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Revoking deportation protections for Somali fraudsters who siphon U.S. taxpayer funds, some of which land in the hands of foreign terrorists? That’s an “Israel first” policy, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

CAIR held a press conference Monday and savaged President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind Temporary Protected Status for Somali migrants in Minnesota. The group’s top official in the state, Jaylani Hussein, decried the move as an “Israeli-first public campaign targeting a very vulnerable community—the Somali-American community—and a very vulnerable congresswoman—Ilhan Omar—as an effort to try to win back the many young Americans who believe that America should not be getting into wars for other countries.”

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New York University’s Federalist Society chapter wanted to hold an event on Oct. 7 with the conservative legal scholar Ilya Shapiro, a critic of anti-Israel protesters and the university administrators who have coddled them.

But NYU axed the event because administrators feared that protesters would disrupt it. On September 10th, emails show, NYU asked leaders of the school’s FedSoc chapter to change the date of the event and hold it in a basement space with added security, citing “an increased likelihood of demonstrations and protests connected to the anniversary of the October 7, 2023, incidents in Gaza.”

CHECKING IN ON POLITICO:

As a master's student at Northwestern University's esteemed journalism school in 2020, Cheyanne Daniels tweeted that she cried when President Donald Trump was elected four years earlier because she knew "horrible things were to come."

She now covers the Trump presidency for Politico. In a separate social media post in Nov. 2020, Daniels—a former “race and politics reporter” for The Hill—said Trump believes black women’s lives don’t matter and that they “threaten the purity of white power.”

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"On-the-ground detail," "academic credibility," "global visibility."

That’s how leading AI chatbots describe reporting from Al Jazeera, the virulently anti-Israel news outlet controlled by the state of Qatar that has emerged as a top source in AI-generated news summaries on Israel, Gaza, and the wider Middle East. OpenAI's Chat GPT, Google Gemini, X's Grok, and Perplexity AI all list Al Jazeera as one of their most "reliable" sources on the topic.

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The Jewish Voice for Peace chapters at Georgetown University, George Washington University, and American University are rebranding as the Anti-Zionist Jewish Student Front, a new group promising to be even more aggressive. It swears allegiance to the Palestine Liberation Organization's terrorist creed, which demands a "right to resistance.”

EXCLUSIVE:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating social media posts by at least seven different accounts that appeared to indicate foreknowledge of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, according to three people familiar with the investigation and screenshots obtained by the Free Beacon. The posts—one of which referenced the date of Kirk’s assassination, September 10, more than a month before it took place—were all deleted in the days following the killing.

RECEIPTS:

Earlier this year, Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) complained to Business Insider she's been the subject of a "coordinated right-wing disinformation campaign" claiming she's worth millions of dollars. "Maybe try checking my public financial statements," she said, "and you will see I barely have thousands let alone millions."

The Free Beacon did check Omar's latest disclosure. It shows Omar and her husband, Tim Mynett, are worth at least $6 million and as much as $30 million.
Their wealth is derived almost entirely from the value of Mynett’s ownership stake in his two companies that, together, were worth no more than $51,000 at the end of 2023.

NEW: Both Pfizer and Amazon earned perfect scores on the 2021 Corporate Equality Index, which rates how well companies treat their LGBT employees.

That same year, the companies gave at least $1 million to a nonprofit that brings U.S. officials to Qatar, "a country that criminalizes same-sex relations, bans displays of the pride flag, and has tortured LGBT people."
That money went to the Attorney General Alliance (AGA), a "bipartisan forum" for state attorneys general. Bankrolled largely by top corporations, the group pays for AGs to go on foreign trips with lobbyists from the companies they regulate.

REPORT: A government-subsidized grocery store in Kansas City is on the brink of closure amid spiraling crime, plummeting sales, and empty shelves.

Zohran Mamdani—the frontrunner in New York City's mayoral election following his upset Democratic primary win over former governor Andrew Cuomo—has campaigned on opening similar supermarkets in the Big Apple. KC Sun Fresh, which opened in 2018 inside a city-owned strip mall and was taken over by a nonprofit in 2022, is struggling to deal with spiraling crime, plummeting sales, and empty shelves, according to the Washington Post.

WATCH: A CNN doctor who painted a dark picture of President Donald Trump's has little experience treating patients, instead spending her career as a diversity, equity, and inclusion specialist.

She is also an "apostle" of a church whose leader describes Trump as the "antichrist." When the White House revealed that President Donald Trump had received the broadly unremarkable diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency, CNN trotted out Dr. Chris Pernell to assess it.

DATA: California maintains a little-known "behested payments" database that discloses when state officials request others to make charitable donations on their behalf.

It shows that Gavin Newsom has requested millions of dollars in contributions to his wife's charity, the California Partners Project, as well as an entity that pays for his out-of-state and overseas travel, the California Protocol Foundation.

Corporate donors who give big to those groups, it turns out, have a habit of getting what they want from Newsom. In one prominent case, Newsom's office sent an August 2024 letter to the Interior Department opposing a proposed tribal casino project—a few months after a rival tribe that wanted it blocked sent $500,000 to the California Partners Project.

JUST IN: Columbia President Claire Shipman Issues Internal Apology Over Messages School Said Lacked 'Context' Shipman sent the apology note to a small group of colleagues and donors one day after the Free Beacon reported on leaked text messages in which she argued that the school needed to get an "Arab on our board" and suggested that a Jewish trustee should be removed over her pro-Israel advocacy.

THREAD 🧵:

In November, the Pulitzer Prize committee invited Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson to serve on the nominating jury for the National Reporting category.

This week, she found herself on the receiving end of a rebuke from the Pulitzer board after trying to ask its members a few questions—like why a prize went to a Palestinian “poet” who mocked Israeli hostages. The board awarded the Pulitzer prize for Commentary to Mosab Abu Toha for essays in the New Yorker that, it said, combined “deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience of more than a year and a half of war with Israel.”

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.