[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A top US public university in a deep-red state blows through $13 million a year on its huge diversity team, a shocking study shows.
Auditors say Ohio State University's
To the Mail copy editorial staff: the correct name is The Ohio State University — they’re very proud of their definite article…
diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) team is so bloated, its salaries alone would cover tuition costs for 1,000 in-state students at the main campus in Columbus.
OpenTheBooks.com, which tracks public funds, lifted the lid on how such college DEI chiefs as James L. Moore and Keesha Mitchell earn an eye-popping $300,000 each year — about five times a typical Ohio salary.
OSU has queried how the $13 million figure was calculated, but did not dispute the sum and, when asked, did not offer an alternate estimate of its annual DEI spend.
DEI has become a battleground issue between progressives, who say it helps women and minorities get ahead in education, and conservatives, who say it amounts to reverse discrimination against white men.
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to make America's colleges 'sane and affordable' in a major overhaul of the Department of Education that would involve sacking 'all Marxist diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrats.'
John Hart, CEO of OpenTheBooks.com, said he was stunned by OSU's oversize DEI budget in a state where Trump, a Republican, won by a thumping 11 percentage points in November.
'This isn't Harvard. This is Buckeye Nation,' Hart told the DailyMail.com.
'Ohio has become a deep-red state, and yet we find this agenda has been financed to the tune of $13M — just for salaries alone.
'The identity politics agenda is totally out of step with states like Ohio, yet it has enjoyed lavish financing at a flagship university.'
Researchers counted 201 employees with DEI-related roles in 2023 — 132 of them in the main offices of 'Diversity and Inclusion' and 'Institutional Equity,' and the rest spread out throughout the institution.
They included the 26 scholars working in the area of women's gender and sexuality studies, including the professors Shannon Winnubst and Treva Lindsey, who both earn more than $150,000 a year.
Courses in that department now include 'Sexualities and Citizenship, which covers the 'contemporary lesbian experience' and the bizarrely named 'Queer Ecologies: Gender, Sexuality, & the Environment.'
That course seeks to 'disrupt the gendered and heterosexual assumptions embedded in how we understand the environment' and lays out 'queer' ways to address climate change, says a course description.
It's not the first time that OSU has been targeted for DEI bloat — vice president-elect JD Vance, an OSU graduate, in 2023 wrote to officials and took to social media to decry the 'troubling rise of racial prejudice on campus.'
'If universities keep pushing racial hatred, euphemistically called DEI, we need to look at their funding,' he posted.
He called DEI a 'modern gloss on racism, anti-Semitism, and other ancient prejudices' and called it a 'rot' that 'is pervasive at Ohio State.'
That same year, an investigation by Do No Harm, a conservative medical group, found that OSU's health sciences courses pushed students to tackle any 'privileges' they might have for being white, straight, or able-bodied.
This included course reading materials from the feminist activist and scholar Peggy McIntosh, about how white people are 'subtly trained' to mete out 'hostility, distress, and violence … upon people of color.'
OSU spokesman Benjamin Johnson defended the school, saying it was difficult to calculate exactly how much is spent on DEI efforts, and that OpenTheBooks.com had released their report 'without the university's input or guidance'.
'Ohio State values diversity of thought, protects freedom of expression and works to foster a welcoming environment for Ohioans from every community in this state,' said Johnson.
Much of the university's DEI funding was spent on helping immigrants, people with disabilities or young children, and cash-strapped people from 'rural Ohio and Appalachia' get an education, he added.
Founded in 1870, OSU, with 65,000 students and 7,300 academic staff, is among America's largest universities and in the 'Big Ten' athletic conference, which now has 18 members.
OSU and other public schools raise money from many sources, including tuition fees, endowments, and their sports teams, but also receive taxpayer money from federal, state and local sources.
OSU spends more on DEI than other public schools, but less than the University Of North Carolina, at about $90 million a year, and the roughly $20 million a year at the University of Virginia, according to Openthebooks.com.
DEI staff now make up more than 3.4 positions for every 100 tenured professors, according to nationwide research by The Heritage Foundation, stoking fears of a ballooning sector that some say is no more than a woke box-ticking exercise.
Across the country, conservative lawmakers have begun to target diversity programs in state agencies, schools and private companies.
At least 10 Republican-leaning states have cracked down on DEI in recent years: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
Some of these policies ban state funds from being used for diversity-based programs, activities, and offices on college campuses, as seen in Alabama. Some states, like Texas, ban diversity offices at universities altogether.
Ohio's state anti-DEI bill failed to clear the House in 2024, but its sponsor, state Rep. Jerry Cirino, says he'll try again in 2025 and aim to end 'inherently discriminatory' policies in Ohio colleges.
Hart, from the OpenTheBooks.com, says he expects state lawmakers to take more action this year.
