The entire career of race-baiter Al Sharpton was founded on falsehoods about the Tawana Brawley scam. Nearly everything the Left told us about the Trayvon Martin fight was false. The “hands up, don’t shoot” Ferguson fable and the Covington kids myth were quickly exposed. The Duke lacrosse and Jussie Smollett melodramas were laughable. Russian “collusion,” “laptop” disinformation, and Joe Biden “fit as a fiddle” gaslighting were utter lies. But more recently, the hard Left lost its mind championing a host of violent, unsavory characters. The illegal alien and El Salvadorian national, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was portrayed as a victim of unfair deportation in the Left’s larger, losing war for open borders. Abrego Garcia became a “Maryland Man”: a supposed poor victim of Trump overreach. He was constructed as a family man engaged in construction to feed his family, who somehow forgot to become “documented” and was deported. In truth, Garcia is now facing felony indictments for human trafficking. He was a likely MS-13 gang member, a violent and bullying woman-beater, and rarely employed gainfully in construction. Luigi Mangione was a rich, spoiled kid who dabbled in Jacobin politics. Posing as a revolutionary, Mangione ambushed Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. He murdered him in cold blood near a New York hotel. Instantly, some on the Left embraced Mangione as a revolutionary hero who delivered justice to a supposedly greedy corporate capitalist. Mohammed Sabry Soliman, like Garcia, was a violent illegal alien. He bragged about his hatred of Jews in general and Israel in particular. So Soliman made some Molotov cocktails and tried to incinerate Jewish marchers advocating on behalf of Israeli hostages still held by Hamas. Soliman’s wife and five children, to whom Soliman filmed a video explaining his dedication to violent jihad, were also illegal aliens. Soliman may well have preferred to burn Jews to remind us of the fires of the Holocaust ovens. In the mind of the mainstream liberal media, the Soliman family was cruelly detained by the evil Donald Trump administration that was considering returning the illegal aliens to their Middle East homes. But recently, during the LA riots, the Left went completely crazy as the entire Democrat Party and California state officials sided with violent protesters and illegal aliens. The open border rioters soon got the message that left-wing California officials were on their side. So, throngs began burning cars. Illegal aliens waved Mexican flags and burned American flags. Protesters spat on law enforcement and pelted them with rocks, firecrackers, and concrete blocks. Stores were looted. Critical freeways were swarmed and shut down. And for what? To protest the legal efforts of U.S. Immigration of Customs Enforcement to serve deportation warrants to a few hundred of some 10 million-12 million illegal aliens who had illegally swarmed into the U.S. during the Joe Biden administration’s four-year destruction of immigration law. California Governor Gavin Newsom damned the federal immigration efforts as “chaotic” and “reckless” and seemed obsessed only with Trump. Then Newsom dared ICE to arrest him. Like some antebellum, neo-Confederate, states’ rights activist, Newsom threatened to withhold California’s federal income taxes from the federal government—a possible felony. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass—recently infamous for junketing in Ghana while Pacific Palisades burned down—warned ICE that, “We will not stand for this.” What did her threat mean? Did she intend to use force to support the street thugs against her fellow American officers? California Democrat Congresswoman Norma Torres screamed at overwhelmed ICE agents seeking to issue arrest warrants with the obscene threat, “Get the f*** out of LA!” As the mob violence increased and public outrage grew, a desperate and now embarrassed Newsom could only double down on his obsessions with Trump. What has caused Newsom’s Trump Derangement Syndrome? Is it because Trump called out the National Guard and Marines to aid an overwhelmed Los Angeles Police Department to stop the violence that left-wing officials and the media had appeased? In sum, is the Left once again trying to commit political suicide? Polls showed overwhelming public support for deporting those who illegally entered and reside in the U.S., especially the nearly half a million believed criminals. Trump’s own most supportive demographic in recent polls has been Hispanics. Like all Americans, they are appalled by violent thugs and illegal aliens waving Mexican flags who have no wish to return to Mexico while burning American flags as they demand illegally to stay in the U.S. The more the incoherent Left claimed the protests were “peaceful” and damned the Trump administration for sending them help, the more the violence continued. And the more the public was relieved that Trump was trying to stop the riots. Democrats currently lack sane and effective leaders. But that is no excuse to swoon over creepy gang-bangers, spoiled-brat assassins, antisemitic burners of Jews, and illegal aliens breaking the law and damning America—while waving Mexican flags. (C)2025 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Rogue’s New Gallery of Left-Wing Scoundrels appeared first on The Daily Signal.

