AOC’s ‘Woke 1’ Comment Reveals The Left Is Planning To Make ‘Woke 2’ Even Worse
Woke 1 may have bullied Americans into accepting it openly, but Woke 2 will make its enemies pay.Woke 1 may have bullied Americans into accepting it openly, but Woke 2 will make its enemies pay.Police force that arrested white victim of black crime now calls on Christians to fast with Muslims
West Midlands Police, the woke force in the United Kingdom that recently got exposed for trying to villainize the white victim of a black mob, appears to have taken DEI to an old extreme.
Non-Muslim WMP officers have been invited to partake in the Islamic practice of abstaining from drink, food, and certain other activities during Ramadan in an "act of solidarity" with the Muslims in their midst, according to a damning new Telegraph report detailing this apparent proselytization tactic spearheaded by the West Midlands Association of Muslim Police.
'We should not be changing police culture to comply with the practices of one religion.'
The force told the Telegraph that the Islamic practice helps officers understand the "significance of Ramadan" for Muslims in the community. Fasting during Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam.
Britain's Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy, a Conservative member of parliament for West Suffolk, noted on X, "West Midlands Police encourages non-Muslim officers to fast for Ramadan. It recruits in mosques that host extremists. Such a mosque helped to recruit its last chief constable. It banned visiting Israeli football fans at the behest of Islamists. It's corrupted by communalism."
Annunziata Rees-Mogg, a former member of the European Parliament for East Midlands, asked, "Will they be 'invited' to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday too? Or is it one rule for one religion and different for others?"
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WMP told Blaze News in a statement, "The West Midlands Association of Muslim Police has, for a number of years, invited colleagues from all faiths and backgrounds to fast for a day to raise money for charity during Ramadan. Last year's chosen charity was Children with Cancer UK. It is entirely a matter for officers and staff if they wish to take part."
"This is an initiative which is undertaken at a number of organisations around the country," the WMP continued. "The West Midlands has a large and diverse population, including many Muslim residents, and it is important for officers and staff to understand the significance of Ramadan to those communities."
The West Midlands Association of Muslim Police did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.
The British police establishment has been flirting with the Islamic practice of Ramadan fasting for years.
According to a WMP Museum blog post dated March 28, 2024, "During Ramadan Muslim colleagues who are fasting are supported and accommodated when they need to break fast. Information is shared with non-Muslim colleagues to help them to understand what Ramadan is all about, sometimes leading to non-Muslim officers and staff joining in to support their colleagues."
A video shared to the West Midlands Association of Muslim Police Instagram account in April 2022 about "the Ramadan experience" and the "mandatory" practice of fasting features testimonials by multiple apparent white non-Muslims about their participation in the fasting challenge held at the Derbyshire Constabulary, which is overseen by the WMP.
According to documents obtained by the Telegraph through freedom of information requests, the WMP's Muslim fasting plan was cited as a best practice in the DEI training overseen by New Forest District Council — a local government in Hampshire, England.
"During the month of Ramadan, [West Midlands Police] supports its fasting colleagues through the use of flexi-working arrangements to ensure that they have time with their families," a memo from the council reads. "What’s more, increasing numbers of non-Muslim staff have taken up fasting each year as an act of solidarity with their Muslim colleagues, adding to the family feel of WMP culture."
The United Kingdom officially remains a Christian nation, but Shadow Justice Secretary Timothy emphasized that there should be "no special measures in place for any faith" in the police force.
"We should not be changing police culture to comply with the practices of one religion," Timothy told the Telegraph. "Expectations should be uniform, and non-Muslim police being encouraged to fast in Ramadan is wholly inappropriate."
The conservative lawmaker suggested that it is time for the United Kingdom to "abolish the Public Sector Equality Duty, which provides the legal framework for much of this, and ensure there is one rule for all of us — not special treatment for certain groups."
