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Arizona honors colleges push DEI, anti-capitalist, anti-Israel agendas: report– www.thecollegefix.com
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Over 70 percent of sections for required honors course push ideological content
Arizona’s public universities require their honors students to complete coursework promoting a “diversity, equity, and inclusion” agenda, alongside anti-capitalist and anti-Israel themes, a recent report from a conservative think tank revealed.
Arizona State University’s Barrett, The Honors College, requires honors students to engage with mandatory readings that include discussions of sexually explicit LGBTQ content and explore racially and sexually charged questions, according to the Goldwater Institute’s report called “Desert Brain Drain.”
For example, one instructor requires students to discuss the “relationship between the white female gaze and the eroticized black male body.”
Another professor provides students with “a one-sided view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, assigning readings that are exclusively critical of Israel and Zionism,” the report states.
“Over 70% of all Barrett course sections for the mandatory ‘The Human Event’ (HON 272) reviewed by Goldwater” push this ideological content, it states.
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NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge has tossed the murder conviction of a man who spent 25 years in prison after a review of his case revealed new evidence that may have been withheld by prosecutors, including thousands of dollars in payments made to the mother of their key eyewitness.
The man, Harry Ruiz, has maintained his innocence since his 1994 conviction for the fatal shooting of Emmanuel Felix, an alleged drug dealer in Harlem. Ruiz, now 58, was released on parole in 2019.
“I feel like I can finally breathe again,” he said on Monday, leaving the courthouse flanked by family and his attorneys.
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Four hundred years ago this year, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and 160 men departed the small Spanish community of Panama in search of a great and wealthy empire they had heard existed to the south. Although that particular expedition to Peru was largely a failure, Pizarro’s steadfast bravery alongside the so-called Los trece de la fama (the “famous 13”) was enough to gain royal support and inspire enough Spaniards to fund another voyage to Peru a few years later. Pizarro and a few hundred men would conquer the mighty Inca.
Without a doubt, Spanish conquistadors such as Pizarro’s army (and their successors in the ensuing centuries) created an impressive empire, one that eventually traversed thousands of miles from California to Tierra del Fuego, incorporating millions of people. Yet, compared to that of their British rivals to the north, it was a markedly different animal, one whose instabilities, dysfunction, and corruption eventually spelled its doom.
As Americans celebrate our own 250th anniversary, it’s worth contemplating with gratitude what differentiates the “American experiment” from what transpired to our south.
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Many people are questioning whether the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was secure enough after a gunman, Cole Allen, nearly breached the venue with the intent to assassinate President Donald Trump and top officials. The president was evacuated, the dinner was postponed, and we are left shaken by what feels like a third assassination attempt. Was the venue truly secure?
Fox News’ Bill Melugin shared his thoughts, which were far from reassuring. Daily Beast’s executive editor Eric Dougherty was staying next door at the Washington Hilton the night before the event; Allen was a guest there, too. No baggage checks were done, and there were no security checkpoints at the hotel entrance, only outside the ballroom. The president said the protocols were fine and commended the Secret Service for their heroics on the night of the attack.
Yet, RealClearPolitics’ Susan Crabtree examined the reported chaos and incompetence that have hampered the agency, with little change since the Butler attempt in July 2024. This phantom shooter has reportedly frustrated President Trump, and the internal shenanigans that have been reported by Crabtree in the wake of the WHCA dinner are something else.
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Chuck Todd is scared, man. He says he’s not going anywhere President Donald Trump is.
“I don’t feel safe,” the former Meet the Press host said Monday on Chris Cillizza’s podcast.
“Wherever Trump is …” Todd added before his soulmate Cillizza jumped in and completed his frightened thought “… chaos follows …”
“… Chaos follows him and you are less safe, right?” Todd finished.
The self-indulgent host of The Chuck ToddCast and the host of whatever it is Cillizza is doing these days commiserated on the subject of Trump “chaos” less than two days after a gunman stormed a security checkpoint in front of the Washington Hilton ballroom where the annual White House Correspond
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The Trump administration is making two more payouts for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects. Which makes an incredible amount of sense, if you and your cabinet members own stocks in oil companies!
Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind have agreed to end their offshore wind leases in exchange for reimbursements totaling nearly $900 million. Both companies have decided not to pursue any new offshore wind projects in the United States, the Interior Department said Monday, as if that was something to brag about! Like a little boy who poops his pants and proudly wiped it on the wall.
