Students in New Mexico will learn more about the January 6 Capitol riot and climate change than the moon landing. New Mexico high school history guidelines contain over a dozen references to the January 6 riot while only mentioning the moon landing once. The guidelines, part of the New Mexico Instructional Scope for History, are largely focused on racial and gender grievances and encourage teachers to promote Democratic politicians and lament how the richest men in the United States today are “mostly white.” “The freedom of those in America and Ukraine after the 2021 Capital [sic] Insurrection and Russian invasion of Ukraine are two events that reveal the rights and safety of women, immigrants, children, and the LGBTQ community are at risk,” an example discussion in the guidance reads.  Teachers are also instructed to show footage from NBC showing “Americans armed with weapons and military-type gear storming the Capital, breaking glass, defacing sacred art, political statues and podiums on and in our Capital [sic] building in Washington, DC.” The purpose of the footage is to “disprove some of the beliefs that it was not violent or a threat to our democracy.” The repeated misspelling of “Capitol” in the January 6 section is one of several errors in the guidelines. In another section, teachers are encouraged to list Democratic politicians from racial and sexual minorities, including “VP [Kamala] Harris, Transportation Secretary [Pete] Buttigieg, Interior Secretary [Deb] Haaland and Supreme Court Justice Brown.” The last example appears to be a reference to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Rhyen Staley, the director of research at Defending Education, said the documents were an example of politics being pushed in the classroom. “These state level documents expose a troubling pattern by education activists of pushing leftwing political and social biases into K-12 classrooms as established ‘facts,'” Staley told The Daily Wire. “Students and families deserve an education that values a politically neutral approach to weighing different sides of issues, not political indoctrination.” The New Mexico Instructional Scope is an “educator influenced tool designed to provide guidance and support to assure that all students in New Mexico have access to content at their grade level combined with the use of impactful instructional strategies.” The history guidelines reveal a heavy focus on left-wing activism and grievance politics. Teachers are suggested to ask students why the United States still struggles “with the idea of racial equality,” discuss the pros and cons of reparations, and assess “who is responsible for the socio-economic disparities in early U.S. immigration to today.” In contrast, the moon landing and the space race are each only mentioned once The guidance also suggests that states like Georgia and Florida have implemented laws that are similar to voting restrictions on black people during the Jim Crow era. Teachers are recommended to provide “Current suppression of voting rights” in examples of Georgia, Texas, Florida, and New Mexico. “How does the current suppression of voting rights compare to the suppression of voting rights during and immediately following the Reconstruction Era?” a question for students said.  Another suggested discussion is whether there are “more opportunities for minorities today in the business realm.” “Absolutely there is more opportunity today than there was back then, but that doesn’t mean that things are totally equal. Even though there are lots of Black owned businesses, the richest men in the country are still mostly white,” a suggested student response to the question said.  Other guidance included in the history materials is for students to be encouraged to “join a program already in existence and help spread their message to prevent global warming” or write to their representative about climate change.  Students should be able to define LGBTQ (“Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, queer or questioning”) and PFLAG (“Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays”). “How do historically underrepresented groups such as women of color, LGBTQ and Indigenous people offerse [SIC] diverse views of society,” teachers should ask students, according to the guidance.  Similar politically focused guidance is found in materials for instruction on world history and ethnic studies.  In the guidance for world history, “equity” is defined as the principle “that all citizens have had different opportunities and experiences, and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.” The world history guidance also contains guidance recommending that students “create their own posters that show their actions on climate change” after watching a climate alarmist documentary from former Vice President Al Gore.  The ethnic, cultural, and identity guidance discusses left-wing groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, Black Lives Matter, and the Human Rights Campaign.   “How do advocacy at the local, community, national and global levels work together to achieve change over time?” a supporting question asks.  It also introduces students to the concept of “gender identity,” which it defines as ”identification with, or sense of belonging to, a particular group based on gender, such as cisgender, transgender, agender, bigender.” New Mexico, a solidly blue state, has previously come under scrutiny for asking high school students whether they identify as “two-spirit” or transgender through its Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey.

