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The headline on the front page of the Labor Day New York Times, “Black Women Most Affected By Trump Cuts,” was silly enough in its wokist immersion. but the online headline deck -- “In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit -- President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees” -- was even more amusing. It brought to mind the old joke about a hypothetical Times headline after nuclear Armageddon: "World Ends, Women & Minorities Hardest Hit." (The paper’s reputation for knee-jerk liberalism goes back decades.) White House reporter Erica Green certainly delivered on the headline’s promise of portraying black women as racist victims of the Trump administration: When President Trump started dismantling federal agencies and dismissing rank-and-file civil servants, Peggy Carr, the chief statistician at the Education Department, immediately started to make a calculation. She was the first Black person and the first woman to hold the prestigious post of commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. As a political appointee, she knew there was a risk of becoming a target. But her 35-year career at the department spanned a half dozen administrations, including Mr. Trump’s first term, and she had earned the respect of officials from both parties. Surely, she thought, the office tasked with tracking the achievement of the nation’s students could not fall under the president’s definition of “divisive and harmful” or “woke.” But for the first time in her career, Dr. Carr’s data points didn’t add up. On a February afternoon, a security guard showed up to her office just as she was preparing to hold a staff meeting. Fifteen minutes later, the staff watched in tears and disbelief as she was escorted out of the building. Consistent with The Times's woke style, there were many, many more instances of the word “black” being capitalized [emphasis mine]: While tens of thousands of employees have lost their jobs in Mr. Trump’s slash-and-burn approach to shrinking the federal work force, experts say the cuts disproportionately affect Black employees — and Black women in particular. Black women make up 12 percent of the federal work force, nearly double their share of the labor force overall. For generations, the federal government has served as a ladder to the middle class for Black Americans who were shut out of jobs because of discrimination. The federal government has historically offered the population more job stability, pay equity and career advancement than the private sector…. Conservatives would argue that “job stability” and “pay equity” are euphemisms for pointless, unnecessary bureaucratic jobs that overpay. But nonetheless, Green insisted "economists" believe "Black women are being hit especially hard by Mr. Trump’s policies, which are also rippling through the private sector as corporations have abandoned their diversity, equity and inclusion practices and related jobs, many of which were held by Black women." Trump lambasted DEI during his campaign, so it should be no surprise he’s following through. Green again quoted so-called "experts" to bolster her cries of racism: "Experts attribute those job losses, in large part, to Mr. Trump’s cuts to federal agencies where Black women are highly concentrated." After quoting one laid-off employee whining about “white privilege,” Green pretended the Department of Education and USAID haven’t been on the conservative cut radar for decades, their racial makeup notwithstanding: According to a New York Times tracker of Mr. Trump’s cuts, agencies where minorities and women were the majority of the work force, such as the Department of Education and U.S.A.I.D., were targeted for the largest work force reductions or complete elimination…. In his second term, Mr. Trump has been aggressive in removing high-profile leaders of color, in particular, often disparaging them as incompetent, corrupt or D.E.I. hires. Again, as he’s long demonstrated, Donald Trump is an equal opportunity insulter. Green apparently sought out the most delusional race activist sources, and they didn’t disappoint. Kelly Dermody, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, said that of the workers who sought legal help to challenge their dismissals, 80 percent were people of color, and the majority were Black women. “When an organization goes after really, really highly competent, singularly great, Black women — the message it sends, the terror it sends to every other professional woman, person of color, really is so profound,” she said. She came to a clear conclusion: “This is an attack on Black women — fully,” she said. Green also attacked Trump’s DEI rollback as racist in February 2025. The R-word even made the headline: “Racist Undertones Surface in Trump’s Attacks on Diversity.”  

