Ohio Elections Officials Fail To Train Poll Workers On Blocking Foreign Nationals From Voting
In one case, a poll worker tells The Federalist trainers told her she is not the 'ID police' and threatened her job if she pressed the issue.In one case, a poll worker tells The Federalist trainers told her she is not the 'ID police' and threatened her job if she pressed the issue.
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Drag queen who's a middle school teacher adds sexual innuendo during Drag Queen Story Time at dog shelter: 'Everybody loves a big bone'
A drag queen who's an Alabama middle school teacher added sexual innuendo during a recent Drag Queen Story Time at a dog shelter, telling the audience in off-the-cuff moments that "everybody loves a big bone" and "all men have meat on the brain.”
What are the details?
James Miller — a teacher at Mountain Gap Middle School in Huntsville — operates the Facebook page "Madge D. Ivine (Miss Majesty Divine)," where he "frequently posts pictures of himself attending drag events such as Drag Queen Story Time," Fox News reported.
He apparently also has a TikTok page.
As of Thursday morning, the Facebook page in question contains only one photo of an individual in drag and indicates the user is from Heidelberg, Germany. But the individual in the Facebook image matches an individual featured in several videos on the TikTok page.
Libs of TikTok first reported about Miller, noting that he appeared as Miss Majesty Divine at a Sept. 24 Drag Queen Story Time at Hard Knocks Rescue & Training, Inc. — an animal shelter in Huntsville — and that the reading was livestreamed and posted to the Hard Knocks Facebook page.
Video shows Miller reading a passage from a children's book about a dog finding a bone in the sand; after he reads "and it's a big one" from the text, Miller quickly adds a comment of his own: "Everybody loves a big bone."
\u201cHard Knocks Rescue Training in Alabama live streamed a Drag Queen Story Time event in which James Miller read a story to a group of children The teacher who masquerades as Miss Majesty Divine was reading a story about a dog and its bone\n#Knocks #Rescue #Training #Alabama #Drag\u201d— Shahryar Sultan (@Shahryar Sultan) 1665658590
Toward the end of the livestream, he tells a male mutt — which apparently was hungry for a hot dog — that "all men have meat on the brain.” Immediately after that suggestive remark, Miller asked, "We’re not still live, are we? Oh, we are."
TheBlaze has reported extensively on drag queen story hours, which are geared toward children and typically take place in libraries. Video showed at least one child in the audience at the dog shelter drag queen event.
What happened next?
Libs of TikTok posted its story Wednesday, noting that it reached out to "the school and the superintendent requesting comments about Mr. Miller’s disturbing behavior as well as some questionable public social media posts and received no response."
Fox News Digital also said it reached out to Miller and the school for comment. Mountain Gap Middle School is part of the Huntsville City Schools district.
A few hours after the Libs of TikTok story went live, Miller posted a video on TikTok addressing the issue, saying the conservative outlet "doxxed" him and is "attacking all my school's websites and the board's websites. I really have no comment for anybody, so people need to stop askin'." He added that Libs of TikTok "gave my principal the 'or else' and made a threat ..."
@dragqueenmafia So Drag Queen Story Time made it to libs of tiktok
♬ original sound - Madge D. Ivine
Police Failures In Uvalde Are What Happen When Law Enforcement Cares More About Woke Politics Than Training
Police administrators who cower to the mob, hire the wrong people, and fail to train their officers are responsible for these deaths.Woman makes history by becoming the first female to finish Navy special warfare training
A woman has made history by becoming the first female to successfully finish the demanding monthslong training course to become a Naval Special Warfare combatant-craft crewman, according to the Associated Press.
The outlet described these service members as "the boat operators who transport Navy SEALs and conduct their own classified missions at sea."
The achievement makes her the first to succeed out of the 18 females who have pursued a post as a SWCC or a Navy SEAL, according to the outlet.
Navy officials did not identify the woman or provide more details on her — a routine military policy for special operations forces. She will now head to one of Naval Special Warfare's three special boat teams.
The AP noted that out of the 18 women who have pursued a Navy special operations position, 14 did not finish the the course, while three are presently still in the midst of the training process, including one woman for SWCC and two women seeking to become SEALS.
"Becoming the first female to graduate from a Naval Special Warfare training pipeline is an extraordinary accomplishment and we are incredibly proud of our teammate," Commander of Naval Special Warfare Command Rear Adm. H.W. Howard III said, according to the outlet. "Like her fellow operators, she demonstrated the character, cognitive and leadership attributes required to join our force.
