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I wasn’t trying to desert. As a storyteller and special education (SpEd) teacher, more kid whisperer than liberal hack, I was sickened by my St. Paul, Minnesota bosses at Como Park High School cutting programming for vulnerable kids while blood, fights, and prostitution spread. In one Facebook post on February 29, 2016, about school iPads being used for bullying, drugs, fights, and whoring, I freaked parents out and wrecked my career.
I was patient zero in the oncoming race-plague that peaked with George Floyd’s death and the Summer of Love and ended with millions of dollars of destruction, thousands of reputations ruined, and the cruel deaths of people during what Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez so flippantly referred to as “Woke 1.”
Every year since I started teaching in 1999, the district has poured tax dollars into problems and failed. My boss called kids “scholars” and cut their programming minutes in 2012; cut my minutes; cut adult living skills like learning their Social Security numbers, using deodorant, and riding the bus; administrators dropped them into algebra when they couldn’t subtract, into analyzing “Raisin in the Sun” when they couldn’t read. Kids were bullied, scared, crying at me to do something, and those who didn’t started fights.
I wrote to my boss in 2014 about illegal placement and bullying; she told me to get with it, or she would “find someone who would,” meaning fire me; I wrote to the union and school board in 2015; there was a forest fire coming, and no one smelled the smoke. I wrote to parent social groups. But what parent would speak up for their “special,” slow child?
In a December 2015 SpEd meeting, I heard a colleague tell another that the whole Como Park football team lined up in a train for $10 blowjobs on school property. This was in the midst of Como making TV news too often because of police calls, guns in lockers, and riots.
I found myself caught in a shocking crunch. I asked on Facebook if someone would show me this “school-to-prison pipeline?” I warned parents that we had no recourse with fights, drugs, and “whoring,” and they freaked out. It was horrifying. Rather than confront the truth of my questions, they labeled me a racist and a white supremacist.
Security took my laptop, keys, and badge and marched me to the parking lot, and my life was immediately turned upside down.
Television, radio, and social media went insane. Fox and CBS called. Radio stations asked my brother for my contact information. Friends in Italy asked if I was okay. At home, I shut off the lights and closed the shades. My union lawyer, Meg Luger, called my fiction stories racist, and gagged me. Police offered protection from cars slow-rolling my house. My wife left to care for her dying mom. I had to shop at midnight. Friends and family who first supported me have long since unfriended and blocked me. The only leftist friends remaining I can count on one hand. Meanwhile, conservatives welcomed me despite my liberal leanings.
After 250 applications, I found three more teaching jobs and was fired from each one. At the last school where I worked, a state union leader spotted me in Grand Marais, 250 miles from home, squinted, and said, “I know you from somewhere.” Three weeks later I was fired, despite good job reviews. Minnesota pulled my license in 2019, but though I fought it and got it reinstated, I couldn’t work anymore. I was dead.
I didn’t mean to desert, but I left the Left. Then I wandered the woods eyeing tree branches for rope to hang myself, and might have, were it not for a reticent therapist and a job counselor who said she’d found jobs for paroled murderers and pedophiles.
Now, I’m fine. New York Times reporter Sabrina Tavernise spent over three hours in 2019 buying pizza and interviewing me, but none of it made the paper or The Daily. It’s history; Woke 1.
Except that Chauntyll Allen, the Black Lives Matter leader and school board member who called me racist in 2016, now faces federal felony charges for storming Cities Church during the ICE surge in January, and in June, called for dogs to “piss on white corpses” in “white Christian cemeteries.” When I confronted her last month, she invoked the memories of Melissa Hortman, the former DFL Speaker of the Minnesota House, and her husband Mark, and asked if I hadn’t harassed them, too, before they were murdered.
