[Independent] Donald Trump’s counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka claims Americans who don’t support the president’s anti-immigration agenda and deportations policy are "on the side of the terrorists."
He suggested advocates for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran father living in Maryland who was mistakenly deported to a brutal prison in his home country, could be prosecuted for "aiding and abetting."
"It’s not left and right, it’s not even Republican or Democrat. There’s one line that divides us: Do you love America, or do you hate America? It’s really quite that simple," Gorka told Newsmax on Wednesday.
“We have people that love America, like the president, like his cabinet, like the directors of his agencies, who want to protect Americans. And then there’s the other side that is on the side of the cartel members, on the side of the illegal aliens, on the side of the terrorists,” he added. “And you have to ask yourself: Are they technically aiding and abetting them? Because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime in federal statute.”
Gorka, who serves as a deputy secretary to the president and the White House senior director for counterterrorism, is tasked with developing the Trump administration’s approach to combating domestic terrorism.
[ISSUESINSIGHTS] In February, a bunch of centrist Democratic officials gathered in ritzy Potomac, Maryland, to complain that the party had become too radicalized and needed to ''get out of elite circles and into real communities (e.g., tailgates, gun shows, local restaurants, churches).''
The response of rank-and-file Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... ? ''Go left, young gender-fluid person!!''
This week, RealClearPolitics reported on a poll from Survey USA that found 74% of Democrats either want the party to be even more ''progressive'' (50%) or like it just the way it is (24%). Fewer than one in five wants the party to move toward the center.
Yes, some are trying to keep sanity alive.
Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Gov. Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom ...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland... — who desperately wants to be president — has been pretending to be a moderate by inviting conservatives onto his podcast and saying things such as ''the Democratic brand is toxic.''
Former reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Mayor Rahm Emanuel is warning Democrats that they ''can't be a party that believes in equity and allows two-thirds of your kids who can't read.'' He's also said that Democrats have ''sunk'' their own party.
Democratic New Mexico District Attorney Sam Bregman is running for governor against the ''radical Left.''
But this isn't the 1990s, and there is no interest or appetite among Democrats in reviving Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is... 's ''New Democrat'' corpse.
The party is now irretrievably in the grip of those toxic, party-sinking radical leftists. In the Survey USA poll, there wasn't a single demographic group where even a plurality felt the party should be more moderate.
More than half of young, urban, college-educated, well-paid whites — the very people who make up the ''elite circles'' and will never venture into ''real communities'' — want the party to move further to the left.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat...... avowed socialists Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... and Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore are drawing big crowds and generating loads of fawning press for their ''fight the oligarchy ... derived from the Greek words oligos, a few and the verb archo, to rule, to govern, to command. Oligarchies are invariably effectual rather than established, to whit, they disguise themselves as other systems, working as the real government behind the face of of democracy, fascism, socialism, monarchy, or what have you... '' tour.
[Fox] The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously ruled Wednesday that a woman is someone born biologically female, a move that now excludes transgender women from the legal definition of a woman.
[EuropeanConservative] Two months ago, the English podcast host Louise Perry hosted David Betz, a professor at King’s College, London, and an expert in civil wars. The topic? "The Coming British Civil War." Betz argues that the United Kingdom now has all the traditional hallmarks of a society on the verge of violent civil conflict. He mentions the collapse of faith in British institutions, the two-tier justice system, Islamic radicalization, and the polarization wrought by official multiculturalism, among other factors.
The YouTube version of the interview has had nearly 200,000 views—so many that Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley noticed, writing in his April 3 column that events both in Britain and on the European continent (he cites a French court banning Marine Le Pen from running for the presidency) are driving things to a reckoning.
Writes Stanley:
Every conspiracy theory is confirmed, and without a democratic outlet for anger—seeing their aspirations limited and being too poor to emigrate—where else will a militant faction of angry whites go but to violence?
Nearly every educated English person I know under the age of forty is seeking to emigrate, having lost hope that their country has the wherewithal to pull out of its cultural and economic crisis. In Oxford recently, an American student told me, "If the ruling class here openly hated the British people, it’s hard to know what they would be doing differently."