Bluepoint Wind is an offshore wind project in the early stages of development off the coasts of New Jersey and New York — while under constant attack by right-wing radio for killing whales, birds, and probably small children, while Golden State Wind is a floating offshore wind project proposed off California’s central coast.
It’s just like the deal Interior made with Total Energies in March. They get a refund of its leases, and will invest the money in patriotic and pro-American fossil fuel projects instead.
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Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is pushing back on a proposal to spend as much as $400 million in taxpayer money to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House, arguing that Congress needs to rein in its deficit spending at a time of historically high national debt. Scott told NBC News on Monday evening that…
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In the immediate aftermath of the fourth assassination attempt on President Trump this past weekend at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, we heard the familiar chorus of voices in the corporate media and political establishment calling for calm, for unity, for lowering the temperature, toning down the rhetoric. We heard the same thing after Charlie Kirk’s assassination last September, and after Trump was shot in the face by a would-be assassin on the campaign trail in July 2024.
As always, the people saying this pretend it’s a “both sides” problem, that the political left and right are both at risk of becoming dangerously violent, and that for the sake of our democracy we all need to calm down.
What nonsense. There is only one side in America today that has a persistent and very real-world problem with political violence, and everyone knows it’s the left.
It’s the left that has produced four would-be assassins of President Trump. It’s the left that produced Charlie Kirk’s assassin and the sneering online hordes who celebrated his murder. It’s the left that produced Luigi Mangione, who allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood, and overnight became a folk hero to his fellow travelers.
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The first phase of this plan appears to focus on building a functional base rather than a large settlement. According to CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE, Taylor indicated that an inflatable habitat could be operational by the end of the 2020s. This type of structure would be designed to support human life in a harsh environment, providing basic shelter and life-support systems.Such developments align closely with ongoing missions led by NASA, particularly through its Artemis programme. The recent Artemis II mission demonstrated continued progress towards returning humans to the Moon. These missions are expected to lay the groundwork for longer stays and more complex operations in the future.
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Now that we have the full manifesto of the man who tried to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, we know what we probably could have known from the start: He was an unsound man who was egged on by the conspiracy theories of the left.
Calling Trump “a pedophile, rapist, and traitor” — clearly, ideas taken from the fever swamps of the Jeffrey Epstein-baiting podcast class — Cole Tomas Allen, in the missive sent to family and friends, wrote that he was “no longer willing to permit” the president “to coat my hands with his crimes.”
I am giving Mr. Allen more credit for sense than he deserves by adumbrating his violence-excusing blather. After all, one cannot take seriously a manifesto that ends with “Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.” Allen, who was a teacher and engineer before he almost certainly signed himself up to spend a hefty chunk of the rest of his life behind bars, probably isn’t going to inspire too many people with those words, or with this sort of thing:
President Trump just posted video of Secret Service shooting at attempted assassin from the White House Correspondents’ dinner, allegedly Cole Allen, and photos of him. https://t.co/HKykZwT3Fe pic.twitter.com/UvJBIs3gsg
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) April 26, 2026
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A new academic study has found that artificial intelligence systems used to evaluate student writing may respond differently depending on how a student’s identity is presented, suggesting there is bias in automated educational tools.
The research, titled “Marked Pedagogies: Examining Linguistic Biases in Personalized Automated Writing Feedback,” was published in March by a team from Stanford University. The authors, Mei Tan, Lena Phalen, and Dorottya Demszky, analyzed 600 persuasive essays written by eighth-grade students and processed them through four AI models, including versions of ChatGPT and Llama, a system developed by Meta AI.
The essays addressed topics such as whether schools should mandate community service and speculative prompts like whether aliens built a structure on Mars. Researchers then resubmitted the same essays with added descriptors indicating the writer’s race, gender, motivation level, or learning ability.
According to findings reported by The Hechinger Report, the AI systems exhibited consistent patterns across models. Essays attributed to Black students were more likely to receive praise and encouragement, sometimes highlighting themes of leadership or personal strength. One example of such feedback read: “Your personal story is powerful! Adding more about how your experiences can connect with others could make this even stronger.”
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A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. GOP uses shooting to shill for Trump’s gaudy ballroom Good thing they’re focusing on the important issues! Democrats are leading in polls, but voters want new blood Here’s what they can do to engage young voters ahead of the midterms. Republicans hit airwaves to…
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made clear Monday that Democrat rhetoric is partly to blame for the violent acts directed at President Donald Trump and his supporters.