We have, in this recess of the United States Senate, been gifted an extraordinary vision of perfection, the apex example of a social phenomenon long observed but rarely embodied with such an apotheosis of type: The Sad Childless Disney Adult, as embodied in the person of one Lindsey Graham. The longtime strongman ruler of South Carolina politics — peace be upon him — decided upon dismissal from the swamps of D.C. and the uncomfortable couches of many a green room to take respite from long days of agitating for wars and causing international kerfuffles to indulge in the joys of what is, for his money, the best kingdom of them all, the Magic one, where birds sing, princesses flit, and bubble wands can be purchased on every corner. Make sure you get the ones that let you replace the batteries — you don’t want them to run out when you take them home. (They have not yet committed to sending arms to battle the Houthis, but he has a co-del meeting with Buzz Lightyear later to run that down.) The things you must know about navigating Disney as a childless adult is that you are their ideal customer: trapped by nostalgia, burdened with a crippling lack of childhood maturation, and desperate for figures who can fill the obvious and manifold emotional gaps in your life. So, in the absence of the figures who contribute to a healthy life, one turns to that old comfortable friend, the fellow with an ear to lend and a “ha HA!” to give: M-I-C, K-E-Y — he’s always there for you with a hug and a waffle shaped like his head. No judgment here, just a land where wishes come true. Credit: TMZ The other thing you must know is that you have to download the app to skip the lines, because damn if those “affordability” people don’t have a point about how much it costs to be a dedicated Disney adult in the land of lines and upsells. Though, in fairness, the filet mignon at Cinderella’s Royal Table is the best steak you’ll ever have. And don’t sleep on the Floating Island, it has strawberry meringue. Delectable! You’re in cycle? There’s a co-del? There’s a primary? Who cares, that’s not important. This is a personal wellness journey, holding space for the future we are manifesting. The problems of tomorrow disappear when you’re in this special place. Oh look, it’s Space Mountain! We went to space, we’ll do it again — we’re America, dammit. People complain too much. Iran is fine. TSA will get paid. Gas prices are a distraction. The important thing is there is a live performance coming up soon, and picking between which character you want a selfie with is always the hardest part. Wish Lindsey luck!

The push to end the filibuster is intensifying in Washington, especially as the president has said he wants to see the rule nuked as a way to possibly fully fund the Department of Homeland Security and pass the SAVE America Act. However, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and some Senate Republicans have repeatedly cautioned against ending it over concerns that it would enable Democrats to pass certain parts of their agenda with just a few Republicans in support, or that it could help them easily pass bills if they retake the Senate. Still, Trump is encouraging Thune to find the votes in order to get rid of the rule, which creates a 60-vote threshold for most legislation to move forward in the chamber. “But that’s part of being a leader, you have to get the votes,” Trump said of Thune while on Air Force One on Sunday, saying he’s a “high quality person” that’s only a couple votes short needed to successfully end the filibuster. “Those people will not be able to withstand the onslaught because Republicans and the country wants it,” he added. There are some exceptions to the filibuster rule — meaning they don’t require a 60 vote majority — like reconciliation bills such as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which was signed by Trump last year and included everything from tax cuts to border security funding. On Saturday night in a post on Truth Social, the president took a stronger tone toward Republicans who do not back the change. “It is time for the Senate Filibuster to END. Those weak and ineffective Republicans Senators that stand in the way of this should be exposed to the public. The Democrats are CRAZY!” he wrote. Democrats were close to ending the filibuster in 2022 in order to pass voting-related proposals, but then-Sens. Krysten Sinema and Joe Manchin voted against their caucus to keep the rule in place. “The filibuster exists to make both sides work together and produce good legislation that can withstand the test of time,” Manchin posted to Instagram earlier this month following Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-TX) New York Post op-ed expressing his own change of heart on the filibuster. “Eliminating the filibuster would consolidate even more power into the hands of the majority party’s leadership — and take power away from the minority and everyday Americans,” the former West Virginia senator added. Cornyn faces political pressure in the Texas Senate Republican primary, as Attorney General Ken Paxton said he would even consider dropping out of the race if the SAVE America Act was passed. The act continues to be the top legislative priority of the president, as it would require voter identification at the ballot box and documentary proof  of citizenship. The president also wants it to include transgender-related measures. It’s unlikely that there will be much movement in Congress at all in the next couple of weeks, as both chambers went on an Easter-Passover break after each passing different solutions to the DHS shutdown — neither of which went on to pass in the other chamber. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a briefing on Monday afternoon, however, that the president would prefer to see Capitol Hill get back to business sooner.

