The long-awaited sequel to 2006’s smash hit “The Devil Wears Prada” is getting some pushback, being accused of “blatant racism” for leaning into Asian stereotypes. “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” starring Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep, is getting blasted over a brief moment in a trailer. The scene introduces Andy Sachs’ (Hathaway) new assistant, Jin Chao, played by Helen J. Shen, who some say is portrayed as a nerdy, socially awkward Ivy League grad. In the trailer, Andy appears reserved upon meeting Jin, prompting the assistant to quickly rattle off her credentials. “If you don’t want me, you can interview someone else. That’s totally fine,” Jin says. “I did go to Yale, 3.86 GPA, lead soprano of [Yale singing group] the Whiffenpoofs, and my ACT score was 36 on the very first time.” Commenters also took issue with the way Jin donned a buttoned-up collared shirt and thick glasses, which they argue feel out of place for employees at a major fashion company. Social media users from around the world, especially in Asian countries, expressed their frustration with the clip. “The promotion up to this point was really great, but right before release, they suddenly hit us with blatant anti-Asian racism and flipped the car,” one user in Japan wrote in a post that’s been viewed more than 16 million times. プラダを着た悪魔、ここまでのプロモーションめっちゃ良かったのに、公開直前に突然ド直球のアジア人差別を見せつけてきて横転 https://t.co/uNUYIzXl7U — 黄色人種ちゃん (@dekaketu_purin) April 22, 2026 “We are in 2026… what made them think we’ll find this kind of racism funny,” another commenter said.  “Short stature, messy hair, childish clothing, big glasses, a ton of qualifications and high education and grades, servile and incompetent, a name that sounds just like ‘Ching Chang Chong,'” a third person echoed. “In this day and age, deliberately clipping out such a thick, over-the-top level of Asian stereotype that’s actually rare nowadays for ad use—did they judge that going full-on with the blatant discrimination would be more commercially appealing??” As The Hollywood Reporter noted, a lot of the widespread criticism is the result of X posts being automatically translated, meaning comments from around the world are being circulated in the United States. However, some, including Korean-American filmmaker Joseph Kahn, said the backlash reflects a cultural misunderstanding and claims that Jin is so weird she’s cool, at least to a Gen Z audience.  “There’s an uproar with Japanese Twitter about this Asian character. They feel she’s a caricature, which she is, but not about Asians but Gen Z. Her outfit is actually very couture in a film about fashion,” he wrote. “Her glasses and hair clips are of the moment. The body shape disparity comes from Anne Hathaway who mandated there would be ‘diversity of sizes’ which could either be taken as genuine virtue signaling or an actress wanting to be the skinniest and tallest onscreen. Nevertheless, the Asian character is being depicted as a fashionable, striver in the fashion world with typical Gen Z neurodivergency.” “Nerds don’t exist in Gen Z because they’re all awkward freaks and all dress like Nintendo cartoons,” he concluded. “Anyway Japan, welcome to America.”