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Warning: This college course may be bad for your brain
Every August, families spend tens of thousands of dollars on college tuition, housing, meal plans, and textbooks. They compare degree requirements, graduation rates, and campus amenities. Yet many never ask the most basic consumer question: What is actually inside the classes they are buying?
Colleges already label the price. It’s time to label the product.
Americans would not buy food without reading the ingredients or take medicine without knowing something about the possible side effects. College courses, however, are often sold by title and catalog description alone. Students register for “Introduction to History,” “Ethics,” or even a science requirement with little idea of the intellectual assumptions the professor will bring into the lecture hall.
That information can be consequential. A course may pursue knowledge through evidence and argument. It may also subordinate the subject to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, critical theory, gender ideology, Marxist assumptions, or some other political project.
Ideological activism is not confined to philosophy, literature, or religious studies. It increasingly appears across the curriculum, including in professional programs and “hard” scientific fields.
Parents and students have every right to know whether a professor intends to teach the advertised subject, examine competing arguments, and permit disagreement — or use the classroom to promote a political worldview.
The concern is especially urgent at public universities. Faculty members at state institutions are government employees paid by taxpayers. In Arizona, for example, they undertake obligations to uphold the United States and state constitutions. Taxpayers are therefore entitled to ask whether professors are educating students for citizenship in a constitutional republic or teaching theories fundamentally hostile to it.
That’s why I developed what I call the “Intellectual Nutrition Label.”
The idea is simple. A nutrition label does not order shoppers to buy or reject a product. It tells them what the product contains so they can decide for themselves. The Intellectual Nutrition Label would do the same for college professors and courses.
Using public information — university biographies, curricula vitae, books, articles, interviews, lectures, and course materials — each label would summarize the intellectual content students are likely to encounter. Families should not need graduate training or weeks of research to understand what a professor openly teaches.
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A useful label might ask:
- Does the professor encourage the pursuit of knowledge or deny that objective truth exists?
- Does the course cultivate virtue and self-command or treat desire as its own justification?
- Does it direct students toward goodness, beauty, and wisdom or toward resentment, envy, and contempt?
- Does the professor teach students how to examine arguments or tell them which political conclusions a decent person must reach?
A label could also rate qualities such as intellectual honesty, knowledge, virtue, beauty, meaningfulness, and piety. A professor might rank highly for candor and scholarship while receiving a low rating for piety because he publicly rejects belief in God. The point would not be to uncover private opinions or publish anonymous accusations. The ratings would summarize what professors already say about themselves and their work.
That distinction is essential. An Intellectual Nutrition Label should not become a blacklist, an invitation to harassment, or a substitute for reading a professor’s work. It must rely on verifiable public evidence, represent a professor’s position fairly, and provide enough sourcing for readers to check the judgment for themselves.
The concept has predecessors. David Horowitz’s 2006 book, “The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America,” documented ideological activism in higher education. The David Horowitz Freedom Center continues to track left-wing activists and organizations. Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist sought to alert students to professors who brought political activism into the classroom and briefly maintained a list of recommended faculty.
The Intellectual Nutrition Label would have a narrower purpose: consumer disclosure. It would tell students and parents what intellectual ingredients a professor publicly advertises, in a format ordinary people can understand before registration day.
If a professor teaches that the United States is inherently oppressive, advocates Marxist critical theory, rejects biological sex as fixed, or treats Christianity principally as an instrument of domination, those positions should be documented in the professor’s own publications, biography, lectures, or course materials. An accurate summary of publicly stated beliefs is not censorship.
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The more serious objection may be that parents and taxpayers were never expected to notice. Academic language often conceals radical assumptions behind specialized vocabulary. Professors can signal their commitments to colleagues while students discover the course’s real content only after enrollment.
That arrangement is losing its protection. Parents increasingly ask what their children are learning. Taxpayers increasingly ask whether public universities are educating students or recruiting them into political movements. Those are legitimate questions, especially when a single semester can cost more than many families earn in months.