Spending a week in France last month, I recalled the scandalous open letter that 20 retired French generals and 1,000 active duty service members released in 2021, warning that their country was headed to civil war unless the government acted firmly against Islamic radicals in the suburbs, and turned away from divisive policies driven by so-called "anti-racism."
In a number of private conversations with ordinary French people—this was before the Le Pen verdict—I brought up the Betz interview (none had heard about it), and asked them if they foresaw civil war coming to France. Nearly all of them said yes. They said so with an unnerving sense of calm, as if they accepted it as a matter of course. When I complimented one couple on their country, and told them that one day I would like to live in France, they responded in unison, "No!" Stay in Hungary, they said; you’ll be safe there.
You would never know from the mainstream media that this sort of sentiment is bubbling among the population of Europe and the UK. In his interview with Perry, Betz says that many people suffer from what he calls "normalcy bias"—that is, the belief that such a thing cannot happen here. Oh, but it can!
After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1992, violent civil conflicts broke out in some of the former Soviet republics, once the majority non-Russian populations ceased to fear the Communist yoke. They weren’t formal civil wars, with two armies lined up against each other. These were often spontaneous, undirected spasms of orgiastic violence—exactly what Prof. Betz says civil war in the UK and in Europe would be like. He also says that given mass media, especially social media, a civil war sparking off in one country would likely trigger them almost instantly in others.
If you want an idea of how hideous this kind of thing can be, read the testimonies in Secondhand Time: The Last Of The Soviets, a riveting oral history of the fall of the USSR. Ordinary people opened up to writer Svetlana Alexievich with their traumatic stories of what life in the 1990s and 2000s was like in the ruins of the Soviet state.
Russians, Armenians, and Tajiks living in the ethnic republics found that their longtime friends and neighbors turned on them overnight.
This is what can easily happen when the law disappears, and people feel at liberty to act out their darkest passions. It’s human nature: back to blood, or religion, or class solidarity. Don’t think for one second that Europeans are not like the Soviets: the history of the Holocaust reveals that Germans, Poles, and others turned viciously on their Jewish friends and neighbors when permitted to. The skull is always just below the skin.
J.D. Vance angered many European elites in his Munich speech when he warned them that the greatest security threats their countries face are within—and that their attempt to deny them by squelching free speech was only making matters worse. This—the danger not of war with other nations, but of civil war—is precisely what he was talking about.
In that blockbuster podcast interview, Prof. Betz says that "normalcy bias" is especially strong in Britain, which, unlike other European countries, has been relatively peaceful. Today, though, there is no reason to believe that the past predicts the future. Many of the cultural traditions that kept the English peaceable have dissolved in the face of modernity—especially multiculturalism.
"Multiculturalism has drained our nation’s social capital. It’s encouraged factionalism and polarization, both of which are up massively," Betz says. "The belief of people in pre-political loyalty has been shattered by the triumph of identity politics in our society. So as a result of which, we see that nativist sentiments are increasingly manifested in a narrative of downgrading or displacement that is one of the most powerful causes of civil conflict."
"Downgrading" and "displacement" are technical terms used in civil war scholarship to describe the feeling among native peoples that they are losing ground in their own country to rival groups. This is what the French writer Renaud Camus means by his concept of the Great Replacement.
This did not start in Britain with the current Labour government, says Betz, but the Starmer administration’s mad policies—in particular, its attempts to squelch criticism of the Pakistani rape gangs scandal—are a textbook example of how to provoke civil war. The Starmer government is destroying its own legitimacy through "failure to secure the country, the failure to secure its borders against what can only be described as a large-scale border raid, and the failure to protect children, the most vulnerable people in our society from the most extraordinary and grotesque predation on very large scale."
