There is an alarming media report about an effort by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to target civics programs with the help of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is only the latest accusation of political bias at the AAUP under President Todd Wolfson. I will be debating Dr. Wolfson on the value of institutional neutrality on June 23.
Trinity College Professor Isaac Kamola, the director of the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (CDAF), explains that they want to unleash “naming and shaming and discrediting and undermining the legitimacy” of such civics programs.
As I discuss in my book “The Indispensable Right,” there has been a systematic purging of conservative, libertarian, and contrarian voices in higher education in America. This viewpoint intolerance has been fueled by the AAUP, which was created to foster intellectual exchange and diversity.
There has been a nascent effort to restore not just diversity but classic educational influences in higher education. As the father of four, I was appalled by how my kids could literally find no traditional history courses. Even a course on World War II was a study of identity groups during the war with virtually no discussion of the war itself. American political thought is often addressed from the perspective of colonization or white privilege.
Some schools have responded to the demand for more traditional courses with Civics centers. Notably, these centers are often created under the leadership of university presidents to blunt departmental ideological bias and hostility. Not surprisingly, many academics see the effort as threatening and intolerable.
These centers have been hugely successful and a draw for many students and academics marginalized by faculties that run from the left to the far left. These centers can now be found at universities, including the University of Florida’s Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education and UT Austin’s School of Civic Leadership.
John Sailer reports that Kamola spoke openly about the desire to target these centers. He is quoted as declaring:
“I would really love to see kind of a robust research project on these right-wing centers and individuals—like, naming and shaming and discrediting and undermining the legitimacy. I would love to strategically map who these f—ers are, and figure out what the weaknesses are, and design a research agenda that just goes through them and tries to knock them out.”
Sailer further acquired emails sent to a CDAF program fellow, including “brainstorming documents, grant records, and meeting audio recordings”:
“In a brainstorming document, Kamola identifies the centers as a key target. “Bring together faculty from different campuses that have dark money-funded, or legislature-imposed, ‘free enterprise,’ ‘civics,’ or other imposed centers,” the document reads.
In a meeting, Kamola expanded on the idea. “If we’re thinking about a five-year research agenda, I think unmasking, naming, and shaming, and just increasing the political costs and decreasing the legitimacy of these centers is going to be really important,” he said.
Kamola specifically calls out a Charles Koch Foundation initiative. His academic bio highlights his writings on the Koch Foundation and other conservative organizations. He has also joined many professors in denying the “so-called free speech crisis”:
“My teaching and research interest focus on the political economy of higher education, African anticolonial theory, and critical globalization studies. My latest book project, Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War (with Ralph Wilson, forthcoming 2021), examines the dark money behind the so-called campus free speech crisis.”
CDAF was created through a grant from the Mellon Foundation, which Kamola shows support for his agenda and allegedly stated that “this is not public, so don’t share this anywhere, please—but that they have approved that or they’re in the process of approving it. They’ve gotten a budget that looks like it may be something like $10 million to create a new organization that would do rapid response.”
John Sailer’s research sheds light on the shadowy world of anti-free-speech grants and groups operating in higher education. I have written for years about the system of grants from the Biden Administration and private foundations that establishes and expands the censorship system. Leading institutions like Stanford University played a critical role in that effort as part of a government-corporate-academic coalition.
The system has functioned like a multiheaded hydra, in which cutting off one head only allows two more to grow back. These censors will not simply walk away and become dentists or bartenders. They have a skill set for censorship, and this is now a profitable industry supporting scores of people who market themselves as “disinformation specialists.”
If this account is accurate, the Mellon Foundation is continuing such efforts behind the scenes with groups like the AAUP. Higher education is still dominated by figures such as AAUP’s Kamola, who are eager to target “these f–kers … to knock them out.”
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.“
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“BECERRA LOST 323,000 CHILDREN”
AI Overview
“[Related to the California governor’s race and] according to the highest figures cited by political opponents and congressional critics, Xavier Becerra lost or failed to track up to 323,000 unaccompanied migrant children during his tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the Biden administration.”
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BECERRA FOR CA GOVERNOR
…NOT!!!
Shabbat shalom everyone ☺️🎉🎊😊🍾👯🥂🎁🏆🍷🍞
Have a peaceful sabbath.
Peace
A sad situation all around. Seeing the “Foundations” involving themselves in curating societies’ young mindsets with bias is shamefully wrong.
That said, we now have entered “The Battle of the Foundations”. The whom funds the most Wins.
The Annenberg Foundation won my respect with funding “The Western Tradition” series. To be sure if Eugen Weber were alive today, he would have plenty to say about this period.
