Watchdog targets taxpayer-funded National Academies over DEI, climate and transgender spending

A consumer watchdog group is accusing the federally funded National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine of using taxpayer dollars to support DEI, transgender-related and other left-leaning initiatives, according to a new report. Consumers’ Research compiled the “Woke Alert” report outlining what it describes as left-leaning research, workshops and grants from the congressionally chartered institution, including projects related to transgender youth, diversity and inclusion initiatives, policing and climate advocacy. Will Hild, executive director of Consumers’ Research, accused the organization, which receives 70% of its budget from federal funds, of being “a radical woke organization masquerading as a nonpartisan educational institution.”…

Ann Meyers Drysdale feels pride in watching UCLA women pursue history

Ann Meyers Drysdale is on a text chain with other UCLA women’s basketball greats, all of them awed by what they’re seeing from their successors. Back in the Final Four for a second consecutive season, the Bruins are two wins away from their first NCAA title. “We’re all kind of…

CNN panelist S.E. Cupp tees off on Gavin Newsom: ‘I don’t like him’

A conservative commentator stunned a CNN panel by issuing a scathing critique of why the Democratic Party should not line up behind California Governor Gavin Newsom for president. Sarah Elizabeth Cupp, known professionally as S.E. Cupp, told fellow panel members the California governor, who is widely speculated to chase the…

Senate GOP grills Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile for handing over phone records to Jack Smith: ‘Hide your head in a bag’

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans grilled top lawyers for Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile in a fiery Tuesday hearing for secretly handing over their phone records to Jack Smith amid the federal prosecutor’s 2020 election interference probe. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who presided over the Judiciary subcommittee hearing, called the “Arctic Frost”…

Short-handed Lakers fall to Spurs after Victor Wembanyama scores 40

When the Lakers opened their homestand with back-to-back wins over the 76ers and Warriors, giving them a three-game winning streak for the first time in a month, it looked like they were primed to head into the All-Star break with momentum on their side. Forty-eight hours can change a lot.…

Jasmine Crockett refuses to tone down her explosive rhetoric, smears against Republicans

Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett argued on Saturday that fiery “clapbacks” are more important than accuracy in this current political environment. After recalling a verbal scuffle when she had said then-Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene had a “’bleach blonde, bad built butch body,’” Vox interviewer Amistead Herndon asked, “As much as the phrase blew…

Steve Hilton leads rival Chad Bianco as BLM video resurfaces

Steve Hilton is now the leading Republican candidate for the California governor’s race — and a controversial decision his only real rival made at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests may be the reason why. A new poll shows the former Fox News host holds a decisive lead…

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