Former Obama adviser David Axelrod called the recently revealed details of President Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline &#8220;stunning&#8221; in a Wednesday interview, and called Biden&#8217;s decision to seek re-election &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; on the part of both the former president and his family.
Speaking on NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition, Axelrod laid into Biden’s inner circle and top Democrats for adapting the former president’s schedule to accommodate his &#8220;declining condition,&#8221; while simultaneously arguing to voters that he was fit to serve another term.
&#8220;What is clear is that they did everything they could to adapt his public appearances and adapt his schedule to his declining condition,&#8221; Axelrod said, adding that &#8220;it was an irresponsible decision on his part, and I have to say, on his family&#8217;s part.&#8221;
The former Obama strategist&#8217;s <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5397210/biden-trump-election-original-sin-book">comments</a> were in response to revelations from excerpts of &#8220;Original Sin: President Biden&#8217;s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,&#8221; a forthcoming book by CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson.
The senior CNN political commentator pointed to one of the most “troubling” incidents detailed in the excerpt, in which Biden reportedly failed to recognize actor George Clooney, a donor and friend of two decades, at a California fundraiser.
“The details behind it were troubling. The thing that I was struck by was the reporting on his schedule before this event, and the rigors of what he was up to, and people dismissing his kind of being vacant, not being able to identify George Clooney, a friend of two decades, when he saw him, dismissed it as a function of jet lag and fatigue.”
Axelrod later points to Biden’s inner circle dismissing incidents like these as a symptom of a &#8220;deeper issue&#8221; within Biden&#8217;s circle that enabled his continued candidacy despite clear signs of decline.
“What struck me was that when you are president of the United States. Fatigue and strain is your daily existence. The presidency is relentless. And this is why I said in 2022 that it was going to be hard to make the case that he should be president for four more years.”
Tapper and Thompson&#8217;s book <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/how-joe-biden-handed-the-presidency-to-donald-trump?fbclid=IwY2xjawKR0X9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFOYXJLc0lmZEVrbjVHZ2UxAR5goe6iYyOhoScB-4DQYuQYLkTkOruNaz_AWLHo8Qd0BMU2lJ8BLLGoiWcoqw_aem_OAsqiqfGfha4zoH5cuj5kw">paints</a> a picture of a widespread effort within Biden&#8217;s inner circle to conceal his deteriorating condition from public view, with insiders pursuing &#8220;aggressive efforts to hide his cognitive diminishment.&#8221;
Axelrod avoided labeling this effort from Biden’s team as “lying,” as “they were motivated by a belief in him, by a desire to see him continue,” instead putting most of the blame squarely on Biden and his family for putting staff in that position in the first place.
Biden’s 2024 bid was “an irresponsible decision on his part, and I have to say, on his family&#8217;s part,” Axelrod said.
When asked about Biden&#8217;s recent media appearances, including his appearance on &#8220;The View,&#8221; where viewers noticed him trailing off mid-sentence, Axelrod suggested the former president was continuing to receive poor counsel from the same advisers who encouraged his reelection bid.
&#8220;All he&#8217;s doing is making the story larger,&#8221; Axelrod said. &#8220;If he&#8217;s concerned about President Trump and some of the things that President Trump is doing, then he should want the Democratic Party to be in a position to move on and do well in the midterm elections.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s office continues to defend his legacy. A spokesperson said that the former president &#8220;was a very effective president&#8221; and challenged critics to provide evidence of instances where &#8220;national security was threatened or where he was unable to do his job.&#8221;
“Original Sin” is set to release in late May.

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As we prepare to enter the new year, we’re taking you back to some of The Daily Wire’s best reporting from 2024. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-harris-admin-paid-consultants-millions-to-help-military-implement-race-based-hiring-combat-resistance-to-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This article</a> was originally published on August 2. 
The Biden Defense Department paid outside organizations millions of taxpayer dollars to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, including race-based career advancement programs, in the U.S. military, documents shared exclusively with The Daily Wire reveal.
The documents, first obtained by the Functional Government Initiative, highlight the extent of the Pentagon’s efforts to embed leftwing, race-based ideology in the military, in partnership with academic institutions and consulting firms. The outside organizations received taxpayer dollars to set up hiring pipelines that gave candidates preferential treatment on the basis of race and sex, advise the government agency on DEI policy, and combat internal and external resistance to said policies.
The contracts are the latest evidence of the Biden administration’s push to impose DEI policies and practices throughout the federal government, including the military. Critics have blasted the administration for this push, arguing that their ideological focus detracts from military readiness and may even cause some Americans to sour on military service amid an ongoing recruiting crisis, compromising our national security in the process.
The Functional Government Initiative slammed the DOD’s decision to push a political agenda rather than focus on military readiness.
“The U.S. and its allies are facing challenges and threats all over the globe. Despite the increased concern for military preparedness, the DOD continues to prioritize DEI initiatives,” FGI spokesman Peter McGinnis told The Daily Wire.
“Rather than maximizing readiness training to ensure a capable military, the DOD’s training seems calculated to foster sowing internal discord with aggressive efforts to promote controversial ideologies,” McGinnis added. “Americans join the military to serve their nation and protect the homeland, not to sit through sensitivity training. The DOD owes them better.”
The Defense Department went beyond pushing DEI on members, paying academic institutions to build career pipelines that disadvantaged men and white people on the basis of their sex and race.
The Department of the Navy <a href="https://functionalgovernment.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Military-readiness-or-diversity-training-grant-doc-2.pdf">awarded</a> the University of Missouri Kansas City $760,000 to design a program that would give preferential treatment to non-white students and women in STEM applying for Defense Department jobs. The program’s designers openly acknowledged that it would give preferential treatment to applicants on the basis of their sex and race.
“To meet our equity-focused programmatic goals, campus internship selection will be equitable such that qualified applicants from underserved and underrepresented cohorts … will be provided first choice,” the designers said.
The Defense Department <a href="https://functionalgovernment.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Military-readiness-or-diveristy-training-contract-doc.pdf">awarded</a> Cornell University around $202,000 “to provide Diversity training that is mission imperative to ensure readiness and addressing discriminatory behavior from a cognitive perspective.” The DEI program sought to train 35 employees of the Air Force Materiel Command to deliver DEI training to an estimated 70,000 employees, with a focus on “counteracting unconscious bias,” “fostering an inclusive environment,” and “diversity and inclusion at work.”
The Defense Department also <a href="https://functionalgovernment.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Military-readiness-or-diversity-training-Air-force-grant.pdf">paid</a> the RAND Corporation an undisclosed sum of money for a project titled “Research and Analysis Support for the Department of Defense Board on Diversity and Inclusion.”
Among other things, RAND’s report offered the DOD advice on how to combat growing resistance to military DEI initiatives.
“Across organizations, a resistance to DE&amp;I is growing, while discriminatory and xenophobic expressions are increasing,” the report reads. “Some researchers describe the presence of ‘denial perspectives’ and ‘diversity defiance,’ or ‘White fatigue,’” the report went on to say before cautioning the Defense Department to “watch for” these perspectives “and exercise caution to guard against them.”
RAND urged the Department of the Air Force to “develop techniques and tools to mitigate resistance” to the DEI agenda among its employees and enlisted members.
The Defense Department paid DEI consulting agency <a href="https://www.bctpartners.com/insights-1">BCT Partners</a> just under $2 million in <a href="https://functionalgovernment.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Military-readiness-or-diversity-training-grant-doc.pdf">2021</a> to create a “DEI Action Plan” for DOD-operated schools, called the DOD Education Activity.
In its performance work statement, BCT deploys typical DEI boilerplate. It notes that Critical Race Theory “is an approach to grappling with a history of white supremacy” and ““Systematic racism [that] is part of the American life.” The document also decries “microaggressions” and “implicit bias.”
The Biden administration has continuously worked to embed the far-left DEI agenda throughout the federal government, from the military and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/internal-docs-show-entire-intelligence-community-warned-to-avoid-problematic-phrases-on-islamic-terrorism">intelligence community</a> to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-federal-guide-on-inclusive-language-tells-bureaucrats-to-ditch-gendered-terms-like-son-daughter">bureaucracy</a> writ-large. The Daily Wire previously revealed that the Pentagon requested nearly $270 million in taxpayer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-pentagon-slated-to-spend-nearly-270-million-on-diversity-agenda">funds for the DEI agenda</a> from 2022 to 2024 under the leftwing administration.
President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/02/16/executive-order-on-further-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government/">signed</a> multiple <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive orders</a> institutionalizing the leftwing doctrine, and his federal agencies have even worked to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-biden-admin-enables-government-employees-to-change-genders">enable gender transition</a> attempts among government employees, barring the use of biologically accurate pronouns in the process.
Former President Donald Trump has pledged to gut the bureaucracy through <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-presidency-schedule-f-federal-employees">executive orders</a> if he is reelected in November, cutting down the size of the administrative state and firing those who may otherwise work to undermine his policy agenda.
The contract between the DOD and the University of Missouri Kansas City was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-was-compelled-to-drop-discriminatory-dei-program-after-supreme-court-ruling">amended</a> to drop the race and sex-based preferences immediately following the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action policies in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard in June 2023.

