiative said.
<a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/547251-cdc-director-says-racism-is-serious-public-health-threat">The Hill</a> noted at the time that the CDC’s insistence that racism is public health threat made it “the largest federal agency to do so.”
“The declaration is part of a new agency-wide initiative called Racism and Health, which the CDC said is meant to be a hub for its research into the effects of racism on health, and efforts to achieve health equity. The initiative is meant to go beyond studying the issue and focus on taking action,” the outlet added.
Salt Lake City is the most recent Democrat-led area to make such a declaration, saying in its resolution that racism impacts people’s personal lives, including where they live and work to where they go to school, “which creates inequities in access to a range of social and economic benefits&#8221; such as education and employment.
&#8220;The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated how pre-existing structural inequities created heavier burdens of disease, death and social consequences onto communities of color in Utah,&#8221; the resolution added.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in June made a similar declaration, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-declares-racism-a-public-health-crisis-diverts-10m-in-covid-funding">reported</a>.
“At almost every point in our city’s history, sadly, racism has taken a devastating toll on the health and well-being of our residents of color, and particularly those who are black,” Lightfoot said at a press conference at the time. “Without formally acknowledging this history and reality, and the continuing impact of that infamous legacy, looking at the root causes of today’s challenges, we will never be able to move forward as a city and fully provide our communities with the resources that we need to live happy, vibrant, and fulfilled lives.”
Also in June, the Connecticut state legislature <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/racism-is-a-public-health-crisis-bill-waiting-for-connecticut-governors-signature">passed a bill</a> declaring racism as a public health crisis and sent it to the Democrat governor.
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Salt Lake City Leaders Follow Biden Administration’s Lead, Declare Racism A Public Health Crisis

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Math is now not only racist, but perpetuating “curricular violence” according to the Jefferson County Public School (JCPS) district in Louisville, Kentucky.
To combat the alleged “curricular violence” that comes from math, the county “will host a year-long professional training program on anti-racist mathematics,” The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/kentucky-school-district-to-host-year-long-anti-racist-mathematics-training-program-for-teachers/">reported</a>.
From the outlet:
<blockquote>The program’s goal is to “eliminate curricular violence and innovate mathematics education” through “anti-bias, anti-racist, and racially equitable practices.”
Educators will engage in monthly sessions with Lateefah Id-Deen, assistant professor of mathematics education at <a href="https://bagwell.kennesaw.edu/departments/eece/faculty/ece-faculty-index.php">Kennesaw State University</a>, which focus on topics like white supremacy in mathematics, racial trauma in mathematics, and creating anti-racist lesson plans.
Id-Deen teaches mathematics methods courses in the Kennesaw State University Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, emphasizing racial equity and culturally relevant pedagogy. She is also a frequent speaker at educator conferences and for the local school district.</blockquote>
JCPS will offer the “Anti-Racist Mathematics Pedagogy &amp; Practices” program starting in August. It will end in May 2022. Each month, participants will spend two hours being told how they can eliminate racism in math, and will also “receive individual coaching and feedback,” the Fix reported.
Teachers accepted into the program will be required to teach four anti-racism math sessions during their Spring 2022 semester and are told they should “plan for wider dissemination of their learning within their schools and the district.”
Another year-long program hosted by the school district aims to inject so-called anti-racism lessons into other topics, such as history. Part of the program introduces teachers to various takes on U.S. history, including a book titled “A Queer History of the United States” and another called “A Disability History of the United States.”
As The Daily Wire has previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-promotes-program-focused-on-dismantling-racism-in-mathematics-says-finding-the-right-answer-a-sign-of-white-supremacy">reported</a>, the idea that “math is racist” is hardly new. Earlier this year, the Oregon Department of Education promoted a program for teachers that sought to “disman[tle] racism in mathematics,” alleging that focusing on finding the right answer is a symbol of white supremacy.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-education-math-white-supremacy">reported</a> that the ODE sent out a newsletter in mid-February that mentioned a “Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course” that occurred on February 21. The course, according to Fox, was designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for ‘dismantling racism in mathematics.’”
The newsletter encouraged teachers to sign up for the training, which the New York Post previously <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/05/20/richard-carranza-held-doe-white-supremacy-culture-training/">reported</a> as including a section with 14 things associated with “White Supremacy Culture,” including perfectionism, objectivity, and individualism.
Objectivity is described in the workbook accompanying the training as “the belief that there is such a thing as being objective or ‘neutral.&#8217;” The program’s toolkit also encourages teachers not to focus on a single correct answer, but to “come up with at least two answers that might solve this problem” and to “Challenge standardized test questions by getting the ‘right’ answer, but justify other answers by unpacking the assumptions that are made in the problem.”
The toolkit also asked instructors to “center ethnomathematics” in multiple ways, one of which is to “identify and challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views.”
In March, the California Math Research Institute <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-math-research-institute-to-host-math-and-racial-justice-workshop">announced</a> it was hosting a “Mathematics and Racial Justice” workshop.
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Kentucky County Seeks To ‘Eliminate Curricular Violence’ With Year-Long Teacher Training Program To End Racism In Math

