The president is denouncing critical race theory on national television—and elevating this intellectual fight into a major campaign theme.
The battle-lines are drawn: we can embrace the principles of 1776 or the principles of 1619. pscp.tv/w/1BdGYnABdYzJ…
"We must clear away the twisted web of lies in our schools and classrooms, and teach our children the magnificent truth about our country." -@realDonaldTrump
"The left-wing Cultural Revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution ... The Left has warped, distorted, and defiled the American story with deceptions, falsehoods, and lies."
"[Critical race theory] is a Marxist doctrine holding that America is a wicked and racist nation, that even young children are complicit in oppression, and that our society must be radically transformed." -@realDonaldTrump
"The Left is attempting to destroy [Martin Luther King's] beautiful vision and divide Americans by race in the service of political power. By viewing every issue through the lens of race, they want to impose a new segregation—and we must not allow that to happen."@realDonaldTrump
"Critical race theory ... is toxic propaganda—ideological poison—that if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together. It will destroy our country. That is why I recently banned trainings in this prejudiced ideology from the federal government."@realDonaldTrump
"From Washington to Lincoln, from Jefferson to King, America has been home to some of the most incredible people who have ever lived ... The legacy of 1776 will never be erased. Our heroes will never be forgotten." -@realDonaldTrump
I will be honest with you: I didn't vote for President Trump in 2016. But with this speech, he makes a sober, grounded, inspirational case for America and our future.
The stakes of this election are incredibly high—and the President has earned my vote in November.
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The Left is spiritually stuck in 1963. Their entire politics is a reenactment. Boomer libs want to live in an endless loop of the civil rights era, but America has moved on and we do not need to indulge their fantasy of permanent adolescent rebellion.
We've had the Great Society and the Civil Rights Act—which, in fact, led to systematic discrimination on behalf of minorities—for 60 years. We've spent trillions on the Left's social utopia. But they still pretend they're "marching on Washington" with the dispossessed.
These people are incapable of taking responsibility for the regime they have created. They can only imagine themselves in opposition because they have no desire to grapple with the failures of their policies and the reasons for continuing inequalities. It's stupid songs forever.
The cause here is noble, but the implementation, like the related executive order, is a misstep. The whole point of the "abolish DEI" campaign is to stop having special carve-outs, programs, and commitments on the basis of race or ethnoreligious identity. The better approach is to have a single colorblind standard that will fight harassment and discrimination against any group. We can have a Task Force on Campus Equality, which, in practice, will address the significant antisemitism problem, while retaining the higher principle.
I laid out the basic argument with Jenin Younes in the Free Press, related to the Antisemitism Awareness Act: thefp.com/p/dont-expand-….
Supporters of this initiative should ask themselves: How is it reasonable to support a Task Force on Antisemitism while opposing an Ibram Kendi-style Task Force on Anti-Black Racism (i.e., DEI)? And by the same principle, how is it reasonable to support a Task Force on Antisemitism without also supporting a Task Force of Anti-White Racism and a Task Force on Anti-Asian Racism, both of which are widespread on campuses? How is it consistent for the administration to abolish DEI, then establish a special task force for one, rather than all, of these groups?
It's a serious problem, as I've showed in my reporting, but all of it can be addressed by delineating the behavior of the perpetrators—harassment, disruption, occupation, support for terror, etc.—in a colorblind manner.
EXCLUSIVE: Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book, Smart on Crime, according to a new investigation. The current vice president even lifted material from Wikipedia.
We have the receipts. 🧵
The investigation was conducted by Dr. Stefan Weber, a famed Austrian "plagiarism hunter" who has taken down politicians in the German-speaking world. We independently confirmed multiple violations, which are comparable in severity to the plagiarism found in former Harvard president Claudine Gay's doctoral thesis.
We can begin with a passage in which Harris discusses high school graduation rates. Here, she lifted verbatim language from an uncited AP/NBC News report:
EXCLUSIVE: Northwestern Law Review published a special issue featuring only black women. But, according to material unearthed in a new lawsuit, the issue was rife with plagiarism.
This is how DEI corrupts academic standards. 🧵
Lawyer Jonathan Mitchell has filed an updated lawsuit against Northwestern Law School and its far-left former dean, @DBRodriguez5, for alleged racial discrimination in hiring. As part of this complaint, Mitchell identifies significant plagiarism by a prominent DEI hire and the law school's DEI-obsessed academic journal.
@DBRodriguez5 According to the lawsuit, Northwestern hired Myriam Gilles, a black woman, and, apparently, overlooked Professor Gilles's massive plagiarism, because, Mitchell alleges, the university prioritized diversity over merit.
EXCLUSIVE: We have discovered that migrants are, in fact, eating cats in Ohio. We have verified, with multiple witnesses and visual cross-references, that African migrants in Dayton, the next city over from Springfield, barbecued these cats last summer. christopherrufo.com/p/the-cat-eate…
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EXCLUSIVE: @Buttonslives and I have discovered that the Biden-Harris Administration subsidized the Venezuelan migrants who took over the apartments in Aurora, Colorado, through a funnel of government agencies and left-wing NGOs.
It's time to follow the money. 🧵
The story begins in 2021, when the Biden–Harris administration signed the American Rescue Plan Act into law, allocating $3.8 billion to Colorado. The City of Denver drew on this reservoir of funds to launch its migrant resettlement and housing program.
The city, in turn, funneled more than $5 million to two left-wing NGOs, ViVe Wellness and Papagayo, to secure housing for thousands of Venezuelan migrants.
These organizations are run by Yoli Casas and Marielena Suarez, two Venezuelan immigrants who do not appear to have previous experience in large-scale migrant resettlement. Much of this funding was directly tied to ARPA, through the Migrant Support Grant program.