NEW: Prosecutors in Minnesota's largest county are now required to take a criminal defendant's race into account when negotiating plea deals, following a new directive from Hennepin County attorney Mary Moriarty (D.).

"While racial identity and age are not appropriate grounds for departures [from the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines], proposed resolutions should consider the person charged as a whole person, including their racial identity and age," Moriarty's directive reads, according to Minneapolis outlet KARE11. "While these factors should not be controlling, they should be part of the overall analysis." "Prosecutors should be identifying and addressing racial disparities at decision points, as appropriate," Moriarty added, arguing that such disparities cause "distrust" and harm "community safety."

NEW: Harvard University, in the midst of its funding fight with the Trump administration, released its long-awaited anti-Semitism report on Tuesday.

It provides a scathing account of life at the Ivy League institution in the wake of Oct. 7, finding that "politicized instruction" in four Harvard schools "mainstreamed and normalized what many Jewish and Israeli students experience as antisemitism."

Here are some of the most damning details: 🧵 At the Graduate School of Education, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Divinity School, Jewish and Israeli students were routinely ostracized and subject to instruction "that effectively made a specific view on the Israel-Hamas conflict a litmus test for full classroom participation," according to the report.

EXCLUSIVE: Internal documents reveal a pervasive pattern of racial discrimination at Harvard Law Review.

Writing the foreword to the Harvard Law Review's Supreme Court issue is arguably the most prestigious honor in legal academia. Since 2018, only one white author has penned it—and that's no coincidence, according to internal documents obtained by our Aaron Sibarium.

They show that race plays a far larger role in the selection of both editors and articles than the journal has publicly acknowledged.

Here are 7 DEI policies the Harvard Law Review doesn’t want you to know about: 🧵 1. Just over half of journal members are admitted solely based on academic performance. The rest are chosen by a "holistic review committee" that has made the inclusion of "underrepresented groups"—defined to include race, gender identity, and sexual orientation—its "first priority."

THEY KNEW: Democrats privately worried about Joe Biden’s mental decline for years—but said nothing until it was too late.

@AndrewStilesUSA has compiled 30 of the most damning examples, based on reporting that emerged suddenly (and conveniently) after a disastrous June 2024 debate removed all doubt regarding Biden's decline. 🧵 Sept. 2021: Biden “rambled far off topic” in a White House meeting, telling unrelated Senate stories. Some aides “took it as evidence that he was losing his grip.”

Summer 2022: Bain Capital’s Josh Bekenstein met with Jill Biden and suggested Joe shouldn’t run again. Bekenstein had been "under the impression that Mr. Biden had promised to be a one-term candidate" on account of his age. The first lady “listened but did not reply.”

Journalists and insiders have suggested the media's coverup of Biden’s mental decline was the result of a “few bad apples” who dropped the ball and not the fault of the press at large.

But as the following opinion pieces and reports show, the effort to dismiss, downplay, or deflect concerns about Biden’s mental acuity was clearly widespread. 🧵 WaPo: “President Biden, who at 81 is a couple of decades younger than many of the veterans he honored during Thursday’s D-Day commemoration in Normandy, nonetheless found his age and fitness in the spotlight as selectively edited clips of him circulated online to paint the picture of a physically and mentally challenged commander in chief.”

BOMBSHELL: The Biden administration concealed a report showing U.S. troops had COVID symptoms in Wuhan—months before the pandemic was officially acknowledged.

They were legally required to release it. They didn’t.

Here’s what the admin covered up 🧵 The December 2022 report, which the Biden administration was required by law to release to the public over two years ago but didn’t, reveals for the first time that seven U.S. military service members contracted COVID-19-like symptoms during or after their participation in the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019—contradicting the Biden administration’s public claims in 2021 that there was no evidence that any American participants contracted the virus at those games.

THE DEI #RESISTANCE: The California Institute of Technology has changed the title of its top diversity official but kept the office she oversees intact.

CalTech’s moves are just the latest example of how institutions are attempting to save their diversity programs by making largely cosmetic changes.

via @aaronsibarium Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux is no longer “assistant VP for diversity, equity, inclusion, and assessment.”

Now she’s “associate VP for campus climate, engagement, and success.”

But she still runs Caltech’s Center for Inclusion and Diversity, the school announced in a university-wide email.

NEW: Former Columbia president Katrina Armstrong says she doesn't recall hearing about students spitting on Jews, according to a deposition transcript obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Or calls to destroy Israel.

Or what she told faculty about policy changes in response to the Trump admin. The Trump admin asked Armstrong about student activists chanting for Israel's destruction. "Sitting here, I have, you know, no specific memory of hearing that," she said.

If Hollywood made a movie about federal corruption:
• An $8M private jet
• Fake social security numbers
• Dead people on the books
• A Ferrari

All funded by a phone tax you’ve never heard of.

This isn’t fiction. It’s the FCC’s Universal Service Fund, a little-known program that subsidizes phone and internet access for low-income consumers.

A new report from @aaronsibarium.🧵 A year before being busted by the FCC for fraud, Jeffrey Ansted, a telecom CEO, was flying around in a Cessna 525C jet he'd purchased for $8 million. He also drove a $250,000 Ferrari.

