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MIT Program Open Only To “Women of Color” Challenged By Equal Protection Project As Violating Civil Rights Laws
The Equal Protection Project (EPP) (EqualProtect.org) of the Legal Insurrection Foundation has challenged numerous racially discriminatory programs done in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. This discrimination comes in various ways, but the overarching theme is to exclude or diminish some people and promote others, based on race, color, or ethnicity. We have filed over two dozen complaints and legal actions in the year since launch in February 2023, with at least 10 schools withdrawing or modifying the discriminatory programs.
Almost all of our actions have addressed discrimination in higher education. In our latest action, however, we have filed a Civil Rights Complaint (full embed at bottom of post) with the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education, against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for creating, supporting and promoting a program for undergraduate students open only to women of color.
From the Complaint:We bring this civil rights complaint against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for creating, supporting and promoting a program for undergraduate students – called the Creative Regal Women of Knowledge, or “The CRWN” – that engages in invidious discrimination on the basis of race, color and sex. As detailed and documented below, only undergraduate “women of color” can participate in the program. Applicants who fall outside of those race- and sex-based categories are ineligible for it.
Because The CRWN discriminates based on race and skin color, it violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VI”) and its implementing regulations.1 And, because the program also discriminates on the basis of sex, it violates Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”) and its implementing regulations.2 ….
After announcements by Red Lobster they would be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and closing a significant number of stores, TGI Friday’s announced they would be closing select restaurants as well. Applebee’s kicked off the month with an announcement it would be closing 35 more locations after closing 46 in 2023.
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When people can barely afford to eat at home, they can’t exactly go out to dinner. That’s a lesson in Bidenomics that several chains are finding out the hard way.
The latest chain casual restaurant to feel the pinch is TGI Friday’s; according to an article in the U.K.’s Daily Mail on Tuesday, the restaurant announced it had closed one restaurant in New Jersey on Sunday and was planning to close another in Buffalo, New York in June.
That would bring the total for restaurants the family dining chain has closed to 40 this year, including eight in New Jersey and six in New York.
“We’ve identified opportunities to optimize and streamline our operations to ensure we are best positioned to meet — and exceed” a “brand promise” to close “underperforming” restaurants, said Ray Risley, TGI Friday’s U.S. president.
It appears that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was not able to prevent the state of Iran from being able to develop weapons-grade uranium. Recent public statements that have emerged after the death of President Raisi seem to confirm what previous public comments only suggested, Iran has a nuclear weapons program.
Internal debate within Iran itself claiming the Supreme Leader will now be able to push forward with his long-wanted plans to complete the easily completable task of finally building a nuclear bomb.
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So Iran’s nuclear chicanery has few surprises for me. For the past twenty years, the Iranian regime has played a nuclear cat and mouse game with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, the UN’s so-called nuclear “watchdog.”
But all that changed recently.
In February, the former head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, told a domestic television interviewer that the regime has now “crossed all the scientific and technological thresholds necessary” for producing nuclear weapons.
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D.C. RNC On Lockdown After Vials Of Blood Sent To Building
The Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., went under lockdown early Wednesday after vials of blood were sent to the building.
One source said the blood was sent in a package and something likely “broke open,” the New York Post reported. Yellow tape stretched outside the building while U.S. Capitol Police officers were present, photographs show.
Scene outside of he RNC headquarters pic.twitter.com/WRlPZ9o7jV
— Jon Michael Raasch (@JMRaasch) May 22, 2024
A hazmat unit arrived at the scene to investigate the situation, according to several reports.
🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: RNC HQ LOCKED DOWN OVER SUSPICIOUS SUBSTANCE
Hazmat officers are on the scene after vials of blood were sent to the Republican headquarters in Washington, DC.
Police: “Staff and other personnel are directed to AVOID THIS AREA until further notice.”
Sources: Daily… pic.twitter.com/wTgIUbEOPF
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 22, 2024
For the first time since April, Donald Trump has beat Joe Biden in the fundraising war, raising $76 million to Biden’s $52 million. The news comes as Biden learns his approval rating has fallen to 36 percent, an all-time low first reached in July of 2022, according to a Washington Post-ABC News Poll.
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Former President Donald Trump’s campaign passed President Joe Biden’s campaign in monthly fundraising for the first time in April, according to Reuters.
Trump, alongside the Republican National Committee (RNC), which his camp has partnered with, raised $76 million in the month of April, Reuters reported Tuesday. Biden and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) raised about $25 million less than their competitors, bringing in $51 million in April.
In March, the Biden campaign and the DNC brought in $90 million, while Trump and the RNC brought in $65.6 million. The former president’s team had $93.1 million cash on hand while Biden’s team had $192 million.
Germany’s Parliament has voted to reduce the possession of child pornography from a felony to a misdemeanor. The bill states “possession and acquisition should be punishable with a minimum penalty of three months’ imprisonment, and distribution with a minimum penalty of six months’ imprisonment, and distribution with a minimum penalty of six months’ imprisonment. The offenses regulated in Section 184b of the Criminal Code are therefore classified as misdemeanors and not as crimes.”
The bill’s proponents claim its purpose is to protect parents and teachers of children who download such material for the purpose of sharing it with law enforcement, but the need to decriminalize child porn possession was never needed since all that was needed was an amendment to the law that took such circumstances under consideration.
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Germany’s Parliament (Bundestag) has received the votes necessary to remove a section of the Criminal Code which made the possession of child sexual abuse materials a felony crime. Once the bill, passed last Thursday, comes into effect, minimum sentences for the possession of child pornography will be reduced, and the offense will be downgraded to a misdemeanor.
According to the Bundestag, the bill stipulates that “possession and acquisition should be punishable with a minimum penalty of three months’ imprisonment, and distribution with a minimum penalty of six months’ imprisonment, and distribution with a minimum penalty of six months’ imprisonment. The offenses regulated in Section 184b of the Criminal Code are therefore classified as misdemeanors and not as crimes.”
The rationale behind the downgrading of the crime to a misdemeanor included consideration for parents and teachers of children who download the content in order to inform law enforcement. “Such cases have occurred particularly frequently among parents and teachers of older children or young people who found child pornography on them and passed it on to other parents, teachers or the school management to inform them of the problem,” reads Article 1 of the bill.
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The Mar-A-Lago FBI Raid approved by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland included authorization to use lethal force, which is standard for all FBI Raids. However, the raid need not have happened in the first place, as it didn’t for Joe Biden, who was given much deferential treatment when the FBI sought to gather his allegedly mishandled top-secret documents.
The agents had instructions to check each room for unaccountable occupants, increasing the risk of an unintended incident at a former President’s residence. The optics of the potential for this raid to go wrong had no effect on the DOJ who could have collected the requested documents without ordering a surprise raid (save to the media who were tipped in advance to assure the event were caught on camera).
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The FBI was authorized to use “deadly force” against former President Donald Trump when the Biden administration agency raided Mar-a-Lago in search of classified documents, according to newly unsealed court documents shared on X by independent journalist Julie Kelly.
Attorney General Merrick Garland personally approved the unprecedented raid on Trump’s Florida home in the summer of 2022, after which special counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents. Notably, President Joe Biden also retained classified documents following his tenure as vice president but was not charged by his own Justice Department because prosecutors said he would likely “present himself to the jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
A newly unsealed operations order reveals the FBI was authorized to use deadly force against the former president if need be, Kelly reported.
“According to an ‘Operations Order’ produced in discovery, the FBI believed its objective for the Mar-a-Lago raid was to seize ‘classified information, NDI [national defense information], and US Government records as described in [the] search warrant,’” the filing by Trump’s legal team states.