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Facing the Big Zero: The University of Oregon grapples with a budget crisis after years of woke excess

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00 UTC
U of Oregon
© ar.inspiredpencil.comUniversity of Oregon
It appears that being unrelentingly woke means that you need fewer dormitories.

The University of Oregon is facing a major budget crisis and will cut $65 million from its budget and close dorms due to low enrollment. That growing crisis, however, did not stop Oregon from burning almost a million dollars fighting against free speech. It also did not induce its faculty to offer greater intellectual diversity and tolerance to prospective students. Oregon is a cautionary tale for a generation of academic social warriors, but also an opportunity for those who want to restore balance in higher education.

Oregon has long been an example of academic orthodoxy. While most state schools begrudgingly yield to First Amendment demands and offer better free speech alternatives to private universities, Oregon is known as a hardened silo for the far left in teaching.

We previously discussed how Portland State University Professor Bruce Gilley who was blocked from the Twitter account of the University of Oregon's Division of Equity and Inclusion after tweeting "All men are created equal." Oregon spent almost a million dollars fighting to bar such speech.

Such controversies have plagued the university for years, with no sign of self-examination by administrators or academics. The university was criticized for its monitoring of social media to punish errant thoughts or microaggressions. The law school's law review was accused of anti-Israel discrimination.
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Israeli authorities refuse to return massive trove of Oct 7 video - what are they hiding?

Michelle Witte
The Grayzone
Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00 UTC
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Israeli citizens wonder why the state won't return October 7 footage it confiscated from them. The mother of an Israeli victim says authorities deleted video of her son's death. Others complain "someone is hiding" the videos.

The Israeli government is still holding a massive trove of video documentation of the Oct. 7 attack captured by individuals and communities caught up in the fighting. One bereaved parent even accuses Israeli authorities of deleting a video of her son's last moments before returning his phone to her.

According to Israel's Channel 13, "all the cameras, memory cards and films that documented the atrocities were collected, but two and a half years later, these materials have not been returned to the communities and bereaved families who are desperate for information, and even feel that someone is hiding it from them."

Soon after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad's attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, special units from the IDF, the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet and Israel's investigation unit Lahav 433 collected photo and video documentation of the violence, confiscating cell phones, individual cameras, kibbutz security cameras and more.

Comment: Wonder no more. October 7th was not only allowed to happen, but actually helped along by Israel's leadership, military and intelligence agencies - to help justify the genocide in Gaza while pretending they were only going after Hamas.


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MOLE People? What Are These Individuals Doing In New York Sewers?

Steve Watson
Modernity News
Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:07 UTC
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New York City's vast underground network has become the unlikely focus of fresh alarm. Surveillance footage shared widely online shows teams of men lifting manhole covers in the middle of the night, descending into the sewers with flashlights, tools, and protective gear, then resurfacing hours later to change clothes on the sidewalk before driving away.

Police have investigated multiple such episodes, particularly in Brooklyn, yet their public message remains the same: no known threat to safety.

That reassurance has failed to settle nerves in a city still scarred by past attacks and struggling under years of unchecked migration and progressive governance.
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Entitled: Family of Henry Nowak's migrant killer sparks outrage after asking for 'no further pain' in tone-deaf statement


ReMix News
Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:25 UTC
Henry Nowak Vickrum Digwa police body cam
(l-r) Murder victim Henry Nowak, his convicted murderer Vickrum Digwa, screencapture from police bodycam of Nowak being handcuffed after being stabbed.
The family of Henry Nowak's killer has triggered a furious backlash after saying it hopes "no further pain is caused" following the murder, a statement critics have condemned as tone-deaf, self-serving and grotesque

The family of Vickrum Digwa has been accused of adding insult to injury after issuing a statement asking that Henry Nowak's murder not be used to cause "further pain," despite fierce public anger over the way the 18-year-old was stabbed, falsely accused, handcuffed and left dying in the street.

Vickrum Digwa was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 21 years on Monday after stabbing 18-year-old Henry Nowak multiple times in Southampton. According to the account provided, Henry was stabbed five times, including twice in the back of the legs, once in the face and once fatally in the chest.

The case has caused national outrage not only because of the killing itself, but the wider context. After the stabbing, Digwa's brother phoned police and claimed that "some White guy" had racially insulted his brother. Henry had not done so, a court ruled. Instead, Digwa had used a ceremonial knife to stab him repeatedly.
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The modern "Red Calendar" and the death of Pride Month

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00 UTC
gay commie
In the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and the takeover of Russia in 1917 (largely funded by international elites), the new communist regime sought to implement what I would call "propaganda saturation" - An avalanche of policies designed to secure the red army's political power by manufacturing false consensus.

It should be noted that, even at the peak of the Bolshevik movement's influence, the reds only represented around 23% of the total Russian population and were never a majority. However, they had substantial monetary backing from overseas (read Antony Sutton's extensive study titled "Wall Street And The Bolshevik Revolution). Think of this as an "NGO funded rebellion", the kind of thing we are witnessing in America today with militant woke activists.

