Shortly after Fairfax County, Virginia, attracted national criticism for bending to teachers union pressure to keep schools closed and for a school board member’s anti-Semitic rhetoric, Democrat and union operatives say they found a flyer from the KKK that helps with both issues.
Democrats said that since the flyer purportedly showed that the KKK does not like school board members, and parents angry that schools remained closed for nearly an entire year also do not like school board members, the parents might be KKK sympathizers.
Democrat officials posted photos of two crumpled-up pieces of paper that said &#8220;Fairfax County, VA- school board members- Jew-inspired, communist, queer-loving sex fiends- violating the words of the Holy Bible (KJV)- Yahweh is Watching! Loyal White Knights&#8230; Pray for White Americans,&#8221; it says.
It is unclear why an anti-Semite would use Yahweh, the Jewish word for God.
State Delegate Marcus Simon said &#8220;I&#8217;m not saying everybody who supports Open FCPS is a member of the KKK, but when the KKK is on your side, you need to rethink your priorities,&#8221; he said, referring to a group of parents of all backgrounds who advocated for schools to re-open to in-person learning as the coronavirus lockdown dragged on.
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Video: Del. Marcus Simon, speaking at Support Our Schools rally, says &#8220;we know who is an ally of this movement&#8230;I&#8217;m not saying everybody who supports Open FCPS is a member of the KKK, but when the KKK is on your side, you need to rethink your priorities&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/G3336u7kOg">https://t.co/G3336u7kOg</a> <a href="https://t.co/KW5NG5Bv7Q">pic.twitter.com/KW5NG5Bv7Q</a>
— Blue Virginia (@bluevirginia) <a href="https://twitter.com/bluevirginia/status/1405685391362039810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
Bryan Graham, the chairman of the Fairfax Democrats, <a href="https://twitter.com/Broder512/status/1405314118240944129">wrote</a> on Twitter that he &#8220;redacted the URL [of the KKK] because I didn&#8217;t want to give OpenFCPS folks any ideas.&#8221;
David Broder, the head of an SEIU union local, immediately began using the flyer to fundraise, saying &#8220;Fairfax School Board member Laura Jane Cohen has been targeted by anti-equity, anti-worker, anti-LGBTQ extremists since she won her seat. And now the KKK is flyering her district. Join me in standing up against hate. Donate to LJC today!&#8221;
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If the Klan is calling our School Board a bunch of “Jew-Inspired, Communist, Queer-Loving Sex Fiends,” we must be doing something right.
This “queer-loving,” queer School Board member isn’t backing down. Happy <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pride?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Pride</a>! <a href="https://t.co/EkUHaysLVo">pic.twitter.com/EkUHaysLVo</a>
&mdash; Karl Frisch (@KarlFrisch) <a href="https://twitter.com/KarlFrisch/status/1405301029739155467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly retweeted it.
To Cohen, the flyers seemed to smooth over drama caused by anti-Semitic statements from board member Abrar Omeish, whose father is a nationally-known hardline Islamist.
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&#8220;Those messages were targeted to all of us up here on this dais,&#8221; said Cohen, who is Jewish, bringing up the flyer at a school board meeting Thursday night. &#8220;No matter where we come from, no matter what we look like, the hate was equally distributed to every one of us up here tonight,&#8221; she said, according to <a href="https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2021/06/antisemitic-flyers-targeting-school-board-members-found-in-fairfax-county/">WTOP</a>.
School board member Karl Frisch said on Twitter, &#8220;If the Klan is calling our School Board a bunch of “Jew-Inspired, Communist, Queer-Loving Sex Fiends,” we must be doing something right. This &#8216;queer-loving,&#8217; queer School Board member isn’t backing down.&#8221;
David Gordon, director of a state political action committee called The Virginia Project, told The Daily Wire &#8220;The flyer bears all the hallmarks of a cynical hoax.&#8221;
WTOP said 30 flyers were found in the county of 1.2 million, citing police. Despite the ubiquity of doorbell cameras, no one appears to have has produced a video of the perpetrator, and Democrats provided few specifics about the flyer&#8217;s origin in their online comments.
Democrat politicians who have sided with teachers unions on pandemic closures, only to face wrath from everyday parents, have increasingly used those parents&#8217; own political tribalism to manipulate them, suggesting that if they do not go along with the plan, they are acting like one of the worst things imaginable: a Republican.
In Rhode Island, after a superintendent was facing being placed on leave over a scandal involving unions using school resources to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/superintendent-leaked-private-student-information-to-a-union-activists-tried-to-bury-and-distract-using-racism-claims">influence a bond referendum</a> that stood to profit its members, a flyer told residents that &#8220;white supremacist&#8221; organizations were opposed to the superintendent, and that therefore socially-conscious parents should try to stop the disciplinary action.
Teachers&#8217; unions have gone to extremes to ensure that they did not have to show to up teach children during the pandemic. In Fairfax, teachers staged an &#8220;illegal &#8216;sick-out&#8217; when local officials announced that students with disabilities could return to in-person learning,&#8221; <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/christine-rosen/teachers-unions-villains-of-pandemic/?">Commentary</a> reported.
They have at times bizarrely conflated their job negotiations with racial issues in order to gain the support of liberal voters who they calculate will blindly embrace anything that invokes racial buzzwords. In Montgomery County, Maryland, teachers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/despite-school-shutdowns-many-teachers-never-got-vaccinated">balked</a> at returning to school, claiming they were so afraid of coronavirus that they would need N95 masks. It turned out 30% of teachers never even bothered to get vaccinated. But they had an alternate excuse: Before a return, they demanded funding for programs &#8220;which directly serve Black and, [sic] Brown students.”
Fairfax resident Jo Anne Sears told The Daily Wire that accusing parents of wanting to join the KKK for wanting their kids to be in school was a mark of increasing desperation.
&#8220;Slander is the tool of last resort,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s very disturbing, and it shows that Democrats have no argument other than to slander parents who across the political spectrum want their kids in school for in-person learning. The parents involved in this organization have worked tirelessly to ensure that the children who most need it get an education. It kills me that they are not listening to the neediest of the needy.”
She said she knew Simon, the state delegate, personally, and called his office to ask him about his implication that she might be a KKK sympathizer. His secretary said he was busy.
&#8220;He&#8217;s working on Juneteenth,&#8221; Sears said.
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Google&#8217;s artificial intelligence (AI) work draws from Critical Race Theory, a philosophical framework that posits that nearly every interaction should be seen as a racial power struggle and seeks to &#8220;disrupt&#8221; American society which it views as immutably racist, according to a company document obtained by The Daily Wire.
A screenshot of an internal company page, obtained by The Daily Wire, says under the header &#8220;Ethical AI&#8221;:
<blockquote>We focus on AI at the intersection of Machine Learning and society, developing projects that inform the general public; bringing the complexities of individual identity into the development of human-centric AI; and creating ways to measure different kinds of biases and stereotypes. Out [sic] work includes lessons from gender studies, critical race theory, computational linguistics, computer vision, engineering education, and beyond!
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<li>Personal identity: Gender, Race, LGBTQ+, and all of the intertwined complexities relevant to ML models.</li>
<li>Diversity and Inclusion: Everything from who&#8217;s at the table to how this can be modeled in ML systems to how to evaluate for it.</li>
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Google&#8217;s Ethical AI team appears intent on encoding far-left ideology into its algorithms even after previous leaders of the team plunged the section into chaos over their insistence on overlaying progressive politics onto mathematics.
Until recently, the team was co-led by Timnit Gebru, who cofounded a &#8220;Black in AI&#8221; racial affinity group and in 2018 coauthored a paper saying facial recognition technology was less accurate at recognizing women and minorities.
She also demanded information from Google&#8217;s self-driving car company about how skin color affected its technology for detecting pedestrians, leading to &#8220;legal <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22396112/google-ethical-ai-team-bias-harassment-timnit-gebru-firing">haggling</a>.&#8221;
In 2020, she threatened to resign unless Google dropped its objections to a paper she had written that seemed to argue that AI technologists should settle for less-good language models because the initial training of a major model like Google&#8217;s used electricity equivalent to the carbon emissions of five cars, <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru/">Technology Review</a> reported in December.
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Her paper also reportedly said that a danger of training a language model on large bodies of text was that overseers could not check everything it read to make sure that it did not read anything racist. The paper decried that a highly-read language model might read language that predated the MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements and thus miss out on its &#8220;new cultural norms,&#8221; according to a Technology Review summary of the paper, which was not public.