Biden Admin Paid Consultants Millions To Help Military Implement Race-Based Hiring

EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Paid Consultants Millions To Help Military Implement Race-Based Hiring

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The top intelligence agency in the United States is celebrating Pride Month by inviting agents to have the transgender flag painted on their nails, participate in a “Pride Ally Challenge,” and learn from a “non-binary,” “Filipinx” activist who has taught children about her non-binary identity, a document exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire reveals.
The intelligence document outlines nine different Pride Month activities held by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), a <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are/leadership/director-of-national-intelligence">cabinet-level agency</a> overseeing the rest of the IC, including the CIA, FBI, NSA, and intelligence components in each branch of the military. Over the course of the month, intelligence officers will have their nails painted with trans flags, or even learn to crochet their very own Pride flags.
“For nail painting, we’ll have our pro team of FVEY artistes ready to decorate you ready for Pride Month, with the option of celebrating pride or trans flag colors,” the document reads before further encouraging intelligence agents to have their nails painted. “If you don’t normally paint your nails, or have never done so, all the better! We’ll do everything for you, and you might just love it. What better way to show your allyship to the community?”
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The elaborate array of Pride celebrations, all of which will occur during the work hours of America’s top intelligence apparatus, demonstrates one of the most blatant ways in which the most powerful instruments of the federal government have been captured and leveraged by leftwing ideologues.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence and combat-decorated U.S. Army veteran who fought in the elite Green Berets, confirmed the authenticity of the document with the intelligence community. He said it&#8217;s another example of the Biden administration wasting valuable time and resources away from serious intelligence-gathering activities that are vital to our national security.
“It just shows where this administration&#8217;s priorities continue to be, which is a virtue signal to the progressive Left, rather than staying focused on lethality, effective intelligence collection, and keeping America safe,” Waltz told The Daily Wire. “It&#8217;s just a total misplacement of priorities, and it comes from the top, and it comes from highly politicized political appointees, by political appointees that are pushing an agenda.”
The “Nails &amp; Crafts” event was held with the Pride <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-race-and-sex-based-affinity-groups-drive-dei-initiatives-throughout-the-federal-government">Employee Resource Group</a> as well as the “FVEY Liaison Offices,” a reference to the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance that includes the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The document’s reference to Five Eyes indicates that foreign intelligence agents may have been invited or present at the nail painting event.
The same event also featured crochet lessons from “FVEY crocheters,” who taught “how to make Pride flags.”
That nail painting event, which took place on June 4, came just ahead of a talk from guest speaker AC Dumlao, who is described as a “transgender non-binary first-generation Filipinx-American activist and educator” and has a website called &#8220;Call Me They.&#8221;
“AC will lead a discussion focused on transgender, non-binary, and gender diverse identities,” as well as “where we are today with trans rights and ending discrimination,” the event description reads.
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Dumlao “specializes in advising on inclusive policies for transgender and non-binary individuals in the workplace” according to <a href="https://callmethey.com/">her website</a>. It goes on to explain that “AC is dedicated to providing representation to queer and trans young people of the global majority.” Dumlao even <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1WtUVv45hc">appeared on</a> a YouTube channel aimed at <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dearqueerkid/queer-kid-stuff-teaching-preschoolers-their-lgbtqs/posts">preschoolers</a>, called “Queer Kids Stuff,” to teach children about non-binary gender identity and that gender exists on a spectrum.
Dumlao’s website lists a number of <a href="https://callmethey.com/resources/">different organizations</a> that she recommends supporting, each of which further highlights the extent of Dumlao’s radicalism. One such organization, called the Manna-hatta Fund, describes itself as “an invitation to all settlers and non-Native people who wish to acknowledge the legacy of theft and genocide that comprise the history of New York City and the United States.” The radical activist also points those who visit her site to <a href="https://www.redcanarysong.net/">Red Canary Song</a>, an organization of “Asian and Migrant sex workers and massage workers, organizing transnationally.” The group states its work “is in the tradition of sex worker mutual aid.”
The ODNI provided several more outlets for intelligence agents to celebrate Pride Month.
The document encourages agents to write blog posts for the “Why I’m an Ally” series, which is run by the Pride Employee Resource Group and provides an “informal way for allies of the Pride Community to explain just why they actively choose to be an ally.” The Pride Employee Resource Group also sought to recruit new leadership, explaining that the organizations “provide employees of underrepresented groups and their allies the tools and ability to identify and address barriers that may hinder the achievement of that population.”
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There was also a “Pride Month Kick-off Event” earlier in the month that featured members of the Pride Employee Resource Group who shared “personal observations about how inclusivity has grown in the workplace.” A panel discussion on the “transgender community across generations,” scheduled for June 17th, will bring together “members of the transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive community across generations” to discuss “their unique lived experiences.”
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-race-and-sex-based-affinity-groups-drive-dei-initiatives-throughout-the-federal-government">How Race And Sex-Based Affinity Groups Drive DEI Throughout The Federal Government</a>
Then there’s ODNI’s “Pride Ally Challenge,” which began on June 3 and takes intelligence agents on a “guided journey to learn more about the LGBTQ+ community and empower you to become a better, more well-informed ally” across 20 different daily activities.
ODNI is also hosting a “Walk with Pride” event halfway through the month, inviting intelligence agents to “[c]elebrate Pride and show your support for the LGBTQIA+ community” in the march. “Be sure to sport your pride swag!” the document reads.
In case agents want yet another chance to celebrate Pride Month, there will also be an &#8220;IC Pride Summit&#8221; for the intelligence community at the end of the month.
Waltz said this is not the time for the country to lose focus, and that adversaries are becoming more powerful while components within our intelligence community are distracted by political agendas.
“I think it is a total misplacement of priorities from senior leaders all the way down the chain, and you overlay this with the amount of threats that we&#8217;re facing as a country from peer adversaries that are eclipsing us in hypersonics, in nuclear weapons, in space, in the size of their navy, in espionage,” Waltz continued. “You&#8217;ve got the FBI director saying that we&#8217;re opening, they&#8217;re opening a new counter-espionage case against China every 12 hours, and they don&#8217;t have anywhere near the resources to deal with it.”
“How about we get some meat eaters that are worried about putting bullets or bombs on foreheads of bad guys? Collecting intelligence, filling gaps, spying, conducting covert activities to keep America safe,” Waltz added.
The revelations about ODNI’s extensive Pride Month celebrations come after The Daily Wire previously exposed another facet of the ODNI’s DEI agenda. One DEI newsletter published and distributed by ODNI included an article from an intelligence agent who claimed that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-show">crossdressing</a> made him a better agent. “I think my experiences as someone who crossdresses have sharpened the skills I use as an intelligence officer,” the official ODNI document reads.
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BOMBSHELL🚨: America’s top intelligence agency sent the FBI, CIA, NSA, and Pentagon a memo that celebrates an official who says “crossdressing makes me a better intelligence officer.”
The world’s most powerful intel apparatus has been hijacked by woke feds. Here’s the proof.🧵 <a href="https://t.co/ibPqeQSBhT">pic.twitter.com/ibPqeQSBhT</a>
— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1770094166351008220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
That same document also warned intelligence agents against using “problematic language” when discussing Islamic terrorism. The document contended that “some of the problematic phrases include, but are not limited to: ‘Salafi-Jihadist,’ ‘Jihadist,’ ‘Islamic-Extremist,’ ‘Sunni/Shia-Extremism,’ and ‘Radical Islamists.’”
The editor-in-chief of the ODNI newsletter also celebrated that employee resource groups within the intelligence community “have been particularly successful in creating a new framework and language guidelines for how we talk about the People’s Republic of China.” Like many other federal agencies, ODNI has a <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are/organizations/339-about/organization/diversity-equity-and-inclusion">DEI apparatus and personnel</a> specifically committed to further embedding the leftwing doctrine throughout the government.
The ODNI Pride celebrations and DEI newsletter are only a couple examples of the United States Intelligence Community advancing far-left ideologies, however. The National Security Agency (NSA) published an internal DEI glossary, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">exclusively obtained</a> by The Daily Wire, that included terms like “white fragility,” “transmisogyny,” “settler colonialism,” and even the gender-neutral pronouns of “ze” and “zir.”
The Biden administration has sought to embed far-left ideology throughout the practices of America’s intelligence community, military, and entire federal bureaucracy, institutionalizing the leftwing dogmas by way of DEI trainings, equity officials, and celebrations like those revealed here. Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/02/16/executive-order-on-further-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government/">signed</a> multiple <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive orders</a> institutionalizing DEI, and his federal agencies have even worked to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-biden-admin-enables-government-employees-to-change-genders">enable gender transition</a> attempts among government employees, barring the use of biologically accurate pronouns in the process.
Former President Donald Trump has pledged to combat the ideological takeover of the federal bureaucracy if he is reelected in November and purge those who might otherwise work to undermine his policy agenda.
“We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump declared at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> his plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.” Trump’s allies are now preparing to fill the void left by outgoing bureaucrats, with the Heritage Foundation’s <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> assembling a personnel database that could staff a new Trump administration.
The full document obtained by The Daily Wire can be read below.
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s Intel Community Is Celebrating Pride Month With Free Trans Flag Manicures, ‘Filipinx’ Lectures