"She and her fellow graduates have the opportunity to become experts in clandestine special operations, as well as manned and unmanned platforms to deliver distinctive capabilities to our Navy, and the joint force in defense of the nation," Howard noted, according to the AP.
The path to becoming a combatant craft crewman is very demanding.
The AP reported that according to Naval Special Warfare around 300 people try the SWCC course each year but only around 70 sailors finish it.
"The training to become a combatant craft crewman comes after the Navy's initial recruit boot camp, and includes a two-month preparatory course, a three-week orientation at the Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado, Calif., and seven weeks where they learn basic navigation and water skill, as well as physical conditioning and safety. At the end of those seven weeks is a 72-hour crucible called 'The Tour,'" according to the news outlet.
But even candidates who make it through all of those weeks of training still have multiple weeks of work ahead of them.
"Those who pass move on to seven weeks of basic crewman training to learn combat, weapons and communications training, followed by a seven-week intermediate-level seamanship course, and finally survival, evasion, resistance and escape training and a cultural course," according to the AP.
Faculty offered cash to study how 'whiteness' can be 'eradicated' as part of anti-racism training
Faculty at California State University East Bay are being offered cash incentives to undergo anti-racism professional development training — to the tune of $1,200, the College Fix reported.
What are the details?
The stipends are for professors and instructors who attend the "Anti-Racist Liberatory Pedagogy Academy" next month, the outlet said.
The brochure from professor G.T. Reyes says critical race theory is "a race-conscious framework that examines the ways that whiteness is normalized in our country and in our University," the College Fix noted.
"Critical Race Theory takes an intersectional approach to interrogating race and racism in the United States," the info sheet also said, according to the outlet, adding that participants will study how they can "also aim towards liberatory conditions where whiteness has been eradicated."
Reyes did not respond to a College Fix email last week that asked for a definition of "whiteness" and how many professors were enrolled in the training.
Payment and training
"Participants will receive a $600 participant stipend for completion of the summer portion and a second $600 stipend for the completion of the follow up work through the Spring semester," professor Michael Lee wrote in a May promotional email the outlet said it reviewed.
Lee — a seminar committee member — also did not respond to requests for comment from the College Fix, which said it asked him for an explanation on "whiteness."
Workshop attendees will learn how to "incorporate anti-racist and culturally responsive components and approaches" into at least one syllabus for the fall semester, the outlet said, adding that participants will develop their courses in a way "designed to meet anti-racism objectives and promote inclusive and equitable learning."
'Sacred responsibility'
Cal State East Bay faculty have a "sacred responsibility" to learn about these topics, the College Fix said, citing the brochure.
"We hold the sacred responsibility to support the growth and nurturing of the human Condition," the brochure said, according to the outlet. "We cannot take that responsibility lightly or for granted, especially as the continuous physical, psychological, and intellectual assaults on our collective humanity persist to heights that some of us, particularly our students, have never seen before."
Anything else?
The College Fix said another professor on the academy's committee, Kim Geron, also didn't respond to requests for comment. The outlet said it emailed Geron twice in the last month asking if there had been widespread cases of racism with respect to professors' attitudes or teaching styles that warrant this program.
Woke RA training at UC Davis: 'How have you navigated the Black Lives Matter movement in light of the continual murder of Black folx at the hands of the police?'
Resident assistants at the University of California, Davis, underwent racially based training in which they were asked questions like, "How have you navigated the Black Lives Matter movement in light of the continual murder of Black folx at the hands of the police?" Young America's Foundation reported, citing internal documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
What are the details?
"Racism is still prevalent and deeply ingrained in the fabric of our country," one of the documents states, YAF reported, adding that it also notes that "we have seen this through the murders of a number of Black folx."
RAs also were to be asked, "Are there any specific ways you plan to address anti-blackness within your student staff position? How?" one document states.
They also were to be asked to pick a song that "sparks" their "confidence to engage" in social justice and "difficult conversations."
YAF previously reported that RAs at UC Davis were segregated into 11 "affinity groups" that included LGBTQIA+, QTPOC (queer and trans people of color), Trans, Non-Binary/ GNC, Women of Color, Men of Color, Black/ AAAD, Latinx/Chinanx, A, AAPC, and Critical Whiteness.
The outlet added that leaders were told that "student staff should only participate in an affinity group if they hold that identity. These groups are not for those wanting to learn about that identity or to explore curiosity in that identity."
In its latest story, YAF said that leaders of the Critical Whiteness group only were specifically told to not ask the question, "What about this identity do you take pride in?"
In addition, YAF said an internal document questioned if segregated groups should be required:
UC Davis on Friday afternoon didn't immediately reply to TheBlaze's request for comment on the RA training.
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