A British museum believes that Santa Claus needs to be decolonized in the name of diversity. In a blog on its website the Brighton and Hove museum has called for Father Christmas to be “decolonized,” [...] The post UK Museum Wants To ‘Decolonize’ Father Christmas appeared first on The People's Voice.

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A longtime custodian at Brown University said he alerted a security guard after seeing a suspicious man walking around campus at least 10 times in the weeks leading up to the mass shooting on December 13. Derek Lisi told the Boston Globe on Sunday that 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, who killed two students and wounded nine others, was peering into classrooms and pacing the college’s hallways weeks before his attack. Lisi said Valente was walking around the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building at Brown, where on December 13, the gunman opened fire, killing 19-year-old Ella Cook and 18-year-old Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov as they studied. “He’d been casing that place for weeks,” Lisi said, adding, “I knew there was something off with him.” Lisi said that he notified a staff member of a private firm who he believed was working as a security guard about a suspicious person on two different occasions, adding that the staff member did not investigate. Brown uses Event Staffing Services, a private firm that works security on campus. Event Staffing Services confirmed that one of its employees received a report of a suspicious person in December, but added that it is not responsible for investigating such reports, according to the Globe. In the weeks before the shooting, the suspicious man was especially interested in room 166, according to Lisi. Room 166 is where the gunman shot multiple students days later. “I thought it was someone trying to steal something,” Lisi said. “Every time he saw me, I think he thought I was security, because he would always walk away.” Lisi said he recognized the suspicious man who had been walking around campus in the photos shared by police during the manhunt for the shooter. Providence, Rhode Island, police said that after the shooting, the custodian also told them that he had alerted campus security about man who appeared to have been casing campus. Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships The Daily Wire reached out to Brown University for comment. After hearing about the shooting at Brown, Lisi said he told a friend, “I hope it’s not the guy I’ve been seeing.” But after police release the first images and videos of a person of interest, Lisi knew immediately. “I knew it was him because I could tell by the walk,” he said. “He had a pretty distinctive walk.” Lisi wasn’t alone in witnessing odd behavior from the shooter. A Brown faculty member told police that she saw a car matching the description of the suspect’s rental car slowly driving around campus just before the shooting. Another man, whom police identified as “John,” said that he saw the suspect acting suspiciously on campus in the days before the attack. Valente, a Portuguese resident and former Brown student, was finally tracked down by police five days after the shooting, and was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a storage unit he owned in New Hampshire. Authorities believe that Valente was also responsible for the murder of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who was found shot in his Brookline, Massachusetts, home on the morning of December 15.

Massachusetts Mayor Brian DePena made waves for requesting the assistance of a translator during a court appearance on Friday.   DePena requested that his personal assistant act as a translator during the proceedings, which the judge overseeing the hearing denied due to concerns that the staffer had not been independently verified. Because the judge and opposing counsel do not speak Spanish, it was determined that mistranslations could negatively affect the case, either intentionally or unintentionally, per The Post Millennial. The mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts who is from Dominican Republic gets a translator in court because he can’t understand English pic.twitter.com/9rcre4kLRN — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 22, 2025 The incident occurred during a Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission and quickly went viral. It’s been revealed that DePena hails from the Dominican Republic and immigrated to New York in the early 1980s before moving to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1989.  The hearing concerned former Lawrence Police Chief William Castro, who lost his policing credentials after a 2024 police chase and subsequent false report. Castro was accused of driving the wrong way down a city street during the chase. He later filed a report saying he was responding to an armed bank robbery. In reality, he had been going after someone who had allegedly cashed a bad check.   Documents uncovered by the NBC10 Boston Investigators revealed that DePena tried to curtail the investigation into the acting police chief, who is a political ally of the Lawrence mayor.  Social media users have been reacting strongly to the clip, saying it’s shocking that an elected official is not able to speak fluent English. “How is this even real life?” one response said. “This is absurd. We live in a parody world,” another person echoed.  “If you can’t speak English, you shouldn’t even be eligible for citizenship, much less public office,” a third commenter wrote. “How are you supposed to represent Americans if you can’t even understand our language?” Per census data, Lawrence, Massachusetts, is over 82% Hispanic.