Re.:
The Western Tradition ★ “Lost” Annenberg Series now with MKV
by WGBH
The Western Tradition is a landmark educational history series produced by WGBH and hosted by UCLA historian Eugen Weber.
Publication date 1989
Rights: Fair Use Notice
Item Size: 17.2 GB
https://archive.org/details/western-tradition-01-the-dawn-of-history
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Read the Internet Archive webpage to learn about what happened to this collection and access LINKS to download collection volumes (Large Files).
FYI ~ HOST: Eugen Joseph Weber (April 24, 1925 – May 17, 2007)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Weber
Joseph Goebbels would be proud of the intolerance shown by today’s leftwing fascists.
Gee, what a surprise. Accept it, folks: our universities are 100% Marxist indoctrination centers in 2026, it is tragic and hysterical that anyone is paying for and going into debt for this. I’m at the point I’m waiting for people to start getting degrees in it (Marxism, that is).
Every day the anti-American Left conducts war against traditional American values at universities and in media. Every day, real Americans ignore this war, seeing it as a harmless annoyance. The Trump administration should be fighting the real enemy among us rather than the imagined enemy on the other side of the world.
You really couldn’t make this stuff up.
The Texas Republican Party decided to parade a fully grown elephant through the hall of their party convention on Friday — and it didn’t go well.
The elephant pi$$ed massively all over the convention floor.
A very satisfactory, and appropriate, comment by the elephant.
And that has to do with the AAUP targeting civics education, how again?
Moron
@Anonymous
Oh, I think you are perfectly capable of making something like that up. You do it daily.
Looks like it’s that time of day when the anonymous Communist Chinese Party trolls show up here and spout their stupid off-topic lies, cite their dishonest lying liar left-wing commie sources, and beclown themselves, all to feed some psychotic psychopathic lunatic deranged demented Trump Derangement Syndrome.
“As the father of four, I was appalled by how my kids could literally find no traditional history courses. Even a course on World War II was a study of identity groups during the war with virtually no discussion of the war itself.”
What about the war itself should be taught in school? There are only about 500,000 WWII history videos covering every individual battle and supply chain aspect. What will they learn in half a million hours of such instruction?
Schools should teach what is unlikely to be realized by the student in their daily life. Sometimes that means Algebra or Trigonometry. It used to include how to use power tools for wood and metal working, but also included how to use sewing machines and ironing. Getting an understanding that the main drive in WWII was the national identity of those who started the war against the national or religious identities of those they chose to kill isn’t part of many WWII war documentaries.
Did you tell the children that Jews were necessary to build weapons for Germans and skip that they were worked until they died or were shot? Or that Russia changed sides because Stalin initially went along with Hitler, but then worried Hitler was unreliable?
Seems like the unreliability situation in the White House today, a person who spends a lot of time focusing on identity groups to either deport them, imprison them, or force them into homelessness.
There are many videos explaining basic math concepts. You can learn online completely through Calculus if you’re motivated. Therefore, school math classes should teach that math is White Supremacy.
/sarc
Stupid Trump-deranged moron.
Trump-deranged morons wear red MAGA caps that are made in CHINA.
^ Trump-derangement syndrome morons say moronic stupid idiotic stuff like this ^
Take a look at YOU’VE done to Oakland, California. When travelers visit the US be sure to give them the tour. 😏
They also should tell the children about the pre WW1 history surrounding the Bolshevik Jew Revolution in Russia, where Trotsky and his band of communists murdered the Russian Czar and his beautiful family? Where they plotted to kill the Hungarian Germans living in Prussia in concentration camps? The Red Terror, the piece of history everyone seems to forget about. Don’t leave out the part about Stalin killing 20M in the Ukraine either by stealing their crops and letting them starve.
Putin, like Stalin, is menacing Ukraine again.
Jews made up 5.5% of the Bolshevik party in the 1920s. Before that, they were around 25% of the Central Committee in 1917 and 10% of the party’s membership from 1917-1922.
So . . . you had 75% non-Jews in 1917, 90% non-Jews from 1917-1922, and about 95% non-Jews later in the 1920s.
But . . . given your mental and spiritual illness, you refer to “the Bolshevik Jew” as the problem real problem. This kind of framing is as old as the hills. You are just a clown repeating what other clowns have said in the past. Soooooooooo boring.
Oh, yes, the Car and his family ruling over their Russian practically enslaved peasants.
Per the Google AI Summary, for what it’s worth:
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Prior to the revolution, Jews in the Russian Empire were heavily oppressed, confined to the Pale of Settlement, and barred from many professions. Because the Bolsheviks and other left-wing groups promised civil equality and an end to systemic discrimination, many Jewish individuals joined the revolutionary movement as activists fighting for social justice
-Jews were actually more heavily represented in rival left-wing groups like the Mensheviks and the Bund.