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Last week, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/us/politics/kavanaugh-fbi-investigation.html">attempted</a> to revive the smear campaign against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, pointing to a letter from the FBI to seven Democratic senators sent on June 30, 2021, discussing thousands of tips that had been sent in during Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
The 4,500 tips that came into the FBI tip line are being presented as new or “compelling,” even though they are anything but. Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-democratic-senators-say-fbi-failed-investigate-tips-brett-kavanaugh-2021-07-22/">reported</a> on Thursday that “Seven Democratic Senators on Thursday said that newly released materials show the FBI failed to fully investigate sexual misconduct allegations against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was nominated to the court in 2018.”
“The senators, including Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) and Chris Coons (DE), said a letter they received from the FBI last month shows the agency gathered over 4,500 tips relating to Kavanaugh without any apparent further action by investigators,” Reuters added.
The Democrats had written in their letter to the FBI that “If the FBI was not authorized to or did not follow up on any of the tips that it received from the tip line, it is difficult to understand the point of having a tip line at all.”
The Times joined in on reviving the smear campaign, with reporter Kate Kelly editorializing, “The letter left uncertain whether the FBI itself followed up on the most compelling leads.”
As National Review’s John McCormack <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/brett-kavanaugh-faces-another-round-of-smears-and-intimidation/">reported</a>, the Times (and other media outlets) left out key details that would provide context showing that a number of tips were frivolous.
“[T]he Times’ report leaves out three key details that would have helped both to clear the air and to clear Kavanaugh’s name: (1) The FBI’s supplemental investigation was always supposed to be limited in time and scope; (2) a summary of all the tips the FBI received was available to all 100 U.S. senators; and (3) we have good reason to believe that none of the supposedly ‘compelling leads’ were actually compelling at all,” McCormack wrote.
To the first point, McCormack wrote that a bipartisan agreement limited the FBI’s supplemental background investigation to one week and only “current” and “credible” allegations &#8212; specifically to keep it from becoming a fishing expedition, even though that is exactly what the entire episode was from the beginning.
As to the knowledge of the 4,500 tips somehow being new, McCormack reported that the information was available to senators back in 2018. A summary of all 4,500 tips was included in the FBI’s report and available to all 100 U.S. senators. This is nothing new.
Further, Mike Davis, chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, said the Democrats’ sudden outrage at the tip line information was odd.
“If there was anything that caught their attention, they could have flagged it for further investigation,” Davis told National Review.
“Every whack-job in the world called into that thing. That’s why there were 4,500 [tips],” Davis added. “Grassley’s team went through the entire tip-line. It was nonsense.”
A Republican senator told National Review that “There was nothing in there . . . nothing anywhere providing a shred of corroboration,” relating to an existing allegation or a new allegation.
Finally, McCormack reported, the Democrats’ reference to “compelling” or “relevant” tips were likely bunk.
“New York Times reporters Kate Kelly and Robin Pogrebin spent nearly a year investigating Kavanaugh for a book they published in September 2019. The only new allegation they reported was patently absurd: The two reporters hyped a new allegation that, while at Yale, Kavanaugh was allegedly standing around naked at a party when Kavanaugh’s ‘friends’ allegedly ‘pushed his penis into the hand of a female student.’ The alleged female victim in this incident had no recollection of it,’” McCormack reported.
In addition, the FBI interviews actually helped clear Kavanaugh, even if Democrats refuse to accept it. There was no corroborating information for his main accuser, Christine Blasey Ford’s claim that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her 30 years earlier when they were both in high school. Her own friends doubted her story. Leland Keyser, who Ford mentioned as someone who could corroborate her story, said she didn’t remember such a party or even meeting Kavanaugh back then. She told the FBI she didn’t “have any confidence” in Blasey Ford’s story.
Another allegation against Kavanaugh, during his time in college, also fell apart under scrutiny, as the accuser didn’t think Kavanaugh was the culprit until she spoke with Democrat attorneys. A third allegation came from a woman represented by Michael Avenatti.
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New York Times Leaves Out Key Details In Article Reviving Smear Campaign Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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The U.S. women’s national soccer team has finally admitted that they are paid the same if not more than the U.S. men’s national team but are still arguing they don’t receive equal pay because, they claim, they have “to work more than a man and be much more successful” to receive “about the same pay.”
The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/564636-us-womens-national-soccer-team-players-appeal-equal-pay-decision?rl=1">reported</a> that the women’s team has appealed the May 2020 decision of Judge Gary Klausner, who dismissed the team’s claims that they were discriminated against because of their gender on the issue of pay. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-womens-soccer-team-wants-to-appeal-pay-discrimination-ruling-that-determined-they-rejected-equal-pay">reported</a> at the time, Klausner noted that the women’s team rejected the same pay structure that the men’s team uses.
“The WNT was willing to forgo higher bonuses for benefits, such as greater base compensation and the guarantee of a higher number of contracted players,” Klausner wrote in his ruling. “Accordingly, plaintiffs cannot now retroactively deem their CBA (collective bargaining agreement) worse than the MNT (men’s national team) CBA by reference to what they would have made had they been paid under the MNT’s pay-to-play terms structure when they themselves rejected such a structure.”
The women’s team previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-womens-soccer-players-refused-the-same-pay-structure-as-men-now-theyre-claiming-sexism-led-to-difference">attempted</a> to get the pay discrimination claim reinstated by appealing to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Now, they’ve filed their direct appeal of Klausner’s ruling, claiming it was &#8220;based on a flawed analysis of the team&#8217;s compensation, despite the abundant evidence of unequal pay.&#8221;
The appeal, filed by 28 current and former players, requested Klausner reconsider several factors, including the fact that the women’s team, on average, wins more games than the men’s team.
&#8220;In effect, the court held that pay is equal if a woman can obtain the same amount of money as a man by working more and performing better. That is not the law,&#8221; the appeal reads, according to The Hill.
Molly Levinson, spokeswoman for the players, told CNN: &#8220;If a woman has to work more than a man and be much more successful than him to earn about the same pay, that is decidedly not equal pay and it violates the law.&#8221;
&#8220;And yet, that is exactly what the women players on the US National team do — they play more games and achieve better results in order to be paid about the same amount as the men&#8217;s national team players per game. By any measure, that is not equal pay, and it violates federal law,&#8221; Levinson added.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-why-womens-soccer-team-isnt-paid-much-mens-ashe-schow">reported</a>, the women’s soccer team brings in less money because it has fewer viewers than men’s soccer. The only time this changes is when the women’s team makes it to the World Cup, something the U.S. Men’s team hasn’t done.
After the players appealed Klausner’s ruling, the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) responded on Twitter, agreeing with Klausner’s original determination.
&#8220;The District Court rightly noted that the Women&#8217;s National Team negotiated for a different pay structure than the Men&#8217;s National Team, and correctly held that the Women&#8217;s National Team was paid more both cumulatively and on an average per-game basis than the Men&#8217;s National Team,&#8221; USSF wrote.
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U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Appeals Pay Discrimination Ruling That Found They REJECTED Same Pay Structure As Men’s Team

