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Math and political science of genocide: Parents object when elite high school welcomes biased college courses onto campus
https://archive.is/sjkn4 college courses available to high schoolers: math and this
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/05/12/parents-claim-ideological-bias-in-mesa-college-course-at-la-jolla-high-school/
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REMINDER: Maureen Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was a prosecutor on the Epstein case and is now a prosecutor in the Diddy case.
There has been no justice for victims and almost no arrests made in either of these high-profile cases.
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1923208431244079386
BREAKING: Supreme Court Blocks Trump From Deporting Venezuelan Gang Members Under Alien Enemies Act – Alito, Thomas Dissent
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/breaking-supreme-court-blocks-trump-deporting-venezuelan-gang/
May. 16, 2025 3:20 pm
The US Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from deporting dangerous Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.
In an unsigned order, the high court said the Trump DOJ did not give the Venezuelans enough time to challenge their removals.
“Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster,” the unsigned decision read.
Justices Alito and Thomas dissented.
“I cannot join the decision of the Court. First and most important, we lack jurisdiction and therefore have no authority to issue any relief. Second, even if we had such authority, the applicants have not satisfied the requirements for the issuance of injunctive relief pending appellate review. Third, granting certiorari before any decision on the merits has been made by either the District Court or the Court of Appeals is unwarranted,” Alito wrote in his dissent.
In a concurring opinion, Justice Kavanaugh agreed with the high court’s decision to temporarily block the Trump Administration from deporting Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.
“I understand and agree with the Court’s decision to grant a temporary injunction. The injunction simply ensures that the Judiciary can decide whether these Venezuelan detainees may be lawfully removed under the Alien Enemies Act before they are in fact removed,” Kavanaugh wrote.
The case will now go back down the the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to decide how much notice detainees must be given prior to removal.
CNBC reported:
The Supreme Court on Friday granted a request by Venezuelan nationals seeking an injunction against their removal from the United States under the Alien Enemies Act.
In an unsigned decision, the court said the Trump administration had not given the detainees enough time or adequate resources to challenge their deportations.
“Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster,” the ruling said.
BREAKING…please check back for updates
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/breaking-supreme-court-blocks-trump-deporting-venezuelan-gang/
White House Slams Episcopal Church for Racist Double Standard After Refusing to Resettle White South African Refugees
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/white-house-slams-episcopal-church-racist-double-standard/
May. 16, 2025 2:40 pm
The White House slammed the Episcopal Church on Tuesday for its shocking decision to abandon its long-standing refugee partnership with the federal government, just because the latest refugees in need are white.
The controversy erupted after the church’s presiding bishop, the Most Rev. Sean Rowe, announced in a sanctimonious open letter that the denomination would refuse to help resettle white Afrikaner families from South Africa, despite their documented persecution, farm murders, and political targeting under the post-apartheid regime.
Instead of offering compassion, the Episcopal Church, chose to wrap itself in the language of “racial justice” and walked away from helping victims of violence and displacement simply because they weren’t politically convenient.
According to the letter:
“Since January, the previously bipartisan U.S. Refugee Admissions Program in which we participate has essentially shut down. Virtually no new refugees have arrived, hundreds of staff in resettlement agencies around the country have been laid off, and funding for resettling refugees who have already arrived has been uncertain.
Then, just over two weeks ago, the federal government informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees.
In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step. Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government.
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It has been painful to watch one group of refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many others who have been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years. I am saddened and ashamed that many of the refugees who are being denied entrance to the United States are brave people who worked alongside our military in Iraq and Afghanistan and now face danger at home because of their service to our country. I also grieve that victims of religious persecution, including Christians, have not been granted refuge in recent months.
As Christians, we must be guided not by political vagaries, but by the sure and certain knowledge that the kingdom of God is revealed to us in the struggles of those on the margins. Jesus tells us to care for the poor and vulnerable as we would care for him, and we must follow that command. Right now, what that means is ending our participation in the federal government’s refugee resettlement program and investing our resources in serving migrants in other ways.”
Even more hypocritical, just last year, the Episcopal Church proudly bragged about aiding illegal immigrants who broke U.S. immigration laws.
But when the federal government legally classifies 59 white Afrikaners as refugees under international standards, suddenly the church wants nothing to do with it.
So much for compassion. So much for justice. So much for Christianity.
Read more:
Episcopal Church Ends Refugee Partnership with U.S. Government — Cites Moral Opposition to Resettling Persecuted White Afrikaners from South Africa
Sean Rowe defended his decision not to resettle South African refugees during an interview on CNN, claiming, “This is really about people who have jumped the line.”