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The Biden administration has set out to encourage gender transition attempts among federal bureaucrats, establishing gender transition support plans, holding trainings pushing Left-wing gender ideology, and even telling federal employees that referring to someone by biologically accurate pronouns is discrimination.
In a document published by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), effectively the human resources department of the federal government, the Biden administration commanded federal agencies to embed “gender identity inclusion practices” throughout the bureaucracy.
​​Titled “<a href="https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility/reference-materials/guidance-regarding-gender-identity-and-inclusion-in-the-federal-workplace.pdf">Guidance Regarding Gender Identity and Inclusion in the Federal Workplace</a>,” the document was published on “transgender day of visibility,” March 31, and it instructs agencies to “take actions to ensure that all Federal employees have their respective gender identities accurately reflected and identified in the workplace.” The document specifically tells the federal bureaucracy to ensure that name and pronoun changes are respected, warning that those who use “incorrect” terms might “contribute to an unlawful hostile work environment.”
It also directs agencies to host gender identity trainings, saying they should “take steps to implement or increase the availability of training programs on gender identity and inclusion in the Federal workplace for employees, managers, and leadership.”
While the OPM document further formalizes the Biden administration’s support of transgenderism, numerous federal agencies have already established policies to encourage transgenderism in the federal workforce. The Department of the Interior (DOI), for example, published a <a href="https://www.doi.gov/document-library/human-resources-policy/pb-23-03-supporting-gender-transition-federal-workplace">document</a> called “Supporting Gender Transition in the Federal Workplace” that lays out how the federal agency will offer support to bureaucrats who are attempting to change their sex.
The guide includes a list of gender identity vocabulary terms and instructs employees to avoid using someone’s “dead name,” a term for the name one used before attempting to change sexes. “Repeated, intentional refusal to use the employee’s affirming … or repeated reference to the employee’s dead name/gender/pronouns … is contrary to the goal of treating all employees with dignity and respect,” the document reads. “Such intentional conduct could constitute unlawful discrimination.”
All departments are encouraged to “establish, in collaboration with their supervisor/manager, a support team … to assist in the development and implementation of their Workplace Gender Transition Plan.”
The DOI has also set out to celebrate transgenderism through trainings and activities. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-celebrates-trans-day-of-visibility-by-screening-movie-pushing-for-more-queer-marine-biologists">recently revealed</a> that the agency celebrated “transgender day of visibility” by screening a documentary calling for more queer marine biologists. It also hosted a “Trans 101” employee training course in December. The course was led by Ben Greene, a “transgender advocate and educator” who discussed “the issues that the transgender community is facing in the world and workforce, and what individuals and organizations can do to create a safe, supportive environment for all people.”
The National Security Agency (NSA) has implemented its own policies on “misgendering,” effectively prohibiting its employees from using biologically correct pronouns when referencing someone who is attempting to change sexes.
“Intentional misgendering shall not be permitted or tolerated,” one 2021 <a href="https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/nsa-css-policies/NSACSS_P_1-78_20210525.pdf?ver=VA4t45iPZ83RG18Hz3NZXA%3D%3D&amp;darkschemeovr=1">document</a> from the NSA reads. The intelligence agency also pledges to “provide transgender and gender identity–awareness training to its workforce in order to promote an inclusive work environment for transgender personnel and to facilitate in the workplace gender-affirmation processes when appropriate.” It also states that the agency will &#8220;establish a Transgender Resource Coordinator&#8221; tasked with &#8220;assisting supervisors and civilian employees in navigating gender affirmation process&#8221; as well as be the agency&#8217;s primary resource for &#8220;transgender-related questions.&#8221;
The NSA also created a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">glossary</a>, exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire, that promoted “gender-neutral” pronouns like “ze” and “zir” and complained of “transmisogyny.”
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LEAKED NSA DOCUMENT📄: We just published a never-before-seen <a href="https://twitter.com/NSAGov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NSAGov</a> “diversity glossary” in my new exclusive investigation with <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realdailywire</a>.
It blames “White Europeans” for “settler colonialism,&quot; attacks &quot;white fragility,&quot; and warns of “transmisogyny.”
THREAD 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/se33D9erP2">pic.twitter.com/se33D9erP2</a>
&mdash; Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst/status/1724807527232385515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The NSA is not the only institution within the intelligence community that has celebrated transgenderism. A diversity newsletter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-show">obtained exclusively</a> by The Daily Wire, featured an article from an anonymous agent who claimed that crossdressing made him a “better intelligence officer.” The ODNI has its own <a href="https://www.odni.gov/files/documents/ICD/ICD_125-Gender-Identity-and-Inclusivity.pdf">policy</a> against “misgendering,” warning that offenders could face disciplinary action. “Intentional and repeated misgendering, including use of the incorrect name, pronoun, honorific, and gender-related language of an individual, could contribute to an unlawful hostile work environment or discrimination claims, and may result in disciplinary action.”
NASA announced similar policies in a 20-page <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/new_gender_transition_guidance_final_tagged.pdf">document</a> titled, “Supporting Gender Transition/Affirmation in the Workplace,” even encouraging employees to report others who use the “incorrect” pronouns to their supervisor.
“Be a good ally,” the document commands. “If you hear or observe a co-worker using an incorrect name or incorrect pronouns after an announcement or request to refer to the transitioning employee by a specific name and with specific pronouns, gently and discreetly correct them or discuss the matter with your supervisor.”
The United States Air Force Academy similarly embraced a policy against so-called misgendering, telling The Daily Wire that &#8220;intentional misgendering may be considered discrimination or harassment under our Equal Opportunity Policies.&#8221;
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BREAKING: The Air Force Academy just told me that &quot;intentional misgendering may be considered discrimination or harassment.&quot;
Our military faces record-low recruitment and the Air Force is enforcing transgender dogma on cadets and just hosted a trans Pentagon official 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/7lyQMce9nW">pic.twitter.com/7lyQMce9nW</a>
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When asked if it is the official stance of the Air Force Academy that men can become women and women can become men, a spokesman responded: “Yes, the U.S. Air Force Academy recognizes that an individual’s internal or personal sense of gender may not match the individual’s assigned sex at birth,” adding that “individuals assigned male at birth may transition to female.”
President Biden has issued multiple executive orders intended to institutionalize the DEI agenda in the federal government, all while former President Donald Trump pledges that he will gut the bureaucracy through <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive orders</a> of his own if he is reelected.
“We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> his plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”
Biden recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-moves-to-strengthen-bureaucrat-protections-as-trump-pledges-to-gut-administrative-state">implemented a policy</a> intended to strengthen civil service protections enjoyed by federal bureaucrats, making them more difficult to fire.
Trump is charging ahead with his plan to fire federal bureaucrats, with his allies at the Heritage Foundation’s <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> assembling a personnel database to take the place of outgoing bureaucrats who’ve pushed the far-Left agenda.