In a Palm Sunday homily treated by legacy media as a direct moral indictment of President Trump’s foreign policy — and possibly a criticism of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth — Pope Leo XIV declared on Sunday that God “does not listen” to leaders who wage war while claiming His name. Speaking to tens of thousands in St. Peter’s Square amid the ongoing war between Iran and a joint coalition of the United States and Israel, the first American Pope said that Jesus “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood,’” citing a biblical passage. The Pope did not specifically name any world leaders, but he has been ramping up criticism of ​the Iran war in recent weeks. During an appeal at the end of Sunday’s celebration, the pope lamented that ‌Christians ⁠in the Middle East “are suffering the consequences of an atrocious conflict” and may not be able to celebrate Easter. President Trump has framed the intervention in Iran as a necessary defense of Western civilization. Earlier this month, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, a devout Christian, said at a press conference: My 13-year-old son popped into my office last night while I was editing these remarks. He asked about the war and the families I met at Dover. And I looked at him and I said, “They died for you, son, so that your generation doesn’t have to deal with a nuclear Iran.” It’s the truth, and they did  …  So to the families who said “Finish this,” we will. And I say the same to every American who wants peace through strength: May Almighty God continue to bless our troops in this fight. And again, to the American people, please pray for them every day, on bended knee, with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name of Jesus Christ. To the troops:  Keep going. And Godspeed.  Sunday was not the first time the pontiff addressed the hostilities against Iran. Just after the United States launched Operation Epic Fury against the intransigent Iranian regime, Pope Leo stated, “Stability and peace are not built with mutual threats, nor with weapons, which sow destruction, pain, and death, but only through a reasonable, authentic, and responsible dialogue.” The Trump administration has said that it’s decision to strike was made after it determined that the Iranian regime was not negotiating in good faith.

Now that we get a “No Kings” protest every few months, it’s easy to come to the conclusion that there’s no reason to cover these demonstrations anymore. By now, we’re all familiar with the routine. Bored old people see these protests as an excuse to get out of the house (or the nursing home in many cases), all while feeling like they’re mounting a heroic defense against fascism. And young people — to the extent they show up at all — collectively make a strong case for reopening the asylums, abolishing public schools, and enforcing the Communist Control Act. For lack of a better term, these protests are freak shows — the modern-day equivalent of those old traveling circuses that put the most damaged, disabled and otherwise dysfunctional people on full display. And like the freak shows of old, these “No Kings” protests (which turned into riots in some cases) are well-funded. They’re a whole industry, as we’ll discuss in a moment. But before we get into the sources of that funding — and why it’s a serious problem — we have to begin with a note of optimism. After you see the footage of these protests, there’s simply no other way to say it: God has blessed us with truly pathetic and embarrassing enemies. The activists who want to destroy Western civilization aren’t even capable of putting on a single event, over one weekend, in which they don’t humiliate themselves. In that vein, the latest round of “No Kings” protests was — somehow, against all odds — a considerable downgrade from the “No Kings” rallies that preceded it. Even with everything we’ve seen over the past year, this was the single most embarrassing protest that the Left has organized in recent memory. (And for the record, the protest was called “No Dictators” in Hawaii, so as not to offend the indigenous monarchy they used to have. But for simplicity’s sake, we’ll stick with the “No Kings” branding, even though the Left can’t even agree on that). Take this scene from the Minneapolis “No Kings” protest, for example. This is one of their emcees — a woman who’s apparently a comedian. Here’s her rousing message to the crowd. Watch: The emcee at the No Kings rally in Minnesota, Lizz