NEW: The Department of Health and Human Services is investigating two programs at the Cleveland Clinic that offer preferential care to minorities, the first such probe by an agency that has been loath to police racial preferences under the Biden-Harris administration.🧵 HHS announced last week that it had launched an investigation of the clinic’s Minority Stroke Program, which is dedicated to "treating stroke in racial and ethnic minorities," and its Minority Men’s Health Center, which screens black and Hispanic men for disease.

NEW: The University of South Carolina required all students to affirm the value of "diversity and inclusion" as part of a mandatory training this summer.

Then, when I reached out for comment, USC claimed the training was "optional" despite telling students it was "required."🧵 In a module on "Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging," which included 10 multiple choice questions, the training asked students how "diversity and inclusion help create a healthy, positive campus environment."

NEW: The RNC has sent letters to election officials in six swing states urging them to monitor Vot-ER, the nonprofit that helps doctors register their patients to vote, for possible violations of election law.

This is the Dem-aligned group registering patients in psych wards.🧵

Addressed to secretaries of state in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Arizona, and Nevada, the letters argue that Vot-ER is "weaponizing the healthcare system" for partisan ends and "threatening … election integrity" with its materials.

NEW: Robin DiAngelo tells her "fellow white people" that they should "always cite and give credit to the work of BIPOC people who have informed your thinking."

But she appears to have plagiarized numerous scholars—including two minorities—in her doctoral dissertation.🧵 "When you use a phrase or idea you got from a BIPOC person," DiAngelo says, "credit them."

But according to a complaint filed last week with the University of Washington, where DiAngelo received her Ph.D. in multicultural education, she hasn't always taken her own advice.

How bad are hate speech laws in the UK? Saying "it's OK to be white" can result in a harsher sentence than child pornography.

@abigailandwords found numerous cases in which UK judges jailed thought criminals while letting actual criminals off the hook.

The list is shocking.🧵 Judge Benedict Kelleher sentenced a man to 18 months in prison for chanting "who the fuck is Allah?" He gave a lighter sentence to a man who physically assaulted a police officer.

NEW: Two professors on Columbia's top disciplinary body were involved in the unlawful encampment that upended campus life in April and led to the resignation of Columbia president Minouche Shafik, raising questions about the school's ability to keep order in the coming term.🧵 The professors, Joseph Slaughter and Susan Bernofsky, sit on the university senate’s rules committee, which helps set rules governing campus protests as well as the process for enforcing them.

NEW: Doctors at Seattle Children's Hospital were forced to attend a racially segregated DEI training that claimed black people are "systematically targeted for demise" and pressed white docs to "tap into their repressed racial memories" to develop a white "race-consciousness."🧵

Held in August 2022, the training was mandatory for the gastroenterology department and divided participants into three "racial caucuses"—a white caucus, a black caucus, and a "Non-Black POC Caucus"—to "minimize harm to our black learners and facilitator."

NEW: Tim Walz signed into law a bill that established racial quotas throughout the state's health department, from a requirement that two members of a pregnancy task force be "Black or African American" to rules governing the ethnic composition of a "health equity" council.🧵 The legislation, which Walz signed last May, created race-based membership requirements for five separate committees while setting up additional race-conscious programs. Legal experts said the quotas were patently unconstitutional and would be easy pickings for a plaintiff.

NEW: Scores of doctors are now registering their patients to vote—including suicidal and psychotic patients at a PA mental hospital.

Helping them is Vot-ER, a nonprofit founded by a Kamala Harris staffer that is targeting traditional Dem voting blocs.🧵
freebeacon.com/elections/meet… Many patients at the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute's inpatient clinic cannot complete "the activities of daily living" or are "suicidal, aggressive, or dangerous to themselves or others."

Since 2020, the hospital has been helping those patients vote.

NEW: Princeton is on the verge of promoting a professor who participated in the occupation of a campus building that disrupted university operations and led to more than a dozen arrests.🧵

freebeacon.com/campus/princet… Princeton has recommended that the classics scholar Dan-el Padilla Peralta, who along with 13 anti-Israel student protesters stormed Princeton’s historic Clio Hall in April, be promoted from associate to full professor, pending the approval of the university’s board of trustees.

NEW: The World Professional Association for Transgender Health asserted that gender surgeries and hormones were "medically necessary" so that insurance companies would pay for them, letting concerns about the treatments' affordability dictate claims about their effectiveness.🧵 WPATH's standards of care were updated in 2022 to include language about the medical necessity of hormones and surgeries because, as one WPATH official wrote in an email, the group was frustrated with America's "obtuse and unhealthy system of healthcare 'coverage.'"