Biden with Trans Flag

How The Biden Admin Enables Government Employees To Change Genders

Biden

Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

The Biden administration’s National Science Foundation (NSF) is dumping more than $2 million in taxpayer funds to back efforts aimed at diversifying marine biology and climate science, deriding the fields as “some of the least diverse STEM disciplines.”
The <a href="https://new.nsf.gov/about">NSF</a>, which controls $9.9 billion of federal money and exists to “promote the progress of science,” “advance the national health,” and “secure the national defense,” is backing four different universities engaged in the study aimed at diversifying the two scientific disciplines.
“The program supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and workforce,” the <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_2314915_4900">program description</a> reads. The study seeks to discover how to develop “equity-driven and anti-racist educational collaborations, infrastructures, and pathways” to implement in the scientific fields, with a specific focus on “BIPOC storytelling and standpoint centering.”
“We are focused on advancing change in structures and sociocultural practices in MCS that can improve their racial equity outcomes,” said Chrystal George Mwangi, an Associate Professor at George Mason University and the principal investigator behind the study. The three-year long study, which began in September of 2023 and will conclude in August of 2026, seeks to build “a replicable and scalable model for equity-centered support in STEM collaborations”
The study claims that the climate and culture in marine and climate sciences “have been identified as actively contributing to the low participation and retention of BIPOC individuals in the disciplines and their disparate academic and professional outcomes, through gatekeeping, professional barriers, and other obstacles.”
George Mason University in Virginia is the <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_2314915_4900">biggest recipient</a> of government funding for this effort and is slated to receive a whopping $1.2 million to back the DEI program. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Temple University <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_2314918_4900">comes in second</a> and will receive $400,000, while the University of South Carolina will receive <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_2314917_4900">another $375,000</a> from the NSF. Another $327,000 will be given to Salem State University in Massachusetts to fund the DEI effort.
The Biden administration’s NSF is not content with only diversifying marine biology and climate science, however. <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_2237564_4900">Another $323,000</a> will be allocated to Florida International University to “transform engineering classrooms towards racial equity,” a project description explains. “In general, engineering professors are not engaging as active change agents for racial equity in their own classroom,” the grant proposal bemoans, adding that the effort, which will include DEI training for professors, hopes to have a “substantial impact on the formation and professionalization of black, latinx, and indigenous engineers.”
The Daily Wire recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-to-drop-1-million-to-study-latina-resistance-and-intra-minority-solidarity">reported</a> that the Biden administration’s NSF pledged to allocate nearly $500,000 to a study on “Latina resistance” at “predominantly white institutions” as well as over $600,000 to back a study on “intra minority solidarity.”
The NSF is far from the only agency within the Biden administration that has embraced far-left ideologies on race and gender. Millions of taxpayer dollars have been allocated to highly ideological DEI efforts as the Biden administration has worked to embed leftwing ideology throughout the government through <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive orders</a>.
Daily Wire investigations found that the Department of Defense, for example, spent as much as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-pentagon-slated-to-spend-nearly-270-million-on-diversity-agenda">$270 million</a> on DEI efforts over the course of three years while the State Department spent at least <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-state-department-forced-to-disclose-multi-million-dollar-cost-of-bidens-diversity-agenda">$77 million</a> taxpayer dollars on DEI initiatives in 2022 and 2023. The Daily Wire also obtained a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">DEI glossary</a> from the NSA that included terms like “white fragility,” “queer theory,” and “settler colonialism.”
The National Science Foundation does not appear to be the only agency preoccupied with diversity in marine biology. The Daily Wire recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-celebrates-trans-day-of-visibility-by-screening-movie-pushing-for-more-queer-marine-biologists">revealed</a> that the Department of the Interior, tasked with the management and conservation of federal land, screened a documentary on queer representation in marine biology in honor of transgender day of visibility.
Former President Donald Trump has pledged that he will gut the federal bureaucracy through executive orders of his own which aim to remove civil service protections from bureaucrats who occupy a position that impacts policymaking. “We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> the plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”
Biden hopes to preempt this move and recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-moves-to-strengthen-bureaucrat-protections-as-trump-pledges-to-gut-administrative-state">implemented a policy</a> intended to strengthen the civil service protections enjoyed by federal bureaucrats. Trump and his allies are still preparing to gut the bureaucracy, however, with the Heritage Foundation’s <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> assembling a personnel database to take the place of outgoing bureaucrats.