The Justice Department charged 31-year-old Cole Allen with three felony counts, including attempted assassination, after the California man allegedly charged a security checkpoint and opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner Saturday night at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
Allen sent a manifesto to some of his family members regurgitating stuff that sounds right out of Democrat talking points. Allen also attended at least one “No Kings” rally in Los Angeles, which is an event put together by former Democratic Capitol Hill staffers.
The event organizers described the one last June on Trump’s birthday, posting on their website, “No Kings is a nationwide day of defiance. From city blocks to small towns, from courthouse steps to community parks, we’re taking action to reject authoritarianism — and show the world what democracy really looks like.”
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(LifeSiteNews) — Pro-life leaders are criticizing a Democratic congressional candidate who recently explained why she killed two innocent preborn babies in the womb.
The interview also highlights the extremism of the environmentalist movement, which puts bees and trees above babies, and the ethical problems with in vitro fertilization (IVF).
California candidate Esther Kim Varet made the comments during a recent episode of a show called “The Happily Never After.” She is running in the 40th Congressional District against Congresswoman Young Kim, a Republican.
The title of the episode, “All About Abortion,” underscores how the direct and intentional killing of innocent preborn babies is important to Varet.
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Monday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about CBS.
Marlow said, “She was going to read his words, and then she was gonna force Trump to respond to it. Norah O’Donnell should resign right now. She should get fired.”
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As pointed out by RedState’s Bob Hoge on April 27, 2026, First Lady Melania Trump put ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on full blast regarding his “joke” on April 23, 2026, prior to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) about Mrs. Trump having a “glow like an expectant widow.” Melania responded with a call for ABC to fire Kimmel, long known for his hatred of all people conservative in general and President Trump in particular, for his hate-filled attempt at humor.
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- Kimmel Pushes Back Against White House And FLOTUS Criticism Of ‘Expectant Widow’ Joke Forbes
- Kimmel pushes back on Trump calls for his firing, in first major test for Disney’s new CEO CNN
- Jimmy Kimmel responds to Trump’s call for his firing: ‘This was like déjà vu’ The Washington Post
- Melania Trump blasts Kimmel, calls on ABC to ‘take stand’ against comedian Al Jazeera
- President and First Lady Melania Trump Demand ABC Fire Jimmy Kimmel Over ‘Widow’ Joke The New York Times
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The gap between language model capabilities and robotic deployment has been narrowing considerably over the past 18 months. A new class of foundation models — purpose-built not for text generation but for physical action — is now running on real hardware across factories, warehouses, and research labs. These systems span deployed robot policies, private-preview VLAs, open-weight research models, and world models used to scale robot training data. Some are being evaluated or deployed with industrial partners; others are primarily research or developer-facing systems. Here is a breakdown of the ten that matter most in 2026.
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Friedrich Merz says Washington has “no convincing strategy” in talks with Tehran
The US lacks a coherent negotiation strategy and is being “humiliated” by Iran, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday.
Merz made the remarks as the vital Strait of Hormuz remains closed to most shipping, driving up global energy prices.
“The Iranians are clearly stronger than expected, and the Americans clearly have no truly convincing strategy in the negotiations either,” Merz said during a visit to a school in Marsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia.
“The problem with conflicts like this is always that you don’t just have to get in – you also have to get out again. We saw that very painfully in Afghanistan for 20 years. We saw it in Iraq,” the chancellor said, according to Deutsche Welle.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a wannabe Barack Obama, doubled down on his “maximum warfare” comment he made last week despite the urge to tone down the rhetoric after President Donald Trump faced his third assassination attempt.
As it relates to anything that has been said, certainly as it relates to the comment related to “maximum warfare everywhere, all the time,” in connection with the redistricting battle that Republicans launched, I stand by it. You can continue to criticize me for it.
I don’t give a damn about your criticism as it relates to anything that has been said, certainly as it relates to the comment related to maximum warfare.
Moments Ago: A visibly agitated Hakeem Jeffries says “I stand by” calling for “maximum warfare” against Republicans.
“You can continue to criticize me for it, I don’t give a damn about your criticism!”
Unhinged. pic.twitter.com/AxINVt4HZA
— NRCC (@NRCC) April 27, 2026