Free speech isn’t free at Texas universities. Apparently, it comes with strings attached, or at least that’s what I was told when I tried to host a pro-life event that got so derailed, I had to call on Students for Life of America’s (SFLA) attorneys for a demand letter to try and get it back on track. It’s not just me. Students at the University of Texas, both at Dallas and Austin, are suing the University of Texas system after being censored when schools used a Texas law as an excuse to limit free speech on college campuses. While the law is not currently enforceable, college campuses across Texas are still holding strong to their censorship regime — and it’s up to students to stand up for their rights. My story began when I tried to host a speaker on campus at the University of Texas as part of my SFLA activities. Rather than welcoming pro-life voices, the university demanded almost complete disassociation from SFLA for the event to go on, which made the event itself virtually impossible. More specifically, the office told my group that our event could not include branded or promotional materials featuring both the outside organization and my student organization, Horns for Life; help managing the event; filming for social media; or co-sponsorship with SFLA or any off-campus organization. That not only impacted my free speech rights, but my freedom of association, too. In 2019, when Texas passed Senate Bill 18, it reinforced Supreme Court precedent that outdoor campus spaces are public forums, thereby ensuring free speech protections at universities. In a total betrayal of these values, Texas passed Senate Bill 2972, or the Campus Protection Act, in September 2025 under the guise of protecting campuses from disruptions and preserving safety during “end-of-term” periods and even during specific times of the day. The Campus Protection Act stopped students from engaging in acts of speech between 10 pm and 8 am, as well as from bringing guest speakers, amplifying sound, or using percussive instruments at demonstrations in the final two weeks of each semester. It is extremely broad, even disallowing student speech in private conversations, whether in dorm rooms or outdoor meeting spaces. “The First Amendment doesn’t set when the sun goes down,” said FIRE senior supervising attorney JT Morris. “University students have expressive freedom whether it’s midnight or midday, and Texas can’t just legislate those constitutional protections out of existence.” The bill was so unprecedented and broad that the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas issued an injunction stopping the law from being enforced only a month later. Despite the injunction, Texas universities continue to use these rules at the campus policy level. UT Austin cites SB 2972 as a justification for their policy that “states that a guest speaker may not staff a table or set up exhibits.” Not only is pro-life speech being targeted, but religious speech and expression as well. A group of students has sued the UT system and its various representatives on behalf of their Texas college groups, including The Fellowship of Christian University Students at UT-Dallas, after they were prevented from bringing a minister to campus to pray for them during their class finals. Texas Woman’s University enacted regulations on free speech, calling it a “limited public forum.” The school placed limits on the times, places, and methods in which students can demonstrate on campus while telling them “nothing in this policy may be construed to limit or infringe on a person’s right to freedom protected by the United States and Texas Constitutions,” as if the rules do not inherently do exactly this. Texas Tech University’s Lubbock campus also has similar rules now coming under fire. While it is always advisable to follow campus rules, that does not mean Texas students cannot challenge them in the courts or otherwise. Disallowing all guest speakers, claiming a limited public forum, imposing time limits, and limiting amplified sound all have precedent for being deemed impermissible in certain circumstances, especially if the university is using Senate Bill 2972 as an excuse to enforce these rules. Using field representatives or coordinators from affiliate organizations to assist students in challenging university decisions against student organizations is a great first step. SFLA staff are equipped and eager to help our students. Additionally, reaching out to organizations like FIRE allows student groups without resources from a larger organization to seek help navigating legal routes addressing free speech challenges. A university is a place to experience new ideas, diverse opinions, and freedom of discourse. The acts of tabling on campus and hosting speakers are not separate from this mission. These unconstitutional rules do not disappear on their own. To see students’ free speech rights protected on university campuses again, students must speak up against the injustices happening on their campus and beyond — and the courts must follow their lead. *** Tiffany Lomax is a senior student at the University of Texas at Austin. She serves as president of the Horns for Life chapter, where she is involved in pro-life advocacy and organizing events on campus.  

We have been importing the people who hate our country and wish to destroy it. They believe in Third Worldism, the philosophy that all the problems of the Third World can be laid at the feet of us here in the West.  But there’s more. The people in the Democratic Party elite apparently believe that the West owes it to the Third World to destroy itself, or who view the Third Worlders as fellow travelers, helping them to accomplish that goal. It’s time to talk about the seemingly irreversible slide of the Democratic Party toward deep radicalism that will destroy our country. But to understand that, we have to understand the existential crisis facing our civilization.  There’s a rap song by a Syrian-born artist that’s becoming incredibly popular online. The lyrics read:  Separate our loved ones and slaughter our children. Take our blood for granted and demonize our revolutionaries, Steal our knowledge, keep our people oblivious And torture our spirits and denounce us our rights Colonize our countries and appoint our rulers Appropriate our goods and burn down our trees But who would you be without us Bomb our roofs, make us out as liars And watch our pains and belittle our agony Ignore our tears and close our eyes Mutilate our faces and deny our feelings Destroy our dreams, objectify our bodies and darken our skies and kill our peace We will keep standing still And our love stands in us. But who would you be without us? You would not be without us. You will not be without us.  