It is bad enough that the Chinese Communist Party is staging a massive military parade on Wednesday to rewrite history and portray itself as one of the main victors of World War II as it seeks to build up its image as a global leader, but making things worse was Associated Press China reporter Ken Moritsugu’s mostly uncritical Tuesday article that helped spread the Party line. Under the headline “China’s military parade is a show of strength from a country devastated in World War II,” right away, Moritsugu helped the CCP in its revisionist project: Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran, remembers the troops on horseback and the handful of planes that marked the founding of communist China in 1949. It was a far cry from the military might the country will display Wednesday in a parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. A Japanese invasion before and during the conflict devastated China and left millions of people dead. ‘Now you see our country’s planes ... no one dares to mess with them,’ the veteran told journalists at a war museum in the city of Shenyang. His chest covered with ribbons and medals, Yang expressed pride in his country’s rise. It was not until later that Moritsugu gave any indication that the overwhelming majority of the fighting and dying in the China Theater was done by the Nationalists, not the Communists, “The party didn’t always make such a big deal about the end of the war. The Communists only came to power four years later, and the bulk of the fighting was done by their rivals, the Nationalist government they overthrew in 1949.” That should’ve been the theme of the whole article. Not one sentence buried in paragraph eight. However, Moritsugu was just getting started, “The ruling Communist Party is trying to amplify that feeling by playing up the war anniversary with spruced-up museums, new war movies and the military parade, attended by leaders including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.” Those movies are straight historical garbage, but that aside, Moritsugu added, “To the outside world, the missiles, tanks and fighter jets at the parade will be a show of strength as China seeks to portray itself as an alternative to the American-dominated postwar era.” He further comments, “Domestically, the commemoration is an effort to show how far the country has come — and in so doing, build support for the party and its leader, President Xi Jinping. China was a major front in World War II, a fact often overlooked in accounts that focus more on the fight for Europe and U.S. naval battles in the Pacific.” In addition to only casually mentioning how it wasn’t the communists that did most of the fighting against the Japanese, this move to diminish the U.S. role in defeating Japan also means Moritsugu helped the CCP memory hole the $700 million in aid the U.S. gave China. As China seeks to beat its chest about its increasing power, Moritsugu marveled, “Xi, who came to power in 2012, has stepped up a drive to build a strong country that can no longer be bullied. His government pushed back against new U.S. tariffs this year, forcing President Donald Trump to scale them down.” Moritsugu concluded by quoting University of Tokyo China expert Shin Kawashima, ‘“China is trying to say that it was a key member leading the establishment of the postwar global order,’ he said, ‘and that it has now reached a stage where it is catching up with and overtaking the United States.’” The Chinese Communist Party is trying to take credit for something it did not earn in order to make foreign policy gains at the expense of the country that aided China 80 years ago. That is the story Moritsugu should’ve told.

Blaze News last week reported on a disturbing incident in Louisville, Kentucky, involving a grandmother who was alone on her porch in the middle of the day when her home surveillance camera captured a young male getting off his bike, walking up her driveway, and approaching her on the porch of her home.As WLKY-TV reported, the male asks 78-year-old Jan Fletcher, "Is somebody in there? I don't want to wake them. Is somebody in there?"'I want an apology for him doing it.'Fletcher responds, "Yeah. Why?"The station said the male was asking for directions to a well-known neighborhood park. But then the male got all the way onto the porch, walked behind Fletcher, and acted as though he was dusting something off her rear end.But WLKY said the male soon repeatedly and violently groped Fletcher until she was able to stop him.“I was so mad that it happened,” Fletcher recalled to the station during an on-camera interview. “I was thinking, 'What could I have done different?' But I don't know what I could have done differently.”Her granddaughter Jessica Powell-Page was understandably horrified and told WLKY that "she didn't deserve that" and that the incident was "unacceptable.”Well, Louisville Metro Police Department said police arrested a 13-year-old male Friday in connection with the incident and charged him with third-degree sexual abuse, WLKY said in a follow-up story. Police said the male doesn't live in the neighborhood where the incident occurred, the station added.Despite the disturbing encounter, Fletcher noted to WLKY in its initial report that she's lived in her neighborhood for 55 years and has felt safe — and that she's not going anywhere.“I've been asked if I'm afraid to sit here on my porch, and I’m not,” she noted to the station defiantly. “I want him to know you're not scaring me. Absolutely not. So every day that it's nice weather, I will be on my porch.”Following the arrest, Fletcher told WLKY, "I want an apology for him doing it.""I really hate that these young people are out here doing stuff. I hate it; it's sad. ... What enjoyment do they get out of doing stuff? I don't understand it," Fletcher added to the station.Louisville police told WLKY that "the elderly are often the victims of scams, harassment, and home invasion, which often start with suspicious questions at the door." Police also offered the following tips, the station said.Trust your instincts. If a person or situation makes you feel uneasy, trust your gut feeling. Acknowledge the potential threat and take action to stay safe.Take note of your surroundings. Pay attention to potential hiding spots for an attacker, such as alleys, doorways, large bushes, or between parked vans. When walking past these areas, give them a wide berth.Look for warning signs. Stay alert for suspicious behaviors, like someone following you on foot or in a vehicle. If you notice this, change directions, cross the street, or enter a business to signal that you have noticed them.