So, what are we to do when Rep. Ocasio-Cortez appears on ABC’s “This Week” and says, “<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6026317-aoc-reflects-on-woke-era/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6026317-aoc-reflects-on-woke-era/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788389997119000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2z7ZujSWV18T3abE2ImKxl">Woke 1 was crazy</a>,” laughing off 2020, while she supports the insane policies to <a href="https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-aoc-34-members-urge-biden-reform-immigration-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-aoc-34-members-urge-biden-reform-immigration-policies&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788389997119000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2jIEkHL6Xc766erCYr8Edn">decriminalize illegal immigration</a>, <a href="https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/in-the-news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-was-asked-about-defunding-police-and-her-answer-went" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/in-the-news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-was-asked-about-defunding-police-and-her-answer-went&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788389997119000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2jbNeNrLEAp9ajwFpxHT7r">defund police</a>, and <a href="https://youtu.be/VrFALy_NxDk?is=J9PbIJYOHRczScCR" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/VrFALy_NxDk?is%3DJ9PbIJYOHRczScCR&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788389997119000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3Jk-3q_9sFHfblVZjNtKyo">let kids medically switch genders</a>? It’s not funny to let criminal immigrants walk free, not funny to take cops off the streets in poor neighborhoods, not funny to permanently mutilate healthy girls and boys.
Wokeness was deadly when antiracist lecturer <a href="https://www.hrreporter.com/focus-areas/compensation-and-benefits/school-principal-takes-own-life-after-alleged-bullying-by-anti-racism-trainer/378345" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hrreporter.com/focus-areas/compensation-and-benefits/school-principal-takes-own-life-after-alleged-bullying-by-anti-racism-trainer/378345&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788389997119000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Z4pvNuEdX8rBEZJQ-4ACr">Kike Ojo-Thompson</a> repeatedly mocked liberal Toronto Principal Richard Bilkszto until he leaped to his death off a building ledge. It wasn’t funny when NBC’s Minnesota affiliate Kare 11 News leaked an email to Minneapolis police, got worker <a href="https://libcom.org/article/al-ditty-working-class-hero" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://libcom.org/article/al-ditty-working-class-hero&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788389997119000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ls1aikedwXlajjt_x7K-z">Al Ditty fired, and he hung himself</a>. It was not funny when I looked for the right tree branch to hang myself neatly.
In the blink of an eye, my life and the lives of countless others were destroyed by a season of horror and destruction. It bears remembering how “crazy” that time was, and only the foolish or the cruel would rewrite that history to absolve themselves of responsibility.
In 2016 I lost my job, reputation, livelihood, and for a time, my will to live. In 2016, AOC was 26 and pouring drinks. She still should be.
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Theodore Olson is a writer and former special education teacher living in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive who pulled off a stunning upset over the summer’s socialist surge, has blamed systemic racism for police shootings, opposed legislation to protect law enforcement, and declared Wisconsin the worst place in America to raise a black child.
In August 2020, Crowley went all-in on the Black Lives Matter narrative surrounding the domestic disturbance call that ended with the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake. The then-29-year-old, who had a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sex-assault-charge-against-jacob-blake-dropped-in-plea-deal-feminists-silent?author=Ashe+Schow&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Sex+Assault+Charge+Against+Jacob+Blake+Dropped+In+Plea+Deal%2C+Feminists+Silent">felony warrant out for his arrest</a>, was armed with a knife and was attempting to get into the driver’s seat of an SUV when he was shot seven times, triggering widespread unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and setting the stage for the later acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.
“Make no mistake, Blake’s wounds are the result of systemic racism, the policies and practices that entangle our institutions and produce racially disparate outcomes, regardless of the intentions of the people who work within them,” Crowley <a href="https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/milwaukee-county-executive-david-crowley-statement-on-kenosha-shooting/">said</a>. “It’s the reason why Wisconsin is ranked as the worst place to raise a black child, why child poverty in the Black community is markedly higher compared to their white counterparts, and why Milwaukee County ranks as 71st healthiest county out of 72 counties in the state.”
Crowley also connected the death of George Floyd to a public health emergency. 
“In the midst of a pandemic that has already taken such a toll on people of color, the death of George Floyd is another untenable example of how racism is the real public health crisis our community is facing,” he <a href="https://county.milwaukee.gov/EN/County-Executive/News/Press-Releases/Milwaukee-County-Executive-David-Crowley-Responds-to-Death-of-George-Floyd">said</a>. &#8220;These injustices will not go away until we acknowledge and address the hundreds of years of racism that brought us here.” 
In the summer of 2020, Crowley celebrated former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest, suggesting professional sports should grind to a halt until the country achieved racial justice.
