The US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened an investigation into the NYC Department of Education (NYCDOE) to determine whether NYCDOE violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) by discriminating against Jewish students.
NYC Teachers and CUNY Professors are World Class
Less than 24 hours after Denver Mayor Mike Johnston publicly pushed back on a U.S. Department of Justice demand to repeal the city's longstanding ban on assault weapons, the DOJ followed through with its threat to take the matter to court. On Tuesday, the DOJ filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that Denver's longstanding ban on assault style weapons unconstitutionally bans certain constitutionally protected semi-automatic rifles and infringes on the "Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms in common use for lawful purposes," according to a statement from the agency.
Conservative broadcaster Ben Ferguson drew criticism from his fellow CNN panelists when he said April 27 that more conservatives will be killed "if the Democratic Party doesn't wake up and realize that words had meaning and they light the fuse." "Twenty-five percent of the Democratic Party believes that political violence is appropriate," Ferguson said. Read more
A Green Party candidate who has pushed for Britain to pay trillions of pounds in slavery reparations is descended from a Nigerian royal family that traded slaves, it has been claimed. Antoinette Fernandez is the "reparations officer" for the Green Party's Global Majority Greens group, which works towards "racial and environmental justice". Read more
Writing for The Hill on Tuesday, Racicot ripped into Congress for being asleep at the wheel as Trump and his Defense Department committed acts that amounted to "war crimes," including the launch of "without provocation, 55 military air strikes on vessels navigating the high seas, killing at least 174 civilians with four survivors and 11 missing and presumed dead." Those strikes, he wrote, have so far seen "no legitimate congressional oversight," and things only got worse when Trump opted to start a war with Iran. "Fast forward to the invasion of and use of armed force against Iran. The same pattern is replicated," Racicot wrote. "There was no cognizable provocation or imminent threat to the U.S. No genuine oversight provided by Congress. No justification for the use of lethal force in self-defense. All amid the potential prosecution of rank-and-file service members for carrying out the orders of a commander in chief who has never been a member of the armed forces himself." Read more
Lawmakers said the Justice Department has indicated Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon -- a candidate to replace Pam Bondi as attorney general -- will represent her in a transcribed interview later this month, raising ethical concerns.
Senate Republicans are seeking $1 billion of taxpayer money to help fund "security adjustments and upgrades" linked to Donald Trump's White House ballroom project. The proposal was outlined in a reconciliation package focusing on federal law enforcement and border security spending, which was released by Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Monday.
IDF General Avi Bluth proudly stated the IDF is killing Palestinians at levels "not seen since 1967," where he also defended looser rules of engagement allowing IDF troops to fire at unarmed Palestinians. General Bluth acknowledged a discriminatory approach in the occupied West Bank whereby Jewish Israeli stone-throwers are not targeted by the IDF while Palestinians carrying out similar acts are fired upon. "In three years, we have killed 1,500 terrorists," he said, referring to Palestinians.
Israel is a US-subsidized Pariah Nation
NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch informs: "The NYPD delivered the fewest murders in recorded history for the first four months of the year and the month of April. During the four-month stretch, there were 76 murders, shattering the previous record of 86 set in 2018. April also saw the fewest murders in recorded city history with 19, beating the previous record of 21 set in 2014 and 2017."
- NYC population: 8,478,000 people
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and NYPD Commissioner Jennifer S. Tisch
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is closing an office responsible for investigating misconduct and abuse in the immigration detention system. The Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman is in the process of removing all its public signage and ending its inspections.
Plenty of money for military-grade weapons and equipment, none for inspections or oversight
President Donald Trump's voters stunned a political analyst on Monday after they accused the president of staging another "false flag" attack. Nine voters who voted for Trump at least twice told The Bulwark that they believe Trump may have staged the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Some noted that the circumstances of the shooting seem implausible, given the level of security that follows the president.
"The White House Counsel's Office is giving private briefings to the administration's political appointees on how to best prepare for congressional oversight as staff begin to brace for the likelihood of significant Democratic victories in the November midterm elections," the Washington Post reports.
Trump threatens to blow Iran off the face of the earth' if it attacks US vessels
US launched an operation on Monday in the Gulf, dragging the region back to the brink of full-scale war Read more
OpEd: When Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in February that the Defense Department would sever ties with Harvard University, he framed the move as an act of ideological hygiene. Harvard, he suggested, is an incubator of "woke" narratives awash in liberal orthodoxy with faculty that "squelch anyone who challenges their leftist political leanings." Later, the Secretary formally added 13 more institutions to the department's list of "canceled" educational relationships, accusing each of "sacrificing freedom of expression for the suffocating confines of leftist ideology." The ironies and contradictions in the Secretary's logic to purge the military of elite education, respectfully, demand serious discussion.
The reporter who helped put Jeffrey Epstein behind bars has revealed why she thinks that Ghislaine Maxwell will eventually get a pardon.
Julie K. Brown, the award-winning Miami Herald reporter who unraveled the massive Epstein story, thinks Maxwell will be "successful" in securing some form of reprieve"whether a commutation or a pardon"for her close involvement in her onetime boyfriend's years-long scheme to sexually exploit and abuse young girls.