Late last year, after conflict with Google management over that paper, Gebru wrote an email blasting &#8220;micro and macro aggressions&#8221; and &#8220;zero accountability,&#8221; according to a copy of the email obtained by <a href="https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-an-ethical">Platformer</a>.
Soon after, Jeff Dean, the head of the broader AI team, wrote that &#8220;Timnit Gebru is no longer working at Google.&#8221;
Dean&#8217;s email, also obtained by Platformer, said her paper had &#8220;raised concerns about bias in language models, but didn&#8217;t take into account recent research to mitigate these issues.&#8221; It said Gebru had demanded to know the names of every manager who helped make the decision that the paper should not be approved, and said that she would quit if the company did not turn over the information to her. The company accepted her resignation.
In February, the team&#8217;s other co-lead, Margaret Mitchell, was fired for writing a program to search through her emails to look for evidence of discrimination about Gebru, according to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/19/22292011/google-second-ethical-ai-researcher-fired">Verge</a>.
Mitchell had previously complained to Dean that she was denied a promotion because of &#8220;nebulous complaints to HR about her personality,&#8221; <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22396112/google-ethical-ai-team-bias-harassment-timnit-gebru-firing">The Verge</a> reported.
Dean said he did not believe there was a pattern of giving worse jobs to women than to men.
But if strident activists remain in the AI team, the logic that regardless of evidence, discrimination is present in all situations could soon be baked into code that impacts much of society.
Despite the departure of its activist co-founders, employees cut out of the same mold remained. According to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/17/googles-ai-ethics-team-makes-demands-of-executives-to-rebuild-trust.html">CNBC</a>, they wrote in a six-page letter to Google&#8217;s CEO that &#8220;Google&#8217;s short-sighted decision to fire and retaliate against a core member of the Ethical AI team makes it clear that we need swift and structural changes if this work is to continue, and if the legitimacy of the field as a whole is to persevere.&#8221;
Gebru &#8220;and Meg Mitchell had cultivated a diverse, productive team which thrived in a psychologically safe environment. Offering Timnit her position back at a higher level would go a long way to help reestablish trust and rebuild our team environment,&#8221; the letter said.
In February, the Ethical AI team was reorganized to report to <a href="https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/journeys-innovation/audio-stories/positively-connected">Marian Croak</a>, who leads a &#8220;black leadership group&#8221; at Google.
Google did not return a request for comment.
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A school board member gave a graduation speech in which she told a mainly-immigrant class of high schoolers that they were entering a world filled with &#8220;racism, extreme versions of individualism and capitalism, [and] white supremacy,&#8221; and encouraged them to remember their &#8220;jihad&#8221; and reject the concepts of objectivity and neutrality.
Fairfax County school board member Abrar Omeish gave the keynote address at the <a href="https://boxcast.tv/view/justice-high-school-graduation-862081?b=d6v67xhbq8lfwsuyvtqq">commencement</a> for Justice High School in Falls Church, Virginia on June 7. 
The ceremony began with a ceremony in which JROTC military cadets were the only people at the graduation who wore masks. 
The class president then led what she called &#8220;the nation’s anthem,&#8221; referring to the pledge of allegiance, in which she said the U.S. was &#8220;one nation under Allah.&#8221; Omeish was out of view of the camera, but a picture from another recent graduation shows her as the only person without her hand over her heart during the pledge.
The president of the student government then introduced Omeish by noting that she was &#8220;Virginia co-chair for the Bernie Sanders campaign&#8221; and that her father, Esam Omeish, was a &#8220;leader and a board member of the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center&#8221; who &#8220;raised his daughter to be an outspoken woman.&#8221;
Dar al-Hijrah is a mosque attended by two of the 9/11 hijackers as well as the shooter in the 2009 attack on Fort Hood. Its imam was Anwar al-Awlaki, who President Barack Obama ordered killed by drone strike for plotting terrorism for Al Queda. Omeish noted that her father was in attendance at the graduation.
Her address seemed to herald the schools’ roles as political indoctrination centers. &#8220;You all kicked off the first ever black history month assembly to ensure that we confront our history and answer honestly about the ills of our past,&#8221; she said.
She lauded a teacher who used her access to children to encourage them to become political activists, and said that demands by students were an effective way to change school policy. 
&#8220;Huge shout out to [the class president who called her a &#8220;role model&#8221;] and Ms. Corey Haynes, a teacher, for her leadership in supporting and empowering students despite the pushback. Let&#8217;s hear it for them, guys. They empowered your voice. Your model, Justice Class of 2021, moved the superintendent of the 10th largest school division in the country to follow your lead to teach with courage. And you pushed to incorporate that in the school schedule because you understand that social justice is only political for those who can afford to ignore it.&#8221;
&#8220;You understand that neutral is another word for complicit,&#8221; she said.
Much of the speech appeared designed to signal that she is unrepentant for a recent tweet in which she called Israel a colonizing state that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-group-rescinds-award-to-politician-who-said-israel-desecrates-the-holy-land">&#8220;desecrates</a> the Holy Land&#8221; and &#8220;kills Palestinians.&#8221;
She indicated that she feels similarly about America, saying &#8220;let us acknowledge the stolen land of the Manahoac people,&#8221; referring to a Virginia native American tribe.
She lamented the &#8220;child forced to question and hate the faith they love because of bullying,&#8221; frequently slipping into Arabic in her speech.
Some of her fellow members on the all-Democrat school board have offered tepid criticism of her comments on Israel, but in her graduation speech, she encouraged graduates not to let that kind of thing bother them.
&#8220;The world may try to quiet you by deciding for you what&#8217;s cool, what&#8217;s weird, what is or isn’t objective. It may try to convince you that what you hold dear is too different to be accepted. But who gets to decide? You are walking into a world that will be uncomfortable when you seek to cause good trouble. And that may seek to intimidate you or make you think the truth is controversial,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Every part of your being may scream in rage at the ways others have wronged you,&#8221; but &#8220;let compassion for your fellow human beings, not anger or rage &#8212; and believe me this is hard to do &#8212; fuel you,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;No matter how many haters emerge, I’m sure you’ve encountered them yourselves, and believe me they&#8217;re a sign you’re unsettling the status quo towards justice. Just consider them your cheerleaders of another breed,&#8221; she said.
In her introduction, the student leader said Omeish faced &#8220;hatred for speaking truth to power about the Palestinian experience&#8221; but &#8220;continues to overcome and be an example so that young leaders like us will do the same.&#8221;
The introduction from a student also stated that &#8220;two years ago [Omeish&#8217;s] civil rights were violated by the police due to her appearance. she was attacked and discriminated against.&#8221; That entire incident is on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaDwefdXE9w">video</a>, which shows that an officer pulled over her car after watching her run a red light from a distance, from which her appearance was not visible. She repeatedly refused to show her license and then refused to get out of the car, leading to her arrest.
Omeish&#8217;s speech also focused on &#8220;equity,&#8221; a concept in K-12 education referring to forced equal outcomes. Fairfax County recently watered down the admissions criteria for its top-ranked STEM magnet school, Thomas Jefferson High School For Science and Technology, because <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fairfax-county-trying-to-water-down-gifted-school-to-fight-racism-minority-parents-outraged">too many Asians</a> performed well on entrance exams that tested whether the students knew STEM.
&#8220;Our successes are not worth celebrating until we all come along,&#8221; Omeish said at the graduation celebration.
Justice High School received state accreditation only with <a href="https://coveringthecorridor.com/2019/10/all-fcps-schools-accredited/">conditions</a> because of its 11% dropout rate. Nearly 20% of its students were <a href="https://schoolquality.virginia.gov/schools/justice-high">chronically absent</a> in 2019.
In 2017, the school board voted to <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/fairfax-county-school-board-votes-to-rename-j-e-b-stuart-high-school-to-justice-high-school">rename</a> the school from J.E.B. Stuart High School to Justice High School, discarding the results of its own <a href="https://www.fcps.edu/renaming/communitynames">survey</a>, which found that community members wanted to rename it to simply Stuart.
A poll this month of Fairfax County voters found that most <a href="https://twitter.com/iandprior/status/1403347804790087688/photo/1">do not support</a> schools being used to push racial activism like critical race theory. The survey also found that majorities of parents in all political parties oppose the elimination of advanced academics in the name of equity.
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Dem Tells High School Grads They’re Entering A World Of “Capitalism” and “White Supremacy,” Encourages Them To Remember “Jihad” And Reject Objectivity