“4 years ago,<a href="https://x.com/Kaepernick7"> @Kaepernick7</a> took a stand against systemic racism &amp; police brutality. Make no mistake, it&#8217;s because of his sacrifice that we are witnessing this unprecedented response from our nation&#8217;s sports. Thank you to all who sacrifice in the name of equality. <a href="https://x.com/hashtag/NoJusticeNoGames?src=hashtag_click">#NoJusticeNoGames</a>,” <a href="https://x.com/DavidCrowleyWI/status/1298981799561895945?s=20">he wrote on X.</a> 
Before the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-burned-cities-for-george-floyd-they-buried-henry-nowak">so-called &#8220;summer of love</a>&#8221; in 2020, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee also opposed &#8220;<a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/04/20/crowley-why-blue-lives-matter-wrong-our-communities/100708258/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=true&amp;gca-epti=z116547e1170xxv116547d--72--b--72--&amp;gca-ft=182&amp;gca-ds=sophi">Blue Lives Matter</a>&#8220; legislation that would’ve added law enforcement officers to the state&#8217;s hate crime protected categories, <a href="https://x.com/DavidCrowleyWI/status/855435824179097602?s=20">saying</a> the proposal “only furthers the divide between the urban communities and police that serve them.”
Decision Desk HQ called the race early Wednesday morning for Crowley, who re-entered the contest only weeks before the primary and earned the backing of outgoing Democratic Governor Tony Evers. With nearly all votes in, Crowley leads his socialist rival, who called to cancel Thanksgiving and abolish the U.S. Senate, by a little over 3,000 votes. 
Hong, a dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, significantly underperformed in white working-class parts of the state and failed to generate the margins she needed in deep-blue college towns like Madison. The leftist made waves by repeatedly trashing American holidays and questioning her connection to “whiteness” through her white ex-husband and their biracial son. 
“My proximity to whiteness continues, right. … My son is biracial. He’s half white, half Korean, and I think navigating what his identity is and how people perceive him is always at the back of my mind,” Hong previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/francesca-hong-is-the-wisconsin-commie-candidate-drinking-all-the-resentment-kool-aid">said</a>. 
Tuesday’s results mark a major victory for the Democratic establishment, which mounted an 11th-hour effort to slam the brakes on the party’s rebellious socialist surge. Now, Crowley faces a more difficult task: shedding the establishment label that turns off the party’s left flank while holding onto enough independents to take down Republican nominee Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI).
In the final stretch of the campaign, Crowley <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/david-crowley-stuns-socialist-frontrunner-in-wisconsin-dem-governor-primary?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire+News&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=David+Crowley+Stuns+Socialist+Frontrunner+In+Wisconsin+Dem+Governor+Primary">rejected the establishment</a> attack as a racial slur.
“I’m trying to figure out who the establishment is, right? I think that when we talk about the establishment, I don’t know who that is. I’m a kid that grew up in 53206 zip code. My parents was drug addicts and suffered from mental health,” he <a href="about:blank">told</a> reporters. “So when people try to call me the establishment, I look at that as a slur, particularly as an African American candidate.” 
“That’s my foundation. That’s what I’m going to continue to do as a county executive, and what I’m going to do as the governor of Wisconsin,” he added.

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Conservative activist Robby Starbuck, an American producer and director, is raising new concerns about Harley-Davidson&#8217;s commitment to abandoning diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, arguing that the iconic motorcycle maker&#8217;s new CEO has a long history of supporting such programs.
Starbuck published <a href="https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/2062167155882303663">research</a> on Wednesday examining Harley-Davidson CEO Artie Starrs, who <a href="https://investor.harley-davidson.com/news/news-details/2025/Harley-Davidson-Appoints-Artie-Starrs-as-President-and-Chief-Executive-Officer/default.aspx">took over the company in October 2025, </a>roughly a year after Harley-Davidson backed away from DEI policies following significant consumer backlash.
According to Starbuck, Starrs promoted DEI initiatives during previous leadership roles at Topgolf and Pizza Hut and later hired a chief brand officer with a similar background.