-Out of 21 members in the Bolshevik Central Committee in 1917, only five were of Jewish heritage.
-Most Jewish revolutionaries, including Trotsky, Kamenev, and Zinoviev, were staunch internationalists who largely abandoned their Jewish religious and cultural identities
Not sure what Stalin’s death of Urkaine occupants had to do with the World War II; that happened afterwards and was also an identity group driven killing, which Turley doesn’t want his children to know about.
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Trump’s War On Science
The Trump administration is actively hindering and restructuring federal scientific research by giving political appointees, rather than apolitical experts, control over which studies get funding. This sweeping policy shift threatens billions of dollars in grants and has sparked major concern across the scientific community.
How Research is Being Hindered:
The Office of Management and Budget proposed rules that let non-expert political appointees evaluate research instead of traditional peer review, which relies on multiple outside experts to check scientific methods and results.
Funding Cuts and Cancellations:
The administration has requested historic cuts to non-defense research and terminated numerous federal research grants, which limits the number of studies and student programs that universities can run.
Limiting Communication:
New guidelines restrict researchers from using federal money to publish in peer-reviewed journals, present at conferences, or issue press statements, which reverses prior open-access requirements.
Banning Collaboration: The proposed rules aim to ban federal collaborations with foreign researchers and prevent researchers from engaging in diversity, equity, inclusion, or gender studies.
Forbes Describes War On Science
On May 26, 2026, the Trump Administration announced a proposed rule that would fundamentally restructure how federal research dollars are awarded.
The rule proposes that senior political appointees review federally funded research results, instead of using the peer review system, where multiple outside experts review the scientific methodology, results, and conclusions for potential errors or conflicts.
Further, the rule bans any collaboration with foreign researchers and stops all federal funding to publish scientific results for public transparency. The rulemaking has a 45 day open comment period, half the time that is typically given. This is not a change that impacts federal scientists, this would fundamentally change the way that science is conducted in the US.
Such a rule risks surrendering American leadership in science and innovation in combination with cutting research funding and removing the US from participating in global efforts like the WHO and Paris Agreement.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyfleming/2026/06/11/a-new-trump-rule-threatens-research-behind-every-american-industry/
U.S. Losing Edge In Drone Warfare
The Trump administration’s hesitancy in signing a major drone deal with Ukraine is slowing the U.S. military down in an area where it’s already trying to play catch-up.
Even as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged Washington to make a deal, with talks between the two nations stretching back to at least September, the U.S. has so far refused to embrace Kyiv as a partner in its drone development.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5911039-trump-drone-deal-ukraine/
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Putin won’t let Trump work with Zelensky. Consequently, U.S. is slipping militarily.
Winning!!!
Great News!
Unions are criminal organizations. Communism is a criminal ideology. Unions are Karl Marx’s “nose under the tent.” That nose must be removed utterly and permanently, never to return.
This piece just verifies all the truths about University and College professors who feel that they should be the thought police. For everyone who reviles agauinst the thought police posited in Orwell’s 1984, there are liberal and ‘leftist’ professors who say, “Hmmmm, that sounds like a good idea”. One of the reasons I did’t finish my doctoral work was the very hubris of these professors who became intolerable of my common sense approaches to science. Radical ideas like: produce the data, then question the heck out it until it confesses! The AAUP is behaving like a terrorist organization by posting a code of actions and behaviors to defend their radical actions and fringe viewpoints. Just reading the things posted by dr. Kamala will make you cringe, but as he says: “don’t share these ideas widely because people will use them against us”. If anyone wants to know what lunatic fringes look like, just follow their links!
Unfortunately for “Them”, we normies are the ones who will defend the country against “Them”.
You’re holding the thought police right now. Computers are documenting everything we do and say.
The ‘education’ complex top to bottom appears diseased.
I have met 4 recent high school graduates in two different states who had no idea what Washington, DC is. One graduated with an ‘A’ in what was a civics class. Recently there was an online video of someone asking UCLA students what Washington, DC is. Many didn’t know. How is this even possible? I remember having to memorize state capitals in grade school.
A friend who is a member of a very large, conservative church was upset when 30 members went to a No Kings protest. “But,” she explained, “they were all teachers.”
Something needs to change…bottom to top…in ‘education.’
Decades ago Admiral Rickover warned that public education in America was so bad that if a foreign country had imposed it on us we would consider it an act of war.
It has only gotten much worse since then and I have begun to wonder if it is even possible that hostile powers are somehow influencing the anti-Western tilt to the left. Almost seems like.
