A group of teachers and others in Loudoun County compiled a list of parents suspected of disagreeing with schools' actions — in part to “infiltrate,” to use “hackers” to silence parents’ communications, and to “expose these people publicly.”
Their opponents were those who objected to, sought to debate, or were even simply “neutral” about “critical race theory,” a radical philosophy opposed by many liberals and conservatives but increasingly embraced by governments.
A onetime high school Latin teacher put one man on the list for asking how Dr. Seuss was racist. The group erred on the side of convicting the innocent rather than letting a guilty party go free.
The group of radicalized suburban white women in wealthy Loudoun -- whose schools subject all staff to "equity" training and speak of racism as a dire and pervasive threat -- at times used violent language while doing battle with what they imagined to be "evil."
One listed those who had questioned government officials. “Ian Prior spoke about First Amendment concerns… Austin Levine criticized the School Board."
She then changed her Facebook profile picture to say “I don’t argue with people who Harriet Tubman would have shot.”
FOLLOWUP: Loudoun says teachers attacking parents protected by the First Amendment, on the same month an Equity Committee member seeks to ban Trump clothes as standing for "hate." Denies using Critical Race Theory, attaches "resources" drawing from CRT.
The latest blockbuster higher-ed lawsuit says that George Washington University, which traditionally trains U.S. diplomats, let an anti-Israel activist group called the Middle East Studies Association operate out of its campus, and eventually essentially merge with its faculty.
GWU's Elliot School of International Affairs's Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES) held a non-stop drumbeat of 100% anti-Israel "academic" events after October 7, it said. They called Hamas et al "resistance groups" when the US State Department calls them terrorists.
GWU is 27% Jewish; its academics used their $ to try to convince Jews to betray their own religion, with IMES organizing events such as The Colonizing Self and giving extra credit to watch a movie about young Jews who discover that “the Jewish institutions that raised them lied."
Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade was elected in after a hoax hate crime engendered sympathy. This month, a left-wing radio host was convicted of the crime, and testified that Mobolade was in on the hoax. The FBI said Mobolade misled them about his contact with the culprit.
Mobolade was in contact with Derrick Bernard the day of the hoax, and had a 5-minute call with him 3 days later. Mobolade got a new phone immediately after the hoax, and told the FBI he was "120% sure" he hadn't talked to Bernard, while appearing very "nervous."
Bernard said in that 5-minute call, he expressed concern that the story getting too much attention would backfire, and that Mobolade said he'd "squash" it. Mobolade then began telling the media not to give the story "any oxygen."
A foreign aid agency locked its doors to keep DOGE from accessing records, and was lauded by the Left as David speaking truth to Goliath.
But no one talked to its employees, who said “The hero of the story is actually the villain. They were actually covering up horrible things.”
Its board sued to stop DOGE to stop “access to USADF systems including financial records, payment and human resources systems.”
But the objection might not have been on principled grounds, but rather because those records amounted to a crime scene.
An affidavit from a black employee said its CEO openly refused to hire whites. One white contractor was so abused she went to the bathroom in her pants bc she was scared to leave her desk. When its general counsel flagged lawbreaking, they allegedly framed him for death threats.
The head of a US agency shuttered by @DOGE repeatedly said not to hire any whites, according to a sworn affidavit by his assistant, who is black
When its general counsel discovered rampant misconduct by its officials, they framed him for death threats to stop his probe, he said
@DOGE African Development Foundation CD Glin abused white staff so badly that one went to the bathroom on herself because she was afraid to leave her desk. To get rid of the general counsel, they created a borderline-literate 75-page memo calling him "Grimy, Sinister, and Unwholesome.”
@DOGE Glin, a former DEI officer, was replaced in 2021 by his friend Travis Adkins without even applying. His assistant filed said Adkins said he would not hire whites or veterans. Adkins, a former Biden appointee to USAID, claimed he couldn't remember anything when deposed under oath.
AFRICAN AID SCAM PART 3: A federal agency tasked with helping poor Africans instead pushed its board member's multi-level marketing scheme on them. The CEO of Herbalife was on the African Development Foundation's board & the agency connected Africans with the company's employees.
John Agwunobi, who served as CEO of Herbalife, was an African Development Foundation board member, and spurred the program. Herbalife had just settled charges of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and paid fines for being a pyramid scheme.
The Left has hade a David vs. Goliath hero out of the African Development Foundation for refusing to let @elonmusk's DOGE enter. But they didn't ask its employees, who said the agency was hiding corruption and its executives lived lives of luxury while treating staff like slaves.
The African Development Foundation's CFO refused to let @DOGE see its books, with the foreign aid agency locking them out & filing a lawsuit
But there might have been an ulterior motive: The CFO steered fake contracts to a friend, who then wired cash to his personal bank account
@DOGE Left: a lawsuit against DOGE's quest for financial records, heralded as an act of bravery and principle by "the little agency that could"
Right: a 2024 search warrant where USAID IG indicates that the CFO is taking kickbacks, making those records a crime scene
Sen. Risch warned USAID's inspector general in 2023 that if they didn't address rampant corruption, people would lose faith in foreign aide, which he said would be a shame. Years later, little had been done. Now USAID and the African Development Foundation are shuttered.