Harley-Davidson announced in 2024 that it would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harley-davidson-becomes-latest-company-to-back-away-from-dei-policies">scale back</a> several DEI-related initiatives after facing criticism from customers and activists. The company said at the time that it would focus on its core business and customer base.
Starbuck argues that Starrs&#8217; record raises questions about whether the company is truly moving away from those policies.
While Starrs was CEO at Topgolf from 2021 to 2025, the company maintained employee resource groups and public initiatives supporting LGBT causes. Starbuck also highlighted social media posts from Starrs&#8217; time at Pizza Hut that promoted diversity and inclusion efforts. 
Starbuck further pointed to a 2020 educational initiative launched by Pizza Hut and First Book during Starrs&#8217; leadership which<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pizza-hut-partners-with-nonprofit-to-develop-anti-racist-pedagogy-to-empower-educators?author=Jeffrey+Cawood&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Pizza+Hut+Partners+With+Nonprofit+To+Develop+%E2%80%98Anti-Racist+Pedagogy%E2%80%99+To+%E2%80%98Empower+Educators%E2%80%99"> The Daily Wire covered</a> at the time. The program included materials on race, racism, privilege, and equity in classrooms.
More recently, Starbuck criticized Starrs&#8217; decision to hire Marcus Fischer as Harley-Davidson&#8217;s chief brand officer.
Before joining Harley-Davidson, Fischer served as CEO of advertising agency Carmichael Lynch. Starbuck argued that the agency actively promoted DEI initiatives, LGBT advocacy efforts, and diversity-focused employee programs.
Starbuck reviews several of Fischer’s social media posts, revealing his support for the LGBTQ community, celebrating a diversity achievement for Hilary Clinton, and anticipating DEI conferences such as the National Diversity &amp; Leadership Conference. Fischer responded to an Instagram post asking what Carmichael Lynch was doing to “ally” with the LGBTQ community. He said the company hosted an in-office drag event, raising $12K for the Family Tree Clinic, which “specializes in LGBTQIA+ healthcare access.”
Harley-Davidson disputed suggestions that it is reviving DEI programs.
In a <a href="https://investor.harley-davidson.com/news/news-details/2026/A-Message-from-Harley-Davidson-2026-XCFq9dvqFM/default.aspx">statement</a> responding to Starbuck&#8217;s review, the company said its focus remains &#8220;getting back to the basics: building great motorcycles, strengthening our network of 500+ U.S. dealers, and supporting a workforce that is proud of the product they put on the road.&#8221;
The company also pointed to one of Starrs&#8217; first actions as CEO: restoring Harley-Davidson&#8217;s legacy Bar &amp; Shield logo.
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The executive director of a Black Lives Matter chapter in Oklahoma has been accused of using donor funds to go toward expensive vacations and purchasing rental properties. 
The Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdok/pr/executive-director-black-lives-matter-okc-charged-wire-fraud-and-money-laundering">filed charges</a> against Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City executive director Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson last week for wire fraud and money laundering, an unsealed indictment revealed on Thursday. According to the indictment, Dickerson embezzled at least $3.15 million in donor funds for her personal benefit.  
The indictment alleges that Dickerson “knowingly devised, intended to devise, and executed a scheme and artifice to defraud [Black Lives Matter OKC] and its donors in a material manner and to obtain money from [Black Lives Matter OKC] and its donors by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises.”
Dickerson allegedly used donations given to her organization to purchase a 2021 Hyundai Palisade, multiple rental properties, food and grocery deliveries, and fund international vacations. 
The vacations include trips for her and associates to the Dominican Republic in July 2021, and to Jamaica in December 2021 and January 2022, the indictment says. She also allegedly spent tens of thousands of dollars shopping at Nordstrom Rack, Macy&#8217;s, Amazon, Best Buy, and Bob Mills Furniture. Additionally, she allegedly spent at least $50,000 on food and grocery deliveries (including DoorDash and Instacart) for herself and her children.
The alleged fraud took place between June 2020 and up until October 2025, the Justice Department said. 
Much of the donations to Black Lives Matter OKC came through the Alliance for Global Justice, a leftist nonprofit based in Arizona. They routed funds from other groups like the Community Justice Exchange, Massachusetts Bail Fund, and Minnesota Freedom Fund to Black Lives Matter OKC, according to the Justice Department. 
