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Minnesota to mandate K-12 ethnic studies instruction in 2026

Aaron Gifford
ZeroHedge
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:00 UTC
Message in the crowd
© Hannah Hobus/Pioneer Press/APTwin City Teachers and their supporters march in Minneapolis • Feb. 12, 2022
In the coming weeks, school boards across the Land of 10,000 Lakes state will decide on curricula to meet ethnic studies mandates for the 2026-2027 academic year.

There appear to be limited alternatives to the free instructional materials developed with taxpayer dollars and endorsed by the state teachers' union.

That curriculum instructs 6th graders to learn the 13 guiding principles of the Black Lives Matter movement; 7th graders on how protesters have breached federal buildings; and higher schoolers to "identify plans of action that people have used to resist, refuse, and create alternatives to oppressive systems," according to the materials developed by the University of Minnesota's Center for Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender and Sexuality Studies (RIDGS).

The description for the 11th and 12th-grade Jim Crow of the North course, reads:
Students will be able to explain how race is socially constructed and how that social construction has been used to oppress people of color, specifically in relation to Jim Crow, segregation, and racial covenants.
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Che Guevara

Best of the Web: Sorry, Zohran, we're kind of done with the "warmth of collectivism."

Sasha Stone
sashastone.com
Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:02 UTC
Mayor Mamdani
© UnknownZohran Mamdani
In his swearing-in ceremony, the new Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, said, "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism."

It sent chills down the spines of most of those who understand the history of governments given over to collectivism. I think it's likely in name only, a virtue signal for those at the top to feel better about income inequality.

Let Zohran meet the needs of the poor and the marginalized while we enjoy our mansion in the Hamptons in peace. They'll have to cough up the taxes to buy off some of that guilt, but that's a small price to pay compared to an unruly mob banging down your door.


Comment: The Great Feminization

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Court halts termination of deportation protections for South Sudanese nationals

Nate Raymond
The Daily Signal
Wed, 30 Dec 2026 00:00 UTC
Kristi Noem
© Elizabeth Frantz/ReutersUS Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked plans by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to end temporary protections from deportation that had been granted to hundreds of South Sudanese nationals living in the United States.

U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston granted an emergency request by several South Sudanese nationals and an immigrant rights group to prevent the Temporary Protected Status they had been granted from expiring as planned after Jan. 5.

Kelley issued the order after four migrants from South Sudan, along with African Communities Together, a nonprofit group, sued. The lawsuit alleged that action by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was unlawful and exposed them to being deported to a country facing a series of humanitarian crises.

Comment: See also:

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Whistle

40-Year Harvard professor pens mic-drop indictment of institutional anti-white racism

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:15 UTC
professor Hankins
© John Michael ChambersProfessor James Hankins
A history professor who taught at Harvard University for 40 years wrote a scathing letter slamming the Ivy League institution over its "exclusion of white males."

Professor James Hankins wrote in a piece titled "Why I'm Leaving Harvard" that his decision to retire "was not a sudden one," and that he'd made up his mind in 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and George Floyd riots - both of which dramatically changed Harvard's graduate admissions process.
"In reviewing graduate student applicants in the fall of 2020 I came across an outstanding prospect who was a perfect fit for our program. In past years this candidate would have risen immediately to the top of the applicant pool. In 2021, however, I was told informally by a member of the admissions committee that 'that' (meaning admitting a white male) was 'not happening this year."
Hankins said that in another instance, a white male student who he described as "literally the best" at Harvard - and who won the prize for graduating senior with the best overall academic record- was also rejected from the school's graduate program because "He too was a white male."
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Explosion

40 dead and 119 injured: Sparkler candles blamed for deadly fire at Swiss ski resort Crans-Montana


RT
Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:26 UTC
Crans-Montana fire
The blaze at a crowded New Year's Eve party in Crans-Montana killed about 40 people and injured over 100

A New Year's Eve celebration at a popular Swiss ski resort bar ended in tragedy when a fire, likely ignited by sparklers on top of champagne bottles, tore through the crowded basement venue, killing at least 40 people.

Swiss authorities confirmed Friday that preliminary evidence points to "sparkler candles or sparklers placed on bottles of champagne that were moved too close to the ceiling" as the cause of the blaze at Le Constellation bar in the upscale Alpine resort of Crans-Montana.

The fire broke out around 1:30am on January 1, 2026, as the bar was packed with young revelers celebrating the New Year.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene where a "show" involving the sparklers quickly turned deadly.

Comment: From videos from the scene, one can see that the revellers continue to film the fire and dance despite the obvious seriousness of the situation.


Translation of the tweet:
The moment when the fire broke out in Crans-Montana. Everyone is filming, and only one person is helping and opening the door.


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Israel to revoke permits of international aid groups operating in West Bank, Gaza


Middle East Monitor
Thu, 31 Dec 2026 08:44 UTC
damaged med building
© Ashraf Amra/Anadolu AgencyDamaged building belonging to Docors Without Borders following Israeli attack in al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis, Gaza • February 2024
Israeli occupation authorities have notified more than ten international humanitarian organisations that their permits to operate in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip will be revoked, according to local reports.

A correspondent said the organisations affected include Doctors Without Borders and other international aid groups that are among the most active in providing humanitarian assistance in Gaza.