Young, we’re all worried. Trump has declared war on Science and is doing everything possible to handicap America’s future.
^ Trump Derangement Syndrome, making shit up ^
Education was never meant to be a federal issue. The last 50 years shows the folly of making it one. Our education outcomes under the DoE have been terrible, while wasting billions of dollars. Trump is for returning it to where it belongs, which is the opposite of declaring war on education.
Look, I know you hate Trump. But here’s a little tip for all you Trump haters: if you want to criticize him, fine, but the criticism has to at least be based on some level of truth to have any bite. Otherwise, everyone sees that it’s garbage and you are the ones who look like complete idiots.
It’s not a federal issue, it is of national importance. The large push for science in the US in the 1950s through the 1970s was a national effort to compete with Russia, something Oklahoma would never do on its own. Recall that they lied to school children about the Glomar Explorer telling children about the importance of manganese nodules on the sea floor as a cover for a failed attempt to retrieve a Russian submarine.
The Reagan decided that forcing companies to put money into R&D was a waste and cut the corporate tax rate that had seen that R&D as a taxation alternative. Without that motivation R&D collapsed and the weight was moved to universities where the DoEd paid undergrads to help grad students solve problems for industry.
Everyone knows that to get a job one of the main interview questions is naming all the capital cities of the 50 states.
Thomas Jefferson thought similarly poorly of students in his time as did Aristotle.
Even a course on World War II was a study of identity groups during the war with virtually no discussion of the war itself. American political thought is often addressed from the perspective of colonization or white privilege.
Stanford’s Virality Project pushed to censor even true facts since “true stories … could fuel hesitancy” over taking the vaccine or other measures.
. . . externalizing the difficult responsibility of censorship.
This is anti-intellectual. It is no different than a religious cult with its dogmas that must never be questioned or debated.
Oldman–
Fortunately there is, as Professor Turley notes, some attempt to restore actual learning in places like the University of Austin.
Another is the publication of two massive volumes on Western Civilization, ” The Golden Thread.”
https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Thread-Ancient-World-Christendom/dp/1641773995
I bought the first volume and have only begun to read it. But the little I have seen makes me think entire year-long courses in high school and university should be based on the first volume. Probably the same can be said of the second volume but I haven’t seen it yet.
On another note, I think schools need to embrace elitism to a degree, make actual learning a goal. Enough of credentialism and awards for everyone.
Young – classical education is a good way to start. The students learn how to reason and communicate skillfully (logical and rhetoric, in the classical sense). That is sorely missing in progressive education that focuses solely on learning specific topics.
Combine a classical pedagogy with a school uniform requirement and you’ll vastly improve educational outcomes.
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“PODCASTER CALLS FOR A “MASS EXODUS” [BACK TO AFRICA] AFTER KARMELO ANTHONY VERDICT”
A controversial statement is generating intense reactions online after podcaster Larry Reid called for Black Americans to consider a “mass exodus” to Africa following the conviction and sentencing of Karmelo Anthony. Larry Reid, a Black commentator, went on a tangent about how integration has benefited the Black community, but now it’s time for Black people to return to Africa. It’s the solution to the so-called “white people problem” in America, or something (via Breitbart):
“I want you to begin to think about this America and the white people problem that we have… As a collective, let’s drain this place of its benefits and make our mass exodus and go home and build.”
“Civil rights did not make white people that are infected with whiteness stop being racist. They still raised racist children that run this country to this day.”
“You come from a land that flows with milk and honey. They pulled you out of that land ancestrally and brought you to a place to where your royalty was not recognized. Used your black power, your black mysticism, your African spirituality, and your physiological superiority to build this country and give everybody reparations except you.”
– Larry Reid, a Black commentator
He sounds like Lincoln:
“[Racial separation] [is necessary], and [though difficult] must be effected by colonization… The enterprise is a difficult one, but ‘where there is a will there is a way’; and what colonization needs most is a hearty will… Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and at the same time [not against] our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it.”
– Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857
Now that is a charity event that I would gladly greatly contribute to. America would be better for it, clean crime free cities, educational standards would rise and think of all the redirected tax money from all the free shit for the entitled saved! Most of all, no more people named after candy bars and liquor, my heart be still (not stabbed).
ANON (X-George-Gigi?) is full of Schiff!!!
He has an IQ < 70, he writes like a 4th grader and he hasnt gotten laid since his sugar daddy, crystal meth drug dealer and Democrat donor Ed Buck got busted for killing young gay men.
Ed Buck Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison for Providing Methamphetamine to Two Victims Who Suffered Fatal Overdoses
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/ed-buck-sentenced-30-years-federal-prison-providing-methamphetamine-two-victims-who