Gender Wage Gap

Women's Soccer

In a disappointing yet unsurprising development, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department has formally declined to investigate the nursing home policies in three states with Democrat governors that resulted in thousands of elderly citizens dying from COVID-19.
In a letter sent to House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), the DOJ informed the congressman that it would not open an investigation into New York, Pennsylvania, or Michigan’s treatment of nursing home patients during the coronavirus pandemic. The DOJ has, however, opened an investigation into New Jersey’s nursing home policies relating to two specific nursing homes in the state.
“The Civil Rights Division requested information from New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New Jersey regarding COVID-19 and nursing facilities run by, or for, those states, by letters dated August 26, 2020. The letters stated that the requested information would assist the Department in determining whether to open an investigation under [the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act] CRIPA,” wrote Deputy Assistant Attorney General Joe Gaeta. “Each state provided information in response to the request. We have reviewed the information provided by these states along with additional information available to the Department. Based on that review, we have decided not to open a CRIPA investigation of any public nursing facility within New York, Pennsylvania, or Michigan at this time.”
The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/24/biden-doj-wont-investigate-deadly-nursing-home-policies-in-these-democrat-run-states/">reported</a> that those three states received their own letters that they would not be investigated at this time. In August 2020, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-justice-department-seeking-data-from-states-that-implemented-policies-mandating-nursing-homes-couldnt-reject-coronavirus-patients">reported</a> that then-President Donald Trump’s DOJ was seeking data from states that implemented policies mandating nursing homes couldn’t reject COVID-19-positive patients.
The Biden DOJ’s decision to end those investigations brought condemnation from Republicans.
“Where is the justice for nursing home victims and their grieving families?” Scalise said. “Grieving families deserve answers and accountability. It’s unconscionable that Biden’s Department of Justice refuses to investigate the deadly actions that went against CDC’s medical guidance taken in these states.”
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (NY), blasted the decision for letting Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) off the hook for his devastating policies.
“This decision from President Biden’s Department of Justice makes President Biden complicit in the criminal corruption scandal and coverup of deaths of thousands of vulnerable seniors,” Stefanik said. “New Yorkers deserve answers and accountability.”
Janice Dean, Fox News’ senior meteorologist who lost her in-laws in New York nursing homes due to COVID-19, called the decision a “terrible day for thousands of families.”
“There will be no justice for our loved ones, and it feels like we’ve lost them all over again,” she added.
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A terrible day for thousands of families. In a letter to <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveScalise?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SteveScalise</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJusticeDept</a> wrote that they were dropping the nursing home investigations in all states including New York. There will be no justice for our loved ones, and it feels like we’ve lost them all over again. <a href="https://t.co/DV7uNRMr9D">pic.twitter.com/DV7uNRMr9D</a>
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1418662954304692225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2021</a></blockquote>
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As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-cuomo-aides-edited-report-to-hide-nursing-home-death-toll-ahead-of-book-release-report">reported</a> earlier this year, top Cuomo aides reportedly “pressured state health department officials to alter a report to remove the total number of nursing home residents who died from the coronavirus.”
Even though the investigations into New York, Michigan, and Pennsylvania were dismissed, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) is still facing an investigation. Further, Cuomo is still being investigated by the FBI and the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s Office. In addition, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is also the target of a probe by the state’s auditor general, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigans-auditor-general-looking-into-data-accuracy-regarding-coronavirus-nursing-home-deaths-report">reported</a> earlier this month.
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Joe Biden And Andrew Cuomo