The video shows a very angry young woman marching. Behind her are a bunch of other people from what appear to be third-world countries, many of them Muslim countries. Why is this important?  Because this is, in its essence, what we have imported. We in the West have imported people who hate our guts. And then there is a group of people in the United States who hate the systems, who have allied with those people to create a mass movement. That is what is happening with people such as Hasan Piker, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Zohran Mamdani. The basic idea among these people is that the reason other countries suffer is because the West did something wrong to them. Now, the West owes them something. Therefore, if you are living in the West and you realize that it’s pretty great and pretty prosperous, but you feel alienated because your parents are from somewhere else. As a result, you blame your parents’ problems on the West that took them in, and you blame colonialism and colonization.  The reality is that this female rapper is apparently from Syria and lives in Germany.  Germany never colonized Syria. Ever.  In fact, if you’re going to talk about the colonization history of Syria, you can talk about the Islamic colonization of Syria. Syria, of course, used to be a Christian country long before it was a Muslim country. But then it was colonized by Muslims, and then the Ottoman Empire controlled it for 400 years. The only Western country to control Syria in the last millennium was France for 26 years. The Assad regime controlled Syria for twice as long as France did.  You may have noticed that in that entire description of Syrian history, Germany never came up. Germany just took in millions of Syrian immigrants and migrants during the Syrian civil war.  Syrian refugees entered Germany when Angela Merkel decided to import a bunch of Third World refugees out of some sort of misplaced sense of guilt. The narrative that is told by the Third Worldists is far too simplistic. The reality is that colonization has been a routine part of human history. It is not merely done by the West. Islamic colonization took over the entire Middle East, moved into Europe, and still controls large swaths of Africa. There are all sorts of colonization efforts. It is worthwhile to note that the institutions set up by British colonizers made those areas more prosperous. In fact, the countries that retained British institutions, in particular, are the most prosperous countries in Africa, and the ones that reject those British institutions, those Western institutions, completely fail. European colonization is responsible for the end of slavery in the areas where there is no slavery. It’s also responsible for the institution of systems and ideas such as private property. The idea from the Leftists is that all the problems all over the world are the responsibility of the West. And then we decided that we should import all those people.  There are about 4.5 million Muslims in the United States, up from 1.1 million in the year 2000, a 400% increase. That includes over 10% of the population of New York. Many of those people are undoubtedly decent citizens, but how many of them sympathize with the decolonial ideology of somebody like the Syrian rapper? According to the polls, the answer is a lot. A recent poll asked how many British Muslims believe al-Qaeda planned 9/11. The answer: 4%. Does that sound like a deradicalized population that loves the West? Another poll at the time of the Charlie Hebdo massacre a decade ago showed that two-thirds of French Muslims wanted Charlie Hebdo prosecuted for cartoons of Muhammad. Does that sound like a philosophy that is in keeping with French standards of speech? Today, some 57% of American Muslims believe that October 7 was at least somewhat justified.  We can pretend away these ideological conflicts. It doesn’t make them disappear. We imported a lot of people who do not like Western civilization.  That doesn’t mean all Muslims in the West don’t like Western civilization. I know Muslims who do, but the notion that importing millions of Muslims from third-world countries, or people from other cultures that don’t appreciate Western civilization, would be a good idea, is idiocy.  That raises the question of why the West imported all of this in the first place. The answer is that there are a bunch of homegrown people in the West who believe our civilization is inherently guilty and ought to be torn down. They tend toward the Marxist Left. The Marxist Left believes that America was founded in sin, that America’s foreign policy and the West’s foreign policy more broadly have been about exploitation and evil. The French existentialist and Marxist Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the foreword to one of the most important anti-colonial books of the 20th century, a book called “The Wretched of the Earth,” by Frantz Fanon. Sartre wrote: “We are all complicit in a thousand-year-old oppression. You know well enough that we are exploiters. Our precious sets of values begin to molt; on closer scrutiny you won’t see one that isn’t stained with blood.”  He argued that we actually needed to import people from the Third World to destroy us. The Marxists on the Left love this stuff. They are into this stuff. Suicide is the answer. Western values are evil, and they have to be destroyed. In the United States, this is the coalition that’s taking over the Democratic Party.  Why is the Democratic Party doing this?  Some are doing this because they’re actual Marxists, and they’re happy to travel as fellows with Third Worldism as a front for their destructive goals. There’s a long history of that. Marxists in Africa worked alongside the Third World to fight the West. And then there are Democrats who just hate the Right so much that they will find any ally, side with those people, and will treat any Democrat who works with Republicans, or at least any Democrat who doesn’t want to burn every single thing down, as a traitor. 