What’s happening in Britain is happening all over western Europe. Alas, the professor thinks it’s too late to stop civil war in his own country. What about the rest of Europe? If Betz is right about the likelihood that civil war in one European country would likely set it off in others, that question might be in vain. If so, then history will record that the great villains of Europe’s 21st-century civil wars will not be the natives, or the Muslims, or the migrants, but rather the very social and political elites who spent decades assembling the tinder for this bonfire. The most important thing to remember about Globalist Western Elites is that are just as psychotic as their "transgender" pets.
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We have a lot of close friends from Blighty who suffer from the same problems as a number of Americans, "If it doesn't effect me right now then I don't have to worry about it." They don't want to think about the horrors that aren't immediately visible.
It's only a matter of a few months before the string breaks.
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EU made sure they disarmed their population first (less Switzerland). More like to come here as the Deep State players decide to go full Hail Mary on retaining power.
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[REGNUM] Exactly one hundred years ago, on April 16, 1925, a large-scale terrorist act shook Bulgaria. It was organized by the Military Department of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP).
It is paradoxical that the day before, the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Comintern, based in Moscow, declared that the paramilitary unit of the BCP should be closed down, checked and rebuilt, and directly condemned the terrorist activities of the Bulgarian comrades.
However, the shout from the capital of world communism did not achieve its goal. The explosion in the St. Nedelya Cathedral in Sofia took the lives of a total of 213 people. Among them were many military personnel who had come to the funeral of retired General Konstantin Georgiev. Three days before the terrorist attack, he was shot by a militant from the military department of the BCP.
But the bulk of the victims were ordinary citizens. The members of the Bulgarian government, almost all of whom were present at the ceremony, by a coincidence did not even receive serious injuries.
The terrorist attack of a century ago was not an act of unmotivated violence. In Bulgaria, there was actually a civil war, largely inspired by Soviet Russia.
And General Georgiev, the head of the paramilitary Military Union, who had more than one dead communist on his account, turned out to be a legitimate target in this war, and the explosion of an Orthodox cathedral was a justified means.
But in order to understand the reasons for what happened, it is necessary to move from 1925 to 1923.
HOW THE "KORNILOVS" DEFEATED "KERENSKY"
In June 1923, the Bulgarian military carried out a military coup, removing the government of the Agricultural People's Union (ZNS) led by the popular leftist politician Aleksandar Stamboliyski from power. The prime minister himself was killed.
If we draw analogies with Russia, then our analog of the right-wing Bulgarian putsch was the speech of Lavr Kornilov in August 1917. The ZNS were roughly equivalent in ideology to the Socialist Revolutionaries, and Stamboliysky turned out to be someone like Alexander Kerensky.
But there are two differences. Firstly, Bulgaria was still ruled by a tsar ( Boris III had been on the throne since 1918 ). Secondly and most importantly, the Bulgarian military and the right-wing politicians who stood behind them turned out to be stronger than their "Kerensky", who paid with his life for his weakness.
Moreover, unlike the Russian Bolsheviks, the Balkan communists took a neutral position in the confrontation between the Kornilovites and the Socialist Revolutionary farmers. The Sofia party press described this confrontation as a struggle between the urban and rural factions of the bourgeoisie.
But unlike 1917, there was already such a global player in the world as the Communist International (Comintern) with its headquarters in Moscow. And Moscow was unhappy with such self-elimination of the Balkan comrades.
"THE UNIFORM OF THE COMMANDER OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION"
The 3rd extended plenum of the Comintern on June 23, 1923, at the instigation of Karl Radek, an active comrade of Leon Trotsky, reproached their Bulgarian colleagues for failing to take advantage of a favorable opportunity for armed action.
"Every mass party is obliged to take risks and fight even with the fear of defeat. Even if it is defeated... it will show the working masses that it is the center of the struggle around which they can unite," Radek said.
In fact, over the head of the BCP, the Comintern called on Bulgarian workers to rise up to fight the "White Guard coup". This epithet, by the way, is not far from reality, since the white emigration from Russia in Bulgaria assisted the local right.
The Bolshevik leaders perceived the events of 1923 in Europe as a new wave of world revolution. They were most inspired by the events in Germany and Bulgaria. In relation to the former, it was believed that it was generally on the threshold of a socialist revolution.