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Biden Admin To Spend Over $2 Million To Diversify Marine Biology, Climate Science

The Biden campaign recently announced that it is hiring a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) director who will be responsible for the campaign’s DEI strategy and receive a salary of up to $120,000.
The role, recently <a href="https://www.daybook.com/jobs/pZ6LgARxLuHKrkAAN">advertised online</a>, will pay between $95,000 and $120,000, with the director being responsible for DEI strategy and programming on the Biden campaign, educating staff on the topic and even influencing hiring practices.
“The DEI Director will focus on creating and executing a comprehensive strategy to attract and support diverse talent to further the campaign’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion,” the job listing reads. “They will also be responsible for upskilling and further educating campaign staff around DEI.”
The Biden campaign’s DEI director will also be responsible for implementing “DEI-focused workshops for management and other staffers in service of educating and upskilling campaign staff on the DEI space and specific initiatives,” as well as managing and reporting “on the campaign’s diversity efforts, leveraging best in class tools including developing an internal dashboard to support data analysis and reporting.”
The position will also have direct influence on the campaign’s hiring decisions, with the DEI director being tasked with reviewing “hiring practices and outcomes to ensure diverse talent is represented and successful in candidacy at all levels of the campaign.”
The Biden campaign’s decision to hire a DEI director comes as the Democratic incumbent has ordered the federal bureaucracy to embrace the leftwing agenda and institutionalize it throughout the federal workforce’s policies. Biden signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive order</a> in 2021, called the “Executive Order on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce,” that formalized the presence of the ideology within the administrative state.
Former President Donald Trump has since pledged to gut the administrative state by re-issuing an executive order called Schedule F, which would remove civil service protections from bureaucrats who occupy a position that impacts policymaking. “We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> the plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”

Biden speech

Biden Campaign To Hire DEI Director With Up To $120k Salary

Biden Campaign

Diversity

The National Science Foundation (NSF), the government agency tasked with promoting scientific progress, will allocate over a million taxpayer dollars to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to study Latina resistance and “intraminority solidarity.”
The <a href="https://new.nsf.gov/about">NSF</a>, which controls $9.9 billion of federal money and exists to “promote the progress of science,” “advance the national health,” and “secure the national defense,” <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_2247636_4900">pledged $498,271</a> to a three-year study at Loyola University Maryland focused on “Latinas resistance behaviors in engineering programs at predominantly white institutions” as part of its broader diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda.
It <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_2314179_4900">granted another $618,465</a> to support a study at the University of Washington centered around “promoting intraminority solidarity,” particularly looking into “how different framings of racism influence Asian Americans’ intraminority solidarity with Black Americans.”
An agency spokesman defended the studies to The Daily Wire, saying the projects are both &#8220;worthy of support.&#8221;
&#8220;Each proposal submitted to the U.S. National Science Foundation is reviewed by science and engineering experts well-versed in their discipline or field of expertise,&#8221; the spokesman said. “All proposals submitted to NSF are reviewed according to two merit review criteria: Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts. These awards reflect NSF&#8217;s statutory mission and have been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation&#8217;s intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.”
The stated goal of the Latina resistance study is centered around &#8220;oppressive&#8221; structures in society.
“The disparities in [Latinas’] engineering access and attainment are the result of historically oppressive racist and sexist structures embedded in STEM space that perpetuate sexism and racism,” the <a href="https://ecrhub.org/ecr-projects?id=2247636">description</a> of the federally-funded study claims. “Guided by a combination of LatCrit theory of resistance, intersectionality, and cultural wealth model (CWM), the goal of this project is to investigate how Latinas choose to engage in various resistance behaviors.&#8221;
“This project aims to investigate how Latinas choose to engage in various resistance behaviors in different engineering cultures and campus climates and how these different cultures and campus climates influence their resistance,” the description goes on to add. The funding will specifically be <a href="https://www.loyola.edu/news/2023/0605-nsf-grant.html">granted</a> to Qi Shi, the Director of the university&#8217;s Center for Equity, Leadership, and Social Justice in Education. Shi did not respond to a request for comment.
The other study, on &#8220;intraminority solidarity,&#8221; is aimed at analyzing &#8220;allyship&#8221; between minority groups.
“It explores whether framing racism against Black Americans as the result of anti-Blackness increases Asian Americans’ sense of solidarity with Black Americans, compared to framing racism as the result of White supremacy,” a <a href="https://psych.uw.edu/news/3202">description</a> of the <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_2314179_4900">project</a> explains. “Understanding how different framings for intergroup conflict affect allyship from members of other minority groups is important for building a more comprehensive understanding of intergroup relations.”
The grant went to Sapna Cheryan, a <a href="https://psych.uw.edu/people/2373">professor</a> at the University of Washington&#8217;s Department of Psychology. Cheryan did not respond to a request for comment.
The two studies are just a small sampling of the DEI efforts that’ve been funded by the federal government. The Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is set to spend nearly $800,000 to study the effect of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-to-spend-nearly-800k-to-study-effects-of-structural-racism-on-kidney-health">“structural racism” on kidney health</a>, utilizing “critical health praxis” to apply an “anti-racism lens” to the field of health. The HHS has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-government-to-spend-700k-on-trans-inclusive-sex-ed-for-14-year-olds">funded</a> “an inclusive teen pregnancy program for transgender boys” to the tune of nearly $700,000 taxpayer dollars. The program intends to “reduce internalized transphobia” and affirm the gender identity of children as young as 14 years old.
Millions of taxpayer dollars have been allocated to highly ideological DEI efforts as the Biden administration has worked to embed leftwing ideology throughout the government through <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive orders</a>.
Former President Donald Trump has pledged that he will gut the federal bureaucracy through executive orders of his own which aim to remove civil service protections from bureaucrats who occupy a position that impacts policymaking. “We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> the plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”
Biden hopes to preempt this move and recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-moves-to-strengthen-bureaucrat-protections-as-trump-pledges-to-gut-administrative-state">implemented a policy</a> intended to strengthen the civil service protections enjoyed by federal bureaucrats. Trump and his allies are still preparing to gut the bureaucracy, however, with the Heritage Foundation’s <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> assembling a personnel database to take the place of outgoing bureaucrats.