Throughout the coming semester, I will publish Intellectual Nutrition Labels evaluating professors from publicly available evidence. The labels will not decide which courses students may take. They will help families make that decision with their eyes open.
Readers can follow the project on my Substack and at intellectualnutritionlabel.com (coming soon).
When families spend tens of thousands of dollars on a college education, they deserve to know who is teaching, what that professor believes, and which intellectual ingredients will be placed before their children. Colleges already label the price. It’s time to label the product.
'Little Woke on the Prairie': Netflix’s left-wing rewrite draws fire from Wilder fans
“When white settlers come into a country, the Indians have to move on. The government is going to move these Indians farther west any time now. That’s why we’re here, Laura.”
Modern readers may grimace when Charles “Pa” Ingalls explains to his young daughter Laura their family’s plans to settle in the "free land" of the Osage Indian-dominated Kansas prairie. But their indignation (justified as it may be) doesn’t change the fact that it was the dominant settler perspective regarding Native American territory in the days of Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose timeless series “Little House on the Prairie” is the fictionalized retelling of her real-life experiences as a pioneer girl.
Books apparently need their patina scrubbed off — especially if they are to reach the masses via cinema.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Netflix — the same streamer behind “Bridgerton,” where they butchered a Regency England period drama with race-swapping and modern gender politics — couldn’t help but tamper with Wilder’s beloved classics.
It is still deeply irritating though.
Julia Quinn’s early 2000s “Bridgerton” octology is humorously classified as historical smut, so if you must “wokeify” something, I suppose this would be the series to do it. But Wilder’s “Little House on the Prairie” remains not only one of our best windows into 19th-century pioneer life, but also a deeply cherished saga that for many readers was, and still is, a pillar in childhood (not to mention in American literature itself).
Trashing treasures
Why is it that every time Hollywood takes on what should be the very delicate task of visiting the literary canon, it feels the need to sanitize and polish and tinker — as if classics were dusty attic relics in need of a little TLC?
Any antique dealer knows you don’t remove patina from metal. And why would you want to? It’s this multi-colored, time-kissed surfacing that infuses a bygone treasure with wonder. The oxidation that clouds old mirrors with silvery deterioration and turns copper roofs vibrant verdigris carries the soul of the object’s story.
But for some reason, Hollywood can’t accept that literature, too, undergoes an aging process, although it’s alchemical rather than chemical. What happens when a new literary tour de force bursts into the cosmos is something bibliophiles equate with magic. When a book is deemed so resonant it becomes immortal and joins the constellation of other magnum opuses in the literary firmament, the expectation is that it is left alone, as virtually all other worldly treasures are.
Imagine darkening the skin of Jesus and the apostles in Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” It may be accurate since these men were from the Middle East, but it would be unthinkable. Imagine chopping down a tree in a national forest because a man was unjustly hanged from its branches 100-plus years ago, or adding Barack Obama to Mount Rushmore to satisfy modern demands for “representation.”
Whatever the reasoning, these modifications are inconceivable because tampering with an original masterpiece, potential flaws and all, is dishonest at best and blasphemous at worst.
Tragically, historical accuracy, author’s intent, and sentimentality are treated as unimportant when it comes to literature. Books apparently need their patina scrubbed off — especially if they are to reach the masses via cinema.
Of course, book-to-film is a suboptimal path. It’s impossible to translate the entirety of a novel to the screen, but it is possible to respect the author’s original work by not injecting your own characters, dramatic subplots, themes, and moral messaging.
Why we protect the past
But Netflix, obviously, didn’t do that, hence the fiery outrage of Wilder fans.
The author’s slow pace, slice-of-life tales of pioneer living, stereotypical portrayals of the Osage tribe, and limited black characters simply wouldn’t do for showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine.
Like virtually all Hollywood decision-makers, she had the hubris to make history more palatable for our chronically offended, progressive culture that apparently has such delicate sensibilities and short attention spans it must be spoon-fed a nicer, more thrilling version of 1800s prairie life.