When you walk through the Library of Congress in Washington, one inscription reads, “the foundation of every state is the education of its youth,” quoting Diogenes. For the Greeks, Romans, and America’s Founding Fathers, education meant instilling virtue as well as information. Now, education is progressive indoctrination. Education of the youth is still the foundation of a state, so what happens when the moral foundation of education itself begins to shift decisively toward a political extreme? On Thursday, the House decided in a narrow 214-212 vote to pass Trump’s rescission package to cut taxpayer funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS. These media conglomerates have a decidedly left-wing bias, having supported cultural Marxist themes, drag shows, and blatant relativism. Perhaps PBS is more strongly associated in the minds of some Americans with cultural classics for young people such as “Cat in the Hat,” “Sesame Street,” or “Martha Speaks.” True, PBS did have strong educational content in the early years, but by the turn of this century it took a turn for the woke. In 2022, PBS was forced to cancel the longest running animated children’s show in the network’s history, “Arthur,” after backlash over their 2019 episode featuring a homosexual wedding and a 2020 episode discussing George Floyd’s death. Previously, when “Arthur” had tried to promote LGBTQ+ narratives, the episodes were removed under pressure from President George W. Bush’s Department of Education. But since Bush departed office, producers shamelessly have aired leftist propagandized shows. And they’re funded by American taxpayers. In 2017, Bustle, the online women’s magazine with an audience of over 100 million monthly readers, said unashamedly that, “these progressive children’s shows prove that you don’t need to have an over 18 target audience to create work that challenges assumptions about gender, race, and politics … that’s the beauty of these shows … this is education via stealth.[emphasis added]” They said the quiet part out loud, which gives me the chills, and not in a good way. In line with this approach, Sesame Street ran an episode called “Family Day” with gay couple Dave and Frank in 2021, and in 2022, Elmo encouraged children to get the COVID shot, as part of PBS’s “the ABCs of the COVID Vaccine” learning initiative. Sesame Street hosted outspoken homosexuals in recent years, such as Ellen DeGeneres and rapper Lil Nas X. Even PBS’ bipartisan literacy initiatives launched during the Reagan administration are now focused on “racial literacy.” PBS’ movie “Real Boy” features a transgender teenager who struggles with sobriety. The perfect viewing for a Friday family movie night! Lest we forget, these programs are aimed at children, who should not be over racialized or sexualized if the goal is to educate, not indoctrinate. PBS isn’t the only aggravator. NPR’s programming over the past decade is rife with woke propaganda. A report issued by the White House lists their offenses. A 2015 segment featured the “population of anthropomorphic animal enthusiasts known as ‘furries.’” In 2022, NPR ran a story on what “Queer Ducks” can teach youth about sexuality. Later that same year, our great nation had the distinct privilege of learning about the ancient communities of genderqueer dinosaurs and trans-Ceratops. The NPR Valentine’s Day special in 2024 was on queer animals, because, well, how fitting. We learned about gay anteaters in the Smithsonian Zoo, hermaphroditic banana slugs, and nonbinary deer. But the cherry on top of this Valentine’s Day special is NPR’s final takeaway to have more sex with the people around you: As a social species, our survival relies on us being able to get along with one another. Same-sex sexual behaviors … is thought to be another way of strengthening these bonds and assuring that we can protect each other, take care of each other and help each other forage. So think about an animal like a bonobo. One of our closest relatives, a primate species—they have so much sex. It’s thought to be like, ‘Hey, instead of fighting over these resources, let’s just have sex with one another, feel good about it and share.’ And that’s really worked out for them. Feeling edified? Well, hopefully taxpayers across the political spectrum who value education won’t have to fund programs like this for much longer, as 214 House members concluded Thursday afternoon on the House floor: Federal funds do not belong in the pockets of woke media conglomerates. Education of youth is the foundation of a state, and elected officials are beginning to take that seriously. The post The Movement to Make Our Children Innocent Again appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A tech employee voiced opposition to his company’s policy against doing business with a nonprofit on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map,” calling the policy “absolutely ridiculous.” Now, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is investigating the Big Tech firm that acquired the employee’s company, claiming the firm “systematically deplatforms conservatives.” “It is outrageous that the SPLC gets away with labeling people this way,” Jennifer Roback Morse, founder of the blacklisted nonprofit Ruth Institute, told The Daily Signal. “The only thing worse is that supposedly sophisticated companies like tech businesses outsource their