Trotsky was especially enthusiastic. The People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs clearly did not benefit from the introduction of the NEP and the reduction of the Red Army that had won the Civil War. A coalition of Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and Joseph Stalin was already forming against him.
According to the doctor of historical sciences Alexander Vatlin, the “troika” could not allow “Trotsky to be dressed in the uniform of the commander-in-chief of the forces of world revolution.”
Moreover, the process of establishing diplomatic relations between Soviet Russia and Western countries was beginning, and provoking political upheavals in them was becoming counterproductive.
According to the Russian historian Ilya Suzdaltsev, Trotsky's opponents in the Comintern "did not strive to carry out the revolution to the extent that was stated in official documents." Therefore, the German direction was assigned to individuals who successfully failed it.
Bulgaria is a different matter. Christian Rakovsky was responsible for Balkan affairs for the Bolsheviks from the moment the Comintern was established in 1919. A very well-informed American journalist working in post-revolutionary Russia, Louis Fisher, reported that in 1923 Rakovsky was removed from the leadership of the Ukrainian SSR and sent into diplomatic “exile” to London because of his rapprochement with Trotsky.
AN ADVENTURE THAT ENDED IN DISASTER
Nevertheless, Moscow placed its bet in Bulgaria on Rakovsky’s former colleagues in the Balkan Communist Federation (which became part of the Comintern), Georgi Dimitrov and Vasil Kolarov.
Thanks to their efforts, the Central Committee of the BCP at the end of the summer of 1923 took a course towards preparing an armed uprising.
The rebellion began on the night of September 19-20 and provoked the peasantry to anti-government actions. The epicenter of the uprising was the northwestern part of Bulgaria. Stubborn battles between the rebels and government troops continued for several days, but without the support of the townspeople, the rebels were doomed. Together with the remnants of the peasant detachments, Kolarov and Dimitrov evacuated to Yugoslavia.
The rebels suffered up to 10,000 casualties, while the government forces suffered 600. Many left-wing activists suffered from the wave of repression that swept across the country. General Georgiev's Military Union made a major contribution to it.
The Bulgarian communist leaders who fled Yugoslavia moved to Vienna, where in October 1923 the Foreign Committee of the BCP was created. It advocated for the continuation of the armed struggle. The Comintern also contributed to the consolidation of the radical opposition forces in Bulgaria. On February 20, 1924, in Moscow, representatives of the foreign structures of the Bulgarian communists and the ZNS, overthrown by the military, signed an agreement on the creation of a joint Revolutionary Committee.
EXPORT OF REVOLUTION IS CANCELLED
Rakovsky, by the way, had very warm relations with the leaders of the Agricultural Union during their time in power. He also contributed to the rapprochement of the positions of the Bulgarian communists with the Macedonian autonomists. These nationalists advocated the secession of Macedonia, which was close in language and culture to Bulgaria, from the Yugoslav Kingdom (where non-Serbian peoples did not have any autonomy at that time).
The plans for a new uprising in Bulgaria focused on a Yugoslav military invasion against the backdrop of escalating tensions over Macedonia. However, the Yugoslav invasion expected in the spring of 1924 did not take place. Great Britain, which was not interested in an interstate crisis in the Balkans, played a significant role in its cancellation.
Moscow, which at that time had diplomatic relations with London, had itself lost interest in exporting the revolution. On March 13, 1924, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) stated that the Bulgarian revolutionary movement should rely exclusively on internal forces, since assistance from the USSR was impossible. This turn coincided with the weakening of the positions of Trotsky's supporters in the leadership of the Bolshevik Party and the Comintern.
"NOT LEFTISM, BUT COURAGE"
The Foreign Committee of the BCP was clearly annoyed by this turn of events. Kolarov recalled two years later: "Having gone through fire, we became bold to the point of recklessness. Bomb, poison, execution - this is our new psychology, is this leftism? This is a demand of the revolution."