Netflix’s adaptation of “Little House on the Prairie,” which debuted on July 9, breaks in more ways than not from Wilder’s originals. I will share them with you here without spoiling too much.
Osage overhaul
In the books, Native Americans are viewed as strange and potentially savage obstacles that must be removed to make room for white settlers. The Ingallses are suspicious and curious about their Native neighbors whose land they intend to possess, but this culminates in some trading and occasional interactions.
The family never seriously grapples with the Osage perspective, seeks meaningful friendships with tribe members, or questions their own assumption that the land will eventually become available for white settlement. Their worldview largely reflects the prevailing 19th-century ethos of manifest destiny.
Not so in Sonnenshine’s version.
Just moments into episode one, it becomes clear that the Osages will take front and center stage in this season, which covers book three. Not only do they inhabit several main character roles, but the entire season hinges on whether they will sell their land to the American government.
The book treats this as an inevitability; the show portrays it as a deeply complicated moral dilemma.
In Wilder’s accounts, the Osage removal is a straightforward event for the Ingallses, with little emotional weight beyond relief at securing the land. But on Sonnenshine’s prairie, some of the settlers, including the Ingalls family, question and even grieve the circumstances of the Osages’ departure. A few friendships later and the assumptions of manifest destiny they arrived with quickly give way to a crisis of conscience.
At one point in the show when the land treaty is still hanging in the balance, Pa, who has befriended an Osage and come to sympathize with the tribe’s predicament, declares, “This is their home. They have the right to decide whether or not they stay or go.”
The real Pa Ingalls wouldn’t recognize his cinematic doppelganger.
By the end of season one, viewers, especially those who read Wilder’s series, feel browbeaten with the only acceptable message when it comes to colonization: white settlers bad, indigenous victims good.
Forced DEI
Black characters, who are almost nonexistent in the books, are expanded heavily in Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie.” Dr. George Tann, the local black doctor who appears a handful of times in Wilder’s series, plays a much more robust role, complete with his own complicated past, a romantic subplot, and a hero narrative.
Other black characters are invented entirely, including a local shopkeeper named Miss Emily Henderson, who seems to be included in the series primarily to remind viewers that white settlers weren’t just racist toward Native Americans but black people too.
Caroline “Ma” Ingalls, who has little interaction with black people in the books and holds the typical settler era’s distant but polite perspective, is so outraged by Miss Henderson’s exclusion from Independence’s “Women’s Society” that she becomes an outspoken advocate against racial exclusion.
It’s a really nice sentiment — truly! — if it weren’t completely fabricated and estranged from the real Ma Ingalls.
Feminism in, faith out
Another woke element worth noting is the addition of a female character named Lacey Aubert, a French-Canadian widow who runs a saloon on the outskirts of town. As a sexually liberated, trouser-wearing, pistol-wielding lone wolf who scares off thieves and rejects a life with the man she loves because marriage is “for other people,” she reads far more like today’s ideal woman than one drawn from the 1870s prairie.
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. What’s a Netflix production without feminist undertones? One can almost feel Wilder, who even describes herself as a headstrong tomboy, rolling in her grave.
But I bet she gives an extra agitated toss for the fact that her family’s faith is significantly downplayed in the show.
Even though the real-life Ingallses were Bible-reading, faithful Christians, Netflix’s on-screen versions have a far more ambiguous spiritual life. Sure, hymns are sung, a church building is erected, and a generic “hope” lifts the Ingallses’ troubled spirits, but by no means is their life saturated in the traditional Christianity Wilder’s real family was devoted to.
In fact, their faith is so understated in the show that during a Christmas scene, the Ingalls women remind each other that the day isn’t just about presents — it’s about food too. No mention of Christ’s birth other than a flash scene of a roughly hewn nativity set Laura plays with.