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Law enforcement in the United Kingdom appears to have difficulty clamping down on imported rape gangs but is quick to make arrests for thought-crimes such as expressing a love for bacon within earshot of a future mosque, unfurling the British flag, singing gospel music in public, praying silently for aborted babies, and, in the case of Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan, criticizing trans activists.Following his trip to the United States, Linehan, the co-creator of the television program "Father Ted" and creator of "The IT Crowd," was greeted at London's Heathrow Airport by five armed police officers.'I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist.'The Metropolitan Police Service confirmed to Blaze News that Linehan was arrested by the MPS Aviation Unit on suspicion of inciting violence.The comedy writer noted on his Substack that police escorted him to a private area and told him he was "under arrest for three tweets."Linehan indicated that "in a country where pedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilized five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer" for the following tweets:an April 19 tweet where he captioned a photograph of a trans-activist protest, "A photo you can smell."a follow-up to the smelly protest tweet where he clarified for the benefit of a critic, "I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. F**k them."an April 20 tweet where he wrote, "If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.""When I first saw the cops, I actually laughed. I couldn't help myself. 'Don't tell me! You've been sent by trans activists,'" wrote Linehan. "The officers gave no reaction and this was the theme throughout most of the day. Among the rank-and-file, there was a sort of polite bafflement. Entirely professional and even kind, but most had absolutely no idea what any of this was about."The comedy writer noted that after taking a nap in a locked cell, he was hauled before an officer, who grilled him about his tweets.RELATED: Why the English flag now terrifies the regime Photo by Krisztian Elek/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images"Eventually, a nurse came to check on me and found my blood pressure was over 200 — stroke territory," wrote Linehan. "The stress of being arrested for jokes was literally threatening my life! So I was escorted to [accident and emergency], where I write this now after spending about eight hours under observation."Linehan indicated he was ultimately freed on bail on the conditions that he does not go on X and will show up to another police interview in October.The writer concluded:I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online — all because I made jokes that upset some psychotic crossdressers. To me, this proves one thing beyond doubt: the UK has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech, hostile to women, and far too accommodating to the demands of violent, entitled, abusive men who have turned the police into their personal goon squad."On Monday, 1 September at 13:00hrs officers arrested a man at Heathrow Airport after he arrived on an inbound American Airlines flight," a police spokeswoman told Blaze News. "The man in his 50s was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence. This is in relation to posts on X.""After being taken to police custody, officers became concerned for his health and he was taken to hospital. His condition is neither life-threatening nor life-changing," continued the spokeswoman. "He has now been bailed pending further investigation."The spokeswoman indicated the officers were armed but did not draw their weapons at any point during the arrest.This is hardly Linehan's first run-in with Britain's thought police.The BAFTA-winning comedy writer was charged with harassment and with allegedly breaking a trans-identifying man's phone in April. His trial in that case is reportedly set to begin this month.Vice President JD Vance noted earlier this year that free speech in the United Kingdom "is in retreat.""The entire collective West — our transatlantic relationship, our NATO allies, certainly the United States under the Biden administration — got a little too comfortable with censoring rather than engaging with a diverse range of opinions," Vance said during his visit to the U.K. last month. "I just don't want other countries to follow us on what I think was a very dark path under the Biden administration."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Metropolitan Police have been experimenting with and refining their live facial recognition technology for nearly a decade. Large events, such as the recent Notting Hill Festival in West London, have been used as special targets for the police force's technology.Not everyone is on board with this surveillance technology, however. Several groups have come forward to call for the reconsideration of the use of this technology on several grounds, including the fact that the legitimacy of the technology is relatively unproven both in practice and in law.'We all want criminals off the streets, but turning [the] carnival into a mass police lineup is not the way to do it.'According to the BBC, 11 organizations urged Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley in a letter to abandon the technology, warning that it is a "mass surveillance tool that treats all carnival-goers as potential suspects" and has "no place at one of London's biggest cultural celebrations."RELATED: YouTube admits to secretly manipulating videos with AI Photo by Leon Neal/Getty ImagesThe recent letter, signed by Big Brother Watch, Human Rights Watch, Liberty, the Runnymede Trust, Race on the Agenda, Privacy International, Statewatch, Open Rights Group, Stop Watch, Race Equality First, and Access Now, highlights the invasiveness, past