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The Biden-Harris Defense Department paid outside organizations millions of taxpayer dollars to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, including race-based career advancement programs, in the U.S. military, documents shared exclusively with The Daily Wire reveal. The documents, first obtained by the Functional Government Initiative, highlight the extent of the Pentagon’s efforts to embed leftwing, race-based ideology in the military, in partnership with academic institutions and consulting firms. The outside organizations received taxpayer dollars to set up hiring pipelines that gave candidates preferential treatment on the basis of race and sex, advise the government agency on DEI policy, and combat internal and external resistance to said policies. The contracts are the latest evidence of the Biden-Harris administration’s push to impose DEI policies and practices throughout the federal government, including the military. Critics have blasted the administration for this push, arguing that their ideological focus detracts from military readiness and may even cause some Americans to sour on military service amid an ongoing recruiting crisis, compromising our national security in the process. The Functional Government Initiative slammed the DOD’s decision to push a political agenda rather than focus on military readiness. “The U.S. and its allies are facing challenges and threats all over the globe. Despite the increased concern for military preparedness, the DOD continues to prioritize DEI initiatives,” FGI spokesman Peter McGinnis told The Daily Wire. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — MATT WALSH’S EXPOSÉ ON DEI “Rather than maximizing readiness training to ensure a capable military, the DOD’s training seems calculated to foster sowing internal discord with aggressive efforts to promote controversial ideologies,” McGinnis added. “Americans join the military to serve their nation and protect the homeland, not to sit through sensitivity training. The DOD owes them better.” The Defense Department went beyond pushing DEI on members, paying academic institutions to build career pipelines that disadvantaged men and white people on the basis of their sex and race. The Department of the Navy awarded the University of Missouri Kansas City $760,000 to design a program that would give preferential treatment to non-white students and women in STEM applying for Defense Department jobs. The program’s designers openly acknowledged that it would give preferential treatment to applicants on the basis of their sex and race. “To meet our equity-focused programmatic goals, campus internship selection will be equitable such that qualified applicants from underserved and underrepresented cohorts … will be provided first choice,” the designers said. The Defense Department awarded Cornell University around $202,000 “to provide Diversity training that is mission imperative to ensure readiness and addressing discriminatory behavior from a cognitive perspective.” The DEI program sought to train 35 employees of the Air Force Materiel Command to deliver DEI training to an estimated 70,000 employees, with a focus on “counteracting unconscious bias,” “fostering an inclusive environment,” and “diversity and inclusion at work.” The Defense Department also paid the RAND Corporation an undisclosed sum of money for a project titled “Research and Analysis Support for the Department of Defense Board on Diversity and Inclusion.” Among other things, RAND’s report offered the DOD advice on how to combat growing resistance to military DEI initiatives. “Across organizations, a resistance to DE&I is growing, while discriminatory and xenophobic expressions are increasing,” the report reads. “Some researchers describe the presence of ‘denial perspectives’ and ‘diversity defiance,’ or ‘White fatigue,’” the report went on to say before cautioning the Defense Department to “watch for” these perspectives “and exercise caution to guard against them.” RAND urged the Department of the Air Force to “develop techniques and tools to mitigate resistance” to the DEI agenda among its employees and enlisted members. The Defense Department paid DEI consulting agency BCT Partners just under $2 million in 2021 to create a “DEI Action Plan” for DOD-operated schools, called the DOD Education Activity. In its performance work statement, BCT deploys typical DEI boilerplate. It notes that Critical Race Theory “is an approach to grappling with a history of white supremacy” and ““Systematic racism [that] is part of the American life.” The document also decries “microaggressions” and “implicit bias.” The Biden-Harris administration has continuously worked to embed the far-left DEI agenda throughout the federal government, from the military and intelligence community to the bureaucracy writ-large. The Daily Wire previously revealed that the Pentagon requested nearly $270 million in taxpayer funds for the DEI agenda from 2022 to 2024 under the leftwing administration. President Joe Biden signed multiple executive orders institutionalizing the leftwing doctrine, and his federal agencies have even worked to enable gender transition attempts among government employees, barring the use of biologically accurate pronouns in the process. Former President Donald Trump has pledged to gut the bureaucracy through executive orders if he is reelected in November, cutting down the size of the administrative state and firing those who may otherwise work to undermine his policy agenda.