Instead, the show disturbingly focuses on the Osage Great Spirit Wah-Kon-Tah, with multiple mentions of his guidance and wisdom.
Not Wilder’s story
That about sums up the wokeness in Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie,” but it only scratches the longer list of complaints rolling in about this season.
Many Wilder fans have expressed significant dissatisfaction with the additional plot lines added for sheer drama, essentially rendering the originals lacking or boring.
Netflix’s Pa is haunted by his past; Ma wrestles with fidelity, wondering if life would have been better if she’d married another man; Mary gets her own coming-of-age romantic subplot; Laura, who practically symbolizes modern progressive empathy, befriends an Osage girl named Good Eagle. Even Mr. Edwards, a minor character in the books, gets a heavy backstory and emotional arc.
It’s just all wrong.
Wilder’s books are about resilience, family, and the pioneer spirit. Sonnenshine’s version is about those things too, but the core messaging is heavily filtered through modern guilt, diversity lessons, and critiques of manifest destiny.
Don’t get me wrong — it’s a good story. It’s just not Wilder’s story.
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Five years ago, Charlottesville's nearly century-old Robert E. Lee statue was torn down, chopped up, and melted at the urging of woke iconoclasts. The remains are now destined to be further deformed into an African symbol by a black identitarian.
How it started
Paul Goodloe McIntire, one of Charlottesville's top individual benefactors if not its greatest, commissioned several statues for the city in the early 20th century including one depicting Robert E. Lee.
'Equity and justice are integral.'
The gifted Lee statue was unveiled in what is now Market Street Park on May 21, 1924, where it stood for nearly a century. It was removed, however, on July 10, 2021 — several years after the deadly "Unite the Right" rally, which the Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly had a hand in organizing — pursuant to a decision by Charlottesville City Council.
Then-Mayor Nikuyah Walker reportedly stated as the crane approached the monument, "Taking down this statue is one small step closer to the goal of helping Charlottesville, Va., and America, grapple with the sin of being willing to destroy black people for economic gain."
In what co-founder of Charlottesville Black Lives Matter Jalane Schmidt described as "like an execution," the bronze likeness of Lee was subsequently cut up, then melted down in 2023 before an audience of iconoclasts and so-called anti-racist activists.
This melting project — called Swords into Plowshares — was proposed by Charlottesville's Jefferson School African-American Heritage Center and approved by the city council in 2021, reported the Guardian.
How it's going
The JSAAHC ultimately selected the architecture firm Model of Architecture Serving Society Design Group and woke sculptor Dana King to repurpose the bronze from the Lee statue into a new work called "Rooted."
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Jha Amazi, principal at the design group, stated, "We are deeply inspired by the courage and persistence of everyone who made this moment possible over the past decade, and we are honored to contribute to a future shaped not by inherited symbols, but by shared values and collective imagination."
Instead of featuring a figure of American historical import, Market Street Park will soon feature a "27-foot-tall bronze Baobab tree, a profound symbol of life, interconnection, and persistence throughout the African diaspora," the design group said in a statement.
According to the designers, they will be "transforming a space historically defined by racialized exclusion and intimidation into a beacon for justice, dignity, and belonging."
"The design envisions a true commons, vital and open to all," continued the statement. "The Baobab forms a seven-sided pavilion, inviting everyone to step inside, gather, and share space. Gardens radiate around a multifunctional plaza, connecting us to the earth."
Sculptor Dana King — who claims on her website both that "equity and justice are integral" to her work and that the medium is too "often used to elevate Eurocentric and white supremacist statuary" — told WVIR-TV that she feels a sense of gratitude that she is "able to tell the story of African descendants and our importance in this country."
Andrea Douglas, co-founder of Swords into Plowshares, told WVIR that the use of bronze from the Lee statue was intentional.
"We were interested in creating a process that would give voices that would’ve not had voice at the time that a Lee statue was placed in 1924," said Douglas.