Mexican Flag, Protest

Biden Admin To Drop $1 Million To Study Latina Resistance And ‘Intra Minority Solidarity’

The below story is the first part of a series on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence&#8217;s DEI newsletter, &#8220;The Dive.&#8221;
Agents at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and throughout the intelligence community were distributed a newsletter that celebrated an intelligence official for crossdressing, saying that dressing up in women’s clothes makes him “a better intelligence officer,” according to an <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/714636299-READ-ODNI-Newsletter-States-Crossdressing-Makes-Man-Better-Intelligence-Officer.pdf">internal document</a> obtained by The Daily Wire. 
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence sent its internal newsletter, called “The Dive” and obtained by The Daily Wire through a Freedom of Information Act request, to personnel across the entire Intelligence Community. Featured in the newsletter was an article by an anonymous official claiming that crossdressing makes him a better intelligence officer.
&#8220;I am an intelligence officer, and I am a man who likes to wear women’s clothes sometimes,&#8221; the article, titled “My Gender Identity and Expression Make Me a Better Intelligence Officer,” states in its opening line. The author goes on to argue that his decision to crossdress “merits attention given the climate of discussion around the topic and where it sits in the larger conversation about gender identity and expression and professional appearance.”
The unclassified newsletter, which specifies on each page that it is &#8220;for official use only&#8221; and &#8220;not cleared for public release,&#8221; was released to The Daily Wire last week, though information such as names of authors are redacted throughout. It was created by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence&#8217;s IC Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Office and sent to the entire Intelligence Community.
The ODNI is a <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are/leadership/director-of-national-intelligence">cabinet-level agency</a> overseeing the rest of the IC, including the CIA, FBI, NSA, and intelligence components in each branch of the military. The newsletter comes as both the Intelligence Community and the wider federal bureaucracy have institutionalized the DEI agenda throughout their practices under the Biden administration, all while Trump prepares to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-presidency-schedule-f-federal-employees">gut the administrative state</a> if he returns to the White House.
“I think my experiences as someone who crossdresses have sharpened the skills I use as an intelligence officer,” the anonymous intelligence officer claims, going on to say he is now &#8220;more aware of, and hopefully more supportive of, my women colleagues.” He expands on the point, saying that he has a “better appreciation for how it can be uncomfortable to wear women’s clothes sometimes.&#8221;
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&#8220;I know firsthand how wearing heels can make your feet hurt and make it take longer to walk somewhere,” he says.
The anonymous intelligence officer also admits that crossdressing in the workplace causes a distraction within the intelligence office, but he pleads that those around him will grow more supportive of his choice to wear women’s clothes.
“When I crossdress it still distracts people, even though it is professional,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;It is my hope that we can learn to accept a wider range of gender identities and expressions.&#8221;
The anonymous intelligence official went into even greater depth on his crossdressing habits. “Although I like wearing a bra, I know it isn’t comfortable for everyone, and is less comfortable after a few hours,” the stunning document from the office of the United States’ most powerful intelligence official reads. “On top of the biases that women often face at work, it must be hard to be uncomfortable too.”
He even went on to claim that crossdressing also makes him a better ally for those who identify as “LGBTQIA+,” saying that “everyone is better off if they can bring their whole self to work. I definitely felt that, and now have supportive allies.” The official goes on to say, “I am part of a community that is not the majority and sometimes feel discriminated against.”
The intelligence officer also praised an <a href="https://www.odni.gov/files/documents/ICD/ICD_125-Gender-Identity-and-Inclusivity.pdf">ODNI directive</a> mandating that the intelligence community hold an annual transgender awareness training and requiring intelligence officials to use the “chosen name” and pronouns of colleagues who identify as the opposite sex.
He also discussed how crossdressing relates to gender more broadly. “It is challenging for some people to understand crossdressing, and non-binary or genderfluid people because gender is a part of overall identity,” the officer writes. “Many of us think of our identities as fixed, and some find this approach to gender threatening to their own identity.”
The author explains the difference between crossdressing and drag performances, the latter of which he says is “performative and traditionally associated with gay male culture” before pointing out that “crossdressing can be part of the journey of transgender people as they begin to affirm their true identity, but cross dressing is deliberately choosing to dress like the gender you aren’t.”
In addition to empowering him as an ally, the author says that his experience as a crossdresser has made him “better at understanding clandestine assets and their motivations” and “at understanding foreign actors.”
An ODNI spokeswoman confirmed that the newsletter was sent out to every element of the Intelligence Community.
“The IC Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (<a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are/organizations/339-about/organization/diversity-equity-and-inclusion">IC DEIA</a>) Office manages the IC&#8217;s efforts to build a diverse and inclusive workforce, and as part of their work, they distribute The Dive, a quarterly magazine, to each IC element&#8217;s DEIA office and/or Equal Employment Opportunity office,” the spokeswoman told The Daily Wire.
The quarterly newsletter is an effort to &#8220;enlighten readers,&#8221; it explains.
“We seek to engage with officers across the IC, enlighten readers about advancements in DEIA, and empower every employee to speak their truth,” the end of the newsletter reads. “We have four teams: Analysis and Assessments, Communications and Branding, Outreach and Education, Strategy and Policy,” the IC DEIA Office went on to explain.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence and combat-decorated U.S. Army veteran who fought in the elite Green Berets, said the newsletter is another example of misplaced priorities.
“The world is on fire and our country faces unprecedented terrorist threats with an open southern border yet ODNI is prioritizing this?&#8221; Waltz told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Our intelligence officers should be 100% focused on preventing the next 9/11 rather than using resources promoting the next DEI initiative.”
The ODNI newsletter is the latest example of the United States Intelligence Community advancing far-left ideologies. The National Security Agency (NSA) published an internal DEI glossary, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">exclusively obtained</a> by The Daily Wire, that included terms like “white fragility,” “transmisogyny,” “settler colonialism,” and even the gender neutral pronouns of “ze” and “zir.”
Other federal agencies have poured millions of taxpayer funds into DEI initiatives, with the Pentagon spending as much as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-pentagon-slated-to-spend-nearly-270-million-on-diversity-agenda">$270 million</a> under Biden to advance the leftwing agenda. There’s also the State Department, which the Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-state-department-forced-to-disclose-multi-million-dollar-cost-of-bidens-diversity-agenda">exclusively revealed</a> had spent over $77 million over two years under Biden on DEI programs, with hundreds of millions more in requests for DEI-related initiatives.
Far-left beliefs on race and gender have been embedded within both the intelligence community and the wider federal government in large part due to executive orders from Biden that sought to institutionalize extreme ideologies into the operations of the federal bureaucracy. Former President Donald Trump has signaled that he may gut the federal bureaucracy through an executive order called Schedule F, which would remove civil services protections from thousands of bureaucrats who threaten to undermine his agenda.
Others are preparing to fill in the gap left by outgoing officials, assembling a personnel database of those who might serve in the next administration through the <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> Presidential Transition Project, an initiative from the Heritage Foundation that seeks to “pave the way for an effective conservative Administration.”
The full article &#8220;My Gender Identity and Expression Make Me a Better Intelligence Officer&#8221; can be <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/714636299-READ-ODNI-Newsletter-States-Crossdressing-Makes-Man-Better-Intelligence-Officer.pdf">read here</a>.