It was this international backing that gave the communists the boost they needed to take physical control of the government. But what they really needed was control over the general populace. One tactic they relied on in the early stages of the takeover was the use of a "Red Calendar". If this phrase is unfamiliar to you, you're not alone. Most people have never heard of it.
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Lefty tech rag in panic mode as Manhattan Institute pivots from killing DEI to crushing NGO-funded riots

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:01 UTC
portland police riots
© Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Left-leaning Condé Nast, through Wired, appears to be running narrative cover for the protest-industrial complex, gaslighting readers over efforts to impose real penalties on chaos and disorder stemming from protests and riots.

Wired reporter Ali Winston's target is the Manhattan Institute. She appears to be upset that the Manhattan Institute is pushing for new state laws that make vandalism, blocking roadways, and trespassing during riots and protests felony offenses.


Comment: To answer @mattvanswol's question, yes these are "professional" people on call, and the riots can be shut down with a single message:

DataRepublican's link leads to an excellent breakdown of the mechanism.

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Teachers' union leader Weingarten blames screens, not herself, for falling test scores

Aaron Withe and Tina Snider
RealClearPolitics
Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:42 UTC
Randi Weingarten
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is sounding the alarm about the decade-long decline in student test scores, pointing to screens and devices as a culprit. She's calling it a "call to action."

She left out the part about how she helped cause the problem in the first place.

For two years during the COVID pandemic, Weingarten and the AFT fought aggressively to keep schools closed. In July 2020, as the Trump administration urged schools to reopen, Weingarten called the push "reckless," "callous," and "cruel," and threatened the possibility of safety strikes.

Internal emails later released by a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee showed the AFT had access to draft guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control before it was made public, as well as proposed specific language that could trigger renewed closures.
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Two researchers charged with allegedly trying to smuggle mpox through Detroit Metro Airport

DeJanay Booth-Singleton
CBS News
Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:52 UTC
Vincent Munster Claude Kwe smuggle monkey pox
© Fox 5 DCVincent Munster, 53, a citizen of the Netherlands, and Claude Kwe, 38, a citizen of Cameroon, were charged with smuggling vials of contagious viruses and making false statements to federal law enforcement, June 2, 2026.
Two foreign nationals working at the National Institutes of Health are facing charges for allegedly trying to smuggle mpox into the United States through the Detroit Metro Airport.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Vincent Munster, 53, a citizen of the Netherlands, and Claude Kwe, 38, a citizen of Cameroon, are accused of providing federal authorities with false statements after arriving at the McNamara Terminal on Jan. 25, 2026. Officials say the two people, who were researchers, originally traveled from Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, where an mpox outbreak was ongoing.

Customs and Border Protection officials spotted the individuals with a black plastic case, according to a criminal complaint. When asked, Munster and Kwe told federal officials the case was carrying diagnostic and testing equipment.
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Israel must allow ICRC to visit Palestinians in prison, Supreme Court rules


Al Jazeera
Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00 UTC
red cross vehicle
© File/Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty ImagesSince the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023 the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been banned from visiting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons
Israel's Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a government policy banning representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.

The court ruled on Wednesday that by preventing the Red Cross from visiting prisoners, the government had contravened Israeli and international law, and therefore the policy must be repealed.

It also ruled that the government failed to present a legal foundation for its policy on annulling all visits after the Hamas-led attack on October 2023, in which more than 1,100 people were killed and more than 240 were taken captive.

The assault triggered a brutal war in Gaza, which has been defined as a genocide by several prominent scholars and an independent United Nations inquiry. The Israeli army killed more than 72,950 people in the enclave, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, and reduced most of the besieged territory to rubble, and forced the displacement of nearly 1.9 million Palestinians.

Violence across the occupied West Bank perpetrated by Israeli forces also intensified to unprecedented levels. All visits to prisoners were halted, and information about them was not shared - something that used to be standard practice before the war. Back then, Israeli authorities accused Hamas of failing to secure access to the captives in Gaza.

Comment: This took how many years and 27 extensions...?

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Digitally annexing the West Bank: Israel moves its theft of Palestinian land online

Qassem Muaddi
Mondoweiss
Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00 UTC
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© Mohammed Nasser/APA ImagesIsraeli flags flutter near an archaeological site near the town of Sebastia (One flag refused to fly!)
A new Israeli digital registry imposes de facto sovereignty over 60% of the West Bank. Palestinians must register under Israeli authority or risk losing their land, but Israeli legal loopholes are designed to invalidate their claims either way.

Israel's annexation of the West Bank is moving full steam ahead on the ground, but it's also going online. Last Wednesday, the Israeli government launched a new digital platform for registering lands in the West Bank, open for use by Israelis and Israeli corporations.

The new platform allows the registration of property and applies to lands in Area C of the West Bank, which comprises over 60% of the territory under the 1993 Oslo Accords. The rest of the West Bank is divided into Areas A and B, where the Palestinian Authority (PA) has varying degrees of civil and security control.

The launching of the platform comes on the heels of previous Israeli moves to alter how land ownership works in the West Bank, starting with an Israeli government decision in June 2025 to make Palestinian lands in Area C open to registration by anybody, including Israeli settlers. Since then, the Israeli government has taken several more steps to advance its annexation of the West Bank — not only with laws that lay the groundwork for annexation, but by exercising actual Israeli authority over Palestinian lands.

Comment: If there isn't a handy, self-serve law on file, Israel creates it.

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