Disabled animals come in all shapes and sizes. The people who offer them homes are a rare breed of caring and compassionate humans. Such is the case with a sad, blind cat named Archie. His owner makes candles and wax melts, so her office workspace is a no-cat zone. Archie is a lap cat, and Mom is his favorite lap. It saddened her to lock him out, so she devised a workable solution to allow him to be closer to her.The solution is currently only temporary. @theblindcathouse By the end of this, I will be the one working in a box and he will have full rein of the office #blindcat #blindcatsoftiktok #officecat #sweetcat #cattok #catlover #catsoftiktok ♬ Stuff We Did (from ‘Up’) – Piano Version – your movie soundtrack In addition to candles and wax melts, Archie’s Mom also sells clothing. Although she can never guarantee that it is cat-hair-free, she does try. Watching Archie try to get through the gate daily was breaking her heart. Her solution was rather genius. Archie’s mom built a tunnel from the gate to the center of the room using readily available items from Amazon and other retailers. At the end of the tunnel, a small tent with blankets and comfy spots for Archie to rest is set up. The tent is small and crowded when JoJo, the cat, visits. JoJo is a bit on the chonky side. Not to worry, upgrades are probably on the way. Image from TikTok. If Archie, the blind cat, hasn’t melted your heart yet, check him out playing with a foster brother. @theblindcathouse The moment that put Archie on the map #blindcat #catfail #funny #funnycat #catsoftiktok #blind #fail ♬ sonido original – alcarajopuntocom Even though he can’t see, the blind cat uses his other senses to “see” his foster brother. The first two pounces missed, but that third one was on target! Having disabled cats can be a very rewarding experience. If you want a blind cat or one with a different disability, please inquire at a local shelter or fostering service. Please share this tail with your friends. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Blind Cat Was Feeling Left Out So Mom Comes Up With Clever Contraption appeared first on InspireMore.

Slayer, formed in 1981 in Huntington Park, California, is one of the most influential bands in the heavy metal genre, particularly known for their role in establishing the thrash metal subgenre. Over the years, Slayer released twelve studio albums, two live albums, a box set, and several music videos and compilations. Their aggressive musical style and controversial themes helped them gain a massive following, although they also attracted significant media scrutiny. Notable albums such as Reign in Blood (1986), South of Heaven (1988), and Seasons in the Abyss (1990) are often cited as influential benchmarks in the genre. The band’s The post Complete List Of Slayer Band Members appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

On Friday, July 26, the Olympic torch arrived in Paris and was used to ceremoniously light the Olympic Cauldron, which will continue to illuminate the skies throughout the Olympic Games. It's quite the spectacle, but its origins have some unexpected twists.According to The Olympic Museum, “The Olympic Torch Relay is now a powerful symbol of understanding and brotherhood among peoples.” Per tradition, the torch was lit in Olympia, Greece, on April 16, and from there it was relayed for three months before arriving in Paris. Its journey was positively chaotic. It spent eight days bouncing around Greece before leaving from Athens on a ship to Marseille, where it then started doodling all over France, paying everyone a visit. You’ve got to wonder what the few regions that were skipped did to deserve that. This is not how it used to be. It might seem like the continuation of some beautiful ancient tradition, but the whole thing is less than 100 years old. The Olympic flame itself was lit for the first time at the Ninth Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928, where “a high flame would indicate for miles around where in Amsterdam the Olympic Games were being held” (according to the Official Olympic Report 1928).The idea of a flame was inspired by the ancient Greek tradition of keeping in front of their temples perpetual fires lit by the heat of the sun. Even today, the Olympic Flame is lit in a ceremony in Olympia. The rays of the sun are captured and reflected inside a parabolic mirror (a modern version of the skaphia) generating enough heat to light the fire (although cloudy weather meant 2024's ceremony had to rely on a backup flame).               The idea to carry that flame from Olympia all the way to where the Games were being held was first proposed for the 1936 Games held in Berlin. Yes, that’s right, 1936 “Third Reich” Germany. The planning and preparation for the relay alone took a whole two years. It was such an elaborate choreography for a display of German organization that in their official report they dedicate 25 pages to describing it in detail (the full report is 1,000 pages including all the results – quite a riveting read). Instead of the chaotic scribble that the relay did in 2024, in 1936 the torch actually traveled continuously from Olympia to Berlin for 12 days. It was a journey of 3,187 kilometers (1,980 miles), where approximately every kilometer was covered by a different runner. Each with their own torch. Apparently just getting all those thousands of torches through customs in the different countries was a nightmare.There were more than 3,000 runners, all from the different countries that the torch was going to pass through and “All were conscious of the symbolic significance of this relay run, which represented a link, so to speak, between the ancient and the modern Festival,” according to the Official Olympic Report 1936.Then there was the problem of the torches themselves. The Olympic flame cannot die from the moment it is lit until the end of the Games. It must survive the relay and live on in the bowl during the Games, despite heat, rain, storms or… falls. These days they have spares stashed away so that if it dies out they can reignite it with another flame born of the original fire – or, they take the Paris route and opt for no real flame at all. Back in Berlin they were experimenting with a new Propan gas for the flame itself (propane was new at the time in Germany, even though it had been used in the USA for a couple of decades already). For the torches, “The original idea was to follow the example of the ancient Greeks, who, [...] carried fagots of narthex stalks, which were found especially in the highlands of Ephesus and the pith of which retained fire for a long period of time. It was doubtful, however, whether such a fagot would burn for 12 days,” according to the Official Olympic Report 1936.They ended up making a magnesium torch with two fuses, which could continue to burn even in case something happened to the top flame. Pretty ingenious since that is essentially the mechanism we still use today to keep the torches lit!They had runners and they had torches, but their problems weren’t over yet. There was no good road to Olympia at the time. The Greek government planned to build a highway from Olympia to Tripoli for the occasion, but didn’t quite manage to finish it in time. Luckily, it was good enough for the relay to go ahead. The only problem in Greece was now the scorching sun, bringing temperatures of up to 50°C (122°F) recorded in cars that were being used to broadcast coverage of the relay via radio. At every town they passed, an “orator expressed the gratitude of the New Hellas to the New Germany for having instituted the Olympic Torch Relay Run”. In case you had forgotten, this was planned by Nazi Germany.When the relay finally left Greece to continue on in Bulgaria on its journey to Berlin, Lieutenant-Colonel Léonidas Ptéris, Commissioner-General for the Organization of the Olympic Torch Relay Run through Greece, said, “In its journey, this Fire will communicate the sacred Olympic spirit to the universe in order that this spirit, as in ancient times, may inspire the nations assembled at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, enlighten their thoughts and instill in them the power to serve humanity and their countries through noble, peaceful and chivalrous Activities.”