errors, and the potential lack of legality of the use of this technology.LFR has been used at the Notting Hill Carnival dating back to 2016 and 2017, according to a Sky News report. Using cameras mounted on police vans, LFR matches live people's faces against police records. This purportedly gives police the ability to know exactly who to pull aside for "questioning," especially in crowded areas or large events.Rowley admitted that "at that time, the technology was in its early stages and the algorithm's performance was limited." However, the tech has since made "considerable progress," at least according to the commissioner.The letter points out that the "Notting Hill Carnival is an event that specifically celebrates the British African Caribbean community, yet the MPS is choosing to use a technology with a well-documented history of inaccurate outcomes and racial bias."Rebecca Vincent, the interim director of Big Brother Watch, told Sky News, "We all want criminals off the streets, but turning [the] carnival into a mass police lineup is not the way to do it."The Met has reportedly announced that the technology has led to 457 arrests and seven false alerts since January 2025.While the Met claims that the technology has improved substantially, the concerned groups have demonstrated the adverse effects of LFR on law-abiding citizens. In February 2024 or 2025, Shaun Thompson, a black Londoner coming home from his work at a community outreach program called Street Fathers, was stopped by police outside the London Bridge Station. According to his telling of events, he was told that he was "wanted" and was held for roughly 30 minutes because the software had mistakenly identified him as a suspect. He described this incident with the police as a "stop and search on steroids."Commissioner Rowley defended the "doubling" of the tech by saying it can be used to "disrupt and deter" the minority of festival attendees who might cause problems, according to the BBC. "Where we know that LFR can help locate individuals the police need to speak to, and those people pose a public safety risk to the many seeking to enjoy Carnival, it is entirely reasonable to ask — why wouldn't you use it in this context?" he said.More LFR vans are expected to be rolled out soon in Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, Bedfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Thames Valley, and Hampshire, according to Metro. They are already in use by South Wales Police, Essex, and Met Police areas.Return contacted Big Brother Watch for comment and was referred to its press release page for additional information.

Democrat Senator Tim Kaine (Va.) has weaseled an amendment into the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026 that would handcuff Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth when it comes to the naming of certain military bases and other Pentagon assets.ErasureThe Department of Defense took part in the iconoclastic Biden-era sweep of American history that saw graves dug up, statues toppled, animals renamed, busts melted down, and church windows removed. Pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2021 — which survived a Dec. 23, 2020, veto by President Donald Trump — former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin established a commission to identify, for the purpose of removal, "names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia to assets of the Department of Defense that commemorate the Confederate States of America or any person who served voluntarily with the Confederate States of America." Austin ultimately embraced all of the commission's recommendations. As a result, nine Army installations took on new names: Fort Bragg in North Carolina became Fort Liberty; Fort Benning in Georgia became Fort Moore; Fort Gordon in Georgia became Fort Eisenhower; Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia became Fort Walker; Fort Hood in Texas became Fort Cavazos; Fort Lee in Virginia became Fort Gregg-Adams; Fort Pickett in Virginia became Fort Barfoot; Fort Polk in Louisiana became Fort Johnson; and Fort Rucker in Alabama became Fort Novosel. Restoration These changes delighted Democrats and other leftists. Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner (Va.), both on the Senate Armed Services Committee, were among those who celebrated the condemnation of memory, claiming in a joint statement that the name changes were "proof that progress is possible."RELATED: Exclusive: Moses Ezekiel’s historic sculpture finally set for installation in Arlington Cemetery, by the Southern graves it once marked Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAhead of the 2024 presidential election, Trump signaled a desire to reverse the changes.Months after Hegseth restored the names of Forts Bragg and Benning, the commander in chief told a North Carolina crowd that the other seven Army installations were similarly getting their proper names back.Among the Democrats prickled by this twist of fate was Kaine, who told reporters in June that Trump lacked the authority to make the name changes, stating, "The president can't change the law on a whim, and his court jester Pete Hegseth can't do it either."ProhibitionThe U.S. Senate plans to vote this month on its version of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.'We learn from our triumphs and our pains, which makes our country stronger.'The bill currently contains an amendment, section 349, which would require Hegseth to use the names of Pentagon assets in the Commonwealth of Virginia, including military bases, that were adopted by the Biden-era naming commission.This amendment, which Kaine's office confirmed to Blaze News was the Virginia Democrat's handiwork, bars Hegseth from overriding the Virginia-specific naming recommendations of the commission.If the NDAA 2026 is passed as is, Forts A.P. Hill, Lee, and Pickett will become Forts Walker, Gregg-Adams, and Barfoot, just as the Biden-era revisionists intended.When pressed on whether there was a conversation about limiting this prohibition to Virginia, the office of one Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee told Blaze News, "NDAA deliberations are held at a classified level, so we cannot comment on the process involved in the inclusion of this provision."Blaze News reached out to several Republicans on the committee to ask whether they would fight the amendment but has so far received no confirmations.Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said in a statement to Blaze News, "Past administrations have tried to rename bases that should [never have] been changed in the first place. Here at the Pentagon, we honor our American history and traditions; we don't erase it.""We learn from our triumphs and our pains, which makes our country stronger," added Wilson.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