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Congressional Democrats are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to intervene in a criminal case against a lawyer found to have falsified scientific evidence and bribed a foreign judge to shake down an oil company, with one member of “The Squad” heralding him as an inspiration for “others to fight back against corporate power.”
Evidence indicates that Steven Donziger and his team ran an elaborate legal fraud that included secretly paying a Latin American court’s independent expert to twist science about pollution and ultimately bribing a judge to issue a multi-billion dollar judgment in their favor.
Donziger has nonetheless found support from celebrities, media, and members of Congress, raising the question of whether Democrats support obstruction of justice and the falsification of science if it serves their agenda &#8212; or whether the mere invocation of ideological buzzwords is enough to distract an increasingly partisan America from bothering to sort out the facts.
The celebrities note that Donziger won a ruling against Chevron in court on the premise that it caused pollution in an area where indigenous people live, yet now finds himself on house arrest.
They gloss over what happened in between.
That judgment was awarded by a court in Ecuador in 2011. In 2014, a U.S. federal judge in New York found &#8212; and detailed in nearly 500 pages of specifics &#8212; that it was secured through lies and corruption so astonishing that they were like something “out of Hollywood.”
In 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously upheld the U.S. ruling, saying the “record in the present case reveals a parade of corrupt actions” including &#8220;coercion, fraud and bribery” and that Donziger could not be allowed to profit off of fraud.
In 2018, an international tribunal at The Hague held that the judgment “was procured through fraud, bribery and corruption.”
In 2020, a panel of New York judges unanimously ordered Donziger <a href="http://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2020/2020_04523.htm">disbarred</a> for &#8220;egregious professional misconduct&#8221; including &#8220;obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and judicial coercion.&#8221;
Now facing criminal charges for contempt of court related to his refusal to turn over evidence, Donziger’s strategy appears to be a plea for rank partisan loyalty. As his own former legal partners and employees have said he committed fraud, Donziger has seemed to try to convert questions about specific legal misconduct to a referendum on the social statuses of the players: If you think oil companies are bad, then you should support him.
Such emotional appeals and political influence campaigns don’t typically work in a legal system less corrupt than Ecuador’s. But Donziger seems to be calculating that that no longer describes ours.
<h4>Defenders</h4>
On May 21, Trevor Noah’s “Daily Show” ran a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxaIqc8o6s">segment</a> in which Donziger said, &#8220;I&#8217;m a human rights lawyer and I have a black ankle claw shackled to my leg courtesy of the United States criminal justice system because I helped, as a lawyer, win a very big pollution judgment against Chevron.&#8221;
Correspondent Roy Wood said, “I&#8217;m surprised this is the first time I&#8217;m hearing about it.”
That would be a surprising outcome indeed, if that were all there were to the story. And Wood didn’t need to hear much to convince him it was: &#8220;At the end of the day, this case is about an oil company claiming they didn&#8217;t pollute. What more do you need to know?&#8221; he said.
Donziger, who stood to gain at least $600 million from the scheme, once described his business as “The business of getting press coverage as part of a legal strategy… The business of plaintiffs’ law. To make f***ing money.”
The strategy of swapping a specific pattern of facts for a crude morality play, one that broadcast him as a member of an ideological tribe, seemed to pay off.
In April, six members of Congress, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), sent a <a href="https://mcgovern.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398694">letter</a> to Garland asking for what seems like political interference in the judicial branch, saying the already extensively-litigated case &#8220;involved urgent environmental justice concerns of Indigenous people.”
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) said Donziger’s “bravery and brilliance will inspire others to fight back against corporate power.”
On May 26, actress <a href="https://twitter.com/SDonziger/status/1397682811306352644">Susan Sarandon</a> said &#8220;the shared enemy is Climate Change and Pollution, not human rights lawyers, the afflicted peoples around the world, or their advocates.&#8221;
It’s not clear how familiar those advocates are with the evidence in the case. The following comes from the exhaustive <a href="http://www.theamazonpost.com/wp-content/uploads/Chevron-Ecuador-Opinion-3.4.14.pdf">497-page</a> assessment written by federal judge Lewis Kaplan in 2014.
<h4>Jungle shakedown</h4>
From the 1960s to the 1990s, a subsidiary of Texaco was involved in drilling for oil in the Ecuadorian jungle. In the 1970s, an oil company owned by the government of that country took majority control of the consortium. In 1992, Texaco sold its remaining interests to the Ecuador-owned company, and in 1998, the country confirmed that Texaco had successfully performed agreed-upon environmental cleanup and released it from future claims. The Ecuadorian company continued to operate in the area.
Donziger had worked as a journalist in Latin America and attended Harvard Law School with the grandson of a former Ecuadorian president. Donziger said of Ecuadorian judges, &#8220;They&#8217;re all corrupt&#8230; These judges are really not very bright.&#8221;
In 2003, he filed a lawsuit in that country against Chevron, which had since bought Texaco, asking for money for environmental cleanup. &#8220;You can solve anything with politics as long as that judges are intelligent enough to understand the politics. They don&#8217;t have to be intelligent enough to understand the law,&#8221; he later said.
In 2011, the Ecuadorian judge, Nicolas Zambrano, ordered Chevron to pay $8.6 billion, which would double unless it issued an apology within 15 days.
Donziger and his team were purportedly representing a class of 30,000 indigenous residents. But they asked for any funds to go to a group that, as Kaplan later described, &#8220;Donziger and some of his Ecuadorian associates controlled.&#8221;
Donziger stood to gain more than $600 million in fees, plus “control of or influence over the billions” that would go to the group that would oversee the cleanup fund.
Chevron did not pay, contending that the judgment was the result of foreign judicial corruption. The battle for the money wound up in the U.S. courts —where Judge Kaplan, who was appointed by the bench to Bill Clinton, found that Chevron was right.
<h4>Unraveling</h4>
In 2003, Donziger hired a scientist, David Russell, to provide evidence about environmental damage from oil companies in the area. Russell provided an early estimate of some $6 billion. But he had merely driven by some of the sites at 40 or 50 miles an hour and did not analyze any soil or water samples.
Russell described the figure as a &#8220;wild ass guess&#8221; and cautioned Donziger not to put too much stock in it. After Donziger ran with the figure, Russell cautioned that it was &#8220;wildly inaccurate and that it should not be used.&#8221; Donziger&#8217;s team refused to pay him and kept using the number.
Donziger hired a second scientific expert, Charles Calmbacher, who wrote another report, but Calmbacher later testified that he did not recognize what was ultimately submitted to the court in his name. Donziger&#8217;s team had asked him to sign a blank page, and apparently put a fake report above his signature.
By 2004, the team took samples that indicated that the contamination appeared to be more recent – corresponding to drilling by Ecuador’s nationally-owned gas company after Texaco had left the country. A researcher said Donziger asked him to stop the tests because they “would be counterproductive to the case.&#8221; They switched to a less reliable measure which could not differentiate between newer and older damage and was more likely to give a false positive.
The Ecuadorian judge was facing unrelated sexual misconduct allegations, which Donziger sought to use to his advantage. He said, &#8220;We want to send a message to the court that, &#8216;don&#8217;t f**k with us anymore — not now and not — not later, and never.&#8221; Donziger wrote in his journal that “The judge needs to fear us for this to move how it needs to move.”
The judge appointed a scientific expert, Richard Cabrera, who would report directly to the court and be independent from either side. But Donziger’s team set up a secret bank account to pay Cabrera.
Donziger’s team communicated using code names, referring to the judge as the “puppet” or &#8220;cook&#8221; and the expert as the &#8220;waiter.&#8221;
As part of his media strategy, Donziger recruited a film crew to make a documentary about his crusade, and outtakes from the film captured his interactions with Cabrera, which Donziger told the crew were &#8220;off the record.&#8221;
In 2008, a report was submitted in Cabrera&#8217;s name setting the damage at $16.3 billion. Donziger later admitted that a Denver-based firm he had hired, Stratus Consulting, wrote most of the report in the “independent” expert’s name, at Donziger’s direction. One of the lawyers on Donziger&#8217;s team wrote in 2010 that &#8220;all of us, your attorneys, might go to jail.&#8221;
A Philadelphia lawyer named Joseph Kohn had been funding the case, but Kohn eventually wrote that Donziger was pumping him for money to fund &#8220;extravagance&#8221; while refusing to &#8220;come clean&#8221; about what was really going on. &#8220;I now know that Mr. Donziger did not tell me the truth. It is now clear to me that Mr. Donziger deceived and defrauded me,&#8221; he testified.
In 2011, Ecuadorian judge Zambrano issued his ruling ordering Chevron to pay. But portions of his 188-page ruling were identical to internal documents written by Donziger’s team — documents that had not been made public or filed with the court. Some even contained the same typos.
Forced to answer in U.S. court for such issues, Zambrano claimed that he paid an 18-year old girl $15 a day to help him write it. The opinion cited legal authorities in multiple languages which neither the girl nor the judge spoke.
Emails showed that Donziger’s team had appeared to assign an intern to work on &#8220;the judgement.&#8221; Donziger later testified that it was &#8220;possible&#8221; a member of his team wrote a proposed judgment for the judge.
Another Ecuadorian judge who was previously assigned to the case, Alberto Guerra Bastidas, testified that Donziger&#8217;s team promised to pay Zambrano $500,000 to throw the case. Bank records showed that Donziger&#8217;s team had also paid Guerra.
Confronted with mounting evidence of fraud, Donziger told the U.S. court he couldn’t remember basic details, answering “I don’t know” or “I don’t recall” to “nearly every substantive question posed to him.”
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<h4>Ideological tribalism over facts</h4>
Donziger has long been clear that his strategy was to use celebrities, environmental nonprofits, and the press to pressure Chevron into settling his lawsuit against it. “It is about brute force” rather than “all this bullshit about the law and facts,” he told the documentary crew.
In an attempt to get Chevron to settle using media and political pressure, Donziger influenced then-New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and then-state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who oversaw the public employees retirement fund that held Chevron stock.
He convinced them to write to Chevron’s CEO “repeating what they were told and doubtless believed – that an independent, court-appointed expert (Cabrera) had recommended billions in damages against Chevron. Comptroller DiNapoli repeatedly urged the company to settle. He even wrote a Huffington Post piece recounting his request that ‘Chevron’s board of directors settle this marathon litigation and spare the company’s battered reputation any further damage,’” the U.S. judge recounted.
As it became clear that the case was not what it originally appeared to be, reputable environmental groups refused to adjust to the fact that someone operating under the banner of environmentalism might have been a bad actor seeking riches. <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/28741/steven-donziger-chevron-oil-amazon-contamination-injustice/">Greenpeace</a> said in conspiratorial tones that Donziger &#8220;appears to be a political prisoner of a private corporation bolstered by a cooperative federal judge.&#8221;
Donziger, for his part, reportedly <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/220159/law-of-the-jungle-by-paul-m-barrett/">opposed</a> a plan for Ecuador to clean up the pollution, apparently to preserve his big-dollar lawsuit.
<h4>Aftermath</h4>
Judge Kaplan documented that Donziger engaged in conduct indictable for money laundering, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, bribery, and extortion. Since findings came as part of the examination of the facts in a civil case, they were not criminal charges.
In 2019, Kaplan said that Donziger also allegedly committed criminal contempt of court after his ruling by refusing to turn over his computer and other evidence as well as his passport, and continuing to sell shares of the prospective Ecuadorian judgment. The Southern District of New York federal prosecutor’s office <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/when-feds-demur-judge-charges-ecuador-crusader-himself/">declined</a> to bring charges, saying it did not have the resources. Kaplan took the unusual step of appointing a private law firm to try him.
Federal judge Loretta Preska, who is presiding over that case, ruled that Donziger was a flight risk and ordered him held on home confinement in his New York City apartment. His trial took place last month, but a ruling has not yet been issued.
During the trial, his attorneys repeatedly focused on issues that Preska said were irrelevant to the charges at hand, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trial-begins-for-lawyer-who-sued-chevron-over-ecuador-pollution-11620664063">admonishing</a>, “This is not a press conference.”
Donziger, who did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire, has denied wrongdoing and leveled accusations at multiple U.S. judges. He has frequently said that he wants jury trials rather than trials before judges.
He declined to testify at trial but has continued to exert extrajudicial pressure by courting media coverage &#8212; though as what once seemed to be a major feat of environmental activism began looking more like a hoax, some major outlets like The New York Times, as Donziger <a href="https://twitter.com/SDonziger/status/1400904115845316611">noted</a>, have gone silent.
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Dems Ask DOJ To Help Lawyer Found To Have Falsified Science, Bribed Judge To Shake Down Oil Company