How’d he get all that money?

Nathaniel Davis III claims he is an 109 trillion-year-old intergalactic master of psychic self-defense who can summon tornadoes, cause earthquakes, and read minds.

He is also Cori Bush’s highest-paid private security guard.

Via @AndrewKerrNC
freebeacon.com/democrats/meet… In multiple bizarre social media posts, including Facebook livestreams, Davis says he can "make tornadoes" and says he can "show you how to make lightning touch what you want it to touch and burn some sh*t down."

"I’m 109 trillion years old in this galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy."

NEW: Left-wing billionaire and media donor Pierre Omidyar is bankrolling the dark-money group leading a corporate boycott campaign against Twitter owner @elonmusk.

Via @alanagoodman
freebeacon.com/latest-news/my… Over the past year, groups bankrolled by Omidyar organized campaigns to pressure corporations to boycott Twitter and issued statements and op-eds denouncing Musk and calling for government investigations into the billionaire.

freebeacon.com/latest-news/my…

On Friday, POLITICO released a list of "Rules for Surviving in D.C."

These rules may be helpful for the head-cases who take life advice from Virginia-based political gossip blogs. Our readers deserve better.

So we made our own.

Via @timerice1
freebeacon.com/culture/the-wa… Rule #1: If you need to get into an exclusive event, tell people you have a daytime show on MSNBC

No one actually watches the network, so as long as you have hipster glasses and appear sufficiently condescending, there’s a chance you’ll be let in.

When reporting that the MSU shooter was charged with a felony in 2019 but could still buy a gun, CNN brought on state Rep. Julie Brixie.

She pushed gun laws but didn't mention the felony charge.

The prosecutor who dismissed the charge, Carol Siemon, donated to Brixie's campaign Carol Siemon has only made 4 political donations, and 2 of them went to Brixie.

The MSU shooter would have been barred from owning a firearm had Siemon not dismissed the charges.

Brixie didn't mention the charges once, even though CNN was discussing it

transparencyusa.org/mi/contributor…

The North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children showed educators this documentary encouraging them to teach children as young as four about transgenderism and Black Lives Matter.

Via @jordylancaster
freebeacon.com/campus/watch-p… The teachers help the young children make "Black Lives Matter" signs and hold a “protest” at the preschool.

The class also writes a statement supporting BLM, which one of the children reads to the camera.

One teacher says she calls the students “social justice leaders”

Happy Valentine's Day! We hope you find someone who loves you as much as these journalists love themselves.

(CONTENT WARNING: Contains graphic depictions of journalists lavishing unearned praise on other journalists)

Via @thaleigha_ & @AndrewStilesUSA
freebeacon.com/media/happy-va… 1. Olivia Nuzzi (New York magazine) loves Kaitlan Collins (CNN)

Fox Business shared the Free Beacon's reports that Hunter Biden wanted an office at the Penn Biden Center and had access to the garage where classified documents were found, and that foreign donations poured in to the University of Delaware since it launched a Biden think tank. Read the Free Beacon's full reports below⤵️

Hunter Biden Wanted Office at Think Tank Where President Stashed Classified Docs

Via @ChuckRossDC
freebeacon.com/biden-administ…

ANALYSIS: These 'Republicans Pounce' Headlines Are Out of Control

Here are a few examples of how the media might cover future scandals using the "Republicans pounce" framing ⤵️

Via @AndrewStilesUSA
freebeacon.com/media/republic… The Washington Post:

Biden will deliver the State of the Union tonight.

@AndrewStilesUSA breaks down what to expect (thread):
freebeacon.com/biden-administ… WHY IT MATTERS: It doesn't.

WHY JOURNALISTS THINK IT MATTERS: Journalists and other professional left-wing activists are the target audience. They believe (without evidence) that voters will support Democratic policies after hearing a lengthy explanation of those policies.

The House has reconvened to vote on the rules package. The vote will begin shortly. Proposed changes include:

- A motion to vacate the chair, allowing one member to force a vote on removing the Speaker

- Require all bills to be posted 72 hours before a final vote

Sam Bankman-Fried, a cryptocurrency billionaire facing federal investigation for mishandling customer funds, had high-level White House meetings 6 months ago—weeks before he pledged to donate up to $1 billion to Democrats.

Via @ChuckRossDC & @AndrewKerrNC
freebeacon.com/biden-administ… Bankman-Fried, the owner of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, met on April 22 & May 12 with top Biden adviser Steve Ricchetti.

At the time, FTX—which is now is teetering on the brink of insolvency—was lobbying Congress and federal agencies to shape regulation of the crypto industry.

NEW: Democrats are spending more in a little-known Michigan House district than any other in the county.

Michigan's 7th district has emerged as one of the most hotly contested races in the nation.

Via @SaysSimonson
freebeacon.com/elections/demo… Spending in the district, which pits Democratic incumbent Elissa Slotkin against Republican challenger Tom Barrett, totals nearly $27 million from both sides.

The DCCC alone dropped nearly $5 million to save Slotkin, more than it has spent anywhere else.

freebeacon.com/elections/demo…