According to the Israeli notice, the permits will be withdrawn from 1 January 2026, and the organisations have been instructed to cease all operations by 1 March 2026.

Israeli authorities said the decision was taken because the organisations allegedly failed to complete newly required registration procedures for humanitarian work.
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Propaganda

Just can't help themselves: NYT rewriting history again, courtesy of Nikole Hannah-Jones

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:36 UTC
Assata Shakur cop killer
Assata Shakur nee JoAnne Deborah Byron (and alias Joanne Chesimard)
Former New York Times reporter and Howard University professor Nikole Hannah-Jones has long been controversial as a writer who expressly rejects objectivity and neutrality in journalism. That was most evident in her "1619 Project," which was ridiculed by historians and law professors in claiming that slavery was the driving force behind American independence. Nevertheless, the project was awarded the Pulitzer Prize despite glaring historical errors. Yet, this month, Hannah-Jones is back on the pages of the New York Times again rewriting history. This time, she is praising cop-killer and 1960s revolutionary Assata Shakur.

Hannah-Jones has been a lightning rod in her writings, from declaring "all journalism is activism" to spreading conspiracy theories against the police. Yet, mainstream media, including the Times, has run interference for Hannah-Jones, including the dean of the University of North Carolina trying to shut down criticism by reminding a reporter that they must all defend Hannah-Jones.

Comment: More information on terrorist (is there any other label?) Shakura:

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Arrow Down

Europe's biggest insect factory goes bankrupt — these bugs are not even Dog Food

Jo Nova
joannenova.com.au
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:09 UTC
Ynsect Food!
© joannenova.com.au
In the renewable frenzy of the early 2020s Ÿnsect raised €600 million to "Reinvent the food chain" and pioneer alternative foods that "respect the planet's boundaries". Some $200 million of their funding came from hapless taxpayers somewhere. But in record time, seemingly before it began, it has already gone. Bankrupted. And not because people don't want to eat mealworms (which they don't) but because there wasn't much market in making animal feed either. It turns out that farm owners didn't want to spend 2 to 10 times as much on "sustainable" cattle fodder. So the company shifted focus to high end pet food, where besotted owners have money to spare, but that crashed too.

h/t Tom Nelson
How reality crushed Ÿnsect, the French startup that had raised over $600M for insect farming

By Anna Heim, TechCrunch

The company's demise is hardly a surprise, as Ÿnsect had been embattled for months. Still, there is plenty to unpack about how a startup can go bankrupt despite raising over $600 million, including from Downey Jr.'s FootPrint Coalition, taxpayers, and many others.

Ultimately, Ÿnsect failed to fulfill its ambition to "revolutionize the food chain" with insect-based protein. But don't be too quick to attribute its failure to the "ick" factor that many Westerners feel about bugs. Human food was never its core focus.
It's only money...
And revenue was the problem. According to publicly available data, Ÿnsect's revenue from its main entity peaked at €17.8 million in 2021 (approximately $21 million) — a figure reportedly inflated by internal transfers between subsidiaries. By 2023, the company had racked up a net loss of €79.7 million ($94 million).
The vainglorious heady days of climate communism meant some bureaucrats thought it made sense to spend $200 million dollars feeding bugs to cows to try to change rainfall in 2100 AD.
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Bullseye

"Quality Learing Center" becomes first domino to fall in Somali-linked Minneapolis daycare scandal

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:05 UTC
nick shirley fraud minnesota daycare
© Nick Shirley/XScreenshot from independent journalist Nick Shirley's expose on daycare fraud in Minnesota
Update (2028ET):

The dominoes are beginning to fall in the Democratic-run stronghold of Minneapolis, where federal investigators were on the ground earlier today as part of expanded investigations into childcare centers and other widespread alleged fraud schemes by Somali-linked operators.

By evening, Nick Shirley, the citizen journalist who brought the "empty" childcare companies into the national spotlight with a video that has received 121 million views in just three days, revealed that one of the Somali-linked childcare centers had been shut down by the Minnesota Department of Children.

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Serial killer? Fourteen-year-old Texas girl disappears, becoming third missing Bexar County teen in just a week

Alex Oliveira
NY Post
Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:38 UTC
bexar county disappearances
© Instagram/camila; Bexar County Sheriff's OfficeCamila Mendoza Olmos, 19, Angelique Johnson, 17, and Sofia Peters-Cobos, 14 have vanished in the last week.
A 14-year-old Texas girl vanished from her home on Monday — just days after missing teen Camila Mendoza Olmos disappeared near her home in the same city.

Sofia Gabriela Peters-Cobos, 14, hasn't been seen since Monday evening when she left her home on Landon Ridge and Potranco Road in San Antonio around 7 p.m., the Bexar County Sheriff's Office said.

She is now the third Bexar County teen reported missing within a week.

On Christmas Eve, Olmos, 19, disappeared while taking an early morning walk. She was last seen close to her San Antonio home around 7 a.m.


Comment: Olmos' body was found in a field, with a gunshot wound to the head and a pistol next to her. Her death was ruled a suicide, though where she was found had previously been searched as it was only 100 yards from her home.


A day later, on Christmas Day, the sheriff's office also asked the public for help locating 17-year-old Angelique Johnson, who was last seen on Potranco Road.
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