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Congressional Democrats are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to intervene in a criminal case against a lawyer found to have falsified scientific Congressional Democrats are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to intervene in a criminal case against a lawyer found to have falsified scientific evidence and bribed a foreign judge to shake down an oil company, with one member of “The Squad” heralding him as in inspiration for “others to fight back against corporate power.”

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Only about 70% of school staff in Montgomery County, Maryland, chose to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, despite the teachers union objecting to opening schools for most of the year by citing educators&#8217; commitment to extreme cautionary measures.
Montgomery County Public Schools Chief of Teaching, Learning and Schools Janet Wilson said last week that 25% to 30% of its employees — or more than 6,000 — had not been vaccinated, <a href="https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-estimates-70-of-staff-has-gotten-covid-19-vaccine/">Bethesda Beat</a> reported.
That&#8217;s despite the county offering the vaccines to teachers before regular citizens. Only 75% of employees ever requested a vaccine.
The suburban Maryland school system, one of the largest in the country, was closed for about a year, with teachers repeatedly objecting to administrators&#8217; plans to reopen by saying they feared the virus.
The system had planned to reopen last fall but relented when the union objected. That plan &#8220;is wholly inadequate to protect the health and safety of students and staff,&#8221; the Montgomery County Educators Association (MCEA) union <a href="https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/teachers-union-calls-mcps-reopening-plan-irresponsible/">wrote</a> at the time.
Later, when the district proposed returning a small number of children to school in March, MCEA called that plan &#8220;irresponsible,&#8221; writing that “MCPS is refusing to acknowledge that the lack of available vaccines is preventing educators from receiving the protection they need, and exposing them to unnecessary risk of harm in the in-school setting.”
It went so far as to take a vote of &#8220;no confidence&#8221; in the school system, <a href="https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/montgomery-county-teachers-union-votes-no-confidence-on-mcps-reopening-plan/">resolving</a> that &#8220;MCEA demands that MCPS shall develop and implement a coherent contact tracing and weekly diagnostic testing program in line with CDC guidelines prior to any return to worksites.&#8221;
A slew of demands also included potentially installing new air ventilation systems and providing teachers with medical-grade N95 masks.
What&#8217;s happened since has called into question whether some teachers were sincere about their reasons for not returning to school.
Unions have repeatedly shifted the goalposts, with the American Federation of Teachers saying last month that normal school <a href="https://twitter.com/AFTunion/status/1395858455362158595">should not resume</a> next year unless there is a vaccine for children under 12, even though research has found that students are less likely to contract or spread coronavirus.
Emails showed that the AFT seemed to successfully <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/parents-union-blasts-teachers-union-influence-on-biden-school-closures-calling-cdc-infected">lobby</a> the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to alter its supposedly scientific guidance, keeping schools closed.
In one Massachusetts school district, teachers told children to write <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/children-assigned-to-write-love-poems-to-coronavirus-vaccine">love poems</a> to the vaccine.
In Missouri, children were forced to wear masks outside in the blistering heat, leading to medical complications, while <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kids-vomit-wearing-masks-in-heat-while-union-honchos-go-maskless">union officials</a> went into a classroom to read to masked children while they themselves did not wear masks. The Missouri union also posted pictures of retired teachers, who are in the age group most at risk of coronavirus, cavorting in close quarters without masks.
Some schools had teachers don white lab coats or even levels of personal protective equipment that bordered on hazmat suits, leading to a display that made a return to school unappealing to families. Other students who have returned to school have been forced to learn behind plexiglass walls, despite CDC Director Rochelle Walensky saying teachers are more likely to catch coronavirus outside of school than in it.
MCEA&#8217;s resolution was clear that it was holding out for money, saying &#8220;a return to in-person instruction requires human and capital resources that significantly exceed those of a pre-COVID era.&#8221;
Schools ultimately received more than $120 billion in coronavirus money, even though much of it does not have to be spent for years.
The MCEA also mixed racial demands with its purported coronavirus concerns, demanding that MCPS &#8220;shall adequately staff all instructional models, particularly those which directly serve Black and, [sic] Brown students.&#8221;
Even as schools were closed to in-person learning, the county planned a busing proposal that would distribute students based on race, drawing another wedge between teachers and parents.
The school system spent hundreds of thousands of dollars finding out what parents wanted. Its <a href="https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/publicinfo/Boundary_Analysis/BoundaryAnalysis_Final%20Report.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3z4rt8cy30vjQYLGrW2bizK1xAYm6eYTh9sAj_TdhchUKZQ1WsriTiTW0">survey</a> found that only 18% of respondents thought &#8220;balance diversity among nearby schools&#8221; was important, while more than twice as many (50%) thought it was not important. 79% of survey respondents thought it was &#8220;extremely important&#8221; to minimize boundary changes, while only 4% thought it was &#8220;not important.&#8221;
The school system recently passed a policy requiring it to prioritize race when drawing school boundaries.
Spokesperson Gboyinde Onijala was noncommittal about whether the district would side with parents, telling The Daily Wire: &#8220;During the 2021–2022 school year, the Board will explore potential next steps based on the findings of the report.&#8221;
According to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html">CDC</a>:
<blockquote>COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. … Everyone 12 years of age and older is now eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccination…
Fully vaccinated people can resume activities without wearing a mask or physically distancing, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance.</blockquote>
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After Teachers Claimed They Were Too Scared To Work, Many Never Got Vaccinated

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Only about 70% of school staff in Montgomery County, Maryland, chose to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, despite the teachers union objecting to opening schools for most of the year by citing educators&#039; commitment to extreme cautionary measures.