Biden’s DOJ Drops Investigation Into COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths, Letting Democrat Governors Off The Hook

Andrew Cuomo

COVID-19

Department of Justice

Gretchen Whitmer

Nursing Homes

A former professor in Australia was convicted on Thursday of sending herself threatening letters after claiming to be the victim of threats.
The Sydney Morning Herald <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/former-uts-professor-found-guilty-of-sending-herself-threatening-letters-20210716-p58ac3.html">reported</a> that Dianne Jolley, 51, a former professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) was found guilty on “10 counts of conveying information she knew to be false or misleading to make a person fear for the safety of another” and one count “of causing financial disadvantage by deception.” A jury of 11 came to the decision after three days of deliberation.
Jolley claimed in 2019 that she received threatening messages, including some that contained photographs of her face and cut-up underwear. The alleged threats came after a traditional Chinese medicine course was canceled at UTS. Jolley, as the science dean, said she received threatening messages due to the course closure, including ones that said “chop our future, we chop yours,” “I know where you live,” and “I watch you, I see what you do, you’re not safe,” according to the Herald.
Some of the threats were allegedly left at Jolley’s home, prompting UTS to spend $127,586.93 on security for the professor, including installing surveillance cameras at her home and office and employing guards at her home for two weeks.
That surveillance video caught her writing one of the letters to herself in her office. The footage at her home showed her “balling up one of the envelopes and throwing it at least eight times for her dog to fetch, despite being given evidence bags by police to preserve the letters,” the Herald reported.
A phone call between Jolley and her assistant in November 2019 was also intercepted by authorities. In it, she told her assistant: “As things have gone on through the year, I found it really hard &#8230; when support was disappearing I’ve made some bad judgment calls, and two of the letters that were sent, were sent from me.”
“I’ve been naughty twice but now I’m going to be accused of everything,” Jolley added.
In court, Jolley admitted to writing only one of the letters, saying she did so in an attempt to get fired because of the stress the alleged threats were causing.
In addition to the video footage, a card that had been sent to Jolley’s office that said “goodbye” on it contained a stamp. A fingerprint expert told the court that he had found Jolley’s fingerprint on the sticky side of the stamp. Jolley never opened that letter and claimed she never touched it.
“I didn’t do it. I didn’t do it. I don’t have an answer for it, but I didn’t do it,” Jolley testified at her trial. “I don’t know if it actually is my fingerprint, I don’t know.”
Other messages Jolley received included a photo of her face with a red line drawn across it, a letter claiming she had been poisoned, damaged clothing sent to her home, and a threatening note on her car. She also received cut-up underwear sent to her office.
Her defense attorney, Leah Rowan, asked what Jolley would have to gain from sending herself the messages, but Crown prosecutor Roger Kimball argued that she sent all of the messages to herself. Jolley was found guilty on all 11 charges but was previously found not guilty of sending threatening messages to other UTS staff members.
She is no longer a professor at UTS.
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She Claimed She Received Threatening Letters. Video Footage Showed She Sent Them To Herself.