'Even though it feels like the tide is turning against DEI, dismantling the DEI infrastructure will not be easy,' he said.
'The Trump administration will roll back these programs within the federal government, so in some ways we're going to see the battleground move to the states. Dozens of governors and legislatures can use our findings to take action.'
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That's over a 1000 full time scholarships a year. You want diversity, fire your College of Education because they produce the teachers and administrators that run the primary and secondary feeder system to the university till they provide a 'product' that can perform solely on merit.
More Trump winning — nine days before he takes the reins.
[FoxBusiness] Meta's massive overhaul of its internal and external policies this week reportedly included the removal of tampons from men's rooms, according to one report.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that the company would be ending its controversial fact-checking practices and lifting restrictions on speech to "restore free expression" across Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, admitting its content moderation practices had "gone too far."
By Friday, Meta had ended its major diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
The New York Times reported on these changes Friday in a piece headlined, "Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era," warning, "The repercussions are just beginning."
Along with removing transgender and nonbinary customization themes on its Messenger app and changing its "Hateful Conduct" policy to allow criticism of gender identity, the company took an active role in changing the corporate culture at the office, according to The Times.
At "Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads, two employees said," The Times reported.
LGBTQ employees reportedly groused on internal resource channels, with at least one announcing a resignation, while others said they would look for new jobs.
Fox News Digital reached out to Meta for comment.
Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan told Fox News Digital Friday that the move to end its diversity, equity and inclusion programs will ensure that the company is "building teams with the most talented people."
He added that "This means evaluating people as individuals, and sourcing people from a range of candidate pools, but never making hiring decisions based on protected characteristics like race or gender."
As for the timing of the changes to Meta's fact-checking programs, Kaplan told Fox News Digital the company has "a real opportunity now."
"We have a new administration coming in that is far from pressuring companies to censor and [is more] a huge supporter of free expression," Kaplan said. "It gets us back to the values that Mark founded the company on."
These changes appear to follow trends among other major companies as they shift away from DEI and related ideologies during the new Trump era.
If everybody, or even just many, does/do everything a little better, the virtuous cycle is going to be awesome. And Mr. Zuckerburg has seriously earnt my revaluation of his character and ability — this is not the behaviour of someone reluctantly accepting a power shift.
Not much newer activity other than what we've been seeing over the last 30-50 years, and no serious ground deformations for a while. Although it is due for at least a magnitude 6.0, based on historical data.
Still would be a Really Big Nasty if it decides to cook off again.
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New Mandatory Evaluations. The Palisades Fire has started spreading again tonight. Mandatory Evacuations are being made in Tarzana, Encino from Skirball Center to to The Getty Museum on the 405 fwy. #PalisadesFire#THEGETTYpic.twitter.com/YyZBYvbGPn
[FoxNews] President Joe Biden’s inauguration in Jan. 2021 may have been scaled back due to COVID-19, but Washington, D.C., is now preparing to welcome a tremendous influx of visitors for the monumental event this year for President-elect Donald Trump.
Elliott Ferguson, II, Destination DC president and CEO, told Fox News Digital, "The public hasn’t been able to participate in the inauguration since 2017, so we expect significant interest."
Typically, first-term presidents have larger inaugurations, according to Destination DC’s data partners.
Travelers should check the weather prior to their trip, ensuring proper clothes are packed.
"We have had a snowy start to 2025 and the temperatures have been below normal …Travelers should anticipate freezing temperatures and the potential for snow," she said.
The inauguration takes place on Jan. 20 on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
The parade will begin at approximately 2:30 p.m. on Inauguration Day, lasting 60 to 90 minutes, according to Destination DC’s website.
The public viewing areas for the parade start at 3rd Street, extending to Pennsylvania Avenue near the Canadian Embassy.
The suspects made an unsuccessful attempt to cut a lock to uniform storage.
Planning for crowd control.
In total, the suspects stole one armored Humvee, two cloth-door Humvees, eight machine gun vehicle mounts, seven freestanding machine gun tripods, 40 pairs of binoculars, 18 bayonets and medical equipment.
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Hard pass. I will probably buy a newspaper that day though for the first time in 15 years.
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Like the NFL, the best seats for this celebration of our national return to sanity will be in my family room, where with the click of a button I can pause the entire event and get snacks or deal with any other pressing issues!
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Staying home is somewhat safer than confronting Code Pink/Antifa/DEI types (probably with confrontational signage, large puppets, rocks and balloons.
For them, anyway.
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[GP] The Biden White House raised eyebrows across the Internet today with a somewhat startling press release just days before President Trump is scheduled to take office.