Winstead, says the quiet part out loud, reminding everyone that the so-called “No Kings” movement is a communist movement. “I want people to know that if you want to act like Minnesota, or you think Minnesota is a model, what… pic.twitter.com/8yUkyHOtlS — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 28, 2026 Source: @SteveGuest/X.com Like every other clip I’m about to play, this feels like it has to be satire. But we’ve checked it a million times and indeed, it’s very real. As she stands at a podium that says “No Kings,” she declares to the masses, “What we need is pack mules” who will do whatever the “leaders” tell them to do: “Be the folding chairs.” Bring donuts to the “brilliant minds,” whose brilliance you can’t begin to comprehend. The great lesson of the “No Kings” movement, apparently, is that you need to exercise greater obedience to people in authority. The fundamental position held by actual monarchists and “No Kings” protesters is, it turns out, strikingly similar. The only real difference is that monarchists can typically deliver their message in an eloquent and even inspiring way. Whereas the “No Kings” message is delivered through the nasally, scolding tones of an ill tempered middle aged childless woman. As you may remember, one of the big knocks against the previous “No Kings” protests is that the whole “No Kings” message simply doesn’t work, coming from the Left. These are the same people who, just a few years ago, forced everyone to stay at home and take an experimental mRNA shot — or else they’d lose their job. They caused trillions of dollars in economic damages with the COVID lockdowns, which destroyed small businesses and prevented children from socializing or going to school. This is damage that we still haven’t remotely recovered from. And that’s just *one* area in which the Left has embraced authoritarianism. We all remember the relentless social media censorship, the cancellation campaigns, the forced indoctrination and so on. So how exactly can these same people, with a straight face, claim to oppose authoritarianism with these “No Kings” protests? Now, thanks to the “No Kings” protest this weekend, we have our answer. The answer is: Shut up and be a folding chair and a pack mule, you moron. They don’t actually oppose “authoritarianism.” They just want to be the authoritarians. And that’s why, when they’re asked why exactly they’re protesting, none of these people have a decent answer. A Daily Wire reporter Brecca Stoll was on the ground at the D.C. “No Kings” protest.  D.C. “No Kings” protester says Trump is taking away black women’s rights… When @breccastoll asks how, she can’t come up with a real answer: Protester: “Waking up as a black woman is such a political act…I can’t wait until this sh*t is behind us and…we don’t have to worry… pic.twitter.com/1JokbtsCYR — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) March 28, 2026 Source: @realDailyWire/X.com So she begins with the familiar refrain. She says that she’s exhausted just from being a black woman. This country is so racist against her that the simple act of being a black woman is courageous, and it exhausts her. All of these people love to talk about how exhausted they are. Which is funny because they don’t do anything at all. They don’t work. They don’t contribute. They don’t have kids or families. They don’t have responsibilities. They just hang around, scroll TikTok, join a protest every once in a while, and then announce that they are utterly exhausted by a life that is, in every way, more luxurious and leisurely than the life of royalty not that long ago. Egyptian Pharaohs could not have even fathomed the level of comfort this “exhausted” woman enjoys. Then she tells us that apparently they’re lining up black women in the hospitals, and shooting them for no reason. She has ten seconds to come up with one example of what she’s protesting against, and after thinking about it for a bit, she comes up with something that’s completely insane. Apparently if you go to the hospital as a black woman with appendicitis or something, they’ll say “Right this way,” and lead you to the back of the hospital where they immediately murder you. Of course, this is actually similar to how health care works in Canada, except that you’re considerably more likely to get that treatment as a white man than a black woman. In this country, in reality, according to DataHazard, 25% of black and Hispanic medical students have below-average scores on the