moral judgments to a scurrilous group like the SPLC.” The SPLC publishes a “hate map” that it claims highlights the “infrastructure upholding white supremacy.” Critics say the map includes mainstream conservative and Christian groups alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, falsely smearing mainstream groups as hateful. In a February 2021 email, the fundraising company Salsa Labs refused to work with the Ruth Institute, a pro-family nonprofit in Louisiana that serves victims of the Sexual Revolution. Morse maintains that the Sexual Revolution harmed men, women, and children by deemphasizing marriage and the family, which promote human flourishing for husbands, wives, and children. Salsa Labs cited the SPLC’s accusation that the institute is an “anti-LGBTQ hate group.” The constituent relationship management platform and fundraising software company EveryAction acquired Salsa Labs in June 2021. Bonterra, a Big Tech company that claims to have raised $28 billion from 53 million donors supporting 437,000 nonprofits in 2024, acquired both EveryAction and Salsa Labs in 2022. The Email Chain Mentioning SPLC Morse reached out to Salsa Labs in 2021, seeking to hire the company for fundraising. The Ruth Institute had experienced blacklisting before, and Morse wanted to make sure it wouldn’t happen again. “There is one thing that I feel I should mention to you up front,” she wrote. “We are an interfaith international coalition to defend the family and build a civilization of love. We deal with pretty much all the major issues raised by the Sexual Revolution, trying to help people who have been harmed by the Sexual Revolution understand what has happened to them and how they can recover. This is naturally controversial work.” She noted that the SPLC branded her organization a “hate group” and noted, “We dispute this characterization of our work. We challenge this description every time it comes up in the news.” “I do not want to go through all the trouble of signing up with you, switching our lists over to you, and then being abruptly canceled,” Morse added. “If there is a problem, I would like to deal with it up front.” The Salsa Labs employee she was communicating with said he appreciated the candor and would have to run the decision “up the ladder.” “I think it’s absolutely outrageous that the SPLC gets to pick and choose who is a hate group,” he added. “You clearly are not. I really hope we can move forward. We typically are not able to if you are on the SPLC website. I’m going to fight for you because I think this is a travesty.” He followed up a few days later, writing that it “pains” him to say Salsa Labs could not work with the institute. The employee added, “I am aligned with the beliefs of your organization and I think it’s absolutely RIDICULOUS that the SPLC gets to pick and choose who is a hate group” (emphasis original). “Doesn’t make any sense, and they should be shut down,” he added. “My CEO agrees that you shouldn’t be on there, she took it up to our board, and they said that is one rule they will not make an exception on.” Bonterra, the company that later acquired Salsa Labs, did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about the move and whether it uses the SPLC “hate map” to screen potential clients. The Daily Signal cannot reveal the employee’s name. While parts of the email were first reported by The Daily Wire, The Daily Signal obtained the email chain in full. Ruth Institute Salsa Emails FinalDownload When approached for comment, the Ruth Institute confirmed the contents of the email and put them in a larger context. Morse was unfamiliar with Bonterra, “however, we can confirm that the information reported corresponds precisely to an email exchange we had with a company called Salsa,” she said. Morse said how grateful she was to her organization’s supporters: “You stood by us when the Southern Poverty Law Center put us on their ‘hate map’ in 2013,” she noted. “You stood by us when our credit card processor, Vanco, abruptly withdrew their services from us in 2017.” Cruz Investigates Bonterra Cruz, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, launched an investigation into Bonterra earlier this year. In a 2024 report, Cruz revealed that Bonterra’s terms of service prevent the company from working with clients that denied “rights to the LGBTQ community,” “a woman’s right to reproductive choice,” “racial justice,” or “climate change.” In June 2021, the constituent relationship management platform and fundraising software company EveryAction acquired Salsa Labs. In March 2022, Bonterra announced that it would acquire Salsa Labs and EveryAction, combine them, and produce a “nonprofit fundraising and relationships management system” now known as Bonterra Fundraising and Engagement. Cruz’s investigation found that EveryAction said it would not work with nonprofits that are “not progressive aligned,” meaning they “can’t be a Republican org,” “can’t go against LGBT+,” and “can’t be against pro-choice.” According to Cruz, Bonterra refused to renew contracts with Wisconsin Right to Life, Idaho Family Policy Center, Deaconess Pregnancy & Adoptions, and Stand for Health Freedom. “Big Tech companies like Bonterra weaponized their terms of service to systematically deplatform conservatives,” Cruz told Politico. “My committee’s investigation exposed what we long expected: Big Tech companies