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Just weeks after President Joe Biden announced he would be withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, an Afghan translator who had helped the U.S. Army was beheaded by the Taliban. Now, others who helped Americans during the 20-year war worry they will be next as the terrorist group takes over the region.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/asia/afghanistan-interpreters-taliban-reprisals-intl-hnk/index.html?utm_term=link&amp;utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_content=2021-07-23T11%3A16%3A06&amp;utm_medium=social">reported</a> that that Sohail Pardis “was driving from his home in Afghanistan&#8217;s capital Kabul to nearby Khost province to pick up his sister for the upcoming Eid holiday celebrations to mark the end of Ramadan.” During the trip, Pardis’ vehicle was stopped at a checkpoint by members of the Taliban. Pardis feared for his life, having previously confided in a friend that he had received death threats from the Taliban for aiding the U.S. He accelerated his vehicle, but the Taliban shot at the vehicle, causing it to swerve and stop, according to witnesses. Members of the terrorist organization “then dragged Pardis out of the vehicle and beheaded him,” CNN reported.
Pardis told his friend and co-worker Abdulhaq Ayoubi just days before his death that the Taliban had discovered he had worked as a translator and were sending him death threats.
&#8220;They were telling him you are a spy for the Americans, you are the eyes of the Americans and you are infidel, and we will kill you and your family,&#8221; Ayoubi told CNN.
From the outlet:
<blockquote>Pardis was one of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/06/politics/afghan-interpreter-us-asylum/index.html">thousands of Afghan interpreters</a> who <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/21/politics/us-afghanistan-withdrawal-visa/index.html">worked for the US military</a> and now face persecution by the Taliban, as the group gains control of wider swaths of the country.
In a statement issued in June, the Taliban said it would not harm those who worked alongside foreign forces. A Taliban spokesperson told CNN that they were attempting to verify the details of the incident but said some incidents are not what they are portrayed to be.
But those who spoke to CNN said their lives are now under threat as the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/politics/us-intel-kabul-taliban/index.html">Taliban</a> launch revenge attacks following the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. At the height of the war, there were <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/25/asia/afghanistan-war-analysis/index.html">about 100,000 US troops</a> in the country, as part of a NATO force.</blockquote>
This fear has led some 18.000 Afghans who worked in various roles for the U.S. military to apply for a Special Immigrant Visa program that would allow them entry to America.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-biden-announces-plan-to-pull-all-us-troops-from-afghanistan-by-september-11">reported</a>, Biden announced in mid-April that his administration would pull all U.S. military from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021 – the 20-year anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks on New York City, which killed more than 3,000 Americans. Biden later revised his timeline to have the troops out at the end of August.
Biden’s decision came after the Trump administration in February 2020 signed a deal with NATO allies and the Taliban, committing to removing U.S. troops if the Taliban agreed to stop attacking U.S., NATO, and other foreign military troops, The Daily Wire reported. Biden in March 2021 announced his administration would renegotiate the deal.
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Following Biden’s Announcement Of Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal, Interpreter Beheaded As Taliban Retake Region