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'THIS IS A WHITE NATION': LGBT-flagged 'Chinese' student charged after string of hate hoaxes at San Jose State University
Bigotry on the right is apparently in such short supply that leftists feel the continued need to fake it.
That appears to have been the case at San Jose State University where multiple buildings and public spaces on campus were vandalized over the past two years with graffiti that the school said contained "anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, racial and/or discriminatory slurs, as well as threats of violence against these groups and the entire campus community."
'These incidents have caused real harm.'
The Justice Department announced on Monday that 30-year-old Ziheng "Tony" Fang, a leftist graduate student at SJSU, was arrested on a federal charge of false information and hoaxes.
According to the complaint, Fang has a history of criticizing immigration enforcement and the MAGA movement on social media as well as of expressing support for immigrants and pro-Palestinian views, reported the Times of Israel.
The leftist not only showed an LGBT rainbow flag in his Threads profile but characterized himself on TikTok as "100% woke," on Snapchat as an "activist," and on Facebook as a "social justice activist," according to the complaint.
The San Jose State University Police Department began receiving reports in October 2024 of racist graffiti that featured swastikas and racist commentary.
"In many instances, these messages included threats specifying a particular date that an attack was allegedly intended to take place and/or weapons and methods that would be used such as bombs, knives, and shooting," said the Justice Department.
One message that was discovered on Nov. 5, 2025, stated, "!WARNING! MASS BOMB NEXT WEEK!" along with "THIS IS A WHITE NATION"; "KILL ALL MUSLIMS + CHINKS"; "MAGA 2028"; and "KILL ZOHRAN."
Investigators found Fang's fingerprints on the paper on which these remarks were written, claimed the DOJ.
The DOJ said that another message that was discovered in a bathroom said, "Kill all Jews, Muslims, Chinks, and Mexicans."
When speaking out against the incidents in March, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) claimed that additional hateful messages included "SJSU, Sorry, But for Allah 3/11 Will Be 9/11"; "Goal 5 Jews Min"; and "Make Osama Proud."
According to the federal complaint, Fang was caught in surveillance footage entering and exiting restroom areas where the messages were discovered shortly thereafter, and allegedly accessed buildings in the days up to the discovery of the threatening messages in 16 of the 18 instances where key card access is required.
The graffiti — which appeared in numerous locations, including MacQuarrie Hall, the MLK Library, and in student housing, and kept appearing as recently as May 14, 2026 — not only prompted a police investigation and the campus DEI committee to host a "Campus Climate Forum" but resulted in additional bias training for staff and student leaders; the development of new programming from the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; multiple university investigations; expanded surveillance; and additional police patrols on campus.
Citing the complaint, the DOJ noted that owing to the date-specific nature of the threats in some of the messages, some SJSU professors canceled their classes on the days on which attacks were supposedly going to take place.
The university and the SJSU Police Department announced on May 21 that following an investigation aided by the FBI, they had nabbed a suspect believed to be responsible for the various "hate-speech" incidents across campus.
SJSU President Cynthia Teniente-Matson thanked university police and others who helped with the investigation and said of the months-long graffiti campaign, "These incidents have caused real harm across our campus."
The suspect, Fang, was banned from campus and slapped with state charges of felony vandalism and felony publish threats.
Fang, whose race was listed as "Chinese" in the SJSU Police Department booking record, is currently in federal custody.
While the federal complaint charges Fang only in connection with the Nov. 5 message, the accompanying affidavit pins him as the suspect behind dozens of additional messages on campus, reported Mercury News.
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The White House's Domestic Policy Council dropped a 162-page report on Independence Day titled "Saving America's Story" that exposes the radicalism infecting the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
The report highlighted various manifestations of "extreme political activism" under Director Anthea Hartig — from the NMAH's characterization of Mickey Mouse as a vestige of "blackface minstrelsy" to its propagation of a tool kit that characterizes objectivity and individualism as oppressive traits of "whiteness" — and concluded that the museum, under its current leadership, "cannot be trusted to tell America's story honestly."