NEW: Top Columbia officials conceded in private that their rules for managing student protests "don't work," according to new text messages released this week by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

They also mocked one of their colleagues as a “clown.”🧵 The messages, sent during a May 31 panel on Jewish life, reference the cards that Columbia administrators, or "delegates," have been handing out to protesters since last year in an effort to break up unauthorized gatherings.

NEW: The deans at the center of the Columbia texting scandal said Jewish students were "coming from a place of privilege" and suggested they have more institutional support than their peers because of their supposed wealth, according to new messages reviewed by the Beacon.🧵

The messages, obtained by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and released on Tuesday, show that three of the deans—Susan Chang-Kim, Matthew Patashnick, and Cristen Kromm—engaged in a more extensive pattern of disparagement than has been previously reported.

NEW: The dean of Columbia College, Josef Sorett, mocked Columbia’s top Hillel official in a new text message obtained by the Beacon, further implicating him in the scandal that’s caused three of his colleagues to be placed on leave.

“LMAO,” Sorett said of the rabbi’s remarks.🧵 Sorett’s text came in response to a sarcastic message from his colleague, Columbia’s vice dean and chief administrative officer Susan Chang-Kim, who said of Columbia’s Hillel director, Brian Cohen, "He is our hero."

One reason the UCLA whistleblowers came forward is that their medical students couldn’t perform basic lab tests—the kind that that might be used to diagnosis life-threatening conditions like, well, sepsis.

https://twitter.com/josephddupont/status/1802366129912070382

"I have students on their rotation who don't know anything," a member of the admissions committee told the Free Beacon. "People get in and they struggle."

freebeacon.com/campus/a-faile…

SCOOP: The dean of Columbia College, Josef Sorett, said today that the dismissive and vitriolic text messages he and his colleagues exchanged about a panel on anti-Semitism do not "indicate the views of any individual."

He also complained about the “invasion of privacy.”🧵 In an email to Columbia's Board of Visitors, an alumni body that advises the dean, Sorett apologized for the "harm" the exchange caused and pledged that "it will not happen again"—though he did not acknowledge his own texts were captured in the exchanges.

NEW: In leaked text messages obtained by the Free Beacon, top Columbia administrators—including the dean of the college—mocked and dismissed concerns about anti-Semitism on campus and even used vomit emojis to refer to a Columbia rabbi’s op-ed.

Scoop w/@elianayjohnson.🧵

The messages were sent in real time during a panel on anti-semitism at Columbia’s alumni weekend, which included the head of Columbia Hillel, Brian Cohen, and was attended by some of the school’s most senior officials. freebeacon.com/campus/columbi…

EXCLUSIVE: Congressional Republicans have introduced a bill that would ax all DEI positions in the federal government AND bar federal contractors from requiring DEI statements and training sessions.

It would also ban DEI requirements in accreditation.🧵

freebeacon.com/politics/repub… The Dismantle DEI Act, introduced by Sen. J.D. Vance (R., Ohio) and Rep. Michael Cloud (R., Texas), would also bar federal grants from going to diversity initiatives, cutting off a key source of support for DEI programs in science and medicine.

NEW: For 5+ years, UCLA medical school refused to give its own faculty data on the link between MCATs and student performance.

And when whistleblowers tried to come forward about illegal admissions practices, UCLA refused to give them a written guarantee of non-retaliation.🧵 Since at least 2018, the school has refused to provide members of its faculty oversight board data on the relationship between admitted students’ academic credentials and their performance in medical school, two former members of that board said. freebeacon.com/campus/ucla-wa…

NEW: The dean of UCLA medical school, Steven Dubinett, has spent the last week claiming that UCLA does not discriminate based on race and follows state and federal law.

But his own center within the medical school runs a minorities-only fellowship that experts say is illegal.🧵 The med school was hit with allegations last week that its admissions office holds black and Latino applicants to lower standards than their white and Asian counterparts.

Dubinett told an obscure Los Angeles Times columnist on Thursday that the allegations are "fact-free."

NEW: Today the dean of UCLA medical school denied allegations that the school lowers academic standards for minorities, asserting that admissions decisions are "based on merit."

Notice: His statement refers to "false allegations" without saying which ones are false.🧵 The dean also claimed that "medical student final exam scores are well above the national average." It's not clear whether he was referring to the shelf exams—standardized tests that up to 50 percent of some UCLA cohorts now fail, per the school's own data—or to some other test.