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The Trump administration’s Title IX regulations, which were formally adopted last year, improved due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct.
A new <a href="https://www.thefire.org/report-new-title-ix-regulations-bolstered-due-process-at-colleges-but-lhamon-nomination-threatens-progress/?utm_source=FIRE_Update&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Update&amp;fb_subscribed=true">report</a> from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) found that the presumption of innocence “is guaranteed at 90% of top universities in Title IX misconduct proceedings, but only at 62% of institutions for proceedings not governed by the regulations.”
Other due process protections are threatened by President Joe Biden’s nomination of Catherine Lhamon to return to her Obama-era position in the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, which, during President Barack Obama’s tenure, actively worked to eviscerate the civil rights of accused college students.
“We were finally seeing student rights moving in the right direction, but Catherine Lhamon’s nomination just shows how threatened the progress we’ve made is,” said FIRE Executive Director Robert Shibley in a statement. “If confirmed, Lhamon’s history and rhetoric indicate that she will put her thumb on the scale of justice — ripping away fundamental rights and encouraging a patently unfair shadow justice system that deprives students of their right to due process.”
FIRE examined the policies at 53 of the nation’s top colleges to see how many of 10 “fundamental procedural safeguards those institutions guarantee to students accused of violating college policy.”
Thirty-three of the 53 universities examined “do not explicitly guarantee that students will be presumed innocent until proven guilty,” FIRE found. This was despite improvements made during the Trump administration.
“Despite improvements, 44 of the 53 universities studied received a D or F grade for maintaining at least one system of policies that guaranteed no more than 4 of those 10 safeguards. This is a slight decrease from 49 institutions in FIRE’s <a href="https://www.thefire.org/resources/spotlight/due-process-reports/due-process-report-2019-2020/">previous report</a>,” the organization noted.
In addition, FIRE’s report found:
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<li>Nearly two-thirds (62.2%) of America’s top 53 universities do not explicitly guarantee students that they will be presumed innocent until proven guilty. By contrast, more than 90% of rated universities’ Title IX policies include a presumption of innocence, which, <a href="https://www.thefire.org/catherine-lhamon-still-believes-the-title-ix-regs-allow-students-to-rape-with-impunity/">contrary to Lhamon’s assertion during her recent Senate confirmation hearing</a>, is explicitly required under the new regulations.</li>
<li>Three out of every four schools (75.4%) do not provide timely and adequate notice of the allegations to students accused of wrongdoing before expecting them to answer questions about the allegations. By contrast, less than one-fifth of schools (18.9%) have a Title IX policy that fails to provide such notice. </li>
<li>Fewer than one out of every six schools (15%) guarantee a meaningful hearing, where each party may see and hear the evidence being presented to fact-finders by the opposing party, before a finding of responsibility. On the other hand, almost two-thirds of schools (64%) have a Title IX policy that guarantees a meaningful hearing. </li>
</ul>
The lead author of the report, FIRE program officer Ryan Ansloan, said the report was “proof that institutions will go to absurd lengths to abridge their students’ rights.”
“These ratings represent the fates of real students who face suspension or expulsion without a fair process. No student should have to face a confusing, unwieldy campus judicial system with the deck already stacked against a fair process,” Ansloan added.
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The horror movie writes itself: Scientists, searching for unrelated information, stumble upon strange ice samples that are later shown to contain ancient viruses that have never been seen before. After some Hollywood-style error, the viruses are released, causing mass casualties and requiring a team of young, attractive doctors and scientists to save one particular city from almost elimination.
Okay, so we’re only at the first half of that scenario (for now), but scientists have found ancient viruses in ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China, USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2021/07/21/researchers-discover-28-never-before-seen-viruses-frozen-ice/8042635002/">reported</a>. The findings were published in the journal Microbiome on Wednesday, which stated the discoveries were taken from “ice cores” in 2015 from the Guliya ice cap in Western China, 22,000 feet above sea level, and had started freezing at least 14,400 years ago.
“These glaciers were formed gradually, and along with dust and gases, many, many viruses were also deposited in that ice,&#8221; Zhi-Ping Zhong, lead author of the study and a researcher at The Ohio State University Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, <a href="https://news.osu.edu/15000-year-old-viruses-discovered-in-tibetan-glacier-ice/">said in a statement</a>. &#8220;The glaciers in western China are not well-studied, and our goal is to use this information to reflect past environments. And viruses are a part of those environments.&#8221;
More from USA Today:
When researchers analyzed the ice, they found genetic codes for 33 viruses. Of the 33, genetic codes for four of them showed they are part of virus families that typically infect bacteria. Up to 28 were novel, meaning they had never before been identified.
The group said it doesn&#8217;t believe the viruses originated from animals or humans but came from the soil or plants. The scientists said roughly half of them survived because of the ice.
&#8220;These are viruses that would have thrived in extreme environments,” said Matthew Sullivan, who co-authored the study and is the director of Ohio State’s Center of Microbiome Science. “These viruses have signatures of genes that help them infect cells in cold environments – just surreal genetic signatures for how a virus is able to survive in extreme conditions.&#8221;
Sullivan reportedly added that the technology the researchers used to study the microbes and viruses inside the ice could help identify similar genetic sequences in other ice environments.
Lonnie Thompson, the senior author of the story, noted the climate change angle, saying the discovery of the viruses could help scientists understand how viruses respond to a changing climate.
“We know very little about viruses and microbes in these extreme environments and what is actually there,” Thompson said. “The documentation and understanding of that is extremely important : How do bacteria and viruses respond to climate change? What happens when we go from an ice age to a warm period like we’re in now?”
The Ohio State University explained how the viruses could come to be frozen in ice.
“The ice cores contain layers of ice that accumulate year after year, trapping whatever was in the atmosphere around them at the time each layer froze. Those layers create a timeline of sorts, which scientists have used to understand more about climate change, microbes, viruses and gases throughout history,” OSU <a href="https://news.osu.edu/15000-year-old-viruses-discovered-in-tibetan-glacier-ice/">explained</a>.