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Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) and Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) sent a <a href="https://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases/tiffany-ogles-demand-answers-bidens-potential-plans-resettle-palestinians" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Department of Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> this week demanding that the Biden administration not let into the U.S. “large numbers of Palestinians.”
The <a href="https://tiffany.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/tiffany.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/gaza_act_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> came as the two introduced the <a href="https://iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&amp;cid=WI07TT&amp;crop=15338QQQ17033760QQQ5347212QQQ7259302&amp;report_id=&amp;redirect=https%3a%2f%2fwww.congress.gov%2fbill%2f118th-congress%2fhouse-bill%2f5959%3fs%3d4%26r%3d1&amp;redir_log=128418084817473" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guaranteeing Aggressors Zero Admission</a> or GAZA Act to ensure that supporters of the terrorist organization Hamas are not allowed into the U.S. as refugees.
“Like many Americans, we are concerned about the possibility that the Biden administration may be mulling plans to bring large numbers of Palestinians into the United States. As you know, at least one Democratic House member has already called for the wide-scale resettlement of Palestinians in American communities,” the Republican lawmakers wrote to Mayorkas.
Tiffany and Ogles said that the GAZA Act was necessary in light of the Hamas terror attacks against Israel that left over 1,400 dead &#8212; including women and children.
While the Biden administration has not announced any plans to fly large numbers of Palestinians out of Gaza, they have not ruled it out yet. Ogles and Tiffany pointed to the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal and mass evacuations that led to large numbers of Afghans entering the U.S. who had not been thoroughly vetted.
“The chaotic resettlement of more than 76,000 Afghans in the wake of the fall of Kabul, for example, resulted in countless Afghans who played no role whatsoever in assisting American forces during the war winding up in the United States. In other cases, we saw Afghans with past criminal convictions – including individuals who had been previously deported – making their way on to evacuation flights, and the resettlement of others who went on to commit appalling crimes ranging from assault to sexual abuse of minors,” the letter said.
The lawmakers say that they do not want the Biden administration to use “categorical parole” to let Palestinians into the U.S. amid Israel’s war with Hamas.
“Mr. Secretary, the American people do not want to see this dangerous situation repeated with Palestinians. Moreover, they deserve more than a vague assurance from a White House spokesman that the Biden administration hasn’t yet identified a legally dubious mechanism to flood American neighborhoods with foreigners from a region that is a global hotspot for Islamic terrorism,” the letter said.
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On Wednesday, Ogles reacted to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-u-s-govt-hired-a-pro-hamas-plo-spokeswoman-to-handle-asylum-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire investigation</a> that found that the U.S. immigration enforcement agency hired a former spokeswoman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and put her in a position to determine who gets to come into the country as an immigrant or “asylum seeker.”
The official, Nejwa Ali, also repeatedly posted pro-Hamas messaging on her social media, writing, “F*** Israel and any Jew who supports Israel&#8221; in the wake of the terrorist attacks.
Ogles <a href="https://twitter.com/RepOgles/status/1714682906260451646" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X: “You can’t make this up. Joe Biden is placing pro-TERRORIST individuals in charge of America’s ASYLUM claims.”

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Douglass Mackey, the creator of a popular pro-Trump Twitter account, has been sentenced to seven months in prison after he was convicted of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elections" target="_blank" rel="noopener">election interference</a> over social media posts.
Mackey <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-trump-memester-found-guilty-of-election-interference" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was accused</a> of a “scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote,” after a Twitter account he ran under the handle “Ricky Vaughn&#8221; posted memes in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election. One image showed a black woman standing in front of an “African Americans for Hillary” sign and said “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”
U.S. District Judge Ann M. Donnelly, an Obama appointee, sentenced Mackey, claiming that his actions were “nothing short of an assault on our democracy,” <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/pro-trump-troll-sentenced-to-seven-months-over-election-day-shenanigans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Courthouse News Service.
“Voting is the right that secures all other rights we hold dear,” Department of Justice Attorney Erik David Paulsen said Wednesday. “They were committing fraud, one that was aimed at one of our most sacred rights in our democracy.”
Mackey was charged one week after President Joe Biden assumed office and roughly four years after the 2016 election. The Justice Department claimed that Mackey had conspired to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” people from exercising their right to vote. Prosecutors said that he and others had “intended variously to provoke, mislead, and, in some cases, deceive voters in the 2016 presidential election” with their posts.
The Justice Department said that Mackey had worked with other influential Twitter users between September 2016 and November 2016 to “disseminate fraudulent messages” which persuaded voters for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to cast their ballots via phone or social media. According to the government, some 4,900 people texted the number, but it’s unclear how many people, if anyone, fell for the meme and did not cast the vote they intended to cast; or were merely participating in the joke.
James Lawrence, an attorney for Mackey, previously said in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-doj-trying-to-lock-up-a-pro-trump-meme-maker-for-ten-years-heres-what-you-need-to-know">interview</a> with The Daily Wire that his memes were satirical and were therefore not relevant to the law he purportedly violated. Mackey faced as many as 10 years in prison.
Mackey lawyer Andrew Frisch said that prison time was unnecessary, while Paulesen said it was needed to “send a message to the general public.”
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Prosecutors also took aim at Mackey for derogatory posts he had made toward black people and women, but Donnely said her sentence did not have to do with his political beliefs. “You are not being sentenced for your political beliefs or for expressing those beliefs,” she said.
As Mackey was prosecuted, some conservatives have pointed to a <a href="https://twitter.com/mskristinawong/status/795999059987173377?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> made by comedian Kristina Wong urging Trump supporters to vote by text or on Wednesday, the day after the 2016 election. Wong, who was wearing a MAGA hat and had Trump signs in the back of the video, never faced any consequences for her video.
In an opinion piece for National Review, former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/the-justice-departments-ridiculous-voter-disinformation-prosecution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contended</a> that Mackey’s right to free speech had been violated in a politically motivated case by the Biden administration. “It’s a three-fer: the prosecutorial creation of a crime Congress has not prescribed, the trivialization of civil-rights law, and the intrusion of government as a monitor of political speech.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-doj-trying-to-lock-up-a-pro-trump-meme-maker-for-ten-years-heres-what-you-need-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden DOJ Trying To Lock Up A Pro-Trump Meme Maker For Ten Years. Here&#8217;s What You Need To Know. </a>