like Bonterra have used vague, broadly worded terms of service agreements as a political weapon to deny conservatives access to essential business technology,” the senator told The Daily Wire. Earlier this week, Cruz reintroduced the “TERMS Act,” which would mandate that online service providers “disclose their acceptable use policies, provide users with written notice before the termination of a user’s account, and publish an annual report detailing actions taken to enforce their acceptable use policies.” Eight Republican senators have joined Cruz in backing the legislation, The Daily Wire reported. the Ruth Institute contract with Salsa, redactedDownload The post Big Tech Employee Says It’s ‘Absolutely Ridiculous’ He Has to Blacklist Conservative Group Over SPLC Label appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Trump's response to the Israeli strike on Iran

Fox News reporter Trey Yingst and his crew came under fire while reporting live from Tel Aviv, Israel, during a missile barrage from Iran. Iran launched 100 ballistic missiles at Israel, but Israeli defenses intercepted most—only 5 to 7 got through. The crew had to evacuate immediately as missiles exploded nearby; video footage captured people shouting to move. Yingst stated it was the most intense attack he’d seen in seven years covering Israel. Several people were injured in Tel Aviv by shrapnel—five were hospitalized (four minor, one moderate), and four others were treated for anxiety. Photos show major destruction, including shattered vehicles and emergency crews operating under floodlights. President Trump commented that Iran “was hit ten times worse than they thought they would be,” suggesting Israel’s strike was extremely effective. Trump added Iran “wasn’t ready to negotiate” before, but may be reconsidering after this. Israeli strikes reportedly targeted Iran’s top nuclear and military leadership, possibly including 90% of their key nuclear scientists. In response, Iran’s Supreme Leader threatened revenge, vowing to bring Israel “to ruin” and promising there would be no forgiveness for the strike. Watch the moment here: “Everyone move, now!” FOX News Chief Foreign Correspondent @TreyYingst and his crew take cover in Tel Aviv as Iran retaliates against Israel. pic.twitter.com/Ke3LLoVdlr — Fox News (@FoxNews) June 13, 2025 More here: “I’ve reported here for nearly seven years and never seen such an attack against an Israeli city.” FOX News Chief Foreign Correspondent @TreyYingst reports from Tel Aviv while taking cover from Iranian missile attack. pic.twitter.com/Re6gYjRHm4 — Fox News (@FoxNews) June 13, 2025 Pray for safety of all involved!

A major U.S. government website that discusses ‘climate science’ could be shut down in the wake of mass layoffs. Climate.gov, operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), had nearly its entire staff fired. The website will no longer publish new content. “The entire content production staff at climate.gov (including me) were let go from our government contract on 31 May,” a former government contractor told The Guardian. “We were told that our positions within the contract were being eliminated,” the former contractor added. NOAA’s climate website, https://t.co/rKnGnjKv3E, could be shut down after most of its staff were fired, according to a news report Wednesday. More at https://t.co/O5ePGELlht pic.twitter.com/8zDrLoxAwE — Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) June 11, 2025 From The Guardian: Rebecca Lindsey, the website’s former program manager, who was fired in February as part of the government’s purge of probationary employees, described a months-long situation within Noaa where political appointees and career staff argued over the fate of the website. “I had gotten a stellar performance review, gotten a bonus, gotten a raise. I was performing very well. And then I was part of that group who got the form letter saying, ‘Your knowledge, skills, and abilities are no longer of use to Noaa’ – or something to that effect.” Lindsey said she had been worried that climate.gov might be a target of the new administration soon after the election, but when a large Noaa contract was up for renewal at the end of May, her former boss told her that a demand came “from above” to rewrite parts of the contract to remove the team’s funding. Hooray!: "A major US government website supporting public education on climate science looks likely to be shuttered after almost all of its staff were fired" https://t.co/zELBp1Eue1 — Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) June 11, 2025 Per Newsweek: The 10 or so content staff were supported by NOAA scientists. The site was housed in the agency’s science wing rather than its public affairs division, and was designed to maintain political neutrality and scientific accuracy, she told the outlet. “We operated exactly how you would want an independent, nonpartisan communications group to operate,” Lindsey said. “It does seem to be part of this sort of slow and quiet way of trying to keep science agencies from providing information to the American public about climate.” Tom Di Liberto, a former spokesperson for the NOAA who was fired earlier this year told the outlet: “It’s targeted, I think it’s clear.” “They only fired a handful of people, and it just so happened to be the entire content team for climate.gov. I mean, that’s a clear signal.”