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When Hunter Biden cheated on the widow of his deceased brother to father a child with a woman who reportedly worked as a stripper, he claimed he had &#8220;no recollection of our encounter.&#8221;
But materials uncovered from his laptop by the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9641655/Hunter-Bidens-baby-mama-Lunden-Roberts-employee-firm-texts-reveal.html">Daily Mail</a> show that, in fact, he placed the woman on the payroll of one of his business ventures.
Texts show that in July 2018, Lunden Roberts repeatedly texted the son of the now-president with information about her pregnancy, but that Hunter did not respond.
In December 2018, Hunter&#8217;s assistant, Katie Doge, texted to say that a &#8220;Lunden&#8221; had been on the payroll, but had been taken off of it sometime in the last nine months.
Remaining on the payroll was Hallie, his brother&#8217;s widow-turned-girlfriend, and &#8220;Liz,&#8221; an apparent reference to Hallie&#8217;s sister. In April 2017, Liz texted Hunter and Hallie: &#8216;hunt/hallie can you please hire me now &#8230;..so i can get my life together and then i will find my own job and unburden both of you.&#8217;
The Daily Mail reported that in September 2016, while Hunter was dating Hallie, he <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9237397/Hunter-Biden-living-brothers-widow-relationship-sister.html">texted Liz</a> offering to teach her “how to masturbate” and saying “we should shower together every morning” by Facetime.
Texts from Hallie also mention Lunden, suggesting that she was well-known to Hunter.
That indicates that his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-thought-his-brothers-death-opened-the-door-for-him-to-run-for-office">book</a>, billed as a tell-all, was anything but.
In it, Hunter wrote callously:
<blockquote>The other women I&#8217;d been with during rampages since my divorce were hardly the dating type. We would satisfy our immediate needs and little else. I&#8217;m not proud of it. It&#8217;s why I would later challenge in court the woman from Arkansas who had a baby in 2018 and claimed the child was mine&#8211;I had no recollection of our encounter. That&#8217;s how little connection I had with anyone. I was a mess, but it&#8217;s a mess I&#8217;ve taken responsibility for.</blockquote>
Hunter denied that he was the father, and after a DNA test showed otherwise, he claimed he did not have enough money to pay child support, even as he lived in a $12,000-a-month Hollywood home, the Daily Mail reported. He eventually settled out of court for $2.5 million when a judge demanded that he turn over financial records.
Joe Biden has never met his grandchild, the Daily Mail reported.
Rosemont Seneca Partners was a consulting firm that inserted itself as a middleman into various foreign business deals around the world, at times doing business with the children of foreign leaders. Rosemont partners would sometimes bring books signed by Joe Biden to potential clients.
One business partner, Devon Archer, was later convicted of fraud.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-discussed-plans-for-a-business-that-would-include-joe-biden-emails-show">Hunter Biden Discussed Plans For A Business That Would Include Joe Biden, Emails Show</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-had-tentacles-in-dark-corners-of-the-world-far-beyond-china-ukraine">Hunter’s World: Biden Son Had Tentacles In Dark Corners Of the World Far Beyond China, Ukraine</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-family-inc-emails">Hunter Biden Was Just One Spawn Of The Powerful Who Occupied A Network That Might Be Called ‘Family, Inc.’</a>
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Hunter Biden Put Baby-Mama On Payroll Of His Consulting Firm, Contradicting His Claims

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When Hunter Biden cheated on the widow of his deceased brother to father a child with a woman who reportedly worked as a stripper, he claimed he had &quot;no When Hunter Biden cheated on the widow of his deceased brother to father a child with a woman who reportedly worked as a stripper, he claimed he had &quot;no recollection of our encounter.&quot; But materials uncovered from his laptop show that, in fact, he placed the woman on the payroll of his international consultancy, Rosemont Seneca.

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A dark-money operation tied to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer funded ads which tried to suppress Republican voter turnout by attacking swing-state senators from the right, potentially putting control of the Senate in Schumer&#8217;s hands.
Back in 2018, the &#8220;Coalition for a Safe and Secure America&#8221; (CSSA) seemed like a hard-right group that attacked now-Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) and Mike Braun (R-Indiana), and then-Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nevada) and Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Montana), as squishes.
It ran ads claiming Heller allowed foreign workers to take American jobs, and that Hawley &#8220;sides with Washington liberals.&#8221; They said Braun supported &#8220;tax-hikes.&#8221;
But when the ads ran, the Republican primary had already passed. The true purpose was to trick Republicans in competitive states into staying home, figuring there wasn&#8217;t much difference between the Republican nominee and the Democratic one.
And CSSA got most of its funding from Majority Forward, a nonprofit affiliated with the Senate Majority PAC, which backs the interest of Senate Democrats, <a href="https://www.axios.com/democrats-pac-dark-money-josh-hawley-anti-gun-bd77366c-35f6-4ac0-802a-538e0bb7c1d8.html">Axios</a> reported Wednesday, citing new tax disclosures.
Heller ultimately narrowly lost his election to Democrat Jacky Rosen, making him the only Republican senator to lose a re-election bid that year. If Heller had retained his seat, Republicans might have been in control of the Senate now. Instead, it is tied 50-50, with ties broken by Democratic vice president Kamala Harris.
Hawley won his seat nonetheless, displacing Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill.
The Senate Majority PAC spent a whopping $160 million in the 2018 election cycle and nearly $400 million in 2020, according to the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/senate-majority-pac/C00484642/summary/2020">Center for Responsive Politics</a>.
Majority Forward, a 501(c)4 group, raised nearly $28 million in 2017 and $76 million in 2018, its <a href="https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/474368320_201905_990O_2020092117315069.pdf">tax filings</a> show.
The filings say that its president, JB Poersch, was paid $700,000 for 15 hours of work per week in 2018, plus nearly $553,000 from related organizations.
CSSA raised $4 million in 2018, of which $2.7 million came from Majority Forward, Axios reported.
The <a href="https://eqs.fec.gov/eqsdocsMUR/7460_05.pdf">Federal Election Commission</a> separately said last week that CSSA &#8220;failed to include the required disclaimers on mailers that were critical of then-candidate Mike Brain and distributed a week before the 2018 U.S. Senate election.&#8221;
It said that CSSA admitted it was behind the mailers but said it had disbanded, so &#8220;in an effort to direct its constrained resources to more significant matters, the Commission exercises its prosecutorial discretion and dismisses these matters.&#8221;
Though the ads were undoubtedly designed to convince Republicans to stay home from the polls by deceiving them, Democrats have since decried more mild conduct as &#8220;voter suppression.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/burgess-owens-slams-critics-of-voter-i-d-laws">‘Tell Me Again, Why Is Showing A Voter I.D. Voter Suppression’: Burgess Owens Slams Critics Of Voter I.D. Laws</a>
In 2020, Republican tricksters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were <a href="https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/men-behind-voter-suppression-robo-calls-in-detroit-head-to-trial">criminally charged</a> for allegedly placing calls in Democratic areas with false information about voting.
Majority Forward used &#8220;dark-money&#8221; loopholes often decried by Democrats to hide the source of its funding until years after the election. Democrats raised <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-raised-more-dark-money-in-2020-than-republicans-while-campaigning-against-it">more</a> &#8220;dark money&#8221; than Republicans in 2020, despite frequently calling it a nefarious tool of Republicans.
Majority Forward did not respond to Axios&#8217;s request for comment.
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Democrat Group Was Behind Ads Aimed At Suppressing Voter Turnout, Potentially Swinging Senate Control

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A dark-money operation tied to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer funded ads which tried to suppress Republican voter turnout by attacking swing-state A dark-money operation tied to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer funded ads which tried to suppress Republican voter turnout by attacking swing-state senators from the right, potentially putting control of the Senate in Schumer&#039;s hands.

Democrat Group Was Behind Ads Aimed At Suppressing Voter Turnout, Potentially Swinging Senate Control Democrat Group Was Behind Ads Aimed At Suppressing Voter Turnout, Potentially Swinging Senate Control

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A &#8220;Democratic socialist&#8221; member of the Denver school board is accused of sexually preying on illegal immigrants, teen anti-gun activists, and a Black Lives Matter member.
Before becoming a target of a police investigation, 22-year old elected official Tay Anderson successfully introduced a measure to remove police officers from the Denver schools.
On May 25, a parent told a Colorado House committee that there is a &#8220;sexual predator targeting [Denver Public Schools] children,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2021/05/28/tay-anderson-sexual-assault-allegations-denver-school-board/">Denver Post</a> reported. She said 62 people had come to her complaining of misconduct ranging from unwanted touching to violent rape, and that 61 of them were illegal immigrants or &#8220;Dreamers,&#8221; recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The youngest was 14 years old.
On May 28, the school system said it was &#8220;informed that the accusations were against Director Tay Anderson. The Denver police are also aware of these accusations.”
An attorney for Anderson, Christopher Decker, denied the charges to the Post, writing: “Nothing is worse or more unacceptable than the harm caused by sexual assault upon our children, or the related harm caused by not believing those who have been victimized in this way. This is also why false assertions of these horrible crimes act to cheapen and diminish its importance.&#8221;
Denver Police Department spokesman Jay Casillas told the Post that it had spoken with the parent, Mary-Katherine Brooks Fleming, but had not heard directly from any of the victims. Illegal immigrants are sometimes afraid to speak to police.
On March 26, a Black Lives Matter chapter with which Anderson was involved lodged a separate allegation of sexual assault against him. &#8220;When we say protect Black women this must entail calling in those who have allegedly caused harm, including elected officials. Until Dir. Anderson has accounted for himself in these ways, he will not be welcome to share space with BLM5280 physically or on any of our platforms,&#8221; the group <a href="https://twitter.com/BLM5280/status/1375502106866544643/photo/1">wrote</a>.
Anderson also denied that charge.
And three former members of a youth anti-gun group associated with a March for Our Lives rally in Denver told the Denver Post they witnessed sexual misconduct by Anderson. Madison Rose, who was the group&#8217;s vice-president, said Anderson was its president when he was 19 years old, and used his position to pressure others &#8212; some underage &#8212; into sleeping with him, the Post <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2021/03/27/tay-anderson-sexual-assault-denial/">reported</a>.
The school board said May 22 that it had &#8220;limited authority to take action due to the fact that Mr. Anderson is an elected official&#8230; their position as a director is determined by the will of the voters.&#8221;
But on May 30, Anderson said he would <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2021/05/30/tay-anderson-denver-school-board-duties-sexual-misconduct-investigation/">&#8220;step back&#8221;</a> from school board duties while an investigation is ongoing.
Anderson graduated from high school in 2017 and successfully ran for school board in 2019, becoming the youngest school board member. He was also the most bombastic, advocating for students to be able to vote for school board members, turning public schools into weapons in the culture wars, and frequently spouting divisive racial rhetoric.
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Do I believe all white people are bad, No I do not.
Do I hate all white people, 
No I do not.
Do I believe white people can experience racism, No I do not.
Do I believe all white people benefit from privilege, Yes I do.
Do I believe white fragility is real, 
Yes I do.
— Tay Anderson (@TayAndersonCO) <a href="https://twitter.com/TayAndersonCO/status/1373776963945521156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Sex work is work.
It’s past time to decriminalize sex work.
— Tay Anderson (@TayAndersonCO) <a href="https://twitter.com/TayAndersonCO/status/1373450982781116422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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My response to the bigotry that took place in our School Board meeting today from a parent in our public comment session.
1.) Denver Public Schools believes Black Lives Matter!
2.) Wear a mask 😷 <a href="https://t.co/66p1BJgLxY">pic.twitter.com/66p1BJgLxY</a>
— Tay Anderson (@TayAndersonCO) <a href="https://twitter.com/TayAndersonCO/status/1372724128008998927?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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This is what happens when white people don’t get their way. <a href="https://t.co/vKRi8Umu68">pic.twitter.com/vKRi8Umu68</a>
— Tay Anderson (@TayAndersonCO) <a href="https://twitter.com/TayAndersonCO/status/1368932058207186944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2021</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-anti-racists-targeting-children-buta-biberaj">‘Anti-Racists’ Behind Virginia School Enemies List Now Gathering Info On Children As Top Prosecutor Joins In</a>
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Black Lives Matter march in Denver, Colorado