The funds were supposed to go toward the pretrial bail for individuals arrested in the riots that took place after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Dickerson allegedly submitted false reports to the Alliance for Global Justice about how the money was being used and covered up how she was using them. 
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She faces 20 counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering. If convicted, she could face decades in prison and hundreds of thousands in fines. The case was investigated by the FBI Oklahoma City Field Office and IRS-Criminal Investigation.
Black Lives Matter OKC <a href="https://www.blmokc.com">describes</a> itself as an &#8220;extension&#8221; of the &#8220;global BLM movement&#8221; and says that it exists to &#8220;eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene against violence inflicted on Black communities.&#8221;

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The Department of Justice is reportedly investigating the national Black Lives Matter organization over allegations that the group’s leadership defrauded donors.
Federal agents are probing the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation after years of financial scandals and infighting at the group. Officials have issued multiple subpoenas and carried out at least one search warrant against the foundation and other leftist groups in recent weeks, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/black-lives-matter-fraud-doj-investigation-trump-371e3277ff3b78bc73d3467c4692c66c">Associated Press</a>.
The investigation began under former President Joe Biden, according to the AP.
In a statement, the foundation denied that it is the subject of a “federal criminal investigation.”
“We remain committed to full transparency, accountability, and the responsible stewardship of resources dedicated to building a better future for Black communities,” the foundation told the AP.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California in Los Angeles is leading the investigation into the foundation, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-prosecutors-investigate-blm-leaders-over-alleged-misuse-90m-donations">Fox News</a>.
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The Black Lives Matter foundation received a cascade of donations following the death of George Floyd, a chronic drug abuser and repeat criminal, during his arrest in Minneapolis in 2020. The foundation received an estimated $90 million in contributions following Floyd’s death, which kicked off nationwide protests and riots over alleged systemic racism within law enforcement that resulted in over <a href="https://www.axios.com/2020/09/16/riots-cost-property-damage">$1 billion</a> in damages.
No criminal charges have been filed in the investigation into the foundation or related groups. The investigation itself is part of the Trump administration’s effort to probe potential illegal activity within leftist organizations and identify the financial interests behind violent riots spurred by political agendas, according to <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/justice-department-investigates-black-lives-matter-leaders-for-potential-fraud/">National Review</a>.
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been rocked by allegations of scandal and the abuse of donor funds in recent years.
In 2022, the national foundation <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/black-lives-matter-hemorrhaged-cash-in-2022-tax-documents-show/">hemorrhaged</a> funds while paying out substantial paychecks to its former executive director Patrisse Cullors and a number of her family members and friends. Part of the $90 million trove the national foundation raised in the immediate aftermath of Floyd’s death went toward luxury homes in Los Angeles and Toronto together worth about $12 million.
Another nearly $11 million was paid out for contracts, many of which went to companies run by Cullors&#8217; family and friends. For instance, Cullors’ brother, a graffiti artist, received $1.6 million between two companies for providing &#8220;professional security services&#8221; for Black Lives Matter.
The national group and its offshoots, particularly Black Lives Matter Grassroots, have <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/as-civil-war-consumes-black-lives-matter-8-7-million-goes-missing/">suffered</a> from infighting within the Black Lives Matter movement over millions of dollars-worth of donations that have seemed to go missing.

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The Italian journalist under fire online for a controversial #MeToo and Black Lives Matter question at the Venice Film Festival is now defending herself.
Federica Polidoro sat down with “After the Hunt” stars Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and Ayo Edebiri for an interview to promote the project. One moment from the conversation, posted to the ArtsLifeTV YouTube channel, has gone viral, with critics accusing Polidoro of being “racist” for directing one of her questions specifically to Roberts and Garfield, who are white, while being accused of excluding Edebiri, who is black.
“Now that the #MeToo era and the Black Lives Matter are done, what do we have to expect in Hollywood and what we lost, we lost something with the politically correct era?” she asked.
Despite the question not being directed at her, Edebiri jumped in to answer it.
“I know that that’s not for me, and I don’t know if it’s purposeful that it’s not for me, but I just am curious,” the star of “The Bear” said.