Okay, buckle down for this one. An account on X named ‘Pentagon Pizza Tracker” predicted something was up at the Pentagon on Thursday night. The account tracks how many orders of pizza are delivered to the Pentagon. Well, one hour before Iran confirmed they were hit by Israeli missiles, pizza deliveries to the Pentagon went through the roof. AFP shared these key details: The timing of Israel’s plan to attack Iran was top secret. But Washington pizza delivery trackers guessed something was up before the first bombs fell. About an hour before Iranian state TV first reported loud explosions in Tehran, pizza orders around the Pentagon went through the roof, according to a viral X account claiming to offer “hot intel” on “late-night activity spikes” at the US military headquarters. “As of 6:59 pm ET nearly all pizza establishments nearby the Pentagon have experienced a HUGE surge in activity,” the account “Pentagon Pizza Report” posted on Thursday. Not confining its analysis to pizza, the account noted three hours later that a gay bar near the Pentagon had “abnormally low traffic for a Thursday night,” and said this probably pointed to “a busy night at the Pentagon.” While far from scientific, the Pentagon pizza theory “is not something the internet just made up,” The Takeout, an online site covering restaurants and food trends, noted earlier this year. Pentagon-adjacent pizza joints also got much busier than usual during Israel’s 2024 missile strike on Iran, it said, as there are “a multitude of fast food restaurants in the Pentagon complex, but no pizza places.” Pizza deliveries to the Pentagon reportedly doubled right before the US invasion of Panama in December 1989, and surged again before Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Take a look: As of 6:59pm ET nearly all pizza establishments nearby the Pentagon have experienced a HUGE surge in activity. pic.twitter.com/ZUfvQ1JBYM — Pentagon Pizza Report (@PenPizzaReport) June 12, 2025 Extreme Pizza, one of the closest pizza establishments nearby the Pentagon, is experiencing a huge surge in activity. District Pizza Palace, a bit farther away, is also experiencing a surge in activity. Both unusual for a Wednesday at around 7:05pm EST pic.twitter.com/kYQP1LQ33h — Pentagon Pizza Report (@PenPizzaReport) June 11, 2025 The Daily Dot explained the Pentagon Pizza Theory: The Pentagon Pizza Theory suggests a strange but oddly specific idea: when war looms, D.C.’s pizza joints get slammed. The concept dates back to the early 1990s, when Domino’s franchise owner Frank Meeks noticed spikes in Pentagon-area delivery orders during military events. He famously said pizza sales surged right before Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. It happened again, he claimed, during Clinton’s impeachment hearings in 1998. The theory resurfaced in 2024, thanks in part to TikTok sleuths and a surge in political memes. In August, former New York legislator Ben Geller pointed to an unusually busy local pizza chain while tensions simmered in the Middle East. That moment breathed new life into what many now call the Pentagon Pizza Report, and was fanned by the flames of the Pentagon Pizza Report account on X (@PenPizzaReport), which also launched in August 2024. Supporters of the theory argue that high-level Pentagon staff stay late during international crises. This is because they are often too busy to cook or go out for a meal. Their assistants, the theory goes, frantically order pizza, creating a noticeable uptick in delivery demand. Google search results showing restaurants as “extremely busy” or “busier than usual” near the Pentagon are now taken as ominous signs. Ever heard of the ‘Pizza Index’? When shits about to hit the fan, and a long night is in store…they order a boat load of pizza. Here’s a live look at the pizza places around the Pentagon…that red bar is right now…the blue is normal busyness. Israel + Iran = pic.twitter.com/DCmwjx2caV — Jordan Crowder (@digijordan) June 11, 2025