'US history was taught as the history of white Christian men who conquered a continent.'
The council's damning assessment has evidently ruffled feathers at the Smithsonian and elsewhere.
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III sent an institution-wide letter on Tuesday pushing back against the evidence-based critique, claiming that the "report is not a fair characterization of the work and totality of the National Museum of American History."
In his letter, which was obtained by the Washington Post, Bunch claimed both that "the Smithsonian is the glue that holds the nation together" and that the Smithsonian team's "work is driven by scholarship, accuracy, and an uncompromising commitment to tell the fullness of America's story."
Bunch thanked the activists who operate within his purview and wrote, "Every day, we are honored to tell America’s stories and hold that responsibility with the utmost regard, respect, and fidelity. We remain committed to fulfilling our mission for generations to come."
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Bunch sent his letter days after a spokesperson for the institution stated, "For more than 180 years, the Smithsonian has served the American public with nonpartisan and independent scholarship, and we remain committed to doing so."
Bunch and the Smithsonian spokesperson weren't alone in fretting over the White House's report.
The Organization of American Historians rejected the report, calling it "another example of executive branch overreach" and an attempt on the part of the Trump White House "to coerce Smithsonian leadership to shape its presentation of U.S. history so that it serves the administration's political agenda."
The OAH, which has over 6,000 members at universities and other institutional settings across the country, complained that the report "insists that history itself is essentially, for Americans, a special and providential story of triumph."
"Make no mistake: The report represents an attempt to turn back the clock to a time when U.S. history was taught as the history of white Christian men who conquered a continent, U.S. military leaders who rarely lost a battle, and U.S. presidents who were single-handedly responsible for national greatness, all under the cover of 'anti-DEI' and 'anti-woke' crusading," the OAH continued.
The woke historians fear that orienting focus toward American exceptionalism would mean "women, workers, people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people and more, will not see themselves represented" at the NMAH and that "America's rich and diverse history will be reduced to shallow and simple-minded stories and tropes."
Marc Stein, the San Francisco-based homosexual activist and historian who currently serves as the OAH's president, told the New York Times, "Released on July 4, 2026, the 250th birthday of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the report is a declaration of independence from history."
Stein, an apparent critic of "child protection" initiatives and defender of "drag queen story hours," further claimed that the council's report "mischaracterizes and misrepresents the words of Anthea Hartig, who has consistently worked to educate and inform visitors to the museum with innovative exhibits and inspirational programs."
'Deeply concerning to see the Smithsonian embrace politicized history over historical truth.'
The report that has vexed Stein, his organization, Bunch, and others not only revealed Hartig to be a radical who regards history as a "prime tool of social justice," seeks to "get out of the 'America First' mentality" when telling history, and wanted to "problematize the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026," but also highlighted the LGBT, anti-white, and anti-Western agitprop pushed by her museum.
According to the report, the NMAH has in exhibits, frameworks, curricula, and/or documentation:
- Directed American teachers to tell students both that the "U.S. economy depends on an influx of migrants to augment the workforce in a number of industries" and that "there is no single American culture, language, or narrative";
- Identified perfectionism, a sense of urgency, the prioritization of quantity over quality, paternalism, "worship of the written word," either/or thinking, individualism, and objectivity as "characteristics of white supremacy culture which show up in our organizations" and are "damaging to both people of color and to white people";
- Described Jared Jennings — the boy called "Jazz" whose genital mutilation was promoted on reality television — as someone who "always knew she 'was a girl trapped inside a boy's body'" and devoted an entire "A Girl's Life" display to discuss his "transgender" experience;
- Displayed a two-piece chrome and rubber crotch harness designed for sadomasochist sexual activity in a Stonewall exhibit;
- Lionized Angela Davis, a former Black Panther and recipient of the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize who was once accused of supplying weapons to a black supremacist who went on to murder Superior Court Judge Harold Haley and two inmates;
- Adopted a decidedly pro-abortion stance, especially after the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling and Hartig's declaration that "a future without federally protected reproductive health care rights is not informed, just, or compassionate";
- Hyped gun-control activism, particularly in its "Girlhood (It's Complicated)" exhibit, which featured a life-size poster of a "March for Our Lives" speaker;
- Suggested that America rests on stolen land;
- Slandered America's founders; and
- "Consistently denigrated and displaced whites, males, Christians, and Americans in educational materials and programming, failing to highlight how Christians and Christian principles also have contributed to America's founding and flourishing."