WATCH:
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe defends his refusal to resettle South African refugees: “This is really about people who have jumped the line.”
“We can’t be ourselves as the church, as the people that Jesus has called us to—which is the most vulnerable—and take the… pic.twitter.com/D5yzyE3Mva
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) May 15, 2025
Deputy White House Press Secretary Anna Kelly didn’t mince words when speaking to The Daily Signal:
“The Episcopal Church’s decision to terminate its decades-long partnership with the U.S. government over the resettlement of 59 desperate Afrikaner refugees raises serious questions about its supposed commitment to humanitarian aid.
“Any religious group should support the plight of Afrikaners, who have been terrorized, brutalized, and persecuted by the South African government.
“The Afrikaners have faced unspeakable horrors and are no less deserving of refugee resettlement than the hundreds of thousands of others who were allowed into the United States during the past administration.”
“President [Donald] Trump has made it clear: refugee resettlement should be about need, not politics.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/white-house-slams-episcopal-church-racist-double-standard/
Bear with me the following rant is stream of consciousness.
The US isn’t finished because of the actions of the left and SCOTUS but we are in a very bad place, the left and the Justices are using Alinsky’s rules for radicals and are turning the Constitution into a suicide pact by forcing us to live to the letter of what they say is our rules. We in the West are in grave trouble because the left has managed to seize control of all of our governments and are attempting to force us into a one world socialist government that will destroy all freedom.
All hope is not lost, the SCOTUS decision is a “temporary” delay although the comments make me believe they will not change their minds when the lower Court reissues their decision. Part of the reason we are in trouble is that way too many people have been working to block the Article 3 Constitutional Convention. They have said that the left would seize control and strip us of all of our rights, but for this to happen three quarters of the States would have to ratify their actions. They ignore that in the Constitutional Conventions each State gets one vote, no matter how many people they send to the Convention they get one vote.
Many are saying that we don’t need a Convention because we can use “nullification” to control the Federal Government, the problem is that the Constitution doesn’t allow the States to nullify Federal actions. Some of the Amendments that are being purposed will allow the States to get together and nullify Federal Laws and Court decisions but currently there isn’t any way for this to be done.
The idea of individual rights and freedom are under attack and we rapidly loosing our ability to fight to retain these rights, right now we have the right to use the Soap Box to present our case to the public, although in many of our nations this has been removed. We can currently use the ballot box to vote people out but we all know that many if not most of all current elections have been stolen by the left. We can use the Jury Box to defend our rights but in most nations the left has control of the prosecution and this right has been blocked. Our last line is the ammo box and once again in many nations this right has been removed, if we are once again forced to use the ammo box we need leaders who will lead us to victory. Resorting to the ammo box is a last resort and the timing of when to do this is hard to get right. In the American Revolution the revolution was started by the ordinary people and our leaders had to scramble to get out front to lead. I pray that we don’t need to once again resort to violence to retain our rights because the effects of all civil wars are hard to erase and take a long time to erase.
From the mid-1990s, Francisco Gil-White took his own deep dive into the course of events in the breakup of Yugoslavia. He wasn’t satisfied with the packaged narrative put out by the collective Western blob: “experts” celebrating the righteousness of NATO’s stated goals, actual operations on the ground, and lockstep media collaboration.
Though he was essential reading at the time, I turned my attention elsewhere. He’s acknowledged his “light, legacy antisemiticism” till he began a decades-long examination of the players. He chronicles the intricate political dance of politicians, elites (including leaders of [tribal] organizations), and the implacable reality of the RoP.
Now he seems to be interpreting reality along the lines Mj. Coughlin has described so eloquently. Driven by the imperative of understanding what in the world is really going on, he started this series on PTrump. It was an ostensible hypothetical, positing a Machiavellian version that turns everything upside-down. Now it feels like an indictment. Be that as it may, what Gil-White calls “Management of Reality” is good exercise.
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“In rational learning, or critical thinking, as it is also called, when the unexpected happens, you confess to yourself: I have the wrong model of reality. And then you make changes to your model’s assumptions to see if you can improve your predictive power. In the special case where reality did the precise opposite of what you were expecting, as happened here, then you must reject your model entirely and cast about for a new one.
“They call this ‘science,’ and it works beautifully. But science breaks down entirely if, when your model fails completely, you stick to it regardless.”
PART 4: IS TRUMP FOR REAL? Trump 2.0’s pro-jihadi geopolitics in the context of Trump 1.0
https://franciscogilwhite.substack.com/p/part-4-is-trump-for-real-trump-20s