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A former senior FBI official got too cozy with the media, violating FBI policy at a time when media leaks were common at the Bureau.
The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/22/report-while-leaks-abounded-senior-fbi-official-accepted-gifts-rides-from-reporters/">reported</a> that the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found a former senior official, who retired before they could be contacted for an interview, accepted numerous gifts from members of the media without prior authorization.
“The OIG also found that the Senior FBI Official violated federal regulations and FBI policy when the Senior FBI Official accepted tickets from members of the media to two black tie dinner events, one valued at $225 and the other valued at $300, and received transportation to one event from a reporter, all without prior authorization,” the OIG <a href="https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/oig-reports/DOJ/21-096.pdf">report</a> said.
The report “substantiated the allegation that the Senior FBI Official had numerous unauthorized contacts with the media from 2014 through 2016, in violation of FBI policy.”
The Federalist reported that the investigation into this former senior officer was part of a series of investigations into FBI employees for similar media relations.
“The large number of FBI employees who were in contact with journalists during this time period impacted our ability to identify the sources of leaks,” the report found.
A limited number of FBI officials are authorized to speak to the media; however, the report found that many officials had unauthorized relationships with media outlets. These unauthorized relations, the report concluded, violated the FBI’s ethics policies.
“For example, we identified instances where FBI employees received tickets to sporting events from journalists, went on golfing outings with media representatives, were treated to drinks and meals after work by reporters, and were the guests of journalists at nonpublic social events,” the report said.
The former senior official discussed in the report retired before he or she could be contacted for an interview, and the FBI cannot compel someone to sit down for an interview as part of an investigation.
“When later contacted by the OIG for a voluntary interview, the Senior FBI Official declined to be interviewed. The OIG has the authority to compel testimony from current Department employees upon informing them that their statements will not be used to incriminate them in a criminal proceeding. The OIG does not have the authority to compel or subpoena testimony from former Department employees, including those who retire or resign during the course of an OIG investigation,” the report said.
As many will recall, prior to and following the 2016 election, FBI leaks to the media fueled numerous stories and false narratives. The FBI updated its media policy in November 2017 to restate its strict guidelines for officials speaking to the media. The updated policy, however, did little to nothing to stop FBI officials from leaking stories to the media that played into a larger narrative that then-President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election. That narrative was ultimately debunked in a Special Counsel report.
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Republicans in the Louisiana House of Representatives on Wednesday failed to override the Democratic governor’s veto of a bill that banned biological males from competing in women’s sports.
The Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/07/21/louisiana-house-fails-override-trans-bill/">reported</a> that state House Republicans were just two votes short of the necessary number to override Gov. John Bel Edwards’ (D-LA) veto.
“Louisiana’s <a href="https://legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1210805">Fairness in Women’s Sports Act</a> would have prohibited biological males from participating in female intercollegiate, interscholastic, or intramural athletic sports that receive state funding,” the Caller reported. “The state House voted 68-30 Wednesday on the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, failing to overturn Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto by just two votes of the 70 needed. It was the state’s first-ever veto override session, <a href="https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_214043b0-ea4b-11eb-b3ba-37ac85e77755.html">the Advocate reported,</a> intended to override Edward’s veto of both the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act and a bill allowing the concealed carry of guns without a permit.”
The bill had previously passed the state House in a 78-19 vote and the state Senate in a 29-6 vote, but the governor vetoed it, saying at the time that the bill was “a solution in search of a problem that simply does not exist in Louisiana.”
State Sen. Katrina Jackson, a Democrat, previously supported the bill when it came up for a vote in the state Senate, but did not support the override vote because the bill did not keep biological women from competing in men’s sports.
“The current LHSAA policy is more restrictive and allowing this bill to move forward would have undermined current rules,” Jackson and other Democrats said in <a href="https://twitter.com/KatrinaRJackson/status/1417961073433534470">a joint statement</a> released Wednesday.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democratic-louisiana-governor-vetoes-bill-to-prevent-biological-men-competing-in-womens-sports">reported</a> in late June, Edwards vetoed the bill, saying it was unnecessary.
“As I have said repeatedly when asked about this bill, discrimination is not a Louisiana value, and this bill was a solution in search of a problem that simply does not exist in Louisiana,” Edwards said in a <a href="https://gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/3230">statement</a>. “Even the author of the bill acknowledged throughout the legislative session that there wasn’t a single case where this was an issue.”
“Further, it would make life more difficult for transgender children, who are some of the most vulnerable Louisianans when it comes to issues of mental health. We should be looking for more ways to unite rather than divide our citizens,” he continued. “And while there is no issue to be solved by this bill, it does present real problems in that it makes it more likely that NCAA and professional championships, like the 2022 Final Four, would not happen in our state. For these and for other reasons, I have vetoed the bill.”
As the Caller reported, Louisiana “has <a href="https://lailluminator.com/2021/07/19/louisiana-legislatures-veto-override-session-6-things-to-know/">only seen two successful overrides</a> in the history of the state: one in 1991 when lawmakers overrode former Republican Gov. Buddy Roemer’s veto of a bill penalizing doctors for performing abortions, and one in 1993 when lawmakers overrode former Democratic Gov. Edwin Edwards’ veto of the attorney general’s annual budget.”
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A woman who was found naked on the side of the road claiming she had been kidnapped and raped has been charged with making the whole thing up to gain U.S. citizenship.