She went on, “I don’t think it’s done. I don’t think it’s done at all,” as Roberts chimed in with her agreement.
Edebiri went on: “I think maybe hashtags might not be used as much, but I do think that there’s work being done by activists, by people, every day, that’s beautiful, important work that’s not finished, that’s really, really, really active for a reason, because this world is really charged. And that work isn’t finished at all. Maybe if there’s not, like, mainstream coverage in the way that there might have been, daily headlines in the way that it might have been eight or so years ago, but I don’t think it means that the work is done. That’s what I would say.”
Garfield chimed in, agreeing that the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements “are still absolutely alive, as you say, just maybe not as labeled or covered or magnified as much.”
The exchange triggered widespread backlash online, with many commenters accusing Polidoro of asking an insensitive question while being dismissive of the only black actor participating in the interview.
Following the resulting backlash, Polidoro took to Instagram to defend herself in a lengthy post.
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“I am not aware of any protocol that dictates the order in which questions must be asked in an interview,” the journalist wrote in part. “Censoring or delegitimizing questions considered ‘uncomfortable’ does not fall within the practice of democracy.”
“To those who unjustly accuse me of racism, I would like to clarify that in my work I have interviewed people of every background and ethnicity, and my own family is multi-ethnic, matriarchal, and feminist, with a significant history of immigration,” she continued. 
“I have collaborated for over 20 years with numerous national and international publications of all political orientations, always approaching my work with openness and professional rigor. In my view, the real racists are those who see racism everywhere and seek to muzzle journalism, limiting freedom of analysis, critical thinking and the plurality of perspectives.”
“After the Hunt” is a psychological thriller about a college professor (Roberts) whose student (Edebiri) makes an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield). The film’s tagline is, “Not everything is supposed to make you uncomfortable.”

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Dozens of residents filled Chicago’s Federal Plaza on May 25 to commemorate the 5th anniversary of George Floyd’s controversial death that led to riots across the world.
TPUSA contributor Savanah Hernandez was right there to greet them, asking protesters what they thought of Floyd’s autopsy results that show he died of a fentanyl overdose. She was met with confusion, pushback, and even hostility.
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“Bringing up the fentanyl thing is f*cked up!”
For the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death, I decided to go show protesters his autopsy report. 
They all stated it was irrelevant to his death: <a href="https://t.co/uG2H4crneY">pic.twitter.com/uG2H4crneY</a>
&mdash; Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) <a href="https://twitter.com/sav_says_/status/1927016045383942574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Bringing up the fentanyl thing is f***ed up,” one protestor spat. “Let’s just pretend that it was from the drug, right? Who cares? That’s not how he f***ing died.”
Many of the protestors Hernandez spoke to echoed the &#8220;who cares&#8221; sentiment.
“The autopsy report that says there was fentanyl in his system — why is that relevant to anything?” asked one protestor. “Maybe he did have fentanyl in his system. I don’t care. It doesn’t matter.”
Other residents denied the evidence of a fentanyl overdose altogether.
“I think it’s untrue and propaganda that he died from a fentanyl overdose,” one protestor said, despite seeing the autopsy report.
“America is still racist,” one man claimed from behind a mask, a stance some white protestors agreed with, seeking to acknowledge their supposed privilege.
“It’s so important for white people [to] not forget George Floyd,” one said.
“I am a white woman and I have privilege, so I want to be able to show up in these spaces and make sure that other communities are safe,” said another.
Hernandez pressed one protester further. “Do you feel like if George Floyd was white, the narrative surrounding his death would be different?” she asked.
“Absolutely,” the woman responded. “Everyone would know.”
On May 25, 2020, a store owner in Minneapolis called the police on Floyd over a counterfeit bill. Once law enforcement arrived, a struggle ensued near the police vehicle, leading Officer Derek Chauvin to kneel on Floyd&#8217;s upper back while he was handcuffed and lying face down. Floyd died during the restraint, leading to widespread outrage and riots against police brutality.
Chauvin was convicted of murder and sentenced to 22.5 years in prison. However, the autopsy report revealed Floyd died from a fentanyl overdose he took before the police arrived, meaning Chauvin&#8217;s restraint did not suffocate him.
The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-case-for-derek-chauvin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> for a pardon for Chauvin.

