Loudoun's schools had a “stunning lack” of transparency around the bathroom rape & “intentional amnesia” when testifying about it, a grand jury said today, adding that it might've indicted LCPS' lawyer for witness tampering if such a law existed in VA.
Days before the rape, a teacher's aide wrote to the department chair that he “has come into class more than once with his arm around a girl’s neck. I have caught him sitting on other girls’ laps several times … I wouldn’t want to be held accountable if someone should get hurt.”
But school officials seemed to accuse the teacher's aide of transphobia against the skirt-wearing boy. Her boss "questioned [her] true motivation" and an assistant principal “questioned whether the author of the email had followed proper protocol.” Days later, he raped.
During the rape itself, another teacher's aide walked in to the bathroom and saw that two students were in a stall together, but did nothing. According to the report, the girl was lying on the bathroom floor while the skirt-wearing boy stood over her.
As previously reported, the victim's father came to the school and they called the police on HIM and offered counseling to any students who had to watch the police, and sent an email to parents saying the only threat on campus that day was an angry father. What we didn't know:
The email (attributed to the principal) was written by LCPS' press secretary and edited by the superintendent. And THE RAPIST WAS ON THE LOOSE THE WHOLE TIME, for hours. They discussed a restraining order against victim's dad when the rapist was literally “missing and at-large.”
The chief operating officer arrived at the scene and immediately wrote that “The incident at SBHS is related to Policy 8040,” which is the policy that the superintendent and school board were attempting to pass dealing with transgender student bathroom use.
A month later the victim's dad was arrested at the school board meeting where 8040 was being debated, enraged after the superintendent said there had *never been any bathroom assaults.* He later claimed he thought the question meant "related to 8040"-but that would still be a lie
LCPS never disciplined the rapist. A judge ordered him not to return to the same school or use computers. Prosecutor Buta Biberaj, who was seeking jail time against the victim's father for a misdemeanor, never told the school, and it didn't transfer him until the new year started
Within his first weeks at the new school year, it caught the student (then wearing an ankle bracelet for rape charges) committing multiple incidents of sexually depraved or offensive behavior, which the superintendent knew about. They just had him write this:
Days later he “snatched an unassuming female out of the hallway, abducted her into an empty classroom, nearly asphyxiated her, and sexually assaulted her." That victim told a cop instead of principal & appears to have THOUGHT THE PRINCIPAL WOULD LECTURE HER FOR NOT WEARING A MASK
The report found that Superintendent' Ziegler's misrepresentations and concealment were so extensive that even the school board did not know about it until I broke the story. The communications director ordered staff to ignore my inquiry, the grand jury found.
“We were met with obfuscation [and] legal strategies designed to frustrate the special grand jury’s work,” the jury said. Everyone was pushed to use the school district's lawyer, who tried to stop them from saying anything. When one teacher refused, he claimed to rep her anyway.
School board members "parroted" a line to the grand jury-seemingly coordinated by the lawyer-that sought to justify the super's lie by making a false claim about the victim's dad, it said. What they didn't know is that 1 official who DIDN'T use that lawyer had told them the truth
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The government has paid $5M to journalists to create software that identifies "misinformation" in people's friends' social media posts and asks them to copy-and-paste replies that push "authoritative" information using templates that exploit psychology.
The project says censorship by Facebook and Twitter is not enough; influencing people’s views is more effective when it comes from friends. “Instead of coming to you from the platform, it’s actually coming to you from a friend,” a video for the NSF-backed project said.
The journalists want to ensure that Americans only echo “authoritative guidance” from bodies like the WHO, which served as an advisor on the project. The group also indicates that the vaccine issue is just a pilot project for using the software on other topics.
Reporter @nickninock: "You're making a false statement. MLK and Doug Wilder were in the original. He was throughout the entire curriculum... I've read the proposal 5 times."
NAACP prez: "It doesn't matter, maybe your information was wrong.. I'm not answering anything from you!"
LCPS's descent into madness began with giving the local NAACP important duties because they assumed it was run by reputable people.
In fact, the president had wound up in VA after fleeing felony charges in FL, and was a reckless charlatan.
Is it true that McConnell tanked Senate races by not funding candidates like Masters?
McConnell spent HUGE everywhere but AZ. Masters had Thiel so his outside spending was pretty good at $53M vs $57M for his opponent. But he got only 46% of the vote.
Some were rankled by McConnell spending $6M in an R-vs-R race in AK, which they imagine could have gone to AZ
But that's a negligible amount in the context of AZ spending & there's no reason it would have gone to AZ instead of NV, where the race was closer+the funding gap bigger
The $6M is nothing in the context of McConnell's $230M in total spending, which vastly beat out its Democrat counterpart. McConnell spent in every state that Trump did except AZ. Real issue is PA became a massive money-suck because of Oz being unpopular minus Trump's endorsement.
Trump knows nothing about the actual desires of voters or how to build coalitions in these places. Key to the roadmap for R's winning in VA is Asians joining the party to fight to preserve academic rigor instead of "equity" in schools. Youngkin won by hearing their concerns.
The "telephone rally" was a six-minute phone call and you couldn't even attend unless you were personally invited. It impacted literally zero votes. And he didn't schedule it until the polls already showed Youngkin winning.
Trump has no power to create, only the power to destroy:
He cannot persuade swing voters or moderates in order to get a candidate to win a general election.
But he can cause Republicans to lose their primary or general by directing his supporters to withhold their votes.
I remember the final weeks of the Virginia governors race in 2021. After the Loudoun rape story, Youngkin surged in the polls and it became clear that he could win. Suddenly Trump--who had little to do with the race when it was tough--seemed to want to attach himself to the race.
He said he'd be coming to Northern Virginia to hold a rally for Youngkin days before the election. Republicans took it as a threat, not a promise. Trump had lost VA badly 1 year prior. There was no Republican base to "turn out" in NoVa. The rally was guaranteed to thwart the win.
People begged him not to come, and somehow, his promised rally just never happened. Late on election night, I was surrounded by joyous people at the Youngkin victory party. The TV was on Fox. Trump came on and took credit for the victory.
As the Washington state school board moved closer to requiring all students to take 'ethnic studies' to graduate, the woman who the board paid to train it on the topic was railing about "Jewish complicity" and downplaying their oppression.
The education board issued a statement saying "ethic [sic] studies" is "NOT indoctrination," even as the state superintendent cut ties to WAESN, saying it was "not just an education-focused organization, but also a political one" that made "disparaging comments."
WAESN had accused the superintendent of allowing "white, Jewish organizations and individuals the authority to vet and veto the work of people of color” by not rejecting complaints by Jews that they were either omitted or the villains in ethnic studies' oppression matrix.