The mistress and former assistant of disgraced ex-Michigan coach Sherrone Moore spoke out Friday in her first televised interview since Moore’s December arrest on stalking and home invasion charges. Paige Shiver, 32, appearing on Good Morning America, reflected on her relationship with Moore, 40, describing it as controlling, and said she felt pressured throughout the affair, which began while she worked under Moore. Shiver said she became pregnant during the relationship, but medical professionals encouraged her to abort the unborn child. “Multiple doctors and experts told me that it wouldn’t be right or healthy for me to keep the baby,” Shiver said. Recalling how Moore responded to the news, she said he told her, “You have to do what’s right for your body.” Shiver, who has Pompe disease, a serious muscle-weakening condition, said the relationship began in 2022 when she was an intern with the Michigan football program and Moore was the team’s offensive coordinator. In 2024, after Moore was promoted to head coach following Jim Harbaugh’s departure to the NFL, Shiver became his executive assistant. Shiver said she initially believed she loved Moore but now sees the relationship differently. “Looking back at things and really reflecting on what happened, what was happening … it’s not love at all,” Shiver said. She said she tried to end the relationship multiple times but felt unable to do so because of Moore’s influence over her career. “He and other coaches had control over my career, especially him,” Shiver said. “He could fire me in a second.” Shiver also claimed Moore repeatedly pressured her to stay, telling her his life would fall apart without her. “Every time I tried to pull away, he always had a story…always had a way to pull me in and making me feel that I couldn’t leave him because he was so miserable without me,” Shiver said. The relationship came to a screeching halt after Shiver reported the affair to university officials. Moore was subsequently fired as Michigan’s head coach, where he had been earning $5.5 million annually. Michigan Athletic Director Warde Manuel cited an “inappropriate relationship” with a staffer as the reason for Moore’s termination. Shortly after his firing, Moore broke into Shiver’s home, where she says he grabbed butter knives and scissors, then threatened to kill himself. “I hear footsteps, and they’re getting closer and louder … I run to my door to lock it, and he barges in,” Shiver said. “He comes in with his hood up, looking down at me, saying I ruined his life and is crying.” Moore was initially charged with home invasion and stalking, offenses that carried potential prison time. But those charges were dropped last week as part of a plea deal. Moore pleaded no contest to trespassing and malicious use of a telecommunication device. He was sentenced to 18 months’ probation and ordered not to contact Shiver. Moore’s wife, Kelli, has stood by him during his court appearances. Shiver said she believes the punishment was insufficient. “I think he should have gotten more punishment for what he did,” she said. Shiver is no longer employed by the university. Moore was replaced by former Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham.

Tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma on Thursday, injuring at least 10 people and causing serious property damage, according to KOCO News 5. No fatalities were reported from the severe weather, which primarily hit the northern part of the state. One of the hardest-hit communities was Enid, where roughly 40 homes were damaged, KTUL reported. The city is home to Vance Air Force Base, and a dramatic video from the area showed a massive tornado moving near it. Dramatic video captured a powerful tornado near Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Oklahoma, on Thursday evening. pic.twitter.com/zqzebLRoDl — AccuWeather (@accuweather) April 24, 2026 Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt urged prayers for those affected. “Please join me in praying for the Enid community, which has been severely impacted by tonight’s tornado,” Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-OK) posted to X last Thursday night. “I have spoken with Enid’s local leaders and will continue working with them as they assess the damage and identify needs. My prayers are with everyone on Vance Air Force Base and the surrounding neighborhood, and I am asking God to bring healing and comfort in the days ahead.” Stitt warned that storms will “continue to move across Oklahoma tonight.” Mother Nature’s wrath on full display..Daylight pictures of Gray Ridge neighborhood in Enid after last nights violent tornado..Some houses are slabbed..Best news..NO FATALITIES thanks to advanced warnings and people taking the info seriously #PrayersForEnid