In May 1924, an anti-Moscow coup d'etat took place in the Bulgarian Communist Party. Contrary to the position of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), the Bulgarian communists, at an illegally held conference, took a course on preparing a new uprising for the autumn of 1924. This decision was inspired by the Foreign Committee and the Balkan Communist Federation.
From this moment on, the Military Organization began to develop rapidly within the party. An officer, a veteran of the World War, Kosta Yankov, became its head. Thanks to his energetic actions, the party acquired structures for intelligence, counterintelligence, subversive activities, and a wide network of partisan detachments (chet). The number of the military organization grew so quickly that its scale became comparable to the entire party.
The rapid growth in the number of members of the BCP's combat wing was stimulated by the protest sentiments that engulfed the lower classes after the brutal suppression of the September Uprising.
The growing activity of the Bulgarian underground fighters inspired the Soviet security agencies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Their analytical materials once again gave hope for the success of the armed uprising.
This is probably what the instigators of the "left turn" in the BCP were trying to achieve. Meanwhile, the leaders of the Bulgarian communists were sending Moscow bravura projects to seize state power against the backdrop of the "growing crisis of the bourgeois-landlord government" under Tsar Boris III.
But then unforeseen circumstances intervened.
HOW THE "BLACK PROFESSOR" TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE REDS' FAILURE
At the beginning of 1925, the Bulgarian authorities stepped up the persecution of the BCP, which had been formally banned since September 1923. This led to the Military Organization of Communists being effectively uncontrolled. It increasingly began to use methods of individual terror.
Pro-government militants also resorted to terror against left-wing activists. The streets of Bulgarian cities became a place of action for the Red and White Brigades. In mid-March 1925, the authorities almost openly began preparing for mass repressions of unreliable citizens.
In such circumstances, Yankov's militants decided to destroy the entire "White Guard" government with one blow in the St. Sophia Cathedral. However, after their main goal was not achieved, martial law was introduced in Bulgaria, and the revolutionary underground was routed.
From then until the Soviet troops entered the Balkans in 1944, the left forces were in an unenviable state. The red "globalists" sought to give new impetus to their cherished dream - world revolution - on Bulgarian soil. And this led to the weakening of the socialist movement and the almost unhindered drift of the country towards the Nazi bloc.
The right turn became inevitable immediately after the events of April 16, 1925. One of those who survived the terrorist attack was the then Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Professor Alexander Tsankov.
A former social democrat, he had long ago "moved to the right." Tsankov actively participated in the June 1923 coup. Then, already as prime minister, he suppressed the September uprising and gave the go-ahead for General Georgiev's "white terror." After the explosion organized by the communists, the "black professor" sanctioned a new round of repression.
And in 1931, Tsankov created the openly fascist party "People's Social Movement", which influenced the entire pre-war policy of the country. NSD in tandem with the "Union of Bulgarian National Legions" lobbied for Bulgaria to join the Anti-Comintern Pact of Germany, Italy and Japan, for an ever closer alliance with the Third Reich and for entering the war on its side.
Today, a century after those events, Bulgaria is the focus of attention of the new International. Only if the red "globalists" were burning with ideas of world revolution and dictatorship of the proletariat, then modern globalists - liberals impose on Bulgarians the rejection of traditional spiritual values, economic ties and political institutions. A century ago, the strength of the Communist International was undermined by the change in the foreign policy course of Soviet Russia, now the liberal-globalist European Commission is forced to compete on the periphery of the EU with the nationalist course of the new US administration.
[X] It’s hard to overstate how dystopian and threatening Canada has become. An update from longtime Canadian government official Maxime Bernier.
Wiki- Maxime Bernier PC (French pronunciation: [maksim bɛʁnje]; born January 18, 1963) is a Canadian politician who is the founder and leader of the People's Party of Canada (PPC). Formerly a member of the Conservative Party, Bernier left the caucus in 2018 to form the PPC. He was the member of Parliament (MP) for Beauce from 2006 to 2019 and served as a Cabinet minister in the Harper government.
[FoxNews] "No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."