MCAT, which is the test you need to take in order to get into med school. Only around 3% of white and Asian medical students have scores that low. So no, black people are not getting “murdered” in the medical profession. They’re being allowed into the profession, when they clearly should be rejected, in large numbers. The problem is now so bad that half of UCLA medical students are now failing basic tests. By the way, you might have noticed that her shirt said, “Castrate pedophiles.” This was a theme of the weekend. Democrats — who endorse the chemical and physical castration of children, as well as the murder of children both inside and outside the womb  —  have decided that their political opponents are, in fact, a threat to minors. It makes about as much sense as the idea that medical schools are execution chambers for black people, but they’re running with it.  Watch: My friends, including @dontayecarter and @AttorneyGriggs, chant “Release the files! You know they’re pedophiles!” at the No Kings rally in Sandy Springs, Georgia. #NoKings pic.twitter.com/7glpsnvDIa — Seth Taylor (@SethTaylor1991) March 28, 2026 Source: @SethTaylor1991/X.com via Storyful It’s a fun activity for the old woman. She’s getting some sun. She’s playing the drums. She’s hanging out with some new people. And really, the whole “protest” is just an excuse for her to do it. We should be honest about that. None of these people are remotely consistent or coherent. None of them were calling for the release of the Epstein Files until Trump became president, and they don’t care that the Trump administration has been releasing these files. And the last guy in the little conga line there has a sign that’s totally unrelated to the Epstein files. In case you missed it, his sign read, “Eat the rich, wash them down with ICE” — which also doesn’t make any sense, on its own terms. So this isn’t really a protest about “Kings” at all. It’s really about ICE, and rich people, and Epstein, and everything else. It’s a grab bag of every random leftist complaint. No one really knows what it’s about, which is why the one-on-one interviews with the protesters were so entertaining.  Here’s another.  Watch: Uh, uh..um, um pic.twitter.com/Vk14GThRsx — The Daily Sneed™ (@Tr00peRR) March 29, 2026 Source: @Tr00peRR/X.com Well, she was right about sounding like an idiot at least. But as always, there’s no self-reflection. There’s no realization that she’s wasting her time. Instead, she comes up with the claim that Donald Trump is a King because, “We have Trump out there right now pushing up against protesters in major cities.” And she makes this statement *while she’s at a protest in a major city* — one of many similar protests occurring all over the country. So we have a king who doesn’t allow any protest, and to prove that point, we’re going to protest all over the place, constantly, in the most obnoxious way possible, and the King’s not going to do anything about it. Apparently, the King only “pushes up against protesters” when they try to run over federal agents with their SUV, or when they violently attack Border Patrol agents making an arrest. I need to emphasize that I’m not cherry-picking clips here. Every single time one of these people was asked to explain their worldview, it all fell apart. And sometimes children are forcibly dragged into this nonsense as well.  Watch: This is one of the most astonishing interviews I’ve ever seen in my life. A mother/daughter duo at a South Carolina “No Kings” protest could not explain AT ALL to a reporter why either of them were protesting. Zero clue. Not a single coherent sentence, unbelievable to watch… pic.twitter.com/Xzzb1zIdIl — Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) March 29, 2026 Source: @mattvanswol/X.com It’s clear that the mother is happy that her child is engaged in politics and activism, as an end in itself. She thinks it’s good for someone to be protesting, as a general matter. This is how we get colleges full of angry, chronically depressed 18-year-old students. This is how we get Antifa lawyers who decide to firebomb police cruisers. If you’re going to encourage your child to be angry about nothing in particular, then they’ll never be happy. It’s one of the worst things you can do to a child. Inevitably, they’ll turn out like this guy. Watch: Liberal man with his face painted orange and wearing a crown gets triggered during ‘No Kings’ protest. “You’re going down the wrong road right now with me. I wouldn’t go any further.”