While liberal revisionists and other radicals clutched pearls over the report, conservatives were apparently happy to see the truth of the NMAH's ideological capture brought to light.
New York Rep. Claudia Tenney (R) tweeted, "Deeply concerning to see the Smithsonian embrace politicized history over historical truth. Woke does not belong in our taxpayer funded museums. Our history deserves to be told honestly, faithfully, & with the respect owed to the nation that changed the world."
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) wrote, "Politicizing American history to weaponize it in service of leftist activism. Not surprised they did this, but good to see it getting exposed."
Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced legislation last year that would codify President Donald Trump's "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" executive order in part by directing executive appointees to the Smithsonian Board of Regents "to remove improper ideology and divisive racial narratives from Smithsonian properties."
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When WNBA coach Stephanie White of the Indiana Fever spoke to reporters on Wednesday, her comments seemingly began as a defense of her player Caitlin Clark.
However, standing up for her star guard seemed like a sidebar to a rant that ran through a near-exhaustive list of buzzwords about diversity.
'Our league is about elevating — elevating women.'
There has been immense blowback from casual viewers about the on-court treatment of Clark, which culminated when she received a fist to the throat from Phoenix Mercury player Alyssa Thomas while on the ground.
While no foul was issued during the game, Thomas was eventually handed a flagrant foul 2 and a one-game suspension.
Thomas has since alleged she's received threats online, which Coach White decided to address in Wednesday's media scrum.
"I think as a league as a whole, there's been so much more toxicity, racism, homophobia, straight-out, like, nonsense, hate nonsense. And it is absolutely unacceptable," White began.
With her scope immediately broadening to all progressive politics, the head coach soon assured fans that the WNBA is about as liberal as a sports league could be.
"Our league is about inclusiveness. Our league is about competition. Our league is about elevating — elevating women, elevating marginalized communities," White listed off.
The 49-year-old wasn't finished there, saying the league's views included "being inclusive of all different walks of life" while even claiming the WNBA has been and will continue to be "on the forefront of social norms."
White added, "That is what our league has always been about from day one. That is what our league will continue to be about."
The coach also claimed most of the alleged online abuse directed at Thomas was not from WNBA fans, but rather the "online community."
White then said that it was an attempt by online actors to use the WNBA for their own politics.
"I believe that this is people who are using our league, using our players to further divisive agendas. It's not acceptable," she reaffirmed.
White did manage to get some time in for the actual subject at hand — her star player — by saying the league was not effective in communicating with Clark regarding the foul and her treatment.
"We have to continue to protect our players. We've got to continue to support our players in our league," White said.
However, the coach made sure to sprinkle in comments like: "It's not hard to not be a jerk. And if you are one of these people that are online doing this, do not call yourself a WNBA fan."
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According to the New York Times, Thomas said that she was not even aware of her foul against Clark until after the game.
"A lot of us, myself included, didn't even know the play took place until after the game, and now we're being painted as thugs and there's death threats out on us, so it's really unacceptable. It's something that needs to change in this league, and I’m just really sick and tired of it," Thomas reportedly said after her team's practice on Tuesday.
Thomas also reportedly claimed that she had not heard from the WNBA commissioner's office, but inside sources from the Times claimed that the commissioner "exchanged texts and offered to get on a call with Alyssa Thomas last week."
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