“He who pays the piper calls the tune.” Any private university can ignore government dicta — outside of those required by state and federal law, of course, such as forbidding discrimination against students and staff for reason of religion or race — so long as they accept no government funding whatsoever.
Harvard’s tense showdown with the Trump administration took another costly turn after the White House froze more than $2 billion in federal funding following the Ivy League school’s failure to curtail antisemitism.
Explaining its decision not to comply with President Donald Trump’s orders aimed at curbing antisemitism, Harvard President Alan Garber said, "No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."
Conversely, White House spokesperson Kush Desai stated that the Trump administration is "motivated by one thing and one thing only: tackling antisemitism…Antisemitic protesters inflicting violence and taking over entire college campus buildings is not only a crude display of bigotry against Jewish Americans, but entirely disruptive to the intellectual inquiry and research that federal funding of colleges is meant to support."
Harvard’s tense showdown with the Trump administration took another costly turn after the White House froze more than $2 billion in federal funding following the Ivy League school’s failure to curtail antisemitism.
The depressing point that’s lost in this standoff is that Harvard appears to be fighting the Trump administration and the president's Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism harder than it has ever fought antisemitism on its own campus.
Where was Harvard’s fierce resolve when swastikas and antisemitic stickers were plastered near Harvard's Hillel? Or when a Harvard employee was filmed ripping down posters of Israeli hostages, including those of the slain Bibas babies? Or when an Israeli business school student was surrounded, mobbed and shouted off campus by pro-Palestinian protesters for the heinous crime of being Jewish?
Harvard is indeed a private university. But unlike Hillsdale College, a small liberal arts college in Michigan which stopped accepting federal funding in 1984, Harvard is still the recipient of billions of dollars of federal funding. That means Harvard is subject to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination against all students, including Jewish students, on the basis of race, color or national origin.
Public or private, Harvard has an obligation to ensure the safety of its student population. From harassment. From discrimination. From violence. These are very rudimentary expectations that Jewish students accuse the university of having neglected, leading to egregious civil rights violations and a lawsuit alleging that "Harvard, America’s leading university, has become a bastion of Jewish hatred and harassment…numerous students and faculty members at Harvard have openly endorsed Hamas’s October 7 massacre, issuing public statements blaming Jews for their own murders, or otherwise excusing or supporting Hamas’s actions."
A simple question persists: Why is there so much controversy around measures being taken to protect Jewish students? Had the federal government threatened to cut off federal funding to universities failing to protect LGBTQ groups, would there be such outcry? Of course not. If masked KKK racists stormed a college campus today, threatened to attack black students and the college administration failed to address that threat, would federal government intervention be so roundly condemned? It rightly would not.
But once again, in the words of British author and screenwriter David Baddiel, Jews don’t count.
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump’s administration says it will stop Harvard University from enrolling foreign students if it does not agree to government demands that would put it under outside political supervision.
Trump is furious at the storied university — which has produced 162 Nobel prize winners — for rejecting his request to submit to oversight on admissions, hiring and political slant.
“And if Harvard cannot verify it is in full compliance with its reporting requirements, the university will lose the privilege of enrolling foreign students,” reads a statement from the Department of Homeland Security.
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Harvard is a business disguised as an education facility. They have enough funds to offer every student free tuition, stop accepting donations and funding and still be fully solvent for the next 100 years. They are a fraud on our institutions and a drain on the American tax payer. And remember, only the very wealthy can afford to go there. It is not there for most for Americans.
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And remember, only the very wealthy can afford to go there. It is not there for most for CONSERVATIVE Americans. . Fixed it for you; plenty of underserved and undeserving liberals go for free.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Government officials have revealed which states are autism hotspots as the US faces a 'relentless epidemic' of cases.
A CDC report released earlier this week revealed rates of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have increased to one in 31 children in the US, a staggering increase from one in 150 just two decades ago.
Experts also suggested the true rate nationwide could be even higher due to patchy screening and limited access in rural areas.
Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr abruptly called a press conference Wednesday claiming Americans 'have to recognize we are doing this to our children and we need to put an end to it.'