Defund-The-Police Politician Accused Of Sexually Preying On Dozens Of Illegal Immigrants, Anti-Gun Activists

Colorado

A &quot;Democratic socialist&quot; member of the Denver school board is accused of sexually preying on illegal immigrants, teen anti-gun activists, and a Black A &quot;Democratic socialist&quot; member of the Denver school board is accused of sexually preying on illegal immigrants and a Black Lives Matter member.

https://editorial.dailywire.com/news/defund-the-police-pol-accused-of-sexually-preying-on-illegal-immigrants/

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A school district in Missouri is requiring children to wear masks outside in the sweltering heat, even as teachers union officials and school board members have not done the same.
As temperatures neared 90 degrees in the humid South, elementary school children are required to wear masks even when playing outside at recess, leading to medical issues, according to Christine Widel, a mother in the state’s Francis Howell school district in St. Charles County.
Widel said that on Monday, her 10-year old son vomited into his mask while he was exercising outside. “He was at recess and he and his friends were playing four-square, and he started getting hot so he stepped out of the game and he pulled his gator down and was told to put it back up even though he was away from all of his friends,” she told The Daily Wire.
She said her son is a rule-follower, and he vomited into the mask, with the chunks ricocheting and covering his body. She said he had seen teachers threaten his classmates with detention for removing their masks from their mouths for any reason.
“He was mortified. He had to come home,” she said. “I said ‘baby, let’s just take a shower.’ He looked at me and said ‘it smells so bad.’ It’s just too hot outside for these babies to not have 100% oxygen flowing to their little lungs that aren’t even fully developed,” she said.
But the politicians who make the rules and the teachers unions who demand severe coronavirus restrictions do not always appear to subject themselves to the same restrictions they demand of small children.
The Missouri branch of the National Educators Association (NEA), the teachers union that is the largest labor group in the country, has posted numerous pictures of its members not wearing masks, including one featuring <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MNEALeads/photos/pcb.506217704073905/506217507407258/">17 retired teachers</a>, most with gray hair and in the age group most at risk of dying from COVID-19, nearly touching.
A May 6 post, now deleted, appears to show union President Phil Murray and Vice President Rebeka McIntosh reading to a classroom of young children, while the union honchos are unmasked, but the children are masked.
&#8220;Great visit at Castillo Elementary in the Francis Howell District. Thank you Francine Hill and Anita Kuehner for inviting us!&#8221; it says.
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Murray did not immediately return a request for comment.
The union Facebook page blocks people from commenting on its posts.
A May 20 Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChadLangeForFHSchoolBoard/photos/pcb.4383238368386828/4383227118387953">post</a> shows Francis Howell school board member Chad Lange conducting a ceremonial groundbreaking of a new high school as he stands inches from others, none of whom are wearing masks.
An April 12 picture from the Missouri School Boards Association shows four officials sitting just inches from each other at a speakers table, and none of them are masked.
“I’m absolutely heartbroken that these adults feel that it’s ok for them to not abide by the unreasonable mask mandates that they&#8217;ve set for children, the child abuse that they’ve inflicted,” Widel said.
Research has shown that children are far less likely to contract or spread coronavirus.
“We know that vaccinated adults are very well protected and that healthy kids are at relatively low risk of severe illness from COVID-19. There’s also evidence that kids younger than 11 or 12 are much less likely than adolescents or adults to transmit the virus if infected,” MIT Medical Associate Medical Director Shawn Ferullo has <a href="https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2021/04/vaccinated-adults-unvaccinated-kids">said</a>.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, “Children were 0.00%-0.20% of all COVID-19 deaths, and 9 states reported zero child deaths.”
Widel said that no one wants to take responsibility for the masks, with the school district blaming the county health department, and the health department passing the buck to the schools.
Teachers unions have been the most consistent advocates for draconian coronavirus measures, which were used to close schools for nearly a year across much of the country.
On Friday, the American Federation of Teachers, the second major teachers union, <a href="https://twitter.com/AFTunion/status/1395858457669029888">tweeted:</a> “In elementrary [sic] schools, until we have the vaccines, it seems like unfortuantely [sic] we still [sic] going to have to keep wearing our masks and keep social distancing because we don’t want outbreaks.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rockwood-schools-fake-curriculum-parents-indoctrination">Missouri School District Tells Principals To Create Fake Curriculum To Send Parents After Complaints Of Indoctrination</a>
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Teachers Union Honchos Go Maskless In Classroom As Kids Are Forced To Mask Even Outside In Extreme Heat

COVID-19

Face Masks

A school district in Missouri is requiring children to wear masks outside in the sweltering heat, even as teachers union officials and school board members have not done the same.

https://editorial.dailywire.com/news/kids-vomit-wearing-masks-in-heat-while-union-honchos-go-maskless/