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FBI agents who knelt with Black Lives Matter protesters following George Floyd&#8217;s death have been reassigned to less coveted positions, according to insiders briefed on the matter.
The agents were photographed kneeling with Black Lives Matter protestors during the 2020 protests in Washington D.C. following George Floyd&#8217;s death.
The agency was deployed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr in June 2020 to protect federal buildings and aid in crowd control efforts in the streets as local law enforcement were being <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/federal-authorities-washington-dc/index.html">overwhelmed</a> by BLM protestors.
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NEW: FBI agents photographed kneeling during George Floyd protest have been removed from their positions &#8211; CNN <a href="https://t.co/yCVX2a3rK9">pic.twitter.com/yCVX2a3rK9</a>
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FBI officials declined to explain the reassignments, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/fbi-agents-2020-protests.html?smid=url-share">stating</a> to the New York Times, “it is our standard practice to decline to comment on personnel matters,” with many inside the bureau viewing them as demotions.
This action, first <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/fbi-agents-blm-protest/index.html">reported</a> by CNN, aligns with President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign promise to root out what he has called &#8220;woke&#8221; and politicized elements within law enforcement.
The kneeling incident occurred when agents assigned to protect federal monuments were confronted by protesters, with the agents claiming that their tactic prevented potential violence.
Photos of the incident sparked fierce internal backlash inside the FBI, with some agents being ostracized by colleagues who viewed the gesture as politically charged, and put the agents at a tactical disadvantage if confrontation did occur.
While former bureau leadership determined the agents hadn&#8217;t violated policy, the incident became a focal point for Trump and the GOP, who cited it as evidence of politicization within the law enforcement agency.
Legal experts note that while the FBI can transfer employees at will so long as they maintain the same pay and position, the agents could potentially pursue legal options if their reassignments were motivated by reprisal or discrimination.
Many Americans expressed frustration in 2020 when various police departments and federal agencies appeared to take political stances during nationwide protests that caused an <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/09/16/abc-nbc-spike-mostly-peaceful-protests-leaving-2-billion?utm_source=chatgpt.com">estimated</a> $1-2 billion in property damage and resulted in dozens of deaths.

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In the third episode of his groundbreaking series “The Case for Derek Chauvin,” Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro revealed how the politically-connected former Chief Medical Examiner of Washington, D.C., dramatically influenced the Hennepin County Medical Examiner to add &#8220;neck compression&#8221; to George Floyd&#8217;s autopsy report despite initial findings that showed &#8220;no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation.&#8221;
“The facts are straightforward: Baker’s initial <a href="https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/medical-examiner/floyd-autopsy-6-3-20.pdf">autopsy</a> was conducted on May 26th, 2020, and his subsequent draft autopsy report found ‘no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation’ and ‘no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation,’” Shapiro said.
“Then, Roger Mitchell enters the picture.”
Mitchell, a Democrat activist who also served as a D.C. deputy mayor, <a href="https://spectator.org/chauvin-did-not-murder-george-floyd/">called</a> Baker twice following the initial autopsy findings, according to <a href="https://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12949-TT/Exhibit105122021.pdf">documents</a> filed in the case of Tou Thao, a former Minneapolis police officer and Chauvin&#8217;s colleague.
During these calls, Mitchell allegedly told Baker, &#8220;You don&#8217;t want to be the medical examiner who tells everyone they didn&#8217;t see what they saw. You don&#8217;t want to be the smartest person in the room and be wrong.&#8221;
The pressure campaign intensified when Mitchell threatened to publish an op-ed in The Washington Post critical of Baker&#8217;s findings.
&#8220;[Mitchell] said there was a way to articulate the cause and manner of death that ensures you are telling the truth about what you are observing on the body and via all of the investigation. Mitchell said neck compression has to be in the diagnosis,&#8221; the memorandum states.
By June 1, 2020, Baker had added &#8220;neck compression&#8221; to his official diagnosis, transforming the case against the officers. This revised finding enabled Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, assigned to the case by Governor Tim Walz just one day earlier, to bring an additional second-degree murder charge against Chauvin.