NSC Spokesperson Sean Savett wrote a statement on behalf of the Regime titled regarding so-called "anomalous health incidents" affecting hundreds of U.S. personnel and family members while suggesting possible causes for the mysterious happenings including electromagnetic or acoustic energy. These mysterious symptoms, which include unexplained head pressure, ear pain, and dizziness, reportedly began in 2016 and have spread to roughly a dozen overseas locations.
The press release starts by bragging about the Regime’s actions and supposed progress in countering these scary incidents.
"Upon taking office, the Biden-Harris Administration spearheaded a dedicated effort to address anomalous health incidents reported by our colleagues," the statement by Savett reads.
"We convened departments and agencies across the U.S. Government to develop new policies to expand access to and improve medical care for affected personnel, ensure incidents could be reported freely and without stigma, and provide benefits to eligible employees under statutes passed by Congress, including the HAVANA Act which President Biden signed into law," the press release continues.
"We also tasked the Intelligence Community to examine the causes or causes of these incidents and directed intensive research by our leading laboratories, informed by experts in and outside of government."
The release notes that the Regime released an intelligence assessment today regarding this phenomenon, which many have called "Havana Syndrome" because of where the mysterious symptoms first began. This report states that the majority of spy agencies now doubt these ailments are via the actions of a foreign enemy.
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Seems to me, the only reason for such a "briefing" is to distract from the discovery of some government malfeasance, likely by one of the Three Letter Agencies. What reason could there be for testing such a device on our own people? Simple, you need to follow up on your experimental subjects to study the effects. Doing a detailed medical exam on your own embassy staff is easier than using random foreigners, especially hostile ones.
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It is still my opinion that they weren't trying to damage their own people.
More like a new electronic anti-eavesdropping, anti-drone, anti-whatever blocking technology that didn't get field trials that included looking for any negative impacts on human subjects.
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Official USG recognition of 'Agent Orange' took 40 years. We've still got another 30 years before Havana Syndrome will be recognized.
[MAIL] The $750,000-a-year LA water czar is responsible for a raft of failures that contributed to the devastating Palisades Fire, fire department insiders told DailyMail.com.
On Mayor Karen Bass's orders, the city maxed out its budget to 'attract private-sector talent', hiring Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones on a $750,000 salary in May — almost double that of her predecessor.
Now, Quiñones is being blamed by LA Fire Department (LAFD) insiders for leaving a nearby reservoir disconnected and fire hydrants broken for months, DailyMail.com can reveal, leading to firefighters running out of water as they battled the devastating Palisades Fire this week.
And, Daily Mail.com has learned, Quiñones past employer is also linked to fire scandals. She was previously a top executive at electricity company PG&E, which went bankrupt over liability for several massive wildfires in California.
She served as senior vice president at Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) from 2021 to 2023.
The utility company's power lines sparked the second-largest wildfire in California history, Dixie, in 2021. Its involvement in the 2018 Camp Fire cost PG&E a $13.5billion legal settlement.
The firm's liability for allegedly causing fires was estimated at $30billion when it filed for bankruptcy in 2018. It exited bankruptcy in 2020.
Quiñones joined PG&E in April 2021 as Senior Vice President of Gas Engineering, switched to Senior Vice President of Electric Operations in July 2022, and left the firm in December 2023.
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[Regnum] An unknown type of aircraft, which may be a sixth-generation fighter jet created in China, was spotted on a satellite image from Shenyang, China. This was reported by The War Zone (TWZ) portal
"An intriguing object spotted in Shenyang on January 1 may be another concept for a next-generation manned tactical combat aircraft," the publication said.
It is specified that this is a medium-class combat vehicle compared to heavy models or combat drones.
Satellite images published by the newspaper on January 1 showed the new aircraft on the territory of the main plant of the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. The length of the aircraft, created according to the tailless design, is about 15 m. It has a diamond-shaped wing and two engines.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on December 26, 2024, a video of the first flight of a new Chinese fighter, possibly sixth generation, appeared on the Internet. In the footage, an unknown aircraft was moving accompanied by a Chinese fifth-generation fighter Chengdu J-20.
Later that day, Russian military pilot and member of the expert council of the Officers of Russia organization, Major General Vladimir Popov, told the Regnum news agency that footage posted on social media of an alleged flight of a Chinese sixth-generation fighter should be treated with caution. The expert clarified that the Chinese do not yet have fighters that can be fully classified as fifth generation, since they fly on Russian 4++ generation engines.
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There are also some very broad similarities in certain respects between what has emerged at Shenyang and concept art of Lockheed Martin’s X-44 MANTA (Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft) from the late 1990s and early 2000s. The MANTA design was derived from the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter and, at least to our knowledge, never came to be.
The Caliphornia politician connection?
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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.
[GP] The Biden White House raised eyebrows across the Internet today with a somewhat startling press release just days before President Trump is scheduled to take office.
Yet another very highly paid gov't czar. Is it just me, or is there actually a pattern developing here ? 
