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From Doe v. Little Miami School Dist., decided Thursday by Judge Matthew McFarland (S.D. Ohio): Plaintiff is a teacher for Defendant Little Miami School District. For the past four years, Plaintiff has displayed a flag in his classroom that reads “Hate Has No Home Here” and bears several icons, including a rainbow Pride flag and transgender Pride flag. In January 2025, the Ohio Assembly passed H.B. 8, the Ohio Parent’s Bill of Rights …. The statute provides parents the opportunity to review any instructional materials that include sexuality content which is defined as “any oral or written instruction, presentation, image,…

Hating Israel without hating the western empire is nonsensical, because Israel would not exist without western weapons, military support, narrative control, and diplomatic cover. Reading by Tim Foley: Everyone hates Israel now, which is as it should be. But we all need to understand that Israel has never acted alone. If Israel were acting alone, it would be an asshole with a pointy stick instead of an asshole with an attack helicopter. The west gave it the attack helicopter. An asshole with a pointy stick is not much of a problem. The world is full of assholes with pointy sticks.…

The president’s frequently expressed sense of frustration appears to have inspired Iran to drag things out for as long as possible. Source link

How Trump's Fed Drama Risks Backfiring Source link

The one great big positive that has come out of the Donald’s Iran fiasco is that he has not held back in blackening the name of NATO in a manner that has heretofore been unthinkable: “NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. Remember Greenland, that big, poorly run, piece of ice!!!” The Donald also described NATO as a “paper tiger” and stated he is “strongly considering” pulling the United States out of the alliance, citing its failure to support his reckless war on the Persian Gulf: “They weren’t there. None…

The Justice Department on Tuesday announced an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) alleging fraudulent fundraising and laundering money through shell companies involving more than $3 million between 2014 and 2023.According to the DOJ, the SPLC solicited donations under the claim that they would work to “dismantle” extremist groups, while secretly using some of those funds to support and sustain individuals inside the very same groups they claimed to be combating. The SPLC will likely claim the money went to informants paid to infiltrate and monitor extremist groups. “The Southern Poverty Law Center used the money they…

War in Iran Is Becoming Something New Source link

There have been troubling developments in both parties regarding antisemitism in the last few years, but I found this one especially perverse and disturbing. And of course, it shouldn’t be just Jews who are worried about it, not only because everyone should oppose antisemitism, but because antisemitism on both left and right is based within the growing illiberal constituencies in both parties. In short, you don’t have to be worried about antisemitism to wonder what the heck’s going on when the Democrats nominate a supporter of a radical Islamist, Iran-allied anti-American terrorist group that has murdered hundreds of Americans, weeks…

A report by the Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) found that the US depleted half of its missile interceptors.  According to CSIS, the US military had 2,330 Patriot interceptors before the conflict, and used an estimated 1,430 missiles. A similar trend followed for THAAD, SM-3, and SM-6 interceptors. The US had 360 THAAD, 410 SM-3, and 1,160 SM-6, and used 290, 250, and 370 of the missiles, respectively.  The US has also depleted large portions of its stockpile of offensive missiles, including Tomahawks, PrSMs, and JASSMs. CSIS estimates it will take the US years to…

Greetings and welcome to the latest edition of the Injustice System newsletter. There is a lot of news swirling around the U.S. Supreme Court this week and these two stories in particular are worth noting. You’re reading Injustice System from Damon Root and Reason. Get more of Damon’s commentary on constitutional law and American history. The New York Times managed to get its hands on a cache of private memos written by members of the Supreme Court to each other about a hugely important 2016 case. A leak of this sort would be a big deal in and of itself,…