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Some schoolchildren are being instructed to write poems fawning over the coronavirus vaccine, which they are not eligible to receive but which teachers unions have claimed, without evidence, is necessary before school can return to normal.
The &#8220;Global Vaccine Poem&#8221; project asks children and adults alike to &#8220;Read the model poem &#8216;Dear Vaccine&#8217; written by Naomi Shihab Nye, then choose a prompt to respond to. Add a few lines of your words. Don’t worry about rhyming, don’t worry about grammar or spelling. Simply share your thoughts.&#8221;
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This was assigned in a 5th grade classroom in Massachusetts. 
I&#39;m fully vaxxed and still I ask, what the hell is this? <a href="https://t.co/I8HBzIYElH">pic.twitter.com/I8HBzIYElH</a>
&mdash; Erika Sanzi (@esanzi) <a href="https://twitter.com/esanzi/status/1396856118220034049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Nye&#8217;s poem reads:
<blockquote>Save us, dear vaccine. &#8230;
Children in kindergarten. 
So many voices, in chorus. 
Give us our world again! 
Tiny gleaming vials, 
enter our cities and towns 
shining your light. &#8230; 
It’s a quick prick in the arm 
You’ll barely notice it &#8230; 
Face-to-face conversation 
someday soon? &#8230; 
Vaccine, please make the air clean!</blockquote>
According to the <a href="https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report">American Academy of Pediatrics</a>, &#8220;Children were 0.00%-0.20% of all COVID-19 deaths, and 9 states reported zero child deaths.&#8221;
On Friday, the American Federation of Teachers union tweeted, &#8220;In elementrary [sic] schools, until we have the vaccines, it seems like unfortuantely [sic] we still [sic] going to have to keep wearing our masks and keep social distancing because we don&#8217;t want outbreaks.&#8221;
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&quot;In elementrary schools, until we have the vaccines, it seems like unfortuantely we still going to have to keep wearing our masks and keep social distancing because we don&#39;t want outbreaks.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/rweingarten?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rweingarten</a>
&mdash; AFT (@AFTunion) <a href="https://twitter.com/AFTunion/status/1395858457669029888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Since schools do not have the room to fit all children while socially distancing, that could mean no five days a week of elementary school even next schoolyear, should the union have its way. The vaccine is only approved for those 12 and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Teachers have repeatedly shifted the goalposts when it comes to reopening schools, even though the director of the CDC has <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/t0212-cdc-update-covid-19.html">said</a> that schools can reopen safely without even teachers being vaccinated and that teachers are at higher risk of getting coronavirus outside of school than in it.
Nye is the &#8220;Young People&#8217;s Poet Laureate&#8221; of the Poetry Foundation. According to her Poetry Foundation bio, she was born in 1952, making her about 69 years old. Her <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/naomi-shihab-nye">bio</a> states that &#8220;her father was a Palestinian refugee&#8221; and she became &#8220;an active voice for Arab Americans&#8221; after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The Poetry Foundation&#8217;s funding comes largely from a gift of <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2004-02-15/a-philanthropist-of-the-old-school">stock</a> in the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company from heiress Ruth Lilly. Eli Lilly does not manufacture the coronavirus vaccine but has manufactured other vaccines, including for polio.
In February, the company <a href="https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lilly-announces-additional-doses-neutralizing-antibody-therapy">said</a>, &#8220;The U.S. government has agreed to purchase a minimum of 100,000 doses&#8221; of a COVID treatment, bamlanivimab and etesevimab, for $210 million.
In 2020, the Poetry Foundation seemingly shifted its focus to racial grievance after receiving demands that led to the resignation of its president and board chairman. Its sin was releasing a statement that said the organizations&#8217; leaders “stand in solidarity with the Black community, and denounce injustice and systemic racism.” Critics said that was insufficiently enthusiastic, <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/insanity-at-the-poetry-foundation/">National Review</a> reported.
Poets who had received grants from the organization, and others with only peripheral connections to it, issued a letter with &#8220;demands&#8221; including:
<ul>
<li>&#8220;The President must be replaced by someone with a demonstrated commitment to&#8230; creating a world that is just and affirming for people of color, disabled people, trans people, queer people, and immigrants.&#8221;</li>
<li>The organization must acknowledge &#8220;the harm done in recent years to Latinx poets, trans poets, disabled poets, and queer poets.&#8221;</li>
<li>It must provide a &#8220;greater allocation of financial resources toward work which is explicitly anti-racist in nature&#8221; such as &#8220;large contributions to organizations such as Assata&#8217;s Daughters, Brave Space Alliance, and Project South.&#8221; It is unclear what connection those groups have to poetry.</li>
</ul>
They simultaneously said that poets have access to well-paying jobs, and also that the Foundation — which they acknowledged pays poets well — should give away all of its money.
On April 28, it hired Michelle T. Boone, a black woman who previously served as commissioner of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, as its new president, the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-poetry-philanthropy-race-and-ethnicity-arts-and-entertainment-8af88f7cac79dfce5744df807d3eac2f">AP</a> reported.
The Global Vaccine Poem project says it is a collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and The University of Arizona Poetry Center.
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Sanitized Classroom

Children Assigned To Write Love Poems To Coronavirus Vaccine As Teachers Union Pushes For Continued Restrictions

Coronavirus

Some schoolchildren are being instructed to write poems fawning over the coronavirus vaccine, which they are not eligible to receive but which teachers unions have claimed, without evidence, is necessary before school can return to normal.

https://editorial.dailywire.com/news/children-assigned-to-write-love-poems-to-coronavirus-vaccine/

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The top prosecutor in Loudoun County, Virginia, has participated in the Facebook group whose members infamously created a list of parents who disagreed with school system policies with the intention to “hack,” “infiltrate,” and “expose” them, according to new screenshots.
Since The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-teachers-target-parents-critical-race-theory-hacking">exposed</a> the group March 16, triggering national outrage, members of the “Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County” have doubled down and now appear to be gathering information about the children of at least one adult.
&#8220;Anyone else with the racist TikTok&#8217;s from you know who&#8217;s kids please PM me. Especially more with the N-word. TYIA,&#8221; group administrator Jamie Ann Neidig-Wheaton posted on April 30.
When another member responded to this post by saying we have to &#8220;fight this s**t together,&#8221; Buta Biberaj, the county’s top prosecutor, said &#8220;exactly. You are where we need you.&#8221;
<img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-227230 alignleft" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/anti-racist1-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2021/05/anti-racist1-225x300.jpg 225w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2021/05/anti-racist1.jpg 371w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" />Members of the group previously compiled a list that included the names, locations, and in some cases employers and spouse&#8217;s names, of people they said disagreed with school policies, though the conversation spent little time discussing the substance of critics&#8217; arguments.
“I’m losing any hope that remaining civil towards these people changes anything,” one member, Jen Durham, wrote. “Avoiding these people isn’t enough to stop the spread of their evil rhetoric.”
Durham called for members to add to a list of parents in part so &#8220;hackers&#8230; can either shut down their websites or redirect them to pro-[Critical Race Theory]/anti-racist informational webpages.&#8221;
The most prolific participant in the list creation was Hilary Hultman-Lee, a former Loudoun teacher. Hultman-Lee was the first to comment in the April 30 thread to which Biberaj responded.
Sheriff Mike Chapman opened an investigation into the group’s activities in March. &#8220;The [Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office] continues to examine the law in relation to these messages, and work with social media platforms to clearly identify those participating in these and other related communications,&#8221; his office told ABC affiliate <a href="https://wjla.com/amp/features/i-team/critical-race-theory-in-disguise-equity-plan-has-loudoun-county-parents-at-odds">WJLA</a> May 19 about the investigation into the Facebook group.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-teachers-target-parents-critical-race-theory-hacking">Teachers Compile List Of Parents Who Question Racial Curriculum, Plot War On Them</a>
Crimes his office identifies would typically go to Biberaj&#8217;s office for prosecution. Kraig Troxell, a spokesman for the sheriff, did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire on how the conflict of interest would be handled.
In 2019, Biberaj defeated Republican incumbent prosecutor Nicole Wittmann 51% to 49% after a political action committee funded by George Soros spent an unprecedented $845,000 on the local race on her behalf. Wittmann raised $113,000.
Despite the lack of a decisive mandate, Biberaj has heavily politicized the law enforcement office.
On Facebook, her profile picture shows her holding hands with Joe Biden, with the words &#8220;Biden-Harris: Battle for the soul of the nation.&#8221;
On <a href="https://twitter.com/biberajbb">Twitter</a>, she praises big-city anti-police district attorneys such as Chesa Boudin of San Francisco, Larry Krasner of Philadelphia, and George Gascon of Los Angeles — even though Loudoun, a semi-rural county west of Washington, D.C. with the highest median income in the nation, is hardly a large, progressive city.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/l-a-county-d-a-gascon-dismantles-hardcore-gang-unit-for-new-public-health-approach">L.A. County D.A. Gascón Dismantles Hardcore Gang Unit For New ‘Public Health Approach’</a>
In January, she signed a <a href="https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/View/163602/01-05-21-Progressive-Prosecutors-Call-for-Criminal-Justice-Reform">letter</a> from &#8220;progressive prosecutors&#8221; to the state legislature asking for &#8220;automatically expunging certain criminal records free of charge after individuals have maintained a clean record for an amount of time that corresponds to the severity of their offense&#8221; and ending cash bail in order to produce &#8220;more equitable outcomes.&#8221;
<img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-227232 alignleft" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/anti-racist2-202x300.jpg" alt="" width="202" height="300" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2021/05/anti-racist2-202x300.jpg 202w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2021/05/anti-racist2-388x576.jpg 388w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2021/05/anti-racist2.jpg 714w" sizes="(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px" />Biberaj produces a weekly <a href="https://www.theteawithbuta.com/episodes">podcast</a> that frequently focuses on political activism. In the last month, episodes included &#8220;The Virginia Grassroots,&#8221; &#8220;The Power of Loudoun Influencers &amp; Nonprofits,&#8221; and &#8220;Vanessa Maddox.&#8221; Maddox is a racial consultant and fellow member of the “anti-racist” group.
Before she was elected, Biberaj was an official with the local <a href="https://loudounnow.com/2019/08/12/naacp-seeks-apology-action-in-wake-of-proclamation-controversy/">NAACP</a>. As prosecutor, she charged a supporter of Donald Trump with assault for exhaling on an anti-Trump protester while he was not wearing a mask, then permitted the resolution of the case by having him <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/trump-supporter-who-blew-on-women-has-case-dismissed-after-donating-3k-to-loudoun-county-naacp">donate</a> $3,000 to the NAACP, which was not a party in the incident.
After divisive policies in Loudoun caused acrimony that reached the national media, Biberaj called Tucker Carlson an &#8220;unhappy white male.”
Loudoun&#8217;s Democrat-dominated board of supervisors was initially on board with Biberaj’s progressive approach to law enforcement. After voters chose Chapman, a Republican, as sheriff, the board explored <a href="https://www.loudountimes.com/news/loudoun-county-considers-changing-form-of-government-awaits-report-on-establishing-police-department/article_f4bfcff4-ac60-11eb-b61f-4b06b92e06d0.html">neutering</a> the elected office and replacing it with a police department that reported to the board rather than voters.
But Democrats have since become frustrated with the results of Biberaj&#8217;s policies, saying there was a drop in prosecutions of predators, such as domestic abusers.
Biberaj dressed up her policies in fluffy language, but the supervisors said it didn&#8217;t correspond to what was really happening.
&#8220;The things that I am hearing do not comport with what you are saying, especially when it comes to domestic violence, abuse, and partner abuse,” county chairwoman Phyllis Randall, a Democrat, told the paper. “In fact, the things that I am hearing, the letters I have, the emails I have, the text message screenshots I have would curl somebody’s toes to look at them.”
Of 39 staff in the office, 17 left in the first 13 months of her administration, <a href="https://loudounnow.com/2021/03/26/supervisors-cut-back-freeze-prosecutors-budget-request-amid-turnover-domestic-violence-case-handling/">Loudoun Now</a> reported. “That is a staggering turmoil in the office,” Democratic supervisor Michael R. Turner told the paper.
Biberaj didn&#8217;t seem bothered, saying, “In essence, what we have done is we have built a whole new law firm.&#8221;
Neidig-Wheaton, who authorized the call for “counter-activities” on behalf of the “Anti-Racist” group as group administrator, is a former George Mason University adjunct professor and human resources consultant for the federal government. According to public records, in 2012, she was arrested on charges of trespassing and assault, which were later dropped.
Asked for comment about her request for “racist TikTok’s from you know who’s kids,” she told The Daily Wire, &#8220;I would prefer not to respond to that by releasing threats that include a possible racially motivated school shooting.&#8221;
Kendra Glover, a spokeswoman for Biberaj, did not respond to questions about Biberaj’s participation in the group and how the prosecutor separates her political activism from her law enforcement activities.
Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Interim Superintendent Scott Ziegler <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-teachers-attack-parents-protected-free-speech-mulls-banning-trump-flags">wrote</a> March 19: &#8220;It has come to my attention that individuals, including some identifying themselves as LCPS employees, have made statements across social media about parents and their thoughts about the school division’s equity work. LCPS recognizes the right of its employees to free speech, but does not condone anyone targeting members of the community for their viewpoint.”
But the statement also said &#8220;LCPS’ work on equity is a journey that requires the commitment of staff at all levels.&#8221;
On March 26, the LCPS Minority Student Achievement Advisory Council, a semi-official body behind much of the controversial racial policies, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-enemies-list-school-body-pledges-to-silence-the-opposition">wrote</a> that &#8220;we can and will silence the opposition.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/loudouncounty?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#loudouncounty</a> public schools is now asking parents and students to anonymously report and cancel other students. What could possibly go wrong?🤔 <a href="https://t.co/PCkDRLVGis">pic.twitter.com/PCkDRLVGis</a>
&mdash; Ian Prior (@iandprior) <a href="https://twitter.com/iandprior/status/1394684122900094976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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On May 18, Ian Prior, who leads Fight For Schools, a parents&#8217; advocacy group which is demanding the recall of school board members, published documents indicating that the school system had created a hotline for parents and students to anonymously report people who allegedly displayed &#8220;bias.&#8221;
&#8220;LCPS Office of Equity is providing parents and students a link to a Share, Speak Up, Speak Out form that will be used to capture incidents of bias in an anonymous manner,&#8221; it said.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/with-children-fully-indoctrinated-schools-have-a-new-target-parents">With Children Fully Indoctrinated, Schools Have A New Target: Parents</a>
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Buta Biberaj