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A twice deported<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> illegal alien</a> from Honduras was charged with murder in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee</a> after a man was found in a burnt out vehicle in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nashville" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nashville</a>. 
Kevin Castro-Garcia was <a href="https://www.nashville.gov/departments/police/news/arrest-homicide-man-found-burned-vehicle-franklin-limestone-road" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> in the murder of 37-year-old Elmer Nahum Miranda-Martinez whose body police said they found in the trunk of a car that had been set on fire in a “wooded area” in Nashville. On Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-new-orleans-places-detainer-twice-removed-twice-charged-homicide-suspect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that they had placed an immigration detainer on Castro-Garcia. 
“This unlawfully present Honduran national is a threat to the safety of our local communities. He is a gang member with Sur 13, a transnational criminal organization. ERO New Orleans will pursue all possible criminal and administrative avenues to see that he is prosecuted and removed from our local community,” said ERO New Orleans Field Office Director Mellissa Harper in a statement. “ERO has removed him twice from the United States and yet he continues to choose to violate our laws. Castro-Garcia must answer for his continued disregard for the laws of this country.”
The detainer will require state or local law enforcement to notify ICE before releasing Castro-Garcia from custody. He is currently being held in Davidson County Jail. 
Castro-Garcia was first encountered by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in June 2002 near Laredo, Texas, when he was about 10-years-old, according to an ICE email sent to The Daily Wire. Days later he was released into his parents&#8217; custody by Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
Three years later, a judge in Texas ruled that Castro-Garcia be deported from the U.S. after he did not show up to a removal hearing, ICE said. 
It was not until five years later, in October 2010, that the ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations) New Orleans Fugitive team in Nashville, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) located and arrested Castro-Garcia. 
Castro-Garcia was identified as a member of the “Sur 13” gang and affiliated with “Surenos Locos Criminales” before he was then sent back to Honduras in November 2010.
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In October 2018, Border Patrol again arrested Castro-Garcia at the border, this time near Hidalgo, Texas, where he was again ordered to be deported. In March 2019, ICE again flew Castro-Garcia back to Honduras.
At some point later, Castro-Garcia entered the U.S. illegally for a third time, but ICE says it does not know when or where he entered. 
On September 27, the body of Miranda-Martinez was found in a smoldering car by a worker looking to clear brush. An affidavit from MNPD says that a source had told them that Castro-Garcia had said he committed the murder. 
The arrest comes as Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/crime/twice-deported-gang-member-charged-in-mysterious-case-of-burned-body-discovered-in-smoldering-car/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a complaint against DHS and ICE over reported plans from the Biden administration to release illegal immigrants into Tennessee.

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The Biden administration slammed Hamas&#8217; propaganda tactics after the terrorist organization released its first video of a hostage taken from Israel. 
The one-minute clip posted to Telegram by Hamas shows a woman 21-year-old French-Israeli woman who was abducted during Hamas’ attack on a music festival in southern Israel. The woman identified by her family as Mia Schem spoke to the camera and pleaded for her safe return home, claiming Hamas was taking care of her. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, however, said that Hamas is using Schem for &#8220;propaganda&#8221; in an attempt to convince the watching world that they are treating hostages humanely. 
“There’s no question in my mind that that woman gave that video testimony under duress, probably forced to do it,” Kirby <a href="https://www.today.com/video/inside-president-biden-s-high-stakes-trip-to-israel-195778629774" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> TODAY host Savannah Guthrie. “It’s a propaganda video much more than it is proof of life or, certainly, proof of concept for Hamas. It’s despicable, deplorable that they would take these hostages and then advertise how well they’re treating them when they’re the ones who hurt them in the first place.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1714028835916652675">statement</a> about the video, saying Hamas attempts to “portray themselves as humane” but in reality, “are a horrific terrorist organization responsible for the murder and abduction of babies, children, men, women and the elderly.” 
While Hamas has attempted to demonize Israel for airstrikes on military targets in the Gaza Strip, the terrorist group has threatened to kill Israeli hostages if certain conditions are not met in the ongoing war. Hamas initially said it took &#8220;dozens&#8221; of hostages in its October 7 attack on Israel, but now the terrorists <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hamas-says-it-holds-200-hostages-other-factions-have-about-50-ground-op-doesnt-scare-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> they have around 250 hostages. Hamas claims to be keeping close track of the civilians killed in the Gaza Strip, but it&#8217;s not as concerned with knowing the exact number of Israeli and American hostages. A Hamas spokesman claimed that &#8220;security and practical difficulties&#8221; prevent them from getting a specific count of the hostages.
In the hostage video, Schem is seen getting a large scar on her arm bandaged, saying that her captors operated on her injured arm for three hours after taking her to the Gaza Strip.
“I was [at] a party. I was badly injured in my arm. They took me to Gaza. They performed a 3-hour surgery to my arm. They took care of me, treated me, provided medicine to me. Everything is fine,” Schem said before pleading for her release. 
“I am just asking them to return me home as soon as possible,” she continued. “To my family, father, mother, and siblings. Please, get us out of here as soon as you can.” 
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Hamas Islamist terrorists have released video of an injured Israeli hostage Mia Schem from Gaza.
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Last week, Mia Schem&#39;s family was informed by IDF officials that Mia had been adbucted.
IDF representatives are in continuous contact with the family.
The IDF is… <a href="https://t.co/nHG587QtF4">pic.twitter.com/nHG587QtF4</a>
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Schem was with hundreds of other young people at the Tribe of Nova music festival on October 7 when Hamas terrorists brutally slaughtered around 250 of the festival attendees and took dozens of others captive back to the Gaza Strip. Video footage of the attack at the festival showed terrorists searching for Israelis to murder and executing young men and women at point-blank range. 
The IDF estimates that Hamas is currently holding <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/israeli-military-199-hostages-held-gaza-higher-previous-104004144">nearly 200 hostages</a> in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military prepares a ground operation to free the hostages and take out Hamas terrorists who continue to threaten Israel. 
“Last week, Mia was abducted by Hamas,” the IDF said. “IDF officials have since informed Mia’s family and are in continuous contact with them. … At this time, we are deploying all intelligence and operational measures for the return of all hostages—including Mia.” 
Schem’s mother spoke at a press conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, pleading with world leaders to ensure her daughter’s safe return. 
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“I ask world leaders that my daughter be returned to us in the state that she is today, as well as the other hostages,” Karen Schem said, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/16/hamas-releases-video-of-israeli-woman-group-is-holding-hostage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>. “I am begging the world to return my baby to me.”
“It is a crime against humanity. All together we need to stop this terror,” she added. 
Karen Schem didn’t know if her daughter was alive until she saw the hostage video, and said that Mia “looks terrified.” 
“She says what they tell her to say. I’m really worried about her,” Karen Schem added.

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