CHICAGO, Ill. — The crowd of protesters were packed tightly around the Haymarket Memorial to participate in a Labor Day march that shifted focus on the potential deployment of National Guardsmen to the city. President Donald Trump has said repeatedly he would like to have the same crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., to be done in the Windy City.Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) joined the protesters to continue expressing his disapproval of the Trump administration's public safety plans for Chicago, which also include surging federal law enforcement agents."Are you prepared to defend this land? This land that [was] built by slaves. The land that was built by indigenous people. The land that was built by workers. Are you prepared to defend this land?" Johnson asked the cheering crowd. "I need you all to stand firm, to stand strong, if this president decides to continue to break this Constitution." Johnson then led a "No troops in Chicago!" chant. — (@) The protesting crowd featured many Mexican flags and flags from other Latin American countries as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed on Sunday extra immigration agents will be sent to the sanctuary city. While the crowd marched in neighborhoods close to the Loop, they did not march in the high-crime areas such as Humboldt Park or Englewood. — (@) RELATED: Watch how Mayor Brandon Johnson reacts when asked if he will accept more police funding in Chicago Brandon Johnson KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images Johnson and other state Democrats' ongoing resistance to a federal crackdown on the city's crime could not have come at a worse time as over 50 people were shot during the Labor Day weekend. From Friday to Monday, at least 54 people shot, seven fatally, according to ABC 7 Chicago. Some of the incidents were mass shootings, which took place within 48 hours of each other. One of the mass shootings took place close to the headquarters for the Chicago Police Department.Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez (D), a staunch Johnson critic, asked those who would say “hell no” to extra federal personnel in the city: "How much crime do you find acceptable, how many people are you willing to make victims for your politics? In my opinion, any tool that prevents one more Chicagoan from being shot, robbed, carjacked, forced into human trafficking, or killed by cartel-delivered drugs is absolutely worth it!"Lopez further suggested the National Guard protect the tourist areas of the city so Chicago police "don’t have to babysit the Bean or Buckingham Fountain for eight hours a day. Our officers can return to their districts [and] answer the thousands of 911 calls logged but never answered."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

What a lovely Labor Day weekend that was. As a new week begins, I find myself reflecting over all that happened these past three days. I must say what’s on my heart.When you left last January, you assured me you would come back. I remember that moment like it was yesterday — your abrupt departure in the wee hours of a Tuesday morning.Some of you for a time is better than none of you at all. I’ve come to accept this.Seven months will go by “just like that,” you coyly suggested. That’s how I remember it, as the room went dark immediately upon your absence. Why must you do this to me?I tried to wait for you, and by and large, I was successful. The truth is that but for a brief fling of madness in March, there’s been an unmistakable “you-shaped” hole in my life.I never want to feel this emptiness again, yet something tells me that before long, it will happen again. Looking back, it’s the Saturdays without you that were the hardest.I needn’t remind you that we spent that entire day together, you and I, from early morning to well past midnight. Other friends came and went, but I never took my eyes off you.Those were happy times, with homemade soup on the stove, a fire on the hearth, and you, even more radiant than the turning colors outside, the center of my undivided attention.I realize a bird of your beguiling plumage is meant to be free, and I’ve no right to keep you all to myself. But keep you I shall for the blissful time we’ve been given to spend together. When I’m not gazing lovingly at you, know this: I will be thinking of you.Oh, the places we’ll go now that you’re back! Athens will be special this fall, rich in history and tradition as it is; Oxford, too. I suspect we’ll make memories together in many other places as well. Come January, you’re sure to bowl me over with some surprises of your own.Speaking of that cruelest of months when, as if on a predetermined schedule, you flee, I shall try not to grow sullen. I’ll pursue other interests to take my lovesick mind off you. But it won’t be the same, for there is only one you. Nothing even comes close.RELATED: A father-son movie bucket list Alfieri via iStock/Getty ImagesI know I’m not the only man who longs for you. I’m not even the only man on my cul-de-sac who longs for you. But you were crystal clear about this arrangement from the very beginning. I’m not the first, and I won’t be the last. Some of you for a time is better than none of you at all. I’ve come to accept this.You know something? That’s enough pining by me. It’s all water under the bridge now. What matters most is that you have once again returned, as promised.Absence has made the heart grow fonder. We are together again, my beloved, and for the next five months I’ll have eyes for nobody — and I mean nobody — except you.Oh, how I have missed you, college football.