‘Anti-Racists’ Behind School Enemies List Now Gathering Info On Children As Top Prosecutor Joins In

The top prosecutor in Loudoun County, Virginia, has participated in the Facebook group whose members infamously created a list of parents who disagreed Loudoun County prosecutor Buta Biberaj has participated in the Facebook group whose members infamously created a list of parents who disagreed with school system policies with the intention to “hack,” “infiltrate,” and “expose” them, according to new screenshots.

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Shopify, the largest publicly-traded company in Canada, laid down the law about employees demanding &#8220;woke&#8221; corporate virtue signaling, issuing a fiery memo reminding employees that they were there to sell products and that anyone who was focused on other things during the day should not expect to keep their job.
The ecommerce platform has indulged in the culture wars, notoriously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shopify-pulls-trump-campaign-trump-organization-online-stores">removing Donald Trump paraphernalia</a> from its stores in January. But even before then, CEO Tobi Lütke seemed to realize he had created a Frankenstein&#8217;s monster, reaching his breaking point when hysterical employees claimed that an &#8220;emoticon&#8221; picturing string reminded them of a digital noose.
In a memo written last August but obtained by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/shopify-ceo-email-to-managers-we-are-not-a-family-2021-5">Business Insider</a> this month, Lütke wrote:
<blockquote>A good start would be to remind everyone that we are a business&#8230; Everything Shopify does is to accomplish this, and everyone at Shopify should be able to describe how their job, through a series of direct or indirect steps, furthers this mission.
To help you make this more clear to your team members, here are some pointers about what Shopify is not:
Shopify, like any other for-profit company, is not a family. The very idea is preposterous&#8230; The dangers of &#8220;family thinking&#8221; are that it becomes incredibly hard to let poor performers go. &#8230;
Shopify is also not the government. We cannot solve every societal problem here. We are part of an ecosystem, of economies, of culture, and of actual countries. We also can&#8217;t take care of all your needs. We will try our best to take care of the ones that ensure you can support our mission. Shopify&#8217;s worldview is well documented — we believe in liberal values and equality of opportunity. Sometimes we see opportunities to help nudge these causes forward. We do this because this directly helps our business and our merchants and not because of some moralistic overreach.
We want to build one of the best companies in the world. We obsess about our merchants. We want everyone to have a shot at bettering their lot through entrepreneurship. We want to make and keep Shopify, the product, world class or die trying. &#8230;
Everyone that engages in endless Slack trolling, victimhood thinking, us-vs-them divisiveness, and zero sum thinking must be seen for the threat they are: they break teams. Teams survive and thrive on the actions of the collective, and the cohesiveness of the whole. Poor performance and divisiveness cannot be tolerated.
If this sounds at all surprising, this is because we somehow lost something&#8230; I feel that a lot of these core beliefs have been muddied over recent years&#8230; Currently we are successful despite the muddying. This will not work for much longer. Let&#8217;s get back there.</blockquote>
He concluded: &#8220;You might be tempted to take what&#8217;s up there and run it through some kind of lowpass filter and translate it into your own language before discussing it with your peers and your leads. Don&#8217;t. Above is what I need everyone to understand.&#8221;
The move was precipitated when employees on an internal Slack chatroom focused on social justice objected to an emoticon of rope that they found stored in the chat software&#8217;s gallery.
&#8220;It&#8217;s obviously a symbol of lynching for Black communities, so to see that as a Black employee is just really triggering and really difficult,&#8221; a former employee told Business Insider.
The company said it was merely part of a collection of stock images, part of a collection of icons depicting knots.
Lütke shut down commenting in the chat room, writing:
<blockquote>I&#8217;ve been on the Internet for 25 years now and sadly I&#8217;ve seen what&#8217;s happening here hundreds of times: open and unmoderated forums can turn into echo chambers and those end up with extreme toxicity&#8230; I&#8217;m deeply disappointed that this is your interpretation of belonging at Shopify. We appear to have forgotten that humans (colleagues!) are on the other side of our messages. &#8230;
Shopify is fully committed to the ideas of equality of opportunity and belonging. There is some valid feedback here that should have been given in good faith directly to the teams. Unfortunately most of it is lost in the fundamentalism that has emerged.</blockquote>
Employees in the chat room scoffed at their boss, clicking negative emoticons to signal their displeasure.
Months prior, Shopify had pledged that it would donate money to causes such as the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. But Shopify employees used the company&#8217;s history of wokeness against it, with one former employee huffing to Business Insider about the noose incident: &#8220;You just told us you were willing to listen to Black people about this when they brought their concerns. You said that you wanted to do that as a company, and this is the response.&#8221;
Last month, Basecamp CEO Jason Fried issued a similar edict, demanding &#8220;no more societal and political discussions&#8221; on company time, calling it &#8220;a major distraction. It saps our energy, and redirects our dialog towards dark places.&#8221;
&#8220;We don’t have to solve deep social problems, chime in publicly whenever the world requests our opinion on the major issues of the day, or get behind one movement or another with time or treasure. These are all important topics, but they’re not our topics at work — they’re not what we collectively do here,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/basecamp-rejects-woke-workplace-we-are-not-a-social-impact-company">wrote</a>.
But like Shopify, it later appeared to relapse. Under pressure from woke employees, Basecamp suspended a senior employee who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/basecamp-folds-on-non-woke-workplace-policy-after-employee-cries">doubted</a> that the company was systemically racist.
Shopify is a far larger company, with 7,000 employees and contractors.
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Shopify Is ‘Not The Government’: Largest Company In Canada Lays The Smackdown On Woke Employees

Shopify, the largest publicly-traded company in Canada, laid down the law about employees demanding &quot;woke&quot; corporate virtue signaling, issuing a fiery Shopify, the largest publicly-traded company in Canada, laid down the law about employees demanding &quot;woke&quot; corporate virtue signaling, issuing a fiery memo reminding employees that they were there to sell products, and that anyone who was focused on other things during the day should not expect to keep their job.

Shopify Is &#039;Not The Government&#039;: Largest Company In Canada Lays The Smackdown On Woke Employees

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