He also announced a series of studies looking into 'environmental toxins' he believes could be fueling the surge and promised 'there will be an answer for the American people' by September.
The CDC's new report shows while one in 31 American children are autistic, the condition is even more prevalent in certain states.
In California, for example, one in 19 eight-year-olds in 2022 were diagnosed as autistic, adding up to just over 800. The researchers also suggested the true nationwide rate is closer to California's than to one in 31.
Pennsylvania followed closely behind with one in 21 or 335 children, and Wisconsin recorded a rate of 1 in 26.
And eight states reported rates higher than or equal to the national average for 2022, the latest data available.
However, the report looked only at certain monitoring sites in the US, each of which only focused on a small portion of the state, so the true numbers for each state are likely significantly higher.
The researchers also only looked at children ages four through eight, so it's unclear how many older children and teens were diagnosed.
It's unclear what exactly is behind a surge in autism diagnoses, but Kennedy has suggested environmental toxins like mold, pesticides, food additives, medications or ultrasounds could all be to blame.
He also estimated only 10 to 20 percent of cases are likely due to doctors getting better at diagnosing it.
Scientists and advocates for people with autism have criticized Kennedy's position as harmful and misleading.
Mainstream research describes autism as a complex condition largely shaped by genetics and multiple other contributing factors.
The CDC report looked at autism rates in 16 monitoring sites across the US to predict the overall figure for the rest of the nation.
Researchers focused on four-to-eight-year-old children living in those areas in 2022.
Kids were counted as having autism if they had a diagnosis or were receiving special education for it.
Four-year-olds who didn't have a diagnosis but showed signs of autism were labeled as 'suspected' cases.
States included in the analysis included Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin.
The study also included a site in Puerto Rico and data from two cities in Texas, Austin and Laredo.
Data for California was focused on one county in metropolitan San Diego, which included 15,212 eight-year-olds. The autism rate added up to one in 19 or 807 children.
The CDC experts also suggested in the report the actual nationwide autism rate may be closer to California's than to one in 31.
This could be due to current data not capturing the entire country, as isolated areas may lack testing.
Pennsylvania's data was tied to one county in suburban Philadelphia and included 7,066 children. Of those, 335, or one in 21, had an autism diagnosis.
The state with the third highest rate, one in 26, was Wisconsin. Using data from eight counties throughout the southeastern part of the state, researchers found 1,078 out of 28,098 eight-year-olds had an autism diagnosis.
Data for Texas was focused on Austin and Laredo, which have 980,000 and 258,000 residents each, respectively.
Austin recorded a rate of one in 51 children, which added up to 85. In Laredo, one in 103 eight-year-olds had an autism diagnosis. This added up to 47 out of 4,856.
Though RFK Jr has pointed to environmental factors, the CDC experts said some states may have more cases due to increased resources.
The researchers wrote: 'Research has not demonstrated that living in certain communities puts children at greater risk for developing ASD.
'Differences in the prevalence of children identified with ASD across communities might be due to differences in availability of services for early detection and evaluation and diagnostic practices.'
They also noted some states like California have more testing centers and other states may not cover autism testing in insurance plans.
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Kennedy said at a press conference in Washington that autism is a preventable disease caused by environmental factors, with possibilities including mold, air, medicines, and the increase in the average age of parents. “We have really good genetic markers now, and they provide a vulnerability. But those genetic markers alone are not going to dictate your destiny. You need an environmental toxin,” he said.
More studies coming!
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My favorite theory is waves. Brain is full of waves. Wi fi, blue tooth 12345678G. Is it possible that proximity to said waves affects receptors in developing brains under certain conditions?
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Also need to weight for the change in diagnoses from a fixed definition to a broad spectrum of behaviors leading to more subjective influence in diagnoses.
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Anyone remember a classmate who had to go to what was once called...."Summer School" so they could receive special assistance before going on to the next grade ?
Before the days of 'trophies for everyone' some kids were held back a grade in order to have a second shot at the previous year's curriculum.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