Alma Duran, 52, claimed in March that she had been kidnapped by a masked man who dragged her into his vehicle, raped her, and forced her to drink an unknown liquid. A driver found the woman lying naked on the side of the road.
Duran, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, spoke only Spanish, WMFE <a href="https://www.wmfe.org/summerfield-woman-arrested-accused-of-false-report-of-abduction-rape/186015">reported</a>, and told police about the rape and kidnapping. Her story, however, soon fell apart.
Police told the outlet that Duran’s phone records showed several calls at the time of the alleged incident, including one with a man she was dating. When presented with the phone records, Duran said she hadn’t been kidnapped but the man whom she was dating had raped her. Police didn’t buy her story and have since charged her with filing a false police report. She is currently being held on a $1,000 bond, <a href="https://www.wcjb.com/2021/07/19/mcso-deputies-arrest-woman-reporting-false-rape-march-an-attempt-gain-us-citizenship/">according to WCJB</a>.
Police say Duran made the false accusation to obtain a “U visa,” which “allows victims of certain crimes who assist police to remain and work temporarily in the U-S and seek permanent status,” WMFE reported. In order to obtain such a visa, a law enforcement official must certify that the crime occurred.
As The Daily Wire has previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-said-she-was-raped-at-a-houston-immigration-detention-center-she-lied-to-get-a-visa">reported</a>, this type of false accusation is not rare, but it is underreported in the media due to current societal pressures surrounding women’s allegations of rape and sexual assault. False accusations are buried, and anyone who brings them to light is accused of harming “victims.”
Earlier this year, The Daily Wire reported on the case of a Mexican woman detained at a Houston immigration detention center in 2018 who claimed she had been raped and even impregnated during the two months she was in the center – a lie she hoped would get her a visa. The woman was held in the detention center after getting released from prison for abusing a child.
The woman, referred to only as Jane Doe because she used a pseudonym in court documents, had lived in Texas illegally for 10 years, the Houston Chronicle <a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/amp/Woman-falsely-accused-Houston-detention-center-of-15872550.php">reported</a> at the time. She had spent two years in prison after she was convicted of causing injury to a child and was transferred to the Houston Processing Center because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed a detainer on her following her release from prison.
Jane was in the center for two months and claimed she was raped the night before she was to be deported. Two years later she filed a lawsuit against CoreCivic Inc., the company that actually ran the center. She claimed that she was raped in a dark room at the facility after being taken there by guards. She said two other women were in the room during the assault. Jane demanded monetary damages and sought a visa to remain in the U.S.
Her lies were uncovered when a transcript of a phone interview between Jane and a Harris County Sheriff’s Office investigator and ICE special agent contained her confession that she made up the story to get a visa.
“In the interview, the agents informed the plaintiff that they found and interrogated the other two women, who said they were not raped and did not witness any sexual assault. The accuser, insisting that she was raped, then admitted it did not happen at the CoreCivic facility, as stated in the lawsuit,” the Chronicle reported.
Jane then changed her story to claim she was raped in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico after she was deported. She now claimed she was impregnated and didn’t know who the father was because she had been raped by three strangers. Jane said women in the town told her to say she had been raped in order to qualify for a visa to go back to the U.S. Women can claim they were raped and abused and easily obtain a visa, which provides a perverse incentive to lie.
The ability to claim sexual abuse in order to obtain a U.S. visa is not confined to women accusing strangers. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-conned-marrying-immigrants-green-cards-ashe-schow">reported</a> in July 2018, women have abused a provision in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that allows abused immigrants to petition for legal status on their own, without their spouse. This has led to some immigrants marrying American men and turning around and accusing them of abuse in order to be freed from the marriage and become a U.S. citizen.
One famous example of this abuse is the case of Kyle Haney, who thought he found the love of his life on a mission trip to India. Haney met Tabitha, with whom he “clicked.” Six months later, Tabitha visited Haney where he lives in Texas, and he proposed. Just a few months later, they were married and expecting a child.
“[We] had a baby in November, and in March the following year, she got her green card,” Haney <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/White-House-Staffers-Meet-With-Citizens-Who-Say-They-Were-Victims-of-Marriage-Fraud-487699471.html?amp=y&amp;__twitter_impression=true">told</a> NBC Washington at the time. “And within two months she left.”
Haney was confused. Then he saw Tabitha’s “petition for divorce.” She claimed that he had anger issues, may have been homosexual, and made her feel unsafe. She also said he intimidated her by using her immigrant status, Haney’s sister Jade told NBC.
The Haney family did some research and quickly found something odd.
“We started noticing a correlation between the lies that she was telling and everything that needed to be proved by the person to file VAWA [the Violence Against Women Act],” Haney’s sister said.
Tabitha’s attorney, however, told NBC’s Dallas station that “Kyle Haney made misleading statements and outright lies during his interview.”
John Sampson, a retired Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, told NBC at the time that this provision of VAWA is being regularly abused.
“They’re now using VAWA as a means by which to escape the two-year requirement to remain in the marital relationship, without drawing any suspicion to themselves,” Sampson said.
He also said he suspected a lot of the VAWA claims he saw during his time with ICE were actually fraudulent. He says some 1,500 Americans have contacted him believing they’re victims of this trend.
Sampson told NBC that investigators treat American spouses as a “prohibited source of information” during VAWA abuse claims. Because the immigrant is automatically assumed to be telling the truth, thus requiring safety, ICE investigators don’t even inform the American spouse of the abuse claim. There’s literally no downside for immigrants to fraudulently make such a claim.
NBC Washington had previously reported on marriage fraud, saying that it found dozens of such cases. And those are just the ones we know about.
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She Claimed She Was Kidnapped And Raped. Police Say She Lied To Get U.S. Citizenship – And She’s Not The First.

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