Dr. Baker&#8217;s private concerns about external pressure were revealed in former prosecutor Amy Sweasy&#8217;s sexual harassment <a href="https://mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12949-TT/TT-SweasyDiscriminationCharge.pdf">lawsuit</a> deposition, where she detailed conversations with Baker in which he expressed anxiety about the case. According to Shapiro, this information further confirms the political nature of the prosecution.
As Shapiro notes, “Dr. Baker confided to Hennepin prosecutor Amy Sweasy, ‘What happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on? This is the kind of case that ends careers.’”
The appearance of blackmail aside, Shapiro continues, “Worse yet, the Hennepin County prosecutors met with Dr. Baker to review his draft autopsy report without detectives or special agents present, violating protocol.”
“After being assigned to Chauvin&#8217;s case by Governor Tim Walz one day prior, Minnesota AG Keith Ellison utilized the revised autopsy report to bring an additional second-degree murder charge against Chauvin,&#8221; Shapiro adds. &#8220;All of these revelations, despite qualifying as Brady material, were buried at trial and were never properly disclosed to Chauvin’s defense.”
In the episode, Shapiro explores how “the detailed autopsy findings provide significant reasons to determine that Derek Chauvin did not receive a fair trial, and his conviction for murder was not supported by the medical evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Watch the full episode <a href="https://youtu.be/4KrY4XR88Ws?si=eiI7O3suA_jFK5n7">here.</a>

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Earlier this month, road crews in Washington, D.C., dismantled “Black Lives Matter Plaza,” a stretch of 16th Street that had been renamed in 2020 after the death of George Floyd.
The riots that followed Floyd’s death caused over $2 billion in property damage as protesters nationwide engaged in what Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-charlie-kirk-praises-ben-shapiros-efforts-to-pardon-derek-chauvin">recently called</a> “a sort of racial cleansing process.”
The BLM grift that plagued American culture for years culminated in the exposure of the organization’s lavish spending, from purchasing multiple mansions to the graffiti artist brother of BLM co-founder and self-proclaimed Marxist Patrisse Cullors who received $840,000 from the “Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation” (BLMGNF) for security and consulting.
The sight of workers jackhammering up the massive yellow letters leading right up to the White House is the perfect metaphor for the current political moment. President Donald Trump is back, Republicans control both houses of Congress, and corporate America can’t abandon their woke, “anti-racist” policies fast enough.
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HAPPENING NOW: Workers are dismantling the “Black Lives Matter Plaza” near the White House
The world is healing <a href="https://t.co/sPPcwtDzlW">pic.twitter.com/sPPcwtDzlW</a>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1899087129453776945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Back when brands like <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CA7Z0znnIj7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">Dove</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-XFyaJBUP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">Procter &amp; Gamble</a> (owner of Gillette, Old Spice, Febreze, &amp; <a href="https://us.pg.com/brands/">More</a>), and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CBJc_9CJhoR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">Mrs. Meyer&#8217;s Clean Day</a> were posting black squares and making donations in solidarity with the BLM movement, the Daily Wire was steadfast in its coverage of the harm done to America during this era of unrest encouraged by the legacy media and left-wing politicians alike. 
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The wounds of this time are still wide open in many communities across the country, all while those that participated look the other way, hoping everyone forgets the carnage left in their wake. And yet, the guilty leftists in control of many of these cultural institutions are silently screaming as Trump’s new mandate literally repaves the way to American greatness.
What better way to celebrate this cultural spring cleaning than with Jeremy’s all new Noble Waters Hand Soap?
This all-new scent from your favorite non-woke purveyor of home goods is fresh and bracing as the changing tide of American politics. It’s sulfate-, paraben-, and phthalate-free, plus it’s made in the USA.
Leftist-led companies want you to lather up with DEI so they can spend your money on woke causes. But because of companies like Jeremy’s, this movement is getting cleaned out! Jeremy’s is made by people who share your values and are committed to making even better products than those that fight against your beliefs, products that will never support, foment, or fund the destruction of great American cities.
Washing your hands is an everyday thing — and an almost hourly act for some. Don’t let brands that are progressive to their roots wear away your values. A switch as simple as your hand soap is a step towards washing away the stains of the dark era of BLM, DEI, and Marxist ideology.
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