An interesting sighting in the skies over Prague, Czech Republic has left residents and online viewers baffled. On Wednesday morning, a cube-shaped UFO was spotted floating above the city, an event that was captured on video (see below) and subsequently shared on Reddit, reports coasttocoastam.com. “This huge white cube was rotating in the skies for about five minutes,” the witness recounted. The odd object, according to the astonished observer, disappeared “in a moment” only to reappear shortly afterward. The mysterious footage has since ignited a flurry of speculation and humor across social media platforms. Some playful theories include suggestions that the object was a flying sugar cube, an artifact from the sci-fi series Star Trek (specifically, the Borg), or even a proverbial glitch in the matrix. More grounded explanations have also been proposed. Skeptics suggest that the object could have been a box kite or a cube-shaped balloon. Despite these rational theories, the true nature of the aerial anomaly remains unresolved. The post Rotating cube-shaped UFO filmed over Prague appeared first on Anomalien.com.

We have officially reached that late period in a presidential campaign where the thoroughly leftist national newspapers turn into partisan rags that coo and gush, this time over Kamala Harris. Consider the July 31 “Style” section of The Washington Post. It began with a large color photograph of a Harris impersonator on TikTok named Alison Reese. The headline was “On Harris’s laugh, a symphony of feedback.” A caption under Reese and her rainbow flag said Reese “says Harris’s laugh ‘feels more uninhibited…The laugh is truly coming from this place of inner joy.'” Post writers Maura Judkis and Kara Voght claimed Harris’s “ebullient laugh” has “the same tempo as some truly excellent dance songs.” They assembled academic experts – including Kate Manne, who wrote a whole book about Hillary Clinton’s laugh being exploited in 2016! – to find misogyny in mocking Kamala’s cackle. “It’s been taboo for women to speak too loud, to laugh too loud, to laugh too much,” proclaimed Kathleen Karlyn, a scholar of cinema and media studies. “It’s predictable that, when Kamala laughs, she’s asserting her power and her refusal to be silent or play by these old rules about proper femininity.”  Karlyn wrote a book titled The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter. Citing Kamala’s viral comment about falling out of a coconut tree, the Post scribes are declaring victory in the Laugh Wars: “Conservatives seem to have lost control of the ‘Laughing Kamala’ narrative that they tried to create. What they put forth as cringeworthy has been alchemized into coconutmentum.” Underneath that analysis was Post book critic Becca Rothfeld’s essay on the Meme Wars. Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 to “the group of pathologically online reactionaries known as the alt-right.” But have no fear, Democrats! Rothfeld touted the Kamala coconut tree meme as being “shared and reshared in a burst of collective giddiness.” The Democrat factions battled over Biden, but “the euphoric meming around Harris has allowed a wide range of members of the Democratic-leaning electorate to coalesce around her without having to commit to everything she stands for.” On the bottom left of the Style section front page was gender columnist Monica Hesse’s hot take: “Why ‘weird’ is the  most effective insult Democrats have tried so far.” Hesse began by recalling a Superman comic book in 1946 in which he battled a xenophobic group resembling the KKK (think Trump). Hesse said “It’s all about the power of word choice, rhetoric, and peer pressure.” Hesse channeled a pile of Democrat politicians uncorking their “weird” insults – Tim Walz, Chris Murphy, and Pete Buttigieg -- and this abortion-loving feminist was especially happy with a line from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Being obsessed with repressing women is goofy.” She loves how the word “weird” can freak out Trump fans: “What if, instead of being admired or feared, they are instead being laughed at? What if, instead of edgelords, they are actually just the kids in the corner eating glue off their hands?” Just above Hesse’s column as it continued on page C-3 was an article by Adela Suliman gushing over how “White Dudes for Harris” raised $4 million. More momentum talk burbled. “The momentum is extraordinary,” oozed Buttigieg. “I’ve never felt this kind of belief, this kind of enthusiasm ever,” exclaimed actor Bradley Whitford. Suggesting The Washington Post Is overflowing with joyous partisan propaganda, energetically aiming to keep the momentum surging for Harris and the Democrats all the way to November? That’s too mild. This kind of broadsheet bombast is why Donald Trump uses the term “fake news.” It looks like a newspaper, but sounds like a cheerleader.